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MOLINE DAILY DISPATCH: SATURDAY EVENING DECEMBER 31, 1927. Some Striking Events in Moline and Vicinity in 1927 As Told by Dispatch 6 July 19 Moline entertained 150 Aug. 29 Fred Mollwitz, manager Island, observes 101st anniversary of men shot by William Ross Taylor. Taylor, said to have been crazed by drink, killed self after wounding ficers. 1 rested on charges of criminal conspiracy to defraud stockholders.

April 27 Moline is asked to raise $3000 for flood relief fund. April 28 Dr. Frank J. Day, pastor of First Congregational church, incurs injuries in fall from- horse on Coal Town road. April 28 John Burk.

wealthy Rock Island young man disappears. Foul play feared. April 29 Twenty state senators and representatives inspect Watch Tower site for state park. April 29 Wilbur Chadwick. 348 Tenth street, discouraged by failure to prove right to estate in England, takes own life by inhaling gas.

April 30 Alfred W. Kuernell of East Moline is awarded Carnegie March 28 Harry A. Allmending-er, 3124 Twenty-seventh street, loses both feet when run over by train at Twelfth street crossing. March 29 Unmasked bandit holds up C. B.

Hutcherson, operator of Fourth avenue street car, at Twenty-seventh street and Fifteenth avenue, Moline, and escapes with $14. March 30 Members of Moline legion win membership contest by rushing to Bloomington in airplane with enrollments. March 31 One person killed, three injured in automobile crash near Sheffield. March 31 Warren Esterdahl is elected captain of Moline high basketball team. Oct.

22 Leo and Adam Mokszycki brothers, hurt when auto strikes coaster wagon. Oct. 24 Oscar C. Staby, promj nent Davenport business man, com. mits suicide in Los Angeles.

Oct. 25 Call Mississippi VaHev league baseball meeting at Cedar Rapids October 29. Oct. 26. Deere and company nav all back dividends.

Oct. 27 October heat record broken as mercury reaches 84. Oct. 27. Dr.

G. Johnson Port Byron physician, tells hwhe lost $25,000 in Liberty Industrial Finance company. Oct. 27 Farmer's State bank of Atkinson and Atkinson Trust and Savings bank merge. Oct.

28 Katherine Louise Wilcox. 4, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lou A. Wilcox of Moline.

dies of complications resulting from burns in curred in bonfire mishap. Kingsbury trial postponed. Lower baB plea denied. i farm experts from various nations of the world who were in the city guests of Deere and company. July 20 Clayton E.

Heuck was drowned while wading in the Mis sissippi river at the foot of Twenty' fourth street. He was unable to swim. July 20 Members of the Mississippi Valley baseball league met in Dubuque to discuss the baseball situation as it stood at that time. Several clubs were charged with violating rules of the league. July 21 Showers in Moline broke a 30-day drought which had brought suffering to the surrounding country.

Lawrence M. Magill, former Moline resident, died in a sanitarium at Colorado Springs. Thomas Hass, aged 49, of Davenport, shot his wife and then killed himself. 'July 22 More than 2000 hear the Dempsey-Sharkey fight announcement at the Dispatch office. July 23 Mrs.

H. L. Parr won the Woman's handicap golf tournament at Short Hills Country club by de-; feating Mrs. Jean Pope. July 25 CoL D.

M. King revoked 600 automobile owners' passes to the arsenal island because they were making the thoroughfare a speedway. July 26 Melvin Ackles. aged of Davenport, was drowned in the Davenport municipal natatorium. July 29 Moline Dispatch started a campaign for funds with which to send delegates to the American Le- gion convention in Paris, July 30 Yeggs secured $200 when they blew open the safe of the Texas Oil company at Tenth street and First avenue.

Rock Island. 1 AUGUST Aug. 1 Thousands of motorists in this vicinity filled the gas tanks of their automobiles for the first time in years to escape the 2-cent tax levy. Aug. 2 Alderman Fred Holt scored the Tri-City Railway company for its-faulty tracks.

Aug. 2 Gomer Davis, aged 9, son of the Rev. E. R. Davis of the reorganized church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, killed by automobile while on vacation at Water-ville.

Minn. Aug. 2 L. L. Harr, receiver for the E.

H. Wilson company, charged officials with inflating books of organization. Aug. 3 Christie Wilson, former Rock Island baseball pitcher, signed to manage the Rock Island Missis sippi vauey league uu "lc rest of the season. 1 Aug.

3 "Wilson company stock holders to lose," said L. L. Harr. Aue. 4 Walter T.

Anderson, Chi cago. appointed physical director of Moline Y. M. C. A.

i Aug. 4 F. J. Schroeder, vice pres- ident of Parker company, Davenport, dies. Aug.

5 Announce Rock Island county fsrm population more than nnnn 1 Aug. 6 United Stetes Navy tand OTsssAS: s.heduIcd i Aug. 7 Mrs. Ruui Nelson 01 Galesburg selected to succeed Miss Bertha B. Cook as Rock Island county home adviser.

Aug. 7 Gustav Grundstrom of Moline loses right foot and five toes of left foot when engine runs over him. Aug. 10 Aaron Strong, former chauffeur for John Looney, killed in accident in auto race at county fair in, Hastings, Neb. Aug.

10 Dispatch carrier boys hold annual picnic at Camp Man-sur. Aug. 11 Moline awarded 1928 Elks state convention. Aug. 12 Tickets for Lindbergh banquet placed on sale.

Aug. 12 E. W. Woodcock re-' elected president of Moline council of boy scouts. Aug.

13 Announce route of Lindy parade through tri-cities. Aug. 13 Major Charles L. Hall, Washington, D. was ordered to assume duties as chief of engineers to succeed Major Beverly Dunn.

Aug. 14 Anna Peterson of Mo line killed. Lercy Ward of Moline seriously injured and Erick Widell, Mrs. Widell and Rudolph Johnson also injured as auto upsets at Fourth avenue and Twenty-seventh street Moline. Aug.

14 Max Burton, aged 6, son of Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Burton of Wyanet, fatally burned.

kmsGUbrM tarium in Davenport, whom caught prowling on his farm near East Moline. Aug. 16 Joseph Beeuwsaert and Emil Anthony chosen Dispatch le-, eion deleeates to convention in gion delegates to convention in Paris. Aug. 16 E.

K. Campbell, Moline aviator, invited to pilot plane in transcontinental race. Aug. 16 S. R.

Kennedy, Moline alderman, says Moliners are speed mad and use east end for maniac driving. He demands action for protection. Aug. 17 Moline to have holiday to see Colonel Lindbergh. Aug.

18 August Paulsen, Moline pioneer, takes own life. Aug. 18 Record crowd plans to greet Lindy. Aug. 19 Fifty thousand welcome Lindbergh on trip to Moline.

Aug. 19 Mrs. Emma Cook of Rock Island died after being struck by an automobile. Aug. 22 Yeggs dynamite and take $220 from safe of Standard Oil company service station at Fifth avenue and Thirty-fourth street.

Aug. 24. War planes to visit Moline. Aug. 24 Two East Moline policemen are suspended.

Aug. 26 Axel Nielsen. Rock Island policeman, critically injured when struck by automobile. 1 I in of her birth. June 4 Railroads and farmers are hit by rain.

June 6 Twelve persons, injured in 140,000 fire in Rock Island Dusi ness district. June 6 Sale of six" Bengston drugstores in tri-cities to Walgreen company of Chicago cormrmea. June 7 Larson, Searle and Church reelected as circuit court ludees. June 7 Man is crushed to death by train in East Moline: partially identified as Ralph Davison of Rockford and Centerville, la. June 8 Board of education votes $1000 for subsidy of band at Moline hieh school.

June 9 Mildred Penniston, 17-year-old Moline girl, reported missing: father fears elopement. June 10 E. B. Knox, former mayor and pioneer undertaker in Moline. dies, aged 84.

June 10 First Moline and Rock Island public golf links are opened. June 11 Pathfinder plane for national tour stops at Moline airport. June 12 Burglars loot five Moline business houses. June 12 Removal of Herman Sehnert as Rock Island chief of police asked by commission. June 12 Illinois Eagles assembling in Moline for annual convention.

June 14 Yellow Sleeve factory to be moved to Pontiac, Mich. June 15 Illinois Eagles in Moline meeting brand Volstead act as tyrannical. June 16 Poultry worth $1500 stolen from Fred Carlson, 2324 Eighteenth street B. June 17 Plans for an Indepen dence day celebration in Moline are made. June 18 Investigation shows leg islators from Moline district voted for state gasoline tax.

June 19 Eody of Dr. Horace H. Smead. Davenport, found in pool on Rock Island arsenal island; be- i lieved suicide. June 21 Thousands welcome MaJ.

Herbert A. Dargue, good will flier, on arrival in Pan-American hydroplane. June 22 Two men. Herman Sehnert and Dennis Bennett, both claim to be chief of police in Rock Island. June 23 Moline baseball club advances to second place in Valley standing when league president throws out fifteen victories of Dubuque.

June 24 Two die as plane falls at Davenport field. Jrne 25 Clifford E. McLaughlin. 26. drowns while dragging for clams in the Mississippi river.

June 26 International Harvester company awards contract for huge warehouse in East Moline. June 28 Moline baseball club gets three home runs to win from Ot-tumwa. June 29 W. J. Andress.

Moline rnerchant. attempts suicide when illness and heat prevent sleep June 30 Today was the hottest nay in Moline since 1925; temperature was 95. June 30 Raiders get 33.500 pints of cool beer on hot day in Davenport Eagles and Turner halls I 1 JULY 'y'-W. G. Baker and F.

C. Vienech celebrated their fortieth and thirty-seventh anniversaries as Monne postal employes. July 2 U. S. prohibition agents arrested eight bootleggers in Kewanee.

July 4 Richard Poelvoorde of East Moline was drowned in a lake at Black Hawk Hills country club Unidentified body of a boy was found in the Mississippi river near Andalusia. July 4 Crowd estimated between 10.000 and 25.000 were in attendance at the July 4th program at Prospect park. July 6 Work on the new International Harvester company building in East Moline was started. July 7 Hail in the upper part of the county damaged crops but Moline escaped. The section of the country hit the worst northern end of Rock Island and4- Whiteside counties July 8 Dr.

C. C. Sloan made a remarkable landing with his airplane ater several anxious moments of mpnuevering in the air minus one wheel. July 9 Dennis Thorngren received $500 from the Rock Island railroad for injuries incurred when one of the railroad's trains struck an automobile in which he was riding I iuiy 11 More man euoo persons gathered at Moline airport to welcome the fliers in the third national air transport tour. July 12 Floyd E.

Thompson, judge of Illinois supreme court and member of Moline lodge of Elks, was appointed a member of the grand forum of the order of Elks at its national convention in Cincinnati. July 13 Authorities of the Tri-City Railway Company petitioned the Illinois commerce commission for increase in rates. July 14 Cyrus E. Dietz, promi nent Moline attorney and assistant! attorney general of Illinois, was injured when the horse on which he was riding brushed against a tree on the arsenal island and fractured the rider's kneecap. July 15 James G.

Crosswhite of Rock Island, who married Miss Helen Marie White, aged 20, just a week before, was found last night beside the body of his wife with a bullet hole in his head. She also had been shot. It was believed that he killed his young bride and then shot himself. July 16 Miss Fannie Chilberg of Rock Island met death in an automobile accident in Waterloo, la. July 18 Mrs.

Mary E. Carroll, aged 65, died in the Lutheran hos pital shortly after being hit by an automobile. The accident occurred i of Moline baseball club, fined $50 and suspended for rest of season by Belden Hill, president of league. Aug. 29 Harold Richard Adolphi, infant son of Mr.

and Mrs. Theodore Adolphi.of Holcombe, was almost instantly killed in auto accident near Davenport. His mother incurred severe injuries. Aug. 30 American Commercial and Savings bank and Iowa National bank of Davenport plan merger.

Aug. 30 Ten thousand Knights Templars parade in Rock Island. Aug. 31 Raid on the Rock Island order of Owls nest nets police 3000 bottles of home brew. Aug.

31 Rev. O. B. Enselman of Wesley Methodist church elected chaplain of Illinois state legion. SEPTEMBER Sept.

1 i express-passenger airplane arrives in Moline. Sept. 1 LeClaire theater plans to operate in spite of strike. Sept. 2 E.

K. "Rusty" Campbell Is entered in transcontinental flight. Sept. 3 Campbell's derby plane christened Quad-Cities. Sept.

3 Six tri-city theaters may close as strike looms. 3orf TVi Rpv fllara Ovik Helvie, former Moline Unitarian pastor. sues church in Westbdro, Mass Sept. 5john MacEntire dies of injuries incurred when hit by auto; police seek driver. Sept.

5 Crowd of 5000 enjoy Note's band anniversary picnic. Sept. 6 Ten thousand attend Labor day picnic at Prospect park. Sept. 7 Factory auction sale in East Moline attracts 200.

Sept. 8 Moline Implement company buys Tri-City Malleable plant. Sept. 9 John F. Lindvall, former Moline jeweler, dies in Florida.

Sept. 10 August Steenbock and William Reese killed in automobile accident in Davenport. Sept. 12 Record heat wave hits Moline. Temperature reacnes o.

Sent. 13 More heat records fall. Sept. 14 Margaret Haaga of Geneseo drowns in Hennepin canal while seeking relief from heat. Sent.

15 Three Rock Island busi ness men, officials of professional football team, arrested by government officials for alleged failure to nav tax. Sept. 16 Trouble with musicians' union threatens closing oi ijeoiaire theater. jsepu 1 1 quanta iu. ijiuuu- manufacturer, dies.

19 Mrs. Louis Vetter of Milan is burned to death whil starting fire. Sent. 20 Thomas B. Davis, wealthy Rock Island manufacturer, dies.

Sept. 21 Robbers get $460 by opening safe at Johnson cafeteria. Sept. 21 Rusty Campbell, Moline aviator, is sixth in cross country Sept. 22 Moline Masons an nounce man ior resumption ml -3k3K5Bne defendant, hs'Str Sent.

24 Mrs. Frank Gates Allen of Moline reports loss of $100,000 worth of jewels in New York holdup. Sept. 26 Nine persons injured in twenty-eight quad-city auto acci dents. Sept.

.27 Burglars take $55.08 from A. P. store, 1632 Fifth avenue. Sept. 28 Verne L-Blodgett.

postal clerk at Kewanee, charged with embezzling. Sept. 29 George W. Gamble 01 Moline reelected president of circuit clerk's association. Decision is made to hold 1928 convention in Moline.

Sept. 30 Mrs. Charles Riordan of Moline and Mrs. Frank Thompson of Rock Island escape death by driving automobile through crossing gates when trapped on track. "1 t.

OCTOBER Oct. 3 Mrs. Ada E. Stephens donates plot of ground on Sixth avenue for city park. Oct.

5 James Montgomery of Bettendorf is killed when gasoline speeder collides with automobile. Oct. 6 Four hundred men meet in Fulton, 111., to urge payment of river road. Md Oct. 10 Thomas Grant Manuel, 18, of Rock Island, killed by own gun while hunting.

Warrant is is- sued for arrest of Max shapiro ta connection with Lundell block fire. Oct. 11 Irving Schaeberg, alias Irving Stone, also connected with Lundell fire. Oct. 12 Plans announced for $170,000 flat building at Seventh avenue and Twenty-first street.

Oct. 13 Kewanee residents announce hope to get share of 000.000 estate. Oct. 14 Two-thousand-d 1 1 a sewer repair job near completion says Moline city engineer. Oct.

15 M. H. Loftus of Tipton, killed and Marie Ziebarth, Davenport high school student, injured automobile accidents. Oct. 17 Lawrence B.

DeHass of Kewanee killed in Atkinson hunting accident. Dr. Joseph R. Hollow-bush, Rock Island city physician, called by death. Oct.

18 Two men killed in sawmill blast southwest of Moline. Oct. 20 Edward Dhuivetter hurt while trying to save burning home. Oct. 20 Billy Baldwin, 5-year-old Davenport boy, killed by truck.

Oct. 21 Henry LaPeere of East Moline killed, and Henry DeGrave East Moline seriously hurt in automobile accident. Oct. 22 Al S. Kingsbury arrested on swindle charges in Chicago.

in in JANUARY Jan. 1 Moline's New Year celebration medium dry and rather dull-Jan. 3 Patrick J. Colligan. superintendent of the Silvis shops, and Mrs.

Colligan injured in automobile accident on the eve of their thirty -second wedding anniversary. Jan. 4 E. H. Wilson Manufacturing company enters voluntary receivership.

Jan. 6 Clifton Hyink. Moline high school gridiron star, given-place on the all-state high school football eleven. Jan. 7 Chzrles Gallagher, Moline police officer, found not guilty police and fire commission of charges of conduct unbecoming an officer made by Charles A.

Ruiz, adjutant of the Rock Island county chapter. Disabled American Veterans. Jan. 8 Charles A. Martin, manager of the Mayf air cabaret in Moline.

arrested by prohibition agents as the head of a bootleg The arrest was made in a Chicago hotel-Jan, ll Kenneth Dunn, age 7, a Junior cadet in the Illinois Military academy at Aledo, dies in a fire which burned one dormitory of the academy. Branch Rickey, vice president of the St. Louis world champion baseball club, speaks in Moline. Jan. 13 First big snow of season threatens traffic tieup near Mo line.

Jan. 14 Moline warned to prepare for 10 below zero weather. Jan. 15 Moline has coldest weather since 1324 as mercury drops to 12 below zero. Jan.

17 O. L. Hunt, hired man on farm near- Cambridge, shot and killed by George Rucker, neighboring farmer. Jan. 18 Robert W.

Rank name business manager of the Moline baseball team for 1927. Jan. 22 Charles P. Skinner announces candidacy for the office of mayor of Moline. Jan.

23 Fire damages grocery store of H. c. Miedke, Twenty-fifth street and Eleventh avenue B. to the extent of $10,000. Nearby stores also damaged.

26. Senator Martin R. Carlson, Moline. named head of revenue and finance committee of the state senate. Jan.

27 Cyras McCormick, vice-president and manager of operations of the International Harvester company, predicts big future for waterways during visit to Moline. Three hard roads out of Moline practically assured for 1927 or 1928 at conference of interested citizens with Governor Small in Springfield. Jan. 28 Senator Carlson asks state to purchase Watch Tower park from Tri-City Railway company. Jan.

29 Moline high school bas-ketbal team defeats Rock Island, 26 to 14. Jan. 31 Edward Kitchin of Monmouth killed when struck by automobile while repairing a tire on his own machine parked on the pavement near Kewanee. 1 FEBRUARY Feb. 1 Bandits get jewels worth $3000 in holdup in Rock Island.

Feb. 3 High temperature record for February 3 falls as warm weather continues. Feb. 4 Fear felt for quad-city missionaries as disorder grows in China. Sheriff Howard Gregg orders deputies to dry up Rock Island county.

Feb. 5 Milan and Goal Valley hit by floods as heavy rain falls. Many roads impassable. Feb. 7 Mayor Walter Rosenfield of Rock Island announces retirement from politics after term is over.

Feb. 8 New Moline Association of Commerce opens campaign for members. Feb. 9 A city bond issue to defray the cost of paving Fourth avenue to East Moline suggested as solution of traffic problems at mass meeting of east end residents. Feb.

11. President Coolidge asks congress to appropriate $50,000 to rebuild bridge between Moline and Rock Island arsenal island. Feb. 12 Moline high school's basketball squad meets third consecutive defeat of season at the hands of Rock Falls. Feb.

14 A reward for $100 was posted for the capture of three armed bandits who held up William C. Jones, clerk at the Hickey Brothers' cigar store. Fifth avenue and Sixteenth street, Moline. and escaped with several hundred dollars in cash. Feb.

15 G. O. Dietz and George A- Schrader elected judge and clerk respectively of Moline city court. Only 573 Moline citizens go to polls. Feb.

17 Cold wave hits Moline and mercury drops to 12 degrees above zero. Feb. 19 Blanche Gabathuler, age 15, Davenport school girl, killed when struck by freight train. Feb. 22.

Burglars blow safe of Roxana Petroleum company, 2603 Fourth avenue. Moline, and escape with nearly $850. Feb. 23 Richard B. Draper, Davenport, attempts to shoot Rosemary Donohoe, cashier of Capital theater, and then turns gun on self.

Miss Donohoe not injured. Infatuation and temporary insanity blamed for tragedy. Feb. 24. Moline third annual automobile show opens in Elks auditorium.

Feb. 25. Tw Aledo high school girls, Rosamond Bjorkman and Dorothy Brown, killed instantly as automobile stalls on Aledo railroad crossing and is struck by freight train. Feb. 26 District high school basketball tournament opens in the AiiffiKtana mllc nmniufiim with vow DJ record crowd attending.

Feb. 28 Two Rock Island police- is 1 I MARCH March 1 Sixty-gallon still is confiscated by Moline police officers in raid at 347 Eighth street. March 2 Roy Patterson, formerly of Moline, causes near-riot in St. Anthony's hospital. Rock Island, by attacking members of staff after he had been placed on operating table to have bullet removed.

He had been shot by his sweetheart, Mabel Brown, Rock Island. Both colored. March 3 Moline Association of Commerce inaugurates intensive reconstruction campaign. March 3 Fred C. Christ isen, 404 Forty-fifth street, nearly beheaded accident in Wilson Body corporation factory.

I March 4 C. W. Sandstrom and C. P. Skinner, candidates for repub- xh.hu uuuuiiauua iot mayor oi jvio-line, announce they will make no speaking campaign.

March 5 Removal from superin- tendency of state hospital at Alton of Z)r. J. H. Ellingsworth is asked in petition to Governor Len Small. Dr.

Ellingsworth formerly had charge of East Moline state hos pital. March 7 Moline is quiet on eve of mayoralty election. March 7 Some members of min- isterial association express desire that theaters in Moline be closed on Sundays. Marcn 8 Heavy vote cast in: MAC vi March 8 Moline favored as site of 1928 convention of John Ericsson Republican League of Illinois. March 9-rC.

W. Sandstrom, incumbent, wins republican nomination for mayor of Moline by 5821 votes to 2914 for C. P. Skinner. Anna W.

Anderson is nominated for city clerk; Harold M. Engstrom for city treasurer, and Otto E. Anderson for police magistrate. Following are. aldermanic nominees: Gustav Holtz, Emil Swanson.

Fred D. Holt, Herbert P. Wilson, Charles Youngberg, George W. Pettit and S. R.

Kennedy. March 9 "Dark horses? enter mayoralty races in East Moline and Rock Island. March 10 Second Augustana college student dies of scarlet fever. College is closed and students warned to stay away from district high school basketball tournament 'in gymnasium. Four are ill, including two new cases; epidemic feared.

March 10 Cambridge high withdraws from district tournament because of epidemic. March 11 Orion and Geneseo high schools withdraw from tournament because of fear of epidemic. Atkinson, beats Viola; Hillsdale defeats Cordova. Moline wins by forfeit from Orion. March 11 Investigation is demanded following report that Augustana student was treated by Moline chiropractor and allowed to attend college while suffering from scarlet fever.

March 12 Augustana college prepares to reopen doors. March 12 Moline and Rock Island win in district basketball tour nament. March 14 Another Augustana student has fever. College remains closed. March 14 Moline high school basketball team wins district title again by defeating Rock Island, 34 to 16.

March 15 Groundhog and shadow story again proved myth by weather man. March 15 Moline high prepares to meet Elburn in sectional meet at Sterling. March 16 Temperature record for March 16 falls when mercury touches 71 degrees. Birds sing, flowers bloom and golfers golf. March 16 County supervisors are cilonf nn wq far nnPQt inn March 17 Prince William of I Sweden arrives for lecture at Augustana college.

March 17 Department of agriculture gives Deere and company contract for 440 new tractors. March 17 Moline Scottish Rite Masons are granted consistory. March 18 Moline high basketball team defeats Elburn, 30 to 28, in sectional tournament at Sterling. March 18 Prince William of Sweden is big success as lecturer at Augustana but college loses money at door. March 19 Rockford defeats Moline high school basketball team, 25 to 11.

in sectional tournament at Sterling. March 21 Storm causes heavy loss in quad-cities. Eleven injured. March 21 Carl Brandt, 74, of Davenport, dies following fight; two arrested. March 21 Moline high school an nounces heavy football schedule for 1927.

March 22 George Rosenfield. who had offices in LeClaire hotel building and who married Rock Island Y. W. C. A.

secretary, Is arrested in Decatur on charges of embezzlement. March 23 C. C. Lydick Is elected general secretary of Moline Association of Commerce. March 23 Hugo Alvine of Rock Island is elected captain of Augus tana college basketball team.

Marcn uosie nuuw. Davenport, near death following automobile accident. March 24 Dr. Roland Slater, Mrs. Slater and daughter reported safe in Shanghai, China, following shelling by Chinese soldiers.

Dr. Slater son of W. B. Slater, pastor of First Christian church in Moline. 26 George Rucker is found not guilty of murder in killing, of O.

R. Hunt, a farm hand, near Cambridge. Rucker freed by jury on statement that he was defending his wife and home. March 28 James F. Kellett of Davenport dies as result of gas ex plosion in home.

I i J. by i 1 I hero medal for rescuing Davenport lad from river in 1924. April 30 William R. Kane, man ager of Hotel Blackhawk in Daven port, takes own life. 1 MAY May 2 Hal V.

Allen of Erie was held in county jail dn charge of shooting wife who had divorced him. Mrs. Allen was expected to live. May 3. John H.

Siefken, new mayor of East Moline, warns bribers that he will accept no "tips" or "gifts" at his inaugural before large number of people. tfav 4 Renublican aldermen re- fuse to approve appointments of new health officers and new city engineer by Chester C. Thompson, democrat, new mayor of Rock Is- iand. May 5 East Moline's new mayor orders enforcement of strict rules to prevent drinking and rowdyism at public dances. May 5 Rock Island's new mayor aroused over report that bootleggers of Moline, East Moline and other cities plan to dispense "hard" drinks in Rock Island.

May 6 Names of 145 prospective graduates of Moline high school are announced May 7 Deere and company stocks reach new high level on New York curb. May 7 George Magerkurth of Moline is made an umpire in Pacific coast league. May 9 Two seriously hurt In twenty-seven weekend traffic accidents in quad-cities. May 10 Edwin McEwen resigned as general manager of Velie Motors corporation; W. L.

Velie sr. again in active charge of business. May 11 Fire at 409 Eleventh street uncovered gigaatic still. Twenty alleged bootleggers from Moline. East monne ana kock island arrested by federal prohibition agents.

May 12 Chester Guppy. Moline outfielder, sold to Oklahoma City for $1000. May 13 Trans-oceanic flights, such as planned by one Charles A. Lindbergh, harm aviation, rather than promote it, claims "Rusty" Campbell, president cf the Camp-bell-Deschepper Airplane company of Moline. May 4 Hundreds see four cars derailed on Seventh street crossing of Rock Island railroad.

No one wbs injured. May 15 Body of John Fred Peterson, aged 2. Bettendorf, found in cistern in back yard of Rock Island residence. He had been missing for several hours. May 17 Moline council reduces peddlers license fee from $300 to which it had been raised a few weeks before to $50.

May 18 Plans for first unit of new Moline public hospital announced; to cost $300,000 or May 19 Floyd Ketner. Moline aviator, killed when his airplane crashes to ground near Moline airport. May 19 Plans for construction of $100,000 greyhound racing plant in Moline announced by Florida promoters. fPlant never materialized). May 20 Thousands visit scene of Ketner tragedy.

Mav 21 Moline thrilled as Colonel Lindbergh lands in Paris. May 21 Several persons infured when maddened hcrse charges into carnival crowd in Rock Island. May 23 Two men narrowly escape injurv or death as lightning damages International Harvester company warehouse. Storm called third near-tornado of fifty years in Moline. Mav 23 Alcohol still valued at $10,000 confiscated in Silvis by sheriffs forces.

May 24 Damage of thousands of dollars was done by torrents of rain which assumed near-flood proportions. May 25 Five hundred Masons attend consistory session in Moline May 26Capt. Charles A. Lindbergh will be invited to visit Moline airport. May 27 Fred A.

Cordell. Rock Island street car motorman. held up by negro and robbed of $8.05. May 28 Burglars obtainprt ma cash and $500 in checks in two gasoline filling station "jobs in Rock Island. Mav 30 One thousand Illinois physicians expected to attend convention in Moline.

May 31 Burglar breaks into Moline public library and steals small sum from boy scouts. June 1 Illinois doctors oppose liquor prescription limitation in convention resolution adopted in Moline. June 1 Three East Moline and Silvis factories plan additions costing $1,000,000. June 2 Dr. Charles H.

Mayo of Rochester addresses large audience Elks' club. June 3 Body of boy killed by train in East Moline identified by father as Michael Drobuschevisch, age 12. June 4 Safah Ann Walker, Rock 1 JUNE 1 APRIL April 1 Unmasked street car! bandit continues operations, hold- ing up John H. Wagner on Prospect park car and taking $15.30 and gold watcn. leus wagner ne win shoot police if they interfere.

Tri-City Railway company offers $100 reward Anril 1 Rain, cold weather, snow and hail visit Moline in cruel April fool joke. ADril 2 Mary Schultz. 4-year- old Davenport girl, dies of burns in curred while playing with matches. ADril 4 National Air Transport, corporation, operating mail route through Moline. is awarded New York-Chicago air mail contract.

April 5 Burglars enter VanAcker and Horst nomes in jvioune. "Jot ic small April 6 Charles King, apple irrower. is elected supervisor of South Moline township in surprise election. Name is written on ballot by friends. April 7 Miss Myrtle Peterson.

Moline girl, dies of injuries incurred in Automobile accident at Augusta, Ga. April 7 Manager Fred Mollwitz of Moline baseball club begins spring training at Browning field. April 8 Fires in Silvis and Rock Island result In $100,000 loss. Rock Island blaze damages a number of stores on Second avenue between Eighteenth and Nineteenth streets. Silvis fire is in Railway Brakeshoe and Foundry company.

April 9 Another Moline street car is held up by unmasked bandit. Fred CordelL operator of Fourth avenue car. loses $5. Bandit fires one shot before disappearing in darkness at Eleventh Avenue and Twenty-seventh street. April 9 Plans completed for opening of Moline community chest fund drive.

April 11 Four members of Ho-meyer family of Davenport injured in automobile wreck near Hillsdale. Ray Dillin, driver of other car, is arrested. April 11 Leo B. Calahan of Moline is killed at Batavia when automobile is struck by interurban car. April 12 Dr.

Scott E. Bedford of the University of Chicago, nationally-known zoning expert, tells After-Dinner club Moline is in great need of zoning: calls city drab and dull. April 13 Two masked bandits hold up Milwaukee railroad deoot. Third avenue and Twenty-first street, open safe, take $43.50 and 'escape. The agent, C.

W. Duley, was bound to his chair. April 14 Moline escapes flood danger as Mississippi river begins to crop. April 14 Karl "Peanuts" Swan- son. star second baseman, signs Moline contract.

April 15 Dr. G. F. Johnson, mayor East Moline for fourteen years, airs views on politics in the city generally. April 15 Chester Guppy.

outfielder, and Lee Bartlett. pitcher, agree to report to Moline baseball club. April 16 Crime wave hits quad-cities as five bursrlaries and two holdups are reported in four cities. April 16 Three children of Sam -'aruiiia ui moiine arrive in cuy from Poland, having traveled entire distance without adult companion. April 18 Three more holdups by armed bandits are reported in Moline and Rock Island.

April 18 Moline has enjoyable Easter: temperature is 80. April 18 Louis Semenev, former Augustana college basketball star, is seriously hurt and companion 4s billed in train-auto wreck near Erie. April 19 Moline citv council prepares to scrap peddlers license ordinance. April 20 Chester Thompson, deriioerat. is elected mayor of Rock Island.

John Siefken. republican, wins office in East Moline. Frank Gustafson is reelected Moline police magistrate. April 20 Moline baseball club opens sorine training at Browning field. Twenty-five candidates report.

April 21 George Luecke, Moline man with prison record, is Identified as Moline's street car bandit. He had been arrested in Peoria. April 22 Bart Martin, Drury township farmer, kills wife and then takes own life with shotgun. No motive known. April 23 Special train from Vermont brings Governor John E.

Weeks and staff to Moline. April 23 East Moline police de partment revokes all licenses for HaTir public dances. Liquor blamed. April 25 Henry H. Schmidt of Rock Island is shot to death and Mrs.

Jessie Shoemaker Is wounded. P. Minchnauer is sought as murderer. April 25 Billy Edward Garstang, aged 7, of Davenport, killed while Dlaying on paved road when struck automobile driven by T. W.

of Moline. April 25 Moline baseball club wins two practice games from Rock Island. April 26 Three men, connected with former International Life Insurance company In Moline, are ar- 1 i I in in 1 Oct. 29 Plan new apartment building in Rock Island. Oct.

29 Miss Emma L. Ehh- of Ottawa named new Y. W. C. A.

sec-rary. Oct. 31 William Peters of Moline drowned in Missisippi river after faliing from Campbell's island bridge. Oct. 31 New Dispatch type in-troduced.

Oct. 31 Walter Yager buys Interest in Lundt and company department store. 1 NOVEMBER Nov. 1 Moline and East Moline police announce that Hallowe'en was quiet. Nov.

1 Geneseo physician praises new Dispatch type. Nov. 2 Mrs. Medill McCormic'-talks in Moline; Senator Capper Kansas talks in Rock Island. Nov.

3 Two Clinton men drown cd in Mississippi river near Cordon Nov. 3 Geneseo policeman kid naped by bandits who rob store. Nov. 4 Initial shipment of machines arrives at new Internationa Harvester warehouse in East Moline. Nov.

4 State pays $200,000 to Tri-City Railway company and takes over Watch Tower park in Rock Island. Nov. 5 Moline high school football team loses to Peoria. Nov. 7 Flapper bandit arrested in Geneseo crime wave.

Nov. 7 Peter Edwall, Moline pioneer, dies as result of fall ut of window. Nov. 8 Herman Nelson corporation announces plans for huge factory expansion. Nov.

9 Bankers testify thai Kingsbury and Wansnyder. placed large sums on deposit. Nov. 10 Officers of first Moline -consistory are installed. Nov.

11 Moline Association of Commerce announces new plan for paving and widening Fourth avenue. Nov. 12 Quad-cities hit by winter weather. Nov. 14 Nine persons, overcome by monoxide gas in Davenport candy factory.

Nov. 15 Villa Velie looted bj burglars. Nov. 16 Velie Motors corporation announces production of eight-cylinder car. Nov.

17 Al S. Kingsbury indicted by Exand jury on charges of operat ing confidence game and obtaining money through false pretenses. Nov. 18 First Trust and bavings bank of Rock Island closed far ad- iustment. Nov.

18 Mr. and Mrs. John Han-berg of Rock Island give tract of land near Port Byron for tri-city Y. M. C.

A. camp. Nov. 19 Austin Schaible, former Moline supervisor, dies. Nov.

21 Briar Bluff woman killed in train-auto accident near Colon. Nov. 22 Moline council approves plan for opening Fourth avenue. Nov. 23 Moline and Rock Island all set for Thanksgiving football game.

Nov. 24 Burglars who snot Wyanet marshal narrowly escape being killed in railroad-auto accident in Moline, Nov. 24 Moline high school foot- ball team makes sensatidnal comeback by tying strong Rock Island eleven. Nov. 25 Announcement made, that new Ford auto will be shown December 2.

Nov. 26 Wyanet bandits arrestea in Moline. Nov. 28 Sam Thompson, president of American Farm Bureau federation, arrives in Moline for Ki-wanis-farmer meeting. Nov.

29 Clarence Edwaros x- gns as deputy sheriff to accept 5.1 1 Amtit- position in internal revenue ment at Washington. Nov. 30 Arvid Blomgren, Moline clothier, dies suddenly. Nov. 30 Dispatch helps expose fake eye doctor swindle.

DECEMBER Dec. 1 Syndicate buys Wflson factory in Moline and announces plans for reopening plant. Dec. 2 $100,000 field house Vf Moline high school planned. Dec.

3 Walter Holmer of MoW elected captain of 1928 footoau team at Northwestern university. Dec; 5 N. E. Munson of Mow-probate clerk, dies suddenly in Island. Dec.

5 Thousands see new Fom Moline. Dec. 6 Two boys drowned WW skating in Rock Island. Dec. 6 Mr.

and Mrs. William Butterworth announce gift of swim ming pool to Moline boy scouts. Dec. 7 Maniac kills two patienB East Moline state hospital for Vne insane. Dec 8 Otto Roberts of Mobi at Twelfth street and Fifth avenue, Aug.

27 Army planes cause traf-Moline. I fic jam. Thousands greet aviators. 3V. ConHTiiipii on Pate St Ten.) A -7r.