Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-07-24
t with her sister. Mrs. James o'Mor.

it with her sister, Mrs. James O'Mor-
row.
Mrs. W. r. Wells entertained a COM
pany of young ladies at her home Sat
urday in honor of her neice Miss Fran
ces Dool of Winfield, Iowa, and Mrs.
u. w. Keyes of Trenton, Mich. The
company was entertained with vocal
and instrumental selections by num-
Der of the guests. Light refreshments
were served.
Mrs. T. S. Henderson of Rio came
Saturday to visit her son, Harvey
Henderson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Swank, daugh-
ter Miss Lena, and Lawrence Kron-
sted of Galva and Master Joe Swank
and little sister, Mandaline of Toulon
who have been guests at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Egbert near Mil
lersberg returned to their home We'd
nesday.
Mr.. and Mrs B. F. Cullison went to
Burlington, Iowa, Tuesday.
Miss Rilla Bowers went to Moline
Monday where she will be a guest at
the home of Rev. d. L. Leland.
Miss Lydia Taylor spent Saturday
with friends in Rock Island.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Accord and fam
lily have moved from New Boston and
are living in the Mrs. Gilbert Palmer
property. Mr.. Accord is working for
the Times-Record company.
Preparations for the sixty-first an
nual Mercer county fair are now being
made. Indications assure the officers
that the 1914 Mercer county fair will
be the greatest horse, cattle, sheep and
swine show ever made upon the
ground. The increased premiums in
the draft horse classes are bringing in
many new entries. Already many
stalls and pens have been engaged.
The greatest improvement 20 be made
on the fair ground this year will be the
erection of an administration building.
Manager J. L. Buckley of the CONT
mental Brick company has donated suf-
ficien. Hy-Tex bricks for this building
which will occupy a space of 1Sx3S
feet. 1t will be entirely fireproof and
will be built of the finest and most
novel facing brick manufactured by
this company The building will be
located just northeast of central hall.
]. II. Harvey has donated his services
other Improvement which will be great
ly appreciated by the public consists
of wide comfortable seats which are
being arranged in the maple grove east
of the booths. A new provision which
will be welcomed by the stock men. is
a new hay and feed barn where hay
and feed will be sold to the exhibitors
of live stock by the agricultural So
ciety.
Mrs. Alden Swanson, who has been
visiting here with Mr.. and Mrs. ] A.
Olson, left Saturday for her home in
Kansas City.
Misses Marie Morrison and Elsie
Bergland were Rock Island visitors
Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. !. Gordon of Chi
cago, who have been visiting here
with Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Vale went
to Woodruff Saturday to visit with
friends before returning home.
Mrs. George Morey and two chill
dren went to Viola Wednesday to
spend the day with her mother, Mrs.
T. r. Bolt
Miss Helen Carroll left Wednesday
for Grand Haven, Mich, where she
will make an extended visit with her
sister, Mrs. r w. King. She will visit
her brothers Charles and Carlisle Car
roll in Chicago before returning home.
Miss Alice Hurston went to Sherrard
Monday, where she will spend a few
days at the home of Mrs. Fred Beck.
Mrs. NJ. J. Meek and daughters,
Misses Mamie and Angelina of Gar
net, Kans., who have been visiting
their daughter and sister Mrs. A. F.
Runborn, went to Keithsburg Satur-
day to visit Mrs. Horace Hughes.
Mrs. Charles Weeks. who has been
visiting her parents Mr.. and Mrs.
Isaac Close, returned to her home in
New Boston Saturday.
Mrs. Alex Macarthur left Monday for
winona Lake, Ind, where she will at
tend Chautauqua and visit her daugh-
ter Miss Helen Macarthur. who has
charge of the Children's hour at the
chautauqua this week. Miss Helen be-
gan work in April and has made tour
the south and is meeting with
excellent success. In every city in
which she has conducted her work
the press has spoken very highly of
her work with the children which con-
sists of one hour in the morning spent