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Newspaper
Rock Island Argus
Location
Rock Island, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1912
Page
2
A funeral service was held on a weekday afternoon at 2:30 from the residence of her daughter. She was interred in the family lot beside the remains of her husband in Fairmount cemetery.
Bids for improving the Wapele river bridge between Scott and Clinton counties are invited by the boards of supervisors and will be opened at the county auditor's office. Project expected to cost about 1500 dollars, with work to start after bid opening and contract award.
Reports from Davenport to Mathersville and nearby towns record a baby’s arrival for the Miller family, a narrow escape in a runaway incident injuring a boy near Mrs Mannon’s fence, and various visits and travels including trips to California and Chicago.
The Reliance block on Fifth Avenue in Moline will feature a modern smokeless vacuum-vapor heating system with two Rewanee smoke consuming boilers. The contract, awarded to Moline Heating & Construction, covers nearly 9,000 feet of radiation and an estimated price of about $700.
Funeral services for Mrs Eunice Bowser drew a large crowd last Thursday. Interment followed at Reynolds Cemetery beside her husband who died 18 years earlier. Six of her grandchildren served as hearers. Mrs Thomas Watson returned from Kansas City and attended the funeral of cousin Mrs Lena Gremmel. Mr and Mrs F M Boyer left Monday for Bushnell and Galesburg to visit relatives. William Hudson, injured by a hayload fall, is progressing well. Fred Zollner of North Dakota is visiting his parents.
Hampton Mrs J M Benson and children Harold Elinor and Lillian of near Princeton Iowa were guests here a few Gaye ago of relatives. Von Zimmerman of East Moline has rented the William Edelman property on River street and will occupy it with his family. J E McCung was here last week.
A Zuma Sunday school program drew a large audience on Sunday evening and a well attended sociable followed on Tuesday. Twelve dollars were added to the treasury. Rev. W. H. Blancke of Davenport will preach next Sunday afternoon at 2 oclock at the Evangelical Lutheran church. Mrs. George Wake, visiting relatives in Iowa for nine months and recently ill, is now at home.
The article recounts John Churchill known as Handspome Jack rising from modest start to become a powerful marshal and statesman under James II and William III. It notes his treacherous shift to William, marriage to Sarah Jennings, later becoming Duke of Marlborough, his military feats, the brutal German campaigns he oversaw, and the eventual fall from grace with Queen Anne and George I. The piece closes with a Ruskin quote on purposeful work.
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