Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-02-10
CITY CHAT.


Beses.
bsce valentines two for &c at the Col
smbia
Fresh hot peanuts, s cents quart at
4oro's.
Elce oranges. 10 cents . dozen It
Bcro's. .ter rs
Oysters an ! cranberries at Brooks &
Thiermaa's.
Lettuce. beets, spinach, soup lunches
Bt Arnold's.
Fine new California cabbage st Brooks
8 Thiermsn's.
The only place to buy a valentine cheap
% ct the Columbia.
5fssges bananas, dates and figs at
Brooks 6 Thiermsn's
Seventy Eve dwellings for sale cheap
sene time-Reidy Bros.
"a Jolly Surprise" 1t Harper's theatre
next Wednesday evening.
Il will pay YOU to pstronze the intel
hgence column" Of THE ARGUS
Twenty per cent discount She sale.
Last day-SsturdaY. The Boston.
Celluloid, hand painted and fancy val
rntines at half price at the Columbia.
Gustave Stengel left last evening for
Chicago for q brief stay in the Worlds
Fsir city.
Tomorrow is the last day OF the 30 per
cent reduction on ladies and children's
1kses st the Boston.
aid. Dauber. T. q. Thomas and Pat
Rooney drove down to Buffalo. Ia, to-
gay to look at some flee horse flesh.
George Mitchell and wife have re-
harmed from a pleasant visit of several
weeks TO friends in southern Illinois.
Everyone goes away well pleased with
TwsctV per cent off makes them cheap.
The Boston.
LAST chsncel Ladies. don't fail to get
vour shoes or the children's, with 20
pez cent of. Saturday is the last day.
The Boston,
William a. Brown and Miss Ellen
SsAndish, of Clinton. were married at the
FIRST NJ. 4 parsonage this morning by
Rev F. W. Merell
Fanny Rice's Jolly Surprise lie one
Of the best comedies on the road. It
vM be seen at Hsrper's thestre next
Wednesday evening.
You will regret it if you don't take ad.
vantage Of the 20 per cent discount of.
sered on ladies' and children's shoes
soothing held back The Boston.
Reed Arnold's large space on the
sghth page Of this issue. giving prices
sever before heard OLA saving of at
east 2S per cent on oil canned goods.
Frank Cloagb. formerly in the under.
ssking business in this city, and OF late q
travelling salesman, died at Decatur on
Wednesday after brief Illness. BE was
unite well known here. His remains were
ssken to Geneseo for iuterrment.
Work is progressing nicely on the in
serior anishings of the Y. NJ G. A.
erilding. The plumbers and steam filters
sre busy, and though the work ia being
pushed pretty lively it will probably not
BE finished before the first of June.
a number Of Rock Island people have
Been heard TO remark that if the United
Rates annexed the Hawaii Islands thew
pouid go there. Since Uncle Sam has
extended protectorste over the lonely
tenants Of the seas they can now go with
l1ll safety.
1icbael Dillon, of Davenport, who was
struck by an electric car in Davenport
and injured, and brought suit sgains,
che Davenport & Rock Island Street
Railway company for damages. was
awarded $1,000 by jury in the district
court OF Scott county yesterday.
There is snv amount of complaint on
sUcount Of numerous sleighs dsshine
around town without bells. There being
no noise attached to the approach of a
sleigh it is exceedingly dangerous for De.
aestrisus, especially old persons, and
shose who drive without bells should use
more than ordinary caution to avert any
possible accident.
Street Superintendent Blsisdeil TODAY
put forces of men at work cleaning the
snow out of the cutters at the principal
rross streets along Second avenue in
order to prevent inundation of cellars
when the thswing season commences,
fhe street car company has packed the
snow swept from the tracks down as SOL
IDLY as possible by means of its walking
0lOws and has also bad forces at work
digging out the snow and carrying il
away from places where it was too heavily
packed.
The ladies' auxiliary of the Y. NJ CA.
held its fancy work and candy sale at the
residence of Mrs. G A. Rose, on Seventh
avenue, yesterday afternoon ana evening
and IS proved delightful affair and also
. financial success. In addition to the
ss'e OF large number Of fancy articles,
candy was disposed of and in the
evening the ladies tea was we'll attended.
A recitation by Miss Bogue and a song by
Miss Blanche Cleland with guitar accom-.
paniment by Franz Haverstick added To
me occasion. which was a very pleasant
one IN everv respect. The entertainment
aetted about 800.
The swarthout boys of Lyndon, who it
'esapposed murdered their father few
months ago. haye been indicted for mur.
Ser, ana will possible be tried this month.
me Sserling Gazette says hat"prison life
1eens to agree with the Young men In