Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-10-03
MOLINE


Spokes Fell on Him.-A bundle Of |
wheel spokes weighing 80 pounds fell |
20 feet and struck workman on the !
head yesterday forenoon and he still
lives, in fact is scarcely injured. The
victim of the accident was Cyriel Bei-
helst, employed by the Leonard Mar
tin Construction company of Chicago
on the new Deere & Co. warehouse
Berhelst was working on ground con-
struction and was directly under a
bridge connecting upper floors of an
other building of the Deere plant
Workmen We're busy wheeling spokes
across this bridge, and when bundle
fell over the truck Berhelst was in the
path of its fall.
Fix Price of School Buildinq.-Five
hundred dollars has been fixed as the
value of the Logan school building.
and as soon as this sum is paid to the
trustees of school district No 40 by
the Moline board of education. the
building, which is partially providing
school facilities for the children in the
territory recently admitted to the Mo-
line district, will legally become the
property of Moline district No 40.
The keys were turned ever to Ralph
Entrikin, secretary of the board. be
fore the opening Of school,
o.
School Enrolment Decrease Explain
ed.-An exhibit of work accomplished
in special lines in the Moline public
schools is to be provided the teachers
of northern Illinois at the convention
of the Northern Illinois Teachers as
sociation i'll Moline Oct. "a, % and &c
Arrangements have been made for the
use of the NORTH room on the second
floor of the Carnegie library building
where the exhibit will be displayed.
There will be display in art, manual
training and kindergarten work. Most
. OF the exhibit will be of work done
last year, though it is possible part of
the display Will be of work completed
! this semester. The exhibit will be
| open for the public for probably a
week after the convention is over. that
| Moline people may more closely ac,
quaint themselves with the characteG
of the school work Total school en-
rollment for September was 1882 as
against 1928 for the same month OF
1906. This decrease of 81 is largely
| the result of the starting of the Bel
I! gian parochial school in connection
with Sacred Heart Catholic church
with an enrolment of SOC pupils.
! Wants to Enter SiIvis-Auditor H
w. Miller of the Union Electric Tele
phone and Telegraph company Tues
day evening outlined to the villagl
board of Silvis the plans Of his com
pany to provide phone service to the
village. He promised that additiona
officials would appear with him at thC
next meeting of the board to make I
definite proposition, which will be for
INFLATED at a meeting of the director!
soon to be held. The company ha.
not yet conferred with the authorize!
of East Moline, but the plan is to en-
!, ter the two suburbs at the same time
Exchanges will be provided in eac!
place, and a trunk line skirting Eas
Moline would be extended from Mo
line. The rates to be given Silvis are
Business phone, $4S; individual resi-
!, dence phone, $24; two-party line, SIS
i, The Central Unions figures for tn,
same service are: Business. $50; resi-
dence, $50; party, $24 All the com
pany asks. said Mr.. Miller, is a reason
/, able franchise ordinance, and whel
. granted service VIII be immcdiateI
inaugurated as soon as construction i
completed.
. Obituary Record.-Swan P. Oline.
member of Swedish Olive lodge, |. o
, o. F., and for number of years sho,
, foreman at Rock Island arsenal, die
yesterday after an ;'ress of tire,
months with sangreue of the lungs
, Death came at the home. 1920 Seven
!; teenth street. Sweden was Mr.. OIiner
native land, and the tate of his brit
was Aug. &c 1865 He came to Amer
ice in 1885, and, after having reside,
: for year i'll SwedesburG. Iowa, h
settled in Moline. Mr.. Oline WORKED
t IN .he arsenal Shops for q number o
, years, and at the time of his last il
: ness was foreman of the spring dc
partment, a position given him in rec
ognition of faithfulness and efficiency
He is survived by his widow and fou
| children: Esther, Edith, Bert and Jc
/, seph, and by sister and a brothe
5 living in Moline: Olaf Nelson and Mrs
Lawrence Peterson. His aged parent
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