Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-06-20
MOLINE


Evangelical Covenant completed its
sessions at the Mission Tabernacle |
church late yesteray afternoon. The
200 or more delegates who are here are
spending today in a picnic at Camp
bells Island, going out on the inter
urban at 8 in the morning. Tomorrow
there will be services in the different
Swedish churches of the city, and the
ordination of six ministers will take
place.
Will Ask Bids.-At an adjourned
meeting of the school board it was de-
cided to advertise for bids for the con
struction of the new manual training
at cost of $4,000 on the Washington
! school lot. OF course action on these
(, bids is subject 10 the result of the
special election called for June 81 at
which the citizens viii vote for or
/, against the proposed Improvement
f, Several new teachers were elected to
positions. They are j. M. Shead of
Winnebago, Mimi, who will take
charge of physics and chemistry at
the high school: Miss Bessie Waye of
+, Kenton, Ohio 10 the position of mus
ical director and Miss Jane Chase of
Oregon, ILL.,, who will teach English.
New Hours for Barbers-Six boss
BARRIERS as a committee waited upon the
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the meeting of the union relative to
the proposition of opening the barber
shops in the evening. The boss bar
bers asked that their shops be opened
a half hour earlier in the mornings
and closed half hour later on
Wednesday night, both requests being
granted by the journeyman. The
members of that committee were A.
j. Leopold, Charles Evans, C. c. Pratt,
NJ. A. Nieswander, Cal Earnest and A.
l.. Lubnow. Beginning with next We'd
nesday morning the barber shops in
the city will be opened for business at
1880 o'clock in the morning and will
, close at $50 p. III. On other nights
with the exception of Saturday, the
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] fore the shops have been opening at
s a. m. and closing at s p. m, except
ting Saturdays.
House Burglarized in Daytime.-One
of the boldest daylight burglaries ever
committed in Moline occurred yester
day between 10 o'clock and noon, when
: loo, &c ~,
Martha Thornton. 1911 Twelfth ave
nue., completely ransacking the house
l and taking a iady'si gold watch anG
5 SIS in money. Two young men seen
/ lurking in that vicinity are suspected
: of the crime
< Shops Close for IL Days.-As wa;
D expected, the order to close the rail
: road shops at Silvis came Thursda!
), afternoon. The shops will remain
u closed until July l. Between 700 an,
500 men are out of work, the fore
II still remaining at work numberin:
= about $50 men. Davenport citizen
: on Wednesday became quite eXcite'
over a rumor which was circulate
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work train would be discontinued. Ii
quiry at the superintendent offic
brought out the answer that there wa
absolutely no foundation to the rumol
Obituary Record.-Mrs. Adelia Eel
erman, wife of Oscar Eckerman daugl
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. p G. Johnson c
Geneseo, Illinois, passed away Thurs
day afternoon at the family residenc
in Geneseo. Mrs. Eckerman was Dor
August Goth, 1874 in Geneseo, and wa
married TO Oscar Eckerman seve
years ago, June 10. Mrs. Eckerma
has been suffering for the last tire
years with tuberculosis of the throa
having sought the change of climat
one year in California and two year
in Colorado for relief and came bac
to take up residence in Geneseo, Apr
]. last. Mrs Eckerman is survived b
her husband and two children, Mari
s Adelia, aged five and a half years an
y Joel Oscar, aged three and a ha
years. The funeral will take place t,
morrow at 2:30 p. m. from the famiI
home, where the services will be pr
vate, and at 8 p. m. from the Swedis
Lutheran church. Rev. l.. A. Johl
ston of Moline, assisted by Rev. Ca
e. Lundgren, will officiate.