Geneseo Township High School Board Meets in 1912
The Geneseo Township High School Board held meetings October 1 and October 11, 1912. Minutes note bills approved for teachers salaries and supplies, with a $50 appropriation for chemistry and physical apparatus. A fire-escape bid process was ordered for the building. Public notices include book lists and a Progressive party speech by Chas. F. Kincheloe at Weimer’s Opera House, detailing party aims and corruption concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geneseo
Township High
Rock‘syell
Jos. L. Shaw
Scott Paper Co
Ginn & Co
A. J. Beatty
Asst
Chas, F. Kincheloe
Congress
Arthur Cook
Clifford Thompson
Phineas Morrow
John Parsons
Truman Searle
Christian
Kinofieiéé
Adams County
Ill
Quincy
Department of Justice
Washington, D. C
Kincheloe
Progressive Party
Chicken Pie Supper Postponed at Liberty Church
Liberty church Corn Wall postponed chicken pie supper now set for Friday evening 1 Ost 18th with a program by the Taylor Glee Club of Cambridge. All invited. Geneseo public schools art department earned first premium at the State fair in Springfield for original water color sketches. Miss Craig leads the art program and is noted for water color strength.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Liberty Church
Cornwall
Taylor Glee Club
Cambridge
Geneseo
Springfield
Craig
Genesee Grade Schools to Close for Association Meeting
The Genesee grade schools will be closed Friday so teachers can attend the annual Military Tract Educational Association meeting in Galesburg. Teachers will visit Davenport schools. Miss Craig will appear in the art department program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Genesee
Military Tract Educational Association
Galesburg
Davenport
Miss Craig
Indian mission schools allow current garb while new teachers barred
The government revoked a prior order requiring no religious garb for teachers in western Indian mission schools. Existing teachers may continue wearing their insignia, while new hires must not. No sectarian instruction is now given in government-controlled schools. The change ends the long dispute, according to the Springfield Journal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Springfield Journal
Back Door Visitor Sparks Urban Insight
A suggestive remark by a judge warns against judging by appearances, noting that a man at the back door who seems like a tramp could be a retired capitalist seeking self employment in the auto trade. The quote underscores caution in quick judgments.
Fire destroys N Gooks barn with livestock losses
The Woodhull Dispatch reports N Gook's barn burned last Saturday around 11:30 am, reducing it to ruins. Mrs Cook and daughter saved two horses, a dog perished, ten tons of baled hay damaged, and some items were rescued including two buggies, harness, and a corn bin. No insurance coverage noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ngook
Cook
Rockford Lawyer Holland Drowns Self in Rock River
Hosmer P. Holland, long time Rockford resident and lawyer, died by drowning in the Rock River after a period of melancholia. Born in Ohio in 1838, he served in the 74th Indiana Volunteers and had lived in Rockford since youth. Survived by his wife and five children.
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Hosmer P. ‘Holland
Rockford
Ohio
74Th Minors Volunteer Infantry
Sterling Standard
Paroled Joliet inmate Fern Pratt said to be terminal
Fern Pratt, released on parole after a 14 year sentence for a Tiskilwa hold up, is reported to be gravely ill with tuberculosis. He resides with his widowed mother in Wyoming Indiana and may have about a month to live.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fern Pratt
Joliet
Powers
Tiskilwa
Board of Pardons
Pratt
Repor Rom
Wyoming
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Township-Hieh
XEW Books
Public Library
George DB Rose
H. W. Boynton
Old Fort Dearborn
J. Seymour Currey
G. Gordon Ogden
L. H Bailey
Colins and Preston
Joseph Adams
Ss. E. Forman
David
Jayson
Herbert Croly
Elsie D. Yale
Father
Countess Julie
August Strindberg
G W. Mead
H. Clay Trumbull
James M. Gray
Shailer Mathews
S. S. Curry
Emil
Bairy Beck
Anne Macdonell
Nancy Rutledge
Katherine Pyle
Pennypackers
Sophie Swe Wet -the
Ee Es pHon
Chas. F. Kincheloe
Weimer
Ken Ward
Zane Gray
Frank H. Spearman
Rupert Hughes
Penn
Anna Fuller
Harold Bindless
Pook's Hill
Rudya Tining
Danny
Don Marquis
Many Austin
Wilson Woodrow
Clara E. Laughlin
Irving Bachellor
Alice Duet Miller
Thurston
Orchard Valley
Mary Boardman Sheldon
Warrens
Virginia
George Cary Eggleston
Rosemary
Helen Sherman Griffith
Marcia Schu
White Shield
Myrtle Reed
Edward Stewart White
Harold Bell Wright
F.hopkinson Smith
David Kerr
Harry ‘King Tootle
New Party
New Progressive Party
Dan
Ger
Roosevelt
Washington
Penrose
Theodore Roosevelt
Senator Foraker
Standard Oil
Lorimer
Senate
Mr. Kincheloe
California
Southern Pacific
Johnson
Taft
Chicago
Hawyer
Rock River
Carload
Missouri Apples
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