Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-12-24
BRIEF MENTION.
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Christmas eve.
Up-to-date cake beaten. Acme.
Clearing suit sale At Goldsmith's.
Mrs. Henry Lienhard is visiting at
South Bend. Ind.
Holly and moss at Eckhart's-
Twentieth street.
Oscar Schmidt is home from Notre
Dame to spend Christmas.
A lap-board with every IS purchase
at G. o. Hucksteadt's tonight.
o. C. Pantall is of on a 6-weeks'
visit to Pennsylvania relst ives.
. Slaughter prices on mems and
boys overcoats at GDldsmith's.
Rocking chairs. lots aud lots of
them. at Clemann & Salzmann's.
Turkey and goose lunch at the
American house al day Christmas.
The best bread in the city-S25
Twentieth street.-the Home Bakery.
Merchants dinner at Harry
Smythes' every day from IL to 2. IS
cents.
der fer hard coal, soft coal and hard
wood.
Mrs. H. F. Thomas. of Hampton.
is visiting her daughter, Mrs. F. Z.
Hemmenway.
DIR. s. e. Plummer. Jr, is down
from Chicago to spend Christmas
with his parents.
No better place in the city to Sc
lect useful Christmas gift than at
Clemann & Salzmann's.
Fine lunches served every morning
and evening at the Mint, Market
square. John Kay. Prop.
Roast pig lunch at Joseph Gutz-
weiler's tomorrow. You are all in
vited to enjoy something free.
No finer or larger assert ment Of
fancy chairs or rockers in the three
cities. and prices are very reasonable
at Clemaun & Salzmann's.
Now is the time to buy YOUR
Christmas rocker. They are going
at a very lively rate and at very low
prices at G. o. Huckstaedt's.
Roast pig and ducks for lunch all
day tomorrow at Scody Imhoff's sa-
loon, corner Ninth street and Eighth
avenue. Also rattle for mandolin.
You have purchased your husband
smoking jacket; to complete the
present get box Of those choice
cigars. and briar or Meerschaum
pipe at the Arcade cigar store.
Kramer, Bleuer & Co. have made a
triumph in the printers, Autograph
ers' and book-binders' art in q beau
tilully illustrated catalogue just
issued for the Rock Island Buggy
company.
The new telephone line from this
city through Mercer county and ex-
tending into Warren, has been COM
pleted to Monmouth. The line is
built by Messrs. T. A. Marshall and
f. L. Tobie. of Keithsburg, and has
been heretofore fully described in
The ARGUS.
Contractor o. j. King, of the Rock
leland postoffice building, arrived
from Omaha yesterday and found the
first of the terra Gotta trimmings for
the building had arrived. He says
he could put the building under roof
in short order now if the weather
would permit.
Some of those fine cigars put up
expressly for the Christmas trade
IL and 25 in box-would make your
best fellow, friend or husband q very
nice present-also an elegant pipe or
cigar-holder, which can be found in
great variety and at all prices at the
Arcade. 1906 Second avenue.
A fine Xmas gift-the Century
dictionary or JOhnson's Universal
cyclopaedia, just completed in eight
volumes. Set delivered on first paw
ment or sold for cash to suit circum-
stances. Sold only by subscription.
For particulars address Frank Lasher.
general delivery who will call and
show specimens of either work.
Edward Schaaf, the electrical ex-
pert at the Moline avenue car houses
of the Tri-City Railway company. has
rendered his resignation to take eff.
feet Jan. l. and will be succeeded BY
Ernst Lueth, who comes back to this
side after having been assigned to
the charge of the night crew at the
Davenport barns of the company.
The gentlemen of the committee
composed OF Mayor B. +. Knox, Eli
Mosenfelder and George Price on the
new factory have induced President
Henry Carse. of the Improvement as
ISOLATION. to accompany them and
will start on their tour of investiga-
ton Thursday morning. They will
| be pleased to have any others who