The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-16
A MAYNARD GIRL.
She Leaves Pleasant Home and a
Coed Situation i'm Des M0ines.
Iowa,
And Comes to this City, and is Fol.
lowed BY her Mother, Who Per-
suades her to Return to
her Home.

For the past few days you might have
noticed an uncommonly pretty girl walk
ing up and down Second avenue, and
especially around Union square. We say
you might have noticed her, and still
again you might not, for everybody is not
a reporter or policeman. This girl is
only 16 years old. and is ono of the most
handsome, andat the same time the most
accomplished girl that we ever met. She
is brunette in complexion, has large
brown eyes, with hair of deepest black,
and form that Venus might envy. She
was first noticed on our streets last Mon
day afternoon. She came over here on
the ferry boat and went to the post office
and inquired for mail. From the post
office she went up the street to Union
square, and went down Nineteenth street.
passing the Harper house. She was
stopped by hackman, who engaged her
in conversation little while, and then
she went on down Nineteenth street.
This was about half past one o'clock in
the afternoon. About four o'clock she
came back and the hackman met her. He
persuaded her to embark in his hack.
The parties drove over to Davenport and
the girl went to the Ackley house and the
hickman returned here. She came over to
this city on the ferry boat about half
past six that evening, and promenaded
around the streets until 8 o'clock, when
she got in the same hack, and went out
riding around the town, acting in very
outlandish manner. The girl went to a
hotel in this city and stayed all night.
The girl got up the next morning and went
over to Davenport. On the cannon ball
train yesterday morning there arrived a
handsome elderly lady. She inquired the
way to the police headquarters. Arriving
there she unfolded her tale amidst sobs
and tears. She said she lived in Des
Moines, Iowa, and had come to this city
in search of her daughter Ella, who had
left her home about a week ago. Her
daughter Ella Clark-or Marian Smith, as
she has called herself--had been employed
in the central telephone office in that city,
| as day operator. She was very wild
young girl. Her actions were fast" She
received great deal of company, some of
the company she-the mother--ob-
jected to. But her daughter was
headstrong The first thing that
the family knew Ella had gone away,
and they knew not whittier she had gone
| They were cast down with the greatest
grief and anxiety over her. Last Friday
her father, who is railroad man, received
word from Chicago, Rock Island &
Pacific freight conductor that his daugh-
ter was in Davenport, and was boarding
at the Ackley house. The father came to
Davenport, but the girl had gone, where,
the Ackley house folks didn't know. He
returned home sad at heart. Tuesday the
conductor telegraphed that he had seen
the girl in Davenport, and the mother had
taken the train, and here she was Mr..
Miller, who was very much impressed
with the lady's story told her to let hel
mind rest at peace; he would find her Cir
for her The ARGUS reporter was pressed
into service. The scribe was given q
pointer and he went around to the
Harper house corner, and there found q
hackman lying down in q carriage
Hello. here" said the scribe, "what has
became of the young lady from Des
Moines, whom you had out in your hack
last nigbt2' Il don't know; she went owe,
to the Ackley house in Davenport last
night in an express wagon. "Oh, come
now, what are you giving us.-you
don't take us for street cal
on three wheels do you? If you do yor
are barking up the wrong tree. know
you are lying, and if you don't tell mt
where that young lady is you will get S
chance to rusticate in a CELL" I tell vol
don't know, but l guess if you would
look for her in-here he mentioned dis
reputable house in Davenport you will
find her. The Davenport police wers
telephoned and they went and got the
girl. The mother went over the rive
and there had meeting with her daugh-
ter The daughter was fully penitent fo
| the way she had acted, and agreed to &C
home with her mother to Des Moines
They departed for that city on 3 trail
last night, and we hope that in the future
she will act in a manner becoming {
girl who has as much beauty and educa
ton as she possesses.
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