Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-12-20

Il
/ stopped over in the city today to see rel
atives and friends in his old home, oil
his way west from Chicago. Mr.. Reet
is one of the prominent citizens of Ne
braska's capitol.
Rev. G. w. Cue will open the Metho'
| dist lecture course on Friday evening
Dec. 9th. by lecture on the war. Bro
Cue is a war horse with a neck clothed
with thunder. seeming the battle from
afar," as Bro. Job remarked about him
once.-Geneseo NeDs
Mrs. H. F. Fraser, of Indianapolis,
with her son, Phil NJ. Watson, is visiting
her father, Mr.. P. L. Mitchell. Mr..
Frazer will be here in few days, as will
Chas. Shaler. of West Troy, N. Y, to
spend the holidays at the Mitchell man
sion.
The Franklin hose company have re-
ceived new regulation service hats, such
as are used in paid fire department, and
are now as thoroughly equipped as a
volunteer company could be. Conse>
q.ently the Union has no use for the
Franklius.
MansilPs fifteenth almanac of plane.
tary meteorology and weather guide for
1890 has come from the press. Tine al
manac presents the weather theory of the
author in a concise and comprehensive
manner, and is replete with astronomi>
cal and weather charts and general In.
formation of interest pertaining to the
subjects dwelt upon.
The Woman's Relief society of Rock
Island will hold a meeting tomorro
afternoon at o'clock at the Young Mems
Christian association rooms. This meets
ing is for the purpose of completing the
organization of the society, and all inter-
ested in its promotion are requested to be
present OF send in their names for men,
bership.
Culver. the stubborn juror IN the Cron-
in case, who is directly responsible for
the fact that the brutality and cowardly
assassins escaped the gallows, has sued
the Chicago Herald for S25, 900 damages
for intimating that he had been influenced
by brides. Consequently Culver's name
will never appear in the Rock Island
Union again. The Kansas institution
has holy horror of damage suits.
Mr.. W. J. Hutton, collector on Con-
ductor Tom Fuller's train on the c.. NJ.
& g. P. road, had a marvellous escape
from injury at Port Byron this morning.
He was thrown between two cars as the
train was pulling in, and it was only by
superhuman effort that he pulled himself
out from under the wheels and saved
himself from terrible death. As ii
was his back was scraped BY the wheels.
Mr.. W. B. Ferguson. general secre-
tary of the Mississippi Valley Manufac-
turers Mutual and the Northwestern
Mutual Insurance companies is sending
out the annual calendar of the companies
he represents. The centeI-piece shows
the attractive features of one of Mr.. Fer.
guson's sweet>faced little children, while
the general workmanship of the calendar
is designed to make it thing of beauty
and convenience.
A subscriber asks: What does the
word Moline signify. and what is its
derivation?' We believe it is popularity
supposed in Rock Island to have been
appropriated bodily from the Scan.
dinavisn, but the best pathological au.
thorities place its root with the French
language or possibly more directly with
the Latin. The Latin for the word mil
Is "mols" or MOLINA" the French is
moulin" the Spanish "molino." the
Italian ''malina" or ''molinus." Moline
Is, at all events, the City of Mills.-Mo-
line Dispatch.
The Merchants carnival. given under
the direction of the ladies' auxiliary Of
the Y. NJ. c. A. OF Moline at Knowles
hall opened last night, AMI will be re.
peated tonight. Many attended from
this city. and the affair was q brillian,
success in every way, rejecting great
credit upon sll participating, and espec.
tally upon Mrs. J. X. Groom, who
originated the idea in Moline, and W he
has overseen all the details. and assumed
the entire responsibility.
The Union devotes MALT a column more
this morning to display of its shameful
ldiocy concerning our fire department,
the object of which is TO discourage the
paid department, and during the course
of its arguments in behalf of which il
makes the assertion that Rock Islands
volunteer department is as good as any
paid department-snd needs no improve
ment. That Rock Island has as efficient
q volunteer department as there is in the
country no one will deny, but it is not
equal to paid service by any manner of
means, and the Union displays lack OF
comprehension of the utility of a paid
service in making such comparisons as
ii does. But that word Improvement
is a woful one for the Union to swallow
1t has always been an impeachment to it
but nevertheless it has become popular
in Rock Island and every year the city il
taking more stock in it. Next spring al
enterprising council will become so in
terested in it that it will apply it to the
fire department The Union will then pros
trate itself at the feet OF Mr.. McEnir,
and yield up the ghost.