Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-05-12
TOWN TALK.

Confirmation suits. Sommers & La
Velle.
so pairs lace curtains, % cents a
pair. Leopold, Second and Harrison,
Davenport.
Watch our window display for mil
linery sale Saturday. Young &
McCombs.
From May II to June II M. T. Free
will make first-class cabinet photo
graphs at $3.50 dozen. No extra
charge for groups.
For Saturday we will place on sale
a manufacturer line Of sailors at so
cents on the dollar. All new and up
to-date goods. Young & McCombs.
Clinton and return any time during
the season of 1899 for the return to
us of $50 Anti-Washboard soap wrap
pers. Begin to save them now. War
mock & Ralston.
Nine tramps were sent from Moline
to the county Jail yesterday. Moline
is waging war on the weary willies.
One can hardly light there before he
is run in by the police.
II. l.. Becker, commissary sergeant
at Rock Island arsenal, has tioated a
natty naptha launch near the Moline
water power. 1t is 26 feet long by z
wide. 1t is of S-horse power.
Spencer would like to have all riders
of yellow wheels assem- BILE at his store
at $50 this evening, to go to Daven-
port to take part in the bicycle parade.
No decorations needed.
The Rock Island Shoe factory is
now employing about one hundred
hands. Its business is gradually in
creasing, and new additions are being
made to the force daily.
Make every purchase count. A
purchase of Rock Island soap of any
brand counts three times: Once for
good work, once for premiums and
once for the good of our town.
Lots of cut flowers Saturday at Nc
Cabe's. Choice roses, Is, 10 and 25
cents dozen; fresh cut carnations,
II cents dozen; lilies of the valley,
fresh and fragrant, 5 cents a dozen.
Good shoes aud bad shoes all look
alike in the store. The difference is
in the wear. Our shoes look well and
wear excellently. Big special sale this
week. Liepold's, Second and Harrison,
Davenport.
Saturday will be special millinery
day. A sample line of sailors, flow
er shapes and ornaments bought at
so cents on the dollar, none reserved,
and it will be our banner millinery
day of the season. Young e Nc
Combs.
Fred Kinney has come to the front
with public-spirited suggestion
that Admiral Dewey land at the Gold
en- Gate, stop in Rock Island and be
met here by President Mckinley and
William Jennings Bryan. Hoop-a-la,
Kinney.
The quarantine against LIE Claire on
account of the prevalence of smallpox
in that town has been raised by the
health authorities of Rock island and
rigid measures having
been enforced about the infected
homes in lie Claire to prevent the
spread of the disease in that place.
The largest line of pique welts. in
large, small or figured welts, in solid
colors or white ground with colOred
figures. prices range from 10 cents up
to as cents a yard. The genuine
German weIts. they are softer, pref
tier. frmer and lighter weight, are
carried at the Boston store, Davenport.
The Tenth Congressional District
Woodmen Picnic associations finance
committee, which is composed of one
from each of the four
local camps and the Rock Island Club
and Retail Merchants association,
will meet at the head office building
morning at 1870 to arrange
for the raising of funds for the picnic
to be held here in July.