Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-07-10
BRIEELETS.
That rain last night was just the thing
Clinton has developed case of small

Clinton has developed case of small
pox.
Mrs. 8. r. Wright and children are
visiting in Iowa.
Miss Clara Sage is improving under the
care of DR.. G. B. Kinyon.
The Nesso- Tribune of Muscstine comes
out as morning paper now.
Mrs. Chas Parker left last evening for
two months stay in Michigan.
The Rock Island carpenters union will
hold an important meeting at Killers
hall tomorrow night.
Henry Carse and family this morning
pitched their tent on Vandruff's island
for two weeks stay.
The firm of Walsh & Edwards has re :
ceived the contract for the new Catholic
cathedral at Davenport.
c. A. Barnard. of Moline, has been
granted a patent on reel, and 81. A.
Barnard on grain scourer
Caraddog Griffith, of Akron, Ohio, has
arrived in the city to study vocal music
under his brother, Prof. Griffith
This afternoon Justice Halves married
Ira d. Smith, of Hampton, and Mary E.
Rheams, of Glennwood. Iowa.
Squire Cooke yesterday joined in mar
rage Thomas Jackson, of Cable. and
Miss Jane A. Dayton, of Des Moines.
The receipts of the Golden Harper
Torrance for the benefit of the high
school piano fund were 1881 80; ex-
penses, $214 so.
Manager Bracket and his aggregation
of Quincy ball players. are at the Rock
Island house. The club plays at Dayen-
port today, tomorrow and the succeeding
day.
The picnic of the Trinity parish which
was to have been held at Spring Cove
slide today has been postponed until to-
morrow because of the condition of the
weather.
The pillow works band will give an
open air concert in Fraklin square Sat
urday evening. This is a new organize
ton, and with their limited practice,
play good music.
A large number from this city attended
the Pompeii exhibition at Peoria last
night, returning on a special train over
the r l. & P. at 3:45 this morning. Con
ductor Horn had charge of the special.
Smith Bros, of Illinois City, are de-
livering three wagon loads of pottery
ware to this city weekly. They are run
ming night and day, and cannot fill all
orders received from the three cities,
Muscatine and Burlington.
Mr.. f. P. Reynolds has announced
his intention not to serve as one of the
Second avenue commissioners for BUSH
ness reasons. He is in full sympathy
with the improvement, however.
The government feet at work near
Hampton is now building piers upon
which lights will be placed to help the
running of boats at nights over the rap>
ids. There will he 80 of them between
LeClaire and Rock Island. the size to be
40 and so feet
Tomorrow evening occurs the regular
monthly meeting of the Rock Island
Citizens improvement association, when
the first informal discussion of subjec,
relative to the city's advancement will be
taken up-the viaduct question.
Mr.. P. l., Mitchell and daughters have
abandoned their trip abroad for this
season at least and on Saturday Mr.
Mitchell and daughter. Mrs Wadsworth,
and Mrs. Fraser, of Indianapolis, leave
for the east where they will be Joined by
Mrs. Wadsworth, of Davenport. and the
summer will be spent at Saratoga and
other resorts in the east.
A prominent hotel clerk was surprised
this morning upon receipt of a promissory
note to a certain dress maker to be re.
sponsible to the extent of 500 fol. lshfss
paymen. for 81 meet meet the bill in certion
time. The clerk never endorsed such a
paper and is in a quandry to know who
has thus traudulently used his name.
The new plate glass window light fol
Goldsmith's store in Mrs. Frysinger's
block on Second avenue arrived today
and was put in. Its dimensions are
III by 1872 feet. The light was replaced
by the Metropolitan Plate Glass Insur-
ance company of New York, of which
Loosely & Knowlton are agents, and il
which the windows were insured fol
$3.50.
1t is contingent upon the attitude o
the owners of small building and ada
cent thereto that Mr.. Mills as agent TO
the Plummer buildings on the south sid,
of Second avenue, between Seventeenth
and eighteenth. raise the floors of tn,
store-rooms to grade. put down new flag
stone walks, replace the present 'front.'
with more modern and better ap
pearing ones. The spirit of progress ha:
caught the town and woe to him who at
tempts to retard It'll
The regular quarterly meeting of tn,
Iowa and Illinois Central District Medi
cal society will be held at the Bushes
Mems rooms at Davenport tomorrow
commencing at 10 o'clock. The commit
tee appointed for the purpose has ar
ranged for an elaborate dinner, which
will be discussed by the members of tn
association and their guests at o'clock