The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-08-24
a@Yes, the goose IS out.

business is transacted by b. j. Beardslee Bust
ness notices should be handed in by noon to en- :
sure publication the same day.
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D6rYes, the goose is out.
n6rThat macadam on the Main street
crossings is nuisance.
B6rEd. Knox says we will have a frost
within the next ten days.
N6srDr, Klingburg is making arrange
ments TO remove to Kansas.
Richards & Sohrbeck's thermome-
ter stood 100 in the shade at noon to-
day.
n@>P. o. Olson & Co. will be ready to
display the goods in their new store next
Monday.
D6rTeller has a slate, hanging at
Moore's bakery, where orders can be left
for his hack.
D@Rev. o. w. Van Osdell, of Aledo,
will preach tomorrow morning and even
ing at the Baptist church.
R@Charley Sunberg, formerly employ
ed in the Moline National Band, is in the
city shaking hands with his friends.
1%Those Keator House pigeons are
becoming nuisance. 1t is unsafe to pass
along beneath the caves of the house with
out an umbrella,
1@The streets were lined with far
mers' teams to-day and the town present
ed a more business-like appearance than
for months before.
Dg-The emptying Of a cellar full Of stag
nant water into the gutter on Wells street,
to-day, Iadened the air with an overpower-
ing aroma in that locality.
5FThs photograph man says it is
surprising to see how many people are en-
tirely ignorant of the existence of the won
derful machine he is exhibiting,
1EIf the exhibitors Of the photograph
care any thing about what the Union says
they had better give the young man q
complimentary but they probably don't.
sgPeter and Charles Bloom are getting
up an advertising card with the railroad
time tables for this city similar 10 the one
they recently got out for Rock Island
| Charley is an artistic manipulation o.
the pen,
1GrProf. Gregory has accepted posi-
ton in the Moline Pillow Co.'S Office and viii
assume his duties next week. In him thu
lCo. has secured competent and reliable
man. well qualified for any position O
trust.
16vGould & Co., have removed to thG
Keator House block and have on exhibition
the choicest and most select fall styles o
new and 'nobby" hats, foreign and domes
tic suits: Their prices are as low as tn
lowest aud don't you forget it,"
D6It is time for shop girls to begin t
! think of being educated, especially in tn
. art of bookkeeping. when their employ
. ers commence 10 credit them with fou
weeks more labor than they have perform
ed. What are the laboring classes com
|, ing tor
i 1GrStatiou Agent Hines, of the G. r
/. &. P, Il, r. received, this morning. in
structions to sell round trip tickets to Chi
: cago, to fireman attending the hremen
9 tournament, for one fare. Any aparato
q they may wish to take-engine, ETC., wi
= be transported free of charge.
+ GarIf business were brisk, and old So
Il were not SO familiar, we could be happ.
!. notwithstanding the fact that ARGUS eye
are upon us. One of these fine days, sou
solitary, dazed democrat here will soft
linduire, Where is THE ARGUs2' az
|
r 1t is apparent from the piteous suppl
v cations sent up by the Echo daily, II
patronage and money, that business is n
brisk and that it is not happy, and wht
some solitary, dazed democrat soft
&c inquiries, Where is The ARGUs2' Echo
:. will be in no condition to perform its fun
Is tions. 1t will have learned that 'Sundi
r, reading" is not what this communi
le Graves, and betaken itself to one of tho
n towns so anxious to advance a thousaI
" dollars to be paid in subscription 81
III work, and where that "unoccupied niche
&c is more congenial to its nature.
1t Smothersd to Death.
About noon yesterday Thomas Power
an employe of the O., K. L. & P. Il.
s. while shoveIing sand from the Co.. pit
at fat car, caused the sand to cave In SUI
D. manner that he was caught, covered al
y. smothered to death. The company Sc
l.. an engine here for Coroner Morris VI
I'd went to the place, impaneled jury al
ur obtained the following verdict:
D. I'VE, the undersigned, jurors sworn
e. inquire on the death of Thomas Powe
Ie on oath do find that he came to his dea
ID by being accidentally smothered 10 t
&c sand pit of the Chicago Il Rock Isla
n, Railroad Company, at Pleasant Vale
in Hampton township. on Friday, August
is 1878. at or near noon And we furth
he find that no blame can be attached to a
ii lone for his death.
be After the inquest the remains we
lis taken to Sheffield. ILL.,, for interment. I
C. ceased was unmarried, was 46 years
age, his only relative in this country bel
brother at Sheffield.
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