Monday, October 11, 2010

A professor of Music, from Keokuk . . .

. . . has decamped from Mt. Pleasant swindling the children of the Union School out of $40, raised to purchase a Melodeon, besides doing several other things not exactly on the square.  His name is Tillotson.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 17, 1862, p. 1

1 comment:

Jim Miller said...

As Meridith Willson was from Iowa, I nearly expected the fellow's name to be Harold Hill.