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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1907
Page
6
Ministers act to invite evangelist Bully Sunday for a revival campaign with church leaders and prominent men to consent to a formal call. Reverend Story, as secretary of the city ministerial association, urged a January visit and outline of dates and arrangements.
A brief report notes George Grimes married a young Wyoming woman in a quiet ceremony. The article mentions friends and family, describes the couple's plans, and records the wedding date and location with sparse details.
The bride Mae Mannon, daughter of Mrs C Voorhees of Wyoming, wed Grimes with brother Julian Voorhees present. The couple exited amid rice and procession slips, then headed to Chicago and Detroit before settling at 50 Horton Avenue, Detroit after May 23.
The article details preparations for the river boat season with crews, repairs, and routes between Fags Pont and Prairie du Chien. It notes captains, crews, and planned departures from harbor, and mentions marriages and personnel changes among river workers.
Creditors petition led to involuntary bankruptcy for Drake Furniture and Carpet Co of Davenport. Receiver C N Voss of German Trust Co is appointed to liquidate assets. Sale to Davenport Furniture Co at 60,000 is stopped. creditors seek a more favorable outcome as court rules allow further participation by petitioners.
Dan A McGugin longtime Davenport contractor and former superintendent of the first Davenport streetcar line died at his home at 4 30 Friday afternoon of Brights disease and drops. Born May 28 1848 in West Middleton Pennsylvania he moved to Davenport in 1868 and spent 38 years in the area. He served as street commissioner then pursued contracting business with ongoing work awarded shortly after his death. He was married in 1869 and is survived by his widow and two children Morgia and Lawrence D.
A reader quotes a Chicago Tribune remark praising a family timepiece prized for fifty years. The piece notes occasional missed winds but that the clock keeps time for another week by habit, illustrating domestic affection for a cherished heirloom. The page also includes assorted adlike quips about persistence and growth.
Lelly Engel of Davenport died Monday from gas asphyxiation in a new Hancock Avenue residence. Despondency after a broken love affair is noted as the probable cause. Engel, 23, closed himself in a vacant room and turned on the gas. he was found by his parents later that morning with life extinct.
Charles Radden dedicates two and a half acres for a public park in East Moline. The plat, part of Radden's Second Addition, lies south of the addition and is named Radden's Outlets to East Moline. The hilltop park spans 402 by 376 feet, with two streets, four blocks south of the tracks. Citizens wonder when a similar gift will be made to the city.
A rural tale shows Shears and Sawbuck failing to sell in a country store as mail order catalogs reach Possum Run. Jim and a neighbor test commerce by mail and in-person. a hardware merchant, Richard Stout, eventually disillusions them about mail order. The piece uses folksy dialect to critique out-of-town shopping and the limits of catalog buying.
The April session of the board of supervisors adjourned Friday noon after approving resolutions on board of review compensation and bridge funding. Bridges action bans further road or bridge aid without full board action. Review pay set at 3.50 per day. A new plan to publish proceedings nationwide via country papers, led by W D Hall, will have The Dispatch print and distribute to several local papers. Judge H C Ward thanked for aid during interim between judge Parmenter’s death and Judge Olmsted’s qualification.
Albany mounds studied by the Davenport Academy of Sciences will be a major topic at the Iowa Anthropological Association convention in Davenport May 17 and 18. Prof Frederick Starr and J H Parrmann lead the program with papers on Albany mounds, iron specimens, bibliography, regional geology, and a current mound district survey. Samuel Calvin and W H Kimball also contribute, with Thomas Meegan selling his 1621 Tenth Street property to Charles Enberg.
Eighty acres between Thirty fourth and Thirty eighth streets and mouth of MAY in Cady's acre tract, part of the M. Y. Cady estate. John D. Cady and Mrs Skinner heirs own the land. Horstkamp & Sherman put the tract on the market at $650 per acre, with future price increases. Suburban residence sites favored by knolls and planned streets from Sixth to Eleventh avenues. Only Thirty seventh street opened now. later all north south streets will be opened.
William C. Brown senior vice president of the New York Central has been reelected president of the American Railway Association. His long career included roles with Illinois Central at Waterloo Iowa At Wilton Junction with Rock Island and Burlington lines rising to general manager of Burlington in 1896 and later to first vice president of Lake Shore before joining New York Central as president.
Henry county supervisors at Cambridge on April 26 voted to reconsider last week's action on the Weston estate offer. They decided to remove the matter from the state’s attorney and await the September meeting. A new bookkeeping system and broader audit of court affairs were ordered.
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