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Newspaper

Rock Island Argus

Location

Rock Island, Illinois, United States of America

Date

Dec 12, 1905

Page

2

Davenport News Briefs Include Forgery Charge and Local Deaths

Joe Morris waives examination on forgery and is bound over to the grand jury after a preliminary hearing before Justice Hall. George Lemme fired at saloonkeeper Jim Furlong. the shot missed. Mr and Mrs Norman Friedenwald nearly suffocated by gas. Elks eye a building site at Second and Perry with $17,000 price and $5,000 local funding. Obituaries note Herman F Miller Joseph H Wolters and Mrs E C Clapp death notices. Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea ad closes.

Joe Morris Justice Hall W. G. Mott Louis Leroy Davenport Savings Bank Elks Davenport Lodge BP. O. E The Second Perry Streets W. PG Second Street Tr Ta Davenport Molly Hilda Freda Lulu Louise Englebrecht M. McKee Charles William John Tanner E. C. Clapp East Locust Street Tanner Omaha West Sixth Street Joseph H. Wolters Mr. Wolters Davenport Foundary Eagle Works

Resigns Cashiership and Local Carriers Elected

J S Gillmore resigns as cashier of People’s Savings Bank & Trust after forty years of service. The Moline letter carriers elect officers John W Dewrose president A O Anderson vice president Clyde Becker secretary treasurer Oscar Hanson sergeant at arms Erickson Axell. A wedding Carl August Winkler and Hildur Hullman. Svea Male chorus elects officers. Implement dealers prepare for state convention and a busy city council agenda includes sewer, fire, and street matters.

J. S. Gillmore People’s Savings Bank & Trust Company Letter Carriers’ Association John W. Dewrose A. O. Anderson Clyde Becker Oscar Hanson Wn Sveas Svea G. L. Peterson C. M. Carlstedt Karl Kronhom Oscar Carlmark V. S. Carlstedt Lbrarian Conrad Josephson

Rock Island City Council Hears Plans for 1906 Improvements

The Rock Island Illinois city council in regular session approves a list of public improvements for the 1906 fiscal year. Proposals include remodeling the city building adopting non combustible materials for fire zones installing civil service system purchasing a new book and ladder truck installing a fire alarm system and establishing a stone pile for police use. The Snow Steam Pump works floor plans for the pumping station are referred to water committee.

Dauber Alds Blochlinger O'Conner Sexton Trefz Blake & Murphy Sewer Committee M. Schnell Twenty-fourth Street H. A. Weld J. L. Haas Aid Finance and Sewer Fire Department Ald. Sexton Ilinois Retail Coal Dealers’ Association Ald. Wilson Ald Committee On Fire and Light Rock Island Buggy Company Paul Thiessem Anderson Brooks Ald. Anderson Tri-City Railway Company Twelfth Street Twelfth Avenue Tenth Avenue Twenty-first Street Ald. O'Conner Sixth Avenue Fourteenth Street Fifteenth Street Ald. Blochlinger Fifth Avenue Eckhart Rock Island Club Retail Merchants’ Association Pratt Dinance Ald. Oberg City Attorney and Ordinance Committee Water Works Committee Superintendent of Water Works Holly Gaskell Waterworks Committee Brooks H. C. Schaffer City Cter City Council Rock Island Ill Sle Caskrin Civil Service System Ald. Biechlinger Snow Steam Pump Works

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George Lemme Jim Furlong East Front Street Iowa Lemme Ant Norman Friedenwald Pasadena Fats Friedenwald Jeli West Fifth Street Herman F. Miler Miller Neufeld Hollister T. H. Thomas Pharmacy Music Books Second Avenue Knabe Kurtzmann Merrill, Sohmer Schaaf Tottens Victor Edison Illinois Moline Seventeenth Avenue Turners Concordia-Germania Turnverein Turner Hall Industrial Hall Industrial Theatre W. A. Rosenfield Rocky Mountain Thomas’ Pharmacy Beecham Hunyadi Janos Hunyadi Janos Xoy Eaal Ay Viel Municipal Matters Water St Chicago, Ill James S. Kirk & Company
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