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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-02-04

ord breaker Postmaster Eastman an
nounces that the total receipts are S.
310.91 which are larger than for any
month in the history of the office. The
next largest month was in October,
1905, when the receipts were s7,722.75
or S57S.16 less than last month. The
postal receipts for January of last
year were sG.773.29
Pupils Save 12,o0O.-Saturday
marked the close of the third year of
the school savings system in vogue in
the public schools of this city, and the
last deposit for the end of that time
has been made with the Moline Trust
& Savings bank. This system was in
augurated three years ago by Superin-
tendent G. T. Smith, now in Peoria
and during that time over $4,000 have
been deposited by the scholars.
Long Time Carrier Resgns.-After
nearly twenty years of service Oscar
Hanson has resigned his position as
mail carrier OF late years Mr. Han
son has been a mounted carrier and
served the factory district. Through
| his hands has passed a volume of bus
mess, orders for machinery and orders
| for material which would amount to
millions of dollars could it all be
known and counted. Now he will be
succeeded in the route by w. G. Baker
| Obituary Record.-Mr. and Mrs. Os
car Lundeen, 915 Fourteenth street
are heartbroken over the death of their
| 4-yearold daughter. Garnet Piscilla
who passed away Saturday, The little
girl had only been i'll l. hours, being
stricken with brain fever
Dave Beverage, of this city. an en-
gineer for the Rock Island road, has
received a message from Omaha an
nouncing the death of his sister. She
formerly resided in Sherrard.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-02-04


his attorney to have the court instruct
the jury to render verdict in his
favor.
Will Sue for $25 ,OOo-Saturday in
the Scott county district court Doris
ThOeming was appointed administra-
triX of the estate of Frank Thoemng
Later an original notice was placed in
the hands of the sheriff to serve on
the Bettendorf Metal Axle company
The notice states that on or before
Feb. a suit will be filed against the
Bettendorf Metal Axle company to re-
cover $4,000, claimed to be due from
the company for causing the death OF
Frank ThOeminc
On Tour of the Orient.-Mrs. p. 7.
Walsh and Miss Catherine Walsh left
at noon today fer New York. where
they will take the steamer Arabic on
Feb for an oriental cruise. They
will visit points in Spain, including
| Gibraltar. and then Algiers. Malta
Athens. ConstantinOple. Smyrna, and
other places of interest in the Holy
Land and Egypt. then back to Naples
and Rome, and home via Liverpool
They will be gone until midsummer.
| o
Married so Years.-Mr and Mrs
| Henry KOehler of Davenport on Sat
urday evening were the recipients OF
| the heartiest congratulations from the
members of a large family circle, or
the occasion of their 50th wedding an
| niversary Davenport has no better
known or more highly esteemed cou
pie. and the manner in which the mem
bers of their family gathered from al
points of the compass. and Joined il
doing them honor in an elaborate SO
cial function at the Outing club
Fire at Nahant.-Fire at the Nahan
yards of the Milwaukee road west o
the city Saturday night destroyed tn
operators office and several othe
small buildings. Being beyond thu
fire limits, the bucket brigade wa
called into service The loss will b.
but nominal The fire department wa
called Saturday to the residence o
John Crowlem, 500 Perry street, wher
an overheated chimney had set fire t
Il partition. The fire was eXtinguishe
with loss of about $50.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-02-04
BOOKINGS AT THE MOLINE

Feb. 4-6-"The Ferris Comedians"
matinee Wednesday.
Feb. 10 1.-THE DEVILS Auction"
matinee and night.
Feb. 11-"The Redemption of David
Corson," matinee.
Feb. 12-"Dorothy Vernon of Had
don Hail."
Feb. 15-"The Time, the Place and
the Girl"
Feb. 16-"The Man of Her Choice"
matinee and night.
Feb. 17-"Papa's Boy" matinee and
night.
Feb. 2o-"East Lynne"
Feb. 21-22-"Swedish Dramatic CON-
pany.
Feb. 25-McRay Comedy company,
week, matinees "Wednesday and satur-
day.
BOOKINGS AT THE GRAND.
Feb. 11-WinkIer, the Pianist, return
engagement.
Dated Here for Wedn eSd5v-''A
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-02-04
MOLINE

Disinfects Fire Laddies.-The fire
men at the bluff station spent Satur-
day afternoon in bed. while their
clothes were closeted with a sulphur
candle. About II o'clock the depart
ment was called to Stewartville, where
a chimney in a house infected with
scarlet fever had caught on fire. After
the blaze was extinguished, Health
Commissioner Meyer was consulted
with the result that those laddies who
didn't have an extra shirt had to go to
bed.
Timbers Fall from Car-Nic Brand
meyer, the Sixteenth street fiagman,
had a narrow escape from being
crushed to death beneath pile of tim
bers which fell from an east bound
Rock Island freight train. The crack
ing of the supports that held the tim
bers upon the fiat cars served as a
warning to the flagman and he jumped
out of harms way just in time to es-
cape death.
Postal Receipts Record Breaker
The postal receipts for the Moline post
Office during the last month is rec
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-02-21
Forever Distinguished.

When Washington made his tour of
New England in 1889, he was the guest
of his friend, Oliver Ellsworth, at Wind
sor, Conn. Ellsworth's biographer, Mr..
William Garrett Brown, mentions that
visit as ''the greatest hour in the history
of Windsor and of the Ellsworth fam
lily"
Washington wrote in his diary on Oct.
q, 1889: by promise was to have break
tasted at Mr.. Ellsworth's at Windsor on
the way to Springfield. but the morning
proving very wet and the rain not ceas-
ing until 10 o'clock, l did not set out
till half after that hour. l called, how
ever. on Mr.. E. and stayed there near an
hour"
Tradition has generously heightened
out. and embellished with incidents of an
old-fashioned. patriotic flavor, the single
hour of Washington at Elmwood. There
is the story of the errand of one of Ellis
worth's young sons to the Wadsworth
mansion at Hartford, to present the invi-
tation: of his trepidation at the thought
of facing the greatest man in the world !:
and of his surprise, relief and disappoint-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-02-21
perm that country, where no one went

perm that country, where no one went
afoot except to catch his mount in the
pasture. Every lad black or white, bond
or free, knew where to find and how to
take the rowing game in the forests. And
young Washington, robust boy that he
was, not to be daunted while that strong
spirit sat in him which he got from his
father and mother alike, took his appren-
ticeship on horseback and in tangled
woods with characteristic zest and ardor.
He was, above all things, capable ex-
ecutive boy. He loved mastery, and he
relished acquiring the most effective
means of mastery in all practical affairs.
His very exercise books used at school
gave proof of it. They were filled, not
only with the rules, formula, diagrams.
and exercises of surveying, which he was
taking special pains to learn, at the adj
vice of his friends, but also with careful
copies of legal and mercantile papers,
bills of exchange, bills of sale, bonds, IN
dentures, land warrants, leases, deeds and
wills, as if he meant to be a lawyers or
merchants clerk. 1t would seem that:
pa ssicnate and full of warm blood as he
was, he conned these things as he studied
the use and structure of his fowling piece,
the bride he used for his colts, his sad
die girth, and the best ways of mounting.
He copied these forms of business as he
might have copied Beverley's account of
the way fox or 'possum or beaver was to
be taken or the wild turkey trapped. The
men he most admired, his elder brothers,
Mr.. Fairfax, and the gentlemen planters
who were so much at their houses, were
most of them sound men of business, who
valued good surveying as much as they
admired good craftsmanship and skill in
sport. They were their own merchants,
and looked upon forms of business paper
as quite as useful as ploughs and hogs
heads. Careful exercise in such matters
might well enough accompany practice
in the equally formal minuet in Virginia.
And so this boy learned to show in almost
everything he did the careful precision of
the perfect marksman.- Harper's Maya
zine
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-02-21
Washington and Civil Service

Like most reforms, that of the civil
service is in part an effort to restore
earlier conditions. To those who believe
that all developments, no matter how con-
scienceless, are under the law of the sur
vival of the ittest, civil service reform is
reaction. Its ideal has never been bet
ter stated than by Washington. In a let
ter declining to appoint a personal friend
to Office, Washington wrote: MY friend
is welcome to my house and welcome to
my heart but with all his good qualities
he is not a man of business. His oppo-
nent with all his politics so hostile to me-
is man of business, My private feel
ings have nothing to do with the case.
am not George Washington, but President
of the United States. AS George Wash
ington l would do this man any kindness
in my power-as President of the United
States l can do nothing This is the
ideal toward which civil service reform
ers are still pressing forward. For more
than generation it lost it's hold upon
the public life of the nation. but, like ev-
cry cause whose defeats have been due to
greed and not to conscience, it revived
again when the forces that were against it
seemed to have secured their complete tri-
umph-Outlook
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-02-21
Where Washington Fell Short

Little Edwards father was reading to
him about Washington.
when George was still boy" the
story ran, he could throw a stone across
the Rappahanock river, and once when
visiting the Natural Bridge in Virginia
he threw pebble to the very top of it,
200 feet
rs that very high?" the child asked.
Yes, that's very high for a boy to
throw"
LAS high as this house"
'Oh, yes, higher
us it as high as three or four of our
trees if they were on top of one another?"
Yes, l think it isl
Not as high as giant, thought"
Much higher than any giant l ever
heard Of
Higher than the giant that Jack found
up at the top of the beanstalk?".
Il should say So"
But l mean is it higher than a giant
as high as six or seven giants as tall as
the highest trees anybody ever heard of?'
We'll perhaps not quite as high as
giant like that"
Huh, ~ the boy triumphantiy replied
II bet you | knew all the time that
Washington couldn't throw as high as
some giants"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-02-21
aShinrfnn,s RnNhnnd

boy who was much at Mount Vernon
and at Mr.. Fairfax's seat, Velvoir, might
expect to see not a little that was worth
seeing of the life of the colony George
was kept at school until he was close
upon sixteen but there was ample vaca-
ton time for visiting. Mrs. Washington
did not keep him at her apron strings.
He even lived, when it was necessary
with his brother Augustine, at the old
home on Bridges Greek, in order to be
near the best school that was accessible
while the mother was far away on the
farm that lay upon the Rappahannock
Mrs. Washington saw to it, nevertheless,
that she should not lose sight of him al
together When he was fourteen it was
proposed that he should be sent to sea. as
so many lads were. no doubt, from that
maritime province but the prudent moth
er preferred he should not leave Virginia,
and the schooling went on as before-the
schooling of books and manly sports. Ev-
cry lad learned to ride-to ride colt or
horse. regardless of training, gait or tenn
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-02-21
After Washington's death his wild

After Washington's death his widow
adopted as her own a small bedroom in
the third story, which, being Immediately
under the room, has ceiling that slants
down to the floor on one side. Through
the small single window she was able to
look out upon the Potomac southwark,
and upon the tomb where her husbands
body was placed. She lived only one
year after Georges demise. At the end
of 81 years Washington's remains were
transferred to the present tomb, which
is shown in an accompanying picture.
In this tomb George and Martha lie side
by side, each reposing in a marble sarco-
phagus.
The present Mt. Vernon estate COM
prises 234 acres. The association, when
it bought the property a few years ago,
acquired 204 acres, to which Jay Gould
added 30 acres by gift. These so acres
lay between the estate proper and the
premises of a gambler, and they were Sc
cured in order to prevent the gambler
from becoming an immediate neighbor.
The purchase was made from John A.
Washington, a granddaughter of George.
Though actually belonging to the associa-
ton, the former home of the Father of
His Country may be considered now as
practically the property of the nation,
being thus preserved for all time.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-02-21
LIVES DUAL LIFE IL YEARS.
University Athlete, Lost in Chicago,
in 1894, Living as LabOrer.

University Athlete, Lost in Chicago,
in 1894, Living as LabOrer.
After being mourned as dead for twelve
years Charles McGee Williams, the fam
Gus Wisconsin university baseball pitcher
who disappeared in Chicago in 1894, was
found at Merrillville. Ind. He has been
living there since July, 1894, as an ordi-
nary workman. He is married and owns
his own home. According to Williams
story, he suffered mental alteration when
he mysteriously disappeared from hotel
in Chicago. Williams said: ION July q,
1894. l suddenly found myself in Ham
mond. | had no recollection of how [
got there, and it was only by asking
strangers that l found where l was and
what day of the month and year it vas
| began to trudge away without purpose,
and found myself some days later here in
Merriflyille"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-02-21
APPOINTMENTS BY GOVERNOR.
Former Governor Hoard Is Named
as u University Regent

foFmer Governor Hoard Is Named
as Il University Regent.
Gov. Davidson has appointed former
Gov. W. d. Hoard of Fit Atkinson to be
a member of the board of university re-
gents. The appointment is for the re-
mainder of term of Mrs. Kate Stevens of
Madison. wife of Judge F. Ray Stevens,
and the term expires on the first Monday
OF February, 1909. Mrs. Stevens resign
ed. There are still two regents to be APP
pointed. one of whom is to be a woman.
The following executive appointments
were submitted to the Senate for confirm
alton: David Roberts. Waukesha. State
veterinarian Henry d. Smith. Appleton,
board of commissioners of fisheries Lau-
renee 7. Mayer, Hudson, board of health
and vital statistics; Q. o. Sutherland,
GAINESVILLE, board of health and vital sta
tistics; ]. Q. Emory. Albion dairy and
food commissioner.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-02-21
Girls ~ Enrn Hnnhs

According to the Indiana Farmer.
man who was in the northwest during
the last wheat harvest said:
The shortage of labor in the north
west this year brought about some pc
culiar conditions. During the harvest
time many farmers found it impossible
to procure help and often they had to
call upon the female members of their
families to go into the fields. l was
paying visit to a brother in Mime
sofa, and ascertained that he was uti-
lizing the services of his two daugh-
tiers, refined and educated young wom-
EN-, without whom it would have been
impossible to save the wheat crop. The
girls had never done any rough work
before, but they fell to with cheerful
alacrity, and did as clever work as any
men on the place. This sort of thing
was of frequent occurrence in the
wheat belt, and the women proved
themselves real heroines''
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-02-21
The Hnn WeeYiI.

During last year Investigations were
with reference to birds that feed upon
the weevil. The results are encourag-
ing, according to the annual report of
the Secretary of Agriculture. In all,
% species of birds have been found
to be more or less active enemies or
the insect. Included in this number
is the nighthawk, heretofore not known
to eat the weevil The nighthawk
proves to be an active consumer of the
insect Its protection by law, there
fore, is earnestly recommended. This
is all the more necessary, since the bird
is often shot for food
OF all the birds that prey upon the
weevil orioles are the most active and
persistent. For this reason the possi-
BILE Introduction into the Gulf States
of one or more additional species of
these birds is being considered. Only
one of the three species that visit the
cotton-producing belt breeds extensive
ly within it; hence if one is introduced
it should be a species likely to make
its summer home within the area In
tested by the weevil, as all birds are
particularly assiduous in their search
for insects during the time they are
feeding their young.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-02-21
State News in Brief,

William Hill. resident of Oshkosh for
fifty years and a pioneer dry goods mer-
chant. died Sunday. aged SO years.
A national young pople's society of
the Lutheran Free church was organized
at Chippewa Falls by convention of
these societies.
At a special election it was voted to
bond the village of Bruce for $4,000 the
money to be used in constructing system
of water works.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ferdinand Wagner. an
aged couple living near Reeds Corners,
were killed by a Chicago, Milwaukee and
st. Paul engine about mile north of
Brandon. They were driving into Bran
don in a cutter at the time of the acct
dent.
Catherine Pray, aged 30. oldest daugh-
ter of Theron B. Pray, late president of
the Stevens Point normal school and un-
til recently Latin teacher at the local
school. died suddenly at New Orleans. She
went to Mississippi few weeks ago to
spend the winter with her sister, Mrs. IL.
D. Sheldon, formerly of Madison.
John Scott of Kenosha, for five years
superintendent of overhead work on the
Chicago and Milwaukee road, has been
made general superintendent TO succeed
A. r. Fredericks, who resigned to be-
come superintendent of an interurban
road out of Kansas City.
The claim against the estate of Levi
C. Merck. the millionaire who died at
Oconomowoc last March. came up before
Judge Griswold in the Probate court in
Waukesha. The claim was that of his
aged brother. W. ii. Merck. for $1,000,
money advanced him for business enter
prises many years ago, and was refused
Near New Richmond Christ Conway
of Evan. Mich, single handed. killed four
wolves out of pack of six, barely es-
Gaping with his life.
Felicia Cappelo of Kenosha, who has
been missing since Dee. -, was found
frozen to death in the ice near the Sim
mons Manufacturing plant.
George Petrol. wealthy manufacturer
of dental instruments and supplies. ia
tally shot himself in his office in the Cav
ker building, Milwaukee,.
A man sick in bed. baby 1 month old
ana II CHilu VI .cdlS Ntlt ItSedtu AAo4h
a burning house in Milwaukee by Mail
Carrier George ]. L. Zerletty.
Clara Boos. sister of Peter Boos. who
was cznvicted of robbing the house of
Mrs Margaret Kleinwachter. dropped
dead in Milwaukee when she learned of
her brothers conviction The young
woman had been Boos' favorite sister and
had stood by him in the trial.
Jacob Gerbovitz. the kenosha man
charged with attempt to murder his wife,
pleaded his own case. but was held in
the Circuit Court under bonds of $1,000.
Gerbovitz refused to employ an attorney
ana closely watched the evidence taken
by the State. He took the stand in his
own defense and declared that he had
been made insane through his great love
for his wife.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-02-21
fE @s9y9lzsi a2aAs'a@lsz

WAYS considered. The chick must be
produced and live nearly year before
it lays. and consequently its product
for the following year is at the expense
of two years keep. The third year
increases the product in proportion to
the cost. and so on indefinitely, provid-
ed the hen continues a good layer.
True. the hen loses some time whole
molting, but not year, or nearly. that
is required for the pullet to mature.
The hen, too, is more inclined TO be-
come broody, but this may not be an
objection. Generally the egg produc-
ton is not reduced by age, and hence
it is more profitable TO keep the hen
as long as she continues to lay well.
even if she is a hundred. Under equal
conditions, the hen three years old
should have laid twice the number of
eggs that has been produced by the
hen two years old, because she has
year longer in which to do it.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-02-21
Wisconsin
State News
STRANGE CLAIM FOR ESTATE.
Chicago Man Says He Is Son of Col
PeIeg Glover. Manitoyvoc

Chicago Man Says He Is Son of Col.
Peleg Glover, Manitovoc.
Sensational developments are promised
in the Kenosha County Court when the
hearing of the contest of the will of the
late Nancy 4. Glover is taken up again.
Charles Joseph Glover of Chicago has
made q claim for the estate. He alleges
that he is a son of Col. Peleg Glover.
famous old Indian trader, and Fannie
Mccarthy. TO whom he alleged Glover had
been married at Manitowoc. He stated
that he was born in 1852. Notice of the
death of Judith Glover. the wife of Col.
Glover, and the mother of Nancy Glover.
have been found and these show that Mrs
Glover died ON JAM 10. 1869. With
these facts in hand, the attorneys for the
will claim that it would have been impos
sible for the statements made by Glover
TO be true unless Col Glover had lived
dual life.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-02-21
HANGS HIMSELF IN CAVE.
Bankrupt's Body Is Found Before
Trial rs EmbezZIer.

Gustav Lenk. a former well-known
business man of Theresa, committed sui
eide by hanging in a cave half a mile
from his home. Lenk disappeared from
his home the other day. Search was in
stituted by his sons, who found the life
less body hanging from the limb of a
tee which overhung the cave. Lenk went
into bankruptcy two years ago and later
was arrested on a charge of embezzle-
ment. He was a prisoner at the county
jail for several months and recently secur-
ed bail. His trial was set for an early
Hota
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-02-21
MAN LUGS OFF GIRL.
Oak Center Aroused TO Fury by Al.
legged AhHucfior

legged Abduction.
With a girl of IA years now hoisted
10 his shoulder and now running at his
side. Carroll Zizgenhaeen. aged 80 fed
from Oak Center at dusk the other night
followed by a deputy sheriff and the vii
lase marshal. only to be captured at Lo-
mira, twelve miles away. after an ex-
hausting journey through deep snowdrifts.
The flight and capture aroused Oak Gem
ter TO high pitch of excitement. though
no violence was offered when the fugi-
tive was returned TO the jail there and
the girl taken back TO an aunt with whom
she lives The girl is Almeda BeardSley.
a pretty school girl Zizenhagen had re-
sided with the family for some time Be
cause. 1t is alleged. his attentions to the
young girl were Objectionable. he was
told to leave. Without resentment he de-
parted. At dusk. it is alleged. he return
ed. and either by force or with her con-
sent, took the girl with him.