Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-05-17
CITY CHAT.

CITY CHAT.
Remember the new laundry.
Eberhart's tuning guaranteed.
Order your -four at Beecher's.
Remember the name-Kinship.
Lees Little Gem is the best broom.
Farmer Martin Burns, the wrestler,
Is in town.
Honest pianos at honest prices at
Eberhart's.
Mrs. Hugh johnson is visiting in
Coal Valley.
Nice Strawberries, three boxes for
20 cents, at Beecher's.
John yanderburgh, of Cordova,
was in the city today.
F. w. Means, Jr., is home from
school at Purdue university, Ind.
Plenty of fresh butter to sell at 12J
and Is cents a.pound at Beecher's.
Plenty Of nice fresh Strawberries
this evening at Hess Bros. very rea-
sonable.
Tonight, grand pool contest at the
Gem Billiard Parlor, 305 Twentieth
street. All are invited.
DIR. j. +. Meyers left for Galesburg
this morning to attend the Illinois
State Medical society meeting.
Oberg & Reds new laundry now
open for business, 226 Seventeenth
street. Good work guaranteed.
ID. P. McKown, the venerable Rock
Island and Davenport pioneer, is cele-
brating his 18th birthday today.
On another page the Boston store,
Davenport. makes an announcement
which should interest Rock Island
homes. ...
Albert b. Long and Miss Phoebe A.
Flood, both of Upton, Iowa. were
married by Justice W. F. Schroeder
yesterday.
II. M. Prindell. editor of the Peoria
Herald, and wife passed through the
city today enroutc to Peoria aft r an
extened western trip.
A special diocesan convention for
the election Of successor to Bishop
William Stevens Perry will be held at
the Davenport cathedral, Sunday
Sept. s.
Pocahontas Council No. ) gives u
kaffee-klatsch at Carse's hall Wcdnes-
day afternoon and evening. Musical
program in the evening. Admission
10 cents.
Books suitable for presents to grad
yates in very attractive bindings. A
large stock to select from; prices
strictly moderate, at Champion s
book store.
George Metzger received his COM
mission as postmaster of the city of
Davenport yesterday, and Fred A.
fischer will turn the office over to him
next Saturday.
The will of the late George A. Adel-
man, of Moline, in which he bequeaths
all his property to his widow, Louisa
Adelman, was probated in the county
court yesterday.
A branch of the American Fedora.
ton of Labor has been formed in Dav-
export with John Sweeney as presi-
dent and Michael O'Conner as secre.
tary and treasurer.
Homer Tilton, of Moline; machinist
at Rock Island arsenal, has been pro.
motS1lo the foremanship of equip
ment work in the machine depart
m6nt. on the night force.
Auction sale of houses. 43l Forty
fourth street and 446 Forty-sixth
street, postponed to Saturday at 5 p.
m. Cash required 800. For monthly
payment terms on balance, call on f.
H. Guyer.
Tomorrow evening Dr. Rhodes, Of
st. Louis. will deliver free lecture
before the Augustana lyccum in the
chapel on The Recognition of tn,
Supernatural in Culture, Character
and Life"
A mechanic named Higgins. EN-
ployed in the equipment department
at Rock Island arsenal. had three fin.
gers so frightfully crushed by drill
press last night that amputation wa:
necessary.
Aid. II. ID. Elwell is carrying ;
badly scalded face, the result of con
tact with the business end of steam
pipe at the Rock Island Brewing com
pany's Elm street plant. of which HI
Is chief engineer.
The Davenport Ladder company suf
fered a loss of about $4,000 from fir
this morn ing. The flames starte,
from u stove. The building and con
tents were almost completely de