Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-08-08
CITY CHAT.

b"y oHc-a hlusnfp cigar.
Plenty Of flags at Eckhart's.
Muscatinc melons at Longs.
Choice Michigan peaches at Longs.
Buy your bunting and festooning at
Eckhart's.
For reliable fire insurance call on
L. j. Burns
Tonight the o. +. S. excursion takes
place at 8 O'Clock sharp.
Bunting, flags and festooning cheap
at Young 4 McCombs'.
A anew supply of Ideal cigars arrived
today. All druggists sell them.
Why do so many people smoke Ideal
cigars? Because they are the best.
sl.25 silk striped Madras outing
shirts - cents. Young & McCombs.
Sweet milk. cream. buttermilk and
ice cream at III and 113 Nineteenth
street.
Ten yards of 36-inch extra quality
muslin 80 cents at Young Il Nc
Combs.
Wash goods 12l and Is cents a
yard, now b cents yard at Young Il
McCombs'.
Grand double opera bill at the Watch
Tower tonight. "Pinafore" and Cav
alleria Rusticana.
The business done through Deputy
j. II. Lannon'S Office last week
amounted to 81, 71j.15.
Business property, residence prop
erty and lots for sale in all parts of
the city by +. j. Burns.
Four hundred men and boys EN-
ployed in the canteen and tin depart
ments at the arsenal were laid off to-
day.
A. NJ. Brunergave an interesting adj
dress on From Camp Tanner to the
Front" at the Y. NJ. G. A. yester-
day afternoon.
Chief Collier, of the fire department,
is on duty again after suffering an at.
tack of illness which laid him up at
home since Friday.
No lover of good music should mis)
the fine production of ''Cavalleria
Rusticana, at the Tower to night.
"Pinafore' for curtain raiser.
The ladies' of the Sacred Heart par
ish will serve meals during the U. V.
U. encampment in the east store room
of the Kellerstrass building on Second
avenue.
The city council meets in adjourned
session tonight, to award contracts for
the completion of the reservoir.
Mayor Medill may also be heard from
on the levee improvement.
Mr. and Mrs. Jonas Bear and Mr..
and Mrs. Henry Carse have letters
from their sons, with Company A, at
Guanica. Sergt. Bears will be pub
ished in full in The ARGUS tomor-
row.
A lad named Townsend, residing in
the west end of town, while riding
home from the Watch Tower awheel
yesterday, ran into ditch and broke
an arm. DIR. Chase adjusted the frac-
ture.
Rev. Father Lockney's congregation
has named its proposed church Sacred
Heart. A temporary building is to
be erected ut once on the property on
Fifth avenue, and will be occupied
pending the erection of the perma.
nent ediiice.
Landlord W. o. Negus is having
the finishing touches put on the en-
larged Office of the Rock Island house
W. G. Long. of Danville, and his as
sistant, Joe Strauss. are at work
tinting the steel ceiling. A new
clerks desk is being built and will be
stationed at the east side of the office.
The publication of the arrival a,
Fort Monroe of a ship load of invalid
soldiers from Porto Rico. among
whom was the name of Alfred C..
Bear, of the ID Wisconsin, occasioned
much anxiety to Mr.. and Mrs. iona.
Bear. as the name is the same as tina,
of their son, Sergeant Bear, of Com.
pany a, and they feared there might
have been n mistake as to the regiment
Mr.. Bear telegraphed Fort Monroe
and learned that the sick soldier is a
son Of Postmaster Bear. of Appleton.
Wis.
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