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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1903
Page
5
Illinois education leader Prof Alfred Bayliss advocates replacing district schools with township units to curb rural school decline. Aimed at centralizing supervision, creating township high schools, and using school wagons to collect distant children, the plan seeks equal or better rural facilities and brighter prospects.
Peter Langhehn Jr has purchased the Schultz bakery on Eighteenth avenue and opened this morning at his new location seeking friendly support for his venture.
The Manufacturers' Lodge 485 shows an excellent financial basis in a late evening report celebrated with an installation smoker. New officers include Noble Grand F W Anderson and Vice Grand R Kennedy, with Herman Harms recording secretary and L A Vinton treasurer. Other leadership roles feature J A Evans IL S N G Namo Lundeen R S G John Lamon RS V G John Burgeson and O S G Henry Hintz. Financial committee members are P C Simmon and L Quick with E Weir.
The Rock Island Republican committee chose delegates for the Fourth Supreme Court district judicial convention to meet in Bushnell on the 23rd. Delegates include C J Searle M E Sweeney C L Walker F C Denkmann H M Schriver William Jackson H B Hubbard A G Anderson William McConochle and Walter Rosenfield. In Moline the same process applies and rural towns will select delegates by their county committee. No caucuses are needed.
The Illinois state conference of superintendent s closed with a new permanent body the State Association of County Superintendents of Schools. Officers elected include President Charles Van Dorn Sangamon County Vice President Harriet M Smith Pulaski County Secretary I F Edwards Lee County Treasurer Caroline Grote Pike County and executive committee members Van Dorn Edwards F East er s y Clay County L M Gross De Kalb and S J Ferguson Rock Island.
Twenty one Rock Island saloonkeepers pleaded guilty in circuit court to keeping disorderly houses. Each received a $20 fine plus costs totaling about $30 after the court nolle pressed most counts. defendants faced fifteen to twenty counts each with the court treating offenses as one continuous act to reduce counts.
List of names advertised at the Moline Illinois post office for the week ending April 16 1903. Names include Mrs John Anderson Miss Susie Merrifield Miss Hazel Madison Miss May Nichols Mrs Etta Oberlander Mrs Maggie Rahn Miss Agnes Stoltz Mrs Pearl Stephens Geo Walstrom A A Wischman and others.
Prices for Upland corn oats coal hardwood eggs dairy butter creamery butter home potatoes carrots onions and other goods are listed with figures like 14.00 11.00 12.00 43 465 33 388 13 14 4.50 560 14 28 40 76, reflecting market quotes and commodity values in a historical ledger style.
The affidavit of non residence for Mary G Skidmore is on file. The complainant Luther W Skidmore filed a bill on April 2 1903 in Rock Island Circuit Court. Defendants must appear May first or risk a decree by default. George W Gamble Clerk J B Oakleaf Comptaint's Solicitor.
Affidavit of non residence filed against Ernest C Thulin in Rock Island County Illinois chancery case. The bill, filed April 1903, awaits return on May term. defendants must appear to avoid decree by default. Clerk George W Gamble records April 24 1908.
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