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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-08-02
FOR SALE.
Forty words inserted under this head
one week for 25 cents, cash in advance.

FOR SALE-A fine cottage containing 6
l. rooms. situated on Island Avenue, Peaks
Island, 8 minutes walk from Forest City Land
Ing Lot contains 5000 So it. Inquire of A.
G, LIBBY, AZ IL Exchange st. 81
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-08-02

ITO LEI-F1rnished room with heat and
Il gas. at W High street. lift
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-08-02

r OST-On Congress street between Brown
IL and Franklin last evening, silver watch
and gold chain. Finder will leave the same at
100 FRANKLIN STREET and receive reward
30-1 Lillian MERRILL
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-08-02

IOR SALE-Two story brick house in block
IL No. 80 Lincoln st. Contains Jrooms in
good repair, has sebaga water and closet. fitted
for one family. For further partcularslinquire
of A. C. LIBBY. AZ IL Exchange st. 2-I
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-08-02

EOUND-A purse containing sum OF money
on the road between Saco and Portland.
Finder can have same by inqniring at NO. 70
MOULTON STREET, and proving property.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-08-02

Be it ordained by the Mayor. Aldermen and
Common Council Of the City of Portland, in
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-08-02

EOR RENT-Store number SO Exchange
l. street. nearly opposite Post Office has
just been improved by its owner. Well adap-
ted for insurance or brokerage business
About 80 feet in depth. BENJAMIN. SHAW,
81 IL Exchange st. 3O-1 !,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-08-02

ITO LET-Tibbets House and Stable, SPRING.
VALEM NE. 23-4
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-08-02

r oST-Saturday. 9th, in sealed enyel
IL ope, sum of money The finder will be
well rewarded by returning it to the Argus
Office. 3OE
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-05-09
COAL VALLEY.

Coal VALLEY, May s.-The r. 1.
& p. is running gravel train from
the pit in near the sand mound.
Miss Margaret Patterson has re-
turned from visiting in Gable.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Brahmer are
rejoicing at the advent Of son.
Clegg shipped a car of hogs yes
terday, and Haupt shipped one to-
day.
Miss Rena A. Ecels, of Washing
ton, Iowa, is the guest of W. f. Nc
Elwaine.
The state mining inspector was
here the I'd. looking after the mine
operators.
Dr. and Mrs. w. b. Martin, of
Cable, visited the doctors mother
the first of the week.
L. j. Murphy lost a horse. 1t
dropped dead without any apparent
symptoms of disease.
John I. Hass has his new engine
in full Hast. 1t does well. F. C..
Killing put it in prime order.
Knapp & Lees have given the front
of their store 8 coat of paint, which
improves it very much in appear
ance.
There are but few farmers in town
now. They are busy planting corn.
They feel elated over the recent
showers.
Robert A. Hass is attending the A.
o. L. W. grand lodge at Springfield,
as q representative of the Coal Val
ley lodge.
X. l.. Bollman is here saluting
old friends and relatives. He saws
the ground is suffering from drouth
in Indiana.
Thursday evening someone broke
into the Park school and took an un-
abridged Webster dictionary. There
has been no clew of the thief.
The Coal Valley Dramatic company
which performed SO successfully in
Coal Valley a few evenings since,
has been invited to appear in Cable
on the evening Of the 11th.
There were four of our young
ladies confirmed in the Lutheran
church at Orion last Sunday, viz.
Misses Hattie Stenstrom, Mary An
derson and the two Misses johnson,
daughters of John D. johnson.
The commissioners of Coal Valley
township have purchased q new gra-
der from Naylor. The roads need a
great deal of such work. as q good
grader will perform. We expect a
great improvement by utilizing it
this year.
The village board organized on the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-05-09
BRIEF MENTION.

Leaf. lard ut Schroeder's.
Buy bicycle at McCabe's.
Cash shoe store-Dollv Bros.
Louisville-R. /. & p. trains leave
4:1O .. m. and las p. m.
Don't fail to read jackson & Hurst q
id. if you have money to invest.
The Rock Island High school has
gone 10 the Tower this afternoon for
a May day picnic.
Decatur-3, trains daily Except
Sunday via r. l. & p. Consult time
table in this issue.
The educational matinee at Har-
per's theatre tomorrow afternoon
will be instructive, entertaining and
profitable to the children.
To Springfield Through coach on
sos q. m. train via X. 1. & p: 4:10
a. m. and las p. m. trains also make
equally good connection.
Fine residence lots on Twentieth.
Twenty first and Twenty second
streets for sale an easy terms. See
adv. N. NJ. Sturgeon, attorney at
law.
MIR. and Mrs. E. G.. Frazer and
children moved yesterday to their
delightful suburban home on Aiken
street. which they have leased Of T.
r. Harper.
The summer concert season at
the Tower opened last even
ing very pleasantly. This prom
Uses to be one of the most delightful
and successful seasons the Tower
has ever experienced.
Frank P. Blair, the Davenport &
Rock Island bridge protector, has re-
turned from St. Paul with full de.
termination to begin operations on
the lower bridge construction at
once. The Rock Island right of way
will be secured and the necessary
ordinance presented.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-05-09
TREAT FOR THE CHILDREN
Scholars Educational Matinee at HARPER
Theatre Tomorrow After School.

ScholorS educational Matinee ut darper's
Theatre Tomorrow After School.
There will be rendered at Harper's
theatre tomorrow afternoon at 4:3O
an educational matinee for all schol-
ars and teachers. A practical method
of drawing letters by blackboard il
lustration. ventriloquism. parlor
magic. Humpty Dumpty. Punch and
Judy. ETC.. goes to make up the pro-
gram. Cards are being circulated
through the schools by permission of
Superintendent kemble, which, to-
gether with 5 cents, entities a child
to one of the best seats in the house
and also handsome souvenir, sam
Piles of which are on display in the
windows of H. F. Corde's furniture
store, 1902 Second avenue.
Scholars not holding program
cards as circulated will be admitted
for 5 cents just the same as those
who hold them.
Parents as well as little ones are
assured of an enjoyable as we'll as
profitable time, as the entertainment
comes highly recommended.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-05-09

A word to those going
to build this coming
season! If you are go
ing to build a nice res
idence get figures from
the ColOna Stone Co. of
Colona, ILL.,, on a cut
stone building of white
or verigated sandstone.
Ii you build of brick let
them give you figures
on the trimmings. II
You Duiid . frame or
wood building let them
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-05-09
River RIpleto.

The Glenmont, Inverness, Bella
Mac, Pilot and Quickstep came
down eight strings of logs each.
The river continues to rise. At 6
a. m. the stage was ESQ; at noon it
was 2:60. The temperature. 80.
The Kit Carson. West Rambo, Hen
rietta and Verne Swain came down,
and the Kit Carson, West Rambo,
Pilot. Quickstep. Inverness and
Verne Swain went up.
The new Pittsburg will leave Sts
Louis Sunday for the south and will
come into Rock Island in all her
glory Sunday morning. She will be
in command of the gallant skipper,
John Killeen, and will be the queen
Of the upper river. 1t is said her
name has been changed to Dubuque.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-05-09

evening Of the 9th and reappointed
Fred Gregg constable. and appointed
Hugh Martin treasurer and Charles
Conner overseer of streets and alleys.
1t also granted saloon licenses to
jacob Starofski, Gustave Knapp
and George Somerson. 1t required
fun license. $500. besides pool Ii
ceuSe
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-05-09
PORT BYRON POINTS.


PORT BYRON. May 8.-The old
folks concert at the academy last
evening, under the management of
Prof. j. A. Wallace, was q success
in every particular. and was deserv-
ing of a much larger audience than
was present.
The costumes were fine, especially
those of Mr.. and Mrs. Newlands.
Mr.. Newlands represented Scottish
hig hlander and Mrs. Newlands
Scottish fish wife. The program
was quite lengthy. and with the
frequent encores Kept those present
entertained until late hour.
Among so many who acted we'll their
parts, it is hard to tell who did the
best, but Herbert Davidson. who had
the part of the new minister at the
"quiltin'bee" is deserving of especial
mention.
William Denbigh put a new roof on
his residence this week.
Rev. Turner has moved into Louis
Colgrove's house on Front street.
Our new village president and
trustees were duly Installed Tuesday
evening.
Uncle Samuel Bruner, who was
quite sick for a few days, lis able to
be about again.
Everyone is rejoicing over the
rapid growth of vegetation since the
fine rain Saturday.
The public schools close this week.
Walter Rogers and Del Malarkey
graduate from the High school.
Prof. j. c. Conner. of the academy,
was absent over Sunday. being called
to Iowa City to attend the funeral Of
his brothers wife.
Arthur V. Olin arrived q few DAYS
ago from Canton, N. Y, where he
spent the past winter. He expects
to return to New York again soon.
MIR. and Mrs. j. ]. Tubbs, Mr.. and
Mrs. G. E. Tubbs and Mrs. Peter
Webb. Of Rock Island. spent the day
last Friday visiting Mr.. and Mrs. W.
S. Grove.
Postmaster w. F. Garrett is NOV
ing into his new home this week,
having purchased from George Allen
what is known as the Torpin prop
erty on High street.
Prof. E. +. Harper, of Chicago,
and Miss Hosford, of Geneseo, who
have been visiting Mr.. Harper's par
ents for several days, returned to
their homes Tuesday.
j. G. Osborne has purchased the
fine residence property of L. E. Gay
lord on Hi Oh street. Mr.. Osborne
has been renting the property.for the
past two or three years, since Mr..
GAYLORD took up his abode in Moline.
X. e. HOLSTER lost q valuable
young horse this week. He was
hitched with another horse to a stalk
cutter, and in some manner the lines
became tangled. drawing the horse
over backward onto the machine and
cutting him SO badly that he died al
most instantly.
Those who attended the lecture of
Joseph Knanishu and his wife at the
Swedish church last Tuesday even
ing were well repaid for their trouble.
Mr.. and Mrs. Knanishu are natives
of Persia, and are attending the Au-
gustana college. preparing them
selves for missionary work in their
native country. Their lecture was
a graphic description of the manners.
customs, religions, traditions, ETC..
of their home land.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-05-09

TIE ARGUS. only 1Oc q week.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-05-09
In the Circuit Court.

The connubial relations of two
more couples finding each others
habits faulty were severed yesterday
BY Judge Bigelow. Mrs. Emma
Cohen charged her husband. Edwin.
with drunkenness, and John KAY
complained of his wife, Tebitha, as a
deserter. and the court granted sep
arations.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-05-09

The Weather.
Fair weather; warmer today, con-
siderably colder Friday and Friday
night; southerly winds, shifting to
northwesterly. Today's .tempera-
ture, SO. j. +. WALL, Observer.
'Eur AnoIra onl.r 10o n uoolr
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-05-09
Personal Confines

is greatly enhanced by fine set Of
teeth. On the other hand, nothing
SO detracts from the effect of pleas.
ing features. fine eyes and a graceful
figure; as yellow teeth. That popu.
lar toilet article, SOZODONT. checks
their decay. and renders them u
white as snow.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-05-09
DEFEATED THE GIANTS.
Abe Locals vietorious In . Pretty Game
Yesterday.


Yesterday.
The Page Fence Giants carried
long faces and displayed feelings of
q reduction in importance when they
emerged from Twin-City park yes
terday afternoon astride of their BIZ
cycles-they had secured one measly
little score to five for the doctors
youngsters. The colored boys enjoy
quite a reputation as diamond kings,
having bested many of the league
teams, and the fact of falling victims
to minor association players sent a
sting through their thick and shady
hides. 1t was an excellent exhi-
bition, and if Sage's players can con-
tinue their willow and team work,
we will have q club equal to the best
in the minor leagues. With the ex-
ception of q blunder in the ninth in
ming. when one Of Hams descend.
ants got tricky and crossed the rub
Der. the home team put up perfect
game, the outcome Of which
was largely due to the ex-
cellent pitching of William Good:
hart. the coming twirler. In this
young man Manager Sage has a
jewel. He pitched a pretty game,
and the big black boys, one after
another, meandered back to the
bench, victims Of his speed and crook
eduess. He made q record for him.
self yesterday, the giants getting
but one safe hit. The visitors
played hard to win, but sGoodhart
was too much for them. The score
by innings:
rr.c,, issa5s
Giants :: ::::::::::::.o II
Grand stand Gossip.
Samuels played his first game yes
terday, .holding down short. His
position is third base. but he does
well.at short. He is corker with the
stick.
The Giants refused to play after
decision of Umpire Baker in the
eighth inning in calling man out at
first, but were induced to finish the
game by they manager.
The season opens tomorrow with
Clinton.
Sage's youngsters are getting down
to business.
Harry Bennett, our left fielder,
will probably have to return to Peo-
ria, Manager Dugdale, who let him
come here on condition he return
when wanted, having written to him
to report. Bennett is a good man.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-05-09

Hef cheeks are like the roees,
Her bros 10 lily white;
And we'll know the reason,
She akee Parks' Tea each night
She's stroag and vel ana happy, TOO,
Her fsce is clear and bsighi,
Ana laughinxiy she tells theecause.
II take P.rks' Tea each night
Sold BY Hartz & Ullemever.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-05-09
Are
You
Going
- u
Buflds

give You figures on the range work.
Il will improve the looks scd value Of your
h0uee S per cent. some Of the niceft buildings
10 the state ore built Of Coloua stone. By al
means have your sschitect gpecify CoIona stone
% be ased in your buiidink. Samples Of stoae
and Photographic Of buildings can be seen e.
Room u, Mitchell q Lynde's building.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-06-20
Farm Notes.

~"ese and turkeys have a place on
every we'll stocked farm. Both are
profitable, and neither very hard to
rear.
Cultivate the onions frequently but
not deeply. Just stir the surface half
an inch deep and keep every weed
down.
Remember that lettuce requires
abundant moisture to make it crisp,
and If the weather is dry give it water
literally.
No man owning a flock of sheep can
afford to refuse to dip at the earliest
possible moment. Prevention is bet
ter than cure, and safety is found only
in taking time by the forelock. , =.
Feather pulling eggs eating and
similar vices are the results Of idle
ness. If penned fowls are given some
thing to scratch in, they will rarely
pick any Of the little vices up.
Turkeys require and must have q
considerable range, and they must also
be allowed full liberty with their
young after they begin to feather, else
they will surely not be kept in good
health. The same may be said of pea
and guinea fowl.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-06-20
Relic of Martin Luther.

A curious relic of Martin Luther has
been found folded up between the
leaves of book, the property of the
late Lord Zouche, of England. Ex-
amined recently, it was discovered
that the folded paper was what might
be called to-day poster, and there is
fair evidence that it hid been used
by Luther for a special purpose u
was the reformer's habit to travel over
the country challenging disputants-
The paper is printed in gothic type
and consists Of two leaves, which have
been pasted together so as to form one
strip. The translation from the Ger
man reads: CDR Martin Luther,
preacher of the Holy Church. of Wit
tenberg, will maintain the following:
theses against the whole school of Sa-
tan and all gates Of hell (wider die
game Satanschule und allie Pforten
der Hoelley)." 1t must have been Luz
theirs habit to attiX this challenge be
means Of a wire to church door. IT
might have been that the poster, hav-s
ing served once or more. was preserv-
ed by Luther for some future occasion.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-06-20

Broughton's assignment had taken
him in the direction Of Mulberry
Bend. AS he returned through that
quarter he saw hundred yards in
front of him a woman with a tray Of
images on her head. He quickened
his pace and soon was near her. 1t
was the same Italian; she had re-
plenished her tray with more saints
and heroes and graces. $50 it is"
unused young Mr.. Broughton-who
still trailed clouds of the glory of jour
| nalisnl-"that in this world no one is
Indispensable. One perishes, another
replaces himv' st..
Just then, staggering around
corner, appeared the former breaker
Of images, and again, as if on purpose,
he swung his arm rudely against the
woman. AS before, crash, lamenta-
items, and crowd. The jewellers Of
Mulberry Bend, themselves we'll ac-
quainted with poverty, gave of their
few copper coins to her, who sat wall
ing among the ruins of her wares.
They helped her to pick up such OF
casts as were not irremediably broken,
and to replace them on the tray.
This time Broughton did not stay to
act as CONSIDER. Thee aggressor had
walked off rapidly, ard the reporter
followed him. After five minutes
chase. they turned into an unspeak-
ably dirty alley, where the Italian en-
tered a doorway, without noticing
that any one pursued him. Broughton,
having made sure that he should rec
Ognize the house again, has tened to the
nearest police station and told the
story. "She was a quiet, decent little
body" he said to the officer THAT
great hulking brute struck her on
purpose the second time, even admit
ting that the first time might have
been by accident"
Two policemen were detailed to &c
company Mr.. Broushton, who was
known to the chief of the station, aud
he led them straight to the door where
the italian had entered. Up the dark
and broken stairs they climbed.
Broughton shrunk from contact with
the Shiny walls; it seemed to him that
evil odors were depositing themselves
there in pestilential fungus growth.
At last they emerged upon a landing.
A child leaned over the baluster of tho
story above. Broughton tossed him a
nickel.
MY little man, is there an Italian
living in this houseY'
The child picked up the coin and
stared in silence.
Say, kid, is dere dago here"
one Of the policer en- translated.
The boy pointed with a thumb to a
door at the left of the landing where
the three men stood. Broughton felt
the thrill of the righteous avenger.
The malicious brute who had twice
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-06-20
"SPREAD YO' FEET, BOSS.
The Waiter Feared the BaDdmun
Would Go Through the Floor.

The Waiter Feared the BaDdmuA
Would Go Through the Floor.
Sometimes the fitness of things as
serts itself even in circus band. In
the big orchestra presided over by
Carl Clair the man who plays the big
bass horn is himself the biggest man
in the band He is built on the same
generous plan as his instrument, and
is seven feet six inches high and
weighs nearly 400 pounds.
The other day he wandered down
into the lower end of New York ana
chance took him into little combina-
ton bar and lunch counter restaurant
just back of the city hall.
The building inspectors had been
very busy down that way, and had
generally dispensed their judgment of
the old wooden structures that still
abound in that region. On the wall
of this little restaurant had been
placed placard warning the occu-
pants that the floor would safely hold
up only ITS pounds to the square foot
if evenly distributed. AS the tall and
bulky wind-jammer" circus
slang for musician-entered, the negro
attendant at the lunch counter sized
him up carefully, turned and read the
placard and then took another look at
the horn-blowing giant. Then he lean
ed over the counter and in agonizing
tones cried:
For Gawd's sake, boss, spread yo'
feet! Spread yo' feet"'
Somehow the story got back to the
show, and the bass horn player is now
called by his fellow musicians "Spread
YO' Feet "-Pittsburg Leader.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-06-20

come and jostled tie little woman so
roughly that the tray was thrown
from her head and went running to the
sidewalk. 1t was the end Of the world
for that population of craven images.
They fell in heap of indistingush-
able fragments, minglng their dust in
a complete democracy of saints, poll
ticans, lambs, the three graces, and
even a model Of q beautiful foot Ia
beled 'Trilby" Little Samuel was
past praying for, but he was no more
thoroughly pulverized than the bust of
Napoleon. Young Mr. B1oughton felt
stirring within him an essay on the
frailty Of mundane things. Then the
air was torn with the lamentations Of
the woman.
"Oh, Madonnaw Next she de-
nounced the cause of the disaster,
who was moving away. Head Of
big, you area Why-a you hit-a me?
What l ever done at you-a? You
break-a my image-I not eat-a more"
She ratified her irger-nails along her
front teeth to indicate the hunger
which would be the consequence Of the
breakage Of her stock in trade.
Meanwhile two bootblacks had
seized the man by the elbows and,
turning him around, ran him back
face to face with the woman. She
stood wringing her hands and Waling:
What ruin! Poor-a mel!
The aggressor was evidently also an
Italian.
Soy" one of the bootblacks said,
''yoose has gotter reach down inter
yer clothes an square up wild de dago
loidyr'
He's a bloomin' dago hisself," COM
mented the other boy.
Broughton had been painfully COM
posing few phrases Of such COLO
Quial Italian as his Harvard studies
of Dante had rendered possible to
him, and now uttered them in a stir
and toneless accent. In effect, he said
that it was necessary to pay the COM
patriot for that which was broken.
II only gotta ten cent-a, signor,"
said the offender, handing the coin to
the woman. He was permitted to 60
in peace.
'"Ten.a cent-a! Madonna mia! For
SO mooch imagew sobbed She
So Broughton put dollar into his
own hat and passed it around among
the throng that had been attracted by
the noise. When he gave the collec-
ton to the woman, she wiped her
eyes, kissed his bands with many
benedictions, and went her way.