Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-02-05
MOLINE

Brick Instead of Asphalt. - Brick
was substituted for asphalt as the ma
terial to be used in the paving of Six
teenth street, Eleventh to Nineteenth
avenues, at meeting of the board of
local improvements held yesterday,
The action of the board was in con-
formity with petition presented by
property owners representing a ma
jorNy OF the property frontage. The
work will be carried out this season
and the city engineer will prepare new
estimates on the cost at once. The
hearing on the proposed paving of
Third avenue, First to Nineteenth
streets, with creosote block, was post
poned to Monday, owing to the fact
that manufacturing interests have not
completed their investigation into the
merits of the material proposed. The
board agreed to defer improvement of
Fourteenth avenue, Ninth to Fifteenth
streets, for one year, acceding to the
| general desire of property owners. 1t
was also decided to defer indefinitely
the paving of Eleventh avenue,
! Twelfth to Sixteenth avenues.
boarding house keeper at 1908 Fourth
avenue, was the victim of a peculiar
accident Thursday While playfully
chasing one of the dining room girls
around a table he tripped and fell his
left hand crashing through a window
pane. Two of the large arteries, the
veins and ligaments of his forearm
were severed The wound bled pro-
fusely and had not medical aid been
summoned Immediately he would have
bled to death. Kerr was taken to the
city hospital.
DanieIson Deputy Collector. = Emil
Danielson has been appointed deputy
tax collector to assist Henry Swanson, |
the collector. Mr.. Danielsnn went to
Rock Island and secured the tax books. |
He expects to open the books in about
week, probably in his own office on
Fifth avenue, between Twelfth and
Thirteenth streets.
Shopmen to Aid Manual Arts.-Co-
operation between Moline factories
and the manual training school was
the subject of a conference in the
L
ing, extended by board of education
members, Superintendent Jackson and |
the teachers in manual arts and do |
mestic science and by some so or more |
representatives of Moline factories. |
Net result of the meeting was decision |
to appoint committee Of Ehopmen 20 |
act Jointly with the board of educa- !
ton in formulating a plan for coopera- |
ton of the school and the shops. and |
possibly also to establish a bureau of |
information in which boys about to |
leave the schools may register, the |
registration indicating the line of work |
in which the boy gives greatest prom
Use of making good, and to which bu-
reau employees in the city may have
access when on the lookout for boys
whom they wish to put in training
Wilson p. Hunt was made chairman
of this committee, with power to APP
point his colleagues. numbering proba-
bly, six other representatives of Mo-
line industries
Realty Still Booming. An option
has been given by Robert w. Rank on
the property at the northwest corner
of Fifth avenue and Seventeenth
street-best known as the c. H. Lip
pincot property-and purchased by Mr..
Rank less than six months ago for be-
tween $1,000 and $4,000. The price
at which Mr. Rank holds the ground
in the option is $21 eco. George H.
Chase during the week refused an
offer of $4,000 for the Judge Gould
property at the southwest corner Of
Fifth avenue and Seventeenth street.
Mr.. Chase bought this property as re-
Gently as two months ago, the con-
sideration being approximately $4,000.
August Rydback is announced as the
real purchaser of the F. H. Kracke
building on the west side of Fifteenth
street between Fifth and Sixth ave-
nues. Papers of transfer were made
out yesterday. Mr.. Rydback announc-
es that he has no intention of occupy |
ing the building himself; that he pur
chased merely for speculation. The
lease of Frank StyvSert, the present
occupant, expires Aug. I, and after
that date the building will be rented
to other parties. Mr. Rydbacl1 will re-
main in his present location.
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