Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-07-01


Winner in The Argus Faithful Service
Contest.
out single break for long periods of
years. These have been referred to
! from time to time. The records
shown are the more remarkable in
view of the fact that this community
is comparatively speaking II young
one. There are very few firms doing
business now that were in business 40
years ago, the more important indus
tries having in the main been estab-
liShed within the past 30 years. Then
the community. particularly the ur-
ban community, where the industries
whose employees figure in Il contest of
this sort. have been largely made up
during the past 80 years by persons
removing here from other parts of
the country. Thus the number of en-
tries in the Argus contest was neces-
sarily less than it would have been
had the community been longer es-
tabished.
Has Many Old Employees
OF the firms whose employees were
entered in the contest the Barnard d
Leas Manufacturing company. where
ME, Hanson is employed. proves to
have by far the greatest number of
old employees. They include, in add
ton to Mr.. Hanson, Z. +. Lindstrom,
employed 81 years; Ed Moran, 33
years; Ben Long. so years; Charles FL
lison, 20 years; Kirk Vincent, - years;
John Dahms. 26 years: II. Einfeldt. -
years. and Swan Berklund and Henry
Brock. % years. Among others whose
terms of service are worthy of note may
be mentioned w. 5. Spaulding. for Is
years blacksmith for the Rock Island
road; Il. ID. Kendall, for IS years an
employe of Wcyerhaeuser d Denk
mann; Jacob Schillinger. IS years
with the Coal Valley Mining company;
l.. l.. Mccoy. of Moline. for - years
machinist for Williams q White; Hen
ry b. TruNeH. of Moline. for 81 years
with the Moline Plow company; Hen
~ Brunswick, 81 years coachman and
gardener in the Cable family: Rev. I.
Il. johnson, IS years pastor of the
Edgington Presbyterian church; w
J. Pratt, 81 years a moldcr at Rock
Island arsenal; j. W. Welch, for 30
y
for Henry Darts Sons; f. II. Berry. of
this city, 80 years employed in the
painting department of the Moline
Wagon company; Aid. y. &. Ander-
son, 30 years connected with the Au-
gustana Book Concern; Il. {. Willer-
ton, so years clerk at the Harper, and
a number of others.
The watch that goes to the winner
is handsome. solid gold-cased affair
fit in every way to be a source of
pride to its owner and a treasured
heirloom in future years to his de-
scendants. 1t will be suitably engrav-
ed and Mr.. Hanson will receive it this
evening.
Mr.. Hanson's Career.
Peter Hanson, of 1918 Fourth ave-
ME, Moline, whose record entities
him to the award in The Argus Faith
full Service contest. has record
which is not only just source of
pride to himself. but one in which
his employers take a lively interest
as well. For IS years he has been at
work for the establishment now or
ganized as the Barnard & Leas Manu-
featuring company of Moline. a rec
ord of faithful service seldom dupli-
Gated in this shifting age. In all he
has been resident of Moline for 40
years, almost Malt a century, every
year of which, with the exception of
the first four, he has been in the en-
ploy of the one concern, he having
survived all changes of management.
ImmIgrated In 1884.
Mr.. Hanson was born in Sweden.
near the little town of CRAFTSMANSHIP.
Sept 24, 1928. When 20 years old he
determined to leave the farm and try
his fortune in the United States. He
left Gottenburg in June, 1854, and af-
ter six weeks and two days on the
ocean in the sailing vessel Great
Britain" arrived safely at Boston
Aug. ,. He left there at once for
Rock Island, arriving in this city Aug.
10, the railroad trip in those days be-
ing laborious undertaking. the Rock
Island having then been in operation
less than year. He secured work in
Moline and his boarding place in lot
?, block rs, of the old town of Moline,
was in the same block where he later