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Society Has First Birthday CakeThe honor of cutting the Dubuque County Historical society's first birthday cake went to Miss Martha Baker Friday evening. While Frederick E. Bissell admires her cutting technique, Prof. H. J. Thornton, history department head at the University of Iowa, holds one of the society's new acquisitions, a stone from Julien Dubuque's birthplace at St. Pierre les Becquets, Canada. (Tele-graph-Herald Photo)Start Studying, Writing, Local Historians ToldI-f | While celebrating their first anniversary, members of the s Dubuque Historical society learned Friday night that theyI ought to be busy studying lo-|,jcal history and writing mono-!which °Pens historical society j v graphs about it. meetings.i mu. 1 r C TI T From Dubuque's KinThe speaker, Prof. H. .T j ^ bad been sent t0 DubuqueThornton, head of the history;everal months ago by Guy F. Dubuc, Montreal businessman, who made a special trip to obtain it from Dubuque’s birthplace. | , . , . | at St. Pierre les Becquets, a smallh pile of manuscripts already wnt-|town on the st Lawrence river.'ten 'Dubuc, a distant relative of therl department at the University t j of Iowa, professed surprise h that there was no shoulder-high!U “We are parasites, reading and picking the brains of other peo-a|ple,” he said. “This is legitimate,famous leadminer, had visited the city last spring.Prof. Thornton remarked thatbut we ought to be making our j}y some quirk of chance the I own historical research, too. | stone resembled in shape the out-A Family, a Church line of Iowa.Prof. Thornton added that such j0hn Rider Wallis conducted . a study need not be full nor com- ^ meeting and announced that prehensive. It might be made °f j there are now 320 paid members ne family, one church, antiques in Dubuque County historical or camp meetings. society.He elaborated on his “pet theme He said there is a possibility of local history, the old circuit that Ulysses S. Grant, III, mayj Chautauqua, a dear departed in- speak at a future meeting in con-jstitution.'’ Iowa, he said, was the' nection with the society’s project “most Chautauqua state in the;to preserve the old shot tower.country, and this vanished cul- The annual meeting will be on , ; . . Monday, May 14.tural form is worthy of a great ____________deal of study. 'Cadet of Week' 5th TimeEarlier in the evening Horace For the fifth time this year,Poole, president of the historical Richard Herkes, Loras academy society, was presented a stone | sophomore, last week received thecadet of the week honor. To re-from the birthplace of Julien Du-ceive the honor the cadet must bet I tut nuiiui itiv lauci uiu^i jclque. Set in wood by Louis chosen as the neatest cadet of theg. Kammueller, the stone is to bebat'alion for iyiused for rapping with the gaveH week.the preceedingt;1
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Dubuque Telegraph Herald
Dubuque, Iowa, US
Sun, Feb 25, 1951
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