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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1910
Page
5
Draft plans to double capacity of the Deere plant will be considered Friday. The project proposes three years to complete construction of all buildings planned for erection.
Deere & Co asks the city for spur tracks and a tunnel to double plow shop capacity. Proposals include a Third avenue tunnel, new Burlington track, and a Rock Island spur to serve two new buildings. Officials say current facilities are insufficient and aim to ship 1060 cars in February.
Major C 8S Riche receives orders transferring him from Rock Island to Detroit to command the lake district and report by March 15. Major Keller succeeds him in Rock Island with ties to Detroit. Riche’s long Army career spans West Point, Willets Point, Detroit, Galveston seawall work, and Chicago before Rock Island.
The will of Charles D. Woodyatt, who died January 2, was probated in county court with Judge Olmsted presiding. Dated March 38, 1903, the document designates widow Mary M. Woodyatt as heir to all property and appoints her executrix.
A stray OCR fragment suggests an invitation or call to participate in an event. The readable text lacks specifics such as date location or organizing body. No clear names or organizations are identifiable from the provided fragment.
The Rock Island County Humane Society elected George Ellman as county wide humane officer to enforce humane law and promote animal and child welfare. To start work, the society must raise 360 dollars by April 1 through public subscriptions with soliciting committees across Rock Island and neighboring townships.
Sealed bids for the No 4 fire station at Fourth Avenue and Twenty-seventh Street were read before the city council. Estimated cost 7600, with actual total near 10000 if built and equipped per specs. Several firms submitted bids. some were disqualified for lack of certified checks. heating plumbing and electrical bids were reviewed separately.
A pellagra case exists at the Coal Valley township county poor farm involving Mr Van Winkle father of a man and wife murdered at Fairport near Muscatine. Van Winkle shows skin eruptions and hand involvement. Authorities may allow him to stay indefinitely. Second case follows in the infirmary, Carl G Lydelin, who later died after removal to Bartonville asylum. Dr Myers is attending.
The Mechanics and Merchants bank of Moline awarded contracts to Moline Furniture Co to remodel the Ford building for a new bank quarters and to Mosler Safe Co of Hamilton Ohio for vaults and safes. Work includes mahogany finishes bronze tones, marble columns, new vestibule and two vaults with 200 safety boxes, to be completed in ninety days.
The Associated Charities of Rock Island have leased 637 Seventeenth Street to establish an association house. It will function as an industrial and social center for women and girls, with Dr J W Stewart as chairman and W H Gest Jr as treasurer. The finance committee includes W S Parks, and Rev Marion Humphreys leads the advisory group. The house will be run by a ward presidents dominated committee and local residents Dina Ramser, C O Woodruff, Margaret Gilea, and Maymie Dodge. Public donations of cash or furnishings are requested to support the worthy effort.
South Moline Supervisor Weeker resigns and the two other county board members Herman Doering and D W Matthews set to resign at the March meeting to allow April elections. Doering will move to a farm in Oklahoma and Matthews to Colorado. The 300 acre annexation into Moline prompts possible disconnection from South Moline township and reassignment to Moline township. March session delayed past usual date to free tax funds for six months of county bills, likely around the 15th.
The board considers brick paving on Fourth Avenue from 34th to 55th streets and north on 55th Street to link with First Avenue. Clark G Anderson estimates the project at 68,689.40 dollars with a season target. Notices warn of a Friday meeting at city hall to hear objections and discuss a new assessment method across cross streets.
A 23 year old painter for Deere and Co. named A O Henderson fell twenty five feet from an unsecured plank onto the concrete engine room floor at 2 pm Monday. He was stunned but escaped with minor bruises after Dr Arp treated him. Henderson lives at 1807 Second Avenue. Belle Witherspoon, 1317 Seventh Avenue, slipped on an icy walk at 8 30 am Monday and broke her left hip while sweeping snow. Dr Arp attended the injury and she faces a long recovery.
A pending federal bill would settle accounts between the federal government and public land states, providing five percent of sale proceeds to the state where the lands lie. Illinois is estimated at 596000 under the act, with Governor Deneen urging senators and representatives to support enactment.
The Moline city hospital reports a banner month with $1300 in receipts last month and about $1000 in December. Capacity is 55 but 57 patients are housed, aided by a new third story adding space for twenty more patients.
Springfield February 18 Special to Moline Dispatch The Moline Ferry Co certifies to the secretary of state an increase of capital stock from twenty thousand dollars to fifty thousand dollars under state action.
Louis Rosenstein conveyed title on a three story corner lot at Fifteenth street and Fifth avenue to Mr and Mrs F G Allen for 85000. The State Savings Bank and Trust Co plans to occupy the first floor with Pierr & Co. leasing all floors. Removal will follow securing possession with modernization including burglar alarms. Henry J Gripp negotiated the deal in what is described as the largest sale south of the tracks amid rising market tempo.
A fire caused by a hotbox on an exhaust fan at the Moline Furniture Works led to the temporary closure of a department for a day. The blaze started in dust and oil, damaged a belt and rafters, and was flooded by water from a sprinkler. No injuries reported.
A chaotic exchange erupts in the zoo as the rhinoceros scorns the kangaroo and taunts a cracked old hide, while Leather responds with sharp deflection and mockery.
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