Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-08-30
AUNT JULIA'S COUNCIL
Friendly Meeting Place for All TrWeeky Journal Readers
THE LETTER BOX
FOR THE BOYS AND GIRLS

THE LETTER BOX
FOR THE BOYS AND GIRLS
"Help for the Helpless-Kindness to
All Dumb Things"
Rules
No unsigned letters printed.
| No letter written on both sides OF
paper printed.
All letters not to exceed $50 to zoo
words.
Dear Aunt Julia; Please. may come In
most OF the Cousins, live on farm, and
can do most any kind OF farm work, such
as milk, hoe, feed chickens, cook, etc.
Well, as the muchly discussed" topic Is
powder and paint, I'll say my bit. | use
| both, but aot as "extravagantly" as some
girls l have seen.
How many of you Cousins like to go
| bathing! Just look at the hands! Well.
hundred yards of Concehulla creek and a
mile from Copasauga river. Those are
INDIAN names. So you see we could have
plenty of water to splash about in.
Aunt Julia, come and IN take yon IN
our little flivver to the fort that DeSOto
built on the highest point OF the range
that comes down in the northern part or
our state-a part Of the old rock wall is
still there today.
Dalton is also noted. for the best loved
poet of Georgia used to live in this town
when he was boy. Cousins. do you
know his name? 1t was Robert Loveman,
How many of you all love his poem 1T
Isn't Raining Rain to Me?"
Well, l have gone over Auntes rules al
ready. So will tell you how ] look Dark.
brown eyes, black hair and brunette COM
plexion; weigh 107 pounds and am u years
old. Any one who cares to write with get
reply IL they address their letters to a
new Niece and Cousin,
Dalton, Ca, R,2.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: viii you
please permit jolly TennesSeean to join
lyOur band uf happy boys and girls?
L surely hope AL You Cousins, and Of
course Aunt Julia, are having a fine time
this spring and summer.
l live in a little mining town of Ten
nessee, near the boundary line between
North Carolina md Tennessee This is q
very rich place for mines. Copper, sulphur,
iron and acid are the main industrial man
ufacurek OF the Ducktown basin. We have
the largest acid plant in the world in
Copperhil, city about four miles from
my town.
l sincerely wish all you Cousins could
visit me. You surely would see lot of
beautiful scenery, as there are mountains
on every side of
There is good graded road upon the
Frog mountain, which extends three thou
sand feet above sea level and two thousa nd
feet above the general level Of the floor of
Ducktown basin.
Last March the third and fourth years of
Ducktown High school went upon the
mountain in cars and had nice time,
although it rained while we were UP there.
am on a visit in Georgia now. Tuesday
the mail man brought the Tri-Weeklyl Jour
nal, and l at once became interested in
fho Taft Rnw AZ 10
tempt at writing 20 tAe Letter Box, l
must be going, or Aunt Julia won't print
this for ME.
If this letter is printed, and if any one
wishes to correspond with a nice young
fellow" who ia feet inches tall, weighs
lbs pounds. brown ha ired, blue eyed, and
wears spectacles, is i1 fourth year High
school, between ages Of 10 and 10, Just
write to LESTER SHIELDS.
Isabella, Tenn.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Please
pardon for coming again so SOON but
just couldn't resist the temptation any
longer. Aunt Julia, ] wish to thank you
for printing my other letter. l really think
you are dear. ] have received some very
nice letters and l hope to receive more be-
fore this is printede.
Miss Mary Ann Warren, Live Oak, Fla,
want you to come real often because
every one likes to read your interesting
letters. NY best girl friend corresponds
is Irene Cook. l wonder il You know her.
We live on point with q river one
side of us aud creek on the other, so you
can imagine how often | 60 fishing and
bathing. We live a mile from anyone,
but I wouldn't exchange homes with any
one in Winsteadvlle. Our yard is always
cool in the summer because it is shady and
the breeze comes from the water. We
have n pretty flower garden hut it is not
good as it was last summer on account
Of the dry weather.
We live three miles from school, but we
drive and You can imagine what fun we
have, especially on rainy days. We had
four teachers last year, but we will only
have three this year. 1 went to Pantego
High school the term Of 1921-22.
How many Of the cousins like boat rid
ing? 1t is of my greatest pleasures.
1 wonder. how many like to sit ap nights
at tobacco harms. | think it is real fun,
especially when thNre is a crowd of young
girls and boys We haven't any tobacco,
but one of our cousins has.
Aunt Julia, | wish you could visit me
some this summer. I'm sure l could give
You good time if you like the water.
Well. l have had better go before
break some OF Aunt Julia's rules.
''G THEIMA NoRFLEEr,
Rawsonville, n. G.
Dear 'Auntie and Cousins: I have been
reading the Cousins letters for long time,
and l must say | enjoy reading them very
muCD. L haven't seen many leLieES lElOm
North Carolina. What's the matter? Wake
up! Let's show the Cousins We're not S111~
dead 1 must tell you Cousins something
Of where / live. L live in western North
Carolina. near the little town of Hayes
Vile. ] live on 3OO-acre farm. do
enjoy farm life. Do you Cousins like
apples, melons and flowers? Why. yes,
I'm sure you do! If you Cousins will visit
me this summer Wen go swimming, pic
nicking. kodsking, boat-riding, fishing, N
everything. I'm not going to describe my
| self, for l detest people who are always
describing themselves. l bet some of 'em
tell you this: ''I'm girl of 16 summers. "
How many of you Cousins have heard the
songs, Three O'Clock in the Morning -
MY Nanny Knows" and my Isle of
prettiest pieces out. Do you read Dorothy
Dix's talks in The Journal? They surely
are interesting Come again, Mrs. Alice
Uldrich, your letter was just splendid.
If | see this in print, I'll come again.
Hoping | haven't broken any of Auntie' y
| rules. All you Cousins write to me. and
I'll try to answer million anyway.
Heaps % love for Aunt Julia and the
MARY SELLERS.
Hayesville. N. C.. Route 1.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Will you
admit boy and girl from South Carolina
into your happy band of girls and boys
We live on a seyen-hurse farm and like
| Journal for long time and we think it's
fine paper. What do You cousins do for
pastime? l read good books, play ball and
80 in bathing. Who have birthdays
I, Blease, was IS the 10th Of July. !. Fur
man, was Is the 9th of August. If we are
admitted this time we will write again.
| guess you wonder how look. Both
of us have black hair, brown eyes and fair
complexion. l guess we had better close
before we break rule. We will answer all
mail received. From two cousins,
BLEASE CANFIELD,
FURMAN CANFIELD,
Greenwood, 8. c.. Route s.
Howdy. everybody! Here I come again
| liter short absence from the merry circle.
| s'pose the cousins had to laugh dixie my
| Self) when they read my letter. Below my
letter it read as follows: Enclosed find bean
for ILez. Well, 1t wasn't bean; it was f
nickel so you cau now stop your laughing
Here is something for the girls TO do when
thotr lnth