Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1886-10-12
MOLINE,


Col. Wallace has returned from his trip
north.
Mr.. Chas. Atkinson has visitor in the
person of his brother, Rev. DR.. Atkinson,
of Portland, Oregon.
A clerk in the pension office, Mr..
Frank B. Curtis, is visiting at DR.. Nc
Kinnie's
There is to be a peoples meeting at
Carbon Cliff tonight. Good speakers
will be on hand.
Several of the Moline Plow Co.'S office
force are up on Perey's slough with Levi
Cralle, fishing or cutting bait as the case
may be.
Howard Martin, for a long time driver
on the Moline & Rock Island street car
railway, left for Los Angeles, Cal, on
Saturday, where his father resides.
Prepare for the hook and ladder boys
dance on Oct %. This is their first an :
nual dance, and will no doubt be largely
patroniZed.
1t is expected the Union Street Car
line will be finished through about Sat-
urday, so that next Sunday we can if We
wish ride down to the lower end of Rock
Island from the cemetery gate, for five
cents.
A well known citizen Of the Fourth
ward had conversation with the defeat,
ed candidate for sheriff four years ago
soon after election, as follows
why, Mr.. K. even my friends in
my own ward went back on me-.
No they didn't, Mr. M; no they
didn't; you didn't have any"
The Highland Gun club of this city
beat the Orions on Saturday They shot
at Peoria black birds. twenty yards raise,
fifteen birds each There were ten on
each side. Moline score, 81; Orion score
50. The shooting was not extra on eth
er side, as 81 out of $50 is nothing t.
! bray about.
Mr.. War;, at the republican meeting
last week, introduced Mr.. Morgan as ,
man too good for the position he has had
and proposed to enlarge his field of use
fulness. If the gentleman is too good It
be soldier of the cross. how would h
look as a hang man. or an auctioGeer o
some poor mans donkey.
The boarders at VIM Mueller's seem Il
be as happy as clans ard deserve III,
name of happy family. They have fine
| singing and performances not much eX'
celled on any stage, nearly every evening
Last Saturday it was very laugn proyok
ing. One of them is certainly musica
prodigy.
1t was seventy days yesterday sine,
postmaster ID S. Hemenway was hur
by a fall from his buggy on the island
and he has not stood on his feet sine;
nor changed his position on his bed
where he still lies bound in splints. Hi
health and spirits are excellent, and h
will soon be up and around
Doctor Kate Bushnell, one Of the dele
gates 10 the W C. T. L. convention
spoke IN the Methodist church SUNDAY
evening. She gave very interesting &c
count of her visit to China, where SD,
lived three years, telling of their custom
and habits and said she was very kind,
treated there, She gave good repor
of the people of that country, from whicl
il could be Inferred that there is widt
field ready for the christian sickle ant
anxious hearts prepared for the seed of TN
true doctrine. When she left for hom'
hundreds followed her to the port o
shipment, begging her not to leave, but L
return and remain with them for ever,
PERSONAL SPITE.
The unfounded charge in an item il
the Uatoa that Sharp Silvis tried to in
timidate the workmen who had struck fo
better wages during the time the Contra
street car railway was being built in thi:
city, should be contradicted, for som
people may believe the foul aspersion.
gentleman connected with the Republican
at the time told the writer yesterday tina
Silvis was never there in any capacit
l.whatcyer, aud that he had ample oppor
tuniIv TO see him if he had been there
The matter of protecting the sCabs VIII
were brought here to fill the strikers place
could not be avoided Sheriff RetiCke
was up most of the time in person, an
had special deputies to assis
him to maintain what was then and
now the law. Mayor Schillinger made
speech to the disaffccied persons at tbs
time. advising them to take the 81 % pt
day offered by the contractor from Mus
: catine, which they did not do. Tn
is another instance of the false. IN
fair and disreputable means used by III
good. morality party 10 defeat politics
opponent.