Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-03-27
Ladies are cordially invited tic

port. Ladies are cordially invited to
attend.
Easter kid glove offerings at Nc
ICabe-s eclipse all former records:
81. so, 81. 25, 81 and SO cents are the
winning prices. See ad, third page.
Easter millinery opening tomorrow
at Ottesen's popular millinery empo-
rum, 222 West Second street. Daven-
port. Ladies are cordially invited to
attend.
Frank Barnard died at O'Clock this
morning at his home in Moline OF
hemorrhages of the stomach, aged 81
years. He is survived by wife and
one child.
Can't say how long they will last,
but while they do, you can buy finest
silk stripes, all wool, challies, 75-cent
ones for 80 cents. See MEGA be's ad,
page three.
Mrs. Electa Van Week, thought to
be the last true daughter of the revo-
luton, in Iowa, died at her home in
Davenport Saturday. She was born
in New York Aug. %, 1909.
a meeting of tri-city citizens is to
be held at Killers hall tonight to make
further arrangements for reception
for the local members of the Sth regi-
ment on their home coming.
If you wish to get the very latest in
wall paper 90 to the Adams Wall
Paper company. They have an i'm
mence stock. showing all the fine new
designs and col0Iings for the spring
of 1899.
c. +. Adams has had new incan-
descent arc light installed in his shoe
store, the finest in the three cities.
Mr.. Adams is enterprising and be-
lieves in letting his light shine.
can place money in amounts of
500, 5000, $500, $500, $1,000 and up
in an investment that will pay to 8
per cent. Apply to f. j. Burns,
room II, Mitchell & Lynde building.
Easter exhibit of Armour's con-
centrated soup and chicken tomales
and number of different kinds of
delicacies at Hess Bros. grocery store
all this week. Everybody invited to
| call and examine them.
Remnant sale this week. r Cramp-
ton " Co. have pulled from their en-
tensive stock of wall paper several
hundred lots of high grade paper suit
, able for large and small rooms. Prices
range much below original cost.
You may be As gay as 1.-the flowers
that bloom in the springtime" in pa
pering your homes this spring, for
natures most brilliant hues are
equaled if not surpassed by the new
papers that the Adams Wall Paper
Co mpanyare now showing.
Very low prices in wall papers at
the Adams Wall Paper company.
Buying in immense quantities as they
do. they can sell cheaper than any
one else. An immense line of papers
from cents to 50 per roll ut the
Adams Wall Paper company.
r. Champion & Co. invite attention
to their superb stock of books for
Easter gifts, also very attractive line
of prayer books. The vest pocket ed
itiOns of Catholic prayer books make
acceptable presents. Their booklets
and Easter cards are unusually at
tractive.
Our stock of wall paper includes
every grade. pressed leather paper,
vanished tile, plain and figured in
grain, beautiful patterns and color
ings in the more staple grades for
parlors, halls, dining looms, bed
rooms. etc, at prices that defy COM
petition" r Champion Il Co.
Judging from the hysteria with
which the Union is afflicted, the Wis
ions of the revival of the Miller-Schaffer
spectacle of the past McConochie adj
ministrations must be disturbing it..
But it may repose its soul. The peo-
pie of Rock Island will take no
chances. They fired Miller when
they fired McConochie. and they will
keep one out rs long as they do the
other.
Spencer says the bicycle business is
rushing. He can furnish proof that
he has sold as many wheels to date as
any two other dealers in town and
his repair shop is chock full of wheels
to be repaired. 1t is reported that
some of his would-be competitors say
they must have some of the repair
work if they have to do it for nothing.
But they must remember people are
willing to pay for good work. That
is why his shop is crowded.
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