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Newspaper
Rock Island Argus
Location
Rock Island, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1908
Page
2
An officer from St. Joe Missouri arrived in Davenport and returned with Jack Benning the insane patient who escaped from the St. Joe asylum by unfastening iron bars and using bedding to make a rope. His escape was discovered next morning after he traveled through a wide area.
Miss Mae Elizabeth Peterson, 17, of Cable, arrested after attempting to pass a worthless check at Frankel Brothers grocery. Police say she passed five checks for about 40 dollars, receiving around 20 in change to buy dress goods. She claims she got blank checks from Dr. C A Peterson, tore them from his book, and filled them with both signatures. Bound over to the next grand jury on a charge of obtaining money through a confidence game. In other cases, Robert Marks is jailed in East Moline for peddling liquor without a license, with a bond of 100 dollars set. John Deere announces Marseilles line shelters, to be produced after April 1 at the Marseilles factory. Aluis Steene fined for keeping a saloon open on Sunday. August VanDurman bound over on mali cious mischief. Obituary notes a Miss Larson, 78, native of Sweden, died after a short illness in Moline.
Foster notes a Baptist Church Christmas program Friday evening led by Miss Lillian Workman. Young people from Unity joined the event. The same week, youth attended a Christmas entertainment at German Methodist Episcopal Church in Wrayville Thursday evening. Mrs. S Kelsey and daughter Misa Lida of Fedora South Dakota visited Mr and Mrs Thomas Watson over Friday day.
January is forecast as a disagreeable month with blizzards and cold waves. The warning urges fortifying the system against exposure and cold and promotes Father John's Medicine as a preventive to keep warmth, cure coughs and colds, and build strength to resist illness.
The General Crozier annual report notes at Rock Island Arsenal for the year ending July 1 1908 a near doubling of receipts and stores to 12 074 and 94 760 packages weighing 13 114 925 pounds. It covers bridges water supply new machine tools armory and shop work including 38 new tools, rifle production, and the value of stores manufactured at 4 014 360.11 with 1 540 employees and 1 168 743.82 in wages.
East Moline notes several families visiting relatives and traveling for Christmas. Lillian Reader from Walnut joined cousins Mrs. C. Williams and Mrs. Pearl Milner. D. Kessler headed to Walnut to spend Christmas with his daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Read and their son Harvey visited from Colona. Dr. and Mrs. Sensibaugh arrived from Pingree to spend the day with Mrs. Sensibaugh’s parents, the Howards.
An old time advertisement urges readers to buy Hostetter's Stomach Bitters to cure a weak stomach and lazy liver. It warns that condition is worsening and suffering can be reduced by starting use immediately.
An 1909 illustrated almanac is offered free at drug stores, promising to restore appetite aid digestion and prevent dyspepsia belching bloating heartburn costiveness colds grippes and general weakness. The notice urges readers to obtain a copy from their local drugstore.
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