Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-09-08
CITY CHAT.

3S inch wove dress fannels 162c a yart
at McCabe Bros.
Surah silks 27c a yard. McCabe Bros.
special sale dress goods.
Hot soup at the white Elephant"fron
8 to II q. m. every day.
English cashmere. double fold. 15c g
yard. worth 25c, at McCabe Bros.
Mr. Fred Hass and family arrived or
the Pittsburg yesterday from St. Paul.
Rev w. 8. Marquis breaches at the
South Park chapel at 1880 tomorrow
evening.
| The thermometer dropped thirty-two
degrees between Sunday night and Mon
day night.
| Mr.. and Mrs. r. H. Thomas leave this
week on months pleasure trip to Tope.
| ka, Kan, Lincoln. Neb., and other west
ern points.
Mrs w. s. Brown. wife of VIM.
Brown. of Milan. died suddenly after
a half hours illness yesterday. aged sew
| enty-two years.
Received this day by express, the latest
novelties in dress goods. boucle stripes
| and plaids. You are invited to call and
| see them at McCabe Bros.
Prof. Weidner has been chosen one of
| the judges of the Demorest medal con-
test which takes place tomorrow evening
at the Central Presbyterian church.
The Demorest medal contest at the
Central Presbyterian church tomorrow
evening will no doubt attract large aud
ience The admission is but ten cents
Sirayed from my pasture-Two cows.
One dark red with halter strap on horns;
the other a gray colored animal. A suit
able reward to finder. Geo. Wagner, At
lantic Brewery.
The deal has been practically made by
| which the Moline Republican passes from
| Messrs Barnum Il Palmer into the hands
of j FL. Porter. Of Moline. who will con-
duct 1t in the future.
The Rock Island athletic club is to
give another entertainment on the Goth.
Poster, of Moline, and Weldon, of Dav-
export, will wrestle for the championship
of the three cities. There will oe other
athletic sports.
A Chicago cor respondent of the Sioux
City journal saws that President r. r
Cable, of the c.. R. l. & P, is tired OF
railrosding and will resign at the first OPP
portunity. He told me he would ten days
ago. and since then have learned he has
told others the same thing"
Mr.. E. 1. Leveen, of the Liverpool 6
London Clothing company, arrived in
Rock Island again this morning. He
| proposes to erect balconies all around the
| interior of his stores in order to more con
veniently arrange his duplicate goods of
his wholesale and retail departments.
The congregations of the Broa dway
Presbyterian, Christian chapel, U nited
Presbyterian and Baptist Joined in the
union temperance meeting at the Contra
church last evening. Revs. Kerr and
Taylor, of Rock Island. and Linn of Gen.
eseo. participated in the services and
| Rev. Grafton preached the sermon.
Considerable complaint is heard among
| business men about the location of some
of the low lights, the prevailing senti
ment being that the business part of the
city has been neglected, especially from
Third avenue TO the river and including
Market square. No such oversight hes
intentionally been made, of course. and
| the aldermen will no doubt see to it that
the business section, or any other part of
town that is not treated fairly, is properly
| provided for.
A meeting of the republican colored
citizens of Moline was held the other
| evening. and committee appointed to
wait upon Postmaster Holt and ascertain
| if there was a vacancy on the mail car
rier force, ard if so. if he would be will
ing to appoint colOred man to the po-
sition. The committee performed its
mission. but failed to get much sstisfac,
ton. The man whom the colored citi-
zens wished to have appointed is Cliff
Hardin, who is said to be very smart
African American" He got out pc.
tition which has been numerously signed
by the best men in the city. 1t is said
| that if a colored man is not appointed ali
indignation meeting of dsrkies will be
held.