Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-05-08

| Tomorrow night occurs the regular
weekly meeting Of the Rock Island Citi
zens' Improvement association.
| Our prices on silverware pleases ever
one able to buy it. The G. F. Adams
Home Furnishing House. 322 Brad
street.
The curtain sale at McCsbe Bros is
great success. The unusual bargain
they are offering cannot fail to attract at
tention.
| Remember that four cents buys eithe
plain walnut or cherry curtain pole TO
any one buying curtains this week a
McCabe Bros.
Those rs and 80 cent boys and men
fancy tennis flannel shirts at McCab
Bros. are proving drawing card. Sew
eral dozen sold first day.
M. & K. do not make big blow owe
their so cents shoes, but their customer
are fairly delighted to know that there il
a place where good shoes can be bough
cheap.
A rattlesnake Kissed at woman at the
corner of Seventeenth street and Second
avenue this morning. whereupon the
woman picked up a rock and slew the
reptile.
Honest goods and honest prices is wha,
makes trade so brisk at the c. F. Adams
Home Furnishing House. 322 Brady
street, Davenport.
| A Galena young man who called on q
young lady in the evening of centennial
pay was invited to call again on the next
return of the day.
Alderman W. II. Edwards is in Mon
mouth looking after the construction of
brick church that the firm of Edwards
& Walsh has contract for.
City Attorney j. L. Haas went to Chi,
cago Monday to be absent week. He
left ex-City Attorney McEnlry to attend
to the city affairs during his absence
Mr.. Andrew Newman. of Chicago and
Miss Jennie Lundquist. of Moline. were
united in wedlock at the residence of the
brides parents in Moline last evening.
DR.. j. w. Cowden is one of the latest
to become infatuated with the two,
wheeled bicycles, and has ordered one,
which he will use in visiting his pa
tients.
Ex>Mayor Henry Carse returned yes
terday morning from his visit to his
daughter at st. Joseph's seminary at Car
bondale, near st. Louis, and also his bus.
mess trip to st. Louis and Burlington.
The readers of the Union would doubt
less like to know when County Clerk
Donaldson became city clerk or what
the city clerk has to do with the official
proceedings of the county board.
Joseph Cope, one of the old>time resi-
dents of Davenport. died at Mercy hospi-
tai yesterday. He had been suffering
from gangrene of the foot. and on Sun.
dag an amputation of the poisoned mem.
Der was made.
MIR. W. F. Gilmore. the engineer on
the Rock Island road, has purchased the
homestead of NJ. NJ. Corbett, on Twenty
second street near Seventh avenue for
50, 100 and will commence the occupancy
of it this week.
1t has been suggested that if new Pc
tition is to be circulated to gain the ex>
preston of property holders as to pave
ment material preferences for the guild
ance of the council at its next meeting,
that some disinterested, unbiased citizen
circulate it.
Richmond Terrell, proprietor of the
Harper house barber shop, who is mem.
Der of the grand jury that reports next
Monday in the circuit court, has the
honor to be the first colored man to serve
as member of that important body in
the history of Rock Island county.
In the county court yesterday after
noon jury composed of DR.. G. L. Eys-
ter, and Messrs. H. E. Casteel. ] E. Lar
kin, Jacob Anthony, Oliver Jordan and
Quincy Mcneil adjudged Henry B.
Whitman, of Moline, insane. The pa
tient is tifty-seven years of age and his
disease is of an hereditary nature.
This a. m. at McCabe Bros. were
placed on sale big job of children's
black Ingram, full, regular made hose.
sizes 6, 81 and at II cents, and sizes
y. and 81 at ~ cents. Notwithstsnd-
ing the large crowd of buyers. the line of
sizes may hold out for or days as it
was large lot. None to other dealers.
If we can save you money we are Ger
tainly entitled to your attention. We
mean what we say, when we claim to
have the best refrigerator, and can prove
it if you will call at our store. Prices as
low as others ask for inferior boxes; look
this up. The c. F. Adams Home Fur
nishing House, 322 Brady street, Daven.
port.
Mr.. Howard Wells has received his
credentials as local agent for the St.
Paul, Minneapolis & St. Paul Packet
company. Agent Wells will have his
Office in his present place of business on
First avenue. using the old ferry dock for
wharf boat. Wells is a hustler and
will arouse lively competition in Rock
Rock Island with the tireless agent of the
old reliable Diamond 10 line, Capt. Geo.
Lamont.
In the Daily National Hotel Reporter of
Yesterday appears the following con-
corning the former landlord of the Rock