NEW
Big Fire Loss at Rock Island, III.
Rock Island, III.—Fire Friday night caused $500,000 damage In the yards of the Rock Island Lumber company
and the Rock Island Sash and Door Works. Twenty million feet of lumber and two saw mills were destroyed.
Alma, Wabaunsee County, Kansas October 23, 1908 Page 2 [ Barb Z. -2009]
 

Charles Dickens should be in Moline soon after Christmas. he expects to eat his Christmas dinner in Chicago with Henry Irving, the English actor. There is very little time left for Moline people to do the courteous thing for their dead guest, Francis Jeffrey Dickens, before his live brother arrives. The favorable impression created when we turned out to the of the [sic] son of the eminent novelist, dying so far from home. - Moline Dispatch 
Davenport Weekly Tribune, Thurs., Dec. 1, 1887, pg.4 [C. Horton -2009]

The following real estate transfer was recorded today: Margaret Schultz to Henry Suttig, the south 15 acres of the West half of the northwest corner of section 28 township 16 range 5 west of the 4th p.m. for the consideration of $200. Tri-City Star (Davenport) Friday, September 23, 1904 [C. Horton 2009]
 

A family reunion of the Dormans, several of whom are residents of Rock Island was held at the Watch Tower yesterday afternoon. Among those present from outside the tri-cities were Mr. and Mrs. Frank Dorman of Warner's and Mrs. Dorman's aged mother, Grandma Davis, also of Warner. Tri-City Star (Davenport) Friday, September 23, 1904 [C. Horton 2009]
 

Rock Island Items
Tri-City Star (Davenport) Friday, September 23, 1904

- Mrs. T.N. Polls of Decatur is the guest of friends here.
- George Marwell of Mattoon is visiting friends in Rock Island.
- A.D. Huesing and son Bert returned from the St. Louis exposition.
- Mrs. C. Ferguson of Rock Island is visiting with friends in Milan.
- Jesse Hutchinson, the deputy county treasurer, departed last evening for the exposition at St. Louis.
- Mr. and Mrs. Gustave Stengel, Sr., have returned from St. Louis and Belleville. While in Belleville, Mr. Stengel attended the state convention of Liquor Dealers.
- Mrs. Ralph D. Georgia, 328 1/2 20th St., has been in poor health for some time.
As a consequence she will leave Monday for Dayton, OH, with the hope that a change of climate may prove beneficial.

Moline Items
- Jesse Cowley goes to Chicago Tuesday on a business trip.
- Mr. and Mrs. A.G. Carlson of Moline are visiting the St. Louis fair.

A large number of emigrants are preparing to leave Rock Island and vicinity, this spring for Kansas.
They go out with Mr. Mallory, one of the earlier settlers of the Territory, and a well-known Free State man.
Illinois State Chronicle (Decatur, Illinois) March 27 1856 [Submitted by Nancy Piper - 2008]

Lewis Castor and Sampson Castor of Perryton, Mercer Co., along with Philip Scneder, John Scneder, Frank Bethurem, E. Burrows, John McLaughlin and the Rev. J.P. Young of Edgington, Rock Island Co., have gone to Kansas with the intention of purchasing homes there.
(RI Evening Argus, Friday, 28 August 1868)

Union, Wednesday, Feb. 24, 1864
List of Letters remaining in the Post Office at Moline, IL Feb. 22, 1864
George Bennett,
Mary J. Boyle
Mrs. Johnsburg
Sarah Merritt
John O' Keefe
Mary Stromberg
M .C. Town
Nathan Vandeusen
Persons calling for the above will please say Advertised