Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-03-30

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Revenue for business only, with
side line Of pleasure and an occa-
sional charity. How's that for
platform? Have you seen Stewards
spring hats?
John Corken, son of ex-Ald. and
Mrs. Daniel Corken, is able to be
around again after a long siege of
sickuess-a fact that will be CRAFTY.
ing to his young friends.
Chairman William Hoeft, of the
democratic city-township com mittee,
has called a meeting of all members
of the committee and candidates at
his Office tomorrow evening.
Ii you accidentally get speck of
dust in your eye this windy, dusty
weather, get it out as soon as posi-
bic and go to Stewards and see the
pretty line of Easter neckwear.
The home o.. Mr. and Mrs. Z. F. Dorm
has been frightened by the advent
of new daughter and Ernest's Joy
over his new bike is fully eclipsed.
His has now happier thought.
p. j. Cary. venerable consul OF c.
W. Halves Camp 1850, NJ. w. A., has
received with the com pliments of
Head Clerk G. W. HAYES a beautiful
badge, the insignia of the Office he
holds.
Paper cleaned by the disinfectant
process without injury to the paper
and does not streak. All work guar
anteed to be first-class. Leave or
ders ut GrotJan's drug store. j. d.
Means.
Mayor d. F. Knox and Health Com
missioner E. NJ. Sala are going over
the ground and advising the property
holders to be affected by the alley
paving to make proper sewer con-
nections today.
An axle of box car on an east
bound freight train in charge of Con-
ductor Clark broke down at Bureau
Junction yesterday morning and de-
layed the fast mail couple of hours
in arriving here.
An overheated stove at Truesdale's
livery barn on Second avenue fired
the wainsco:ing in the Mushroom
yesterday morning. The department
was called, but not needed. The
damage was slight.
Mrs. James Conner and Misses
Mary Comegys, Lille Huber and
Irene Rosenfield composed a party
which arrived home from weeks
at the grand opera at
Chicago Saturday evening.
w. J. Mosher is laid up at his home
at 1909 Seventh avenue with an in
jured back, sustained a few eve
nings ago by falling through n trap
door at the Mutual Wheel works in
Moline, where he is employed as night
Waterman.
Edward Reymenyi, the noted vio-
linist. who has been quite i'll at the
home of his friend, Henry Sartorious,
in Davenport, is improving. His
which has been stopping
at the Harper since the engagement
in Moline, left Saturday night for
Chicago.
Patrick McCarty, whose final tes-
lament was probated in the county
court Saturday. bequeaths all of his
possessions to his wife, to whose own
judgment he leaves the division of
the property among their children ut
her death. Mr.. McCarty died in
Coal Valley township March IS.
George Sutcliffe, the well known
wall paper dealer. wishes the public
to know that his stock this season
for first class, new and pretty goods
outclasses any other effort ever made
in this city in the wall paper bust
ness. No end Of beautiful patterns
to make n selection from. 1t is sim
ply wonderful display.
II is apparent that the beautiful
spring is rapidly approaching this
neck of the woods. and MAYOR Knox
is figuring on when to commence
cleaning the alleys. He has conclud-
cd TO leave il to the weather man.
III il continues pleasant next week
the mayor thinks it time to begin.
He accordingly wishes that all yard
cleaning be done in the interim and
the rubbish deposited in the alleys.
John ID. Mcclellan and Mrs. Sophia
Axtell entered upon their third mat
rimonial deal Saturday afternoon,
when Squire Halves tied the knot for
them ut his Office. Their respective
ages are 35 years. The groom is en-
ployed as fireman by the Rock Island
Lumber Il Manufacturing company,
and is colored gentleman who has
had two previous marriage expert
ences. rs also has his bride, who is a
Caucasian.
Spring. beautiful spring, is near at
hand and the lady of the house will
soon busy herself in renovating the
home. She will secure some wall
paper and artistic decorator. and the
place of all places to pick from the
finest and best selected stock of new
and pretty patterns in wall paper
and engage an expert workman to do
the hanging is at George SATELLITES,
the we'll known wall paper dealer.