Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-12-31

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First frost Of season is predicted
by weather man
20-James Polk, Peoria negro. SEN
fenced to 25 years in peniten-
tiary for murder OF William
Harvey, 2502 Fourth avenue.
July 81
23-Striking firemen reach tempo
raTy agreement with city and
agree to return to work.
Service on eight lines in Rock Is
land and rest of tri-cities is
discontinued by Tri-City Rail
way company as turbine sup
plying power burns out.
r. Stephenson, manag-
er of Watch Tower, is appoint
ed general manager OF housing
campaign in Rock Island
Vice zone is extended by ruling
ordering prohibitory area Of 10
miles radius about Augustana
college, as men are being train
ed there for army at govern
ment's expense.
F. H. First is appointed
medical and sanitation off
Ger for Augustana college.
annual convention of
Burlington Way Good Roads
association convenes.
Henry W. Horst company is
awarded government housing
contract, the bid of the local
firm being given as 81 500, 900,
on a total of $50 houses to be
erected.
2n-E'0rfrfb ibartu Ioa1 drfua On
ems with Rock Islands quota
given as $2,27S,t $50.
Annual Labor day parade, post
poned Sept. 2 by bad weather.
is held, with thousands OF
union men in line of march.
OCTOBER.
Colonel Leroy T. Hillman. ar
senal cOmmandant, makes ad-
dress at opening Of Student
Army Training corps at Angus
tana college at which time $50
students take allegiance to the
flag, as members of the S. A. |
T. c.
I'm accordance with proclama-
ton issued by Mayor William /
McConochie, Rock Island peo-
pie start daily prayer of one |
minute at 12:I5 each day for !
the success of the United |
States and allied armies.
Blaming the city commission for
failure to grant their demands |
the members of the fire de
partment decide to strike at 7 !
o'clock on the morning of Oct |
4.
City commission is notified OF
government restrictions pro- /
hibiting any construction work, !
the estimated cost of which eX-
ceeds 50, 500
Influenza epidemic hits Rock Is |
land.
4 Twenty-one members OF city (
fire department strike.
Orders received by exemption |!
board to cancel entrainment OF (
draft quotas because of influ- /
enZa epidemic.
6-Brady's department store, 700 !
Twelfth street, is burglarized. (
First fake peace celebration is /
staged in early morning hours. /
Mrs. L. Moore, 528 Sixteenth |
street, seriously injured in au-
nue. and Twenty-fourth street, |
during peace celebration.
7->Louis Isenberg's store, 2736 .
Fifth avenue, is burgIarized.
City commission adopts ordin-
ance fixing wages to be paid
members Of fire department,
which IS held unsatisfactory by
striking firemen.
9-Rock Island goes "Over the
top" in Fourth Liberty loan
drive by subscribing $205, $50
more than quota
Twenty-first annual convention
of the Illinois branch of the
Kings Daughters and Sons
opens
Chief G. W. Newberry resigns
from fire department.
Edward Tremann, aged 80, OF
Tremann Bros meat market,
1900 Third avenue, is electro
cuted in basement Of meat mar
ket
City Engineer Wallace Treichler
appointed to position in service
of United States treasury de
partment.
2-F. G. DeSCh, Fourth avenue and
Seventh street. severely injur-
ed while at work at Phelps
Motor company plant
BeHgstoR's drug store. corner
Seventeenth street and Sec
ond avenue. robbed
4-Firemen agree to go back 10
work on city's terms providing
for a SIS month increase
and every fourth day off.
August Schmidt named chief of
fire department TO succeed c.
w. Newberry, resigned.
Floyd Gibbons, war correspond
ent, speaks before meeting of
Tri-City Press club and at Au-
gustana college.
Forty-two persons arraigned be-
fore United States Commits
siOner c. L. Walker. charged
with rent profiteering.
with four deaths attributed to
influenza and 250 cases report
ed in the city. order is issued
closing all places Of public
gatherings.
More than fifty boys. students
of high school. don overalls and ,
render patriotic service by
working on government houses
being erected.
S-William Howell, So years old,
1920 First avenue, killed in Z
stantly in fall down elevator
shaft from third story of Mock
Island Pillow company.
hold church services
out Of doors because of ban
on public gatherings during
lnflpenZa enid mic