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Newspaper
Moline Review
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1880
Page
5
Train schedules for Lock Island and Peoria list freight and passenger services. Entries note Peoria Freight 7.0 a m and Rock Island Freight 4.20 p m with various mail and express services, but OCR reads inconsistently and some items are garbled.
The Milan column covers health notes, local business updates, and social happenings. It notes doctors' health, milling activity cooling, travel by Dave Matthews and Frank Kerr to Western Iowa, and Fred Krimmerle as a beverage mixer. Also described are farm machinery work by Dibbern & Bradley, druggists C. E. Smith and H. L. Franing, a jail stay for Bill Bennett and Charley Murphy after a robbery attempt, and various local events including a premature birth at Father Wm. Faris’s home, new tenants at the Davis House, and a Reynoldsite altercation at a hotel breakfast. It ends with livestock sales in Preemption and a brief Grand Jury reference to a Sunday mystery.
In Rock Island the semis and notes report unusually high demand for both common and mechanical labor early in the season. The piece highlights valuable improvements and ongoing work in the area attracting workers and firms.
Brick and stone structures rise in Rock Island with plans for the Rock Island Lumber and Mfg Co mill 128 by 80 feet and 40 feet high. I Huber starts a brewery near Elm Street vaults with two lower stone stories. Efforts include sewer work and new sidewalks, plus Turners’ grave site use and a large fire at Jas McQuaid’s saloon. The article praises Porters printing and Mr Moore’s tasteful letterpress work in color-light designs.
A Saturday night fire destroyed a Davenport residence belonging to Geo Jenkins on 11th Street. Separately, Jas B Davis of Buffalo Prairie township, aged 75, a prominent early farmer, died last Saturday leaving two sons and six daughters. burial held Sunday afternoon.
The Review Of The Jok er notes Moline Illinois transformed from a small town to a hub of large factories and printing businesses. It highlights R H Moore who started in Brighton Iowa with 50 pounds and now heads a major go and book printing operation between Chicago and the Pacific coast. His plant at 305 and 207 Main street employs about twenty seven men and prints about 2000 pounds worth of work yearly along with newspapers and trade journals.
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