Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-02
YOUNG CELEBRATE
Boys and Girls Form Merry
Ncise- Making Halloween
Bands.
SOME OF FRANKS THEY PLAYED
Ohicer Mccarthy Takes a Header
While Giving Chase tn
Crowd.

Young America was out in force
Saturday evening TO celebrate Hal
Ioween While many remained in
doors and INDUCED in the old fashion
games that have for years marked the
observance of the festival, the more
strenuous organized into bands and
did stunts after the fashion of their
elders in the years gone by, with the
result that number of annoying
FRANKS were played. such as carting
away gates and vehicles. overturning
wood piles and the like. There were
no arrests, however, Chief Miller stat
ing that as a whole the Juvenile pop
ulaticn behaved exceedingly well.
Chief Miller intercepted a noisy
bunch of tots, boys and girls. on Fiji
tecnth street They were throwing
rice and corn at windows, hut were
doing no real harm apparently. The
chief told them it was time they were
in bed and in order to scare them a
little, said they were not allowed 70
throw corn and rice. We'll" spoke
up one of the girls, Il guess we can,
for our paps said we could" The
chief saw there was no chance for ar
Could Not Find Tick-taok.
Z Fourth ward citizen did not bat
an eve until after midnight and near
~ tore his hair out by the roots 50
perpleXed was he over his inability to
locate the operators of a tick-tack on
his house. The tapping was on the
front door. 1t began about o'clock.
He sneaked around from the side door
and was all prepared to spring upon
his prey and give him or them-he did
not care how many they were--a
beating they would never forget. But
there was no che in sight. He listen
ed. The tick-tack had stopped. He
chuckled. The boys were towards.
They had taken to their heels and
would bother him no more. He re-
turned to the house to tell his wife
that he certainly was there with the
buffalo. He sat down to read the pa
per- There was that noise again.
Once more he sneaked around the
house and once more he was dlsap-
pointed. He repeated this perform
ance no less than dozen times.
When he reached the front door step
the tapping would cease, only 20 be
resumed as soon as he got inside the
house and comfortably seated. He
feared he was going batty. So he tel
ephoned the poices They were mYs-
tilted. too. for the moment; but finally
chuckle was heard to emanate from
| the darkness on the other side of the
street Then there was a scratchy
noise as if small boy was rubbing
the front of his coat and trousers off
in an effort to make a rapid descent
from. tree. The mystery was solved
when the copper went to the other
side of the street and found a string
stretching from tree to the house
of trouble across the way. The string
was pegged above the doorway, and
arranged so that the tack could be
lifted up so that it could not be seen
by anyone from the porch unless the
whole works were lighted up. And
thus they worried their neighbor I'M
til they nearly drove him to distrac-
ticn.
Policeman Gets n Fall.
Officer Dennis Mccarthy was out
watching the boys Saturday night,
There was troublesome crowd hang
ing about the high school. They had
been up to mischief all evening and
the officer was determined to scatter
the crowd. So he struck up a lively
gait and was making excellent head
way when he suddenly took header
on the sidewalk, having failed to no.
tice rope that had been stretched
across his path. Dennis was bruised
in the shoulder and knee. Il did not
stop to look" he said. but I'll wager
1 made hole in the sidewalk" The
boys were still running at last ac-
counts, all wearing one of those
smiles that won't erase.
| Raise Ia Wheels.
j. ". Roche found one of his laun-
dry delivery wagons minus its wheels
yesterday morning. Three of the
wheels were found riding the tele-
phone wires between poles fronting
his place on Twelfth street, but the
| other pOuId not ha located