Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-09-03
CITY CHAT.

List your property with Reidy Bros.
Buy home of Goldsmith & Mckee.
Try the American laundry. Phone
1886.
If you want your property sold list
1t with Hull & Co.
The fall term of the. Rock Island
public schools opens tomorrow.
w. l.. Douglas union made shoes at
The Leader, opposite the Harper.
Thirty-fve cent merchants lunch
at noon hour at Harms restaurant.
Anheuser-Busch bottled beer. A.
ID. Huesing, sole agent. Phone 1888.
The place to get your books ex-
changed is at KiDgsbury's, 1907 Sec
Ond avenue.
Remem Der the old fashioned colored
camp meeting at Prospect park to-
night. All are invited to attend.
Purchase your school books at
Kingsbury's. You will get more for
your money than any place in the
city.
Special request promenade concert
will be given by Strasser's band at
Schuetzen park, Davenport. Tuesday.
Sept. 4.
There @as a small rear end COLI
sion between two street cars on Mo-
line avenue this morning, but no one
was injured.
Highest grade of work in the laun-
dry line is done by the American
laundry. Ask those who have tried
it. Phone 1886.
II you need any wiring or electric
work of any kind don't fail to call on
Fiebig d Robb and get prices. All
work is first-class.
Don't forget the "ole time camp
meetin' now in progress at Prospect
park. Big crowds in attendance every
afternoon and evening.
The colored camp meeting is now
on at Prospect park. Fine jubilee
singing and preaching every afternoon
aud evening. Don't miss it.
Take your Barnes readers. histories
and Biographies and exchange them at
Kingsbury' ). They are headquarters
for new and secondhand books.
Before hiring a livery rig come and
look over our outfits. We can please
the most fastidious. Half hundred
vehicles to choose from. CralIe Il Co.
- Just the kind of weather for one of
those electric fans that Fiebig q Robb
are selling. They are the most sue
Cessful fans that have ever been put on
the market.
Have you heard those coIored jubi-
lee singers and shouters at the camp
meeting nov in progress at Prospect
ParkP You will regret IT if you don't
attend. Big time.
Grant Hulberg, editor of Angus
tana. is to take up the study of law
He has resigned his position with
Augustana. His successor is Rev c.
j. Bengston. Four Corners. Iowa.
The Gaskell Stock company opened
weeks engagement at Harper's
theatre last night, giving a capable
presentation of Hal Reds southern
Comedy-drama. knobs o Tennes-
sec" before an apPrcciative audience.
The shanty boat season has opened,
and from now till after the first of
November the county authorities will
be kept busy chasing the "iav-hawk-
CTS' from our shores with the threat
of the enforcement of the license law
Late this afternoon a one armed
man whose name could not be learn
ed was injured about the head while
riding down the toboggan slide at the
Watch Tower. He neglected to hold
fast TO the boat and when it struck
the water he was thrown against the
slide.
Through, wide vestibule chair cars
with smoking compartment between
Rock Island and Chicago via the D..
X. l. X y W. railroad and the c. &
y. W. railroad. The quickest and
best line. For particulars inquire at
city ticket office, 1903 Second avenue, |
or passenger station foot of Twentieth |
street.
Rev. W. II. Johnson yesterday |
preached his first sermon as pastor Of
Christian Memorial church His
morning subject was The Preemi- |
nencc Of Christ" and evening. The |
Master Presence" Mr.. johnson is an !
eloquent and convincing speaker and /.
made good impression on his con-
gregation.
After four months spent at the sea- I,
shore the oyster family have re-
turned TO Rock Island. They will !
spend eight months with their friends .
in this city aud will ill the place in |
many social functions left vacant by |
the enforced retirement Of their cous- .
-, the clans. The oysters will be
a. home 10 their friends in every well
regulated hotel and restaurant in the
city.
Observer j. NJ. Sherier's meteorc-
logical summary for the month of
August shows the mean atmospheric
pressure to have been % 90. The
highest pressure was SO.1S on the Sth,
and the lowest 30. 90 on the gath. The
mean temperature was so, the high
est being % on the 9Th and the lowest
e -, IL 1-.h The rnrnNa lin q di-oc-