The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-06-06
CAUGHT ON THE FLY.
All the hotels report business good.

The monthly concert Will be gwen at
the Broadway church this evening
The Turn Germinde has its monthly
meeting at Turner Hall tonight.
The Rock Island officials report railway
business picking up.
Mems working shoes 95 cents, at Case
& Retickers.
The council meets in special session
Friday night.
F W. Irwin, auditor of the Iowa pool
commission, is in the city.
W Barnard, proprietor of the Lorimer
House, Dubuque, is in the city, as fresh
and as funny as ever.
The High School Alumni association
viii hold its annual reunion at Armory
hall on the 18th.
The young people of the Christian
church will give strawberry festival
next Friday evening.
For awnings, tents, etc, apply to &. d.
Young, No. III Main street Davenport
may2d3m
MT. Park, assistant secretary of state
of Wisconsin, is in the city, the guest of
his brother, j. H Park.
City Marshal Kittilson. of Moline, was
in town to-day, and dined at the Rock
Island house.
The Pittsburg arrived on her way down
the river this afternoon.
The Josephine arrived from Dubuque
this morning, and returned this after
noon. She is doing good business
Mr.. ]. ]. lavender, Galatia, Ill, says:
" used Browns Iron Bitters for indiges
ton and found great relief,
Old papers for sale at the Argus" Of
fee in packages of TO- 20, 80, 40 and SOC
at the rate of so cents per hundred If
The proposed game between the Stars
and the Rock Island railroad nine, set for
to-day, will not come off.
The city clerk is busy cashing bills. 1t
takes money to run a city and a newspa-
per. The rest is all clear sailing
Choice large new potatoes, at Hawley
& Hills.
Jacob Ohlweiler, Louis Ohlweiler and
August Herkert are telling big stories
about fishing trip they took yesterday.
Last evening was just the ideal of a
summers night, until the rain storm
struck u.s.
An excursion of Swedes will arrive from
Rockford tomorrow, to attend the com
mencement exercises at Augustana college.
Mr.. Theodore Luce returned to Rock
Island this morning, from Minneapolis
He expects to remain here.
Miss Emma Harrison, of Milwaukee
arrived in the city this morning, and viii
spend few days with friends at the RocE
Island House.
J. c. Aud had charge of Conductor
Sutliff's train to day The latter gentle
man and bis wife are in Chicago, attend
ing the convention of railway appliances
Fresh Cherries, at Hawley & Hills.
Mr.. George Lamont, the agent for tn,
Diamond 10 line in this city, is kept yer.
busy at present, and will remain so durin:
the summer He is wide-awake ant
watchful. and works hard for the interes
of his company.
Mrs. W. II. Atwood has gone to Gales
burg and Galva on visit. Mr.. Atwood
expects to go to Gslva on Saturday, anC
visit over Sunday.
W. C. Gardner, who has owned bar
Der shop on Third avenue between Tent
and Eleventh streets for some time, il
moving to Milan oday, where he will
hereafter conduct his tonsorial business
Miss Nette Bowman, first assistan
principal of the high school, has received
notice of an appointment in the norma
school at Bloomington.
The Decatur firemen challenged tn
Moline tiremen for a match, and put N
$3.50 in the hands OF the chief of the fir
department of Peoria They waited long
but the Molineites would not ''go ant
see them" The match has been declared
, off
Prof DOdle, of the German-EnglisI
school, gave his pupils an excursion t.
Black Hawks Tower, this afternoon
The professor has the pure milk of humai
kindness in his breast
"Pellsbury's best at Hawiey Il Hills
A little girl was knocked down by
buggy, last evening, on the corner o
Third avenue and Sixteenth street
Luckily her injuries were slight. Their
is altogether too much reckless driving
Robert G. Willerton, the light
clerk at the Harper House, will still re
main there, notwithstanding the fiatterin
inducements offered at the Kimball Houst
Davenport Mr.. Harper knows goo
+ man when he has him, and came to
sensible conclusion when he gave Willel
toms salary boost.
| There remains $4,000 of de,inquen
! taxes, and the payments are coming l
rather slow. There only remains fey
l more days of grace, as the tax sale take
, place next Monday, and the souorou
voice of the auctioneer will be yellln
: forth that the homes of free America
citizens are going, going, going"
!, All who go on the Peoria excursio
should not fail to visit Springdale cemt
D terry, as it is one of the finest in the stat
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