Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-09-04

chautsuQua Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed German of Rock
Island visited over Sunday with
friends and relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Kennedy
were Aledo passengers Friday.
Elder Harp OF Moline spent We'd
nesday and Thursday at the George
Sackfield home.
Louis Hummel was a Davenport |
visitor Sunday
Fred Fruchtenicht has returned |
home from a three months stay in |
Pleasant Valley.
Mrs. Charles Kirchman was an
Aledo passenger Friday
Mr.. and Mrs. Miller Lewis and chill
dren attended the chautauqua in Viola
Friday.
Robert Mccullough of Monmouth
was a visitor Friday.
Neil McGonigle and Aaron Dahl
berg were Rock Island passengers
Friday.
John Little returned home from a
visit in Kewanee Friday.
Miss Dortha Redpath was a Sher-
rard visitor the latter part of the
week.
Miss Title Cox and Mrs. George
Cox were Aledo shoppers Friday.
! Ben Wild, Sr, was an East Moline
visitor Sunday.
! John Dahlberg and Tom Langston
were Rock Island passengers Satur-
day.
Lee Olson, who has been working
in Aberdeen, n. D., for the past three
| months, returned home Friday.
Mrs. Henry Sass of Sherrard was a
visitor here the latter part of the
week
The new plans, which are being
worked out by the management of the
Rock Island Southern, are of import
ance TO Mathersville. Thirty houses
are to be erected here and also the
repair shops and car barns. The new
running plants contemplate starting
one car each morning from Rock Is
land and Galesburg, and starting all
other cars and freight trains from
this point. In addition to these
changes which mean so much to Math-
ersvtlle, the Walsh brothers are open
ing up a third coal mine, which will
bring in a large number of new fam
lilies. All of these mean added pros
perity to the Rock Island Southern
system as a revenue producer, and il
has already made rapid strides in
that direction. Above all, to this
!. community, which has grown from
nothing TO nearly a thousand popula
ton in two years, in spite of two very
. quiet summer seasons. 1t means a
} doubling Of population during the
next year.
John Starkey visited Sunday il
Galesburg.
Miss Louise Joos of Moline was q
: guest at the Jafvert home over Sun
day.
, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Hummel oil
: Sunday.
Mrs. Frank Kouski and son Of Gable
/ spent the first of the week with rela
3 tives here.
, Miss Nettie Johnson was a Mon
l mouth visitor over Sunday.
George Star and John Lockevitcf
z were Aledo passengers Saturday.
I John Star visited in FarmingtoI
2 Sunday.
J, Mrs. Greg Haverfield and daughter
5 were passengers to Joy Saturday.
Mrs. Charles Barton and three chill
t dren were Cable visitors Sunday.
r Miss Annie Lawson, who is employ
t ed in Cable Mercantile store, is en-
!. joying a vacation.
e Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Whan anC
e daughter, Millie, were Sherrard visi
T tors Sunday.
l Miss Mable Nelson has returned
/. home from a visit in Gable.
D John McGonigle spent Sunday II
East Moline.
Lawrence Sword of Rock Island wa
| visitor here Monday.
4 Mrs. William Beck and son, Ken
/ NTH, have returned home from al
| extended visit in Chicago.
Irwin Lundell of Moline spent Sun
day in Mathersville.
s The Misses Della and Stella Ander
son of Rock Island were visitors her
/ Sunday.
Tom Arkle, who is employed il
Aledo, spent a few DAYS here.
Thomas Sincox and Ben Haigh o
Rock Island attended picnic her
e Sunday.
]. L. Vernon and son Of Aledo wer
n callers Sunday.
s Jack Win spent Monday in Roc
n Island.
Clarence Beers was an AIedo passer
r ger Sunday
q Sam Langston and John Enghholr
of Sherrard were visitors here Sur
IS day.
II Glen Link had the misfortune to &c
his arm broken Sunday. The lad wa
X walking on stills when he slipped.
Among Rock Island passenger
Labor day we're Louis Barton, job
1t Blame, Jake Zimmers, Andrew Hal
man, Carl Foster, Miller Lewis, job
s, McGonigle. Caleb Purvis, Thoma
t Sherman, John Jones and Miss Aim
d Fruchtenicht
Emil Link of Spring Valley was
a visitor Sunday.
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