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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1907
Page
5
The proposal describes the site as the Haley Site, a combination of the Deere and Haley properties, totaling a purchase price of 14 007 dollars.
Secretary Shaw selected the Haley lot at Eighteenth street and Third avenue as the site for a proposed Moline public building. Architect J Knox Taylor recommended the site after inspection. Purchase price listed at 14000. The property includes the old John Deere homestead and the Haley residence formerly W T Ball.
Wages for Rock Island Railroad workers in Silvis are projected to exceed a million dollars in 1907. Payrolls rose from under 50 000 monthly in 1904 to about 76 000 in December, with continued growth expected as more men are hired. Annual wages for shop and yard workers are forecast around 912 000 plus 88 000 for other Silvis employees, total surpassing one million. M. J. Shelley, a teamster, was fined for disorderly conduct after being arrested for profane language and abusive behavior toward horses.
The American Regalia Co of Rock Teland has closed and filed for bankruptcy in federal court at Peoria. It succeeded the Tri-City Regalia Co in October 1905 after its 1901 formation. Officers listed include President L Hichelsdoerfer Secretary Fred Peterson Treasurer L Bichelsdoerfer and Manager A F B Hichelsdoerfer. Assets and liabilities schedule not prepared.
Deputy Fish Warden Mangan reports a new state interpretation restricting fishing on Rock River to dock and line gear only. He says large numbers of fish are captured and discarded, and he seeks guidance to arrest users of nets or seines, even with mesh as small as 3 inches.
The Pointe Billy Sunday evangelist proposal moves to Moline via the Ministerial Union after a suggestion from a YMCA conference. Local churches weigh the plan and potential guest appearance implications for the community.
At a Monday meeting the Moline Ministerial Union asked its secretary to write Evangelist Billy Sunday to learn his open dates and the proposition he would consider. The effort follows an earlier January 6 meeting at the Y M C A to urge commitment to Sunday and open a campaign if he favors a Moline engagement for 1908. Sunday is then conducting a six weeks revival in Kankakee.
A large circle of Hampton friends attended the funeral of the late Mrs. Jacob Mohr held last Wednesday. Father OConnell of Rock Island officiated at Rapides City Catholic cemetery. Pallbearers included Pater Cena and others. Out of town relatives named.
Plans outline a streetcar route from Thirty-eighth Street to Twenty-fourth Street via Seventh or Fifth Avenue, then north to Third Avenue and west to Seventeenth Street with a turn to Milan Line. The company argues the route is the only feasible path to attract traffic and justify a long franchise.
Denatured alcohol becomes a new farm based product after the tax on alcohol is removed. Victor Murdock and Nahum J Bachelder push measures to allow small farmers to build stills and convert surplus crops into denatured alcohol for home use and sale.
Henry Lau, longtime Moline resident, becomes manager for Mueller Lumber Co. in Moline succeeding Henry Rohwer who resigned January 1. Lau has worked at Mueller for four years as bookkeeper and shipping clerk and is praised by friends for his qualifications. He is the son of Mr and Mrs Henry Lau of 328 Railroad avenue.
Mrs Anna Catherine Denkmann widow of F C A Denkmann died at 122 Fourth Avenue Rock Island from pneumonia after a two week illness. Born March 12 1831 in Germany she came to America as a child and settled in Rock Island in 1863. Survived by two sons six children in total five daughters three brothers and a sister with services held privately at 10 a m from the residence Kirk Chippiannock with Rev C A Beachard officiating and no flowers urged.
Kingston quake stirs Malines people May Lindsay Oliver and Dr Hedley Hall as relatives face the disaster. Oliver’s brother Captain George Oliver, visiting from Jamaica, was due to leave Kingston on January 17 on sick leave and may be affected. Hall has a Jamaica-based brother and worries for family amid the event.
Two valued Deere and Mansur Co employees resign to take effect March 1. C C Gregory, long in charge of sales on cornhuskers, and J W Sells, a credit department return receiving clerk, will leave Moline for farming and apple growing respectively.
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