Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-09-12
MOLINE

Poisoned by Hodge Thorn.-Rudolph
Blaser, employed by John Weaver, Jr.,
on his farm on Cd1ona avenue, was
painfully injured while trimming a
hedge. The back of his left hand was
pr1cked by hedge thorn. The thorn
was poisoned and Blaser's hand start
ed to swell at once He started for
the house. but was taken violently i'll
before arriving at destination He was
hurried to the city and was attended
by physician The wound was not
much larger than a pin, but the hand
was badly swollen. The doctor does
not think that the result will be seri-
Gus.
Cooperative System Of EducatIon.-
Nineteen students of the Moline high
school started today on the co-opera-
tive system of education They will
spend every other week during the
school year at school, alternate weeks
to be spent in the shop. Other stu
dents have signified their desire to en-
roll in the course offered, and they will
be assigned as it is possible to find
places for them. Those already en-
rolled, the work which they will take
up, and the shops to which they are
assigned: Ben Carlstedt, pattern
room, Moline Tool company; Ben
Rundquist, machine shop, Moline Tool
company; Leroy Carstens, machine
shop. Moline Tool company; Albert r.
McCune, machine shop, Moline Tool
comany; Carl Dahlheim, machine shop.
Moline Tool company; Louis Strick-
land, machine shop, Moline Tool COM
pany; Leigh West, machine shop, Mo-
line Automobile company; Harold Eng
strom, machine shop, Moline Automo-
bile company; Nels Johnson, drafting
room, Moline Scale company; Harold
Hartman, drafting room, Deere e
Co.; Hjalmar Swanquist, drafting
room, Deere & Co.; Alfred Ingwers,
drafting, unassigned; Philip Celander,
pattern shop, Moline Tool company;
Roger Peterson, drafting, unassigned;
Carl H. Carlson, machine work, unas-
signed; Folke Jennish, drafting, unas-
signed; Walter Whiteside, unassigned;
Jacob Lusinger, Jr, machine shop, Mo-
line Tool company; Herbert Johnson,
drafting room, Moline Scale company.
Child Thrown From Pony and Hurt.
David Reid Evans, 6-year-old son of
Mr.. and Mrs. G. E. Evans, GIG Nine
teepth street, was quite severely in
jured Saturday, when he was thrown
from the back of a burro at Twelfth
street and Twelfth avenue. His head
struck the pavement with sufficient
force to cause conclusion of the brain.
He was removed to his home and
physician was summoned. The boy
will recover.
Obituary Record. - John Gustsf
Hertzman died at the city hospital af-
ter an illness of six months with
Bright's disease. Mr.. Hertzman was
born in Norrkoping, Sweden, June 6,
1862, and grew TO manhood in that
country. He was married April 10,
1890 in Stockholm, has bride being
Miss Anna M Bjorkman. They came
to America and to Moline in 1892. Mr..
Herman was a blacksmith by trade,
and he had worked in plants of Deere
& Co., and the Moline Pillow company
during the IS years of his residence in
this city. He is survived by his widow
and three children, Harold s., Arvid
X and Ethel NJ. He also leaves a
brother, Arvid Hertzman, in Chicago,
and his mother and two sisters in Swe-
den. Deceased had been a member of
Thor lodge, No. 8, l. o. ", and of Mo-
line Observatory, North Star Benefit
association. The funeral occurred yes
terday. Interment was in Riverside
cemetery.
Mrs James Nichols passed away at
her home in Silvis Saturday following
the birth of a daughter Friday night.
She was "a years of age and came to
Silvis from Detroit a year ago as a
bride, her husband being employed as
carpenter in the Silvis shops. She was
a member of the Catholic church. The
remains of mother and child were ship
ped to Detroit Saturday night for in
terment