The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1872-12-31
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No one doubts that the locality Of which |
Rock Island is the centre is soon to be one I
of the most important manufacturing
points in the United States. Its central
location in the great and growing West |
its magnificent water power, on each side,
exceeding all the power. of Lowell and
Manchester; its great coal fields its ex-
tensive system of railroads to every point
its great facilities by river; its cheap
treights and quick transit its unrivaled
sites for private dwellings along seven
miles of beautiful and slightly bluffs; its
healthful and pleasant location; all COM
bine torender this ale point Of all others in
the West for the enterprising young eople
of the country to make their permanent
home. The great government works here,
where hundreds Of thousands of dollars
are expended for labor every year; the
great factories and industrial institutions
here and in our suburbs; the rapid
building of houses, shops, mills,
stores and factories within
our city limits and adjoining US, all
invite capital labor and enterprise. The
fine improvements already made here
our magnificent system of water works
excellent schools, churches, hotels, etc,
and the fact that our taxes are compares
lively low, and our city and county nearly
/ free from debt, all invite those looking for
homes in the West to come here
We may safely say that no place in the
United States, to-day, offers such tempta-
tons to the young and the enterprising,
! the temperate, moral and industrious as
/ Rock Island. No man, woman or child
need be out of work here-if they are, it
4 is probably their own fault No capital
invested here, if only decently managed,
/ ever fails tn bring good return. Here,
of all other places in the West, is ample
I Opportunity for capital and labor Come
on, then all who wish to earn a living
either by work or business and You may
if you have enterprise, brains, or muscle,
be is sure Of finding something to do.
+ One Of the most fascinating and enjoy
/ able practices some of the BOYS and young
men of this city have fallen into is that Of
! posting themselves in the post office, and
staring out of canntenance every lady that
comes in Then, the remarks made by
these loafers are so delightful Ii may be
necessary for some men TO wait in the
office but these loafcrs have no business
or right in that room and we would sug
gest that the calabOOse is well furnished
with stove, and that the city will accom-
mOdate all such pers1nages in the place
made for their safe keeping - GaissbaTg
Republican.
Galesburg is not the only place afflicted
with these 'verdant l0afers, who block
j the post office, the door and the sidewalk
and they have needed looking after for
years Some Of our busy polio" can
find ample employment at the Monmouth
post office every evening just before the
opening of the mail If they don't Gala
boose them, they at least should be bored
for the simples. Monmouth Rsriou
1t is well known that the old room ut
present used as u post office is more Of a
disgrace than anything else Ga the ar
rival of the evening mail it isusually filed
with crowd of noisy boys, who make it
almost impossible for a lady 10 enter, GER
tainly unpleasant Moline Rerietr
Isn't it little remarkable that three
such loyal cities as Galesburg Mon
mouth, and Moline, made up almost excIu-
sively of AL the decency all the loyal,
religious, and temperance fanatics, should
be afflicted with such boys? Surely, such
, responsibility as the people of Gales
burg, Monmouth and Moline claim, has q
bad effect upon their PROGENY. or else theil
newspapers belle them
There is a good deal of truth in the fol
? lowing from the jacksonville Journal:
THE next Illinois Legislature will fins
, it tn the interest of the commonwealth t.
spend much Of It's time III correcting tn
mistakes of the last assembly. Probabl
so many legislative blunders were neve
n before committed in the same length 0
!, time, and if the legislators elect succeed i
4 correcting all of them they will have sue
! ceeded in doing good service To the State
= even il they accomplish nothing else
Some of the laws are almost imperative
d and others are so conflicting and so lackin
a III sense that they are useless.
PERsoNAL.-J. H. johnson, Eldoradt
Oregon j r. Willard, H. Carson, Jr
j. Weaver and wife, Peoria DR. J
. Sweeney, Normal H. L. Hamilton, f. T
!, Hallingsworth. A Marvel, L. T. Bridges
: Chicago Col J. B. Cahill, VIM Sumner
vile, Quincy; c. Mcfarland, Burlington
= and others are at the Harper House
NJ Benjamin Pitkin, Eighth street, b
y tween Main and Sycamore streets, Cineil
Up natl, writes us, January s, 1861:
0, Il feel it duty l owe to others to !,
ut them know the value of your DR. Wn
lie Halls Balsam for the Lungs, for curir
Group. My little girl, seven years old, ha
p an attack of Group, and came very ne;
n dying. I gave her DR. VIM Hall
e Balsam for the Lungs, as directed, whic
at gave relief in very short time We ha,
en- used it in cases of bad cough with ii