Local headlines report unsettled cases and a hospital fall
Louis Huber, a cattle buyer, may avoid horse stealing charges if he settles for six hours of use of Gus Stengel's horse and buggy. Claus Jasper pays a $300 contempt fine for reopening a saloon during an injunction without neighbor consent. M R Ball suffers possible skull fracture after a fall at a Davenport Wagon Co site, injuring a hod carrier below. Ed Collins mails a plea from Emma Klueber, seeking child support from Hans Klueber amid Cedar County pauper notices.
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L Louis Huber
Davenport
Gus Stengel
Moline
Huber
Claus Jasper
Betty
Civic Federation
Jackson
M. R. Ball
St. Luke’s Hospital
Davenport Wagon Company
Third
Farnam Streets
Ball
Hillsdale notes and plans in eastern Minnesota and interurban talks
Local items recount Tom Cross visiting eastern Minnesota and planning to rent a farm next year. Many notes cover residents traveling, marriages, cattle buyers, and repairs in Hillsdale and nearby towns. The Tri-City Railway plans to revamp Campbell's Island into a major pleasure resort with a large investment and new concessions including a possible figure 8 ride.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Cross
Minnesota
Mary Shumate
Annie Pike
Missouri
Champaign
Aleck Nickerson
Allie Delphy
Rock Island
Elmer Dennison
Sterling
Frank Sheppard
Mike Fitzgibbon
Omaha
Nebb
Rev
D. W. Hull
Campbell's Island
Tri-City Railway Company
J. F. Porter
Peoples Power Company
Porter
Social affairs from Moline notices of weddings and events
Bartlett McKeever and Miss Emily McKeever wed at the Moline Methodist church with a reception and extended trip, to reside in Peoria. Edna Pierce and Burritt Miner married at the bride’s home with plans to live in Tampico. Eastern Star initiation in Rock Island, G A R circle inspections in Moline and Rock Island, linen showers for Ethyl Fraser and Gertrude Carse ahead of their marriages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bartlett McKeever
Emily McKeever
E. B. McKeever
Eighteenth Street
Moline
William Culbertson Bartlett
Peoria
Methodist Church
J. W. Edwards
Helen Loosley
Clara Sloan
Gale Porter
Tunnicliffe
Bartlett
Highride
Miner Pierce
Edna Pierce
Henry F. Pierce
Nineteenth Street
Burritt
H. Miner
Tampico
W. B. Clemmer
Memorial Christian Church
Miner
Grace Wright
Ethyl Fraser
Homer Hinkley
Eighth Avenue
Sean Miss Wright
Joseph Scherer
Twentieth Street
Gertrude Carse
Davenport Girl Killed Crossing Railroad Tracks
Ada Hall ten years old daughter of Mr and Mrs C L Hall of 832 West Fifth Davenport was fatally struck by a passenger train on the Rock Island road last evening around 730. She attempted to cross to friends on the other side but a long freight train cleared the crossing and a westbound passenger train struck her severing both legs. An ambulance took her to a hospital but she died en route.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ada Hall
C. L. Hall
West Fifth Street
Davenport
Rock Island Road
Ada
Judge Gest Grants Final Papers in Naturalization
Judge W H Gest granted 19 applicants final naturalization papers in the circuit court, bringing this week’s total to 49. One applicant testified he is single and does not believe in polygamy. When asked about polygamy the witness replied that the applicant does not believe in having even one wife.
Rock Island bridge reaches two feet low water mark
Water at the lowest stage yet records a two foot level at the Rock Island bridge the Harriet North Star Emily and Ruth vessels noted to the north and south. A Russian invention claims a bullet proof coat with platinum silver and iridium used to flatten bullets. Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters advertised as remedy for a wide range of stomach and digestive ailments. Dr Detchon’s Relief for Rheumatism praised for rapid relief and claimed life saving effects. Sold by Otto Grotjan in Rock Island and Gust Schlegel & Son in Davenport.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rock Island
Rock Island Bridge
Harriet
North Star
Emily
Ruth
Hostetter
Morton L. Hill
Lebanon
Ind
Detchon
Otto Grotjan
Second Avenue
Gust Schlegel & Son
West Second Street
Davenport
James Burris Is Dead After Short Illness
James A. Burris of 1006 Fifth Avenue a well known colored citizen died at noon from cholera morbus after a brief illness. Born in Muscatine he was 42 and had lived in Rock Island 38 years. Survived by wife six children a brother H. B. Burris and sister Mrs Mary Leonard. Burial by colored Masonic lodges expected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James A. Burris
Fifth Avenue
Mr. Burris
Muscatine
Rock Island
H. B. Burris
Mary Leonard
St. Louis
Real Estate Transfers in Rock Island and Moline
Record of court house transfers lists Fred T Sundquist to Daniel J Shean for lot 8 block 1 in Winters Ninth street addition Rock Island for 1. George D Dunn to Mary S Lundeen for lot 16 block 2 in A Frebergs addition Moline for 1500. Moline East Moline and Watertown Railway Company to George D Dunn for unspecified transfer.
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Fred T. Sundquist
Daniel J. Shean
J. B. Winter
Ninth Street
Rock Island
George D. Dunn
Mary S. Lundeen
A. Freberg
Moline
Moline, East Moline & Watertown Railway Company
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Ed Collins
Emma Klueber
Washington Street
Lowden
Cedar County
Iowa
Hans Klueber
Colling
Klueber
Scott County
Scott County Board of Supervisors
Hillsdale
Alice Cooley
Justin Dailey
la Rue
Robert Pearsall
Wes Dailey
Mr. Hull
Robert Johnson
Hampton
Rob
Hannah Johnson
Z. A. Wilbur
Kansas
Erie
Canoe Creek
Silas Simpson
Dan Cocking
Interurban
Waiter Priest
Cleveland
Ohio
M. B. Sinn
Des Moines
Moline-Peoria
Kewanee
W. Bund Interurban Engineer
Richmond
Frank Andrews
I 'East Moline
Moline Automobile Works
Woodyatt
Fred Woodyatt
Chicago
A. E. Kohler
Kohler
Carl Anderson
Francis DeJaeger
East End
Eleventh Street
East Moline
New York
Coney Island
Watertown
Society
the Argus
Oo. E. S
Rocky Island
The
Eastern Star
No. 269
Milan
Adelaide Reed
Ladies of the
Silvia Hall
Circle of
the Tri-cities
Springfield
Alton R. R
Fair Grounds
Chicago & Allen
State Pair Grounds
R. I. & P. Railroad
Big Lumber Sale
First Avenue
13Th and
14Th Sts
Western Wrecking Co
W. Franks
Mer
James Burris
Court House
Vis Millinery Dept
Imec
Campbell
Louis Arp
Bessie M. Moline
Edward C. Kane
Elsie Be, Frank
Buffalo
Rosebud Reservation
Tripp County
South Dakota
Chamberlain
Presho
Milwaukee
St. Paul
F. A. Miller General
GEO
B. Haynes
Marquette Bidg
C. S. Mdaniel
Harry Wallen
Aber
H. R. Brown
Life Insurance
Connecticut Mutual Life
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Ilinois
North
Safety Building
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