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Newspaper
Moline Review
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1879
Page
1
The Moline Review discusses public school manners, criticizes underqualified teachers, and calls for night schools for the poor alongside maintaining high schools. It notes class day at the Rock Island High School and reports on Bridge traffic, local notices, and a giant 1800 pound plow prototype for rail line ditch digging.
The steamboat Nellie Thomas struck the sheer boom above the bridge and was slightly disabled. The Ben Hershey from Muscatine arrived Wednesday with 18 strings of logs and helped untie rafts and pass the bridge in three pieces as the river stood seven to eight feet above low water.
Mrs Stephen F Walker died at her home in this city at 4 oclock Thursday morning after a prolonged cancer illness. She was 64 and a native of Farmington New Hampshire born in 1815. A resident of Moline since 1855 she leaves four children all living in Moline: Mrs Dan W Gould Mrs A L Carson George W Walker and Stephen T Walker. The funeral will be at 10 oclock this day at the Congregational Church with Rev E C Barnard officiating.
The superintendent of the St. Louis Iron Mountain and Southern railroad proposed a giant plow to be hitched to a locomotive. The plan aimed to scoop out ditches along the track and cover furrows, a tool far larger than typical garden scrapers.
Moline opens a modest hotel with about a dozen rooms after occupying spaces for the landlord and Keator family. It is neatly furnished, rivaling the Harper House in size and amenities, and locals hope its success. The piece critiques Harper House while noting the Keator House may attract different guests, and ends with local notes on corn shipments, mill fires, and a boy blinded by a colt’s kick.
Gen Sam F Cary and Dr J W Morey of the Ribbon Club deny any correspondence about Latins keV mal Soh tem lectures. Dr Morey states no contact with Gen Carey regarding the lectures. Gold & Co reports fresh arrival of summer hats. Call and try one.
The motion for a new trial in Kavanaugh and Heeney's case was argued before Judge Pleasants and overruled. Kavanaugh was sentenced to life in the penitentary and Heeney to fourteen years with the first ten days in solitary. An appeal grant of 80 days followed. Change of venue for Bernard Heeney to Henry County was granted, and the circuit court will convene there next week. Ross continuance order remained. Foster challenged, but the court stood by the ruling. Kavanaugh, Heeney, and Myers were sent to Joliet. Myers had a prior one year sentence for stealing a gun.
The Misses Parker will give a select reading at the Congregational church Thursday evening the 12th with a miscellaneous and interesting programme expected to draw a full house.
A mysterious report cites Oarse and Uhlweiler investigating a pop ear phenomenon termed intestin tiers of supamer. The scientists outline initial observations and unexplained responses in test subjects, signaling a need for further study and peer review.
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