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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-03-13
PLANS ARE APPROVED
Executive Committee Accepts O..
n. Johnston's Theatre
Proposition.
SITE TO BE SELECTED SOON
Progress of the Ballot For the
Name--Moline Stirred BY
Success Here.
TIE TO BE SELECTED SOON

The plans and specifications pre-
sented by George H. Johnston, of
St. Louis, for the new theatre he pro-
poses to erect in Rock Island, pursu-
ant to his agreement contingent upon
the securing of an advance ticket sale
aggregating $4,000 for the first
nights performance, were ap-
proved by the general execu-
tive committee at the Rock
Island Club shortly after 6 o'clock
last evening. The committee went
over the details of the plans carefully.
as the subcommittee assigned for
that purpose had, with the assistance
of contractor and architect. who.
had given the committee the benefit
of their advice. during the day.
A number of changes were assented
to by Mr.. Johnston in order that the
theatre might be made as safe and
attractive as possible, and more i'm
posing exterior than had been origi-
naily designed was presented and
with some alterations suggested by
the committee was accepted. A reso-
luton was adopted setting forth as
the sense of the committee that the
plans and specifications call for a
building to represent $40. 600 exclu-
sive of the sight. The committee
was given the right to select opera
chairs for the parquet and balcony
from samples Mr.. Johnston is to pre-
sent. while the drop curtain and gem
eral interior decorations are to meet
with the committees approval. I'm
der these conditions the subcommittee
was instructed to sign the agreement
with Mr.. Johnston.
j. S. Leas, who had the honor of
closing the ticket sale by the sub
scription for the last two tickets, and
who had taken a great deal of interest
in the plans and specifications, was
upon motion added to the executive
committee.
Mr.. Johnston's Promise.
The formality of accepting the
plans having been Cdisposed of, it
only remains for Mr.. Johnston to Sc
lect his site and purchase his mater
ial. II want to say here, gentlemen,
said MIR. Johnston, after the plans had
been adopted, THAT you will all be
proud of the theatre and so will the
people of Rock Island generally. have
established reputation for theatre
and L do not propose to lose
it in Rock Island. You will have here
the best theatre in the state outside
of Chicago, and when | am through
here l will leave it to you to verify
this prophecy"
Mr. Johnston leaves for st. Louis
tonight. He will return as soon as
he can arrange to do SO to close up
the question of q site. He already
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-03-13
PERSONAL POINTS.

II. II. Cleaveland is in Chicago.
Mrs. H. II. Hosley is visiting in
Rockford.
Miss Elizabeth Harder is visiting in
Hampton.
Rev. c. 0. McCulloch left last night
for Minneapolis.
Miss Emma Lamont returned today
from 3-months' sojourn in Califor-
mia.
Mrs. AL Burton and daughter Mabel
returned last evening from Lewiston,
ILL.,. where they spent week visiting
relatives.
S. H. Sadler and Mrs. Hugh Cor
rance. of Dubuque, left for Spring
field this morning after short visit
at the home of John Kahlke.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-03-13
GOOD POSITIONS OFFERED
INu. 6. ENGINEER CORPS

Mi c. Med. Townsend has re-
ceived telegram from Gen. j. M.
Wilson, assistant chief of engineers
at Washington. stating that the rails
ing of the battalion of engineers to a
war strength is urgently necessary
and requesting him to use his efforts
Information in regard to the quail
fications required by the service may
be obtained on application at Maj.
Townsend's office.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-03-13
Moline wants Cheaper House.

Messrs. Johnston and Arthurs met
with the Moline Business Mems asso-
citation last night TO talk new thea
tire for that city. Mr.. Johnston Of
fered to duplicate the Rock. Island
playhous tor $l2,0 advance seat
sale. The Moline people, however,
felt that they did not need as fine a
theatre as Rock Island. and favored a
smaller seat sale. They believed a
house to cost about $50, 900 would do
their town. A mass meeting of Mo-
line business men will be held next
Tuesday night to further consider
Mr.. Johnston's proposition.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-03-13
Divorce Bill Filed .

Ella Nelson, of Moline, has file "a
bill of divorce in the circuit court al
leging desertion on the part of her
husband Barnard Nelson. She asks
the custody of their 6-year old
daughter and the privilege of resum-
ing her maiden name, Ella Froid.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-03-13
CARLSON REARRESTED:
BOND is WITHDRAWN

Oscar Carlson, who was arrested on
the charge of burglarizing Brown &
Christensen store in Moline, and
who was released on $500 bonds fur
nished by his father and John Wea-
yer. was rearrested by Sheriff Cralle
yesterday, his bondsmen having given
notice of withdrawing their security
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-03-13
Circuit Court.

The jury in the case Of Z. r. Nor
gan VS.. John l.. Bean went out this
morning and returned with a verdict
in favor of the defendant. A suit on
an account was then taken up, John
II. Gilmore, of Milan, seeking to re-
cover from Chris Hanson for bill
of goods purchased at the plaintiffs
store.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-03-13

Eucaline Toilet Powder will be ap-
preciated by mothers as well as every
one else who recognizes the value of a
first-class toilet preparation. Euca-
line Toilet Powder being thoroughly
antiseptic, promptly relieves chatting
and itching. making it very valuable
in the nursery as well as for general
toilet purposes. For sale by all drug
gists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-03-13
Arm Broken In Pulley.

Thomas Emanuel, employed in the
foundry department of the Rock Is
land Novelty works on Twenty-fourth
street, while working at an emery
wheel this morning, got caught in a
pulley, one of his arms being broken.
He was removed to his home in the
ambulance and attended by DR.. E M.
Sala
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-03-13
County Court.

A matter involving Max Hauberg
and the estate of the late Charles e..
Wheeler. of Moline, was patched up
in the county court yesterday without
coming to trial. About $4,000 was
involved.
This morning suit brought by
Beardsley & Bailey against Mrs. Mar
garet Murray was begun before a
iurV.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-03-13

Countrefeits of DeWitt's Witch
Hazel Salve are liable to cause blood
poisoning. Leave them alone. The
original has the name DeWitt's upon
the box and wrapper. 1t is harm
less and healing salye for skin dis
eases. Unequalled for piles. B. H.
Bieber and Hartz & Ulleneyer.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-12-13
PERSONALLY CONDUCTED
TOURS VIA PENNSYLVA-
MA RAILROAD.
SEASON OF I9oI-1oo2.

The Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany announces the following per
sonally-conducted tours for the sea
son Of I9OI-I9O2:
Mexico and California.-A forty
five day tour will leave New York,
Philadelphia, Harrisburg and Pitts
burg February II. The party will
travel over the entire route by the
Mexico and California Special, "
the finest train that crosses the con-
tinent.
Florida.-Three tours to lack
sonville will leave New York and
Philadelphia February 4 and IS,
and March 4. The first two of
these admits of a sojourn of two
weeks in the "Flowery State. "
Tickets for the third tour will be
good to return by regular trains
until May 81, 1902.
Tickets for the above tours will
be sold from principal points on the
Pennsylvania railroad. For de
tailed itineraries, giving rates and
full information, address Thos. f.
Watt, Passenger Agent Western
District, Pittsburg; B. Courlaen-
der, Jr., Passenger Agent Balti-
more District, Baltimore; c. Studs
Passenger Agent Southeastern Dis.
trict, Washington; or George w,
Boyd Assistant General Passenger
Agent, Philadelphia.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-12-13
MOVING WEST.

The boundary line on the west. where
slipshOd farming can no longer extort
a paying crop from the soil, may be
said to be the line which divides the
states of Ohio and Indiana. This line
is working farther west each year and
includes that territory where the ques-
ton of commercial fertilizers must be
considered if a good crop would be
raised. The states lying to the west
and northwest of this line. partly be-
cause of the greater wealth of native
fertility in the soil and partly because
the land has not been so long cultivat-
ed, are not becoming so rapidly impov-
erished. but their time will come wher-
ever the grain skinning process is in
practice. The use of clover and the
keeping of stock to consume the prod
ucts Of the land will head the evil day
off, and nothing else will.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-12-13

We note that there are always a few
men who raise good crops even when
any particular crop is rated as a gen.
eral failure, which goes to prove that
the agencies which bring about a
crop failure are. at least to some ex-
tent, under the control of man. For
instance, in this year of a short corn
crop. when many fields produced not
an ear of corn and others but a very
small return, in nearly every commune
ty will be found a few men who have
raised a good average crop of fifty
bushels an acre. The success of these
men and the failure of their neighbors
in growing a corn crop cannot be
wholly charged up to variations in
soil or climatic conditions. If the real
cause could be located. it would be
found that it was very closely allied
with the men themselves. and for this
reason, what these men who raised
good crops in a poor year may happen
to know about corn culture is worth a
great deal to their neighbors who failed.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-12-13

JSst 50 long as there are large sup
PHI, native forest to be drawn upon
in this country just so long will it be
difficult to associate any sort of finan-
cial reward with the important ques-
ton of forestry. The average Ameri-
can will seldom become interested in
any business unless there is money in
It for him. At anything like prevailing
prices for forest products the planting
of forests or even the caring for such
forests as are left offers little financial
reward for the man who does the
work. In the countries of the old world
the condition is different. for there al
most any product of the forest will
bring three or four times as much as it
will in this country. and the forests Of
France and Germany are so conducted
and cared for that they pay a fair re-
turn on the investment. While men
will be willing to plant trees for shade,
for fruit and for windbreaks. there
are but few who are willing to plant
forests for their grandchildren's bene-
fit
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-12-13
BUFFALO GRASS.

We are asked to say something about
the buffalo grass, the grass which
cures itself where it grows and affords
a most nutritious food all winter long
for the stock of the western ranges.
Analysis shows that in point of nu-
tritive value this grass is the equal of
sheaf oats pound for pound. 1t grows
only in the arid and semiarid belt and
depends largely for its feeding value
upon the fact that there is little or nc
rain to injure it after it natures
Wherever it grows, there the country
is too dry for general farming and
is alone sufficient notice not to pillow
the land upon which it grows. 1t car
be fed out by Overpasturing when its
place is usurped by worthless weeds
This grass cannot be acclimated il
any part of the Mississippi valley
where the rainfall exceeds ten inches
per annum.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-12-13
Resumption of Sunset Limited
Between New York PhiIadeI-
phia and San Francisco, Season
I9OI-I9O2.

Commencing November 3oth and
each Tuesday, Thursday and Sat
urday thereafter, the Washington
ard S )uthwestern limited, operated
daily between New York, Philadel-
phia and New Orleans, via the
Pennsylvania Railroad and South
ern Railway, leaving Philadelphia,
Broad Street Station, 6.55 p. M. ,
composed of Dining Pullman Draw
ing-room, Sleeping Observation and
Library cars, in addition will carry
special Sunset Limited Annex
Pullman Drawing-room Compart-
ment Sleeping car to connect with
the Sunset Limited operated be-
tween New Orleans and San Fran
cisco.
The celebrated trans-continental
service afforded by these luxurious
trains makes a trip to the Pacific
Coast not only very quick, but most
delightful.
Chas. L. Hopkins, District Pas
senger Agent Southern Railway,
SIS Chestnut street, Philadelphia,
will be pleased to furnish all infor.
nation.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-12-13

Jersey gloves and warm scotch
wool gloves, 25c and soc; good
heavy warm driving gloves, long
wrists, 75c, 81 and $I.5O.
HENS Wight Shirts.
Mems plain white and fancy
trimmed night shirts, soc, 75c and
81.
Umbrellas.
Any old things will do for a
rainy day, but for holiday gifts
something up-to-date, made right
is what is wanted. We have them
mems and women's an immense
assortment at extraordinary low
prices. Coralla cloth, taffeta silk
or gloria cloth-plain handles and
fancy handles-75c,$I,$I. 81. SC
| 81 ,S2.5 50 and s.. Children's school
umbrellas, soc, 75c and 81.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-12-13
.. M. 81 Y. Brar1cI1.
Worth read up.
DING South

At Georgetown trains connect with trains
and from Franklin City.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-12-13
THEY CRUSH THE POWERS

This is written in mid-October. The long,
oppressive summer is cutie gone. Fading
leaf, whitening tree and the rustling corn in
tie fields are signs Of the season. Fog,
frost, rain, snow,-they are coming. You
remember last winter; of 1900 and 1901.
The weather was cruel. Ali the thous-
ands it killed, and the hundreds of thous-
ands it MANNED ard crippled. Oh, the
rough grasp it laid on men at work, women
at home, and children in cribs and cradles.
Coughs that began before Thanksgiving
Day are racldng and tearing them still; yes,
and growing worse as they dig deeper into
the poor, tired throat md lungs. Many
were cured by using Benson's Porous Plas-
tiers. For the soothing and healing power
Ct these Plasters is wonderful. They con-
Ouer the complaints
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-12-13
WINTER PASTURES.

If you have let Il portion of the blue
grass pasture grow all summer and
kept the stock out of it, you have now
got winter pasture for the colts which
will just suit them. Six inches Of snow
win not hinder them from paving it
away and getting a square meal. and.
while their hair will grow long and
thick. roughing it outdoors in the win
try weather in this fashion. you will
have better horses when they are four
years old than if they had been pam
pered in a warm barn. The same gen.
eral rule applies to boys as well as
colts.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-12-13

J.R. HUTCHINSON, Gen, Manager
WOOD, Gen. Passenger Agent.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-12-13

good heavy cotton sox in blacks
or tans, I24c; very fine ones at 25c
Mems good heavy knit jackets,
81, SI.25, $50 and 81.
Boys underwear
Full line mems cuff buttons, col
lar buttons and scarf pins.
Come and see us, we can please
you and save you money.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-12-13
Rank Cashier stenIa s1oo. ono.

Los Angeles, Cal, Dec. 1O.-H. J.
Fleishman, cashier Of the Farmers
and Merchants Bank of this city, has
disappeared with a sum of the banks
money, which Vice President H. w.
Hellman estimates at 100000.
Fleishman has not been seen since 9
o'clock Saturday morning. He noti-
fed the bank people that he was ill
Saturday morning, and would not be
at his desk. Nothing was thought OF
the matter at the time. When he
failed to report yesterday his accounts
were examined and the shortage dis
covered
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-12-13
a mystery
rival in interest the
.ase developed yesterday,

rival in interest the
,ase developed yesterday,
Zen the unconscious form Of Mrs.
Ada Gilbert Dennis, widow of 40
years, one of the most prominent Of
Washingtons fashionable modistes,
was discovered in her room at III K
street, N. W., her skull fractured, her
law broken, and her body badly
bruised in several places. The entire
detective force of the city was turned
loose on the case, but as yet no clue
to the perpetrator has been found.
The general belief is that Mrs. Den
mis- was attacked while asleep in her
back room on the first floor, and that
the FIRST blow, in all probability ad-
4istered with the piano stool, which
: smeared with blood, rendered her
scious TIE preliminary inves-
by the police fail to indicate
was any struggle. Mrs.
onscious moment while
the hospital said that
hurt" her, but when
Is merely responded
hen found she was
0thes, and was in
ers An operation
was Jrmeu RS. Dennis at the
hospital yesterday ernoop,
The victim Of the assault remains
in very precarious condition a. the
hospital The physicians say she may
a,.gain consciousness, in which event
tits hoped she will say something that
will give the police something to work
upon. No arrests have yet been made.
The physicians hold out only slight
hope of the woman's recovery.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-12-13
THE CHARLESTON EXPOSE
TON.
REDUCED RATES VIA PENNSYLVA
MA RAILROAD.

During the continuance of the
South Carolina Inter State and
West-Indian Exposition, to be held
at Charleston, S. c., from Deem
Der to June I, the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company will sell excur-
sion tickets to Charleston and re-
turn from all points on its line at
reduced rates. These tickets will
be sold daily from November 30 to
May 81, and will be of two descrip-
tons: Season tickets, bearing final
limit of June 3, 1902, and eleven
day tickets, good to return within
eleven days, including date of sale,
but not good after June 3, 1902.
These tickets will not be good to
stop off en- route. For rates and
further particulars, apply to ticket
agents.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-12-13

1t does not take very big Office for
some men to imagine that the cOun-
try could not possibly get along with
out their valuable services. We have
known county supervisor to really
believe that the business of the county
would go all to pot unless he was re.
elected.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-12-13

A case occurred lately where a family
had tanned lot of gray squirrels and
they made the prettiest of pets for the
dOOryard. One day the man with
gun from town comes along and MUIR
ders-that's the right word-these lit
tie pets. What should be done to such
a man? 1t is little wonder that town
sports find the notice, NO Shooting AL
lowed" posted up ON so many farm
premises. We know of flock Of
quail which a man has almost domes-
ticated round his barnyards but the
chances are that some town pirate will
pot the whole flock at one shot some
day when he catches them punched
under the hazel brush back Of the barn.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-12-13

Many a boy has got his first induc-
ton into the real meanness of this old
world by having his dad sell a calf or
pig which the boy had had given him
and which he really thought he owned.
We do not know Of any one thing
which will start a boy wrong any
more surely than this.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-12-13

If man was able to work as hard in
Alabama as he is in Vermont or Min
nesota. what a showing he could make!
But he cannot. and invariably acquires
the ''let her go. Gallagher" habit for
which the climate of the south is alone
responsible whenever he goes from
Dakota to Texas.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-12-13
sutalo's Treasurer Reclaimed.

Buffalo, N. Y. Dec. 1O.-City Treas
urer Philip Guerst, who was suspend
ed by Mayor Diehl, pending an inves-
tigation Of the books of the city treas
urer's office, resigned yesterday. The
resignation will have no effect on the
proceedings against Guerst on charges
Of misuse of the city's money. He was
given hearing before the mayor to.
day.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-12-13

We never saw more prompt con-
nection between cause and effect than
a few days ago. A large gang of men
engaged upon a public building had
dropped their tools. taken off their
aprons and were well out of the ill.,
closure before the noon whistle had
stopped blowing
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-12-13
THAT ARE KILLIN0 THE People.

No other plaster, no other medicine or ap-
pication, can compare with them. Coughs,
colds, backache, rheumatism, lumbago,
kidney and liver troubles, asthma, infu-
enza,-they all go down before Benson's
Piasters like a snow image in the sun
You can't throw money away on a Benson's
Plaster. Everybody is going to use them
tins season. But make certain you get the
genuine. All druggists, or we will prepay
postage On any number ordered in the
United States on receipt of 25c. each.
Seabury & johnson, Mfg. Chemists, N Y.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-12-13

A West Virginia reader writes US that
instead of the farmer in that state fret
ting about the coons working in his
cOrnfeld he is only too glad to know
that they are, for a night coon hunt
In the cornfield and coon pot pie rep
resents pleasing feature Of West Vir-
gnia rural existence.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-12-13
Leased Land Fer Isthmian Canal.
Pennsy Makes Improvements.

Philadelphia, Dec. 1.-THE Penn
5ylvania Railroad company yesterday
awarded contracts for Improvements
involving an expenditure of more than
a million of dollars. The contracts
included the erection of a four track
stone arch bridge over the Raritan
river at New Brunswick, N. J., and a
new single-track tunnel through the
crest Of the Allegheny mountains at
7allitzin.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-12-13

The experiment stations assert that
aboat 40 per cent Of the nutritive value
of the corn plant is contained in the
stalk, but no farmer will ever realize
One-half Of this amount unless he puts
the corn into a silo.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-12-13

HOW THE CEDAR GROVE WAS
PLANTED.
A pioneer settler set out a grove Of
cottonwood trees on the prairie. and
near the house he set two or three red
cedars. AS the cedars grew they bore
seed, which the cedar birds gathered
from the trees in the winter time and
carried into the cottonwood grove to
eat. Many Of these seeds We're dropped
among the leaves, where they germi-
mated. and now the cottonwood grove
has been converted into fine grove Of
cpdnrS
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-12-13

Coroner's Verdict In Dale Poisoning.
Now York, Dec. 10-The coroner s
inquiry into the death Of Emmeline
Dale, the child of Elizabeth Howe
Dale, who is under arrest, charged
with poisoning was held in Hoboken
last night and resulted in a verdict OF
accidental death from poisoning.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-12-13
Sir Redvers Buffers Place.

Downes, the family seat of Sir Red
vers Butler. Lear Creditor. is one of the
most beautiful old places in Devonshirc
and at this moment has a special interest
attached to it, The house is filed with
trophies of Sir Redvers' many and varied
campaigns. and one Of the most interest
inc is a collection Of wonderful cloisonne
en0nels taken from the summer palace
at i'cking.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-12-13
Submarine Boat Sank.

New York, Dec. 1.-THE submarine
boat Fulton accidentally filed with
water and sank at her mornings at
the works OF the Holland company.
New Suffolk, L. I. Repairs were be.
ing made to the craft, and by over.
sight a valve was left open. It is
expected that the vessel will be float
ed undamaged.