Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-02-07
MOLINE

/ Hull Now Trade undergraduates
/ R. Hull, former resident of Moline,
where he was connected with the Mo
line Piow company. Feb. became
/ trade manager of the Fort Madison
PIOw company, Fort Madison, Iowa,
succeeding J. T. Francis, also a for
mer resident of this city. The news
viii be received with pleasure by Mr..
HuIl's host of friends here. He is d
brother-in-iaW of Harold Hemenway
and has other relatives in Moline. Mr..
Francis, who has been with the Fore
Madison Plow company since its re
organization, and for good man.
years previous with the Morrison Man
ufaCturing company, resigns to take
charge of the w. T. Wood company at
Waterloo. Iowa, a new jobbing con
Germ, which is handling from that point
the Fort Madison line of implements
among others. Mr Hull was formerly
connected with the Moline Office of
the Moline Plow company and later
with the Rock Island Plow company,
working directly under Mr.. Francis.
From here he was sent to Indianapolis
as assistant manager of the Rock Is
land concerns branch house. He has
been with the Fort Madison people
now for more than a year.
Carlson Candidate for Mayor-Mart
r. Carlson. supervisor from this city
for TWO years on the county board,
has formally announced his candidacy
for the office of mayor under the com
mission form Of government, subject
to the vote Of the people at the primar-
les to be held in the city Feb. %.
There are four avowed candidates for
mayor, they being Mart R. Carlson, DR..
r c. J. Meyer, J. T. Rose and Tho
mas KelsO. Among the candidate for
commissioner, Z. l. Eastman, also
supervisor on the county board for the
past two years. announces his candi-
dacy today and sled his petition. One
other candidate filed his petition to-
day for commissioner. he being Louis
+. Haelner. The following is the list
Of candidates who have already filed
for commissioner: c. G. Anderson W.
=. Straw. l.. p. Nelson, A. G. Swanson,
c.. ed Erickson, F. J. CAM, F. \. Burg
ston, W A. Macbeth, Theodore TruX-
ell, Joseph Ullman, Henry Hoffman
A. \. Rylander, Oscar Abraham, Mic
Peters. If. r. Claussen, Albin II. An
derson, p. Langbehn, Jr., x. I. VII
lis. Gust Berglund. Claus Anderson,
John Pearson, II. c. Thompson, A. c.
Crosweu, G. A. I,OvejOy, John A. Me
Bride, Harry A. Melin, c. f. Kneberg,
Louis o. Jahns, Louis f. Haemer, E. L.
Eastman.
Lives Endangered in Boarding House
Fire.-Lives of two women, three chill
dren and six or eight men were endan-
gered al 1885 Sunday night when
had blaze broke out in boarding and
lodging house conducted by Mr.. and
Mrs. John Tuenules, 1917 Fourth ave
nue. The roof was burning fiercely
and the lower part Of the house was
filed with a dense smoke when the
firemen broke down n door and enter
ed the burning building. The children
were in bed, while the men and wo-
men were cropping blindly about the
rooms, making no apparent effort to
escape to a place of safety. As soon
as the firemen entered the house a hui
morous as well as serious aspect 10
the situation was developed. The oc-
cUpants of the house were Iithuanians,
who could not understand English, and
the warning cries of danger from the
fire laddies went for naught. The first
thought of Assistant Fire Chief WEIGH
was for the safety OF the children. He
shouted an order, Save the children!"
and rushed to the bed to do his share.
He was IN the act Of picking up one Of
the little ones when he was roughly
seized by four burly Lthuanians and