Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-07-04
THE LETTER BOX
FOR THE BOYS AND GIRLS
"Help for the Helpless-Kindness to
All Dumb Things"
Rules

Rules
No unsigned letters printed.
! No letter written on both sides OF
paper printed.
All letters not to exceed $50 to 200
words.
| Dear Children
Please read carefully our lead let
| ter this week.
Jesse Neel leads our list of mem
orable dates for May and the one
of the burning of Joan of Arc
| brought from him this splendid let
ter about her life and heroism.
Here are some July dates, let's
| see. who can send us a good letter
about one Of these dates.
Jesse we want your picture for
| our album.
Lovingly,
Aunt Julia.
July 1-3, Battle Of Gettysburg,
1868.
July 2, President Garfield shot,
1881.
July 8, Cevera's Fleet destroyed
off Santiago, 1898.
July 4th, Declaration of Independ-
ence, 1875.
July 10th, Santiago surrendered,
1898.
July 21st. Battle of Bull Run,
1861.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: I just won
der what you all have been doing lately. I
presume you think it strange to ask what
you all have been doing. Let me explain
1 have been in school for the past eight
months, away from home. Therefore could
not keep in touch with you ALL But L
thought Of you all very often. l have been
having splendid time since school closed.
l have been visiting my sister in Tennessee.
l like Tennessee fine, especially Newport:
but I must be loyal to my home state. All
of us think our home states the honey pond
Of the United States, or at least 1 do. But
don't forget that North Carolina is not
the only turtle in the tank. have mem
DRY book and 1 would like to have all the
cousins send me card or any little trifle
to put in it. 1 will appreciate the fact if
You all will be so kind as to do the favor
Aunt Julia, our roses are just in bloom.
Would you mind if 1 should send you box
of them? 1 shall describe myself and fly
the track, as l think I saw Aunt julia
glance toward that wastebasket. If there
ever was basket that I hate, it is Aunt
Julia's wastebasket. I don't know whether
to describe myself or just get in box and
what I am. Here goes: Brown hair-and
it Is bobbed: brown eyes, fair complexion,
five feet tall, weigh 100 pounds. There!
Don't get excited and run. Lovingly. your
MARY L. GREEN.
league. N. G.
Dear Aunt Julia: Win you please admit
lonely Georgia girl into your jolly band?
1 have tried before but did not see my letter
in print, am hoping to see this one. l do
enjoy reading the cousins letters. live on
the farm and love farm life, especially when
| the beautiful flowers are in bloom, and the
| fruits are ripe. What do you cousins do
for pastime? 1 read books and magazines
| fifteen years of age. Who has my birth
/ day, April 16? l will bid you all adieu; all
| of you cousins write to and see If you
don't get an answer. With best wishes to
you ALL remain your rP 1 fS11 cousin G,,rp
Dallas, Ca, Route 2.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will you
admit a little Mississippi girl into your
! happy circle? Thank you, I am indeed glad
to hear you bid welcome. 1 wonder
| how all the cousins are spending these beau
| tiful warm days. l am spending mine now
at home, after being in school all the year.
! wish you boys and girls were here with
me to help eat plums, we have many nice
ones now. l will let you cousins guess my
age. 1t is between sixteen and twenty.
will not detafn you all any longer as this
is my first time. Thanking Aunt Julia for
her kindness in printing this and 1 would
be glad for all you cousins to write me. Sim
cerely yours,
GENBvIEVE G.. CARPENTER.
New Augusta, Miss.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Here comes
South Carolina boy to join your happy band
of boys and girls. l have been q reader of
the letter box for long time and think it is
fine. What do you cousins do for pastime?
L go fishing and hunting, boating and swim
ming. l like to read books also. I've just
finishred 1.-THE Trail Of the Lonesome Pine, ="
and think that it is fine. My fayorite au-
thors are John Fox, Zane Grey and Robert
| ". Chambers. l will not describe myself to-
day but 1 will say that am fourteen years
old: want all the cousins to write to me
and will try to answer all mail received
! Your new cousin JEROME SMITH
Dalzell, s. G.
Hello, everybody! How are you? | am
well, thank you. 1t has been quite a while
since L have written, and / am glad of the
opportunity to be with you once more. We
are having transforms and hail here now
we had another today, not so bad. I do
| which practically ruined the crops in this
! section of the country, ours included, and
w chad another one today, not bad. I do
| hope it will be the last. 1t certainly is
| raining 1 hear the rushing of the waters
now. We have had a beautiful spring until
now. Aunt Julia, must mention my chick
ems. I have about fifty, nearly big enough
to eat, eleven little tiny ones and three
hens setting. Aunt Julia, 1 will never
forget the good old Letter Box. 1 have g
dear unseen friend whom l found through
the Letter Box. 1 hope she sees this
Hello. Mrs. Setser! How are you? Hurry
|
aunt who takes The Journal. If she sees
this l want to say Hello, Aunt Penniel
I'm coming before long, and let's see a let
| ter in the Box from YOU" We sure have
| lots of plums now, four or five different
kinds. Hoping to hear from some of the
! cousins, sincerely,
| Bolivar, La Route 1.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins. May come
| in for, few minutes? I have been out look
| ing at our flowers aud found most of them
| in bloom, at least my pansies, lilies, old
fashioned daisies, petunias oxalis, roses,
geraniums, sultanaS, crocuses and gladiolas
were. How many of you like flowers?
| surely do and much Of my pastime Is spent
in our yard, flowers or near window
boxes. 1 also like to read, crochet, embroid-
er and tat, but best of all l like to ride
| horseback and swim. Sometimes especially
just after long ride over the sunny fields,
| think like "DiXie" better than the Ford.
Listen, cousins, l want to thank you all for
| the many letters and cards l received just
| after my last letter was in print. l certainly
did appreciate them and would have answered
every one had not Billy Ga young villain or
desperate who lives next door,, swiped and
| destroyed them. He is very miSchievouS and
| did it for fun, so I didn't get mad. Not
that l wasn't sorry, for l was, very, very
sorry and l want every one of you to write
again, won't you? Don't remember whether
| there was a letter from near Ocala or Miami,
Fla, or not, but l would be extremely
pleased to hear from nice young peerson
from those parts. have some relatives and
| friends there and possibly of you are
acquainted with them. Anyway, write, I'll
be glad to hear from you land folks from
| elsewhere, too). 1 must go, l have black
hair, blue eyes, light complexion and am a
graduate of high school. My age is between
fifteen and seventeen years. With love to
the cousins Except the boys and best wishes
| to them), more love to Aunt Julia.
| LOUISE SMITH.
Doyle, Ga.
wonder what you all have been doing these
awful rainy days, as I was so lonesome to-
| day decided l would try and write again.
as my last letter failed to be printed
have been going to school but it is out now.
l passed to the eighth grade. Wish you
cousins and Aunt Julia could be with me,