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Newspaper
Geneseo Republic
Location
Geneseo, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1902
Page
1
Geneseo district items recount visits by Emma Almquist and others, sales and travel to Kansas City, and family gatherings in East Cambridge. News covers local schooling plans, church activities, camp meetings, and weather jokes amid community travel, health, and social events.
The Jackson family thanks friends and neighbors for comfort and assistance after their recent bereavement. They appreciate sympathetic deeds and floral tributes honoring their departed loved one.
Notice announces Camp No. 40 meeting cancellation on August 21 and County Picnic at Atkinson on August 28. It lists badge pickup at the clerk's barber shop and names clerk C. K. Anpyxson. The rest records numerous local visits, travel, and social calls among Cambridge Osco Geneseo and Bloomington residents with several trips to Geneseo, Niagara Falls, and Jamestown New York, plus cattle sales reported in Drovers Journal.
Mahlon Lloyd Love of Orion dies Wednesday August 13 1902 after a week of acute indigestion. A Geneseo Collegiate Institute graduate class of 01 he balanced banking farming and business roles and served as secretary of the Republican county central committee. He leaves a wife three children a mother and two brothers with a large funeral attended by many community members. Rev Will Crane and others spoke and pallbearers included Dr Joseph Gustafson Frank Fullerton John Carson and Daniel Keleher Jr. James H Andrews of Kewanee and James Ryan of Geneseo also attended.
Aug 20 social notes from the area include Emma Maeltzer and three children visiting from Moline, Miss Gusta Block visiting Herman Stenzel, John Lougain and Leonora Lougain calling from Munson, George Noonan planning land look in North Dakota, Barry Webster heading to wheat fields, and Lloyd Stamm passing through toward Geneseo. Scent cigars sold by John Dedrick Company.
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