Rock Island County Finds School Funds Split by District
County Superintendent J Ferguson apportions a total fund of 9920.65 among districts based on 23 145 pupils. Rock Island receives 3402.27. Moline East Moline 3518.20. per district totals and pupil counts are listed with 7938 Rock Island pupils, 8208 in Moline, and teaching payrolls detailed by gender.
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J. Ferguson
Rock Island County
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Rock Island
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Drury
Eine Eads
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Os Ee
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Edgington
Andalusia
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Coal Valley
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Canoe Creek
Cordova District
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Colona
Cordova Township
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Giant plow fails to move 50 horses on 50 inch furrow
A superintendent’s bold 50 inch furrow plow, built to cut 50 inches wide with ten horses, proves an economic failure as the team stalls and four men must aid the handles. The experiment ends after realizing double the width requires cubed capacity, not linear doubling.
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Harper's Weekly
Vote of Thanks to Retiring Aldermen Leads to Change in City Council
Four aldermen Albin Anderson Fred D Holt Henry J Gripp and Frank Kehoe left the council after the last meeting and surrendered their stars. A special meeting is set for next week Tuesday to organize the new council and present stars to John Day J H McBride Theodore Weigandt and James H McElhatton. The balance shifts to eight people's and six Republicans.
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Albin Anderson
Fred D Holt
Henry J Gripp
Frank Kehoe
John Day
J H McBride
Caldwell's Byrup Pe Opain and Rowe Laxative Tonic Ad
Advertises stomach and liver relief with Caldwell's Syrup Pain and Rowe reliable laxative tonic. Claims quick help, priced at $1 per bottle.
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Caldwell
Rowe
City Grants Small Pay Raises For Waterworks Engineers
City council voted a ten dollar monthly raise for three waterworks assistant engineers bringing pay to eighty five dollars. Patrolmen and firemen ask increases to be considered later. current patrolmen earn sixty five dollars plus a five dollar uniform allowance. Several men cite rising living costs and higher rent. Aldermen debated police funding, with some pushing for broader raises while Mayor Olson argued any changes require full city finances review. A $100 expense allotment was approved for Magnus Olson to attend the American Waterworks association meeting, with one alderman seeking an itemized report of expenses.
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American Waterworks Association
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Alderman Anderson
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Anderson
City Considers Sprinkling Options For Moline
Three proposals from Electrical Sprinkler Co to city council explore city ownership or leasing of sprinkling equipment, operations by contract, or city financed by profits directed to service expansion. Tri City Railway would require some sprinkling under pending franchises. Fire water and light committee to study details.
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Moline
Electrical Sprinkler Co
Tri-City Railway Co
Market Square
Fire, Water and Light Committee
Aunt of Mrs Crompton recalls Halley’s Comet memories
Mrs Louisa Jane Wright now 93 recalls living near Boston in 1835 era when Halley’s comet appeared as she reflects on her Hayward family’s westward move in 1837 to Tremont Illinois and her Hampton Illinois life with husband M W Wright a 19th century merchant.
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Ex Sheriff James Ankrum Dead at 64 in Steel City Neb
James Franklin Ankrum, Rock Island county sheriff from 1878 to 1882 and executioner of Hellwagon, died at his Steel City home aged 64. Born 1846, he served in the Ohio cavalry, married Ella Chancellor in 1868, and left two daughters and three grandchildren. He moved from Martinsville to Rock Island in 1869, held multiple local offices, and resided in Steel City since 1884 amid declining health.
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Rock Island
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Steel City
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Ankrum
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Oimsey Vats
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Ohio Cavalry
Ella Chancellor
Martinsville
Lillie Carr
Henry Carr
Frank Carr
Edith Ankrum
Charles E. Ankrum
James F Ankrum
Newton
Munson named to lead Six-County Odd Fellows picnic
N E Munson chosen as chairman of the organizing committee for the Six-County Odd Fellows picnic to be held June 11 under the Western Illinois and Eastern Iowa Odd Fellows association. The group includes fifteen members with five from Manufacturers lodge Mo line lodge and Swedish Olive lodge each.
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Moline
N E. Munson
Swedish Olive Lodge of
Odd Fellows
Illnois
Iowa
Odd Fellows’ Association
R. B. Henry
Mr Munson
Manufacturers’ Lodge
Moline Lodge
Swedish Olive
East Moline installs Health Commissioner and board
Dr H J Love is named East Moline health commissioner by Mayor Johnson after a council vote creating a health board with the mayor and city marshal. The ordinance requires written reports of contagious disease births and deaths and names a health inspector.
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H. J. Love
East Moline
Johnson
Board of Health
J. 8. Evans
Parliament of America Forced to Sell to Patriots of Springfield
The Fraternal Parliament of America, an insurance society formed in Sterling six months ago with about 600 members, plans to sell its lines to the American Patriots Insurance Company of Springfield, while keeping current policies and rates. Officers include Wiley B. Cash, Charles E. Parker, C. C. Brooks, and Harry B. Trude. The Patriots, with about 20,000 members, will absorb the Parliament without raising rates.
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