Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-09-07
BRIEFLETS.

Leave your orders for dressed chickens
at c. C. Truesdale's.
Frank Joyut, baggageman on the O.,
B. & @, has a fine little girl at his home
Order brick Of ice cream from Krell
& Math and have something nice at your
party.
Six per cent loans by the Black Hawk
Homestead association, on Friday even-
ing, Sept, Z.
Mrs. M. Magrum will continue to con-
duct the business of her late husband at
Tivoli hall.
Plank seat tickets will be 10 cents in
stead Of cents after tonight at the illus
trated lecture tent.
The banks will all be closed at p. m.
tomorrow in honor of the late Judge |
Cornelius Lynde.
The monthly meeting of the Missionary
Guild of St. Paul will be held at Trinity
church this evening.
The R. l. & P. depot bears emblems
of mourning for the late president of the
road, Judge Lynde.
Mr.. Meyer Loeb, who has been con-
fined to his home by Illness for some
time, was able to be out again yesterday.
The young democrats of uptown in
tend to organize a Cleveland and Thur
man club in few days. Good idea, boys.
Messrs. Morris Rosenfeld, C. H.
Deere and Mr.. F. S. Gates. of Port By
ron, returned this morning from the Des
Moines fair
Chairman Wakefield, of the republican
city committee, has rendered his resigna-
ton and Mr.. G.. L. Walker has been
selected in his place.
| Mr. B. T. Cable returned from the east
this morning to attend to some business
matters. His wife and daughter are still
AT Narragansett Pier, R. l.
Mr. NJ. Arnold. of the popular Bazaar,
Davenport, has just returned from a
three weeks trip to New York, where be
has purchased the latest novelties pecu-
liar to his bu mess
Mr.. August Huesing received a mys-
FERROUS looking official document by reg
istered mail from Washington this
morning, and it was his commission as
postmaster of Rock Island.
The alarm of fire at 7:30 this morning
was caused by an incipient blaze near the
corner of Fourteenth street and Sixth
avenue, which was 9uenched without the
services of the fire department
Mr.. R. s. Silvis, of Carbon Cliff, is
quite i'll with an attack of cholera NOR
bus and dysentery Sheriff Silvis went
up to see him yesterday and today. He
was somewhat worse this morning.
Deputy Internal Revenue Collector
G. W. Henry returned last evening from
visit to fairs in many of the counties
: comprising his district He says thu
5 fairs this season are not up to the stand
ard, so far as exhibits are concerned.
= If your friends are going to call on vol
or give party be sure to return the com
3 pliment by serving Krell & Maths ia
n nous ice cream to them and they will g
4 home well pleased. Put up in brick
s melon, pyramid and individual forms.
n Some busy body started a report TIL
e morning that the old Roman, Allen G
! Thurman, was dead, and other bus
: bodies soon spread the report, in whic
I. there was not an iots of truth The an
a nouncement created much anxiety, an
!, the truth came as happy relief.
The reception rendered Rev J. 4
Northrup and bride at the residence {
Mr.. and Mrs c. L. Walker last evenin!
= was an exceedingly pleasant affair an
many of the old friends of the hapr
couple extended them greeting and goc
. wishes.
Mr.. Bernhard Schmid, OF Pittsbur
- brother of the late Mr.. D. Schmid, al
two daughters, Mrs. Charles Schmi
and Miss Francis Schmid, are visitir
Mrs D. Schmid at ZIG Nineteenth stree
They have been visiting relatives in S
- Louis and will go from here to Cinci
natl to attend the Ohio valley cente
NAL.
'h The Union still prefers to tell
m readers that Davenport is the be
no place on earth in which to buy good
tic The fellow must be after testimoni
from Davenport merchants. They CT
90 afford to present him with a costly go
ar watch. 1t it keeps on, the merchants
~ Rock Island will surely reward him wi
he leather medal, properly inscribed
Davenport Democrats Gazette.
To look at Capt. George Lamont o
would think he was truthful man, b
%. 70. like the rest of humanity he gets lit
''' off when it comes to fish stories.
said this morning that a man at Dubuq
Ae caught 135 bass in one hour and fife
no minutes. This would be nearly two
~ minute. A little too steep to swallo
~ captainl
An exchange thus gives the specific
o. tons of an ordinary person: IAN ord
airy person is five feet six inches hi
weighs 1856 pounds, has four thouss
acquaintance, walks seven miles d
earns ten dollars week, has forty-ei.
and a-half ounces of brain matt
sr breaths eight times a minute taking
see one pint of air at each breath, is g
the looking can lift one hundred and Fl
hat pounds, lives fifty years, lays by a su
fortune, can write twenty-five words
the minute, can live five minutes without
md ten days without sleep, and seven d
mid without water; is subject to 1000 diff
ent diseases, certain of nothing, and '
likely to miss street car when in
and hurry