Augustana plans and budget amid fund drive and staff changes
Augustana College directors discuss a $53 000 budget for the coming year and plan to sell the Paxton farm for about $55 000. They eye Baron Lagercrantz as a visitor, appoint a fund collection committee, and elect Dr M Wahlstrom to the chair of Christianity. Dr C W Foss and Miss Gertrude Housel are noted faculty changes.
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Baron Herman Lagercrants
United States
Moline
Augustana College
Baron Lagercrantz
Gustav Andreen
L.A. Johnston
Joseph Anderson
Augustana
Iowa
Andreen
Theo. Ekblad
Andrew Kempe
Johnston
Chicago
Minnesota
Nebraska
New York
California
Columbia
M. Wahlstrom
Augustana Hospital
Wahlstrom
Gustavus Adolphus College
St. Peters
Minn
Gertrude Housel
Rock Island
Conservatory of Music
C. W Foss
Persia
Augustana Synod
Peru Council Halts Cars of Interurban
Peru city council refused to grant a franchise to the McKinley Interurban electric railway. The decision halts service on the Seneca and Princeton line amid a local dispute similar to nearby issues.
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Beneca
LaSalle County
Princeton
Buroga County
Peru City
Peru
Spring Valley
Rock Island Railway
LaBalle
Makinley
8Nox
Moline
East Moline
Watertown
Rock Island Road
Silvis
Grenell
Seneca
City Council of
McKinley Interurban Electric Railway
Maloney and Moore in Court Clash Over Tax Points
In circuit court last week a dispute between counsel John P fw one y and M. Maloney, Looney’s uncle, and W R Moore prompted a cooling of relations. Maloney interjected with rebukes during Moore’s tax argument, Moore warned he would withdraw if conduct continued, and the session paused before resuming.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John P Fw
M. Maloney
Looney
W. R. More. Moore
Maloney
Moore
Mooe
List of Letters Unclaimed at Moline Illinois Post Office
A weekly notice lists unclaimed mail at the Moline Illinois office for the week ended July 11 1907. Names include A J Brown Bert Boughton John Borgstrom Miss Mary Bartz W L Conrey Miss Dille Miss Anna Inte Robert T Duntels Miss Millie Campbell James J Fredericks T H Gillespie BE Hogatrogm Chaz Johnson L R Johansson Sixten Jacobs Miss Nettle Kennon Fred Lucas Miss Mame A Nelson Mian Neille Owen Frank Path Miss Liser Munt PA Reed George Towers F Williamson W W F Bastman P M
Indifference Cited In Decline Of Moline Band
The colonel blames public indifference for the band's decline and its poor condition ahead of the Springfield encampment. efforts two years ago to fund open-air concerts failed, demotivating members connected to Colonel Kittilsen's regiment. The band faces further disorganization due to local departures.
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Springfield
Moline
Kittilsen
Deere Glare and Hard Luck Endurance Tale on Glidden Tour
The Deere car entered by Deere-Clark Motor Co. of this city faced mishaps on the Glidden endurance run from Cleveland to Chicago yet arrived with a near perfect score in reality. Driver A A House and salesman William G Houck endured a bent steering knuckle a passenger injury a late replacement part and delays but still made Chicago on time. The machine will proceed as a noncontestant hoping for a perfect score certificate if no further accidents.
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Deere
Deere-Clark Motor Co
Chicago
Cleveland
A. A. House
William G. Houck
Poledo
South Bend
Mudt
Bierce
Clark Packard
Deefe
Houck
Gar
Farmers Institute Rules More Strict Under New Law
A state circular from Superintendent Frank H Hall and Secretary H A McKeen outlines district conference dates for the farmers institute season. Key meetings include Galesburg July 18 and Chicago sessions in July with multiple districts listed plus new rules restricting expenses and scheduling under the new act.
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Farmers Institute
Frank H Hall
H. A. McKeen
State Farmers’ Institute
Oalesburg
Farmers’ Institute
Unols Farmers’ Institute
Lodges of Owls Launch in Moline with New Charter
A new order, the Independent Order of Owls, started in Moline with seventy five charter members led by Louis Mayer. Officers announced include President C A Evans and Fritz T Peterson. Initiation fees run five dollars until August. The national group counts about forty eight thousand members with a Decatur state nest and South Bend, Indiana as supreme nest.
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Moline
Owls
Order of Owls Nest
City
K. P. Hall
Louis Mayer
A . Freeman
Decatur
W H. Whittington
Moline Nest
Order of Owls
South Bend
Ind
John W. Talbot
Order of
Camels
Senag
Town Clerk Entitled to Collect 10 Cents in Bounty Certificates
Attorney General Stead says the legislature did not provide for two clerks to issue bounty certificates for crow heads and eggs, so the town clerk may not receive town fees but may collect 10 cents from each applicant. The same applies to the groundhog bounty. a red gasoline law was not enacted though a kerosene red coloring bill was introduced and failed.
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Stead
General Assembly
False Teeth at Spot Where He Jumped Off
Theodore Price a 56 year old carpenter of Muscatine died Saturday afternoon by leaping from the high Muscatine bridge into the Mississippi eighty feet below. He left his coat a note to his family and his false teeth to mark the spot. Despondency is believed to have caused the act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theodore Price
Muscatine
Muscatine Bridge
Mississippi
Cosette Keffo
Price
Invasion of Sweden Singers May Charter Steamer in 1909
Swedish singers from the American Union of Swedish Singers discuss a possible two month tour in Sweden in 1909 after a New York meeting. Western division plans set dates for late May and joint eastern meeting in New York to decide feasibility. Also aims to admit three new societies to the union and notes Minneapolis Norden Des Moines and a Keweenaw chapter. Elsewhere Mrs. Thomas Madison of Seara was struck by lightning, knocked unconscious, revived but severely shaken.
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Old Country
American Union of
Swedish Singers
New York City
Singera
New York
Sweden
Gustavus Adolphus Society of
Minneapolis
Norden Society of
Des Moines
Kewanee Society
Thomas Madison
Seara
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Fors
L. A. Johnston
Boone, Jo
Theo, Ekblad
Ekblad
Dlinois
Little Willie
Ahi State
Bawuae: Bank & Trust Co
Oppreste
Moline Plow Company
Rock Island County
Moline Automobile
Cleerland
Canton
Ohio
Cleve
Leo Lawrence Beauchaine
Davenport
Ireland
Thirteenth Street
Twelfth
Sixteenth
Fourteenth
County Court
Cook and Lake
Briggs
Dixon
Galesburg
Union Hotel
Peoria
National Hotel
Bloomington
Court House
Champaign
Winchester
St. Nicholas
Edwardsville
St. James
Olney
National
Norris City
Patterson House
Cairo
Halliday House
College of Agriculture
Agricultural College and Experiment Station
Far Cig
County Farmers’ Institute
County Institute
County Farmers' Institute
Ahah
Hoo-Hoo
Louie Mayer
the Order
C A. Evans
N H Cederberg
Fritz T Peterson
A. F Olson
George Fitzgibbon
C W. Youd
Frank A. Young
Sentinel
Henry Huyvaert Picket
Roy Abraham
O H Hageness
G. J Stengel
al F Olson Axel Lundeen
L. Bergeren
Thos Welch
P H Eisten
A. Gunnison
J. Vander Venonet
A. Anderson
M Bisant
Henry Vierich
J Stanley H. C Quade
Coyle
H Huyvaert
J Henderson R
Henderso
R. H. Gebhardt
Roy Abraham Louis Mayer
Fitzgibbon c
Carlton H
C Reese
Albert Young
Chas. Morrison
Wm Coyle Jr
R Ammerm
A Young Joseph
Ed Fred Hellgren
L. A
Knowles J. A
Frank Goettsche
Peter DeClerk
Geo F Lambert T
J Ganz
Albert Neiswonder
J M Farnham
Co L. Graves
H. Anderson
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Dick Diamond
al O Johnson
B H Weber
Chas. Goldstein
P A
Anderson Jay Shadle
C A
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L. Poston
John N
Shalhene
W R. Peterson
N H. Cederberg
Wm. Johnson
James We
Carl Johnson
D. W Bousley
Ralph Kitts
T E. Chamiberg
M. W. Poston Jr
Philadelphia Telegram
Carpenter
Girl
Fred Behrendt
History of Singing Union
America
Resla
Inter Ocean
Inter-Ocean
Associated Press
Werntern
New York Run
New York World
Voline Review-Dinsgatch
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