Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-03-19
MOLINE


Lay Cornerstone Tomorrow.-Ar-
rangements have been completed by
Salem Lutheran church for the laying
of the cornerstone of the new house
| OF worship to be erected at the corner
of Eighteenth avenue and Fourteenth
and-a-half street. The dedicatory exer-
cises win be held at p. m tomorrow,
and Rev. o. w. Fern of Davenport will
make the dedicatory address. Others
who will speak: DR.. L. G. Abraham
son. editor OF Augustana, the official
publication of the synod: DIR. L. A
Johnston. pastor of the Swedish Luth-
| eran church of this city, and vice pres
ident cf the synod; DR.. G. A. Andreen,
president OF Augustana college; DIR.
M. J. Englund, associate editor Of Au-
gustana: Rev. G. J. Bengston, literary
secretary of Augustana; Rev. S. G.
Hagglund. secretary of the Illinois con-
| ference of Augustana synod and pastor
of the First Swedish Lutheran church
| of Rock,Island.
Two Parties Nominate. The peo-
pies party city-township ticket was
completed with the following nomina-
lions: Police magistrate, Frank Gus
tafson: assistant supervisors, Albin H.
Anderson. Charles Tambur, John
Creutz; assessor, Frank e. Samuels;
collector, Charles Mueller; justices of
the peace, Miles OfReilly. Ed Jones and
Rue. Socialists of the city in a mass
convention nominated city-township
candidates for the spring election:
Aldermen, First ward, Carl A Gustaf-
son; Second ward, Mendell Horblit;
Third ward, ]. n. Hardy; Fourth ward,
Ernest Fechner; Fifth ward, Fritz
Hamm; Sixth ward. F. L. Haemer;
Seventh ward, Nels Nelson; three as
sistant supervisors, Joe Krone, G. F.
Comfort and William Schmidt; consta-
Bile, Axel F. Peterson; police magis-
trate, Leroy Engstrom; collector, q.
P. Johnson; assessor, Frank Strick-
land.
Addition to Southern PIant-Work
has been started in Fort Smith, Ark,
on a twostory brick addition to the
plant of the Fort Smith Wagon COM
pany, one of the Deere & Co auxiliary
concerns. The addition is planned to
relieve the congestion caused by the
rush orders the company has on hand.
The addition will increase the com
pany's output by one-fourth and will
cost $4,000. When it is completed
Arkansas will have the largest wagon
manufacturing plant in the southwest.
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obituary-Letitia Wells Sickels, ma
tive and old resident of Moline, died
in st. Anthony's hospital in Denver,
Col. the evening of Wednesday, March
16. She was born in this city July 10,
1S43, passing her entire girlhood here
and in GeneseO. January IL, 1866 she
was married In Moline to Horace H.
Sickels. Four children survive her:
Horace Wells Sickels of Steamboak
Springs, Col. Mrs. Frederick H. Nye
of Idaho Springs, Col, Reuben F. Sick
els of Denver, and Mrs. Charles w.
Harbert of Evanston, Ill
Robert NJ. Harrah died yesterday at
the home OF his parents at 702 Six
teenth avenue. His death came after
a brave struggle against unequal odds |
Heart failure was the cause of death |
Robert Malcolm Hurrah was the eldest
child of MT. and Mrs. David A. Har-
rah. He was born in Burchard, Neb, |
August 2, 1887. He came to Moline |
with his parents in 1896. He spent two
years In high school, and later attend
ed Augustana college, but was COM
PEELED to cease studies in both schools |
because of illness. Two brothers. Ward |
and Earl, and one sister, Lottie, sur
vive with the parents. The funeral |
will be held at 10:4 5 Sunday morning |
from the Second Congregational |
church.