Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-12-23

are among the Davenport students
who are home for the holidays.
Otto Seiffert, Louis erik, Charles
| Wilson and Ed Petersen are among
the Harvard students who have come
home to spend Christmas. Ed Littig
is also here from Harvard, having
come back for the Littig-Cassell we'd
ding as well as his Christmas vaca-
ton.
Dick Rowland, the welI-known sa-
loon keeper and sporting character,
has employed Names d Vollmer to
secure for him divorce from his
wife, Ethel Rowland, formerly Ethel
Mcguire. The original notice was
served in the case Saturday and the
suit was placed on file yesterday.
The allegations are statutory. \
prominent Clinton resident is named
as correspondent.
Equality lodge, No. %, formerly of
the Independent Workmen of Ameri-
ca, now of the Bankers Union. held
it's annual election of officers at the
Wigwam. The result was as follows:
I President. Mrs. Kate Gay; vice presi-
dent, Mrs. Larkins; past noble, Mrs
Ruths: secretary. Mrs. Brandt; treas
urer. Mrs. Frickel. sentinel. Mrs. Nor
avek: inner guard. Mrs. Widner; trus-
tees, Mesdames Freund, Bayliss and
Hord.
| Carpenters and Joiners' union. No.
554, met Thursday evening at Union
hall on West Second street, and elect
ed the following officers to serve for
the ensuing year: President, Allen
Hunt; vice president. Henry Broksick:
treasurer. William +. Boettcher; con
ductor. Charles Gerdts; warden, Det-
lief Petersen; trustees. Herman Ben
nike, Is months; Jochim Wellendorf. II
months; and Hugo Struck. e months.
Delegates to Carpenters and Joiners'
district council, Is months. ID. II.
White; II months. Herman Behnke
and Charles Adrians. 6 months.
The Knights and Ladies of the Col
den Precept held their annual election
at Woodman hall Friday night, and
selected the following officers to di
rect the order for the ensuing year:
President. Joseph Fisher: vice presi-
dent. Anna NJ. Kirk: captain of guard.
George Hall; chaplain. Mrs. j. NJ. Lay
ton: recording secretary. Miss Mary
! Decker; monitor. Mrs. Jessie Thorn
as; treasurer. James Shaw; physician.
DR.. {. +. Lindley: sentinel, Charles
Cline: lady aide. Mrs. Robert Hall:
right guard. Mrs. O'Donnen; left
guard, Mrs. Hitler; fallen knight,
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Maggie Frederick; voting knight,
Martin Mitchell; voting lady. Mrs. NJ.
Mitchell; pianist. Mrs. Agnes Scott:
trustee for Is months. Robert Hall:
trustee for - months. +. NJ. TilIotsen:
trustee for months, Charles Cline.
y branch of the National Street
Car Mems union has been formed
here. The officers: President. c.
| Rathbun: vice president. ii. y. Stock
well; secretary. j. II. Coleman; treas
urer. Robert Parker; financial secre-
tary, y. Burleigh; conductor, Ed Es-
sler; warden. S. Rosenbaum: guard.
d. W. Paulin.
At her home. 617 Warren street, at
II o'clock Sunday evening. occurred
the death of Mrs. Margaretha Steffen.
at the age of rs years. She had been
in bad health for some time. She pos
sessed a great number of friends in
this city. She was a native of Ger
many, and married there, coming to
this country in 1916. and to this city
n year later. Her husband died i'm
this city in 1882. Mrs. Steffen is sur
vived by two daughters. Mrs. Fred
Heinz and Miss Emma Steffen, and
one son. Herman Steffen.
Henry PloOg, driver for ORGY Jams
sen, slipped on an icy sidewalk while
carrying a half barrel of beer, last
evening. and fell. The half barrel.
weighing about 200 pounds, struck
him as he fell and the bone of the
left leg was fractured just above the
ankle. DIR. Jappe was summoned and
reduced the fracture. after which Mr..
PIoog was removed to his home, 913
West Third street. in the ambulance.
The accident occurred on the side
walk in front of ORGY Janssen's place
at III West Second street.
Yesterday, by its attorney, Isaac
Petersberger. the grocery firm of Van
Patten & Marks filed in the district
court a petition for an attachment
against the goods and chattels of Ed
win c. Evans, and closed up the es-
tablishment of the Evans Candy com
pany, upstairs in the Johnson build |
ing on East Front street. The allega- |
ton of the petition is that Mr.. Evans |