Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-02-29
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see.
Those X. S. & Co. suits which NJ.
e. X. placed on sale this week are the
talk OF the town. Talk is cheap, but
NJ. & KS. prices are cheaper.
This evening at o'clock McCabe
Bros will sell the very best marsh.
mellows at Is cents a pound, and
fine gum drops at 8 cents pound.
Regardless OF muddy roads, the
Boulevard grocery, s2S Twentieth
street. has at all times the choicest
of dairy butter and strictly fresh
eggs.
Reidy Bros. today sold the Barn.
bart property on Third avenue 10
Rosenfield Bros. for $4,000, and they
will use it for their plum bling estab.
lisbment.
Have THE ARGUS sent to your
home each evening and your family
will love you all the more. The
poorest household can always dig up
a dime o week.
The work on the replacing of the
destroyed span OF the Rock Island
bridge is progressing satisfactorily,
and it is hoped to have it ready for
use some time tomorrow.
Another interruption in the tele-
phone service is likely pending
the arrangement of the cables carry
ing the wires across the dismantled
draw span Of the Rock Island bridge.
1t is hard to get choice butter dur
ing the month of March. but w. c.
Maucker has a good supply OF it on
hand. He also has butter not quite
lit for the table for 12l cents per
pound.
Sunday afternoon at $3.50 Rev.
Ira Allen speaks to the men in the Y.
NJ. e. A hall on the subject OF "A
Plain Talk" The choir of the
Broadway Presbyterian church will
sing.
MIR. and Mrs. f. G. Frazer leave
this evening for Springfield to visit
Gov. and Mrs. Altgeld. Mrs. Frazer
will remain two weeks at the eXecu-
tive mansion, but Mr.. Frazer will
return in few DAYS.
Joseph Scherrer has resigned his
position as bookkeeper at Lemberg
&c Detlefsen's wholesale liquor house
to give his attention to his new
duties as secretary OF the Peaslee
Shoe company. Miss Lena Detlefsen
succeeds Mr.. Scherrer.
II anyone is not thoroughly con-
WINGED of the need of the levee i'm
provement. such as the council pro-
poses inaugurating, let him take
look at it now at the foot of Eigh-
teenth and then ride over on the
ferry and view the Davenport side.
Gus Englin. whose work in the
Tailoring line has always given the
best of satisfaction, has opened n
shop at 123 Eighteenth street. where
he has on hand nice line OF spring
samples to select from. His prices
will be reasonable and he solicits
return of his old patronage and that
OF the public generally.
The mayor and committee of the
council on First avenue track rights
has gone out with Supt. F. C. Rice.
OF the c., b. e q. and II. S. Gable
and II. Il. Sudlow. Of the K. I. & p,
for final inspection of the First ave-
nue. tracks this afternoon with a
view to reaching some amicable solu-
ton of the situation if possible.
Rock Island is once more promised
a visit from William II. Harvey, the
distinguished expounder of free sill
yer principles. He now calculates
to address the people at Harper's
theatre next Saturday evening under
the auspices of the Tri-City Labor
Congress. MIR. Harvey claims that
he will not speak to an audience pay
ing an admission fee. so this engage
ment will not be lucrative one, but
20 cents will be charged for reserved
seats. Mr.. Haryey's prime object in
coming here is to win new recruits
for the Patriots of America, q nom
political organization OF which he is
the founder. and 4 branch of which
has been formed in Rock Island.