The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-10-17
Town Talk.



The ground is covered with heavy
frost every morning now.
Alderman Henry has some very fine
peaches just received.
The topic at the Broadway church
prayer meeting this evening, will be
Soul Prosperity" --llf, iii.
Mr. Ben 7. Gable has rendered the Stat
base bali club the use of the club rooms
formerly occupied by the athletic club
This years corn crop in the United
States is estimated by the department of
agriculture at 16 600, 100000 bushels v
more soft corn than usual
See Champion & Co.'S closing out adj
vertisement.
The Chicago, Rock Island g. Pacific
road had quite an excursion from here to
Chicago last night. There were fifty
tickets sold at the Davenport office, and
about fifteen from this side
Marshal Miller has received descrip
ton by mail. of one Charles J. Godfrey,
who is wanted at Brookline, Mass, for
embezzlement.
Artists materials at the Harper house
drug store.
Although the Knights of Pythias talked
good deal abont going to Peoria today.
not one was at the depot this morning
when the train left There were few
members went from Davenport. and
they looked stunning" in their new
uniforms.
Champion & Co. s announcement means
exactly what 1t says no advertising dodge.
Don't forget the meeting this evening
in the room over the County Clerks office
for the purpose of organizing base bal
association for next year. 1t is hoped
that all interested in the national gamt
will be present.
A sure cure for dyspepsia, by using
Adams German Compound, at Thomas.
There is another prisoner at the county
jail 1t is Sheriff Reticker. The cold hi
lately contracted has settled in his eyes
and his physician has ordered him tt
remain in darkened room. Remaining
idle causes our sheriff more uneasines.
than the sickness with which he is suffer
ing.
Perfect satisfaction is guaranteed TO
every pair of spectacles sold at the Harpe
house drug store. 13-6t
Messrs. NJ. Davis, general agent of tn
Bandit Eng company" accompanie
by Mr. II. Turner, have been II the cit
for the past few days, making arrange
ments to place their excellent drama o
the boards at Harper's theatre, one wee
from tonight. The play has been care
fully rewritten, and it is in many respect
superior to the performance of last veal
Surprisingly low prices on wall pape
and window shades, at Champion s. Co.
closing out sale. oct Is ct
f Springfield Register: The apple Gro
, in some portions of Southern Illinois
t without parallel n extent of yield an
quality. A prominent gentleman of tn
r city, who has been in the vicinity
f Salem, says that there are orchards in Thu
s section of forty acres that have nette
t SIS, 900 this year. The apples in man
s places are piled up in rail pens similar |
the usual way of crIbbing corn in th
section, some of these cribs holding !, &c
bushels of apples.
r Winsor & Newton's tube paints, fu
line at the Harper house drug store.
n Phil Hoffman, who has been in IL
d employ of w. A. Pilgrim IN the flour al
/, and feed business for many years HI
}, branched out in the same business Fl
|. himself. He has opened -four and fet
@ store on Seventeenth street, near Four
ave. where he respectfully solicits sha
n of patronage. Mr. Hoffman thorough
understands the -four and feed busine
v. and all who favor him with their orde
h can depend on having them filled satisf
+ torily Read his advertisement in anoth
o column.
q The Galena Gazette says: Captain
# W Girdon arrived home last evenil
e from an official trip to Davenport al
:, Rock Island. The gentleman brougl
If with him photographs of the famous pr
n historic tablets found recently by his o
'e friend Ca plain Hall. in a mound ne
y Davenport. These relics have puzzi
ID the say ans of the United States and e
y, rope, and are supposed TO be of Egypt
20 origin, and older than any known histo
III of the worlds events They are at pre-
ent in the museum at Davenport, viii
+ contains the most valuable relics of /
is pre- historic age that have been fonnd
a. America, nearly all of which were disco
lie cred by Captain Hall, who has been e.