The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-11-24
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Thanksgiving services tomorrow.
The beautiful snow has come.
Go and see Colleen Bawn this even
ing.
Mary Anderson is now playing in st.
Louis.
Remember the banks will be closed
tomorrow.
Thanksgiving services ia all the
churches to morrow.
Teams, loaded with hogs, are begin
ing to come in lively.
The locomotive frsmen will have
dance at Armory Hall Dec. 81.
The Florence Herbert combination
will play in Geneseo next week.
The poll-tax collector is around and
no doubt you'll be glad to see him.
The telephone exchange will be
closed to- morrow from 10 &. NJ, to p. m.
The business houses, or at least
large number of them. will close to-
morrow.
The Florence Herbert Company pre-
sent the Colleen Bawn at Harper's Theatre
to night.
Quite a number of Moliners came
down last evening to see Miss Florence
Herbert.
The Glucose Works Of Davenport
consume fromr 1000 to 5000 bushels of
corn daily.
The Iron Mouders' Union of Moline,
give their sixth annual ball at Timm's
hall this evening.
The next holiday after Thanksgiving
will be Christmas. which comes this year
on Saturday, the 18th.
The Methodist church of Blue Grass,
Scott county. is having revival.-this,
of course, is spiritual boom.
No paper -morrow,-the boys set
up the Thanksgiving proclamation, and
they have not forgotten the date.
The Postof6ce will close tomorrow
at 10 a, M. and will not open again until
Friday morning at the usual hour.
The turkey has had its last gobble--
because the gobblers of tomorrow will
oatgo5ble all gobblers in the gobbIe line.
E. Z. Rogers & Son. the Port Byron
bankers, have built three cribs Ter storing
corn with 4 capacity Of 10000 bushels
each.
Remember the Matinee, of the
Florence Herbert Combination. at Harper S
Theatre Tomorrow afternoon. Admission
Is cents, children 10 cents.
-Chas. III. Osborn, Esq. aud Maj. j.
case of the Mercer County Railroad be
fore the Railroad and Warehouse COM
missioners.
Charley Cooper is cow running the
American express on the G. B. L O., the
most important route Of the company in
Illinois. Charley is not only 4 Cooper but
Hoop er.
Mr. James. First at his new wagon
factory, at Milan, is pushing things as
fast as possible, and expects to turn out SOM
three or four hundred wagons By the time
spring opens
There will be Thanks giving service
a: Trinity Chapel, corner OF 7th street
and 4.h avenue tomorrow evening at
o'clock-sermon by Rev. A. b. Allen.
rector of Trinity church.
The Inimi;able Lew Simmons will
appear with Havcrly's Mastadon MINSTREL
who will be here D3c. l. He is the fu nj
est end man in the business-famiIiarly
known as the Philadelphia favorite.
"A New Orleans dispatch to the St
LOUIS Republican Gays, that Alice Oates
has disbanded her company. She says
that she has done all the work and Charlie
Gardner has poeketed the money"
| Davenport has just put in the new
Gamewell Fire Alarm Telegraph, but now
that the work is completed and ready to
turn over to the city. and $4,000 is to be
paid for it, the sound does not seem TO
strike their pockets or ears as we'll as they
anticipated
| There is saw mill located at Swart-
wik. Sweden, owned By an American
named Dickinson. which contains thirty
six gangs which run eighteen hours per
day. cutting $4,000 logs per week aver
aging $50 feet to the log, making an
aggregate Of 1873, 900 feet of sawed
lumber in one week
A lumber firm has received letter
from saltwater, which states that Isaac
Staples. Of that place. will employ 600 men
in his logging operations this winter, and
expects to cut $4,000, 900 feet during the
season. which will be worth $500. 000-his
cam paign being carried on in nine or ten
different camps, and requiring capital of
$500, 900 Mr. Staples is said to own a
million dollars worth of pine lands.
The golden age-the prssent-when
Esterbrook' Steel Pens. the most popular
in use. are within the reach OF ALL