City’s Total Tax Figures Reach $197,948
The city reports a total take of 197,948 in tax collections. Officials attribute the gain to steady enforcement and improved revenue channels across departments.
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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1907
Page
8
The city reports a total take of 197,948 in tax collections. Officials attribute the gain to steady enforcement and improved revenue channels across departments.
The report lists railway telegraph and telephone valuations and taxes for Moline and Rock Island, with county totals. It notes a 50 cent tax rate rejection at the November election and presents totals for valuations and taxes across the townships and cities involved.
County Surveyor MA Gould leaves court house room for home. many residents travel, marry, or host events. Daughters of the American Revolution discuss German settlements. Washington birthday events planned. Club meetings, weddings, and social gatherings fill the community pulse with travel, shifts in residence, and civic note events.
Rock Island and Burlington battle over the Chicago to Omaha transcontinental mail contract. Burlington offers to carry mail for the same pay as the Rock Island if cost savings hold, while Rock Island faces a deadline to file additional matter. President Wincell of Rock Island asserts the move would spur competition and questions postal regulations and transfers between depots.
Attorney General Stead issued an opinion to County Clerk Hubbard that separate election boards are needed for the April 2 county judge and county surveyor special election, though both may share polling places. City-township judges will operate under town clerks, with county boards continuing until replacements are named. Frank Hurat of The Moline notes 14 and under barred from the theatre per health department orders amid scarlet fever, and Rock Island public library ordered closed Tuesday night.
Multiple obituary notices report deaths in Moline and surrounding towns. William Brandt and Charles Wright are among those noted, with details on ages, birthplaces, survivors, and funeral arrangements. Other children and residents, including Garnett Lundeen and Ruth Hemmingson, are listed with causes such as scarlet fever, pneumonia, brain fever, and typhoid.
Vallejo California February 7 The United States ship Yorktown has orders to proceed to Salvador Central America It is said repairs are to be hurried on the submarines
Chicago grain market opened weak and closed weak with declines of 10 cents. Receipts at Hoga were 83 000, with price ranges 6.70 to 7.00 for various grades. Cattle receipts reached 8 000 with dull trading, while sheep receipts totaled 15 000 and markets opened and closed steady.
Market list shows Timothy hay 1500 at 16.60 and Upland hay 2.60 as well as various dairy and produce items with prices. Corrections noted by Brown Christison Duncan Ransom and by B Benson for Rock Island with upland hay trading between 12.00 and 14.00.
The Right Hon Joachim Goschen viscount died this morning of heart failure. Born in 1831 he had a long and distinguished public career.
Wholesale butter and eggs rose again while retail prices adjusted to 37 cents per pound for butter and 80 cents a dozen for eggs, due to continued cold and dwindling supplies. Pork wholesale prices are climbing and meat markets may lift retail prices. game has nearly vanished due to slaughter rules. Maine rabbit availability remains extremely limited as roads remain good for grain deliveries and oats edge upward in Rock Island.
Directors of the Business Men’s association vote unanimously for the rivers and harbors bill now before Congress. They wire a resolution to Congressman McKinney and Illinois legislators urging passage of the $84,000,000 measure to improve the upper Mississippi River and support the six foot channel from St Paul to St. Louis.
Public notice is given that stockholders of People's Savings Bank and Trust company of Moline Illinois will meet in the directors room on March 9 1907 at two o'clock p m. The meeting will consider and vote on increasing the capital stock to 260 000 dollars. H L Chapman vice president O W Lamsdahl secretary.
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