The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-07-06
HOUSTON DAILY POST: SUNDAY MORNING, July 6. 1902

before they give an opinion. For fear our
letter Will reach the waste basket we viii
close with much love to Mrs. Foster ana
the Haps We remain new Haps,
Ora Penner and Sophie breler
Lockhart Texas, nappyhammers;
and the red bugs are eating the cotton np
m,Wec was the greatest man. Columbus or
,WsshingtonW yin cast my vote for
Sesf Was he looking for America whey
he found It? mol Wasn't he trying to and
the East Indiesf or course 1t was a
III mol Did Washington try to capturS
the Hessian soldiers AT Trentonf Was be
trying to capture CORVALLIS at Yorktown.
Why then should Columbus be The greatest
MANI would Ike to exchange few
songs. have Comm Thro' the RYE"
After the Ball" Texas Cowboy" and
Few others, Sam Page.
Navnsota, Tezas--Dear Happyhammers
Let me chat with YOU again. Our school
turned out May 80. None Of our grades
had any exercises but the third We had
a song-a japanese mother song. was In
1t. There were four girls with me in It,
Their names were: Fay White, Eta Me-
Quincy, Elfrida Soack, Hattie Busby and
myself. We had to do NJ our hair ike a
Japanese and had on long dresses we
surely had a nice time. Everybody is beg
cling for rain and 1t Is so hot but no SICK.
ness. Some salvation people are here and
have services every night ana dav. / fel
very sorry Tor them on account they are
so poor. wish one OF the Hups would
send ME a piece of ribbon with his or her
name on IT, Wen. Haps. | must close for
you are getting tired of me | remain a
F. s.mPi send 10 cents for the help iyVi funa
Haywood Texas.--Dear Happyhammers;
You Haps seem to be such generous band
that Pm almost sure you will grant me
enough space to come in aud Introduce
myself. ! don't need an introduction to
any OF you, as I've been reading The Post
hammer club to become familiar to me,
have had the pleasure OF reading some
very Interesting as well as funny letters
since I've had access to the page Sc
rlousiy hope Woodbine hasn't had another
adventure as bad as the one in which she
was buried In Stats mattresses, feather
beds, etc. Well. believe rs cuetomary
30 s' Sete s Srn gou this ep sp SO
close, Perhaps uf you all VIII permit
and this escapes the waste basket III
call again and describe this large town.
1t Is In the midst Of n, rice farm-o. now
DON'T take me for rice farmer-snd II
course, quite imnortant, more SO now
they are preparing TO build rice mill
Hoping to be "onc among SO many" I am
sincerely yours. "Leatherstockings
Pottsvi'le, Tcxas.--Denr Harpyhammers:
Hive on o ranch and have q fine time
topping wild cattle and branding them. Inc
other day | saddled up and went out to
look after the cattle and | found large
wolf, so ! took after him and ran MIN
about half a mile and roped aim around
the neck. Now, guess how got my rope
Off OF him l did some pretty good gueSs
ing how | was going to get 1t on. ] went
to a fine dance the other night and danced
until daylight and, broke up, went home 10
go to work. / viii tell you how our town
got it's name. There was a man by the
nnme OF Potts lived whore It IS now ana
1t was named after him. II mas four
stores and two shops, and there Is tax
Of street car line being built Mhen
they get the street car line l think l Will
10 and live In town to get to ride on the
cars a while We milk fifteen cows aud
have plenty of butter
Your Happyhammer.
Charles BuyKs.