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Newspaper
Geneseo Republic
Location
Geneseo, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1912
Page
10
Local items report residents visiting Geneseo and Annawan, business notices from Lyons & Weekley and Atkinson Lumber Yard, civic notices on elections and church revival services, and social visits among families including the Bills, Pobanz, Nickerson, and Van Vooren. Community events span millinery business shifts, wallpaper sales, and a WCTU contest.
Republican voters in Atkinson township are notified of a caucus at the Town Hall in Atkinson village on Saturday afternoon March 16, 1912, at 4 o clock to nominate candidates for the township election and handle any other proper business.
Mrs. Ernest Salzman has been on the sick list for the week. Wm Eckert returned Friday from a trip to Silvis and other points. James Wizsong came back from Iowa where he spent the winter. Good turnout at the farmers elevator meeting in Annawan. Mrs Wm McNiell of Annawan visited with her son James McNiell. About thirty five young friends surprised George Wilson for his fifteenth birthday. A caucus in the red brick schoolhouse Saturday afternoon to nominate Peoples ticket candidates. Groundhog day talk looms as a sign of spring. Louis Kuhn held a closing out sale March 14 and will quit farming. Ellsworth Beers and family of Canada spent a few days with Mrs Beers’ sister Mrs Frank Wilson. they plan to return to Canada next week. Ernest Treffer, formerly of Alba, now near Atkinson, ill with diphtheria but slowly improving.
The notice lists auctions of farm equipment livestock and crops including horses cattle hogs corn hay and farming gear scheduled March 15 16 1912. It also mentions a township political caucus March 16 and a second sale March 23 at Genezo barn. The grounds detail items to be sold and terms.
Local auctioneer advertises the light running National Manure Spreader for sale with a brief description of its condition and asking price.
In Illinois the three candidate GOP Senate contest narrows to a test of progressive versus conservative forces. S. Magill camps statewide, backed by Roosevelt La Follette Republicans and national figures, aiming to appeal to silent voters with promises of honest government and reform. His contrast with Cullom and Sherman centers on voting records and adherence to progressive ideals.
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