Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-08-27
MOLINE MENTION

II MOLINE MEN
Boss bakers of the city met in the
Langbehn building and after consul
tation decided to make no change in
prices of bread or sizes of loaf. FIT
teen-ounce loves will continue to be
sold at cents. or six for a quarter.
Business and professional men of
the city have petitioned the city coun-
ell TO prohibit the holding of street
meetings by itinerant preachers on
the streets in the business portion of
Moline They are up in arms against
y. G. Swanson, the mission worker
and others who have blocked business
| streets for couple of hours at time
Wednesday and Saturday evenings
with their harangues.
At the adjourned meeting of the
council the city fathers voted to loan
the board of directors of the city hos
pital $4,000 with which to liQuidate
the debt of the institution and put it
on substantial financial basis. Sever
al weeks ago the board went before
the city council and stated that an
emergency had arisen in the affairs of
the hospital which required extensive
repairs to be made at once in order
that the hospital may be placed in
good condition for the care of patients
this winter. They estimated that it
would cost nearly $4,000 to make
these repairs and pay off the outstand
| ing debts which have been made. AT
! the meeting William Johnson offered
resolution covering this point, re-
commencing that the necessary $1O.-
! 600 be loaned by the city to the nos
pital board for a time not exceeding
the fiscal year at such rates of in
terest as can be best obtained; the
sum so borrowed and interest to be
added to the amount authorized to
be raised by the next general tax levy
and be embraced therein.
The Okerberg building. located on
Third avenue opposite the Manufactur-
ers' hotel. was sold at auction yester-
day to Jacob AXel Sorting, formerly
the Fifteenth street furniture dealer
public auction knocked that property
down to Mr.. Sorting for $4,000. Lot
l, Columbia park. was sold to J. A
Cowley. of this city for $500. and lot
! Il, with a house on, in the same ad-
ditiOn, was sold to n J. Nelson for
1,325. The property fronts 40 feet on
Third avenue, the same as Second
avenue. and % feet on Seventeenth
street. Wilton Parsons purchased the
southern land in, Cuba and other places
for SIG
At Il meeting of the city council
Chief of Police Ed KittilSen recon-.
tmended that every public weighing
scale in the city, as we'll as The private
ones. be tested. for he discovered a
discrepancy as high as 500 pounds on
some scales. The matter was discuss
ed and Mayor Skinner was authorized
to secure an expert and test all scales.
The patrol wagon was taken around to
various scales and it was discovered
that there was a difference between
two scales of 400 pounds to the ton.
The matter will be investigated.
The residence of r. J. Green, 1910
Seventh avenue, was entered Thurs
day night by a burglar or burglars,
who found a downstairs window con-
veniently open. The screen was re-
moved and entrance was thus effected.
| Twenty dollars in cash was taken off
the sidebOard and lady's gold watch,
hunting case. Elgin movement. was
secured. Engraved on the inside of
the case was the name NJ. Mae Paul,
Mt. Carroll, H., June 81. 1900" Not
the slightest clue is left for officers to
work on. The burglar left the house
! by the back kitchen door. The fact
that only the money and gold watch
were taken makes the character of the
work appear much like that which has
| been going on in Geneseo for several
weeks. Possibly the Geneseo crooks
have taken change of base.
| 1 Not guilty" was the verdict return
ed by the jury in Justice Williams
court and those words cleared George
Draper. Jr., of the charge of assault
and battery on the person of Constable
Jesse Eastman. OF course a person
could look at Jesse and see that he
| had been roughly dealt with. but
every one of the witnesses swore that
he started the trouble which developed
into a fight.
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One honor will be bestowed upon
the naval reserves of Moline and ILL
nois when they attend the st. Louis
| fair Lieut.. Eden received a letter
| from Capt. Darby informing him that
the naval reserves were TO act as es-
cort to Gov. Richard Yates on Illinois
| day. which will be Sept. 21-22. The
reserves leave Moline Sept. Is and
every division will attend. 1t has not
been decided just just what means of
| transportation they will have, but
probably they will go by rail. A band