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Galesburg Area News Briefs Include Rail Notice and Local Events
The itemized notices report that the Hook Island railroad will quit the Western Passenger Association April 16, while a new river steamer Mary A. Hulett is to be launched around May 1 at Beardstown. Other notes cover local births and deaths, school graduations in Winnebago County, a possible clerical appointment in New York and Chicago, and ongoing infrastructure work on a Gooseberry swamp trestle near Manlius.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gayety
Hook Island Railroad
Western Passenger Association
John Marland
Venona
Galesburg
Georgia
New Jersey
Stark County
Pent Toulon
Mary A. Hulett
Beardstown
Bartonville
Peoria
Bureau
Tazewell
Marshall
Stark
Putnam
Marshall Co
Republican Central Committee
R. B. Thomas
Lacon
James Dillon
John M. Farley
New York
Chicago
Freehan
P. C. Jensen
Miller Estate
Mickey
Illinois
Warsaw
Quincy
Quincy Bay
United States
R. L. Lane
Fairbury
J.L. McCullough
Milo
McCullough
GC. J. Devlin
la Salle
Life
Spring Valley
Princeton Road
Spring Creek
Andy Senger
Pontiac Reformatory
Jasper Weinberger
Steuben Township
Pontiac
Toulon
Thej
Andy
Journal
Washington
Committee On Public Buildings
Evanston
Pekin
Kankakee
Springfield
Decatur
Ottawa
Wabash Railroad
Roosevelt
C. O. Burke
Atlanta
McLean
Logan
Otto Mayer
Justice Hoover
Justice Thompson
M. M. Maloney
J. EK. Bangs
Maloney
Washburn
Onarga College
O. J. Kern
Winnebago County
Kern
Illinois Reading Circle
Coughlin
Bathhouse John
the Tribune
Department of Illinois, Grand Army of the Republic
N. B. Thistlewood
Cairo
Grand Army
Pennsylvania
Interior
Geo. H. Ashley
United States Geological Survey
Indiana
Kentucky
Congress
Illinois and Mississippi Canal
Calumet Harbor
Danville
Joliet
Freeport