Port Byron hosts county contests for youth at farmers institute
Rock Island county offers prizes in corn growing and bread baking at Port Byron February 14 and 15. Boys aged 12 to 18 compete in multiple lots with cash and equipment prizes funded by local banks and firms. Girls 12 to 18 enter a bread contest with three loaves exhibited and cash prizes. Exhibits due by 2 PM February 14 at the town hall.
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Rock Island
Fisk & Loosley Co
Moline
H. EB. Casteel
Factories Unite In Plea For Funds
Telegrams sent to Hon. James McKinney by Moline manufacturers urged passage of the rivers and harbors bill or a six foot channel for the upper Mississippi. Firms including Moline Wagon Co Deere and Mansur Co D M Sechler Co Moline Wagon Co Barnard Leas Mfg Co Dimock Gould Co People's Savings Bank backed the effort, signaling local business support and concern over its fate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James McKinney
Moline
Y Moline Wagon Co
Deere and Mansur Co
D. M. Sechler Co
Moline-Wilgon Buggy Co
Moline Plow Co
Barnard & Leas Mfg
Dimock, Gould & Co
People’s Savings Bank and Trust Co
McKinney
Mississippi
Washington, D. C
Moline Dispatch
Burton
Hennepin
George W Prince
Mississippi River
Prince
Wipper Missiasippol
Upper
Mississippi Valley
Thomas Hedge
Burlington
Iowa
Central West
Northwest
Growth of School Savings in Moline Banks Reaches 7781.03
Report shows 700 students saved 3685.88 in the year ending February 1 1907, with total deposits since 1904 at 12030.48. Average deposit per pupil is 5.56, 1400 open accounts, Lincoln building led with 894.49, and 5000 drawn out from the total.
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Moline Trust and Savings Bank
Lincoln
Garfield We
Bank
Garfield
Willard
Waesee
Washington
P. Es
Grant
Ey Econ
Ericsson
Frid
Sieas
Srloason
Eeseek
Dan Ng
Amiadler
Ka Inc
Postoffice appropriation tops six figures for 1906
Special correspondence notes federal post office funding at $209,180,681 for the coming year, a record high with raises for clerks and carriers, new classification provisions, and savings from reduced railroad pay. It also covers private postal cards changes, temperance demonstrations in D C, currency notes, and assorted Illinois patents and local notices.
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Washington, D. C
Moline
United States Posto
House Committee On Post Offices
Postal
Anderson withdraws from mayoral race in Moline
Or Anderson, cashier of the Moline Trust and Savings Bank, announces he cannot allow his name to be nominated for mayor citing bank duties and time constraints. Friends backed him as a strong GOP candidate while alderman candidates shift in Seventh ward and several incumbents, Herbst Pearson, may not seek reelection.
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Or. Anderson
Moline Trust and Savings Bank
Anderson
H&ve
Pruessing
al Kneberg
F A Herbst
James P. Pearson
Master Painters of City Form Local Organization
A local branch of the Master House Painters and Decorators association is formed by Moline employers. Officers are President C E Eneberg Vice President Chas Elmer Secretary F L Moran Treasurer Ernest Sandstrom. Wage scale discussion deferred to Monday after social event in Rock Island.
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Master House Painters and Decorators’ Association
Moline
Wih
C E Eneberg
Chas Elmer
F L Moran
Ernest Sandstrom
Rock Igland
Rock Island
Davengport
Unis
Rock Island Painters Aid Bethany Home Sanitation
Rock Island painters donate a day’s work to repaint upper rooms of Bethany Home to improve sanitation during an epidemic. A Moline contributor sent $5 to support the project. volunteers from Moline may contact the matron. The Mendelssohn trio will perform at Moline High School on February 14 under a local musical group.
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Berhans
Rock Island
Mendelssohn
Moline Highchool
Musical Organization of the Saloon
Harry J Chalmers Boarpist
John Cheshire
Royal Academy London
Rossini Waugh
Salesbury Orchestra
Alice Dale
Pioneer Moline surveyor Gould dies after long service
Melvin A. Gould longtime Moline county surveyor and builder of the city waterworks died in his court house building room after a three week battle with erysipelas. His will called for cremation and his funeral address to be given by Attorney B F Peek. He leaves a widow and four sons Geo M Herbert A S Gould and W T Gould. Funeral was held at 1615 Second Avenue with cremation in Davenport.
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Melvin A. Gould
Moline
Ife
Court House
Gould
Government Bridge
B. F. Peek
Buckley
Wash
Marengo
Hil
C &Q U
Northern Army
Nineteenth
Tinoly Infantry
J BR Turchin
Mr Gontd
Roe & St
Burlington Road
Rock River
Macomb
G A R
Lfe
St Paul Lodge
K P
Peck Island
Sir Maria Taylor
Jefferson
Geo M. Herbert
A 8 Gould
W T Gould
Chicago
George M Gould
Second Avenue
Daveenport
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Champaign
People's Bank
Lot Number
Agricultural College of University of Minds
People’s Trust and Savings Bank of
D. M Sechler Carriage Co
Henry Hubbard
Os Bruner
Bear & Co
Agricultural College of University of Illinois
People’s Trust and Savings Bank of Moline
Albert Ed
J. Ferguson
John Swank
P. F.cox
Allemeyer & Sterling
Deere & Mansur Co
McCabe & Co
Moline Daily Dispatch
Mosenfelder & Sons
Deere
Deere & Co
Rock Island Plow Company
Rock Island Daily Argus
Fite
W. F. Garnett
W. H. Groh
Muste
Professor v. Gmith
Louis Hauberg
Clarence Sadoris
W. HY
Ashdown
U. 8
Pearsall
Arty
Ie Leraat
Srinion
Isis
Congressman McKinney
Miselesippi
Irving
District of Columbia
St. Valentine's Day
Capitol
Committee of the
House On
Congress
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
United States
Illinois
John B. Amos
Prairie City
William D. Armstrong
Joshuab. Barnes
Springfield
John G. Crawford
LaGrange
Wiliam ‘B Estes
Danville
Benjamin F. Gibler
Pats
Lafayette Mitchell
Oraz Nebo
Edward H. Over
Culde
Milton Lis Rst
Tanoy Prairie
Pelti Diney
Peoria
Charles x. Mel -Greele
B. BH
B. V. Schrosbery
Mike
Charles P. Sesef
Bedria
Springer
Avery Manufacturing Company
Ascresse
Birieg Teller
George J. Shanton
Canal Zone
Shanton
Ath- McKinney. Mus
Stevens
Northwestern Railway Company
Clinton
Point Finiah
Nois Shore
Senate
House Committee of Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Hopkins
Rodenburg
House
St. Louis
Electric Line
McKinley
Adam Lieberknecht
Zurich
Adam
Geneseo
Lieberknecht
State Department
Fandon
McDonough County
Lnois
R. F D
Cal- Fandon
Chester Fandon
Aledo
Irvin Balmer
Ernie Greer
Bardolph
Wm E Hall
John Estin
The
Pension Bureau
William Robinson
Plymouth
Co. B
Pennsylvania Cavalry
John B Felton
Co. G
Weston
Livermore
Roseville
Ilinois
St. Paul
Missouri River
MacKenzie
Circuit
District of Fitnels
Quincy
Enurt
Cullom
Congressman Prince
Naval Academy
Annapo 3
Glenn Fletcher Howell
Woodhull
Clifton Craig Sowerby
Canton
Joseph Victor Harris
Abingdon
Ralph Bailey Clemens
Caiaw
J. M. Porter
Moline Trust and Savings
Master Painters OF City IN Organization
C.E Kneberg
Moliners
Rock Island Painters
Bethany
Call OF Death
Tom
A. Gould
Old Rock Island St. Louis Road
Will
B. F. Peek Delver
State Savings Bank É> Trust Company
Third Ave
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