Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-12-10

MOLINE

Quits Service After Quarter Gen.
tury.-Walker B. Kent, after nearly %
years of service in the blacksmith de-
partment of Deere & Co., has quit the
shop to engage in business for him
self Mr.. Kent has taken the agency
for the Allen portable bath outfit, said
to be the finest sanitary scientific out
fit made, with selling territory in all
of Rock Island and Scott counties.
For the present he is maintaining his
office at his residence. 915 Twenty
fifth street. Mr.. Kent, through long
service in the shops, and through serv-
ice in a public capacity as alderman
from the Seventh ward, has ali ac-
quaintance that will be an asset to-
ward success in his new field. During
the short time that he has handled the
sanitary bath outfit he has found that
there is a gratifying demand for 1t.
Speakers Secured.-After one of the
most strenuous campaigns that he has
ever known. Rev. Richard S. Haney,
chairman of the committee on speak
ers for the After-Dinner club, has sue
ceeded in securing two men of large
ability to appear before that organ
ization at the meeting to be held at
the Moline club Monday of next week
DIR. John Andrew Holmes is coming
from Champaign to speak on "The
Worship of Heredity." He presents
fine appearance and is a fine speaker.
Mr. Haney was busy on the wires all
day Wednesday, finally securing Mr..
Holmes promise to come at 10 in the
evening Saving Men by Law is
the subject on which Edward A. Ere
denhagen will speak. Mr.. Fredenha-
gen is founder of the society for the
friendless, a present organization of
the southwest, which looks after par
oiled prisoners, doing a work very sim
liar to that performed by Mrs. Maude
Darlington Booth. He is known as the
father of the parole law.
East Moline Growing RapidIy.-By
Jan. l there will have been co new
houses completed in East Moline in
the course of a year. The prospects
are that more than double that num-
Der will be built next year. Placing
the average cost of each house at ST.
$50. the outlay for new houses in East
Moline during 1908 is estimated at
S111,OOO This figure does not include
the cost Of the residence of George
w Ross, recently completed Some
houses were erected at a cost of ST.
ESQ. but none were under that amount,
and the larger number were erected at
a cost of $4,000, some even exceeding
that figure. The 60 houses do not in
clude the stores or commercial blocks
that have been erected during the
year. The demand for houses in East
Moline at present is so great that a
movement will be started early in the
spring for the erection of enough
houses for all the families seeking to
live in East Moline. With the compile
ton of water mains and a sewage sys-
tenn to be constructed in the spring,
the residents in East Moline will en-
joy all the advantages of those resid-
ing in Moline. On the commencing Of
the pavement in the spring It is IN
derstood that the merger company will
have all the necessary gas mains laid.
With electric light service already in
use, East Moline can boast of all the
advantages of any city in the United
States where these facilities are en-
joyed. East Moline, with its 90 blocks
of paved streets, its factories and ship
ping facilities, three trunk lines of
railroad, bids fair to be recognized as
one Of the foremost In the state.