Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-05-25
TOWN TALK.

Otis electric elevator in the Rock Isl.
and has been begun.
Your clothes cleaned and pressed al
the Rock Island P.nitorium. sos
| Twentieth street. Phone 1884. Re-
pairing speciality. We call aud de.
liver.
The ladies of the United Presby.
terrain church viii give lunch and
bazaar Friday afternoon and evening.
May 25. Lunch Is cents. Every body
invited.
All members of the Anti-cigaret
league are requested to be present at
the meeting to be held next Sunday
afternoon at 4 o'clock at the First NJ.
K. church.
Arrangements have been completed
by the Ninth Street German Evangeli-
cal church TO give an excursion to
Muscatine on the steamer Pilot and
barge. June Ia.
The survey for the proposed new
seminary of the Sisters of the Vista
tion on Twentieth street is being made
this afternoon. Ground will shortly
be broken for the building, which will
be erected during the summer.
The board of education at a special
meeting last night formally approved
the plans of Drack d Kerns for the
proposed new Horace Mann school
and instructed the architects to ad-
vertise for bids to be opened June 5.
Sacred Heart church will give a
May festival May 20 at the Armory
hall. The principal feature will be a
May pole dance and the disposal of an
autograph quilt. A fine program and
refreshments. Admission 10 cents.
As usual, people will be permitted
to visit Rock Island arsenal and the
national cemetery Memorial day with
out the formality of securing a pass.
An order to that effect has
been issued by Maj 3. f. Blunt, who
has also given permission to the Tri-
City Railway company to run regular
cars all that day to the arsenal from
Rock Island and Davenport.
A chess match by telegraph be-
tween the Davenport ana Chicago
clubs has been set for Decoration day.
Twelve boards will be used and the
messages recording the various moves
will be flashed over the wire of the
Postal Telegraph company. The
Davenport end of the game will be
played in the dining room on the Sec
ond floor of Turner hall, beginning at
8 O'Clock in the afternoon
Ia the prize drill yesterday at Straw
berry Point, Iowa, the forester team
of Independence camp. NJ. w. A, of
this city, came within an ace of
carrying off the money, the judges
awarding the decision to the Dubuque
boys, but announcing that the Rock
Islanders were just one point behind
the victors. The Rock Island team ex-
emplified the secret work of the So
ciety in the Strawberry Point Wood
men hall. 49,
Photographer Z. f Mangold last
week read an item in TIE ARGUS to
the effect that Mr. Downs. of Daven-
port, had probably the smallest pony
on record, claiming that it weighed
only 15 pounds. Although knowing
it's so when he sees it in THE ARGUS
is still a Missouriau. so
camera in hand he HE'D himself to
Downs place in Davenport. He
weighed the little animal and in
cidentslly got snapshot of him.
Now Msngold feels better.
The recommendation of Bishop Nor
rison that the Griswold college prop
erty in Davenport be sold TO the DO ard |
Of education of that city for the
offered $53 900 was adopted by the |
diocesan convention of the Episcopal |
church of Iowa, which has just
closed at Council Bluffs. Bishop |
Morrison suggests the money from |
The sale be used to pay the SIC, 900 in
iebtedness on St. Katharine s hall and |
The balance invested for the benefit of |
the school. The salary of the bishop |
was increased from 81. 900 to 81. 500,
We have heard the joker tell about
the undertaken stationing himself at |
he window of the house of the candi-
late for death and singing I'm Wait
ng My Darling for Thee but here is
/ statement containing humor that
was evidently not intended as such.
t is found in Davenport newspaper
n an interview with an undertaken
With reference to the relative merits
IF the two directories being published
here. The interview winds up thus
wise: 1.-The volume is far superior,
Ind will not go to pieces all at once.
from cover to cover I am interested
n it." Pleasant prospect for the
'esidents of Davenport. That under
.aker must expect boom in his line.
No&fre I'm atorkho.aar.