The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-10-24
MOLINE DEPARTMENT.
E. L. EASTMAN, Reporter
Headquarters one door West of Reimer's
Cigar Store.

| Cigar Store.
Mr. A E. Oak, of Cambridge, is visiting
! friends in this city.
| Dr. Piper has left on flying trip to the
| Garden city.
Mrs Lucy Folger has accepted posi-
| ton as clerk at the postoffice.
Barnard s. Lees have begun running
hours per day instead of 10 as heretofore.
| Chas. A. Ferristrom and J. N. Golden,
of Iowa City, are in the city on business.
Nell Toilet who was appointed by the
| library board committee of one to solicit
purchasers for season tickets to the course
of lectures to be given this winter reports
that he has sold Al tickets or $50 worth
and he only began yesterday afternoon.
The foundation for the addition to Bron-
nings & Entrikin's law office was com
pleted yesterday.
The erection of the building to be used
in the manufacture of the Haley road cart,
will be completed by Saturday next. a
| large force of men is at work upon it.
The macadam which has just been placed
on Main street is being now covered with
ashes, which is a decided Improvement
J. W War; and D. o. Reid were each
made happier by the arrival of babies last
night of the masculine gender. All Mo
line is smoking to-day in honor of the dual
arrival
The city cisterns are being filed to-day
by City Engineer Asterlund.
Barnard & Leas were obliged to shut
down this morning for the balance of the
week, caused by the cross bar giving way.
allowing the piston rod to shoot back
breaking the cylinder and thus disabling
their machinery. As soon as another
cylinder can be procured and put in they
will resume their work A new dam is
being built just inside of the wing dam,
whereby they propose to prevent another
of those breaks which has just delayed
them in their work upon the canal.
VIM. King and Henry Cary, two plaiu
DRINKS, were taken before his honor,
Squire Mapes, this morning who, after
giving them lecture on the ways of their
transgression fined them SIS and costs.
Ifhe would have put it ten cents and costs
he probably could have got it just as easy,
as they were without money and friends"
in a strange country, having spent their
last cent last evening on the flowing
bowl" They were allowed to depart; they
went west" and will probably turn up in
our sister city, soon.
The drainage of several of our streets
is bad, and should be attended to at once
by the street superintendent. Some new
cutters are needed, the ones we have are
merely slop holes
At meeting of the board of education
held last evening it was decided to use
Harrington's spelling books in rooms F, G
and IT, in the several buildings, also in the
grammar room.
Mrs. L Cassel leaves on Thursday for
Fairibault, Mimi, where her sick daughter
now is. As soon as she is strong enough
they viii remove her back to this CITY, as
the north does not seem as beneficial to her
as they expected it would be.
BeSSTs. 0unHSll ana l1uDDdTus WHO were
appointed some time ago as teachers in the
night schools, have both refused to serve,
one not caring to work for $50 per month,
and the other thinking it too much work
in addition to teaching the day school.
The school committee of the board of edu-
cation is now in quest of some person to
take either of these schools, but as vet has
not been successful.
Henry Mars is on the warpath to-day.
He has been having some kind of trouble
with the parties living in the same house
with him. and declares that they shall
leave or he will He was around in search
of Marshal Henderson this morning, whom
he imagined could walk over there and set
their household goods out in the streets.
Henry was so mad that he came as near