Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-02-03
MOLINE MENTION


car. and it was put in service last
night, making it's first trip to East
Moline with the other two cars to
bring workmen down from the Male
able Iron works. The new car will
also be run out at 6:1O in the even
ings, followed by the regular car five
later, thus taking care of the
overflow, which one car has been UNI
able to handle without uncomforta-
bly, crowding. Three cars will also be
used on the east trip in the mornings.
Yesterday local representatives of
state boards were summoned by Gov.
Yates to meet him in Springfield.
Therefore F. w. Gould, \. II. Kohler
and w. y. Meese. representatives of
the Western Insane and State Normal
boards, departed for the state CAPT
tai.
Moline is in a fair way to add to
the number of postof1ice substations
now in existence and in addition to
the one in Christison's store in Stew
artville will establish one in the west
end and another in the east end for
all the functions of an Office except
distribution of mail. Postmaster Nc
kinley has the matter under action
now and has advices that it will be ia
ken up favorably in the course of
time by the department.
Miss Effie JOsephson has returned
from Sioux City to accept position
as milliner at the +. q j. Malmberg
store.
Frank Lirdberg is back from Chi
cago. where he accepted Il position as
travelling salesman for the Chicago
Candy company.
The Moline Plow company has let
the contract to the Central Union
Telephone company to reconstruct its
shop telephone exchange. The ca
pacity of the present system will be
more than doubled, and there will be
three trunk lines running from the
Central Union exchange to the Office.
Instead of the present automatic sys-
tenn, switchboard will be installed
and an operator employed. There will
be fifty odd stations distributed about
the shop.
Athletes of the Moline high school
will meet those from the high school
of Galesburg on the newly installed
Knox college indoor track in dual
meet Saturday, Feb. II. 1t is to be
given under the auspices of the col
lege and is the first indoor affair in
which a Moline high school track
team has ever competed.
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Edwin Harold, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Carl j. Johnson, of 1868 Fourth ave
nue.. died at o'clock yesterday morn
ing of valvular heart trouble. Edwin
was IA years old Sunday and was
uorn in the house in which he died.
He attended the Grant school till
Thanksgiving time. He was very pop
ular among his schoolmates and will
be sadly missed by them. Besides his
parents he is survived by three broth
ers and three sisters.
st. Margaret's guild of Christ
church is behind an enterprise which
will give to Moline an excellent home
talent entertainment Friday and SAT-
urday, Feb. 90 and 21. at the Wagner
opera house. That brilliant eXtrava-
CANA. The Witch of the Woods" by
Arthur Lamb, author of Ali Bahia"
and of Crystal Slipper" will be pro-
duced. the guild having secured Mrs.
Harriet Purdy-Smith. who is well
known as the head of the physical
culture department of the Chicago
school of opera, to drill the partici-
pants and make them thoroughly eff
cient to produce the extravaganza.
Crooke Biebinger, S-year-old son of
Mr.. and Mrs. j. Il. Biebinger, living
at 1909 Twelfth street, had Il narrow
escape from death Sunday afternoon.
He had been skating on the river op-
posite the waterworks, and not
watching where he was going. skated
off into an open space of water con-
siderably beyond his depth. \ num-
Der of young men were spending the
afternoon in their boathouse quite
near, and hearing the cries of the
boy. went to his assistance. He was
fished out by Harry Weber and taken
into the boat, was thoroughly dried,
then sent home. He suffers nothing
more severe from the experience than
an Injunction issued by his parents,
restraining him from going skating.
To live boy. though, in winter time,