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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1881
Page
1
In a county correspondence piece a missionary meeting draws audience after a poignant wartime tale of a dying child and a family's grief on Christmas. The narrative weaves personal faith, doubt, and social commentary with reflections on belief and Darwinian thought amid a crowded gathering.
Edgington notes hot dry weather. pastures poor, farmers plan oats rye wheat yield. Local business expands as Morton Mosher plan store facelift. mail service remains tri weekly. church and temperance events attract crowds. Residents report sickness, community visits, river work and new boats for recreation.
Cordova reports warm weather and corn drying as threshing begins. Warren O'ds, Albany fruit man, visited. coroner Morris held an inquest into Milo A. Ray's river body. Ohn Glasscock leaves for Kansas to oversee farms. Rathbun and Glasscock install new fences. Mrs. Jas. Tew toured the midwest and Canada. A Bolinger moves to Hawkeye, Iowa. W Dyer takes vacation. bridge and railroad talks resume. Streets repaired by Vandeburgh. Vandeburgh resigns as village marshal. Catse, Roa in pay ABON. Corpova Aug. 10th.
Alf Wainwright is building a new house and visited Chicago at the week's start. Wall Whiteside brightened friends with a short visit last week. Will has traveled since last fall for D M Osborne and Co. Rose Williams is home for summer vacation and will return to Ed Schindler, the Joslyn jester.
Watertown sees a quiet Sunday with a vanished crowd. Fairmen, the carpenter, rests at home after a painful hand infection treated by Dr Hidmter. Wagon bands, family visits from St. Louis, a Livergood dancing party, church at Hampton, and several visiting young ladies mark the local scene.
Samuel Bruner, a well known Rock Island county farmer, purchases two Church street lots and plans one of the town’s finest houses. He intends to retire from active duty, and his family will join Port Byron society. J Louis Rathgeber explores Western Iowa with business and leisure. Port Byron boasts of one of the best
Obituary tribute for James E Abbott born September 16 1828 in Hunterdon County New Jersey. A skilled engineer and early railroad pioneer involved with Wilmington Railroad Rockford Rock Island and St Louis projects and Continental Railway Company chief engineer. Died July 200th after illness. Survived by wife Rebecca Wilson and one daughter in Brooklyn New York.
The Rock Island County Agricultural Society schedules its fifth annual fair at Rock Island County with exhibits, livestock shows, and community activities planned across the fairgrounds.
On the 7, 8 and 9th of Sept at the Fair Grounds in Coe town about two miles east of Port Byron a quarter mile track is in good condition and an amphitheatre, floral hall, ample pens for stock and a music by the Port Byron Corner Band promise a lively event with no pains spared for attraction.
County Clerk Donaldson and Deputy Sheriff McClain with Circuit Clerk Harson list prospective petite jurors for the September term across multiple towns including Andalusia Cordova Coal Valley Moline and Rock Island. Names include James Latlerty Emanuel McCormick Samuel Devinnes John Gardiner Lois Andrews and numerous others across eight areas.
The August report notes county wheat yields: fall about 10 bushels per acre, spring about 14. rye 13, barley 17, oats 32. Quality is good. corn prospects dampened by dry weather and chinch bugs. Potatoes fair, Irish slightly above three quarters yield, sweet about average. apples and grapes short. livestock generally healthy but sows and pigs suffer losses.
The M E church camp meeting begins tomorrow the 11th at Tyndall's Grove south of Milan and lasts one week. Grounds are in prime condition with clean wells and a 300 barrel cistern. Board is 350 per week, tent room free, horses boarded at reasonable rates, assurances of order under association supervision. Several Moline families plan to camp for the week.
The Rock Island Union presses the Board of Supervisors to sell the County Poor Farm near Coal Valley and buy land to build a new care complex. Most outside Rock Island oppose, deeming it impractical and costly. a wiser plan may be to enlarge the current farm and add buildings as needed.
The sixteenth admol reunion of the 112th regiment will be held at Cambridge on Thursday August 18 at the nineteenth anniversary of the organization.
All members of the 112th and their families plus soldiers from allied organizations in the adjoining counties are invited. The RILAP line runs special trains from Peoria to Cambridge and back with multiple arrival and departure times. Exercises begin at 9 45 am and close with an arms experience at 7 pm as part of the program.
A terse advertisement touts Brain and Nerve Wess Health Renewer as the greatest remedy on earth for impotence and debility. The product bears a price of 1.00 and is offered by Depot Richards and Sohrbeck in Moline.
Obituary items report the death of Joe Knox a Chicago resident connected to Rock Island county heritage and the passing of Thos Johnson a Black township farmer aged 39. Knox preceded in prominence in the local bar while Johnson’s death followed a sunstroke with a sizable estate and funeral arrangements noted in Milan and Preemption.
Coroner Morris summoned a jury at Cordova to inquest Milo A Ray of Wisconsin whose body was found in the river. The open verdict states death by drowning, with uncertainty of accident or otherwise. A Diamond Jo steamboat ticket and letters hint at his identity and possible family.
The writer cites Prof Vennor predicting a major weather shift around perihelion on August 6 and the following week from August 15 to 26. Rather than a heat peak, frosts and strong cold northerly winds are expected, reversing the prior sunburnt heat.
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