Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-05-20
PLAN TO UNITE
FOR GATHERING
,'ircuit Clerks and Recorders May
aoin Supervisors in Three
Day Meet.
TWO CONVENTIONS IN CITY
Both ORGANIZATIONS Favor Arrange
meRtS OF Having Single Bust
ness Session.

The Circuit Clerks and Record
ers' State association Will convene
for its annual session i'll Rock Is
land for three days, July so, 81
and Aug. I.
The dates set correspond with
those named for the convention of
the Illinois Supervisors, County
Commissioners. County and Probate
Clerks ssociation in Rock Island
and plans are well under way to
unite tie two associations so as
70 have a simultaneous session
which policy may he adopted ana
carried out n the future.
Five hundred delegates and visi-
tors from all over the state Of IllI-
nois viii attend the gathering here,
il is said. Al present, plans are be-
ing made to entertain those that at
tend Il Is possible thal both socl-
cites. If they unite, Will spend one
of the afternoons Of the Conyen-
ton days on the Mississippi,
Ladies committees to receive the
visiting ladies are to be named soon
and arrangements are being out
Lined 10 take care Of the families Of
the visiting officials. An aItOmO-
bile tour OF tie uTi-citias is TO be
one Of the entertaining features fol-
the families Of the delegates with
q possible Journey through Rock Is
land arsenal,
Programs for the entire three
days are being drawn by the COM
nittee in charge and announcement
is to be made soon of the other
committees that will be in charge
Of providing amusement for the Wis
ftCTs. Local committees on compile
tiCn Of their plans will meet 10 con-
fer with the state officers and 9TH
er committees in Peoria.
L is ia erstoOd that distinguish
Cd visitors from other cities in the
state are planning to attend one of
the three Gays SCI for the gathering
and some are even to stay for tn
entire session.
County Recorder Sam Ryerson
and Circuit Clerk George ". Gam
bic are cooperating with DR.. Fred
A Grahund CT the board Of sper-
vIs0rs. Comfy Clerk H. f. Hub
hard and Probate Clerk Leo Deis-
enrCth in arranging details for the
conventions.
The officers of the Circuit Clerks
and Recorders association are as
follows.
President - Justice L. Johnson,
Geneva
Vice President Charles J. Kribs,
Chester
Secretary Sam Ryerson. Rock Is
land.
Treasurer - Z. P. yesterday,
Mount City.
Executive committee-C A sum
mers. Believlle: George W Gam
BILE, Rock Island. August Miller,
Chicago; J. D. Mead, Oregon: Ed
win Rosencranz, Dixon; William
W Smith. Joliet; George F. Thode.
Peoria; J. a. HarbeFg. Cambridge;
Charles DOetsChmau. Geneva, and
Louis F. Lake, Rockford
officers of the Illinois Associa-
ton Of Supervisors, County and
Probate Clerks, are as follows:
PTesident-R. {. Perks. Sullivan.
Vice President Fred Graf
lund. Moline.
Recording Secretary-Charles ".
Byers, Springfield.
J. Mcnamara. Monmouth.
Treasurer S Biuns, Pitts
Buy War Savings Stamps
NOTICE.
Public notice is hereby given by
the undersigned Tri-City Railway
Company OF Illinois. that It has this
18th day of May, 1918. fled in the
Office Of the city clerk # the city
OF Rock Island. Illinois. its petition
10 the mayor and council of said
city. for the passage Of an ordi-
nance, said petition and ordinance
being in words and figures as fol
lows, viz.
ITO the Honorable Mayor and Coun
c,l Of the City of Rock Island,
Illinois.
The undersigned. Tri-City Rail-
way Company OF Illinois, hereby re-
specially petitions your Honorable
body TO pass an ordinance. of which
the attached EXHIBIT A is a true
copy.
In r-itness whereof said Tri-City
Railway Company, OF Illinois. has
caused lis name 10 be signed by its
Vice President and its seal to be
affixed hereto, BY its Secretary, this
18th CAV Of MAJ a y. 1918.
TEI-CITN RAILWAY COMPANY,
By J c. Hanto0n.
It's Vice President.
Attest: H. T. Weeks.
tSEAL) It's Secretary.
EXHIBIT A"
An ordinance granting to the
Tri-CIty Railway Companv. Of ILL
nols- its successors and ass gEs. the
right 10 possess. use. enjoy and
ma .ntain, for d period Of Twenty
COO years. single or double track
electric street railway. on the
route and routes now possessed
and used by said Company for its
street railways ana tracks. from
the former Southern boundary line
Of the City in Eighteenth G8J
avenue at Eleventh I'D street.
Southerly along said COmpany's
Milan Line" 10 the City's present
Southern boundary line. and East
eFiy along its Watch Tower Line
to the terminus thereof: said pres
ent routes and Lines Of said Com
pany. usually being known as and
called Milan Line" and Watch
Tower Line" OF said company.
Whereas, said Tri-City Railway
company Of Illinois. Eow posse sses.
uses, maintains and operates its
street railway between the former
southern boundary line OF the city
"a Eighteenth avenue al Eleveni b
street and the former northern