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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-02
IN The CHURCHES

Central Presbyterian.-This evening
the Christian Endeavor society will
hold a business meeting at the home
of Mrs. Ramskill, 1903 Eleventh ave-
nue..
Wednesday evening prayer services
will be held
Thursday evening the teachers train.
ing class will meet at the home of Rev
Marion Humphreys, 1914 Seventeenth
street.
Spencer Memorial Methodist.-This
evening the official board will meet in
the church.
Tuesday evening the normal bible
/ study class will meet in the church.
Wednesday evening prayer services
will be held in the church, followed by
a meeting of the Sunday school board.
| Thursday evening the EpwOrth
league will hold business meeting in
the church.
i United Presbyterian.-The monthly
business meeting of the session will
be held following the prayer service
4 "Wednesday evening at 1880.
4 The trustees will meet Thursday ev-
ening with John Taylor, TAB Four
iteenth street.
Friday afternoon the Ladies' Aid so,
ciety will meet with Mrs. D. ]. White
ZIG First avenue
! Broadway Presbyterian.-The Junior
society will meet in the Sunday school
room Wednesday afternoon at T. Pray
I er service will be held Wednesday ey
! ening at 1880.
H The Ladies' Aid society will meet
Friday afternoon at the home of Mrs
A. H. McCandless, 903 Twenty-thirC
y street.
Grace Lutheran.-The Acme society
y will meet this evening with the Misse.
4 Greim, 924 Nineteenth avenue, Moline
N The Ladies' Aid society will NEE
K Friday afternoon at the home of Mrs
y K. T. Anderson, 917 Nineteenth street
Nl Lenten services will be held Frida!
: evening in the church at o'clock.
, Swedish Lutheran.-The board O
4 trustees will meet this evening at tn
Q home of the cashier.
ri The sub-bazar committee will NEE
. Tomorrow evening at 1880 at tn
8 school house.
I'll Lenten services will be held Wed
5 nesday evening in the church. TIL
& Sunday school teachers will hold
5 business meeting following this SCI
z lvice.
g The Ladies' Mission society will Eol
& a meeting Thursday afternoon at 2:9
g at the home of Mrs. Sederquis
8 Twelfth street and Eighteenth avenu,
vi The Tri-City Luther league will hol
8 its quarterly meeting at the churc
= Thursday evening at 8.
O. Choir rehearsal Friday evening wi
x be postponed because of the lectur
Siby Governor Hanly at the Illinois.
& Saturday afternoon at the confirm
9 alton class will meet
& First Methodist This evening
8 100 the official board will meet in til
< pastors study. The Woman's Hon
g Mission circle will meet this evenin
x at 7:45 with Mrs. J. w. Barrett, 101
9 Nineteenth street. The Daughters
"a the Covenant will hold business NEE
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-02
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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-02
ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS:
Tonight and

Tonight and Tomorrow Morning.
Sun sets 5:4s. rises 6:27. Moon sets
6 p. IN. Moons age, 291a days. 1:49 p. m.
new moon. SUMS declination, degrees
south of celestial equator
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-02
THE W EATHE Il.

Generally fair tonight and Tuesday
not much change I'm temperature.
j. NJ. SHERIER, Local FOrecastcr
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-02

First Methodist This evening at
100 the official board will meet in the
pastors study. The Woman's Home
Mission circle will meet this evening
at TAB with Mrs. J. w. Barrett, 1912
Nineteenth street. The Daughters OF
the Covenant will hold business meet
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-02

Grace Lutheran.-The Acme societ
will meet this evening with the Misse
IGreim, 924 Nineteenth avenue, Molin,
The Ladies' Aid society will NEE
Friday afternoon at the home of Mr.
K. T. Anderson, 917 Nineteenth stree
Lenten services will be held Frida
evening in the church at o'clock.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-03-02

Broadway Presbyterian.-The Junior
society will meet in the Sunday schoo
room Wednesday afternoon at a. Pray
er service will be held Wednesday ev
ening at 1880.
The Ladies' Aid society will NEE
Friday afternoon at the home of Mrs
A. H. McCandless, 903 Twenty-Five
street.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-01-09
A MODEL FART
Why Go to Canada and Leave
Such Bargains at Home.

A 6. $50 acres at $75 per acre
One of the finest stock and grain
farms in the county, 51a miles from
a good town on main line of railroad,
40 rods to school, R. F. d. at door,
close to church, good neighborhood,
160 acres fine, almost level farm land
In cultivation. Deep black Iowa dirt,
no sand, no stone, no burs, 100 acres
of brush and timber pasture, all we'll
set to bluegrass, finely watered,
springs, deep wells and wind mill, 2
tanks, hog pasture lots, etc, big young
orchard, all kinds of small fruit,
monster barn 66xS0, almost new and
stone foundation, cattle sheds, hog
house, cribs, granary, double corn
crib, wood and coal sheds, fine
house, 2 story, stone cellar 8 feet
deep, an ideal location, $4,000 to $4,000.
Balance easy terms.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-01-09
IT'S IN IOWA

No. 1. 16O acres S miles from
town, good roads, phone in house,
and R. F. D. at door, 40 rods to
school, 100 acres level second bot
tom fine deep soil, 40 acres rolling, no
waste land, about 40 seeded to clover
and timothy, fine crop Of corn on
clover sod, going 70 bushels per acre,
any of this farm will produce that
amount, the corn is on the rolling, 40
well fenced, 10 acres hog pasture
fenced with woven wire, finely wat
cred, deep well and Windmill, we'll at
house, fine or room house,
fine new frame barn, some orchard.
Here is snap at SOS, will go to SIS
before a year. Terms $4,000 to
$4,000, by March 1, 1907. Easy terms
on balance. Journal.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-01-09
$50 Acres at $50.
Near Railway, Phone, r. r. d. and
school, timber enough If properly
handled to pay for farm. Compare
this with other farms and see
what an opportunity is
offered here.

No 321. $50 acres miles from town
on main line of Rock Island Il. r., good
roads. close to phone, r. f. ID, and
school, about go or 70 acres under culti-
walton, balance brush and timber pasture,
about 100 or 200 would make good farm
land. All good soil, some of the timber
is good sow stuff. There is enough tim
Der OF here if properly handled to pay
for place, finely watered, some of this is
quite rough but no more so than thou
sands OF acres in Audubon county that is
no better soil than this and selling from
SIS. per acre. poor outbuildings, stables
etc., poor a room house, good title
belongs to old people who want TO retire.
Now, hold your breath, I'm going to
tell you something you'll never hear of
in Iowa again. Price only S36. per acre
and miles from as fine market town
of 1000 people as there is in Iowa. Some
young man could clean this up and sell
for $50. per acre in short time. A fine
road into town, $1,000. incumbrance.
Will take about $250O. to $4,000. cash to
handle this, balance easy terms. Some
one could take this, seed the cultivated
land down for hay or pasture, fence the
whole tract in and almost double his
money in ten years. Why 'wrassel' with
the fieas, bugs and sand storms of the
Pan Handle or the ice and SHOWS of
Canada where you have to shed your toe
nails every spring when right here in
Imperial Iowa you can get farm SO
cheap as this.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-01-09
/ SO Acres at $50.
A Little Rough but Price Right.
Will Make a Fine Pasture.
No Waste Land.

No. 322. 100 acres about six
miles from Guthrie, good roads, !
mile to school, some of this is rough
but all first class pasture land, about
] lays fairly we'll, no waste land,
part seeded, good house of 4 or 5
rooms, fair small out buildings,
deep we'll and windmill, good stock
farm for some one and cheap at
only $50 per acre. $500 payment
March first, 1908, balance long time
and easy payments.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-01-09
Read This Over

No. 321. 100 acres at $65. l mile
from small railroad town cream
cry. schools, etc. so acres second
bottom, fine coil, balance rolling;
about 20 acres under cultivation,
balance brush pasture, one of the
finest springs in the county, good
five or six room house, good or
chard. fair cutbuiidings, a good
little farm for someone. $1,000 will
handle this. $4,000 first mortgage
to be put on: $500 per year on sec
ond mortgage for yrs. at 5
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-01-09
100 acres at $66

No. 3l4. 100 acres at $66. 4 miles
each from two good towns on the
main line of the Rock Island, no
better market In Iowa, good roads,
school on farm, r. f. d. at door, good
neighbors, lays rolling but not rough,
no waste land, we'll fenced, good soil
surrounding farms are held at $75 to
$1OO per acre, fair improvements,
small house, beautiful grove, orchard,
yard and lawn, lots of small fruit,
good we'll of water at door, hen house
12x14, granary 14xl6, machine shed
l4x30, corn crib 36210x12, hog house,
hog pasture, garden fenced with
woven wire, barn 1896, COW barn
1896, waterworks, windmill, tanks,
etc. Will carry $4,000 loan on farm
and long time to pay it in. Would
like $4,000 payment.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-01-09
100 Acre Farm

So go acres in blue grass pasture,
so acres in timothy and clover, 80 acres
in corn ground, all fenced hog tight,
pair, large barn in good shape, good
wells, cribs, granary, windmill, etc.
Land lays rolling, all of the land can
be farmed but about six acres which
is in timber, no grubs, no brush. One
mile from one of the best towns on the
Rock Island road in Adair county.
Price $65 per acre, $4,000 down, bal
ance on terms to suit purchaser.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-01-09
Fine Farm for Sale
100 Acres in Adair County, Nicely
Located, Main Line c. R. /. &P.
Not a Foot of Waste Land

No. j. 100 acres at $65. No stone,
no burrs; al in oats, corn, tame grass,
fine twelve acre hog pasture, good
hog house, elegant spring of sparkling
water, fine grove, good orchard, only
ten or fifteen rods to schoolhouse, all
fenced and cross fenced, fair house,
stable, barn, good pastures, on +. f. d.,
telephone in house. Small payment
and long time on balance with low
interest. AT only $65. per acre. If
you see it, you'll buy. Enquire at
Journal Office.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-01-09
so Acres at 500.
A Pleasant Farm at Fair Price. One
That You May improve Yourself

No. Boil so acres 2 miles from good
live town, good roads, mile to school,
lays we'll, mostly seeded, good soil. The
Improvements are not first class good
neighbors, good grove around buildings,
price $50. per acre, a good home at a
reasonable price. Only about $1,000.
down, balance long time at low interest.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-01-09
A HONEY ilAKER
Improve this Yourself and then
Get the Raise.

A. z. 21O acres at $3.50 till Janu-
airy i, 1907, and after that SOS. Four
and one-half miles from fine town on
Rock Island, good roads, 100 almost
level, balance rolling, good soil, no
stone, sand nor burs, fenced hog and
cattle pasture, big orchard, fine
groves, some timber nicely watered,
new four room house, stables, good
stock and grain farm at low price.
$500 to $500 down, balance long time.
Journal.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-01-09
THE HOME
Of the BIest. That's What You'd Call
it If You Owned 1t. This
Low Price Should Suit You

A so. 225 acres at sos 90, three
miles from county seat, good roads,
part is bottom land, no overflow, some
rolling but not rough, part in clover
and timothy, we'll fenced, good soil,
good house, large barns, sheds, etc.,
but not first class, well watered, or
chard and grove and in ideal location
at very low price. A fine grain
and stock farm. $4,000 to $4,000, bal.
ance long time. Journal.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-01-09
80 Acre Farm

S4. 21a miles from Patterson, Mad
ison county, Iowa. "a miles from Des
Moinee. Fair renters Improvements,
house, barn cribs etc 80 acres es seed
ground, 20 acres in timber pasture, all
fenced and cross fenced, land lays
rolling but not rough. Price $50 per
acre, $1,000 down, balance to suit the
purchaser.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-01-09
A Small Farm for Small Money

No. 319. "a acres for $3.50. Close to
country town, a mile to school. mile
to r. F. ID. on phone line. 10 acres le-
vel, balancing rolling, 10 acres woven
wire hog pasture, we'll fenced and wa
tered, good room house, fair out bull
dings, IA acres under plow, balance
young timber pasture. $3.50 mortgage
4years 6 percent. Equity cash, Mar. l,
1907. a fine poultry farm
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-01-09

hog tight, some orchard, plenty small
fruit, all in high state of cultivation,
III story house 16x2S, barn 28x32 and
shed, wood house and other outbuild-
ings, cistern at house, deep we'll and
wind mill, small price and easy
terms. It's worth $4,000 per acre.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-01-09
80 acres at $50
Near county seat, near school, near
store, good roads. so acres good
farm land. Lots OF small fruit

No. 3l9. 7miles from county seat,
good roads, a mile II, f. d., mi'e
to school and store, 40 acres lays we'll,
40 rough, bluegrass and brush pasture,
a part of this forty has been under
pillow, about fifty acres good farm land
we'll fenced, all seeded to timothy and
clover, spring in pasture, good soil,
about seventy five fine bearing cherry
trees, apples, plums and all kinds Of
small fruit, big strawberry patch,
blackberries, raspberries, currants,
grapes, yard, garden, orchard and
barn and poultry yards fenced with
woven wire, buildings in good loca-
ton, stable for six horses, cattle shed
for twelve COWS, stalls for each, hog
house, hen house about 10x32, fine
little two room house, stone-walled
cellar, all buildings are good as new.
good brick-walled well at door. $500
mortgage, years at 51a per cent
$500 to $1,000 payment, then 500 q
year for ten or fifteen years. A bar
gain for someone.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-01-09
100 Acres at Is, we'll
worth $500

No. 329. Not foot of waste land,
gently rolling, all tillable but few
acres of slough, only II miles from
good railway station, good new barn,
or room house, orchard, deep well
aud windmill. One of our best and at
very low price. $500 to $4,000 will
handle this.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-01-09
A CHOICE QUARTER
This Farm Can Not be Sold for
Less Money. You Can See good
Raise, Then Why Not Buy.

Choice 100 acres in Brown county,
South Dakota, near thrifty Dunk
ard settlement. Surface nearly
level, soil black loan of good quail
ity. Every foot can be profitably
cultivated. Improved farms all
around. Are you interested at $50
an acre? For terms write Journal.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-01-09
The Best Bargain in Iowa.

No. 800: 100 acres mt $3.50. Just
one hour drive from fine town on the
main line of the Rock Island r. r.
Good roads and close 10 school, r. F. ID.
Just nicely rolling not " foot of waste
land, best Of water, no better soil in
the state, no burrs and no stones of any
consequence, fenced and cross-fenced
hog and cattle pasture, good house, fair
outbulldings, orchard. Worth $40 per
acre more $1,000 will handle this. No
more payments but taxes and interests
for years, 51a per cent interest. This
belongs to an old man who can't look
after it, and will let it 60 at sacrifice.
The chance of your life.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-01-09
THINK OF 1T
A Fine One Hundred and Twenty Ac-
re Farm at $4,000 Per Acre. 1t
Will Never Be Cheaper.

No. 2 100 acres at $50. 2 miles
from good town, R. F. D., close to
coal at $3.50 per ton, about 80 acres
of this is in cultivation, balance
brush pasture. The ninety acres
lays well and is new ground, little
or no stone or sand, no burs, small
but good improvements. Here is
good tract of farm land at bargain
price, a good stock and grain farm
finely watered by spring and well.
Price $50 per acre, about $4,000 first
mortgage 57A per cent, $4,000, by
March l, 1907, balance long time at 6
per cent perhaps can get it at 51a per
cent.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-01-09

No. 4o4. 400 acres at $3.50. splendid
place for fruit or sheep raising. There is
three-quarters of a mile of shore affording
fine fishing, boating and duck shooting on
the Potomac river The land is billy, house
situated on prominent hill from which
Washington monument can be seen. One
mile from postoffice and telephone and one
and one-half miles from station. Terms one-
half cash, balance reasonable time.
No $40. 1872 acres at $e5. miles from
Fredericksburg, new four room house, and
all necessary outbuildings, Eacre orchard,
land level but well drained so acres in spIen-
did timber. Terms easy.
No. All. 400 acres at See.so. Land fertile,
I25 acres in cultivation, entire place fenced,
good water, large house, barn, stables and
number of outbuildings, ice house; 2 miles
to church and postoffice. miles to depot.
Terms, one-fourth cash, balance easy terms.
No. 400. 200 acres for $4,000, little less
than $l4.5o per acre. Soil heavy loan, about
I2S acres in cultivation, 200 fruit tire es, apple
and pears; 90 acres of timber, land is gently
rolling, all enclosed with wire fence, large
dwelling in good condition, barns, miles
to station, school on the place, ga mile to
store and postoffice; saw and grist mill near.
Terms one-falf cash.
No, 476. 81 acres at S5o.so. Soil good,
IL acres woodland, balance in cultivation,
new house and outbuildings, 100 fruit trees.
: Store near. } miles to station.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-01-09
Brick Building

A good brick building in a town of
1000 on the main line of the Mjlwau-
kee in Iowa. Size 24x85, two stories
and basement, in the very best of re.
pair, plate glass front, furnace heated,
used for hotel and restaurant purpos-
es, divided into Is rooE.s.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-01-09

with timothy and clover seed, five 40 acre
fields fenced off. 10000 white oak ties and
considerable other hard wood with some pine
timber, large new dwelling, barns and stables
all new, two and one-half miles to stores and
churches, five and one-haf miles to station,
10 miles to town.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-01-09
A MODEL HOME
1t Can't be Duplicate in
Iowa for the Price,
500 per Acre.

No. 210. 100 acres at 5 90. 3
miles from two good towns, miles
from fine town on main line of Rock
Island Ry, 1 mile to school, R. F. D.
at door, phone in house, lays some
what rolling but not rough, 100 acres
can be cultivated, balance good pas.
ture land. All good soil, all fenced
with woven wire, two pastures, fields
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-01-09
Do You Need An Eighty

A very choice 80 acree for sale
All under cultivation. Lays we'll.
Good house, barn and sheds. Near
school. Fine new hog house. Near
good town, splendid roads. Cheap
at $500 On Rock Island Mail Line.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-01-09

No Sb-32O with ncumbrance Two
of buildings that $4,000 Ali good land lays WE'LL good
works. good groves all fenced and fenced good
orchards D. and telephone We have been asked
larger which you might smallerone
just the thing
good hardware stock from
exchange this you quick Write
Ole JOURNAL
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-01-09

4oI. gas acres at Sill. 200 acres in culti-
walton, fenced and supports number of
cattle, located on two public roads. 1t is es-
timated that there are 1900 cords of wood.
There are two dwelling houses in good repair
one new house. mile from store. two and
one-half miles from station.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-01-09

| No. sos. 40 A. at $40. highly improved
farm with large ten room house in good re-
pair; good barns and all outbuldings in good
repair, we'll fenced, large orchard, consider
able timber. About two miles to stores,
church and postoffice. Soil is adapted to
grass. Property is owned by a nonresident.
No. 5l3. $50 acres at SIS. $50 acres clear
edand in high state of cultivation. SO acres
in wood and 10 acres in bottom land, 200
acres fenced, 500 fruit trees, new dwelling,
! 2 barns and tenament house. One-half
mite from growing town with churches, etc.
Terms reasonable.
No. 500. ia acres for $500. A little less
than $I3.25; all fenced, over rs acres cleared,
fronts on pubic road and telephone line, good
dwellings with barns and outbuildings,
stores and postoffice at the place; I mile to
grist and saw mill, miles to depot. Terms,
one.half cash.
No. 500. 347 acres at $I4 SO. Soil, clay,
loan; mostly fenced with barb wire with
cedar posts, dwelling, stables and barn in
good repair; two=thirds cleared, good grazing
large orchard, on public road three miles
from station. Terms reasonable.
No. SIS. 267 acres at SIS.75. Gray soil
with clay subsoii, well fenced and partially
seeded to grass and clever, I67 acres cleared,
I25 fruit trees, large dwelling in good repair,
in good neighborhood, one mile to church,
school and store, miles to depot.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-01-09

No. 4os 81 acres at SIG, Small new house
on public road, miles from station, one-half
cleared, balance in merchantabie timber.
No. 500. 4l2 acres at $3a.So. Gray and
chocolate loan with clay subsoiI, 400 acres
cleared and in high state of cultivation,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-08-21

every so ofteh?. Americans demand
the campaign speech above all other
forms of free shows.
Republican Chairman Frank Harris
Hitchcock and Democrn. ic Chairman
Norman L Mack at Chicago have their
hands choek full Of reins. for it is a
multiplicity OF horses they must drive
on the big home run for Washington.
They must know whether the Ate
ward in St Louis is properly organ
lied. with the right size of Taft and
Sherman or Bryan and Kern banner
strung across the street from the cor
nice of Slupsky's Shoeshop TO the
gable end of Schweit2er's beer garden
They must know if the campaign club
at Crossroads Corners is organized and
doing coed work They must keep a
sharp lookout along the whole line to
see if the enthIsiasnIs is hot enough
and make sure that the shouting is snf-
ficiently loud to drown the other fell
lows voices. III fact. The amount OF
detail information which these party
bosses must acquire and- the mass OF
political wires they must pull are
enough to stagger ordinary humanity.
Busy Times For the Party Bosses
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-08-21

or proof copy. favoring the platform
and ticket OF the. party for which they
stand. This material goes forward in
copious quantities. In some instances
the campaign management pays for
Its insertion by ordering so many thou.
sand copies Of the paper But, paid or
free, it costs money to edit and deliver
the matter 10 the press.
Then there is the speakers bureau
in connection with headquarters. with
branch speakers bureaus ut state com.
mittce headquarters. Hundreds OF
spcllbinders permeate the atmosphere
with cratory. For the most part tho
speakers invade the doubtful states.
with trend toward the weak spots.
Their oratory. Republican or Demo
cratic, is calculated to win votes to
their respective candidates. Compare
lively few of the campaign orators get
PAID For their work. Practically all re.
ceive expense money, and this eats a
mighty hole into the fund. Many of
the orators are distinguished senators
ana congressman. who do. not eat at
the free lunch counters and sleep in
day coaches. They come high, even
for expense accounts only. but we
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