Public Visits Exchange Compliments on New System
Readers report public visits praising the company as it installs a modern and complete set of equipment. The exchange highlights the enterprise’s progress and the public reception to the new system.
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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1903
Page
1
Seven Girls at the Board Opens New Independent Telephone Service
The new independent telephone company began service for about 300 subscribers on Tuesday at 7 am with seven operators, under Miss Corrine Arnold. The exchange building on Sixth Avenue debuted with a two story brick design and a modern lightning arrester system, and Davenport and Rock Island links planned for February.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Independent
Moline
Exchange
Sixth Avenue
Fich
Power Machines
Mayor Praises New Telephonic System Upgrade
Mayor Wessel told the Dispatch this morning the exchange features modern equipment meeting the ordinance requirements. He said the service should provide the best in the tri-cities and noted the absence of the prior buzzing, though a faint motor-like sound remains. He urged fairness to the newcomers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wessel
Tri-Cities
Farmers Urged to Work in Hand with Mail Man
Washington urges farmers to assist rural carriers who earn about $600 a year. Carriers must not be expected to perform miracles by themselves. If roads worsen, farmers should contact road supervisors to keep mail delivery on track.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hfe
Washington
Savanna Woman Found Dead in Mishawaka Inquiry Opened
Savanna woman Miss Nellis Paul is found dead in Mishawaka Indiana with a revolver beside her. Scott Easterday, her lover, says a Monday letter asked him to visit her rooms where he found her dead. Authorities doubt self inflicted death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Savanna
Mishwaka
Ind
Nellis Paul
Scott Easterday
Mishawaka
Illinois farmer raises litter of pigs with nursing bottles
Joseph Brown of Tamapico area used seven nursing bottles to raise seven piglets after their mother fell ill post farrowing. The pigs, weighing 1290 pounds total or about 212 pounds each, were sold last week. Mrs Brown suggested the bottle method.
NUMBER AND PRICES OF FARM ANIMALS IN COUNTRY
County report by Thomas Campbell shows stable totals for horses, mules, milch cows and cattle with hog numbers down 76 percent from last year. Average prices: horses under 1 year 30, 1-2 years 40, 2+ years 75. mules under 1 year 30, 1-2 years 40, 2+ years 80. cows 38 per head. other cattle 60 to 75 per head range with noted variations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Campbell
Department of Agriculture
Rock Island astronomer Mansill dies leaves museum plan
Richard Mansill noted Rock Island scientist dies at his home after long illness. He built a vast collection of geological shells Indian relics and stuffed animals with plans for a city museum to exhibit them. His sister Mrs Goff inherits the estate and the collection may become a future hall of science in Rock Island.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Mansill
Gme
England
Mansill
Europe
Twenty-second Street
Third Avenue
Rock Island
Recorder Gamble
Court House
Goff
Toronto
Work on Rock Island loop to start early spring
J F Lardner general manager of the Tri City Railway Co says construction on the west wing of the Rock Island loop will begin as soon as frost is out in spring. Right of way work for the east wing continues while conductors receive new orders naming streets on the Rock Island and Moline lines. The bridge line will call all streets on Davenport arriving cars. A new car numbered 204 was placed in service on the Bridge line Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J F Lardner
Tri-City Railway Co
Rock Island Loop
Rock Island
Moline
Fifth Avenue
Augustana College
Elm Street
Davenport
Lemon Juice Claimed to Kill Typhoid Germs
Prof Jacquis of Chicago and Dr Otho Fielder of Milwaukee report experiments showing lemon juice at 3 percent or higher can’t allow typhoid germs to live. They caution lemonade as a preventive but doubt its therapeutic value after infection. Further tests are planned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacquis
Chicago Health Department
Otho Fielder
Milwaukee Health Department
Fielder
Thumb lost in rip saw accident at Petersons shop
Elderly worker Serene West suffered the loss of the thumb to a rip saw at contractor Peter Or on’s shop Monday afternoon. Dr Beal amputated the thumb at the first joint and also treated the third and fourth fingers. West, married, had only recently returned to work after a year off due to illness. the accident is described as very unfortunate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Screpe
Peter
Dr . Beal
Tir West
Serene
Dl Tealth
Burglaries Reported At Several Rock Island Homes
Burglars struck three Rock Island residences over the weekend and Monday. E W Hancock found his Fourth avenue boardinghouse room broken into while Mrs Baird was away in Macomb. J R Johnston’s Seventh avenue home lost a safe box later found in an alley. The Meyer house on Twenty third Street, empty for a week, was broken into and ransacked before the owners left for Chicago. C K Mixter said Meyer’s exact losses would be disclosed upon his investigation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E W Hancock
Mrs I. Baird
Fourth Avenue
Rock Island
Hancock
Esford
Raglan
J. R Johnston
Seventh Avenue
Twenty-third Street
W. A Meyer
Chicago
C. K. Mixter
M Meyer
Bankruptcy Petition Files Largest Local Claim Against Firm
Co F Hemenway of Moline seeks bankruptcy relief listing liabilities at 120,469 97 with assets 70 6 of which 14 360 is real estate. The filing names major creditors including Peoples National Bank Rock Island 20000 J M Gould Moline 10000 Farmers National Bank Geneseo 4000 and Central Trust Co Rock Island 3000 plus others totaling over 120 thousand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howeria
Charl Hemenway
Moline
Tne
Finois
Belovd Peoples National Bank
J M Gould
Christy Coal Co
Des Moines
Kates E Fay
Farmers’ National Bank
Genese
A R McBurney
Orion
Petersen & Co
New Windsor
J W. Gilchrist
Davenport
Ben Wrightman
Chicago
Central Trust Co
Rock Island
German Savings Bank
Port
Citizens’ National Des Moines
A R McBy Moline
William Killing Inne
Death by Self-Administered Drug At Davenport
Charles Anderson of Cumbe Town died at Atlantic House Davenport after swallowing a potion. He had been in town several days and, intoxicated, was noisy in the evening. Finley checked on him and found him dead around 4 am Monday after signaling it was too late to help.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Anderson
Cumbe
Atlantic House
Davenport
Finley
Anderson
Watertown Notes From Jan 6 Local Page
Watertown news items reflect church services by Rev Janie Davis of Normal Illinois and a state missionary effort to raise interest in a regular pastor. Local residents attend funerals and hospital visits while others travel to Wataga for services and events. Birthdays, hospital dances, and social calls mix with travel to Milwaukee and tri cities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Watertown
Janie Davis
Normal
Davis
Securi
Jacob J
A. C Brown
W.C Fritts
W. H. Weed
Wataga
Wood
R. Letsch
Herschey
Frank Odell
Hospital
Fritsch
Barber
Freeborn
W. M. Driggs
Milwaukee
Tri-Cities
Joseph Benson
Ter
Hampton
J C Hawkins
Henry Hilberg
William Keene
Hilberg
J. H. Davis
Driggs
Mabel Sunblad
Mol
Marriage Licenses Listed in State Records
Frn k, de Jonannscal rand Delfi Kennedy of Clinton, Iowa, appear on the marriage license ledger with other entries. Moffatt of Bix Minn and Buea are noted among the processed unions, details limited by the fragmentary text.
Well Preserved in the Soth Year of His Age
John B Wells of Rock Island born 1813 near Cincinnati and aged about 90. He moved from Indiana to Illinois, owned a farm near Chippiannock cemetery, and later settled in Rock Island. He served in farming, gardening, and stock buying, with a long temperate life and three marriages. His son Howard Wells was a former Rock Island postmaster.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John B Wells
Seventeenth Street
Rock Island
Howard Wells
Cincinnati
Madison
Ind
Bloomington
Ill
Chippiannock Cemetery
Wells
Third Avenue
Thomas Campbells Farm
Indiana
Chippinnock
Bruning Neb
Eivil
Captain Seymour
Forty Fifth Pines
Hi C Asobaugh
Ticket of Trustees in East Moline’s Election
At a meeting in East Moline for nominating village trustees to be voted on at the first village election on January 17, the following were named with comparatively little opposition: Andrew J. Mils August De Schippe Albert F. Bergholtz Thomas J. Gorman Jeme B. Hock Frank F. Palmer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East Moline
Andrew J
August de Schippe
Albert F Bergholtz
Thomas J Gorman Jeme
Hock
Frank F Palmer
Master’s Sale Of Farm Lands In Two Counties
An important sale of good farms will be held at the east door of the courthouse in Rock Island City on Saturday Jan 27. Two farms known as the Gainty lands and Milan area holdings total about 494 acres with multiple dwellings and buildings. Descriptions specify parcels in Henry County Illinois and Rock Island County Illinois with detailed section and township references. Attorneys for both sides are listed. notices indicate chancellery proceedings and representations by Searle Marshall Jackson Hurst Stafford. Senator L S M and a representative to the open assembly were noted in the report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City of
Rock Plimd
Coal Valley
Henry County
Henry
Whines
Towit
Milan
Rock Island County
Ilinois
Rock Island
Illinoia
Present a Solid Front in Support of Advanced Rates
A united campaign argues new fees are comparable to those in other cities and addresses a dissenter who favored higher charges. Officials contend the plan keeps rates competitive while funding needed services.
Physicians Endorse Fee Revisions for City Hospital
Doctors at a City Hospital staff meeting in Moline stood by new fee schedules, removing a $2 6 to 8 pm call surcharge and keeping daytime 7 am to 7 pm fees at 150 cents and night calls at 3 dollars. A dissenter who questioned understanding of the changes eventually accepted that the rates match those in similarly sized cities as shopmen resist with limited sympathy for wage cuts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hotel Windsor
Rock Island
Moline
Mrs Briggs Dies in Englewood Former Coal Town Resident
Telegram from Ed Ward brings word of the death of Mrs U Briggs at Englewood aged 33. Born Te litha Donald of Coal Town she died after months of illness with her sister Mrs Ward and father George Donald at her bedside. Survived by daughter and brothers Joe and Ernest Donald and sister Mary Donald. Remains to Coal Town for interment. Dr L Ostrom named botany teacher at Augustana College during Prof J A Ucden’s Texas absence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ed. Ward
Englewood
U Briggs
Telitha Donald
Coal Town
Mrs Ward
George Donald
Briggs
Coaltown
Chicago
Joe Donald
Sixteenth Street
Ernest
Mary Donald
Cuba
L. Ostrom
Augustana College
J. A. Ucden
Texas
Also Mentioned on This Page
Independent Phone People
Richard Mansill
Bright
The
Rock Island As
Tronomer
Twenty Second Street
Staffordshire
America
Buck Island
Julia Trekel
Thomas
Atlantic
Lydia Goff
Canada
Manaill
Rock Island Argus
Sugeests
Prof
Mansull
Longview Park
Rock Island Lbrary
Board of Education
Rip
Peter Peterson
Bakruptce Court
Co. F. Hemenway
Orla
Ma Twin-City
W. It. Entrikin
Chancery
Searle & Marshall
Jackson, Hurst &Stafford
Nefendant's Solicitors
Rock Island, Il
L. S. Mand
Represen
Mrs. Briggs
Donald
CIA
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