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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1910
Page
5
A longtime allied concern with Desres passes to a plow company as Rosenfield announces retirement and plans to dispose of all holdings. The move signals a full liquidation of the partnership and transfer of assets to the new owner.
Deere and Company announced the purchase of the Moline Wagon Co after weeks of reports. The transfer has been completed and the Wagon plant now operates as a Deere institution. Estimated price ranges from 2.0 to 2.5 million dollars with 15 buildings on eleven and a half acres and about 600 workers. The deal is expected to spur future extensions to meet rising demand and strengthen Deere's trade through its branches.
The Molinie Wagon Co has been acquired by Deere & Co of this city. Negotiations have concluded with stockholders accepting Deere’s proposition. Deere will own the business, as it purchases about seventy five percent of annual output, with policies aligned to ensure growth under new management. W A Rosenfield, President.
William Butterworth states that Rosenfield's departure would end long standing pleasant business relations with Morris Rosenfield and that the acquisition regrets the potential management withdrawal.
Stockholders named are Mrs. Julia Rosenfield widow of the founder and children W A Rosenfield, Charles D Rosenfield, and Mrs. Irene Strauss of New York City. Also several veteran employees and other small holders gained stock opportunities, with others holding modest amounts.
Mrs. Robert Vick a longtime East Moline resident died at 6 30 p m Jan 20 at her Rock Island county home from a stroke of apoplexy She had been ill several days but was able to move about Her husband Mr Vick returned from work and she suddenly complained of numbness then collapsed The service was held at 1 30 p m Sunday at the family residence Rev W S Read officiating Burial followed in a Hampton cemetery She was born Mary Hinsberger March 8 1872 at Hampton Township and died leaving three daughters Elizabeth Esther and Nellie and her mother Mrs Katharine Hinsberger among others.
A bobsled carrying boys and girls aged 10 to 15 collided with a Velie testing car at Seventh Avenue and Forty Fourth Street Rock Island. John Giles Arabella Johnson Ebba Anderson and others were injured lightly or unconscious. Fred Scudder also suffered a crash at Sixth Avenue and Sixteenth Street. Clair Scudder injured Sunday night in a separate incident at Fifth Avenue and Twelfth Street.
Fragmentary dialogue shows a speaker counting time as fear grows. The garbled text hints at clock ticks representing escalating terror and private thoughts.
Burns Construction Co in charge of the Dixon Rock Falls and Southwestern suburban line has let a contract for rails covering forty miles of road bed. Rails will be delivered to stations along the line as work proceeds this summer to avoid delay. The firm has already built from Tampico to Hoop Pole and expects completion at both ends during the season.
F. Downing buys out Fred Downing in Downing Bros. at Silvis and will run the mercantile firm alone. He plans to move to Mildred Montana to open an implement store and fulfill homestead requirements by living on the claim four miles from Mildred. He will be joined by Dave Downing and Arthur Smith as they seek government land adjoining the claim.
Youths and adults were injured in multiple coasting accidents in Moline and Rock Island. Frank Van Damme age 14 broke both bones of his left leg on the Third street hill. William Spalding 21 fractured a small bone in his left leg on Sixteenth street. Fred Scudder injured on the same hill. Several hurt at Seventh Avenue and Forty Fourth Street when a bobbed ride collided with a test car from Velie Co. later identified as a Moline Automobile Co. tear car driven by Frank Salisbury. others suffered head facial and dental injuries. 8 year old Joseph Exner broke his left thigh on Eighteenth Avenue hill.
Special to Moline Dispatch reports charter application filed with the state auditor to form Mechanics and Merchants Savings Bank in Moline with capital of 100000 dollars. W A Rosenfield Henry Fvierich and George S Fitzgibbon named incorporators with Vierich to be cashier. New bank to open by March 15 in the G M Ford building on Fifteenth Street.
The Moline Industrial Home association held its annual meeting on Monday electing officers for the ensuing year. The treasurer reported receipts from Jan 1 1909 to the same date this year at 411469 and expenditures at 286882, with a 1000 reduction on a 14000 loan, leaving 245.87 in treasury. Officers named: President Fred J Smithiger, Vice President J H Wood, Secretary Grant Peterson, Treasurer Oscar Peterson. Auditing committee John Samuelson Rudolph Moenck EB J Grant. Board of directors Fred J Smithiger J Grant Peterson John Peterson B J Grant F G Johnson John Samuelson John Hoeft.
A youth declares love and asks to marry the daughter, while the old man pauses then consents after a motherly check is deemed unnecessary. The exchange reflects earnest affection and cautious family approval in a terse dialogue.
Rock Island county’s first jail from the 1830s, east of Fifteenth Street between Third and Fourth Avenues, built under John W Spencer contract in 1836, and used until 1867 when a new jail arose. The old brick structure, later plastered, served as a residence and faces a master’s sale next month.
Seventy three pupils from the centralized Washington building eighth grade graduated last Friday. Sixty four plan to attend the high school this semester, lifting anticipated enrollment to 408 with spring projections near 420. Principal Nutting expects high attendance as newcomers arrive in spring.
Private John Allen recalls a Georgia bishop who was caught with a shotgun on a Sunday. A church member protested the Sabbath-breaking, but the bishop explained the apostles did not shoot because shooting was bad in Palestine and they went fishing instead.
Dr. J A Udden notes a new comet visible briefly after sunset in Moline and nearby towns. Discovered December 7 in South Africa, it rivals Halley in brightness but lacks a name and clear orbit. The yellow tailed object sits on the western horizon and may remain visible for several days to months as it travels around the sun.
Lee B. Grabbe, longtime Davenport composer and conductor, leaves Davenport for San Francisco to direct Rosner's Hungarian orchestra at the new Orpheon theatre as part of Morse Incorporated shows circuit. He plans to make his home in Golden West.
East Moline reports $138000 in contracted building this year with estimates of $300000 more before 1911. Private residences drive growth as fifty homes were completed and rented last summer, while a housing shortage pushes agents to seek capital for a home building loan association to meet demand.
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