The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-03-24
RREVTTIES.

Easter Sunday tomorrow.
Election next Tuesday week
Tomorrow will be train Sunday on the
Chicago and Northwestern road.
A twelve hours rain would be very &C
ceptable hereabouts
Eggs have advanced to seventeen and {
half cents dozen at retail
Selling at cost. Taylor 81 PhilleO's If
The poorhouse at present shelters one
hundred and ten people of both sexes
The first robin of 1888 was heard by
bluff residents this morning
- Attend Easter services somewhere to
morrow. 1t will do you good.
Gents latest style shoes at Carse 6
Reticker's. If
Meeting this evening in Turner Hall al
8 o'clock of the republicans in city-town-
ship convention.
The adjourned term of county court,
Judge Adams presiding, will convene on
Monday next, the goth inst,
One hundred and eighty mules were
sent to Minneapolis in special freight
train over the G. B. g. @ last Tuesday
night.
Seventeen thousand locomotives, accord
ing to recent count, are owned by the
railroad companies of the United States
The ladies of the First Baptist society
are putting the church and parsonage in
Arst-class condition for occupancy week
after next.
Marriage license was issued to Andrew
J. Carbon and Miss Emma s. Anderson of
Moline
Mrs. Green, fashionable dressmaker.
cutting and fitting a speciality. All work
guaranteed. Pariors, 1921 Third avenue,
between 21st and 22d streets. 21d2w
The singing at the Easter services In
Trinity church TO -morrow will be done by
Mrs. Milton Jones and Mrs. Chopper of this
city and Messrs. MCPHERSON and Cornes
of Moline
The Knights Templar have been furn-
ished detailed information by the C. B. &
Q. line concerning a number of different
routes to San Francisco. preliminary to
their approaching triennial conclave.
The Parker HARDWOOD case has been still
father continued from o'clock this
morning. until the same hour on Monday
next, before Justice Halves.
The only township collectors who have
not yet reported to Treasurer Fleming are
those of Black Hawk, Coal Valley, Hamp-
ton, Moline, Rock Island and South Rock
Island
The frost is out of the ground from
Davenport to Des Moines, SO that ties can
be placed without trouble wherever nee
essary. On the southwestern division of
the Chicago, Rock Island s. Pacific Rail-
road the wheat is six inches out of the
ground about Cameron.
a year ago to-day the immortal left its
frail tenement and the sad news flashed
across the continent that Americas great.
est poet, Henry w. Longfellow, was dead
But his works and fame like his sweet
spirit are immortal
Several of our contractors have work
mapped out which win be prosecuted as
soon as the frost is out of the ground
The ARGUS is informed by ex-Aldermar
Stephens, the well known mason, tina
the frost is at least foot deep yet anC
that in consequence thereof excavatins
for foundations etc, is really out of tn,
question, except at considerable expense
st. Louis Republican, Capt. Alex
Lamont backed out the Matte Belle TO
GAINESVILLE at p. m. yesterday with
number of passengers and good freight
he will have her back here in time L
leave again at A p. m. Saturday, cat
inst"
The Rhea company left Milwaukee,
latter highly successful engagement
early this morning, and by the time til
notice reaches the eyes of our readers a
win have found snug quarters at the Ha
Per.