OpinionNovember 21, 2002
Card on balloons brings memories of letter in bottle
To the editor: It brought back memories when I read the article on the birthday card on some balloons that Danny Hahn found while combining corn. In 1936 or 1937, while I was serving in the Civilian Conservation Corps at New Canton, Ill., another member of the camp by the name of Mueller or Miller found a bottle along the Illinois River with a girl's name and address in it. She was from Pearl, Ill. He wrote to her. Later, when I was in a camp in northern Wisconsin, I heard they got married...
To the editor:
It brought back memories when I read the article on the birthday card on some balloons that Danny Hahn found while combining corn.
In 1936 or 1937, while I was serving in the Civilian Conservation Corps at New Canton, Ill., another member of the camp by the name of Mueller or Miller found a bottle along the Illinois River with a girl's name and address in it. She was from Pearl, Ill. He wrote to her. Later, when I was in a camp in northern Wisconsin, I heard they got married.
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I often wondered if it was true. If it was, Cupid works in mysterious ways.
BOB KUNKEL
Cape Girardeau
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