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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1910
Page
5
Deere and Co offers to surrender a 150 feet square lot at the northeast corner of Fifth Avenue and Fourteenth Street currently occupied by Barng-Se. The move signals a possible property settlement or restructuring of the site.
Expenditure of 500000 for Roof Garden Grill Room Ball Room and features to abandon present site. A 600000 pew Manufacturers' hotel is being considered with six stories and 160 or 200 rooms. Location may be southeast corner of Fifth Avenue and Fourteenth Street facing new city hall and near future rail loop. Plans could start in summer with opening around January 1912.
Davenport Woman's Club hosted baritone Alexius Baas with accompanist Miss Notavena Steck in a diverse program featuring love songs Wagner and Schubert, a dramatic reading of Poe's The Raven with Max Heinrich's score, and an invitation to join the Davenport and Moline clubs. The performance drew praise for Baas's voice and Steck's artistry and left the audience eager for a future Schumann recital.
A new panel of jurors was drawn in the county court to serve in the circuit court. Jurors report next Monday to Judge F D Ramsay. Names include Zuma Alvah Sear Millard White Ed Frels Eugene Dunbar Cordova Jesse Reynolds Ira Scott Lewis Robinson Wilbur Allen Herman Winterfeldt Vere Woodward H Allen Clark Corbin Phil Hermes Bert La Grange John Oltman Aryld Hogberg C V Danielson John McEntry M Lamb D W Hunt Charles Ogden Anetrone De Donker A S Thompson A D Gustafson William Swan J D Collier George Bratten L B Drifill Hans Clemann Otto Evers J A Teska G W Tanner Roy Drifill P F Barth Carl Adams E C Clevenstine O Wittick J B Porteman William Hofer Elmer A et
The Wennerberg chorus of Augustana college performed at Minnesota Governor Eb erhart ts capitol reception in Saint Paul on March 10. The group sang The Star Spangled Banner and a Swedish piece to more than 800 at First Lutheran church, with encores and strong praise for violnist Miss Ethel Wade and soprano Miss Esther Pearson.
Rev R W Gammon outlines two year dry period in Decatur at three gatherings detailing tax impacts. He cites minimal tax rise, boosted school spending, growth in ice and hotel trade, new housing, and expanded business capital while arguing saloons hinder progress and crime, gambling, and open Sunday issues declined. Galesburg and Danville examples support dry success and political reform.
Illinois rural schools advance in sanitation and seating with 116 diplomas awarded in 13 counties. The state department inspected and found half the schools met requirements, showing progress from outdated seating to graded sizes and improved cup and sanitary facilities.
A bill for divorce filed by Mra Bessie L. Thorpe through Schriver & Schriver alleges Arthur Thorpe deserted his wife about two years ago and subjected her to cruelty. It claims a severe beating fractured two ribs. The couple wed February 18, 1907 in Rock Island.
Oscar Oberg, longtime clerk at Jericho's drugstore on Fifteenth Street, closed a deal Monday to buy the College Pharmacy at Thirty-eighth Street and Seventh Avenue, Rock Island. The sale, to be completed for between $3000 and $4000, ends his tenure at Jericho and transfers ownership to Oberg from C B Marshall of Seavie Marshall.
A banner sale of draught stock was held March 10 at Snyder stock farm near Preemption. Thirty five horses sold for an average of 248.50 with top price 317 and prices down to 200. Dewrose and Miller purchased a team for their ice business amid marked quality.
David Hamilton a 65 year old retired farmer formerly of Orion died Saturday afternoon in the county jail after being jailed for four days on a disorderly conduct charge. Death was due to alcoholism. He had traveled the drink route since settling in Rock Island four years ago. He is survived by his widow and a family, but he was separated from them.
Mrs A H Joseph of 2531 Seventh Avenue was badly hurt Saturday afternoon in Davenport after slipping on stairs in a store. She broke both bones of her left leg above the ankle and declined hospital transport. Dr A H Arp dressed the wound and she was returned home by Davenport ambulance.
The council approved an April 5 city town election with 17 precincts and lines aligned to the board of supervisors. Voters will decide on $100,000 in bonds to build a city hall on Fifth Avenue and Thirteenth Street, with 100 bonds of $1,000 each at 6 percent over 20 years. The council also debated union demands for higher pay tied to new franchise ordinances for the Tri-City Railway Co.
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