Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-02-20
.IOSIIN

JosLIN. Feb. II j. G Osborne has
had relapse and DR.. Morgan has been
called in.
Mrs. DR. Morgan came down with the
DR.. from Erie and visited with Mrs.
Whiteside on Thursday last.
On Thursday evening last there was an
enjoyable surprise party at the residence
of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Tinsman
There being no Sunday school on Suns
day last. John Frank and Ella Crompton
spent the day with friends in Henry
county.
Mr.. Bander our blacksmith is doctoring
for catarrh with DR.. Block of Port Byron
He thinks he has relieved him very much
| and feels better
A subscription paper is IN circulation
| for the purpose of obtaining signatures
| of those persons who are DESTROYS of taxi
ing stock in brewery TO be built at Jos.
| lin
| The waste of time and the expense in,
Cured by the tao tics and wire working
oyer the election OF senator at Spring.
field show that it is about time we elected
our senators by direct vote of the peo-
pie.
| On Friday evening last there was a
dance to celebrate the marriage of
Nr. and Mrs. William Cook. There was
a large number present although la
grippe prevented some from attending
Messrs. johnson and Stevenson were the
musicians.
On Friday last Hobe Hannah was eros
sing Rock river with cattle when four OF
them broke through the ice 1t took a
| lnnn time Uaf fhnnn Df
them is yet on the river bank, and may
die. Mr. Hannah and three other men
likewise broke through and ropes had to
be thrown to get them out.
1t is an old saying that IF you give
some people rope enough they will hang
themselves and that certainly has been
the case with Mckinley, ClarksOn, Quay
and Dudley. During the last campaign
they were furnished with all the rope
they wanted, and they have managed to
pull over the republican temple and bury
Themselves in the ruins.
That speech of McKiuley's. which has
been so long heralded, is not actually
worthy of 10-year-old boy. In one
breath he seems to favor cheapness and
in the next he condemns it, Has not
mans greatest desire been to obtain the
greatest amount for the least expendit-
ure of time and strength
F. +. CTOmptOn, having little bust,
ness with John Babcock, he was shown
his lannon's breed of Polled Angus cattle
There is certainly one thing to be said
in their favor-coming into the world
without horns. dehorning is unnecessary.
The yesrlings and two year olds were
large for their age, and, although they
had been wintered upon wild hay, with,
out any grain, yet they were in very
good condition.
Hampton township having been admit
ted into the Coe and Yuma Mutual Fire
Insurance company, the following lead
ing farmers have filed applications for in.
insurance: Drury Weatherhesd. Johr
Babcock. August Ktebe, Peter Wilder.
muth, Willard Colgrove. Reignold Letsch
F. Z Crompton is now csnvassing the
above named township, and if he shoulc
not meet with any person who is desir
Gus of taking out a policy, portal caro-
J addressed to him at Joslin will receive at
tention
If scarcity and dearness is to be pre-
ferred to having the necessaries of lif,
plentiful and cheap, why don't we go bach
to the sickle, the hand-loom and the spin
ming of our thread upon the distaff
Does not the whole of our labor-savins
machinery have a tendency to produc,
a.ticles at a less cost3 If dearness is Il
be preferred to the cheapness why does
not the government give the farmers {
bounty upon corn and hogs as well as
upon sugar. Was not one of the chic
arguments in favor of building the Hen
nipsn canal that it would reduce the rates
of freight? Is it not an instinct in mar
Quality considered) to prefer that which
is cheap to that which is dear?
MULTRUM IN PARvo.