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LETTERS TO SITU OLIOS
■ n writing Santa Claus letters
to The Serald make letters as
short as possible and write only
on one side of paper. All letters
must be addressed to Santa Claus
Editor, care Herald, and must
have 2-cent stamp on each when
put in poatoffice or letter box. This
plan has o be adop.ed in order to
get all letters published before
Christmas.
Dear Santa Clause. I am a little
lwv to yearn old. 1 want you to bring
mo a 22 rifle and :t box of eardregc*
and a horr an a fiddle an a acdarlng
an a drum an a rap ptsul an plany of
fruit an plany of fire works an 1 clou**
for this time from Johnny Whittle,
Vaurlause, S C.
Dear Old Santa: You were so nlra
last year and brought me what I want
ed so 1 ana writinc again please linns
me a Rlue rain root and pair of Hub
er's. a tea set a suit of furniture some
nice hall ribbons and a doll with a
pacifier, as you know I will be ion
vears old Xmas day that Is Ibe reason
1 « mt so much now Santa be sure and
doji't lose my things on the way an
good Bye your little Friend Mario
Garrtson. 52.6 Wright Ave.
Mv Dear Santa Claus: 1 will write
you a fop lines to let you know what
i want. I am a little boy 6 years old
/mid 1 go to school and 1 am In the
first grade. 1 want you to please
Or ins me a eowboy suit and a overcoat
and train that run on a track and some
fire works a story booy. I'lease don t
forge* Ma and Va. Bring them some
thing nlr • hoping you a Merry Xm.if
and a happy new year* your little hoy,
Archie Thurmond, 409 Hamilton St.
Dear Old Santa Claus. 1 ant a little
noy 4 years old and 1 want to know
if vou Will bring inc a wagon and a
tool Box and some Building Blocks an I
any thing nice that will do for n llttl i
boy and dont forget my .Ittie cousins
upon Hicks street. Willie and Kffla
I.ee Burrus. Your little friend, Melton
Thurmond, 409 Hamilton St.
• Dear Santa: I am a little boy, four
years old, and I would like for you to
come and see me again tills < lirls.
1 want a lnden suit and a tedy bear,
an I would like to have a streat car,
a boy doll and a nice little trunk to
keep my things In. 1 can't think of
anything clrc. Know cany thing that
you think will please me and Sandy,
don't forget to tiring me some fruits
of all kinds and Sandy, don't forget
my grandmother and father. Hoping
you a mery Chris and a happy new
year. 1 am as ever your ltttlo friend,
Master Edward Prescott, 2026 Broad
Street.
Dear Rnnta: I want you »** bring
mo doll carriage, a drum, a liorn. ft
horse and candles and fruits and fin*
crackers. Yours very truly. 811110
Mayson.
Dear Santn Clause: 1 am a little
girl. 9 years old. I havn't missed a
da.y from school this tern*. 1 want
you to please bring me a big doll and
bed, carriage and a football. O, Santa,
do hurrie and come, for 1 ilon’t feel
like I can wait much longer. Bring
me some nice fruit. 1 will close with
much love to all. I am your little
girl. Louise Brldwell. 1355 Cooper St.
Dear Santa Claus: 1 want you to
bring me a set of doll furniture, a lit
tle doll, a bracelet, a carriage, a tea
set and some fruits and candles, and
1 want you to remember Mrs. Brown
and Mr. Brown. Hoping you and
Mrs Santa a aerry Xtnus and a happy
New Year From your little girl.
Susie Rodgers, 1001 Liberty Street.
Dear Pant: Claus: Will you please
bring me .. little doll, stone furniture,
a ten set, some little gloves to wear
to school. I am Just 6 yenrs old, and
1 want lota of fruits and candles and
that la all. With love to you and Mrs.
Santa. Louise Rodgers, 1001 Liberty
Street.
My Dear Santa Clause: 1 will sum
take pleasure to tell you what 1 want.
1 want a nice new doll and a small
baby doll and a trunk and tea set and
anything else you could bring me.
Love to Mrs. Rants lam your little
girl, Delmas Louise Thompson, IMS
Broad Street I*. 8. Don't forget
Nanna Smith and Nanna Thompson.
Dear Santa Claus: 1 am seven years
old and go to the John Mtlledgo
School, l'lcnse bring me a boy scout
suit, a tent, drum, pistol and plenty
of fire works l’lease bring me some
fruit; I like grapes best. Love to you
and Mrs. Santa Claus. Your friend,
Charlie Bohler Prlckctt, 171!S Hicks
Street.
Dear Santa:l sm a girl, 11 yenrs
old. go to the John Mllledgo School,
am In the sixth, l'lease bring me a
LaValllerc, a pair of gloves, shoes
hat and a box'of black paint to paint
my bycycle. Don't forget my brother,
Charlie Bohler. Don’t forget my lit
tle girl friends, Bessie Barnes, Lily
Maud Platt, Kutrine Foster, Ludie
Satrnce and Resale Wilhelm. Don't
forget my Sunday school teacher, Mrs.
Tueton Your friend, Alice Prlckctt,
1723 Hicks St.
Dear Santa Claua: We are glad to
see you back in Augusta Santa Claus
1 am 9 years old, and 1 am In the third
gread at school and I want you to
bring me a wheel and a foot hall and
lota of fruit. Your* truly, by by, Wat
son Long. 1726 Hicks St.
Dear Santa Claus: 1 atn a little girl
4 and 2 months old. I am write you
lines let you no that 1 want you to
bring me something good. Bring me
doll and finger ring, a pair of stock
ing and pair of shoes and a red teddy
bear coat, a red dress; that all 1 want
for this Xmas. Dense don't forget my
brother. WlUle. Bring him something
good From Laurie Paskel, llephzl
bah, Os., R F D. 2. Box 3n
Dear Santa Claua: 1 wnnt a bicycle
and a cap pistol and some caps; I
want a pistol case and some fireworks
l’leass bring ms lot* of candy and
fruit* Dense do not for get Billie
and Hall. Lot* of love to you. From
Webster Cason. 821 Telfair SI,
Dear Santa Claua:•! am a little boy.
6 years old. 1 want a shot gun, ahot,
bicycle and plenty of fireworks and
fruit. Don’t forget Manta and papa
and grandma. I<ove you and Mrs
Santa Claus Your UtfTe boy, Dckens
Turner, Hephzlhah. (la
Dear Old Santa Clause: I have
been a very good little boy this year,
so 1 want you to please remember me
I would like very much for you to
bring me a drum, horn, train and a
cowboy suit. Now. Santa. 1 ant not
asking for much, so you can bring
anything else that you want to. All
aenda love, and pleaae give my love
to Mrs. Santa. Y’our little boy, Leroy
I. Baty, 1232 Mauge St.
Dear Santa Clause: 1 am a little
wee girl only four years old. 1 would
like for you to tiring me another
dollie; I have a snukum doll, he
brought, me Inst Christmas at my
Aunt Mm's house In North Augusta.
Also bring me a tea set. and a car
riage and u new bonnet and fruit and
candles. Good bye, Nellie Mae Rob
ertson, 1465 Cooper Ht.
Dear Santa Claus: I'ain a little boy
seven years old and I want you to bring
me a eowboy suit, a pair of shoes, a
drum, « born, a pair of skates, a box of
sparkles all kind of fire works a lots
of fruit donl forget mama and papa.
Your boy Edward Howell, 1107 Miller
street.
Dear Santa Claus: WNI you please
bring me a football and a air gun and
a knife and a pair of cow-boy gloves.
From your little friend Alex 8. Frank,
546 Reynolds Ht.
Dear Santa C ans: 1 am a little boy
11 years old. And I want you to bring
me a moving picture machine and some
books untl some fire works and some
fruit. Julian Reynolds, 506 Lincoln St.
Dear Hunm Claus: I am a little boy
5 years old and will be 8 Dec. IS 1
want a bicycle an automobile and a
little train that runs on a track, a hall
and I think that Is all for this time.
Hurry Reynolds, 506 I.lncoln St.
Dear Simla Claus: I am two years
old and mama says I am very good and
I want you to bring me a doll a piano,
a teasel a doll carriage, an some nuts,
apples and candy. Your little friend—
Kllluihetli Gordon.
Dear Santa Claus: 1 am nine years
old, am In the third gride at school.
Mama says that I am very smart, and
the teacher says that I know my lesson.
Anti I want you to bring me a wagon
an some shots to put in my gun. and
some mils, candy, apples an oranges, an
some fire works. Your little friend
Theodore Gordon.
llehow Dear old Santa: A good look
ing old fellow you are Dear Santu 1
thank you very much fur your little
souvenir >on gave me at J. it. White's
toy land the Friday afternoon I saw you.
I Ike foi Xmas a blue cost e white fur
set a ueckles a toty hair a box of hand
kechlefs a large storry book a pair of
glows a lots of hair ribbons a few doll
clothes and a lots of candles anti fruit.
Dear Santa don't forget my little Cousin
llelenFotd ami HeltMount and Dear San
t i don't forget my sister, teacher, Miss
Gibbons Hope you will have me u
beautiful holly Xmas tree for me to put
tint toys on for Xmas. Hy liy. Wish you
a Merry Xmas ami a Happy New Year.
I lattie Hell Cutes of Dean's Brdige Ave.
Dear Santa: I will write you a short
Inter to let you know what I want you
to bring me: I uin a little hoy 10 yrs
old and go to school. 1 haven't nilsstd
a day tilth term. 1 like my teacher very
much. Will you please bring me an
air rifle and a football and a suit of
clothes Irult and fire works and that
w ll he all fi#r this time. Santa please
dont forget mama Grandma and Grandpa
so 1 will close, with much love to you.—
Claude Mai per, 1.165 Cooper St.
Dear Santa Claus: This Is all I want
for Xmas, so please dont forget my lit
tle Hubby he is seven months old and a
big old fat fellow he Is he Is so sweet
Santa Ills name are Doctor White Joe
Ford santa tiring Ruby a lota of nice
dresses a pair of white logons a white
pair of boot tees a Teddy Hear a rubber
doll a tattle a white cup and a lots of
white stocking*. Dear Santa this Is al
we both want tills Xmas. By Hy Mr.
Santa Clause My name la Walter Usu
ry Ford of Survall Ave.
Dear old Santa: I am so glad you
have arrived from your home of Aiken,
S. i\. to be here tills Xmas with the lit
tle ones again Xmas. Dear Santa thank i
you for your little souvenir you gave ;
ine at J. H White's toy land. bur
Santa dont forget m\ little cousin Wll- ,
ham Morrow Wileon Ford an licit Mount I
Ave. Dear Santa IMs Is a 1 1 want for j
Xmas a white fur ret a checked coat ■
with a black belt of velvet n pair of
gloves a necklace a music hook a large ;
hllltken and a large story book a box of
handkerchiefs a lots of hair ribbons a
few doll clothes and a lot of candles
and fruit. By By Mr. Santa I'lßnse
wish you a Merry Xmas and a Happy j
New Sear. My name Is Mattie Lee
Cates of Dean's Bridge Ave.
Dear Sandy Claus: lam a little girl j
4 years old. Please bring me a cap
and Cloak, a pair of shoes and a little
muff, and fur and a big doll and oar- !
rlage a little piano and a little teaset
and some fruit and candy and dont few
get my little first cousins Kveltn Her
ron. she wants a little Rubber doll cloak j
ami cap and shoes. So good by—Cathe
rine Hoard 1332 Cooper St.
Dear Santa Clause: lam a little boy
(> yrs old and a smart little fellow and 1
want to go to school so had Santa will
you please bring me a train and a bell,
cowboy suit, a horn and lot* of fruit
Santa 1 have -t little brother anil ts you
,l«n't tiring him everything you bring
me 1 cant play with mine for he takes
everything t have Well 1 will cose with'
much love to all. Ralph Gay, 1259 Cooi>- :
er St.
Dear Santa Claus: lam a little boy j
one year old l don't want much. Just;
bring me a doll with pants on, a wagon I
and some ndlk to go in my Jack. With !
iove from your little boy—J. D. Baird, i
Sr., HOt Sbcox St.
My dear Jolly old Santa. lam a lit- I
t> boy 5 yeat* old. 1 go to school. 1 I
want you to come Xmas and bring me j
an automobile a mouth organ lots of
fruit and any thing you think that would |
be nice for a little boy like me, I
would like to have a wagon and some
sparklers With love to you and Mr*
Santa Augustus Baird, 1404 Sllcox St.
Dear od Santa: I am a little girl i
years old, p ease don't forget to see nte
Xmas I want a ball two dolls and
some dresses and ribbon far them. 1
want a tea set too so 1 can have a party.
1 am a good little girl Would like to
have a piano if you have any for me.
With love to you. good bye Kdna Karl
Baird, 14**4 Sllcox *t
Dear Santa I am a little boy nine
years old and 1 go uv school e\*ry day,
nnd In the Fifth grade I want you to
[bring ms for Christmas a football and a
byeyele end what all rOH think I* good
for a soy like me Your lovlnk Child
WutYin Baird, 2404 Sllcox Su
>
Dear good Santa Claus: I am a lit
tle girl will be 7 years old the last day
of the year. Would like for you to
bring me Xmas a large baby doll a lit
tle doll In long dresses a tub and wash
board an Iron and lots of fruit and can
dy. Santa don't mind coming down our
chimney for I will have a. has.n,of water
and some soap for you to wash in. With
love to you and Mrs. Santa, Your little
,<!ri Sara BalYd, 1404 Stlcox St.
Dear Santa Claus: I am n little boy
4V4 years old, and Mother says I'm very
good, (when I'm asleep) I don't want
very much this Xmas for 1 still have my
nice rubber tired trycyele you brought
me last year and I have had Many a
ride on it too. 1 also have my large
hobby horse that you brought me when I
was two years old, so you see I take
< ire of niy things Now dear Santa
this year please tiring me a drum with
sheep skin on both sides so It wont burßt
like the ones vou brought last year, I
also want a self running top, a horn, an
Indian suit, and please fill my stockings
with fruit and nuts. I don't care for
candy. Dove to you and Mrs. Santa.
FVom your loving boy—Robert Wilson,
Jr. 810 Bolder Ave.
Dear Santa: I will write to you again
no you will know where 1 am. We have
moved hack to Augusta. You shure was
good to me list Christmas. I thank
you so much. So pie.ase bring me a
packer and a boat and any thing else
you think will suit me. 1 hope to have
my cousin Robert with me Christmas.
So please bring him something nice for
he has no Mamma <tr papa. But my
pappa will pay you for all the things.
Bring us some fire works for I sure do
enjoy them. I know you will bring
me plenty of fruit, candy and nuts. For
-. no always do. So thanking vou for
your kindness, I am your loving little
boy Thomas B. Roberts.
Dear Santa Claus: I am a little boy
8 years old. 1 want a bicycle, 22 rifle,
shot, watch, and cow boy suit, plenty
of fireworks. I want a kodak also. With
love to you and Mrs. Santa Claus. —-
James Turner, Hephzlbah, Ga.
Dear Santa: I am a little girl, seven
ymru old, and 1 want you to bring me
a doll, d"M carriage, doll bed, table,
chairs, stove, tea set, piano, set of paper
dolls, some ribbon fed' my hair, a sweat
er. and lots of fruits. Please remember
my little sisters, Pauline and Elizabeth,
i nd my little cousin Frankie. Your little
friend -Rosa Daby, 612 13th St.
Dear old Santa: 1 am a little boy
five years of age. 1 want you to not
forget me Christmas. I want you to
bring me a little tvaln and air tfle and
automobile and a plenty of fruit. With
lots of love to you and Mrs. Santa, from
your little friend Howard Hudgins, 1741
Walker St.
Dear Santa Claus: I hope you and
Mrs Santa have been well and happy
ever since last Xmas. 1 have my beau
tiful doll and carriage you brought me
two Xmas ago. All I want you to Wring
me-this time iR a hig character baby
dull tit will be the last doll I want) and
some I toddy Dimple Books. I'd like for
my doll to have light hair and blue eyes.
My lltlle brother Is sick so I'll write
what be wants. A big wagon, bow and
arrow cash register and a cow boy suit
with fur pants. Put in some sparklers
too. YouV little friend—Sara Emma
Dldlehoover.
Dear Mr and Mrs. Santa Clans: Please
bring me a boat and a motorcycle and a
winding automobile and fruits and can
dy Please bring me some fire works.
Howard Kusell Plunkett, 1337 Estes fat.
Dear Santa Clause: lam a little girl
two years old I want you to bring me a
.heiutlful doll and a doll carriage and a
piano and some candy. Please don t for
get my little six months old brother, he
wants a little rattler and some fireworks.
Phase send my two little cousins in Co
lumbia. S. C. and Werthvllle. N C., lot
Of nice candy and fruit. Your loving lit
tle girl Margaret E. Bean. 448 Broad fat.
Dear Santa: I know you are glad you
arc coming to Augusta once more. Santa
1 want a nice doll and carringe and
plenty of fruit an*t nuts. 1 am a little
girl 10 years old and am In the third
glade and go to school every day, hop
ing you to fulfil my wishes I am yours
truly Naomi Gregg. 1726 Hicks St.
Dear Santa: lam a little girl, 3
years old, and 1 want you to bring me a
dull, doll carriage, table, teaaet, chatrs,
stove, piano, a pony, a act of paper
dulls and lots of nice things to eat.
Don't forget my Utile sister, Bl be h,
and remember all my friknda Your lit
tie friend -Pauline Daly. Sl2 13th St.
Dear Santa Clause. lam a little girl
of four ve.irs old amt I want a doll and
carriage a pair of shoo number S tea
and fruit, candy and fire works.
Fvorn your little friend—Nellie Brazaell.
1113 Coggln St.
Dear Santa Claus: lam « little girl
of 12 vent's old and would like a sewing
machine, a nice story hook, a bracelet,
ribbons and a new dress, "omecandy.
fruits and fireworks. from Y 0“ “
friend tluxel Jones, 1142 Coggins St.
Dear Santa Claus: lam a little girl
of nine years old 1 want a doll and
carriage, stove and story book and tea
g. t and table, piano and small lamp, and
sewing Box. also lYuti. candy and fire
works. Front your little friend Ruth
Jones. 1142 Coggins St.
Dear Santa Claus: lam a little girl
of seven years old. 1 want a doll and
carrlge, doll Bed. stove, sewing Box.
lamp, story book, tea set fruit and tire
works, candy. From your little friend—
Trcuse Jones, 1142 Coggln St.
Dear Santa Claus: lam a little girl
of seven years old, and 1 want a doll
and cairage and doll safe, ttva set. table,
fruit, candv and fire works. From your
little friend —Ellen Brazxell, 1142 Coggln
St.
Dear Santa Claus: lam ft little boy
going to Wood lawn Kindergarten school
and am studying Geography pictures al
home, and can make lots of my letters
but l can't make ail of them. Please
bring me a train that goes around on a
track and coal car that holds coal, and
seme cow boy pants because ray old ones
are patched, and 1 want ft wagon with
brakes, some sparklet's and poppers, and
please remember all the poor children.
1 love you so good. Your little friend —•
Harry W. Johnston, 1410 Sllcox St.
Dear Santa Clause. 1 atn a little
girl 13 years old. I want you to bring
me a works box and a prlttie sweater,
and anything you wantes to for 1 havv
got ever thing I wantes to play with
from Your friend Grvacy Lee Johnson,
2007 Division St. P. S. rk*n« forget
my fruit and (to to Mr. Mulligan* and
get me some nice candy.
Dour Santa Clause; 1 ant a llttlo
girl 5 years old. 1 want you to bring
me a doll and a carriage and a train
that runs on a track and fruit of al.
kind front yours friend Suaey May
Hoover good my Saint Luke St. P. 8.:
I wish you nml Mrs. Santa Clause a
tnerrle Max and a happte new year.
Hello Dear Santa Claus. I am a lit
tle girl 15 months old and I am glad
It Is ncrly time for you to come. I
want you to bring me a cape and a
pair of shoes and a tea set and doll
ami some fruit. With love to you and
Mrs. Santa good by from Martha John
son. 1949 Broad St.
Dear Santa Clause: As It is nearly
time for you 1 will write you a few
lines to let you know what I want I
am a little girl 2 years and a half
year* old please bring me a pretty
doll and tea set and a little chair for
my doll nnd dont forget my little sis
ter meldred she Is 2 months old bring
her a pretty rattler 1 wish you and
Mrs Santa Clause a merry Xmas and'
a happy new year front your little
friend Gladys Christie, 1949 Hroad Bt.
Dear Santa: I'm Sadie's sister and I
want a pair of skates No. 7, a doll
baby, piano, workbasket and sewing
j machine Don't forget the little or
! phana. I'll be at Curtis on Xma# tree
I night and will give you some money.
I Don't forget Billy wants a veloclpeda
THE AUbua.r, HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA.
a real train and tracks, a doll what
wont break. Dove from Louise Oliver.
Dear Santa: I am a little girl nine
years old and in the third grade and
I love my teacher very much. So now
lam going to tell you what I want I'
want a rain coat, some ribbon and
my baby doll dressed over and lots of
goodies a kiss to you and Mrs. Santa
your little girl Nellie Fell, 706 Craw
ford avenue.
Dear Santa:—l am a little boy three
years old. Well I am going to tell
you what X want for Christmas, Santa
bring me an automobile and a wagon,
and a horn and some fruit and candy.
Well Santa that is all I want for this
Christmas. I am your little friend
James Early, Orangeburg, S. C.
Dear Santa Claus:—l am a little girl
nine years old and I want a great big
old doll and a doll carriage and a rain
coat for myself and a tea set too and
please bring me lots of nice things
Butch like little folks enjoys. Good
night Santa Claus you must come and
see me soon. Lessie Lee Hyatt, 414
Polks alley.
Dear Santa Claus: I am a little girl
10 years old and don't want you to
ferget me I want a pretty doll and
tea set and table and some nice candy
and fruit anil a lot of fire works and
don’t ferget my little brother Albert
he wants an automobile and oh my
little baby sister be sure and bring
her something nice to play with to.
best wishes to you and mrs Sanda A
merry Xmas to you both. Camlle
Pate, 1575 Hicks St.
Dear Santa Claus. I am a little girl
6 years old and I want you to bring
mj a llttel doll and a little broom and
a rain coat and a little trunk and a
horn and some fruit and some fire
works. I will close. Your little frlnd
Leola Rabun, 1834 Greene St.
Dear Santa Claus I am a little girl
9 years old, and I want you to bring
me a rain coat and a pair of rubbers
and a pair of gloves and some fruit
and some fireworks. I will close. Lit
tle Julia Rabun, 1834 Greene St.
Dear Santa Clause: —Here is your
little blue eyed Helen. "You know my
name isn’t Mutt, even If Uncle Edgar
and Mr. Joe do call me Mutt, don’t
you?’’ So don't you bring them any
thing and bring it all to Errol, Fred
and myself. Nannie says I have been
a real good girl and says I may ask
you for a "two wheel bicycle," a beau
tiful doll with blue eyes and curly hair,
new dresses for "Rllly, Sarah, Eliza
beth, Minerva,” "because they get so
dirty I can't keep them clean." Please
bring me a bed for them and a set of
dishes, pair of kid gloves, lots of fruit
and candy and nuts. Santa please
don’t forget my mother. I’ll tell her to
leave a note on her stocking telling
you what she wants. "Good night!”
I like to have forgotten our Xmas
tree please don’t forget that. We live
at No. 817 Telfair St. Be sure to come.
Nannie will tell nurse to leave the
parlor window open for you. Good
bye. With a heart full of love. Your
little Helen M. Gay.
Dear Santy Clause. I am a little girl
eight years old Dec. 2, 1914. I want
you to bring me a rocking horse and
doll an a little table with four legs
an four chairs, and some apple an
some nuts and candles. Love to you
and Mrs. Santy Clause. good bye
your little girl Savannah Southall,
Aiken, S. C.
Dear Santa Slaus: Please bring me
a fire reel, wagon, drum, horn, a lots
of ire works and fruit. I am your
four years old —Clyde Howell, 1107 Mil
ler St.
Dear Santa Claus: Please bring me
a fire reel, a wagon, drum, a horn, a
lots of fire works, and fruit. I am
four years old. Your little boy—Clen
ton Howell, 1107 Miller St.
Santa Claus: It is nearly
time for you to come again. lam a
little boy 9 years old and I go to school
every day that I can. I want you to
bring roe a cow boy suit, cap pistol
and fruits and candy, I also want you
to bring itny sister and brother some
thing. My sipter’s name is Junlta and
my brother's name la John. Junlta
wants a doll and doll bed. John wants
a train, and fruit and fire works and I
have two little cousins, Essie and Wil
lie Owen. Essie wants a necklace
with birth stones in it and Willie
wants anything that you will bring
him. Willie is 5 years, Essie is 16
years now thanking you for presents
you have brought us and wishing you
and Mrs. Santa a Merry Xmas I am
ns ever your friend—Attwood Owens,
Thomson, Oa., R- F. D. No. Box 1. P.
S. Don't forget mama and pap Willie
and Essie also lives here.
Dear Old Sonta Clause: As Christ
mas is here again. I will try and send
you word I am at Grand Pa Robert
son's this Christmas. I am a little
boy. 6 years old. I want you to bring
me a goat and wagon, a horn and tool
box and soldier suit and fruit and
candies. Hoping you a merry Christ
mas Don't forget my Uncle Edd.
Robertson. From your little boy,
Thomas Leon Robertson, 1486 Cooper
Street.
Dear Mr. Santa Clause: I go to the
Woodlawn School. I am not 8 years
old yet. lam tn the first grade. 1
haven't missed a day from school
since It began. Miss Katie Ellenton is
my teacher. I like her very much. I
want you to bring me a suit of clothes
and hot, a gun and drum, a cowboy
suit and don't for get my grand pa
nnd Grand Ma Robertson. Please
don't for get the fruit and nuts. Lov
ingly. William Vernon Robertson. 1486
Cooper St.
Dear Santa Claus: I hope you and
Mrs. Santa are well. I am nearly 9
years old, and what I want you to
bring me, a Indian suit and cap -with
It. and I want a llttlo cap pistol with
It. 1 wish you and Mr a Santa Claus
a merry Christmas. I am your friend,
Charlie Martin Connor.
Dear Santa: Please send me a big
doll, ft tea set and a turkey full of
candy, and a doll table with some
chairs. Y’our little Widows Homo
Baby, LuelUo James, Widow's Homo,
124 Greene Street, City.
My Dear Santa Claua: I am a little
girl, 12 years old and In the 6th grade.
1 want you to bring me a little sew
ing box with the things In It, and I
want a rain coat, age 14 years sixe. If
you will, I will he so glad I wont
know what to do when I go to my
stocking. And pleas*. Dear Old Santa,
bring me a pretty little box of candy,
fireworks, nuts and fruit. 1 sure will
think you so much for them. Give
Mrs. Santa my love, and keep lots for
your self. Your little loving friend,
Norma Toole, Mlllen, Ga.
Hello. Dear Old Santa Clause. I
am a little boy Just 8 years old. and
I am very smart at home and as It Is
near Xmas 1 want you to bring me a
blllle gnat and wagon and a auto and
I a little horn and a little drum and lots
lof fruit and foreworks and don't for
iget my little playmate, his name Is
Millies. 1 want you to bring him
(something nice. " will close for this
Unto Your little friend. Earl Gary,
1682 Rroad Street. Lots of love to
you and Mrs. Santa Claus.
Dare Santa Claus: 1 will write a few
line to let you no what 1 want you to
bring m«. 1 want you to bring m«
I a big doll and a black board and a
[sowingbox and anything else. I am
a little girl, 8 years old. I live at 409
Chaffee Avenue. My name is Willie
May Mills.
Dear Santa Clause: I am a little boy,
5 years old. Please bring me some
building blocks and a gun and a In
dian suit and a street car, candy and
fruit. Your little boy, Fred King,
559 Watkins St.
Dear Santa: I am a little boy, 5
years old. I want a tricycle and a
rain coat and a little basket. Yours
truly, Vernon Marlone.
Dear Santa Claus: I am a little boy,
7 years old, in the 2 grade at school.
Please come to see me and bring me
a rain coat, rubbers and hat. a build
ing set and anything else you think
will be good for a little boy. Much
love to you. I am your little boy,
Carlton Smith, 1702 Walton Way.
Dear Santa: I am a little boy, four
years old and mother and daddy’s
baby. I wish you would bring me a
drum, automobile, Indian suit, wagon,
a train and a clarinet like uncle plays,
some fireworks and fruit. Your little
boy, Clarence. Riley, 1360 Cooper St.
Dear Old Santa Claus: I am a little
girl, 10 years old, and I go to Evans
Acatemy and am in the fourth grade,
and my teacher’s name Miss Griffen.
I want you to bring me a doll car
riage and a tea set and a doll bed,
some firework’s and candles and fruit.
Don’t forget mama and papa and don’t
forget our nurse, Fannie May. I am
yours good little girl, Katherleen A.
Clark, R. F. D. 2, Box 60.
Dear Old Santa Clau*: Please bring
me a doll and carriage and a doll bed.
Please bring me a rain coat, sister
have one and I want one to wear to
school when It is raining. I am in
the third grade. I am 7 years, am a
good little girl and help mama wash
dishes, I and sister. Don’t forget
fruit and candy and plenty of fire
works. Don't forget mama and papa.
I am your little girl, Constance W.
Clark, R. F. D. 2, Box 60.
Dear Santa Clause: Please bring me
an engine and to pull my train and a
cowboy suit and plenty of fruit and
candy, fireworks a plenty. I am a
good little boy, go to school every
day, am in the second grade. Don’t
forget mama and papa and my nouse,
Fannie. She tends to me when mama
go to town. So good bye. dear Old
Santa Clause. Your little boy, Henry
H. Clark, R. F. D. 2. Box 60.
Dear Old Santa: Please bring me a
cowboy suit and a wagon, train to run
on a track and little automobile. Don’t
forget to bring me plenty of fruit and
candy and fireworks. Don’t forget
gravdpa, he lives on the Midleville.
Don’t forget mama and papa. I am
a good little boy, go to school, am in
the third grade. I am 8 years old.
Many kisses to you and Mrs. Santa.
So good by, Creston R. Clark, R. F. D
2, Box 60.
Dear Santa Claws: I am a little boy
ten years old. I know you are a good
old man so I thought I would write
you and ask you to be specially kind
to me this year. Dear Santa I want
n cap ipstol and some fruit, and some
fireworks. Hoping you and Mrs. Santa
a merry Xmas and a happy new years
I am as your little friend, Stacy Hall.
Stump Row, 126, Bath, S. C.
Dear Santa. I am a little girl six
years old so I thought I would write
you ask you to be kind enough to
bring me doll carriage and some fruit
and any thing else you have to spare
when you get along by here. Your
little friend. By by Santa. Bessie
Ready, Bath, S. C.
Dear Santa Claus. I am a little
girl 5 years old and go to school ev
ery day. Please bring me a pretty
doll and carriage and a little red chair
and don't forget a airgun for my
brother. Well good bye dear Santa.
With a heart full of love. Sara A.
Sherlock, 536 Reynolds St.
Dear Santa Claus. I am a little girl
two and a half years old. I want
you to bring me a doll and a carriage
to ride my doll In and a train a horn
and a piano lots of fruit. Be sure and
don’t forget me. Well good by Santa
Claua with a heart full of love. Row
ent Speerlng, 538 Reynolds St.
Dear Santa Claus:—l am a little
girl seven years old and I have a little
brother five years old. 1 want to ask
you to bring me a doll and carriage,
a set of doll furniture, a tea set a
sewing box and some fruit candy and
nuts. And Brother says bring him a
train, a ball, a horn, a horse and wag
on and some fruit, candy and nuts and
Sandy please bring him an overcoat
too. I will close with love to you and
Mrs. Santa. Ethel and Flenoy Gunn,
1358 Cooper St.
Dear Santa Claus. Please Sir bring
me a big doll with real hair, a baby pi
ano, some clothes for bahy doll, some
dishes for baby doll to eat from, knife,
forks and spoons, a sewing machine
and a work basket. Don't forget the
poor children and both of my Grand
mas. With love to you and Mrs. Santa
Clause. Lottie Ann Oliver.
Dear Santa Clause. I am a big boy
15 years old but want you to remem
ber me. I want you to bring me a
northfork stile suit of clothes blue
serge, and a 4 dollar pair of Button
shoe*, and a pair of fine cowboy
gloves, and a 4 dollar Stetson hat, and
plenty of fire works, don't forget my
little friend in Augusta Walter Stel
ling give him all he wants and oblige
your great big friend Hansford Bllton,
Bath. S. C.
My Dear Santa Claus: Tam a little
girl 3 years old, a very good Girlie, to.
every sines you were here last Christ
mas.’ I want you to please bring me a
large Willow Doll Cart-lage. with a big
Dndle In It. a Chair for Dollte to sit In, a
Picture Book, some Candy, and lots of
Fruit Dont forget My Dear Mama. By.
bv. for this time. Wishing You and Mrs.
Santa Clans a Merrv Christmas. Marian
Mlal Scott. 1515 Walton Way.
Dear Santa Claus: This letter Is
from Elizabeth. 1 want you to bring
me a doll, a pencil box. and a large
tea set. T am going to the convent
and I love my teacher dearly. You
mav also bring me a story book.
Your little girlie. Elizabeth .Tenktns.
713 Heard Ave., The Hill.
Dear Santa Claus: I am a little girl,
10 years old. Please bring me a
piano, a coat, a doll, a pair of shoes,
a little stove and some fruit and fire
works. Y'our little friend. Maggie
Doolittle. 1859 Hicks Street. P. S.—
Please don't forget mama and papa:
bring them something nice and my lit
tle friends. Ethel Burch. Doris Reid,
Leacer Doolittle and Gaynell Laner.
Dear Santa Claus: 1 am a flttle boy,
will soon be 6 years old, and I want
you to come to see me again this
Chris. I would like to have a train
that runs on a track, a home, a gun.
a little boy doll, Indean suit and a
streat car, a drum and tedy bear, and
Sandy, don't forget my little couslna.
Ruble. F.mmer Lee and as there big
sister, bring them all something nice
and don’t forget to bring me some
£rult of all kinds. Hoping you a merry
Chris and a happy new year. A am
as ever, your little friend, Master Jack
.Uarbuck. 2024 Broad St.
“BACK TO
THE FARM"
IX—The City Man as a
Farmer.
E ly Q. V. G&I&mZLY.
[Copyright, 1910, by American Press Asso
clation.J
THE “back to the land” move
ment is not confined merely to
keeping the people on the
farms who are already there,
although this Is the most Important
part of tlie problem. The boys and
girls born and reared In the country
have a better appreciation of its prob
lems and its possibilities than a city
bred man or woman could ever have.
Yet there are many country boys born
with a taste for machinery that noth
ing but a factory can ever satisfy.
There are many born with the ability
to handle men that might make them
the head of n great mercantile estab
lishment. The city needs men of this
kind, and the country can well afford
to spare them, for it is for the good
of the nation that they should go.
At the same time there are many
city born boys nud girls to whom the
air of the crowded streets seems sti
fling. They love the country, and they
belong there. There are others who
through no fault of their own have
never been able to get higher than the
first round of the ladder. The fierce
competition for places has left them
well nigli stranded. With them it is a
question of staying in the city at a pit
tance that scarcely suffices to main
tain life in decency or of going to the
country and making a comfortable liv
ing.
The fable of tbe daisy who tried to
change places with the rose is often
Ipli’.
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HATING TIME ON A SMALL FARM.
quoted to discourage such people fron
casting their fortunes in with the
country. The cases where the city
man and his family have been success
fully transplanted to the country an
too numerous to warrant the assunip
tion that it cannot be done. At tli>
same time it must be admitted that
there are difficulties in the way. The
easiest transition is made by tbe conn
try boy who has grown tired of city
life. He is used to the ways of th<
farm, and it will be a short task fro
him to learn the new methods and taki.
up the furrow at the point where h*-
left it a few years ago.
For the man who has lived all his
life in the city the proposition I
altogether different and much morr
difficult He has all the ways of tin
new life to learn, ne is unused to
country life and country customs
Worst of all, he is unused to country
methods. If a man listens too ere 1
ulously to the land shark who tell
him that on the farm he proposes,. t<
sell conditions are all so perfect that
a gentle tickling of the soil will bring
forth bountiful results disappoint
ment Is almost sure to follow. T!
real estate men are in the businc -
for money, and if they can make n
sale by minimizing the nr*ed of train
lng for fanning they are going to do i:
Farming is composed of three parts
the art, the science and the business.
Of the three the latter is the on!. 1
one that the average city man knov :
anything about. The same busine
principles thnt apply to any line ri
business hold good on the farm. Con
raon sense and a fair amount of bu. i
ness ability comprise the chief essen
tlals to success in handling the bttsl
ness end of farming.
There remain the art and the sc!
ence. For a young man undoubted!.'
the best place to learn the scien o
of farming Is In n school or college.
The agricultural college offers the
most complete course of Instruction
along this line. A considerable share
of the enrollment at the agricultural
college Is made up of city boys who
are there to learn the science of farm
lng. 1 have known many of tbe *
college made city farmer*, -a corah!:
tlon that would have shocked the
practical man of t>’e past generation
Into insensibility. I have known many
of them to go to farming or to follow
some line of work closely related to
farming, and 1 have yet to see the
first failure.
A college education means a consid
erable cost in both tlnm and money
Tbe city man who wants to turn far: -
er seldom has a very large supply .
the latter. To stR-h men the secondsr*
courses In agriculture, or "she; i
courses." make a special appeal. .)
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Short course ui a V.i iiiu years In
one of these schools will go a long
way toward grounding the city farmer
in the principles of scientific agricul
ture. Even such a course is impossi
ble for the greater shar* of the city
men who see the opportunities of farm
life and would like to become farmers.
The next best thing a course of
home study. A number us agricultural
colleges offer correspondence courses
in agriculture, by means of whicb the
science of agriculture can be learned
quite thoroughly. Then there are a
great number of experiment station
and government bulletins which may
be had for the asking. There are
many good books on agriculture in its
various branches. Last, but by no
means least, there is the agricultural
press. Much of the advancement that
has been made in agriculture is due to
the agricultural papers. They stand
for all that is best and most progres
sive in rural life, and they contain a
fund of information on methods of
farm practice that are invaluable to a
beginner.
There yet remains the art of farm
ing—that is. the art of handling the
plow, of caring for the horses, of feed
ing the cows, of regulating the ma
chinery and the thousand and one oth
er things that the farmer must know
how to do. The only way the art of
farming can be learned is by prac
tice. The best way for tbe city man
with limited capital to learn is to hire
out to some good farmer by the month.
Farm help is scarce, and farmers are
always glad to get faithful men at
fair wages. They prefer skilled men.
but these are often impossible to ob
tain. It is not at all difficult for a so
ber, industrious city man who really
wants to learn farming to get a job
with a good farmer. In such a place
he can learn how to meet all the emer
gencies that come up on a farm. It is
even easier for a married man to get
this sort of job than it is for a single
man. Farmers have a theory, which
is generally correct, that married men
are more to be depended upon. Many
of them are willing to furnish a house
and garden to a man for the sake of
getting one with a family.
After spending a year or two work
ing for some one else the would be
farmer will have a fairly good idea of
the art of farming. If he has been
putting in his spare moments studying
he will have a fair understanding of
the science of farming. His own com
mon sense and the training he has re
ceived in town will fit him to handle
the business end. He is now in a po
sition where he can plan on going to
work for himself. He will have sa*-e<l
something from his wages while on the
farm, and he probably had a little
money saved up before. Then comes
tbe question of whether to buy or to
rent. A good many beginners in farm
ing make the mistake of tying all their
capital up in land and having noth
ing left for stock and equipment. In
order to make the farm pay the farmer
must have plenty of working capital.
It is usually better to rent for a few
years until enough money has been
saved to make a fair payment on the
iand. Then a farm can be bought
without robbing the equipment fund.
The question of where to locate is an
Important one and one which the con
flicting mass of evidence makes hard
to-decide. The irrigated districts of
the west offer some of the best oppor
tunities to be found anywhere. The
country is new. and settlers are wel
come. Land is high, but it does not
take much of it to yield a good living.
The dry farming districts of the
west have been loudly boomed. This
dry farming land can be bought very
cheaply. It costs little to get a start.
At the same time the man who goes
on a dry farm must remember that
only half of his land will yield a
crop each year, sometimes not more
than a third of it. The principle of
dry farming is to cultivate the land
for a year or two without sowing a
crop. This prevents *ffie rain which
falls from evaporating, and by the
second or third year enough moisture
will have been stored up to raise a
crop. No one should think of going
on a dry farm without having enough
money laid by to pay expenses for
two or three years without any in
come. Dry farming means many
losses and much discouragement, but
the success of many dry farmers
proves that it offers opportunities to
the man who has the courage to stick.
The fertile lands of the middle west
have been little advertised of
many people are of tbe opinion
this part of the country Is
fully settled. This is far from being
the case. The Mississippi valley could
support four or five times its present
farming population with ease. Land
Is high, but it is worth the price. The
middle west offers the advantage of
progressive neighbors, good churches,
schools and colleges and modern con
veniences of every sort. There are
thousands of chances for the city man
Jn this section.
In the east probably the best oppor
tunities are found In truck farming.
Only a small tract of land is required,
and the returns are large.
The abaudoned farms of New Eng
land can be purchased very cheaply.
They can never he made as productive
ns tbe lands farther west, but under
proper treatment the fertility can be
restored and n very comfortable profit
secured from them.
The agricultural opportunities of the
south have been little advertised, yet
there Is no section of the country
where the opportunities of the small
are greater. Diversified farm
ing and stock raising are a compara
tively uew thing In this section. The
moo who are growiug less cotton and
more corn and hogs and dairy cow*
are getting ahead. Land Is cheaper
here than In many parts of the coun
try and can be made very productive.
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