Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-04-26
MOLINE MENTION

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Announcement is made by Mr.. and
Mrs. \. w. Bragg, of Tuscola, ILL.,, of
the approaching marriage of their
daughter, Miss Eva Bragg, To l..
STANLEY Skinner, of Moline. The GER
emory will take place at the First NJ.
+. church in Tuscola Tuesday even
ing. June 10. Mr.. Skinner is one of
Moline's most prominent young men.
and grandson of the late Porter
Skinner.
T. Mayer is about ready to let plans
for store building ON Fifteenth
street. 1t will be 2SXSO feet and two
stories high. He is also thinking of
putting up II building fronting on
Fourth avenue. The contract will be
let for the Kimball block at the cor
ner of Fourth avenue and Fifteenth
street in few days. Architect Ger
vim is drawing plans for both.
Frank Krantz and wife, who live at
1912 Twelfth street. are considerably
disturbed over the serious turn of
things in their neighborhood, espec-
tally since Thursday night. when they
We're shot at by some person while
sitting within their home. The first
that they were alarmed was last
Sunday, when they left their home
and went to Galesburg to attend Il
funeral. They were away all day
and at II o'clock Sunday night the
roof of the porch was set fire. There
is no other cause for it as there has
never been fire near where the
Sunday night fire was discovered.
Thursday evening at 10 o'clock they
were sitting in their dining room
when they were startled by the re-
port of "a revolver shot. which came
from the south side of the house. The
wall was examined and the mark of
the bullet was found in the founda-
ton below the window.
John T., 7-year-old son of y. II.
Peterson, of 1907 Eighteenth avenue,
died at his home Thursday afternoon
at 2:25 o'clock, after an illness of II
weeks with pneumonia. Only one
month ago his sister died and he was
the only child the' now bereaved par
very hard blow for the parents and is
kecnly felt by them. The funeral
was held at 2:jO o'clock this after
noon.
John Ringquist. of the firm of
Peterson & Ringquist. met with an
accident Thursday evening which will
lay him up for a week or so. He WAS
riding west along Fifth avenue on his
wheel at the time and near the cor
ner of Fourteenth street struck II
brick that was lying on the pavement
in such Il manner as to throw him
with great force to the ground. By
ISLANDERS rushed to his assistance and
| il was found that he was half stunned
and barely able to- stand up on ac-
count of bruised leg. He was con-
veyed To his home in the ambulance.
No bones were broken but he was
bruised more or less about his body
and legs.
Miss Bender. Il sister of Mrs. Gust
| Peterson, of 1921 Second avenue, sus-
tanned a fracture of her right arm
at the wrist by falling on Il sidewalk.
Edward Schalom. of 34S Seventh
street. will be laid up two or three
weeks as u result of "a fall on a slip
perry floor and sustaining severe in
jury To his right knee cap.
W. \. Rosenfield and y. w. Gilbert,
of the Moline Wagon company, at
tended special meeting of the Ma
tional Wagon Manufacturers asso-
citation held at the auditorium Annex
hotel in Chicago Wednesday. The
questions of production, cost and
selling price were thoroughly dis
cussed. 1t was the sense of the meet
ing that as the cost of material has
steadily increased since the annual
meeting i'm November. 1901. an adj
vance i'm the selling price of wagons
| is inevitable.
Information was received today
that the public building which Moline
has been expecting To get has been