Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-01-29
MOLINE

Miss Entrikin Chosen.-A Moline
girl and graduate of the high school
has been honored with appointment as
member of the high school teachers
corps to succeed Miss Eva Dillenbeck.
Announcement is made by Superin-
tendent B. B, Jackson of the selection
by the board of education of Miss
Fanny Entrikin to the position of in
structor in mathematics to fill the va
cancy, caused by Miss Dillenbeck's res
ignatfon. Miss DillenbecK takes a po-
sition in a township high school near
Chicago, and retires with the present
week. Miss Entrikin will assume her
new duties Monday
Find Coal in City.-A promising vein
of coal has been discovered on the
| farm of Mrs. Rohrer in the vicinity of
! Forty-first street and Twenty-third av-
enue. ProspectOrs at work have gone
| down to depth of almost hundred
| feet and have found a substantial vein
ranging between three and three ana
la half feet in thickness. This ia the
first time coal in such quantity has
been discovered so close to the city
The prospectors will not rest content
with the first vein, but will continue
on down to depth of $50 feet and
possibly deeper in search of second
and third vein.
| Minors in Pool Hall; Fined.-After
being repeatedly warned by the police
to keep minors out of his place, John
Tjallas, proprietor of pool room at
1410 Fourth avenue, was brought into
court Monday night and fined. Tjallas
has been operating a pool room for
some time on Fourth avenue and at
tention was called to the police that
minors were frequenting the place.
The proprietor was notified to keep
them out, but he did not heed.
Find Strange Things in Sewer.-In
cleaning out the tailrace sewer won
derful collection of things is being
found. From what is being brought
to light now by the explorations of the
workmen, the last men on the job
must have left it in a hurry This
great drain has been in use for several
years. but from its depths these las:
few days have been brought forth &
wheelbarrow, unopened sacks of ce
mont, sections of the. drain tile as big
as a table drawer, a carload Of rock
the fragments of some of them beins
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this is in addition to the tons of grave
and silt which has fradually washed
into the drain from the sewers.
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Same Horse in Second COLLISION
Mr.. and Mrs. John Hammes and daugh
ter of 1924 Seventh avenue were bad
ly frightened Monday night when JohI
Goods big touring car struck Ed Sic
wins cab, in which the family wer,
riding. The accident happened at tn,
corner of Sixteenth street and Thirt
. lavenue about 1890 o'clock. The auto
mobile was not running very fast, con
sequently no one was injured. TIL
chauffeur was the only occupant o
the car. The Hammes family had beel
out OF the city, and returned on tn
Southwest Limited on the Milwaukee
: Mr. Hammes engaged the cab to rid
: home. The dr. yer proceeded dow
i Third avenue and was about to tur
e the corner of Sixteenth street whe
e Mr.. Goods chauffeur, bound for tn
S theater, came around the corner TIL
driver of the automobile did not motto
the cab in time to turn out, and struc
it on the left side. A front wheel wa
!. demolished and the springs broker
!. and the passengers were shaken IL
l. some. The automobile was damaged
A lamp being smashed and a fende
c being partially torn off. The hors
was the same one that was in til
memorable collision on the governmer
bridge Christmas eve, and when tn
car struck the cab he was intensel