Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-05-08
ALL ABOARD FOR
BOOSTER OUTING
Two Hundred Expected to
Make Trip With Business
Men Over E. I. S.
LEAVE CITY AT 8 O'CLOCK
Promptness Is EssentiaI-Three Big
Cars Coupled Together Will
Garry the Crowd.

Two hundred citizens of Rock Is
land, including nearly all the mem
bers of the Business Mems associa-
tion and others of the city's best
boosters, will leave at s o'clock to-
morrow morning on the first excur-
Islands advantages as a commercial
and manufacturing center.
Three OF the big passenger cars
OF the Rock Island Southern will
be coupled together and will be OPP
Grated as one, carrying the entire
crowd. The start will be made from
Fourth avenue and Second street.
The territory to be visited is the
district newly opened by the inter
urban between this city and Mon
mouth, including Aledo. The excur-
sion marks something Of an epoch
In Rock Island business enterprise.
MUST BE ON TIME
Please remember that the hour of
leaving will be 8 o'clock, not some
minutes later Better aim TO be on
hand at 1880 and avoid delays that
might prevent your getting out with
the other boosters. 1t will be abso-
lutely necessary TO start on time and
maintain the schedule in order to
do justice to the places to be visited.
Besides, punctuality will in this in
stance go a long way toward promot-
ing the main objects OF the trip, as
# will impress the people who have
assembled to greet the eXcursionists
with the latters disposition to
promptly fulfill contracts. 1t may be
added, should the excursion fail to
get away on time it would be held
back possibly an hour on account
of conflict with the time Of regular
trains on the same line. After be-
ing thus warned it VIII be your own
fault if you are left behind
COULDN'T GET BUSTERS.
The boosters will be fitted out
with canes and badges and Bleuer's
band will accompany them. 1t had
been voted to appear in linen busters
but the committee found that II
would be impossible TO secure 200
busters on such short notice, and so
this uniform" was abandoned
Souvenirs will be carried and other
advertising matter will be distribut-
ed in quantities. The Rock Island
daily press will distribute several
thousand copies each OF special edi- !
lions along the way.
Stopping a few minutes at each
station on the road, Monmouth at
the other end OF the line will be
reached about noon Here the To-
cal Retail Merchants association
will feast the visitors. the armory
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Two hours will be spent in the city. !
MONMOUTH COMMITTEE.
The following Monmouth citizens
have been delegated as reception |
committee and will meet the visitors !
at the station:
Mayor J. T. Moore, F. P.
Field, w. A. Sawyer, c. F.
Buck, z. B. Colwell. w. w. Nc
Cullough, H. r. Moffet, F. A.
Pinkerton, F. b. Hoft, p L.
Wray. J. n. Jayne, Eli Schloss,
w. II. Woods, Henry Stocks,
Colonel George Cary, 1. F. Dams,
W. P. Graham. F. o. Johnson,
c. f. Cornell, A. F. Newman.
]. w. Hays, Al Simon, D. w.
O'Conror. e. c. Hardin. II. A.
Johnson, r. r. Murdoch, P. J.
Iwig, John c. Allen, E. D.
Brady. Bruce Meek, D. Trun-
bull. o. 8 French, John s.
Brown. J. r. Hanna, E. A. Lord.
J. D. Difenbaugh. G. c. Hill
yer, DR.. A. G. Patton, G. NJ.
Lewis. Roy Newman, A. II.
Frandsen.
On the return trip AIedo will be
the only stop and the party will
reach nome shortly after 6 o'clock.
The schedule Of the trip is published
in full elsewhere in this issue.