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Newspaper
Geneseo Republic
Location
Geneseo, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1912
Page
10
Local items report births in early October 1912 to De Breek and Depoorter families and notes several visits and travels among Atkinson residents. Community updates include church, school, and business notes plus a tragic streetcar death of Master Ellsworth Bowser affecting Cornwell and Davenport connections.
Atkinson hosts a corn exposition from October 21 to 26 with the town hall fitted as a corn palace double exhibit space and new features. Bolly Bolly day street carnival tent show merry go round opera house leased for the week with lectures by University of Illinois professor Mr Miller and Krahn orchestra for a dance and nightly performances inviting all to attend.
Auction notice for buildings on the premises of the Atkinson Farmers Grain Co in Atkinson Illinois to be sold to the highest bidder for cash on Saturday October 19 1912 at 2 oclock pm with purchaser required to remove buildings within thirty days from date of sale
Alba Warren O Neill and family host relatives from Moline with visits from Princeton Kewanee and Sewanee residents. Perry and Warren Mathis lose an 1100 pound steer near Crist Salzman's. it overheated and died while en route from Anna wan to Hoopole. Nate Warner plans to farm Alba n himself next season with John Poulter joining on the farm after sixteen years.
The page lists vendors at Lyon Weekley and Atkinson yards offering Friday fresh fish bulk oysters canning fruit and vegetables Limle’s bakery goods Florish shoes Florsheim shoes Verbeckmoes Department Store Robt Black & Son wallpaper samples Harms Glawe poultry buyers top prices and farm listings with F E Gresser farms for sale at 80 to 130 per acre.
Bishop Muldoon in a nearby city outlined plans for an old people home for Catholics of the Rockford diocese with Freeport as a likely site. If realized the facility would serve the entire diocese and handle numerous applications from parishioners in need.
A brief exchange in the New York Sun features a sharp remark on mortgages. Becker replies that the first loan is for the car and the second is for upkeep, illustrating financial humor of the era.
A cautionary Atlantic excerpt warns that cousins are not simple relatives. The piece notes that a cousin can borrow money, visit unasked, claim kinship, contest wills, and even fall in love across generations. Trust is discouraged and the subtle signals of cousinship are hard to define.
A young city visitor in the country refuses to leave a field after a lamb bleats loudly. She stamps her foot and proclaims she has as much right as anyone to stay, telling her companions she will remain there despite objections.
Brief quotation from the Detroit Free Press on marriage and preparation. A mother reflects that she learned cooking after marriage, implying practical life comes before formal training. The line contrasts whether to learn a trade before or after entering matrimony.
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