Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-07-24
MOLINE

| OF Involuntary OI1Sln, at 0'-N $1,000
day morning partially destroyed an
unoccupied house at Twenty-seventh
street and Fourth avenue. The roof
! and ceiling were burned out and to-
tai loss is estimated at $500 1t is
the property of Lee Mechanism. At
5:25 in the, morning fire started in
a chickencoop at Twenty-ffth ave-
nue. and Fifteenth street. The coop
/ is located directly behind a barn
used by the Daebelliehn grocery and
! the fire spread to this structure and
loss of approximately $500 was
| entailed. The barn is owned by
Mrs. Fernboldt
I Start Work on Addition. Work OF
constructing an $4,000 addition to
the First Baptist church, corner of
! Seventeenth street and Sixth avenue,
/ has been commenced under supervi-
sion CT Walter Aram
To Start Work Again. - Announce
ment was made Saturday by Harold
Hemenway, superintendent of the
/ foundry of the H W. Cooper Sad
/
/ effect that furnace No. l will resume
operations Tuesday morning. Tho
( announcement will be heraldcd with
! Joy by molders employed at the Coo
per plant. The foundry has been
/ closed down for three weeks, dur
/ ing which time repairs have been
made and inventory has been taken.
Thirty molders will be given employ
ment-
Fountains at Schools. - BubblinG
| fountains will be installed in all
schools in Moline before the fall term
1 of school commences. Heretofore
! cups and a faucet have supplied
school children with drink water, but
| the board of education is going to
comply with the drink cup law now
in effect. Last year bubbling foun-
tain was installed in the high school
and its success resulted in the install
lation of one in the Grant school,
To prevent waste of water 1t is pos
sible the board will select a style of
fountain that can be shut off and on
as water is desired. 1t is planned
to place at least two fountains in
each school.
A New School House.-Plans for the
new Ridgeview schoolhouse in the
east end of the city, drawn by Archi- !
tect II. w. Whitsitt, have been ac-
ceptod by the board of education and !
a contract for erection of the build |
ing, will be awarded this week. The |
new building will be entirely fire. |
proof, Of reinforced concrete The |
exterior will be of dark wire.cut Wit
rified brick, trimmed with light terra |
Gotta. The roof is to be fiat, with a |
view to it's use for open air class
SESSIONS.
End of TroubIe.-At meeting of the
commission Saturday afternoon ar
engagements were made which finally
settled the difficulties incident to the
connecting of the new Twenty-sev-
enth street stub of the Tri-City Rail-
way company to the Blue line. The
connection has been delayed for
months by people who objected to
the laying Of the track for various
reasons. The turmoil was ended by
the building OF a new driveway
through Riverside park for the es-
pecial benefit of the DIRECTORS. 1t
cost the street car company Just 3d.
900 to bring the DIRECTORS to terms.
The new line means through SER
vice from the west end of Rock Is
land to the extreme southeastern
part Of Moline.
Obituary Record.-John Fl. Anderson,
veteran empIoye of the Barnard
& Leas company, and resident Of Mo- !
line for % years, died at $40 FRI I
day afternoon at the Tri-City sani- ,
tarium as the result of an operation.
He had been III for three months :
He was born in Sweden, Jan. 1T, ,
1853. and had lived in Illinois 40 :
yeaIs. He had been employed by the ;
Barnard &, Leas company as cupola- :
tender for 25 years. Beside his :
widow he leaves one daughter, 9
Daisy, at home. and three sisters, +,
Mrs. Andrew Anderson, Mrs. August q
Carlson and Mrs. George Hawkes.,
all OF Moline
James Brown. a Greek laborer
who had resided IN Moline 80 days,
died at the city hospital at 9:15 Fri
day morning of typhoid-pneumonia.
He came here from Riverside, Wyo.,
and had lived at PA Third avenue 6