The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-05-29
MOLINE.
r9-To-morrow will be decoration day.
Ba-The river is too high for good fish.

Bag-Not tramp in the calaboose since
Friday night.
Bas@Our livery stables are doing good
business just now.
Bay The attendance at all our churches,
yesterday, was very good.
Considerable travel over the Moline
bridge to Rock Island Arsenal yesterday. |
DTJ. G. Salisbury has received the |
contract for building Deere 4 Co.'S. new
foundry.
B9-Workmen are busy in Iimm's Hall
preparing decorations for the Turner
festival in this city on the Sd, 4th, and 9Th
of June.
B9-The river is still rising here. This
morning the water gauged l9 feet above
low water mark above the dam, and r.
10 the tail race
BagnNearly all of our stores, Offices, and
manufacturing establishments will be
closed to morrow afternoon IN honor of
decoration day.
Bg- The flag staff on top of the Moline
Plow Company's building, which was
struck and shattered by lightning on the
18th, is being repaired.
RaEStreet Com'r Shallberg had a
gang of men at work to-day. putting Dean
street, between Lynde street and Rod
man avenue, in good condition.
5drM. 9. Follet, d. o. Reid and E.
Mapes were sworn in this forenoon before
Magistrate Swander, as appraisers of the
estate of the late Frederick Dorman.
Ba~Finest stock of cigars. tobacco and
smokers articles in the city at II. Hen
neckes tobacco store on Main street, sec
ond door west of Lynde. 27d4t.
B3rDeere & CO.. plow works will shut
down 10 couple of weeks to enable the
proprietors to take an invoice of stock
on hand. They will only be closed about
a week.
Berthe matched game OF bali between
the Actives, of Davenport, and the Plow
City nine. of this place, mentioned in this
paper on Saturday, resulted in favor Of
our boys. by a score of 25 to "a,
Ba~The question is now asked, (which
is the ranking officer, the chief marshal or
the president of the day?'--occasioned,
probably, by seeing in the Unton that the
president of the day is placed at the end
of the list in the programme for decoration
please rise and explain?'
Bas~ House and lot for sale cheap-We
will sell toe two story frame dwelling
house aud lot, situated on the northwest
corner of Second and Oakland streets, in
East Rock Island. north of Alday's resi-
dence, cheap and on easy terms: Parties
wishing to purchase, will find the under
signed at Squire Mapes Office, Moline. on
June lst, End and Sd.
I'd JOHN OcHs & Son.
p~ The many friends of Mrs. a. F.
Swander were agreeably surprised, Sun
day afternoon, to see that lady riding
around the city with her husband. This
is the first time Mrs. s. has been able to
leave her house for four gears. She has
been sufferer for the past ten years, and
during the past few years she has fire.
quently been given up by her physicians
and friends She now shows signs of re-
covery however.
RapAt the lecture Of Hon. Carl Schurz,
at the Congregational church, last Thurs
: day evening, each person present was fur
nished with card and list of so of the
most prominent lecturers and readers, anC
they were requested towrite the names o.
six of these persons upon the card, anC
f the boat club promised to choose those wht
. received the largest vote.
At three o'clock this afternoon, the vot,
was announced as follows,
Henry Ward Beecher. ........................1
Mark IVAN,
Wenuai fhltllps .
John B. Gough.......... - .....-.......-. j
( Charles bradlauga ...-.......--.--..-.''.- Z
3 The total number of votes cast was S05
: The above were the six highest.
t bI@Col D. w Flagler, conlu andant a
e Rock Island Arsenal, seems to think, an
u lately said. while in conversation with
I gentleman from this city, that THE ARGU
q appears to have spite against me, an
q loses no opportunity TO assail me in all N
;. official acts which do not couform wit
q the ideas of that paper" The gcntlema
I, is wholly mistaken when he thinks thi
q paper has any "spite" against him. o
the contrary it is quite friendly to hin
y personally, and when he acts in the intel
ests of the people. and not to accommodate
8 crowd of POLITICAL trucksters who al
ID ten pt to use him in his official position fc
y partisan purposes THE ARGUS wi
IL always support him.
- 1W- Charles Beusonberg. young ma
:, ried man, living near the cemetry, an
ID working at Dimock & Gould's saw mil
met with painful accident this morning
by which he came very near losing b
,g right hand He was attending to h
,n duties when, iu some manner, his rigl
D. hand came in contact with saw, aud Il
RS bones in the back Of his hand were bad
le shattered and the flesh torn from the palr
at He was taken home and DR.. Davisc
n. called, who dressed the hand. which is
it very bad condition. though the DIR. do
s, not think amputatiop will be necessary.
IL sa~ DIR. Piper started for Hampto
this morning, in buggy, to visit patien
but was compelled to turn back on accou
- of the high water having overhowed al
es washed out the road along the river abo'
ke this CITY, Isn't that argument enough
no favor of the new Pleasant Valley roaC
ms How can cur business men expect to r
nj ceive the patronage of the farmers in Il
upper part of the county when they ca
no not get to the city? If the new road W
hv opened Moline could still command Il
e. trade of the farmers above here, but
A the road now runs she should not expect
to- The Decoration Programme.
lat The different societies will form at l.
7r' P. NJ 10 procession opposite DunG's Ha
OK in Moline, on Wells street, in the fol)owi
,ul |, order:
ne Freja Band.
nd Harmony Lodge, A o. u W,
he Swedish Olive Lodge, No. 5S3, /. o, o. +.
Manufacturers Lodge. No. 4s5. l. o. y. +.