Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-02-14
MOLINE

Moline Men Bag Raceoon.-while
hunting in the woods near Lynn, III,
Gust Peterson and Carl Johnson OF
this city bagged q reccoon which
weighed % pounds. The nimrods also
shot 10 ducks and 26 rabbits. They
hunted Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
The men worked four hours to get the
raccoon out of a hollow after Ii had
been discovered. They couldn't smoke
the animal out and it was after num-
Der of bricks had been dropped down
on him that he finally was dislodged.
Peterson says that he has been offered
$40 for the hide.
Nine Assistant SuPerVisors.-A
meseting of the town board, held yes
terday afternoon in the city council
chamber, was attended by Supervisor
Battles, Town Clerk Oldefest, City At
torney Kohler, and four justices OF the
peace. After an unofficial opinion
from Attorney General Stead had been
read, it was unanimously voted to in
crease the number of assistant super
NloOIS III -AOllu6 low LIO1At OLA "
nine. The board further decided that
the town ballot, to be voted on April
I, shall contain the following offices:
four assistant supervisors for two
! years; two assistant supervisors for
one year; one supervisor for two
years; Justice of the peace, to fill an
unexpired term Short terms for two
OF the new assistants are provided
this time in order that, in every sue
ceeding town election, five supervisors
may be elected for terms OF two years
each, thus making the elections uni
form. One year one supervisor and
four assistant supervisors will be nam
ed; on the odd years five assistant
supervisors will be elected. Inasmuch
as there will be no city ticket on the
town ballot this year it was voted
that the town have ballots printed at
township expense. An election notice,
to be printed soon, was also drawn up.
Crook Caught at RocLdord.-After
successfully operating in every large
city in that state and in many Iowa
towns, Fred Davis, the man who last
NCt-h SSNuI GU OFOI SiO nun a lO1thA w
partment street through an old game,
was captured Saturday evening at
Rockford. Davis tried the same game
on the Deming store of Rockford as he
did here. He telephOned for a bill of
goods. When the messenger arrived
with the package he told him to deliv-
er it to another address later and
bring change for a $40 bill When the
boy arrived at the second address
Davis was there waiting for him. He
met him and took the package and
change, telling him he would return
with the bill. That was the last seen
of him until arrested The lad was sur
prised as was the local delivery boy,
but was wide-awake and telephoned
the police before returning to the
store. The police sergeant sent man
to the boys house and the lad went
out to find the crook with the officer
before telling the store of the attempt
ed swindle. They visited every res
taurant in town and finally found their
man about supper time in small cafe.
The boy Immediately recognized him
and he was placed under arrest Davis
was given a hearing and held to the
grand jury under 81 900 bonds
Obituary Record.-Mrs. Elsie Kahn
died at the home of her daughter,
Mrs. Anna Tfetgen. 14141a Fifteenth
street, yesterday afternoon. She was
born in Bostead, Holstein, Germany,
August 20, 1919 She came to this
country and to Moline in 1857. Mr..
Kahn died % years ago at New Lib
erty Iowa. Mrs. Kahn leaves one
daughter in this city, three sons in
Rock Rapids, and one in Colorado.
Seven grandchildren also survive, five
residing in Rock Rapids, and two, Mrs
Theodore Tietgen and Mrs. Eli DeReu,
living in Moline.
Mrs. Margold Josephine Hooker,
wife Of Andrew Hooker of 1922 Third
avent1e, died Sunday afternoon in the
city hospital. She had been i'll three
weeks and had been at the institution
one week She was born in Sweden
March 80, 1s43. She came to Ameri-
ca in 1883 and was married 70 Andrew
Hooker in 1897. She leaves two daugh-
ters by a former husband, Mrs. Nord- |
strom and Mrs. Sandstrom of Fresno, !
Cal The funeral service will be at
2 30 Wednesda afternoon from the
home Rev. c. J. Youngberg will Off /,
ciate and burial will be in Riverside |
cemetery.
Winona Jordan, daughter of Mr.. and /
Mrs. Fred Jordan, Watertown road /
died after an illness of two weeks
with peritonitis, aged years and ) /
months The funeral service was held
st 2 yesterday afternoon at Colona. |
with nterment in Dayton Cemetery |
Beside the parents one brother, Rus 4
sell, and one sister, Nicola, survive.