Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-08-20
CITY CHAT.


Homes for sale. A. Rush & Co.
List your property with Reidy Bros.
Gasoline stoves at cost at Wilcher's.
A. Rush & Co., room 6, Buford
block-real estate.
Clean sweep sale of all summer
goods at Young & McCombs'.
Shirt waists 90 cents. Clean sweep
sale at Young & McCombs'.
Hemstitched handkerchiefs 5 cents.
Clean sweep sale at Young & Me-
Combs.
Everything electrical. Estimates
furnished. Rock Island Electric COM
Pany, phone 1880.
See our west show window Turk
ish towels and bedspresds clean
sweep sale. Young 81 McCombs.
Get ice cream at the mems lawn
sociable Thursday evening at Sacred
Heart church. Good music and sing
ing.
For real estate and reliable insur-
ance call on Hull & Hemenway, room
Is, Mitchell & Lynde building. Tele-
phone 1904.
Attend the mems lawn sociable at
Sacred Heart church Thursday even
ing. The gentlemen will serve re-
freshments.
Greater advantages at less expense
TO the student is the claim made By
Browns business college. Remember
the opening date, Sept. 3.
Speed, accuracy and ease in the
touch method of tyPewriting is every
where acknowledged. Browns bust
ness college leads in teaching this
modern system.
James Y. Cantwell and Miss Har.
riet Spencer were married last even
ing at the home of the brides parents
Capt. and Mrs. George X. Spencer, in
Davenport.
Gregg shorthand is the easiest sys
tenn to learn, the easiest system x
write and the easies: system to read.
This system is taught only in Brown s
business college.
There was a general shaking up o
the employees OF the Tri-City Raiiwa.
company today Five of the mel
working on this side of the river wer,
discharged for cause.
". j. Kerr, who was operated OF
for an ailment of long standing at St
Anthony's hospital yesterday by DR.
G.. G.. Craig. Sr., is reported to be do
ing nicely, with good prospects o
recovering.
TIE raft the Rutledge brought down
Yesterday was caught on a snag a
dubuque and torn to pieces. Had il
not been for the aid given by the st
Paul, which happened along sool
after the accident, the mishap would
have most costly.
The Deere & Mansur shops in Mo
line started with light force in al
departments yesterday. The men ar
following the course adopted at tn
other shops in the city and signin!
collective contracts. The Moline Ploy
company is expected to start N
Sept. 3.
Mrs. Lena Ohlweiler has begun iii
vorce proceedings against her hus
band, George Ohlweiler. The couple
who live in this city, were married II
1895 and, according to the bill filed
the husband deserted his family thre
wears later. Mrs. Ohlweiler asks tn
custody OF her two children.
John Bowen, who several week
ago resisted arrest when BailiT DIN
tied attempted to take him into Gu,
tody for creating disturbance in tn
vicinity Of Milan, yesterday pleade
guilty in the county court to th
charge of resisting an officer and we
sentenced to work Is days on til
rock pile.
George Cook, representing the II
transitional Carriage and Wheel Nal
ers' union, has been in Moline for
conference with the officials of I'll
Mutual Wheel company, whose en-
pIoyes are on strike for recognition
their union. Mr.. Cook has left Il
city, announcing he was unable
accomplish any Roadway toward
settlement of the difficulty.
The committee on speakers for {
Labor day picnic reported to the /
dustrial Home association last mig
,hst"the invitations extended to G
Mayor Henry Vollmer, of Davenpol
G j. Searle and j. w. Cavanaugh,