Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-06-16
BRIEFLETS,

Waldo Lawhead is home from Burling.
ton on a visit
Mr. B. T. Cable went to Chicago YES
terday morning.
Engineer Nat. Downs, of the G.. X. 6
N, is visiting old friends in the city.
Nj. T. Hancock and wife, and G. A.
Turner. of Shreveport. Ind. are at the
Harper
The half rate tickets for the Sprin,
Cove surf coaster will be withdrawn af.
| ter the 18th inst
Miss Katherine Gest has returned from
Washington, where she has spent lhs
winter and spring.
Interesting children's day services were
held in the First Baptist and Christian
churches yesterday.
Mrs. F. p. Jackson, of Quincy, is Wis
ting her son, Edward jackson, assistan,
day clerk at the Harper.
The Rock Island Turner's and thei,
Families INDUCED in a pleasant picnic in
the suburbs yesterday.
w. }. Pendleton and family, of Iowa
City, are in the city. MIR. Pendleton is
thinking of locating in Rock Island.
Mrs. W. II. Whistler and daughter.
Miss Louise accompanied Can't. Whis>
Ter up the river on his last trip on the
Denkmann
The new First M. E. church will he oc.
cupied for the first time next Sunday
morning by the Sunday school meeting In
the assembly room
The Rock Island glass works shut down
for the season Saturday night and tho
blowers. gutterers and their families in
duiged In their annual sociabilties vester
day.
ExMayor Thos. Murdoch and wife ar
rived from Kansas City yesterday morn
ing on an extended visit. Mr. Murdoch
proposes to remodel his residence bmid
lngs On Second avenue, aud place them
in firstclass shape.
MIR. w. V. Channon and wife, of
Quincy. are at the Harper. Mr.. Channon
is the senior member of the big stove
hrm OF ChaDnon, Comstock & Co, aud
today he visited the Rock Island stove
works in company with MIR. M. NJ.
Blakesley.
DIR. j s. McCOrd and family. of Du-
buque, have gone to Ocean Grove. N. j.
They will be there for the next six weeks
or more. DR. McCord is steadily improv-
ing in health and his friends are confident
that he will be able to resume work again
the first of September.
The Chippiannock Cemetery associa-
ton are going to beautify. The first on
the line of the good work was an order
to jackson Blackburn to put on a double
coat of paint on the fences of the grounds.
Daniel w. Leas will do the painting.
More improvements are to follow.
MIR. Geo. b. Browner, the Elm street
grocer. placed an ornament on the streets
this morning in handsome new delivery
wagon, the work of the skill and art OF
Paul Thiessen. The wagon is substan-
tiai and convenient in construction while
10 the matter of decoration variety of
cOlors are used.
DR.. G. B. Kiuyon leaves tomorrow
morning for Waukesha, Wis, to attend
the annual meeting of tine American in,
stitute of homeopathy, expecting to be
away several days. The American insti-
tnte of homeopathy is one of the pioneer
medical societies of the country.
Michael Lahnan, an employee at Raible
d StengePs brewery, met with a painful
accident while climbing ladder at the
brewery building this morning. Losing
his foOthold and finding himself slipping.
he grasped round in such manner that
the rough edge cut the middle finger of
his right hand open. Mr. Stengel brought
him to Speide's drug store where the
wound was dressed.
President Cable and his directors have
returned to Chicago after an extended
tour OF inspection of the Rock Island
system. They say that wheat prospects
in the northwest are unexampled. Corn
in the southwest they say. is looking
splendidly. They seem TO think the
granger roads will not lack for tonnage
to haul for some time to come
The late company in charge of the hook
aud ladder truck shipped their elegan {
team to Chicago and made sale on the
second day of their arrival to prominent
pork packer. who will use them for FAM
lily uses. The price received was nearly
$500. and how the boys will expend 1t to
satisfy those who contributed to them re-
mains now to be seen.
Considerable comment among republic
cans has been Occasioned by the pointed
yet clever way Bro. Will Payne, the Zu>
matte. absented himself from the republic
can convention during the time his great
rival, j. G. Osborne. was being voted for
as legislative candidate. A few words
from Payne would have given Osborne
the preference and relieved the party of
much of the ridicule it has since been
subjected to in its declared objection to
a farmer or q representative bust
ness man, for a seat in the lower
house of the legislature.
The funeral of Robbie, son of Mr.. and