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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1905
Page
2
Mr White retires from his current post to accept a position at a state normal school in the East with a salary of 1500 dollars annually. The resignations of staff are accepted as part of the transition.
The Moline High School faculty approved resignations of principal A F Thomas and Latin teacher Mr John A White last Monday. Thomas will study music in New York, possibly dedicating years to the field, while White will join Pennsylvania State Normal School of California at $1500 annually. The board adopted recommendations to hire Elwin Po Nutting for principal at $1400, Arthur Joahne for another role at $900, and Miss Anna Gran for grade teaching at $390.
The Moline Automobile Co an extension of Root and Van Dervoort Engineering reports 52 machines produced and shipped this year with about 200 more planned. The firm credits steady growth to conservative management and notes the plant’s early wariness has given way to expansion as 150 workers are now employed across the related operations.
Orangemen of Rock Island and Mercer counties plan their 28th annual picnic at Little's Grove north of Preemption on July 12. Speakers include J Searle and Dr Joe Bell with JP Johnston as president and Foa ter Attstrong in charge. trains connect from Mercer county.
A new opera house was built in a night on Third avenue for Moling. Architect Sidney Lovell of Chicago did not oversee the process and the structure, holding 1400 seats, appears more like a playful mockup than a planned building. Contractor Ao Srouffer used a large dry goods box and abundant black paint to form a humorous display with painted pillars and windows. An American flag flies above the doorway as the adjusted facade stands proudly.
The Augaurtana code meeting elected Dr Johnston of St Poorer Ming as chairman and Rev J A Anderton of Boone as secretary with A Anderton of Bank Island as treasurer. Tyenday Sey announced. The fall term plan included Dr Thier of St Poorer Ming to chair physics and chemistry. A leave of absence was granted. Lindburg was reelected vice president. Music department staff listed: Toane, Emil Larsen, Christian De Spchlagel, and Miss Cervin and Deugherty.
About fifty attendees, evenly split between Republicans and Democrats, heard C J Searle speak in the Fifth ward Saturday evening. Dr Tremblay chaired and endorsed Searle, whose speech echoed a previous Rock Island address. No campaign committee organized. Allen club managers report seventy five percent of ward Republicans have signed, with the rest likely to sign soon.
Swartz planned a balloon ascent at Black Hawk Tower drew record crowds with 11 000 attendees among three cities. The balloon failed when ropes were severed and gas bag launched on its own. no basket found. A second ascent is planned Sunday with crowds still enjoying the grounds and riverfront festivities.
Hon Chester W Church of Chicago filed with the circuit clerk the articles for the Rock Inland and Monmouth Railway Co in Rock Island. Engineers are surveying from Rock Island to Monmouth with a decision on construction after completes the two thousand dollar survey.
Secretary of State James A Roe issued a license to incorporate the Moline Theatre Co of Moline with 60 000 capital stock to operate amusement entertainments. Incorporators are Charles P Skinner Elmer D B Morgan and William A Meese. The new play house in the Chamberlin Kindt circuit will be operated under this name. The company is incorporated under Minnesota law with local men as incorporators.
Moline residents mark eighteen years of free delivery with veteran carriers Oscar Hanson and Billy Baker still at work. The column notes dozens of departures for visits and vacations from Rock Island to Michigan and Wisconsin, weddings in Dixon and Davenport, and trips to Minnesota and New England, along with local society events and family milestones.
A surprise wedding took place at 5 p.m. Saturday at 813 Eighteenth Avenue. Andrew Johnson and Hattie M. Abraham were married by Rev. Paul Brown with only immediate family present. Johnson, known as Andy, works as a machinist at Arsénal shops. The bride is described as a fair and accomplished young woman.
A Cox family reunion will run for a week at Campbells Island starting Wednesday August 16. The planning committee met at H S Coxs home Monday and set the dates Thursday August 17 as the reunion day. Last year 150 family members from Moline and nearby areas attended and the event was deemed so successful it becomes annual. 260 attended last year and interest is expected to grow.
Sieman Mier of Rock Island recently cut his abdomen and was taken into custody. At county court on Wednesday afternoon Judge Parmenter ordered him committed to the Watertown State Hospital for insanity caused by excessive drinking. The act followed police station detention and concern over his mental state.
Burlington announces the noon no 9 northbound and no 10 southbound passenger train will resume July 17, serving Moline with midday arrivals and improving connections at Galesburg to Des Moines. The service, cut during retrenchment, was saved by a large local petition and is expected to boost local merchants and regional travel.
Cattle receipts for the day reached 27,000 with mixed grain bids. Quotations show corn fed steers at around 6.15 and midweights near 3.70 while oats and timothy prices appear in scattered figures.
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