Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-06-19
CITY CHAT.


concert this evening.
You can save money by buying a.
the Columbia. Read add.
Very nervy." Down go ginghams
this week at McCabe Bros.
Silk as cheap as cotton this week
at McCabe Bros. See adv.
Don't miss the musical treat al
Harper's theatre this evening.
DR.. H. d. steele, late, of Princeton
H.. has located in Rock Island
Attend the vocal and instrumental
concert at Harper's theatre tonight
Tomorrow will be the last day OF
registration for the coming school
election.
Sheriff Gordon has sold his pet
wolves to the Museum man at the
Watch Tower.
Midsummer sale of silk mitts, &c,
12c. lac. 1Sc pc, 25c. and so on this
week at McCabe Bros.
Another car load of lawn mowers
at McCabe Bros. Prices same as be-
fore-beginning at S2.97.
James Crowley, now residing in
Chicago. spent Sunday in the city
with relatives and friends.
Still for tomorrow all Cheney
Bros best plain or printed China
silks go at as cents yard
The Misses Lucy and Nettie Coyne
left on Saturday for Reynolds for a
short sojourn with friends.
A lace craze has struck the town.
McCabe Bros. were ready for it with
a big. stock at reduced prices.
Wanted-A good girl for general
homework. Apply to Mrs. George
+. Roth, 1l16 Second avenue.
The Jones family left this morning
for savanna. and will make short
tour in the vicinity of the lakes.
Miss Ella Collins has accepted a
position in Wright Il Greenawalt's in
place of Miss Brennan resigned.
Now is the time to save money by
trading at the Cslumbia. Undersel-
ling every body. Read add on eighth
page.
John Mayer and Mike Letting were
arrested by Officer Ohlweiler on Mo
line avenue last evening for fast
driving.
Good board and room in pleasant
and convenient location for single
gentlemen. Apply NJ. c.. ARGUS
Office.
Jackets and capes half price this
week at McCabe Bros. SIS jackets
at $3.50, 81 capes at $3.50. and s.
ones at $3.50.
A party of the friends of Capt. c.
Durham went up on the Gen Bar
nard to Clinton this afternoon to re-
turn tomorrow,
Lost-A silver chatelaine watch,
with silver chain attached. A re-
ward will be given for the return OF
same to this Office.
The regular meeting of the
Womens' Christian Temperance union
occurs at the Y. NJ. c. A. building
morrow afternoon at 8 O'Clock.
Miss Bessie REYNOLDS, daughter of
Rev. j. NJ. Reynolds, formerly pastor
of the United Presbyterian church,
is visiting with friends in the city.
The United Glass company closed
its plant at Ithaca, n. Y, Saturday,
and the citizens there promptly no.
tilted thelcompany to put price on
the outfit.
The Rock Island pillow works laid
off 200 men temporarily Saturday
night pending repairs and the reop-
ening of the market for agricultural
implements.
The graduates. of the theological
department of Augustana college-2t
in mum ber-were ordained in the
Swedish Lutheran church in Moline
lastevening:
John Spilger. of the Contracting
Carpenters association, has made
arrangements agreeable to all con
cerned, by which his men will return
to work at once.
1t is mt every city in Illinois tina
is going ahead like Rock Island is
Warsaw has just half the number o
children in its public schools that i
had 20 years ago.
The horseback wrestling match a
the Tower yesterday afternoon be
tween Messrs. Christol and Mcmillan
was won by the former in three on
of five falls. John O'Day acted a:
referee.
Claud Hawkins, for some time pas
operator in the Western Union tele
graph, has gone back to Chicago
where he will work in the main office
F. /. Barnhart succeeds him as oper
ator here.
A meeting of several of the trades
unions was held yesterday Afternoon
at which the labor situation was dis
cussed. The combined organization
will give an excursion to Peoria OF
Sunday, July 2.
Farmer Burns won his mattel
with Comstock at Fort Wayne, Ind.