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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-10-12
MAKING A RECORD
Royal Neiqhbors of America Ex-
periences Growth in lnsur-
ance Department.
NET GAIN so FAR IS 1857
Figure Represents Statistics of Bug
Nine Months-Society Now Has
|, Over 100000 Members.

The Royal Neighbors of America is
making a great record this year, and
the statistics at the head Office in the
Modern Woodmen building show that
the net gain in beneficiary member
ship was 1857 In nine months. The
figure given is the net gain, that is,
the increase in membership after the
number of suspensions, deaths and 9TH
er decreases have been deducted. There
has been no assessment three months
this year, making the same record as
last year, of nine assessments.
Is Strong Society. $
The Royal Neighbors is strong So
ciety, with over 100000 members, and
over 100000 enrolled in the local Office
records of beneficiary membership.
The society is known as an auxiliary of
the Modern Woodmen, but in fact is in
no way connected with the NJ w. A.,
financially or otherwise. 1t is a separ-
ate and distinct organization, differed
almost entirely by women, chartered
in this state, with it's head Office at
SOi Id. ne ISOfld OlllC6 ISSUES CHAR
tiers to new camps. and collects the
membership per capita.
Insurance Business Here.
The insurance department office,
however, is in Rock Island, and here
all of the work of handing the insur-
ance affairs is done, under the super
vision of Miss Myrtle E. Dade, bene-
ficiary recorder, who is assisted by an
| office force of "a young ladies, all
members of the society. Between $75,-
/ 600 and $4,000 a month is received
and accounted for at this Office It
| is deposited here, and is placed at the
credit of the treasurer. The society
has nearly 5000 local organizations
i'll 80 states. Not only does a great
amount of money pour into Rock Is
land through the Royal Neighbors, but
all death claims, amounting to owe,
half million dollars annually, are
paid here, this business doing its
share toward advertising the city.
| Two of the largest camps are here
and there are 500 insured members
in Rock Island and 1900 in absolute
good standing in the county.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-10-12
How to Cure a Cold.

The question of how to cure cold
without unnecessary loss of time Is
one in which we are all more or less
interested, for the quicker a cold is
gotten rid of the less the danger Of
pneumonia and other serious diseases.
B. w. L.. Hall of Waverly, Va, has
used Chamberlain's Cough Remedy fo-
years and says: 81 firmly believe
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy to be
absolutely the best preparation on the
market for colds. l have recommend
ed tito my friends and they all agree
with me-" For sale by all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-10-12

Kewanee, Miss Otillie Olsen, Geneseo,
and others.
Topic 2: How to Secure Continuous
Oral Composition Miss Cora
NJ. Hamilton, Macomb normal school,
Macomb.
Round table discussion by Miss Sill
ney Friscoe, Moline; Miss Kate Dick
son, Geneseo; Miss Mary Empson, Ke
vance; Miss Helen Arnold, Dixon;
Miss Sara Montgomery, Rock Island,
and others.
INTERMEDIATE AND GRAMMAR
GRADES.
Chairman, Superintendent J. F. Case
beer, Mt. Carmel,
Topic L. How to Meet the Discip-
line Problems of these Grades by the
Organization of the Schools '-Leader,
Superintendent P. r. Walker, Rock
ford.
Chairman, Superintendent ]. M. Mar
KEEL, Cambridge.
Topic q How Does Geography
Make for Effective Citizenship
er, William ]. Sutherland, Western IL
linois State normal school. Macomb.
Round table discussion led by Miss
Gertrude H. Rose, township high
school. Morrison; Principal L. w. Mil
Ter, Dixon, H.; Superintendent H. B.
Price, Fulton; Miss Myrtle Wheel
house, Geneseo: Miss Stella Burnett,
Prophetstown; Miss Evelyn Larson,
Princeton.
HIGH SCHOOL SECTION.
Chairman, Principal q. P. Nutting,
Moline.
Topic 1: 1.-THE Place and Value Of
Public Speaking in the High School,
Leader, Principal E. U. Graft, Rock
ford.
Discussion led by Superintendent H
E. Giles. Hinsdale; Superintendent =
A. Fulwider, Freeport.
Topic 2: How May the Motive to
Communicate be Utilized in Compo
sition ?"--Leader, Professor John NJ
Clapp, Professor of English, Lake For
est college.
Discussion led by Principal T. j
Mccormack, La Sale; Principal F. D
| Thompson, Galesburg; Principal H. S
Magill, Princeton.
Friday Evening.
Moline theater)
Music.
Address-"The Middle Way" Rabb
w. H. Fineshriber, Davenport, Iowa.
Address-"The End of Education,
President E. B. Bryan, Franklin col
lege, Franklin, Ind.
Saturday Morning.
| Congregational church,
Music.
Business meeting.
Topic: How Arithmetic Makes fo'
Effective Living"-Leader Presiden
John W. Cook, DeKalb normal school
DeKalb.
! Discussion led by H. A. Holliste
High School Visitor, University of Hi
nois.
| General Discussion.
Address-"The Psychology of Work
President E. B. Bryan, Franklin col
| lege.
Adjournment.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-10-12

former home of Mrs. Godfrey, but az
cording to all reports the young
woman was given a good name by
those who were interviewed. Both It
Trenton and at Davenport the rare
beauty and musical accomplishments
of the young lady brought her many
admirers and it is supposed that one
of these who failed to ''land'' wrote
Mr. Godfrey or his parents as soon as
news of the wedding was made public
and the present investigation resulted.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-10-12
ISSUES PROGRAM
n. E. Brown of Executive Com
mittee Completes Plans for
Teachers Convention
AT MOLINE OCT. 24-2s
President Bryan of Franklin College 20
Deliver Address - Rabbi Fine
shriber to Speak.

Principal H. L. Brown of the high
school, chairman of the executive COM
mittee of the Northern Illinois teach
ers association, which is to meet in its
annual convention in Moline Oct. 24-25.
has completed arrangements for the
coming convention, and has issued Il
completed program which gives prom
Use of one of the most interesting AMI
beneficial sessions ever held. Among
the features of the session will be an
address by Rabbi w. H. Fineshriber
of Davenport, historical address BY
w. A. Meese of Moline, and two al
dresses by President f. B. Bryan OF
Franklin college, Indiana. President
Bryan will deliver an address on THE
End of Education" at the Moline thea
ter Friday evening, and will adore IS
the teachers Saturday morning on 1.-THE
Psychology of Work"
Preparation for Effective Living
Through School Work" is the general
topic of the convention program, and
the secondary topic is "Elucidation Of
the Work on the Course of Study" as
presented to the superintendent and
principals meeting at DeKalb in 1906.
The program in full, as announced
by Mr.. Brown is as follows:
Preparation for Effective Living
Through School Work.
Thursday Evening.
Music.
Address of welcome-Dr. A. NJ Beal,
Moline, President of the Board of Edu-
cation.
Response and presidents address
Superintendent S. E. Raines, FreeporT
Alphabetically Western Illinois
History William A. Meese, Moline.
Friday Morning.
Music
1. How Literature Makes for Eff
fectiye Liying"-Leader, Miss Ida VI.
Simonsou. DeKalb normal school, De-
Kalb.
ou-Superintcndent v. G..
Mays, South Dixon.
General auussion-Closed by lead
er.
2. "How ths Organization and Dis
cipline of the School Makes for Ell
fective Living" LEADERS, DR.. L. C.
Lord President Charleston normal
school, Superintendent Frank L. Smart
Davenport, Iowa.
General discussion-Closed by lead
ers.
Appointment of committees.
Section Meetings.
Each of the section meetings is tC
be opened by leader, and then the
subject is to be thrown open for a gen
eral round table discussion.
COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT.
Chairman, County Superintendent 3
F. Hendricks, Whiteside county.
Topic: "How May the Child's In
terest in Social Life be Made Motive
for the Mastery of Languages il
the Grades?"-Leader, Superintendent
Claude Brown, Princeton.
Round table discussion led by Sup
erintendent c. L. Gregory, Mercel
county. Superintendent Cyrus Grave
Stephenson county and Superinten
dent Myrtle Renwick, 10 Davies coun
ty.
PRIMARY SECTION.
Chairman, Superintendent H. B. Hay
den, Rock Island.
Topic: 1.-The Social Element in tn
Organization of the Primary School.
Leader, Mrs c.. E. Sheriff, Head o
Teachers Training department, Day
export, Iowa.
Round table discussion by Miss Flor
ence Allen, Dixon, Miss Grace A. Pu
nam, Moline, Miss Martha Huesing
Rock Island, Miss Annabelle Mclean
:
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-10-12
Detectives Investigate Young
Bride of Boston Millionaire

1t is said private detective from
Boston, representing himself as IN
agent for socialist paper, has been
in Davenport for several days past, in
'vestigating the character of Blanche
Bruner, the handsome Davenport girl
whose romantic marriage to A. W.
Godfrey, the Boston millionaire um-
herman, was heralder all over the
country.
A similar investigation is said 70
have been made at, Trenton, Mo-, the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-10-12
A Certain Cure for Croup-Used for
Ten Years Without a Failure,

w. c. Bot, a Star City, Ind, hard
ware merchant, is enthusiastic in his
praise of Chamberlain's Cough Rem
edy. His children have all been SUBJ
ject to Group and he has used this
remedy for the past 10 years. anil
though they much feared the Group,
his wife and he always felt safe upon
retiring when a bottle of Chamber
lain's Cough Remedy was in the house.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-10-12

The pain in mas head has gone,
She's as happy as can be,
Her health is right, her temper bright,
Since taking HOLSTERS Rocky
Mountain Tea at night.
Harper House pharmacy.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-10-12


Is exactly what is needed in the
kitchen. A simple table won't take its
place. 1t is more than that: II is a
pantry, cupboard, table, combined-the
most convenient kitchen affair ever
made. 1t has labor-saving features: a
special convenience of arrangement -
commodious cupboards and drawers,
all planned to make kitchen work easy.
systematic and orderly. The Hoosier
Cabinets are all made of solid oak, the
only wood that will not warp or split
in the heat of the kitchen; with finish
that is not marred by water or hot
utensils.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-10-12

His oldest child was subject to seye
attacks OF Group, but this rene;
never failed to effect a speedy GU
He has recommended it TO friends &
neighbors and all who have used it 81
that it is unequaled for Group q
whooping cough. For sale by all dr.
gists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-10-12

Friends of Mrs. Godfrey here are high
ly indignant over the affair, declaring
the young woman has been made the
victim of base SANDER.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-10-12

Take something now and then
help the stomach. Kodol will do 81
1t is a combination of natural dig.
tants and vegetable acids and CONT
the same juices found in hea.
stomach. 1t is pleasant to take
digests what you eat Sold by all d
gjsts. u
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-10-12
ASK MORE PAY FOR MARINES
Bill to Be Offered Providing for 80 Per
Cent Increase.

Advices received at the marine re-
cruiting Office which is located in the
Rock Island postoffice building, are
to the effect that a bill will be pre-
scented to congress at its next session,
providing for 80 per cent increase
of pay throughout the marine corps.
The pay of marines has been rather
small, compared to the wages now
being paid in civil life, but with a 80
per cent increase the marine pay will
be equal-if not greater-than the
average wage paid in civil life. Com
menting on the marine pay bill, the
Army and Navy Register says: "The
prospects for achieving something are
better than ever before. There can
be no formidable obstacle justly pre-
sented to defeat that most commendl
BILE of all the recommendations which
will be made to congress at the com
ing session." The local marine Office
will remain open indefinitely.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-10-11
RULING BLOW TO SOUTH
STATES CAN NOT INDUCE IIEII-
GRANTS, SAYS BoNAPARTE.
Test Case Involved Louisiara'S Paying
Passage Of Laborers from Cuba
with Promise Of Work.

WASHINGTON. ID. c., Oct. 7.-At-
torney General Bonaparte has rendered
an opinion in an important case inyoiv-
ing the right Of a state to solicit imnIi-
grafton from Il foreign country. He
holds, that i'll the case submitted to him.
the state violated the immigration laws
in paying the passage money of the i'm
migrant and that. in this respect the
state does not differ, i'll law, from an
individual
Geronimo Garica in August arrived
at New Orleans from Cuba. lie was
denied admission to the United States.
Investigation developed the fact that his
passage money had been paid by Reg
maid DykerS. an agent of the Louisiana
state board of agriculture and immlgr;t-
ton, out of funds regularly appropriated
by the Legislature. He was given as
surance that employment as Il farm la
borer would be secured for him ami he
promised to return to the state the money
advanced to him to pay his passage
from Havana TO New Orleans No EN-
ployer was selected for him, but he was
left free to work for whom he pleased.
1t is expected the state will carry the
case into the courts III order to obtain
judicial determination of the question
which means much, in the view of the
authorities, TO all of the states of the
south.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-10-11
MARY J. HOLMES DEAD
FAMOUS AUTHORIZES LACKED ONE
YEAR OF BEING EIGHTY.
More Than 100000 Copies of Her Nov
els Sold-Wrote Thirty-Nine
IN All

ROCHESTER,, \. Y, Oct. Mrs.
Mary Jane Holmes, the well known au-
thoress, died Sunday at her home in
Brockport, in her seventy-ninth year. She
was taken i'll last week in Albany while
on her way from Oak Bluffs, Mass,
where she spent the summer. She i'm
proved a little and was able to continue
to her home, but another relapse came
Sunday.
Mrs. Mary Jane Holmes was born in
Brookfeld. Mass, on the farm of her
father, Preston Halves. She entered the
village school when she was ) years
old and Is said to have been making
progress in grammar at g.
Her first article was written and pub
lisLed when she was 10. She married
Daniel Holmes, a lawyer of BrockpOrt,
\. y. and with him made long tours
abroad.
Mrs. Holmes had no children. but was
fond OF young people, especially girls,
whom she often entertained ut her home
with parior talks upon art and tales Of
her travels.
The statement has been published that
Mrs. Holmes, next to L. i. Roe, was
the most popular of American authors.
More 2,OO0OOO copies of her books have
been sold. The Appletons were her first
publishers. Such is the demand for her
novels at the public libraries that it has
often been necessary to keep twenty or
more sets on the shelves.
Mrs. Holmes was the author of thirty
nine novels. Tempest and Sunshine"
published in 1851, was followed by near
ly one new book year. Among the list
may be remembered Edna Browning. >
Lena Rivers 'Dory Deane," Eth
Gyms Mistake and DIR. Hathern's
Daughters" Her last novel. published
i'll 1905, was ''Connie's Mistake
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-10-11
FETCH Domestic MUSEUM
Jessup Expedition Brings Back Fossils
Including Remains Of d What
Do-YOu-Call-It.

NEW YORK, Oct. THE American
Museum of Natural History has just re-
ceiyed from Egypt twenty-seven eases of
rare fossils, about 600 specimens in all,
comprising forms new to science, exceed
ingly valuable fossils of the ancestral
elephant and of an extraordinary beast,
the arsinoitherium, which is not closely
related to any living form or any extinct
group. 1t is conServatiyely estimated 10y
biologists that these animals existed
more than Il million years ago. These
fossils are the product of an expedition
financed by Morris X. jcsSup. president
Egypt under the direction of Prof. Henry
7. OShnrnn
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-10-11
COL. WING IN ROMANCE
LEFT $4,000 TO DAUGHTER OF BOY
HOOD SWEETHEART.
Katherine Rittenhouse of jamestown, N
D., Gets Fortune from Estate of
Late Wisconsin Man.

CHICAGO, H., Oct. 5.-[Special.l-
Faithful TO the woman he loved as u
youth, Col Isaac II. Wing. the Bay
field, Wis, millionaire, recently deceased,
specified in his will that $4,000 be Civ
Ell the daughter Of the woman who re-
jected him.
\ coed at Northwestern university,
Evanston, Miss katherine Rittenhouse,
who formerly lived at jamestown, y.
D., is the one to profit by the devotion of
her mothers former sutton who passed
through life unmarried.
The girl student, who has never seen
her unusual benefactOr. has been ad
vised Of the strange caprice fortune had
played her. While the will of Col. Wing
was probatcd early i'll September at Bay
field. the executors did not succeed III
learning the whereabouts of Miss Ri ten
house until recently. Inquiries at
jamestown, y. D., elected the informa
ton that after the death Of her mother,
the girl and her father had moved from
that city. They were finally traced to
Lincoln, NeD., where the young woman
attended the Nebraska State university
and tho long search came to an end
when an attorney found Miss Ritten-
house at Evanston and told her of the
Inheritance
Close friends of the nestor of northern
Wisconsin politics knew nothing of the
one love affair that he had jealousy
guarded through many years.
BAYFIELD,, Wis, Oct. 81 Special
A report has reached here that the
late Col Isaac Wing left $4,000 to Miss
katherine Rittenhouse of jamestown, \.
b., the daughter of his school day
sweetheart, who is now a student at
Northwestern university, Evanston.
Nothing is known of this woman here
but it is fact that Wing did leave the
sum to the girl and her father is one of
the executors of the will. The father
was left $1,000
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-10-11
LIVES LIKE ADAM DID.
Abbreviated Costume of Badger Collegian
Startles Natives of the "Show
Me" State.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Oct. 5.-[Spe-
cial. Can a man go naked in a civilized
community?
e. Z. Smith, who recently came to
Columbia, Mo-, from Wisconsin, goes as
near naked as the law allows him in or
der to live the life that he thinks was in
tended for man by nature and natures
god. His work-a-day clothes consist of a
pair of trousers, knee length and made
of white cotton goods like those common
ly worn by track men in athletic contests,
leather belt and pair of shoes.
Mr. Smith is the son of minister. He
IS graduate Of Lawrence university in
Wisconsin. The rigors of the winters
of his home state caused him to ask for
a position in the weather bureau at Co
lumbia
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-10-11
LAUNCH BOW OF BOAT.
New Forepart for Wrecked Suevic Goes
Into Water at Belfast-To Be
Joined to Rear Section.

BELFAST, Ireland, Oct. GA re
markable launch occurred here today
when the new bow built for the White
Star line steamer Suevic, to replace the
one left on Stag Rock, near the Lizard,
March II last, slid into the water. The
Suevic, during a fog, ran on the rocks
and after long and Intellectual attempts
to retioat her the salvers cut away her
forepart relocated the rest of the ship
and towed it to Southampton, where it
is now in dock and ready to receive the
new bow. The bow, which is 200 feet
long, considerably longer than the old
bow, is fitted with Lighthouses, captains
bridge, mast and 50 on, will be towed
to Southampton where it will be placed
in the same dock as the other portion and
the two sections will be connected, not as
two clean cut portions, but almost in the
same shape as when they were sepa-
rated.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-10-11
MILWAUKEE sToCKYARDs REPORT

HOGS-Market % higher; mixed and
butchers. G.15@G.So: packers. 5.n0aG Is:
rough heavy. 5.3ou5.15; light. 621uG 50;
pigs, 5.oNU6.2J; bulk, 6.o01l66O.
CATTLE-Marllct is lower: butchers
steers good to choice, 4.25a5 -: medium
to good, 35o0i0o; hefcrS, medium to good
3.0OW4O0; common to fair 2.23Gg.T5: cows
good to choice, 2.75GI35O; fair To- .oad
2.251t2.15; canncrS, 1.OUaL15; cutters
l.I562.25; bulls. good to choice 3.O0UH7I:
bologna bulls common to fair = 25Qg2 -.
crs and springrrs, common unsuitable except
for c0uners, good u-choice ut 35OoUII.OO
NALNES-Mark@t steady; heavy grassprs
;'.2'' 100; fair TO good, 050U1.oo; choice to
prime. T.O0uT75.
SIIEEr-Markct is lower: common to
fair, 2.50W&5O; good TO choice. I00d5.Uo;
lambs, common to fair, 5OOu6.Ou: choice
TO prime, G.5O@10o; bucks. 2.Iu1f&5O
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-10-11
PAY EXTRA DIVIDEND.
Receive / e Per Cent.-Road's
Lucky Investment

NEW YORK, Oct. 7.-Announccment
of an extra dividend of / Y per cent. de
cIarcd by the directors of the Great
Northern Railway company, was made
today. 1t was announced that the funds
for the dividend are derived from the
Lake Superior company and come net
from the ore lands which that company
leased to the United States Steel corpora
ton, but from other of its holdings, such
as coal lands and express companies
stock.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-10-11
LAZY hCOPSD DROOP
IN PENALTY DRILL.
Three Policemen Who Fail to Walk Beats
Collapse Under Bingham's
Third Degree"

NEW YORK, Oct. 5.-Three New
York policemen are on the sick leave be-
cause of Police Commissioner Theodore
A. Bingham's rigorous discipline. His
new order that patrolmen be sentenced to
extra hours of duty for failure to walk
their beats shall go through Il, special
course at the school of instruction, in
stead of undergoing extra work, had 4
rather startling result
Three Coppers Collapse
The three collapsed one after another
on the floor of the old Sixty-nnth regi-
ment armory while they and four other
delinquents were being put through Il
series Of exercises which are described as
setting up drill completely in the shade.
Not much information can be CLEANED
as to what the exercises were, but it is
said that they included the lock step and
a protracted double quick.
Tremble Under Cold Water.
Lieut.. Jacob Brown, formerly in the
army, was the drill master. The seven
delinquents were from Il squad of fifty
four policemen all of whom will have
to take the course. They had been on
patrol duty and station duty for twelve
hours and it is said were tired out when
the instruction began. Shortly after the
double quick was ordered they began to
drop. Cold water was copiously used
but they tumbled down Notwithstanding
Then, in alarm, a Bellevue hospital sur
geon was summoned. He had to work
over the three most exhausted men some
time and finally they were sent home.
Commissioner Bingham is said to have
decided to exercise delinquent policemen
instead of penalizing them with extra
patrol duty or fines whereby their fam
lilies would suffer
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-10-11
JOHN MITCHELL BETTER
President of Miners Goes to His Office
and His Friends See His Ulti-
mate Complete Recovery.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Oct. John
Mitchell president of the United Mine
Workers of America, was 50 much i'm
proved in health today that he was able
to go to his office at National headquar-
tiers for a short time. Secretary Wilson
said friends of Mr.. Mitchell were much
encouraged and believed he was on the
road to complete recovery.