Atkinson Corn exposition prompts local sales and events
Local Atkinson vendors advertise the Exposition from October 10 to 15 with fruit vegetables fresh bread and cheese on offer. Stores promote butcher meats, eggs and dairy products while Edythe Graham sells ham and bacon to draw crowds. Community notices cover visits, farm work, notary services and a forthcoming ball at Mystic Worker hall with Krohn’s Orchestra.
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Lyon & Weekley
James Hufford
Geneseo
Verbeck'moes
Queeman & Pough
Pillsbury's
Asack
Atkinson Corn Exposition
Nomination of Prof L Odenweller for county education work
Voters praise the Republican nomination of Prof L Odenweller in last Thursday's primary. Supporters say his school work shows he will advance Henry county education and lift county schools to a higher level.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. Odenweller
O.odenweller
Henry County
Odenweller
Mission Band Program At Loraine Church Sunday
The Silver Star Mission band plans a Sunday evening program at the Loraine church featuring organ voluntary, congregational songs, scripture readings, and a series of numbers. Performers include Cathryn Jaquet, Blanche Heller, Arlene Heller, Forest Heller, Ralph Carlson, and five children in exercise. A short talk on the Mission band work and an offertory are scheduled.
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Silver Star Mission
Loraine
Trayer
Cathryn Jaquet
Blanche Heller
Lattle
Ira Ja
Abner Carlson
Arlene Heller
Here
I Forest Heller
Missionary Bank
Lorrin Obrecht
Ralph Carlson
Voolatth
Falk
Soyo
Rubstrick
Penny Olive Heder
Bs 8 Girls
Barn Craft and Social News in Hoop Pole Village
Dojin Spath builds a barn on his farm while Mrs Carrie Urban and Miss Kathry n Urban visit Chicago this week. Mir and Mrs Win Vandevanter visit Arthur from their daughter Mrs Charles Groves. Max Fisher moves a frame house south on Istreet for rental. Mathys Tonkinson Co bids fancy potatoes at 7.10 per bushel. Howard and Roscoe Mathis assume Houppole grain and lumber business management. Calvary church repainting disrupts services for six weeks with a reopening planned next Sunday. School directors plan site and specs for a new building on 2 ½ acres in the southwest part of John Minch’s southeast forty.
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Dojin Spath
Carrie Urban
Kathryn Urban
Chicago
Mir
Win = Vandevanter
Arthur
Charles Groves
Max Fisher
Istreert
Mathys Tonkinson & Co
Howard
Roscoe Mathis
Yorktown
Houppole
Calvary Church
Bur
John Minch
Local Sociales and Home News Update
Spring Hilde and Ralph Smedley with wife visited James Bryant in Sharon. Fred Hillie and daughter hosted LCocle August at Zschieschers. Wallis family stayed with Dixon relatives Friday through Sunday. Mrs Henry Sibley and granddaughter Helen visited Reynolds area. Miss Miller of Morrison started school here. August Lohrbeck began work on his new farm house known as Timmerman place. Reiger couples and Walter Reiger joined Louis Knapper’s Geneseo visit. Knapper family plans to move to California.
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Edythe Graham
Atkinson
Verbeck
Ernie Green
Lenoir
George E. Perkins
G . Howlette
Walter Smith
Morristown
WE Benton
Jacksonville
Benton
al Jerton
Odak
Charles Cosum O
Poughkeepsie
Lyon
Augusta Bernhard
Willard Goodman
Chicago
Vrs
Peter DePauw
Frank van Buildard
Alfonse Walvaert
Henry Ver Seevi
Alfonse Causemaker
Rock Island
Alfonse van Meen
van Meen
J C Hammond Hospital
Geneseo
Alfonse
Wow Adams
Ralph Smedley
James Bryant
Sharon
Fred Hillie
Lcocle
Zschiescher
F F Reiger
Wm Dail
Walter Reiger
Louis Knapper
Knapper
California
Veterans of the 112th Regiment Hold Fortieth Fifth Reunion
The forty fifth annual reunion of the One Hundred and Twelfth Illinois Volunteers was held in Kewanee with perfect weather, large veteran turnout, a parade from the depot, club headquarters, and an address of welcome by Major Alexander Melean. General Thomas J Henderson spoke of the regiment’s role in preserving the Union, and officers were elected including General Henderson as president and Geo Buck as vice president.
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Kewanee Star-Courier
One Hundred and Twelfth
Illinois Volunteers
Kewanee
Kewanee Club
Third Street
Tremont
Eo Lord
Mark Saunders
Lawrence Hradbury
Paul Lofamst
HW E Reed
Alexander Melaan
Melean
Henderson
McLeans
Thomas J Henderson
Princeton
Mechean
112Th
Henry County
Stark County
The
Union
Lincoln
Cory
112Th Regiment
Robert Ferman
Blairstown
Town
Asa Haydei Ao
Iowa
I A Widney
Alpha
112Th Band
Fire and
George Wyck
Geof Buck
Coal Valley
Secretary and treasurer reelected for Toulon reunion
Captain B F Thompson of Toulon was reelected to secretary and treasurer for the coming year. The motion carried that next year’s reunion be held at Toulon Illinois. On September 20, 1911 a dinner at the YMCA followed by an afternoon program at the Kewanee club rooms.
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B. F .Thompson
Toulon
Thompson
Ill
Kewanee Club
YMCA
Presbyterian Church
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Free Methodist Church of
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W. Kernweins
FC Becker
Reap
Sigourney Town
Margaret de Bueck
Chict
Mell Bercroft
South Dakota
E S$ Raser
F Obrecht
Mystic Worker Hall
Krohns Orchestra
Henri Duchart
Mendota
Ed Everett
Hennepin
Gust de Schepper
Alphonse de Schepper
Moline
Grant Gresser
Arnold
Oak Park
Henry Massey
J Emmons
East
John PR. Collins
Chase
Clarke
Galva
Fies Sanday
Collins
Royal Sewing
F. E. Gresser
Fred Kauffmans
Kernwein van Bellows
Walles Punetion
Toto Mirphs
Jibe Armory
Genesee
Elizabeth Zimmerman
Jouise Hoogerwerf
Vincie Rumiler
Alma Everett
Emma Cartoon
Philip Nowers
Tos
Virbe Kmaes
Harry Vance
Bert Rumler
Henrys Rumler
Eddie Ca
Robert Ransom
Harold Nowtts
Leslie Atwell
Jos. van Hyfte
Frank Rumler
Atkinson Lumber Yard
L DeWaele
Liberty Congregational Church
Neal
John Haslander
W. EF. Spearer
Ransom
de Laval
Mm. T. Booth
Spring Hilde
Jesse Newman, Co
Greenwich
Conn
John F Emery, Co
Cozad
Neb
Chas. Bercroft
Wood Creamery Company
Davenport
Council Bluffs
Tion
Republic
Ment
Merrit
Gil
Schholarsit
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