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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1910
Page
5
A 40-acre tract was purchased including the site on Beli Ge 13th Street and south of Milwaukee, with plans to erect four buildings at a total cost of 208000 dollars.
The Mar geilles Manufacturing Co. will build a $200,000 plant in East Moline with four brick buildings facing Thirteenth Street. Ground of ten acres near Milwaukee tracks is bought from East Moline Sand Co. and will employ about 300 workers. Paving pledges and rail connections are arranged, with completion aimed by late summer and operation by August 11.
Rock Island County Humane Society met in the courthouse with B B Fisher presiding. George Ellman newly named humane officer reported on methods used in field work and said he began duties March 1. He will be in the society rooms 10 30 to 12 and 4 to 5 30 daily and can be reached at the sheriff's office. The group plans an office with Associated Charities at 637 Seventeenth Street. The ladies auxiliary will meet there as well. Public cooperation urged in reporting cases.
A venire of petit jurors was drawn March 3 in the county court and given to the sheriff. The new panel reports for circuit court service on March 7. Names include Cordova B P Smith J W Satlows Hampton Walter Grey Henry Wiltermuth Steve Odell James Mills 1 8 Schafer Moline Charles Berglund Gunner Berg F G Jamieson Louis C First Harry Lee John Leaf W H Christi son 8 F Stewart Eli Thomas G E Axelson Charles Cornwall Sony Beat ty Axel Olson Otto Bensenberg South Moline J T Gorman Rock Yeland James B Green W B Barker Ans Anderson J W Parks R H Robb Herman Seidel J D Beecher E C Eberhart William Lyons Henry Wynes Thomas Bantes Clyde Ebert Black Hawk Walter Griffin George Garman Coal Valley Irvin Hamer Robert J Bailey Buffalo Prairie N G Elliott W M Mahaffey
George Ahrens returns to Moline Tool Co to take full charge of sales. Wilson P. Yunt, secretary and general manager, will reduce shop duties to focus on shop work. The company was organized in series of events around March and April with Ahrens previously connected though not active.
H L Wheelan Rock Island representative says the main flaw is a 75 percent recall petition. he preferred 40 percent and argues the two year terms lessen risk of bad governance. He notes recall exists in Los Angeles and impeachment remains possible, praising the bill overall as better than expected despite limited public interest.
Governor Deneen appointed J B Oakleaf of Moline as public administrator for Rock Island county. He succeeds his son J L Oakleaf who held the post since February 107. Duties include settling estates where no executor is named and no relatives live in the state.
The March 14 meeting of the Board of Supervisors will consider paying county clerks two cents per tract and parcel extended on the tax books. The fee, charged to townships, is expected to yield about 2400 dollars, with county funds absorbing the clerk’s fixed salary of 2000 dollars. The change shifts the cost of extending taxes from county to townships.
The Wennerberg chorus of Augsburg College begins its ten day Minnesota tour led by director Prof Peter Johnson. Twenty singers perform with violinist Ethel Wade and soprano Esther Pearson, visiting Clinton Lake City Spring Lake Cannon Falls Red Wing Minneapolis St Paul Chisago City Stillwater and Eau Claire from March 4 to 12.
Prosperity boosts East Moline industry as Union Malleablio Iron Co reports a 20 percent gain in tonnage for the year ending February 28. Improvements include two new annealing ovens and a rail truck system. Midland Motor Car plant operates at full capacity with over 200 new workers and two shifts after renting the American Harvester Co building for storage and assembly. An order for 100 Model K cars at $2200 each is underway.
The article outlines how township high schools operate within sixty one districts, noting petitions address to township treasurers, the fifty voter signature threshold, and voting rights. It states women cannot petition or vote to establish a high school or to issue bonds, but women may vote for school board members. It explains multiple townships can form a township high school and that a special election is used to submit the establishment question, with trustees conducting and certifying results, after which the high school board governs and trustees’ duties end.
A jury in circuit court awarded $6,000 to Charles Larson as administrator of Albert Erickson’s estate for injuries from an February 1907 accident at the Twenty-fifth street railroad crossing in Moline. Erickson lived near the Rock River bottoms by the Moline bridge. suit was against the Rock Island road for $10,000. Carl Anderson, the Molne boy under embezzlement indictment, was released on bond of $5,060 posted by his mother and ten friends.
Moline lodge of Elks elected officers on March 3. Harry Williams chosen Exalted Ruler after a career through nearly all chairs. Other officers include J Grant Peterson as Esteemed Lecturing Knight and Carl Mueller as Esteemed Loyal Knight. Delegates named to grand lodge and state conventions. Installation set for April 7.
Thies Nagel recalls Davenport winters with 1856 as the coldest. He notes Dr Gravert returned from Pennsylvania on April 24 or 23 while river ice remained. On March 21 Antoine Le Claire lost a $5000 bet to a man who crossed the Mississippi on ice with horse and buggy the day before the ice route was judged.
Louis 8. Kigman a Peoria farm implement maker filed a bill for divorce on grounds of desertion. He alleges Evelyn Kingman refused to live with him in a Peoria hotel as their three year marriage deteriorated after she barred him from her room and left with her clothes. The couple had recently reconciled in a hotel only a month earlier amid prior separate maintenance settlements.
Joseph Kelley of 1404 Ninth Street resigns as foreman of the foundry department at Union Malleable Iron Co after thirty one years with the firm. He began as a molder in 1879 when the plant stood on Third Avenue west of the Molfny Wagon Co. In 1891 he became foundry foreman, serving nineteen years with credit and company approval. Mrs. J M Wood travels to Kirksville Missouri to visit a critically ill mother.
Five charity workers report at New Har per on Friday afternoon before the regular board meeting. The house committee awarded the contract force for the month to J ce Shields of Rock Island. Beds were ordered for the boys dormitory and a spring find for the girls dormitory. Plans discussed for Quangop College walks between $3059 and $4000. The committee aims to cover running expenses with pledged funds and energize the home project.
Contempt charges against Charles H. Adams of Moline for failure to pay alimony and child support were continued, with the judge noting a chance to pay about 150 dollars in arrears. If Adams shows effort to make the deficit, the action may be dismissed. otherwise he faces penalties for defying the court order.
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