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Newspaper
Geneseo Republic
Location
Geneseo, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1907
Page
16
Emma Witherspoon and others visit tri city residents amid illnesses and funerals. Obituaries include Mrs. Louise Bauer and Mrs. James Warnock with details on families and church ties. An Armory plan for Geneseo is announced along with bridge-tragedy deaths near Davenport. Ebenezer Camp Meeting reports strong attendance and finances.
Ed Serller suffers pleurisy while Ed Goembel tends Dakota farm. Miss Cora Minch attends camp in Freeport. Luther returns from Iowa. Miss Christina Kurfiss of Sterling visits. Roscoe Goembel visits Hooppole. Erma Vetter stays with aunt in Streator. Sandrock and Morse travel in Canada for land exploration. Ben Buechel ill with typhoid. Dr Adams attends. Brown eyes land in Burlington Colorado. Louis Smith buys old Zimmerman factory and plans Hooppole home. Mrs John Mathis of Nebraska visits sister Miss Mathis. eighteen-year absence from home. Jacob Wolf family seeks doctors in Chicago for Dorothy’s crippled limb. Marine and Saizman buy land in Dakota. plan move. Local men head to Dakota as Hooppole Bridge & Row Co erect seven bridges. Mary Whitehouse and H d Miller wed at Kewanee. serenade greets couple back home. James Tomkinson returns from Colorado impressed with Centennial state. Obituary: Elizabeth Bauer nee Fey born Hessen Darmstadt Oct 26, 1829 died Aug 29 1907 at 77 years 10 months.
Multiple area churches list Sunday services with morning sermons at 10 45 and evening programs at 7 30 led by ministers D M Kirkpatrick W C Hall J H Kespine J L Shively and others Readings include topics such as A Touch Stone in Life s Progress A Message for the last Time The Land marks of Faith and The Most Expensive Thing in the World Epworth League Junior and YP churches hold 3 00 pm 6 30 pm or 0 30 pm meetings and a Lake Geneva institute report is noted.
A fragmentary debt notice asks all persons knowing themselves indebted to the party to call for settlement. The message is signed by P C Scumrtt.
Colona with letters and updates from residents including Robert Redman visiting Whittemore Iowa JOE Owen and wife departing for Walla Walla Washington Donald Delaney entering St Ambrose Davenport and Mrs W O Skinner improving after a fall Local travel reports mention Frank and Andrew Deim on the Mississippi to Belleville Colona schools open with Prof Matt O Connell in charge and Miss Hargot Stobl teaching about 70 students A Nebraskan George Leibee visits Colona aiming to Geneseo for potential residence Pictorial Review free with one dollar purchase during September Lambert Lager Co Geneseo and Rev E W Thompson to preach last sermon on Colona charge as Central Illinois Conference meets in Rock Island September 1st First M E Church and quarterly conference details noted.
Henry W. Sands conducts a sale Saturday at 2 p.m. at Lowry Bros in Geneseo featuring work horses a mare in foal wagons harness mowers planters cultivators plows harrows chickens and household items. Terms include credit with no interest or 5 percent cash discount on sums over ten dollars. W A Holtzoger, clerk.
I express sincere appreciation and hearty thanks for the kindness shown my wife during her long illness and after her death by friends neighbors the ladies of the Methodist church Epworthes quartette the Fire department and all who sent floral tributes to James Wannock
Citizens of Henry County will attend a water users meeting at the Cambridge courthouse on Tuesday September 10th. Mayor Hewes L. Raven urges conservation as the springs supply remains uncertain.
Enrollment figures for the district show total pupils at 560 with 148 beginners in North primary under Miss Baker and 18 new entrants in South primary under Miss Priebe. Local notes mention Armington visits, horse buyers, and upcoming Salem Sharon services with final conference year services.
Parties indebted to the Green River Horse Company are asked to settle by September 15. Payments may be left at 8S A Anderson's Store Green Liver J D Mansrent See.
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