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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1910
Page
2
Petitions filed in court seek permission to discharge the building loan in full. The creditor notes propose paying noteholders the sum of 130000 dollars to satisfy all claims. The action aims to settle outstanding claims and close the loan.
Court approved a partial distribution to noteholders and stockholders in the Moline Building association. Receivership funds total $141,961.94 with $95,000 allocated to stockholders and a projected additional thirty percent stock payout after asset realization. Hearings set for March 21 to show cause on the petition for final settlement and windup of affairs.
Colonel Durham outlines drawings and estimates for dredges barges and steamers tied to a proposed extra $500000 appropriation for the upper Mississippi river district. If approved work could begin soon with a $350000 equipment outlay and a twelve year plan to complete river improvements.
Local notes recount a fall that injured Clarence Lai a while stacking cornstacks. Several residents including Odell Cray Rohren Hermes and others spent time in Rock Island Watertown and Port Byron. Easter program details and community visits are mentioned amid social updates.
Mrs Fernandt sells her 411 Tenth Street property to Nils Nilsson proprietor of Rock Island lunch rooms on Thirteenth Street. The sale price is $4925 and the deal was negotiated by T W Maher. The property includes a large twelve room house modernly equipped and a roomy front with sixty six feet of frontage.
Easter services will be held at Zuma with a good program under way. Mrs Charles Walthers was called to the home of her daughter in Moline who is quite ill. John Brown has been discharged from hospital but remains weak. Rock River has receded after days of flooding. Mr and Mrs Clint Donahoo and Mr and Mrs Joe Wreath visited the Nicholson home. Willie Filbert and Mrs Filbert spent time with her parents. Mrs Neagh and children visited Port Byron. Sylvester Dailey spent weekend with son Frank who had a lathe accident, seven stitches above eye and on nose. William Filbert and wife, John Daily and wife visited Clyde Wake. Clyde Wake and wife visited Port Byron on business. James Cox visited William Cox and family. George Wainwright of Watertown plans to build a home on his farm. Miss Pearl Mumma, recently ill, is slowly improving. Mrs KE M McMurphy and Alec ...
Young and McCombs of Rock Island certified to the secretary of State at Springfield a change in name to Young and McCombs Cooperative Store Co and an increase in capital stock from 75000 to 200000.
In a tightly contested ward caucus the People's Party ousted incumbent aldermen. John Day narrowly defeated Albin Anderson in First Ward, while James McElhatton toppled Frank Kehoe in Seventh Ward by a close margin. Elimination of two party incumbents shocks the council race.
Reimers tobacco firm will shift to auto delivery with a Maxwell truck set for late month use. Will and Ed Reimers selected the Maxwell after visiting the Chicago auto show, deeming it best for their commercial needs.
The Henry county board agreed to hold plans for a Rock River bridge near Colonel in abeyance after Rock Island county officials urged deferral. Both counties would share construction costs, but finances were deemed insufficient to proceed. John Swank was honored with a gold headed cane for service at the poor farm as resolutions commending him were adopted.
About thirty Davenport members of Company B Iowa National Guard and Spanish American War Veterans were injured when a special train returning from Muscatine collided with a freight grain car near Davenport Foundry and Machine. No serious injuries reported. engine and boxcar damaged as doctors and relatives treated the injured at scene and at home.
The board of supervisors in a special March session ordered the South Moline township annexation proposition be placed on the April ballot. The measure would detach territory annexed to the city in January and attach it to South Moline township, aligning city and township boundaries.
Mary Harrah dubbed financial queen by some west regions was released in Davenport on a charge of defrauding Flora A. Evans of 2000 in a land deal. The judge ruled evidence insufficient for conviction and noted the deed’s status and Harrah’s authority to secure loan instruments in good faith. New fraud claim follows after another suit alleging 2240 loss against International Luna company through secretary Miss Mary Mauwau and others.
A brief Brooklyn Life exchange notes Mrs Crawford questioning joining a club for its object while Mrs Crabshaw explains she has Mondays free with no other plans, the meeting day.
F P Styvaert owner of Reliable Tea Co awards Gust Ed Construction Co a 15000 dollar contract to build a three story block at 1411 Sixth Avenue replacing the earlier two story plan. Ground dimensions are 24 by 32 feet and a concrete foundation will support a brick front with stone trim. The third floor will host a lodge hall while the second floor is for flats and the front houses three club rooms with a rear dance hall. The building is to be ready by July first.
The Rock Island Plow Co board elected S. S. Davis as president and John P. Wey erhaeuser as first vice president. T. B. Davis became second vice president, F. C. Denkmann treasurer, and J. F. Lardner secretary, with major stockholders Phil Mitchell S. S. White F. H. Griggs and Ira Karr selling most shares to new owners Saturday but retaining some stock.
A neighbor comments on Mrs. Byerly’s upcoming home furnishings sale at sheriff sale proceedings next door. The remark reveals tension as the speaker notes a husband’s envy over items likely to be auctioned.
A civic improvement group and the local Stationary Engineers chapter met in Moline to plan entertainment for the state convention of stationary engineers set for May. Delegates will gather May 20 to 21 with events, badges, souvenir cards, a trolley tour, and depots discussed. Fifty to two hundred attendees are anticipated, with headquarters at Manufacturers' hotel and K. P. hall hosting sessions.
Peter Wildermuth Sr a pioneer farmer from Hampton township died at 1 a m Tuesday at his home one mile north of Barstow Diabetes caused his death after a two year decline He was born August 3 1840 in Germany and came to the United States in 1864 He leaves wife Amelia Wandschneider and children Christian Peter Jr August Henry and Amelia plus nine grandsons and siblings Nicholas Philip Chris George and Christine Webber Funeral at 2 pm Friday from his home with Rev Louis Winter officiating burial in the German Lutheran churchyard cemetery
Resolutions of regret on the retirement of D W Misiones of Milan from the board in Mipervigo passed Tuesday by supervisors. Matthews has represented Black Hawk township for six years and he retires to move to Colorado to make his home. The board adjourned.
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