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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1882
Page
9
Local items from Davenport include bridge discussions, opera house completion, and taxes. Notable mentions cover visitors, librarian Kate Hott, new reporter Ezra Eastman, and Samuelson Johnson furniture deals.
Dancing was the chief amusement as Messrs. Ong led an excursion on Friday evening, August 18. The Opera of Patience performed at Harper's Theatre on Wednesday evening August 9. Miss Jennie Dutton formerly of Davenport assumed the role of Patience.
In a street car two Haxgrrorp ladies discuss summer toilets. One says to the other goodbye and invites a visit before she leaves town to see her dresses described as perfect dreams and her own inspiration. The writer wryly notes Oscar missing a chance at hearing it.
July report from the Poormaster of the City of Moline outlines the month's duties and expenditures. It notes relief distributions, welfare administration, and municipal aid measures.
The baseball championship contest tightens with Chicago and Providence tied at 83 games and Detroit close behind at 81. An estimate based on club strength suggests Detroit holds the best chance, with Chicago in second place.
Dr Dunn, Secretary of the Board of Health, reports deaths in the city for the week ending Saturday. The text notes damage to a congregational bell caused by tampering at a festival and mentions Witz & Co at work on repairs, with the bell nearing readiness for Sunday service.
CHiz ALLE of the Fire Department reports two July alarms. A July 1 minor blaze at Cabinet Organ Co. shops and a July 12 roof fire at Wagon Co. store room near Ontario and Illinois. Damages in both incidents were very slight.
The fence sentence of John Brown a colored boy sent to the Reform School at Pontiac by Judge Adams on July 27 has been suspended. His parents plan to move to Arkansas with him to keep him from bad company. John admitted a small theft at a private house and his parents allege another older boy prompted the crime.
After regular drill, Company F switches weekly drill from Thursday to Friday to allow attendance at lodge meetings. From now until August 80th, squad drills will be held every Monday evening to raise military tactics before the Springfield encampment.
The article extols Malt Extract as beneficial for weak and ill persons while warning it is not a universal cure. It credits indirect, not direct, causes for its popularity and notes widespread public excitement and imagined remedies.
The annual district conference of the Hook Island Methodist Episcopal church met in the M E B church in this city. Attendance was fair. Reports from pastors showed mixed conditions but overall healthy growth across the district with emphasis on sermons, pastoral visits, conversions, and benevolent funds. The afternoon featured Rev A Z Gilmer on Reason and Faith, discussions on means of grace, and essays on preaching and justification. A mass temperance meeting was announced for this evening.
The M E District Conference entered its second day with devotions and larger attendance. A misstatement about the criticise committee was corrected, and ministers reported growth in religion. A Milan pastor was urged to attend to balance the roster. Temperance resolutions were amended and literary sermons discussed, ending with a love feast and Lord's Supper.
The third and final day opened pleasantly with a morning devotional. Disciplinary business covered the proper distribution of resources, marking a continuation of the conference proceedings.
The conference at Aledo Mercer county passed a series of anti liquor resolutions calling for constitutional prohibition and banning manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages. It denounces liquor as a source of crime and poverty and argues for state and national action. A sermon by J D Calhoun closes the session.
Twenty five colored citizens celebrate Emancipation Day with a grand fishing expedition in which a boyish cook catches a skip jack and is disarmed of a trophy. J A Bullen of Pittsburg Bridge Co offers the lowest bid for Rock River bridge construction. Davenport council to decide next Monday. Davenport to require licenses for beverage sales after October first 1882 with a $50 yearly fee. fountain owners offer to rent licenses.
A body found in the Willamette River near Harrisburg, Oregon, identified as L. B. Jones of Moline Island by rumor, could not be confirmed by the coroner's jury. Residents in Portland and Harrisburg discuss the drowning's identity and whether the deceased was L. B. Jones, with several leads failing to establish a clear match.
Remaining unsettled notices in Moline Rock Island county Illinois show unreadable OCR fragments. The fragment mentions post office matters during a week in August but lacks complete details or names.
A coroner in Hampton empanelled a jury after a body was found floating in the river. The naked remains, about 20 years old and 5 feet 11, were sunburned and well proportioned, making identity uncertain. The jury returned found dead and the body was buried. investigators may pursue a second inquiry to confirm if it is Burt Madden of Muscatine, drowned at Dubuque.
A Davenport and Rock Island-backed petition seeks clemency for Pat Grogan and Pat Gainey, sentenced for life in the Wittick murder. Geo B. Wittick and local officials denounce the move, citing alleged incentives to Major Beardsley and urging Gov. Cullom to deny clemency.
A dime sociable and literary entertainment by Candia Lodge No. 800 at Metropolitan Hall drew a good crowd. The program featured Temperance Quartette, welcomed by John Ullmark, several addresses, recitations and songs by Hannah Norman, CO Munson, Fred White, Lizzie Heald, Breily Barnard, W N Mansom, and a closing Male Quartette number. Supper followed as an elegant affair.
Fragmentary OCR notes reference Clara Bryant, a colored girl, with unclear context about seating and a deathday mention. Text is garbled and incomplete, offering no clear event or outcome to summarize.
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