Moline Incandescent Lamp Co reelects directors as capacity bids rise
At the annual meeting most directors were reelected with Cecil R. Wood replacing retiring Mayor C. P. Skinner. The firm, incorporated last January and starting production in April, planned to double plant capacity and expand capital stock from its $30,000 base due to strong first year progress and multiple contracts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moline Incandescent Lamp Co
Cecil R. Wood
C. P Skinner
Hhik
General Electric Co
Oak Ridge Christmas sketches and local notes
Oak Ridge reports a festive holiday season with residents in Moline and abroad. Weather varied greatly over the holidays and farmers wonder about hunting laws. Mr and Mrs Swanson of Moline visited August Swanson and family on New Year. Roads remain rough after the holidays and local merchants announce price markdowns open to the public.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oak Ridge
Swan Lindberg
Moline
Polly Pinkwaste
Swanson
Family
Rock Island Collision Injures Enginemen in Iowa
Fast freight No 90 bound west crashed into local freight No 47 at Marengo Iowa near 9 am Wednesday. The fast freight engine was badly damaged and its caboose damaged. The engineer and firemen of the fast freight were injured in the collision. The fireman named I C McKinley Hein from Council Bluffs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rock Island Road
Marengo
Iowa
I. C Mec Kinley Hein
Council Bluff
Reeves Killed by Falling Tree in Timber Work
L F Craike left for New Sharon Iowa after learning that Joseph Reeves about 30 was killed yesterday by a falling tree while at work in timber. He leaves a widow and one child. Reeves was a son of A R Reeves a former Stewartville resident who moved from Moline 25 to 30 years ago and also survives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. F. Craike
New Sharon
Iowa
Joseph Reeves
A. R. Reeves
Stewartville
Moline
New Year Social at Hospital Aids and Local Happenings
Watertown notes a social at the hospital auditorium with dancing and a banquet as Walton Tackett returns to St Louis to resume studies at Barnes Medical College. Various local visits, marriages, and civic notes follow, including a major salary-raise forecast for Moline post office based on 1904 receipts and money orders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Watertown
Frank Gunneraon
Viola
Wm Axelson
Molne
Wednasniov Walton Tackett
St. Louis
Barnes’ Medical College
Lizzie Lee
N W Palmer's
Moline
Taylor
Woodman Lodge
Western Hospital Band
Jos Geisler
Bernice
Milton Geisler
Davenport
T .S Craig
Rock Island
J. J. Tunnicliff
Galesburg
Mantel Smith
Elzina
Crescent Telephone Co
Barstow
L. Dewrose
Chicago
Maggie Ford
J W Dawson
Tin Pan Band
Sextons Winner in Secret Session
Magnates of the Three-Eye league met secretly at Peoria to contest Rockford’s injunction to block the circuit drop. Judge Gillispie of Bloomington may halt proceedings while a schedule was adopted led by M. H. Saxton. The Peoria transfer remains unaffected as talks continued.
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Peoria
Rockford Association
Gillispie
Bloomington
M. H. Saxton
Saxton
Rock Inland Club
B. H. Holland
Rockford
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Jipey ‘Incandescent Co
General Electric
Cecil Wood
G. H. Deere
H W Cooper
E. B. Morgan
E.H Kreitler
Gilmore Ed
Coryn
R. Wood
Tniepateh
Jos. Reeves
Mo Hiner
L. F. Craile
Dra West
Gardner
Netram Kendall
Bertha Mabel Surr
Crumhaker
Kendall
Barnard & Leas Mfg Co
Surr
International
Moline National Bank
MR Solicit
Aller
Rte
Gage Suns
Bae
Pras
Mayors & Bound
Liuwy
Wah
Mayer
Ati, Under
Sextons
Three-Eye
Fulton
Journal
Pacliis Inten
Pal
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