Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-12-26
CITY CHAT.

Holiday goods at Lloyd's.
Bay home OF Reidy Bros.
For insurance z. J. Burrs.
For real estate, E. Burns.
Ask for Rock Island Girl cigar.
List your property with Reidy Bros.
Call for La Flor de E. T. D., 10 cents.
II you want your property sold list
1t with Hull & Co.
Dancing lessons at Turner hall
Thursday evening.
A fine select line of smoking Jackets
gowns and night robes at Lloyd's.
II you want to buy or sell real es-
tate, consult Goldsmith & Mckee.
Mr.. and Mrs. Max Liedtke, 1888
Thirty-frst street, have a new son.
Thirty-fve cent merchants lunch
at noon hour III Harms restaurant.
Buy a Universal food chopper.
They are the best. At j. w. Stew
arts.
Choice line of misses and children's
hats going at your own price Miss
Byrnes.
Clearing sale from now until the
first of the year-everything at very
low prices at Miss Byrnes'.
The stage of water at the Rock Is
land bridge at 6 a. m. was so, at
noon 2 20. The temperature at noon
was q.
The Handel Oratorio society will
meet at the home of Mrs. Frank Rob-
inson, on Twentieth street, Thursday
evening.
+. X. Eberhart. a leading mem Der
of the Kirkhof-Locke Dramatic COM
pany, came from the west to spend
Christmas at home.
Reduced prices on family groups in
all sizes during the holidays ct c. E
Smiths studio, opposite Harper
house. Telephone 1872.
Anyone wishing wood in stove
lengths by the load before the supply
is exhausted, call or address c. F.
Gaetjer, III Seventeenth street.
Ice on the Hennepin canal has at
tanned thickness of SIX to eight
inches and icemen hope to begin
active operations there next week.
a boy or girl cannot be better
pleased than by receiving 4 pair of
Barney q Berry's skates. Cheap
while they last. at J. w. Stewards.
1t. Rev. Charles Il. Hale, coadiutor
Episcopal bishop, of Springfield, with
the titie q bishop Of Cairo, who died
At Cairo, III Yesterday, was formerly
dean of the Davenport Cathedral. He
was born in Lewiston, Pa, March IA.
1887.
Members of the Second Baptist
church, of this city, and the Third
baptist church, of Moline, both col
ored organizations, have consolidated
their churches and will hereafter hold
services in the church of the Rock
Island society, on Tenth street.
Owing 10 the complaint said to
have been made by certain citi-
Zens as to the site selected
by the city council. Ottumwa,
Iowa. may Yet lose the $50 600 public
library which Andrew Carnegie has
promised to give, and for which all
of the legal details have been COM
piled with locally.
a beautifully embossed work of art,
bearing a reminder of the war DAYS
of '61, is the Rock Island National
banks calendar. for the first year Of
the new century. So attractive is
the design that the bank found it had
not enough to go as far as it was in
tended before demand exhausted the
supply.
The grand Christmas ball given by
the ladies of the tri-cities last evening
in Shriners' hall at the Masonic Tenn
pie, in Davenport, was a brilliant
event. The attendance was large, |
Rock Island and Moline being rep
resented. The hall was prettily
decorated with evergreens and other
yule-tide ornaments There were
about IS couples present.
The ferry Augusta has again gone
into winter quarters and will stay !
there unless the weather shows great !
moderation. She stayed in the fight !,
much longer than was deemed posi- I
bic by those who were not aware If
the sturdiness of the craft. 1t was /
dark when she turned her prov !
toward the harbor Monday night, and |!
yesterday she made no attempt to re-
turn 10 the trade.
Bishop Hill is in q vale of tesrs
says an exchange. 1t also appears to !
be in vale geographically speaking.
so that it has been diiiicnlt matter to
draw trains up the grade and out Of the !
town in either direction. The Peoria
failrcad company, in avoiding This
difficulty, found it necessary 10 avoid
the town. and the new track is mile