Davenport Briefs: Divorces, Deaths, and Local Notices
Three divorce decrees granted in district court include Mary Madsen vs Peter Madsen with $35 alimony monthly Emma Kruse vs William Kruse and Hattie Wilcox vs William Wilcox. Coroner’s verdict clears Rock Island RR in Myron Ellett death. Obituaries for Joseph Benes Jr Maria Theresa Moll and Mary A Kulp noted with funeral details and survivors. Local items cover weddings baptisms and club activities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Madsen
Peter Madsen
Emma Kruse
Wiliam Kruse
Hattie Wilcox
William Wilcox
Local Notables Entertain and Move Plans In Illinois
Silvis Mrs. Mary Phelp entertains her niece Miss Mary Carroll from Kewanee. Professor B E S Kindley visits Chicago for chautauqua work. Mrs. Herbert Brown and son John Frederick visit Chicago relatives. Kindley prepares to move to Davenport for a school position. James Phelp and Miss Mary Carroll plan an extended western trip. Mr. Willet to move to Rock Island for foundry work after boilermaker tenure. Barstow boys visit for a baseball game with the local nine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
BE. S. Kindley
Chicago
Herbert Brown
John Frederick
Professor Kindley
Davenport
James Phelp
Mary Carroll
Willet
Rock Island
Barstow Boys
Local Social Notes Highlight Augustana Student Return
Edgington resident Karris returns from Rock Island where she studied at Augustana college this past year. Mary Holliday from Swedona visited over the weekend, and Roy Boughton with his mother Mary have come back from Spokane where Roy studied two years. Ralph Wood and baby are visiting Rock Island this week. Rev. Mr. Cooper of Hamlet will preach Sunday morning and evening. Commencement exercises with 13 eighth grade graduates to be held June 30 under Anta Simpson Nellie Elliott Julia Hintermeister Mattie Wood and Henry Oaks. Anna Harris came home Friday from Mt. Vernon Iowa. Clara Carpenter visited Caleb over Sunday. John Bakus brought his young son home from the hospital Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mate Karris
Rock Island
Augustana College
Mary Holliday
Swedana
Mary Boughton
Roy
Spokane
Wash
Ralph Wood
Baby
Mr. Cooper
Hamlet
Anta Simpson
Nellie Elliott
Julia Hintermeister
Mattie Wood
Henry Oaks
Anna Harris
Mt. Vernon
Iowa
Clara Carpenter
Caleb
John Bakus
Social and visiting news from Zuma and surrounding towns
Mite party at Ed Wainwrights draws large crowd. Mrs Mamie Wake visits Miss Echo Allsbrow in Rock Island with Cora Forester assisting. Lillian Crompton returns from Urbana for vacation with Wainwright sisters. Rose Hill strawberry sociable clears over $40. Mrs Edna Mumma hosts a luncheon for Miss Louise Shaw of Chancellorville with several schoolmates present. Cecil and Beulah Nicholson visit grandparents S. B. Beal in Zuma and Mo line residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ed Wainwright
Mamie Wake
Echo Allsbrow
Rock Island
Cora Forester
Watertown
Allsbrow
Lillian Crompton
Urbana
Ella Wainwright
Frank Bryant
Rose Hill
Sutherland
Forest Nicholson
Marvin Mumma
Edna Mumma
Louise Shaw
Chancellorville
Port Byron
Port Byron Academy
Louise
Edna
Margaretha Bihimeier
Emma Schweegler
Coe
Nellie Shreve
Anna Ripper
Fannie Franklin
Barstow
May Fress
Hampton
Mabel Wells
Vera
Lulu Cooper
Zuma
Miss Shaw
Knox
Cecil
Beulah Nicholson
Moline
Beal
Orion Crops Suffer Heat Drying Strawberries Shortage Looms
The hot dry weather harms crops and causes a strawberry shortage. Local residents and visitors are noted, including Ezra Callaway and Frui ta, Colorado. various townspeople in Orion and surrounding areas are mentioned with visits, baptisms, and social outings. Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy is advertised as a worldwide trusted cure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamberlain
Moline district vote defeats saloon district extension
Moline city council defeated a proposal to extend the saloon district west from Seventh to Sixth Street. Other notes include the confirmed Sixteenth Street paving assessment, sewer and water improvements in the Fifth ward, a death by self harm case in Joliet involving C W Crawford, and Dr. A H Arp purchasing the Kiel property at 1413 Sixth Avenue for 6400 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East Moline
Seventh
Sixth Street
R. W. Olmsted
Sixteenth Street
Eleventh
Nineteenth Avenues
Fifth Ward
Moline
Colfax Hotel Offers Palace Rooms At Low Rates
A Colfax hotel boasts beauty and luxury with palace like rooms baths equal to Carlsbad waters and an unmatched continental table. Rooms with board advertised from 3.00 per day in writ booklet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colfax
America
Carlsbad
Europe
Hotel Nor Coast
Marriage of Company No 2 worker and J Henry Becker
No. 2 company employee and mail carrier J Henry Becker wed yesterday at 3 AM at Reverend R S Haney's home. The quiet ceremony was intended to avoid friends who awaited the event. The couple left on a 4 AM train to New York to visit Becker's parents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Henry Becker
R. S. Haney
New Yok
Y. M. C. A. Triangle Camp Hosts Quiet Sunday Near Andalusia
At the Triangle camp near Andalusia June 20 the Y M C A. boys spent a calm Sunday with town visitors. Speakers covered spirit mind and body during services in Andalusia Baptist church and a B G M session addressed by R C Smedley. Fresh fruit and cake donations buoyed camp morale as five days remain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Triangle Camp
Andalusia
Arthur Lundeen
Phil Olson
Leo Stevens
Norman Kerr
Harry Shiffer
W. E. Martin
A. L. Bruner
C. J. Searle
J.G. Huntoon
Frank
Mr. Smedley
Builder
R. W. Pearce
Warren Beck
Huntley
M. T. Stevens
CAMPERS FORM VILLAGE EAST OF WATCH TOWER
As heat draws city residents to cooler spots fifty camps have formed near the Watch Tower area. About 25 parties, including the Comet camp of A Wilcox W Reitel Fred Behnken and Morris Rains, pitch tents and build bungalows along the river for the summer months. They plan to stay for several months and work on camp facilities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Watch Tower
A. Wilcox
W. Reitel
Fred Behnken
Morris Rains
Meserve Seeks Senate Seat Amid Cabinet Buzz
Edwin A. Meserve announces candidacy for the United States Senate while A G Spalding is urged to run. The stir comes as reports claim Senator Flint may join the president's cabinet as interior secretary within a month. Meserve cites Flint's support and the rumor prompts political circles in Los Angeles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Meserve
Senate
Spalding
Los Angeles
Cal
Edwin A. Meserve
United States Senate
A. G. Spalding
Chicago
United States
Flint
Interior
Advertised List No 24 for Week Ending June 18 1910
Advertised List No 24 dated for week ending June 18 1910 includes names such as B G Adirens Carl Anderson Miss Hat tie Allen Alvin Bristol Bernard Bow man John Bixby Mrs Blanche Bleuer W N Crawford Robert Cheek Rev J S Cumming F D Deaming Hugo Deering Louis J Doyle Lane Foster R C Graham Gustafson Bros Grant Hart W L Huntsman Mrs Hillis Joseph Frank R Joseph Mrs Anna Johnson Miss Ida Kinger Miss Lillie Kopp John Latimer Albert Lawler Mrs Mammia Larken Mrs Carrie A Morgan Miss E Mulvey N A Nelson Ed Parish Orron C Phillip Patrick Quinn John Rahn Harry Sulley H L Talmage Wr W P E Warren Foreign Frank Cragg Josif Ohren clue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. G. Adirens
Carl Anderson
Hattie Allen
Alvin Bristol
Bernard Bowman
John Bixby
Blanche Bleuer
W. N. Crawford
Robert Cheek
Rev. J
Cumming
F. D. Deaming
Hugo Deering
Louis J. Doyle
Lane Foster
R. C. Graham
Gustafson
Marvelous Discoveries and New Cough Remedy Ad
An advertisement touts Dr King’s New Discovery and Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy as cures for coughs colds and bronchial illnesses. It credits James M Black of Asheville with a successful cure and notes trials guarantees and pricing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. King
James M. Black
Asheville
N. C
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Charles H. H. ‘Lohmann
Nelie E. Clapp
Ira P. Rogers
Pittsburg
Hazel Dickson
Ellott
Myron A. Ellett
Fillmore Street
Rock Island Road
I Caldwell
Ireland
aAfter
D. Caldwell
Resister
LaGrange
New York
Brooklyn
Sanford
Caldwell
Camp McClellan
Joseph Benes, Jr
Joseph Benes
Eddy Street
Benes
Holy Family
Dubuque
Mary A. Kulp
W. O. Kulp
Kulp
Iowa State University
Marsh Ayers
Ayers
S. Preston
Cedar Rapids
William Hall
St. Louis
Lewis
Robert Kulp
Denver
Donald
Brainard Cameron
Kate Brainard
Ferdinand Dibbern
Adolph Schmidt
Alvina Moll
Scott Lodge 37
The
Odd Fellows
Moll
Fairmount Cemetery
M. Fitzgibbons
Hillsdale
Henry Zeeman
South Dakota
Conrad Nielson
Baptist Ladies’ Aid Society
Shome
Highth Street
Helen Barr
Delbert Hull
Minnie Hennessey
Francis Ryan
Baptist Church
G. G. Club
Mary Phelp
Kewanee
Edgington
Orion
Ezra Callaway
Fruita
Colo
Soder
Thomas
Tiskilwa
Ill
A. EB. Soder
Oder
Campbell's Island
George Richards
Ella Hiller
Woodhull
Hannah Kirkland
Co. A. Bard
Alcampo
Texas
Fay Sheesley
Lester Johnson
Hulda Peterson
Geneseo
Green River
Anderick
A. Aronsen
George Fassett
Reynolds
Nelson
Cambridge
Elms
Elwood Bothwell
Frank Elm
John Peterson
O— Crawford
C. W. Crawford
Silvis
Joliet
Edna Peters
Hose
Robert Burns
Best & Russel Company
Lil
Walsh
Waleh
A. B. Waits
Laddsdale
J. Maroff
Wilton Jr
Chicago Medical Institute of
Ows
Dr. Walsh
W. Third Street
McCullough
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