Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-08-30
The Weather We May Have
Fair tonight and Wednesday.
Today's temperature 60
NJ SRKRIKR, Observer
CITY CHAT.

Buy one-a Kinship cigar.
Eggs 10 cents at Weckel's.
Eberhart's pianos are going.
Go to Eberhart's piano sale.
Buy your school supplies at Eek
harris.
81 pair for all ladies' So tans at
Adams.
Fresh eggs 10 cents u dozen at
Weckel's.
For reliable fire insurance call on
Z. j. Burns
The best steel ranges in the city at
SUMMERS * Co.'S.
Take your pick for 81 in any So
tan ladies' shoes at Adams.
Great clearance sale of ladies' 50
tans at 81 pair at Adams.
Last call in ladies' tan shoes.S3
grades at 81 pair-at Adams.
Fall term of all departments of Au-
gustana college will begin Sept. z.
Great sacrifice, but they must 60
ladies 50 tans 81 pair-at Adams.
Sweet milk, cream, buttermilk and
ice cream at Ill and 113 Nineteenth
street.
Just received large assortment of
velocipedes and iron wagons at Eek
harris.
The Augustana evening school be-
gins Sept. z. Arrange to be there the
first night.
Horizons grocsry will close at noon
tomorrow on account OF the Wood
men picnic
New fall dress goods just received
at Young * McCOmbs', lower in price
and better than ever.
Hand-turned no tacks in them,
ladies tan shoes, 81 a pair regular
So grades at Adams.
Business property, residence prop
erty and lots for sale in all parts of
the city by Z. J. Burns.
About 800 pairs of broken sizes in
Rock Island factory ladies' So shoes
go for $50 a pair this week.
Get a free ticket at Young IL Nc
Combs to the great Cuban war con
cert with 81 purchase or over.
All sizes and all widths in the Rock
Island factory's So tan shoes 90 for 81
a pair at the clearing sale this week. |
Work at the reservoir site is pro-
crossing nicely. Cementing for the |
filter beds Will be begun in few |
DAYS.
The Christian Endeavor society of |
the Aiken street chapel will give an
ice cream and cake social Friday |
evening, Sept =.
When you want your sewing ma
chine or bicycle repaired drop postal |
At hn Waata-r, Rar,ai,. tUnr-lrs
1925 Third avenue, Rock Island.
The new Condensed Horse Feed |
company has leased building on First |
avenue between Sixteenth and Seven |
teeuth streets, and will begin opera
tiOns Mt once.
Some small boys who have been |
making practice of raiding tomato
gardens on south Twenty-third street |
are putting themselves in a fare way |
to get into trouble.
Only once in life time you can see |
he latest wonder-the animated pic
lures of the late war. a ticket free
with a purchase of 81 or over at |
Young Il McCombs'.
A pile of ties near the Rock Island
semaphore ut the foot of Twenty
eighth street, took fire from a spark
this afternoon. Chief Collier turned
out with the No. hose company to
extinguish the blaze.
Conrad Maurus. of South Rock ISL
and. was operated on yesterday at st.
Anthony's hospital by Drs. Plummer
and De Silva, for the removal of
vesical calculus, weighing one ounce.
The patient is doing nicely.
Dr. G.. l.. Eyster and J. n. Van
Patten tied for first place in the last
gentlemen's preliminary tournament
in the haRdicap golf contest at the
arsenal links. They met in a play-of
the other day. and Mr.. Van Patten
defeated DR.. Eyster by a narrow mar
gin.
A glance at the month of Septemb Der
for a period of % years is afforded in
the compilation of Observer j. NJ.
Sherier. During that time the mean
temperature was o.. the warmest
month being that of 1897, with an av-
erage of 20; the coolest that of 1888.
with an average of 90. The highest
was 90, on the 9Th, 1898:
the lowest IS, on the 27th. 1889. The
average date of the killing frost is
shown to be Oct 10. The average
number of clear days was II, partly
cloudy IL, cloudy !.
Mayor Baker. of Davenport. re-
ceived n message from Con gresham I
Curtis this morning to the effect that
Adjt. Gen. Corbin had ordered the {
50th Iowa to leave Jacksonville for I