The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-07-07
Reporter.

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The moulders union Melted quite sun
| from their picnic on the 9Th.
Miss Sophie Koehler left for the west las
evening to be gone all summer.
John Good has entered upon his duties
in the Office of the corn planter works.
Ed Osborn has purchased horse and
buggy and now rides to and from his bust
ness in Davenport
The house and lot that belonged to thu
late Fred Waller, is offered for sale 1t il
situated on the hill
Mrs Robert Heating. of st. Joseph
Missouri, is in the city visiting her mother
Mrs. j. T. Anthony.
On account of the muddy condition o.
Main street the hose company race dlt
not occur last evening.
N. r. Zeigler and family have gone te
Dayton: Ohio, on visit. Mrs. Zeigle'
and children will remain all summer.
Monday night, if pleasant, the post
poned race of the hose companies viii take
place.
Base ball is having wonderful revival
in Moline this year There is on an aver
age of two games played every day.
Moline has reason to be proud of the
boys in blue, as they have not lost a game
this season.
Part of Keator & Cos saw mill has been
shut down on account of the scarcity of
logs.
The Sunday school children of the Meth
odist church had a very pleasant picnic in
Atkinson's park yesterday.
A drunken phrenologist was about the
streets last night examining the heads of
those inclined toward that business.
Miss Bell Matthews. of Galesburg is in
the city visiting her sister, Mrs. Albert
Dick
The city council has totally ignored the
wants of the public in regard to employ
ing city scavenger and it is high time
something was done about it.
There is some difference between this
years city assessments and last years.
There was a manufacturing man in office,
anu ~" blicIc ~ d Hl'ti III VIII SUITS dill
but certain crowd. There is $3.50, 600
difference in the assessment.
The Moline Lumber Company, is the
title of a new firm, the members of which
reside in this city, but operate in Helena,
Ark. The firm is composed of Albert
Dick, Adam Dick, and James Atkinson.
They are about to erect saw mill in He
lena for the manufacture of hard wood
lumber, such as is used for the wood work
in agricultural implements. The invest
ment is said to be paying one. So Mo-
line controls one more of an already extern
sive list of outside Industries. Adam
Dick will superintend the management of
the mill when 1t is constructed. Mr.. Dick
is practical man and win make things
boom.
The Dispqtch, with brazen effrontery,
came out last night in an editorial of self
praise, upon the fact that they got the ae-
count of the hanging of Guiteau in their
weekly. but how did they do it? They
held their daily and weekly until the Da-
venport Democrat was issued, then they
bought the first copy of it and rushed over
to Moline with it and took the account
bodily published it and got out their daily
at nine o'clock in the evening, and never
gave the Democrat credit for the telegraph
"a cheeky piece of business that does not
receive the commendation of anyone. IF
it had not been for the egotism displayed
in the editorial it would not have looked
so bad; but that capped the climax, lead
ing the public to believe that they had re-
ceived the dispatches.
The statement of business done at the
Moline postofice for the second quarter
of 1882, ending June 80, is as follows: