Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-02-09
MOLINE

ASKS ~ year FrancnlSe-fTdnCnIS
rights in the village of WATERFOWL are
being sought by the Moline, East Mo
/ line & Watertown Railway company.
/ A 20-year franchise, drawn by the COM
/ pany's attorneys, was submitted AT a
meeting of the board Of trustees of
the village Tuesday evening. 1t has
! been referred to W. G. Baker, village
attorney. and will be considered at a
1 special meeting later in the month.
] The interurban company is operating
/ through the village of Watertown a.
the present time under terms of per
nit issued by the board Of supervfs
ors 10 years ago Grading that has
been done in the vicinity Of the Water
town hospital has brought a sewer
from that institution TOO near the sur
face, in the opinion of the village au-
thorities, and the board voted to re-
quest the state to set this sewer at a
greater depth or TO remove it entirely
Odor from the sewer, the officials as
sert, is at least unpleasant, If not a
menace to health.
Latest Man in County.-Gust Peter
son. conceded to be the LATEST man in
Rock Island county, has been sentenc-
ed to Jail for 80 days. Peterson is q
Moline man, who is a bricklayer by
trade and capable of earning SIS per
day, but it is impossible to induce him
to work. Peterson chums with a man
named Al Ray, and they were arrested
together. They deliberately stopped
an officer and asked him for money.
Realizing that they were anxious for
a trip to Jail, the officer passed up the
pair. They followed, insisting that he
give them money. Finally he grew
angry and escorted the pair to police
headquarters. The police magistrate
was summoned and he senten ced each
man to serve SO days in Jail. So anx-
| iOus were the pair to begin their lazy
task that they took the mittimuses
and went to Jail without an escort.
Held for Bicycle Theft-Albert War
den aged IA, was arrested charged
with the theft of Charles Tambur's
bicycle. The lads home was former
ly in Marshalltown, Iowa, where his
father is an inmate of the old soldiers
home. His mother lives at 231 Thirty
fourth street. Moline. The lad admits
that he stole the bicycle Sunday fore
noon, and that he rode to the orphans
home north of Davenport. He was in
this home three years. leaving a month
ago, when he came here to live with
his mother. The snow storm forced
the boy to abandon the wheel, and he
left it at the bluff fire station in Daven-
port. He returned to Davenport and
was arrested while trying to sell the
bicycle.
Fifth Avenue interchangeable sec
ond step forward under new plans for
the widening of Fifth avenue from FIT
teenth TO Eighteenth street. was taken
yesterday, when the board of local i'm
provements met and recommended pas !
sage of the improvement ordinance by |
the city council. The ordinance will |
be submitted at the next meeting OF |
the council, after which the proceed |
lngs will be carried into the county |
court. Estimate of Engineer Clark G. |
Anderson Is that the Improvement will |
cost $6,131.95 exclusive of the cost of |
ground taken and of damage to abut
ting property.
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Obituary Record.-Peter Melin, who
had been in failing health the last four
years, died yesterday al his home, 1923
Seventh avenue. He had been suffer
ing with consumption He was grind
er by trade and worked for Deere &
Co many years prior to the time he
1885, in Sweden. His widow and three
daughters, Alice, Sadie and Hazel, sur
vive.
teTnal revenue for the fifth Illinois