Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-05-13
NEWS OF THE NEIGHBORS

pipes and railing stolen from the Kohrs !
Packing company. When the stolen !
goods were found in the possession of
Leman, he claimed TO have bought |
them from F, F. Cox The latter was
arrested, tried and acquitted. Yester-
day morning four boys were brought
to the police station. They admitted
it was they who had stolen the stuff
at the Kohrs plant and that they had
sold it to Leman.
Raid on Boarding House.-Police of
ficers Bishop and Sanford at 10: 80
o'clock Tuesday night raided the
house located at PIT East Third street
and hauled five people to the station
| in the auto patrol These were Leslie
Mcguire, Ed Hartz, Ella Johnson, Bes-
sic Yates and Minerva Williams. All
were charged with vagrancy and in
police court were sent TO Jail for 20
days each. The house is owned ny
Mother" Hoover and for some time
past has been conducted as a boarding
house. The police have had the place
under surveillance for some time and
Tuesday night made tie raid as above
stated. A number of the occupants
satisfied the officers they were legiti-
mate boarders at the place and were
not moleSted. The five taken to the
station, however, were at the place for
no good purpose, according to the
belief of the officers and were con-
victed in police court yesterday morn
ing and sentenced to serve time at
Hotel Eckhardt.
| Pick Sites for Playgrounds.-At a
meeting of the executive committee of
the Davenport Fairgrounds association
held Tuesday afternoon in the off &c
of DR.. Jennie McCowen, the sites for
four Fairgrounds were chosen and on
these grounds playground apparatus
will be erected as soon as possible and
supervisors will be chosen for them
The grounds of the old high school
or Lincoln school building, and those
of the Monroe school, near Division
street on West Third, will be grounds
for both boys and girls and each will
be in charge of two directors, man
and a woman. The Mueller property
on West Fourth street, just east OF
the Coliseum, has been offered for the
use of the children, and this ground
will be for boys only. 1t will be in
charge of a man as director A base
ball diamond will probably be laid out
; here so that amateur games can be
played The lot is admirably fitted
; for use as a playground for the down
town districts of the city. The grounds
of the Harrison school at Fourth ant
/, Ripley streets will be a playground
for the girls only, and will be fitted VI
= for their use.
E Iowa Grocers Here Next Week.-Ar
r rangements fer the annual convention
! of the Iowa Retail Grocers' association
s were completed at a meeting of tht
: general committee of the local assC
q citation held Tuesday afternoon at tn,
: Turner hall. Reports indicate tina
:. | there will be an attendance of on
v thousand or more delegates and visi
d tors, and that it will be one of tn
l. largest meetings in the history of tn
o state organization. The convention
Il dates are May IS, 10 and 90
n Obituary Record.-The death of Mrs
5, Mathilda Charlotte Koos Cries occu
l. red Tuesday afternoon at her hom'
It GIG West Second street, after an il
g ness of about five years. Mrs. Grie
was born May 16, 1884, in Gruenber: