Autograph book of Lorena Dollie Sweet Copyright © 1997 by Pat and Linda Tilley. This copy contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives. USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. _____________________________________________________________________ Autograph book of Lorena Dollie SWEET. Dollie married Herman Fisher from Evergreen Twp in Montcalm Co. I tried to type everything as it appears in the book making no corrections to spelling or grammar. A few things were very hard to read but I did my best If someone thinks there is something from their ancestor in here, contact me by private E-mail and I will try to get you a copy. ================== ================== ================== Mt.Pleasant 6/14/87 Dollie,Words are like skyrockets,they go fizzing and banging about doing some little execution. Deeds are like cannonballs, they go strait to the mark paralizing and deoderizing everything in the way. "Let us than be known by our deeds and not our words". Yours W.R.SMITH ================== ================= ================= Character is like cloth. If white it can be dyed black;But if black it can't be dyed white" Yours truly L.A.FRENCH Mt. Pleasant 3-12-1888 ================== ================= ================ Miss Burton,Love the good the pure the noble and to meaness never bend. By your works prove you are worthy and you will never lack a friend. Cato, Mich. Aug.19 1888 Edwin J.DENNIS =================== ================= =================== Your friend and schoolmaster Anna B. RUSTON Mt.Pleasant Nov.24 1886 ================= ================== ==================== Dear Dollie , Be not simply good; be good for something. Your friend Mary J. BLOUNT Mt. Pleasant Mich. 3.12.1888 ================== ==================== ==================== Truly your friend Ellen MAXWELLl Mt Pleasant Michigan 3/29/1886 ================= ==================== =================== My Dear Friend, The crown and glory of life is character. Ever your friend Nellie BRAZEE Mt Pleasent April 20 1886 ================== ==================== ==================== Dollie, Near a pleasant countenance; Let joy and love beam in your eye, and ripple forth in words and deeds of kindness. Kindly yours Jennie L. BELSHUR 2-14-87 ================= =================== =================== Compliments of J. LINTON Lainsburg Mich. June 24,1887 {done in green, red, lavender, and purple ink with lots of flourishes. Very ornate} =============== ==================== =================== 6-24-87 Miss Dollie, "The pen is mightier than the sword-- "Shading Pen" of course J. LINTON ================= ===================== ==================== He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who sows kindness gathers love. Sincerly Your Friend Stella M. GARDINER Ypsilanti Mich 5/1/1887 MtP ================== ===================== ==================== WRG June 13 87 ================== ===================== ==================== Mal3&17 To my friend Dollie, When the master cometh to make up he jewels, may you shine among the brightest and be numbered among the best. Sincerely your friend Geo. L.H. Mount Pleasant Feb12/86 ================= ====================== ====================== Mt.Pleasant Mich. March 30th `86 Esteemed Friend, First I would have thee cherish truth,as leading star in virtue's train; Folly may pass,nor tarnish youth, But falsehood leaves a poison stain Very truly your friend Mrs. M.L,WESTOW ================ ======================== ====================== Friend Dollie, May your life be one of pleasure and all your blessings be of full measure May you have many suitors your hand to woo- and at last find a man, Just to utterly too Your Friend Ella HUNTER Mt Pleasant March 24th `84 ================ ====================== =================== Pardon me friend Dolly If I am somewhat jolly! In writing upon another page,I could not let the chance go by, `Tis said "Kind words can never die" Sweet youth is lost in age! Prof. EDMONDS ===================== ===================== =================== Salt River Mich. July 4/86 May your path be strewn with roses May your journey be complete May our lives be conducted that in heaven we may meet. J.FLORZANT(sp?) ==================== ====================== ============== Compliments of Guy HOERRING Mt Pleasant 4/5/88 "only a pin" {written very small} ============== ================== ============== Dollie, Go forth thy little volumne Like Noah's faithful dove And bring to darling Dollie an olive leaf of love Howard CHATTERHORN ============ =================== ============== Mt Pleasant Mich. June 14th 1887 Singing-School Dollie: May your cheeks retain their dimples May your heart be just as gay, Until some manly voice shall whisper, dearest, will you name the day? Ever your friend Matie HAIGHT H.W.and W.S. ================ ================ ================= (Remember the last day of school in the G.A.R. hall.) Friend Dollie, May our friendship which was budded on earth; Blossom in Heaven. Sincerely your friend Natie MCMAHON Mt.Pleasant Mich Oct 24/86 ================= ================= =============== Friend Dollie, Compliments of Neva CONOVER Jackson March 19/1886 ================ ================== ==================== Mt Pleasant March 21/86 To Dollie, Remember me & bear in mind That a good true friend is hard to find. But if you find one just & true. Change not the old for the new. Byron G.BROWNE ================= ==================== =============== Lakeview Mich, 6/14/1888 Friend Dollie, Some friends have wished you free from care, Others joy and wealth. Some have wished you blessings rare, long life, and constant heath. My wish for you is better far than all your friends have given that when you leave this world of care your soul may rest in heaven. Ever your true friend Hattie SHELLMAN ============== ================== =============== A walk around the square Yours with many good wishes Nellie CROMLEY Mt Pleasant Michigan Oct 25th 1886 ================ ================= =============== Edmore, Mich. June 11 1893 To friend Dollie, Compliments of Wm. FLETCHER Hotel xxxxxx {illegible} (in red and black ink) ================= =============== =============== Remember the bathing-; [big four] Compliments of Fannie MATHER Lakeveiw Mich. June 22 1888 ============= =============== =============== God makes no promises to idlers, but He gives light and strength to those who labor and trust Nellie PFENDSTELLER Sept.17th `86 ================= ==================== ==================== Mt Pleasant Mich sept 16 1886 Friend Dollie, Compliments of your friend and schoolmate C.S. ================= ======================== ================= Mt Pleasant Mich.Dec.7 1888 Friend Dollie, Please except Compliments of Ray WOODSWORTH ============= ================= ================= Dollie: Be patient for you can carry water in a seive if you wait---------until it freezes. Your friend Louisa GARRETT Mt Pleasant Jan. 27 `87 ================ ================= ============== Yours truly xxxxxx MATHER Lakeveiw M 6/20-88 ================== ================== =============== Dollie,------ May your cross be twinned with flowers* Mt Pleasant Nov.1st/`86 Yours truly Carrie COON ( * written in the shape of a cross) ============== ===================== =============== June 29 When you are old and cannot see put on your specks and think of me Delia GUILBAULT Edmore, Mich 1893 ================= ============== ============== Miss Dollie, May the hinges of our friendship never rust K.L.D. Mt Pleasant Oct.31/86 =========== ================= ============== XXXXXXX XXXXXXX XXXXXXX (illegible) S.G. TOMPKINS Prof of German Entrican, Montcalm Co. Mich. June 24 1889 =============== ===================== ================== Miss Dollie, Flowers must fade They will not last Let not our friendship fade so fast Let us each others faults forgive and love each other as long as we live. Your friend and well wisher Thos DOUGHERTY June 28-1886 Mt Pleasant Michigan ======================= ============== ============== Education is the placing of the genuine human creature in such circumstances of duration and restrained- as we shall make the most of him or enable him to make the most of himself. Your friend Harmonie H. DODD Mt Pleasant Dec 12 1885 ================ ================ ============ Miss Dollie, "Memory is the parent of experience" Your Friend Edna BURTON Mt. Pleasant June 13-`87 =============== ====================== ============== {Don't forget Richard} Mt.Pleasant Mich. Sept.16 1886 Friend Dollie, Every good act is a flower which will beautify our final home Yours P.P. =============== ======================== =============== "Sweet Dollie" Very truly your Bessie R. WIGHTMAN Mt. Pleasant Mich. Sept 2nd 1886 =========== ===================== =============== Mt Pleasant Mich. Jan 23,1887 Miss Dollie, Unite charcter with reputation From a friend E.Minnie GEER ============== ===================== ================== Friend Dollie, Blessed are they who have nothing and cannot be persuaded to say it Truly Your Friend Nellie M. ===================== =============== ================== "Hotel" Poor Pen, Poor Ink, Poor Write,r Amen {sneak a good word V.and W. for me} A.E. {W.T & V.L.} Yours Alice ESTES Stanton Mich. ============= ================= =================== Dear Sister May you by words and actions A kind heart ever show. And you will never lack for a friend Wherever you may go. Your Brother T.B. WALLACE Pine, Jan.21st/ `89 ============= ==================== ===================== Dear Friend; Heaven is not gained by a single bound We build the ladder by which rise from the loly earth to the vaulted skys and mount its summit round by round. Vettie WHITNEY Mt. Pleasant March 19/86 =============== =================== ================ Mt Pleasant High School Dollie, Remember me when this you see, When this you look upon, Wrote by my hand when I am dead and gone. from your friend and school mate Jennie EVANS 1/25/87 ============== ==================== =================== Don't read that note Dollie. Oct.29th 1886 Friend Dollie, In after years when this you see I wonder what your name will be. Ever Your friend Laura HOOPER Mt Pleasant Michigan Yaple & Tarsney ==================== ================ ============= To Dollie, You may court the homage of kings and recieve the applause of the world,gather the sweetest flowers of admiration and win the brightest laurels that crown the goddes of fame and go down lifes stream to the beautiful sunset wrathed in the precious blooms of friendship and Love. Yet when you have done all this you have built upon sand! Life's grand puposes lie within you: to live true to yourself is to be true to nature and nature's God. I would that you might do this and that you might be aided by the spirit is the earnest prayer of your friend. Prof Silas W EDMONDS. Grand Rapids, MI June, 1893 ================ ================= ============== Dec 7/85 Dollie, May virtue be your guiding star along life's changing way, repect for heaven, home and friends your care both night and day. Your friend, Kate MCMAHON Deerfield, MI ================ ================ =============== There is a small and simple flower that twined aroung the humblest cot. And in the sad and lonely hours it whispered low-forget me not. Remember dear Dollie that our lives are given us but our character we make. Ever your true friend Mrs. G. L. HAIGHT, Mt. Pleasant MI Februay 3, 1886 Patrick and Linda Tilley ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Some people can trace their families back 300 years but can't tell you where their children were last night." Author Unknown dz