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.

I often wondered if it was true. If it was, Cupid works in mysterious ways.

BOB KUNKEL

Cape Girardeau