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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-10-01
The Theaters
THE ILLINOIS.


(Sixteenth street and Second avenue.)
COMING ATTRACTIONS.
Oct. a-LittIe Ycnnie Yensen.
Oct. 4-PrfmrOsc Minstrcis.
Oct G-SlOy Poke company.
Oct. .-9-IO-II-12 Van Dyke Eaton
company.
Oct. S-The Lion and the Mouse.
Oct. I:I-Tempest and Sunshine.
Oct. Ii-Big-Heartcd Jim.
Oct. IJ-F'iddicrs' Contest.
Oct. 16-COmin' ThrO' the Rye.
Oct. IS-BetI,:,ny Home entertainment.
Oct. 19-Thc Grand MOguI.
Oct. 2O-Thc White BIacIxbird.
Oct. 21-kerry Cow.
Oct. 22-CharIcs Ii. HanfOrG.
Oct. 2s-Thc Sweetest Girl in Dixie.
Oct. 23-Thc Girl Over There.
Oct. 27-toyaI slave.
Oct. 3G-Miss Alberta GaIIntin.
Oct. 3I-The District Leader.
THE ELITE.
Eighteenth street, north of Second
avcnue)
Refined vaudeville mt 3, = and 9:I5 d.
IN. Two matinecs Sundays and holidays.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-10-01
ReHEARSALS ARE BEING HELD
For Grand Combination Ministries foi'
Bethany Home.

The rehearsals for the Grand Com
bination Minsrels for Bethany home
are being held almost every evening
now and promises a very clever ana
amusing entertainment. The tickets
are being sold now, but there will be
no seats reserved until the mornin :
of the 18th of October i'll Moline and
the 10th in Rock Island. The only
exception to this rule will be made il,
favor of the holders of box tickets.
which can be reserved at any time By
applying to the manager of the Illinois,
Mr. TaYlOr
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-10-01
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
RESULTS YESTERDAY.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.

Chicago, 6; New York. o.
Pittsburg, q Philadelphia, 8.
Cincinnati, 6; Brooklyn, 3.
st. Louis, 5; Boston. 1.
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Boston, 3; Chicago, 5 IA innings,
darkness).
Philadelphia, 8; Detroit, az III
nings, darkness)
Washington, g. Cleveland, 0.
New York, =; ST. Louis, 5.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-10-01

Two base hlts-FIske, Barlow,
SchoOnhOven. Stolen bases-Honen-
back, Pennington, Fiske q, Barlow
(2). Double plays-Harmon to Wilkes
to Clark, Pennington to Clark. Struck
out-By Darrah, 3; by Harmon, 3.
Bases on balls-Off Darrah, 5; off Har-
mon. 5. Hit by pitched ball-Fiske
Passed ball-Lizette. Time of game
-1:50. Umpire-Carruthers
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-10-01

Take something now and then ID
help the stomach. Kodol win do this.
1t is combination of natural diges-
tants and vegetable acids and contains
the same juices found in healthy
stomach 1t is pleasant to take. II
digests what you eat. Sold by all drug
|gists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-10-01

Columbus, Ohio, Oct. Toronto
yesterday won the fourth game of the
series with Columbus for the class \
minor league championship. McGin-
| ley pitched a fine game and was given
| faultless support. Toronto has won
three games and Columbus che of the
series. The score:
r. II. e.
Toronto 020OOO5O-7 13 o
| Columbus O0OOO3-4 s 2
Notwithstanding and Carrigau;
Robertaille, Townsend and Blue.
| NJ. II. Sexton returned last evening
| from FreepOrt, where he officiated as
chairman of the commission in charge
of the games. He states that the red
son that the last game of the series
was not played at Rock Island, as orig
inally planned, was that Madison Is
more conveniently situated, being but
30 miles from Freeport, and gives 4
guarantee of attendance. Besides,
Madison, being in the same league, put
] forth a claim for the contest on the
lscore of the interest felt there in the
| Outcome.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-10-01
". B. PATTON, AT THE ILLINOIS
NEXT SUNDAY. IN THE
SLOW POKE"

quaint mannerisms of speech and the
"localisms of their own western at.
mosphere and the play is well season
ed with the homely wit there current
Seldom has a piece been accorded
such unstinted praise by both press
and public and grateful indeed must
be the feelings of the young star, w.
B. Patton at the many kind words and
laudatory criticisms, accorded him.
The management has an entirely new
scenic investiture of the most elabor-
ate character for the production this
season and cast of unusual excel
lence has been engaged for their spe-
cial fitness of the different roles The
engagement at the Illinois theater is
announced for Sunday, Oct. 6, matinee
and evening.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-10-01

Receipts today Wheat 121. corn
500, oats $50, hogs 1900, cattle TO-
900, sheep $4,000.
Estimated receipts "Wednesday -
Wheat 81, corn 465, oats 297 hogs 49,
600.
Hog market opened steady. Hogs
left over 1900. Light 6.30@6.92, mix
ed and butchers 6.O506.92, good heavy
5.S5m6.S0, rough heavy 5.S5@610.
Cattle market opened steady.
Sheep market opened slow.
Hogs-At Omaha 5000, cattle 5000,
sheep 10000.
1870 p. m.-Wheat II to rs lower,
corn 2s to u lower.
Liverpool closed - Wheat Is to Il
lower, corn y to Is lower.
Northwestern receipts-Minneapoli
today 1919, last week 143, last year $40.
Duluth, today sos, last week GIT, last
year III.
New York Stocks.
New York, Oct. 1. Following are
the quotations on the market today:
Gas S51a, U. p. 1888, U. S. Steel
preferred SO, U. S. Steel common 273s
Reading 93B, Rock Island preferred
as, Rock Island common 1871, South
iern Pacific S3a, N. Y. Central 1872
! Missouri Pacific G7h, L. & N. LOG
Smelters S73s, c. F. |. 10, Canadian
Pacific 1657s, Illinois Central 1851
Penna 1908, Erie 20, C. & o. 1914, b
R. T. 4634, B. & o. $685., Atchison S6H
Locomotive Sly, st. Paul 1872, COP
lper 60, Republic Steel preferred 70, Re
public Steel common 20k, Southern
\ Ry. Is.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-10-01
FULLY IN KEEPING
Is ths Bill at the Family Theater
With Appointments of the
New Playhouse.
BIG AUDIENCES AT OPENING
Warm Welcome for Mrs. Mae Rich
ards Casey-Splendid Line of At
fractions at the Elite.

The opening of the Family theater
took place last night with capacity
houses at both performances. This
splendid new amusement place has
just been completed and in keepin..
with its excellent appointments is thl
attraction provided. The very best OF
vaudeville is contained in the bill
which was put on last night and coli
tlnues for the balance of the wees,
and the coming attractions booked III
clude some of the high class acts ap.
pearing in the larger vaudeville hous IS
in the country.
The entertainment provided by Del
phino and Delmora in their European
comedy musical act is new here am
not only that but one of the best acts
ever seen here. Decidedly the feature
attraction on the bill is The illustrate |
songs sungs by Mrs. Mae Richard
Casey. She was received with mucl
enthusiasm and was compelled to re
Spond TO encores.
The Wright, Huntington and com
pany sketch act is of unusual merit
and was given an enthusiastic recen
ton, as was also Mr. and Mrs. Hus
sey, ventriloquists, and Martens an.
| his dog and monkeys.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-10-01

THE Crane MoguI."-"The Grand
Mogul,' the latest musical comedy OF
fering of the noted collaborators,
Frank Pixley and Gustav Luders, who
wrote "The Prince of Pilsen." King
Dodo." etc. has been given a produc-
ton by Klaw & Erlanger on the scale
of lavishness which invariably charac-
terizes their offerings. The company
includes more than 100 people; the
cast, specially selected, is headed by
Frank Moulon, who comes into his
own again with comedy part worthy
of his great talents, the first time since
his Sultan of Sulu' DAYS; there are
three sumptuous stage settings, Of
which the second act alone requires
over 60 different pieces of scenery,
while the costumes are elaborate and
strikingly Characteristic At the Iii
nois theater. Oct. 10.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-10-01
Music by Band.

Music is to be furnished by the
WATERFOWL hospital band, which is
composed of patients and attendants
at the institution. In addition to the
exhibits, there will be foot races and
other forms of amusement provided
There will be balloon ascension daily
by the renowned Dorothea DeVonda
who will ascend a half mile into the
air and then drop in a parachute.
The fair is planned simply as an
amusement and diversion for the pa
tients of the institution, but Others
who are interested in the hospital may
attend and see the exhibits of the
products.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-10-01

Primrose's MinstreIs.-The attrac-
ton at the Illinois Friday night, Oct
will be George Primrose and his
big minstrel company, which is said
TO be the largest and most elabOra'e
in the world. Mr.. Primrose has So
lected the best vocal talent in the
country, as well as an operate orches-
ira of picked musicians, also the
greatest comedians and dancers in toe
minstrel world. The opening first
part is said to be the handsomest
scenic interior ever put on the stage.
being done in green and gold. During
this part the latest comic songs, jokes
and ballads will be rendered by host
of comedians. singers and dancers
The second part will contain many
new pleasing features rendering III
spring pictures of the south with new
and up TO date novelties, including
very funny burlesque Oh our national
game. baseball
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-10-01

Little Yennie Yensen."-Choice, ac-
ceptable features frightened by the IN
PRODUCTION of jingling musical num-
bers, form the basis upon which that
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-10-01

unique. 1t will be held Oct. 8. 10 and
IL, the gates being opened at u
O'Clock in the morning and closing at
) O'clock in the afternoon
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-10-01
THE FAMILY.

(Second avenue, east of Nineteenth
street,
Refined vaudeville at 3, = and 9:I5 d.
M. Two matinees sundays and holidays.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-10-01

funny Swedish musical comedy Lite
1ennie Yensen" is built. That bright
comedian, j. Ward Kett will present
a fine company in the production, all
artists of reputation. No old time COM
edy is displayed. No old jokes and
stale gags are exploited. Several sing
ing surprises are introduced. Little
Yennie Yensen' will be seen at the
Illinois, Thursday, Oct s.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-10-01

A Clever Star in a Clever Play
Critics often refuse to recognize that
which is not labored. where no vio-
lence of direction is shown they see
no art. To follow too closely to ma
ture is considered rude by some-it
indicates lack of culture to them, b It
the great majority of theatergoers are
quick to recognize and appreciate :,
play that deals with human nature.
Such play is THE Slow Poke" The
author has given his characters the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-10-01

At the Elite.-The Elite has a gocl
bill to present to its many patrons
this week and its first appearance yes
terday afternoon and last night pleased
large audiences. There is quite a Va
riety of entertainment offered in the
bill. Lynne and Bonnie Hazard, the
piano player and the little dancer are
stars in their line and present some
excellent music and exhibition dane
ing. The Les Jundts, European novel
ty act, Gillian and Brocee, comedy
sketch. and the American NewsbOys'
quartet We're all well received
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-10-01
THE M1RKETS.

Chicago, Oct. Following are the
market quotations today:
Wheat.
December, 9S1s. 9S7s, 977, 1885.
May, 104ts, 1047s, 1057s, 1919.
Corn.
December, 577s, $685., 573i, 5SH.
May, 1914, 591a, 5S7s, 59H.
Oats.
December, 51%, 50, SIS, 517s.
May, 555s, 535s, 533s, 5312.
Pork.
October, 1875, 1875, 1885, 1852.
January, 1925. 1927, 1920, 1920.
Lard.
October, 9.O5, 9.O5, sos, S95.
January, $50, $50, SIT, SIT.
Ribs.
October, 7.S7, -, -, $50.
January, 1872, 7.95, 100, 1877.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-10-01

Batteries-McGinley and Carrigau
Robertaille, Townsend and Blue.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-03-16

town you meet your neighbors Satur-
day afternoons and exchange news
and experience You go TO it for day
of recreation when the snow comes,
the fair. or on holidays
There during the winter lecture
course you hear great orators and ex-
cellent musicians. The political rallies.
the church conference or association
are held there.
BY and by in the pretty little vii
lage church, whose spire you can SEQ
from your farm. you son will preach
the gospel. In the brick building two
doors from the corner, a farmer boy
will open law Office, and in the little
frame two blocks away another son
of the soil, just back from college, will
begin the practice of medicine.
There is the high school to which
you send your children, and there
after awhile your daughter will teach.
And some day when you find the
farm work too heavy for your age, and
build on that grassy corner lot two
doors from the Methodist church and
move to town.
Yes, the town is a mighty good
thing to have, a pleasant thing; and
the more you put into it the more you
get out of it. For it grows according
to the trade it gets and the more it
grows the more it can buy and the
higher will go your land.
The Moral Obligation.
But the last and strongest reason
why it is right that the country peo-
pie spend their money at home is the
moral obligation.
The town is yours. yours to ruin or
prosper. The same sense of obliga-
ton should prompt you to support it,
as prompted our old Teutonic ances-
tors in the forests of Germany to
stand elbow to elbow in protection OF
their village. The same spirit of loyal
ty should inspire you as fired the
Highland Scot to spend his blood for
the welfare of his clan.
The country town with all its faults
is the best governed, most enlight-
ened, most moral, and happiest spot
in American civilization. 1t Is good
safe place. Not too swift, nor yet too
slow. In touch with the current of
progress, but not racing with greed.
The place from which come nearly all
the great business men, lawyers.
scholars, preachers, physicians. The
place where men are neighborly and
helpful.
This town, my farmer friend, Ia
yours. But the city belongs to the
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-03-16
GREAT RATS ON OCEAN.
Immense Loads of Timber Trans
ferred Over the Sea.

Nearly as large as the largest trans
Atlantic liners are some of the huge
sea RATS by means of which timber Is
transferred from the Columbia river
and Puget sound to San Francisco or
southern California Occasionally
these bundles of logs measure $50
feet from end to end and contain .as
many as 5000 pieces of timber. To
fasten such raft so that it will with
stand the force of the seas to which
it is exposed in the trip down the
coast no little engineering skill is re-
quired. AS the cigar shape offers less
resistance to the force of the waves
than any other, this has been adopted.
In order to pile the timber in this
form a huge skeleton or shipway is
constructed. This is practically a
cradle, which is moored in the water
adjacent to the boom where the raft
timber is confined. By means of a
boom derrick the poles and piling are
lifted from the boom singly and
placed in the proper position in the
cradle. They are SO adjusted as to
overlap each other, the plan followed
being somewhat similar to that in lay
ing a brick wall, the end of each stick
being placed opposite the center of
the one adjacent to it.
After completion the raft is wrapped
with iron chains dashed around it at
intervals ranging from IL to 20 feet
apart These chains are composed OF
one and one-half inch links and the
ends are toggled together after the
chains have been stretched taut by a
hand OF steam windlass. To prevent
the chains from slipping iron staples
are driven through the links into the
outside poles In addition to the
chains, however, side 1ines,' as they
are called, consisting of wire rope, are
stretched around the raft between the
chain sections, SO that when the
wrapping is completed the mass of
logs is bound together very securely
When the wrapping is finished the
raft is ready for launching
In building the raft two two-inch
chains are stretched 1engthwise from
end to end through the center One
of these is bolted to a sort of bulkhead
at one end, consisting OF a band CT
iron, which is fitted around the pro-
jecting ends of the outer pieces The
other chain is connected at the for
ward end with the towing hawser and
secured inside the raft by lateral
chains To move this unwieldy bulk
two powerful steamers are usually d.
rectly ahead and the other to keep
the raft in the right course
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-03-16
YOUR OBLIGATIONS
SOME OF THE THINGS YOU OWE
YOUR OWN TOWN.
YoU SHOULD BUY AT HOME
The Country Town Can BE Made
the Very Best Place to
Live in the United
States.

Copyright. by Alfred c. Clarl.)
A preacher who was a crank on
doctrine wearied his congregation by
constantly harping on baptism. a.
brother that longed for rest handed
him text he thought safe. 'The way
OF the transgressor is hard"
Friends" said the preacher, there
are three things suggested by this
scripture: First, the transgressor.
Second, his conversion. Third, his
baptism We will pass over the first
two and come at once to the third
Many reasons why people should
trade at home rather than send their
money away have been given. but sup
pose we pass them all by and come at
once to the one vital reason:
1t is the right thing to do.
For after all the fundamental ques-
ton in every transaction Is whether
it is right or wrong. Not will 1 save
convenient, but is it fair? Not
whether is e good business, but
whether it Is good morals?
For you Ald 1 know, and all the
world is coming to know, that not
one dollar is ever saved or made by
unfair means that does not curse the
possessor. And man may be as dis
honest in saving money as in getting
1t.
It is right to spend our money with
the home town and wrong to send it
away because we are under obliga-
lions to the home town, but not to
the mall order house.
Financial Obligations.
In The first place the country is un-
der financial obligations to the town
OF coErse the town is also indebted
to the country, but the town cannot
help bit pay its debt, its very exist
ence does that. Hence we are merely
discussing the country side. of the OBJ
legation.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-03-16


mail order houses and the devil. With
its corrupt government, it's overflow
of population, and its vice, the great
city is the menace of our morals and
our liberties.
The city like the dragon swallows
the vast throngs of country boys and
girls that flock into it, and by and by
when health, and virtue and hope are
gone, spews them out to die in want,
or wander as derelicts over the face
of the earth.
And don't you see, my friend, that
when you take the money from the
country town, you destroy the chance
of success there, and the boys and
girls will follow where you have sent
the money?
This town of yours was founded on
faith, on the faith in the customs OF
men for hundreds of years to trade at
the nearest town. These merchants
and carpenters, masons and editors
are your neighbors. They have grown
up amongst you or amongst others
like you.
They have put their all in little
business. money, time and hope.
Around the corner there is little cot
tage, and the wife and the baby-it
there is smile of happiness when
business is good" but the troubled
look comes when business is poor.
They are struggling to live, and pay
for the little home, and by and by ed
ucate the children They are your
neighbors and friends, not your enc
mics They work hard-you scarcely
realize how hard-and are not living
high. They have pinned their faith
to the town-your town.
Their success or failure is in your
hands. For your trade they will give
you good returns, and all will prosper
together If you withdraw your trade.
failure must follow. Some poor strug-
gler must go down facing bankruptcy
The light must go out of some wom-
ans eye, and hardship be laid up for
the child.
Even If you could save a little by
sending your patronage to the city, do
you not think it the fair thing, the Just
thing, the right thing, to trade at the
little home town With those you know.
those whose prosperity and happiness
are in your hands?
For 1t is written, Thou shalt love
thy neighbor as myself"
WILLIAM H. HANDY.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-03-16

ures, a subject on which Mr.. Rookie
feller's general education board has
all manner of statistics, there are
some essential practical things that
his thirty-two millions would do For
example, it costs, even at present high
prices, about $1,000 to build a house
in Brooklyn with all modern convent
ences and of sufficient size to contain
two families of five persons each
Technically these are known as two
family houses. The education gift
would build 10000 of such houses,
giving happy homes to 100000 people
who now merely exist in crowded
tenements-
Albany is city of 100, 900 people.
All of them could be comfortably put
into homes that might be built with
such sum- The total assessed real
ty valuation of Albany is S64 600. 900.
of which more than one-half is bust
ness property So that the education
gift might purchase the homes of an
entire capital city The cost of liv-
ing last year in the United States was
sos per person, giving all the neces-
sites of life At this rate SO4. 1852
people could be supported for a year
out of the donation Nobody in such
cities as Newark, Washington, Mil
waukee, Detroit, or New Orleans
would have to worry about food or
clothing. The mere interest on the
sum would support perpetually the
entire population of such cities as
Ansonia, Conn; Johnstown, N Y, or
New Rochelle Any city of $1,000
people could live On the income of the
gift
In the matter of food alone such
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-03-16

orphans are in danger of losing A
condition will be presented that may
have a protective effect for the cor
porations involved"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-03-16

Mr.. booksellers gift, said: eft Is an
anchor to the windward against the
time when an aroused people Will
curtail the privileges of public-service
corporations The gift was not In
cash. Most likely it was railway Sc
curities- Every one of these is
mortgage against the future Some
day it will develop. perhaps that the
special privileges which these rail-
roads enjoy will be threatened
1t will result in a sudden squeez-
ing of the water out of these stocks.
Then there will go up cry that these
great educational interests, dependent
upon the returns from these securi-
ties, are being threatened. There will
be talk, also, of what the widows and