Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-11-15

duct.
Mrs Frances J. Stewart has pur-
chased the Sauermann homestead on
Seventeenth street, the consideration
being 50, 500.
The game of football between the
Rock Island and Moline High school
alumni teams to have been played
next Saturday, has been indefinitely
postponed
Saloon licenses have been issued
since Nov. to Max Helfrich, Michael
Wolfrum, August Wehling, John Gro
gan, Ed Kautz, A. II. Lift and Roy |
Holsapple.
Season tickets for the Y. NJ. G. A. |
entertainment course are now on sale. |
A large advance sale is already re-
ported. Those desiring tickets should
secure them at once.
A large number of Rock Islands
sports, allured by last nights fall of
| the immaculate, went forth into the
| country today to scour the prairies
and beat the brush for rabbits and
quail.
| The Wood Workers union will give
its first annual ball Thursday evening,
| Novem Der Is, at the Rock Island In
dustrial Home. Members of other
labor organizations are cordially in
| vited.
| Thomas Martin. the Buffalo Prairie
| farmer, who was adJudged insane
about a month ago in the county
court, has so far recovered as to be
allowed to go home today on 9O-day
parole.
The will of Sarah Baker was pro-
bated today in the county court. She
sets aside the income from 1900 for
the use OF her usband during his life
and gives all other property to her
son, Richard D. Baker.
We are now ready to fit out that
new house of yours with either gas or
com bination fixtures. Also full line
of Welsbach mantles and supplies.
Phone 1880. Rock Island Electric
Construction company.
j. B. Brennan, in behalf of the A.
D. Farmer & Son Type Foundry com
= pany, yesterday paid to the employees
of the late Rock Island Republican the
, sum for which they held lien against
the property of the paper.
Il thermometers about town regis
tered 10 above zero at Z o'clock this
morning. 1t was well along toward
| noon before the sun warmed up sutfi-
GENTLY to melt the mantle of the beau
tiful which fell last evening.
David Backstock, an old solder,
who was suffering from the effects OF
a fall from a wagon Tuesday night
vas removed in the ambulance last
8 night from Seventeenth street and
It Fifth avenue to Ala Forty-third street.
Pick your ready-to-wear street hats
lauick at McCabe's. The slaughter
y has now commenced. Three hundred
ready trimmed hats were up TO 81 81
J. now all at % cents. All late styles
d and will 90 ike hot biscuits
Hurry up.
;. Prof j. G. Carter Troop will thi
II evening deliver the third in the uni
l. versity extension course of lect ures
Z, His subject will be Walter Scott,
,e and the works of that author which
,e Will be especially considered are ''OlC
Mortality" and ''Ivanhoe."
ia 3. NJ. Bruner, of this city. one o
n. the secretaries of the state Y. Nj. {
20 A, has been secured to address tn
meeting for men at the Peoria associ
alton next Sunday afternoon at
O'Clock. He will also occupy the puI
pit of the First Congre gational churc
next Sunday morning.
A new Rock Island insti tuition Jus
opened is the Tri-City Regalia con
pany, at 324 Twentieth street.
y will make a business of costuming q
we'll as carrying a most complete lin
C. of society badges, emblems, RECALL;
etc. In the hands of thoroughly pra'
by teal people and with a desire
It. please its patrons in every particu
er lar, it will doubtless soon be thri'
ing institution. 1t already has
bo large stock complete in every way fc
az cOstuming.
ID Sunday next, at Chicago, memori
services will be held by the railwa
postal clerks in honor OF Louis
OK Troy, former superintendent of tn
De division of the railway postal servic
IN Mr.. Troy was about the best know
and most honored man in the railws
on postal service. He entered at the 70
ID of the ladder and industry and GENT
ID took him to the top. He was Il
friend of every man under his
rection. and was universally liked al
~ respected
F The joint committee representa-
the four Woodmen camps Of the CT
designated with view to gaining
IS popular expression before acting
be the emergency fund propositio
Ike, will meet at the Woodmen bui!
ing. at 7:S0 Saturday evenin
rex 1t is proposed to arrange for
of mass meeting of all Woodmen WI
ON will be addressed intelligently on q
nv merits and disadvantages of t
me emergency fund proposition, and tn
M take the discussion from the camps
the whole body of Woodmen in Il