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Newspaper
Rock Island Argus
Location
Rock Island, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1906
Page
2
Tomorrow's services occur across many churches including Trinity Episcopal, First Baptist, Swedish Baptist and German Lutheran. Rev. Sherwood, Rev. Reed, Rev. Hazen, Rev. Mennicke, and Rev. Klimpke lead multiple morning and evening rites with Sunday schools, youth meetings, and vespers at numerous corners and streets across the city.
Local churches and missions outline schedules across multiple venues in Rock Island. Rev C M Surdivant at Fifteenth Street church holds morning and evening services. Salvation Army specifies barracks at 1509 Second Avenue with holiness, Christian praise, and evening services. Free Swedish Mission meets at Eleventh Street and Fifth Avenue with Sunday school and evening service. Christ's Home Mission on Third Avenue offers an evening service. West End Sunday school on Sixth Street includes Friday prayer meetings. W B Barker conducts scripture studies on Sundays at the Rock Island Industrial Home site.
The Meneley quartet entertained a large Pros pect park audience with fine selections while Chester Ricketts impressed as an impersonator. A surplus from gate receipts funds a free lecture tomorrow. A union meeting of area churches hosts a chorus and Colormel John Sobieski will discuss The Rise and Fall of the Polish Republic.
Ex Alderman W W Lunger files injunctions against 11 saloon keepers and premises owners in Davenport alleging illegal dealing in intoxicants under the mullet law. He aims to block slot machine operations and says more actions are planned against cigar stores and other venues.
After over three months of steady work on the bluff sewer project King Lambert Construction nears completion of four and three quarters miles of new sewer mains including a deep section on Ninth street. Weather permitting the job should finish by September 1. Seventy blocks of streets and alleys now serve as the sewer system backbone.
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