Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-01-15
CITY CHAT,
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Leaf lard at Gilmore's.

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Leaf lard at Gilmore's.
Buy home OF Reidy Bros.
DO not neglect to test the value OF
Silver Cream.
Drink Carse & Ohweiler's ginger
ale and be healthy.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Gustafson
have q new daughter.
Good fur capes So ~ and g. A.
worth IS to $3.50 at McCabe's.
Ex-Sheriff G. d. Gordon is quite i'll
at his home on Fourth avenue.
Gottlieb Zwicker is planning for q
10-days' much needed recreation trip.
Mrs. George B. Smyth. OF Keokuk.
Iowa. is visiting her daughter, Mrs.
Samuel Edwards.
The stage OF water at the Rock Is
land bridge this m rrning was 1920;
the temperature 50
New rough effects in handsome
short jackets 40 and 81 cents on the
dollar at McCabe Bros.
Samuel Broomhall and son, vii.
liam Broomhall. are here from Mar
ion, Ind. on 30-days' visit.
Daniel HAYES. of Omaha, president
OF the Rock Island. Muscatine &
Southwestern railway. is in the city.
Have arrived that big purchase Of
jackets and capes which McCabe
Bros. announced. are now on sale SO
cents. 40 cents and 80 cents on the
dollar.
G. T.. Case went to Ottawa this
morning and F. p. Welch to Chi
cago. Their simultaneous parting
will leave an aching void that it will
be difficult to supply.
Manager Bleuer says people need
not feel uneasy about the reputation
ofthe company which presents ..Chsr.
ley's Aunt" at Harper's theatre Fri
dar evening. 1t is Frohman's origi-
nal company and that is a sufficient
guarantee of it's merit.
Messrs. j. NJ. Buford and f. W.
Hurst returned this morning from
Wymore. Neb.. where they attended
the annual meeting OF the stockhold-
ers OF the First National bank of
Wymore yesterday at which John
Volk. Of Rock Island, was reelected
a director.
The ice cutting harvest was COM
menced in Rock Island today. John
Siegrist is operating near the boat
yard in the western part OF the CITY;
Weinberger Il Hildebrandt out from
the Rock Island Plow Works, and
William Huber at the foot of Eigh-
teenth street. The ice ranges from
81 to IL inches in thickness.
The jolly Octavoas were enter
tanned by Miss Ada Hemenway and
Luke Hemenway at their home on
Third avenue last evening. Several
hours were most pleasantly spent at
progressive cinch. the prize winners
being Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Arnold
(tirsp, and Mrs. Marvin Beardsley
and Lyman Ellinwood (booby.)
Hydraulic Engineer George F. Eek
ert. OF Tiskilwa. is in the city. He
has been foreman Of the workmen on
the Hennepin canal both at this and
the east end, and has superiutended
the construction OF all of the 10 con-
crete locks and the l,36l-foot dam at
Cars island. He will remain here
and in Davenport most of the win
ter.
John Young slipped on the ice at
the foot Of Eighteenth street yester-
day afternoon and fell in such a man
ner as TO fracture his right arm
above the elbow in the same place
where he had broken it several week 8
ago. DIR. F. ID. Paul adjusted the
fracture and Mr. Young was taken
to his home on Third avenue near
Fourteenth street.
IL IL understood that the stone
contract for the new lower bridg.
has been made. and that its per-
formance will be carried out. and
that performance will be begun very
soon. The subscribers to that $780,
900 funf are watching with great in
terest for the unloading of the first
lot Of material at the site of the Iowa
abutments and approaches.-Daven-
port Democrat.