Friend Nellie,
Love many, trust few,
Always paddle your own canoe
Yours truly
Charlie Wright
Ironton, March 10th 1886

Friend Nellie,
May your life be blest
With friendship, love and happiness
May all your friends prove true,
And cheer you all the journey through.
Mary E. Harris, Lime Ridge Wis
Ironton, Feb. 12th 1886
Written along margin…Remember the winter of 1886

Friend Nellie,
May happiness be thy lot
Wherever thou shall be
And joy and beauty light the spot
That may be home to thee
Sincerely Your Friend
Mary Byrne
Ironton, Jan 5, 1890
Written along margin…Remember the Poor Farm

Friend Nellie,
In future years when turning to survey
The sacred joys of many a happy day
If on this leaf you chance to rest your eyes
Pause e’er you turn the leaf and briefly lend
A transient recollection of a friend
Libbie Shult
Ironton, May, 11, 85

Friend Nellie,
When you are sitting all alone
Reflecting on the past
Remember that you have a friend
That will forever last.
Ida M. Roys
Ironton, Mar. 26, 1886

”Cheerfulness is an excellent increasing quality.
It has been called the bright weather of the heart.”
Your friend
Katie Crook

A soft answer turneth away wrath.
But grievous words stir up anger.
Your friend,
Ida Pearson
Jan 15, 1886 Ironton School

To Nell
In your wreath of remembrance
twine one bud for your cousin.
Yours truly
Cora Hawkins
May, 11, 1886

Dear Cousin,-
Strive to keep the Golden Rule;
And learn your lessons well,
at school:
Your Cousin
Jennie Hawkins
Ironton, Jan. 16, 1886
In the margin…Love your enemies

Dear Friend
Time advances like Slowest tide,
but retreats Like the swiftest current.
Yours truly,
Edna Mallon
May, 11, /85

Nellie,
Remember me as a friend and classmate.
Belle Flitcroft
Friendswood, Sept. 24 ‘86

Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth,
while the evil days come not,
nor the years draw nigh,
when thou shalt say,
I have no pleasure in them;
Philip Slack
Your Friend
Ironton June 13th 1889

”Hope is the anchor of the soul.”
Your Friend
Etta Thornton
Jan. 13, “86”

Friend Nellie
May the gilt edge of truth
Shed radiance o’er thy flower-strewn pathway.
And thy bright record be written
In the eternal book above.
Your friend
Fred
Ironton Mar. 22, 87

I am and don’t your forget it your friend.
N. P. Harrison
Ironton, Sauk Co., Wis.
March 22, 1887

Friend Nell
Taller the tree
The tuffer the bark.
The prettier girl
The better they spark
Mr. Jas. Smith
Ironton May the 12 1886

Do what is right
and let the world sink.
Yours with best wishes,
Sadie E. Merchant
Ithaca, Wis.
Ironton, Jan. 12.-/-86
In the margin…Remember me as a friend.

Miss Nellie,
May your cares all fly away
Like dew before the sun
And when you’ve nothing else to do
Just think of Minnie for fun.
Your friend and well wisher
Minnie Reeve
Friendswood, Wis. 9-30-1886
In the margin…”Normal School.”

Nellie:
When your years are nearly gone,
When you are old and grey,
Just remember the night
That you came from Ithaca
Your Schoolmate
Chas. Cashman
Ironton, Wis. March 17, 1887

Heaven helps men who help themselves.
Yours truly
Mina Pearson
Ironton Feb. 9 1886

Dear Teacher.
Down in the meadow,
There Stands a tree
And on it is written
Remember me.
Your Friend,
Julia Broas
June 14 1889

Compliments of-
Bertha Settle
Lime Ridge
Wisconsin
Friendswood
Sept. 23. 1886

Dear Nellie,
There is a little pale blue flower
That twines around the sheperd cot,
And in the silent midnight hour
It gently sighs, “Forget me not.”
Your Schoolmate
Stella
Ironton, May, 4th 1885

Dear Nellie,
”May your life have just enough clouds
to make the sunset beautiful.”
Your Friend
Martha
Ironton School Mar. 27th 1885
In the margin…Remember me and “Deep as the sea, is my love for thee.”

Dear Nellie-
May your life have just enough clouds
To make a glorious sunset
Your Friend
Minnie Buchanan (?)
LaValle 3-26/86

”Do the duty nearest.”
Respectfully,
Allen D. Hale
Friendswood, Wis., Sept. 30th, 1886

Dear Nellie:
We must not expect to be mown,
And gather the ripe golden ear
Unless we have first been sown
and watered the furrows with ___
It is not just as we take it-
This mystical world of ours
Lifes harvest-yield as we make
A harvest of thorns or flowers
Cora Settle

Dear Nellie-
The journey of existance is a rugged one you know
And as you jog along the road
Be careful how you go.
Your Friend
Anna Sloniker (?)
Woodland Wis. Sep., 21, 1886

Dear Nellie
A line is sufficient for memory
Della Conklin
Lime Ridge Sauk Co. Wis.
Oct 16-1887

Remember the examination
Luetta (?) Thornburg
In the corners…”The stove pipe” and “Reading”

Like a plank of driftwood
Tossed on a water main,
Another plank encounters
meets, touches, parts again,
So, tossed and drifting ever
On life’s unresting sea,
We meet and greet and sever,
Parting eternally,
Your friend,
Irena M. Gardner
Friendswood Institute

Remember me as your friend.
Yours truly,
Jas. M. Couto (?)
Your Schoolmate
Feb. 1st 1885

To my friend Nellie,
Longest joys won’t last forever
Make the most of every day;
Youth and beauty time will sever,
But content hath no decay.
Your friend
Mrs. Slack
Ironton, Wis. May 12, 1889

Dear Nellie
The hills may tower
The waves may rise
And roll between my home and thee
Yet shall my quenchless memory turn
With undying love to thee.
Yours ever
Nettie Smith
Dec 6, 1886

Dear Nellie-
May your coffee and slanders against you be ever the same -
without grounds.
Is the wish of an instituter and friend
Helen E. Lee
Lime Ridge
Wisconsin
In the margin…Friendswood, Sept 22, 1886

Friend Nellie,
A long life and a happy one
a little man and a pretty one,
Is the wish of
Your Friend
Your Schoolmate
Cora B. Cashman
Ironton, Wis. May 1st ’86
In the margins…”going up street, ha ha” and “mistakes are liable, sometimes”

”Perserverence will obtain good cabbage and lettuce
where otherwise nothing but thistle will grow.”
Your Friend
J. Andrews

Believe not all you hear,
and report not all you believe.
Your Friend
P. (?) Kester
Wheelerburg, Wisc.

”True friendship is like sound health,
the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.”
Your friend
Martha Crook
Ironton, Wis. March 27, 1885

Goodness of heart is better
Than is goodness of head,
But goodness of both is the best,
And the rarest.
J. T. Lunn
Ironton, 5/7, 1886

Dear Nellie,
When you are sitting all alone
Reflecting on the past,
Remember that you have a friend
Whose love will always last.
Your true friend
Marcie O’Malley
Ironton, March 31st, 1885
In the corners…”Forget me not.” and “Think of me.”

Friend Nellie,
Is it vain in life’s wide sea
to ask you to remember me?
Undoubtedly it is my lot,
Just to be known and then – forgot.
Delia Beuchat
Ironton, Wis. Dec. 28 1885

”When the golden sun is setting,
And your mind from care and troubles free,
When of others you are thinking
Won’t you sometimes think of me?”
Your Friend,
Sina Osborn

Friend Nellie,
When the name that I write here is dim on the page,
And the leaves of your album are yellow with age,
Still think of me kindly, and don’t forget
That wherever I am, I remember you yet.
Ever Your Friend,
Janie Wright
March 7th, 1886

Friend Nellie,
Choose not your friends from outward show,
Feathers float but pearls lie low.
Sincerely Yours,
Frank Daly
Ironton

”Dear friend there is an Album,
Full of leaves of snowy white;
Where no name is ever tarnished,
But forever pure and bright.
In that 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.
Mary L. Howard
Aug. 9th 1885

Compliments of -
Emma Terry
Lime Ridge
Wisc.
Friendswood
Sept. 22nd 1886
In the margin…”Remembrance.”

To Nellie:
There’s no weapon that slays
it’s victim so surely (if well aim’d)
”as praise.”
Augie M. Harris
Lime Ridge
Sept. 21, 1886

”Onward and Upward.”
Your friend,
Sarah Thorton
May 12, 1885
In the margin…”Be firm and true.”

Compliments of,
Chas. G. Blakeslee
Ironton, Wis.
May 7, 1886

Friend Nellie:
To fear no ill,
to do no wrong,
To all me prove true,
This is the golden rule of life,
Let it be so to you.
Ella Cross
Friendswood Academy, Sept 22nd, 1886

”Honor and shame from no condition rise,
Act well the part;
there all the honor lies.”
Your Friend,
Betsey Stansfield
In the margin…Lost in the storm of Jan. 12, 1888 Born Mch. 15, 1869

Dear Nellie
What “write” in your album
How very absurd
My mind is at random
I can’t think of a word.
Yours
Genieve S. Coley
Dec 26th 1889
In the margins…Ever in remembrance Xmas night of /89, and Have you had many prunes and dried fruit lately

On the back page of the album is:
Last in your album
Last in your tho’ts
Last to be remembered
First to be forgotten is your friend.
and
Remember the Normal Institute
Remember our ride to Reedsburg, candy, peanuts, etc
Going to Lime Ridge C. U. H.
Paddy from Cork forty miles today
twelve miles from Ithaca. “Be Jabers”
Who was that cheap driver when we
came from Ithaca. I.O. of C. B. and I
There is a tree. Lean back supporter.
and
”Reserved for all”
and in the corners…”toboggan” and Don’t fall down up stairs. Blanche said to.