Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-03-14

| Mr.. and Mrs. A. j. Johnson, 1857
Thirty-seventh street, are the parents
of twins, born to them yesterday. One
is boy and the other girl
Learn ballroom dancing at Ora
hams school, Third and Gaines
streets, Davenport. Phone 81. Be
ginners Tuesday and Friday evenings.
Mrs Wilhelmina Staassen has been
appointed a deputy of the Fraternal
Tribunes and will assist District Dep
uty Van Noorden in Rock Island and
Moline.
Tuesday is the first day of regis
tration for the spring election. The
judges of election will be given the
ballot boxes Monday at the Office of
City Clerk Schaffer.
In order to close out some of our
high priced carpets we will sell $1.65
carpets for $1.25 and $1.1O velvets for
90 cents. This carpet sale will continue
for 10 days. Clemann & Salzmann.
The Apollo Male chorus, of Daven-
port. gave a delightful entertainment
last evening at the First Baptist
church. the proceeds of which went
to the fund of the floral committee.
Harry Mckee, of California, will
speak at Turner hall Sunday evening
at 7:45, his subject being Organized
Labor and Organized Capital" Don't
fail to hear him. All ladies invited
An entertainment of rare interest
will be given at the Forty-fourth
street chapel Thursday evening,
March 10. 1t will consist of fine mu-
sic, tableauX and the Woodmen quar-
tet. Admission, only 25 cents.
Bargains in fine building lots; new
additions, Fourteenth street and
Tenth avenue; terms, an allowance
Harry Schreiner, room 3, over Peo-
pies bank
The democrats of South Rock ISL
and are requested to meet in caucus
Wednesday evening, March IS. at the
town hall, to nominate a township
ticket and transact such other bust
ness as may be expedient.
Mayor Knox requests the members
of the council and the city officials
to meet at the city hall at . o'clock
Monday morning to proceed in car
late Street Supt. w. J. Gamble.
Last evening many insects of va
rious varieties Matched out by the
heat of the day were noticed flying in
the air. Next it will be the mosquito.
But they will all be looking for
place to hide when the coal man gets
his final inning.
Owing to the serious illness with
pneumonia of Rev. j. ID. Smith, pas
tor of the Milan Methodist church.
Rev. Il. i. Williams, of this city, will
fill his pulpit tomorrow evening, Rev.
T. j. Shuey filling the pulpit of the
First Methodist church in this city.
The Augustana college girls bask-
etball team last evening decisiyely de-
feated the girls of the Davenport
high school in a game of basketball
played at the Armory in that city.
The Twentieth Century boys team OF
the college was carried down to de-
feat by the Davenport high school
team by score of % and 4.
Mrs. q. NJ. Loosely is entertaining
at her home, 700 Twenty-second
street, this afternoon party of her
lady friends in honor of Miss Mary
Louise Middleton. of Davenport. Miss
Middleton. who is a daughter of the
late DR.. Middleton, is to be married
next Wednesday at Davenport to DR..
s. c. Plummer. of Chicago, the latter
being a brother of Mrs. Loosely.
The Rock Island Choral society will
give its last concert of its first year
March 20 in the First NJ. T.. church,
not on the 10Th inst, as previously
announced First years membership
tickets, though ending March Is, will
be good for this concert and the sec
Ond year will not begin until April 1.
Active members will report for re-
hearsal tomorrow at p. M, at the
usual place.
Thomas Enright was brought to
the city from his home in Cordova
this afternoon by Sheriff Heider on
filed in the county court
charging him with keeping a disor
derby house. Enright is a barber and
keeps a candy and cigar store in con
nection with his establishment. The
complainants object to the noise
made by the customers who congre
gate there.
Harry Steele Morrison, the. boy
traveller, did not nave large audi
ence at the Y. NJ. c. a. auditorium
last evening, but he probably will
have should he return to deliver an
other lecture in this city. His ac-
count of his travels was intensely in
teresting and those who heard him
did not wonder at the success he met
with in securing interviews with
great personages all over the world.
Mr.. Morrison left this morning to
spend Sunday at Cedar Rapids.
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