Atkinson News Roundup Includes Visits and Shipments
Local notes describe visitors from Annawan Gresham Nauvoo and Chicago, farm activity at Hartman and De Maranville households, and a busy August with 178 carloads of grain and livestock shipped. The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. De Maranville died at ten months, with funeral in Grandview. Atkinson prepares for school, church services, and a planned September baseball tournament.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Gilbraith
Geneseo
Leta Campbell
Annawan
Atkinson
Car
Albert Atwell
Geo
Steiner
Verbeelgmoes Department Store
Lucia Graham
Gresham
D. F. Humphreys
J. W. McCullough
E. Evereemine
Elizabeth Zimmerman
Nauvoo
St. Mary’s ‘Convent
John Reid
Henry Stevens
Jay Boomer
O. Trickel
Canada
Frank Macafee
Phil Nowers
Bud Welch
Lyle Lloyd
W. Gibbons
Tiskilwa
Agnes Fry
York‘town
Frank de Maranville
Lillian’ Harding
Hinsdale, Mich
Atkinson Public
Newers
Frank DeRoo
J. C. Hammond City Hospital
Julian Macauley
Harold Nowers
Geo. Hartman, Jr
Madison
Wis
Raymond Bowser
Robert’ Black
Altoona
Penn
Maud Bennett
Jennette
R. P. Maccauley
Kansas City
John Batten
Edna Batten
Ida Siebert
Am. Withrow
A. Henry
Herald
Bloomington
Chas. de Maranville
Edwin Lamont
Jesse
John Moloney
Lloyd Porter
Ed. Black
Oroute
James Charles
J. M. Finch
Grandview Cemetery
George Hartman
Cedar Rapids
Kewanee
Hartman
Speets
Lyon & Weekley
Emmett Brooks
Joslin
Timothy
Verbeckmoes
Johnson
Galva
Labor Day
Lucy Nowers
Lydia Baxter
Shenandoah
Isaac
Robert Humphreys
Sheffield
Mida. Peabody
Washington, D. C
N. L. Higgins
E. B. Neal
Fred Atwell
Ruth Kenney
Alma Catour
Rock Island
Congregational Church
W. A. Massey
Amherst seeks revival of Latin and Greek education
Amherst college eyes a return to Latin and Greek as core to a broad classical education. Critics warn of a backslide into nostalgia, while supporters say the aim is to produce sound thinkers in an age of specialization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amherst College
Harper's Weekly
New President Named for Hedding College
Dr. Walter D. Agnew of Chattanooga Tennessee will lead Hedding College Abingdon starting the fall term succeeding Rev. William P Mackay who resigned. Agnew previously pastored in St Joseph Missouri and served in Missouri Wesleyan University before becoming dean of theology at the University of Chattanooga where he has held that role for several years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter D. Agnew
Chattanooga
Tenn
Hedding College
Abingdon
William P. Mackay
Illinois Wesleyan
Methodist Church
St. Joseph
Missouri Wesleyan University
University of Chattanooga
Administrator's Sale of Property at Manley Geneseo Area
The undersigned will sell at public sale at the late residence of Freeman Miller deceased five miles northwest of Geneseo. Commencing at 1 pm Monday September 11 1911 the estate offers four head of horses a span of black mares three and four years old well matched weigh about 1450 each one hay mare weighs 1100 one black mare plus corn hay chickens wagon buggy cart sled harness tools and household goods. Terms cash. Bert Dirck administrator Henry W Sand auctioneer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Freeman Miller
Geneseo
Bert Dirck
Henry W. Sand
Village Water Works Show Passed Atkinson Vote
Board met September 4 1911 with President Bush presiding. Minutes read approved. Bills paid totaling 701.7. Election results showed 79 for water works and 33 against. A three member committee including the president to oversee surveying and installation was appointed Johnston and Graham.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atkinson
Ill
Board of Trustees
Bush
Rumler & Nowers
Mdse
W. Griffin
F. de Roo
Imel
E. Nowers
A. Causemaker
A. Weimer
Ioba
J. Steiner
BOR Gas
Lamont
I.ceeseeees
Eset Ee
Johnston
Graham
Jesse Steiner
Automatic savings bank linked to postal system in Italy
The system uses a cast iron pillar with three slits to accept a ten centime coin and drop a receipt when valid. Depositors collect five receipts to obtain a pass book crediting 50 centimes with four percent interest, reducing trips to post offices and cutting clerical work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Automatic Savings Bank
Postal Savings Bank
Italy
Postal Savings Agency
At Our Best Moment of Character and Courtesy
The passage urges always presenting your best self in speech and actions. It likens noble conduct to flowers showing color, emphasizing pure motives and kind impulses over ordinary effort to brighten the world.
Training for the Ministry and Its Growing Shortage
The Philadelphia Press notes the need for highly educated clergy to guide moral forces in society. It observes that church training now supplies fewer clergymen with college degrees, dropping from about two thirds before 1895 to half by 1910, with 2,615 men and 312 women in ministry education.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Young Men’s Christian Association
Philadelphia Press
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Chicago
Allerton
Emia Carton
Leo de Shepper
Jasper
Minn
J. E. Bush
Ed. Johnston
John Graham
Atkinson-Cement
E. C. Chapler
Illinois
Chas, B. Hurst & Co
Chillicothe
Ohio
Birdsell
F.R. Bessant
P. D. Ransom
WalthamWatch
a.Waltham
Sooder Walthams
George E. Perkins
Atkinson ‘Jeweler
Administrator's Sale
Board OF Trustees Meeting
Human Clo. Co
H. J. Vance
Mgr
Weaver & Co
Florida
National Tribune
U. S
P. O. Department
A. L. Johanson
Genesev
Roanoke
Disney
Northwest Supply Co
Ilinois
Farm
Wm. O'Riley
Galesburg, Tivioia
purchase+timber
Henry County
William O’riley
R. F
Galesburg, Ill
H. &F. Shoes