Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-02-03
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Little Ernest Eipper who has been
quite sick with pneumonia is some
what improved.
Mrs. Frank Marshall and little
daughter. Mildred, visited at Port By
ron Wednesday at the home Of her
parents. MI and Mrs. Charles Ash
down.
Mrs. Richard Ashdown is very III,
threatened with an attack of appendi-
citis.
Mrs. Robert Marshall who has been
quite III the past week is somewhat
improved.
Little Glenn Gerkin is recoveding
from an attack of the measles,
Miss Erna Lundeen has been il the
past week. and the pupils have been
having a vacation She has been at
her home in Rock Island.
There were no services at Bethel
church Sunday owing TO the rain and
stormy weather.
Miss Lille Gerkin has returned
home from Moline. where she has
been visiting friends the past week.
The many friends of Mr.. Grant OF
Port Byron. VIII be srieved to hear OF
his sudden death last Sunday at
p. m. heart trouble being the cause.
Il was a severe shock as he was about
dle house and had not complained OF
being ILL.,
William and Nathaniel PearsaH at
tended the funeral of the late Jerry
Bryan at Cordova. last Wednesday
William clipper received a car load
OF tile Thursday and VIII erect silo /
on his farm the coming summer
Miss Mabel Brant who submitted TO /
an operation for appendicitis at the .
Moline City hospital is getting along .
nicely Miss Myrtle Savage who uu-
derwent an operation for the same
trouble. was brought home last week,
and is now improving
Miss Ruth Biehlmier is quite i'll.
Anthony Fiilmer and Chauncey and
Merrill and Blair Trowbridge have re
'ent.y Joined the Hinsdale Military
oand. 1t now has 81 pieces and is
nicely.
The pupils and teacher are prepar-
ng for an entertainment at the En-
erprise school house. They will also
lave box social. the date to be an
bounced later.
Mrs. John Durbin and children
pent Saturday and Sunday with her {
mother. Mrs. Iautha Walker and fam I
y. s
The little son OF Jess Reynolds Is
eriously i'll with pneumonia.
A. 4. DIN left for Canton. New
-ork, where he viii visit with rela-
ives. He has been making his home
18th his daughter, Mrs Walter Sad
oris.
Miss Phoebe Pearsal has finished
er medical course and is now a grad
ate doctor, having received her di-
Iona. She is thinking of locating in
Ioline.
T. E. Schafer was called to Rock q
land to see his brother, Albert, who .
as severely hurt. He was somewhat ;,
improved when Mr. Schafer returned h
ONE the next evening h
The people of this vicinity were .
lrprised 70 learn of the sudden pass Ii
z of Jerry Bryan. death having oc- r,
lrred on the train while accompanied n
= Mrs. Bryan. He was on his way Il
New Mexico to see their son John. e.
no recently went there for his b
ealth. He was about so years of age. S
Id had been in poor health. The 1;
'dy was brought back to his home at
'rdova, where funeral services were ri
I'D last Wednesday. with burial in o.
e Cordova cemetery. h
Danvi'le. ul.-WnIis a. Van Frank. n
? 10 years division engineer on the d.
licago and Eastern Illinois railroad. il,
tween Chicago and Danville. includ- 70
3 the various branches between the M
70 cities. has retired from active
'rk He probably VIII go u Ca,ifor- s,
shortly in the hope of reclining 81
5 health. He resigned in December al
Il has hardy been at his office since r.
lristmas. James ". Hunter. enei- III
er of the Illinois and ST. Louis divi- ve
ons, succeeding Mr.. Van Frank. al