The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1877-02-21
MOLINE.

kayl Hay is drug in the market.
gIFThc Moline Plow Co, is running ! 5
hours per day.
BgThree tramps registered at Swan
der's Hotel last evening.
agKeator's u i'll is TO be improved De
fore resuming operations.
B@pThe sidewalks in the Fourth ward
are in excel c0t condition.
R9Naptha lamps are being talked Of
for some Of the outside streets.
ga=N, B. Gould, Of Cambridge, Ills,
is iu the city on visit to friends.
BSg~The Malleable Iron Works presents
fue appearance since the completion OF
recent Improvements. The moulding
shop is the finest in Moliue and Is spiend-
idly arranged
RsPB. 3. Worden, formerly citizen Of
| Moline, but at present residing near Chill
cothe. Mo, is in the city on business con
nected with the McCulloch estate, Of which
he is administrator.
DgNoTICE. The members of Moline
Lodge, No. 1873, l. .. .. f., are requested
to be present at the regular meeting OF the
lodge this week Friday evening, as busi-
ness of imuortapce will be transacted. BY
order of the \. u.
: 2ldIt JOSEPH PERRY, Sec.
| Bsg~A. j. Bourne, successor to H. A.
, Pierce, in the California restaurant, is de-
termed to make it the most popular place
of its kind in the city. The table vii
at all times be laden with the best The
5 market affords and prices as reasonable a.
1 anywhere else in the city, Mr.
;. Bourne has had considerable experience
r in the restaurant business and will un
0 doubtedly keep a first class place. Da!
t boarders accommodated at living rates
: Give him trial. G1t2l.
+ BeApThe Turner's masquerade las
J evening at Iimm's hail, was largely at
8 tended and was in every respect a sue
o cess. Some of the costumes were grotes
y que and original and others maguifcen
$ and elegant The music was excellen
y and the affair throughout admirably man
aged TIE Germans Of Moline alway
Is accomplish what they undertake and III
ball last evening was a decided success:
ID Much credit is due to Messrs. Hauneckt
le Hirsch and the committee having tn
Is matter in charge
:. BgThe coming spring election is begii
:, ming to excite considerable interest, anC
from the present outlook, it would appe;
4 that extra care will be used in the selectil
80 of good men only for the various muDic
- pai positions There are several impor
g ant measures, which, if adopted, wou
a%s % greatly benefit the city and it should be
test in the coming election. especially wi
=. aldermanic candidates to see that the
m measures will be pushed through the pre-
:, ent year. Prominent among these muC
ba needed improvements is the water mai
which ought to have been a law two yea
100 ago, and would have been had MT pet
'0 malice interfered with the judgment of t
- eouncilmeD. Several times within the ia
two years the city has narrowly escaped
"A serious copfaeration which, once und
~ aNa headway, nothing could stop. When
80. consider the immense interest at stake, t
~ magnitude of our manufacturing establis
ments and how much depends on ;ht
sustainanee, ii skould actuate every one
,oa aid so far as possible any measure lookl
u to better fire protection. The ARGUS
30 repeatedly urged the importance OF passl
90, '%o some law which would provide US safe p
eof tectlon against fire. There are employ
On in Moline nearly 2,000 mechanics. tn
n ~ trade is, 10 fact, about the only sustenal
',ro of the merchants, and if a disaster such
0'o a serious fire would produces, should occ
endless suffering must necessarily ems
The city of Moline, with its tremendous
ing terests, cannot afford TO trust TO luck
ln., security against accidents of this kind
VS.: 1t does not speak well for the enterprise