Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-04-30

telling me Mary Ruarks address. Did
you forget to tell me what her route
was or did you know what it was I
would love to see Mary. I sat with
her at school. She was my seatmate
when I went to Pennington school for
a long time. Her brother was In the
first room with me and the teacher
promoted me to the second room ana
then / was In the room that Mary was
in and the teacher moved me with her.
Tell Ruth Gray I would love to see
her. I remember her / remember
when she and I played together. Her
uncle bought our Pennington home.
I liked to live there. It was nice
and pleasant place to live. We llveu
11Amiles south of Harrington.
was about years old when We lert
Pennington. We then moved to OF
tumwa, South Side, GIL Queen Anne
avenue. We had a beautiful nome
there. We lived about block north
of the Agassiz school. I loved to go
to the Agassiz school. Some Of the
teachers | went to there were Miss
Hulda Crone and Miss Leola Ellis.
They were both nice teachers. l have
relatives living on the North Side OF
Ottumwa. We now live 6 miles south
west of the Ottumwa court house
They have a new large clock on the
court house. 1t is nice one, too.
We live on farm Of ITO acres
which we own. received my prize
from the Courier Junior for being the
prize winner in the Weather contest
It is very pretty. thank the editor
very much for it. 1t is a gold breast
pin. It has a changeable set of blue,
purple and pink in it. Some OF the
other prizes that have received from
the Courier Junior are Santa Claus
pincushion, a pretty book by the name
of "The Flower Fables" an Easter
booklet, IS postcards, one postcard al
bum that holds 313 postcards and an
other postal album that holds 500 pos
tails, box of writing paper and en-
velopes. So that makes seven prizes
and 35 postal cards from the Courier
Junior. thank the editor very much
for all of them. All Of my prizes are
pretty.
have received Al postal cards from
the Juniors. I have sent postals to
the following Juniors: Forest Weber.
Vida Conger, Josephine Norton. Flor
ence Skirvin. Maude Skirvin, Mabel
Skirvin, Mary Convey, Cora Pollock.
Bertha Ruark, Edith Smith, Lille
Myers, Isal Miller, Lena Davis, Renta
Fullerton, Ferne Epperly, Mae Gard
ner. / thank the Juniors for the pos
tails that they have sent me. have
one cousin and my two sisters and one
brother that are Juniors. MY cousin 8
name is Basil Grooms. My sisters
names are Hazel and Ella. My broth
er's name is Arnold. We all have re-
ceived postals from the Courier Junior.
We all love to read the Junior page.
MY sister Ella and brother Arnold are
too small to read the Junior page but
Arnold loves for me to read the Jun
iors' letters and stories to him. !
have forgotten to say that I received
and sent you postcards with the rest
of the Juniors names. don't go to
school this spring for we haven't any
spring school this year. So we have
a long vacation this time until Sep
TENDER. I study all OF the advanced
studies at school. Sometimes | like
to 20 to school. When the weather IS
nice l like to go to school. My
sister Hazels birthday was April IL,
1910. She was 10 years old that day.
Mamma got her nice dinner that
day. She got new apron for her
birthday and some other things. She
received postal cards from the follow
ing Juniors Maude and Mable Skir-
win and Agnes Bennett. Papa got q
little Scotch collie puppy that day.
He is about two weeks old. His name
= Rover. He is very cute. We are
1~ising him by hand. Papa got him
at sale. It is showing here today.
1t looks more like winter than 1t does
like spring. We had onions, lettuce
and radishes up very near big enough
to eat and we had beets and peas up
but they we're only or inches high.
and they are all frozen. All our fruit
blossoms are frozen We got about
500 new fruit trees. Our orchard al
together has about 800 trees. If 1t had
not frozen, wa would have had 8
good many trees full of fruit this fall.
Most Of our trees have been set out
within 5 years. We have good
many small fruit set out and most OF
the small fruit would have had fruit
on this autumn If it hadn't all been
killed by the frost this spring.
will be IA years old June LIST, 1910.
would love to go on visit on my
birthday, and have good time.
/ visited my two aunts, one uncle
and two cousins last summer in Of
tumwa. It was in August, 1909, and !
had a good time. I stayed there about
one week. This was the third time
visited in Ottumwa since we moved
from there. AS my letter is getting
long l will close for this time. An
swer soon, Retta.
Your Junior friend,
Leona Vest, age 13,
r. r. No. 6, Box As. Ottumwa, la.
THE JOURNEY OF A TEN CENT
PIECE.