The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-27
MOLINE.
FRANK HARDWOOD, Reporter
Office :-Harwood's Livery.
ITEMS IN BKIEF.
Reporter

The river is rising rapidly at this point.
Miss Eta Pitts win spend the summer
in Washington, D. G.
A new restaurant has been started in the
old Weber brewery on Wells street.
The Peal house will undergo extensive
improvements in the near future
The hose contest takes place Thursday
evening on Main street.
Prof. Mack and wife will spend part of
| Lost, a sleeve button with an onyx set
ting marked with letter "R." The finder
will leave at Wallace's and get reward
Mrs. Geo. Yinton, of Burlington, arriv-
ed in the city last evening on a visit to
| friends.
G. w. Lobdell and family will leave soon
for the sea shore to spend the summer
months.
The city authorities have secured der
rick from the Island to raise the wreck of
the Rock river bridge.
The Corn Planter works and the pillow
shops are running very slack at present,
| this being a dull season.
E. E. Hood, the Main street grocer, has
rented and is occupying the Macburney
residence on Ann street
The "Pansy Band will give another of
their enjoyable sociables at the Congrega-
tional church Friday night.
The funeral of Clara Livington took
place Sunday, and was largely attended
bo ut -,
There will be meeting of the oil sol
diers at the engine house on Thursday
evening. A full attendance is desired
There was no mail from the east until
last night, on account of the washout at
Green River.
Louis Rosenstein, of the O. S. Clothing
store, was on the eleven o'clock train,
Chicago bound. Saturday night, but he
sustained no injury.
Miss Nellie Mangold has returned to
Moline to spend her summer vacation. She
has for the past eight months been teach
ing school at Rural
The Moline Wagon Cos advertising cars
are attracting great deal of attention, and
thing ever got up in Moline.
Dimock, Gould & Cos lumber piles
danced quite lively tune to the wind on
Saturday night No serious damage was
done.
Deere & Co. propose to have fine hose
house for the Deere Hose Company, and
the work is being rapidly pushed toward
completion.
The Clinton boys will not play the
Boys in Blue" of this city, matched
game of ball. The opinion is that the
Iowsns are afraid of the Moline boys
An excursion to Muscatine by boat com
posed of the elite of Moline's society is
one of the happenings which win take
place this week.
The entire corps of teachers with the
exception of three, have accepted the sit
uations offered them by the board of edu-
cation.
Marshal Henderson has the So that
Little Fannie" claims, and it will be Civ
en- back to her as soon as she substanti-
ates her claim for it.
The improvements on the Moline post
Office will be commenced in a few days.
About /, 500 new Yale lock boxes are to be
put in AID then everybody can have
box.
Officer Williams returned home from
Iowa on Saturday night, where he has
been on hunt for the missing corn doc
tor, but he could not find any trace of him.
whatever.
If Turner had have rowed at St. Louis
he undoubtedly would have won the senior
single race, as he beat duchmore, the
winner. at Moline and Peoria. In fact. If
the Sylvans had have practiced and gone