Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-06-07
PERSONAL AND SOCIAL.
NJ. NJ. Sturgeon is in Chicago.
Mrs. l.. b. Rusk is in Chicago.
Z A Head was in Chicaro YES

| r a heau was III ShiCstSO NesteT-
day
/ John flanagan was in Port Byron
today
| Clint Cash is off for a 2-weeks
western business trip
Thomas Drummond, of Granite
City. ILL.,, was in the city yesterday.
Hugo Speidel. of New York City, is
visiting his parents, MIR. and Mrs. &.
A. Speidel.
T.. Weingartner has been secretary
of the Davenport board of education
for 80 years.
II. IL. Robb is in attendance at the
Woodmen head camp convention at
Kansas City.
Mrs. Harry Beal. who has been Wis
ting in the city, return to McCook,
| Nebr., tomorrow.
| Capt. A. NJ. Blakesley is in Kansas
City attending the Woodmen head
camp convention.
| ii. F. Blocker, of the Central hose
company, has returned to duty after
a 10-days' vacation.
Mrs. q. NJ. Kerns and little daugh-
ter, Gertrude, are visiting Mrs. Kerns'
parents in Ottumwa.
Mrs. o. f. Hawkinson, of Kansas
City, who has been visiting in the city,
left for Cam bridge today.
| II. G.. Mcfarland, of the Woodmen
| office, returned today from visit at
| Leavenworth and Kansas City.
w. a. Ward returned To Table
Grove, Ill his home, today, after
visiting his friend, j. a. Morrison.
Mrs. Frank Parham, of Muscatinc,
is visiting at the residence of Mr.. and
Mrs. Simon kerns, SO2 Second avenue.
Mrs. j. A. Jordan. of Orion, who
has been visiting her son, w. II. Jor-
dan, and family, returned home to-
day.
Mr. ard Mrs NJ j. Griffin, of Ros-
well, Col. arrived this morning on a
visit to Mrs. ID. Griffin, POO Fifth
| avenue.
Edmond jackson, of Fulton, SUI
| preme secretary of the Mystic Work
ers of the World, was in the city yes
terday.
Guy Munger, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
J. f. Munger, went to Oregon, Ill,
| to spend the summer vacation with
his grandmother, Mrs. NJ. +. Gro
| well.
Mrs. 7. A. Herzog, accompanied by
| her son, T. A, and Mrs. Charles L.
| Merritt, departed today for visits at
Oshkosh, Wis, and other points in that
vicinity.
G. Ii. Pearce, of Springfield, who
has been spending a few days visiting
Judge L. j. Searle at his residence on
Eighth-and-a-half avenue and Twenty
sixth street, returned home today.
Mrs. Alfred ALI, who, with her hus-
band. has been visiting her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. W. 4. Roscene, on
Eleventh street, left for Chicago to-
day. They are enroute for Canton.
China.
Herbert George Copp. of this city,
\ and Miss Lavantia Adele Guy, of Mo
| line, will be married Thursday even
| ing, June 10, ut the home of the brides
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Clement c. Guy,
in Moline.
Capt.C. Med. Townsend, in charge of
the improvement of the Mississippi
| river between St. Louis and st. Paul,
has gone to Washington on business
| trip, which will detain him in the
capitol city for several days.
The Um-ZoO-Ee club, of Davenport,
has issued invitations for n dancing
party to be given at the Watch Tower
Thursday evening, June 10 The
patronesses are: Mesdames j. w.
| Ballard. n. G. Martin, w Chambers,
T. Stebbins, II. Sommers, j. a. De
Armand and l.. Harrison.
Harry +. Downer. the popular tri-
city newspaper man and vocalist, has
been appointed to his old position by
the Davenport board of education as
principal of school building No. 1 in
that city. Mr.. Downer held the posi-
| ton for several years, but was obliged
to give it up because of the condition
of his healtt,> and he spent some time
in charge of an operate company on
| the road, recuperating. Downer came
to the three cities as newspaper
man, and his friends on the press
have never given him up as such.
He is shining light in the profession
of journalism and the art of music.
He is an honorary mem Der of the Tri-
| City Press club, n member of the
Broadway Pres byterian choir in this
city. and n man who in any avoca-
| ton in which he is engaged lifts up
the hearts and brightens the path
ways of all with whom he comes in
contact He in fact may be right
eously termed one of those rattling
good fellows who make up the salt of
| the earth.
| The Modern Beauty
Thrives on good food and sunshine,
| with plenty of exercise in the open
air. Her form glows with health and
her face blooms with its beauty. If
her system needs the cleansing action
OF laxative remedy, she uses the