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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1907
Page
6
The Rock Island line purchases a 24 foot wide strip west of the Fifth Avenue station in Rock Island for 40000 dollars. A new building and track will be erected, with dining cars and a yard plan to enhance service as part of the station area redevelopment.
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A West Moliners crash injures no fatality reported. Names of injured or involved persons are unclear from the fragmentary OCR but indicate an engineer and multiple witnesses escaping with minor wounds.
Only fragments survive of a notice reporting the death of Judge Connell's widow from heartbreak. The text includes garbled phrases and scattered names, with no clear date, location, or funeral details available in the readable portion.
Rock Island will host the next annual reunion of the 126th Illinois infantry with officers elected: President Thomas Campbell, Vice President Andrew Bladel, Recording Secretary J H Cleland, Corresponding Secretary D G Lindsay, Sullivan Chaplain A H Crowder. The Sullivan county event held last week drew 34 members from five companies in the south and five in Rock Island.
The village jail building contract was awarded to Swenson & Swanson for 450. The 18 by 16 foot structure will have 7 by 7 foot cells divided by brick walls with steel doors. Construction should finish by September 15 on a north side Firat avenue site donated by Silvis Land Co. A deputy sheriff raided Silvis slot machines finding devices in two saloons a poolroom and a restaurant.
Rev J P Miller returned from the Swedish Campmeeting grounds near Rai va. Sixty Moline residents attended the camp meeting with over $200 raised at the restaurant and more than $600 estimated for the Mettet cemetery. The cottage dedication on Wednesday 22d and upcoming fall farmers meeting were noted. The camp meeting committee included Lupdeet Gava and J Guterg Gealva with support from Rev H W Wien e Noetorta and local officers.
An explosion and fire at the People’s Power Co plant at Fourth Street rocked the building at 6 am on Friday. Two windows shattered and interior woodwork scorched as gas vents leaked after a pump failed. Firefighters contained the blaze quickly as gas release was smaller than last spring’s incident. The notice also mentions the sale of CP Comegys property at 804 Twentieth Street to Warren Reck of S. B. McCabe & Co. and expected occupancy soon.
The itinerary shows the commission assembling in St Paul Minnesota and leaving by the Colonel A Mackenzie Thursday evening September 26. The party will reach Rock Island at 6 p m Sunday and depart next day at 7 a m to inspect locks and Moline harbor before Keokuk October 1 to join President Roosevelt and continue to Memphis. Members include Theodore E Burton Francis G Newlands William Warner John H Hawkhead General Alex MacKenzie W J McGee F H Newell Gifford Pinchot and Herbert Knox Smith.
An elaborate Market square project by H Deere will create a 60 by 150 foot brick structure housing Tesaulniers & Co printing on the first floor with a large composing room and press room, a type foundry and bindery on higher levels, and four general offices for rent. Architects Whiteitt & Drury designed a dark dentil brick building near Chase block. contract about $35,000.
Fred Van Buren was arrested in Davenport after selling a bicycle he says Lynn Gaylord lent him. Gaylord, of 1413 Fortieth Street, testified he did not sell but loaned the bicycle. Van Buren, held to the grand jury on bail set at 500 dollars, previously served twenty months in the penitentiary for horse stealing and had just been released.
A dialect phrase about a witness fearing to tell the truth surfaces in Home Notes. The mock exchange shows a judge questioning a witness about perjury and the consequences of lying.
Police chief Eckhart ordered strict enforcement of saloon rules covering gambling harboring of women and midnight closing. Detectives raided Diamond saloon and Jake Schaum Ozark saloon. Cully Flanigan, H E McBride, and Henry Davis were punished with fines for gaming.
Sar ah A Reeves of Rock Island sues Louis A Reeves for divorce alleging desertion starting July 3 1905. Anna Walker Schreiber of Moline seeks divorce from August Schreiber claiming desertion began June 1 1905. Both suits filed in circuit court with attorneys noted.
Friday word reports Rev Nothstein accepting the Grace Church call in Edgewood Park to fill the pulpit left by Rev Hoffsten. He comes from Summit Hill Pa and joins the Pennsylvania Augustana ministerium. Augustana directors note K M Wahlstrom declined the chair of Christianity. his duties will be shared among the faculty until a permanent successor is named. Augustana opens for fall term September 8.
Oscar Hendrickson, a known police character, threatened to kill his wife on a street rampage near Tenth street and Eighteenth avenue. Officer Peter Wershaw restrained him. Hendrickson threatened the officer, was taken to the station, and promised to quit drinking for a year or face 200 days in county jail.
A fragment from the Philadelphia Press notes Place of Rope, Meanjay, boosting business with rope and twine. A speaker recalls meeting someone who handed him a Oiger, described as one of the simpies, implying a trade tale or sale.
The Rock Island session of the state grand lodge and the Sisters of the Mysterious Ten closed with officers installed. Grand Master J W Monroe of Quincy and National Grand Master W A Gaines of Covington addressed attendees. A concrete dry kiln building for the Moline Wagon Co. plant, costing about $30,000, was contracted to Gust Ed & Sons and will start immediately.
A rumor circulated that the Moline Rock Island and Eastern Railway Co ordered a survey for an interurban line between Silvis and Carbon Cliff to join the Silvis line and enter the three cities. GM J F Lardner denied any decision amid a weak money market and noted rebuilding Elm street line and paving work on Eighteenth Avenue and Tenth Street proceed after contracts.
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