Year: 1876

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news. Orders promptly and carefully executed.


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Outside the manufacturing element,
business is extremely dull aud money
scarce.


Taxes come in slowly; the people f cl
the burden imposed and find it hard work
to carry it.


Ice cutting is played out here for the
present. Several parties are here from
st. Louis on the anxious bench.


Police business has been dull. Either
Moline sour mash is getting better or else
they don't relish Swander's manner OF
dealing out rations.


The concert of the Moline Musical
Society, last evening,at the Congregational
church in this city, was largely attended
and gave good satisfaction. Those who
we're present expressed themselves as
highly pleased with the entertainment.


lie came home on Saturday night and
she was gone, and So were the household
effects lie reflected calmly and deliber-
ately, he did not seize pistol nor was he
found dead Sunday morning. lie quietly
munches his food at the table of Main
street boarding house.


The interest 10 the religious meetings at
the Methodist church instead of diminish
ing continues to increase, and every night
numbers are led to the altar of christianity.
Rev. Will Nj. Collins deserves great credit
tor his earnest efforts to awaken an inter-
est in religious matters.


20 h.
new hotel, and of course no single indi-
vidual can afford" to build it-'certainly
not. - The little game won't work, how
ever The small merchants came up splen-
didly once, but you can't fool them again.
Collect up the protested notes and the way
will become plain.


The union of the three German societies
adds strength to that element both socially
and politically By this action petty jeal-
ousies and discords can be avoided and
the German element act ip harmony with
their best interests. The summation
| of this measure has been desired for long
time.


The new hotcl'' mania appears to have
seized our citiZens-that is. the matter is
being actively discussed and the propriety
of building a new hotel here that will be "a
credit to the city meets with considerable
| favor. In this case, however, as we'll as in
all others in this town, the interest ceases
when it becomes apparent that personal
subscription is likely to be called for No
hotel or any other project can succeed un-
less it be by individual effort Every ybody
is i'll favor Of an opera house, but whsn th;
matter is canvassed and aid asked, No
| -, sah! fhao al
is not enterprise enough in Moline to build
hotel, opera house, or anything else that
will benefit the public, nor can assistance
be expected unless it can be made apparent
that individual gain will at the same time
be accomplished. The status of the
keator House is we'll known in this CON-
lnunity and when the Gazette tries to
throw the mantle Of sympathy over the
scheme it only makes the picture more
vivid as to the real causes Of failure. Had
the men who gave their promise to aid the
enterprise lived up to their word the "eye
sore'' would now be fine hotel but they
didn't do it, and never will There is &c
use beatirg about the bush, nor seeking
to disguise the truth in this matter. The
people of this city who can and ought tt
help to build up the place are always be
hind. Enterprise, outside of plows an
cultivators, does not exist in Moline
There is an abundance OF priUote zeal how
ever.


i The Far Grounds.


And now a further extension is granted
until March lst TO afford an opportunity
to cur sleepy citizens to wake up and Sc
cure the location of the new fair grounds
at this point The committee can nov
take breathing spell and calmly sit ant
await the delopement of chances. IF tn,
new tair grounds arc not located at thi
point this year, and the next fair is helt
elsewhere, the same can be charged to th,
inactivity of the committee and lack O
public spirit among those who ought Il


help the enterprise along. The Rock Isl
aud County Agricultural Society ha
shown every disposition to be partial t,


Moline, and has, from time to time, ex
tended the opportunity to accomplish tn,
desired result, but thus far, instead Of act
ing as stimulus to action the contrar,
has been the effect and seems to create al


Impression, some, that the location o
the grounds at this point is a question 0


time only and will come of necessity, with


out subsidy. This is mistaken coEclu


sion, although comforting no doubt to thos


who desire t. be left alone and not bothered


with requests for little financial help


But then that's the way they do things i,
q iaa Intk I'll.