The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-06-23

Ing think al HapS should sign their
full name. Ny reason 4 that waen you
read a letter then you know whom Ii vs.
from NV papa Is farmer. lie has a
large farm; he has folty-ive acres In
wheat his yeae. We have large or.
iIow many OF the Hans ike TO 20 10 Sun,
day schooi2 do. We have very inter
esting sunday school here g. everf Sun.
s ssna WHgn IN as sps mS s s Tss s
came home with me and she rode my pony
The horse took fright and threw her and
broke her lex oh. Haps. you don't know
morning and said She Was getting along
worry well. | will send 10 cents "a the hcni.
Ing fund A true Hap, Minnie Lee corts
Tadmor Texas Dear Hans ana Mrs.
Foster; Please throw open the portals aud
let a little hashlui child enter. Have been
reading your many nice letters ever so
long. All such merry lively band, ham.
mering happiness everywhere they cant
ltaps from Dulys | was Indeed glad TO see
a letter from YOU but don't ten such a
tremendous dream any more about "bug.
gers" Say. come down. We are going 10
have a picnic on the creek some time in
June. BY all means. Mrs. Foster have
nice. handsome fence put around our noted
battle-ground. l know all OF the Haps like
good literature and novel reading. or at
least, a good proportion ~ them like
and Tenuyson's poetical works are good,
though | prefer prose To poetry. WAC can
read last Days OF PompeU" and Scot
fish Chiefs" without feeling grateful Tor
Holmes. ii. II. iiaggard. Mrs Augusta Nv.
ans. Marion lIarlpnd and Sylvanus Cobb,
Ir g, works are also tiue. Ike Dickens
works. too. How many. Of tho Haps like
plcuicsy ] attended a nice one on May 10
For fear I'll worry you all I'll ring on,
Would like 20 correspond with some OF the
IIaps living In different states, between the
Claude Wilson.
Timpson. Texas Dear Haphammer llcl
10, Haps. Here I come again. am llv'
ing in dear old Texas ouce more, my ua.
tive, state. Well, ] believe tho contest
Resolved That che aps s should o sign
I think IL Is best for them 20 Sign their
real names aud ! will give my reasons,
laps would sha you " YAM e 10 wS a9yShs
II VASE wouldn't | hope my Side Will
win. so all Will sign their real names,
| Well see May won IN, our last contest,
I wish some OF you would write to re,
| want TO know who II was sent me SO
many nice songs, They didn't sign taeia
whomcyer i was e any Of the Hans
send It TO any one that will lot me know.
Well, ! wonder what Is the matter With
Just One Girl" She never has Wrlttcu
again. You must come again soon. We
miss your sweet. smiling face SO much,
! another one Of your letters. | like 90
hear from my schoolmates ] wonder
| what Is the matter With Thomas Taylor.
He hasn't written In long time Philip,
come again, too; we miss YOU So much
| and Joe Farmer too. We'll. l guess
will close before you throw this IN the
| waste basket. Lillian Markham,
FL Roy, Texas.-Dear Haphammer; As
| II has been sometime since last wrote
! te INC dear old psge'. ! VIII come ~ ana
| not detaln you long With my nonsense,
! / VIII tell you of dream had not long
/ ego. a crowd left bright and early for a
| iinGtion about 9 o'clock, then walked
/ al Ound in the pasture and gathered bou-
| quiet OF the rarest kind Of flowers. As
/ were fox jumped out In front of us and
! started down the road just as hard, as he
Il with that ha hal yell had chased Il
4 for about three.quarters of mile Mr..
| Fox got tired Of being chased and ran
| in q patch Of bushes where the boys never
! could and MIN. so they gave mp and waited
for the rest OF us 10 come. When We
got hack to the picnic grounds We gath
! ered orr hehing tackle and started 10
/ The creek 10 catch some FISH for dinner
! we were catching hsh very nicely when
/ MY foot slipped and down ] went In mud
out and woke up TO Ind II all dream and
! Brother Joe WIS pouring water on me q
wake me IN for breakfast. Miss Mary
| Autry Greer, your poem on the Beaumont
! oil wells Ia very nice; come AGAIN and
| write some more poems for our page,
! think that every member Of the Happy
hammer club should read Mrs; Fosters
| "Club Talk" and the waste basket wouldn'l
get so many letters and so many girls anf
RoSS rule Sp rs read tho scSgS TaE" nrst o6'
then the letters. Well see some OF yo'
are frowning and the waste basket Is grin
E' Annie /. Parks.
Ledbttter Texas Dear Haphammer
After two months waiting, l again az
tempt to write letter to our grand club
wish to be one Of the first ones to ente
the new contest Resolved, That the mem
bers Of the Happyhammner clue snail SIS
page. ]. think this is a very importan
subject for nil of MS ! win say just wha
think. II you sign your own names tIm,s,i I
but II you Sign such names as Ploughboy
Louisiana Hoosier, Woodblne, Ned an
other names. how do we know who 80
are? Ali such names are foolish ideat
The Very ones who use them are bring
Ing ruin to themselves, but they beliey
they are high up In G, and. Great poets
Burns. did not even use such names.
used 10 think that Sunset Woods was
pen name but my cousin, Ida Bauer, tol
me better | must congratulate YOU MS
Sunset, for using your own name. II
the wlsest way. and ! must ask you {
some again, as you write smch nice le
| tffks ana Also uNpf 9'N WI -
way, with the greater number OF liapi
Have you all ever noticed how lutte none
is coming In, IN comparison 10 the gtea
humber ~ memberS1 ON the average, onl
about 60 cents week. ] have said her'
tofhre that the members ought 70 be take.
say go cents a year, each Whlch Woul
I make SO 900 \ year. 500 month an
s143T5 a week: then we could get up an
shout the gladness throughout the broa
Lone Star state ond help Oh SO man
crippled children and have name tina
VIII be as great as the democratic paril
Suppose we have vote on THIS. My le
ter Is getting 100 long aud time does Nc
permit me 20 write any more, 40 vi
fling off--but hold on / must put IN m
dues for the next four months ] -
i main. loyal Hap, X. 9. kummei.
: Fields store, Texas.-Dear Haphammel
suppoAe All the Haps will celebrate III
Fourth and enjoy themselves hugely, to'
, Some viii celebrate Il because others d.
: Others because they Ike 10 have goo
! time, and others realize what it neau
I These will celebrate II because they fe'
4 the 10Y Of freedom In their heartsi the
4 bear 10 mind Row small army OF M
: only half as large as the enemy f9usnt
I hrevely fOr their frre6cnl, our freedom an
: / thar az generations 10 ccme. In May, llN
. | Massachusetts aud Virginia separately =
I nnnnced their dependence % England, VI
I / piula also Instructed her delegates % pr
). ( nose 10 congress 10 declare the Unite
. Colonies free and independent states q
a July 4 Thomas Jefferson wrote me derlar
!, tion-the resolve which the eolonist5 m1t
aud stood by Loyalty, pledglng their NV
and their facTed hon0r. bfaiWE tnin !
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