Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-31
JANUARY

-doline's new city hall formally
opened.
: Tri-City Automatic Telephone
company declared ready for bus
mess with 200 phones in opera
ton. capital stock being increas-
ed from $1,000 to 100000
3. William Hughes. IS. dies sudden
". Coroner's jury decides death
due to natural causes.
T. New Rock Island auto patrol
wrecked and several lives en-
dangered in collision with front
of Lee & Stropes' restaurant
Rev. David \. Johnson assumes
pastOrate OF Central Presbyter-
ian church.
.. January grand jury organizes. c.
S Petit OF CordOva being elect
ed foreman.
Illinois Hotel Clerks association
- holds annual session in Rock Is
land. Frank Bertelson of this city
i being elected president.
Rock Island commission votes to
sell Thirteenth avenue property
purchased for municipal tuber-
culosis sanatorium site.
ltast Moline Commercial club opens
new quarters in Ryan block
Rock Island commission passes
ordinance licensing cafes at $500
per annum. Fee is reduced before
end OF year to $500.
Mississippi river reaches stage Of Z
feet, lowest in four years.
z. Mrs. Anna Gran. Moline, first wO-
man voter naturalized in county
after state suffrage law became
effective.
AugustanE college opens spring
semester with increase enroll
ment.
East Moline Commercial club at an
nual meeting elects DR.. Z. Don
Taylor president.
Farmers Protective association or
ganizes in South Moline and OPP 1
ems aggressive war on hunters.
s. A N johnson. state highway en- /
gineer, speaks at banquet of Rock .
. Island County highway Improve B
ment association at Rock Island
club.
Rock Island Y. VI. c. A. opens bask-
etbaIl season.
8. William F. Bradley elected com
modore Of Island City Boating as
-ociation at annual meeting.
South Rock Island residents in mass
-C--meeting agree to fight annexa-
ton
0. Charles GilIap. aged IS. while
temporarily insane as result OF
accident, blows out brains with
shotgun.
/. Rev c. Lee Stauffer assumes
pastorate of Fifteenth avenue
Christian church.
3 Henry Lane Wilson. former Mex
lean ambassador. speaks before
Moline After-Dfaner club.
August Sundine. Moline. elected
president Rock Island County
Druggists association.
Mississippi VALLEY Fanciers' associ-
alton at annual meeting elects L.
{. Schmidt, Davenport. president
3 William Curtis. Reynolds, award
ed first prize in corn growing
contest OF German Trust & Saw
ings bank. producing 1O4 bushels
per acre.
l. January grand jury reports five
true bills against Sheriff o. L.
Bruner for escape. embezzlement.
bribery and larceny. previously
found indictments having zIl been
quashed.
!. Mrs. Belle Jones elected president
OF Rock Island County Humane
society auxiliary at yearly meet
Tag
TRICKY Federation OF Labor elects
r 4. Evans president.
+ Eighty-eight pupils graduate from
the eighth grade In Rock Island
and so in Moline
. Announced that Moline postoffice
receipts were S211.SO7.49 during
year. passing 100000 for the first /,
time.
. Petitions circulated for local op-
ton vote in Rock Island at spring
election.
. ?. r. Kuschmann elected presi-
dent Of Rock Island Retail Gro
GERS association.
Rock Island commission re1ews de-
mand that Burlington road erect
train sheds at passenger station.
Matter agitated several times dur
ing year without result
Attorney George W. Wood of No
line appointed special prosecutor II
b. Judge r. w. Olmsted to act in
caseg favolying Sheriff o l.. Brun-
ct. former states attorney L. ".
Megill and ex-1Isyor George F.
johnson Of Eas- Moline. appoint
ment being requested by grand Il
jury and opposed by States At
torney Floyd Thompson.
Robert Higgins North Henderson.
Mercer county. confesses shooting
wife 20 enable him 20 marry his
step-daughter, JuIia Flake. Sub
ssquently sentenced &c penitenti-
airy Girl committed TO state in
stitution
T. 4. Resented elected presi- IL
dent OF Rock Island club at an
nual meeting.
partments OF Mrs. Alice J. Beebe.
Moline. burglarized, jewelry and
furs worth $4,000 being taken. 4.
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