Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-12-30
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implement Men in city.-Three hun
dred implement dealers are in the city
as guests of Deere & Co., Deere &
Mansur company, the Moline Wagon
company and the Velie Carriage com
pany. The Manufacturers hotel is
crowded, the Arlington hotel is filled,
and about Is of the dealers have been
accommodated with rooms in private
houses. The dealers began arriving
Sunday, and they have been coming in
on every train since then. They are all
men who buy their goods in carload
lots and who prefer to visit the fac
tories that they may decide after visits
to the sample rooms just what ma
chimes they wish to supply 10 the
trade in the spring season. One block
of 200 tickets for the performance at
The Moline last evening was pur-
chased by the four manufacturing con-
Germs jointly. Later two additional
rows of seats were secured.
Fight Despite PoIice.-Police inter
ference prevented the carrying out of
a program at the Wagner opera house
Monday evening, and $50 fight fans of
the three cities, not to be denied,
wended their way to East Moline
where two bouts were put on. Kid
Smith of Chicago went 10 rounds with
Young Shaw of this city, and Steve
Mckinley and Young Cortier battled
for two rounds. This preliminary
event terminated suddenly. Cortiel
| slipping in the ring In the fall hl
struck his head on one of the chairs
that had been placed to provide ring
side seats, and was put out of com
mission. Kid zimmerman of Davenport
refereed the bout between Smith and
Shaw, though it was agreed no decis
ion should be rendered. Smith had I
decided advantage over the local DO!
in ring generalship and was the az
gressor throughout. Shaw was ex
tremely cautions. but considering hi
short ring career handled himsel
well. justifying the prediction of hi
friends that he will prove dangerou
| IiGiH WIFI IL llItlc DOl1SH ~ HIS 81 1t
He has a tremendous wallop, but wa
battling with too seasoned a man to b,
able to slip over a blow that woult
iproduce sleep.
Fire Fighters Organize.-The
members of the fire department of Eas
Moline met Monday evening in thei
new hall on Sixth street ana Secon,
lavenue and elected two fire captain;
tThey are Rene Spreybrook and AdoIpI
Wander Beke. These two men will b
under Chief Whitney and will hav
charge when he is not present Til
plans for fighting fires were talke
over and everything is in first elias
shape to fight the first fire that OF
ours in East Moline
I Stores Open Thursday Evening"
All the business houses of Moline wi
be closed Friday However. on Me-
Years eve the stores will remain Ope
until O'Clock in the evening. TIL
: factories will be closed on Friday bu
some will open again for operatio
| Saturday morning, while others wi
remain closed until Monday mornin
of next week.
Another Rudowitz Meeting.-Fir.
: steps toward entering a protest again:
the attempt on the part of the Russia
government to secure the eXtraditio
of Christian Rudowitz, the Russia
! fugitive, were taken Monday evenir
4 in a meeting held in the Art CALLER
About % were in attendance. A cor
mittee was appointed to arrange
). mass meeting to be held Sunday afte
|. noon at 2 O'clock
J. Obituary Record.-Mrs. Mary Eel
e man, mother of Mrs. Adam Liebe
a Enecht of Geneseo and of Fred Eel
e man of Moline and known to a nul
Der of residents of this city, died Mo
day afternoon at her home in Genese
r She had been for some time a suffer
e from cancer, and her death was n
% unexpected. She was one of the ear
S. residents of Geneseo, settling in tn
st lplace in 1867.
If Mrs. Bertha Peterson, widow of Jol
le Peterson, who preceded her in dea
in March, 1898, passed away at t
er home. 1917 Twelfth street, Mond
1t afternoon. Mrs. Peterson was born
. Sweden in 1876. She came to Il
country in company with her husba