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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1891
Page
1
Local items detail marriages, relocations, job changes, and civic notes from Davenport, Moline, and surrounding areas. Highlights include weddings of Edna Wadsworth and James Stearnes, Rev Enoch Mead’s birthday tribute, and the Davenport street railway syndicate move.
Grocers sign an agreement to close stores for the entire Labor Day, listing participating firms such as HoL MorRen, ANDERS & Co, JOHN SWANSON & Co, ALLENE & SUNDEEN, Crasre & EFFLAND, R. W. ENTRIM & Co, CO. G. JOHNSON & Co, Ep. Dumison, Jorn Heer, Ose, P.H. PETERSON, and Sveacome Union.
At the First Baptist Church in Moline a reception honored Pastor T S Young and his wife. The program featured hymns, a welcome poem by Mrs A S Wright, readings by five girls, a spoken welcome, and an address by BF W Cook. A mysterious box contained two sterling Moline spoons presented to the couple as souvenirs.
A large morning crowd attended the F M B A picnic at Barstow with a full day of speeches. Robert Bennett of Rock Island spoke on protection and tariffs while E O Rempster of Whiteside county discussed free coinage. Herman Taubeneck delivered the main afternoon address critiquing the national banking system and advocating free silver, currency expansion, and a new party to advance reform.
The Argus reports a Rock Island conference on Monday night where leading Republican figures discussed forming a new party organ. A. J. Blethen, formerly of Minneapolis, is said to be involved, with plans to either buy the Union or start a new Rock Island paper. A committee was named and Mr Johnson was listed with 25,000 dollars.
Alfred Coxsee died at 11 45 at his home 429 Eleventh Street after a long illness from liver cancer. Born December 17, 1811 in Dutchess County New York he lived in Ohio and Knox and Mercer counties before settling in Farmount Park and later Eleventh Street. He married Sara Mallaby 53 years ago and leaves two daughters Mrs I Parks and Miss Sara Coxsee, plus nephew James H. Coxsee. Funeral at 10 tomorrow at his home conducted by Rev A M Stocking.
Two men, one from Mo line, propose a rapid transit across the Mississippi unseen by the public. The plan envisions towers on the riverbank, steamers, and a floating route with detailed work already underway. They claim feasibility and aim to win public support for the project between the two cities.
Fragmentary listing of land transfers and deeds in Rock Island and surrounding areas. Includes multiple lot and tract descriptions with metes and bounds, purchasers, and adjacent additions, such as Greton’s, White’s, Rodman’s, and Willian Dixson’s areas. Names include Peterson, Jane Howard, Abraham Frick, Fred Kotlin, and Christian Hammer among others.
The Labor Day parade committee finished the march order. Davenport and Rock Island will form on Seventeenth Street facing east, with Moline groups forming on side streets. Each street hosts specific floats bands and organizations to join as delegations arrive. Form at 9:30 Monday on assigned streets, Fifth Avenue changes to Sixth Avenue due to street conditions, then proceed east to Twenty second Street and Third Avenue.
Miss Julia E Ilaire of Moline and Mr Frank Yore of Chicago wed unexpectedly at Davenport’s Presbyterian church. The ceremony drew few witnesses before the couple left for Chicago to begin married life. Yore formerly lived in Rock Island and works in the Pullman Car Company office. Ilaire was a popular local figure. The notice ends with an unrelated medical advert for Ayers Sarsaparilla.
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