Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-04-09
MOLINE MENTION

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The local coremakers' union will
cease to exist May 1, as on that date
it will be merged with the local mol
ders' union. This action is being ia
ken throughout the country in ac-
cordance with d decision Of the two
national bodies through a referen-
dunn vote. The movement first start
ed and is in response to an invitation
from the National MOlders' Union of
North America at the convention held
last June at Toronto. The coremakers
are merging with great promptitude
Throughout the country, and it will
be but a short time before a coremak-
er seeking work will show the card of
the local holders union.
The excitement of municipal cleo
ton did not greatly detraet from the
attendance at the church council
meeting held Tuesday evening in the
Swedish Lutheran church parlors to
arrange for the fifteenth annual con-
yention and jubilee of the churches
comprising the Illinois conference of
Augustana Synod, to be held in Mo-
line beginning May and lasting one
week. In this conference are all the
churches of the state of Illinois. In
diana and part of Wisconsin, and the
task of properly entertaining all the
visitors is no small one. The commit
tee appointed some time ago to Sc
cure homes at which the delegates
could be received reported, showing
homes available for 40 delegates.
Indications are that there will be
nearly 200 delegates in attendance.
and promises of homes for the addi-
| tional 60 are yet to be secured. There
were $50 delegates at last years con-
vention at Princeton and this being
the jubilee year, an additional so dele
gates is looked for. Charles II. Cod
chm. Rev. c. \. Hemborg and Gust
Lindahl were appointed a committee
on correspondence and reception.
with instructions to write every min
lister and lay delegate and ascertain
whether or no he will be in attend
anee, and also notify each visitor with
whom he will stay.
Mr.. and Mrs. Myron Jordan went to
Chicago yesterday to attend grand
opera.
Mrs. W. H. Prater, of Twenty-third
street, has departed for Melrose, Ia,
TO visit her daughter.
Yesterday morning at the Lutheran
parsonage in Davenport, occurred the
marriage of Mrs. Hannah Bradford,
formerly of this city and now of
Il II,
Princeton. After the ceremony they
were taken to the home of Mrs. BaX-
ter's cousin, Mrs. II. \. Odell. where
wedding dinner was served. They will
reside in Princeton.
Mauritz. son of Hon. G.. W. Johnson,
has departed for visit to Sharon
Springs. Kans., intending before re-
turning home to make tour through
| Colorado and the mountain region.
Before departing his young friends
of the Young Mems Literary club, of
which he is a member, presented him
with valuable pin.
An interesting bit of news comes
from Santa Barbara, Cal, of the tri-
umph of little Dwight Wiman. son of
Mr.. and Mrs. w. ID. Wiman, as a chick
en- fancier. The Santa Barbara Morn
ing Press tells of the prowess of
Dwight's pet stock as follows: 'There
is keen rivalry among the poultry
fanciers in the matter of raising
large black Minorca eggs. Yesterday
two eggs were brought in for meas
urement from the chicken ranch of
Dwight h. Wiman. The eggs were
identical in size and weight and in
both respects were bigger than any
thing yet shown. The eggs weighed
4 ounces each, and measured 61aX7 rs
inches. Z. Picket, of Goleta held the
former record, the egg produced on
his ranch weighing SO ounces and
measuring 6N7A inches