Rock Island Argus., 1906-01-26
rest from the war department and will
rearrest the man,

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New SpirtuaIists' Organization. "A
NEW spiritualist organization. known as
the Metaphysical club of Davenport,
/ has been organized and charter Sc
cured from the State spiritualist asso-
| citation, with headquarters at Des
i Moinesl Every state in the union has
a similar society. all of which are affil-
lated with the National Spiritualists'
| association of the United States and
Canada The charter places the Dav
enport society upon an equal equality
with churches in order to reach the
philosophy of metaphysics and of the
occult. Mrs. Henderson, who has been
| the active agent in the formation OF
the society in this city, states that
many Spiritualists and Christian Scien-
fists have Joined the club in order that
they may read the periodicals of the
New Thought The Metaphysical
club has 81 charter members who meet
every Sunday afternoon AT Mrs Hen
derson's rooms in the South Putnam
building These meetings are free to
the putlic. "
All Roads Have Reduced Rates.
Beginning yesterday, the Burlington
and Milwaukee have a new freight
rate in effect for freight shipments be-
tween Davenport and Chicago, Peoria
and ST Louis This rate is made tc
conform with the rate prevailing in
Rock Island under the Illinois classifi
cation and means 20 per cent reduc-
ton to the shipper.
Closes Theater.-The Bijou theater
and saloon, located ON East Second
street, between Perry and Rock Island,
has been closed by Constable Rumsey
to satisfy a chattel mortgage given by
the proprietress, Mrs. Lucille Harring
ton, to Jack Mcfarland, from whom
she purchased the business last De
cember. The chattel mortgage was in
the sum of 5000. 1t was only last De-
cember that Mrs. Harrington purchas-
ed the theater and saloon but later de
velopments has shown ii to be bad
venture on her part Business became
so poor that the theatrical performan
ces were discontinued some weeks ago
and Mrs. Harrington was evidently an
ticipating trouble and the foreclosing
of the mortgage, for it is stated a large
amount of bottled goods were removed
from the saloon before the attachment
papers were served.
Hearing Murder Trial.-The jury in
the case of the state of Iowa VS.. VIII
liam II. Clarke, indicted for the murder
of Roy Sumner on Oct 20, 1905, at the
Illinois Central depot. Dubuque, has
been empaneled, the opening state
ments of the counsel on both sides
have been made to the jury, and yes
terday the introduction of the evidence
in the case began.
Goes to Iowa City.-Robert n. Car
son, assistant secretary of the Betten-
dorf Metal Wheel company, has made
business change which will take him
and Mrs. Carson to Iowa City next
| month, for permanent residence, a
change that will be regretted by the
many friends they have made in this
city.
Stands BY Big Nine.-The seminar
nual election of the Davenport High
School Athletic association took place
Wednesday afternoon in the high
school. The following officers were
elected to serve for the next semester:
| President, William Goenne; Vice Presi-
dent, Joe Brugman; Treasurer. George
Hinrichsen; Secretary, Herbert LATER
| ty Principal w. D. Wells suggested
that the policy of the Big Nine confer
ence be followed out. That is, to abol
ish football if the rules of the game
are not changed so that the evils are
done away with. This suggestion was
made motion by Mr.. Thatcher mo
ton to that effect was adopted