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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1907
Page
3
In schools and workplaces reports indicate some families and workers carry illness into public spaces. Parents urge caution as children return home after attending classes and shopping, raising concern about transmission. Local officials call for hygiene and monitoring.
A city investigation into the scarlet fever outbreak weighs school closures. health officials propose a full plan to fight the epidemic and enforce quarantines. Attendance drops due to illness and parental caution, with cases spreading from Lincoln to Washington districts and beyond.
Myrtle Rebekah Judge No 266 installed officers last evening at Metropolitan Hall. Five candidates were initiated and several applications were received. Noble Grand Nancy Heck leads with Lucinda Kauffman as Vice Grand and Gertie Richman as Recording Secretary.
Cordova notes multiple moves including Joanson into the Switzgar house on Church Street and Alfred Moley into the Stockwell house at Oak Grove. Fred Owens gains mail duties after Robert Stocum buys a South Dakota farm. Funeral attendance for Mrs. Brink and Mrs. Maria Askew’s birthday surprise are mentioned along with various visits, rehearsals, and community activities.
Regina Callewaert is on the sick list. Helene Seifkin returns to school after months absent. Local visits include Ella and Minnie O Leary of Orion at the Reeves home and Mrs. Aldrich’s return from Geneseo. The De Moon child died of lung fever, the elder sibling also ill. Mrs. Read visits Colona daughters and Annie Wiley recovers from serious illness. Other notes: Mrs. Grant Gresser assists Mrs. Aug DeScheppers. Plymouth church event praised. Virginia Stroband travels to Canton. Mrs. McDowell hosts relatives abroad. Mrs. Ler Lewis ill. Over Hughge at home with illness. Ladigton to Colorado, infant death near Fostoria, Ohio.
Saloons are to be allowed only north of the tracks in Silvis and Carbon Cliff after residents voted for the new village. three buildings are being remodeled for saloon use while the village board awaits organization. Mesdames and officials anticipate licenses cannot be granted until board setup. Judge H C Ward tallies votes in Whiteside County as trustees prepare to act next week or later.
A long list of obituaries including Frank Hall 55 of North Carolina origin who died of tuberculosis at his sister’s home in Moline and was interred in Washington Iowa, plus notices for Mrs Sadie Hageman born in Varmland Sweden, Tolin Allen Hamer two years old, Nina Ziert, Mary J. Dioy, John Cowley, Bernhard Berry, Henry Foss, Lewis Goben, Mrs Francis W. Ficken, Carl August Carlson, Raymond Kern, and Fred S. Lofgren with details of births, deaths, locations, family survivors, and funeral arrangements.
A girl born Saturday evening to Mr and Mrs Sheldon Walker and twin girls to Mr and Mrs Frank Schafer are reported. Anthony Filmer wells a new creamery, Ben Barber of Moline handles the work. The Port Byron academy opens with strong attendance and revival services report seventy conversions and forty five new Methodist members. Daisy Wood preaches, and baptismal services led by Presiding Elder Wiley will bring about fifty baptisms. Misty Rose Durbin tutors in Moline and visits Dan Epper family.
The Moline Plow Co Employer's Aid association shows 4355 members and a $146.81 balance. In the last year $2345.05 was paid in benefits with four death claims settled for beneficiaries Hmil Dahlhelm Frank Arvidson Johnson and C B Sundquist. Officers elected for 1907 include President Charles Tambur Vice President Fred Grotegut Secretary George Morgan Treasurer Bred Long.
Moline Davenport and Kewanee Swedish Good Templars meet Saturday evening at Turner Fall in Moline to organize a district lodge for the Fifth Illinois district. About thirty members from Kewanee and additional delegates from Moline and Davenport are expected for the unorganized group. C A Tholine of Moline will preside. The session will focus on perfecting the district, electing officers, and installing them.
At a church meeting the trustees were instructed to sign a petition urging the city to pave Thirteenth Street between Fifth and Seventh Avenues. Signatures will complete the list of property holders and the petition will be presented to the board of local improvements immediately.
Geneseo chronicle reports Miss Emma Loman out ill for several days and high school exams this week as the half year ends. McHenry visits old friends and recalls driving Dan Patch to speed records. Stolen stove. Lamberton relocates to Oklahoma. Congregational Sunday school officers elected for 1907. Oyster supper for ladies followed by church meeting and officer slate. Bank appointment for Benjamin Bills. high school debating program outlined. Depot loiterers continue causing trouble. parents urged to discipline youths before police action intensifies.
At Memorial Christian church in Rock Island a unanimous call was extended to Rev C W Clemmer of Council Bluffs to fill the soon vacated pastorate. Clemmer has pastored the First Christian church in Council Bluffs for three years.
Miss Emily Perkins, staying with her sister Mrs. C C St. Clair in Marshalltown, returns to Moline Tuesday evening. During her parents’ southern trip she will reside with her sister Mrs. Charles H. Ainsworth at 822 Seventeenth Street.
Miss Flossie Anthony of Rock Island and Gilbert D Curry of Denver married in Chicago after a secret elopement. Curry will join his father in Clark's Mill Pennsylvania to enter the drug business. he has worked as a drug clerk in Denver.
At the Union Protective Aid association annual meeting in the Chase block last evening reports showed 443 dollars paid in benefits to members during 1906. Officers elected for the new year include President Merritt Crouch, Vice President Leroy A. Vinton, Secretary William Beckwith, and Treasurer Thomas McCarthy. The board of directors comprises the four officers plus William Wilcox and Charles Hunt.
The Davenport union depot problem nears resolution with most roads supporting a riverfront site between Vein and Hrady streets. Businessmen opposed Western avenue due to distance from the business district, and the council weighs an ordinance to formalize the riverfront location.
Stockholders of the Moline Water Power Comet held their annual meeting on Monday and re elected the prior year's directors H Llesre S 8 Davin T B Davis Wood Rosenfield WoL Velie A W Vander Veer and Anthony Burdick The same officers were re elected President C H Deere Vice President S S Davis Secretary Treasurer T B Davis
The Rock River Traction Co plans a Sterling to Geneseo route then to Carbon Cliff linking with the Moline Rock Island and Eastern Interurbans. They issue 2 000 008 in bonds for construction and announce officers at the annual meeting led by President Jevi Waterman with Geneseo and Prophetstown executives and a Geneseo based executive committee.
Hon John C Allen and E B Colwell of Monmouth attended the national convention on foreign commerce extension as delegates of the Retail Merchants' Association. Hon George C Rankin, formerly of Monmouth, hosted a dinner in their honor Monday evening at the University Club.
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