Rock Island Argus., 1901-06-26

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Only three days left in which to
attend Crampton's vacation sale.
The next bicycle run o. the Y. NJ.
C.. A. business mems class will be |
home from LeClaire next Tuesday |
evening. TO which place they will go
by boat. -
Dressing sacques almost half price
for three days at McCabe's ew store |
Read ad, fifth page
The Union SAYS the sam mill men
were very much in evidence yester-
dap Yes, pretty much everv body
seemed to be doing some wood-saw-
ing yesterday.
Hot wave specials for Thursday at
McCabe's busy crockery department..
Read ad on fifth page.
St. Mary's school will have its
commencement exercises tomorrow
evening at the school house and the
social after the exercises.
An alarm was sent in from Third
avenue and Twenty-second street,
where a shed was on fire, this fore
noon. The FIRE was out before the
department. reached the scene.
1t is better for the UniSn to find
out the day after the election that
some of the men at least on the citi-
zen5' ticket are first-class citizens
than not to have learned it at all.
w. l.. Douglas shoes for men at
$3.50, So, $3 so and 81. The Leader,
sole agent. opposite Harper house.
Largest assortment of fireworks at
Brookman's. Four-ba Roman candles
cents q dozen, fire crackers two
punches for 3 cents, snakeness cents
a box, and paper caps 2 cents dozen.
Judge Adams has approved the Pc
tition for the paving Of Fifth avenue,
from Seventeenth to Twenty-sixth
streets, Moline. with brick. There
WAS not an objection to the improve
ment filed.
The Moline ice company has sold
all of its ice in the Watertown houses
and is shipping at the rate of II cars
day 10 Kansas City. Swan Tropp
says that Lo thinks they viii have to
put up bigger crop next year.
The telephone girls steamboat ex-
| cursion, to have occurred tomorrow
| night, has been postponed until the
arrival of Capt. John Streckfus' new
steamer, now on its way from Jeffer-
sonville, Ind. The date will be an
jnounced later.
The 1900 stays of the Rock Island
high school held their second annual
banquet Mt Black Hawk inn last even
iisg. The affair was entirely informal
FL IA
Dan Montgomery, Of REYNOLDS, WAS
the oDly out-of-town member present.
Carroll brothers. Davenport. have
been retained TO defend the four lilies
brothers, the Princeton fishermen in
Jail here in connection with the mur'
der OF Carl WeDdt. The father ot
the prisoners has arrived from his
lhome in southern Illinois to look aft I
their interests.
The La1ies' Aid society of the
Broadway church will give receP'
tion to the mem bers and their friends
at the home Of Mrs. McGill, 29li
Seventh avenue. tomorrow afternoon
from 8 to o'clock. As this is the
last meeting until September. it il
desired that all members attend. M :
Arndt, secretary.
II the Union had gotten out Of 1T
trance long enough to view the char
acter of the vote that was beiuS
catered to by the board ticket man
layers in the Fourth ward. it would
not have had time for unwarranteC
commeut on the legitimate voters il
other parts of the city.
The graduating exercises of tn
Augustana Conservatory of musi
and department of expression wer
held a. the College chapel last even
: ing. There were two graduates
Esther II. Madsen, public reader
J cnurse. and FridolPh A. j. Lindholm
, violin. A fine program was given.
Ma, or Heinz, of Davenport, ha
been served with notice from the Tri
City Sprinkler company demandiDi
that the city discontinue the use o
the side arm arrangement attached T.
the now sprinkler, on the ground tha
it is an Infringement on patent
owned by the complainant. A dam
age suit is threatened.
Another case Of smallpox was dis
lowered yesterday in Davenport an
was auarantined at home last even
ling. The patient is Bert Black. age
years. son of MIR. and Mrs. Georg
+. Back, 270I' Harrison street Tb
caFe was reported to City Clerk Smit
ye ,torday afternoon by Drs. Bowman
and Hender. Cards were put in plac
, by Health Officer High after DR.. Pres
ton. the city ply sician, had inves'l
gated it.
Prof Ernest Otto. who has bee
spending two years in Germany i
the study OF music, will return L
Davenport in July. He has com
pleted the course at the Leipsic con
: servatory OF music and graduate
with the greatest hOnors. At tn
commencement exercises he presente