The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-11-28
NOTES HERE AND THERE.


quiet, for Rock Island.
Regular monthly meeting of sthe city
council on Monday evening next.
Most all the young men in the city
intend taking in the Pinafore hop.
The union services at the Central
church were well attended, yesterday.
-Seeley, the engineer, is improving and
may safely be considered out of danger.
Barnard & Leas, Moline, distributed
two barrels of turkeys among their en-
ployes for Thank sgiving.
The next entertainment at Harper's
Theatreiwill be the Mrs. Ottilee Abel
Haas concert on Dec. 5th,
-R.sCrampton is fixing up the vacant
store next to Spencer & Noftsker's for a
branch. store during the holidays.
Geo. Liter set out fine turkey lunch
yesterday, at his Keator House billiard
parlor, Moline, which was well patroDized.
st. Marys fair ended with grand
ball at Darts Hall on Thursday evening,
which was success, financially and social
ly.
There was full service and a most
excellent sermon at Trinity church
Thanksgiving morning. Re7, A. B. Allen
oficiated.
The dance of the Wide Awake Hose
and Hook and Ladder Co, on Wednesday
evening, was largely attended, and was an
enjoyable affair.
In accordance with custom which
Mr.. J. NJ. Christy has maintained for
years, on Wednesday evening he presented
all of his employees with a Thanksgiving
turkey.
The case against Martin Kinner and
Richard Colmeir, for riot, was dis
missed before Justice Hayden, the case not
being sustained. j. j. Parks, Esq ap-
peared for Kinner.
The crossings on the back streets in
Moline are in a fearful condition. The
mud is black and sticky aud almost impos-
sible to get through without pulling off an
overshoe in the mud.
Frank Kinney, hailing from Indiana,
was hauled in by Officer Metsch for being
drunk and disorderly. Justice Halves
fined him So and costs. No money; sent
to the armory for five days.
Some people never will learn to go to
an entertainment on time. At the Burbank
reading there wereia great many that did
not get there until after half the pro-
gramme had been exhausted.
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audience at the Burbank readings was
not as large as was expected, though a
great many reserved seats were not CO.
cupied. The entertainment was q fac one.
"Helens Babies" This work is ac
kowledged to be the best selling article in
our bookstores. Druggists, however, say
that DR.. Bulls Baby Tyrup sells better
than any other medicine. 1t is always
reliable
The winter season is here-at least prac
tically SO, and in few days most of the
work on our streets will DO suspended. The
question naturally arises: What will be-
come of the unemployed labor? Every
winter there has been a number OF idle
men who would gladly go to work if they
could obtain employment. Heretofore the
poor of the city have been provided for
by subscriptions among our citizens, by
charity entertainments, liberal donations
and at county expense. There is some
thing repugnant to u man who is willing to
work for his living to be compelled to &C
cept charity. The means is at
hand to obViate such a course,
During the coming winter the city could
| furnish work to a NUN Der Of men,by work
ing on the sewers, when the weather per-
mitted. and by keeping men at work
getting out macadam. The macadam
could be piled up for use in the spring
and the quarrying would be practically no
expense to the city the amount of rock
taken out being more than sufficient to
pay for the labor There is no question
but what the present system of sewerage.
will eventually be extended-the city
needs 1.-THE health of the people
den, ands it. There is no good rea
son why the work already begun,
should not be continued, until a perfect
system of sewerage is obtained. TIE 22rd
street sewer, it was commended, would be
an expensive one; that it would cost
a large amount of money to build it;
that it was really not needed now, and
other arguments against it being built were
presented. The work has been done to
some extent, and instead of being expen-
sive, it has been a profitable Investment,
the macadam paying for the labor.
or at least going a large way to-
wards it. Of course the work at first
was very expensive, but once under
Roadway, it has been a paying job.
Hundreds of loads of the best kind OF
macadam have been unearthed and in-
stead of the city having to purchase stone,
until recently, there has been enough OBJ
tanned from the sewer bed for use on the
streets. Now that work has ceased, and
street work still continues, the city has, we
been obliged to purchase
from the quarries, which. were the mining
would be unnecessary
This being the case, the city
can well afford to employ idle |
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