Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-01-09
CITY, CHAT.
Leaf lard at Gilmore's.

Shredded wheat biscuits at Brown.
er & Cos.
Rolled oats 90 pounds for 25 cent.
at Shields.
Ask Browner & Co. for shredded
wheat biscuits.
See Maucker's strong talk on
prices in another column.
The celebrated shredded wheat
biscuits at Browner & Co.'S.
Note w. G. Maucker's new price
list and compare them with others.
Twin-City club dance at Roche's
hall every Saturday night-25 cents.
The officers-elect of Camp 3O9. NJ.
w. A, will be installed tomorrow
evening.
Don't forget THE ARGUS want COL
umn. Its results are sure and far
reaching.
Fresh Columbia river salmon,
whitefsh. fresh Goldfish and smelt at
Hess Bros.
what! 90 pounds of rolled oats at
Shields for % cents! Are they
good?" II should say so.''
The stage OF water at the Rock
Island bridge this morning was 2:3O
and falling; the temperature "a.
George w. Hixson. a former Rock
Island resident, was run down by a
train at Abingdon recently and
killed.
Commissioner L. j. Medill went to
Springfield last evening to attend a
meeting OF the Western Insane hos
pital commission.
Miss Roses concert. in which tri-
city musical people are so much in.
terested. occurs at the Burtis, Daven-
port. tomorrow evening.
Tenderloins, spare ribs. pork loins,
sausage meat. pigs feet and leaf lard
ut j. s. Gilmore's pork house. Six
teenth street and First avenue.
The season Of active operations is
now On at j. s. Gilmore's packing
house. 20 men being employed, and
$50 hogs were disposed Of today.
The Ladies' Industrial Relief So
ciety will hold its monthly meeting
in the rooms in No. 4 school build
ing Saturday afternoon at o'clock.
Camp 1850, NJ. W. A., will have a
public installation of its officers next
Tuesday evening. when banquet
and entertainment will also be given.
IL is becoming an acknowledged
fact that advertising, original and
well displayed. is as necessary to the
life OF business Us oxygen to the
lungs.
Two men engaged in transferring
the mail across the Mississippi at
Keokuk yesterday are reported to
have gone through the ice and
drowned.
''Is that right? Shields is selling
go pounds of rolled oats for 25 cents?
don't see how he does it. but then
you can't tell what he will do when
he begins cutting prices"
The new factory committee is still
on the move and still meeting with
encouraging responses to solicita-
tions for subscriptions. The hust-
lers are now putting in the finishing
strokes.
DIR. 5 C.. Plummer has a letter
from UT. Joseph De Silva at New
Orleans, in which he says his wife's
mother, by whose dangerous illness
they were called from Rock Island.
has greatly improved.
Frank Mousley, the Rock Island
engineer. residing at 23l7 Fourth
avenue, is suffering with a scalded
right hand. In opening the frost
cock on his engine Tuesday the
steam and heat exploded with such
force as to catch his hand before he
could draw it away.
The Moline Dispatch today pur-
chased n 2-story brick building with
dimensions of 20x54 feet on Library
street, that city, of +. A. Perrien,
with view to remodeling it for a
model newspaper office. which will
he equipped with new press and
other modern improvements.
Alex Anderson, of the circulating
department, is center OF bright
faced group of carrier boys which
adorns the calandar which the Dav-
export Democrat issues this year.
Anderson wears that proverbial
smile that characterizes his features
about the time he is to make
..touch."
Bishop William Stevens Perry. Of
Davenport, is to lecture at Moline
tonight on the Passion Play" the
discourse to be illustrated with
stereopticon views by DIR. Radenhou-
sen. a number from this city will
attend. realizing that the subject
will be most ably and thoroughly
dealt with.
The stone work on the first story
of the court house building was COM
plsted yesterday. This ends opera.
tions as far as the stone work until
spring. Today will wind up the
brick work for the season and an
other week at placing the steel. and
the first story will be covered until
the opening of next season.
The will Of the late John Hose was
admitted 10 probate in the county
court Yesterday afternoon II was