Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-01-08
CITY CHAT,

Your business supervising,
But the rush Of patrons will soon sba,e,
IL you drop your advertising.
Leaf lard at Gilmore's.
See Hess Bros. change of ad.
Plenty Of dressed chickens at Hess
Bros.
Acceptable silver polish Silver
Cream.
Full line of fresh vegetables al
Hess Bros.
See Dolly Bros. special 1896 al on
seventh page.
Try sack of Cream flour at only
30 cents a sack at Longs.
Operations we're begun at Gil
more's slaughter house today.
Parsley. egg plant. oyster plant,
cauliilower. lettuce and spinach ut
Hess Bros.
Miss Lulu Cook today returned to
Longwood, after the holiday vaca-
ton, to resume her studies.
Herman Burgower is here from
Dallas, Tex, on n visit to his par
ents. Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Burgower.
For healthy table drink use Carse
& Ohlweiler's Black Hawk springs
mineral water. Telephone No. 1914.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. S. McRoberts, of
Geneseo, departed over the Burling-
ton last night on tour of the south.
A choice lot of dairy butter and
some strictly fresh eggs at Beecher's
commission house, 1913 Second ave-
nue..
&. G.. Lemon, district passenger
agent Of the Northern Pacific railway,
with headquarters at Chicago, is in
the city.
Miss Emma Davis returned to her
studies ut LoDgwood. ILL.,, today.
after spending the holiday vacation
ut home.
The oilicers-elect of st. Paul lodge,
X. Of p, will be installed this eve
ming by District Deputy Grand Chan
cellor e. G.. Coyne.
The Rock Island Brewing COM
pany is distributing handsome and
useful calendar for 1896 with the
compliments of the season.
The first and second teams played
a spirited game of basket ball at the
Y. NJ. G.. A. last evening, the result
being defeat for the latter by score
OF Q to 6.
Tickets for the "Cradlc Songs OF
All Nations" may be procured from
the ladies Of Trinity church. or at
Champions book store. where the
sale of seats will begin Friday morn
ing.
Tickets for the Crary art tours
have been placed so low that all can
enjoy them. Tickets for the course
81. They will admit several at one
time il preferred. Single admission,
% cents.
County Superintendent McKeever
has an invitation to himself and the
teachers of Rock Island county to at
tend the meeting of the Scott County
Teachers association in the High
school in Davenport next Saturday
morning.
X. X. Cable. of Chicago, has pur-
chased from the Jacob Starr estate
the lot adjoining his property on
Tenth street between Second and
Third avenues. This gives Mr..
Cable an entire half block. having
paid 81, $50 for the Starr property,
the deed for which was filed in the
recorders Office yesterday aiterday.
The Rock Island road is to provide
gates ut the crossings of Fifteenth
and Twenty-third streets i'm Moline
rs an experiment. Rock Island
would like to have some at Eigh-
teenth and Twentieth, not as an ex-
pertinent. but as practical neces-
sity. The demonstration of utility
in other cities is sufficient guarantee
Of their usefulness in Rock Island.
The plush cape und muff found in
the upper lumber mill yards some
time ago has been claimed by G A.
Owen, Of Eldon, Iowa. Mr.. Owen tells
the police that he came here several
weeks ago. and while stopping at the
residence of Fifth avenue relatives
the articles were stolen from the
hallway. The goods were returned
to him. Mr.. Owen is an engineer on
the Rock Island road.
The regular quarterly meeting Of
the Iowa and Illinois Central District
Medical society will be held at the
Kimball house. Davenport, tomor-
row. DIR. W. l.. Allen, OF Davenport,
will exhibit the ball OF hair removed
from the stomach OF girl at st.
Luke's hospital not long ago, and
will tell about 1t in paper entitled
"Gastrotomy for Removal of Hair
Ball" The second paper will be by
DIR. F.. A. Eden, Of Moline, on Ulcer
Of the Leg"
The first Of the grist Of divorce
applications to the January term
was considered favorably in the cir
cult court today by Judge Bigelow.
Mrs. Nellie j. Strayer said her hus.
band. John II. Strayer. foreman of one
of the X. !. & p. railway company's
bridge building forces. deserted hei
in 1898. they having been married
one year previously at Milan. She
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