Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-12-08

MOLINE

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Letter Carriers Elect.-Letter car
riers of the city held their annual cleo
ton at a meeting in their rooms in the
postofice, and for the following year
the business of the organization will be
taken care of by: President, George
Merrill; vice president, John Wind;
secretary and treasurer, Clyde Becker.
Election on Internationally unani-
nous vote the city council has ordered
the holding of a special election Jan.
IL to vote on the proposition to annex
to the city of Moline tract of ground
amounting to approximately 240 acres
lying between First and Tenth streets
and Nineteenth avenue and what would
be Twenty-seventh avenue extended.
The estimated population is 500 people.
The tract includes the WOODBURY.,
Nielsen and Greim additions and the
Erickson, Eklund and Weckel sub
divisions.
Riverside Valley for Park.-The I'M
used ground in the valley in Riverside
cemetery will be devoted by the city
TO park purposes if present plans car
ny An ordinance was adopted by the
council setting aside the tract of ground
between Twenty-seventh and Thirty
fourth streets, except that portion
known as the old cemetery, to be de-
! voted to park purposes. The park COM
mittee, following a conference with
the cemetery board and the city attor-
ney, recommended the adoption of the
ordinance. The committees investiga-
ton revealed that the original GENE
terry scheme never provided that this
ground be used for burial purposes.
The restrictions made when the ground
| was decided to the city were that no
portion of the tract could be disposed
| of for building purposes. The ordin-
ance set forth there are no legal Objec
| tons to converting the tract in ques-
| ton into park. The cemetery board
| has announced its willingness to relin-
| quish control. and plans are to proceed
with development of the east end park
project.
Endurance Run to Moline Car.-The
Moline Automobile company has re-
/ ceived the following message: dallas,
! Texas, Dec. 6, 1909.-Moline Automo-
bile Company. East Moline, ILL.,: I won
! the StarTelegram trophy by Is points.
This is the hardest. toughest, toughest
run | ever run. Will give you inter
esting facts On my return. ]. A. Wicke."
| This trophy which Mr.. Wicke wires
/ that he has won with a 1910 Moline"
model M" was awarded for the cars
/ performance in a five days endurance
run. covering the toughest territory to
/ be found in Texas, starting at Dallas
and passing through Mineral, Wells,
| Abilene, San Angelo and Brentwood
and finishing at Fort Worth. 1t was
/ promoted. by the Star-Telegram of Fort
Worth and was run under the A. A. c.
| rules.
Twelve Cents Reducticn.-A reduc-
I ton of II cents per lineal foot has been
ordered by the Watertown board of
/ local improvements on cement side
walk assessments. Mclean Bros. of
| Moline have recently completed the
/ laying of 4,50O running feet of walk.
| The original estimate for the work was
AZ cents per lineal foot, which was re-
duced to So cents under the bid of the
Moline firm. Attorney w. G. Baker
has completed the assessment roll, and
| il has been turned over 70 George Dir
reen, village clerk, TO whom sidewalk
| assessments are to be paid. The
amount of concrete sidewalks laid in
WATERFOWL this last year will exceed
a mile and with the walks laid in pre-
vious years the village may now boast
| of close to three miles of concrete
walks. Plans of the village board for
next year are not announced. but ru-
mors are in circulation that before an
other seasons snow flies there will be
at least one paved street in the village.
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