Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-01-31

this morning. and the prospects are
more cheerful.
The sale of reserved seats for the
grand cake walk at Harper's theatre
Feb 9. opens at Bleuer's jewelry store
Monday, Feb. 8.
You can buy muslin underwear al
less than the cost of the material. not
counting the making. at Young & Nc
Combs underwear sale.
A lively corset department at Me-
Cabe's. One style of the celebrated
r. N 81 corsets at 90 cents all this
week. One to customer.
4 This is the last week in which you
can get your choice of any pair OF
shoes in the store for 81 80. Hurst,
He Cuts the Price. Open tonight
This is the last week in which you
can pick any pair of mems $3.50 and
81 Goodyear welt shoes for $3.50.
Huast, He Cuts the Price. Open to-
night.
Coats, capes and jackets now all
near main entrance. Prices all gone
to pieces. Jackets which were So
and IS, now quick. $50.
Robert Gregg, of South Rock ISL
and, got his right hand caught by a
belt while operating a grindstone at
the arsenal yesterday, sustaining a
severe cut between the thumb and
first finger. DIR. j. DeSilva sttended
him, taxi ng four stitches in the
wound.
The annual fair of the Industrial
Home association opens at the roller
rink Feb. 20. 1t will continue two
weeks. The floor space for exhibits
is going fact, liberal donations are
being made, and the managers of the
enterprise are confident of success.
Genuine Pocahontas Virginia smoke
less soft coal for sale by +. G. Frazer.
This is the coal that is used by the
government on all our war vessels.
1t is both smokeless and sootless and
is the strongest heat producer known.
1t will last as long as hard coal and
costs less, and is now largely used as
substitute therefor.
James III. Maucker has disposed of
his livery barn to w. G.. Maucker,
who takes possession tomorrow morn
ing. James II. Maucker has bought
George BANDS horse shoeing shop at
312 Seventeenth street, and will open
up tomorrow morning, hoping to see
all his old friends and as many new
ones.
Fred j. Hodges. for 20 years chief
clerk at the Mill store, has resigned,
and will embark in the general mer-
chandise business in n new frame
building to be erected on lot ad join |
ing his home, 704 Fourth avenue. He |
has associated himself with Charles |
F. Bladel. The firm will be known as |
Hodges IL Bladel.
Two Rock Island Woodmen camps |
have now made provision for special |
to go to Springfield |
during the state head camp meeting
in behalf of Rock Islands interests
Camp 20 has selected Capt. II. c.
cleveland and NJ. NJ. Sweeney.
G. W. Halves camp No. 1850 is likely
to adopt similar course in the near
future.
A book which fearlessly and impair
tally exposes the political methods
practiced in this day by all parties in
the general scramb BILE for public con-
TROLLS found in Political Truth"
now in press. The work is the pro-
luct of Thomas Edwin Smith, of this
city, and is highly complimented by
many eminent critics and newspaper
men of the tri-cities and elsewhere
All books which expose questionable
Dr corrupt conditions or manipula-
ton, are. invariably intensely inter-
esting, and Political Truth will be
so. DR.. ii. Barris, of the
Davenport Acade my of Natural
SCIENCES, says of the work: ITO know
politics as it is practiced. is to read
Political Truth Mr.. Smith is
now calling upon his friends for sub
for his book. as he will not
be able to publish a large issue unless
his acquaintance come to his assist
ance in the way of orders. as it is
hoped they will.