Local notes and ads mark Geneseo week events
Geneseo city items include Mr. Robert Stein vacating a news stand space, Charles Brown visiting his ill mother, and Walter Scott visiting Geneseo friends. Advertisements note hand picked winter apples for sale and Frank E Miller becoming Geneseo’s Schlitz agent. Other items cover church events, a Presbyterian Synod in Champaign, a baseball game, a fall injury to Mrs. Dawes, and various visits and travels among locals, with multiple short notices on meetings, farming, and fair attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Brown
Woodward
Iowa
Walter Scott
Grinnell
Geneseo
V— Miner
Atte
John Lachner
Aurora
Clark
South State Street
Willis Evans
Thomas M. Evans
Acme
Alberta
Canada
Frank E Miller
Schlitz Brewing Co
J E. Kay
Kay
California
White Sox
Methodist Church
E .B. Dawes
State Street
Armory
Dawes
Hattie Johnson
Sarah-Sears
Cornwall
Order of the Eastern Star
John Searle
George O.withrow
Cedar Rapids
Charles"Hauch
Mr. Fisk
Prophetstown
Genesee
Burton
Colegrove
Rhapahoe
Okla
Trestrome
Caister
J. W. Swisher
Emil Holke
Colona
Ley
St. Louis
Charles Rost
Moline
Bensonburg
Tri-City
Myron Sullivan
Scott Brown
John Collin
Public Sales in Geneseo and Fairfield Township
A series of farm and property auctions planned in Geneseo Illinois and Fairfield township Bureau county with sales on October 19 34 26 and 28 1912. Items include a two story store building living quarters farm land 160 acres livestock tools furniture and household goods. Terms vary cash or installments with specified credit options.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry W Sand
Aldeen Tailor Shop
South State Street
Geneseo
Joseph
Claypool-haeringe
Pregon
Henry Huntington
Spring Hill
Surrey
Burghard—Berge
Park Street
Good Street
Burghard Berg
Fairfield Township
Bureau County
Illinois
Hooppole
Thomas
Yorktown
Tampico
Mineral
Wall Paper Sale Notes and Local Advertisements
Advertisements for The New Fair include wall paper discounts up to 80 percent at The New Fair, J. Goss & Co offers wall coverings and shop services, E. G. Orr promotes tire cage vulcanizing, Farber Johnson’s features electric scales, White Rose Flour sold by J H O Bryan & Co. and potatoes offered by L H Grant at 55 cents per bushel. Also notices for farm trade, store demolition sale October 19, and help wanted for housework.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Apex
J. W. Goss & Co
E. G. Orr's
Farber & Johnson's
J. H. O'Bryan & _Co
Central Trust & Savings Bank
L. H. Grant
Cornwall Township
Henry
Aldeen
Library
L. Robweder
Geneseo area land sale and miscellaneous bargains advertised
Notices advertise a two and a half acre tract near Geneseo on a mail road with no improvements and a bargain sale. Also listed are wallpaper discounts from 20 to 80 percent, a paper hanging service, carload Missouri apples at 75 cents per bushel, and patent fire extinguishers offered at 50 cents each claimed to put out sand or ordinary fire. Henry Sand and John Dedrick Company cited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geneseo
Henry Sand
Missouri
Toba
John Dedrick Company
Phineas Morrow
Holton Blomgren Nuptials Tie Local Bride to Minneapolis Groom
Miss Jean Holton and Mr. Henning Blomgren wed at eight in a West North street home ceremony before about forty relatives. Rev E E De Long officiated. Wilford Stafford served as ring bearer and sang, as did Bertha Stafford. The couple, soon to honeymoon in Eagle Grove and Minneapolis, were joined by guests from Rock Island Tiskilwa and Minneapolis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. H Farber
West North Street
Jean Holton
Henning Bloimgren
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Emilae
J. H. Stafford
E. E. de Long
Presbyterian Church of Geneseo
Little Wilford Stafford
Bertha Stafford
Wilford Stafford
W. H. Farber
Eagle Grove
Iowa
Blomgren
Hose
Samuel R. Small
M. D Kitterman
Tiskilwa
Frank Small
Ethel Ash
Rock Island
Mr. Largon
Village Socialities and Travel Around Green River
A sequence of local society notes records residents visiting nearby towns and tri cities, with multiple trips to Moline Colona and Geneseo, plus errands and family gatherings. Church services are listed, and residents note market prices for poultry butter and eggs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. D. Anderson
Moline
A. Crill
Colona
A. Lawson
Mra
H. Turney
California
William Pobinz
Tri-Cities
J. D. Mahlstedt
F. Hopkey
George Hancock
Fred Lubaéow
Ray Bradley
Briar Bluff
Henry Erdman
Springfield
Perry
Vivian Brown
A. W. Lynstrom
Ann Meer
J. B. Baum
Axle Lynstrom
Geneseo
Dodson
M. E
Hiddlers Contest to Aid Geneseo Band at Armory
A benefiting entertainment at the Armory on Tuesday October 22 showcases a fiddling singing and dancing show by the Band Boys. Old time tunes will be played by ear with prizes from local merchants for top fiddlers singers and dancers. Participants register at Luther's Book Store as merchants offer awards including clothing furniture cigars and more for various skill categories.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Armory Theatre
Arkansaw Traveler
Luther's Book Store
air-Hastman Brownie Kodak
F. D. Smith's
Ralston
Johnson’s Restaurant
Hill Bros. Floral Co
Jon Stein
Co. O D
Zarick
Kandy
L. B. Rastede
J. E. Wright
Rexall
Theo. Becker
Arkansaw
New Fair
L. Rohweder
Wenke
Khavine
W. L. Myers Co
Lambert Dry Goods Co
F L. Smith
Smith
Brown's Grocery
Engdahl & Fragd
Fiy
Erdmah
Wman
Best Brown's
Johnson's Restaurant
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Gin Geneseo Republic
Postoffice
Robert Stein
Stein
Presbyterian Synod of
Ilinois
Champaign
Genesco Een
F E Rice
James Ensey
Rock ~River
E. H. Block
Anderson
S. A. Anderson
Green River
Buseness
Enique
aBenefit of
John Dedrick Co
Petérson
Wiedenhoeft
Dayton
Charles
Geneses
Florence-Sullivan
Shcocks
Magele
Kate
Rennie
Khownag -Hobe-Hanna-farm
Ed Beloski
Jack Stoe
Mr. Searle
Nelson
Jenix
F. EL. LL. Collins
Gages
Gigé Brothers
D.E. Crook & Co
Ilinoia
W.L. Myers Company
Ciant
J. E. Lane
Ceneseg, III
Ceneseo
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