Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-12-28
PORT BYRON POINTERS.
Interesting Budget OF News From the TIP
per End Town.

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per End Town.
Port Byron, Dec. 26.-R. L. Curr,
has sold his barber shop TO Ere,
! O'Hara.
John Swank was here on business
Friday.
D. C. Owen, of Dixon, is here OF
business today.
Miss Lucy Lyford came home from
Evanstown Thursday to spend Christ
mas.
Our merchants have been very busy
the past week, and have disposed of ;
large amount of goods.
George Leslie has quit the buttor
factory at Cordoya aud has gone Il
work here getting out CLAIMS.
DIR. H. e. Trent, of Milan, is home
spending the holidays with his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs II. c. Trent.
Harry and Walter Rogers came
home TO spend Christmas with their
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. T. f. Rogers.
Henry Crawford, formerly of Port
Byron. but now of Omaha, Neb., is
here on n visit with friends and rela-
tives.
At the shooting match held, on the
ice opposite LIE Claire Saturday Lee
Hilbert, of Port Byron, carried of the
honors. ,sc.
There is. an alarming amount OF
sickness in Port Byron and vicinity.
and as n natural consequence our
physicians are kept busy.
Frank Biehlmeir came home from
Ann Arbor, Mich, Thursday to
spend the holidays with his parents
Mr.. and Mrs. George Biehlmeir.
James Pentland and Mrs. Charlotte
Lagrielius, both of Rapids City, were
married Thursday evening. Rev. c.
o. McCulloch, of Rock Island, ofiiciat-
ing.
Miss McCaulev, of Minneapolis
and Sam McCauley, of Oskaloosa,
Iowa, are here for a weeks visit with
their parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John
McCauley.
j. c. Wainwright and daughter,
Dora, of Fulton, came down Satur-
day and will be the guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. William II. Ney. They intend
making a weeks visit.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Hetzell, oil
Davenport; Dr.. and Mrs. Straw, of
Moline, and Mr.. and Mrs. Hugo Lam
bach, of lie Claire, spent Christmas
with their parents, MIR. and Mrs. G.
p. Albrecht.
In the line of toys and holiday
goods +. +. Rogers IL Sons and G. G..
Coyne have been kept busy all week.
especially Saturday. when they were
obliged to have on an extra force of
clerks, and the grocery stores came in
for their share in candy and nuts. j. F.
Garnett sold 10 buckets of candy Sat
urday.
The directors of the button factory
held a meeting Friday evening for the
purpose of organizing and electing
officers and with view to providing
some means of starting the factory
again, which would be great benefit
to the town at the present time. There
are from as to 100 men engaged in get
ting out CLAIMS. There are two buyers on
the ground, and they have run the price
up from 80 cents a hundred to Is
cents, and as a consequence the
''clammers" are making big wages.
The clam beds here are almost mex
haustable.
One night last week two young men
who had been over the river to see
their girls Cor course they Wouldn L
go for anything else) heard a noise
while passing by one of our banks,
which sounded to them like burglars
pounding on the vault. One of the
young men suggested going after the
bankers, which they decided to do,
each going to the residence of mem
Der of the firm and arousing him from
his slumb ers, with the information
that the bank was being burglarized.
Both members of the firm came down
to the bank with the young men,
heavily armed. Upon arriving at the
bank and making a careful investiga-
ton, it was discovered that the noise
was caused by the wind, which was
blowing strong, shaking sheet iron
hood which covers one of the Chin
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