Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-11-15
PORT BYRON NEWS POINTS,
Effort to Establish Rural Mail Route
Town Gossip.


Town Gossip.
Port Byron, Nov. 15.-The Epworth
League will give an oyster supper
Saturday evening, Nov. Is.
A new platform has been put in at
the depot. 1t was a long needed i'm
prCvement-
William Clark, of Port Byron, is
painting d. F. Dorrance's house in
lie Claire.
Fred Ohara is visiting friends in
Mount Carroll and Mount Morris.
Farmers are pretty much through
their corn picking. Soft corn was
plentiful in the late planting.
Thursday last Myrtle Heald made a
pleasant visit with the Cromptons in
Port Byron.
Wednesday evening last birthday
surprise party paid respects to Mrs
Mike Berry.
Hogs were shipped from Port Byron
by A. Hollister Friday last, So so be-
ing the price paid.
b. a. Lamo has purchased the va
cant lot next to Capt. Dodge; consid-
Grafton $3.50.
The vacant lot south of the resi-
dence of Thomas Newton is being
filled and improved.
Simonson IL Schafer, of Port Byron,
purchased the 3O0-acre farm formerly
owned by NJ. d. Hauberg; considera-
ton, SIS. $50.
Congressman George W. Prince was
in Port Byron Monday.
James Mills, who clerked for Chris
topher Whiteside. has been taken
down with typhoid fever and has been
taken TO the Moline hospital.
There are n mum Der of citizens COM
planning of nuisances. such as slaugh-
ter houses and hog pens. which create
an intolerable stencil and ought to be
abolished.
A railway on the west side of the
Mississippi has been talked of for
years. Now it appears as if it was
about to be realized, as gangs of work
men upon the track can be seen from
Port Byron.
The hotel in Port Byron known as
the Maxwell house is now vacant,
causing great Inconvenience to COM
mercial travellers who have to cross
the river to LIE Claire to find accommo-
dations.
Rev. Willard has entirely recovered
from the effects of taking carbolic
acid, but he is now suffering with his
hand, through which he drove a
smutty corn stalk. His hand is
swollen and inflamed and has given
him much pain.
Mrs. Cornelius Snyder, of Port By
ron, died about O. CLOCK Friday morn
cemetery Sunday. Rev. Crane Off
t. NJ
Hollister, John McCauley, Mark Ash
down, William Tilbrook and Thomas
Newton were the pallbearers.
An effort is being made for free
mail delivery taking a 25-mile circuit
Gus route from Port Byron. If sue
cessful, the farmers upon the route
can have their daily newspapers de-
livered at their residence, as well as
can the business men of the city.
The text selected by Christopher c..
| Whiteside, from which Rev. Shut was
to preach his funeral sermon was ii
Timothy, 1st chapter and 18th verse:
For the which cause l also suffer
these things, nevertheless l am not
ashamed, for know when 1 have be-
lieved, and am prosecuted that ne is
able 10 keep that which l have COM
mitted unto him against that day"
| The Northwestern Plow and Imple-
ment association held its regular
monthly meeting last week at Chica-
go. Among other questions discussed
was that of advancing the price OF
plows and other farm implements
from 10 to 20 per cent. Twenty
eight of the largest concerns in the
country were represented. They de-
cided TO advance prices Nov. %
About everything the farmer has &c
buy or use is now made dearer, not
through natural conditions, but arti'
ticially through trust mbinations
and this is what Mark Hanna calls
prosperity.
| HE Mistakes the Eject for the Cause"