Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-09
MOLINE

Stead to Speak.-Lincoln day is to |
be periodically celebrated in the
First Congregational church the
brotherhood having arranged a pro-
gram and secured Attorney General
William H. Stead as the speaker.
New Pastor CaIIed.-At a special
meeting of the congregation held
Wednesday evening, the United
Presbyterian church voted unani-
mously to call Rev. W. S. Wallace of
East st. Louis to fill the local pull
pit, which has been vacant since
acceptance of the resignation of Rev.
W. NJ. Story. The congregational
meeting was opened with a sermon
preached by Rev. ]. L. Vance of
Rock Island, who also acted as mod
orator. The unanimous vote to call
Mr.. Wallace was then taken.
Serenade Wayman.-John E. w.
Wayman, who was Moline visitor
Wednesday, coming to boost his can
didacy for the republican nomination
for governor was surprised at Manu-
facturers' hotel in the evening, when
members of the Olive Male chorus to
the number of % put in an appear
apce and gave several selections.
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Bank Plans Ready.-Revised plans
for the building to be erected by the
Peoples Savings Bank and Trust
company will be submitted to direc-
tors and members of the building
committee at their meeting Monday.
! The plans were drawn by architects
OF the Leonard Construction COM
pany and this concern will erect the
building on percentage basis.
Ground dimensions will be 52x100
feet, fact that has been announced,
and the building will be six stories
in height, though only with five
floors. The banking room will be
two stories high and the remaining
four stories will be in Office suites.
The banking institution plans to
spend s125,0O0 on building and
equipment.
Truck on Long Run.-Today the
Velie Motor Vehicle company, Chica-
go branch, will start a Velie three
ton truck hauling a 1912 touring
car to the Grand Rapids, Mich
automobile show, going by way OF
South Bend and Kalamazoo to Grand
Rapids, the total distance being
: 1888 miles. The Velie truck will
travel on a schedule of 10 miles al
hour, average, for the entire dis
lance. The truck will be shown a.
:, various cities along the route, ant
demonstrations will be made t.
y prospective customers. This will b,
, the second run of the kind inaugu
rated by the Velie company, the frs
| one having been a very successful
t trip to Milwaukee for the SHOW
Jan. IA.
=, Obituary Record.-Byron Tilson
resident of Moline for the last tel
years, but a pioneer of the middl
: west, having come west to Kendall
J. county, Illinois, in 1S4S, passed t
|. his rest at 1880 Wednesday night
+, the end coming at the family home
1920 Seventh avenue. after an i'll
. ness of two weeks with brOnchia
pneumonia. Byron Tilson was Dor
=, in Norway in the year 1881, and a
!, the age of II came to the Unite
States. He was married in Tiptor
\ Iowa, in 1851, to Miss Marguerit
Van Cleeke, and they settled on
- farm near Lowden, Iowa, where hi
= wife died II years later, leaving n
children. Mr.. Tilson's second maj
70 riage was March 5, 1866, to Mis-
Ciarinda Otis, who survives him wit
20 seven children: Bert, Floyd, Charlie!
Mrs. Ollie Bixler and Mrs. Mabt
, Fish, all of this city; William i
= Evanston, and Mrs. Margaret MC
- Clellan in Clarence, Iowa.