Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-03-26

The Masons' and Odd Fellows hall
at Coal Valley, recently destroyed by
fire, is to be replaced. Plans for the
proposed new building are being
drawn by Drack e. Kerns-
The authorities of LIE Claire failed
to lind the relatives of Joseph Slater,
who was killed by the D.. r l. & n:
W. at that place Thursday night, ana
the body has been buried there
The Retail Merchants association
| meets tonight to hear NJ. w. Olson. OF
Galesburg. explain the workings of the
rate book system, which the Rock
Island business people are thinking OF
adopting
Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew Lerch wish
to express their gratitude to neigh bors
and friends for kindness and sympa-
thv shown them during their recent
| Affections, also for the many beautiful
floral designs.
Father and mother and the older
people should see what the boys are
doing in the physical work of the I.
NJ. C. A. Thursday evening in audi
forum. Admission 25 cents. Re-
served seats free.
Jack Wright, the Davenport colored
pugilist, and Benny Weber, the all
round athlete and fighter of Moline,
will meet in a a 10-round go at the
Moline Athletic club rooms next
Thursday evening.
The special wash goods event at
McCabe's is bound to catch the crowd.
Such values as ID cent white lawns al
| u cents, 12l cent corded batiste at
81 cents, Is cent ginghams at 10 cents,
etc, are not often placed on sale right
at the beginning of the season.
John w. Gordon, collector for Rural
township, carries the banner for an
almost clean sweep in the collection
of taxes. His settlement with County
Treasurer Cox shows the following:
Amount charged, s., 691 80; collected,
IS, 672.57; delinquent, 1925.
Chris Schillinger, the democratic
| candidate for assessor, aside from
being fully qualified for the duties of
the office he seeks. is representa-
tive citizen and taxpayer, man well
acquainted with the property inter-
ests of Rock Island-the right man
for the place.
There is no better illustration of the
fitness of j. L. Shields and G. III. Seidel,
the democratic candidates for the
offices of assistant supervisors, than
their records as county legislators the
past year. They are a capital team,
both business men and model citi-
zens. Their reelection is assured.
M. w. Battles, as the democratic
candidate for supervisor at the last
city-township election, made run
that demons trated the desire of the
people to have in the county board men
of his type and intelligence He has
served his constituent well and they
will see to it that he is continued as
| mem Der of the board.
Second week of the muslin under
wear sale at McCabe's full of price at
fractions. Many new styles not here
in time for last weeks sale now on
our counters. Sharp specials every
afternoon this week at $50. Tuesday
at 2:30 children's good muslin gowns.
| nicely ruffle trimmed, ages to 8
years, at 25 cents apiece.
The democrats of Davenport held
their city convention Saturday even
ing. nominating Aid. Dan Horne for
mayor The other nominees are:
| SloIh, "A a. CiillIns tiOdSuASt' y y
Hagemann; police magistrate, w. X.
Maines; assessor, Eliel Peck; aldermen
at-large. Christian Kuehl, Sr., and
Henry bunker, Sr.; park commission
ers, John ID. Brockmann and DIR.
Henry Matthey.
Get ready for housekeeping. Nc
Cabe's have planned big carpet. rug
and mating sale with unusual care,
and the Eighteenth street annex is
Overlooking with such bargains as
yard wide carpets % cents per yard
all-wool brussels carpets 80 cents ;.er
yard, all-wool ingram carpets 3o3
cents per yard. fancy mattings %
cents per yard, floor oil cloth 163 cents
per yard, etc. Read al and come
in every day.
Fred whistler the democratic candi-
date for township collector, is son
of Capt. w. H. Whistler. and for 10
years was employed on the river. 1t
was while thus engaged that he met
with the accident resulting in injury
to his head three years, and as con-
sequence of which he has been over
taken by the additional misfortune of
being partially paralyzed. Fred is an
am bilious and popular young man
and deserves the office to which he
will be elected one week from tomor-