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Newspaper
Moline Daily Journal
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1902
Page
4
Can dee Grove residents push to join Ywol ine city. Alderman Bennet introduces a resolution to place annexation on the April 1 ballot with for or against options. Territory lies within Grantschoul district and currently benefits from township services but seeks city improvements and fire protections.
About 200 members attended the Rock Island Club first annual banquet on Monday night. Evening featured refreshments, poetry and songs, with speeches by Col Durham and others, including candidates for local office, all aimed at light entertainment amid playful satire. The event closed after informal jollity and musical interludes.
A local social roundup reports a surprise birthday visit for RS of 1407 Sixth Avenue, prize wins at a card party, and a luncheon. It notes J Otto Gamble resuming duties, whist results with Moline losing to Davenport, and community gatherings at churches, unions, and dances. It includes marriages, license issuances, store news, and Easter service plans in Rock Island and Davenport.
Mrs John Pierce on the sick list. Miss Elizabeth Parks becomes Mo line Brass works stenographer. Carl Stephenson returns home to Woodhull. Torey Ekdahl of Galva visits. Mike Whalen and wife move from Galesburg to Moline. Lookout Circle hosts at Miss Arams home with music and charity. Second ME church repairs for Easter exercises. Fraternity Army of America meets at Industrial Hall. about two new members to join. Mrs Andrew Anderson sprained ankle. Rev J W Frigzelle preaches at Second ME church. Latter Day Saints hold meetings with limited attendance. Guy Lindstätt ill. Andrew Hannah leaves for Deep River Town to build a brick house for his sister. Mrs Robert Odell recovering from pneumonia and asthma. Advertisement for Dr King’s New Life Pills ends with local drugstore.
Construction begins on a large Cooper factory site west of the cornplanter works within the Water Power Company's addition. A brief local notice details groundwork and impending building activity as crews start site preparation and framing in the planned industrial expansion.
Capt E H Allison a longtime scout and Sioux interpreter who aided in ending Sitting Bull's war and served with Custer and Otis arrives in Rock Island after a stopover on Sunday. He plans to lecture in Montessuma Iowa and appears before a Senate claims committee while recalling hair raising campaigns in the Dakota territory and the Philippines.
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