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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1910
Page
6
Twenty one younger members of the Moline club have circulated a petition seeking a club home. Each member pledges 50 dollars toward a building fund, aiming for 1000 dollars as an initial nest egg. A meeting tomorrow will discuss acquiring property and presenting the petition to directors.
The Rock Island system drafts department will relocate from Chicago to Silvis, adopting a top floor space specially prepared. About fifteen to twenty men will transfer, and the present office becomes an engineers rest room. Payroll climbs to about 78000 in February with 8000 more than last month.
The St. Louis Republican urges widening and lengthening the Keokuk lock on the Mississippi to 110 by 600 feet to admit larger boats like the Albatross and to support the St Paul to New Orleans trade. It argues a 95 by 400 foot lock limits iron works bids and reduces cargo capacity, increasing operating costs.
Republican leaders announced ward caucuses Saturday evening to nominate aldermanic candidates and delegates to the convention. The city central committee fixed the caucus time at 7 30 and the convention for the Fred R Young building on Fifteenth Street at 2 00. Carl Stromberg and Miss Anni Winblad married at Scotlock last Friday at the Salem Lutheran parsonage. They plan to live at 2029 Fourteenth Street.
The 1910 Moline High School senior class will present The Elopement of Ellen as the class play on March 25 in Geneseo. Fifty seven pupils will graduate in June if they complete the final term, with one or two possibly fail due to credits. A complete board of editors has prepared material for the upcoming yearbook to be issued after commencement.
Real estate transfer notice lists multiple conveyances in East Moline, Moline, and Rock Island. Names include Parsons to Hacker, Shallene to Gotettmann, Schaab to MacMahon, McMann Stokes to Meyer, Swanson to Swanson, Suveshe to Kaln, Hoover to Landee, Barry to Theimann, Cordes to Theimann, Rinck to Theimann, Redman to Howard, Black to McNabney, Fischer to Wake, Wake to Fischer, and Berry to Wilmina G, with various lots, blocks, and additions and prices ranging from $1 to $410.
At the Illinois conference annual meeting in Chicago three districts Green Bay Ishpeming and Ogema petitioned to withdraw to form a Michigan conference. The petition was granted and the districts will seek synod permission. Officers elected include President Rev A Linder Genava Vice President Rev August Johnson LaPorte Ind and Secretary Rev S G Hagglund Rock Island.
A witty quip from Puck notes a clerk tallying thirteen hundred licenses for the season as a young man seeks a marriage license to wed the best girl in the world. The remark highlights societal trends in matrimony with humor.
Lena B. Brey announces a new institute to be built at 1330 Seventh Avenue. John B. Freeman will oversee a two story facility with eleven rooms, including a study and patient testing spaces, costing about $7000 to $8000. Completion and opening are planned for July with a driveway linking to Freeman’s home.
William L. Shurtleff of Cubs Iowa died of heart failure shortly after 9 on Tuesday night while walking home to his sister's residence at 1318 Twelfth avenue. He was born May 28 1860 in Rapids City and formerly resided in Cuba. He served as manager of Riley Baylor department store and headed the Cuba village board. he belonged to Woodmen and Knights of Pythias. Burial was in Cubs after an inquest the next day.
East Moline officials pursue a boundary realignment to place the city entirely in South Moline township. A Commercial club committee led by Frank J. Clendenin will circulate petitions to redraw the lines from Thirteenth Street toward Warner's corner to Watertown, moving it from Hampton township to South Moline. A booster banquet is planned to celebrate East Moline's Marseilles Manufacturing Co. acquisition, with possible joint events with Moline club. if not, a local banquet will proceed.
A workingman signs a suffrage petition then halts, mistaking enfranchisement for a vote issue. He leaves after realizing the word means granting rights, not immediate ballots. The anecdote appears in the New York Evening Post as a comment on petition signing and suffrage debates.
Mrs B. Schraeder of 1827 14th Street departed on Tuesday for Peoria to visit her sister Mrs R. Meyer for two weeks.
Phil Mitchell I B White and Ira Karr of Rock Island along with F H Griggs of Davenport retire from the Rock Island Plow Co. holdings pass to the Weyerhaeuser-Denk interests, leaving the former owners out of management. The deal ends two years of transfer and places stock under new control. The investment is praised as preserving a long standing industry in Rock Island and potential growth to a world leading position.
A list of marriage licenses shows A James Boal of Rock Island weds Edith B Fotsch of Muscatine. So Prosper De Smet weds Miss Sarah Codens of Moline. William L Bowman of Moline weds Maggie C Widmayer of Virginia. Charles H Fisher of Moline weds Evander D Taylor of Watertown. Eli Furlong of Artesian 8 D weds Rosena H Hauberg of Hillsdale. John B Furlong of Artesian 8S D weds Ada H Hauberg of Hillsdale. Don Beard weds Bessie Giancy. Fred B Streed weds Aggnessa L Dougherty. Hector Cromheecke weds Helen Denolf. Louin Rommel weds Kittle Kell. Emil Johnson weds Elizabeth Baker. Carl Baade weds Annie Corwin. Charles M Rosas weds Lucy Essex.
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