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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1881
Page
9
The Moline Review reports brisk business as Fisk the bargain giver promotes silks carpets millinery and cloaks at Clendenin's and Fisk’s. Wagons, furniture, and clothing deals flood town while the county clerk issued 38 marriage licenses in September and local work crews upgrade Decte & Co’s warehouse.
Community brief items include jury excusal for B Beers Stoh and Lyman Gregory. Medicine ads note Senixr’s Liver Pills and Dr Lindsey’s Blood Searcher. Local births marriages and obituaries are listed with church services. Council election update Ira Wood vacancy and a burglary case yields three years in prison.
AVAGNER announces repair services on the avenue covering electrical issues. The firm pledges prompt assessment and fix work for local residents and businesses seeking reliable electrical mend support.
Wa Scuroxper of Moline announces a sale on Belding Bros Eureka silk at 7 cents per spool and Foster’s ten hook kid gloves at 1.24 per pair. Fall and Winter goods priced in proportion with further reductions possible from a Philadelphia jobbing house offering 1000 dollars worth of underwear at bottom prices.
Andrew Nelson, employed by butcher C W Nelson, pursued a cow into the river along Salter Street and drowned after entering the water. Coroner ruled accidental drowning. burial held Saturday afternoon. Grand Lodge A F and A M convenes in Chicago with county representatives attending.
Marriage licenses issued include Samuel Segridt and Matilda Clavin Harvey Phelps and Mamie Caseel plus James M Weaver and Ada F Williams. A wedding of James M Weaner and Ada F Williams takes place at Taylor Ridge with Rev Irving A Searles. The flood risk rises on the upper Mississippi prompting late winter freeze. Kidney Wort promoted as cure in Knox ville Republican.
The Republic an notes Dr. Morey resigns from the Board of Health as he and his family plan to move to California. His departure leaves a vacancy to be filled by the Mayor, and the doctor will be missed in local social and professional circles. Also mentioned are Hop Bitters as a reputed remedy, and a local organ factory project for the Swede Lutheran Church and the Congregational Church of Amboy, Illinois. B B Beers & Co. are moving their Matson see back to their old one.
A burglar forced entry to the rear of Dart & Gregg's grocery in Rock Island on Sunday night. He fled after shattering a rear window, throwing tobacco plugs at bystanders as he escaped, eluding arrest.
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