The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-09-04
ILLrN OBS NEWS.
Shelbv has 4 kindefrarten.

Shelby has kindergarten.
Ottawa Is to have the telephone.
Whooping cough prevails at Waverly.
Apples are drug at 10 cents per bush.
| ell at Tuscola.
Hon. A. Nj, Harrington. of Geneva. is
reported very ill,
At Danville. potatoes retail from gro
ceries at 80 cents per bushel.
There is still considerable sickness In
Clinton from typhoid dysentery.
Judge Henry centemplates starting q
creamery on his farm north of Shelby.
vile.
A large wolf was captured and killed
Monday, q few miles south of Bartlett,
Kane county.
The st. Louis Milling Company has
purchased the Peoples mill. at Carrolton.
and will run it.
The fall wave of prairie schooners,"
bound for Kansas. has begun to pass
through this state
Jerseyville public schools oren on the
18th. having been postponed on account OF
| Barnum's show.
The organization of a ministerial insti-
tute of the Gilman Baptist association at
Watseka is determined.
The ground is so hard and dry 10 Dou-
glas county that the farmers cannot break
their wheat ground.
The real estate in Illinois is assessed at
$733. AGO, 900 the average assessed value
of snds being $ll SO per acre.
Montgomery county has two fair associ-
| atoms, but rs yet no steps have been taken
| toward fair this season.
The potato crop will not be an average
yield about Nokomis. The bug and
drought being the common enemies.
A soldiers reunion of the 10th Illinois
volunteer regiment will be held in Tuscola
Saturday, September 18th.
The annual convention Of the Living
| ston county Sunday school association will
be held at Pontiac, September 22d and
2Srd.
The last note on the Pontiac Nj. e.
church was lifted by Rev. G.. w. Cue last
Saturday. The Methodist church is now
clear of debt.
DR.. Eli Corwin. for many years pastor
of the Congregational church at jackson
vile, preached his farewell sermon to that
church last sabbath.
/ Several farmers living near Edinburg
/ r6aHzcu bedFly piOO yer dcEe sHiS ScdoOA
| from their watermelon crops. The crop
was the best for many years,
The Illinois Central has force Of sixty
men putting in q $45. 900 bridge over Salt
creek. Just south of Clinton. 1t is a very
substantial structure, and is to replace q
wooden truss bridge.
| The biggest game of draw poker" ever
played in this town, says tho Alton 1ele.
graph. was played Monday, when one man
and he from the country. raked in 500
from the board. The ante was $3.50.
| The shipment of fruit from Alton to
Chicago and other points continues very
heavy, One firm is shipping regularly
from one thousand to fifteen hundred
baskets day aud other dealers are also
shipping largely,
A singular scene took place in Peoria
city lately. The hay crop in Ohio is short
owing to the drouth, and some fellows
have been over there and purchased lot
of calves aud brought them there to sell
to the farmers here.
The Methciists are making great pre-
parations for the conference which is to
be held at Fair bury 10 September. Some
three huneredspreacher are expected to
be present, and the price of yellow legged
chickens have, in consequence. materially
advanced.
In Wayne county the result of good
crops and better times is shown in the
various improvements now ia progress,
the sale of and demand for real estate. the
scarcity of farms and houses for rent, the
demand for all kinds of labor, Is conclu-
sive evidence of prosperity.
Typhoid lever in 1.-THE severest form is
prevailing in the rural portions Of Mclean
county, and number of deaths have re-
Gently occurred from il. Calvin Dunlap
of Ellsworth, one of the best known old
residents of Mclean county. died on the
25th instant frem this malady,
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