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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1907
Page
7
Residents sign a petition opposing a new saloon near Watertown hospital citing danger to parole patients and potential temptations for liquor. The measure seeks East Moline council action to extend the district and block licensing. List of signatories and supporting officials follows.
Mrs. Lillian A. Slipper of East Mo line files for divorce from Guy HB Slipper alleging desertion after three months of marriage on April 3 1904. Ralph Lamphere sues Mrs. Lizzie L Lamphere for fault and desertion after December 26 1900 marriage. County Judge R W Olmsted acts as solicitor. Two juror panels for September term include names from Andalusia Black Hawk Cordova Idgington and other towns.
East Moline city council acts to install a water works system. The plan, adopted with revisions for growth, funds pumping station and standpipe from the general fund at 12 000, and finances mains by special assessment with rebates in water rent. Main routes cover Ninth to Fourth on west side and Thirteenth to Watertown on east, linking New Shops Center and Korb additions.
W A Meese reports the Upper Mississippi Improvement association will hold its annual convention in Moline on October 24 and 28, with about 200 delegates. The event features a tour of the Moline lock and aims to boost the Mississippi all foot canal project and energize the association’s drive.
Kelly was fined 25 dollars and costs for stabbing Louie McKaufaky in East Moline Sunday. The men fought and Kelly allegedly jabbed a knife into McKaufaky’s leg. He was sent to the county jail to serve the fine. McKaufaky was fined 2.80.
The Civic Improvement committee of the Woman's club, led by Mrs. Clarence White, seeks public help to fit up a vacant lot at Twenty third Street and Fifth Avenue donated by Barnard Leas Mfg Co for a boys playground. They plan swings, chutes, teeter boards, a climbing pole, sand for a sand pile, settees, and chairs and aim to organize a boys club to manage the grounds. Donations are requested via telephone to Mrs. B. H. Sleight.
About twenty Peoples Power Co trench workers on Nine teenth Street quit Monday and demanded weekly pay. The firm pays on the 20th for the first half of the month and the 6th for the second half. They were discharged but told they could return by reporting to the foreman. Gas mains work continues ahead of asphalt paving on Nineteenth Street.
Wenzel Soukop, a Bohemian tailor in Davenport, died by his own hand at his home 614 West Front Street. He had been paralyzed for four years and could do but little work. He shot himself in a front room. his son Harry found the body after the revolver was heard. He had given no hint of his intent to die.
C C Pervier of Sheffield, Bureau County, shared practical swine raising methods at the State Farmers Institute. He urged careful selection of feed types and breeding stock, emphasized rapid growth and early maturity, diverse year round feed including soybeans, clover and alfalfa, and stressed clean housing, water access, and proper bedding for healthy hogs.
The Port Byron Chautauqua runs August 27 to September 1 under Lincoln Association auspices. Lincoln Temperance Chautauqua features include lectures by Eugene Chafin and James Barkley, music by the Sutfins, and Chalk Talks. Activities span daily afternoon and evening programs with concerts, lectures on slavery and government, chalk talks, stereopticon entertainment, and youth gatherings led by local and visiting speakers.
A collage of humorous verse from multiple papers ridicules corn on the cob banter and cheap indulgences with rhymes about munching corn, succotash, a solar plexus pain, and a jail joke. It ends with a character arrested for carrying a poetry book near a powder mill.
The Thirteenth U.S. Cavalry marching from Fort Riley Kansas to Fort Sheridan near Chicago will reach Rock Island Arsenal Saturday. The squadron averages about nineteen miles daily on a 150 mile itinerary for practice. Kermit Roosevelt, son of the president, will join on arrival. The troops will be camped on the Arsenal Sunday.
Ernest Quandt and Arthur Peterson file suit for divorce in circuit court via Ludolph Reynolds Rock Island alleging wives unfaithful after a May 14 double wedding to sisters Mabel Draper Quandt and Florence Draper. Each husband left wife July 1 after discovering infidelity. The brides are reportedly out of the city.
A Philadelphia Press snippet notes a ragged youngster and a growler arguing about soap and the idea of a soap boxer making press wagons. The playful exchange hints at poverty and street life in a small city scene.
Cordova man J H Marshall leads the Rock Island County Old Letters Association as president with J H Sears C H Deere Coleman Brayton William Payne and J H Cleland among officers. The forty second anniversary meeting on August 29 features a prize chair for the pioneer with earliest settlement who remains a county resident.
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