The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-06-10
SUBURBAN SIFTINGS.
News AND MOTIFS FROM THE Town OF
MILAN

News AND NOTES FROM THE Town OF
MILAN
MILAN, June 8.
g. NJ Dickson left Sunday evening to
be gone for some time in the east.
j. A. Smith, ice dealer, st. Louis, ar
rived last night and is making arrange
ments to ship his ice.
Uncle Lew Wilson, of Rural, leaves to-
day for Mitchell, Dakota, TO pay his
daughter visit.
Sears Sons are making good progress
putting their new centrifugal machinery
in their mill. They expect to be running
in few days.
Miss Lou Jameson, who has been hav>
ing poor health for the past year. started
on Monday evening for Germany. for the
improvement of her health. Her many
friends wish her happy trip.
J. G.. Johnston, the assessor. is putting
in every moment working through the
township. He is also making a statistical
report of what was raised and sold last
year, also of the amount of crops that is
planted this year.
The Clinton bridge company have
large force of men at work making prep>
aratiOns to put in the new bridge at Sears
mill. The understanding is that the
bridge company is to build the piers four
feet higher than they are al present.
Thomas Holmes, Will Millstead and
Hester McMichael left few days ago to
look over the great west. They are at
present in the neighborhood of Wakeney,
Kansas. They will probably return as
western frontiersmen.
The many friends of Miss Anna Carna>
CHAN were very much surprised to hear of
her sudden death; more especially among
her class mates of the public and Sabbath
| schools Those that attended the funeral
contributed very fine floral offering to
the family in behalf of her many friends
The storm Sunday evening did great
deal of damage through the surrounding
country. blowing down hay sheds gener>
ally. number of farmers sustaining large
losses. John Blakely, of Black Hawk,
mad large new hay shed and part of his
barn demolished. John Bailey, of Rural,
had his fine poplar grove and orchard
totally destroyed and almost every farmer
| for miles around sustained losses.
The patriotic people are not yet pre-
pairing for getting ups Fourth of July
celebration. They have not yet made
known what their intentions are, but it is
time they were getting ready to do some
thing. However they have an excellent
opportunity to crown themselves with
glory if they pursue the right course. and
a glance at the watch tower should Ger,
tainly convince them that it is a rare OPP
portunity.
The excursion for Peoria, which was
so thoroughly advertised in this section,
induced many to come distance
of five or six miles to take the
train for Peoria. Consequently large
number we're on hand when
the train passed through. After
making arrangements and purchas-
ing tickets our genial agent was obliged
to inform them that the train would not
be able to take them.
The Kankakee Times, in q recent issue
gives very elaborate account of dance
given by the Cincinnati Fishing GLIB, at
Waldren, ILL.,, four miles south of Kanka-
kee, who have recently erected beauti,
full club house on the south side of the
river from Waldron The paper also
compliments the Waldron citizens
having number of Chicago's best citi-
zens on the stage who express them.
selves as very much delighted with
the floor manager and his assistant, John
Kehoe, which was sufficient guarantee
for its success. The article says: I'm
speaking of Mr.. Kehoe, of Milan. we feel
highly pleased by his gentlemanly manner
which contributed much to the success Of
the affair and he won host Of friends
especially among the fairer portion of thu
company"