Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-04-28
MOLINE

than seven miles Of paving of all de-
scriptions will be laid in Moline this
year, the cost of which has been esti-
mated by Lyle Payton, city civil en-
gineer, to be S260,46S This is a sum
| $4,000 in excess of the total of ali
public improvements in the city dur
/ ing 1912 and is only partial indica-
| ton of the fact that 1918 promises to
/ be the most notable from an improve
ment standpoint in the history of the
city. Last year five miles of paving
was constructed. Specifications for
/ the sum total of the seasons paving,
amounting in all to 102,O04,OOO square
yards, were exhibited at meeting OF
the board of local improvements when
three more projects we're introduced.
These were all for paving and con-
clude the schedules prepared by the
commissioner of streets and public
improvements on the 1913 program.
Chase Home New Rest Rooms
The residence of George Chase, at SOB
Seventeenth street, may be the new
lunch rooms if plans of the philan-
thropic board of that body material
ice. The present rooms at 419 Six
teenth street, are overcrowded and it
patrons at the noon hour without a
commotion. The club holds a lease
on the present quarters for a year,
but if a tenant can be found who will
sublet, the change will probably be
made.
Open New Hotel.-Thursday even
ing, May l, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Young, managers of the hotel at Sill
Wis, will give a formal opening of the
hotel when a banquet supper will be
given and dancing will follow. In
vitations have been sent to about sc
and many of the Rock Island officials
are expected, including the division
superintendent, f. G. Whetham. One
of the features of the evenings en-
l tertainment will be a mock Inaugural
} ton of Richard Walsh, recently elect
: ed president of the village board o.
5 Silvis.
< School Is Symmetrical
/ perfect in all its parts" as described
2 by c. H. Maxson, superintendent o
Moline public schools, the new McKin
i ley school building in the RidgevieV
4 district at Forty-frst street ant
f Fourth avenue was dedicated Frida.
e evening, the presence of more thai
e $50 people. The east end was no
h alone represented for the crowd wa
l. a representative one of school well
wishers from all parts of the city.
~
Hotel for Working Men.-A.
= Rickart of 1908 Fourth avenue, is &C
/" vertising for bids on a hotel buildin
he expects to erect on his propert
at 1908 Fourth avenue, this summer
D The hotel will be three stories hig
but as to other dimensions, he has nc
determined as yet. He expects I
. have at least 20 rooms in the builC
ing. Mr.. Rickart's plan is to build
hotel for working men. He has col
fidence in the present growth of Nj
line and believes that within the yea
- there will be a demand for just thu
- kind of institution, hence his decisio
to improve, his property immediatel.
-, He plans to lease the quarters
- some hotel man who will operate til
place at popular prices. Even wit
the present facilities in Moline, hotel
~ and rooming houses are crowded I
: capacity the year around.
o
Obituary Record.-Miss Signe Re
terman, ticket seller at the Miro
theatre, was summoned by death
the city hospital at 9:15 Friday nigh
~ She had been i'll only one week. 81
was born in this city Feb. 10, 1873
g, and had lived all her life here. 81
r. attended the public schools and tw
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