Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-08
MOLINE

$500 Prize for STUDENT. Fred
Strombeck. Moline man who is now
enrolled as a student in Northwest
ern university at Evanston, has just
won cash prize of $500 offered by
Hart, Schaffner & Marx of Chicago
for the best essay on commercial
subject. The honor won is no small
one, as competition was open to I'M
dergraduate students of every col
lege and university in the United
States. Mr.. Strombeck wrote on
Principles of Freight Classifica-
ton" After graduation from the
Moline high school Mr.. Strombeck
entered the employ of the D. M.
Sechler Carriage company, serving
as shipping clerk and later being
traffic manager, holding this last
named position for three years. He
resigned to engage in business for
himself. establishing with J. F. Free
man, secretary of the Moline Y. NJ.
c. A. freight traffic bureau. Mr..
Freeman first resigned and returned
to association work Mr.. Strombeck
later sold his business to Frank J.
banner, who still continues the bu-
reau, with offices in the Kerns build
ing on Fifteenth street. This is not
Mr.. Strombeck' s first notable sue
cess since enrolment as student
at Northwestern. Last September
he won a cash prize of 500, offered
by the university in essay work.
Two Small Fires.-SmalI fires Tues
do rad
two houses. The first alarm was
sounded at 5 o'clock and the depart
ment was summoned to the home of
John A. Brust, 1885 Eighteenth ave-
nue.. When the firemen arrived they
found that Mrs. Brust had done eff
fective work and eXtinguished the
flames. The fire was at the outside
cornor of the house and the origin
is a mystery. Mrs. Brust showed
presence of mind by tearing away
the siding and throwing several
buckets of water on the blaze. The
other call was after O'Clock and
was to the house owned by John
Moore at 1921 Fourteenth-and-a-h
street. Sparks from a chimney start
ed two or three fires on the roof.
To Aid Cooperative PupiIs.-Indus-
trial education was given further ap-
proval when the board of education,
meeting in monthly session, APPROX
ed a report made by City Superin-
tendent H. r. Jackson. In conclu-
sion the report asked that the high
school faculty be given an additional
member whose time shall be given
entirely to instruction of young men
engaged in cooperative work, that
is. devoting half their time to school
and half to practical work in the
shop.
Two Hurt in Runaway.-Amos
Godfrey and Gus Edman, employees
of the health department, we're
nearly killed in a runaway accident
yesterday in the vicinity of Fourth
avenue and Forty-second street. Both
men were badly bruised and scratch
ed, while Godfrey received an ugly
cut above one of his eyes. The men
will be unable 20 work for several
DAYS. They had been in the east
end of the city with a load of Gin
ders and were returning for another
load when the horses took fright at
load of hay and started to run.
Edman was driving. but when he
found that he could not check the
animals, Godfrey caught hold of the
reins. One of the reins broke with
the result that the horses plunged
through a wire fence into a yard.
Both men were thrown from the
wagon seat. Edman falling in such a
manner that a rear wheel passed
over his body and left wrist. Godfrey
STRUCK the ground on his face, which
was scratched and cut. One of the
animals fell down and this checked
the fight of the other horse. Both