Charlevoix county herald., 1914-12-12
THE CHILDRENS STORY
TELLING CLUB
Essillyn Dale Nichols, Editor
1928 ST., Rock Island, III.


Dear little friends I've got some
/ good news for you. The mail man is
beginning to bring me letters and in
the letters are names for "The Story
That YOU Can Name" And so it
won't be long now until | can send
the present to the one that sends the
best name. But Dear! Dear! | just
know that it's going to be difficult to
choose the best name; for I've re-
ceived so many good ones already.
expect I'll have to think and THINK
awtully hard-just like you do when
you go to school, and then mabe I'll
have to stand myself in corner so
I'll be sure to make no mistake. Don't
you think I'll look funny standing in
a corner with a stack of letters all
around me trying to choose the "best
nfpe" for our story? That's joke,
nov you must laugh.
And now, Bears, as I've got heaps
Of fine letters to print | guess I'd
better begin or | won't have room
for them all. The first one is from
Mary f. Bridges, Paris, Michigan,
who has written for our club before.
Dear Editor:-I was reading an
other little story that Make Hill
wrote and l thought it was very
l11dce story indeed.
| have moved since | wrote last and
| live in the township of Barton.
have two miles to go to school here
and | live on a farm of a hundred
and sixty acres. We have fine sport
hunting beech nuts on Saturdays. We
have on our farm five head of horses,
fifteen head of cattle and eight hogs.
We have a very large school. | like
our teacher very we'll Her name is
Mrs. Elzora Randall. My sisters
name is Rhoda; she is eight years
old, we both go to school together.
| am eleven years old and will be
twelve the seventeenth of December.
Have you sent my snake story in yet,
because | haven't seen it in print? |
was much pleased to see my first
story in print. This will be all for
this time. My address is,
Miss Mary E. Bridges,
Paris, Michigan, Route No. 3.
Yes, Mary, l have sent your snake
story in; you will probably read it
long before you see this in print. You
see, Dear, | live a good ways from
Michigan and it takes at least day
and a night for your letters to reach
me. And then | have to edit them
and fix them up in my department
here at my home and then send them
by mail to the big publisher in Michi-
gan who prints them in lots of nice
papers; and finally they are sent out
through the mail and you get to read
them in your home. Quite a lot of
work to editing and publishing a pa
fsc7-;, -ii5Ii'ts Skese,-Dear? But there is
nothing worth while ever accom-
plished without work-and TIME. /
am sure Make will be glad that you
liked her letter. | hope you will write
often, Mary, for we like to read your
letters.
The next letter is from one of our
first prize contestants. Here it is:
Dear nd:-Seeing that the
story has ended will tell you what |
think is a very nice name for the
story that WE can name And here
is my name for it. "Mrs. Tabby Cat,
Mistress Dog and Their Children"
think that would be a very nice name
for the story. | wrote a letter to you
"a while ago and l guess | did not
write my name quite plain; | was
very glad to see it in print. You
signed it Make Hill, but it is Make
Hull. Will you please change it.
hope my name wins the prize. / am
as true as ever to the story telling
club. Make Hull. Age eleven-will
be twelve the twenty-ffth of Deem
Der. Will try to write again soon.
Make, Dear, your name for our
story is especially nice, and mabe you
WILL win the prize-who knows {!
But, of course, Wen have to be pa
tient and wait until all the names
come in (Which will be about the first
week in December l expect) and then
the present goes to some one. I'm