Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-05-13

May Abandon Local Plant.-Moline
may lose the plant of the Otis Ele-
vator company. Twenty-Five acres
of ground and the plant of the Quin-
cy Engine works at Quincy have
been acquired, and serious consid
Grafton is being given by officials of
the company to a plan to center
activities for this territory in that
city.
HlIIman Again Promoted. = Word
has just been received by Moline
friends of another merited promo
ton that has come to A. J. Hillman,
former freight and passenger agent
for the Milwaukee road in Moline.
Mr.. Hillman is now travelling agent
for the same road, with headquar-
tiers at Tacoma, Wash.
Kellogg to Deere & Co.-E. NJ. KEEL
logg of Kankakee, man of wide ex-
perience in the improving and manu-
featuring of farm Implements has
accepted an important position with
Deere & Co. Mr. Kellogg's extern
sive and practical knowledge of the
implement business will make him
valuable acquisition to the local
corporation. He has leased the Cal
vim Ainsworth residence on Nine
teenth street between Fifth and
Sixth avenues and will take up his
residence there in the near future.
The family, which is still in Kanka-
kee, will join him here soon.
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tn nnaka NAndiY,r,
Moline capital is interested in a new
company which is in process of or
ganization for manufacture of stamp
vending machines. Ross w. Gould,
for many years connected with
Deere & Co., and who resigned only
recently as an officer of the Fish
Bros. Wagon company at Clinton, is
the active force in the preliminary
work. Fifteen machines are now be-
ing manufactured by John Anderson
in his machine shop at First street
and Third avenue. AS soon as they
are completed they will be placed in
hotels and drug stores of the three
cities for trial. Each machine will
throw out two 2-cent or four 1-cent
stamps automatically, on deposit of
a scent piece. Two Davenport men,
Houghton Herrick and Edward
Plowe, are designers of the machine
which it is proposed to manufacture.
All parts are covered by patents and
the rights of the Iowa men have al
ready been transferred to Mr. Gould.
The title of the new industry will
be the Moline Stamp Vendor COM
pany. Arrangements have been
q "a IN fY1r IL
Anderson machine shop, though it
is probable that eventually "a fac
tory will be built. Plans for plac-
ing the machines on the market will
be taken up as soon as efficiency of
the samples to be put on trial have
been demonstrated.
Buys DraIIe BIock.-Joe King. we'll
known farmer residing on Rock river
bottom, yesterday completed an i'm
portant realty transaction. exchang-
ing two farms in Iowa for the Gus
Dralle business block in East Moline.
One is an 80acre farm, and the 9TH
err comprises 155 acres of choice
land; together they are valued at
$17,625. Mr.. Dralle gives a cash
consideration in addition to the prop
erty in East Moline. He has already
negotiated the sale Of the 8O-acre
farm and present plans are to erect
another commercial block in East
Moline at once.
Obituary Record.-John Ripping. for
% years employed by the Moline
Wagon company died yesterday at
his residence, S3S Sixteenth avenue
Death was due to stomach trouble
from which he had been suffering for
five months. His widow and five
children survive.
Fred L. Cooper died Wednesday
afternoon on a farm owned by DR..
A. NJ. Beal Just beyond the Moline
bridge over Rock river. Though his
health had been impaired the last
four years, his death was unexpected
He had been i'll but two weeks with
typhoid fever. Mr.. Cooper was born
in this city, Oct 90, 1859, and was
the son of John Cooper, Moline's
veteran shoemaker. He was married
here Nov. 3, 1880. to Miss .Eunice
Beal. sister of DR.. Beal. Mrs. Coo
per and these children survive: Mrs.