Notebook

Name/Title

Notebook

Entry/Object ID

10.19

Description

Janesville Old Town Farmers Club Minutes. Material: paper. Size: 8" x 10". Description: gray-blue heavy cardstock cover composition book containing ruled paper. Contents: membership list and minutes of 53 consecutive meetings at member homes beginning October 4, 1921 with an organizational meeting and ending with the 53rd meeting on January 2, 1925; the original members included 12 couples who farmed in the vicinity of the original Janesville "Old Town": E. D. Garlick, F. M. Smith, H. H. Storjohann, P. E. Reynolds, A. Schramski, William Cullen, Ray Truman, V. F. Paul, Arthur Mulcahey, Frank Cahill, Harold McCormack and Joe Schramski; most meetings were social and included plays, recitations, songs and lunches; other programs were a talk on a proposal for co-operative egg marketing by the county agent, W. A. Dickenson, a debate on more misery than happiness in the world, spelling bees, and a lecture and demonstration on phrenology.

Context

Subsequent members of the Old Town Club were Lyness, John Storjohann, Walter Storjohann, C. L. Paul, J. Cahill, Marie Smith, Ruth Smith, L. E. Dare, Gertrude Storjohann, J. Mulcahey, Leo Cahill, Sadie McGuinness, Harol Klaes, August Berendt, Ed Berendt, Anna Berendt, Art Berendt, Esther Berendt, Tom and Marie Nicholson. These minutes were found in the estate of Janesville residents, Liz and Everett Stanke.

Made/Created

Date made

1921

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Tertiary Object Term

Notebook

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Blankbook

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book, Writing

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Writing Media

Nomenclature Class

Written Communication T&E

Nomenclature Category

Category 06: Tools & Equipment for Communication

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

Notebook

Create Date

May 17, 2019

Update Date

September 19, 2024