Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-08-20
BRElFLETS.
Read Kingsbury's change of sd.

Watermelons and nutmeg melons at
Mays.
Santa Claus soap, cents per cake at
| the Fair.
Mr.. G. E. Fleming left for Chicago
last night.
The finest eating and cooking apples
in the city at Mays.
Mr.. Adair Peasants went to Muscatine
on business this morning
Pears. peaches. grapes and nutmeg
MELONS at F. G. Young's.
HOLSTERS. oysters and shrimps at
Lothar Harms on Wednesday.
Lilly Clay's Gaitey company appears at
| Harper's theatre this evening.
Division Supt. E. NJ. Herr, of the C. i,
B. & @. was at the Harper today.
Mr.. E. w. Hurst returned last even>
ing from his extensive business trip to
| Nebraska.
Leave your orders for the finest and
largest nutmeg melon in the city at
Mays
Capt T. j. Robinson is able TO ride out
every day now. He is regaiuing his
strength rapidly.
The Negus heirs havesddded a dozen
handsome easy chairs to the main hall of
the Rock Island house.
M. Arnold, of Arnolds Bazaar, Dayen-
port. leaves next Thursday for u three
weeks business trip TO the eastern mar
kets.
MIR. John Ohlweiler went out to Cable
on business this morning. His European
trip did not spoil him from work in the
least, it seems.
MIR. Thos. Leary will rattle off his light
champion bicycle the first of next month.
Tickets 50 cents, at Kohn & Adler's. post
Office block
Mrs. II. ]. Roger and child arrived
from Mount Ayr, Iowa, this morning and
Joined Mr.. Roger. who has become res
ident of Rock Island.
The Quincy ball club is at the Rock
Island house. The Quincys play their
last series at Davenport this season, to-
day, tomorrow and Thursday.
The Moline Central and Peoples rail-
way are beginning to talk seriously of
adopting electricity as motive power on
It's line, and will probably do so.
Elder E. C. Wheeler. of the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter Dsy Saints, who
lives at MIllersburg, will preach at the
stand in Union square tomorrow evening.
Parties wishing to be supplied with
VIM. Garnetts or David FItzenmsiers
butter. should order of W. c. Maucker.
as he has sole control OF their choice butt
ter.
John Behn has built a handsome and
convenient greenhouse with driveway of
sixty by twenty feet on his premises at
the centre station on the Rock Island &
Milan road.
Mr.. John Ronen, proprietor of the
Anamosa Stone quarries, from which the
curbing at present being used on Second
avenue street improvements is secured, is |
IN the city on business.
The finance committee of the county
board. composed of Supervisors Wilson,
Bostock, Hartman, Buffum. Pearsall and
Conrad Schneider. met today to make the
annual financial statements of the board
The Davenport Democrats Gazette offers
the sensible suggestion that the govern
ment celebrate its worlds fair in 1899 on
It's own domain and that the Island of
Rock Island is the proper place to hold
1t. So say We all of us.
Deputy Sheriff J. W Cavanaugh and
Magistrate L. 5 O'Neil, of Moline, left
Yesterday afternoon for Peoria to attend
the meeting of the state assembly. Knights
OF Labor. MIR. Cavansugh being one of
the members of the executive board.
The steamer White Eagle, of the Hawks
eye Excursion company, is to be pro-
vided with two new steel boilers aud con-
verted into freight and passenger boat
to make regular weekly trips between
Rock Island and Davenport and ST. Louis.
Capt Jerry Wood will be her master.
DR.. W q. Blaisdell. of Macomb, J
W. Brock, of Oquawka, and j. S Allea,
of keithsburg, all republican patriots
from the lower end of the district, were
at the Rock Island house today in consul
tstion with High Priest Gest in regard to
postoftices in their respective localities.
The following Rock Island people were
registered at Doctor Alexsnder's White
Sulphur Sunday: F. c., Wakefield. Eta
Mcdonald, ]. NJ. Montgomery and fami-
lily, j. p. Weyerhauser and lady, E
G. Frazer, family and nurse, Mrs W.
w. Eggleston and grandson, E. Hilton
and wife
In another part of the ARGUS can be
seen the advertisement of Mr. C. A.
Ficke, one of the most enterprising
lawyers in the tri cities. He does big
loan business and states that during the
twelve years that he has been in the law
and loan business in Davenport he has
loaned over three million dollars without
the loss of dollar TO any of his clients.
A special meeting of the stockholders
of the Black Hawk Homestead Building,
Loan and Saving association. has been
called at the secretary's office in Beings
ton block, on Friday evening, Sept. 30.
for the purpose of making appIi
cation to the secretary of state for an in
crease of the authorized capital stock of
said association to SIC, 100000.
Bishop Ninde was nicely entertained
by some of the NJ. E. folks yesterday, be-
ing driven to the island, watch tower.
and other points of interest. He was
highly pleased with what he saw and his |
reception at the campgrounds. The |
bishop left for Chicago this morning, |
and from there will go TO DELAY an and |
Freeport. He has a couple of Illinois |
conferences to preside over in the near |
future.
Paving was resumed at the corner of |
Second avenue and Twentieth street this |
morning. The contractors have abun-
dance of all kinds of material, having
contracted for $4,000 undercourse brick |
at Cable and $4,000 at Moline A COM
mittee of Davenport aldermen were over
the pavement yesterday and |
were pleased with it. This morning
Mail Agent Harrington took q sample of |
each kind of brick to Sterling for inspec-
ton. by request. ALI the cities round