Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-04-11
BY THE HENNEPlN.

MILAN. April 10.-The W. NJ. B.
society, of the NJ. f. church, will
hold its fourth annual fair May and
9. The ladies will do all they can to
make the affair the hit Of the season.
\ baby show will be in order, and a
gold ring will be given to each baby
! entered. and q prize for the prettiest
twins. and the best colored baby.
Besides good program will be given
each evening by home talent.
Miss Lizzie Moore, of Coal Valley,
visited with Hugh Walker and family
| Sunday.
William Kale. the tinsmith. was
working at j. n. Caldwell's Tuesday
! afternoon.
Hugh Blackstock has removed his
family into the Strayer residence,
| near the suburbs of Milan.
| Carpenters Boyer and Weeda have
erected large barn on the Boyer
property on Dickson street.
April 30 is school election and cit
liens should not do as they did last
year. and have only IL votes cast out
of 200.
Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Clarity, OF
Case Greek. are the happy parents of
! bouncing son which arrived Friday
evening.
We don't know whether 5. w.
Heath is MASON" or not. but we
saw him building a brick cellar
Tuesday.
| Jacob Git painted the interior of
McCulloch & Heath's store Tuesday.
and as he always does, Jacob did q
good Job.
Fred Boulton. the popular harness
maker. has become SO busy that he
has hired another man. He has four
sets of harness to make during this
month.
The Y. P. S. C. E.. of the Presby-
terrain church, will give pantomime
on cinderella" at the Town hall
April IS. Mrs. H. G. Huyett will
read the selection which explains the
characters.
A new firm in the meat business is
the order of the day, Frank Brashar
having purchased a half interest in
James CLOVIS meat market, and the
firm name will hereafter be known as
, Glow 4 Brashar.
!, William Busheart and Henry
Bloomfield are at work this week
! moving the stairs and putting a
building between the Tindall build
ing and Zeitschel's restaurant. II
was reported that business block
, would be built here, but such is no,
the case.
Ira White and Sam Daxon have
taken a contract for eXcavating an
artificial lake near Cambridge, and
their men and teams left Sunday t.
begin work Monday. As the towr
is quite distance from the work
William Campbell, of Sears, will keel
boarding house for them.
Men are now at work erecting
poles and wires for the private tele
phone line OF DIR. ii. j. Huyett,
which will connect the residence O
DIR. Joseph Huyett with the Milar
office of DIR. II. j. Huyett. The in
struments are first-class. and will b.
ready for use in a short time.
Rev. Moses Noerr bapt lied ST,
children at the Sunday morni ing ser
vice of the semi-centennial service
The decorations Of the church wer,
a superb and the chairman of the deco
q ration committee wishes to thanl
|, those who assisted in decorating
! and also those who loaned them flow
!, ers for the occasion.
: Among the visitors attending tn
semi-centennial celebration were Mr.
I, and Mrs. William Clark, Of Mon
: mouth; Mr.. and Mrs. Smith and Mr.
: and Mrs. James Lafferty. of Cam
) bridge; Miss Anna Brubaker. of Edg
ington; Mr.. and Mrs. Benjamin Whit
slit, of Presumption; Miss Lizzie Clel
and, of Pierce, Neb.. and MIR. ant
Mrs. W. ID. Honens.
The School
The report of the Milan publ
schools for the month of March is a
follows: Room No. /, teacher Mis-
Edith Davis. the following were no
absent during the month: Edit
Walker. Grace Shipman, Jennie Ship
man. Sadie Soldenburg. Lizzie Phile
bar. Nellie Lagrange. Edna Kale
Jessie Caldwell. Bethel Heath, Thad
die Goble. Meryl McCulloch, Henr,
Smith. Charles Stegmaeir. Gerti
McCulloch. Blanc Kell, Goldie Baker
Millie Wilson. Frances Ganahl
total number enrolled in the month
IS; average daily attendance, AZ
new pupils admitted into this room
in the month were George Ruge AM
Willie Zeitschel.
Room No. 3, teacher, Clark Smith
The following were not absen
during the month of March: Viii
liam Brandenburg. Mable Goble. Viii
liam kale, Berth kell. Mauric
O'Connell. Anna Soldenburg. Nod
Wilson. Ida white, Nealy Walker
: Maud Goble. Fred Bradley. Mill
Hinderer, John O'Connell, Cora SUIT
ton. Frank Tindall. Mary OConnell
Effie Wilson, Maud Zeitschel. Mum
Der enrolled during the month wa
55. with an average attendance of 4
per cent. and a grand total attend
l oroa Of Oh