The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-07-06
THE FOURTH.


still the American people are not happy
l. The day was unpleasantly hot, and We ha
time to give each celebration in this vici'
ity only passing call,
t. Moline's Germans and Swedes each ha
d large and enthusiastic gatherings
Brooks's grove on Second Avenue. Thel
was music, dancing, much beer, and
t large number of good-Iooking, well-dres
+ ed women.
!, In the same grove few of our own cit
zens had basket pic mic. They called
John Warner pic mic. The eatables wer
Is all very fine, especially Mrs. DR.. Gait
superb cookies; but the pic mic prope
+ was the best illustration of q miserabl
d failure on record.
: In Greenbush the Catholics Of the cit
+ held pic mic. The crowd was large an
Y pleasantly scattered over the shady bluff
aud seemed to hugely enjoy the occasion
The dancing floor and booths were in hot
dusty place. Late in the day drunken
row and fight, out Of which a few bum
mers came with demoralized countenances
broke up the pic mic. A pleasant dance il
Turner Hall in the evening closed the day
The St Bonifacious Society had wei
attended pic mic at the head of Madison
street, at which everything passed off very
pleasantly; everybody had a good time
and in the evening the society had equally
as pleasant ball at Darts Hall
The Swede college folks held their pic
mic near their grounds.
The German Lutherans held pleasant
pic mic on top of the bluffs, at the head of
Madison street, on Bailey Davenport 5
land
Phoenix Hose Co. No. ! held a social
gathering in Davenport grove, on Otter
street, with various games and amuse-
ments. Bad whisky and insulting words
from lad named Starr caused a fight, in
which Starr was punished by boy named
James Marker
The Granger Smith Club, composed of
young people in this city, Moline and Dav-
export, chartered the str Lone Star, and,
with barge covered with awnings, made
very pleasant excursion to grove below
Linwood, returning about 10 o'clock in the
evening. The boys and girls, to the mum
Der of so or more, on that excursion had
very charming time.
The people Of Milan and vicinity had a
large gathering-ya riOusl y estimated from
1000 to 5000 according to the magnifying
power Of the glasses worn The gather
ING was on Vandruf-s Island, aud Judge
Wait, Of Geneseo, Grated The president
Of the day, Col, John Dickson, pronounced
it the best Grafton he ever heard-and
everybody seemed to like it. The Judge is
Vermont friend of one of the editors of
THE ARGUS, mailing from Newlane, Wind
ham county. and THE ARara ..aes a good
deal of a.sos> IN that sort Of folks. There's
no better State to be born in than Yer
mont, -proyided you emigrate early
The crusaders of Rock Island, Daven-
port and Moline held a kind of a Conven-
ton at the Court House III this city, at
which series Of resolutions were present
ed in order to give couple Of windy parsons,
of the Methodist brand, chance to spout.
They spouted and made asses of them
selves, as usual, especially the Moline par
SON More sensible remarks were made
by the Rev. McCalster, of this city and
Il very excellent, common sense speech was
made by Mrs. Hayes, of this city. She
administered a singing rebuko to the dem
agogueism of the Methodist parsons, and
we regret that we have not the space to
give her remarks in full. They were full
of sensible meaning and practical humani-
ty. One sweet fragile sister from Moline
paid her respects to THE Argus reporter
in a short speech from which we Judge she
u,,,-t have a weakness 10 be interviewed.
She needs sitting up with badly. Good
little David Of the Unioa is hereby dele
gated to interview that sister. The reso.
lutions adopted were read by Mrs. j. c.
Starr-a very pleasant and accomplished
reader. Mrs DIR. Porter presided over the !
The Court House yard was
decorated and the brave crusaders pic |
niced around the premises till six clock.
There was fine display of bunting all /
about town. TIE ARGUS Office displayed
two large national flags the Union office
me ; Billy Coe, of the Merchants Lunch,
me. Billy was a good soldier in the late
var and he has fondneSs for the star
pangled banner. :
Thirty seven guns were fired, at noon,
rom Rock Island Arsenal
The Rock Island shooting society had
heir regular Fourth of July prize shooting
n their grounds Lothar Harms won
he first prize, having 80 rings John Al
recht and b. ID. Buford tied, each having
! rings In the shoot Off John Al
recht won and was declared winner of
ocond prize Butard third prize !. Huber
ION fourth prize, +. hckerman fifth and
has Wolff sixth In the contest on cen
,r shots, J. Albracht won the first prize,
aying 9 rings. Lothar Harms second, with
rings, and Chas Wolff third, with rings.
he society was never in better eircum-
tanceS, owning its own grounds and nun
ering among its members many of our {
and most respected citizens.
In the evening there were several fine
isplays Of fire works ABOUT town. The ,,
nest from any private house was by Mr..