Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-09-24
MOLINE

I, the merchants in Moline have been
visited by Walter Priest of Cleveland,
, Ohio, and NJ. B. Sim of Des Moines, |
| Iowa, two of the best known inter |
urban statisticians in this part of the
country. They have completed their
p, investigation in Rock Island and are
now gathering data in Moline with
which to estimate the earning power
of the proposed Moline-Peoria inter
urban of which there has much ap-
peared in print lately. Mr.. Priest
states that he had met with encour-
aging reports on all sides and asserts
that the people of Moline with whom
he has talked are for the line. Fol-
lowing the completion of work in Mo
: line, the two gentlemen will continue
south towards Kewanee, gathering
data in the country as well as in the
! city. w. E. Bundy, interurban engi-
neer from Richmond, Ind, has the sur
: veying work in charge in this vicinity
with several assistants.
Lost a Finger-Frank Andrews of
East Moline, employed as machinist
) at the Moline Automobile works. ac-
cidentally caught his left hand in a
milling machine Tuesday afternoon
while at work. The third finger was
badly crushed. making it necessary to
amputate it at the first joint.
? May Fix Woodyatt Up.-Fred Wood
yatt. upon whom the football fans of
the city are banking their hopes, left
last night for Chicago in company
with DR.. A. E. Kohler who has been
attending to the injury OF the knee of
the quarterback They will spend to-
: day in Chicago and the doctor will
= have special brace or truss arranged
I SO that Woodyatt will be able to get
back in the game this season. DR..
: Kohler believes that the injury con-
;. sists of a floating cartilage which
causes the knee to bend every time he
', kicks a football. because when he
u kicks the ball he does 1t with side
{ swinging motion and this causes the
:" knee joint to give. When the knee
II joint becomes properly supported or
. braced he will be able to use the knee
u in running but he must not kick the
!, bail.
e Gasoline on Wagon ExpIodes-Carl
u Anderson of this city, delivery clerk
u for Francis DeJaeger, the east end
a grocer. suffered bad burning of his
II hands and experienced quite a scare
~ Tuesday afternoon in = peculiar acci
dent. He was driving along Eleventh
. street, East Moline. about 8 o'cloch
. and had 20 gallons of gasoline in the
wagon. Part of it was in one gallon
- cans and the remainder in five gallon
. cans. Suddenly one of the five gallon
cans exploded. throwing the burning
N fluid in a shower over the wagon and
among the other cans of gasoline.
. Fearing that they might also explode
VI the young man hustled to remove
IS them from the wagon. with the result
- that his hands were burned.
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% Bio Plans for Campbel's Island
y To make Campbell's island one of the
Is most complete pleasure resorts in thi:
III part of the state is the plan now beins
lie evolved by the Tri-City Railway com
Il pany The plans of the company have
not yet matured sufficiently to b'
- made public, but the Improvement:
u contemplated are extensive in charac
ter and will entail the expenditure o
s. thousands of dollars J. F. Porter
general manager of the Peoples Powe
'h company, said that approximately ;
~ half million dollars will be spent mex
er year in improvements alone. A con
z siderable portion of this, he said. will
Id be spent in making Campbelrs islan'
rs an ideal pleasure resort. Mr.. Porte
rs