The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-10
IncaT. IAcoNIcs.


see SO many bananas.
President J.. 8. Pickard, of the Iowa
State University, was at the Kimball yes
tereiay. He delivered an address to the
graduates Of the training school in the
afternoon.
The Sunday edition of the ARGUS, it
should be remembered. is the only paper
delivered in Davenport on that day giving
full and complete telegraphic press reports
of Saturday nights.
Since last report, marriage licences have
been issued to Carl Adolph Matthey and
Meta Steffen, George w. Metzgar and
Anna w. Hanks, John III. Evers and Mat
tie Buttsehau, Robert Patterson and Mary
Roebuck.
School No. 8, closed fer the last two
weeks on account of the existence of small
pox in the near vicinity, will open again
on Monday. The danger of spreading the
contagion in that locality is now past.
B. F. Pinneo, of Greedy, Col. with Miss
Pinneo, and Miss Maynard, female eques-
TRANS, were at the Kimball yesterday. The
ladies wilt give an exhibition of their skill
in long distance riding at the fair ground
this afternoon.
Now is the summer of our surat like
| thunder, when the vendor of nobby straw
hats hangeth them out for the inspection
parent underwear impresseth upon the per
spring purchaser the belief that they will
not evaporate into space the first time they
strike washboard.
The Hahneman association of Iowa will
have an excellent delegate to the annual
meeting of the national institute of homeo
pathy in the person of DIR. r. F. Baker,
who left yesterday for indianapolis. where
the meeting will be held on the 18th inst.
Several hundred lunches of choice
bananas for sale cheap at Kerker's
Messrs. Alferd Collins. Digby V. Ball,
F. A. Dubois John Houson, C. j. Camp
bell, Misses Laura Joyce, II. Hall and
Sterlig, of the Comley Barton opera com
pany, were at the Kimball yesterday. The
other members of the mamouth company
are quartered at the other hotels
To give an idee of the variety and mag
nificence and elegance. of the costumes of
1.-THE Comely Barton company, it is only
necessary to state they carry with them on
their travels upwards of ninety pieces of
baggage. Forty trunks and boxes of
stage costums came in on the Atlantic ex-
press Thursday night, followed by at least
fifty pieces more yeste rday morning.
Hon. Aaron Kimball, of Cresco, How
ard county, was registered at the Kimball
yesterday. Mr.. Kimball represented How
ard county in the state senate for number
of terms. He was making arrangements
for the coming to Davenport of Governor
ST, John, of Kansas who will speak in
favor of the prohibition amendment few
days before the coming election, Mr..
Kimball is an ardent supporter of the
measure.
A certain young lady OF. Davenport, who
enjoys the distinction of having visited
the catacombs of Rome, viewed the grand
eur of st. Peters. glided through the wa
terry streets of Venice in soft-cushioned
gondolas, and has reached as high point
of the snow covered Alps as has been the
lot of the average mortal, is said to have
lost the faculty of speaking in her native
tongue. The book stores are enjoying a
run on Frech and Italian dictionaries, her
young gentleman friends vieing with each
other in being able to understand and
please her in conversation.