Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-12-12
TOPICS OF THE TOWN.

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$175 buys new piano at Totten's.
Reliable pianos. Prices right. Tot
tens.
All kinds of doll heads at P. r.
Mitsch & Co.'S.
Reliable pianos. Prices right. Tot
tens.
All popular music 10 cents per copy
at Totten's music house.
Late popular music 5 cents per copy
at Totten's music house.
| Don't forget to find out j. w. Stew
arts prices on skates before you buy.
He is bound to suit you.
A large audience enjoyed the sec
ond performance of The Pixies" at
Harper's theatre last night.
All popular music 10 cents per copy
at Totten's music house.
Look up your dads old slippers and
see if they are not ready for the rum
mage sale and then replace them with
new pair from Wright & Barber's.
Best work in the city at c. f.
Smiths studio for from 81 to $l2 a
dozen Call early for Christmas orders.
Telephone 1872, opposite Harper
house.
Late popular music cents per copy
at TCtten's music house.
The Kings Daughters will hold
their annual sale of useful and fancy
articles in the Harper house parlors,
Thursday, Dec. Is, both afternoon
and evening, beginning at O'Clock
All popular music 10 cents per copy
at Totten's music house.
Kuabe pianos are acknowledged to
be the best pianos of the present age.
Totten's music house.
The body of Henry w. Erickson,
the Moline boy who was killed in the
Philippines in July, is understood to
have arrived in San Francisco Monday
on the army transport, Hancock.
Boys are hard on shoes, but our
Good Luck shoes will wear longer
than anything you have ever bought
for the boys at $3.50 and 81 65. The
Leader, sole agent, opposite Harper
house.
II. S Comstock, formerly editor of
the Cam bridge Chronicle, has gone to
the soldiers home at Quincy. He will
| ill clerical position there and eX-
poets to make his permanent home at
| the institution.
We guarantee to save all piano
buyers from $40 to $75 on every piano
sold. Don't fail to call before buying.
Totten's music house.
We are now ready to tit out that
new house of yours with either gas or
com bination fixtures. Also Il full line
OF Welsbach mantles and supplies.
Phone 1880. Rock Island Electric
Construction company.
All the Chicago. Milwaukee S st.
Paul telegraph instruments. between
Davenport and Msquoketa burned out
yesterday afternoon about 4 o'clock
It is thought that live wire dropped
across the lines of the company and
caused the trouble.
Capt. David Upton gave a turkey
dinner at the Rock Island Club last
evening to a mum Der of friends,
whom he desired to have proof of his
marks manship as a mem Der of the
Marlin Rifle club. The captain
brought down the bird at the clubs
recent shoot.
The Mississippi river is choking up
very rapidly at this point, and few
more days of the present cold weather
will see the esta blishment of an ice
bridge. The report comes from lie
Claire that the river is nearly closed
there. At Red Wing and Prairie du
Chen the river is frozen over solidly.
Howard Wade johnson. formerly of
this city, is to be married Dec. p to
Miss Maud Alice Mac Donald. daugh
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Duncan MacDon-
aid, of San Francisco. The ceremony
will be performed at the Holly Park
Presbyterian church. The couple will
reside at ~ Whitney street, San Fran
cisco.
Claude Ellsworth, son of Justice
and Mrs. ID. j. Webb, of Moline. died |
yesterday afternoon of heart failure, |
aged : years and ) days. Private |
funeral services were held at the resi- |
dence at $50 this afternoon by Rev. |
G.. d. Moore, of the Second Cengrega-
tional church, and interment was at
Riverside cemetery.
The large shipment of books, art |
goods and holiday novelties which r.
ceiving during the past three months
from publishers, manufacturers and
importers are now attractively dis
played, in their elegant new store,
1919 Second avenue. next door to the
London clothing house.
Mem bers of the Illinois militia are
iubilant over information received
from the navy department at Wash
ington. which indicates that the gov
ernment will in all probability send
naval vessel to Chicago for use during
the navigation season as a training
ship for the Illinois tars and the diff
ferent companies of the naval militia
whose headquarters border on the
lakes.