Davenport Notes on Park Concerts and Local Events
Davenport reporters relay updates on Central park bandstand work and upcoming concerts, plus a series of local incidents. Details include La Moke clashing over construction plans, pardons for E. S. Jenks, recruiting station activity, Creek flood damage to Martin Greeley’s property, a lightning strike at the Fidlar home, a Davenport colony at Valley City, and a barn fire near Valley City amid a heavy storm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Constable Holliday
la Moke
West Third Street
New Wessels
Hawkeye Construction Company
James W. Fritz
Cresco
James W. Price
Kewanee
Martin L. Coryell
Fort Wayne, Mich
Martin Greeley
Division Street
Bowditch
Division
Harris Streets
Rockingham Road
Greeley
Martin
Arsenal
W. F. Pidlar
Tenth
Tremont
Richard McDaniel
Chicago
Fidlar
D. Reginnitter Son
Valley City
Hemmings
D. R. II
North eastern Iowa Woodmen picnic and train voyage
The annual North eastern Iowa and Northwestern Woodmen Logrolling Association picnic runs at Prospect Park with thousands of visitors. Contests, dancing, and a drill team program unfold as Capt. Simons plans to command the Dorothea’s crew for a six day sea voyage from Chicago to Manistee and back, ending August 24.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Northwestern
Inois Woodmen Logrolling Association
Prospect Park
Simons
Quincey
Chicago
Manistee
River News Barge Excursion Draws Large German Lutheran Crowd
The German Lutheran church held an excursion on the C. W. Cowles and barge with about 1,000 attendees, praised as both socially and financially successful. Steamboat Inspectors Sloan and Tracy arrived to inspect ferries including the T. J. Robinson, Ruth, and City of Hudson. The Ruth and Winona ships moved north, W. J. Young left for Burlington. Water levels reported at 6am and noon, with noon temperature at 76. An ad for kidney health followed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Davenport
Des Moines
C. W. Cowles
Sloan
Tracy
T. J. Robinson
Ruth
City of Hudson
Winona
R. D. Kendall
E. Rutledge
Winens
W. J. Young
Burlington
Travel deals tease with rail routes and passes
Travelers learn about Queen and Crescent routes to Chattanooga and Birmingham, plus Rock Island fast lines to multiple southern points. Offers include one fare plus two dollars for round trips, good through late September, with return validity up to 30 days. Also note home visitors tickets via Rock Island to Indiana and Ohio. Shutters twice in hospital prompt treatment claim. Bucklen’s Amica Salve advertised for piles and pains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Perth
West and
Southwest
Rock Island
Indiana
Ohio
Second Avenue
F. A. Gulledge
Verbena
Ala
Bucklen
Martz & Ullemeyer
James F. Murphy Attorney at Law Loan Office Ad
Mitchell Lynde Building offices offer money to loan on good security and general legal business. Notary public, real estate, and insurance services listed. Address 1714 Second Avenue with office hours. Also Henry Gaetje Chippiannock Nursery advertises cut towers and designs from the City store at 1807 Second Avenue with telephone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Second Avenue
Buford Block
E. D. Sweeney. Co. L. Walker
Sweeney & Walker
Mitchell & Lynde Block
Rock Island
Illinois
M'Eniry
Attorneys At Law
Mitchell & Lynde
Bankers
James F. Murphy
Also Mentioned on This Page
A. W. Vander Veer
Board of Park Commissioners
Central Park
Jenks
John Rothermel
Louis Roddewig
Adolph Ewers
Louis Boec
Phillip Sontag
Grace Birdsall
Los Angeles
Cal
Janet Chambers
Fourteenth Infantry
John M. Helmick
J. L. Mason
Mr. Helmick
Byron Whitaker
Rev. F. L. Thompson
J. L. Siegfried
Julius Schlueter
Louisa County
Siegfried
Julius Schlucher
W. H. Dibble
Sioux City
DeWitt
Traubenkurs
Germany
Rhine
Johnson
Cyclopaedia
Europe
Mull
America
The
Lightning Medicine Company
Ilinois
WM. Styles
Glenwood Springs
Cole
M. G. Honeycutt
Center
Texas
Nettie
SE. Sterling
Second St
Dex Maines
Hartz & Memeyer
Moline
First Methodist Church
Rock Island Road
Peoria
M. V. Crumbaker
Sm Burgston
L. A. Vinton
W. A. Jones
K. 1
B. McKeever
Mesdames E. BR. McKeever
Jennie Wake
Jacob Stewart
South Moline
W. H. Christison
William Eckhart
M. Simonson
Caroline Paul
John McGraw
R. EB. Oberlander
D. Kohn
Henry Daebe
N. O. Johnson
J. Dol
Metzgur
Teamsters
Henry Washburn
Johnnsen
F.S. Melin
M. Nibert
Wood & Peek
C., Rot. & P. Railway Company
Henr Keeley
Keeley
Thirteenth Street
Estella McCarthy
Board of Education
University of Ilinois
Champaign
Fred Meyer
Fourteenth Avenue
Twelfth Street
Fred
Fifteenth Street
George H. Munroon
John McEntry
Sixth Avenue
Kathryn Leipold
St. Louis
Grace Warrington
St. Joe
Fannie Entrikin
State Normal School
Ae J. Dwyer
Oo Hilbur
Charles Hedin
Fifth Avenue
Daily Argus
News OF River
Chattanooga
Queen & Crescent
Birmingham
New Orleans
Dai
Rock Island System
Asheville
N. C
Southern Railway
Cincinnati
Atlanta
Jacksonville
Salt Lake City
Ogden
Colorado
Frank A, Hart
C. B
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway
California
Minnesota
Utah
Northwest
Thirty-first St
Rock Island, N
Trust Department
Harper House
Rock Island Savings Bank
Morey
J. M. Buford
John Crabaugh
TI. Greenawalt
S. E. Corner
Spas
Toral
Trectors
R. BR. Cable
P. Greenawalt
Phil Mitchell
H.P. Hull
L. Simon
E.W. Hurst
John Volk
Jackson and Hurst
Attorneys
M'Caskrin
Milan
Bengston Block
Main Street
H.C. Connelly
D. Connelly
Connelly & Connelly Attorneys At Law
Thomas’ Drug Store
Second Avenue and
Seventeenth Street
Jackson, Hurst & Stafford
Rock Island National Bank
W.L. Ludolph
Robert R. Reynolds
Ludolph & Reynolds, Attorneys At Law
C. J. Searle
C. B. Marshall
Searle & Marshall, Lawyers
Mitchell & Lynde Lynde Building
Wiiliam M. Walker
Lawyer
James Franklin Witter
Mitchell & Lynde Building
Cora Emery Reed
Sixteenth Street
M. Moore
M. D. Star Block
Ostrom
Anders Chattstram
Royal Institute
Stockholm
Sweden
Brady St
Davyenport
J. T. Taylor
Eighteenth Street
Union Office
Architects
Drack & Kerns
Henry Gaetje
Chippiannock Nursery
Colona Sand Stone Quarries
Mitchell & Lynde’s
Arthur Burrball
Colona, IL
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