Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-04-07
MOLINE MENTION


Dwight Jewell Webb, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. ID. j. Webb, died Sunday fornoon
at 1880 at the home of his parents.
1927 Eighteenth street. For eight
weeks he had gone through intense
suffering with rheuratism and ty-
phoid pneumonia, and the end was
FASTENED by sudden and severe at
tack of rheumatism of the heart
which seized him Sunday morning
and from which he expired. Dwight
Webb was born in Rapids City, Oct
,. 1879. He grew up in Moline and re-
ceived his education in the public
schools of this city. He was employed
in Rock Island in the head office of
the Modern Woodmen of America
and among his many friends none
were warmer than those formed
through mis- working associations.
who to the end kept him constantly
supplied with flowers and visited him.
He was lieutenant commander of Isl
and City Tent 1922, Knights of Mac
cabees, and member of NJ. w a camp
No. 90 and of that camps prize-win-
ming drAl team. The fellowmember-
5ship of this drill team will escort the
sides his stricken parents, he leaves
to mourn his loss. four brothers. Will
liam NJ, Guy f. Don H., and Fay NJ.
and one sister, Grayce f. The funeral
will be held from the home tomor-
row afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, Rev.
Davis of the Christian church of Dav-
export, officiating. Interment will be
AT Riverside.
Johanna, wife of S. f. Hammergren.
the carpenter. died at the home. 155
Fourth avenue. Saturday evening at
II o'clock, after three weeks suffer
ing with valvular disease of the heart.
Born in Nosby. Sweden, Oct. >. 1855,
and coming to America in 1882. she
was five years later married to the
now bereaved husband. One son. Ear
nest, age II. also mourns her. Two
brothers, John Eklund. in Colorado
Springs, and Frank Nelson. in Gras-
weld, Ia, survive her i'm this country
and two brothers and three sisters
in Sweden. Mrs. Hammergren was an
active member of lions Lutheran
church in Rock Island. and the funer-
al will be held from that church to-
morrow afternoon at . o'clock, pre-
coded by a short service at the home.
beginning at 1880. Rev. Dahlberg will
otficiate and interment will be at
Riverside.
\ petition is in circulation for the
paving of Seventeenth street from
! Eighth avenue to Ninth, and Ninth
avenue from Seventeenth street to
Sixteenth, and is receiving signatures
of property owners. No block in the
city needs the paving as badly as
does Seventeenth street from Eighth
avenue to Ninth. The petition calls
for street p feet wide between
curbs, brick paving on the sides and
with a 9-foot strip of macadam in the
Ecenter-this latter precaution being
taken because the street is quite steep
and it is feared all brick or all as
phalt might be too slippery.
Next Sunday afternoon nearly 200
Knights of Templars of the Masons
Twill be present in this city to attend
the annual worship meeting. this time
to be held in the Christ Protestant
Episcopal church of this city. Rev.
This is an annual service which is held
by the local command which includes
the lodges of Moline, Davenport, Rock
Island. Aledo and GeneSeo. Eminent
Commander CleavelanCh of Rock Isl
and, will have charge of the process
sion which will form at the headquar-
ters of the lodge at the Masonic hall
and march up in a body to the church.
Next Saturday will be the closing
session of the Industrial school which
was started several months ago by
Mrs. II. c. Bryant and several other
members of the First Baptist church
for the early training of children in
sewing and wood carving. The feat
ure of the affair will be the sale of
all the aprons and other articles
which have been made. The ladies are
very greatly pleased with the first
terms work of the school which has
had an average attendance of over 10O
Pupils, 35 attending the branch in
South Moline. Miss Hall has had
charge of the sewing department
with eleven assistants and Mrs. Frank
Kennedy and Miss Evelyn Poole of
the wood carving department.
The preliminary contest for the rep
resentative of the Moline high school
at the declamatory contest on May 1
at Macomb at the Military Tract
meeting and May . at the Western
Illinois High School association at
Galesburg, will be held at the First
Baptist church next Friday evening.
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