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# TOWN TOPICS.
The Kinship cigar.
Hard wood at McKown's.
Johnson and Lundin at Harper's theatre tonight.
Your brother smokes the Kinship cigar. Do you?
"Forget Me Not" by the Paiges at the theatre tonight.
Mrs. Harry Horne, of Washington, Iowa, is visiting her sister, Mes. J. F. Horne.
Lot $1 and $1.50 shirts, your choice 75 cents, slightly soiled. Stewart, the hatter.
Closing out new furniture at cost and less. C. F. Spicer, 410 West Second street, Davenport.
See Johnson and Lundin. the famous strong men, with the Paiges at Harper's theatre tonight.
Clint L. Cash leaves shortly for Nebraska to work in the interest of the Fraternal Tribunes as deputy state organizer.
See the great $50 contest at Harper's theatre tonight between Johnson and Lundin and Bob Fulsom-10, 20 and 30 cents.
Lincoln's birthday anniversary is being observed as a national holiday by the Rock Island banks, which have suspended for the day.
Go to Harper's theatre tonight, see the Paiges in the beautiful play, "Forget Me Not;" the great contest of strength, the new specialties and get a rocking chair. All for 10, 20 and 30 cents.
G. W. McCaskrin, F H Caldwell, Thomas Campbell, S. W. Heath and Eli Corbin atteaded the Tenth Congressional District Farmers' institute at Morrison as delegates from Rock Island county.
Rev. C. E. Taylor, J. J. Rosch, C. G Taylor and Miss Maud Mabie attended the semi-annual meeting of the Young People's Usion of the Rock Island Baptist association at Orion, yesterday.
The will of the late Ludwig Geisenhagen, of this city, has been probated in the county court. The testator leaves all his property to his wife, Sophia Geisenhagen, who is appointed executrix without bond.
John Workman and Miss Marths Reynolds, two well known young people of the lower end of Rock Island county, were married Feb. 8 in Muscative by Rev. S. H. Parvis, of the Presbyterian church. They will reside near Foster.
Bob Fulsom, an iron worker of Moline, well known as a local strong man, will endeavor to win the $50 offered by Johnson and Lundin. The contest will take place tonight at Harper's theatre between the acts of the play, "Forget Me Not."
The Keokuk Constitution-Democrat, in the interest of a movement on foot in that city to erect a Y. M. C. A. building, is publishing a series of cuts of representative structures in other cities. That of the Rock Island association building appeared in the issue of yesterday.
W. R Stirling, of Chicago, will deliver an address at Trinity church Sunday morning, Feb. 20, on "Wanted, Men." Mr. Stirling is a member of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew, whose object is the "spread of Christ's kingdom among young men." All who have been baptized in the Protestant Episcopal church are eligible to membership in the brotherhood.
Rev. R. G. Hobbs, of Jacksonville, who went to India with the ship load of corn for the famine sufferers, has returned home, and has been secured for a lecture Feb. 24 by the Epworth League of the First M. E. church. The lecture will be richly illustrated with stereopticon views covering the entire journey and showing the actual condition of the people of India.
Hon. Henry Sabin, state superintendent of public instruction of Iowa, lectured on "Horace Mann" at the High school last evening. He was greeted by a large audience of teachers and their friends, who found the lecture a highly instructive one.
Prof. John M. Finley, president of Knox college will give the last lecture in the teachers' lecture course. He will speak on "Domsei" of Ian McLaren's "Bonnie Briar Bush," to which will be given next month.
