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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-18

reasonable one, and same be adopted.
Carried.
Alderman Pratt submitted an ordin-
ance for the improvement and opening
of an alley in block 81, Chicago or
Lower addition, and moved its immedi-
ate consideration. Carried
Alderman Pratt moved the adoption
of the ordinance as read Adopted by
unanimous vote.
Alderman Tuckis read a report from
the board of local improvements. rec
ommending the improvement of Fiji
teenth street from First to Second av-
enues, by paving with brick, together
with city engineers estimate of cost
at $2,542.5O
Alderman Tuckis offered a resolu-
ton that the city engineers estimate
OF costs is a just and reasonable one.
and same be adopted Carried.
Alderman Tuckis presented an or
dinance for the Improvement of Eff
teenth street from First to Second av-
enues, by paving with brick, and mov-
ed its immediate consideration. Car
ried.
Alderman Tuckis moved the adop-
ton of the ordinance as read. Adopt
ed by unanimous vote.
Alderman Utke offered a resolution
that the board of local improvements
be instructed to start proceedings for
water system of Second ward, by spe-
cial assessment AdoDtod
The mayor read communication
from the Pittsburg Filter Manufacture
ing company relative to filtration sys-
| tenn.
Alderman Ostrom moved that com
munication be referred to committee
| OF the whole. Carried.
Adjourned on motion of Alderman
Trefz. M ~ RUDGREN
City Clerk
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-18
NEWS OF THE NEIGHBORS

The cause of death. He was the only
child of Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Fuchs. He
was born Oct. ii. 1870. in Davenport,
and this city has always been his
home
Henry Moel!ar died at his home,
1913 West Second street, Sunday Mr..
Moeller was Dom June %, 1S49, in
Camp Kalten kirchen, Germany, and
came to Ameri "a in 1882. He was a
shoemaker by trade and followed his
trade both in this country and Ger
many for 20 years. He was married
to Miss Friedericka Pasvogel Oct Z,
1887, i'll Davenport, and this city has
been his home ever since coming to
America.
Henry II. Haas, veteran member
of 10. o. F., and a shoemaker in Dav-
export for the past AZ years, died Sun
day evening at his home, 621 Harri
son street The deceased was born
Oct. 30. 1882. in Drama, Holstein, Ger
many. He settled in Davenport in
1886, and engaged in the boot and shoe
business from 1861 to 1888, on Second
and Ripley str5ets, and since that time
he has conducted a repair business al
his home on Harrison street Besides
his wife, Ida. three sons, Emil H
Hass of Davenport, Albert j., OF Chi
cago. and Edwin D. Hass at home; anc
four daughters. Mrs CA. Cruys, Mrs
IF. II. Dibbern, Mrs. W. 7. Ransan
and Ella Hass at home survive.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-18


The clerk read report of the exam
lining board of plumbers as the city S
delegates to convention of Society of
Inspectors and Sanitary Engineers at
Chicago Feb. 10. IL and II. Received
and placed on file.
The clerk read petition from tax
payers urging passage of electrical in
spector ordinance. Received and
placed on file, to be taken up at some
future time
Alderman McNealy presented an Or
dinance creating office of electrical in
spector Referred to city attorney, to
be reported at the next meeting.
Alderman Lawler from the ordinance
committee presented an ordinance to
compel sidewalk contractors to furnish
bonds of $4,000 running to the city,
and moved it's immediate considera-
ton. Carried.
Alderman Lawler moved the adop.
ton of the ordinance. Laid over un.
der the rules.
Alderman Lawler from the ordinance
committee presented report of the
board of local improvements recon-
mending the improvement of Thirty
ninth and Fortieth streets from Four
teenth to Eighteenth avenues, and
Sixteenth avenue from Thirty-ninth tC
Fortieth streets, by laying of water
mains, together with city engineer
cost of said Improvement at $500.
Alderman Lawler offered a resolu
ton that the city engineers estimate
| of cost of said Improvement is a JUS
and reasonable one, and same be
adopted. Carried.
Alderman Lawler from the ordinance
committee presented an ordinance fol
the laying of water mains on Thirty
ninth and Fortieth streets between
Fourteenth and Eighteenth avenues
and on Eighteenth avenue from Thir
ty-ninth to Fortieth street, and movet
| its immediate consideration. Carried
Alderman Lawler moved the adop
ton of the ordinance as read. Adopt
| ed by unanimous vote.
Alderman Pratt read a report of the
board of local improvements, recon-
mending the opening and Improvement
of alley in block 81, Chicago or Lower
addition, together with city engineers
estimate of cost of said Improvement
at $160.
Alderman Pratt offered a resolution
that the city engineers estimate OF
| cost of said Improvement is just and
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-18
Downward Course.
Fast Being Realized by Rock Island
People.

asst 6eih9 Realized by ROCK Island
People.
A little backache at first.
Daily increasing till the back is lame
and weak.
Urinary disorders quickly follow.
Diabetes and finally Bright's disease.
: This is the downward course of kid
ney ills.
Don't take this course.
James Grimes, 1928 Third avenue.
Moline H., says Il suffered from kid
ney disease and its kindred ailments
for years. The most severe symptoms
were pains across my loins and con
tinual backache. | could not Stoop or
lift anything without enduring sharp
shooting pains through my back and
shoulders. The secretions of the kid
neys We're very irregular. causing me
much annoyance, particularly at night
when | would have to get up many
times. | tried many remedies but was
unable to get any relief until l heard
of DOan's Kidney Pills. | Immediately
procured a box and after taking them
in accordance with the directions the
pains began to leave me. the secre
tons became regular, and in a very
short time | was completely cured.
can conscientiously say that l owe my
present good health to Doan's Kidney
Pills, and am glad to recommend then
to anyone suffering from any form Of
kidney disease"
Plenty more proof like this from
House pharmacy and as what custo
mers report.
! For sale by all dealers. Price soc
Foster-Milburn company, Buffalo, N. Y.
sole agents for the United States.
Remember the name-Doans-
take no other.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-18
Rh eNn atiSm
We Want Every Rheumatic Sufferer
to Test the New Rholoids Treat
ment at Our Expense.

To introduce the Rholoids treatment
for rheumatism in Rock Island a free
trial treatment will be mailed to those
sufferers sending their name and ad-
dress to The Rholoids company, Wash
ington, d. c.
Rholoids are especially desirable to
those who are prone to uric acid dis
cases from heredity, and those in de-
Ginning years whose method of life
makes them liable to govt ~and its
complications.
After using the sample and you
feel satisfied with the results, the reg
ular full size treatment can be secured
for 81 at Harper House pharmacy.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-18
New York Stocks.

New York, Feb. 1S.-Following are
the quotations ON the market today:
Gas S4A, U. P. 1917, U. S. Steel
preferred 911a. U. S. Steel common
27A. Reading "a, Rock Island common
II. Southern Pacific CTS, n. Y. Gen.
trail "a, Missouri Pacific "a, l.. & n.
$3.50, Shelters 567s, q. F. l. 17as, Can
adian Pacific 143, Illinois Central 1875,
Penna 111B. Erie 1334, c. e o. 26a4,
B. R. 7. 4015, B. & o. 777s, Atchison
GSA, Sugar 1G9. st. Paul 1917, Cop
per 4G, Republic Steel common Is,
Southern Ry 10B.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-18
MUNICIPAL MATTERS.

CITY Council Room. Rock Island, H..
Feb. Il, 19OS.-The council met in
regular session at 8 p. m, Mayor
Schaffer presiding and all the alder
men present.
The minutes of the last regular SEES
sion were read and approved.
Alderman Anderson from the finance
committee presented an ordinance,
which was considered and adopted by
unanimous vote, allowing labor pay
roll for week ending Feb. Is, as fol
lows:
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-18
DAVENPORT

Pleased Wlt1 Clty.-Capta1n Roalu [,
Amundsen, VINO lectured at the high !
school auditorium last evening, ex-
pressed himself as being more favora
bly, impressed with Davenport than
any city that he has yet visited in this
country. Captain Amundsen arrived
here Sunday, ana was the guest of e.
X. Putnam. He spent Sunday evening
with G. A. Ficke, going through Mr.
Ficke's Egypti@n and Mexican collec-
tions and those of other countries,
and yesterday at the Commercial club
he was the principal guest at a lunch
con given by Mr.. Putnam, among those
present being Colonel Frank f. Hobbs.
c. A. Ficke, Dr.. Henry Matthey, James
f. Lardner, J. J. Richardson, Henry
VOllmer, DR.. \. w. Elmer, ]. H. Pear
mann, f. P. Adler. Charles erik and
B. F. TillinghasU 1t was a very pleas
ant event, with no speeches. but a
very agreeable Willingness of Captain
Amundsen to answer the battery of
questions that vas turned upon him.
Injunction Case Dismissed.-The in
junction suit Of Mrs. Fannie Dale VS.
Harry Martens. ct al, being an action
to close the EldoradO saloon. was set
tied yesterday and dismissed at the
request of c. II. George. attorney for
Mrs. Dale. The dismissal was asked
for and granted by Judge Bollinger on
the representation that the saloon is
now being operated in strict compli-
ance with the mulct law. The defend
ants are to pay all costs.
Fire at Library.-For time during
the early part of Sunday night. the
public library building at Fourth and
Main street was threatened with de
struction by fire. Through the prompt
and efficient work of the fire depart
ment, however, the threatened calam-
ity was averted and the loss kept down
to nominal sum. this being estimated
by Fire Chief John Stoltcnberg be
tween $500 and $lOO. The blaze was
confined to the janitor's work room in
the basement but the whole building
was filled with smoke.
o.
Big Furniture House to CIose.-Tha
Davenport Furniture & Carpet com
pany it to quit business. The firm has
been in business for Is years, six years
of which they We're in the Renwick
building on BtGdy street it having
been built for their occupancy. After
two disastrous flies. the last of which
razed the building TO the ground, they
were compelled to seek a new lOca-
ton. which they did by buying out
right the then we'll known firm of y.
]. Smith G Son. 125-127 West Third
street, which for the past seven years
has been made famous by them as 4
furniture and carpet house, number
ing among their patrons the majority
of the families in Davenport and vi
entity. The members of the firm are:
II. l.. Huebott2r, president; F. G. Hen
igbaum vice president: \. Henigbaum.
secretary and w. J. Henig6aum treas
.urer.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-18

Obituary Rscord,-Charles Fuchs
died Sunday afternoon at his home
1861 West Third street, after about
a weeks illness, kidney trouble being
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-18
Keeping Open House.

Everybody is welcome when we feel
good; and we feel that way only when
our digestive organs are working
properly. DIR. Kings New Life Pills
regulate the action of stomach, liver
and bowels so perfectly one can't help
feeling good when he uses these pills.
rs cents at all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-18
THE MARKETS.

Chicago, Feb. 1S.-Following are the
market quotations today:
Wheat
Wheat. 91%, 90, 81. 91A.
July, IS, $50, S72s. IS.
September, S59s. S61s, S5as, sc.
Corn.
May, 591a, Co.'S. $685., coz.
July, 5S1s, 50, SIS, SO.
September, SLY. 5S1s, 57ss, 5Sss.
Oats.
May, 52l4, SPY, 50. 522s.
July, 45H. 454, 447s, 451s.
September, 371a, Jig. 81, 37H.
Pork.
May, 1870, 1140, 1127, 1877.
July, 11.65, 11.S0, 11.GO, 11.75.
Lard.
May, $50, 1877, $50, 7.37.
July, $50, 7.G0, $50, 7.G0.
Ribs.
May, Gao, Gas, Gao, Gas.
July, G.72, CTS, G.67, G.72.
Receipts today: Wheat, As: corn
10 OA'Sr ofO. ittSS, 1o,OVbs cattle, D,
500; sheep II 900.
Estimated receipts Wednesday
Wheat. "a; corn, GO; oats, 81; hogs, 40,
coo.
Hog market opened strong. Hogs
left over. 5000. Light, -4.1O@4.37
good heavy, 4.2O@445: mixed and
butchers. 4.15@442; rough heavy. 20
@425.
Cattle market opened steady.
Sheep market opened steady
Omaha hogs, 1900; cattle. $500
Kansas City hogs, 10000; cattle. 10.
eco.
Hog market closed steady. Light
4.10@4.40; coed heavy, 4.15@445;
mixed and butchers. 415@445; rough
heavy. 4150425.
Cattle market closed steady. Cows
and heifers. 1.S"@4.45; beevcs, $3.50
GOO; stockers and feeders. 2.70@4.75
Sheep market closed steady.
Northwestern receipts: Minneapo
lis-Today, 1879; last week, 243; last
year. 1903. Duluth-Today, 81; last
week, $50; last year, 172.
Export clearances wheat and flour
100000; corn, 2:5.0OO; oats, none.
Liverpool opening cables-Wheat x
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-18
LOCAL MARKET CONDITIONS.
Today's Quotations on Provisions, Live
Stock Feed and Fuel.

Today's Quotations on Provisions, Live
Stock Feed and Fuel.
Rock Island, Feb. 1S.-FolloWing are
the wholesale quotations on the market
today:
Provisions and Produce.
Eggs-Fresh, 23c
Live Poultry-Spring chickens, SC
per pound; hens, per pound. &c; ducks.
per pound, s to &c; turkeys per pound
14c; geese per pound SC.
Butter-Dairy, &c to &c.
Lard-10c
Vegetables - Potatoes, soc; onions.
S1.O0.
Live Stock.
Hogs-s3.75 to s4.15.
STRENGTHENING or over. $500 to
$500; lambs, $3.50 to $6.75.
CattIe-Steers $3.50 to $3.50; cows
and heifers $500 to $500; calves, $500
TO $3.50
Feed and Fuel.
Grain-Corn Coo: oats 4Sc to soc.
Forage-Timothy hay, 81 to $13;
prairie, $500 to $11.00; clover, $1,000
to S11.00; straw, 5000.
Woodland, per load, $500 to $3.50.
Coal-Lump per bushel 13c to 14c;
slack per bushel &c to &c.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-18

lower, corn IS lower.
Liverpool clOsed-Wheat 212 to %
lower, corn / d. lower.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-18
Touch the Bell for the Box

Your health is safe with a box of
Beecham's Pills at hand. Taken at the
beginning of any stomach or bowel
complaint, or any sick condition caused
by weak digestion, constipation, bilious
ness or overwork, Beecham's Pills
give speedy relief and prevent these
troubles from becoming serious.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-18
SILVIS.

The Silvis Business Mems club met
Friday evening. Mr.. Parrot will lead
the discussion at the next meeting.
The Silvis public school is to give
a box sociable Wednesday evening,
Feb. 10, to raise money for the piano
fund.
II. p. Banks is slowly recovering
from a case of pneumonia
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-18

= dir d SuCCCSS.-A SuCSSSS III Sh-
cry respect was the Eagles baZar |
held at Turner hall Saturday after
noon and evening. From 2:3O o'clock
in the afternoon until II O'Clock at
night people visited the hall, and it is
estimated that at least 1000 were in
attendance.
Will Have an Airdome.-As soon as
the Moline closes for the summer, an
will be opened under the
of William Donald and
will continue through the summer
with stock companies and vaudeville.
The airdome will play every evening
until the Moline is again ready for
business. This will probably mean
from June l to Sept. l. Mr.. Donald is
now engaged in seeking site for the
proposed building. He has as yet been
unable to secure anything in the heart
of the city and may have to place the
theater somewhat out of the down
town district.
Is to be a Show Boat.-The old
steamer Moline has been heard from.
Everyone remembers the old steamer
which was used during the saw mill
days of Dimock, Gould & Co. The fol
lowing clipping from a dramatic paper
shows what it is being used for now:
The Emerson Floating palace is in
winter quarters at Point Pleasant, w.
Va, where both boats are being over
hauled and put in shape for the sum-
mer business. Captain Emerson's new
purchase, the steamer Moline, is the
most powerful and biggest steamboat
now towing show boat. Manager
Emerson has arranged to place Hump
ty Dumpty' again on a larger and
grander scale than ever before. The
season opens April l."
Pearson kIingberg.-J John Pearson
and Miss Selma Klingberg were united
in marriage i'll the Swedish Lutheran
parsonage, Rev. l.. A. Johnston officia-
ting, at p. m. Saturday. Mr.. Pearson
is body maker in the White Carriage
works in Rock Island. The young peo-
| pie were attended by Albert Nylander
and Miss Alice Melin. They will live
at 1880 Eieventh-and-a-half avenue.
Peepine Tom Reported.-Just as
Miss Marion Williams and Miss Lind
say-Oliver were about to retire late
Saturday night. one of the ladies no
ticed the figure of a man outside near
the southeast window of the residence
Thinking it was some late pedestrian
taking a short cut through the prem
ises, Miss Williams tapped on the
window above, intending to order him
off The fellow instantly darted around
the east side of the house and under
a ladder he had placed against the
front porch. Ernest r. Williams was
jquickly aroused, and he tracked the
footprints of the prOwler from thu
back yard, where he had got the lad
der, to the front of the house, where
he disappeared. The police were no
titled, and the personal appearance OF
the man is remembered This is no
the first annoying thing of the kline
that has occurred recently in thi:
InCighborhood.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-18

Beecham's Pills are an old and depend
able remedy for most OF the common
ills of life. Keep box in the house,
another at the Office. Take them with
you when visiting or travelling, and
you will have a reliable doctor always
within call, whether on boat OF train,
in town or country.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-18

The best remedy known today for
all stomach troubles is Kodol, which
is guaranteed to give prompt relief.
1t is natural digestant: it digests
what You eat; it is pleasant to take.
Sold by all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-18

A Good Time is Assured.
Grand masquerade ball at Coal Val
ley, Feb. %. Come one, come all, and
have a good time
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-18

DeWitt's Carbolized Witch Hazel
Salve is especially good for piles.
Sold by all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-18

Reservoir acct .............. 80
Total 1872 II
Alderman Anderson from the finance
committee submitted an ordinance,
which was considered and adopted by
unanimous vote, allowing claims
against the several funds as follows:
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-18
MOLINE

Fair a Success.-A success in ev
cry respect was the Eagles bazaar
held at Turner hall Saturday after
noon and evening. From 2:3O o'clock
in the afternoon until II o'clock at
night people visited the hall, and it is
estimated that at least 1000 We're in
attendance.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-18

Liverpool opening cables-wheat Il
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-04-18
Two hearn Stories.

FROM the new YORK sun.
"Lafcadio Hearn, that wonderful
writer worked on newspapers In his
youth" said publisher, "and the ruth,
less way his studies were changed, cut
and butchered, was great woe to his,
heart.
I'm after years Hearn took a ma
licious joy In collecting stories about
editors--editors and their superior and
omniscient way with manuscript.
zone of his stories was of an editor
to whom a subscriber said:
81 enjoyed that poem on the three
ages of man In today's paper, Mr..
Sheers; ! enjoyed 1t immensely. Do you
know, though, thought ii was orig
inally written the seven ages of man.?
So 1t was, sir; so IT was said Ed
itor Sheers, pompously. Yes, the ex-
>ract was originally written the seven
lges of man, but / had TO cut it down
Ror the lack OF space
Another story concerned a weather
report. A reporter, discussing the
weather, wrote that winter still ling
cred in the lap of spring.
The editor as he read over the ar
ticle, called the reporter to his desk
and told him that ne would cut out
that sentence about winter lingering
in springs lap. He said the idea was
good enough, and all that sort of thing,
but it would not do to publish be-
cause the high moral tone of the paper
had to be maintained in town full Of
school girls"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-04-18
CHAIRMAN w. c. COOK
CALLS THE CONVENTION

State Chairman w. G. Cook called the
republican state convention to order In
the city auditorium at 1919 o'clock.
After invocation by Rev. Frederick
Long. of Huron. the call was read by
Secretary Wingfield, of the state com
mittee. G. II. Dillon nominated for
temporary chairman MCNulty. of Rob
erts county. .. l.. RouCk, OF Grant,
nominated S. II. Elrod. of Clark. On
this occurred the first test of strength
between the factions. The vote stood,
McNulty 266ia, Elrod 2222. The only
change from the expected vote was in
Hamlin, which went solid 10 the stall
warts instead of giving four to the pro-
gressives, and in Sphinx, which voted
solidly for McNulty. whereas II was
expected To divide evenly. The result
was wildly cheered by the progressives.
Mr.. McNulty expressed thanks and de-
livered a short address of tribute TO
the party.
Mir. Sweeney, Of Lyman, was chosen
for temporary secretary. Fl. p Pack
ard moved the appointment of a COM
mittee of nine on credentials A. W.
Wilmarth. OF Huron, nine on resolu-
tions: Senator Byrne. Of Faulkton, nine
on rules and order. and F. d. Wickes,
of Bon Homme. nine on organization,
and all motions carried.
When this was done some stalwart
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1908-04-18

came up and with gentle strength
transported me, under Mistress Annes
directions, to queer looking wide
beamed boat which lay almost along
side. She was more like huge Thames
barge than anything else, for she drew
little water, but had a great expanse
of sail when all was set. There was
large deckhouse, gay with paint ana
as clean as 1t could be, and in a COM
partment at one end of this which
seemed to be assigned to our party,
/ was soon comfortably settled.
Exhausted as j was by the excite
ment of sitting up and being moved,
knew little OF what passed about me
for the next two days and remember
less. / slept and ate and sometimes
awoke to wonder where l was. But
the meals and the vague attempts at
thought made scarcely more impression
on my mind than the sleep. Yet all
the while / was gaining strength rapid
ly, my youth and health standing me
in good stead. The wound in my head,
which had caused great loss of blood,
healed all one way, as we say in
Warwickshire, and about noon on the
second day after leaving bort l was
well enough to reach the deck unas-
sisted and sit in the sunshine on pile
of rugs which Mistress Anne, my con-
stant nurse, had laid for me in cor
ner sheltered from the wind.
Fortunately the weather was mild
and warm, and the sunshine fell bright
ly on the wide river and the wider
plain of pasture which stretched away
on either side of the horizon, dotted
here and there only by a windmill, a
farmhouse, the steeple Of "A church, the
brown sails of barge or at most
broken by a low dixie or a line of sand
dunes. All was open, free; all was
largeness, space and distance. / gazed
astonished. The husband and wife, who
were pacing the deck forward, came
to me. He noticed the wondering looks
l cast round. This is new to you?'
he said, smiling.
quite, quite new" / answered. Il
never imagined anything so fiat and
yet in its way so beautiful"
You do not know Lincolnshire"
No"
"Ah, that is my native county" he
answered. 1T Is much like this. But
you are better, and you can talk again.
Now, l and my wife have been dis