Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-19
MOLINE

East Moline Herald Sold.-Announce-
ment of a deal contaminated yester-
day is that Harry E. Wickham Of Dav-
export has purchased the plant of the
East Moline Herald He already has
| taken charge. DR.. C. f. Johnson, A.
| B. Johnson and ]. G. Price viii retire
from the paper. The corporation Will
be dissolved and the plant will be con-
/ Quoted as an individual enterprise.
/ Hot Shower Baths for PubIic.-Hot
shower baths are the latest innovation
at the municipal bath house, Twelfth
street and Fifth avenue, and they
promise to become even more popular
than the cold water baths. A heater
and reserve tank, with q capacity of
| 100 gallons~of water, we're installed
! Saturday and were given a successful
/ tryOut. Thirty-two men took baths in
two hours Saturday afternoon and
there was hot water remaining in the
tank.
Auto Fire Truck Ordered. - Moline
will soon take another step in munich
pal advance. The city already boasts
| of possession OF a modern auto patrol
and ambulance; there will soon be
whizzing by on the streets in response
/ to fire alarm calls a modern auto fire
truck. At a meeting of the city coun-
Gil held Monday evening the fire, water
and light committee recommended that
a fire fighting vehicle of the automo-
bile type be purchased at once. The
report was unanimously adopted, and
I the committee was authorized to ad-
vertise for bids. The plan is to install
the new vehicle in the Central station,
and on its arrival the horse-drawn
truck which is now in service there
will be transferred to the No. 4 sta
ton, corner of Fourth avenue and
Twenty-seventh street, which is prac-
tically completed and ready for occu-
pancy.
CIendenin Out of Drug Business
Rock Island county is without Glen
denim in the drug business for the
first time since 1873 A deal was clos
ed yesterday whereby F. J. Clendenin
disposes Of his drug business in East
Moline TO H. H. Fiebke of Durant,
Iowa. The new owner has already
taken charge. The purchase price is
not made public. It was in 1873 that
William Clendenin, father of F. ]. Glen
denim, established a drug store in Mo-
line. He opened the store in the quar-
tiers on Fifteenth street now used by
the Channel Ice company as an Office.
AfterWard he removed to the hotel
building on Third avenue and Six
teenth street. MIR. Clendenin contin-
ued in the drug business till 1899,
when he sold out to his son. Frank
Clendenin continued in the business
established by his father in this city
till May of 1903. East Moline gave
promise Of becoming a thriving little
city and he decided to cast his lot in
new community. He has prospered
in his new field and has the distinction
of being East Moline's first postmas-
ter. He retains this Office and it is
with a view to devote practically his
entire time to this work that he re
tires from the drug business.
o
Big Sewer Job Ordered.-East Mo
lue- COUNCIL mas passed an Improve
ment ordinance calling for the laying
of a sewer system south of the rail
road tracks. Plans and specifications
were prepared by City Engineer Pad
dock and approximately seven miles of
sewer will be laid. The estimated
cost is $4,000.
Obituary Record. - Mrs. Augusta
Johnson, wife of August Johnson, died
yesterday at the family home, 1920
Twenty-fourth avenue. Born in Swe-
den Dec. II, 1852, Mrs. Johnson came
to America in 1881 and settled in Rock
Island. With her husband she lived
there three years, then removed to Mo
line. The widower and three children.
Mrs. Fred Applequist, Mrs. Guy Por
ter and Theodore Johnson, all of Mo
line, survive. There are two grand
children. The funeral will be held at
2:30 Thursday afternoon from the res
idence to Riverside cemetery.
Andrew Nelson, employed as a
sweeper by Deere G, Co, died yester-
day at the city hospital of lung trou-