Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-09-07
MOLINE MENTION


terday afternoon. His remuneration
was placed at $1,000, an increase of
500 over the figure of last year. The
assessors assistants were also allowed
their pay, s264 for Frank Gustafson
and $40 for James Hasson. Samuers
pay has been steadily advanced on
the score that the work has increased
in proportion. The town board in
cludes Justices Mapes, Kerns, Will
liams, and Ingleson, City Clerk Carl
son. and Supervisor Fred Sundeen.
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With the benefit dance for the
Metz's orchestra. the playing season
at Campbelrs island close Monday
night. Cars will continue to run to
the island till the last of the present
month. and beginning Oct. l. Water
town will be the terminus. The Mis-
sissippi Valley Traction company finds
the season closing more profitably than
was expected and plans for next sea-
son are consequently extensive. There
is every likelihood that continuous
vaudeville will be provided next sum-
mer. and the best companies in the
country will be secured, each for
weeks run. That good vaudeville
would prove drawing card there is no
doubt. Present plans are to either
enclose the dance hall and transform it
into a small theatre, or TO erect thea
ire building separate and complete. In
case the former plan is adopted new
dance hall will be built as it is now
part of the plans of the island officials
to bar the worshippers at the shrine of
Terpsichore from island pleasure.
The 15-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
John Jensen, $40 Eighteen-and-a-half
avenue, was kicked in the head by a
scalped.
Thomas VIM, William Anderson
and William Myers, after long think
! ing and many conflicting remem-
brances, decided that they had thrown
eggs at 12-year-old lad near Natick
yards a couple of evening ago. They
pleaded guilty to charge of misde-
meanor before Police Magistrate An
drew Olson. Each lad paid $6.i5.
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A change has been made at the
Grant school. which will prevail I'M
til the completion of the new building.
| Hitherto the Olivet chaper has been
used for the kindergarten only. but
now one division of the third grade
has been placed in the building.
With the approaching winter the
postoffice force of Moline decided that
the mail boxes in the city needed a
new coat of paint. So instead of hir
ing transient painter, our local men
made bids on the deal. The bids were
sent to Washington. d. c., and when
they were returned it was ascertaineC
that w. A. DierOlf had been awarded
the contract.
The management of the Rock Isl
and road has decided to change the
main entrance to New Shops in the
very near future and orders have beer
issued to that effect already. The or
ders will be carried out as soon as
practical and possible. Heretofore the
entrance to New Shops has been OF
the south side of the Rock IslanC
tracks at Warmers crossing but this
will soon be a thing of the rast anC
the road will be closed. Last weel
II. ]. Slifer, general superintendent
of all the central district of the ROcl
Island system, was on the grounds a
New Shops and ordered that the worl
be done as soon as possible. WheI
the shops were built a string of pole,
starting at a point just north of the
Burlington and D., r. |. & n. w. tracks
on the Watertown road from Warner
| crossing was put up to carry the wire
which transmitted the power from New
Shops to the pumping station lOcatet
near the Moline ice house in Water
town. Orders have been issued b,
the management of the railroad sys
tenn to construct a cinder road. eigh
feet wide, running parallel to thi
string of poles direct to the shops. A
the present time the Mississippi Vale,
Traction company makes it's dividinj
line on payment of fares at Warner
crossing. However. when the new mail
entrance is constructed to New Shops
which is probably 300 or 400 feet nortl
of the dividing line, the fare from Nc
line TO the entrance may he five cent
and the dividing line put there