The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-11-16

The boys IN the county Offices are
afraid their new building will not be
ready for occupancy by the first of De-
cember, the time agreed on
Ladies' warm lined shoes and overshoes
in great variety, at E. Turner's.
The funeral of the infant son Of Mr..
and Mrs Condor, corner of Twenty fifth
street and Fifth avenue, took place at two
o'clock this afternoon.
Gentlemons underwear, fun line of
everything you car ask for at Liberman's,
the halter.
The young man on Third avenue be-
tween Eighteenth and Nineteenth streets,
has not been molested by burglars since
Wednesday evening.
Low prices in warm goods at Carse &
Reticker's.
The river is rapidly filling with ice. and
the ferry boat experiences much difficulty
in making her trips The ice formed so
solidly on this side last night that the boat
was tied up on the Iowa shore.
Ladies fine goods in prices that astonish
everybody at Carse & Reticker's. st
The Louisville Commercial notices
game of base ball that took place between
two female clubs on Monday. They
might come up here in day or two and
play on the ice.
The Geneseo Nelos has the following
rough one on the Woodruff girls. Ibis
very likely (although we will not venture
to make the assertion) that there are
some Of the same sort of girls in the city
of Rock Island
The Woodruff girls are seriously troub-
led with talking ia their sleep, kissing
their room mate and exclaiming, 20
George! 1t is almost Thanksgiving, and
you have not proposed"
The city clerk was busy today paying
the street laborers for the work performed
the last two weeks. The amount paid
out amounted to 1904. rs. THIS virtually
finishes the street work until next spring
The ice floating down the river today,
passes down on the Iowa side, where it
is blown by the wind. The wind was
directly opposite yesterday, and The ice
was all on this side
J. B. thinner has an excellent line of
overcoatings in both foreign and domes
tic make.
At the residence of Mrs Belle Comp
ton on Second avenue yesterday, Rev J.
A. Reynolds Joined in matrimony Mr..
Edward a. cassidy and Miss Jennie Con
don, of LeClaire, Iowa.
Foot wear of every description at the
pioneer boot and shoe store of E. Turner.
The prices of fancy nuts are higher at
present than for years and they will pro
baby be still higher before the next crop
is In the market. Brazil nuts are very
scarce, and the almond crop is a complete
| failure
Liberman, the halter, has in stock the
finest line of fur hats that can be found
in the three cities.
A Mother Hubbard dress, says an ex
change, is one of those things that gather
at the neck and go where they please.
The principal requirement is to gather at
| the neck.
We find this item in an exchange: TO
clean out stove pipe place a piece OF
zinc on the live Goals in the stove. The
vapor produced by the zinc will carry of
the SCOT by chemical decomposition. Per
sons who have tried the process claim it
will work every time"
One hundred barrels of choice Missouri
Geniton apples for sale at the Diamond
10 boat Office, cheap. 146t
Officer Bunker arrested D. G. Leary
last night for being drunk and disordtrly
1t was only the other day that the same
individual was arrested for being drunk
and now he makes the offense worse by
being disorderly. Police Magistrate
Chopper placed his fine at S. and costs,
and Leary was placed in the jug for want
of cash.
As the cold winter winds are now upon
us, provide yourself with one Of those
fine overcoats, which j. B. thinner hal
/ regulation of making.
The Geneseo Neos hears it softly
whispered" that new depot will be bull
at that town next summer When
railroad company commences to talk o.
building new depot, it is generally abou
ten years before the work is completed
SO the Geneseo people can rest easy OIL
thst question for some time yet
Armours sugar cured ham and driet
beef at Hawley & Hills.
The weather prophets from Maine tc
California, have predicted amid and opel
winter. This has deceived a good many
in this neck o'woods, and when the biz
zard struck the town on Tuesday, i
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found many of the people unprepared TO
It,. Some of the bloods had left thei
overcoats with their uncle" and Their
was nothing for them to do but to grill
and bear it.
When you want reliable insurance a
How rates, call on w. L. Coyne, corner o
, Seventeenth street and Third avenue, VI
stairs, Rock Island, Ill. dSm
THE LeMars Democrat says it is an oil,
sign that when the leaves hang on til
trees long and stubbornly hard white
is coming The sign held true last winter
J The leaves were unusually persistent an