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LEONARD'S COUSINS.

Dear Editorials can name more
than sixty-six cousins, will try for
your prize. The following are the
names Of my cousins:
Edmund, Marie, Helen, Clarence,
James, Lawrence, Kittie, Mary, Han
ma, Maggie, Thomas, Nellie, Rose and
Agnes Murray Of Melrose; Ed, Tom
and Mary Coughlin of Me1rose; Bid
and Tom McCarty of Melrose; Katie
Ciska, Mayme Day, James, Martin,
Leo R., Thomas, Frank and Veronica
Ward of Melrose; Rose and Cyril New
in of Melrose; Raymond, Francis,
John, Marie and Paul Ward of Mel
rose; D. j., William, james, Louise,
Katie, Dannie, Connie, Mike and Joe
Ryan Of Melrose; Dennie, Jerry, Mike
and Tom Dominer of Melrose; Ed
ward, Eddie, Thomas and George
Clark OF Sioux City; Maggie, Donald
and Robert Sylvester Of Sioux City;
James, Alice and Robert Betz Of Sioux
City; Raymond and Mary McCauley of
Sioux City: Willie and Loren Clark OF
San Francisco, Cal; Rose and Howard
Creighton of Waterloo; Katie, Law
renee and Camilla Brown of Waterloo;
Joseph, Michael, DR.. Charles, Henry,
Abbie, Mathew, Willie and Thomas
Ward of Cleveland, Ohio; James Ward
Of Madison, Wis; Steve, Helen, Flor
ence, Vincent, Marie, Genevieve, Mil
dred and Grace Lackey of Melrose
Mary and William Mulvehill Of ST.
Louis; Katie, Maurice, Lloyd, Rose
and Agnes Mullin of Walnut, Kan.
So here are my cousins names and
addresses.
l have two brothers and two sisters
and my papa and mamma.
have ten uncles living and seven
aunts. So 1 am not likely to be left
alone very much. I will be nine years
old on May 81.
Leonard Ward, Age 8.
Melrose, Iowa, Route No. s.
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EDWIN HAS A COUSIN IN THE
NAVY.

Dear Editor: As have never writ
ten to the Courier Junior before l
thought l would write on the cousin
contest.
have more cousins than sixty-siy,
but I will only write about sc.
Some live in Dean, Iowa, some in
Moulton, some in South Dakota, sew
eral in Missouri, some in Kansas
City, two in Colorado and the rest
are in Iowa.
I have one cousin, Virgil Smith,
who is in the navy.
Several are working on the railroad.
| have two cousins living in Okla
homa working in the cotton fields.
Several live close to where we live.
Most of my cousins are living on
farms.
Well, as I have written all l know
about my cousins. will have to close.
Some of the Juniors will have to go
some to have over 66 cousins.
Edwin Piatt, age 10.
R. R. No. 8, Moulton, Iowa.
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THE COURIER JUNIOR.
Published by
THE COURIER PRINTING co,
oTTUMWA, IOWA.
MATILDA DEVEREAUx,
EDITOR.
IuNIoRs 70 SELECT SUBJECTS.

Dear Juniors: We want the Juniors
10 select the subjects for a short con-
test which will close Wednesday
Nav %. We also want them to write
nice letters when they send in the
subjects. We will give a surprise
prize. .,,o
In the Cousins Contest" the
Judges awarded the prize to Leonard
Ward. -,
several other Juniors have sent IN
more names than Leonard, but they
failed to comply with the rules OF the
contest. One Junior sent in the names
OF 107 cousins and their addresses.
but that was all. Leonard.s letter
was very carefully compiled. .
We wish that Glen McCleary OF
Batavia. R. No. 8, would send us a
picture of the Buzzard Glory scnool
house which he mentions in his story
today. We would also like short
story about the building because 1t Is
SO old.
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HlLDRED'S COUSINS.

Dear Editor: noticed you had
started q cousins contest, and as
have over 66 cousins will write about
them.
Some of them live in Iowa, some in
Kansas, Missouri, Oregon and Cali
fornia.
Those in Iowa are most of them
living on farms, although some have
occupation in Farson, Ottumwa and
Fairfield.
Their names are Harry, Madison,
Thurman, Sherman, Otis, Lester,
Clyde, Cleve, Lawrence, Effie Mae,
Jessie. Lorene, Tressie, Maud. Virgil,
Alice and Agnes Warder; Margaret,
Lettie, Martin and Milton Dickens:
Stella and Wilbur Braden, Orlando
and Marie Shoemaker, Fife and viii
Amsbaugh, Bertha and Will Whipple,
Ruth, Samuel, Clara, Bird and Ran
som \ Whitmore; 1nez and Homer
Miller, Maud and Albert Lamb, Bes.
sic and Moore Cremer, Georgia and
Joe Ball, Floyd, Charley, Ernest,
Alvin, Clovis and Matte Carson;
Flora and Philip Little; Florence.
Ivy, Nora, Lester, Elmer and Ira
Schooler; Otis, Lester, Bert, Allan,
Roy, Irene, Mile and Jennie Baum
gartner; Julia and Andrew Sharper,
Gertie and Thomas Larson, Theodore
and Edith Kocher; Ed. Glenn, John.
Martha, Alice and Annie Wiley:
Mindy and Sylvester Piles; McClen-
Ian and Bertha Weaver, Cordy and
Will Dooley, Myrtle and Frank
White and Frank and VERNE Whit
ney.
Now think If any Junior has over
sc cousins, they are doing real we'll.
AS my letter is getting long l will
close.
I remain a Junior friend,
Mildred Warder, age IL.
Box SO, r. r. 2, Agency, Iowa.
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ELslE's COUSINS NUMBER 14o.

Dear Editor and Juniors:
AS I have not written for long
time 1 thought I would enter the
cousin contest
was reading the Junior page and
read the little girls letter who had
1O7 cousins. l began to count mine
and found I had 40. Most Of them
live here in Iowa.
1 have eight living near Clearfeld,
five near Seymour. nine in South
Dakota, seven near Plano, three at
Brazil, eight in Kansas, some in Ne
braska, and the rest live near here.
I like them all.
I think I have a good many to like,
don't you?
Elsie p. Smith, age 10.
Mystic. Iowa. Route No. 2.
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Archie.
Leila is going to Fairfield high school
and she will graduate this year.
My sister Ruth Is in Indiana, staying
with my Grandma Sutherlin.
My sister Gladys has got the
measles and my sister Vera is staying
with my aunt this summer.
My mammals name is Annie.
My papa's name Is Arch.
Mamma has black hair and Drown
eyes.
Papa has dark brown hair and blue
eyes
For pets we have dog named TAB
by, cat and two little kittens, calf
a colt, and lamb.
We only live about threequarters OF
a mile from our school house. 1t Is an
old school house. 1t was built forty
five years ago, but we are going TO
have a new one built this summer.
am In the seventh and eighth grade
combined. The name Of our school
house is Buzzard Glory No. l, Des
Moines township. I will close as my
letter Is getting long.
Glu McCleary, Age IL.
Batavia, Iowa, Route 8.
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; Stories and Letters.
FLORENCE eERTRUDE's COUSINS.

Dear Editor: I have not written to
the Courier Junior for so long time
7 thought I would write about my
cousins. 1 have seventy-three. Their
names are:
Frank Thomas, Christina Thomas,
Bertha Thomas, Christian Thomas,
Opal Thomas, they live near OttumWa;
Smith Thomas, Gertrude Thomas, Her
vie Thomas, Beulah Thomas, john
Calvin Thomas, live near Ottumwa;
Agues Wilkins, Fern Wilkins, Mag
gle Wilkins, Stephen Wilkins, Alfred
Wilkins, Haxel Wilkins, Ormal Wilk-
ms, live near Ottumwa; Jim Wilkins,
Ella Wilkins Irwin Wilkins, living
in Colorado; Philip Sedore, Wallace
sedore, living near Ottumwa; Grant
Thomas. Amy Thomas, Clarence
Thomas, ;, WILDER Thomas, Ethel
Thomas. Mae Thomas, Gertrude
Thomas, living near Eldon; Ola
Brooks, Cecil Brooks, Harold Brooks,
living in Colorado: Edna Thomas,
Charles Thomas, Ellen Thomas, living
in Colorado; Alvin Brooks, Minnie
Brooks, Thelma Brooks, living in Mon
tana: Clarence Brooks, Minnie Brooks,
living in Ottumwa; Corda Girls, OFT
Girls, Maria Girls, Marvel Girls, Flor
ence Girls, Alien Girls, living near
Floris; Calvin Thomas, Ella Thomas
Alvin Thomas, Herbert Thomas, Hill
dred Thomas, Mammie Thomas, liv-
ling in Missouri; Pearl Brooks, Cert
rude Brooks, living near Eldon; Lily
Durham, William Durham, living in
Eldon: Anna Brooks, Anus Brooks,
Alexander Brooks, living near Floris;
Emma Neff, Arson Neff, Raymond
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yet how dear, the thought was! 1t
made them less lonesome and afraid.
Presently long ray Of light shot
across the grass from the sitting
room window. Karl looked round at 1T,
and then fixed his eyes on the star
again. r... -
"She's home,'' he said presently. II
guess we'd better. go and tell her how
it happened"
won't she be provoked" asked
Peter, doubtfully.
"I don't know" said Karl. Mother
never blamed us when we didn't mean
to. Grandmother may, but I think we
ought to tell her. I believe mother
would want us to-
So with beating hearts and shaky
knees they rose and crept through the
dark hall.
We've done dreadful thing" Karl
said bravely. "You know that plant
that you said your brother brought
from Arizona? We we're playing bear,
and we all ran into it and broke 1t, -
Grandmother took Dora's hand and
looked at it gravely. where are the
scratches?" she asked. "The cactus
was covered with thorns, you know"
"Why, so it was!" said Dora with
a look of relief. I'D forgotten what it
was like"
II wonder what it was we smash
ed?" said Karl.
ri hope it was the bunch of cannas
I've been asking grandpa to dig up
There are too many plants there
grandmother replied.
She spoke 80 kindly and smiled SO
sweetly that Dot scrambled up into
her lap, and Dora crept up and leaned
against her chair.
well dig it up, grandmother"
said Karl, joyfully. We'll dig it ur
tomorrow, Peter and l can dig like
anything" -Mary M. Parks in Youths
Companion.
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Mystic, Iowa, Route No. q.
FERN HAS sIxTY-NlNE COUSINS;
GRANDFATHER HAS READ THE
COURIER so YEARS.

Dear Juniors:
thought I would write and tell you
how many cousins I have.
have sixty-seven cousins, thirty
three cousins by marriage and fifty
two second cousins. Are there any
one that can beat that?
My grandpa has taken the Courier
for over fifty years, and thinks he
can't get along without it.
I am eight years old and am IN the
third grade. We have twelve scholars
going to our school. We have great
times. We play ball, come to sup
per and dare base.
Well, haven't much time to write
this for am ready to 60 to town.
Ferne Sammons, age 8.
Kent. Iowa, Route No. 2.
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WALTERS FIRST LETTER.
Dear Editor:

This Is my first letter to the Courie.
Junior. will write about my ten years
Of life.
I was born August 10, 1902. am ten
years old. My mother is dead. was
two years old when she died. And I
lived with my grandma three years.
And then my papa got married
again and I went to i've with him. And
I am living with him now. have one
brother and one sister. Their names
are Edgar and Thelma. My brother Is
staying with my grandma now. also
have two half brothers. Their names
are John and Gilbert. Gilbert weighed
thirty-three pounds when he was a year
old and John weighed thirty-two when
he was two years old. 49,.
Walter Whistler,
Bloomfield, Iowa.
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MUTT AND JEFF FIRST, THEN THE
JUNIOR.

Editor Courier Junior:-As I have
not written to the Junior page for some
time I thought I would write again.
7 am five feet two inches tall, have
light hair, light complicated, hazel eyes
and am twelve years old.
Our school is out now. 1t was out
May 8. We had a program and quite
a bit of company came. Our program
was pretty long and We all had a fine
time. There was a girl lost her ring,
but we never found 1t.
There is to be graduation at Char1-
ton Thursday and Friday evenings,
May % and %. guess my sister Iva
and are going.
/ haven't very many cousins, but !
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ELSIE HAS FOUR SISTERS.

Dear Editorials this Is my first
letter to the Courier Junior, I will
write about myself.
I am five feet and two inches tall.
have dark hair and blue eyes.
I go two miles to school. My teach
er's name is Goldle Grant, and my
school mates name is Reva Day.
I live on a farm Of about eighty
acres.
1 have four sisters and one brother,
their names are Maude, Dortha, Mabel,
Goldie and Percy. AS my letter ia
getting long I will close.
Elsie Bollman,
Pulaski, Iowa, Route No. 2.
P. ST. would like to exchange cards
with some Of the Juniors.
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The Star

3 Karl and Dora and Peter and Dot
were making their first visit to Grand
mother Nelson, whom they had never
seen. Grandmother looked dear and
sweet, but she was a stranger ana
they felt little afraid OF her. Besides
mother had told them they must not
worry grandmother and they were not
at all sure what would worry her and
what would not; so all day they tip
toed about and spoke in low voices,
and they were homesick and unhappy.
After supper grandmother went to
see a neighbor. The moment that the
door closed behind her the children
frightened.
Lets go out and play" cried Kari.
"This Is a splendid house for bear =
one back porch, one front porch, and
two side porches. I'll be the bear" ne
added, and growled savagely.
With a great show Of fear the others
ran to the back porch. The game was
to try to run from one porch to anoth-
err without being caught by the bear,
who might be lurking behind the near
est bush It. was very exciting, Tor
you could never tell just where the
bear was until he jumped out with a
terrifying noise The fun grew wilder
and wilder; and presently Dora and
Peter, who were running round the
house in opposite directions, came
together with crash just as Karl
sprang upon them from the little
honeysuckle arbor, and all three fell
on tall plant, and broke it down
quite fat.
81 believe it's the plant that grand
mas brother brought from Arizona
the one she's so fond of" gaSped
Dora, as she picked herself up.
It'll be dark when she gets back,
said Peter, and perhaps she'll think
that a COW came in and broke it,
The fun was all gone from their
hearts and the laughter from their
faces. They huddled together on the
back porch, unhappy and homes1ck
again.
Look! Look" Dora cried sudden
! ly. "The star! The star! Mother said
| that she could see it, too
The setting sun had left crimson
color in the sky, and just at the edge
Of the glow, where the crimson shad
ed off into the darkening blue above
there glimmered faint white spark
that they knew was the evening star
1t frightened as they gazed, and pres
emily they could see the tiny, glitter
ing points Of light round it's edge. Il
was indeed the same star they hat
watched at home so often-the same
star here and the same in Colorado
where mother was. How strange, ane
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NELLlE'S RELATIONS.
Dear Juniors

Dear Juniors: ., .....
AS I have so many relatives with
names beginning with M thought
would write in the letter contest.
My mammals name is Nina Bohi.
She has light hair and gray eyes. She
Is feet and inches tall and weighs
100 pounds. She is thirty years old.
I have three aunts whose names be-
gin with M. My aunt Mary Bohi died
IL years ago. My aunt Mary Dommer
has light hair and gray eyes. She has
five children. 49,.
My aunt Merlia Griggs has black hair
and black eyes. She has two children.
have three cousins whose names begin
with M.
Minnie Koebke has brown hair and
blue eyes. She was be II years old the
7th of April.
Mary Bohi has brown hair and blue
eyes. Mellia Dommer has brown hair
and blue eyes.
Nellie Bohi. age 7,
Bloomfield. H., r. 2.
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FOR THE CHILDREN
circle as I enjoy reading the stories

circle as I enjoy reading the stories
and letters so we'll.
My papa has taken the Courier for
long time and I always look for thu
Junior page as soon as the mail car
rier leaves the paper.
have two sisters and one brother
My sisters names are Maude and
Ruby, and my brothers name Is David
Leroy. He Is the baby, eight months
old, and Is awful sweet and cute.
For pets have four little kittens
Their mother got caught In a trap and
got her leg broke 50 she can't take
care of them, and have to feed and
take care of them.
We went down to my Grandma KEEL
ler's yesterday. She lives ten miles
from us. We like to go down there and
play with cousin Dorothy.
Eden l. Keller, Age 8.
Charlton, Ia, Route No. Z
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LUELLA HAS MANY AUNTS.

Dear Courier Juniors:-Although
have not as many cousins as William
Schoech's cousin I will write about my
cousins.
have forty-one: Three in Moulton.
one in Colchester, ILL.,, one in st. Louis
three in Oklahoma, four In Florida.
three in Kansas City, Mo-, four IN Chr
cago, four in Mexico, five In Kansas,
twelve in St. Joe, one in California.
AS l have only fourty-one cousins
will write about my aunts.
have seventeen: Two in Moulton,
two in Mexico, one in Plano, two IN
Kansas City, one in Chicago, one In
California, two in st. Louis, two In
st. Joe, one in Florida, one in Mont
rose, one in Colorado and one in Okla
homa.
Luella Wood, Age 9.
Moulton, Iowa.
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Here is little tenement farmer
of the slums of New York, young
ster who didn't know that turnips
grew in the ground nor that tomatoes
were not laid like eggs till he learned
it from public school teacher. There
are thousands, perhaps hundreds of
thousands like him in New York. This
little farmer. was caught by the cam
era man in De Witt Clinton park, one
of those in which children of the ten
ements are being taught something
about the earth and what it can pro-
duce.
The ignorance of these children in
everything but the wisdom OF the
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The Ca,,,e1's Complaint

Canary fbirds feed on sugar and seed,
Parrots have crackers to crunch;
And. as for the poddles, they tell me
the noodles
. Have chicken and cream for their
S, lunch.
But there's never question
About my digestion
Anything does for me!
Cats. you're aware, can repose in a
chair,
Chickens can roost upon rails;
Puppies are able to sleep in stable,
And oysters can slumber in pals.
But no one supposes
"A poor camel dozes-
Any place does for mel
Lambs are enclosed where it's never
exposed,
Coops are constructed for hens;
Kittens are treated to houses Well
heated,
And pigs are protected by pens.
But q camel comes handy
Whenever it's sandy
Anywhere does for me!
People would laugh If you rode a
giraffe,
or mounted the back of an OK;
It's nobody's habit to ride on rabbit,
or try. to Desirable a fox.
But as for camel, he's
Ridden by families
Any load does for me!
enabo 10 &c round &C hole in tho
ground,
And weasels are wavy and sleek;
And no alligator could ever be
strafghter.
Then lizards that live in a creek.
But camel's all lumpy,
And bumpy and humpy-
Any shape does for me!
E'-.> s.-Charles E.Carryl
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slums is appalling. They live in three,
four, five and six story tenements,
perhaps with a family of ten occupy
ing three rooms. They are lucky if
the family does not take one or two
boarders. They see green grass on
Sunday in the parks but are forbid
den to touch it.
Given spades and hoes the young
sters became happier than with toys
which would send other children into
ecstacies. Their delight in planting
and then in watching seeds sprout is
something so strange that those who
wonder what is to become Of the city
bred children have chance to
think
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A LETTER CONTEST.

We are very anxious to have many
more interesting letters. We nave
thirty very unusual as well as beauti-
fnI most cards. Besides having beautl'
full pictures on them they each nave
4 raised paper figure in the center
For instance: some have liberty bells'
some have butterflies; some nave
birds. etc. Well, we will send these
beautiful cards to the juniors writing
the best letters before Monday,
Nav rs. ..,
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SEVEN RULES FOR THE JUNIORS.

/. Use one side OF the paper only.
:. Write neatly and legibly, using
ink or q sharp lead pencil.
3. Always sign your name in full and
state your age
4. Number your pages.
s. Do not copy stories or poetry and
send US as your own work.
6. Always state choice OF a prize on
Z separate piece Of paper, with name
and address in full. ...
4. Address the envelope to Editor
Courier. Junior, Ottumwa, Iowa. .ss
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Goldilocks and her family had picnics
| in the forest, they brought pickles.
WED better make pickles this
year." said the middle-sized bear. so
if Goldilocks should come to see Baby
Bear, we could offer her something she
likes to eat with her porridge."
Next day the Big, Big Bear took
huge basket and went for wild cucum.
bers. When he brought them home,
the Middle-sized Bear, with Baby
Bears help, began making delicious
pyckles,-at least, they looked deli
cious. They washed the cucumbers,
and cut them in slices. Then the
Middlesized Bear gave Baby Bear
big spoon and bag OF coarse salt.
Put the salt on the pickles., said
the Mother Bear.
For a few minutes Baby Bear did
as he was told, and shovelled salt on
the wild cucumber pickles. He vas
having a good time playing with the
salt, when suddenly that plump Baby
Bear thought the salt looked so much
like sugar that may be it was sugar.
BY and by Baby Bear was so sure the
salt was sugar that he opened his
mouth wide and put in big spoonful
of salt. Then how he roared and
cried!
Father Bear came running in, and
Mother Bear scooped salt out of Baby
Bears big mouth, until she wondered
how one spoon could have held SO
much. When she couldn't see any
more salt, she washed Baby Bears
mouth with cold water from the
spring.
After a while Mother Bear put a
huge box of mustard on the kitchen
table, and left 1t there while she went
in the pantry to read recipe for max
ing mustard pickles. Vs.
Baby Bear wondered what was in
the yellow box. Then he climbed IN
the Middle-sized Mother Bears middle
sized chair, and reached for the box.
He worked and worked and worked
with his clumsy paws before he could
get the cover off the box, and, Wnen
the cover came off, the mustard flew
In Baby Bears eyes. That mustard
was so strong and hot It burned ike
fire!
Father Bear came running and
Mother Bear came running! The mus
tard got in their eyes, too, and soon
the three bears were dancing up and
down on the kitchen floor, crying out,
MUSTARD! MUSTARD! Mustard"
Then Father Bear had an accident:
He knocked the pickles off the board
window-sill into the sand.
Never mind the pickles., SAID
Mother Bear, as she carried Baby Bear
to the door for fresh air; they
wouldn't have been good anyway, be-
cause the book have been reading IN
the pantry says pickles must be MADE
of garden cucumbers!"
It was long time before BABY
Bear stopped crying, and perhaps ne
might have cried until bedtime II
hadn't brought him a wee
bit Of honey.
After that the three bears went to
walk. i
Anyway" said the Middle-sized
Bear, as she tied Baby Bears bonnet
strings, anyway, there isn't anything
so good as porridge! If Gold1locks
can't eat porridge, if she ever comes
visiting Baby Bear, she will have to
go hungry! We shall certainly never
make any more pickles!"
And they never did!
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READS PAGE ALL THE TIME.

Dear juniors:
I thought would write you letter.
I am years old.
I have a cat and dog and COW.
I have six fbrothers and two sisters.
NV birthday is the 7th Of December.
read the Junior page all the time.
Dorothy FuQua.
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SEND CARDS REGULARLY.

We are sending out beautiful post
cards to all the Juniors who write
either letters or stories: we nKe let'
ters and we. want the Juniors to Keep
on writing them. We also want snort
stories, the Juniors to select their own
subjects.