The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-06-20
nss.Moline Guards drill tonight.

H25@ Moline UuaF0s uflll EO-nlgnt.
BgJohn Wixou is reshingling his livery
barn.
ssENew potatoes are plenty at 60 cents
per bushel.
BgGo to Richards & Sohrbeck's for
wall paper and paints and oils.
p~Thos. Atkinson has his road con-
tract about two-thirds completed.
aarBase ball and horse races in Daven-
port attracted several people from Moline
to day,
sG~Good butter is selling for 10 cents
per pound, cheaper than for Is years before
10 Moline.
SdHSome of the Moline communists are
talking up Geo, Cornwall as candidate
for sheriff on their ticket.
IFrom present indications there will
be about fifty separate pic mic parties
made up 10 Moline for the 4th Of July.
s9-The Still Water is ordered to Beef
Slough where it is reported there is a
large lot OF logs ready to run down the
river.
E6~The street in front of Mrs. OYER
residence is fenced up and will remain so
for three or four days, to guard against
the spreading of the smallpox.
sI%The Robert Ross towed 10 l6
strings of logs yesterday, four for Dimock,
Gould & Co. and the balance for Keator
4 Son, and returned up the river for
more.
RaHThe members of the Sylvan boat
club at home tried to get the Peoria road
to run car to Moline with the crews and
boats which are at Peoria, but did not
succeed.
aD~A letter from W. R. Oyer this
morning states that one of his boys was
taken with small pox about week ago.
His two oldest children, boys, are with
him in Kansas.
Bg Mr.. Holland has nearly completed
the canvass tor his new Rock Island and
Moline directory. The universal satisfac-
ton given by his previous edition is
sufficient guarantee Of its reliability and
consequent cordial reception by the public
R9y"A sumber Of shootists met at Sails
bury carpenter shop on Wells street last
evening and resolved themselves into the
Moline Gun Club. VIM. Cooper was
elected captain and Chas. Ainsworth sec
Rotary, They will hold another meeting
at the same place next Saturday evening
and desire all who wish to join the club t
be present.
Bar Mr., Robinson Nye and wife and Mis-
Sarah Richards left on this morning trair
for Galesburg to attend the wedding o
Mr.. PierpoGt and Miss Alice Babcock
which occurs at the residence of the BRIDE.
father in Galesburg this evening. Quite
number Of invitations we're sent TO friend
of the bride 10 Moline and were pretty
generally accepted.
; E1FThe morning dailies endeavored t
create grand scare on the smallpox ques
ton to-day by stating that hundreds @
| people had visited Mrs. Oyler within tn
past few days. thereby creating the i'm
preston that the disease was sprea
throughout the whole city. That repor
is utterly false as are hundreds of othe
5 similar ones so eagerly disseminated b
the gossips. Since last Friday mornin
before the disease had reached its reaIl
contagious stage-not a soul except d.
Mckinnie and the nurse, Mrs. Carpenter
has crossed the threshold, the latter Dc
q having left there since that time. TIL
city is full of all sorts of wild stories, th
result Of ignorance. fear and, in some il
y stances, malice and jealousy. The be:
S possible sanitary measures have been e
4 tabiished and maintained from the fir
discovery Of the disease and no one hi
been exposed to it since last Friday morr
It ing. Mrs. Oyler is better this mornir
y and there is no doubt but that she will soc
recover.