The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-12-28
BREvlTIES.

Gents latest style shoes. at Carse q ret
icker's
Oracle the interesting daughter of Mr..
L. H. Dudley, IS seriously i'll with lung
fever.
1t is expected that the Van Derpoele
dynamo-electric machine will arrive to-day.
Call at Gates and get nice lamp for a
New Years present.
Tomorrow evening the Literary Society
of the First Methodist church, MI meet
in the lecture room of the church.
Bottom prices at Carse 81 Reticker's.
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The ice which Mr.. George Wagner is
cutting near the waterworks building, is
over foot thick and of excellent quail
ity.
Regular monthly meeting of the Rock
Island Building, Savings and Loan Asso-
citation next Tuesday evening in the Office
of Guyer s. Kinnaird.
The Chicago. Milwaukee and st. Paul
road has issued new through freight tar
if, all rail, between Chicago, Milwaukee,
or Racine and stations on the Dubuque di-
vision and branches.
Special convocation of Bar1ett chapter
R. A NJ. this afternoon for work in the
Past Most Excellent and Royal Arch de-
grees.
Last evening up to O'Clock the mercury
dropped as if creased and there was every
indication of a very cold night, but change
occurred after midnight and to-day's tenn
perature is quite agreeable.
Secretary J. W. Patterson of the Clinton
Bridge Company arrived in town this
morning and this afternoon went out to
Milan with Aldermen Henry and Lafrenz
to see about the corrugated iron for the
top of the big bridge.
Mr. c. M. Levey, the newly appointed
assistant superintendent of the st. Louis,
Keokuk and Southwestern, and Chicago,
Burlington and Kansas City road, left for
Keokuk last evening. to assume the duties
of his new office.
The musical features of the regular
monthly praise service next Sunday even
ing at the Central Presbyterian church
promise to be more interesting, even. than
heretofore. as the Rock Island Quartette
club has promised to lend a helping hand
Messrs. Buford are shipping on an aver
age from two to three car loads of plows,
ETC., day to California, Texas. Oregon
and to almost all other points of the COM
pass. Rock Islanders are hardly aware of
the immense business this establishment is
doing.
O-Sau-Kee Tribe No. 10, l. o. r. NJ, |
elected officers last evening as follows:
Prophet E. w Boynton; Sachem, j. c. |
Lafrenz; Senior Sycamore, T. F. Graham;
Junior Sycamore, David Laffler; Chief of |
Records, G. w. Henry; Keeper of VAN
pun, A. E. Knickerbocker. The order is
in most fiourfshing condition.
On Wednesday evening, January 10, at
the residence of the brides parents corner
of Third avenue and Eleventh street, the
marriage ceremony of Samuel Sternberg,
of ST. Paul, Mimi, and Miss Title Rosen-
field will take place, to be followed by a
reception ball at the Armory.
Marriage licenses have been issued us
follows: Herman L1ppelt and Miss Mary
Brandt, of Osborn; John A. Balm, Wood
stock, Canada, and Miss Esther J. Kale,
Rock Island; Gideon Reed and Miss Laura
A. Ellsworth, Illinois City; Amos G. LAT
gren, Peoria, and Miss Augusta Hanson,
Moline.
The friends in this city of Mr.. J. H
Peters, clerk and shorthand writer in
the office of Mr.. E. St. John. General Pas
senger Agent of the Rock Island road,
will regret to learn that he died on Sunday
Of brain fever. He was very promising
young man, only 1s years of age, and all
his associates feel deeply grieved over his
death.
A young book agent was in town this
forenoon looking up stolen overcoat.
He had been boarding at Mrs. Taylor's, in
Main street, Davenport, and about 8 o'clock
on Christmas evening somebody slipped
into the hall and made off safely with the
coat. He didn't know but what Conrad
Ward, who stole Squire Choppers coat,
was the fellow who got away with his.
At its regular business meeting the First
Baptist society received and adopted the
report of the advisory committee. Upon
suggestion of the committee pulpit COM
mittee was appointed consisting of Messrs.