The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-04-07

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Hampstead, Texas.-Dear Haphammer.
THIS is my first letter 10 the page.
have three pets, a Belgian hare aud two
horses Ike the page very much. live
In town but | don't 20 10 school. | study
al home and am in speer, fourth reader
aud geography ana arithmetic. Well. | Will
close for this tlme.
Bonnie NJ. Cunningham.
Stella, TeSas.-Dear Haphammcr: Here
| comes another little girl wanting to toin
your happy band Of girls and boys. am
love 10 read tho childrcn's page. think
April Is the best month in the year, be.
cause Gar@ Easier sunday comes In April !
didn't go ia school this winter, as 1t was
too far to 20 by myself.
Florence e. Mclean.
Burkcvlile, Texas Dear Haphammer:
thing our contest is nice. | will cast my
voie fol the month of June, when fru is
are ripe and people can eat watcrmelons
ana have good time / want all the June
TAPS 10 give their best REASONS Now true
Haps, come out cast your vote for June,
that It may win in the contest Haps.
THING the poem was nice, don't You? Look
out there is the waste basket, Yours.
true Hap Horace MattoX
Harvester Texas Dear Haphammer; i,
thought | would write again. as my other
letter was not printed. Well | sec that
my postofhce was called Houston, but in
stead OF that 1t Is Harvester | have only
Two brothers; their names are Rnmc and
Frank. Frnnk is a cripple, about Is years
Of age. He tell out of the house and burt
himself j Ike DECEMBER; because old
Mach Helm
Garrison. Texas-Dcar Haphammer: Here
comes another little girl 10 join yonr han
hunU | ~
Of age ana live In the little town OF OAR.
rison | see our contest is which is the
best month, and why? ] cast my vote
for May, because everything is green ana
pretty. The bright flowers OF May spring
up everywhere and delight us with their
sweet perfumes, Papa has been taking
been reading the Haps' letters long time,
WIZ close. Farrie Adams
Boerne. Texas.-Dear Haphammcr: /
nave been reading your letters long time
aud wish to join your club. | will he o
wears old in July. will be glad when
L comes. have little dog named D..
Wet and pet bohtalled pig named Grum
my. ! have Il little brothcr I years old
named Laurence. We have got n little AK
apiece and we cut wood for mamma and
hep papa cut brush, too. vote for july
because i is my birth month and the bIrtn
month Of the independence of the United
States, We live In the mountains In Ban-
dera county Andrew Robinson
/ Cedar Bayou Texas Dear Haphammer:
sec the contest Is which Is the Best
Mouth, and why" ! think June Is for Ia
June The peaches begin TO ripen, cotinn Is
Icing chopped. roasting ears are ready fpr
eating, pcnics are carried on in general
and roads are good Did any of you ever
%" hsN carght out of a lake with Il east
net? | have. A neighbor Of ours catches
,I.n N mis- way IN the winter when tue
tide is low and they are closed In Wen,
scod,bye;, true Hap, Harry G. Duke
7 S.-Please find irclosed 10 cents for the
helping fund. H. G. D.
/ QTlntana, Texas--pear Haphammer; WIZ
you let another little girl Join your happy
eanaf enniou reading TIE Haps s,op paSei
like May-~becsiusc the birds began TO sing
and the grass spring up. aud It Is SO Pleas
ant. My mother and father are dead aIont
four years, und am living with my grand
pa and grandma ] have one sister and
one brother and | go 10 school. IT Is
real small house. We have 70 go across
the river to get to. the school house, We'll
had better stop. for the old waste basket
will catch it in It's mouth true Hap,
Annie Kruger.
Thompsons. Texas.--Desr Haphammer:
| Will try today TO get few minutes from
my books 10 write, | am studying very
hard this year Mrs. Foster. think, your
beautiful idea II successfully carried out
will be Just grand. ard am willing 10
help oil / can ! do not live IN town.
but all the children here arc Happyaanl
mcrs. think II is a shame the way the
battlefelds of Texas have been neglected.
Where there nre not enough IN one place
TO have a club they could send their earn
iEgs 10 the iIaphammer Bertha 10nSfH y,
quite agree with you. do not think tnni
the writers should use nom dc plume. WEI!
Haps. must close for this time. GOOD
r bye; love TO all JOSIE Janes,
mys II AMI TO- for my little Swear old niece
Kettle Lee Hanpil.
Crockett, Texas.-Dear Haphammer: VIII
YOU let another girl Of II years join yont
m Tqi!Rp' out ito Of Crocketr Well Haps the
contest is a hard one tor me 10 , DECIDE
ant month, because that n the time, "
all commence work anew thlnk OF az
the months in the year ! Ike December
, in which our SAVIOR was 2orn WI am
Vnught asked how many Haps had read
lin His steps" ! have and liked II ver{
entitled @frIn The III" LIE Of D. /. Moody ]
have ! think IL Is a good book. thlnA
can answer Martin Daniels question II
was Lorenzo de Zavala. Goodhy WISH Yot
| all happy Easter. Some OF you dreamers
, come again. Jennie feafi "h'h'h'
Albany, Texas,-pesr Haphammer;,
though | would write again, as my las
/ iettor was not printed. ! am l. years old
: and am In the grade a great many are W
, which Is the sixth. but VIII enter inc sew
! enih next wear. | have a little baby brothel
| nared willard He will be a year old ~.
nth day OF this month, I have q ltti'
r0ny mined IIlawatha. and nice slhe sad
1 die. / love to ride. We live fifteen miles
! out Of town. Int the trains run 10 nil'
l of the ranch. Iva has pony. zoo, ." W.
2 often 20 over 70 the train horsrna *, !
Is eroat fun We 90 to feed COWS VII
, papa and ride out ip the pastures WI,
( him Mamma rides every mornlns ih1t y
I warm Well | Will close love to an.
a viii east my vote for April be- IN
y dowers bloom and the birds sing Whe'
n everythlng Is green. Gondhye,
@ Novice Texas.--Dear Haphammer- Her
Q comes another boy that has seen lbsulnmsrs
Q have been reading The Post for some I'm
{ and ike Il fine We live In Coleman ronn
e a. and are In the stock and farming BUS
- ness ! noticed that Mrs. Foster was
. iittie surprised at a Texas hoy shyine Una
cntton was planted In April Wen J ~
3 little surprised. too. hut not az mn say, W
; mar cotton was planted IN April
= rsise cotton every year and never pau
s hesore April 10 So I think Phillp w. We
rIpht in SAYING that April was COTTON pis wv
Ing time. / think that Nav Is ne ~,
\ r.en,h because the nowers are ~ u
< hioo,n and the trees have ppt en- lls'