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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1907
Page
6
Miss Mather delivers a practical talk on the home standard and suffrage influence. She warns that some underestimate the issue and condemns sharp card playing as a social vice impacting reform efforts.
A Woman's club meeting advocates domestic influence and civic action to curb contagion. Mrs Akay and Miss Mather highlight pure food law, quarantine, and petitions to the state legislature. Mra Harry Ainsworth proposes aid to health officials, with a concert and violin solos closing the program.
A new Bell Telephone directory is issued with details on rates and service. The document notes changes in schedule and references a radical departure in the season trip card, with the St Paul schedule shifting from 5 PM to 10 AM and clarifies exceptions for Quine Keokuk Rock Island and Bur ing on vessels.
Two Augustana College students fled dormitories to dodge diphtheria quarantine after sore throats prompted diagnosis. A physician initially could not ID the illness, reporting to the state health board. later a throat specialist in Rock Island said it was tonsillitis. quarantine was briefly imposed but then lifted as cases resolved.
General Crozier states Colonel Blunt would be in line for transfer to the Springfield Massachusetts arsenal as commandant Colonel Phipps must retire at age 64 next August and Blunt’s promotion prospects depend largely on his own wishes and the unforeseen.
Maendame Schumann Heinke and the brood orchestra were listed as feature performers for the May festival of the Apeco club in Pasenpzort. The program promised Nordic works and a Messiah excerpt, with Beaumann Heinke unable to attend this week due to illness.
Local column details February activities at the Hampton area with the ladies aid and Sunday school plans. Reports on church services, elections for Sunday school leadership, temperance event, and missions. Mentions visitors, address updates, and community schedules including post office and polling locations.
The Christian World notes reading as an art akin to music and painting, demanding a stern apprenticeship. It asserts that knowing only one's own tongue limits understanding.
The Rev. William Donaldson of Monmouth died Sunday in Rock Island after heart paralysis struck about 8 o clock. A 5 p.m. service was held at the Warnock home and the body was later moved to Monmouth. He had served in Rock Island Presbytery for about nineteen years and formerly ministered at Cedar Creek. He leaves a widow, two sons, and two daughters. The Monmouth funeral was held on Tuesday.
C H Perrin and George L Benson completed a trade exchanging Perrin's residence at Sixth Avenue and Twentieth Street for Benson's property at 1110 Fifteenth Street with a money balance. Perrin plans to take possession later. the Fifteenth Street site currently houses O E Child and family. The Perrin parcel has a ninety two foot frontage and can hold two houses. Benson intends to build two eight or nine room homes to rent. Benson will continue to reside at 1921 Sixth Avenue.
County Clerk H B Hubbard announced a vote to fill the county surveyor vacancy on Tuesday April 2 in the county. The date aligns with the regular spring election, which will also include the special election to fill vacancies in the county judge’s office.
Village board minutes report a special meeting to discuss incorporation and call a city election. Ammerman to notify action and schedule Monday March meeting. Election judges and clerks named for the upcoming city election on April 2.
Deere and Company warehouse avoided damage after a sprinkler head broke around 3 pm Monday. Fire crews responded, fearing a fire, but no fire was found and water was quickly shut off with minimal impact.
A voluntary wage increase at Rock Island Arsenal lifts day laborers to 1.66 dollars per day from 1.50, with oilers rising from 1.76 to 2.00 dollars. The change affects 363 workers and follows a settlement of earlier tensions after polishers resumed work. Also reported is a missing person case from Cordova, Illinois, where John Walker, 49, was last seen in Princeton crossing the Mississippi with a lantern, presumed drowned.
Thirty delegates from the Swedish American Republican club will be named at a meeting Friday the 22d to attend the state convention in Rockford on March 9. Speakers include Adam Bede from Minnesota, Governor Charles S Deneen, Congressman Frank O Lewden, Chief Justice Harry Olson, and Judge Arthur H Frost.
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