Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-06-05
BOOSTER BUTTONS GO
ON SALE amid NOISE
or WHISTLES AND BELLS
Following Distribution OF the Emblems OF Greater
Rock Island at Convenient Places
All Over the City.

| FeOple 9ShSId dic ShliluSldStiS
over the button and are anxious to
wear them. both for the spirit the
badge represents and as an ornament.
~ SEEN BY OTHERS.
That the Rock island movement for
the placing of fund of 100000 in the
hands of d board of trustees for use in
securing new industries for the city is
attracting wide attention is becoming
more and more evident. In yesterdays
issue of the VoIks Zeitung, the Rock
Island German newspaper, an interest
ing item appears in this connection,
which translated is as follows:
| The fact that the movement of Sc
curing 100000 factory fund for Rock
island is beginning to attract wide at
tention has already been stated. The
press in other cities is holding forth
this enterprise of the people of Rock
Island as an act of great loyalty to the
interests of their city, for which rap
id development seems assured. The
Iowa Reform an influential German
paper of Davenport, speaks of the move
ment editoriaIIy as follows:
! Rock Island seems to understand
boosting better than Davenport. In
stead Of sending out so-caIled trade ex-
cursons. the citizens and business men
on the other side of the river are rails
ing a 100000 factory fund, and if not
all signs fail. this large fund will soon
be secured. When the subscription
committees began their work. they had
in less than no time raised the amount
Of $4,000. They have now secured
ever $4,000. more than two.thirds of
the entire required amount. This was
accomplished in a few days, and is GER
tainIy a result that ELECTS the highest
regard for the local patriotism of the
Rock Islanders and their untirinq eff
forts to secure new industrial establish
ments for their city. AS Rock Island is
also in position to offer free factory
site, there can be no doubt that the
prospects of locating there in the very
near future a considerable number of
trew industries are most promising"
FROM 4 COMPETITOR.
| This expression from the Davenport
paper is the more striking because OF
the fact that it comes from a represen-
tatiVe German publication in Daven
port, Rock Islands sharpest competitor
in commercial and Industrial circles in
this part Of the country. The Daven-
port comment is only one instance of
the attention which has been attracted
to this city by the success of the move
ment. The executive committee is
credited by Rock Island people VINO
nave given the matter attention with
understanding boosting, and the same
attitude is taken by others outside Of
the city. The work was taken up here
en- a solid and substantial basis, and
the committee has been working vita
the future rather than the immediate
present. in mind, and has not hoped to
bring about the Greater Rock IsIand''
in days time. There has been no
: boom spirit in the project, but d good
business proposition furthered by a
strong organization.
| MANY NEW SUBSCRIPTIONS.
| Among the contributions today was
one from Phil Mitchell, for 5000.
| While the reports of the canvassing
| committees have not been made in full
to the executive committee, and the
total can not be announced. there have
been a number of goodly subscriptions
made since the last report, and the fund
is growing steadily near the 100000
mark. A number of smaller subscrip-
! tons have been made at the druq stores
| whose proprietors are acting as agents
of the committee to receive subscrip-
tons of $25, $50, SIS, 500 and up, and
when these are reported the total will
be materially increased.
WHERE LISTS ARE.
The following druggists are author.
lied to take the popular subscriptions
to the fund:
John sengston, 1900 Second avenue
Hugh V. Burt, 300 Twelfth street.
Joseph M. Keim, 639 Thirty-eiqhtf
street.
II Otto Rudert, 5000 Fifth avenue.
H Otto Grotjan, 1901 Second avenue.
IL w. 7. Hartz. 301 Twentieth street.
II August Heimbeck, e24 Third avenue
! Charles o. Lindorff, Twentieth stree
and Fourth avenue.
H AdoIph ]. Reiss, 2700 Seventh ave
nue..
| Herman o. Rolls, 1923 Second ave
| nue..
H Louis A. Schmidt, Seventeenth stree
and Seventh avenue.
II Conrad A. Spedel, 1907 Second ave
nue..
| Noah w. Steiner, 1900 Fifth avenue
| Charles J. Strate, 11o1 Third avenue
Thomas n. Thomas, 1880 Secon
avenue.
Charles UIIemeyer, 534 Sixteent
street.
William UIIemeyer, Fifteenth stree
and Eleventh avenue.
te River Ripiets.
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