Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-01-03
MOLINE MENTION

MOLINE MENTION
Mrs. Hilda c. Carlson, wife of John
+. Carlson of GIL Thirteenth street,
died yesterday after three years
illness of tuberculosis. She had been
belfast for four weeks. She was
born in Smoland. Sweden, May Z,
1862, and came to America in 1867,
settling in Orion, where she resided
for two years before removing to
this city. She was married nine
years ago to Mr.. Carlson, and leaves
beside her husband three children,
three brothers and one sister.
| While alighting from a Blue-line
street car, a peculiar accident befe'
the 12-year-old son of c. f. Hodsop,
living at Third street and Fifth
avenue. Both bones of the boys left
foreleg were broken. his ankle and
knee wrenched, the skin broken
about the broken bones and his entire
body thoroughly bruised. The lad
was dragged twenty feet in front of
the wheels of the trailer, and his
clothing was literally torn to shreds.
Leonard Wilson, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank A. Wilson, of 314 Seven
teenth street is dead. The little one
born in Clinton, was , years and 10
months of age.
! The S-year-old son of Charles Chell-
strom, of 1885 Twelfth avenue. while
walking through the yard at the fami-
ly home heard rifle discharged
from the neighbours place, and an in
slant afterward discovered that his
arm had been penetrated by bullet.
The 22-calibre ball had struck the
arm an inch above the wrist and was
detected parallel with the bone,
emerging an inch and half below
the elbow. DIR. Arp attended him
and took an X-ray picture of the arm,
which revealed that the bone had not
been splintered by the missile. I'm
less something unforeseen happens
the young fellow will be all right in a
comparatively short time.
John \. Hallin. a well-llnown resi-
dent of Moline is dead at his home on
South Seventh street after a 6-weeks'
illness. He was born in Sweden.
August 90. 1923. came to this country
in 1875 and settled in Galesburg. He
resided there four and a half years
before removing to Moline, where he
had been employed at the Moline
Plow Co.'S for thirteen years, and
later as ianitor of the Seventh street
school and the South chapel of the
Swedish Lutheran church.
Myrtle Rebekah lodge installed the
following officers: y. c., Emma
Oakley; V. G., Lizzie Daebelliehn;
financial secretary, Gertie Christi
son: treasurer, Anna Newton; IL. 5. y.
e.. j. II. Newton; L. S. n. G., Jams
Storms; r. S. V. G., Hester Cratin;
L. S. V. e., Amy Williams; conductor,
Mamie Daebelliehn; warden, Mary
Larson; chaplain, Mary Duffin: L. e.,
Mary Stuhr; o. G. Godfrey Rosen-
quist.
The following were elected by the
Sunday school of the Swedish NJ. L.
church: Superintendent, Swan Oh
son; assistant, August Larson; secre-
tary, Robert Larson; treasurer, Miss
Lydia Dahlheim; organist. Miss Olga
Nyquist; choristers, Emil Nyquist
and Miss Hannah Kneberg.
Swedish Baptists have elected the
following officers: Chairman, Rev.
Bennett Ernckson; assistant chair
man. John Swanson; secretary, Carl
Lawson; assistant secretary, Frank
Skeppstrom; treasurer, Carl Berg
stedt; organist, Miss Betty Hol1in-
son; ushers, Fred Ostlund, Frank
Skeppstrom, Carl Lawson, Phillip
Colson, Oscar Hallberg, Haden Palm
quist.
At the annual meeting of the Mis-
sion tabernacle the following were
elected: Deacon, three vars, Erick
lLiliegren; two years, Edwin Olson;
trustee, three years, Z. Adamson;
two years. c. j. Swensson; Sunday
school superintendent, Ludwig Lille
gren; assistant superintendent, Os-
car Bergstedt, secretary, Edwin Oh
son; chorister and organist, j. T.. n.
Olson.
Guy Sarlton Humphrey and Miss
Cora f. Torp were married Tuesday
evening at the residence of the
brides parents, 1917 Seventeenth
street. Rev. II. c. Bryant officiat-
ling. They were attended by Oscar
Torp and Miss Sandquist.
Thousands Sent Into Exile.
Every year a large number of poor
sufferers whose lungs are sore and
racked with coughs are urged to go
to another climate. But this is cost
| ~ and not always sure. Don't be an
exile when DIR. Kings New Discovery
for consumption will cure You at