Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1914-11-07

Well, Dearies, | expect you've been
putting on your thinking caps real
often this past week, and | expect
you'll have ever so many nice names
for our story by the time it is fin
ished; and | expect, too, that I'll find
it pretty hard to choose just which
one is the best. But never mind,
some little bow or girl is going to
get nice present for the best name,
and so you just send in the name
you think is the incest and may be
YOU will be the lucky one.
We have two nice letters this week.
One is from Make Hill, Mancelona,
Mich. And the other is from Iva
Croker, Bangor, Mich. We also have
Alice Porter, East Jordan, Mich, to
whom a membership card was sent.
We will have our letters first and
Gen we will have our story.
! Dear Editor:-I thought | would
write and tell you what / do out on
the farm. This is what | do every
day in the fall: l get up at six o'clock
and get dressed and then l go out of
doors and take a lot of exercise.
Then | go into the house and eat
breakfast, and put on my coat and
take my school books and get into
the buggy and Papa takes / and my
little sister to school. About four
o'clock Papa comes after US and
we go back out to the farm. We
live two miles from Mancelona.
When we get out to the farm my
little sister and l take off our dresses
and put on our aprons and caps. Then
my little brother, sister and | go ont
doors to play in the strawstack. We
make houses in the straw and slide
down the sides of it. Just a few
minutes before it is supper time us
three children go into the house and
/ comb out my little brothers hair
and brush him all off good; then |
wash him and get him ready for
SuQper Then | have to get my sister
brushed off and see that she washes
herself clean. Then | brush myself
off and get washed. By the time we
have that done supper is ready. After
we have our supper we get ready for
bed, and then we say our prayers and
get into bed. My sisters name is
Lille. She will be nine years old the
18th day of March. My brothers
name is Adelbert. He will be three
the 9Th of July. My birthday is the
18th of December; | will be twelve
in 76 days. / will try and be a faith
full member of the story telling club.
Yours truly forever,
Make Hill.
P. S.-Perhaps ! will have another
story written to send soon.
Make Dear, that was a splendid
letter, and | just know you have a
lovely home. l can almost see you
slide down your straw stack. | used
to do that when | was a little girl
away out in South Dakota. But |
had four brothers and three sisters
to help me slide. My! but we had lots
of fun. | hope you'll write again real
soon, Make, because you wrote such
a fine letter. I'm sure your mama
thinks YOU are the incest Christmas
gift she ever had.
Here is our other letter:
Dear Editor:-I am a little girl
ten years old. My mama died when
was eight years old. have one sis
ter, age twelve years. Her name is
Eva. My sister and | kept house for
my papa for two years, and then he
went to Washington and my sister
stayed with by aunt in my old home
in Fenton, Illinois, and came to
live with my grandparents in Mich
igan. l have thirteen ducks, one dog
and one bird The birds name is
Daisy and my dogs name is Prince.
My dog and i run races. go to the
Sheldon school house. l have about a
quarter of mile to walk. / am in