Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-06-22
MOLINE

District Remains Unchanged. - A
proposition to extend the saloon dis
triet in East Moline was voted down
Monday evening at meeting of the
city council. An effort was made to
extend the district a block west from
Seventh TO Sixth street, between the
north and south limits of the city.
1t is understood that three men
would have attempted to open sa-
looms had the proposition carried.
Assessment Roll confirmed.-Judge
r. W.. Olmsted in the county court
yesterday confirmed the assessment
roll which provides for paving with
brick of Sixteenth street between
Eleventh and Nineteenth avenues.
time scheduled for the hearing, and
the confirmation was therefore forth
coming without delay. The next step
will be to secure bids for the i'm
provement and to let contract for
work. Directors to the proposed
sewer and water improvement in the
Fifth ward will be heard tomorrow
evening.
Crawford a Suicide.-C. w. Crawford
of Silvis, who it was announced had
been killed in the railroad yards at
Joliet, committed suicide. He sew
cred the artery in one wrist and cut
his throat The man was found in
the toilet room of the caboose of
freight train. The message sent to
Mrs. Crawford was that her husband
had been killed, the desire being to
break the news to her as easily as
possible. Mrs Crawford departed
yesterday to take charge of the re-
mains, which will be taken tomorrow
to Aledo for burial.
Arp Buys kiel Property.-Dr A. H.
Arp yesterday purchased the John C.
Kiel property, 1413 Sixth avenue,
for the sum of $6,4OO. The lot is
32x150 feet and the price paid is at
the rate of $500 a front foot. DR..
Arp will not improve the property
Immediately, but he says that if he
can get a tenant he will erect a
building for store purposes next
spring. The lot adjoins the lot on
which F. P. Styvaert is erecting a
three-story brick building.
= Property Consent Hereafter.-Alde:'-
men wrestled as committee of the
whole Monday with problems that
face them as a result of a decision
to revise the present saloon ordinance
substituting property consent
clause for the present limitation
clause. Several of the more import
ant points at issue were discussed,
and the ordinance will be drafted in
time for action at the July meeting
of the council. 1t has been practic-
ally agreed that before a saloon may
be located it shall be necessary to
secure the consent of a majority of
the property frontage for each $50
feet adjoining the property which it
is proposed to devote to saloon pur-
poses, and also to secure a majority
of the property frontage of the 800
feet on the opposite side of the street
or avenue. A majority of the en-
tire 600 feet will not suffice; there
must be three majority consents. In
event that a corner property is de-
sired as a saloon site will be neces-
600 feet on the street and 900 feet
on the avenue. Saloon and city prop
erty shall be exempt in committing
property consent. There are 81 sa-
Icons in Moline at the present time.
The ordinance which is to be dis
carded provides that there shall be
not more than one saloon for each
500 inhabitants, except that present
saloons shall not be interfered with.
Under terms of this ordinance it is
impossible for the number of sa-
looms in Moline to be increased till
5000 or 5000 has been added to
the city's population.
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Married at A. M.--Miss Edna Pc
tiers, daughter of the captain of hose