Davenport News Briefs Highlight Local Life
Multiple Davenport items report a graduation at Immaculate Conception academy with motto Semper et Ubique Fidelis, a Salem death of John A. Graack age 40 who arranged cremation and ashes to sister in Davenport, a 7 year old fracture after box car fall, an attempted marriage license mix up for Grover DeWolf and Bessie Gill, 195 city saloon licenses valued at 601 each yielding 117000 revenue, a peculiar accident with a boy and frightened horse on Howell street, St Ambrose college commencement graduates, death of long time tailor Samuel Perry, five new rural routes planned from Davenport, and a planned city mail chute installation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daily
Oregon Statesman
Salem
Ore
John A. Graack
Graack
R.g.dun Company
San Francisco
Portland
Mr. Roberson
Davenport
City
Jeppe Biering
Biering
Howell Street
Robert
William Helmel
Chicago Brewing Company
Mr. Steele
New building project adds glass chute at corner of Third and Main
A contract valued around 1000 dollars covers a six floor mail chute under construction at Third and Main. The glass front will show letters as they descend to the ground floor for carrier pickup. The Davenport Automobile Club then shifts to planning a late summer race meet after canceling a Fourth of July event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lane
Tri-Cities
Davenport Automobile Club
Masonic Temple
Probate Court Records Estate of Frederick Johannes
Probate filings show death proof and Marie Johannes as administratrix with oath, bond, issued letters, and approved inventory. Also settlement petitions for personal injury against People's Power Co. estates of William Wooley G W Allberg Theodore Holdorf and George A Thompson heard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick Johannes
Marie Johannes
People's Power Company
William Wooley
Ann S. Lees
William Myers
G. W. S. Allberg
Theodore Holdorf
Hannah Holdorf
Hannah Jones
George A. Thompson
Miller
W. Simmons
Claims and Real Estate Transfers Featured in Court Record
The record shows claims allowed and objections in probate, including Dr. A. H. Arp at $60 and Hans Peterson at $17, with publishing notices filed. Real estate transfers register numerous parcels in Rock Island and Moline, with buyers and prices listed, followed by notices of injuries and medicinal advertisements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. H. Arp
Hans Peterson
John Tindall
T. M. Tindall
C. Warren
Samantha E. Parker
Arenshhield
Pleasant View
George W. Mitchem
Edith E. Engram
Thompson & Wells
Rock Island
Rock Island Savings Bank
Ithehey
Blanding
Eric
Oscar M. Bisant
Can‘lee & Nourse’s
Moline
Sarah E. Barnhart
Swan Benson
Edgewood Park
George A. Thompson
Violet A. ‘Thompson
John Ed
Eva Ed
John Deere
Elizabeth Smith
Carl J. Motzer
Smith
Moline Notes and Obituaries Run Through City
Seeds distributed to city schoolchildren totaling twenty five hundred sixty packs, per Mrs. W C Bennett. Obituary notes include Jane Follett dead, born June 1837 Ludlow, multiple marriages, survivors, and burial in Moline. Also updates on Plow Co of Oklahoma opening, graduates, Deyoe death, street fair planning, state observatory meet, Bergendahl Bergendahl nuptials, and a birth at Optenberg home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. C. Bennett
Civic League
Moline Woman's Club
Jane Follett
Jan D. Follett
Minois
D. G. Mitchell
Ludlow
Avery T. Jackson
Port Byron
Follett
Ephraim Warren
Hampton Township
L. N. Warner
Warner's Crossing
E. W. Hibbard
Bergendah-Johnson
Fourteenth Street
Moline
Helen Ingebors
John
Pan
John Bergesdahl
Hoffsten
Grace Lintheran Church
Rock Island
Edith Applequist
Grant Bergendahl
Also Mentioned on This Page
Immaculate Conception Academy
F. Nagle
Sixth
le Claire
Fifth
le Claire Streets
Grover C. de Wolfe
Bessie Gill
William Guenwald
District Court
Guenwald
Ghant
Grover C DeWolf
Toulon
Ill
St. Ambrose
Ight
St. Ambrose College
Euugene Vincent Denault
Fulton, al
William Lawrence Walsh
Centerville
Iowa
James Aloysius Shields
Clinton
John Vincent Shields
Ulrich Albert Hauber
Iowa City
James Patrick Danhabea
Council Bluffs
Charles Vincent Burkhiser
Hamburg
James Aloys O'Niell
Samuel Perry
England
Commercial Alley
Brady Street
Butte
Mont
Perry
O. C. Pierce
Government Post Office Service
Pierce
Postoffice Department
Joe R. Lane
Cutler Mail Chute Company
Richards
Dr. Richards
Worth St
New York
People's Credit Clothing Company
George K. Babcock
Chamberlain
Mr. Babcock
North Plain
Conn
Oklahoma Moline Plow Company
Oklahoma
Okla
J. R. van P
Kansas Moline Plow Company
George Marshall
H. Bartholomew
Home Office
Ernest Miller
Moline Plow Company
Winnipeg
Man
Cecil Mason
D. Cooper
University of Wisconsin
Madison
Lester KR. Creutz
Ira B. Cross
Henry A. Cook
Chicago
Patrick Deyoe
This City
Samuel
Rosenfield
Chie
Deyoe
Alaska
Psus
Nome
Plaw City Court of Honor
Charles ‘Tammir
Herman Miedke
Watters
State Observatory
Ilinois
State Observatory of
The
Yelock
North Star
Grand Observatory
Edward W. Optenberg
Twelfth Avenue
Keen Kutter
Kutter
Kutier
Mark Reraueret
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