Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-07
MOLINE

Tar BoiIs Over; Starts Fire. - The
foundry and storage shed owned by
the Barnard & Leas Manufacturing
company were threatened by fire Sat
urday when large vat of tar boiled
over and caught fire. Men were en-
gagged in repairing roof and the tar
vat was between the foundry and stor-
age shed. When the tar boiled over
a hot blaze followed Two window
castings in the foundry were damaged.
The storage shed is of wood, with an
iron covering, but the fire became so
hot that it was necessary to turn a
firemen smothered the tar fire with
sand.
Finishing Church Improvement
Workmen on the Second Congrega-
tional church have finished putting in
the stained glass windows, and the
members of the church feel that the
time is drawing near when they will be
able to worship in the fine new audi
torium instead of in the Sunday school
room, as at present. Frank Lundahl,
who has the contract for the interior
decorating, upstair and down, will start
on his work today, doing the auditor
ium first AS soon as this Is finished,
the pipe organ. which is now ready to
be installed, will be placed The COM
pany hopes to get the organ installed
by the 10th, as 1t will take about
month to get it in perfect order for
use.
Violations to Cease. - Editor Dis
patch: Will you kindly state through
the columns of the paper that the Illini
club met in special meeting Friday ev-
ening to take action In regard to the
very much advertised conduct OF its
members. We would not be justified
in denying every detail of the story
printed, but some of the story we will
state is not correct, and we stand ready
to prove it to the officer who made the
investigation or to newspaper report
ers. There is a common saying that
TT isn't what a man used to be. it's
what he is today" If the members
have taken liberties with our club laws,
we feel that we have taken such pre-
cautions that those valuations will not
be repeated. We further wish 70 sIavo
that the Illinf club, as q whole, is de-
sirous of having good, clean athletic
organization, one that we can be proud
OF, and that the only way we desire to
prove this is by what we shall do. Re
spectfully yours. The Him Club.
$1,000 Charged Back Cause Of Shock.
Notification that 1900 in unsolicited
taxes has been charged the public
library fund by the city Of Moline has
struck CONSERVATION into the camp of
the libary board which only last
month made payment of $4,000 on the
public library debt The board had es-
timated that its share of this years
taxes would be $4,000 and had made
it's plans accordingly. The announce
ment OF charge back" came as
shock and for that reason purchase of
new books will be suspended while
members devise some way in which to
recoup the boards finances. The re-
cent payment on the debt has already
been turned over and cannot be re
manded.
White to Open New Addition.-C- II.
White. who recently added to his hold
ings in the southwest territory of the
city by purchasing property in the
vicinity of East Fifteenth avenue,
states that he is prepared to plat at
least 25 acres OF this land and put 1t on
the market early next year. The num-
Der of lots in Mr. Whites first addition
will be 12O or 80, the size of each to
be about 40x135 feet. They will be 10
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