Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-24
MOLINE MENTION

| MOLINE MENTION |
The funeral of w. w. Wells was
held at 3 o'clock this afternoon from
the residence, Rev. Willard, % the
First Congregational church con-
Quoting the services, The wild
ow survives with son, Fred
NJ. Well, a tudent at the Uni
versity of Illinois, who arrived home
last week. Four children are dead.
His brother, Lee Wells. formerly of
this city, died in Minneapolis last
August 10, after less than a weeks
illness of typhoid fever. DR.. Robert
NJ. Wells, brother, lives at Coal Cen
ter, and his sisters, Sarah F. Wells,
who made her home with her brother
here, and Martha Wells of Belle Yer
non, Pa, are living.
The board of directors of the Mo-
lint Chautauqua had a conference
yesterday with James III. Shaw, who
is successfully managing Chautau-
quas at Bloomington and a number of
other places, and got number of val
liable pointers from him as to their
management. Mr.. Shaw, it is under
stood, had made proposition to the
local board to take the management
of the Moline assembly, and this
with other matters will be decided
next Friday evening when the new
board is to be elected. One of the
features of the next Chautauqua Will
1,a ha Ill ehr IF 10,
dent camp, it being desired that at
least hundred families shall avail
themselves of the privilege, which is
certainly an unusually good one, and
as many more as possible. Prospects
are excellent for a most successful
season.
From Moline pulpits Sunday there
went forth an appeal to England to
end the cruel and distressingly fatal
war being waged in South Africa.
An appeal it was praying that the
Christian principle of arbitration be
invoked to settle the issues at stake
and that in the meanwhile the fight
ing shall stop.
Fred Murray, the Stewartville boy
who has been in the Philippines since
the war broke out in 1898, has arriv-
ed home from service in the army.
He is Drowned and hearty looking
and soldering seems to have agreed
with him.
DIR. Walter T. Joslin, of Minneapolis,
is down for Christmas day at the
I, Of fnf AIRS
Will Joslin is mere also and VIII and
Ben will come down from the north
ern twin-cities for the holidays.
Philip Kennedy, the Mans job
pressman, lived through Il campaign
of couple of years in the Philip
pines to come back to Moline to bare
~ escape n fatal accident in the more
prosaic walks of life. Yesterday
box of rollers slipped in being lowered
into the basement of The Mail build
ing and one corner pinioned him by
the neck against the wall and The
edge crushed a finger on his right
hand. His neck might have been
broken. DIR. Swensson dressed his in
juries.
There was paid out last week by
the factories in the regular weekly
wages over $4,000. Some very close
figuring places it at $4,000. Two
years ago the weekly pay roll was
trifle more than 100000. Placing il
at sol 900 two years ago. the increase
is S2O,O0G a week. This SS1, 900 is paid
out by the factories alone. Add to it
the amount that is paid by builders
and other contractors. and YOU have
ut least another $4,000. There are
various other small institutions pay
ing weekly wages that would add per-
haps one more S1O,OO0-so that it is
not difficult to see that a hundred
thousand weekly is being paid out in
wages in Moline.
Mrs. Louisa f. Dahlstrom, wife of
Arvid NJ. Dahlstrom, an old-time en-
pIoye of Deere & Co, died yesterday
at the home at 1914 Twenty-third ave
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