Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-06-11

heidy BIOS. agency this mos ming
Mrs. D. L. Frenz for up-to-date
millinery at low prices. Come early
The best ware for cooking preserves
or fruit of any kind Is the crucible
ware at Summers & Co.'S.
The greatest event of the season.
this week, at the great
hat sale a. Miss b rnes'. Trimmed
hats cut in two.
The Nethersole 81 so shoe for
women. eight different styles. AA to
EE. every pair guaranteed. For sale
only at the Leader, opposite Harper
house.
Do you want to know what it will
cost to have your house wiredp Ask
Us. No charge for estimates. Chan
deliers at reduced prices. Rock Island
Electric Construction company |
Phone $780,
Dick Boss will be given hearing
this evening on complaint by Felix
Benlof, the charges preferred growing |
out of the fight AZ Banker's saloon |
early Sunday morning.
| The stesm shovel employed by the |
Walsh Construction company in cut
ting the grade at Coal Valley broke
q mainshaft yesterday morning. ne
cessitating a suspension of operations
a couple Of days for repairs.
The county board did little but
routine work. this morning, hearing
the reports of several committees.
Late this afternoon poor physicians
Rock Island, and DIR. A. +. Kohler
for Moline.
| Theatre Promoter Johnston failed TO
arrive from st. Louis as expected and
in consequence work on the new Hli-
nois theatre did not commence today.
1t is announced, however, that Mr.
Johnston will be here tomorrow with
out fail and the excavation will b
started.
Thomas Schneckloth, q well-to-do
farmer of Lincoln township, near
Davenport. suicided Sunday by shoot
ng himself in the head with 80
calibre revolver. He was 50 years
old, and bad for some time been in
failing health. His wife and nine
children survive.
j. n. Sanderson. of South Heights
has THE ARGUS thanks for sample
box of the finest straw berries that
have come to market this season.
He reports the late rain to have been
livery beneficial TO the crop now ma
[ turing and predicts there will be no
scarcity of the fruit 10 this vicinity.
{ Hans Jacobs. well known grain
dealer. residing at 1907 West Fourth
/ street. Davenport. and who for some
thine bad been afflicted with smallpox
j., along with other members of his fam
lily. died at his home Sunday night.
Death resulted from a general weak
ening attending the ravages of the
ldisease. Mr. Jacobs was 81 years of age.
= John Levsen 30 years of age, resiC
ing at 1716 West Fourth street, Dav-
b Ienport. and shipping clerk for CHI is
: Mueller & Sons, is the patient in the
most recent case of smallpox. He has
~ been i'll for over a week His home
has been quarantined, but no guards
have been placed upon the premises:
Everything perspires this murky
, weather. Metal hand rails repel the
grasP with greasy. clammy exterior,
pneumatic cash tubes clog and stick
Il green backs hug each other at the bank
q and the bottles in the drug stores are
located with film of vapor. But the
, ice man sees signs of prosperity in the
= windows. and the countenance OF the
soda fountsin proprietor wears the
= first substantial smile of the season
r. Relatives and friends here have re
ceived invitations to the Forthcoming
marriage of Marie Melville Truesdale
: daughter of President W. H Trues
dale. of the Delaware & LackawannS
railroad, and Richard NJ. Bissell. o
Chicago, to be celebrated June 25 a
10 Indian Field, the summer home o
the brides parents, near Greenwich
r. Conn.
:. James j. Tubbs is recovering nicely
from an operation to which he sub
1r mitted Sunday for the removal of hi
30 right eye. About eight weeks ago hI
sr was struck in the member by piec'
of steel while working at his trade a.
q machinist at Rock Island arsenal, anC
4 all efforts to save it proved unaVail
,r ing.
A buggy belonging to John Oil
weller was somewhat damagkd in |
y runaway accident on Sixteenth stree
: this afternoon. The horse started a
!" the bottling works on Eleventh stree
and ran east on Fifth avenue, turning
south on Sixteenth street. The rig
m was left behind after collision will
g. a telegraph pole.
The Woodmen memorial exercises
I'd announced for next Sunday will b
i, held in the morning instead of tn
t, afternoon. as originally planned.
change in the hour being made OWN;
he to the fact that special cars to tn
De cemetery could not be secured. Il
to this end the Woodmen and Roya
Neighbors are requested to meet a
G. Woodmen hall at $3.50 Sunday morn
~ ing, cars to be Immediately taken 70
IS Chippiannock cemetery, where grave
of departed members will be decor