Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-10-25
AUNT JULIA'S COUNCIL
Friendly Meeting Place for All TiWeeky Journal Readers

ters IN Aunt Juila s Letter DON. I1oW many
of you cousins like to so to school? do.
l go to Sylvester school. have three
teachers, and like them all. live one and
half miles from school. / so on school
truck to school and have a fine time on the
truck. Our truck drivers name Is Fred
Ranes. My regular schoolmates are Eula
Casey, Inez Massey, Versa Cola Reynolds,
Vernedoe Davis and others. Like most OF
farm life fine. l will leave my age for
you to guess. 1t is between twelve and
sixteen. Who has my birthday, August -
Come on Georgia boys and girls and don
let the other states get ahead of us. l will
describe myself I have dark hair, dark
brown eyes and brunei complexion. More
of you boys come ahead and write to Aunt
Julia's Letter Box. Don't be afraid, the
girls want someone else to write to besides
girls. l am afraid L have broken the rules.
will assure all an answer. Your new
cousin.
THETMA FULFORD.
Sylvester, Ca, Route ..
|. Dear Aunt Julia May 1 enter your charm
ing band of boys and girls again? There !
knew you would let a little kid from the
land of flowers enter. Cousins, l agree
with you about Aunt Julia'S picture at the
top of the Letter Box. Aunt Julia, please
do, If only once. I'm sure all of us kids
would like it. l, for one, would. I would
keep it always. Wish some of you cous-
ms were here today. I'm If YOU were
l wOuldn't be lonesome. We are having
where have you gone to? l received the
views of Birmingham that y0u sent me
Many thanks for them. BERTHE Delay, ]
saw your nice letter. Write again.
would like very much to hear from you
again, as 1 haven't in long time. Flora
Estes, / guess that your age is twenty-one.
Am / right? Winnie Bishop, your letter
was good. Write again. l would like very
much to know where you have gone to.
Win some of the cousins send me the songs,
Meet Me in the Moonlight Alone" "On
the Banks of the Wabash Far Away" I'm
Nobody's Darling" l have Red Wing, >,
''Why Should 1 Care" Rosewood Casket''
and lots more that I will exchange
with any one. Guess I'd better go. as
my letter is getting lengthy. Many
letters. hope to see this in print. All of
you boys and girls write to a jolly girl Of
seventeen summers. With love to all. An
sALLIE GARRETT.
Lamont, Fla.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins; I am a
reader of The Tri-Weekly Journal, and 1
must say 1t Is indeed a pleasure to me to
read the nice letters in the letter box.
so 1 decided to write a few words.
want to get acquainted with all the cousins.
| live four miles from the town Of Way
cross. We live on small farm of 40 acres,
although we do not farm. My dad is in
the butcher business and rents out his farm,
all You cousins to write me, and 1 will
certainly answer every 1etter-and card L
get. 1 am little girl, weigh LOG pounds.
Ny age is between - and IS. 1 do hope
L will this in print.
Lovingly, your new cousin,
(MISS) AMY BARNARD.
Waycross, Ga, Route 1.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: When I
finished reading the Letter Box of Septem-
Der IS felt there was joy and sadness,
combined in the letters. Miss Leigh's camp
ing made me think OF the camp at Pine
Log Epworth league assembly. Such a good
time we all had! Then l gave my Sunday
stream near home. How happy each one
seemed. Beatrice Harris, began the wom-
On's instruction home dressmaking course
but don't have time to finish up. l can get
poor working class q am one of that class
myself. They think it should be charity,
so teach school for my pin money. / make
all the clothes for myself and two sisters.
| We raise turkeys, have our garden, can a
lot; SO keep very busy during the summer
| months. We try to can a variety, both in
vegetables and fruits. We have quite a lot
to sell at present, though this was not a
couple in the house with us and one in a
tenant house nearby. L try to live Mr.
| Converts advice each day and find it brings
happiness to my own life. ''There is Sc
| bad in the best of us that it behooves the
rest of US not to criticize the other half. ~
(MISS) l.. ANTHONY.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Here
comes a girl from Alabama to ioin your
happy band of boys and girls. Don't you
| all think Aunt Julia is grand? 1 surely
| do. What do you cousins do for paStime ?
am all the time doing something. I have
big drove of chickens and hog and
| some guinp1S VIII y,1o
send me any kind OF quilt scraps, four
inches wide and eight inches long. I will
be proud of them. 1 like the country life
| fine. All you cousins write to me, all
| EVA BELLE YOUNG.
| K. No. 8. Box %. Florence, Ala.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: VIII you
admit an Alabama girl in your charming
circle. [ have been a silent reader of the
letter box. Certainly enjoy reading the
interesting letters. 1 live on a farm and
like farm life fine. My home is situated
on the edge of very beautiful woods,
with its riprling streams and springs.
| and three miles from the little town of
Skinnerton, in Concourch county. All the
cousins write to me. Has anyone my
birthday. August %? Your niece and
| cousin,
MARTHA sEwELL.
r. A, Evergreen, Ala,
May 1, too, call you Aunt Julia? I have
visited You all before, but was not ad-
mtted, so l thought that would try again.
am farm girl of seventeen summers,
and L like farm life fine.
| Cousins, isn't Aunt Julia a sweet lady TO
| give US a coZy corner in the dear old Jour
nal! L wish that l could meet her. To
| have heart-to-heart chat with her. and
TO see her smiling face, but this wish is
vain, VIII some of you dear cousins send
me the book entitled 1.-The Jacklin?"
promise to return it in good condition
lvey Lawrence Sharpe, of North Caro-
lima, come again; your letter was fine
on! N.Y. must go for fear Aunt Julia
will not print this.
Any one who cares to write your let
ters will be welcome, and answered by re-
| turn mail.
| MIss) RENA LoCKAMY.
Sanford. n. c.. Route ..
Dearest Auntie and Cousins: Could YOU
! make room for one more little Florida
girl? I have been silent reader Of the
letter box for some time, but never could
| get up courage enough to write. So, now
that I'm here, I'm going TO take a seat
long.
I, like most all the cousins, live on a
farm and surely love farm life. l live
about six miles from the dear "old Sc
cousins have heard about. Blue Springs
is little, but very pretty spring that
flows into Sewannee. l surely do enjoy
going in bathing. We often so on picnics
anu AIsnlHS Trips, Whlch ENJOY very
much. Here is another cousin that enjoys
reading and music. l have an organ and
enjoy playing very much.
l will not write on subject this time,
as I have already taken up too much
space My birthday is the 4th of July.
am 10 years old. ] would he more than
glad to hear from you cousins. especially
| those in the western states. Hoping Aunt
Julia will print this, I am,
new cousin.
| (MISS) GLADYS GASTON,
Pine Mount, Fla, Route i Box 81.
| Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: How IS
| everybody enjoying this beautiful weather
III love the free open air of the country far
better than the movies and other entertain
ment Of city life. and vet sometimes it takes
| brave heart to keep from becoming dis
| couraged and lonely on a farm. But Cod
wants some of US to hoe on farms, so, cOus-
| ms, surely ought to be contented and
| do our best wherever we are. How many OF
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