Moline Building Association reports strong year and new board
The fourteenth annual meeting of the Moline Building and Loan Association shows growth despite a national financial panic. Officers were elected, seven loans totaling 550 were approved, and the surplus rose to 282 32. The secretary notes improved borrower quality, no foreclosures, and steady monthly lending as the board maintains prudent oversight.
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Moline
P. O. Simmon
W. V. Richards
Horace M. Anderson
Samuel Roppenfield
J Carlson
Board of Directors
James Murphy
J J Williams
Richard Payton
Vw Southern Tieteen
Simmon
J W Warr
J J Williama
Bilal
Rotary
Building and Loan Association
Nto
Ill Bertha Clayton Held at Rock Island Armory
The Union reports Bertha Clayton is ill and detained in the Rock Island Armory office of the police department. Local ladies visited her last Saturday and push to place her in an industrial school, backed by her father Mr. Clayton of Moone.
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Beretha Clayton
Union
Bertha Clayton
Rock Island
Police Department
Moline
Clayton
Moone
Consolidation gives People's Company control of Rock Island and Moline plants
The Brush Electric Co Rock Island plant sale to the People's company completes a consolidation of lighting plants in Rock Island and Moline. The deal price is undisclosed but around 200000 dollars is suggested. The move includes plans to speed fuel gas distribution and shift to rope transmission from turbine-driven systems.
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People's Arid Brush Electric and Gas
Maéiine
Rock Island United
People’s Company
Moline
Brush Electric Co
Cleveland
Ohio
People’s Light and Fuel Manufacturing Co
Brush
Rock Island
People’s Co
Brash Co
Riley
First Avenue
Seventeenth Street
Brush Company
R. H MacMullen
Vod Paw Cale Tum
People's Company
Messrs 88S
T B. Davis
Davis
H Deere
C © Nason
Wear
Rock Inland
Scotland
Messrs. Davie
Bank Directors Name New Leadership at Moline National
At the directors meeting Porter Skinner declined reelection as president and HH A Ainsworth was chosen as his successor. H Edwards was elected vice president and C F Hemenway cashier. State Savings bank reelected Porter Skinner as president with Hiram Darling as vice president and C Hemenway as cashier.
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Moline National Bank
Porter Skinner
HH A Ainsworth
H Edwards
C F Hemenway
State Savings Bank
Hiram Darling
C. ‘ Hemenway
Circuit Court opens as Weaver case begins
From the Hyerfog Dispatch the court heard the Sarah Cook case with verdict for the defense on a horse damage suit. Prisoners in the county jail were arraigned. Axel Johnson pleaded guilty to larceny. A plan to open a second branch of the court was discussed but not adopted. The Weaver will case is underway with a jury being impaneled.
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Hyeafog
Sarah Cook
Johnson & Pringle
W. R. Moore
Axel Johnson
Glenn
Mr Gamble
Gamble
Archie Mowry
Deposits Rise as January Interest Remains on Book
The Savings Bank of the City reports a favorable state of deposits with nearly all semi annual interest left on deposits rather than withdrawn. Since mid December new depositors have entered, and panic fears fade in Moline. Building and business money will be ample for summer, with hope of resumed factory work and steady employment.
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Savings Banke
Moline
Christchurch plans 70 foot church site on Eighteenth Street
The Ladies of Christchurch vote to buy 70 feet frontage on Eighteenth Street between Fourth and Fifth Avenues for a new church, rejecting pricier options like the Deere Co property and McKinley lot. The selection notes railroad proximity as a drawback, with a $1750 bid favored as best available.
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Ladies of
Christchurch
Deere & Co
Fifth Avenue
Fourteenth Street
Eighteenth Street
Chicago Inter Ocean Earns Rapid Public Favor
The history of modern journalism notes the Chicago Inter Ocean rising quickly in popularity. In two years its progressive methods and enterprise across departments positioned it at the front rank of Chicago newspapers. Published by H. H. Hysaat, it is unabashedly Republican on national issues and pursues a trusted, enterprising metropolitan line.
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Rea
Chicago Inter-Ocean
Chicago
Pubr
H. H. Hisaat
The
Inter-Ocean
Moline Forum installs officers before 400 in attendance
Moline Forum No 2 held a large public installation of its officers at the K P hall with about 400 present. The ceremony was led by Dr P L McKinnie, officers named include President William Clendenin and Mary E Hussey as Assistant Orator, followed by a banquet and dancing. New membership requests were read, and a short program concluded with remarks and music.
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Zee Te Ee OT
Redlig
Moline Foram
Findlay
Moline Forum
K. P. Hall
P. L. McKinnie
Grand Forum
William Clendenin
Belle
Morgan
D E Cleverstone
A. W Wadsworth Tregsorer
W Odell
E J Baldwin
Q. O. Stafford
Mary EF Hussey
E.L Kerns Porter
Byron T Washburn
O. O. Anderson
George M Miles
A J Leipold
W H Carpenter
Livingston
Clendenin
J H Kerr
Rock Island
T B. Giddings
P I. McKinnie
Mieses Benson
J W Morgan
Mra Morgan
Sexton’s Order Targets Women in Saloons in Rock Island
Rock Island Marshal Sexton enforces a new rule to prevent women from frequenting saloons and rooms above them. Bertha Clayton an 18 year old from Moline was arrested prompting calls for similar action in Moline. Her hearing led to placement in an industrial school and sparked further arrests of local saloonkeepers and a Davenport incident.
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Rock Island
Marshal Sexton
Union
Bertha Clayton
Bertha
Clayton
Bartha Clayton
Adama
J B Q Oakleal
Searle
Girla
South
Evanston
Mra Metzgar
Moline
Charles Parker
Alao
Rock Island Council
Parker
Brownies and Fairies Operetta by Miss Magill In town
The Congregational Sunday School presents Palmer Cox’s The Brownies in Fairy land with Miss Florence Magill. The plot features fairies and brownies battling enemies like the wasp hornet and bee, plus songs and recitations.
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Palmer Cox
Toston
Brownies
Fairies
Dude
Holly Boutonniere
Aesthetica
Florence Magill
Congregational
Ita
Trace Edwarda
Geneseo
Misa Magill
Red Riding Hood
Moline Water Power Co elects officers at annual meeting
The annual meeting was held Saturday afternoon with officers elected including President O. H. Deere. Vice President E. Wheelock, Secretary J. M. Gould. Directors named O. H. Estes J. W. Atkinson J. M. Gould E. E. Wheelock J. W. Good H. Velie B. L. Spencer.
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Watee Power Co
Moline Water Power Co
O. H. Deere
E. Wheelock
J. M. Gould
O. H. Estes
J. W Atkinson
E. E. Wheelock
J. W. Good
H. Velie
BL Spencer
Funeral for Rose Grenell 2 Dies of Pneumonia
The funeral for Rose Grenell, two year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Carey Grenell, who died of pneumonia Sunday night, was held at 230 pm Tuesday from the family home at 620 Fifth Avenue. The Rev. T S Young conducted the services.
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Quick
William Quick
Bessie
Beasie
Bright Little Beasie
MEK
Rev T . Young
Rock Riverview Cemetery
Thomas J Jordon
Myron Jordon
Republican Journal
Orion
Richland
Maine
Ohio
Illinois
California
Rose
Carey Grenell
Fifth Avenue
T .S. Young
Labor Congress Meeting In Rock Island Hall
A large Tri City Labor Congress gathering at Hillier's Hall in Rock Island heard Henry Lloyd's address to the Chicago AFL read and debated. Delegates were admitted, lecturers selected but later dropped. Mendota brewers discussed supplying beer to the tri-cities, and wages on the canal were opposed. Officers elected for six months include Farber as President and Reddig as Financial Secretary, with delegates from Davenport Moline Rock Island and other towns.
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Mendota
Csanol Wagen
Tri-City Labor Congress
Hillier’s Hall
Srook Island
Henry Lloyd
American Federation of Labor
Chicago
Messrs. Compers
Lloyd
Donnelly
Daft
Brewers’ Union
Labor Congress
Congress
Baird
Farber
Davenport
A Lindgren
Moline
Efe Reigler
Moce Jsline
W Reddig
Rock Island
M W _ Battlea
Tansey Davenport
Fred Krotegut
Rockealand
Griffith
Davenort
Hullman
Srutegut
Ock Island
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