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Formal consent is given at a meeting where commissioners road representatives objectors and attorneys are to confer over the matter.
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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1903
Page
6
Formal consent is given at a meeting where commissioners road representatives objectors and attorneys are to confer over the matter.
Railroad proposes to buy land at above appraised value to avoid condemnation. Local commission letters show consent sought from Haupton township residents for the Pleasant Valley highway relocation. Meeting included planners and property owners amid debate over eminent domain and road project funding.
Passengers faced a long delay behind a wreck on the Burlington route near Orion. Freight traffic slowed, with no serious injuries reported. Emergency crews cleared the line as a second section failed to arrive, leaving travelers stranded briefly at Savanna and Moline while rescue work continued.
Herbert Stevenson age 24 son of Ira Stevenson lives south of the city with a mild smallpox infection. Five household members are quarantined and vaccinated. The young man has not left home except to visit Moline for several months. Dr Mor Anos is attending him.
The labor association outlines plans to cut indebtedness on the building. Returns from the last fair total just over $1500, aiding several small obligations. Auditorium rental reduced to eight dollars nightly and Industrial Hall hosts six meetings weekly, signaling progress toward easing debt and stabilizing the Industrial Home's finances.
The article reports a plan to open Heddles Hall to the public under a youth club movement named Spartanian, inviting all who support southern welfare to participate. Activities include reading, games, and refreshments while maintaining a modest fee for items ordered. organizers may expand to teach and entertain if interest grows. A separate notice advertises Hall's Catarrh Cure with testimonials and a money‑back offer.
List of lawmakers named by Speaker Miller naming committee chairmen in the Springfield House. Agencies covered include Agriculture, Appropriations, Banks, Education, Elections, Executive, Fish and Game, Joint Rules, Judiciary, Libraries, Manufactures, Mines, Public Works, Railroads, State Institutions, and more with dozens of specific members noted. The report enumerates numerous committees and the officials appointed to lead them.
Rural town ship four miles southwest of Coal Valley offers wood farming land for rent. Good improvements noted. Inquire at 1012 First Avenue Rock Island.
County officials set a March 11 meeting to name candidates for upcoming elections. The session will appoint and announce eligible contenders, with local party chairs expected to participate.
At a Fourteenth District federal committee meeting in Rock Island on Tuesday plans were set for a March 1 convention to nominate Republican candidates to replace Judges Gest Ramsay and Bigelow. Delegations from Mercer and Whiteside counties backed different contenders with Ed Ward chairing the session and Judge Connell of Aledo and Judge Chesles of Cambridge among attendees.
Joe Tuffley, long time Moline resident and active Odd Fellow, announces candidacy for the Republican township collector nomination. He notes his age and past service to the city and plans an active campaign seeking support from friends.
A Rock Island train's second engine derailed near Buf falo Iown o causing a wreck that crushed a station agent's young daughter. The mother and father were injured as rails tore into the ticket office. Wires failed, delaying word to headquarters until recovery crews moved in from Naticks.
H K Altz pleads guilty to larceny in county court with a one day jail term a $45 fine and costs to be worked off at $1 50 per day Autz stole an overcoat worth $10 from Ed Kautz Judge Parmenter imposes the sentence Fema Vosaert of Moline pleads guilty to two petty larceny indictments and receives forty five days in the workhouse on each charge Judge Ramsay grants Hattie Forwinkle a divorce from Edward Forwinkle on grounds of cruelty
A Moline resident testifies to the benefits of Doan's Kidney Pills after curiosity led him to try them. He says the pills cured back and kidney pains in a relative and that other family members had similar satisfactory results. Sold by all druggists for 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY sole agents for the UK. Remember the name Doan's.
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