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Newspaper
Moline Review
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1875
Page
3
The Moline city council meets to approve police salary for a judge, discuss Rodan avenue improvements, and consider a sewer culvert dispute. Alderman L. E. Hemenway resigns from the Third ward, prompting council action and remarks on his long service. A lengthy bill list and a monthly treasurer's report follow as routine business.
The Moline city council met with the mayor and aldermen present to appoint an alderman for the Third Ward to fill L E Hemenway’s vacancy and to fix the police magistrate salary and duties. Patrick Swanson is reported to have shot himself during delirium tremens and is expected to die.
Circuit Court reports the Bryant-Reis case ending with a not guilty verdict after speeches by local attorneys and a crowd-filled courtroom. Jury also convicting Forsyth and McDonald of grand larceny for stealing rope worth 370 in Davenport, with three years each in the penitentiary.
The September marriage licenses include Jacob Raynor and Katie Sweeney. Rosenheld and Mattie A Schemerhorn. H Parvin and Drucilla Edgington. P J Nyeberg and Lena M Evergaard. C Renquist and Hannah Anderson. Stephen J Sprague and Clara Crosby. W J Kahlke and Nellie F Hawley. F Weiss and Malinda Knickerbocker. F H Moore and Ellen T Buffin. W H Dicus and Alice B Smith. Milton Howard and Fannie Dodge. John Cain and Alvira Arnold. Alvin L Harrold and Gelany Hoskin. J P Trainor and Margaret H Thompson. Henry Sears and Kate Gilmore. C J Carl and Agnes McDonald. Edward Knell and Susie L Wheelock. F L Stuart and Christine M Snyder. P Loretzen and Christine M Wilson. Andrew Nelson and Eugie Johnson. Andrew Peterson and Hannah Tor. William Holdurf and Mary Dingledine. J Naumann and Mrs Elizabeth Gotsch. James J Parks and Flora Conway.
Port Byron residents cast 61 votes for the village organization and 69 against it, defeating the project. Also noted is the death of elderly settler Mr Robt Middleham in Ro Island Monday night, his funeral set for 10 A M today. County Treasurer S R Porter says 1 079 68 of illegal taxes refunded to date under new law.
To the Editor of The Review Prof Nathan Sheppard of Chicago university will lecture in the Congregational church on Tuesday evening October 12. Subject The Tongue. The Chicago Tribune and other papers praise his pith humor and satire. Tickets fifty cents at Clendenin and Martin's drug store. In behalf of the Ladies Aid society.
An assortment of fresh teas and coffees at bottom prices at Gleason’s. Best Hartford woven wire mattress at Knell's Furniture Rooms. Window glass and putty at Clendenin and Martin's. Replace broken glass before it gets any colder.
The G P Ryder returns east and will make Moline his home. M Hill ends his alliance with Crampton and joins Dimock Gould Co next week. Lectures by Prof Nathan Sheppard, Chicago University, are planned at the Congregational church. Various local people are traveling, returning, or changing farms and businesses amid a busy scene in Moline.
A local discussion centers on J B R Brown's claimed mental powers. Fifty tests at Prof Gregory's rooms reportedly succeeded, prompting interest from scientifically inclined observers in the potential future utility of this new means of communication.
Mrs Holt reports September draws from the public library show totals across categories Art and Science Biography Travel Fiction History and a large religious section. Juvenile readers also logged a September score with travels fiction history and total. September attendance reached 1 860.
The annual school trustees meeting at First National Bank names J. S. Richards president and J. M. Gould secretary. They audit accounts and receive petitions asking District No. 1 on the bluff to join District No. 2, which would merge the districts, but the No. 1 trustees refuse to act and the merger is not yet completed.
The township Republicans convene at the engine house on Saturday October 9 at 5 30 PM to select fifteen delegates for the Republican county convention at the Rock Island courthouse on Tuesday October 12 at 2 PM. W Morris Henry A Ainsworth Henry Wray. A house and lot on Henry Street with seven rooms is for sale via American Express office or H T Walker M J Hyde.
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