Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-11
MOLINE


-Four Belgians nearly lost their lives
in Rock river Sunday afternoon. All
of them had been drinking heavily
before leaving their camp opposite
Seventh street for ride on the river.
One of the men desired to do the
rowing and in a scuffie to gain the
rower's seat the boat was overturn-
ed. Two of the men held fast to
the sides OF the boat and were pick
ed up by men in another boat who
witnessed the accident and who hur-
ried to their assistance. The other
two men were rescued with difficulty,
one of them having gone down for
the second time in Is feet of water
before being hauled to safety.
Or. Halls Invention Suecess.-Dr.
Hedley Hall, pastor of the Church of
Today in Rock Island is the inventor
of a road and street scraper which
has just been tried out here and
which has been declared practical.
The trial was made on unpaved Six
teenth avenue in the presence of G.
r. Stephens of the Moline Plow
company, Mayor Andrew Olson and
others. All those who saw the test
of the new scraper are satisfied that
with possibly one or two small alter
ations the new implement would be
a good seller The distinctive feat
about five feet long. The machine is
a simple affair and can be operated
by one man. The knife is so ar
ranged that it will carry material
for a considerable distance. By this
arrangement 1t is possible, on an un-
paved street, to shave the dirt off
the bumps and place it in the ruts.
If this feature is found practical the
scraper will be a boon to users of
rural roads. DR.. Hall claims, how
ever, that the scraper will be equal
ly useful when it comes to cleaning
city streets. Some of those who wit
messed the test differ with him in
that particular. Several scraper
models have been made. One has
been tried out in Galesburg. and
several scrapers have been sent to
South America, where they will be
tested.
fetal announcement is made today
that the Mutual Wheel company is
formulating plans, execution of
which will result in greatly increas-
ed facilities for carrying on it's grow
ing business. AS yet the plans are
partly tentative and announcement
of details of the company's proposed
Improvement cannot be made until
q later date. The company has pur-
chased a tract of ground in East Mo-
line directly to the west of the new
Moline Pressed Steel company's
plant. A plant will be constructed
on this tract. 1t is not the intention,
however, to abandon the plant at
Third avenue and Seventh street,
this city. Instead the Moline plant
will be enlarged. The two plants
will be operated jointly. Part of
the work which the company now
turns out in its plant at Paducah,
KY, will be brought to East Moline
and carried on in the new plant
there. An automobile wheel depart
ment will probably be Installed in
the Moline plant and this will make
it necessary to have some of the
other work done in East Moline.
improvements at the Moline plant
will consist of additions, as the ca
pacity at the Moline plant at the
present time is not sufficient for
turning out the volume of wheels
demanded.
Obituary Record.-Swan Carlmark
died at the residence of his son, AL
derman Ernest CarImark, S35 Sew
enteenth avenue. Death was the
result of kidney >troub1e. He had
been( failing the last four months
though he was belfast two weeks
only. He was born in Nordmarks-
berg, Vermland. Sweden. March 3.
1S46. He came to America with his
family in 1891 and settled in this
city. Mr.. Carlmark is survived by
five children: Ernest, Charles, Os-
this city, and Eric of Kansas City,
Mo. The funeral service will be at
2 o'clock Thursday afternoon from
the residence of Alderman Carl
mark. Rev. L. A. Johnston will Of
ficiate and burial will be in River
side cemetery.
William L. Berry, a veteran car
penter, died at his home, 2912 Elev-
en- and three-fourths avenue of par
alysis. During the time he worked
at his trade, he assisted in building
a number of residences in this city.
He had not worked the last four
years. He was born in Sullivan
county. Indiana, Sept. 10, 1929. He
is survived by his widow and these
children: Edward L., of Little Rock,
Ark, Charles r., of Houston, Tex,
w. s., of Pine Bluff, Ark, L. H.. of
Rock Island and Mrs. Mary Everson
of this city.
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