Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-02-04

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" bury's
Is Materials for paper flower work, y
u kingsbury & Sons
ia Calathumpian club at the rink Monda
l.. evening. Feb 6. Admission 10 cents.
a Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Frysinger's daugh
= ter is improving, MS all will be glad t,
n know.
Il The Young Americans are preparing t
c hold IN invitation ball at ArmOry hal
next Friday.
a There will be free hack from Sears
mill to the Spring Cove slide tomorrow
e and Sunday.
Go to the rink Monday night and have
good skate. Last chance until after
} the Industrial fair.
The executive board of the hospital
guild mill meet at Mrs. j. NJ. Buford's
Monday afternoon at 8 o'clock.
The ice is broken at one of the ap>
! proaches on this side of the river, but
with care one may yet cross in safety.
Funny valentines gwen to each visitor,
commencing Tuesday at o'clock a. m,
at McCabe Bros. None before. Only
one to each.
The purchasers of the j z. Mott hard
ward stock have several lawn mowers for
sale at less than wholesale prices. Call
at Simon & Mosenfelder's.
City Bill Poster Blocker is in a re-
ioiaing mood and well he might be, for
he came up town to announce that it was
u boy, and fine one at that.
The purchasers of the j. H. Mott hard
ward stock have several lawn mowers for
sale at less than wholesale prices. Call
on F. Atwater at Simon & Mosenfeld-
er's.
| Look out for the greatest muslin un>
derwear sale of the nineteenth century 10
| begin on Monday, at McCabe Bros. A
closed their stock out to Messrs. McCabe
Bros.
W. II. Martin, formerly city editor of
the Davenport Democrats Gazette, is now
serving in similar capacity on the daily
Tribune of that city. Mr.. Martin will |
prove a valuable acquisition to the Trt- |
6une.
Mr. A. NJ. Crane, who recently gave up
his position as freight conductor on the
c., II, l. & p, has purchased the interest
of Mr.. Ii. G. Harris in the old Lundy
Sncnnd hand ctnra nm Gacon1 ouanpo and
will in the future conduct the business in
connection with Mr.. w. A. Norris.
Among the more noticeable of the
building improvements which are already
looming up, are fine house which Mr..
Chris. Schreiner is erecting for Mrs
Hitler on Fourteenth street, and a hands
some frame which Mr.. J. d. Taylor is
constructing for his son, Albert, on Nine
teenth street.
During the recent rush of business on
the r. |. IL p, it was necessary to Dor
row an engine from the T., p. & W., and
on its first trip yesterday, with Engineer
Hueber in charge, the borrowed engine
rushed into the rear of Conductor Doty's |
train at Lafayette and the r., P. 81 W.
came out of the catastrophe considerably
An article appeared in the Coal Valley
of the ARGUS on the LIST
INST. mentioning the resignation of Mr..
John Vandewater as engineer at the poor
arm, and stating in that connection that
le had recently been divorced. Mr.. Van
lewater has had no domestic unpleasant.
less His successor, Thomas Copeland,
s the man who was recently divorced.
There was quite an exciting runaway
IN Second avenue between Eighteenth
md Nineteenth streets last evening. Two Z
7oung gentlemen from Moline tipped
heir cutter while turning about in the
street car track and both were thrown Y
nut. The horse made direct for the side
walk, but was driven back before doing
amage to life or pOperty, although the
orse kept to the sidewalk around Stew z
rt & Montgomery's corner, and turned
INTO the alley in the rear, where it was
aught A hackman picked up the whip
elonging to the rig and declined to give q
to the owners. The outfit belonged to
Moline livery stable man who will I'M =
recover the whip all right. A
ey. found after the occurrence is at the
-RGUs Office. where the owner may claim