Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-12-22

by a bus of the Robb Express com
pany. The letters were scattered in
the street.
Rock Island lodge, No. Is, I. O. @.
F., invites the members of Ucal lodge
and of Eudora lodge, Rebekahs, to
join in attendance at the funeral of
the late w. L. Sweeney at 10 o'clock
tomorrow morning.
C.. Rogers, the coIored. man who
stole turkeys from J. NJ. Schaab, the
grocer, pleaded guilty to larceny in
the circuit court today, and was fined
81 and costs and sentenced to the
county jail for 20 days.
Hurry up. The crowd-the jam is
on. McCabe's store has never before
seen such crowds. 1t has been called
an army of invasion, marching through
back and forth from Second to Third
and from Third to Second avenues.
H. F. Cordes. formerly of this city,
now in the furniture business, fell
down the elevator shaft in his store in
Davenport today, distance of 10 feet,
sustaining a cut in the head and an in
| jury to his back. He is not seriously
hurt, however
Buy your Christmas wines and IL
quors at A. H. Lifts retail liquor
store. corner Third avenue and Eigh-
teenth street. Everything under the
head of spirituous liquors sold in small
quantities at wholesale prices. Goods
delivered to any part of the city. Open
evenings.
When buying your liquors for Christ
mas do not forget the keystone sa-
loon, 1886 Fifth avenue. 1t has rec
ord of 35 years for giving you the
largest quantity and best quality of
liquor for your money, and L am keep
ing up its reputation. Come and see
me. J. G. Warner.
Today is the shortest of the winter
and of the year. 1t marks the period
of the winter solstice when the sun
apparently stops in its movement
southwark and Immediately begins
coming nCrthward again. In Il few
weeks the increasing length of the
days will be noticed.
1t is a well-known fact that Simon
Lewis stock of wines and liquors is
the largest and finest in the tri-cities,
and as for prices, you can't do better
His goods and prices are right, as his
daily increasing trade will show. Re
member his offer of a bottle of fine
wine free with every dollar purchase
on ever
Instead of starting to walk against
the worlds time record Christmas
night, as had been planned, Herman
Schael will begin his feat at Fifth av-
enue and Twenty-sixth street at 81
o'clock Thursday morning. As pre-
viously announced, he Will endeavOr
to walk for 40 consecutive hours. the
best record being 36H hours. To at
tain the mark set for himself he will
have to walk till 10 o'clock Christmas
night.
Henry Ward Beecher said: You can
get large amount of truth into a
brief space" Unlike our competitors.
we don't use a column or page of
newspaper matter quoting prices to
confuse the public. We state our case
in Il few words: I'VE are selling bet
ter and purer wines and WHISTLES than
any house in the city" You will be
convinced by calling at the Em-EI
store. across from the Harper house
Open evenings.
McCabe's special mention of special
before-Christmas prices: Twenty So
silk umbrellas for $1.95, 60 $3.50 silk
umbrellas for 50 cents. \ late pur-
chase of boys $50 leather leggins for
9S cents. y big lot ladies' fine kid
gloves. very attractive for gifts. %
cents. kindergarten mixed candies
reduced to cents Il pound. Another
lot of those ladies' white hemstitched
handkerchiefs. / cent; also children's
colored borders at a cent apiece. \
new lot of boys wool sweaters at
S1.45 and 81. Great reduction on bead
Icons, fancy pillows and all kinds of
fancy work. Lots of money saved if
you act quickly.
Hershell Shippey. son of f. V. Ship
pey, of this city. was a passenger on
the steamer Argo. running between
Chicago and St. Joseph. Mich, when |
she was caught in a terrific northwest
gale last Wednesday night The |
steamer was on her way to st. JOS
eph, but when ii seemed that shed
Capt. Albert Simmons brought her
about and at o'clock in the morn
ing she safely entered the Chicago !
harbor again. WintCn Shippey. a
brother Of HersheH, had the misfor- !
tune to lose the index finger of his |
right hand in an accident at the fac
tory of the Miller Ladder company. |
Chicago. where he is employed.