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- Thursday, 10 September 1908
Orion Times (Newspaper in Orion, Henry County, Illinois)
TITLE: ?SUNNY HILL FARM SOLD FOR $167 AN ACRE
The top notch price for farm land was paid for a Sunny Hill farm a fewdays ago when S.R. Jones bought W.C. Grant?s farm of 120 acres, paying$167 an acre for the place. Mr. Jones sold his farm to Chas. Bechtelfor $115 an acre. When farm lands brought $100 an acre people thoughtthis was almost the limit but in a short time owners of the betterclass of farms put the price to $125 an acre, and later some offeredto sell at $150 whey thought these (there) would be no buyers. But$167 an acre makes one stop and wonder how many years it will bebefore the price reaches $200. It ___ some day, for we have the ___land in the world.? . [Transcribed 14 January 2008, SLJuhl RNBSC,Compiler & Genealogist; sljuhl1234@yahoo.com; 3810 ? 10th AvenuePlace, Moline, Illinois 61265]
THE DAILY DISPATCH NEWSPAPER OF MOLINE, ROCK ISLAND COUNTY, ILLINOIS
FRONT PAGE, VOL. FORTY-THREE NO. 44; DIED: 19 NOVEMBER 1921
TITLED: ?WALTER C. GRANT MEETS DEATH BY ACCIDENT
Walter C. Grant, a native Sunny Hill man, vice president of theMontgomery Elevator Company, of Moline who was well known to thepeople of this community, was killed instantly at 4:30 o?clock lastSaturday afternoon by falling from the fifth floor to the basement inthe elevator shaft at the new Moline Trust & Savings bank building inMoline.
He was struck in the head by the service elevator, while he stood withhead and shoulders bending out over the edge of the corridor floor,inspecting the passenger elevator adjacent. According to Miss MaryBiebe, stenographer for P.J. Meersman, whose office is on the fifthfloor, Mr. Grant had one foot on the floor of the corridor and theother was on the beam in the shaft, with his head and shoulders in theshaft.
?Suddenly I saw the elevator come down,? said Miss Biebe. ?I shoutedbut it was too late. The bottom of the elevator hit him and hedisappeared.?
The elevator that hit Mr. Grant, was operated by Alois DeBeck,janitor. He had the elevator on the ninth floor and had started downto attend the furnace, unaware that Mr. Grant was making an inspectionof the passenger elevator.
?I stopped at the seventh floor to get a box to take down to thebasement,? said DeBeck. ?Just before I reached the fifth floor Ihappened to look down and I jammed on the brakes as quickly as Icould, but it was too late. There was a thud. My elevator wasstopped then.?
Mr. Grant had dropped into the building to inquire how the elevatorswere running. Joe DeConinck, operator of the passenger elevator,mentioned a clicking sound at the fourth floor. He and Mr. Grant rodeup and down several times, and then the latter got off at the fifthfloor, instructing DeConinck to continue running the lift, while helistened for the noise.
It was while thus engaged that the elevator expert was hurled to hisdeath. DeConinck was at the second floor when he saw the fallingbody.
Mr. Grant was a brother-in-law of A.E. Montgomery, president of theMontgomery Elevator company. He had been associated with the companysince 1912 and for a number of years prior to that time he had workedfor the Otis and Moline companies. He figured in an elevator accidenta number of years ago, when Edward Corrin lost his life.
Mr. Grant was born on the Grant homestead at sunny Hill Nov. 5, 1867,and at death was 54 years and 14 days of age. He married Oct. 1,1896, to Miss Anna Blair, a sister of J.B. Blair, of Orion. For anumber of years they resided on the Grant farm, now owned by S.R.Jones, which he operated until eighteen years ago, when they removedto Moline, where he accepted a position with the Otis Elevatorcompany. About nine years ago he acquired an interest in theMontgomery Elevator company, later being elected director and vicepresident.
The Sunny Hill school is located on land which Mr. Grant?s fatherdonated and here Mr. Grant?s sister, Margaret, (afterwards Mrs. A.E.Montgomery), founded in 1899, the Sunny Hill Sunday school, of whichWalter was later superintendent.
Surviving him are the widow, one daughter, Miss Edna Grant, a studentof Augustana College, one brother, A.W. Grant, San Antonio, Texas, andone sister, Mrs. Mary Pritchard, of Long Beach, Cal. He also issurvived by his aunt, Mrs. Margaret Caughey, 1616 Ninth ave., Moline,and numerous cousins in Rock Island and Henry counties.
Funeral services were held in the United Presbyterian church, of whichthe deceased was an elder, in Moline at 1:00 o?clock Tuesday afternoonand the remains were brought to Orion on the afternoon train, wherethey were met by a large company of Orion relatives and dear friendsand escorted to Western Cemetery for burial.
The pall bearers were L.C. Warner, J.C. McWhinney, John J. Bell, LymanKing, Edward Martin and Frank Harris,
Mr. Grant was an upright, kind hearted and thorough gentleman and assuch, won the esteem of all with whom he came in contact. He had manydear friends in this vicinity, who were sorely grieved on receipt ofword of his shocking accident.? [Transcribed 14 January 2008, SLJuhlRNBSC, Compiler & Genealogist; sljuhl1234@yahoo.com; 3810 ? 10thAvenue Place, Moline, Illinois 61265]
- (Medical): Per Edna Grant Fiosne's Scripture Memoranda notes.
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