Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-12-11

From 10 a. N. to 10 p. m Joseph
sons Christmas opening. Moline. You
are invited. Carnations for callers
Don't fail to attend the Christmas
opening of Josephson's, the tri-citv
leading jewelry store, tomorrow; 1918
Third avenue, Moline.
The Kings Daughters will bold
their annual sale of useful and fancy
articles in the Harper house parlors.
Thursday. Dec. -. both afternoon
and evening, beginning at o'clock
Massage and tonic treatments by
lady and gentlemen trained nurses at
the Battle Greek Branch Sanitarium,
Sl7 Nineteenth street, Moline, or at
your home when necessary. Phone
1881.
The two work trains that have been
cutting the Coal Valley hill on the z.
1 & P. road have finished and gone to
resume work at Bishop Hill, where
they will probably be employed all
winter.
Bows are hard on shoes, but our
Good Luck shoes will wear longer
than anything you have ever bought
for the boys ar $3.50 and Sl.65. The
Leader, sole agent, opposite Harper
house.
Mrs. Bernhard Andrews, 81 Fiji
teenth street, has received .a letter
telling her that her brother, Arthur
HerWig. of Garden City, Mo-. whose
hand was caught in cornsheller, is
recovering nicely.
We are now ready TO tit out that
new house of yours with either gas or
com bination fixtures. Also a full line
of Welsba mantles and supplies.
Phone 1880. Rock Island Electric
Construction company.
For Nmas bargains 60 to Brook
mans. Sterling silver handle tooth
brushes 20 cents apiece. heavy ster-
ling silver thin bles 90 cents apiece,
sterling silver handle paper knives 10
cents apiece, and numerous other bar
gains.
Tons of new goods have been pur
chased by +. Champion IL Co. for this
seasons Christmas trade. The store
room has been enlarged and greatly
beautified and is now the most at
tractive book and art store in the
three cities.
Funeral services for Miss Cecilia
Curnyn were held at Q o'clock this
morning at St. Joseph's church, Rev.
Father Thomas Mackin celebrating
requiem mass. The interment was at
Calvary, the pallbearers being John
Cahill. Thomas Mccain, Charles
Hastings. Peter Trenkenschuh, Carl
Kurth and Thomas Campbell.
The Davenport chess players that
went to Clinton Saturday night for a
friendly contest were losers by score
of H. to I34. The games were
played in the rooms of the Wapsipin-
nicOn club, where they were royalty
The Ciintonites will
come 10 Davenport in January and
another friendly contest will be held.
In New York Jacob Riis was secrc-
tary OF the smallpox board, mem Der
of the vagraucy committee, and has
been for years agitating tenement
him the most useful citizen of New
York. Hear him in The Battle of
the Sums" in the Y. NJ. G. 4. course
Thursday night. Season tickets and
single night tickets on sale at the Y.
Nj. &. A.
Mcssrs. and Mesdames Deere, But
terworth, Wiman, Cady and Stuart
Harper, and Mesdames S. II. and w.
l.. Nelie departed Sunday evening
for Minneapolis to attend the we'd
ding of G, ID. Nelie. The party trav-
eled in a speci al Pullman which was
boarded in Moline and then brought to
Rock Island to be attached to the reg
ular train.
Opening of McCabe's book depart
ment tomorrow. All the Henty books,
12mo., cloth bound, 10 cents each
Wednesday at ? o'clock. At the same
hour 200 gilt top, cloth bound vol
umes, all by popular authors, at one
price, % cents. At 1 CLOCK we will
place on sale 30 dozen Swiss embroid-
cred handkerchiefs at 10 cents each,
always 25 cents. a. 4:30 some 10
dozen 20 cent and 25-cent hem stitched
towels, grab quick, at 10 cents.
The competition of the eighty arch
itects who submitted plans for the
Carnegie library building at Daven-
port closed yesterday afternoon the
board of trustees having agreed upon
plan No. - as the first choice and
No % as second choice. When this
decision vas reached the sealed en-
velopes bearing those numbers were
opened and found TO contain the ad
dresses of architects at Boston, Mass.
1t was then voted that the two sets
of designs should be placed on exhibi-
tion today in the windows OF Thomp-
sons bookstore, corner of Third aud
Brady streets, in order that the pub
I;p ,,,a y have a phop.. 70 500 rbanI