Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-02-28
THE LETTER BOX
FOR THE BOYS AND GIRLS

IhE 1t Tn Dun
FOR THE BOYS AND GIRLS
Help for the HelpIess-Kindncss to
All Dumb Things"
Rules
No unsigned letter printed.
No letter written on both sides Of
paper printed.
All letter not to exceed $50 to 200
words.
Dearest Cousins: I've come to visit you
again. [ came once before and received
many letters, and, if ! did not answer all,
every one appreciated There have
been quite a few changes with me since |
wrote last. I'm not at home now, but qui e
a distance away. l left home in September
and came to school here, and can say it IS
grand place, and the memories of school
life here will always be sweet to me. l
think education is the greatest thing for
any boy or girl. If you fit yourself out
with good education, then you won't have
such a hard time through life. Some may
say, "Oh, I'm too poor; l can never go to
school" But you can if you will only say,
i Will co. Then no one can stop you
If You open wide the door no man can shut
1t. Get an education while you are young.
Don say, when you get old, that you might
saddest words ever spoken are the might
nave beens. You do not have to be rich to
get an education. I'm working some of my
way myself, and I'm not ashamed of it.
No, m rather proud of it, for l mean to
get an education some way, and if any of
you wish to get an education l advise you 70
come to dear old A. and NJ, for it is the
greatest place ever. I'm a regular book
worm, aud love music and flowers very
much, and I especially love to cook and
sew. We girls take cooking and sewing
here at school. l wonder how many would
like to write to me. Don't get the idea,
now, that I'm an old maid. The ones who
read my other letter will remember me with
brown eyes, HOMEGROWN curly hair, a
ready smile and n very good humor. l am
looking for lots Of letters. Best wishes and
love. An old cousin,
(MISs) VERA TINCH.
A. and NJ. School, GAINESVILLE, Ga.
Dear Auntie and Cousins: Auntie, I thank
You for printing my other letter So please
print this, as | want the cousins to take
this az a personal letter, as it seems to me
that it is impossible for me to answer all
the nice and kind letters l received. I re-
cciyed as high as eighteen a day, and they
still keep coming. My letter was published
December 81 and this is January IS. Cousins,
l would have written to Aunt Julia sooner,
but l began answering and in a few days
had to take our tobacco to market and
was gone a few days. We sold Mt the
Planters warehouse, Knoxville, Tenn. My
brother has four trucks, which he uses in
hauling soft drinks He took our tobacco in a
tWO-tOn truck. 1t is fifty-fOur miles 20
Knoxville We packed one night and left
at O'Clock a. M, took breakfast at Lenoir
City We reached the warehouse at $50
a. IN. Would have made it sooner, but had
a puncture. We almost froze before we
could build fire. We crossed the Ten
neSsee river at London Tobacco didn t sell
as good as it did last year. We received
5000 per hundred, which was more than
the average. Cousins, l shall try and tell
you how l look, as many asked for a de-
scription Am feet inches tall, weigh
135 pounds light hair, fair complexion and
have blue eyes and wear heavy, dark framed
spectacles. I shall appreciate letters from
anyone who cares to write. A true cousin,
TOM W. THOMPSON.
jacksonville, Tenn, Route l.
Kind Aunt Julia and Cousins It has
been quite a while since I visited you all
so having just read the dear old Journal
thought l would ask admittance- for just a
few moments chat. Hope / am welcome
| am school girl Of sixteen. l study the
eighth grade and sure do like it. l think
have the best teacher ever, his name is
Mr.. s. J. Derrick I viii be so glad when
spring comes. l can plant my flower seed
] am going TO try and have some pretty
flowers this year. Know most Of you like
them, not any better than l do though.
/ will now discontinue, hoping to hear from
just coolies of the cousins. A little cousin
MISS EVA MARTIN.
CASTOR S. c., Route 1.
Dear Aunt Julia: I am little South
Carolina girl and have a birthday the 29th
/ thought ] would write all my little
cousins that have a birthday on the ?9th
l live on a farm, on Broad river close to
the Rabose dam. I surely enjoy farm life
| have two brothers and one little sister at
and we will go fishing on Broad river.
Won't you cousins all write me that have
birthdays on the Goth?
Thirty days have September
April, June and November;
All the rest have thirty-one,
Save February, which alone
Has twenty-eight, but one day more
We add to it one year in four,
MISS BEATRICE RENO.
Gaffney, S. c., Route 1.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: VIII YOU
admit n Tennessee girl into your happy
band of boys and girls? l have written to
the Letter Box once before, but wasn't adj
mitted. | hope l will be this time My
brother has been taking The Journal for
nearly two years and 1 have been reading
the Letter Box, and | enjoy reading it.
go to school almost every day. l live on
farm of 115 acres. l like farming Just fine
VIII some of you cousins do me favor by
sending me the following songs: "An All
Seeing Eye" and ooh, Mother, How I Miss
Herr L will return any favor possible. I
VIII leave my age for you all to guess.
am between ten and eighteen years Who
IS my twin? April Q. I have one sister
and five brothers. I am thankful 10 say
am still blessed with father and mother 1t
IS showing here today and I can't go to
Sunday school, and ] am so lonesome All
you cousins write to m. A new cousin,
Moshinn, Tenn. " ''
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: This day is
the first that have ever read the letters
on your department, so you can ina CINE
how quickly I became interested. I was
almost astonished to learn that young people
the age of the cousins were such efficient
writer's. l think it we'll worth nv while
to JOIN the friendly circle, providing 1 will
be admitted. Yes, l, as many other cousins,
am attending school, and m in the second
year of high school. I'm fond Of almost
any kind of journalism, and I admire
Jolly bunch of correspondents. I shall not
80 very much into details describing N.Y.
self, but I noticed that description adds
interest to the letters Of the cousins, so
here goes: I'm about half way between six
teen and twenty; my size is about the
average Of boys my age; have dark hair,
dark blue eyes and a very light complexion
VIII appreciate letters and photos from all
Won handsome cousins near my age. new
nephew and cousin,
~. J. CARL COLE.
Tellico Plains Tenn.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: have often
thought Of writing to the Letter Box bur
haven't done it. we have been taking The
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