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Newspaper
Rock Island Argus
Location
Rock Island, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1907
Page
2
Bettendorf citizens will dedicate the new town hall with a public open day and program. At 4 o'clock factory whistles will blow, bells toll, and a supper will fund furnishings. Children will join in the festivities and a dedicatory program will conclude the day.
Hazel Dell reports Mr and Mrs Gideon Reed and Mr and Mrs J G Powell attended the Chicago livestock exposition last week. A baby boy born Dec 1 to Mr and Mrs Will Krueger weighed 10 pounds. Rev Richardson visited the neighborhood. Arch Reed goes to Normal Ill to leave his son at Baby Fold. Mrs M Lutz of Buffalo Prairie visited daughter Mrs John Price. Pearl Watson visited Henry Krueger. Neighbors gathered A Reed’s corn and ladies packed 110 quarts of fruit for Deaconess home in Normal Ill. John Price transacted business at Canton. South Dakota described. healing case in Mound City. Mrs E D Clapp praises Dr King’s New Discovery. Burns fodder fire ignited by careless match on Forty-first street. farmer unhitches team. G A R: Laner L Wilson elected Graham post commander. Moline high school football finances show profit of about 250 after Chicago trip. banquet planned for 200 at Manufacturers' hotel with toastmaster Cyrus Dietz. Turners plan fair. Louis Venderman reelected president. fair to fund trip to world turnfest in Germany. Arp not in danger. leg improving. Obituary: Mrs Janet Wil-
Attorney B S Bell of Moline spent Sunday with his folks here. George Greer a miner was hurt in the mine here Tuesday by falling rock. His injuries are not as serious as first I thought, though he was badly cut.
Mrs. Wilson aged 85 died Saturday morning at daughter Agnes Lias’s home 1814 Twenty-third avenue after a fall a month earlier. Born May 5 1824 in Glasgow Scotland she emigrated to America as a child. She lived in Baltimore St. Louis and Jackson County Iowa before moving to Moline two years ago. She was active in the Congregational church in Iowa but not in Moline. Survived by two sons W. W. Wilson Ve rbon Wisconsin and J. G. Wilson Wes tington Springs South Dakota seven grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
Editor Ar gus argues the nations farm wealth figure masks on farm consumption and deductions. He questions whether capital invested in production should earn a dividend and calls for a rebalanced economic order with the farmer as central producer.
An old advertise says take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets to cure a cold in one day. Druggists will refund money if it fails. Each box bears W Grove’s signature and costs 25 cents.
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