MyAutographBook
Submitted by Melinda McCoy
These are the notes from my Grandma Genie's little book with little
snippets of wisdom from
other students, her Sprague classmates. In
this little album - their words of wisdom are so cute!
Book belongs to: Eugenia Reding, Sprague, Washington, March 23, 1904
If in this book you are asked to write
Please don't refuse for it isn't polite
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Wallace, ID May 17, 1904
Dear
Sister,
Our lives are songs, God writes the words,
But we set them to music at pleasure
And the songs grow sad, or sweet, or glad
As we choose to fashion the measure
Your sister, Mary
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416 Hogan St., Spokane,
Washington
Your True Friend and Schoolmate - Pearl Davis
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Spokane,
Wash.,May 17, 1094
Dear friend Genie,
Down by the river there is a rock
and on it is written forget me not
Your friend, Bessie Murphy
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Sprague, Wash Mar. 23, 1905
We may write our names in the album
We may trace them in the sands
We may chisel them in marble
With a firm and skillful hand;
But these pages soon are sullied
Soon each thought will fade away;
Every monument will crumble
Like all earthly hope decay.
But, dear friend, there is an album
Full of leaves of snowy white
Where no name is ever tarnished
But forever pure and bright
In the book of life, God's album
May your name be penned with care
And may all who here have written
Write their names forever there.
Your true friend
Edna
A. Conlee
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Sprague, Wash., Mar.
23, 1905
When it is raining & you have an umbrella
May you have to hold it up
A handsome young fellow.
Ever
your friend and schoolmate
Grace Goodwin
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Dear Genie:
To thine own self be true
And it must follow as the night the day
Thou cans't not then be false to any man - Shakespeare
Very
sincerely your friend
Louise Kirkpatrick
Sprague, Washington, April 20, 1904
(Note: Miss Kirkpatrick was the school teacher)
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Dear Genie,
Though I reach from pole to pole
And grasp creation in my span
I must be measured by my soul
For 'tis the mind that makes the man - (Shakespeare)
Your
sincere friend
Gertrude Cosgrove
Sprague, Wash., March 26, 1904
(Note: Miss Cosgrove was a school teacher)
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Sprague,
Wash., March 23, 1904
Happy be the little man
That gets you for his wife
Your friend and schoolmate
Ida E. Heavner
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Dear Genie,
Friendship is a knot tied
by a angles hand
Sprague, Wash.
Ethel Sanderson
Mar. 23, 1904
Remember me
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Sprague, Wash.,
Mar. 23, 1904
Dear Genie,
When rocks and hills divide us and you know more I see,
Just take a pin and paper and drop a few lines to me.
Your
Friend & Schoolmate
Lizzie
Daveritz
Remember the peep-boo house
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Spokane, Wash., May 15, 1904
Dear Friend Genie,-
In the golden chain of friendship,
regard me as a link
Your friend,
Lena Davis
For-get-me-not
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Sprague, Wash., Feb. 15, 1907
Dear Genie,
Remember well and bear in mind,
A nice young fellow is hard to find,
But when you find one blithe and gay,
Swing to his coat-tail night & day.
Your friend,
Bernice Cline
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Friend Genie -
Hearts that feel, and eyes that smile,
Are the dearest gifts that heaven supplies.
Your friend,
Lou. Brislawn
May 14, 1907
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Spokane,
Wn., April
19, 1904
Dear friend Genie
May your life be long and
Sunny and your husband
fat and funny is the
wish from Agg M.
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Dear Genie:-
"For-get-me-not."
Belle Hinton
Sprague, Wash., Mar.22, 1904
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Sprague,
Wash., May 13, '07
"Bliss in possession will not last;
Remembered joys are never past;
If once the fountain, stream, and sea,
They were, they are, they yet shall be."
Sincerely your friend,
Ephraim
McGough
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Dearest Genie:-
There is room for my name in your album
There is room for my love in your heart
There is room for us both in heaven
When true friends never part.
Your truest friend
Lena
Hinton
Sprague, Wn., Mrch. 23, 1904
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Sprague, Wash.
April 27, '04
Dear Genie:-
"A truthful page is childhood's lovely face,
Whereon sweet innocence has record made,-
An outward semblance of the young heart's grace,
where truth, and love, and trust are all portrayed."
Katie Neilly
(Note: Katie Neilly was a teacher)
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Friend Genie
I thought, I thought, I thought in vain
At last I thought I would write my name.
Walter Melcher
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Dear Friend Genie,
Riches are great, but Friendship is far greater.
Your friend
Ernest DeChenne
Sprague, Wn., Feb. 14, '07
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Dear Genie
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Sugar is sweet
And so are you
Your friend
Beatrice McKenna
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Sprague, Wash.,
Mar. 23, 1903
Dear Genie,
In the golden chain of friendship
please regard me as a link
Ina
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Dear Genie
Upon these pages pure and white
Let none but friends presume to write
And may each line in friendship given
Direct the readers thoughts to heaven.
Your loveing friend
Winnie Nickerson
Sprague, Wash., March 23, 1904
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Sprague, Wash. Mar. 23, 1904
Down by the river there is a rock
& on it says for get me not.
Your Friend
Dora Jensen
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Dear Friend Genia:
I hope you'll live to the judgement day
and then dry up and blow away
Ray McCoy
Sprague, Wn., Feb. 6, 1907
(Note: Ray McCoy married Genie Reding in 1917 and
they both lived to a
ripe old age)
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Sprague, Wash., February
7, '07
Dear Friend Eugenia,
When you are old and ugly,
As old folks often do,
Remember that you have a friend
Who is old and ugly too.
For-get-me-not
Ever your Friend,
Lloyd Melcher
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Dear friend Genie,
Some may wish you pleasure
And some may wish you wise
But my wish is far better
A home beyond the skies.
Your Friend
Julia
Fish
Sprague, Wn., Mar. 23, 1904
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Dear Genie:-
Lives of great men all remind us,
We should make our lives sublime;
And, departing leave behind us
Footsteps on the sand of time.
Longfellow.
Feb. 7, 1907 Your
friend
Lila McCoy
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Dear Genie:-
May our friendship not like the rose wither
But like the evergreen live forever.
Your friend & schoolmate
Clara Sackman
For-get-me-not
Sprague, Wash., March 23, 1904
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Dearest Genie:
One line is sufficient for memory.
Sincerely yours
Genia Campbell
Sprague, Wn., Mar. 23 - 1904
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Dear Genie:-
May your pleasures be as the deep blue see,
And your sorrows light as the foam.
Your friend and schoolmate
Kathleen Dinsmore
Sprague, Wn., March 23, 1904
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Sprague, Wash.,
Feb. 8, '07
Dear friend Genie:-
When the golden sun is setting
And your heart from care is free
When of others you are thinking,
Will you sometimes think of me
Your schoolmate
Flora Rafoth
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Dear Genie
May your school days be many
Happy ever given.
And when your life is ended
May you graduate in heaven
Your loving cousin
Anna Reding
May 15, 1904, Spokane, Wash.
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Dear Genie,
Count that day lost, whose
low decending sun,
Views from thy hand, no worthy
action done.
Ever your friend,
Olive Davis
May 15th, '04, Spokane, Wash.
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Friend Genia,
May your life be as happy and free
As the bounding waves of the deep blue sea
Your Schoolmate
Ferdinand Brislawn
Feb. 6, '07
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Dear friend
I have looked these pages or and or
To see what others have been writing
And now I chase this lonely spot to
write these words - "for-get-me-not."
Lottie
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Dear Genia:
When your days of life are ended,
And this path no more you'll trod;
may your name in gold be written,
In the autograph of God.
Ever your friend
Maybelle McKay
Feb. 13, 1906
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Sprague,
May 5, 1904
Dear Genie:
May your life be always sunny.
This is the wish of your
True Friend
Kathryn Hamlin
Always remember your school days when I was in your class.
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Sprague, Wash., March 13, 1904
Dear Genie:
May your life be long and happy
May yout troubles be short and few,
And the good you do to others
May sometime return to you.
Your Friend
Stella Beasley
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Sprague, Wn., Mar. 23, 1904
Dear Genie
Last in your album
Last in your heart
First to be remembered
Last to be for-got.
Your friend always
Pearl Shearer
Remember when the teacher got my chalk dolls.
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Dear Genie,-
When you get married and live upstairs
For pity sake don't put on airs.
Elva Wood
Sprague, Wash., Feb. 15, 1907
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by Melinda McCoy
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