The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-03-21

B1G arding has commenced in earnest.
ssE Dan w. Gould arrived home yes
terday.
pg@Moline guards meet for drill this
evening.
RSg4 Public examination at the high
school to morrow.
E@Commence feeding your dogs raw
meat. No school next week.
RgHSociable at the Congregational
church parlors this evening.
B@Overseer Turner visited the sick
paupers this morning and found them all
better.
pg~Mr. I. Cassel says he is having a
good trade at his new store on east Henry
treet.
n%The umbrella member Indignantly
refutes the charge that he is the sire OF
that new pauper.
Eas~ Geo. w. Vintou is again in the
city after an absence of several weeks in
Mo-, Kansas and Iowa,
Ra~ Dennis OReid has been to Cam
bridge negotiating for the cornice work on
the new projected court house.
n1~The Union Maleable Iron Works
sent some of their work on Deere Il Co. s
pillow to the Paris Exposition.
BG@An old gentleman. a stranger in the
city, had fit on the railroad track near
the G. B. & Q. depot this morning.
Ea5~The union revival meetings which
have been in progress at the M. K. church
this week closed with last evening service,
| pkSr@ Tbo Arorons s,oro 20 h. IN .J,o IN
crease. There were IS Of them in the
calabGose last night besides several in
cars and other places about town.
BgnThe goose question is now occupy
ing the attention Of the marshal. Com
plants are continually being made about
the ravages committed by these fowls, and
it appears there is an ordinance bearing or
the case.
g9sSome people are under the i'm
preston that our city election occurs one
week from next Tuesday. Such is not the
case The town election will be held or
Tuesday, April End. and the city election
Tuesdas, April l6.
RSy~ Peterson, the wholesale and retail
dry goods dealer of.DaveDport, is prepa
, ring to open branch store in the room
in Deeres block recently vacated b,
Seikman. A SOD of VIM. Schrader
formerly of this place and later Of Hillsda
will have an interest and be in charge o
the store.
= S9@He dropped her note saying, NEE
me at the terminus of the street car tracI
at S o'clock Wednesday evening" Sh
met him. They inspected the sidewalks o
I all the back streets 10 town, A friendl
9 policeman.s them,to be on hand i
o case Of trouble, He took the last car 70
Davenport Concluded in our next.
! BgCharles Fish, son of A. z. Fish, an
Fred. Calkins, son of G. +. Calkins, boy
3 IL or IA years of age, started down th
t river yesterday about noon in boat, sine
s which time nothing has been heard fror
them. 1t is supposed that they are follow
ing the example of some of those illustriou
|. youths whose history Is chronicled in til
Boys OF Ne,o York" Saturday Night
and other family papers which theyahay
been reading of late. They are the boy
who cornered Prof Gregory last,week whe
he was interviewing them on unruly col
q duct in school The Prof cited them
q several misdemeanor Of which it was sal
they were guilty and the boys entertaine
him with an account of what people sal
= around town about him. For instance.
u said the boys, lone man says your qualif
cations fit you better for grooming hors,
d than teaching this school The interYie
ID was suddenly terminated.