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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1910
Page
3
A damaged OCR fragment mentions a tract purchase and a land sale with vague references to months age and parties. The text is incomplete, offering few names, dates, or concrete facts to confirm a full event or outcome.
The library board decided Monday to buy the E. B. Enorg lot east of the library site on Fifth Avenue. The 40 foot frontage tract costs 6000 dollars at 125 dollars per front foot. Purchase papers will be drawn and transferred once ready to prevent blocking natural light to the library from a future high business block.
Cordova report notes A F and A M lodge No 643 conferred the master’s degree after a special meeting. A community banquet for the lodge at Frank Zimmerman’s home. local church pastor vacancy due to Rev Andrix leaving for St Louis. Also mentions arrivals, clamming crews, and signs of spring with hunting, farming, and improvements.
Mrs H Ma math returns home from visiting daughter Mrs Fred Chidister in Galesburg. Mrs D Y Allsbrow to entertain Baptist ladies Wednesday afternoon. Nicholas Johnson of Andalusia visits his niece Mrs W H Willis. Mr and Mrs L C Trevillyan welcome a new daughter Friday. Frank Ellingsworth returns home from Geneseo after visiting cousin Dr J H Ellingsworth. Mrs Otto Peterson hosting event.
The torn fragmented text notes a gathering at a home with honorees and a celebration. Ethel Pearson of Port Byron attended. Mr and Mrs Tom Bhaffer were guests Sunday with country friends.
A. B. Cox of Bridgeport DL, formerly of Silvis, plans to sell eight business lots on Firet avenue between Tenth and Eleventh streets in Silvis at auction. He previously sold his banking business and brick building to J. Lee Crowder and now runs a growing grocery with his son in Bridgeport, prompting the sale to focus on the new store.
Oscar Fladlein, a reported stranger about 40, was arrested Saturday night in Rock Island on forgery charges. He allegedly passed checks drawn on the Moline Trust and Savings bank in Moline and Rock Island, including a $290 check he used to obtain a $10 loan. He attempted to pass a $2.75 check at a Rock Island hotel before his arrest, after a saloon cashier alerted bank officials.
Henry Frierich, chairman, calls a meeting of the People's City Central Committee for Friday evening. Ward caucuses to nominate aldermanic candidates will likely be Tuesday evening, followed by a convention later in the week to nominate a police magistrate and township officers.
B R Harding begins a contract to lay sewers and water mains in New Shops addition, East Moline. Four and a half miles total, with one trench serving both systems. Six weeks to complete, estimated total cost about $52.
A quirky dialogue excerpt features Jad and Flustra Bite in a playful exchange about suitability for romance. The text centers on perceived coolness and affection, framed as light banter.
In Rock Island County a coroner's inquest found Carl Schultz of Davenport responsible for Elsie Wilhelmina Bufe's death from diphtheria after admitting he lacked a state health license and had not reported the illness. A warrant followed charging him with slaying the child, with the case and related quarantine actions unfolding as officials note a fresh diphtheria case at 555 Eighteenth Avenue.
A sequence of real estate transactions from East Moline Milan and Rock Island areas shows numerous quit claim and warranty deeds. Names include Eckhart Shafer Lundholm Linn Donahoe Mechling Buffum and Carpenter with property across sections in 16 3w 4w and 11 3w and surrounding additions totaling several thousand dollars in value.
East Moline voters will elect three aldermen and a police magistrate on Tuesday April 19 to fill the resignation vacancy of J H Howard. Polling sites are McKaulsky's store 649 Third avenue City hall and Old Dumbeck drug store with respective judges and clerks named by the city council in an election ordinance.
In Moline on June 11 the Six County I O O F Picnic opens with Rev R B Henty presiding. About 500 Odd Fellows from Rock Island Whiteside Carroll Scott Clinton and Jackson counties are expected for the event with memorial services planned for Sunday June 13 and the Orphans' home band joining the parade.
Hampton residents report multiple social stops in Moline. Mrs. Harder and daughter Adelia visited Tuesday, Irene Edelman made a business trip Friday, Mrs. William Whitehead and sister Mrs. Joey Peterson were in town Thursday, and Mesdames Norton Huker and Max were seen in Moline.
Sixty-five Bureau county farmers petition Congress for relief over seepage from the Hennepin canal that overflowed land, injuring hundreds of acres and causing yearly losses. Their attorney is Rolla L. Ruessell of Princeton. Claims range from 500 to 6000 dollars annually, with calls for permanent seepage stoppage. Officials dispute the canal's role. Also Muscatine and Louisa counties weigh 100000 dollar plan to reclaim 45000 acres of swamp lands in Iowa.
In a playful exchange, Johnny asks his nurse if she can walk on her hands or perform acrobatics. The nurse smiles and replies she cannot do such feats, noting she is a trained nurse. Johnny sighs, acknowledging the expectation cast on a nurse.
For fifty years the syrup has been used by mothers for teething children. It soothes the child calms stomach pains and relieves wind colic. A bottle costs 25 cents and is presented as the best remedy for diarrhoea.
A new realty and insurance firm organized by Joe Murphy and Robert Rank with offices planned on the second floor of the Rank building on Fifteenth Street. Murphy resigns from a Davenport post with the New York Central lines to focus full time. Rank splits time with Rank's Fifteenth Street shoe store to manage both ventures. For sale notice of White Wyandotte eggs and birds appears nearby.
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