Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-12-05

afternoon, but was extiDguished be-
fore the department arrived on the
scene.
In Ottawa last night proposition
to install an independent telephone
exchange was turned down by the
city council
Capt. Emma Carlson and Lieut..
Hipga W. Lundgreen, of Gales burg,
will have charge Of tomorrow nights
meeting of the Salvation Army here.
Both are good singers as well as able
speakers
We are now ready to tit out that
new house Of yours with either gas or
com biDation fixtures. Also full line
of Welsbach mantles and supplies.
Phone 1880. Rock Island Electric
Construction company.
The police patrol was called to
Twenty seventh street and Sixth ave-
nue. at noon to take in tow a man who
WAS said TO have been beating his wife.
He was too full of corn Juice to reg
lister and was locked up.
At our Office, during Decemb Der
only, every user of our soaps can Sc
cure premiums for soap wrappers.
Increase your supply of our soaps, as
the value of presents depends on the
mum Der of wrappers returned. War
mock & Ralston.
The only high grade women's shoes
made in the United States by union
labor are manufactured by the Rock
Island Shoe company, maker of the
Netbersole 81 80 shoe for women.
The Leader. sole agents, opposite the
Harper house.
A telephone directory of the tri-
! cities will be issued by the Central
Union Telephone company about Jan.
l. Prospective subscribers should
make application at once in order to
be listed in this directory.
The announcement is made by the
Chicago newspapers that Miss lone
Woodward is reported to be engaged
to Lieut.. Bismarck, son of Prince
Bismarck. He is % years of age and
is a promising officer in the German
army. They met at Pekin.
You are invited to attend the an
nual exhibit of pictures composed of
the Copley, Foster and Scharl platino-
types, also water color heads and
landsca pes at Kingsbury's this week
only. Pains have been taken to get p
collection together which will merit
your inspection.
A move is to be inaugurated at
| once by the Moline cemetery board
and the city council looking to the
abandonment of the old cemetery
ground as place of burial and the
opening of that tract for the extension
! of Fifth and Sixth avenues to the city
| limits and the sale of residence lots.
Special for Thursday: Ladies' Swiss
! handkerchiefs, ) cents for 1O-cent
| kind; 10 cents for lucent kind; l.
quart granite stew pans s cents; gran
tie pie pans > cents apiece: children s
| shoe lilies 40 cents; children's knife.
! fork and spoon, set, ID cents, silver
plate. and 10 cents for fancy cups and
| saucers at Eckhart's.
AugIstana Lyceum delights in pre-
scnting DR.. Frank Bristol, of Wash
ington, d. c., pastor of the church
which President Mckinley attends,
next Wednesday evening. Dec. >. Any
praise that could possibly be given OF
the Little Giant of Methodism" must
needs seem very inadequate, for tC
hear him is truly banqueting your in.
| tellect. Remem Der, Dec. 5.
1t is hoped the Tri-City Railway
company will brace up it's crossing al
the corner of Third avenue and
Twentieth street, before it complete:
its seasons operations. As it is now
the crossing gives passengers rude
Jolting after the smooth riding tina
characterizes the improved track,
that lead to the junction aforesaid.
+. c. Berry narrowly escaped al
rest this morning on a charge o
peddliDg without a license. He haC
borrowed a broom from a neighboi
and was on his way to his house wher
William Ferkel, special sleuth EN-
ployed by the city, inquired of citi
zen who Berry was. The citizen, wht
happened to be a friend of Berry's
said the latter was an agent and wa
selling new patent broom. Tn
officer was making for the man witt
the broom when he was called bacl
and given the merry ha ha.