Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-12-16
TOWN TALK.
F. 3. Q.

See IoIten 5 al, page o.
The holiday rush has begun.
Butterine at Schroeder's market.
Take in the horse show for charity 5
sake.
$2.45 sale of SIS ladies' shoes at
Adams.
Buffalo coat at a bargain. SOM
mers & La Velle.
Toys given away at the Eastern Tea
X Coffee company's.
See the life readers advertisement
in the want column today.
Xmas and New Years presents half
price. Taylor, manager.
Dancing school at Roche's hall Sat
urday night. Admission % cents.
Rock Islands holiday shop windows
never looked prettier than they do this
year.
Cap given with each boys knee
pant suit Saturday. Sommers IL La
Fe!le.
Special hour sale tomorrow at the
St. Louis store. Davenport. See al on
page ..
Remember the Tri-City Blacksmith
Helpers ball. at Turner hall, Satur-
day night, Dec. II.
Davenport will seek $4,000 from
the present congress for levee and
harbor improvement.
The stage of water ut the Rock ISL
and bridge ut a. IN. was $40
and falling; the temperature at noon,
81.
Silver handled nail files. glove but
toners and paper cutters % cents each
1T Brookman's, the Twentieth street
jeweler.
The police of the three cities have
been warned against a famous Chica-
go shoplifter who is said to be headed
this way.
There will be dance at Beselin's
hall. 1903 Second avenue. Saturday
night. Dec. 10. Admission % cents.
Ladies free.
For fashionable dress making call
ut $50 Nineteenth street. First-class
work guaranteed. Terms reasonable.
Mrs. f. Hansen.
Elegant silk neckwear made in
puffs, imperials, ascots, tecks, etc,
for 30 cents, as good as others sell
for % cents and 81. The London.
The specials at McCabe's from to 9
o o'clock this evening are surely worth
going for. Then, again, you'll see a
crowd, and your friends will be there.
Special for tomorrow-1S-inch kid
body doll, worth 40 cents, with n can
of baking powder ut the Eastern Tea
IL Coffee company's, 21O7-1109 Fourth !
avenue.
\ golden opportunity. 800 rugs, all
sizes, ut 80 per cent reduction. begin
ming tomorrow and continuing while
they last. Step quickly. Clemann *
Salzmann.
Representatives of the Jewell Filter !
company have been in Moline confer
ring with the city authorities regard !
ing the installation of Il mechanical !
filter plant.
The program for the benefit concert
tonight will start at $50 instead of |
S:l5 in order that those who have to !
work in the stores may hear the most !
of the numbers.
The Silver Cross circle of Kings |
Daughters will have a sale Saturday !
afternoon from to q at Mrs. T.. w. |
Hurst's. Twenty-Five dollars of the
proceeds will be given to the Associ-
ated Charities.
1t is well for you to keep on good
terms with your sweetheart these
days. girls. Dreams of diamond
rings. etc, some times come true
under such conditions.
You will miss it if you buy an over
coat before you see our line. We
give the best values in town at $50,
so and S12-a saving of 81. to
IS. 80 on each OvercOat. The London.
Another vestibuled car. II. came to
this side of the river this morning.
With this car the Tri-City Railway
company begins the restoration of the
,ars originally assigned to the lines
IL Rock Island and Moline.
Tonight. to O'Clock, at McCabe's,
popcorn candy cents pound. Ma
.auley's 6-volume history of England
Ia cents, several styles of 20 and 25-
,ent cups and saucers, one to a Gus
omer, cents. Watch the clock.
Mrs. Anna Stevens. of this city. has
disposed of her equity in the 52xl50
eet of property on Harrison street
.bove Fourth, in Davenport, to
;harles G. HiPwell, of that city, who
5 to establish n tin and copper spout
md gutter factory on the premises
G. A. Spencer's light shines afar. \
etter came to him today from a young Z
adv in Syracuse, n. Y, requesting Z
me of his artistic calendars. She
tates she is making a calendar col
ection. The gallant vender of steel (
teeds at once hurried the thing of I
'eauty on its way
Prof. e.. II. Starck, who will render
n aria from the Sicilian Fesper
ong at the St. Joseph's benefit con- {
ert tonight, returned to this country
My six months ago. after filling 2
ear engagement in the Royal Opera :
{ Sweden. He has a remarkable e