The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-01

I heard them play and they played some good music too.
 To hear them play made me want to come back up there.
 1 MT. Weakey, tell Roland Burroughs to write me some time to let me know how all the boys are. AS I have nothing else 10 say, 1 will close for this time. Yours truly, DOCK.
 Wagar, Ala, November 25 1909.
 Dear MT. Weakleyi l will now write you a few lines to let you know how I am getting along. I am well and hope you're the same Mother and I both appreciated your letter, because it gave me such good advice.
 | I am learning to be telegraph opera tor and I have got a telegraph instru- ment. and can send message pretty good and my cornet will be here In d couple of days. I cannot write much, for I have not got time. So good bye, | from CALVERT. Boyles, Ala, Dec. S. 1908. Mir and Mrs. D. M. Weakley, Ala. Boys l Industrial School, East Lake, Ala. | Dear MT and Mrs. Weakly: How are l you all and the baby? Of course, l mean Tootie. and all of the boys out there. | Mrs. Weakly, l want you to write to me now and tell me if Tootie is wearing long dreses yet and if she goes to East Lake to church with the boys.
 Write me and tell me all about your self
 Mir Weakly, I shall never regret my going out there, for you all certainly did do me a lot of good, while I stayed there two long years. I learnt more than would in a public school in five years. more or less. 1 can speak a good word for the A. B. I. s. for long time to | -t-- Il. I am working in q lawyers office now, but am going to get a better job in about four or five days at the Boyles Grocery company at $35 or S30 a month | We'll I will close and go to work. Tell Tootie that I am going to send her a present Xmas if l don't send anybody els4 one.
 Tell all of the boys that I am coming to see them Xmas. Your former cook A. E. P. ocean Springs, Miss. October 10, 1909. MT. D. NJ. Weakley, East Lake: Dear Mr. Weakley-I guess you will be somewhat surprised to hear from me, but I thought I would write to you and let | you know how l am getting along, for | never will forget the while l stayed at the l school and the good it did me. I have | always felt that 1t was my making, for | learned more about the ways of the
 world and how to conductA myself, and I will always give the schoolAthe credit of | my progress and my success in life, and | 1t shall always have my thanks. l look at it on both sides-if l had not gone to | the school. today I would have been
 locked up in some jail, and as it is l am enjoying Gods full country. l have had | good success since I left there. l started | at the bottom and worked up. l now | hold a chief engineers certificate in the states of Mississippi, Louisiana and Ala. bama l am chief engineer for the Ocean l Spring Electr company on a salary o1
 sS5 per month Id I advise all boys who are there to si k to the B. l. s. Yours
 truly, WALTER E.
 ''Tuscumbia, March 24, 1909. | "Mr. D. M Weakley:
 q thought I would write you a few
 lines to let you know how I am. l an
 well and hope you are the same. l study
 my school books at home every night tha
 I can. I still say my prayers at night l The man I worked for downtown has
 closed up, and that throws me out of g | job. I think l will go to school this win
 ter, for 1t is the best for any boy MT Weakley. are the band boys going to play at the reunion at Memphis this year? l think 1 will go down there. MT. Weakley are you going to send me parole? Ferris Keys said you was going to send him one | If you are send it in the next letter, | please. Well, I have a sore on my foot where tack has stuck in it. and think l 1t is going to make stone bruise by the way 1t is hurting.
 'I will close as I have no more news | Give my best regards to the teachers and the rest. So goodby truly yours. HAYES M."