Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-02

Hog Society.
more of the science of ground hog ,
ology as taught by this society. and !
also to learn as early as possible the !
greatest question to all nations and of
all times-the weather we are going 10 ,
have.
The president called the meeting 10
order in his usual impressive manner.
The committee to visit the ground hog
hole next year was appointed and all
routine business attended to, after
which the meeting was resolved into a
committee of the whole for a social
session, until the report was perfected
| by the committee appointed last year
and who were then down on the bluffs
| of Mill creek honestly, carefully and
faithfully attending to that important
| duty.
At the afternoon session the presi-
dent delivered his annual address and
the committee on investigation made
its report.
| Hear the Report.
/ Promptly at l O'Clock p. m. the So
ciety reconvened to complete the
business that called them together on
this memorable day. The aged presi-
dent. with an humble aspect, arose To
deliver his annual address and with
out any preliminary talk or excuses,
said:
Brother Ground Hogs: Each recur-
ring ground hog day brings with it
more or less sadness. and as | look
over my audience | miss some old ia
miliar faces. They will not return
here, but they have left memories
that will ever be green to us-they
here honest and true, the world is bet
ter for their having lived, and this
community has been vastly benefited
by their council and example.
There have many things happened
since we met here last year with the
|, apparent object of benefiting the far
mer. This is a farming community
with big F. Practically all our in
: terest is in that line. Our ground hog
society was organized for the purpose
! of giving to this community the ear
Hest reliable data as to the weather
: we would have that they might profit
thereby. Our theory on the ground
hog has proven of vast benefit to the
t agriculturalist far beyond our fonde5.
2 hopes.
: Zone of the happenings since we
r met here a year ago and which has
: astonished me, is that President
r Roosevelt has appointed commission
. to investigate the farmers and l an
: told by members of our society thai
. there are suspicious characters prowl
: ing around the village today and
: Judge by the description of the mer
Y that they are doubtless secret service
* men. If they are such they are hers
Ri either for the purpose of getting in
* formation for the commission to in
n lvestigate," noted above, or for the pun
NJ pose of enrolling all of us in tn
XII Ananias club. We are perfectly viii
w ing to teach this commission of in
X vestigation' many things they don
w know. and will do it cheerfully, but W
lN don't want to be misrepresented, es
" pecially by people that do not kno'
* the first principles of that which NAL
W es for happiness and profit on tn
IS farm.
WI Modest In Claims.
SSH I'VE do not pretend to know ever.
W body's business better than they d
M themselves, and We are not stickin
~ our noses into other peoples affair
N We simply claim that We are orthodo
W in the science of ground hogology an
M the substantial results gained Their
W from is sufficient evidence of the CO
* rectness of our theory.
Ml "In search of more knowledge of til
X ground hog made pilgrimage to til
NJ Mohawk valley, New York. the orig
W Eal home of the ground hog. 1t ws
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