The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-07-17
HERE AND THERE.

Air balmy.
Cool harvest weather.
The moon is now full
The prayer meetings were well attended
last night.
There will be an excursion on the jose
phine down the river Sunday night.
This kind of weather breaks the ice
cream men all up.
By all means let the street commissioner
cut the weeds along the sidewalks.
Only one marriage license was issued
by the county clerk today.
Only two loads of hay were standing on
Market square this forenoon.
This is the big day of the Davenport
races.
Mr.. H. 3. Sudlow and family, are gone
to Spirit Lake Iowa, for a weeks soJourn.
Miss Maude Folger q pleasant young
lady is visiting relatives on eleventh street
Drs. Morgan & McCandless. dentists.
Miss Dot. Mullyan is visiting relatives
in Clinton, Iowa this week.
The Rock Island barber shop has been
remodelled and a new barber Installed
therein.
Have the ARGUS sent TO your house,
and get all the news. Only 124 cents
per week.
Hon. P. O'Mara returned last evening
from New York, having gone there, after
the adjournment of the national conven
ton.
Miss Emma Timmons charming and
accomplished young lady of Muscatine,
Iowa, is being pleasantly entertained by
her friend Miss Bruua Bursdorff of
twenty first street
DR.. ]. W. Stark, Dentist, 1922 Second
avenue. d1yr.
Mr.. Thos. Howard, of the firm of
Wadsworth Go, Davenport. will leave
on Saturday for New York to purchase
large stock of fall gonii for his stores
The Taylor House compares we'll with
the leading hotels in tho wet, Give it a
trial.
Mr. E. W. Hurst, agent for the PennS
sylvania insurance company, Settled the
loss of$5O0 on the Coyne building yester>
day. quite prompt payment.
Mr.. McNultv Corner of seventeenth
street and first avenue gives more beer
for the money than any place in the city
Kell. the man who bounced upon litter
ington in Edgington township had his
trial in the county court yesterday and
was discharged.
Mrs Drucilla Parvin, wife of Rev
Parvin, of Muscatine, and daughter OF
John Edgington, of Buffalo Prairie, dice
last evening aged about thirty years.
Or. A. T. Hawley, dentist corner Sew
enteenth street and Sixth avenue; M. ID
Merrill's residence.
Mr.. Ed Henry left this morning TO
Iowa City, where he has secured stead.
lob as a stone cutter. Ed is one of thu
finest young men in Rock Island and hi
many friends here wish him abundan
success in his new home.
The c. o. D. laundry at Davenport
still continue to laundry shirts at cents
collars q cents and cuffs cents. 10;
Main street, telephone No. 372. doom
| Conductor Degroot, of the Chicago
Burlington & Quincy road, relates tn
killing of one of the bridge collectors a
East st Louis yesterday morning,
train Just ahead OF his, struck the main
and knocked him off the bridge into tn
river. The space intervening between
the track and the end of the bridge i
very narrow, and it is wonder that NOR
do not meet an untimely end than Their,
are.
Supervisors Martin and Pearsoll, of the
upper end, paid the ARGUS Office pleas,
ant visit on Tuesday evening, Martin
was chuck full of democratic enthusiasm
and told us about a Cleveland .and Hen
bricks club which had been organized a,
his town. Pearsoll boosted ON two fin,
boys which he had with him. They wer
certainly children that any father nigh
we'll feel proud of Pcarsoll is republi
can, but if he lets those boys have theil
own way, we will bet two to one tina
they will vote the democratic ticket whel
they reach their majority.