Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-03-17
TOWN TALK.
Bicycles at Hynes'.
Leaf lard at Gilmore's,
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For real estate, E. j. Burns.
Business property for sale. Reid
Bros.
A 10-cent lunch will be given at tho
First Baptist church Saturday after
noon from to Z.
Rev. j. F. Lockney will preach or
the Life of St. Patrick" at Sacred
Heart church tonight.
Dancing school at Roche's hal
every Wednesday. Gentlemen %
cents. Ladies free.
Davenport chess players are endeav.
| oring to secure return engagement nj
of H. y. Pillsbury, the champion.
The Burlington road recently in,
augurated a through sleeping car SER
vice from St. Louis to Billings, Mont
Given away tomorrow, the 18th, at
| the Eastern Fair, one set of tea spoons
with every so cents worth of tea or
coffee.
Superb showing of Easter kid gloves
at McCabe's. New shades in gray.
mode. castor, manila. "coachmen s
drab." etc. Beautiful qualities at 81,
81 25 and $3.50.
l can place money in amounts of
500. 5000, $500, $500, $1,000 and u p
in an investment that will pay Z to s
per cent. Apply to f. j. Burns,
room II, Mitchell & Lynde building.
Fritz Boepple, who it is said was
offered a bonus of SO, 900 to 90 to
Dubuque, has decided to locate his
button factory at Davenport. En-
ployment will be given to 75 hands at
the start.
The remains of Alfred O5erg, the
first man of Company F, of Moline, to
die in the Spanish war, will be brought
back from Pooto Rico and inferred in
the national cemetery on the island
along with the horoes of the war of
the rebellion.
A profusion of cut flowers at Nc.
Cabe's for Saturday. 1000 fresh cut
carnations IS cents dozen, American
beauties and other choice roses 20, IS
and 80 cents dozen: % cent Easter
lilies 10 cents each, Saturday morn
ing while they last.
The suit of Charles Garland VS..
Mr.. and Mrs. Osbar came up before
Judge Hubbell at Davenport. The
pidliilih 10 W iSSOhCI Sfc al
legged to be due for services of a detec-
tive nature in connection with a recent
arson case in Rock Island.
j. A. Stombs received q message
last night from DR.. I. j. Woods, of
Toledo, Ohio. stating that Mr..
Stombs' son, Phil, who is suffering
from smallpox there, is doing well, as
the young mans friends here will be
gratiiied to learn. Mrs. Stombs has
also received letter from DIR. Woods,
who says there is no occasion for
alarm.
Col. William j. Bryan stopped in
Peoria for 40 minutes Wedues day en-
route for Champaign The Peoria
journal said: Col BRYAN, to those
vino saw and recognized him, looks
the picture of health, and has SEEM
ingly recovered from his illness con-
tracted while in the army. He is
very much stouter than when he was
here the last time, and seemed in ex-
cellent health"
Says the Davenport Republican:
willie Messenger, colored hack
man, went across the river to attend n
colored dance Wednesday evening,
and came home to find himself in the
strong arm of the law. A telephone
message from the Rock Island police
preceded him, and he was arrested on
the charge of larceny. Messenger was
accused of skipping Off with the re-
ceipts of the dance. but the case
against him was not prosecuted, Mes
senger turning over the money yes
terday morning. He was then re-
leased"
Prof. w. j. McGee, of the bureau
of American ethnology, Washington,
will lecture tomorrow on the Seri
Indians of the Tiburon island in the
gulf of California. These Indians
were alleged cannibals and this is an
account of the first and only eXplo-
ration of their territory. The lecture
is under the auspices of the Daven-
port Academy of Science and will be
given at p. m. in the lecture room
in the old Presbyterian church, cor
ner of Seventh and Brady streets,
which the academy has recently pur-
chased. The lecture is free to all
aud will be illustrated by stereopticon
views.