Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-06-02

Here I come, dear cousins,
To have talk with you;
And IL l am not welcome,
Just speak and I'll skiddoo.
I haven't much to say, though,
And though 'twould take less time
II Id begin right at the first
And talk to you in rhyme.
I live in dear old Georgia,
In the county Of Seminole:
She's dear to all her natives.
Though only three years old.
I'm a farmer In the country,
And work to beat the band.
like to do what God said,
For we must till the land.
go about on Sundays,
And think I'm fortunate
TO have a way to go. boys
How could l be more blestl
cts great to be Georgian"
These words ring in my ears;
I've been native of this state
For nearly twenty years.
didn't mean to tell my age,
But guess there is no harm,
For, of course, we show our age, boys.
If we work on the farm.
like to go kOdaking,
And do so every chance;
But my pictures are so ugly
They'd make a lizard dance.
Now, here is my description, girls:
I'm blonde of the truest type.
But everybody calls me pretty
I'm such an awful sight.
I'm expecting lots of letters,
And mean to answer them all
If l have to jump on my brother
And use a wooden maui.
Ross Gay is my beloved name;
My address is Donasonville,
And il you do not write to me
I'll go crawl under the mill.
Dear Auntie and Cousins: Will you please
permit a little Georgia girl TO join your
happy band Of boys and girls? wonder
what you cousins do for pastime? go to
school and study the sixth grade. I live in
the country, as most of you cousins do, and
enjoy country life fine. My age Is between
ten and fifteen. 1 wonder who has my
birthday, April %? I will answer all let
tiers and cards received. Your cousin.
PUMA GREENE.
Adairsville, Ca, Route 2.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: want to
join your happy band. ! am city boy. and
like it fine, but like to visit the country
especially to my granddaddy's, where l
always go when school is out to spend the
hot summer days fishing, swimming and
horseback riding and having a great big old
time doing just as l please. l am the only
child. 1 bet you all think am spoiled, but
l really am daddy's pet. Who has my
birthday, November 90? I am between seven
and ten years old and in the fourth grade at
school. Ny teachers name is Mrs. Findlay.
FRANCIS CARTER.
POS Butler St., Waycross, Ga.
Ny Dearest Aunt Julia: Will you please
let another Georgia girl join your happy
band of boys and girls? 1 live on farm.
1 have two brothers and no sisters at all.
Ny oldest brother is fourteen years old and
my youngest brother is two years old. How
do you and the cousins like fishing? We
take The Journal and like it fine. ! How
do you like flowers? I am a little girl, ten
years old. What are you doing every day?
1 surely do like to go to school, but our
school has closed and I surely do hate it.
Good-by. Your loving friend,
IRENE GRIMES.
Elberton. Ga, Route II.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Please let
a lonely little widow into your happy band.
I have been thinking of calling for long
time, but was afraid l would not be ad-
mitted, and am so lonely, as l have been
widow for over a year and lost my precious
baby last November. l surely do enjoy
reading the cousins letters; they cheer me
so much. If any of you cousins would like
to cheer a lonely little widow. between
twenty and twenty-five, write to me. Come
again, Daisy Perkins. 1 surely did enjoy
your letter. Hoping to hear from all Of the
cousins, I am
MRS. Oracle HARRELL.
Edison, Ca, Route 1.
Dear Journal Cousins: 1 wonder how you
all would like to read a letter from an
Alabama boy. 1 have been a silent reader
of The Tri-Weekly Journal and thought q
few remarks from my pen would not be
amiss. l am farmer boy, and like the
peace AMI tranquility of country life just
fine. l wonder how many of you readers
like music. 1 should say ] do, and am
trying to master violin music, that being
my favorite instrument. Ny next hobby is
writing verses and reading. l have written
doing so. If any of you young folks would
like to exchange a few letters with me, l
will gladly answer all the letters I can.
will let you guess my age, which Is between
eighteen and twenty-five. 1 hope to receive
letter shower before long. A Journal
reader GRADY STONE.
sprott, Ala, Route I, Box 81.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: wonder il
you will let little milliner join your happy
band, for I like all the cousins and Aunt
Julia, too. The motto at the head of the
Letter Box caught my attention, for what
If you have ever tried being helpless even q
short time you can better realize the need
of living up to that little motto. 1 wish
you could all be with me tomorrow, as 1t IS
Saturday and l will have more than l can
do, and l am sure some Of the cousins at
least would be good clerks and kind enough
to help me. This is a high, hilly country
and a good farming territory and Is very
thickly settled. I am almost a stranger
here, al have not been here very long, and
will be glad to hear from any Of the older
cousins. MISS ANNA BROOKS,
Anton, Ala.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will you
please admit a little Alabama girl into your
happy circle Of boys and girls? 1 enjoy
reading the Letter Box very much, and
think it is getting more interesting every
time. l live on the farm. and enjoy farm
life fine. How many of the cousins like to
90 to school? l do for one, and will tell YOU
something about our school. I go to the
county high school, which is situated in the
beautiful little town of Highland Home.
We have four school buses and several cars
that carry the pupils TO school. 1 live
seven miles from the school, but go and
come from home every day on one of the
cars. | am in the tenth grade. We have
fifty-two pupils in my class, and two hun
dred in school, We hope to enroll three
hundred next year. There only four
grades taught in this school and we have
five teachers. How many CT the cousins
have my birthday, December 9? My age is
between seventeen and twenty-one. Who
can guess it? This is my first attempt to
write to the box, SO 1 will close and come
again ard describe myself if this escapes
Mr.. Wastebasket. With best wishes for
Aunt Julia and all Of the cousins. All OF