Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-10-11
studio, 1922 Second avenue. next Sat.
urday evening ct o'clock.
PORT BYRON NEWS POINTS.
Chicken Thieves Given a Surprise Party by
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Port Byron, Oct. 11.-Mrs. G.. S
Hunt visited a week with friends q
Fulton.
Miss Ethel Morgan came to visit he
i grandfather, James Gibson.
| j. Gillespie went out into Iowa tt
look after matters relating to hi
farm.
Mrs. j. NJ. Schall, of Geneseo, cam,
to visit in Port Byron.
Mrs. F. H. Henley and children, o
La Plata, Mo-, came to visit Mrs. Hen
ley's parents, Capt. and Mrs. II. C.
| Trent.
Fred Saddoris and family, of York
Neb., came to visit Mrs. Saddoris
| parents and other relatives.
Thursday last j. n. Larne was ex
hibiting sweet potato that weighed
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measured 224 inches in circumfer.
ence.
Corn is drying naturally and slow
ly, but it won't do to crib yet, say
the farmers.
Louis Colgrove. of Moline. was in
Port Byron Monday last and sold his
house and lot to Henry Brandt for
81 600.
L. Lettingwell and w. l.. Straw, OF
Moline, have returned from their
hunting trip to Spirit Lake, and al
though the weather was bad, they
brought home thirty checkers and
ducks.
A H. Wendt has improved the in
terror of his furniture store by putting
Gown a new floor, new stove, paper
ing and painting, which has materi-
ally improved its appearance.
Rev. j. c. CRANE performed mar
rage ceremony Wednesday evening
last, the groom being Bryson Ackley,
of Eldridge, and Miss Rosa B. Cook.
of Port Byron. The marriage was
family affair.
The premises formerly occupied by
Miss Mary Rennie as millinery
store have been rented by j. Philips,
who proposes to keep lunch counter.
He has also rented the residence form
erly occupied by Henry Brandt.
+. +. Crompton has harvested a
second crop of potatoes of the Early
Six Weeks" variety. The second crop
was not planted until a portion of the
first crop was dug.
Rev. Willard, formerly of Port By
ron, now OF Thompson, was visiting
friends Monday last. !
Prof. Coddington, of the lie Claire
public schools, hes not been able to
move his family u, that place on ac-
count of the scarcity of residences.
However, he has now secured one and
expects to move the coming week.
There being some persons in our
community who seem to have decided
that the world owes them living, and
who have been making nightly visits
to Chicken houses, were somewhat
disturbed Saturday evening last. DIR.
Sensi baugh. hearing a racket among
the chickens, fastened and was Just
in time to fire six shots at two re-
treating figures, and judging from an
the doctor is of the
opinion that one of them was hit.
Statistics have been compiled by
one of our citizens showing that dur
ing the last four years 80 families
have moved away from Port Byron
and 81 have moved in. Seven have
become OF age-Charles Askew, Harry
Case, John Letson, C.. B. Maxwell,
John Moore, William Moore, Percy
Maxwell. The following have died:
George Allen, Frank Billow. Abraham
Clark. Hammond Cooley, John DOM
strand. Luther Hutchinson, +. n.
Henry Kelley, Ed Moore,
Miles Nicholson, Harvey Randall. II.
=. Ripley, ia mes Rashburn, John
Schall and John Wassell.