Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-05-02
MOLINE

Ada Lucille Entrlkin has been engaged ,
TO take charge of the musical depart
ment of the Geneseo Collegiate ins,i-
tute. and began her work today. Since
a visit there a few weeks ago, when
Miss Entrikin sang at Trinity churca,
she has been approached about the po-
sition, and she will hereafter devote
Thursdays 10 it. going 10 Geneseo early
in the morning and spending the entire
day She will teach both vocal and
piano.
New Launches Here.-Several nav
launches will be added to the Moline
fleet this spring, and indications arr
that the season will be quite as lively.
if not more so. than last summer.
There are several persons casting
about to find the launch which thGy
want. and two or three have already
been successful. One is Louis ROsen-
stein. He bought a gasoline launch in
Muscatine. a boat which was reputed
, the fastest about that city last season.
! 1t is p feet in length and carries n
| three-horse power engine. Mr.. Rosen-
stein expects TO have il in commission
soon. The launch which Sandy Larson
| ran last season has passed into the
! hands of DR.. Robert Oakley and c. L
, Desaulniers. 1t was a new boat last
season. and is in excellent condition .
1t is twenty-five feet over all, and an
| excellent all-around pleasure boat wi; n
fair capabilities in the way of speed.
The owners already have il in COM
mission.
To Talk on Referendum.-At the No.
line club Friday evening the noted
speaker John Z. White of Chicago will
lecture on initiative and referendum
! This subject is particularly timely Just
at the present time is for Moline to try
the first example of the referendum III
deciding the question of the $1,000 =:
cense by vote of the people.
Former MoIiner Manaaer-The Nc
Leod Automobile Scale company OF
Chicago has recently secured the of
flee of HapgoOds in that city for the
position Of Manager r. II. Mccoy. 70
merly of this city. Mr.. Mccoy is NJ
tive OF Moline and was formerly wesr
ern manager for the Cudahy Packing
company with headquarters at Omaha
Neb. He has already entered upon til,
duties of his new position.
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= Big Wagon at Jamestown-The Nc
line Wagon company will have a
| jamestown in connection with its oth41
| exhibits the mammoth farm Wagon
which attracted so much attention a
the St Louis worlds fair in 1904. an
has ever since been center of won
der and admiration at state fairs. /
, Is the largest wagon ever built. tn,
wheels being nine feet in height anC
, other parts in proportion. The adve.
Using department of Deere & Co. Ia,
issued a jamestown postal card I'll,
reverse side is taken up with a SEPT;
etching of the Deere plant at Molin,
with smaller picture in one corner O
its exhibition building at jamestown
, The picture of the Moline plant is in
teresting in that it shows every build
ing which now stands.
Silvis Restaurant Robbed 4
White, restaurant keeper of Silvis
was touched for his overcoat, a pair O
shoes and $3.50 out of the cash drawer
The disappearance of the night ma
employed from the restaurant leaI
= Mr.. White to think that he COMMITTEE
! the theft The matter has been re
ported to the police.
I Death of Infant.-William Joseph y
bert, the only child of Mr.. and Mr..
j Martin hilbert, of 1435 Fourteen
/ street, died yesterday morning after
two weeks struggle with scarlet fevc
II and diphtheria. The child was Dor
e July %. 1903.
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