Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-10-26
MOLINE MENTION.

Threatened - Cut Ears Off.-Mrs.
Fisher. who resides in the east end of
the city near Davenport's pasture.
came to the police station with queer
ale and warrants were sworn out for
The arrest of Mrs. Souers. Ray Souers.
and Miss Minnie Souers. who reside
near Mrs. Fishers. According TO the
story of Mrs. Fisher. Ray Souers
threatened to cut the ears off Mrs
Fishers little boy, aged years. While
he lad evidently had no intention of
carrying out his threat Mrs. Fisher
stated that the boy would dream of
the dire calamity which was awaiting
him and that he was becoming very
nervous from fright. She remonstrat-
ID with Mrs. Souers but the latter re-
fused 10 compel her boy 10 stop his
hreats and maintained rather def
ant attitude. Tuesday evening Mrs.
Fisher claims that the three members
Of the family mentioned above, came
% her home and assaulted her. Mrs.
Fisher concluded that il was time for
the police to take hand in the mat
ter. and as result, warrants were is
sued.
Arrange for Art Exhibit. The
meeting in the Art gallery to revive the
annual art exhibitions for Moline re-
suited in the fixing of date and the
making of preliminary arrangements.
The date is to be beginning Nov. IA.
Art loans and contributions will be re-
ceived from now till Nov. >. J. y.
Hardy was chairman of the meeting
and L. 5. Milleson secretary. The ex-
hibitiOn is of course 10 be under the
auspices of the Moline Art association.
WeIIs-SilI. - Miss Fay Sill. who has
been making her home with Mr.. and
Mrs. T. |. Stanley of this city. and Har-
ry Wells of Monmouth were married
on Tuesday evening. The ceremony
was Witnessed by 40 of the friends of
the contracting parties and took place
at the Stanley home. Ii was very char
mingly decorated with smilaX aspara-
gus ferns and carnations and in the
parlor in front of a large bower and
under an arch of flowers the happy
couple were Joined in matrimOny. Rev.
Paul Brown of the First Congregation
al church was i'll waiting and using the
ring ceremony the couple were made
happy man and wife at $50. \ season
of congratulations followed and then
a wedding dinner was served. The
bride and groom eluded their friends
during the evening and went 10 East
Moline where they spent the evening.
They returned to this city this morn
ing and will soon leave for Monmouth
TO reside with the groom mother this
winter. They expects to return TO Mo
line next spring to make their home.
O.
Work on Lock. - Preparatory work
ON the new lock improvement. where
by Moline is to gain real place on the
river map, is progressing as rapidly as
possible with the limited number of
men that are obtainable for the work. |
the government pay s1.25 per
day for eight hours work, in addition
TO good board and lodging. it is nearly
to obtain worlImen. The
engineers say that at the first sign of
cold weather the men-who are usually
birds of passage'-draw their pay
and start toward Dixieland for the win
ter. The work being done this fall is
on the dam which is 10 run parallel
with the main island and extended to- |
a point 1000 feet below the old mill, |
where the lock is TO be built into dams |
the main island with the |
new dam. The new dam now under |
which is really a contin-
uation of the wingdam extending from |
he upper rapids. is made with filler !
of sand and gravel and is riprapped |
with stone. Ii il to be raised now to |
. sufficient height to Withstand the |
rsvases of the ice jams and high wa
ter of next spring. but when compIet- |
ed it will be 22 feet above low water |
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