Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-05-15
MOLINE


students in the manual training de.
partment of the high school can
make articles which are practical and
ae good as made in factories was
clearly demonstrated when Clayburn
| Johnson tried out a motor cycle which
| he has been working on since last
| Christmas. Under the direction of
| Professor Dickinson OF the manual
training department. Clayburn COM
menced building gasoline motor to
be used in propelling bicycle. Mr..
Dickinson put the engine on his wheel
and it propelled the bicycle along at a
rate of thirty-five miles an hour and
climbed hills and performed all other
feats that the modern motor bicycle
will do. The motor was again taken
off the wheel and will be attached
to bicycle from which Clayburn has
purchased for that use and soon he
will have a motor cvycle of his own.
Fix Roof; Leave HoIe.-Claus An
derson, the grocer on Fifteenth street
and Fifth avenue suffered $3.50 to
$500 loss to his grocery stock Tues
day evening during the hard rain
which leaked through the roof onto
his goods. The chief damage was
done to the flour but other goods were
also damaged. The cause for the roof
leaking was due to carelessness OF
workmen who had removed a large
quantity of tin from the roof which
they were going to mend.
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Boys May Sign as IndividuaIs.-At
a special meeting of the board of edu,
cation it was decided to give the fra
Eternity members an opportunity tC
| sign the pledge as individual members
of the fratenities until tomorrow
Those who do not take advantage OF
this will be excluded from all school
privileges. At the prior meeting Of
the board an opportunity was given
the fraternity boys to give up theil
fight providing they would do it as
"a unit. Then the split came among
the members of the frat and the mem
hers of the frat and the members
who voted to abide by tina order OF
} the board. were in the minority The!
came to Principal Nutting, stated the
situation, and asked if the board would
not take some action giving them al
q opportunity to sign the pledge as in
dividuals.
|, May Contest Annexation.-The com
mittee appointed at mass meeting
of the people living in the territor!
J recently annexed to Moline, and whit
; are opposed to annexation, has callet
: q meeting of the directors to the hell
t at the Ridgeview school house thi
7 evening at s o'clock. Several attor
: neys gave the information that M
contest can be filed now in any couri
as the 80 days after the official coun
had been made has elapsed, and az
cording to the law a contest must b
filed within that time. However,
/ seems that G. w. McCaskrin, the a
g torney engaged at the mass meetins
tasserts that it is not too late to stal
Y a contest, and has stated that he wi
: be present at the mass meeting thi
evening to advise the DIRECTORS how
y proceed
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Only One Nurse to Graduate.-Men
$ bers of the Woman's Hospital associi
g ton met with the president, Mrs. e.
McKeever, and found that they woul
l. not have to prepare for a graduatio
$ this spring. The only nurse who
e to receive a diploma Miss Elizabet
). Wilvert, is now out on service at Fol
Dodge, Iowa, and will not return fo
several months, so that she will wa