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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1910
Page
8
Moline overseer of the poor Mr. Golden reports two coal orders issued to needy families and anticipates more as cold weather continues. He praises the King's Daughters circles for extensive help, noting groceries for a family and hospital cost coverage for a member.
Local notes recall George Spangler and Miss Josephine Brandmeyer’s Davenport marriage followed by a Rock Island move. Churchill era weddings include Miss Evangeline Casteel and Frank Head in Rock Island with a formal Trinity church ceremony. Community events feature King’s Daughters circles, birthday surprises for Mrs Gaskill, and a Quincyl wedding tale of Mrs Rachael Spires and William Ertel.
The notice details deaths and services across multiple families. Anna Adelia Berggren of 834 Sixteenth Avenue died at 6 am, born June 30 1884, survived by husband Fred G Berggren and two children Helen and an infant, with funeral at 2 pm Sunday at their home and 2:30 pm at the Free Swedish Evangelical church. Margaret Brady of 1831 Second Avenue died after declining health, aged 61, survived by husband Andrew and several children, with funeral plans not yet set. Additional obituaries include Frank Lepler Leopold son of Mr and Mrs Barry Leopold and baby of 1211 Twenty-ninth Street. Mrs Mary Ostrand who died at 1:30 Sunday, born 1839 in Sweden, with service planned at 2:30 pm tomorrow. Burial details note Riverside and Calvary cemeteries and multiple family survivors across Rock Island and Port Byron communities.
Electric passenger cars will be in service on the Rock Island Southern before Thanksgiving. J W Walah of Davenport announced the plan in the forenoon. Overhead work is nearly finished and turbines at Edwards River power plant are being adjusted. The initial three hour schedule will have cars from Rock Island and Monmouth every three hours.
A notice lists marriage licenses issued to couples including Isaih Reynolds of Molin and Anna Lindy, Clarencé A Boland of Muscatine and Hattie J Moffitt, Axel Swanson of Moline and Eva Johnson of Rock Island, Victor Swanson and Marie Lars ton, John Dunbar and Elsie Huberty, George N Pratt and Julia V Lyons, Nina L Nelson and Olga Lago, and Conrad Johnson and Alice Lundstrom, all from nearby cities.
Board of education members surveyed east end territory to choose a site for a new Ridgeview district school. No decision was made during the tour as members viewed different locations and planned to discuss the proposition at a future meeting.
Notice is given of a stockholders meeting of the Mo Bois Plow Company to be held at the company's office in Bois Dieon. The meeting is called to consider the capital stock and related matters.
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