Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1915-01-09
THE CHILDREN'S STORY
TELLING CLUB
Essi1lyn Dale Nichols, Editor
1875 ST.. Rock Island, III.
Directs the Edna o.
Essillyn Dale Nichols, Editor


"Ponto the Peace-Maker." My sis
ter Jessie thinks: "How Ponto Saved
Fluffy From a Very Hard Beating"
Dearie-Your letter was beautiful,
and ! know you and your sister are
fine little girls. | think you were both
very smart indeed to keep house for
Papa and Brother. Your editor is
very glad, too, that little Brother got
well, and we will all hope that he will
grow strong enough to walk again.
| Those names were nice, Bears, and
! l hope you will take part in our next
contest. Write again and often.
| Our THIRD letter is from Amelia
Cook, Leota, Michigan.
Dear Editor:-I am a Oirl of eleven
and will be twelve in January. | al
ways like to read the letters and
stories that are on the page that has
the Children's Story Telling Club on.
| am in the sixth grade. / have
| thought now of a name for that story
you wanted US to name, and | hope l
will receive the present. The name
that l hope will be the prettiest is:
"Fluffy, the Ball-Player." Now do
not you like that name too? But /
suppose you will receive so many nice
names that you cannot tell which is
the incest. | have a brother nine
years old, and another one six years
old, and as sister four years old, and
two twin sisters four months old; one
has black hair and brown eyes-the
other has light hair and blue eyes. My
oldest brothers name is John Will
mot, and my next brothers name is
Arnold Lee, and my youngest broth
er's name is Neal Russell, and my sis
ter's name is Maggie Lillian Cook;
and my twin sisters names are Arlie
Carmelita (that is the black haired
ones name), and the light haired
ones name is Ina Merle. / hope to
see this letter in the paper.
Your friend
Amelia Marion Cook.
| am very glad to nrint your letter,
| Amelia, and hope you will write an
other one soon. You were quite right
about the names, Dear, l did receive
so many that it was VERY, VERY
hard to tell which was best; and after
all it was just what ] thought, and
somebody else might think entirely
different. / think the name YOU sent
in was a good one, and although it
did not win the prize | thank you for
sending it, and hope you will try in
our next contest. Our FOURTH let
ter, which is all we have room for this
week, is from Pauline Bessette, Ber-
ryton, Kansas.
Dear Editor:-I see all the other
children are joining the club so | had
better join it too. / just like to read
the stories and will try to send in
the name for that story. have few
pets so | must tell you about them.
We have one dog; he is black and
white. We call him Dewey. We have
two kittens and two old cats. One
kitten is black and we call him
Blacky. One is blue, but we haven't
named that one. One of the old cats
is blue and white; he is surely pref
| ~. When Papa picks him up he turns
over on his back. The mother to the
kittens is blue. | have banty hen;
she is about eleven or twelve years
old. | am twelve now. My birthday
is the twenty-frst of February.
live a mile from school. We have a
nice teacher; she reads US stories and
lets us do lots of such things. l am
in the sixth and seventh grades this
year. We live ten miles from Topeka
on a twenty-acre farm. Mama takes
the Casnovia Herald; it is her home
paper. We have two pretty horses
and one pretty colt and a Jersey COW.
| have two brothers and four sisters,
hut they all live away from home,
One of my sisters lives in Topeka.
From your little FRIEND Pauline Bes-
settle.
/ Pauline Dear, thank you for such
J nice letter. But there is one thing
you forgot; that is the name for the
story you meant TO send. | looked
and looked on every page but l could
J not find the name, so guess you for
got to send it, Dear. But never mind,
, you will have a chance to win other
prizes this year, so don't feel badly.
; But write another nice letter.
/: Now good bye until next week.