Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-09-03
MOLINE MENTION

Peter Waner. 20 years of age and a
veteran of the civil war, died at Sis
a. m. yesterday at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. Fred Rueth, SO Fiji
street. Death was
due to infirmities of age
Miss Margaret Conrad, daughter of
Henry Conrad, 10 Fourth avenue,
died at 1890 o'clock Thursday even
ing after a short illness. She was born
June 81, 1884, in this city, and grew
to young womanhood here. The fu-
neral service will be held Sunday at
3 p. m. and interment will be in River
side cemetery.
Valuable residence property has
been acquired by Axele Sorting, the
former furniture dealer, and J. Fred
Huntoon. Jointly they have purchased
from E. B. Keator six acres of ground
between Seventeenth and Eighteenth
streets and Thirteenth and Fourteenth
avenues. The property has frontage
of 573feet on the avenue and 800 feet
on the street, and it is to be divided
into 2S lots. IA fronting on one avenue
and IA on the other. The price paid
ranged close to $1,000 an acre for the
six-acre tract 1t is the intention of
the new owners to Immediately grade
the tract and put the lots on the mar
ket. An estimate has been made on
the amount of earth to be removed.
and it will aggregate some 10000 yards.
Moline already has brick and asphalt
phalt paving, and prospects are it may
have bitulithic paving before snow flies.
Seventeenth street from Eighth to
Eleventh avenue will be paved, and in
all probability with this new material.
City Engineer Paddock is now survey
| ing and stalking out the curb lines and
the pavement will be laid this fall if
possible; if not, ii will be started early
next spring. Bitulithic paving is Civ
| ing good satisfaction in the cities in
which it is used, notably in st. Louis,
where it is preferred to asphalt by
those who drive. ii is constructed
similar to asphalt, with concrete
| foundation, mixture of aSphaltum
and granite as a binder course, and
two-inch mixture of Clipped granite
and asphaltum on top rallied down very
smooth.
Adam Keener, of York, Pa, farm
hand six months of the year and
| itinerant preacher the remaining six
months, was arrested on complaint of
the Dimock, Gould & Co night watch
man. who found him sleeping in one
of the company's lumber sheds and
who charged him with vagrancy.
Keener is the latest itinerant preacher
to reach Moline. He is short and
brOwn-whiskered and has mild brown
eyes. For the last two or three even
ings he has held down the paving on
Sixteenth street opposite the L. S.
Clothing company store. What bricks
he did not himself hold down his curl
Gus audience covered. He pleaded
guilty to the charge of vagrancy and
was sentenced to 10 days in the cOun-
ty Jail. This sentence was suspended
on Keener's promise to leave town be-
fore II o'clock noon.
Carl Engh. while wrestling with
friend. had two lead pencils thrust
into his forearm a couple of inches
and piece of led from one of them
an inch and half long was imbedded
in the flesh. DR.. West cut out the lead.
Robert H. Patton, of Springfield, the
prohibition candidate for governor, has
been booked to speak in Moline Sept.
Is in the evening at s o'clock
Yesterday, through Fred Young. the
Bausch property was purchased by the
Moline Candy Manufacturing company
for the sum of $500 The company
will not move its fixtures to the new
home for some time owing to a two
year lease that they now have on the
building they occupy
At a meeting of the board of direc-
tors of the Moline Retail Merchants
association it was unanimously decid-
ed that the merchants would close
their stores all day Monday. Labor
day, except meat markets, which will
oil Ut ~