Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1909 — Letters From School Children at Seattle. [ARTICLE]

Letters From School Children at Seattle.

Seattle, Wash., where the Seattle— Yokop—Alaska fair will be held this year, has taken various means of advertising the event The most novel and one that' will bring them great results, no doubt, is that of having the school children write letters to the school children of towns and citis all over the United States. A great bunch of these letters was received in Rensselaer a few days ago and distributed among the pupils, who were to read them and show them to their parents and then return them and they were to be sent to another place. The letters were descriptive of Seattle, and talked of the parks, the large buildings, and the buildings at the fair. The children found some Instructive pleasure in reading them and it is probable that a number will answer their unknown correspondents, and possibly some romances may grow out of the letters. The newspapers were addressed by school children also and the Republican published a letter last week from Margaret Eades, a seventh grade school girl. It was well written and speaks welUfor the school system of that western metropolis. The letter scheme is a new one, but should be a good and very cheap method of advertising and create a desire with many to see Seattle.