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Newspaper
Rock Island Argus
Location
Rock Island, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1909
Page
2
The Episcopal parishes of Trinity church and Grace cathedral vote to merge into one body, to be known as Trinity Cathedral parish, with Rev. Marmaduke Hare retained as rector of the consolidated parishes. Davenport marks a major church matter in years.
Moline Ice Co starts nine inch harvest in Sylvan pool with plans for a record crop this winter for storage and south shipment. Union Ice and Coal Co clears Rock River fields below Moline Bridge and plans cutting next week, icing up to 12 inches. Chan nel Ice clears field near Twenty-fifth Street and begins cutting. Condemnation suits planned to open Nineteenth Street for a scenic 100 foot wide ravine road. Alderman McDowell attacks council authority and residency of aldermen demanding possible disqualification. Stange Drake and Wylie named as offenders.</S>
Silvis Stewart Bull has moved from Osborne back to Silvis to spend the winter with his mother Mrs. S Bull. The Brotherhood of American Yeomen aims to secure a room adjoining the Eagles hall for a permanent meeting place with the next lodge meeting planned for January.
Mrs. Fannie Casper of Lincoln visits Watertown then heads to Chicago for a new job. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Seline move from S P Casper cottage to Rock Island. Mrs. Dirreen of Jacksonville visits George Dirreen family. Otto Holland and baby of Geneseo stay with Frank Lovey's. Ed Axelson family go to Fairfield for New Year. Mrs. Emma Ellis to Letts for Christmas. Ross Trout welcomes a son. cigar celebration. Lela Rusbrook hosts Miss Hstellye Elliott over Sunday. Hazel Pierce to spend Christmas in Davenport. Sadie Scott returns from Hillsdale visiting Mrs. George Passmore.
Atlanta reports United States minister to Persia John B. Jackson, ordered to Cuba, reportedly ashamed of being American after a waiter’s English greeting. Dr. Jacobs questions how one so disposed can hold a U S post.
Cain's Confectionery at 20th St Rock Island announces a special sale on Xmas Candies and home made sweets with high grade chocolates and bon bons. The offer runs until January 1 1910 with prices on peanut brittle vanilla taffy strawberry taffy Xmas mixed candy and Sauer kraut candy. Elegant boxes filled with candy available from 25 cents to 5 dollars for Christmas gifts.
A switch engine exploded at 12 20 a m in the city yards on Twenty fifth street sending materials and steam skyward. Bert Davis the Burlington road watchman escaped with minor injuries. The engine and coal car suffered substantial damage and the incident disrupted two rail tracks. Davis recently moved to Rock Island and has been working nights in Moline.
Real estate transfers listed include Graham L. Cawdor to Henry Flugel for multiple lots in S Falkovitch added Rock Island at 3970 dollars. Herman Abrahamson to Robert M. Bennett part of lot 4 Atkinson second addition Moline 5500 dollars. Robert M. Bennett to Charles H. Godelin part lot 4 Atkinson second addition Moline 6000 dollars. John N. Hardy to John Hayes Robinson lots 18 14 block 2 Acme addition Moline 1000 dollars. Frederick G. Raisch to Frederick H. Ficken lots 4 9 100 dollars. E H Stafford to Josep L Early lot 7 block 6 town of Silvis 400 dollars. Dalin Mubleman to William Eckerman lot 12 block 6 B Davenport fourth addition Rock Island 1200 dollars. Sarah L Osborne to Harry Rothkofsky east quarter lot 4 block 18 Old Town Rock Island 1800 dollars.
A New York West Argus piece mocks suffrage by promising equal access for women at a championship boxing event. It urges ladies to buy seats, notes a baby carriage check room, and compares voting to the spectacle of heavyweights, implying women are as bloodthirsty as men.
In St Louis on December 22 Geere and Lawrence Thomas two orphan brothers aged 19 and 18 confess to highway robbery and burglary. They say their parents died in a 1904 railroad wreck. Accompanied by Joseph Kubat who claims New York home, they state they enlisted in the marine corps five days ago. They aimed to punish Nathan R. Waters, their guardian and Welster Grove resident, for cutting their allowance.
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