City Council Minutes Reflect 1912 Rock Island Measures
Rock Island city council on December 9 1912 approved November receipts and expenditures and heard reports from the city attorney about the police magistrate office. It authorized bids for city deposits to the highest bidder and reviewed building plans for Gravity Coal and Iron Co. It approved water bill adjustments for Mrs G G Craig and itemized a large payroll and claims across multiple funds. An ordinance setting the city engineer’s salary at 1800 annually was read and adjournment followed.
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City Council
Rock Island
H. M. Schriver
Rudgren
Hart
Fire Department
Gravity
Eiin Company
Twentieth Street
Second Avenue
G. G. Craig
Total General Fund
Waterworks Fund
Agmimeacer
General Fund
Winterbottom
C. R. I. & P. Ry. Company
John Kkoch
Dr. Hollingsworth
Charles Fiebig
McCullum & Eagan
Joseph Schr
Schriver
Reynolds
Gust Fisher
M. T. Rudgren
Carbon Cliff and Rock Island Visitors Share Weekend News
Carbon Cliff guests include Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Jones and children Richard and Leone. Numerous townspeople visit relatives, attend funerals, or call on friends in Rock Island Moline Davenport Watertown Geneseo and Milan.
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Daniel Jones
Richard and
Leone
Rock Island
B. A. Hennegan
William Gainey
James Hampson
Local Socials and a Bluff Road Attack Report
Silvis visitors include Mrs Carrie Frank of Reynolds and Mrs Howard Pass of Moline. Sophia Pearce from Moline visited Sunday. Peter Lorenz, returning home from work, was attacked by two men who demanded money. he knocked one down and felled the other, but a search party could not locate them along the bluff road.
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Tle
Silvis
Carrie Frank
Reynolds
Ill
Howard Pass
Moline
George Lewis
Sophia Pearce
Peter Lorenz
Ente as Section Foreman on the D R I and NW
An item notes Ente serving as the section foreman on the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western network, detailing his role and position within the railroad’s division.
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Ente
N.W
Paroled Prisoner Returns to Complete Missouri Sentence
Governor Hadley paroled Aaron Donaldson, serving three years in the Missouri penitentiary, to Illinois warden at Chester on condition he serve a 14 year Illinois sentence and then be returned to Missouri to finish his term. The move relieves Illinois bondsmen of a $20,000 bond for failure to produce him.
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Jefferson City
Hadley
Aaron Donaldson
Ilinois
Chester
Donaldson
Illinois
Missouri
Mrs La Follette backs later inauguration plan proposal
Madison, Wis Dec 13 Mrs Rob erty M La Follette wife of the senator heartily seconds a suggestion for a later inauguration and proposes that primary and general elections be held in June and July The rural voter would only need to go to his mail box to cast his vote to meet farmers objections to a summer date for elections
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Madison
Wis
Roberty M. la Follette
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