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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1882
Page
1
Aledo area residents travel in wagons to a planned two week camping picnic at a local artesian well. The field notes describe the well’s odor and mineral water, the site setup, and reactions from observers including Rip Van Winkle and locals. The piece links tourism, local infrastructure, and regional weather to farming, church quirks, and town news.
Citizens of the Bluff ask if they will receive proportional benefits from a 22 000 funding vote set for September 5 to extend water mains and hydrants. The editor notes local concerns and mentions Dr Carthy reporting several dysentery cases amid city updates from August 1882.
Special correspondence previews the Hillsdale fair grounds event running Aug 30 to Sep 1 with emphasis on farmer friendly exhibits. The piece notes reforms over a decade improving premiums, livestock, horticulture, floral displays, and agricultural implements while highlighting the fair’s growing regional prominence and schedule of neighboring county fairs.
The Hillsdale fair schedules three days Wednesday Thursday and Friday with balloon ascensions and midresses among attractions. The Rock Island county fair runs August 30 31 and September 1 with the C B & Q selling tickets to and from the fair at two cents a mile.
Local items report Whiteside Jr at home and Wake returning from Jons staying through fairs. Names include Miss Allie Timmerman of Erie visiting Wesley Hannan, Miss Mamie Allen of Moline with William Whiteside, and Miss Maggie Evans from Moline visiting Miss Emma Crompton. Also noted are Mr and Mrs D W Mumma in Moline, H N Hanna shipping hogs, Mr William Irwin of Muskegon visiting with cousin G C Wake, and Rev Charles Machin with wife from Lin den plus other connections.
In Watertown a brother of Mr A C Sibel intends to locate there and open a grocery store soon. An accident injured Artie Smith seven, grandson of John Crosby, with a gash above the eye and a deep wound from a goring by cattle while trying to drive them from a pasture. Potatoes grown by Lem Skinner, Scotch Champion, reach seven to seven and a half feet tall tops. Melon crop failed due to vine destruction from a fire. Highway Commissioner orders the pathmaster to stop road tax receipts after the first Tuesday in September. farmers urged to quickly pay and work on roads this season. August 24, 1882. Uxcle Bri.
Miles Sweeney died after a lingering illness at his son E. D. Sweeney's Rock Island home on Tuessay. He was born November 29, 1803 in Philadelphia and orphaned at seven. At twelve he apprenticed as a cotton spinning tailor on the Brandywine in Delaware. In 1898 he moved to Mercer County, Pennsylvania and later married. He resided there until his death.
The aging Sweeney patriarch died after years of diabetes in Rock Island where he had visited his sons W L and E D Sweeney. He lived in Pa, Champaign County, near Fort Scott Kansas, and had seven children with varied careers from wagon manufacturing to mining and law. Surviving children gathered at his passing as death followed long illness.
Victim Hannah Henderson, 17, and Amanda Scott walk home with Magnus Hedin after Swedish Lutheran service when a man named Heck forcibly assaults Henderson. Hedin intervenes. Heck flees, Henderson choked and dirt rubbed on her. Police likely to act. prior rape attempts alleged.
A notice seeks a family to adopt a three year old boy after his father’s death. Pa rents dead and proper legal steps will be executed by W E Brevents, Poor Master, to finalize the adoption.
Construction advances in Wagner's Opera House Wagner plans proscenium boxes and a nearly finished stage with only floor laying in the hall and balcony remaining. The saloon room receives its final plaster coat as the house takes shape thanks to Mr Geo Wagner's generosity.
Market notes show flour and wheat prices with varied grades in Chicago. FLOUR ranges from common to fancy around 4 to 6 dollars per unit, old winter wheat around 5, new at 5 to 6, with several quotes for different months and grades. BARLEY and FLAX show firm or higher values, while OATS and other grains list mixed bids. Live stock and whisky prices appear with steady demand, reflecting a broad commodity snapshot.
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