St George Lodge Elects Officers. Eastern Star Honors Lead
St George lodge No 29 Knights of Pythias elected officers for the coming year and will install January first. Moline chapter No 2 X Order of Eastern Star reelected most officers with Mrs Ida M Wood as Worthy Matron and Byron Skidmore as Worthy Patron. The Swedish Lutheran church youth society named officers for next year.
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Chapter of
Eastern Star
St. George Lodge
Knights of Pythias
St George Lodge
St Paul Lodge of
Rock Island
Moline
Order of Eastern Star
Masonic Hall
Ida M Wood
Byron Skidmore
Ella Ro Ha
The
Swedish Lutheran Church
Right to Operate in Village Questioned
An unclear, fragmented report questions the legality of operating within a village. The text mentions authorities and local figures, but details are obscured by garbled OCR, leaving the core dispute and involved parties largely unreadable.
New Record Low Water Stage Set at Crescent Bridge
Davenport weather bureau reports a fall of 1.8 feet in 24 hours as ice packs moved from Crescent Bridge. The main river channel near Davenport shows a new low water record due to drought in the upper Mississippi basin and lighter snow.
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Crescent Bridge
Davenport Weather Bureau
Davenport Bridge
Rock Island
Mississaiped
Wain
Silvis meeting discusses water rents and sewer plans
The session covers water penalties, sewer work near Korbaa Road, and council actions. Sheriff Bruner asks for higher livery funds and prisoner board pay, noting courts will require personal service of summons. A county cash audit reveals a $1 913 excess and a transfer to the new treasurer awaits final allocation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Neds
Bank of Reynolds
Cox
Whiteside
Cooperative Pupil Program Adds Teacher and Cuts Textbook Costs
School board approves adding a high school instructor to direct cooperative work for 18 students while continuing shop training. The plan includes direct sales of books to students, saving over 500 dollars, with funds tracked in November.
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Board of Education
B B. Jackson
Alec Johnson Found Dead In Strawstack Near Milan
The body of Alec Johnson, 42, of Moline, was found in a strawstack on Paul A Johns’s farm two miles east of Milan. Police report exposure as the cause after he was sent to the poor farm and apparently left the train at Milan. Also noted are deaths of Milton Bruner in Watertown Hospital, John M Cheney in Seaside Oregon, and Mrs Olive Lloyd Stephens in Rock Island, with brief survivors and service details.
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Daily Dispatch
Alec Johnson
Paul A. Johns
Milan
Peoria
Frank Holderbreck
Holderbreck
Johnson
C G Johnson & Co
Albert Freeman
Rock Island
Coal Valley
John
Hampton
C G
Milton D. Bruner
Watertown Hospital
Pioneer Valley Resident Cyrus Valentine Dies at 79
Cyrus Valentine a Rock Island county resident for 50 years died at 2:30 yesterday afternoon at his South Rock Island home. Born in Ohio he moved west to Rural township as a farmer and stayed active until three years before his death. He is survived by a widow six sons and two daughters. Funeral service is set for 2 p.m. Friday with Masons in charge. Remains of James Kershaw of Briar Bluff arrived in East Moline and were buried in Hampton Cemetery with Odd Fellows conducting services.
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John M Cheney
Moline
Seaside
Oregon
Riverside Cemetery
Doric Lodge of Masons
Cheney
Moline Wagon Co
Deere
William Goodnow
Prospect Park
John H Skinner
Silvis
Hampton Township
Rose
Modern Woodmen
North Star Benefit Association
Daily Dispatch
Cyrus Valentine
Rock Island County
South Rock Island Township
Ohio
Masons
James Kershaw
Briar Bluff
East Moline
Hampton Cemetery
Odd Fellows
Committee weighs audit report and auditor prospect in city
The committee will investigate and report on the out of audit. John A Goodmanson is considered for the office of auditor and offers to work for $10 per day with a $3 helper. No progress report on Colona bridge due to no word from Washington engineers. Buffalo township bridges nearing completion.
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Mittee
John A. Goodmanson
Office of
Colona Bridge
Washington
Buffalo Township
Will of Herman Liphardt Admitted to Probate
The will of Herman Liphardt, long-time Hillsdale resident, was admitted to probate by Judge Bell. The document names executors Marie Liphardt and Augusta Eipper without bond, and provides that named heirs who contest the instrument are excluded from estate distribution. The estate will be divided among the widow, four daughters Ida Drack Ella Augusta Eipper Mathilda, and granddaughter Eva Opdyke, with Mathilda receiving an extra $1000 before division.
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Herman Liphardt
Hillsdale
Bell
Marie Liphard
Augusta Eipper
Ida Drack
Ella
Miss Mathilda
Eva Opdyke
Mathilda
Remains Arrive Home for Funeral Service
In Euréka the remains will arrive Wednesday evening over the Burlington. The funeral service will be from the home of her brother Frank McCloskey at 1012 Seventeenth Avenue.
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Euréka
Springs
Atk
Burlington
Frank McCloskey
Seventeenth Avenue
Wife Seeks Divorce From Convict Husband
Cesarine DeWinter, wife of Charles DeWinter, who was convicted at the last circuit term for assault with intent to murder, has filed for divorce. Her petition, prepared by Peter R. Ingelson, notes he assaulted her with a butcher knife causing near-fatal wounds. He is serving an indeterminate Joliet sentence. the couple wed in 1888 in Belgium.
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Cesarine DeWinter
Charles DeWinter
Peter R. Ingelson
DeWinter
Joliet
Belgium
Judge Bell Advances Two Wills to Probate in Rock Island
Probate court yesterday admitted the will of Henry Kinner of Rock Island dated May 31 1910 naming widow Eliza Kinner as sole heir and executrix. Judge Bell also probated the will of John Ackerman of Rock Island naming widow Augusta Anna Ackerman as heir and executrix with estate divided among surviving children after her death.
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Henry Kinner
Rock Island
B. S. Bell
Eliza Kinner
John Ackerman
Bell
Augusta Anna Ackerman
D C Poole in Line for Consular Post
Washington announces a list of candidates passing consular exams including Dewitt C Poole Alfred S Northrup Claude E Guyant and George F Davis Poole formerly worked for The Dispatch in Moline and East Moline later moving east for study before the examination News notes Poole’s longtime friends in the city.
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D.C. Poole
Washington, D. C
Associated Press
State Department Today
United States Consular Service
Dewitt C Poole
Alfred S Northrup
Claude E. Guyant
Illinois
George F Davis
Missouri
Daily Dispatch
D. C Poole
Moline
Poole
Dispatch
East
Six Men Held on Thefts in East Rock Island
Detectives arrested six men James Summers Christ Summers Harry Papas William Lamp Gust Thorn and Gust Gavrias all residents of East Rock Island on larceny charges for coal thefts from cars in Rock Island yards. Each was held to the grand jury with bonds of 500 after a preliminary hearing. Joe Kester and Idnee Petravic were tried for disorderly conduct. Kester fined 25 dollars and costs, Petravic 20 dollars and costs.
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Rock Island Road
Rock Island
P J Fleming
James and
Christ Summers
Harry Papas
William Lamp
Gust Thorn
Gust Gavrias
Joe Kester
Idnee Petravic
Krebs
Smith
Kester
Petravic
Study and Work Toward Real Usefulness
The quotation urges balance between study and practical effort. It cautions that study alone does not grant rights to usefulness or success, emphasizing the need for applying learning through work and action.
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Grover Cleveland
Northwestern student Strombeck wins national essay prize
J Fred Strombeck of Moline now a Northwestern Evanston student wins $300 in a national prize for best essay on a commercial subject. He wrote on Principles of Freight Classification while previously shaping a freight traffic bureau with J F Freeman after leaving D M Sechler Carriage Co.
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Daily Dispatch
J. Fred. Strombeck
Moline
North- Western University
Evanston
Hart, Schaffner & Marx
Chicago
United States
Strombeck
Moline High School
D. M. Sechler Carriage Co
J. F. Freeman
Moline Y. M. C. A
Freeman
Frank J. Danner
Runaway Horses Injure City Workers Near 42nd Street
Amos Godfrey and Gus Edman of the health department were injured when a load of hay spooked two horses at Fourth Avenue and Forty second Street. The wagon overturned after a broken rein, a wheel passed over Edman, and both men sustained bruises cuts and scratches. They were treated and will miss work several days as George Thompson arranged for the team. One horse is a colt kept with an elder blind horse after the incident.
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Amos Godfrey
Gus Edman
Health Department
Fourth Avenue
Forty-second Street
Godfrey
Twe
Edman
Polman
George Thompson
Narrow Escape From Drowning in Hennepin Canal
William J Brown of Rock Falls nearly drowned crossing a thin ice gap on the Hennepin canal near Sterling Monday. He tread water as the ice broke, punched a path with his fists, and reached shore exhausted.
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William J Brown
Rock Falls
Hennepin Canal
Sterling
Crew to Resume Work at Sylvan Steel Twelve Inch Mill
Improvements at the Sylvan Steel mills are complete and the twelve inch mill will resume operations tomorrow morning. Superintendent Dabney requests the crew report at 6 o clock. The Rock River Traction Company stockholders vote on January 11 1911 in Geneseo Illinois with a morning directors meeting and a special session to consider board changes and reducing its size.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sylvan Steel
Dabney
Rock River Traction Company
Geneseo
Ilinois
William Harbaugh
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Kneberg
Moline Knights of
Pythias
Ida M. Wood
Arthur Kneberg
Thomas Murphy
Frank Stoltenberg
Henry Lundt
George Stoltenberg
A G Daniel
CPF
Charles Saundera
Mark Grantz
David Engstrom
WC Crossman
al Schafer
Cora B
Wadswoth
Young People’s Society
Johnaton
Anguet Brisson
Anna Hollberg
Harold Bogstrom
Financual
Franklin Johnson
Adolph Pelrson
Rimmer
Rirone
Mabel Vettei
Plorenee Inorg
Strom
Flivenes
Cartson Helbon Freeman
Lydia Tarkhson
Harold Godetba
Bert
Brissman Ruedolph
Nelson Heceytion
Cammaittes Bollen Nv Prom
Carl Carlson Rather Boreetuany
Hilina Toline Altes Carbon Sieh Cnanadttee Ob
Eran
Winnie Frvaet Milde
Anderson Lvhette
Harton Olive On
Fon Frepklin
Jeetimeenm
Plehem
Plehem Deat Qtrer Advit Earsen
Comittee
Carl Aron Helo
Teresa
Vege
Bruner
Vier
Walt Renta
Adapta Af
Thisteen
Wight
Traits Railway Company
Silves
Thortrate
Servite
Cine
Coty Atherney
Cty
Meeetina
Ted Diatt
O. L. Bruner
Board of Supervisors
Cook County
T Costa
Sherif
Black Hawk
Frank Wise
Alaeng
G George Duflin
Kittilsen
Kattisen
Othe
Atudas
Agen
Lugiervirer Eastivan
Springfield
Hase
Danville
Eastman
Ridgestow
Buiding and Grounds
Ridgeview
Grant School
Edna Davis
Della Hooper
Strawstack
Milton D Bruner
Emily C Lindgren
Frank O Lindgren
Thirty Eighth Street
Altona
Lindgren
Polk Neb
Polk
Earl Evelyn
Claire
Helen Shregren
Mra
John H. Skinner
Olive Lloyd Stephens
John B. Stephens
South Rock Island
East End
Phil
J. Fred Strombeck
United
States
Hennepin
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