Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-14

MOLINE

Fingers Are crushed.-Oscar Mel
son, aged 16, employed in the trim
ming department of the Velie Vehicle
| company, met with painful accident.
He caught his left hand in a machine,
crushing his index. middle and ring
fingers. 1t was necessary to ampu-
tate the ring finger.
Josephson Makes Another Purchase.
&C. l. Josephson has exercised an oD-
ton which he has held for several
days on the property of Cyriel De
Voeghelaere, the Grand theatre site
on Fifteenth street between Fifth and
Sixth avenues. The property has a
frontage Of % feet and the considera-
ton is $4,000. Mr.. Josephson &C
quires the property in the hope that
it may be used later in trade that
will enable Fifth avenue property own
ers to carry out their plans for widen
ing Of Fifth avenue, though he has
such confidence in the development of
property on the south side of the rail-
road tracks as a business center that
he was willing TO proceed without as
surance that the definite property will
be taken off his hands in such a trade.
Death OF Mrs. A. M. DahIstron1. -
Mrs. Johanna Dahlstrom, wife OF A.
NJ. Dahlstrom, is dead at her home.
1914 T~enty-third avenue. peritonitis
causing death. She was born in Swe-
den Nov. 20, 1886, and came to Amer
lea 20 years ago. She settled in Mich
igan and came to this city five years
later She was twice married, the
second ceremony being performed IL
this city Jan. 81, 1903. Her husband
and three children survive: Charles
w. Algrem OF this city, Mrs. A H.
Abrahamson at home and Mrs. L. O.
Howard of Des Moines. The funeral
will be from the home at tomorrow.
Rev. n. P. Glemaker will speak in
English and Rev. Alfred Anderson will
speak in Swedish. Burial will be in
Riverside cemetery
Stop Work on Seventh Street.-Im'
provement of Seventh street has
ceased. Though work was started
Monday morning and everything seem
ed to be moving along nicely, the en-
tire outfit-men, horses and tools
were returned to the city at noon. It
was difficult, at first, to arrive at the
reason for the standstill. City OH
Gals and property owners along the
road have a story, each his own par
ticular version. When sifted down It
seems that the work would not have
been started at all except for mis-
understanding on. the part of the
street commissioner. The commits
sioner thought that orders had been
given and that it was proper for him
to proceed with the improvement
When shown that the contemplated
represented too big an
outlay for him to make without CON
sulting the city council he called his
forces off, If the CITY does the grad
ing work at all it will not be until
after the council has said yea" John
Weckel. one OF the interested property
owners, says; "The original plan was
for the city to furnish the tools and
for us to furnish teams and men. We
raised a sum OF between $1,000 and
So 900 for the purpose of carrying on
the work. But the work had not been
started before certain officials fixed
a permanent grade, which would re-
quire a three and one-half foot cut in
some places. We had not planned on
this and found that our funds would
not be sufficient. 1t was then that
we were given to understand tIle city
would do the work. We are in the
city limits now and are rightly en-
titled to the Improvement. The use
Of our funds will for that reason be |
in the nature of a donation"