Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-06-16
CITY CHAT.

attend BrOoklnan 5 auction sale.
Tri-City Towel Supply company.
Kerler Bros. renovate mattresses.
For real estate and insurance, E. j.
Burns.
Cherries fer canning at Harris &
GauIey's.
Plenty of extra fancy Strawberries
at Hess Bros.
Extra fancy cherries for canning
at Harris q Gauley's.
Excursion to Dubuque Sunday. On
~ $3.50 for the round trip.
Special prices on all children's hats
this week at Byrnes' millinery.
The Polly Perkins, pulled by every
body, is the best 5 cent smoke in town.
For tin and furnace work see H. T.
Eiemon, 1926 Fourth avenue, Union 2s3.
Harris & Gauley will have plenty of
fancy cherries for canning tomorrow.
Thompson's foundry, SAP Twenty
fourth street. General jobbing foun-
dry.
Don't miss the excursion to Du.
buque Sunday. $50 for the round
trip.
Gest photos at McMann's, Twenty
third street. Reduced prices to stu
dents.
Tri-City Painters union excursion
to Dubuque Sunday, June II. Fare
for the round trip $1.50.
1000 men, women and children are
wanted to try our orange phosphate.
Canode's pharmacy. Twentieth street.
The Low German Sisters society
will give bird shoot at Huber :
garden June 20. Admission, 25 cents.
Moonlight excursion on the j. S.
Friday night, June 10. Music and re-
freshments on board Tickets, IS
cents.
Attend the moonlight excursion Fri
day. June 10, on the steamer J. 5.
Tickets, 81 cents. Music and refresh
ments on board.
An insanity hearing was held at
$3.50 this afternoon in the county
court to- ascertain the present mental
state of Mrs. Lydia y. Cone, of Mo-
line.
Weyerhaeuser & Denkmann's lum
Der mill has started running night
shifts and will probably continue on
that basis throughout the season or
until the present rush lets up.
Mrs. Scavers entertained at her
home, $40 Twentieth street, this after
noon for Miss Mabel Bruner, of Tay
Tor Ridge, who has returned from
California. where she spent the past
few months.
Members of the Sens Of Veterans
were present last evening ON invita-
ton by the Ladies' Aid society at Ne
mortal hall, where the latter organi-
cation after the regular meeting serv
ed refreshments.
The moonlight excursion to be Civ
en- under the auspices of the Acme so
ciety of Grace Lutheran church prom
Uses an enjoyable evening to all who
attend. The steamer j. $. leaves Nine
teenth street at p. IN. Tickets, 30
cents.
\ days visit on the river Will do you
good. The steamer j. 5. leaves Rock
Island Saturday, June 20, at Q a. m
for Muscatinc. Round trip, 50 cents;
children, 10 to Il. p cents; under 10
years of age, free. Swell the crowd.
Refreshments, music and dancing
aboard.
+. O. Melcher, superintendent of the
IlIin6is division of the Rock Island, it
is reported upon good authority, has
resigned and viii be succeeded by
Trainmaster Baird. also of the Hi
nois division. Mr.. Melcher succeeded
c. L. Nichols in his present Office last
year. His headquarters are at Chi
cago.
Tho hot weather following the
rains has Matched out millions of
hungry mosquitoes from the many
ponds and puddles that were left
standing about the low places, and as
a result the air is alive with the pes
tiferous insects of evenings now.
They appear to be even worse than
before the rains.
Sam and Will Morris have purchased
the iron yard at Twenty-fifth street
and Fourth avenue of Al Marks and
will continue to operate the business
as under its former management.
They are installing new office fixtures
to cost in the vicinity of 5000 and are
making other improvements in line
with the progress which they are in
sitting into the business.
Ringing Brothers advertising car
No. 1 is sidetracked at the Burling-
ton depot, and the billboards of the
city, and fences, sheds and barns in
the rural districts are being blanket
ed with flamboyant Autographs adj
vertising the big show which is
scheduled to give two performances
in Rock Island July Z. The great cir