Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-07-28

betweeO the knuclxle joint and first
joint of the middle. finger of his left
hand. In consequence Mr.. Vollstedt
called upon DIR. o. c. Rogers and had
the member attended to. The injury
is not such as TO lay Mr.. Vollstedt off
duty, but is severe enough to cause
him to handle bananas with gloves
hereafter.
The executive board of the Scott
County Sunday School association
met Friday afternoon in the Y. NJ. c.
y. parlors to arrange the prelimina-
ries of the annual Sunday school CON
vention in this county. 1t was de-
cided to hold the convention Sept. /.
= and 3, commencing Monday evening.
| The sessions will be held i'm ST. Paurs
Lutheran church, and an interesting
feature will be the report from the
10th international convention held
| in Denver in June, at which 125 del
egates were enrolled from Iowa, Rev
w. II. Blancke representing Scott
county.
The marriage of Miss Winifred
Sheets to Hugh Harrington took
place Saturday evening at o'clock
at the home of DIR. w. f. Hunt, at 122
East Eleventh street. Miss Sheets
father is Bert Sheets, inspector in the
harness department in the Rock ISL
and shops. Mr.. and Mrs. Harrington
will reside at Williamsburg, Iowa, the
home of the groom. DIR. j. Il. Donald
son performed the ceremony.
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II. F. Stueben and wife and two
daughters, Alma and Martha, have
returned after "a three months visit
to the fatherland.
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Friday evening the employees of the
Schlegel-McNevin Piano company,
(which recently sold out, were enter
tanned at lawn social by w. NJ. Pat
tee, member of the firm, at his
home at Fifteenth and Brady streets.
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At his home, 1881 West Third
street, at IL o'clock Friday night, oc-
Cured the death of Louis Matthias
Richie, after an illness of over peri
cd of four months. The deceased
was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, May 1,
1855, and when two years of age came
to Davenport with his parents. His
father, Matthias Richie. deceased,
for three years conducted the ST.
Charles hotel, on the corner of Third
and Harrison streets, in what is now
| the Luebbe building, and for a time
the deceased was in business with
him. Later he embarked in the
grain business with his father, and
FL oil -
Traer. Iowa. for j. Il. Frahm. Of
late years he travelled for the Bosch
Ryan Grain company. and more re-
Gently was employed in the shipping
room of the Davenport glucose
works. The deceased was a member
of the Teutonic Sick Relief society
and also of the Veteran Volunteer
Firemen's association. The surviv-
ors are the mother, Mrs. Caroline
Richie, and three sisters, Mrs. Mary
Schlapp. Mrs. Amelia Offermann and
Miss Theresa Richie at home.
The I. w. McClelland company will
begin the erection of its new planning
mill and factory on its East Third
street tract about Aug. Is. Ben Cart
side, the architect of the, company,
has completed the plans for the fac
tory, warehouse and office, and Sat
lurday a contract was let to w. p.
Carlin for the necessary excavation.
There will be 1000 yards of earth
removed, and Mr.. Carlin proposes to
get to work at the task about Aug.
| Is.
Police Magistrate Finger when not
umpiring: police court cases is en-
gagged in playing fan at the ball game,
and the hearing of his last misde-
meanor in this line is set for Aug. ..
1t is to he a baseball game be-
tween the lawyers and the doctors.
For the lawyers to attend to the UNI
piring and the doctors to the players
after the game seems to be the log
zeal way of arranging the matters 1t
is understood the teams will be uni
| formed. n banquet afterward viii
end the matter. Magistrate Finger
is circulating subscription paper.
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In the wrestling match at Schuet
zen park yesterday afternoon Far
mer'' Martin Burns secured two falls
from Charles Wittmer, of Cincinnati,
the champion Graeco-Roman wrest-
Ter. Wittmer got the first fall, in
which he was given his hold. and
Burns won the other two, catch-as-
Icatch-can.