Weekend Today , Saturday or Sunday November 1 or 16 a correspondent
offered information on a "young investers club" where for a designated
sum of money the child receives in his name a "portfolio" with a
smattering of stock such as Disney, Sony, Nike, Nintendo, etc plus a
periodic newsletter on investing etc.  I have been unable to find any
such thing.  Can you?

This might be what you are looking for:

http://www.younginvestor.com

Related Articles about younginvestor.com
http://www.businessweek.com/2000/00_39/b3700156.htm
http://www.entrepreneur.com/mag/article/0,1539,226870,00.html

A list of other useful websites:

http://www.ici.org/funds/inv/resources_young.html

I'd suggest looking into investing for kids at the NAIC site:
  www.better-investing.org
Thye are the guys that support investment clubs around the world, so they
have a lot of resources on investing, even for kids.

Also, look  into direct investing at various companies, eg you can buy stock
in Coke, a small amount at a time; this is called a DRIP program, for dividend
reinvestments.

good luck- glad to hear you are starting that kid out so early.
HTH
Scott

These links may be of interest:

http://money.cnn.com/2001/03/26/mutualfunds/funds_teens/

http://www.mutualfundreporter.com/articles/2001_issues/mfr172.htm#article3

http://www.smithbarney.com/yin/home.htm

http://www.tnj.com/articless/Features/features_jan02_school.htm

Are you perhaps remembering this article titled "Gifts with a great
return" by Jean Chatzky published in the USA Weekend newspaper insert
for Nov. 7 -9?  It mentions OneShare.com as a site where you can buy a
single share of stock for a young investor.

http://www.usaweekend.com/03_issues/031109/031109moneysmart.html