Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-04-10
every one a mstchless value at Son.
mers & La Velle's.

every one a matchless value at Som
mers & La Velle's.
You can buy beautiful parlor or
gan for $i5, payable IS cash. balance
IS monthly at Hops Bros, 1l2 West
Second street. Davenport.
Our line of spring clothing is CON-
plete and we make the boastful as
sertion that it is the nobbiest in
town. Sommers & La Velle.
J. W. Herbert has purchased of M.
Bowen his 2-story residence on Twen-
ty-seventh street and Seventh avenue
for g consideration of $500.
For q nice table drink every family
should have Black Hawk spring
water. carbonated or plain, as fur.
nished by Carse & Ohlweiler.
Swell shoes. Ladies, don't miss
seeing the elegant line of fine shoes
in black and tan which the Boston
is showing. IA to + widths.
County Treasurer Titterington
gives notice that after April Is the
cost Of advertising will be added to
all delinquent taxes in real estate.
George Blaine and Miss Anna Sun.
berg. Of Gilchrist, were married a,
The First Methodist parsonage yes
terday afternoon by Rev. +. W. Mer.
rcll.
G. Z. Taylor, representing the Col
umbia Opera company, is in the city
arranging for the company's APP
Pearance here the latter part Of the
| month.
Tell your neighbors of The ARGUS
free portrait offer. One of the best
souvenirs ever given by a newspaper.
Only limited mum Der will be fur.
nished.
j. Il. Math. brother of Frank Math.
of this city. was elected alderman on
the republican ticket in the Thirty
fourth ward at Chicago by a major.
ity OF 2765.
Copies of THE ARGUS weekly con-
tanning an illustrated story of the
recent developments in the Bastian
tragedies are now on sale at The AR.
Gus business Office.
The farmer wants rain, the bust.
ness man wants business, every man
wants a macintosh coat this wet
weather. Stewart. the halter, has
Just what you want.
Another lot of those 20 and 80
cent baby shoes. Get 'em while
they last. Some special snaps in
child's shoes, 3 to s, tomorrow SO to
.5 cents. The Boston.
Confusion" was clcverly pre-
sentsd by the Marie Wellesley com.
pany before another large audience
at Harper's theatre last evening.
The company gives that old time
favorite. East Lynne" tonight.
Congressman Prince has a notice
elsewhere in THE ARGUS with refer
ence to cadetship in the naval
academy at Annapolis. and in which
the Tenth district is emitted to'rep-
| rcsentation. All who are ambitious
to serve in Uncle Sans navy should
govern themselves accordingly.
Unquestionably the best sugges-
ton made yet with reference to the
disposition of the ferry license ques-
ton is the one made by an alderman,
which is that each company be
taxed $500 per annum. Thus would
the revenues of the city for levee i'm
provement be properly increased and
both companies would contribute a
proper proportion.
Edward Hoche has been transferred
from the Western Union Office tc
the management OF the same com.
pany's Office At FL Reno, Oklahoma.
This is quite boost and one OF
which Mr.. Roche's friends will be
gratiiied TO learn. Bert Lovett, OF
Davenport. succeeds him as operator
in the Rock Island office.
Manager Blerer, of Harper's thea.
tire. is arranging for delightful
treat for the patrons of his theatre in
3-nights' engagement of the Col.
umbia Opera company of 40 people,
April %. "a and IS. The company
is one of the best on the road, and is
not one OF the cheap, trashy kind
The people of Rock Island are in the
right spirit for something first-class,
and will testify tc their appreciation
of 1t.
Many have been the expressions Of
ecstasy over the appearance of the
grass in Spencer square. 1t ha:
come forth from beneath the mantel
of winter rich dark velvetv green,
and Commissioner jackson was
asked this morning what application
was made to accomplish so beauti-
full an effect. and he replied that he
had simply had n dressing Of Canals
unbleached wood ashes spread over
il in the fall.