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Newspaper
Moline Daily Journal
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1901
Page
4
Churches in Moline report large Sunday attendances with both morning and evening services crowded. Social and temperance work resumes after summer layoffs as congregations expand and church halls see increased activity.
The First Congregational Church reports strong attendance at services yesterday with a note on the new pipe organ and musical offerings. An upcoming mothers meeting, a discussion on What the Flag Should Mean to our children, a Century 4 Jub gathering, and several midweek sessions are announced with hosts and times listed.
The Swedish Lutheran church held morning services with a collection for Augustana Hospital and evening services led by Pastor Hemberg and Student Woeman. Next Sunday collections support Chicago Heights Lutheran Church. Confirmation class moves to Thursday due to Hook Island district meetings. Summer week planned with Young People society papers. Rock Island district will meet in Zion and Grace Lutheran churches with Swedish and English talks. Installations for Rev FD Hoffstein and student services at 7:30 pm announced.
Large congregation attends Mission Tabernacle services as Rev M J Eggan prepares to leave Monday for Cokarde. A sociable and free will offering Thursday supports church debt, with a program of songs and a farewell address.
A notice from the home at 1014 5th Avenue lists events at the church. Evening services in the east chapel at 7 30 features Student Ebb, followed by a boys society gathering with Miss Kissle Astrom and a choir meeting at 8. Next Saturday morning the confirmation class will meet as usual.
Ada Delsenroth returns to Rock Island from Kenosha while Charles McHugh and J E Montrose head for a hunting trip on the Illinois river aboard Mary Me. Local appointments and weddings fill the week with arrivals from Stansbury and Davenport and a Germany trip for Herman Behnken.
The First Methodist church held an evening service with a temperance address by Pastor Crumbaker replacing the regular sermon. The morning topic was Be Not Deceived from Galatians. A mothers meeting was to be held next.
A roster of guests includes individuals staying at hotels in Windsor J A Carlson Trenton Mo Jas Blake Milwaukee Wm Krieling Minneapolis Gust Johnson Kewanee Summers O F Gaffert Duluth Robi Eberstien Galesburg J J O Meara Chicago Henry Arlington Heights Edgar Swartz Chicago Ed Coleman St Louis C Freeman Racine Gro M Hurff Galesburg R H Dennison Chicago Ben Marks St Louis E Grove Mount Carroll N Y Stearns Chicago P L Smith New York C B Robeskle Milwaukee all noted among the names.
Mrs Lloyd hosts a meeting at her home on 16th street on Wednesday afternoon while the Womens Missionary Society gathers at 2 o clock. The regular midweek church meeting is set for Wednesday evening and the Ladie Aid Society meets at 1 o'clock Thursday. Communion and quarterly meeting occur next Sunday with a 9 30 gathering and a 10 30 service.
The Rev Higgins preached both morning and evening on Seeking the Kingdom to a large congregation at St Paul A M E church. The Ladies Aid Society plans a chicken pie supper Wednesday evening at the Art League hall to benefit the church.
The article describes a remote village sect of women led by a figure called the Blessed Mother living alone in hill holes near Soznavo Samara province. The group aims to fasting prayer, believes an imminent world conflagration will end worldly life, and guards themselves with ten wise virgins as a miraculous body. The item also advertises Botanic Blood Balm for blood diseases, with a trial offer via Dr. Gillam of Atlanta and distribution through Hawthorne Pharmacy in Moline.
The Chicago Record Herald notes calls for consolidation of three Raleigh telephone systems into one underground network to curb high costs and poor service. It compares Raleigh and Cleveland where multiple providers raise prices and complicate dialing, arguing monopoly could benefit the public despite typical opposition.
The Illinois Independent Telephone Company presented a franchise ordinance to Davenport’s city council on Saturday night and it was sent to the ordinance committee for study. The plan plans conduit wiring in a business district beyond Iowa Telephone Company reach and promises city receipts of 2 percent of gross for two years and 3 percent thereafter for 25 years. Rates proposed include 36 dollars per year for business phones and 18 for residences with four party line service at 20 and 12 dollars respectively.
The boys of the high school football team deny guilt in the offense cited by city papers. They claim none of the players were among the crowd at the Augustana parade head of the procession who were accused of throwing stones.
William Ward a stranger bound over to the grand jury on larceny charge with $100 bond by Magistrate Johnson in Rock Island on Saturday. Ward allegedly stole a saddle from Valentine Dauber two weeks earlier and was arrested in Davenport with saddle in his possession. He had earlier served 10 days for vagrancy and 30 days for stealing brass while promised to leave town. Ward was re arrested as he stepped off the train and held for further action.
Dr Whiteside, recently returned from studies in England and Germany, will be located in Dr Beam's office at 503 16th street until he establishes a permanent office elsewhere.
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