Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-03-25
NEWS cuLLs FRoM cAeLE.
Items of Interest Gathered In and About
the Busy Mining Town.

the Busy Mining Town.
Gable, March 2I.-Owen G. Hays
and Miss Alma johnson visited at
Sherrard Sunday.
Alfred Johnson has moved his fam
ilv to the farm that he has rented
about two miles northwest of town.
John Rails beck returned Tuesday
from Springfield, where he had been
for the past two weeks in attendance
at the convention of miners and oper-
ators as delegate from the local lodge.
John Alexander took the examine
ton for mine manager at Springfield
the first of the week.
j. A. O'Neil. of Sherrard, has been
here part of the time assisting in tax
ing an invoice at Gable & Cos.
Charles Peterson was in Rock Island
Monday last to see his son, o. T.,
who is sick with typhoid fever.
William Murray left Thursday for
Peoria to attend the sub-district Min
ers' and Operators convention.
Louis Hummel, Jr., was at Buffalo,
Iowa, last week.
Edward Myers has purchased the
Mrs. Reed property in the southeast
part of town. He will remove there
soon.
Gust Doxsee was at Presumption
Thursday.
A lawsuit was On the docket in
| Squire Lindquist's court Saturday.
Charles Peterson sued Charles Gobart
for ground rent. The amount in.
volved was $50. The jury returned
| verdict of $40 and costs for the
plaintiff.
| William Beers and wife visited al
| Sherrard the last of the week.
Charles Valentine took the eXami-
nation for hosting engineer at Spring
field Monday.
Thomas Brown, of this place, has
been nominated, by petition, as indie,
| pendent candidate for justice of the
| peace.
Our public schools were closed
Monday, March Is, on account of the
| prevalence of measles and chicken.
pox among the children. The attend.
| auce at school has been very small OF
| late and this action was taken at 8
meeting of the board of education last
| week.
representative of the Tom A
Marshall Telephone company, Of
Keithsburg, was in town Tuesday and
| the Cable Office has been removed
| from A. l.. Kile's barber shop to A
.Lilliman's general store.
Byron McAtee, son of MIR. and Mrs
McAtee, is very sick at the home o
| his parents west of town with ty
phoid-malarlal fever. About tive
weeks ago he was riding a horse
along the road and when crossing
bridge the horse fell through, broke
it's leg, and Byron was thrown owe,
the bridge into the creek.
Miss Laura Oldfeld is in Chicago
this week.
The peoples caucus, held at tn,
town hall Saturday evening, Marcel
10. placed the following township
ticket in the field: For clerk, Jane
z. Brown; commissioner of highways
o. j. Mowry; assessor, Jacob Erich
teneicht; collector, Robert w. Clark
justices of peace. James Kay, d. H
S NTH; constables, George Higgins
j. H. Greenwood; poundmasters. n
+. Nelson, Charles Peterson, Casl
McLaughlin; school trustee, Anthem,
Rode.
The republican caucus at RUSSELL
hall Saturday night nominated tn,
following ticket: Town clerk, Jame
4. Brown: commissioner of highways
Elmer Z. Sincox; assessor, Byron ID
Tomlinson; collector, Joseph Ferong
| justices of peace, j. L. Vernon, ID. ii
Smith; poundmasters, o. G. Lund
| quist, James Hoffman; constables, w
| T. Lee, j. II. Greenwood; school trus
| tee, John Petrie, Jr.