Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-08-09
MOLINE

ATCneTy Ciup 6uyS supplies. - me .
William Tell Archery club of this city |
will in a few days receive a couple !
dozen bows and fifty dozen arrows !.
which will be used in the forthcoming
archery contests on the clubs ground
| in Moline. The club has purchased
the regulation bows and the arrows
will be of the blunt variety. The tar
gets and general plan of the contests
| Will not be exactly like the custom of
target archery. There will be great
tree seventy-five fet in height arranged
on the grounds and the blunt arrows
will be discharged at the clay birds
The scores will be reckoned upon the
basis of the number of birds broken III
the number of shots allowed. Thee
will be a system of handicapping "a
well as there is in other contests.
Palmed a Rine.-Claude Alexander
erstwhie clairvoyant, showing in vau-
deville at the Elite theatre at Proc
pect park, is in trouble. After filling
his engagement at the park, he decid-
ed TO quit the stage and devote him
self to clairvoyancy, opening for bust
ness here in rooms at 800 Seventeenth
street. One of those who called 10
have her hand read was Miss Frances
. Ganahl of this city. Alexander proved
himself more than palmist. While
reading the lines of the young lady'5
hand he succeeded in slipping an anne
, thyst ring from one of her fingers. Il
| &c or
pealed to the police for aid in recover
: ing it, Alexander in the meanwhile
: had left the city, but he was located in
5 Waterloo He agreed to turn the ring
: over to the authorities there and :
will be sent back TO its owner. Aley-
Y ander will not be prosecuted.
Buys Jones Homer. c. Leedy,
1 proprietor of the Five and Ten-cent
:, store on Third avenue, yesterday clos
ed a deal with D. A. Jones for the pur-
:, chase of the residence property at 1872 1
I Seventh avenue. the consideration
:. was in the neighborhood of $4,000. Mr.
] Leedy will soon occupy the place &c
e his residence.
Fireworks Cause Scare.-FirewOris
:, were ignited Wednesday evening a.
they lay in a box under the counter al
Fred Jergens' confectionery store o.
Fourth avenue between Ninth ans
Tenth streets. A light was carelessly
dropped into the box, and things Wee
-, Sizing in no time The building file,
with smoke. and while some brave per
son carried the box of fireworks out t
= the street, some one else got excited
, and turned in a fire alarm. Damag,
was limited to that done by the smoll,
II which filled the store and Frederick.
! saloon which adioins.
% Hit Mother-n-LaW.-Earl Hunt
10 was heavily mulcted in police court b!
Magistrate Gustafson on a charge C
" assault and battery. He was in COW
"a on complaint of his mother-in-law Mrs
c. W. Reynolds, 60 years of age, witt
i alleged that he struck her in the fac,
and knocked her down. She was ca,
&C rying Hunters baby at the time an,
= the assault occurred at the Homer h1
tel in the west end, where the partie
n involved reside.
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Obituary Record.-James V. S. Pat
PC dock, son of Stephen G. Paddock. 70
twenty years clerk of Bureau county,
and a brother of H G.. Paddock of thi
city, passed away Wednesday at hi
home. 46S Kenmore Terrace, Chicago
az He was a graduate of West Point an
IF a first lieutenant in the United State
army retired. and of recent years ha