Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-12-31
CITY CHAT.

Hynes FOR skates.
Pay your water rent.
Leaf lard at Gilmore's.
Turn over that new leaf.
For insurance, E. j. Burns.
For real estate, E. j. Burns
Smoke Kinship. and be happy.
Dressed turkeys at Hess Bros
f. B. Q. finest beyond question.
Bargains this evening at Beecher's.
New cure for indigestion--eat at
the Stag club.
See Young & McCombs' ad. Great
week next week.
Great week next week at Young &
McCombs'. See ad.
Hess Bros. are distributing some
fine calendars for 1899
Attend the masquerade at Roche's
hall Saturday evening.
Plenty of dressed poultry at Hess
Bros this evening. Phone 1881.
Carpenters are engaged in lowering
the judges desk in the circuit court
room.
The vestry of Trinity church will
meet at the rectory Monday evening
at 1880.
The last day of the year. the last
day of the month and the last day of
the week.
The temperature went down to
from to below zero during the
night. the coolest of the season.
Plenty of fresh dressed turkeys.
chickens. ducks and geese at Hess
Bros. this evening, Phone 1881.
Dressed turkey IL cents a pound
and dressed chickens and ducks cents
a pound this evening at Beecher's.
1t has been decided to play a game
of chess by long distance telephone
between the Davenport and Iowa City
chess clubs.
The stage of water at the Rock ISL
and bridge at 6 a. m. was $50; at
noon $50. The temperature at noon
was below.
The policy of expansion is all right.
Anti-Washboard soap is absolutely the
best and is made at home. just ex-
pound on that idea.
The ARGUS in order to afford its
employees an opportunity to observe
the national holiday in their own way
will not publish Monday.
The Rock Island Ministerial assoc
citation will meet next Monday at
1880 a. m. in the Y. NJ. G. A. rooms.
DIR. MeCulloch will read paper.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Erbs desire to
publicly return thanks to sympathiz-
ing friends and neigh bors. and par
ticularly to Rev. w. 5. Marquis.
Make every purchase count. A
purchase of Rock Island soap of any
brand counts three times: Once for
good work, once for premiums and
once for the good of our town.
The Eureka club will give its first
grand masked ball New Years eve Mt
Beslin's hall. 1903 Second avenue.
Two grand prizes will be given away.
Tickets so cents. ladies free. Cos
tunes can be had at the hall.
The discovery of a leak during the
testing operations in settling basin
No. l necessitated the letting out of
the water in the reservoir. The break
has been repaired by Supt. j. A. Muir
rim. and water will be let into the res
ervoir again.
Yesterday the big 24.000-pound
steel girders, which will be strung
between pier and pier of the pony
bridge across the slough separating
Willow island from the Iowa main
land arrived in Rock Island and will
be hauled from here over the Cres-
cent bridge on rubble cars to the
place of installation.
The colored people of the three
cities will hold an Emancipation proc
lamation. celebration at Turner hall,
Rock Island. next Tuesday evening.
There win be speaking and a literary
and musical program. The commit
tee In charge of the affair is composed
of Rev. G. II. Thomas. George john
SON, Henry Burris. George Green and
John Slaughter.
Beginning with the first of the year
Attorney William l. Ludolph viii as
sociate with himself Robert X.
Reynolds, at present practieing law
in Chicago. Mr.. Reynolds for tie
past six years has been connected
with one Of the leading legal firms of
Chicago The firm name will he
LudolPh & Reynolds, and win occupy
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