Geneseo City Council Minutes January 30 1907
Special meeting presided by Mayor Rebord approves a wagon scale license for W G Hammers with $10 fee. Claims for damages by Hannah Strandberg lead to committee to confer before suit. Petitions for removal of Geneseo Gas plant discussed. Several ordinances related to gas pipes and Electric Light Company contract amendments adopted or referred. Meeting adjourned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geneseo, Int
Jal
Rebord
Weaimee
Butlers
Johnson
W.G Hammer
T Grave
Harry E. Brown
Hannah Strandberg
Dini
Geneseo Gas Company
Geneseo Eilectric Light Company
Geneseo
Illinois
Local notices and social items from Geneseo area
Long list of residents with sickness travel and visits. Auction notice for Ed Farwell farm sale near Geneseo on Friday Feb 15 includes horses cattle hogs hay corn implements and household goods with terms and free lunch. Several small social visits and family updates appear throughout the week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Withrow
Fred Ingram
Cleveland
William Grantz
Moline
Mr. Gresser
Mattie Davis
S. Ellingsworth
Harry Kerr
Ed. Belousk
Roberts
Jammy
Galesburg
Robert Redman
Colona
Frank
Lottie Rubeck
Tom Dillon
Rudolph Klavohne
C Betousx
Clarence Payne
Wachtel
Lawrence Rink
Green County
Iowa
Edna Pierson
East Moline
Larry Kohlmorgan
Kewanee
Henry Wachtel
Lewis Kicksey
Chas. Haas
Erost Kramer
Cook County
Ed Farwell
Geneseo
Fourty
Frank Cheery
Munson Roan
Pancothien
Poland
Lyon Ransom stores feature new carpets and spring ads
A stream of local notices covers store promotions at Lyon & Ransom and Verbeckmoes Department Store with preinventory sales at O. W. Lager & Co. regional visitors include Mrs. Holslander and Miss Pierson visiting kin in Geneseo and Tiskilwa. Local items mention bridge construction, gospel and social events, and a May marriage of Ben Vande Velda and Emma Perquer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lyon & Ransom’s
Verbeckmoes
Jamas
I. Holslander
Swithh
Blue Island
Johnston
Cora Pierson
Tiskilwa
Mondar
Everett
Delia Sammons
Kewanee
Otto Like
Joseph Tollenaire
Chicago
Mirs Becker
Geneseo
C L. Clarke
Green River
W. Galbraitt
Atedo
Recuca
Sre
Lyon & Ransoms
Frank Schnachfer
Geneseevent
George
Ed Merriman
Preox Township
Tabor
Lyon & Ransom
Deomtmiss
O.W. Lager & Co
Smr
Ben VandeVelda
Mineral
Emma Perquer
Cornwall Township
St. Anthony’s Church
A. Depoorter
John Perquer
Clary Catour
Memorial notices and a family obituary from Spring Hill
The item reports Hattie Young ill again, visits by Obed Weiding from Iowa, and funeral attendance for Mary Zschiesche, aged about 60, with details on her marriage to August Zschiesche and children. It notes Mrs Rieger in frail health, and the funeral at Woodman Hall with Rev. E. O. Rife and Rev. Countryman, plus a verse writing mourning the deceased.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hattie Young
Obed Weiding
Iowa
John Fuller
Erie
Wm. Zschiesche
St. Paul, Mion
Grandma Rieger
Ude August Zschiesche
Ida Brooks
Gene
Maria Rifesthes
Lordine Spetht En
Ain
August Zschiesche
Spring Hill
Adon
Fo Eigut
Idwa
Lovie
Leon
Charles
Carrie Taber
Portland
Rosina
William
St. Paul
Minnesota
Mary “McGrady
Tampico
Minbies Arnett
And
Rio
Caroline Roos
Ous
Lou Huber
Annawan
Ferdinand Rieger
Evangelical Church
Woodman Hall
E. O. Rife
Stockton
Countryman
Sharom
Mary Zschiesche
East Moline Industrial Boom Attracts Major Builders
In East Moline the Rock Island Shops Union Malleable Tron Company Moline Scale Company Moline Voting Machine Co American Harvester Company Root and Vander Voort Engineering Company Deere Clark Motor Co Borg Beck and others are negotiating sites for expansion with John Deere School and New Brick and Brick school buildings planned this year Plymouth Congregational Church and Roman Catholic Church also slated. Values rise and employment grows as investors pour capital and firms expand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rock Island
Union Malleable Tron Company
Moline Scale Company
Moline Voting Machine Co
American Harvester Company
Root and Vander Voort Engineering Company
Moline Automobile Company
Deere-Clark Motor
Car Con
Borg & Beck
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Council Procerdings
Ertvot Geneseo
Adap
Ab Ora
Eustibied AG
Gmibt
GaeGesey
Uantar
Civ
Hanna
E& A Block
Mrs. O. Nickerson
O. W. Lager & Co
Peter Parquer
Lizzie Verkruyse
Charles Humphrey
August Vande Woostyné
Dakota
Julius Virra
Pienix Township
Amanda—Vandarsnickta
P. C. Dunbar
Kansas
Alice Ott
Jain
God
Jesus
Golden Gate
Atkinson, Ilinois
American Trust and Savings Bank
Kewa
Nee
Raiload Company
Poverty_ Barptist Society
Rock Island County
Ilinois
John Deere School
Plymouth Congregational
Henry County
West
George W“Ross
Railroad Ave
Tllinois
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