Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-05-30
BY THE HENNEPlN.
Memo'ia, Services ut MiIan-Town Ia

MILAN, May 3O.-The Memorial
service was held at the PRESBYTERIAN
church last Sunday and quite a large
number of old soldiers were present.
Rev. f. II. Afford offered PRAYER.
after which d. T. Robertson preached
the Memorial sermon and took for
his text Joshua 4th, part of 2Ist
verse:
"Wl en- your children shall ask their fatberr in
TIME 70 'ome' say what means these stones -
A very fine sermon was delivered,
after which the choir sang, and was
followed by several selections by the
Ridgewood quartet. The church was
well filled, as the NJ. f. church
united in the services.
Milan Musings.
Those barb-wire fences should be
done away with.
A +. Mead left for visit to rela-
tives in Rockford Tuesday.
Joseph Mcintyre, of REYNOLDS. is
here for n short stay with his wife.
Mrs. X. b. Olmstead has left for n
visit To her son, Warde, at Orange.
Iowa.
The teachers of the school seem
to be very busy filing out those
blanks.
Hugh Walker had his fence paint.
ed. which adds much to the looks of
his house.
Mrs, L. NJ. Vanhorn has returned
from a few weeks visit at Mt. Pleas
ant, Iowa.
John Wittrick, the popular horse
man. left for a visit to Chicago
Wednesday.
Louis kirkman and family, of Polk
county. Neb., are here on visit to
Robert Kirkman.
Robert Mcconnell is the happy
father of 10! pound baby boy. who
arrived last Thursday.
johnson Davidson, of Rock Island
will soon have one OF the finest ice
cream parlors in the town.
Henry Feron, of the Hennepin
saloon, will serve a free lunch every
day and evening this week at his
saloon on Water street.
Haislip Il Dickson were painting at
Supervisor Olmstead's premises
Monday. and general Improvements
are going on all over the town.
There is no reason for not having
n Fourth OF July celebration in Mi
Ian. There is not much capital
needed, and as large a crowd will
come as there is wanted.
Mr.. Robertson announced that
there would be preaching in the
Presbyterian church Thursday and
Friday by one of his classmates from
the seminary of Chicago. and Satur-
day he would preach, and he would
be pleased to receive as many appli-
cations for membership as possible.
The funeral of Charles W. Griffin
was held at the Methodist church.
Rev. Alfred preached very touch
ing sermon. Many friends were at
church, and the floral offerings were
profuse. The pall-bearers were George
iinderer. Reed Wilson. Ben Honens
and William Kuehl. The inierment
was made in the Dickson cemetery.
The election of officers for the VIII
lage of Sears was held Saturday at
that place. and the result was: Pres
ident, G. ii. Dibbern; trustees, +. d.
Fisher. John +. Breen. James Nc
Carly, j. f. Mead aud b. Patterson.
Fifty-nine votes were east. and there
was only one man in the field for the
other ticket, John Phillips, who re-
ceived Is votes.
A large force of teams is busy
hauling crushed rock from the
crusher near the guard lock to the
bridges for the piers of the new draw
bridges, and gravel is being hauled
for the concrete walk. The north
bank is assuming its proportion, and
work will soon begin on the last part
OF the south bank, near the bridge.
and everything in general is very
lively in this vicinity.
Miss Hattie Chopper entertained
quite a number OF her young friends
Saturday afternoon, the occasion be-
ing her 10th birthday. Among those
present were: May O'Haver, Julia
Chopper, Grace Weaver, Mabel
Wheeler. Mabel Carson. Bethel
Heath. Emma Kuehl, Nellie Harris.
Fannie Baker, Florence Goodlow,
lnis Walker. Bessie O'Neal and Phil
lip Chopper. Refreshments were
served and good time was had by
all