Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-20
MOLINE

Business Man Held Up.-A young
Moline business man, whose name, at
his request, the police refuse to d.
vulge. was the victim of a hold-up at
Twenty-third street and Sixth avenue
Saturday evening at 10 o'eloch. The
victim was returning home from down
town when a colored man stepped
from behind a tree at the crossing and
he'd a revolver to his head, ordering
him to throw up his hands. This order
complied with the thief showed his
hand in the victims pocket and ex-
tracted ten-dellar bill. He searched
no other pockets but the one and the
police believe that he must have seen
his victim place the bill in that poe
ket earlier in the evening and planned
to get ii. After securing the money
the negro faced his man s.1out and
ordered him to walk away. The vic
tim, however, turned down the near
est alley and returned up another
street without losing track Of the
thug. whom he followed to the Twen-
ty-third street railroad crossing. At
this time a west-bound freight train
was passing and the thief boarded it.
New East Moline Bank.-A persis-
tent rumor in East Moline is to the eff
| feet that the Mechanics & Merchants
| Savings bank of this city is contem-
plating the entrance of the field there.
| Whether this be true or not H. F.
| Werlich. cashier of the local financial
institution would not state.
| Vaccinate School ChlIdren.-Owing
to the large number of cases of small
I pox in East Moline, DR.. j. H. Long
city health officer, has issued an or
der that all children not vaccinated
last winter, mus be before entering
school. AS a result the school build
ings were closed Monday and fumt
gated and the children were given the
day off, The disease spread to such
an alarming degree last week that il
was decided some measures must be
taken TO check it and the orders came
as the result.
Local Option at Club.-Another 10
cal option question will be voted on to
night at the Moline club annual e.ec
ton. A preferential vote is to b.
taken upon this feature of the organ
ization. the directors desiring to oh
tain an expression from the member
concerning the question whether o.
not the locke system" is desired
Two other important questions will b.
balloted upon, preferential votes il
both cases. For some time it has peel
evident that there must be some new
; means devised Of increasing the reve
nue. of the club in order to balance thu
additional expenditures which are re
quired in the new quarters. 1t is there
fore to be asked the men Of the or
ganization if they would countenanc
an augmenting of the dues from s24 t
$50 per annum. The only other metho
, of remedying the situation declares
one CT the directors is to increase tn
membership to 400. Still another pre-
position is that to pace a nomina
t charge for the use of the billiard an
pool tables.
! To Let School contract-The Wa
ertown school board after consider
able controversy has at last appoint
= ed day for the letting of contrac
for new school building. The schoc
directors will meet on Friday next t
l open bids and finally let the contrac
. Last Saturday afternoon the schoo
trustees of Hampton township met a
l the school and sold the old builC
: ing and site, consisting Of two lots
The property was purchased by Da
Mcneil. his bid being $4,000, he bein
the only bidder. The agitation for
new school house started al Watel
town last January. At one time an e
> fort was made TO unite the distric
with the East Moline school dtstric
The school trustees of South Mo.in
were in favor and the trustees {
: Hampton were opposed, and the ma
ter was dropped. Then the Waite
, town district voted the legal limit an
g another vote was taken for $4,000.
a Auto Hits Motorcycle-A motto
q cycle ridden BY Arvid Strum, and
young woman, crashed into an aur'
:. mobile driven by DR.. A. c. Hansen
}. on First avenue, near Ninth street.
Silvis, Sunday afternoon. The youn
s. woman escaped injury and the youn
b man was only slightly hurt. and III
driver, it is said, admits he was