Republican City Convention nominates Gripp for mayor
At Skinner Annex the Republican city convention endorsed a full ticket headed by Henry J. Gripp for mayor with a strong slate of officers and assistants. Gripp won on the first ballot with 55 votes. John Sundine chaired the meeting and did not seek chairmanship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry G. Gripp
Skinner Annex
John Sundine
P. H. Weasel
L. C. Blanding
Dr. Wessel
L. M. Magill
George W. Johnson
J. B. Oakleat
Frank W. Anderson
Henry J. Gripp
Ralph W. Entrikin
Aaron Abraham
Thut
Gripp
Man loses both legs in Burlington accident near Orion
Charles Holmberg a former Moline resident was found between a Burlington line right of way near Orion with both legs severed and bleeding. He is hospitalized in Galesburg with poor prospects for survival. He cannot be certain of how injuries occurred, though investigators suspect a collision with southbound train No 560.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blad’s
19Th
Burlington
Orion
Galesburg Hospital
Charles Holmberg
Moline
Galesburg
Holmberg
Burington Road
Railroad Avenue
Herschel Caverly
Gust Blad
Coleman & Schultz
Enth Street
Moline Hospital
Blad
Hillsdale Farm Purchases and Local Notices
Buyers Alvin Frels Mrs Antha Walker John Liphardt purchase parts of the John Walker farm totaling 280 acres with the old homestead and house. Tom Walker visited Rock Island. Ed and Mrs. Stuart celebrate first child. Fraternal Reserves recruiting. Miss Winnie Colegrove visited East Moline. Enterprisean ladies hosted a hen party for charity. Prof Reading’s class entertained at Erle. Easter practice set. Wm Orr Jr Peoria visit. Jack Allen Erle businessman guest. Local social, church and lodge activity noted with community updates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hillsdale
John Walker
Alvin Frels
Antha Walker
John Liphardt
Tom Walker
Rock Island
Ed Stuart
Mr. Jackson
Katherine Fitzgibbon
Buda
Winnie Colegrove
John Colegrove
Charles Wake
East Moline
the Enterprise Anl
Kerr
Lula Rathburn
Paul Loremx
Woodman Lodge
Hilledale
Rude
Aerate
Senate
Wm. Orr Jr
Local Briefs Sketch Hillsdale and Nearby Arrivals
Linville Hillsdale notes include several visitors and moves about the area. Robert Adams of Erie handles land taxes in White Side county while Mrs. George Liphardt of Milan visited last week. New baby born to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Biehlmeler. Stella Woodburn visiting. Wm. Hopps of Savanna spent Sunday in Hillsdale. Arthur Browning and family from Port Byron spent weekend with local relatives. Emma Sells working for Mrs. Emma Donahoo. Homer Sells operated for rupture Sunday with Dr Arp of Moline performing the surgery. Roy Dalley bids farewell before moving to Denver, Colorado. Rev. A. A. Waters spoke on China. temperance sermon next Sunday at 7:30 p.m. Rosa Cole in Davenport promoting millinery business. A. O. Baron heads to Canada as car arrives. Walter Scott works for Fulton Journal this week. Ollie Moody and two children return to Nebraska after two weeks here. Fern David visiting relatives in town. Charles Tanner buys 18 acres from John Liphardt. Mrs. John Cooley entertained her Chicago-bound brother, Mr. Smith, for a few days. Miss Bliss of Clinton visiting cousins C. Markee and Mrs Hudson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
Robert Adams
Erie
Svening
Whiteside County
George Liphardt
Milan
Charles. Biehlmeler Ae
Mra
Stella Woodburn
A. A. Waters
China
Rosa Cole
Davenport
A. O. Baron
Canada
Walter Scott
Fulton Journal
Ollie Moody
Nebraska
First Congregational Church Budget Amended for 1907
At the adjourned annual meeting the church cut the 1907 budget to about 6100 and reported pledges totaling 586 toward receipts. Organ rebuilding proceeds at Marshall Bennett with 2000 entrusted to trustee Fred J Savage. Word links anonymous donor to Mrs Sarah Atkinson, now ill at Tri City sanitarium. Debt on the new church and furnishings falls to 6600.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marshall-Bennett Company
Fred J Savage
Sarah Atkinson
Tri-City
Miller 64 Year Old Civil War Vet Alex Miller Remembered
Belated notice from Moline friends recalls Alex Miller a Cloquet veteran of Battery D First Wisconsin Light Artillery who died aged 64 his funeral held March 6 under MasonIc auspices. He served at Antietam Gettysburg Shiloh and other battles and was a Graham post member with Doric lodge Masons Modern Woodmen. He worked at a sawmill earlier in Molines and spent time in Tipton Iowa and Croquet Minnesota.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Graham Post
Doric Lodge of Masons
Alex. . Miller
Sawfiler
Diock, Gould & Co
Miller
Moline
Croquet
Minn
Tipton
Towa
Cloquet
Hig
Masonic Order
Doric Lodge
Modern Woodmen
Albany
N. Y
Tinda Light Artillery
Antietam
Gettysburg
Shiloh
Cloquet City Hall
William
May
Explosion Injures Sherman Baker at Purifying Plant
A gas plant explosion at the Tri-City Railway Light Co purifying house at Fourth street seriously burns Sherman Baker, who survived by turning away from the blast. Firemen and factory workers contained the fire. Baker is hospitalized, study confirms no negligence and recovery expected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tri-City Railway
D Light Co
People’s Power Co
Fourth Street
Sherman Baker
Baker
City Hospital
No. 3
Old Ladies' Home Association Secures Montgomery Property
The Old Ladies' Home association of King's Daughters completed negotiations to acquire the Jers ial Montgomery property on 14% street for a home for elderly women. Occupancy expected by April 1 with applications in progress and a matron secured. The site near Long View Park offers a quiet location away from business streets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Old Ladies’ Home Association of
King’s Daughters
Jers@ial
Montgomery
Nock Island
Holme
Long View Park
Watertown Asylum Seeks State Funding and Farm Expansion
Dr. W. B. Taylor of Watertown hospital urged Illinois legislature committees in Springfield to fund the Watertown asylum for two years. Top requests include a sanitarium for aged insane patients and money to buy farmland for a model farm and agricultural experiment station. Senator Landes aided the effort before the committees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. B. Taylor
Watertown Hospital
Illinois
Springfield
Watertown Institution
Landes
Watertown
Taylor
George Hutton Dies of Delirium Tremens
George Hutton, longtime porter at Frank Blackwell's saloon and former Plowman Publishing Co. printer, died at City Hospital on Friday from delirium tremens. He appears to have no relatives in the area, and his body is held at the Fo gelstrom & Danielson undertaking rooms. He was a man of about middle age.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Hutton
Frank Blackwell
Old Plowman Publishing Co
Fogelstrom & Danielson
Pest smallpox outbreak centers on Elliott Parks family
Dr Crawford, state health inspector, reported ten smallpox cases in the Elliott Parks family in South Moline. He found no new cases elsewhere and urged strict quarantine for two weeks, fumigation of the Parks premises, and health monitoring. An order barred milk or produce sales from the infected district and restricted entry to the city until further notice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crawford
State Board of Health
Moline
South Moline Townsale
Elliott Parks
Erie
John Wecker
Crawford Belves
John Weckel
South Moline Township
P. H. Wessel
R. Cc. J. Meyer
Meyer
Davenport Saloon Suicide by Carbolic Acid
A man identified only as Hogan, a Swedish-speaking worker on the Rock Island road, committed suicide in a Davenport saloon at Second and Iowa streets. After ordering two beers he drank carbolic acid and died within fifteen minutes, with no motive found.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hogan
Davenport
Rock Island Road
Second
Iowa
Mrs Hannon Appointed Deputy Grand Chief in District 18
Mrs Mary L. Hannon of Erie has been appointed deputy grand chief of district No. 18, Pythian Sisters. The district includes temples in Erie Prophetstown Morrison Fulton Sterling Dixon Cordova Port Byron Thomson Savanna and Moline. The deputy's duty is to visit each temple this year and arrange the district convention to be held in June.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary L. Hannon
Erie
Pythian Sisters
Prophetstown
Morrison, Fulton
Sterling
Dixon
Cordova
Port Byron
Thomson
Savanna
Moline
Also Mentioned on This Page
Henry Gripp
Carlson and
Shallberg
Oscar Bohman
C. G. Hogberg
Bluff Marchant
D. Thlop
Charnexs G. Carlton
Alty
G. A. Shaillberg
Oscar
C. G. _Hogberg
C. BH. Whiteside
R. W. Hamilton
G. Swanson
Agnentor
L. Palienon
Hector—Bates Oak
Aldermett
Birat
Swan Topp
Y. Johnson
H.C
W. A. MacBeth
Ae Wars
Dr. Wersel
Johnson
Abraham
Fourth Ward
C .Q. Carlson
J B. Oakleaf
A. H. Arp
G. A. Shallberg
Oscar T Bohman
Moline Trust and Savings Bank
LC Blanding
C W Wright
Harry Haley
E. Whiteside
Frank P Hall
G Q. Swanson
Albert Ed
R. W Hamilton
L. M Magill
Ta. Whiteside
Mamilton
Ewanson
Wiigat
L. P Nelson
H. T. Grotegut
Peter Fling
Fritz Hedis
Henry Swanson
A. H. Kohler
Swan
Uxhiberg
C. J. Darimark
F. P. Hall
O. F. Anderson
Warde
Bling E
Swanson
Wing
Dauverg
Draggista
Wiliam and
Joh
Humphreys
Dragighilé
Manabe Wa
Witham & Joba Ma Ht
Walsh
Sacawa
Gusien
Dav
Chas. Holmberg
First Congregational Church
Alex
Smead
No. 3 Station
James Trevor
Fifth Street
J S Gillmore
Lem Carr
Clyde Spaid
H . O. Johnson
Academy
John Huntley
Daniel Hipper
Methodist
Frank Garnett
Chas Sichinger
Wm Filbert
Lyford
Osborne
Chas Heald
Elmer Pape
Princeton
Samuel Schafer
Garrett
John Earhardt
Katie Friend
Geo. Hunt
Cans
Armstrong
Cynthia Noah
Port Burop Academy
Robert Hunt
George
Rebecca Edwards
Alster
Simon Michaels
George Wainwright
Freda Zeller
Albert Heeren
Ralph Filbert
Jack Letson
Alden Sutherland
Swan Swans
Watertown Asylum
State Boarch of Health
State Savings Bank É» Trust Company
Moline Plan Co
Third Ave
Fifteenth Sts
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