Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-08-30
MOLINE MENTION.

baby of Belgian family named Stone,
living at S22 Twentieth avenue. suffer
ed a shocking scalding of the hands
yesterday morning. The tot was walk
ing about the room and put out its
hands to support itself by a chair A
pan of boiling water had been set on
the chair preparatory TO some dish
washing, and the baby placed it's hands
squarely in the water The palm and
the cords in the wrist of one hand
were burned almost to the bone and
the child now lies at its home in a seri-
Gus condition.
rick-Coburn.-Mills L. Fitzpat-
rick. night operator at the Milwaukee
station, claimed Miss Mathilda Joseph
inc Coburn in marriage Tuesday in a
ceremony performed by Father Joseph
S. Kelly at ST. Mary's church. The
bride is a daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Coburn and has been night
telephone chief for the Central Union
for some time.
{. n. Putnam Foreman.-E. H. Put
nam has accepted a position with the
Moline Elevator company as foreman
OF the foundry and has already begun
his duties.
New Block on Battle-Ground was
broken Tuesday for a new building to
be erected by NJ. w Battles on the lot
adjoining Dohrn's grocery, 1902 Fiji
OF
pleted will cost about $4,000 and will
be valuable addition to the blocks of
buildings already on the bluff.
Call for Rev. j. p. Miller Again.
Rev. ]. P. Miller has departed for Pull
man TO attend the Swedish Methodist
conference. Mr. Miller has been asked
by his congregation to spend another
year here, and when the appointments
are made he will undoubtedly be as
signed to this charge. William Swan
son of Galva is the presiding elder of
the Galesburg district. in which Moline
is included, and will be elected to that
Office again.
Favor Chicago Garbage Plan. -
Glowing reports are brought back to
the city by Mayor Olson and the men,
bers of the garbage committee who
went to Chicago Monday to inspect a
garbage plant and witness the crema-
ton of garbage In the party with the
mayor were w. H. Christison. w. b.
Kent, H. J. Gripp, George Gould. and
Magnus Olson. A plant built by the
Standard Construction company of Chi
cago was visited, and as far as the
committee could see it disposed of the
garbage very satisfactorily. This plant
is located at house of correction, for
merly known as Bridewell. 1t has been
in operation there for the past five or
six years and has been a success All
of the garbage from the house of cor
rection and the adjacent territory is
taken to this plant for disposal, which
is done in a very easy manner 1t is
a one-cell plant and consumes 20 tons
of garbage each day, which is about
equal to the amount that this city is
confronted with each day.
Subscribe for Wholesale Grocery
Make Moline a commercial center
was the keynote of the meeting of bus |!
mess men at the Moline club. TheJ
first step toward charging the diver |
sity of this city's attractions toward |
capital and people was taken at this |
meeting. The first thing to be done |
will be the establishment of whole |
sale grocery house here. To that will |
be added other lines which shall in |
time make Moline as well known for
its business houses as for its pillow fac
tories. The proposition submitted to |
the business men of Moline. and es-
pecially the grocers, is this, that if |
they will subscribe $4,000 worth of |
stock in capitalization of $4,000. the
committee of the club will secure the
balance to insure the success of the
project Great enthusiasm was shown
at the meeting and lists for the sub
scription were placed in the hands of i
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