The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-13
THE CITY In BRIEF.
II still remains cool.

FTdnk wall, Vi hcyHOluS, WAS III lHo
city yesterday.
Matters are very quiet in Judge Adams
court
Farmers are coming into town more |
lively than for week or two back.
Dick Ellis, of Gable, was visiting
friends in this city yesterday
The hotels seem to be doing good
business just now.
New corn is getting hard enough to
feed to hogs.
Drs. Morgan & McCandless, dentists.
President r. r. Gable, of the G. r. &
2. is in the city.
John S. Boney, of Reynolds, was in the
city this morning.
The brick work on the new first Bap>
list church steeple has been completed.
Excursion from Cable one week from
today.
Deputy Circuit Clerk Bowman attended
the Hillsdale and Coe fairs yesterday.
The Moline Swede republicans are to
have iollifcation next Thursday even>
ing.
The Rock Island & Moline street rail
way company Is having its track fixed up.
Tom Langdell has been sent to the
poor house. He is pretty badly wrecked.
John Blakeley, of Presumption, was IN
town today.
En-Sheriff William Drury, of Buffalo
Prairie was in the city today.
There are over seventy tickets sold Tor
the Bottlers' ball this evening.
DIR. j, w Stark, Dentist, 1922 Second
avenue. d1yr
The Rock Island Bottlers club give
grand ball in Turner hall this evening
Oscar Bruuer, of Edgington, was among
the country visitors to the city yesterday.
The season for dancing has arrived and
good many young people are happy
thereat
The prison doors in the police station
are again secure since Chas. Fiehg over
hauled the locks
Quincy" Banes has been attending the
Mt. Joy fair this week introducing new
kind of roof paint
DR.. 4. T. Hawley. dentist, corner Sew
enteenth street and Sixth avenue.
A. j. Hill, indicted for attempted
murder, pleaded not guilty when arraign>
in the circuit court
w II. and Ed Wcnks and David Rich
ardson, of Edgington, returned from Chi
cago this morning.
John Whitsitt the big short horn stock
raiser Of Presumption, was in town this
morning.
Prof Hubbard, of Cedar Rapids, pass
through the city today on his way to
Taylor Ridge to visit relatives.
Charles Parmenter, of Lyndon, White
side county, passed through the city this
morning on his way to Reynolds to visit
his father, John Parmenter.
Call and sec those ladies hand scwed
shoes, at E. Turner's.
| Ward committeeman should keep in
mind the meeting to be held in the office
of NJ. NJ. Corbett this evening at 7:3O
O'clock
Andy Etzel IS the vocalist of the police
force. The way he MARBLES rs that Mr.
Rlley?" would make Pat Rooney green
with envy,
Adolph Greve has just opened fine
stock of boots, shoes and slippers in his
new store on Moline avenue between
Twentyfifth and Twentysixth streets.
The authorities are after a fellow for
selling liquor at the Coe fair on Tuesday
He is to be arrested and placed in Jail,
that is if he doesn't get away.
County Clerk Donaldson accompanied
his father to Sheldon, Vernon county,
Mo, last evening. Mr.. Donaldson has
been east to attend the funeral of sister.
The largest and finest assortment OF
ladies misses and children's shoes, ever
brought to this market, at E. Turner's.
A. E. Knickerbocker ?. G. C. G. C.,
of Illinois Independent Order of Red Men,
is home from the great council, held al
Springfield this week
The Mt. Joy fair, five miles north Of
Davenport closed yesterday after one of
the most successful exhibits in the his
tory of the association.
The incorporators of the Moline Cen
trail street railway company are S. W.
Wheelock, W. r. Moore, ]. W. War; and
G. Hemenway. The capital stock is $12, =
600.
1t is possible that States Attorney Par
mentor will begin the criminal business in
the circuit court next Monday with the
trial of Richard Lloyd, who is indicted
for attempting to produce an abortion
on girl named Woods
, Mrs Mary Stemple, the woman who was
f fined $40 by Justice Chopper for keeping
house of i'll fame, was released from the
city Jail yesterday morning on her prom
Use to leave the city She left for Frees
port.
J Fred Burneston, the young man who
{ had his foot amputated the other day, is
. progressing finely. At first the doctors
feared that gangrcne would set in, and
; further operations would be necessary,
but now all danger from that source is
, past.
} The youths who take so much pleasure
in whistling ear splitting peals in the the.
atre by way of applause, should be di>
rected to the nearest exit Such an out
landish, barbaric and senseless manner of
expressing appreciation of an actors abil'