Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-01-27
MOLINE
Build Big smokestack.-To accom-

Build. Big Smokestack.-To accom-
modate two new boilers which have re-
Gently been installed in the power
house of Deere & Co.'S great plant,
men are now busy erecting a tall steel
smokestack which when finished will
measure IT'S feet from the ground and
will be 92 inches in diameter on the
inside. The erection of the stack has
taken about five weeks and it has now
reached a stage where 1t will take
about another week to finish. 1t is be-
ing built near the old brick stack. but
/ is monster in comparison. being
seven feet in diameter and IT'S feet
, high while the brick stack is but 14S
feet high. Deere & Co. now has Il
capacity for generating 1900 horse
power in its boilers, two having re.
/ Gently been installed The two new
boilers will generate approximately
500 horse power
Peterson-Quandt.- marriage of
! Miss Edith Nj. Quandt, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Quandt of Musca-
tine and Arthur NJ. Peterson of Moline
took place Sunday afternoon at the
parsonage of st. PauPs English Luth-
/ eran' church in Davenport, Rev. W. H.
Blancke officiating The couple was
! attended by Mr.. and Mrs. Albert A.
Ellison of Moline cousins of the
! groom. The happy couple will make
their home in Rock Island The groom
is the well known barber.
May Want Line Extended.-At a
meeting of the Industrial Home asso-
!, citation Monday evening committee
was appointed to investigate the mat
| ter of securing a suitable site for
Labor day celebration which is to take
place in Moline this year. The COM
mittee consists of Fred Smithiger
Thomas Foley and Oscar Peterson
The members of the association favor
holding the celebration in the Athletic
park. on the river road, providing ar
; engagements can be made with the Mo
line Business Mems association, which
has the renting of the park in charge
However. should the park be decided
upon. the association would ask the
Tri-City Railway & Light company t.
extend its Third avenue line to tbs
. park.
Get Prominent Speakers-Hon. Sam
uel Alschuler of Aurora. democratic
candidate for governor in 1900, ant
President G. e. MacLean of the STATE
University of Iowa, are two of tn,
speakers for the annual Lincoln da,
! banquet to be held this year by tn,
. Moline club in .commemoration of tn,
| 1G0th anniversary. Besides the twt
, addresses the program will include tn,
irendition of patriotic airs by a gle.
, club selected from the membership o
, the club, Several of Inc airs to b,
: sung will be illustrated with stereol
: ticon slides and in addition there viii
: be series of special slides on Lincoln
and the civil war. 1t is planned b
have a brief program of imprompt
I talks. in which several speakers vii
: tell of personal "reminiscences.
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= Obituary Record Sylvia, the seven
J. months-old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
I Charles Carlstedt. 1907 Twenty-eightl
avenue, died Monday evening after al
{ illness of only two days with convu
: sions brought on by severe colo
/ Sylvia was born in Moline June II
1908. She leaves besides her parent:
: two brothers, Marvid and Pull.
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, style. Perhaps he can teach us writ
! ing fellows somewhat of incisiveness