JOHN TAMME.

Among the uniques of Henry county, John Tamme of Geneseo should not be forgotten. John has, of late years, settled down to the job of janitor for a bank. His characteristic reference to this fact is that "I've always found it easier to settle down, than to settle up." For many years John was a painter. He admits that he always got more paint on himself than on the buildings. Once the powers that were set John to painting some ancient structures, in the midst of which it was proposed to place the new library building, so generously given to Geneseo by Hon. Joseph Hammond. John was sloshing and slushing away, trying to submerge the defects of an old shack in a torrent of turpentine and tar, when the editor of The News came along, and stopped.

"Look at this." John waved his brush to include the sordid surroundings, "putting an elegant new library in here, would be like putting

 

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