The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-11-13

Monday. Now. ls. 1882.
BREvITIES.

Already our merchants are beginning
to get in fine stocks of goods for the hol-
days.
Gents latest style shoes, at Carse &
Reticker's. oct-31d6t
The next song service at the Central
Presbyterian church will be held week
from next Sunday evening.
When the average Rock Islander attends
party in Davenport he tackles Virginia
Seeding" with considerable vigor.
A little cr5er arrived at the home of one
of our city clergymen on Saturday last. 1t
was of the masculine persuasion.
Yesterday morning we had the first
freeze of the season. The wind was cold
enough to ice shallow sidewalk pools and
give mud in the roadway stiff ridges.
The next entertainment at the opera
house will be give1. on Thursday evening
by the popular minstrel organization of
Thatcher, Primrose s. West.
The county Sunday school convention
will begin it's work tomorrow evening in
the First Methodist church
Bear in mind the fact that Bengston's
drug store undersells everyone else.
Nov11 d1w.
Quite number of citizens, went to Ma
comb this morning to take part in the grand
hurrah this evening in honor of Mr. Neece's
election.
Once more the cold winds whistle
through the clothing of the tramp or the
corner loafer and he signs as he thinks
e a. =.
several degrees warmer.
Everybody seems fully satisfied that
when the tower circuit shall be completed
Rock Island will be the best lighted town
in the west
The earnings of the Chicago, Milwaukee
and ST. Paul railway for the first eek in
November are $493, 900, against 1919, 600
for the corresponding week in 1881 gain
of $114,O00
On Saturday evening Mr.. Alexander
Steel celebrated his fifty-f1ftb birthday with
a pleasant company of intimates, at his
residence.
The opera house diagram will be shown
Tomorrow morning, at o'clock, at the
Harper House drug store, for the grand
minstrel entertainment of Thursday even
ing.
A grand free lunch every morning from
$50 till II at o. F. Soper's, No 1870 |
Eighteenth street, also oysters served up |
in the latest style. Nov3dtf
The pleasing operetta of THE Naiad |
Queen will be given at the Harper opera |
house on the nights of Dec. 10, Is, 10 and
49,
The Libbie Conger, bound to St. Louis, |
ought to have been here on Saturday but |
was wind bound somewhere and will not |
leave here till some time this afternoon or |
evening. The Pittsburgh is expected this |
evening from St. Louis She will go over
the rapids early in the morning.
At L. Schauder's, opposite the Rock ISL
and house, fine cold lunch, New York
count oysters, Bohemian and Pilsene
beer, orchestIian music, etc. Give him
call 2-dtf
The agents of the Chicago, Milwaukee
and st. Paul have received orders to sell
through tickets from Minneapolis or ST.
Paul to Chicago first class at S.. This is
retaliation on the Rock Island for the cut
Ting OF TateS between minneapolis and CHI
cago over its Albert-Lea route
Next Sunday evening grand concert
will take place in Turner Hall, participa-
ted in by Miss Bertha Fiebach, a charming
singing soubrette Mr.. Rud Gewert,a bril-
liant cornet soloist and Mr. Richard Kohl,
bass clarlonet soloist. 1t viii be well
worth attending.
Mr. John n. Schmidt and Miss Emily S. |
Kroeger, who obtained a marriage license
on Saturday, were married Yesterday after
noon and on last evening gave grand re-
ception to their friends. Mr. and Mrs.
Schmidt start out oD their matrimonial
voyage under the most suspicious circum-
stances
When certain young gentleman invit-
ed his friends to some oysters yesterday
afternoon, provided they walked over to
Davenport with him, they did not decline
oh no. They braced up and faced the
wind, all for the little bivalve.
The Winston Dramatic Co., which was
at the Harper over Sunday, will play at
Harper's opera house next Monday even
ing. Miss Jennie Winston is well known
favorite in New York, Philadelphia, Bos-
ton, and other large cities, and is the lead
ing comic opera artistic in America She |