Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-05-04
The Weather We May Have.
Rain tonight and Thursday.
Today's temperature e.
J. n. SHKRIRR, Observer.
CITY CHAT.

Smoke Kinship 5-cent cigar.
Strawberries at Hess Bros.
Open tonight. Dolly Bros.
Lees Little Gem is the best broom
Lothar Harms has gone to Ester
vile, Iowa.
$3.50 to Springfield and return Sat
urday next.
Bicycles carried on excursion tc
Springfield.
Popular wall paper at popular
prices at SATELLITES.
Fresh vegetables of all kinds a,
Hess Bros. Phone 1881.
1t beats all the fine goods Sutcliffe
is offering at such low prices.
Excursion to Springfield on the r.
/. p. Saturday next; fare $3.50.
Wall paper at one-half the price you
pay elsewhere. Young & McCombs.
Watch for Capt. w. d. Ament's big
street parade Thursday at o'clock.
Fine line of Griffin pocket knives
just received at Young & McCombs'
Head Clerk c. w. Halves, of the
Modern Woodmen, is in Kansas City,
Mo.
Two free exhibitions will be given
daily on show lot by Capt. w. d.
Ament's show.
Late reports indicate that our boys
will soon be called to Cuba. See them
in camp before they leave.
See the famous school of trained
ponies and dogs, SO in number, with
Capt. w. d. Aments' show May 5.
The Till family, not the Fill family,
will be at the Central Presbyterian
church Friday evening, May 6, at
O'Clock.
Take your lunch basket to Spring
field with you Saturday. The boys will
enjoy some Of mothers pies, fried
cakes, etc.
Charles Schroeder succeeds Gus
Geiger as truckman at the Central
engine house, the latter having re-
signed to 60 to Klondike.
The receipts of last nights ball at
Armory hall were $50. The money
will be sent to Capt. McConochie, of
Company A, at Springfield.
+. Evers has been engaged by the
Turner society to manage the Turner
hall saloon the coming year, Z. Luch-
mann having given up the place.
Eugene j. Burns has almost en-
tirely recovered from his illness, and
will soon be able to be at his office. as
his friends will be pleased to learn.
The Helpers of the U. p. church
will give clipping bee social Thurs
day evening, May 5. No adm ission
fee will be charged. Is cents defrays
all expenses.
You will miss the chance of life
time IL you fail to make your wall
paper selections at once at SATELLITES.
His prices tell the story. Call and
see for yourself.
Music from glasses, music from
swinging hoops, music from stones,
Friday evening at 8 o'clock at the
Central Presbyterian church. Adj
mission rs cents.
John X. Scott, United States con-
sulate agent ut Chaux-de- Ponds,
Switzerland, may soon resign his posi-
ton and return to Rock Island to re-
sumo the practice of law.
A committee has been appointed by
the Rock Island Industrial Home
association to arrange for the annual
tri-city Labor Day picnic which is to
be held here this year.
This is the last week in which YOU
can have your choice of any pair of
mems shoes in the Peaslee shoe store
for $3.50. Seventeen styles of $3.50
and "a shoes to select from. Open
tonight.
Where D where is there another
store in the three cities that carries
such an enormous stock of wall paper
as at SATELLITES? Corner Second ave-
nue. and Fifteenth street, opposite
court house.
Capt. W. ID. Ament will open a
3-days' engagement, giving two per-
formances daily. at Sixteenth and Sec
ond avenue, Thursday, May 5. The
program embraces many high salar-
led stars" never before seen at pop
ular prices. Admission 10 cents.
During the month of April, accord
ing to Observer j. NJ. Sherier's re.
port, the mean temperature was 40 /;
the highest having been 80 on the
10th. and the lowest "a on the 9th.
There were 10 clear days, partly
cloudy days and Ii cIoudv J,rs