Dauphin School

Dear Editor:

Our teacher has appointed me to write the news item of the school and community to you this week. Our school has not been very full for more than a week owing to the bad weather and so much sickness. We have about forty pupils in regular attendance and sixty enrolled. Fifty-five is the most we have had in one day. Mr. Tinsley Williams who was so low with black jaundice at our last writing is reported much better. Mr. Pierce’s little child is still very low. Mrs. Jim Williams is still in bed with catarrhal fever. Mr. Joe Chriswell is very low with rheumatism. Mr. Allen Carroll who has been so low with pneumonia is better. Mrs. Buckner’s little child died yesterday morning and they are going to bury it here today. Mrs. Rome Haunsel is very low with pneumonia. Mr. Tom Ellis who has lately bought land and settled a new home in our neighborhood has gone back to Mississippi. I have not heard what his sudden idea was for leaving. Mr. Bob Tanner is right sick this week. Mrs. E. Schrader is having a new house built on her farm adjoining Mr. J. W. Peay. I am ten years old and I am in the fifth grade.

Mr. Editor, if you will mail a few sample copies of your paper to our teacher, we will give them out and perhaps get some new subscribers for you. With best wishes for the Review, I will close.

Fon Gentry

Editor's note: The above is a model news letter.  Now how many more schools will furnish pupils to get up such?  We will send you the sample copies.

-Athens Weekly Review (Texas), Janaury 18, 1901