Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-06-12
HEAD OFFICE OF
CONCERN MEANS
MUCH FOR CITY
Consumers Service Stations. Inc,
Brings Substantial Busi-
ness Men Here.

The Consumers Service Stations,
Inc, which has purchased the Union
Electric telephone building at 1920
Fourth avenue for it's head Offices.
has brought to Rock Island six
substantial business men from var
ious parts of the country.
The company. which is building
gasoline service stations in this
section of the country, already
having established a number in
Illinois and Iowa, is temporarily
located in offices in the Robinson
building. BY July l it is expected
the telephone building will be re-
modelled and redecorated so that
the corporation can occupy it.
Ralph Wharf, president of the
Preserve Trust company, is one of
the organizers of the corporation
and was Instrumental in obtain
ing executive heads for the con-
Germ. F. W. Bender, secretary of
the Rock Island Chamber of Com
merce. one of the organizers of the
Consumers Service Stations, Inc,
is its president.
d. NJ. Hinkle, director Of adver-
Using of the Consumers Service
Stations. Inc, has located his fam
lily at 2426 Eighteenth avenue. He
comes from Chicago. He former
1y was vice president and general
manager OF the Price Merchants
Syndicate OF Chicago and Minneap-
oils. AS president of Hinkle-Lead-
stone company of Chicago, Mr..
Hinkle handled all the prOfit-shar-
ing advertising of such products as
Coca Cola, Roxane Cake Flour, etc
For a time he was western mana
ger of the United Profit Sharing
corporation of New York City.
The family of T. K. Simpson ar
rived in Rock Island last week to
make this city their home. Mr..
Simpson is director of extensions
e@for the Consumers Service Sta
tons, Inc. When comparatively a
young man, while acting as man
ager of the Remington Typewriting
company, his attention was called
to a crude model of the Wales Wis
IDLE adding machine. He at once
became interested in its develop
ment. After perfecting the ma
chine, he organized a company to
IT, VI WHICH IOI many years
he was vice president and general
manager. After a number of years
he sold his interests in the COM
pany and retired from business.
But after a while, being of an &C
tive temperament, he accepted the
position of general manager of the
Royal Typewriter company of Chi
cago. He severed that connection
to become associated in the active
work of the Consumers Service
Stations, Inc.
Edward M. Wharf, has recently
moved his family here from New
York and taken up his abode at
1850 Twenty-fifth street Mr.. Wharf,
has accepted the position of direc-
tor of engineering of the corpora
ton, resigning his position of me-
chanical electrical engineer of the
American Chicle company. known
as the chewing gum trust of New
York. For period of five years
Mr.. Wharf, was electrical and con-
struction engineer of the Empire
United Railways of Syracuse, n. y.
Previous to that he was operating
, engineer of the Illinois Traction
system, the Mckinley lines. Mr..
Wharf, is treasurer and a director
of the Reserve Trust company of
Rock Island
F. C. Michael, In the banking
business for the last 20 years, has
sold those interests to become
treasurer of the Consumers Ser
vice Stations. Inc Mr.. Michae!
has moved his family to the tri-
cities.
William T. Dobson has recently
moved his family from Orange, N.
J., to this city. He has taken a
home at Twenty-fifth street and
Eighteenth avenue Mr. Dobson
resigned the position of shperin-
tendent of construction with the