Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-07-23
CITY CHAT.


Levi Filbert, of Port Byron. spent
yesterday In the city.
Miss Rosa Cohn left this morning for
Chicago on visit to friends.
j. R. Walters. of Tacoma. Wash, is
j n the city on visit to friends.
Boyd Hartman and family, of Morrison,
are visiting with friends in the city.
Rev. G. E. Taylor will preach this
evening at 7:45 in the United Presby-
teaian church.
The Misses Mary and Laura Krantz, of
Geneseo. are spending a few days with
friends in the city.
The third subscription concert of Prof.
Ottos series will be given in the Elm
street concert garden this evening.
Music at Spring Cove this evening.
Cars leave Rock Island at and p. m.
Last car leaves tower at 10 o'clock.
Capt. Durham left with his boat, the
Gen. Barnard, for La Crosse this after.
noon, accompanied by his family.
Prof. W. r. Gould will make bis balloon
ascension and parachute jump at Black
Hawks tower Sunday afternoon at 4:SO.
A bright little girl has arrived to
brighten the home Of William Schillinger
and wife. on Elm street and Fifteenth
avenue.
A. B. johnson. OF the Crown dining
room, will conduct the dining hall at the
Rock Island district NJ. E camp meeting
this summer.
The primary departments of the Broad>
way and South Park churches Joined in a
picric today in the grove in Rodman's
subdivision.
The Rockford Construction company
has completed the lower Second avenue
pavement, and the work is such as the
company should be proud Of.
Mrs. A. 81. Wood gave a ladies' tea
yesterday afternoon from to z. Forty
ladies called and the event was very
pleasant one in all respects.
E. E. Pollard, sheriff of Harvey coun>
ty, Kansas, accompanied by his daugh-
ter, Miss Lena. is in the city on visit to
relatives. The latter will spend TIE sum
mer here.
An incipient blaze in the rear of Dix
on's merchant tailoring establishment
was squelched this morning by the eff,
cient work of Frank Matb, of Krell g.
Math, without serious loss.
The engagement is announced of Lieut..
j. E Normoyle. of the regular army, and
Miss Emma Eckers, daughter of Samuel
Eckers. Of FL Passo. Tex. The Young
officer is Rock Islander and has hosts of
friends here who have known him from
boYhood.
Last evening at o'clock occurred the
marriage of Miss Mamie Sass to Albert
Herbert, Rev. A. c. Mennicke officiating.
The ceremony was performed in a cottage
on Thirty-Dinth street, which has been
furnished by the groom Only a few
intimate friends were present
Il is understood one of the South Rock
Island commissioners has re aented OF his
position with regard to the changing of
the road at the watch tower, and is will
ling now to accept Mr.. Louderback's
Germs. II is to be hoped So The com,
nissioners ought to be heartily ashamed
of their attitude, for they have ignored
the wishes of three fourths of the prop
ertp holders of the township.
Jay Gould passed through Rock Island
las; night bound for the Rockies. He is
the special guest of the Rock Island road,
TO which fact the Chicago papers attach
considerable significance, holding that it
is an evidence of not only a reconciliation
between Gould and Gable. but the exis-
tence of q friendly feeling between them.
Owing to the non-return of the appli-
cations from the head physician on &C.
count of the temporary absence of that
official from his office, the date of the
organization of the new NJ. W. A. camp at
Rock Island is postponed until Saturday
evening, August l, at O'Clock. A
letter from Head Clerk Halves says, ar
rangemen,s TO insure an interesting and
entertaining exemplfication of the ritual
will be made.
P. J. Louer has sued the Davenport
Times for $4,000 for defamation of
character, resulting from and article pub
lished in the Times of June IS, wherein
ives contained Mr.. Louer's statement that
he had insulted mans wife, and further
that the husband had come to his office
and threatened his life. and also that the
wife had shaken hands with him, stating
the insult was excused.
The Davenport & Rock Island street
railway company began moving the
tracks TO the middle of the street on Mo-
line avenue east of Twenty at $50