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looked she raised herself and said, *Hello, John, how are 

 you?' John saw it was the sweetheart of his boyhood days, 

 and as they came nearer John of course greeted her, and 

 she jumped out of the wagon and ran to his side and greeted 

 him as only lovers do and she said, 'Your mother is gone, 

 your father is gone, John, so you come home to supper with 

 me/ '' Mark Twain says, "I have got them this far, and 

 now if you can tell me how m the hell I can get the breeches 

 on this man and get him back in the buggy I will be the 

 happiest man in the world/' 



You are enjoying your town here. I enjoy my town. 

 These gentlemen all enjoy their towns, but gentlemen you 

 who live up the State if you want to see a happy people you 

 must come to Southern Illinois and I sincerely hope when 

 you entertain an invitation to come next year some where 

 down in Southern Illinois that you will come. I know you 

 may think a cloud is resting over Southern Illinois, but we 

 are all good people, but there is one thing if we all put our 

 hands together we will all come out quicker than any other 

 way, and it is for the business man to put his shoulder to 

 the wheel to make better American homes. The bulwark 

 of the country is the country home. 



We think you will come back to southern Illinois, and 

 whenever you do you will find a united effort in the home. 



TOASTMASTER: We will have a number from the 

 Kiwanis Quartet at this time. 



THE TOASTMASTER: We have another member of 

 our State Department that I want you to see and have a 

 word from, and when I was thinking of introducing him I 

 was going to say I thought you would have to take some of 

 the bitter with the sweet, but I don't think that is the way 

 to put it, so I will introduce Judge Jones. 



JUDGE A. H. JONES: Mr. Chairman, Ladies and 

 Gentlemen: I think a good deal like Mr. Lincoln did when 

 he was teaching a Sunday School class. Perhaps some of 

 you did not know he taught a Sunday School class but that 



