The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-05-09
ns-James Shaw is talking of making a

pEJames Shaw is talking of making
visit to his native country, England, this
summer.
s@The Robert Ross. Keator Il Sons
boat, came in this morning with another
raft of logs.
s~Moore's new bakery and cenfection--
cry room is being handsomely decorated
by the painters.
H@The extension to the rear end OF Fisk
Bros store will be made LAS soon as the
weather will permit.
sapFisk Bros. have the best stock OF
millinery in the three cities. Keep the
best trimmers, and sell the chepest. dwlt
R8The Moline Rifles are again without
first lieutenant. There seems to be no
end of military elections in the fourteenth
battalion.
sHSome of the substantial mercantile
houses 10 the city say that their sales DUR
ing April exceeded those o. the same
month last year.
1aFFisk Bros carry many fine goods
in dress goods. millinery and trimmings
not to be found in other Moline stores, and
sell at prices as low as the lowest. dwlt
RgAlfered Celene has purchased of G.
+. Gustaffson the saloon on the corner OF
Henry and White streets, having disposed
of his interest on the corner of Lynde and
4 Wells streets.
R@The Baptist choir hold sociable al
tho Baptist church this evening. Re-
freshments and sociability with some
musical entertainment will be the order OF
the evening. Take in.
a6PSince the weather has become warm
the tramps have quit coming into town in
the evening but camp out in the woods at
the edge of town and come in the morning
for breakfast, annoying people at the foot o.
the bluff terribly.
' n. W. Hendricks, young man who ha
} been spending the past winter IL
Moline. left for Orion this morning to tax
position in dry goods store at that place
branch house of Mitchell & Parsons, o
Rock Island.
RG~ At an election held last evening t
. fill the vacancies of first and second lieu
= tenants in the CulIom Zouaves. Freema
! Merriman was elected first and Herr
Coffeen second lieutenant Coffeen
g orderly sergeant of the Moline Guards an
r it is believed he will not accept the lieu
tenancy offered him by the Zouaves.
r BG DIR. Reynolds is expected here to
q morrow evening to deliver a temperate
lecture in Reese's Hall and to renal
several days for the purpose of organizin
o RED Ribbon" society. Mr., Reese giv'
70 them the use of the hall at the remarkab
II low price of s. per evening, but he prob;
bly, expects to be compensated for it |
the additional patronage at his bar.
B9rWe guarantee the prices of evel
article sold by US to be as low, or low
than the same goods can be bought els
where 10 the west dwlt
~ FISK Bros.
D9Moline has a scandal with whiC
= her citizens are busying themselves. III
parties concerned consider themselv
10 upper ten" and for this reason it W
attract more attention than similar condu
IS so frequently INDUCED in by those who p
~ lighter estimate upon themselves. 1t
simply a case of wife beating, where Il
~ neighbors had to interfere in behalf Of {
IN woman. She has left his p bed and boa
and taken legal counsel, the result of viii
i, will probably be a divorce case. VIII
Il makes the case more agravating is (
'n fact that the woman had considerat
~ property at the time Of their marriage a.
ng he was poor worthless fellow, and now
a. appears that he has CONTROL of the most
the property and instead of being gratef
to his benefactress he pounds her oy
ct the head and even kicks her after she
n down. The case will probably be in t
be courts soon when the whole truth will
known.