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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1910
Page
5
The Waes convention concludes its last session with substantial business completed. Members debate party strategy as the labor and referendum questions loom for the 1911 report.
Edwin R. Wright reelected president of the Illinois Federation of Labor at its 1911 Springfield session. The gathering debated a brewery visit, endorsed Nobility and compensation bills, and backed a state labor party while voting to organize bricklayers under the AFL against the International union.
Oct 19 Zuma residents celebrate the fifteenth wedding anniversary of Mr and Mrs Jud Wainwright. Neighbors hosted a surprise for William Filbert and wife amid moving to Watertown. Local events include a crystal anniversary, a creamery drive, a Rose Hill aid chicken fry, and a Crescent Telephone meeting in Port Byron. Several families attend farewells and receptions in Zuma and nearby towns.
Inspirational lines urge strength goodness and purity as the right endures while all else is false pretense attributed to Longfellow with emphasis on noble conduct.
The Minois branch convention begins at 9 30 with state officers and adds Miss Beth Howard as state treasurer. Reports from White Side Jo Davies and twenty circles highlight charitable and benevolent work, with Howard’s financials showing receipts 118305 and disbursements 97211 and a balance of 210.94.
Two boys James Smith 11 of this city and Gilbert Lancaster 13 of Silvis are in Chicago police custody at Harrison street station after running away a week ago. They say mashed potatoes at home drove them to travel and they survived on ice cream sodas and a big box beside the river before deciding to return to school.
Emily Dickinson lines express small acts of kindness that prevent sorrow and soothe pain. The piece reflects a humane ethic valuing helping others over personal gain.
A fallen tree near Twenty third Street toppled telegraph poles and tangled wires with interurban trolley lines, halting Burlington tracks and delaying Huntington Road trains. Electric crews work to remove broken lines and restore service after noon.
At the annual meeting of the Scan dinavian Temperance union officers presented their annual reports and election of officers was postponed to the next meeting. John Johnson of the Swedish Evangelical Free church is secretary and Magnus Olson is treasurer. The treasurer reported the society in good financial condition with Rev Carl Vingren as president and Rev N P Glemaker as vice president.
J. Ferguson, county superintendent of schools, was elected president of the Military Tract Teachers' Association at a Saturday meeting in Macomb. Attending were Superintendent B. B Jackson of Moline and a delegation of Moline and Rock Island teachers, with Jackson speaking on industrial training and the cooperative system between Moline manual arts school and local factories.
Journeymen barbers in Rock Island vote by two thirds to close shops on Sundays. The Sunday closing starts on the first Sunday in November, leaving three cities with no union seven day shops. Davenport and Moline previously adopted Sunday closing amid opposition from some nonunion barbers.
Patrick Mullane has purchased two investment properties in the residence district. He paid 6000 for each piece. One is the Schultz property on Seventh Avenue facing Fourteenth Street, 60 by 150 feet. The other is the Runge property between Fifteenth Street and Sixteenth Avenue, 356 by 220 feet, previously owned by William Runge and then Dr W O Beam. Both parcels include a house.
Second crops are still growing on Rock River bottom due to ideal weather. Greim picked a lot of fine new strawberries this morning, as good as June. Also gathered radishes and a few string beans, all looking clean and fresh.
A transfer of license and continued cases against saloonkeepers are reported. Edward Van Daele fines total $50 plus costs for keeping his saloon open on Sunday as prosecutors press separate venue changes for William Schmidt and E W Wolstencroft. Arthur De Loof's case is dismissed due to owner identity confusion. John Ingwers holds the license after De Loof’s Belgium departure. Continued cases and venue changes set for 9 a m Wednesday in Justice Wheelock's court.
A Rock Island 21 month old child of Mr and Mrs C E Nelson at 1222 Thirty eighth Street is reported as a victim of infantile paralysis. Doctors say the case is not acute. The note recalls that there has never been a case of infantile paralysis in Moline. This Nelson child is the third in Rock Island’s history.
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