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12 Virginia Day Fritscher

located near Hamburg.... He attended the public schools
and Whipple Academy, which is the academic department
of Illinois College, at Jacksonville. Later he was a student
in a private Normal School at Bushnell, Illinois, and also
took a course in bookkeeping at that place. He received
a first-grade certificate, permitting him to teach for eight
years, and he served seven years of that period in the home
school at Hamburg, of which he had charge. He then en-
tered politics, and was elected clerk of Calhoun County,
in which position, by successive reelections, he served for
eight years, after which he was elected to the bench of the
county court. As a judge he has shown himself a man of
calm and dispassionate judgment, sincere and conscien-
tious in everything he does, and has honored the position
which he has filled for so many years.
In 1904 Judge John T. Day, Junior, was united in
marriage to Addie M. Fowler, a daughter of Rev. W. P.
Fowler [a Methodist preacher at the Oasis Church in
Hardin and in Batchtown], who taught school for twelve
years at Hamburg, Indian Creek, and Gilead....Judge Day
is a strong supporter of the Democratic party and has
attended many county, district and state conventions, as
well as the national convention at Kansas City in 1900.
For many years he was either chairman or secretary of the
county central committee. He is president of the Hamburg
Chamber of Commerce and is a member of the Wood-
men, the State Horticultural Society and the County Farm
Bureau, of which he was formerly secretary. During the
late war he served as chairman of the exemption board, be-
longed to the Four-Minute Speakers and the legal advisory
board. [The Four-Minute Speakers were commissioned by
President Wilson to promote American involvement in
the first World War by standing up to give quick pop-up
patriotic speeches in town meetings, movie theaters, and