Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-01-02
MOLINE

Lower Church Debt.-Members of
Mission Tabernacle are pleased with
the financial report submitted yester-
day afternoon at the annual meeting
of the church. The statement showed
| that the church debt had been reduced
by $1,000. bringing the total obligation
| down TO $4,000. The report of the
/ pastor. Rev. Albert Johanson. showed
| that the church membership is $50:
during the year so new members were
added, two died. 10 moved from the
city. Good reports of the years work
were submitted at the annual meeting
of the Swedish Lutheran church The
report of the pastor, Rev. l.. A John
ston showed communicate member
ship OF LAS, an increase of 80 during
| the year. The total church member
ship. including children not commune
cants. is 1887
Deaths of Year.-The number of
deaths in Moline in 1907 was 357. an
increase of SO over the total of the
1906 record During the year just
ended 80 burial permits We're issued
here number dying away from home
being returned for interment. The
high figure is accounted for in part by
an increase in population and a year
of severe epidemics. The number of
deaths over which the coroner held in
quests was "a, II less than in the year
1906. Three were the result of train
/ fot II. e
heart failure, four of natural causes.
Y one of the extreme heat, three of in
jurieS sustained in shop accidents,
one from the excessive use of alcohol.
one of accidental drowning. one from
a fall down stairs. one from being run
, down by an automobile and three
from suicide-oue by the rope route,
one by the bullet route and one by
inhaling gas OF the 50 sudden deaths
: in 1906 10 were train fatalities, II
passed away of natural causes. three
: We're the result of falls. three were
suicides. three were drownings. two
, were killed by accidental poisoning
one Succumbed to excessive heat. one
was the result of injuries sustained
by being run over by an interurban
car and one resulted from wounds
caused by the accidental discharge OF
a gun. ,e
Couple Married for Half Century,
Tuesday evening Mr. and Mrs. Swan
Wilson of 1926 Fourteenth street cele
brated their 50th wedding anniversary
Several friends came 10 the home ant
surprised them early in the evening
and watched the old year out They
have spent the greater part of their
u welded life in Moline.
| Redmen Plan Entertainment-K
Philip degree team of Redmen are ar
ranging for an entertainment ant
dance to take place some time in Feb
e 'ruary. A committee has been appoint
S led to take. charge OF the affair and i!
busy now in arranging details. Tn,
Il nature of the entertainment will b,
along a vaudeville line. Talent vii
q lprobably be secured from loca
!. vaudeville house or from some othe
source.
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r Section Hand Hurt.-Peter Pappas
l. lemployed as section hand by the Rocl
Island road. was struck by passen
s ger engine of train No yesterda
a while working along the tracks nea
d Thirty-fourth street His left arm wa
broken just above the elbow and h
n received a bad bruise TO his left hiI
i. Pappas was working with crew @
section men when the eastbound pas
RI senger came along. He was working
in the middle of the tracks and did nc
o step out far enough and was struck b
S. the cylinder and hurled several feet t