Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-08-15
RAPIDS CITY.

RAPIDS CITY. Aug. II.
Jos. Vople, of Hampton. was in town
TODAY.
W. p Hall is making a resurvey of the
old Hall farm.
o. C. Hemline and Ed. Lewis started
for Colfax. Iowa. TODAY.
W. +. Adams is home for short time
owing to his boat being laid up.
W. Earhardt is working in Moline now
on contract work for Gaylord Bros
Mrs. f. w. Webb is visiting at the res
idence of her son. Station Agent Webb.
Mrs. Mary Griffin. of Gardner. III. is
here visiting with her mother, Mrs. Pom
eroy.
Doc" Mitchell wears a large smile
now days owing to the advent of sweet
little girl baby at his home.
Mrs C. Shuber and family and Mrs J.
Smith, of Gilchrist, are visiting old
friends here.
Mrs. A. J. Johnson is building an addi-
ton to her storeroOm here. G.. Temple
and Rob lakewood are doing the work
Rapids City in 80 had about 1900
population and now only 1906. The
percentage goes on the same. only down
: hill.
Cables nomination seems to strike the
! popular chord in the upper end, every
one seeming to think the choice wise
one.
J. G. Vogle and Tom Maxwell have
gone to the "Wspsie" on fishing expe.
dition. The fishing is reported to be very
good and they expect to make good work
there.
Mrs Lew Zegler aud family and Mrs
Fl. Rettig and daughter have gone to
What Cheer, Iowa. to visit Mrs. Ziegler's
brothers. who are operating a coal mine
| there.
DR.. w. S. Block, of Port Byron, wss in
town today making his first professional
call. and bright little daughter now
gladdens the hearts of Mr.. and Mrs. T
j. Adams.
Frank Hummer made flying trip up
from Moline yesterday to see his old
friends. Frank is now engineer at Bar
nard 81 Leas, Moline.
Miss Ida Robinson, Of this place. who
has been conducting millinery and dress
making establishment at Port Byron for
some time past, will close her shop for a
brief vacation and take a trip in Iowa and
southern Illinois.
Fred McCord. of Dewitt, Iowa, spent
Sunday last with his sister. Mrs r. NJ.
Mitchell. He reports everything very
| dry up his way. He was here attending
10 the placing of a fine monument on his
mothers grave in the cemetery.
Frank Golden the popular res:auranfner
of BarstOw, has purchased the old Will
liams store building of the Adams estate
and is going to move it to his thriving
little burg. as owing to an ever increasing
business he must have more room.
The directors of district No. g. (Rapids
City, have had the school building nicely
painted inside. new hard wood floor
laid and everything placed in good order
for the fall term of school commencing
Sept. /. Bert Bradley has been en-
gagged to teach another year.
Beekeepers are complaining of a very
poor outlook for this season. j. e.
Swank, who had forty old swarms, only
got four new ones and they are doing
nothing. and nearly every beekeeper
reports that they do not expect to take
any honey from their bees this fall unless
from such swarms as they may kill; the
extreme and continued drouth reduced
the summer flora to almost nothing. and
the fall fora does not start in very en-
couraging, hardly farmer but has from
one to fifty swarms of bees, and If the
present condition continues bee will he
bee next spring, and worth about $40
per swarm.