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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-10
ELECTION NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that on Tues
day, the seventh day of April, A D.
1908, in the city of Rock Island Illi-
nois, an election will be held for the
following officers to-wit:
City Officers.
One alderman in the First ward for
two years.
One alderman in the Second ward
for two years.
One alderman in the Third ward
for two years.
One alderman in the Fourth ward
for two years.
One alderman in the Fifth ward for
two years.
One alderman in the Sixth ward
for two years.
One alderman in the Seventh ward
for two years.
Town Officers.
One assessor for one year.
One collector for one year.
One supervisor for two years.
Three assistant supervisors for two
years.
One contable to fill vacancy.
Questions of Public Policy.
territory?
Proposition as to the annexation to
the city of Rock Island, ILL.,, of a por-
ton of South Rock Island.
Which election will be open at
o'clock in the morning and continue
open until o'clock in the afternoon
of that day.
Places of registration and voting
will be as follows:
First ward, first precinct-No. AIS
Fourth avenue.
First ward. second precinct-No. 600
Seventh avenue.
Second ward, first precinct-No. 1914
Third avenue
Second ward, second precinct =
Barn, No. 919 Sixth avenue.
Third ward, first County
Jail. Third avenue and Fourteenth
street
Third ward, second precinct-Sei
ders store. Seventh avenue and Four
teenth street
Third ward, third precinct-No. 111E
Fifteenth street.
Fourth ward, first precinct-Frick'
livery, No. 1914 Third avenue.
Fourth ward, second precinct NJ
Levy's carriage house. Nineteenth
street, between Sixth and Seventh av
enues.
Fifth ward. first precinct = Hose
house on Twenty-second street.
Fifth ward, second precinct =
Schmidt's grocery, No. 1923 Twentieth
street.
Sixth ward, first precinct = Hose
house on Twenty-sixth street.
Sixth ward, second precinct-A. J
Reiss' barn, No. 7O9 Twenty-seventf
street.
Seventh ward, first precinct - No
2110 Fifth avenue
Seventh ward, second precinct-Pe
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-10
SCIENCE SCORES AGAIN.
A Preparation That Will Destroy the
Dandruff Germ Discovered

A Preparation That Will Destroy the
Dandruff Germ Discovered.
Finally the scientific student has dis
covered certain remedy for dandruff.
When it first became known that dan
druff is the result of a germ or para
site that digs into the scalp and saps
the vitality of hair at the root, causing
falling hair and badness, biologists
set to work to discover some prepare
ton that will kill the germ After a
years labor in one laboratory, the
dandruff germ destroyer was discover
ed; and it is now embodied in New
bros Herpicide. 1t prevents badness,
stops falling hair and speedily Grad
icates dandruff. Destroy the cause,
you remove the effect" Sold by lead
ing druggists. Send 10 cents in stamps
for sample to The Herpicide company,
Detroit, Mich. Sold in two sizes, so
cents and 81. I. H. Thomas, special
agent.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-10

v
him. He possessed quite fund of
voodooism. He possessed more before
1 got through with him. Yes; If he,
had lived to return to his country
fancy he would have added considera-
bly, to AfrO-American witchlOre. You
remember the vampire bats, Slade?
And the devil fires? Naturally didn't
mention to you that the devil fire
business wasn't altogether as clear to
me as l pretended. 1t wasn't. though.
But at the time it served very well rs
an amusement. All the while / real
lied that my self entertainment was
not without its element of danger too.
I remember glances not altogether
friendly, but always little doubtful,
a little awed Even Handy Solomon,
practical as he was, had q scruple or
two of superstition in his makeup on
which one might work Only Eagen-
Slade. | mean-was beyond me there.
You puzzled me not little in those
days. Slade Well
Did say that | was sometimes an
noyed by the doctors attitude? Yes. 1t
a.
little more of his confidence. but one can't
judge such n man as he was. Among
the ordinary affairs of life he had relied
on me for every detail. Now he was in
dependent of me. Independent doubt
II he remembered my existence at
times. Even in his blacklist moods of
depression he was sufficient unto him
Golf CIR ha
rage the day the chemicals from Wash
ington went wrong! I was washing
my shirt in the hot water spring when
he came boiling out Of the laboratory
and keeled me over. | came out pretty
indignant. Apologize? Not at all He
just sputtered. His nearest approach
to conference seemed to indicate de-
sire that should go back to Washing
ton at once and destroy q perfectly
| reputable firm of chemists. Finally he
Gained down and took it out in enter
ing it in his daily record. He was
quite proud of that daily record and
remembered to write in it on ain aver
age of once week.
Then the chest went wrong. Wheth-
er it had rusted bit or whether the
chemicals had got in their work on the
hinges 1 don't know, but one day the
professor, of his own initiative recog-
nized my existence by Juggling his box
out in the open and asking me to fix
it. Previously he had emptied 1t. II
was rather complicated thing. with
an inner compartment over which was
,{,,,
That l conjectured was designed to
hold some chemical compound or salt
There were many minor openings, too,
each guarded by q similar hollow door
My business was with the heavy top
cover
1T should shut and open softly
gently explained the professor. so
Not with-a-g grating soundto be-accom
panied he added, with his curious eff
feet of linked phraseology.
Half days work fixed 1t. The lid
would stand open of itself until tipped
at considerable angle, when it would
fall and lock. Only on the outer shell
J was there lock. That one was good
bit of craftsmanship.
$50, Percy. my boy said the doc
tor kindly. that will with sufficient
safety guard our treasure. When we
obtain it, Percy. When it entirely fin
| ished and completed shall be-
| "'And when will that be?' 1 asked.
"'God knows he said cheerfully. i
progresses
whenever 1 went strolling at nigh
he would produce his curious lights
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-10
Ever Watchful.
A Little Care Will Save Many Ecck
Island Readers Future Trouble,

A Little Care Will Save Many Ecck
Island Readers Future Trouble.
Watch the kidney secretions.
See that they have the amber hue
of health;
The discharges not excessive or in
frequent;
Contain no "briek-dust like" sedi-
ment
Doan's Kidney Pills will do this for
you.
They watch the kidneys and cure
them when they're sick.
Herbert Hanson, of AT Fourth
street, Davenport, Iowa. says: 81 suf-
fered with disorderly kidneys for some
time. The most annoying symptom
was the irregularity of the kidney Sc
cretions. which were too frequent in
passage. | was unable to control them,
and this caused me much annoyance
at night, breaking mp my sleep. l
suffered with pains across my back
and through my shoulders and loins.
In the morning when / arose, | would
be completely worn out and stiff in
every limb. These symptoms kept
growing more severe and seemed un-
able to get relief although consulted
physicians and tried many remedies
was advised by friend to try Doan's
Kidney Pills and procured box. |
took them in accordance with direc.
tons and in a short time the pains be.
gan to disappear, the secretions be
came regular and after continuing
their use for about month was com.
pletely cured. can highly recommend
Doan's Kidney Pills as being all
they are represented, safe and sure
cure for all forms of kidney disease
Plenty more proof like this from
Rock Island people. Call at Harper
House pharmacy and ask what Gus
toners report.
For sale by all dealers. Price So
cents. Foster-Milburn company, Buffa
10. N. Y, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name-Doan's-ana
take no other.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-10
THE BANKS.
Rock island
SAVINGS Bank
Incorporated Under the State Law.
ROCK ISLAND. ILL
Capital, sI00,OO0.00.
q Per Cent Interest Paid ON Deposits.

Money Loaned on Personal, Collateral.
or Real Estate Security; Farm cams
in Rock Island County Especi- -
ally Solicited.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-10

Sometimes they were fairly startling.
One fact 1 made out by accident look
ing down from high place. They did
not project from the laboratory. He
always worked in the open when the
light was to be produced. Once the ex-
pertinent took serious turn. The
lights had fiickered and gone. DR..
Sehermerhorn had returned to his lab
oratory. game up the arroyo as he
flung the door open and rushed out.
He was a grotesque figure. clad In an
undershirt and worn pair of trous
GERS fastened with an old bit Of tarred
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-10
ITO be Continued.)
Wireless Telegraphy for Common

Wireless Teleeraphy for Common Use.
Wireless telegraphy has come to
stay for there is no longer any doubts
as to it's success. A short time ago
$4,000 words were transmitted be-
tween this country and Ireland with
out error or need of repeating. The
rates for this service are going to be
so cheap as to make it commercial
utility There is no longer any doubt
as to the merit of Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters, for during the past 81 years
it has been proving its ability to cure
ailments of the stomach, liver, kidneys
and bowels with wonderful success
Thousands of people have testified
that the Bitters was the only medi-
cine that could cure them, although
they had tried many others If you
are still experimenting. stop it at
once and commence taking the Bit
tiers. 1t cures flatulency, heartburn,
headache, Indigestion, dyspepsia, cos
tiveness, grippe, spring fever and
malaria.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-10
Best Healer in the World.

Rev. F. Starbird of East Richmond.
Maine, says: 81 have used Bucklen's
Arnica Salve for several years, on my
old army wound, and other obstinate
sores, and find it the best healer in
he world. use it too with great sue
cess in my veterinary business" Price
25 cents at all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-10

terson's carpenter shop, No. $40 For
ty-fifth street.
Seventh ward, third precinct-Al-
bert Olson's barn, Fortyfourth street,
between Seventh and Eighth avenues.
NJ T. RUDGREN,
City and Town Clerk.
Rock Island, H., March z, 1908.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-10
CHAPTER xxxrv.

~1OR some moments barrow sat,
gazing Gxedly at the table be-
Ill fore him. His cigarette tip
~ glowed and failed. Some one
suggested drinks. The captain asked
barrow what he wanld have. but the
question Went unpoted.
How l passed The next six months
/ could hardly tell you,7 he began
again. quite abruptly. cat times / was
bored-fearfuly bored. Yet the ele-
ment of mystery. of uncertainty, of
underlying peril, gave a certain zest
to the affair In the periods of dull
ness found some amusement in visit
ing the lower camp and batting the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-10

Began the business July 2, 1890. and
occupies the southeast corner OF Mitch
ell & Lynde building.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-10

John Riha, of Vining, Iowa, says:
Il have been selling DeWitt's Kidney
and Bladder Pills for about year
and they give better satisfaction than
any pill ever sold. l have used them
myself with fine results. Sold by all
druggists
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-10

"1N MO every generation of Ameri-
NJ cans George Washington is
E5TS5f justly held to be the purest
- figure in history-a superb ex-
ample of the perfect citizen "a just
and righteous ruler and "a light for
after time"
This commanding personality had
a magnificent physique. He stood
over six feet in his stockings, was re-
markable for Workmanship, agility
and strength the finest gentleman
and athlete of his day.
His constitution was of iron and
he knew how to keep it SO. His BIZ
ographers declare that in eating and
in drinking as in all things he was
normal; enjoying the juice of the malt
all the days of his life. He drank it
around campfires, as well as in his
own home and upon social and state
occasions.
Furthermore, upon his Mount
Vernon plantation he had brew
house, as was the regular custom of
wealthy Virginians.
o so
sa nsad s sosrf S '00 page i' Quotations from
History of Virginia. by Beverly.
Colonial Liquor Laws Thomas page 80.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-10

OFFICERS-Phil Mitchell, president;
H. p. Hull, vice president; p Greena-
walt, cashier.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-10

DIRECTORS-R. r. Cable, William II.
Dart, H. p. Hull. E. w. Hurst. John
volk. P. Greenawalt, Phil Mitchell. L.
Simon, H. S. Cable.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-23
OLD HOME HAS ODD HISTORY
Iowa House with Record interviewer
with Beginning of Three
gtatea.

The six Ayres children, one or whom now
lives in Des Moines, have a unique record.
They were born in the same log cabin on
the same farm, but in three different terri
tories and one state.
On a farm two and one-half miles north
east Of Fort Madison, Ia, Samuel A. Avres
was born in the then territory of Michigan
in March, 1885; Gertrude Ayres Burch was
born in the territory Of Wisconsin, Thomas
Ebenezer and Lycurgus e. Ayres in the ter
ritory Of Iowa. all within ten years.
The explanation of this remarkable fact
is that the territory OF Michigan was al
vided, part OF It becoming the territory of
Wisconsin, April 20. 1885. The territory Of
Wisconsin was divided June Y, 1888, part OF
II being named the territory Of Iowa. Iowa
was made a state on December g, 1916.
Lycurgus e, Ayres, the member Of the
family residing in Des Moipes, lives at $40
East Fifth street. He was formerly chief
clerk in the auditors office. and for fifteen
years did service in the chief executives
office In the state house. He is 90 years Of
age, and was born in the territory Of Iowa.
The father Of the family is Ebenezer d.
Ayres. He came originally from the state
OF Connecticut. his birthplace. The mother,
Louise Anna Ayres. was a resident OF Mis-
souri,. An elder brother was born IN Mis-
souri, before the family came to Iowa, then
included in the territory Of Michigan.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-23

Mrs. William Y. Tibbitts of Chicago works
in her W house on a salary. When she
was first married her husband told her he
would pay all the family expenses and
give her IS a week, raising it as she became
more valuable. Now she gets S17 a week,
and out Of her earnings she has bought a
tenement house in the heart Of the city,
tn 1t gives her a pretty good income. She
has been married eighteen years, and her
husband says neither of them ever regretted
the arrangement, and he thinks a man
mean who would ask his wife to give her
services to the family Tor nothing.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-23
What the Women Folks Are Doing

boro's wittiest society women, planned
and executed a Joke; now she Is the de-
PENDANT IN an action at law, while the
society Of that Vermont city is await
ing with glee the outcome Of the affair.
relates the Boston Post.
IL all emanated from a bright idea"
conceived by Mrs. Gatty and a few Of
her society friends who had become firmly
convinced that James II. Hooker, attorney
and wealthy clubman, was working alto
gether too hard and needed a little diver
sion to distract him from the arduous-
ness OF so busy a summer.
one day recently, while the young at
torney sat at his desk with papers piled
high on each side and an amount OF
work before him that promised to keep
him in his office into the wee small
hours OF the night, the Telephone at his
elbow rang.
Taking up the receiver Mr.. Hooker lis
tened to the apparently distracted voice
of Mrs. Gatty, one of his acquaintance.
Mrs. Gatty appeared to be greatly over
wrought and explained that a dreadfuI
attempt had just been made to swindle
her out of a sum Of money; that the al
legged swindler had left a handbag be-
hind, and would Mr.. Hooker come up i'm
mediately and open the bag and discover,
If possible. the identity of the guilty per-
son.
The young lawyer hastily clapped on mis-
hat and fastened up TO Mrs. Gatty's fash
ionable residence.
He was ushered into the drawing room
and the bag was shown him.
without further parley the lawyer
opened the bag and extracted a nice yell
low lemon. Then the light broke upon
the attorney, and amid the titterings
which emanated from the different re-
cesses Of the drawing room, he bowed
and withdrew, after declaring gravely
that he felt that the case was settled
and trusted that his client would be no
longer disturbed.
A little later Mrs. Gatty received a bill
Tor services made out in the usual form.
Undcr the conviction that this bill was
merely the humorous revenge by Mr..
Hooker for the joke played upon him
the bill was ~pigeonholed.
Much to her CONSERVATION a sheriff ap-
peared recently at Mrs. Gatty's home and
served the papers In a suit for fees due
to Mr.. Hooker for services.
me whole city Is Interested in Law
yer Rockers plan for revenge. and fac
lions have already been formed.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-23

The son who was born In the territory of
Michigan, Samuel A. Ayres, is 70 years Of
age. and now resides in TTopico, Cal. a SUI
burb near Los Angeles. He is a former dep
uty auditor OF Iowa, ant ; the Oldest living
male native son of the Hawkeye state.
Gertrude, now Mrs. Burch. lives in Cali
fornia. She is II years Of age. or the three
sen to be born in the territory Of Iowa, two
are living. Thomas died in Alexander, Mo,
in ISIS. Ebenezer, jr.. is Ga years old and
lives in Springfield, Mo.
The ounge OF the family, Marion Oscar
Ayres, is 81 years Of age. and is a capitalist
Of Dakota City, Neb.
a peculiar feature connected with the
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-23
woman's Newest TIme-Kiner.

People spoke of the post card craze
more than a year ago as if 1t had run its
length. In truth, IL has not reached
its height. though It is growing at a rate
TO make It a serious problem to the Post
office department. Women and girls prln-
cipally are responsible for It. Men send
post cards only when they are away from
home, and boys take merely a desultory
interest i'm them. But TO the eternal femi-
nine in every stage of life the exchange
Of post cards has mounted to a passion,
declares the New York Press. The CORE
]spondence columns Of home magazines
TEEN with offers 10 exchange cards with
anybody and everybody. One young woman
writes she has a collection of 1000, but
wants more. Another confides to pros
pective correspondents she has set out to
gather 1900. Demands for extra pocket
money doubtless have been made on thou
sands Of parents and husbands, for, though
the fad is inexpensive when kept within
reasonable bounds. it is easy to see its
cost can become an item when ambitious
wax unruly. The girl who wants a col
lection of 5000. for example, will pay
close to 800 for It in cards and stamps.
She, OF course, must send a card for each
one she receives, and her postage account
may exceed that of many a woman Of
fashion. And tbs said there are collectors
who accumulate more than 10000 cards
apiece, one girl having carried her total
to 25,0o0.
Engaging frankness is shown by many
of those who forward their names for the
exchange list. A Los Angeles girl writes
that she can send views of Catalina island
and Mounts Lowe and Wilson, which cost
p cents a dozen, and that she does not
wish to exchange them for cheaper cards.
Several write they have all the paper
cards they want and wish to exchange
only leather ones. A Philadelphian pre-
fers scenery. and a RoXbury maid would
love to exchange post cards with any
yourg girls from u to 20 years old" A
girl who signs sweet Sixteen" and lives
In ElsinOre, Cal, wants not only foreign
and domestic cards, but hotel monograms.
on young woman has the capltols OF
thirty-six states and yearns for those OF
the others. A hospital patient adds the
touch Of pathos, for she wants ANY kind
Of pretty cards" OF course, a large part
of the fun CONSISTS Of letting every card
go through the mail under its own ad-
dress and stamp. Overpractical young per-
sons who exchange cards in patches spoil
the idea.
One WOnlan's Little O ke
Mrs. Margaret Gatty. one of Brattle-
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-23

y men
- Me. TAKAHGRA, wife OF the
M japanese ambassador to the
IVA United States. in an interview
E=Ef in the New York World cor
kkSES4I reefs much mlsinformatI-n cur
- rent In this country about the
pol teal and social condition OF the W me,
OF japan. THE women Of Japan, she is
quoted as saying, are not under the re-
straint they were many years ago. our
ancesors could scarcely understand the
changes which have come. Formerly the
women OF my country were not acquainted
with the privileges which were given to
others but all that is changed now. We
go about almost as we please and we even
80 to theaters n to Entertainments more
often than our husbands.
Il am exceptionally fond Of music, but
when went to school we could only learn
Japanese music as It was taught by our
own people. We did not then have the ad-
vantage Of learning the piano, the violin
and other instruments which 1t is now pos
sible to master.
our schools then, as indeed they are
now, were conducted by native teachers,
but were conducted along European lines.
with the years, advancement has come to
our school system. as 1t has to those Of
other countries, and It is now possible for
our boys and girls to have many more ad-
vantages than formerly.
"A japanese bride owes much to her
husband and there are certain-what you
call them?-cOmmandments which she
must obey, but all marriage services have
those, | believe, and ours are not so
strict, not as much so as they were years
ago.
our people are learning the advantage
Of being practical, and while / believe they
still retain their picturesqueness they are
looking more to the steady and real prog
ress of the country, and l think rarely miss
an opportunity to accomplish it."
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-23

a word Of recollection. says the SPRING
field Republican. She was the founder Of
the Woman's Christian Temperance union
In Ohio IN 1873. anG three years later Wis
tied England and organized the first Woo
mans Christian Temperance union in that
country. Following the close Of the civil
war she lectured widely in the southern
states in behalf Of those who had suffered
by the war. Her work for temperance
throughout the country earned for her the
name of Mother Stewart, and in many
ways she was a woman Of power and lead
ership. Five years ago she became a fol-
lower of John Alexander Dowie and spent
a year in Zion City-an episode that her
friends will forget.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-23

the water and towels the tortured visitor
asked: Sam, why is it that you have no
mosquito netting over the beds? Doesn't
the colonel have any In his room?"
mo, sub" replied Sam.
4 don't see how he stands IT,"
We'll, suh," said Sam, Il reckon it's les
dis way: In de To- part NV de night. sun.
de colonels mos centrally so 'toxicated
dat he don't pay no 'tention to de skeeters.
an in de las part NV de night, sub, de
skeeters is mos centrally so 'toxicated daI
dey don't pay no 'tention 70 de Colonel
Eyerybody's Magazine a.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-23
Here's a Chance for Dick"

Make a habit of looking over the classified pages of The Bee" between hnes"
You will fine business chances for husband, son or brother that they would lever hear Of
otherwise
Opportunity to bdGh his position or to enter a business for which he is better quaifed.
Cut OUT sehH ads save them for the men folks when they come home in the erning
lhy VIII appreciate your tholgtunes-and you will find many waysw whereby yc can
or make dollars
go It's once the most interesting parts of the paper too. After you hveIo okedo over The Bee
Casmed RACES Hw times you will want to read hem only for the entertainment
remarkable the variety of requests and announcement that are made nolgh these rapes
As many kinds as the people of every race class or occupation hat use these pages eymy dv
30 there sure to bes something new in every issue Look today