Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-09-24
trail Union Telephone company. de-
parted this afternoon for a short
visit in Lexington, Ky.

| Al Tue SuspcHueT race! Oniy giving
suits and overcoats away will give
the mimics voice-let them either
put up or shut up.
Why don't our honorable neigh Dor
have sale between l and o'clock
in the morning so no one would know
it. then next day advertise what a
big sale they had-the London.
The Moline city council met this
afternoon and gave the railroads 10
days to lower the tracks from Thir-
! teenth to Eighteenth avenue, at the
end Of which time the city will do the
work.
Messrs. John Ohlweiler, August
Lift. Gustav Stengel, William Ores
sen and Henry Geisler left this after
noon for Freeport to attend the ILL.,
nois State Convention of Liquor
Dealers.
White all wool flannels take a tum-
BILE at McCabe Bros. this week-24c
quality for 14c: SOC quality lsc; 35c
quality for 22ac, and so on through
the whole line. All wool tennis tian-
nels. the SOC ones for Ssc.
Supt. Murrin made little investi-
CATION of the present inlet pipe to
the waterworks Saturday and found
a crook near the well, which he
Strengthened. sinking four lengths Of
the pipe about foot in all.
White semi-porcelain dinner sets.
To satisfy the demand for this STYLE
of dinner ware. McCabe Bros. have
just received fresh stock OF those
l00-piece sets at $3.50. Best wear
ing porcelain in the world.
At the Mercer county fair last week
Albert Zwicker, of Presumption. won
first premium on two of his English
shire colts, and his 2-year-old stall
lion, Wenona Columbia. No. 1886,
the Worlds fair prize winner. He
also took first prize in sweep stakes
OF all draft breeds.
T. B. Danielson. Of Presumption,
has conner in horse flesh in 2
year old, sired by c. W. Negus' Rob
Roy, which in 90 DAYS training
paced mile at the Davenport track
last week in 2:S0. The promising
animal will 60 again Thursday OF
this week.
Thousands OF people are looking
Californiaward. They want to know
where to 60 to raise fruit and how to
travel cheaply and comfortably. For
full information to these questions,
address, California Bureau of In
formation, lock box No. /, Cedar
Rapids, Iowa.
NJ. & KS. generous offer to assist
the Ladies' Aid society during the
cold winter months to provide warm
wearing apparel for the poor. is not
done from mercenary standpoint
by any means. The fact is. that as
long as NJ. & X. are giving goods
away they much prefer assisting the
helpless, and adopted this effective
course to accomplish their purpose
very proper and commendable
method indeed.
Contracts were let by Maj. Mack
enzie Saturday afternoon for dam and
shore protection work as follows:
Wis, from Genoa to Prairie Du
Chen and Glenn Haven to Dubuque.
$50, 800; to Jacob Rlchtman. Foun-
tain City, Wis. Dubuque to Clinton,
Keokuk to Quincy, GAINESVILLE to
Hamburg. Ham burg to Cap au Girls.
and Cap au Girls to the mouth of the
Illinois river, $751; 900.
The claim on the part of the
mimics that NJ. & X. favored few
with suits and overcoats is as dishon-
orable and false as their general bus
mess tactics. and they know it as
well as everybody else. The fact is.
NJ. n X. gave away more suits and
overcoats than the blow and buster
ers gave suspenders. 1t only more
fully illustrates their petty jealousy
which the public recognized from the
beginning. But who cares, NJ. e. X.
downed them in suspenders as they
do inleverything else and they dare
not meet them.
Mrs. Mary kitson died at the resi-
dence Of her son-ir-law. ex-Mayor
! William McConochie, 2513 Seventh
avenue, yesterday morning at 8
o'cloc ok, aged 81 years, of old age.
She was native of Ireland, coming
to this country some 40 years ago.
Besides her husband she leaves four
children, three daughters and one
son. Mrs. William McConochie, Mrs.
Charles Moody, of this city. Mrs.
William Cowley. of Moline. and John
Kitson. The funeral will be held
from the residence tomorrow morn
ing at 10 O'Clock.
Just watch the papers for our free
for-all sales. We will give them all
they want, and there will be no ia
vored few selected TO give them to
when the London gives anything
away. We show no Partially. Our
most honorable neighbors don't seem
to like our method of doing business.
We are awful sorry they don't like
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