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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1910
Page
6
Washington posts new quarterly rates for lock boxes at the Moline office based on higher gross receipts. Small to extra large boxes see increases with a 20 cent key deposit and no combination keyless boxes in the new building. Notices issued to holders. payments due Sept 20 to Oct 1.
Hillsdale residents report social visits and travel including Rev Morton and wife hosting a Zuma Aid meeting with 48 guests. Schuck returns from the north, Eckholm attends Princeton fair, others go to Morricon fair, Main Street cement walks begin, and several families visit relatives in Erie and Ohio.
For months Moline readers praise Dean's Kidney Pills with proof of merit. C M Fisher of Rock Island recalls relief from kidney trouble, backache, and loins soreness after using one box at Jericho's drug store. He reports full recovery and no further attacks. Sold by all dealers 60 cents. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY sole agents. Remember the name Doan's.
Victor Norton of Henry county was killed in an accident at Hazen Nevada on Sept 6 and his funeral in Cleveland drew a large crowd. Reverends Thompson of Silvis and Smith of Cleveland led services at the Methodist church with burial at Dayton cemetery conducted by Clement Lodge Ma sons.
Cordova reports a two month visitor John Forsythe returning to Canada. Miss Annie Robeson teaches at Williams district. block of concrete walk ordered to the central phone office. Elmer Simpson’s short visit from South Dakota. Harry Tavener and wife visiting in Cordova from Missoula. Charles Applebee and wife visiting from Chicago. Mrs Titterington nursing at Williamson home. Curtis family return to Randolphia after a week. FOA Williamson dies after eight months of Brights disease. widow and daughter Gussie Simpson and son Ray survive. Burr Oak Camp and Knight Templar member. barn struck by lightning on Jacob Marshall farm burning with hay and oats. cattle saved.
Zuma notes show Rev Martin will preach his final sermon of the year before conference. He met Mrs Albert Heron on Wednesday of last week. Next gathering planned with Mrs Bath at Rapids City. Zuma School opened Tuesday with sixteen scholars taught by Edna Mumma. Various local visits, shopping, and social events are recorded, including Ed Wainwright, Gene Dunbar, and the Dailey family. Mr Wells to move to Nebraska after purchasing a 640 acre farm. many neighbors attended gatherings and aid society events.
A stray shot from Nels P Olson hit a fence post at Camp Pope near Black Hawk's Watch Tower, fatally injuring a farmer's horse grazing in a gulley. The incident prompted a report to national guard authorities in Springfield and possible range closure. The farmer seeks 225 damages, with state payment likely and a possible arbitration board to settle the amount.
Secretaries of the Hereford Shorthorn Galloway and Aberdeen Angus associations announce breeding cattle offered at the American Royal Stock show in Kansas City October 10 16. About fifty animals per breed will be available for sale with inspections already completed by committees, buyers informed by association secretaries and leading breeders.
Dr W R Wiley concludes sixth year as presiding elder of the Rock Island district with the Pontiac conference. He cited church work gains: pastors salaries up eight thousand dollars, church property valued at sixty thousand, benevolences up a thousand, debts paid, and net membership rise over two thousand.
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The September term opens next Monday with 121 new cases filed in the Circuit Court. Eighty five on the chancery side, including thirty nine divorce and separate maintenance suits. Thirty six new law side cases since last term. Chancery inflows largely due to injunctions against county treasurer and tax collectors over the tax on corporate capital stock.
Rock Island County Old Soldiers' association chose September 29 for the annual reunion to be held at Watch Tower. Rev. F E Shult of Spencer Memorial church, son of a veteran, will likely deliver the address to veterans and families. Executive committee members include J W Simonson Port Byron R W Wolever Moline and G B E Bailey Rock Island.
Kansas City Modern Woodmen plan a fundraising drive to cover travel to the M W of A head camp in Buffalo New York in 1911 They bought a 1911 Velie touring car from Velie Motor Co to use as the prize Tickets cost twenty five cents each with up to 10 000 tickets sold The holder of the red letter number wins the car Several hundred tickets are on sale at the Woodman offices in Rock Island.
The Rev Carl Vingren pastor of Moline Swedish Baptist church was named a member of the program committee at a Rockford led conference of Swedish Baptists attended by about 100 pastors. The general conference opened with 1000 pastors and delegates, as Mayor Jardine and Rev J A Erickson welcomed attendees. Dr G Arvid Hagstrom served as moderator and Rev Swaney A Nelson delivered the sermon.
A whispered exchange echoes a dream where one partner imagines the other's mother ill and the other responds with a muffled laugh, revealing a surreal, intimate moment recounted in fragmented verse.
A local ruling reduces value assessments on corporate capital stock and imposes a fee on tangible properties. The action affects corporate taxpayers and property owners within the jurisdiction, signaling adjustments to tax burdens and revenue expectations for the upcoming fiscal year.
The 1910 Rock Island county board of review completed a detailed assessment revision this week. Twenty seven reductions and three increases were ordered affecting properties from Moline to Rock Island townships including F J Savage and Union Ice and Coal Co. The board dismissed many complaints and sustained listed assessments. capital stock tax will be computed at one third of the stated figures. George H. Richmond chaired the review with members Robert R. Reynolds and Henry J. Gripp.
Rock Island superintendent W H Given offers a frost prevention method using straw and water. In late evening wet straw, monitor temps overnight, then place dry straw on the field windward and ignite to create smoke and heat that push frost away. The process reportedly protects corn from several frosts and may recover costs through saved yield.
At Joslin Fair Grounds on September 14 the second day of the 1910 fair featured a thrilling Joslin 3 to 2 victory over Hillsdale. Bennett and Machel were strong battery for Joslin while Young pitched well for Hillsdale. Dick Town drew praise for a stellar defensive play as Joslin fans stayed excited throughout.
Wednesday's Daily reports Edward D. Sweeney oldest Rock Island County bar member died at 8 a m in his home at 81 Twentieth street Rock Island. A Delaware native who moved to Rock Island in 1857 he was 77. He marked his fiftieth year of bar admission last month. He practiced with Sweeney Jackson and later Walker. An Odd Fellow of forty years he was a longtime First Methodist Church director and a thirty year First National Bank director. He was twice married and leaves three children William J Edward A and Mrs F S Renfield.
In Rock Island Exposition park two six furlong races were run. Jack Witt owned by William Michaels with jockey Ernie McGowan won the feature race beating White Set second Haber third and Orline Ormonde fourth. Purse was 100 dollars distributed sixty thirty and ten percent. Tray of Spades won the four and a half furlong heat race with Rosa A second and Vinnie third. Eugene Ely made a short flight yesterday but damaged propeller on a fence rail during ascent.
M Kellogg inventor of the Kellogg grain shocker returned to Moline after a Montana trip where he witnessed tests of the shocker attached to a Deere harvester. He will stay in Washington a week for business on the invention. Red Lodge reports say minor construction tweaks will let the device pass severe wheat-field tests. Mrs Mary Johnson left for Brockton Mass after a two month visit with her sister in town.
Stockholders met at Mélino Illinois on the thirty first day of 1910 to change the name from Solern Saleen Company to John Deere Plow Company of San Francisco. Certificates of the change have been filed with the secretary of state and the Rock Island county recorder. Signed William Satefern President and John D. Bibley Secretary.
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