Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-08-06
MOLINE MENTION

There is scarcity of worlmen,
IN the building trades in the city that
is holding back work to some extent.
The scarcity is most felt in the mas
ons' trade as there are neither brick
nor stone masons enough to keep the
buildings moSing as they ought to be.
The scarcity will carry work well
along into the winter and will compel
the finishing of great many build
ings after cold weather sets in.
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Governor Richard Yates may be
guest of honor at the big picnic of
the Northeastern Iowa and North
western Illinois Woodman association
in Moline a week from the coming
Thursday. The committee has hopes
of u favorable reply to the invitation
sent the governor and if he is pres
ent he viii deliver an address. Judge
J. H. ConneIl, of Aledo. and Hon.
Thomas Stevenson will be the ora
tors of the day. Colonel Edward
Kittilsen will be marshal of the day
and of the big parade.
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Mrs. Dan Woods was tried Monday
afternoon before jury in Justice
Mapes' court on a charge of keeping
a disorderly house and was found
guilty. She was assessed a fine of SIS
and costs and in default was commit
ted to the county Jail for four days.
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Manager r. H. Taylor has word
from Chamberlin, Kindt d Co, that
the Wagner opera house will be OPP
ened Aug. 80 for the winter season
with the longtime favorite Ollie
Mack as the attraction.
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Beginning with Sept. the Western
Union will establish night service,
keeping its telegraph office open the
! fun twenty-four hours every day.
This change which has long been
needed by the city has been brought
about through the efforts of Manager
Stockman.
To fill the vacancy in the corps of
high school teachers occasioned by
the resignation of Prof. j. p. Drake
and later of Miss WILDER, the school
board has elected Walter d. Baker, a
graduate of Cornell college of Iowa
and graduate student of Chicago
university. Mr.. Baker is an unmar-
ried man about % years of age.
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| Miss Myrtle 4. Hunt who has been
assistant in the high school the last
year has resigned to accept a posi-
ton in the Interstate correspon-
dence school of Chicago. She began
her engagement in that school Mon
day. To fill his vacancy the commit
tee on teachers has chosen Miss Grace
May Warner of Rock Island. Miss
Warner is a graduate of Nassar and
has had several years experience in
high school work in ST. Paul Mimi,
and in Belvidere and Pecatonica in
this state.
\ second chapter in the controversy
between the Tri-City Railway com
pany and the Moline, East Moline d
Watertown railway was enacted Sun
day night, when the suburban com
pany defeated another suspected
coup on the part of the Tri-City peo-
pie. The new company had finished
its rails between Twentieth and Twen-
ty-second streets on Third avenue,
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| Twentieth street. The presence of a
gang of menin thatneighborhood early
the other evening caused the engi-
neers of the new line to suspect that
the track might be extended beyond
! Twentieth street thus preventing
the suburban road from connecting
with the Second avenue portion of
the line. At o'clock the company's
gang of men was routed out of bed
and by l o'clock the curve had been
put in place.
Yesterday morning the delivery
team beloning to the w. c. Loptien
grocery establishment on Third ave
nue. INDUCED in lively runaway
which for a while threatened death
and destruction to everything con
nected with it. The driver. Carl Ben
son. was delivering goods up Seven
teenth street when in some manner
the horses became frightened and
| dashed down toward the river, cross
ing market square and narrowly
missing several teams and pedestrians
in its fight. The horse finally threw
the boy from his seat to the ground,
the wagon passing oNSi MS DoNtS, o"'
doing him no injury. The mad race
was stopped at the elevator works,
where the horses tore off the wagon
and harness and were soon brought to
a standstill.
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Lightning played a curious prank
Monday night at the butcher shop on
Fifteenth street belonging to Hans
Wind. After one of the heavy crashes
people living across the street from
the shop noticed the gas jet in the
window afame. The bluff tiremen
were notified and the flame was put
out by turning off the gas where it
entered the building. An electric
wire was left hanging over the jet
and it is thought that the lightning