The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-04-30

~Tbirteen tramps calaboosed Satur-
day and Sunday night
BgThe new city administration will be
inaugurated one week from to- day.
BgRev J. W. Haney will go to Mon
mouth, " arren Co., tomorrow to attend
his fathers wedding
BTR. B. Towndrow has leased of Geo.
W. Vinton his house ON Wells street and
will occupy it tomorrow.
B1The Mission Sunday school in East
ward school house, will hereafter be at 9
o'clock a. m. instead OF p. m., as hereto
fore.
RBBilly Turner was presented. by his
wife with son yesterday. 1t is not known
as yet whether it is constable or town
clerk.
ggA temperance mass meeting is an
bounced for Thursday evening at the Con
gregational church. Rev's. Hench and
Findey will address the meeting.
BgThere is a probability that there
will be force enough 10 the incoming coun-
Gil to open Division street. Let US hope
that we will not be disappointed.
B9@There was a man around town TO-
day leaving blanks with business men to be
filled in with the names of "dead beats, "
said list to be published for the benefit and
protection of merchants, This ought to
be good thing.
B9-The wholesale liquor store, corner
| of Wells and Lynde streets. will have a
new proprietor Tomorrow Ike 1saacs
has sold the stock to Epstein & Co., OF
Rock Island, and Mr.. Louis Jacot y will be
uanager in charge.
rcAFormal possession was taken yester
day, by the members of the Swedish
Lutheran church, of their new and mag
nifcent place OF worship. The leave-taking
of the old building, and dedication of the
new, afforded an impressive scene, and one
that will long be remembered by the mem
bers of the society The farewell services
in the old church were conducted by Rev,
Set erdahl and President Haselquist, O.
Augustana College, and the opening ser
mon in the new edifce was delivered BY
Prof. Olson. Then, as if moved by one
and the same impulse, the church com
municants, almost to a man, made thei
way to the front and deposited their offer
ing upon table, and In few moments
over $500, was contributed, enough f
inisE off the basement with all the com
forts they had contemplated,
To the Editors of the Ar.us:
!, | desire to make statement through
the columns of The ARGUS relative to
transaction by the finance committee Of tn
Moline library board, which ought to b
, ventilated Ii is we'll known in this cou
I muplty that, to the generosity Of Hon. S
! W. Wheelock is due the present prosper
: lo,,. a. l..
the library was opened to the public, Nj
Wheelock. in order to aid the institutio
and thereby benefit the public. gave tn
:, use of the rooms for two years gratis. A
ter that time the city was charged onl
$500 per year. which was very low
: and many contributions have been mad
\ by Mr.. W. III order to help the projet
; along, But the most generous act Of a
was the munifcent donation of the entiI
building free, and unreserved, an
unsolicited, to the city CT Nj
II line. The press was loud
Il praise of this worthy act of Mr.. Whe
y y lock and, as a tribute of gratitude on Il
y part of the people be was elected may
- of the city without opposition at our rece
;. city election. One would suppose tn
~ an act of this kind would not soon
- forgotten but not so with the finance col
j. mittee Of the library board who, at its la
e meeting when bill for one years re
u $500 was presented to April lst. 1877
were mean enough and so upcourteo
and ungrateful as to deduct from Il
amount of bill fire dollars and thirt
y three centS!' or one-third of month
10 rent. Economy is good in its place al
oI its practice is always commendable b
ID when, in order to exemplify the doctri
J. it is Necessary to sacrifice principle
were better left out. Of course ever
body knows that petty malice creeps il
'ir the library board and this act may ha
le been the result of some such person
or rivalry, but be that as it may, the acti
IS, of j, NJ. Gould and J. G.. Starr, Il
or finance committee, in this matter, is &C
or temptible and unworthy of any one "
is the least particle of manhood. If H,
n, S. W. Wheelock had been someone
wards whom the board or its final
"a, committee had no reason to feel gratei
IS, the action of the committee could he
ne cused; but under the circumstances. q
,ly in view of the munifcent donation SO
at Gently and generously made, there is
an solutely no excuse whatever. The &C
d, mittee may plead motives of economy
desire to adhere rigidly to a suppo
duty but it will not meet the approval
MS the people who when they learn the fa
or which until this writing have been k
HE from them. there must arise a feel
Ialy. 10 L.