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Newspaper
Geneseo Republic
Location
Geneseo, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1893
Page
5
Local notes recount wage reductions on the Rock Island line and reactions from unions and workers. Community life touches politics, church events, marriages, and local incidents including a fatality and a fire scare at a grocery store, with travelers and farmers weighing crops and labor conditions.
The Geneseo area hosts a United Methodist Conference session led by Bishop Fowler with Rev. Brocking and local clergy organizing a week of services, meetings, and class examinations across multiple churches, detailing daily programs, committee activities, and local arrangements for September events. The notice lists dates, venues, and participating congregations in a period voice.
Rept. 6 Sugar scarce. Tompkins visited Tuesday. Frank Carlson in Peoria Monday. Carl Malmgren Jr and ERhenstrom Carlson paint schoolhouse. Wheelands from Cincinnati visiting. Alfred Clementson family in iers. Village cop Lindstrom ill. Geof Anderson returned from Galenburg Tuesday. Ehenstrom at Tri Cities Thursday. Handholts plastering Carlsen’s house. Jalmer Anderazon New Windsor organist here Wednesday. Eric Norell injured cutting seeds for a thresher. Tadref social planned at Olle Anderson’s residence Saturday evening.
Public enrollment opened Monday with good turnout and a 520 headcount. Despite demand, many north side students stay home as parents fear sending them to school, reducing available capacity.
A call to seek medical evaluation despite financial strain urging readers to prioritize health. The appeal notes modern treatment makes care affordable for most, urging a consultation with Dr. Froth at Geneseo House on Friday September 15th until 1 pm to obtain a personal opinion.
Wm Merriman announces a sale for S. J. Wonders on the L Edmunds farm near Kewanee Galva area in Western Illinois. Auction items include 9 horses 13 cattle 50 sheep 30 shoats farm implements and 50 acres of corn with terms of a year on sums over 5 dollars.
Names and visits fill the week with residents of Andover Monmouth and Orion calling on friends and relatives. Guests include Ella Norton Chas Northwall Tillis Dorsey Stevenson and many others while a school social for Rev Wood of Orion draws good attendance.
Annawan hosts visitors Bept Milo Griffin from Greenville and other locals including Dr B F Forrest from Henry. Asa Coleman sells his drug business and plans to move to Streator. Mrs H Bartlett of Parkersburg West Virginia visits with her daughter. A lecture by Mrs A A Moore of Chicago, under Miss Jennie Woodruff supervision, will be at the Congregational church at 7 30 p m on Thursday Sept 14.
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