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Newspaper
Geneseo Republic
Location
Geneseo, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1911
Page
19
Geneseo hosts Anna wan Siebert visitors and local residents including RT White in Davenport and J R White. many neighbors, relatives, and friends spend Sundays and holidays in town with gatherings, shopping, and social calls. Thanksgiving plans noted.
A Newton grade school teacher entertained visitors with classroom rhymes to test pupil knowledge. The young students answered questions aloud while the teacher quoted lines from famous authors and noted a belief in lifelong patience. The piece hints at schoolroom humor and quotes from Montaigne and Drummond.
The Dramatic Club of Anna wan High School stages a comedy in the Opera house with a cast headed by Dick Harding as the nephew of a gorter's sister and Dr Morgan's nephews Reginald Morgan and Theodore Morgan others include Kitty Harding Corinna Frank and Nick A Wason. Director Garnest Green.
The WHOLT family on East Brooks Street joined the Mormon church, led by Presiding Elder Wells of Chicago and Elder Lathrop of Galesburg. They were baptized in Kewanee due to weather, then confirmed at home upon return. The community notes their notable conversion and the five youths entering priesthood.
The forty fifth annual convention of the Northern Illinois Floriculture Society will meet in Sterling on December 6 and 7. Delegates and fruit growers from across the northern half of the state will attend with a focus on profitable fruit cultivation and display variety. The event emphasizes education for all attendees and features noted speakers.
The third annual land show at the Coliseum in Chicago features dealers from twenty states and Canada with irrigation and farming displays. Exhibitors include railroads and farm supply firms, with Idaho Day potato promotions and a Sacramento Valley farm giveaway. Also offered: a yearling pacing colt for $165 and related brood mares and foals for sale.
Notice forbids hunting fox or coon on the premises after this date and warns trespassers will be prosecuted. Signed by Henry Johnson Ward.
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