Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-05-25
REYNOLDS.

REYNOLDS, May 21.-The Misses
Nellie Dibbern and Aggie Sears. Of
Searstown, came here on their
..bikes" to visit with w. &. Davis
and family.
Services will be held at the opera
hall Sunday by Rev. S. P. Archer.
Rev. McCreight. of Presumption.
preached in the NJ. +. church Sun
day last.
MIR. and Mrs. Gust Olson are the
happy parents Of 4 baby girl which
arrived last week.
Parker Gray, of Lamar. Mo-, and
James Scranton. are visiting rela'
tives here this week.
The village board met Saturday
evening, having some business of i'm
portance to attend to.
Joe McEutire, of Rush Medical
college, will return home in q few
days with M. d. affixed to his sig.
w. A. Manning, who fell from q
scaffold . few days ago. is rapidly
regaining his strength and health.
The frost of last week played
havoc with the gardens and fruits.
A great many farmers are replauting
their corn.
Quite few of our citizens will go
to Rock Island to attend the
breach of promise suit between
Trovillo and McPhail.
w. P. Kuhn has opened a new
stock Of groceries. general merchan-
disc andl hardware. The esquire
has large and increasing trade.
Mr.. and Mrs. DIR. Moore went to
Ainsworth, Ia., Sunday last in re-
Spouse to a message informing them
ofIthe death of Mrs. Moore's mother.
j. H. Gaunt will soon commence
rebuilding his block formerly used
as hardware store. He proposes
to widen out and raise the building
another story. The upper part he
will lit up for lodge room.
j. F. Johnston has completed his
repairs and additions to his restaur-
ant and has as neat and as attractive
q place as can be found in town. His
success is the result of industry and
strict attention to business.
Another wedding of the "middle
Of the road" sort took place here
Friday last. The Interested parties
were Sherman Cannur, OF Aledo, and
Miss Agnes Cubbage. of Millersburg,
the ceremony being performed by
Rev. Archer.
The graduating exercises OF the
High school will take place at the
opera hall June z, Miss Mary Kistler
and Miss Nettie Haskell being the
graduates. Otto's orchestra, of Dav-
export, will furnish the music. Prof.
Furguson has been engaged for an
other year.
Messrs. Marshall and Tobie, OF
Keithsburg. are going to run a tele-
phone line through our village and
connect with the Central at Rock
Island, and q subscription of $3.50
was raised here for them on condi-
ton that they tap the Office At Rock
Island.
NJ. Wait returned from Chicago
Monday, having been called there
by the firm of McCurdy & Co., CON-
mission merchants at the stock
yards. the senior member of the firm,
Mr.. Eugene McCurdy, having had
the sad misfortune to lose his reason.
McCurdy was well and favorably
known here, and his sad condition is
deeply deplored by all. Mr.. Wait
SAYS the doctors report the case a
hopeless one, and that he will be
taken at once to the insane hospital
at Kankakee.
There will be q shooting event at
Reynolds May 80. Shooting will be
from five traps at Blue Rock targets.
The program will consist of q series
Of contests of ten targets per man,
! so cents entrance to each contest.
Targets will be charged for at the
rate of two cents each. and the cos,
of targets will in ali cases be de.
Quoted from the entrance fee. We
have At Reynolds one of the bes,
trap shooting outfits in the state,
and if you want to shoot for sport
ond meet the boys in q friendly con.
tests, come and try your skill
| with us.