Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-07-14
MOLINE MENTION

John A. Wahlstrand, who owned
the grocery at the corner of Fourth
avenue and Fourth street, has sold
out and will retire from business.
The change took effect yesterday,
and the new firm is Swanson & West
ling.
The second floor of the Carnegie IL
brary building above the high base
ment is to be partitioned and plaster
ed, as provided for in the original
plans for the building. This much
was decided at meeting of the Ii
brary board Saturday afternoon.
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The children of the First Swedish
Methodist Sunday school, will have
their picnic next Tuesday near the
Grinnell school house, where the day
will be spent in games and refresh
ments will be served during the day
The quarterly meeting was held last
evening.
Saturday afternoon Frank Effiandt
who is employed at the Wright Car
riage Body company's, met with a
most distressing accident. He was
engaged on a jointer, when in some
manner his hand was caught between
the knives and the index and second
fingers of the left hand were cut off.
! Frank Patterson, the cOlored man.
is accused of most vicious assault
upon the person of b. f. Miller.
white man. The latter is employed
by the Young Coal company. and. Pat
terson applied for a job as teamster
at the same place. He failed TO con-
meet, and labored under the impress
sion that Miller knocked on him.
When he met Miller ON Fifteenth
street Saturday he accused him of
using his influence against him, and
upon Miller's denial that he had done
anything against him, Patterson haul
ed off and dealt him vicious blow in
the face, breaking Miller's right Jaw
in such manner that silver of bone
penetrated the gums and punctured
the tongue. Patterson, seeing the eN-
tent of the injury inflicted, fed the
city to escape arrest.
Mrs. W. w. Williams and son Fred.
of Riverview. Moline. left this morn
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Joined by Miss Pearl Williams. who
has been visiting in Stuart, Iowa. the
past three weeks, and go to Nfnton.
Iowa. from there to Spirit Lake. Des
Moines. Winterset. ColfaX and Iowa
City. where Mrs. Williams will attend
Iowa grand chapter of the Order of
the Eastern Star, which convenes in
September. They will return home
about Sept. Is. Mrs. Williams has
been in very poor health the past
year and half and her many friends
in the tri-cities hope to see her en-
tirely recovered on her return.
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The National Association of Post
masters will meet at Boston the first
week of August. Postmaste ter Nc Kin
ley, of this city. is a member of the
executive committee, and will have
much influence in the convention. 1t
has been suggested that an effort
should be made to have the next
meeting of the association in this city
and that to this end the matter be
taken up at the meeting of the Bust
ness Mems association this evening.
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John Eckstrom. longtime Deere &
Co. employee. died at the home, S3S
Eighteenth-and-a-h avenue. at 4
o'clock Sunday afternoon after sew
eral weeks of illness. He was born in
Sweden Jan. 3. 1859. and came TO this
country and Moline in 1854. where he
has since resided. During most of
his life here he had been employed in
the Deere shops. His wife. and four
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~, Hazel. aged 6. and Rorras. 81
months old. survive him. besides a
brother in Denmark. and four sisters.
one in Denmark. one in Sweden, Mrs.
j. G. Anderson, in Rock Island. and
Mrs. John Torsel, i'm Greenville, Iowa.
The first unpleasant incident of the
present assembly happened Sunday
evening. Theo. Tagge bought n sea-
son chautauqua ticket, and though
the ticket read on its face that il was
not transferable, and he had been so
informed besides, he let Joe Hale |
take it to enter the grounds. Hale
entered, the gatekeeper not suspect |
ing him. Hale then put the ticket in
a tobacco pouch and threw it over
the fence, where another of his con-
federates got it and went to the 9th
er gate and presented it. The eyes
of the police were on him and he was
met at the gate, the ticket was con
fiscated and Hale was placed under
arrest and both elected from the
grounds. Yesterday the confederate
appeared and adjusted matters, and
a warrant has been issued for Hale
before Justice Mapes and the states
attorney will prosecute him.
Prof. Jared Sparks pleased large
audience at the chautauque last ev
ening with his lecture on The High
ways and Byways of America" To-
day was patriotic day, and the main
features are lectures by Rev. Frank
C.. Bruner, of Chicago, this afternoon
and evening. All old soldiers are adj
mitted free today. The program for
tomorrow is as follows: