The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-05-04

capacity will be 100000 feet Our county e
putting up canning factory at the county
ste, crockett. ! visited Houston last TALL.
0range' Fort Arthur and Beaumont aud
snNNtrnl otner towns In the South Did not
IKE beaumont very much. Those oil wells
smclled too bad for me. Port Arthur Is
Mhere saw the first rice growing
worked worked on the rice farms until the mos
fathers twenty sixth birthday 1t will soon
he here, the 18th Of May Haps we are
cong TO pave the big pot aud the little ones
on tnat day All are invited to come aud
cat birthday dinner with us. hope that
old waste basket is out OF doors Love TO
Mrs Foster and all the Haps.
Archie Zachary.
The country where | live Is very noun
taihous. ! live about one-half mile from
Medina river 1t is not very large river
the bank OF it,. 1t has three stores,
restaurant, one hotel. two churches, a
school house aud several dwelling houses
The natural wells are about twenty feet
In diameter. One OF them was found to
be $40 feet deep; the other one has no hot
tom. or al least the bottom has never been
found They are four miles from whore
we I've. There is a constant flow OF water,
1t Is mineral-it turns everything black,
| wish there were no saloons In Texas,
for many a poor aud honest man has beeu
led Ia. destruction by drinking liquor. VIII
Bonnie Blue Flag" Break the News
TO Mother The Baggage Coach AheadY
will send In return ON the Bridge,
Two Little Girls in Blue" Don't BE
Angry, Darling" or any others | have.
With love to Mrs. Foster aud the Iaps,
remain a true Hap, Artie Goodman
Eagle Pass, Texas-Dear Happyham.
" NOT ct
II thou will let me ln have been
reading thy page for some time and think
II Is very interesting, 1t is very dry
country ont here where ! 1--we. II has
been about eight months since we have
had a good rain. We have had few
little showers, but they did not amount
will send us rain In time My father has
three strong wells; in one Of them the water
Is very hard, but in the others the water is
Ike rain water. We have wind mill over
one Of them and a pump jack over an.
other The pump Jack is run by a donkey
Thus might say the pump jack Is run by
a pumping Jack Now IL Mrs. Foster will
permit WI quit bothering her and firing
son, ! expect 10 hear of We having organ
lied a club pretty soon. ! would try to
organize one myself but this country is
me, think thou art doing a noble work
Mr.. Webster, where hast thou hidden thy
self We would be glad to hear from thee
H.
Little Quaksress.
Stuehuer, Texas.--Dear Happyhammers:
] will write again after a short time Haps.
how did you al enjoy Easter? Did you get
any eggsf Well, will ask some questions.
VINO made the first man of Texas ln sep
TENDER, 1886, on what question did the PEG
pie yote2 How long did Houston serve as
president? Well. that is. enough of those
little simple questions. Mrs. Foster, l have
planted some garden seed, and they are
growing pretty now. | will tell you In my
next letter how they are doing. Everything
pretty trees are green. don't read books
often. but sometimes do / have read -Four
to Fourteen" "Tiptoe," "Hetty Gray ard
one or two more, and think they are all
flowers before long and see how they do.
set out some little rose bushes this even
ing Haps, did YOU all ever see any straw
berries growing. I went to Houston the
other day ana saw more pretty gardens!
And ! saw some ripe strawberries on the
bushes; they sure did look pretty. Have
my Of You Haps ever been to Houston? It
Is n larg, city. ] saw good letter from
William Naught and thought Essie Colleps
letter was, nice about the inch party.
never would have thought of such thing
Wilma Baker
McClannahan, Texas,-Dear HappyharO
mers; Mrs. Foster has announced that II
is time we were suggesting subjects for
the next contest. | win suggest the fol
lowing subject: Resolved That the United
states Should Allow the Philippine Islands
q Free and Independent Government"
do not mean that the United States should
Withdraw their troops nj once, for If they
did there would he all kinds Of war he
tween the different bands Of FiirinoS. MS
every Philippine leader would he ambitions
think the United States should be as III.
eral 10 the philippines as they were to Cuba.
Here is another contest that would prob
ably he more interesting than the Arst one
who is or Was the Greatest Poet That
Ever Llvedf" This covers wide held for
argument. The most nrominent figures in
BYRON, BRYANT, Longfellow. Tennyson, Whit.
tier and many others | could name if II
was, not for taking mp too much spncc
Well Haps, / see YOU ARE MI hurrahlng
for the Beaumont Hnppyhammers club.
hut none Of Won seem to think about try.
ing 10 organize one yourselves. Yon Haps
thing Of It, but It is not half so easy for
a country Hap to start one because
The country, as usual thing Is So
thiny settled, No wonder Fat Piper
plume. ! expressed my opinion IN nv first
letter as being I'm favor If the TIaps sign
ing a nom dc plume II they wanted to.
but II seems as II II is all going TO he nom
dc pmmes. Well, as 1t is getting late will
60 Aden H.R.k.
shire, Texas --Denr Happyhnmmers: We
do not take The Post hut nevertheless. |
do enjoy reading the letters of the club.
There are certainly some good writer's, hut
well know that Mrs. Foster can not
enroll me as good one FOR ! am not.
| will try and describe our little country
town. II Is composed Of about tWeetv-nine
families. that is right here In our ,icinity
There are, one dry goods store, unc gro
Gerry store, one drug and grocery Store
and a postofhcc. There have hccn several
railroad companies surveying through here.
hut the International and Great Northern
company seem to think that it Is compelled
to come Haps. ! will believe this wben
hear the whistle blowing and sec the
steam putting from the engine. Then,
will believe the train is here. But not TN
then. do not think there Is any harm
in reading a good novel but where you get
into the habit OF reading them you viii
hardly know when you pick up good or
bad one, VIII some one please send me
the words land music II they have them
10 the following songs: "A Bird In cid.
ed Cage" Mammals In Heaven" II have
Just One Girl Wing Lees Ragtime
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,embers OF the Happyhammer Club of .