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& THE AEGU8, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1903 THE WEATHER Generally fair tonight and Friday; colder tonight. J. M. SHERIEK, Observer. Temperature At 7 a. m. 35; at 2:30 p. m. 3i. CITY CHAT. Zazaro. Union cigar. Leaf lard at Gilmore's. For insurance, E. J. Burns. Buy a home of Beidy Bros. Signet liat pins at .J. Iiamser's. Tri-City Towel Supply company. For bus, baggage, express, call Bobb's. For real estate and insurance, E. J. Burns. Prices away down this week at Miss Byrnes'. A nice line of opera glasses at J. Iiamser's. ,T. IJamser has received another lot of umbrellas. Fmbrellas and canes, an elegant line, at .J. Iiamser's. Cigars, cigars, cigars. The Smoker, llildebrandt & Cash. Open ihis evening, Simon Lewi.-,' re tail lienor department. Novelties in gentlemen's fancy vests. Bosentield Tailoring company. Gentlemen's high grade tailoring. Bosenlield Tailoring company. Big time at the Triangle skating park tomorrow, Good skating. All kinds of coal for sale at the Bock Island Lumber company. Fanc.v Delaware Lolly am ever preen wreathes at Passig Bros. A choice line of children's hats at reduced prices at Miss P.yrnes". A choice hat from Miss Byrnes" makes a nice Christmas present. Company A will give a dance Christ inas night. Admission. 27 cents. Good coal, coal, coal, at Mueller Lumber company's. Both telephones. For tin and furnace work, see II. T Siemon, 1526 Fourth avenue, union 2S3. Attend the dance tomorrow night given b Company A at Armory hall. Special reductions on pipes, tonight i nly. The Smoker, llildebrandt i. Cash. Dr. P. F. Purdue, lTlf.'s Second ave nue. Old "phone at ouiee and resi dence. Company A gives its dance tomor row night at Armory hall. Admission. :i: cents. K)-eent candies, four pounds for " cents, from to 10 this evening, at Wcekel's. All toys will be sol.l regardless of 'cost this evening at the Chicago De partment store. Plenty of nicely dressed turkeys, chickens, ducks and geese at Hess Bros', this evening. Vi.-it the Sim ker for cigars, pipes, and everything in smokers" supplies. Mil b-bini'idt & Cash. The stage of water was s.'.io at a. in. and S.f",.-, at noon. The tempera ture :it noon was The doll contest closes at s::; lids 'veiling at Ihe Chicago Department store. Mil Third avenue. Trunks called for. repaired and re lumed by the Trunk Factory. 220 Brady street. Davenport. Mrs. Austin says: "My buckwheat cakes will please yon. if you love the good old-fashioned thivor." The Afternoon club will give a dance Christmas afternoon at 2::i0 at Ar mory hall. Admission, '.'" cents. For the rtnl good old buckwheat flavor, buy Mrs. Austin's buckwheat, and Ion"t forget the name. The regular meeting f Court of Honor. No. I!l. has been postponed until next Tuesday evening. Dee. 2!., All kinds of coal at all times. Tri City Transfer & Fuel company, 21". Twentieth street. Prompt delivery. We are (dosing out our ladies shirt w aist vest i tigs at one-half regular price. Ilosonfioh! Tailoring company. Simon Lewis will keep keep his re tail Iitpn.r department open this even ing for the accommodation of his pn 1 reus. .lohn Mad lock and Miss Allie Keed (colored) were married at 2 o'clock this afternoon by Magistrate G. A. Johnson. The Ojiiilt disposed of yesterday by the Ladies Industrial clubof'the Fra ternal Tribunes was won by Mrs. Hen ry Kramer. The regular meeting of the Daugh ters of the Revolution, which was to have been held Sept. 2tl. is postponed until dan. 2. Gaetjer makes it. Imperial German mustard. At all grocers and meat markets. Connoissem's pronounce it line. Try a buttle. Turkeys, ducks, geese, dressed rabbit.-, oysters, celery, pork tenderloin, spare ribs sind all kinds of choice meats at Schindlcr's. Drop' in at Simon Lewis retail li quor department this evening on your way home and buy a bottle of choice wine for your Christinas table. Magistrate G. A. Johnson at his of fice yesterday officiated at the mar riage of Cyrus M. Jacobs and Mrs. Carrie Kifert, of DeWitt. Iowa. . Travel over the Bock Island bridge yesterday was as follows: Foot, north 1.101, south LOSS; teams, north f.s:t. south 078; street cars, north 120. south 12S. Camp lo30 drill team has made ar rangements to give a grand Christmas ball Christinas night, Dec. 25, at Indus trial hall. Music by Bleuer's orches tra. Tickets, 50. cents. The funeral of J. E. Spencer will occur at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning at his late residence on Twentieth street. Bevs. K. 15. Williams and II. G. Peaiee will conduct the services. A meeting of stationary firemen will be held at Industrial hall Saturday ev ening. Dee. 20, for the purpose of forming an organization. All station ary firemen are invited to be present. The remains of Charles Wulff, who died at Las Vegas, N. M.. will arrive in the city tonight, and the funeral will take place at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon from Knox's undertaking rooms. Adair Pleasants, referee in bank ruptcy, has appointed J. D. Metzgar, of Moline. trustee, representing the creditors of J. W. Warr. the default ing Moline publisher and building as sociation official. The will of Mrs. Louisa Thorsa nder, of Moline. filed ..in the county court yesterday, bequeathes all her posses sions to her husband, John Magnus Thorsander. who is appointed execu tor without bond. W. C. Maucker and James Mulcahy, composing the Lilac Forty-five club, newly organized, received their trim mings last evening at the hands of Messrs. O'Connor and Ainsvvorth, of the Laurel Forty-five club. Dana Xieewander, of Andalusia, ap peared in the county court yesterday and furnished $100 bond pending a hearing on a charge of larceny. He is accused of the theft of live pairs of gloves, the property of I'd ward Kelly. Buy your Christmas wines and li quors at A. 11. Liitt's retail liquor store, corner Third avenue and Eigh teenth street. Everything under the head of spirituous liquors sold in s?nall quantities at wholesale prices. Goods delivered to any part of the city. Open evenings. When buying your liquors for Christ mas do not torget the jeystone sa loon. 2.":!ii Fifth avenue. It has a rec ord of :ir years for giving v oil the largest quantity and best quality of liquor for your money, and I am keeping- up its reputation. Come and see me. J. G. Warner. Herman Schael started at 0 o'clock this morning on his 40-hour walk. which will terminate at 10 o'clock to me rrow night. If he holds out for that period he will break the world's record. He is walking on Twenty sixth street, between Fifth and Sixth avenues. He is alb wed 15 minutes for meals, but must eat in the pen. A 'i Iph Gurgn came down from Mo bile this morning ticketed for a 15 day sentence at the county jail, lie was found in the basement of the Mo line jail building last night trying to pass through the bars to the prison ers a quart bottle of liquor to cheer them over Christmas. Gurgn is thought to have had another quart under his belt. The folks (Town at McKinley chapel. Tenth street and Sixth avenue, are go ing to have a tine Christmas, and they want all their white friends to come out and join them in their celebration, and thereby swell the fund that is be ing raised to reduce the indebtedness that still hangs on the church. Dinner will be served at the church at 11 o'clock, there will be supper at 0 o'clock, and a concert in the evening. The meals will cost 25 cents each and the entertainment 10 cents. Peoria Journal: Pending the arri val of news as to Peoria's chances in the Central league, there 4s talk of Ihe revival of the city league in baseball. At the meeting' of the K. P.. A. club at their rooms last night, steps were ta ken looking to the formation of a club. The folovviug committee was appoint ed: William Lauren, William M. Kin r.e.v and Frank Fox. This committee will confer with the representatives of the other athletic associations in the city relative to the formation of a dty league. inln iiiWfcJbii.'o"' IE BIG CUT IN FRUITS At Frank Campuna'x. Kits Serontl Avenue, Next Door tu lien Itrothern. I!annuus by the bunch, from 50c up. Hauanas by the do.en, 5c, 10c, and two dozen for 25e. Fine oranges, two dozen for 25e. (Jet your fruits for Christmas here. Fight Will l Hitter. Those who will persist in (dosing their ears against the continual rec ommendation of Dr. King's New Dis covery for Consumption, will have a long and bitter fight with their trou bles, if not ended earlier by fatal termination. Bead what T. B. Ben 11, of Beall, Miss., has to say: "Last fall my wife had every -symptom of con sumption. She took Dr. King's New Discovery after everything else had failed. Improvement came at once and four bottles entirely cured her." Guaranteed by Hartz & UHemeyer, druggists. Price, 50 cents and $1. Trial bottles free. Illlioim Colic Prevented. Take a double dose of Chamber lain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea llemcdy as soon as the first indica tion of the disease appears and a threatened attack may be 'warded off. Hundreds of people use the remedy in this way with perfect success. For sale by all druggists. lie Uolck Not a minute should be lost when a child shows symptoms of croup. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy given as soon as the child becomes hoarse, or even after the croupy cough appears, will prevent the attack. It never fails, and is pleasant and safe to take. For sale by all druggists. Subscribe for The Argus. O 4r WI 11 (Closed! 0it 1 Kl s log at a r fn o Serf hsa iL 11 o To 3 EE jet. mrimmmm poipinjir fm .fa . i fi'4ti ; ARNOLD AND WHEELER ARE HELD TO THE GRAND JURY The offense with which they are charged having been committed in this city. Charles Arnold and Klnier Wheeler, charged by the Bock Island road with obtaining money by false pretenses, were given a preliminary healing before Magi-t rate G. A. John son at H o'clock. ISoth waived exam ination and were held to the grand jury in bonds of $1,000. l'.oth went to the county jail in default of security. Arnold was storekeeper at the Hock l-land road's shops in Davenport, and with the aid of Wheeler cashed fraud ulent time checks. ANDREWS A FREE MAN ;. lie Will Put In Ilia Time Cettins Stjunre and Preventing L.e:il Kn tantieme lit. IMroir. Dee. 24. Accompanied by r-is attorney and s'ver.il newspaper men, Frank C Andrews, former vice president of the wrecked City Savings bank, of this city, who was released from Jackson prison on parole, after serving one year ntid four months of his lif teen-year sentence, arrived in Detroit. He went immediately to his homo. In a brief statement of his in teniions Andrews said: "My tiist care will be to clear up the tiresome con troversies and end the leirnl laughs and bring a stop to law roccrdiiig.-. the continued publicity of which is placing the banking institutions of De troit im a bad light all over the corn try and injuring the commercial in terests of the town. "I'll work night anil day until 1 have paid every penny I owe. It is the am bition of my life now to bring about that day when Governor Bliss, who has lu'en like a father to iue. will take my hand and say tome: "Frank, you have justified my hopes and my confident e in you; I am proud of my action in un locking the gntct of prison to you. I go out equipped with good health, energy, experience and youth." Fatally Shot .y a Crazy Mrother. Bushville. Intl.. Dec. 24. Louis I'roekmier, aged 'S2 years, of Milroy. was probably fatally shot while de fending his mother against the murder ous intentions of a temporarily de ranged brother, William Brock mior, aged :;o years. The demented P.rock nuer wanted to shoot his mother, when Louis grappled with him and was shot In the mouth. The deranged man. with the aid of his brother Gustavo, then made Ji is escape .into Decatur county. Still Wclfomlnc tlin Krlrie. Dunbar, Scotland, Dec. "M. The town council at Brox mouth jtirk pre sented an address of welcome enclosed in a silver casket to the Duke and Duchess of Roxburgh, and. the trades men gave them a handsome clock as a wedding present. The duke hearti ly thanked the representatives of the donors and expressed the gratitude of himself and the duchess for the splen did welcome. War Against the Omaha Tiger. Omaha, Neb.. Dee. 24. On applica tion of I. J. Dunn and L. I. Abbott Judge Estelle, in the district court, has Issued a writ of mandamus direct ed to Mayor Moores and Chief of Police Donahue, commanding them to enforeo the law against gambling In the city of Omaha. The writ is the result of a crusade against pool rooms. SCHOOLS OF CITY CLOSED: EXERCISES BY PUPILS Santa Clan.- niaoe the rt lines cf ike public schools in this city this morn ing and left candies and presents for the young foiks. At noon the schools were closed for the Christmas vaca tion, which is to end Jan. 4. There were upproptiate exercises the last hour of the morning session at all the buildings. Lincoln, sehi'o!. eighth grade. Miss Wakefield, teacher: Christ ma s Cn rof - - School. Christmas Angel- Margery Head. Letter to Santa Clans Kmil Thie s e n . Song, "Holy Light" -S, hot.!. Miss Hester's Stdli-h Christinas Mary Paul. Cheerful Yi n t er M aenis Hirst. Sounds f Kv cuing--School. I'ersis Mary".- Chri-tmas Tree Kst her I Jin ke more. Lincoln school. Miss ilodorick's room: Headings by bichard Carter. Anna I'.vagdon. Marin :a Huberts, Marie Kil lilea, lit ger Gruhcr. lici t ( )hlvv oiler. Lyman Wi id and IM Guyor. and a rec itation by J( 1 la II urdle. Line In school, eighth grade. Miss Philp teacher: Reading of minutes by secretary Howard McCa ndle-s. Address f presi lent Herbert Drack. Cai nival of the Months --Twelve boys and girls. Ileeit a t ion, an Laslorn Legend My ra I'dunrds. Heading. Christinas A nge I i I lis Howard. Ilccitation. Christmas F.v erv where Phil Weber. Song. I'.rightest ami I'.est Grace (Jiaves. Jessie Vim Arsdo!. Josephine Drack. Gertrude Deck. Ida Mu-ler. Heading. Christmas I'ells - Koliert Feasor. Selection fii.ni Hen llur Vcrnie Bi .'nkerhotV. St ng. Christmas ( 'and School. Heading. Little Tim's Chrislmas Members of school. Song. Kvciiing I '.el Is - Sehot :. The week has been a very busy one at the Grant school for the pupils anil teachers, lessons and industrial work being planned so that the Christmas spirit was kepi prominent. Thursday morning the pupils of the building as sembled in the fourth grade room ant! listened to a program of songs and -EYE Neuropil thy and Ophthalmology, Kyo-St rain as it is called (more cor rectly, Nerve-Strain), is responsible for voui" Headache. Constipation, Indigestion, Piles. Pits. Cross-K e-. Chorea, and all FEMALE DISORDERS. IF YOU WEAR GLASSES It is posilrve proof that they are not the kind ou nee:!, and if you have Headache, and don't wear glasses, there is no ouestion but what it is caused by Nerve-Si rain, ami to remove the strain will as certainly cure it if Viiii have t'he right correction. The McCorniick System of Ophthalmology is the only system which deals with the Causes of Human Ills ami how to aboiUh them and WK nre the representative of that system, and guarantee results as we promise. Yon can be Cl'KKD no doubt of it. Consultation Free. Suite 4, Mitchell .y Lvnde building. Hock Island, III. A. P. DAVIS, ML D. Oph. D. NLI'KOPATIIIST " AM) OPHTHALMOLOGIST Suite. -TJ, Mitchell & Lvnde building. Office hours 9 tn K' ni.; 2 to 5 p. m. recitations by cbil,!,t" of the third and 'fourth grades. Later all adjourn ed to the primary room, where an ap propriate program was rendered by first and second grade pupils. The hearts of all were made happy here bv a ( hri.-tmas tree, which was dec orated with gifls ihiit the children had made for their parents. Licensed to Wed. Henry I. McMakon Tbkilvva. Ill Mis-. Gertrude Spa nk ler. . . W v a net . Id Henry Weaver Hock Islam! Miss Alma Anderson Hock Island Cyril !. Frazior Moline Miss Daisy :. ires. .. .Clinton. Iowa Hcinhold C. Let. sell Watortown Miss I It -1 1 1 ;i 1 1 Hanisey Slauioit. Ya. Cyrus M. Jacobs DeWitt, Iowa Mrs. Carrie Kifcrt DeWitt. Iowa Hobert L. Homiiiist Chicago Miss Amelia J. A ndeir-oii Gcne-co Charles Madlock Hock Island Miss Allie Keed II, -ok Island Charles Messniore Hook lslantl Mrs. Hester llampstall. . . Hock Island Charles Burtcheanl Ilmk Island Miss I'.catrice M. I rvin . . . . Hock Dlantl G. W. Colehoiir '. Moline A. F. II. S. hreiber Moline Mrs. Anna M. Walker Moline Clinton K. Kineiii'l . Hock Island Miss Mary Stcinsi mm . . . -Coal Ya'.lev MIDWINTER TERM OF Browi's Business College Commences Morvdcvy, Jan. 5, 1904. New (dasses will be started in both departments. New students will 1m' enrolled in both day and night school. Our proposit in : 1. A position for every graduate. 2. A World's Fair Diploma, signed by the proper World's Fair officials to those whose work i-; accepte! for exhibition at the fair. A free trip to the World's Fair and expenses for at least two months to those who are selected to represent our school at the KIIOWN'S P.CSI.MISS COLL KG IS KX 11 1 I'll'. Write For ! Ilculatrt. Wilte For Free (Mt l-fl. W. L. READ, Principal. Whafs in a Name? Sometimes nothing. But there is a great deal in the name we have sclceled for our grocery which we have opened tn the people of HOCK ISLAND.' MO LINK. AND YICIXITY. To be KCONOMI V A L doesn't mea n 1 1 buy a cheap class of groceries at low prices. You are not saving nnv t hing by doing that, but VOl DO SW'K MONFY by buving here a. a few of our juices below will convince you. We have a new store and new stock.' Nothing old. K eryt hing of the best ipial'tv and our prices will soon make our store the most popular 'ratling center in the vVinity. A SAYING MADK ON F.YKIIY PCII "HASK. All we ask of you is t give us a trial. The lowness of our prices anil the high ijtiality of our goods will bring you back. Can't You See a Saving in These Prices? Pies t Granulated Sugar, 2 lbs '. Bars Santa Clans Soap Kgg-O-See and Yigor. .'I packages Northern Potatoes per bushel (Junker Ools. per package Standard Tomatoes. I! cans Standard Corn. .1 cans New York gallon apples 1.00 25c 25c 75c ...8c 25c 25c 25c Flour, b 1.10 American Beai.ty on the market, per sack Other brands as low in propor 1 ion. ArbiK kit 's. XXXX i- Lion ColVee. ier l:g Fancy X. Y. Apples, Greenings, I'liildwins and Xorthc: Spies, per peck Fancy Dairy B-.tter. 'r per pountl tttJ Strictly fresh egrgs tloen Gallon Peaches, per gallon .'.25c 27-c 25c Htcmembcr the PIclcc9 ft car Fosterif ice ECONOMY GROCERY 1515 Second Ave. Ol.l 'I'liuue I 30! R-ock Island Now Is The Time.... to paper your rooms. We have a large assortment of both eheap and high grade papers, which we are selling at the lowest prices in the city. We also have a large and complete force of workmen. All kinds of painting and papering promptly attended to and eatisfaetion guaran teed. PAR.IDON a SON. kenes Old Union ?13; new 6213. 419 Seventeenth St ;'6-