Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-10-03
BY THE HENNEPlN.
A Little Trouble over . watch 1t Milan
Mu0lnRR.

n Little TfOuOle over Woech 1t Milan
Musings.
MILAN, Oct. 3.-William Lagrange,
of Milan, pawned a watch in Rock
Island, and the time having run out
Lagrange sent John Abel for the
watch. He got it on condition that
Lagrange would redeem the watch
in few days, which he did not do,
but watched his chances and Tuesday
while Abel was showing the watch
to man in Zeitschel's restaurant.
Lagrange took the watch and walked
out. Abel followed and made dive
at Lagrange with razor and missed
him. A bystander got his coat cut
in the melee. A settlement was
made by which Lagrange paid Abel
and secured the watch.
Musings.
There was a dance at the town hail
last evening. Quite large crowd
was present and enjoyed themselves.
Miss Maggie Carnaghan, John Nc
Afee and +. S. Johnston and wife, of
Milan, left Monday morning for St.
Louis, for a visit to friends and rel
atives, and also to include a visit to
the fair at St. Louis this week.
Several little folks from Big island
are Attending school at Milan, the
outcome of the trouble regarding the
electing of school directors. The
directors at present have done all in
their power; they have secured the
services of a splendid teacher. re-
painted and papered the school
house. and in every way made things
as good as they ever have been.
Gus Nice has moved his family
down to lock 81, which will shorten
| the distance to his work Of Waterman
at the canal.
Neigh Wilson is building a resi-
dence near the old plank road. The
house will be 2-story frame, and
contain all the conveniences Of a
modern home.
Sunday night at about ~ o'clock
the Belgians over the Hennepin sa-
loon had a dance and they all became
''booZy" and made such a racket that
Policeman Brashar went in to arrest
them. They pitched into the police
man and then Marshal Reynolds
came in, and together they succeeded
in arresting two of the Belgians,
Alois De Rycke and Paul Henneburg,
who were fined $3.50 each. The row
came near being as bad as the shoot
ing scrape there a few months ago.
William Jones, of Davenport. was
arrested and fined 81 80 for peddling
without q license.
Church was held at the usual hour
Sunday evening in the ii. f. church
A larger audience was present than
there had been for quite . while
Rev. F. H. Afford preached, and took
for his text, l Corinthians. y chap
ter. 18th verse, and a better sermon
could not have been delivered. Mr..
Affords remarks were eloquent, and
proved that he knew what he was
talking about. Miss Sodestrom.
teacher of the Big Island school, san-
a solo, which was well liked by the
audience, While nothing definite
has been said, there is likely to be a
great surprise in store for the people
OF Milan. and especially for the young
folks. If the enterprise will be
helped it will prosper. which it
should do, as the people of Milan are
noted for helping towards a good OBJ
ject.
Morris Cadagan and sister have
moved to Coal Valley. Morris in
tends to dig coal for David Welsh
this fall. Mr.. Cadagan's father has
left for Bureau junction to engage in
canal work.
William Johnson, who lost a barn
and contents by fire a short time ago.
built a new barn on the site of the
old one. The greater part of the oats
were saved, and those which were
burned too much were used to feed
the hogs. Mr.. johnson has secured
a fine team and can now commence
his fall work.
The scholars of Miss Sadie Carna-
ghan's room are going to have a
grand second annual nuttiug party,
Saturday. hay-rack load of Young
folks are going, and anyone can
guess about the good times they will
have fighting hornets, mosquitoes
and farmers dogs. We expect to
see large crowd 90 and enjoy them
| selves.
William Beattie has moved his fam
lily to Bureau junction. They left
Tuesday evening and he will work on
the canal there.
The young ladies of Milan will
give "calico" hop at the Town hall
Friday evening.
The Hennepin work at Milan is a
subject which has been spoken of so
much that it has got to be rather an
old topic. We will state. however,
that the work will be complete in
S-weeks' time and the water
turned in the canal by the last of
October.
The town now has three harness