Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-12-31

Rock Island IN throeS OF extreme
heat wave with thermometer reg
istering los degrees in the shade,
AUGUST.
l. Monster crowd gathers at Linwood
10 attend annual picnic of Rock
Island merchants.
E. NJ. Craig or Joplin, Mo, accepts
position of boys secretary of the
local Y. NJ. c. A
Reports from the weather Office are
TO the effect that the month of
July was the driest ever known
here.
City commissioners approve of plan
to submit $4,000 Improvement
plan
Miss Ellen E. Philip, veteran school
teacher. dies.
Selma, S-year-old daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. James Parks, fearfully
burned at her home.
.. Masked bandit holds up Fourth
avenue street car crew and secures
SIS.
John p. Conger of Milan dies sud-
denly
Burns are fatal to Selma Parks.
3. Office of Morris e Lewis company
set on fire. but little damage re-
sul'ed.
4. Albert Nelson is stabbed to death
in a fight in the saloon conducted
by August Suttern, 1921 Second
avenue; William Dieters was lat
er held to grand jury.
C. Jerome Fletcher. aged 65, a for
ner Rock Islander, dies. in Moline
hospital
:. Business office of local Y. NJ. c. A.
is installed in the new building.
corner Fifth avenue and TWEEN
tieth street.
Cotnel c. w Burr of Rock Island
arsenal announces that govern
nenr has over-supply of small arms
and that the manufacture of these
Weapons will be discontinued.
s. While his little son Robert looked
on. w. C. Hubble, 1924 Ninth ave
rue. was drowned in a slough near
-lilan
.. Elmer E McDole IS notified of his
appointment by Governor Dunno
As deputy game warden of this dis
riot.
Coroner's jury recommends holding
William Die,ers for murder of Al
bert Nelson.
Several hundred tri-city Odd Eel
lows in ANNUAL picnic at Camp
bells island have merry time.
.. Thomas Casey is appointed mem
Der of state board of barber eX-
aminers.
g William Klinck, manager of the
Illinois theatre, sustains a Fac |
tured skull, as a result of falling |
distance of - feet into the cellar !
of the theatre through trap door |
on the stage.
3. Mrs. Mary Fender. aged 80, res
dent of Rock Island for over half
a century, dies at ST. Anthony
hospital.
Eugene BCemer receives word that
his mother, Mrs. f. r. Beemer. for
merly of this city, is killed i'll an
automobile accident.
:. Napoleon Breecher, aged 40, dies
of heart disease.
Mrs. Will A Kent, aged 40, dies
s. Damage 10 the extent of $4,000 re-
suits from fire which was CAUSED
when the Augustana Book concern
is struck by lightning.
/ Seventy retail coal dealers of trl-
cities enjoy outing at Campbelis
island.
. Frank Patteauw. Belgian labor
er, 81 years old, suffers epllepuc
fit while digging in ditch at ThIr-
ty-eighth street and Ninth avenue
and falls in pool of water, choking
to death.
Island City Bowling league is form
ed to play series of games during
winter
). Walter Louis Schroeder. proprie-
tor of a saloon at 1900 Seventh
avenue, mentally deranged,. com
mits suicide by leaping into the
river from a boom at the Island
City Boat club.
Teachers from all over the county
flock TO this city to attend the an
nuaI teachers institute. :
6. Mrs. Sue Thompson Brashar a
lifelong resident of Rock Island,
aged Al, dies in Moline City hos
pital.
Prisoners at county jail attempt to
escape. but are captured.
5. Miss Florence f. Blazier chosen
instructor IL household arts by
the school board.
3 Miss Ellen Hastings, aged &c, dies.
SEPTEMBER
. over 1000 members of organized
labor participate in parade, t5e
big feature in Rock Island s Ls-
Dor day celebration.
). Alice May Iglehart, aged 81, sui
cides.
J. Largest attendance for first dow
marks opening of Augustana ;o!-
Iege.
Boys discover dead body OF man,
supposed to be ]. Leonard If >,rv
Boston, Ill, floating dowa the
Mississippi river, at this city.
!. over 500 old settlers gathel at the
Watch Tower in reunion.
!. Hans Erbs. aged % years, lies.
7. W. Staassen, aged 70 year, while