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Newspaper
Moline Review
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1876
Page
3
A town meeting discussed incorporation limits amid division and accusations as a vote was stopped by dissenters. Valley Lodge No 547 held an officer installation in private yet with a social supper. Separate notices report multiple divorce petitions and marital disputes led by Sweeney and Jackson, naming several couples and dates.
The rains left roads rough then, now sudden warm spell restored rough conditions. Lok Rogers & Sons began a new commodious warehouse for farming tools. Percy Williams made brisk jewelry trades then traveled to Rock Island and wed Miss Susie Stafford. Peter Earhart died near Cordova of typhoid at age twenty one, the fourth in his family to fall to the same disease.
The grand jury indicted Atmos Weaver Clas Faith Charles Benton Henry Pardee Fred Randquist Jas Kirk and Wm Swann on charges including larceny assault and theft. Some indictments were ignored and a list of petit jurors serving for the first part of the term is provided with wards and towns named.
A number of divorce cases are entered on the chancery docket for trial during the present term at the circuit court. Mary Dayes seeks a dissolution of her marriage to Mury Dayes contracted in Coyington Kentucky fifteen years ago. She charges repeated strikes, threats to kill, and neglect to provide for herself and children. Kenworthy and Beardsley are her solicitors.
A Milan correspondent reports David Little of Preemption fed a drove of 84 cattle from March to December, starting lean and finishing at Chicago stockyards with an average 1814 pounds. The 79 steers and 5 heifers sold to a Boston dealer at a premium, despite a dull market, proving reliable warm weather feeding and winter resilience boost gains.
The Old Settlers society of Rock Island county will hold its annual meeting at the Bellows House on Monday February 7 1876 at 2 o clock PM for officer elections and to consecrate Article 6 section 1 which establishes an annual festival on February 22 each year. Members are urged to attend and elect officers. W E Brooks president E C Cropper secretary.
Funeral services for Stephen Woodin held at 1 P M on Saturday at his Orleans Street residence Rock Island with a large procession to Chipian nock cemetery. Executors named Cornelius Lynde William Wollodin and Charles A Jarvis. A home robbery at Port Byron yielded 1750 for William Nicholson’s son. Agricultural society adjourns due to bad roads. Marriage license issued for Benjamin Johnson and Wilhelmina Peterson. ceremony performed at an alternate spot. Mrs Mary Wressell dies after insanity admission in Jacksonville state hospital. Hay shed fire at Butler farm near Port Byron destroys 60 70 tons of hay. insured.
The Boat Club presented a program on the seven wonders and their workers with lectures by Hon. William Parsons. It covered ether as anesthesia, Cyrus Field and the Atlantic Cable, Howe and the sewing machine, Florence Nightingale and hospital reform, the news boy and newspapers, architecture and art with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, and a Civil War tableau with a drummer boy scene.
Mr Parsons defended the American republic as the seventh wonder and home of the world. He argued duties and responsibilities, warned to guard free institutions, and praised unity as Europe and Asia met on American prairies. The audience received the lecture with keen interest and satisfaction.
The Ladies Aid of the Congregational church announce Prof Nathan Sheppard will speak February 16 as part of the Boat Club course on Modern Authors. Lectures will, with readings, cover George Eliot Dickens Thackery Carlyle with tickets $1.00. Sales to begin with canvassing and at Mourey's drug store.
Richings Bernard concert company rises next Friday evening in town. Protracted meetings at the M E church continue daily this week. Rock River area reports abundant prairie chickens and rising coal prices with cold weather.
Corrected weekly by Margraf & Epp listing prices for groceries coffee tea sugar molasses and canned goods, with sections for grain flour and feed, meats and game, and lumber. Includes diverse items with unit prices and measurements from Molline area providers.
Chicago markets show mixed wheat and corn with active hog and cattle trading. Wheat at 98 for No 2, oats firm at 90 for No 2, hogs firm yet lower, bulk meats and butter steady, cattle receipts 3,200 and market steady to higher, hogs 81,000 head with weak close.
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