Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-06-18
CITY CHAT.

Buy home of Reidy Bros.
Gasoline stoves at Wilcher's.
Excursion to Dubuque Sunday.
Tri-City Towel Supply company.
Kerler Bros. renOvate mattresses.
Dressed spring chickens at Hess
Bros.
Extra fancy Strawberries at Hess
Bros.
For real estate and insurance, E. ].
Burns.
Order your fresh fish at Schroeder's
tomorrow.
Excursion to Dubuque Sunday. On
ly $3.50 for the round trip.
For tin and furnace work see II. T.
Siemon, 1926 Fourth avenue, Union 2s3.
Thompson's foundry, 542 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.
Hess Bros will have fresh trout,
river salmon, catfish, buffalo and carp
tomorrow.
Read the Leaders special for Fri
day and Saturday on page seven.
Some interesting prices.
Tri-City Painters union excursion
to Dubuque Sunday. June n. Fare
for the round trip $1.50.
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will give a bird shoot at Huber's
garden June 20. Admission, 10 cents;
children's tickets, % cents.
Moonlight excursion on the j. S.
Friday night. June 10 Music and re-
freshments on board. Tickets, 80
cents.
Attend the moonlight excursion Fri
day June 10, on the steamer j. S.
Tickets. 50 cents. Music and refresh
ments on board.
Tomorrow evening the closing com
mencement exercises of the season
will be held at Augustana college,
when the business class will graduate
with the usual ceremonies.
An adoption was recorded in the
county court this morning, Hazel
y
Mission. being taken by Mr.. and Mrs.
John Einfeldt, Of Andalusia.
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. S. leaves Nine
tecnth street at s p. IN. Tickets, 80
cents.
1000 ladies and gentlemen are want
ed to 90 on pleasure trip to Musca-
tine from Rock Island, Davenport and
Moline, Saturday, June 20, on the j. S.
Round trip, so cents. Music, dancing
and refreshments. Boat leaves Rock
Island at 9 a. m.
Mrs Ella Goodrich, Il Mus catine wo-
man, suicided Monday night by jump
ing from the high bridge at that city
into the Mississippi. The body was
recovered eight miles below the city
by clam digger, who found the body
fast upon his "crowfeet.'
The ambulance was kept more than
busy yesterday afternoon. Besides
attending to several purely local calls
it conveyed F. II. Horstkamp from 800
Warren street, Davenport, to the hos
pital, and met the afternoon Peoria
train to take Mrs. Sarah Clark of
Reynolds, to st. Anthonys hospital.
Three out-of-town couples were
married at the office of Judge Par
menter at the court house yesterday
afternoon They were William r.
Wickelman and Miss Adelina Best. and
Sebastin Fuchs and Mrs. Elizabeth
Jones, of Davenport. and Robert Col
Iingwood and Miss Elizabeth A. Hutch
inson. of Gable.
A number of Knights Tempar from
out of the city were on hand to at
tend the last hop of the season given
by Rock Island commandery last ee-
ening The function was held at
Black Hawk Inn and there were about
100 couples participating. During the
evening vocal solos were rendered by
Miss Bella Carpenter, Miss Gertrude
Carse and Keith Collins.
William Tippetts the man who muir
dercd Ira Shrake early in the season
by striking him over the head with
stick of wood when both were work
ing on the rafter C. w. Cowles, has
committed suicide by shooting him
self at his home in Victory, near La
Crosse, Wis. He had been brooding
over the crime for which he was to
have been tried in the fall.
The train on the Rock Island known
as the Rocky Mountain Limited has
not exactly been abandoned, but the
service has been annulled west of
Omaha so far as that train is con-
cerned until the first of next month.
Soft track is the reason for the dis
continuance of this train further
west than Omaha, until July l, when
repairs to the track will have made
it possible to resume this service.
An artesian well with the purset