The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-02-11
TIE CITY In BRIEF.

Get a shawl free, at Bains.
The sun was a welcome visitor today.
A. II. McCandless, d. D. S., dentist
There will be no meeting of the &. A.
r. this evening on account OF the lnclemN
ency of the weather.
DR.. A. T. Hawley, dentist, corner Sev~
teenth street and Sixth avenue.
Every customer gets shawl at Bains
Tea & Coffee Company's this week.
DR.. j. W Stark, Dentist, 1922 Second
avenue. dlYr.
Evarts Commandery, X. T.. has posts
poned the installation of its officers elect,
as there was no quorum present Monday
night.
Mrs james Kennedy has gone to visit
her sister, Mrs Anna Whalen, of Pre-
emption, who is quite sick.
A few more shawls with pound of tea
or three pounds of coffee, at Bain's, 1719
Second avenue.
Ladies high button Oyershoes $1.65 at
the Central shoe store of G. L. and s. N.
Wynes.
MI W. W. Bowlby came up from MUS
catine, to spend Sunday, and has been
detained here since by the storm. He will
attempt to get back tonight.
Division No. /, of the Ancient Order of
liibcrnians meets in special session in
Norris hall, at : o'clock this evening, for
business of Importance.
President r. r. Cable, of the G., r. I.
& P. road, and wife, and Mr. Hiram Ca
BILE have started for New Orleans to take
in the worlds exposition and Shrove Tues
day festivities.
Mark A. Lloyd, for a long time with the
Bain's Tea and Coffee Co., left this morn
ing for Davenport Iowa, where he has
accepted the position as steward of the
Newcomb house.
Harry McDarrah, the veteran, is busy
with his skiif taking passengers over the
chasm between the Ice and this shore, to
connect with the sleighs which are
plying daily across the ice.
The Union treats its readers to several
columns of stereotype plates every morn
ing which are furnished second handed
by the Moline Djspatch, and at the same
time sets up dismal howl against other
papers which use plates. Oh, consistency,
thou art "A Jewel, surely
w 4. Glockhof, the ticket broker, has
the agency for Rock Island for the sale
of steamship tickets on fourteen different
steamship lines representing the most
prominent companies, which are sold at
cut rates. If
When Conductor O'Brien reached the
city last night, he looked as though he
had crawled through a stove pipe For
two nights and as many days he had been
grubbing around car wheels and taking an
occasional nap In the coal box. After a
vigorous addition he showed up this morn>
ing, looking as fresh as daisy"
Pork tendcrloins, spare ribs, leaf lard,
pigs feet, sausage meat, breakfast bacon.
fresh or cured hams, at Gilmore's pork
house First avenue, between Fifteenth
and Sixteenth streets. If
Somebody says; Did you ever stop
to think what a tircless letter writer a
local paper is? Week after week. reach>
ing into year after year, 1t goes on telling
the marriages, births, deaths, the d0ings
of the people of the town, the business
successes or failures, accidents, crops,
improvements, meetings, revivals, in fact
events of all kinds. All is grist that comes
to the hopper of good local paper.
Why, If you were to undertake to write a
letter each week to your absent friend and
tell him half the news that ycar paper
gives, you would soon give up in despair
The supposed pleasure becomes tireSomc,
the letters become shorter, further apart,
and finally stop. Why the difference?
Because with The newspaper man its bus
mess. People in a lively town recognize
this and take pleasure in giving the editor
news items you would never learn.
Therefore, make haste and subscribe. If
you already receive a copy. send one away
to some friend. 1t is better than letter"