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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-01
HIllSOALE.

Charlie Honschild is home for a
snort visit with his mother .
Miss Erma STEERS OF Woodruff is
visiting this week at the Delphy home.
Edward Delphy visited last week in
Woodruff with relatives
Albert Huneke is visiting for few
days with his parents in Batesville,
Ind
Thomas Quick spent few days last
week in Chicago.
Mrs. f. l.. Hanson visited a few
days the first of the week with her
parents in Albany.
Miss Nellie Baron is visiting rela-
uves in Sterling.
Friday evening. Jan. 81. the ladies
Of the Methodist church will serve
chicken pie, besides other good things.
The proceeds are to be used for church
expenses.
John Butter is in Urbana. H., this
week visiting with his wife and chill
dren.
William Schook is TO have a sale the
18th of February. He will move TO
Hillsdale. His father and brother
Frank have rented his farm for the
coming year.
Mrs. William Dillon visited relatives
in Rock Island few days the last of
the week.
The stockholders of the NJ. W. A.
Hall company held their annual meet
ing Saturday at the hall Mac Martin
was elected as one of the directors TAX
ing the place of Hiram Cain. who has
resigned Robert Hill was reelected
as janitor
Some of the Barstow boys skated
from Barstow to Hillsdale Monday
Mrs. Marvin Mumma and children
of Watertown spent few days the
last of the week in town with her
parents. Mr.. and Mrs. William Orr.
The neighbors of James Dillin last
week cut. hauled and sawed his years
wood Mr. Dillin is still in Dorchester
Neb. caring for his son Jesse If he
continues to improve Mr. Dillin thinks
they will be able 10 start for home in
about two weeks.
Mrs John Kuehl and baby girl are
in Clinton this week visiting with reIa
tives.
/ The quarantine was lifted Tuesday
from the home of A. B. Huston. Al
the present time Hillsdale is free from
IAN contagious diseases.
Earl Wilkins is storing his house
hold goods in Hillsdale. The family
will begin housekeeping as soon as
they can secure a vacant house.
The annual election of Sunday schoo
officers was held Sunday afternoon. re
sultin gas follows: Superintendent
Justin Daley; assistant superintendent
Wesley Hudson; treasurer Edwin Han
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-01

The plan contemplates the removal OF
the dining room on the second fioor
to the first floor in the room now oc-
cupied by the Famous Clothing store
and then devote the space OF the pres
ent dining room for guest rooms. BY
that arrangement some % rooms could
be added to the capacity of the hotel
and still larger dining room provided.
Open Athletic Club.-Three bouts
were pulled off before the Moline
Athletic club Thursday night at the
Plow City turkish bath parlors, two
of the contests resulting in knockouts.
The club was recently organized by
William Murphy. AS it was the first
meeting of the club the boxing bouts
were arranged along with the other
athletic events. Oficers for the club
were chosen and the permanent name
of Moline Athletic club selected. The
object of the club is for the members
to improve themselves physically. All
kinds of apparatuSes are found in the
gymnasium for the members use
Tommy Wynn has been engaged as in
structor and classes in all branches
will be formed. He will also give box
ing lessons. The opening contest o.
three rounds was between Gulley anC
Martin. no decision being rendered
| The second contest was 10 have beef
q SiXround affair between Otto Nc
Camish and young Sonnet. After fiv,
fast rounds the former quarter bacl
for the West End football team landed
one on the barber that made him TAX,
the count. The final bout was between
Kid Arnold of Rock Island and William
Murphy of this city. For three round
the boys gave an excellent exhibition
of the game. but the third roun,
proved disastrous for Murphy. for h
was placed on the shelf for the coun
of 10.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-01

the floors of public buildings. the work
shop and the like. may be a far great
er menace to the lives or others than
the consumptive who is confined TO
his dwelling
The germs of consumption will often
be found among dust and dirt in tene.
ments and other dwellings where they
may retain their vitality for months.
also in cast-off clothing. Dampness.
darkness. dirt and dust all serve as
refuge for the germ of consumption.
The Sputum should be destroyed.
The most certain method of prevent
ing the infection of consumption is
lne destruction of the sputum of the
consumptive. Not only the safety OF
me people. but the safety of the pa
ticnt himself requires that the sputum
be destroyed before it can have an OPP
with the dust of dwellings, Offices. fac
tories and other places where human
beings congregate
The important points in the proven
ton of consumption are: Pare air.
sanitary surroundings. an abundance
of light and fresh air and cleanliness
in the dwelling, Office and workshop.
proper clothing. good food properly
cooked, moderate living The exces-
sive use of alcoholic liquors lowers vi
tally, favors infection and hastens =
| fatal termination.
Every one should be prepared to bat
| tie with consumption. The disease
spares no class of people. 1t spreads
| its terrors in The huts of the poor and
the dwellings of the rich. Weakly
persons. particularly those who have
been exposed to the disease. or those
descended from consumptive parents
| should constantly be ON their guard
against this disease. These persons
should seek outdoor occupations.
| Don't spit on the sidewalk. cross
walk. or any walk. or on the floor OF
any building. street car or other pub
lie conveyance where the sputum ma,
become dry and permit the spread O.
| the germs which it may contain
| When you must spit do so out OF
doors. into a gutter especially one
containing wafer, or into the opening
of a sewer. and indoors into a piece
of cloth, into a spit flask, or into {
spittoon Set a good example for the
consumptives, and thus contribute to
wards the saving of many lives. in
Guiding. perchance. your own.
Rock Island has an ordinance agains
| splitting on the sidewalks or in public
places where the germs are likely tt
be gathered up on the clothing and BIZ
transferred to the alimehtary canal OF
lungs of human beings Street cars
of the Tri-CHy Railway company for
merly carried signs warning agains
splitting on the floors. and notices were
displayed on the streets TO proven
violations of the ordinance Such sign!
should be renewed wherever they hav,
/ become displaced, for the war on tn,
white plague is one which should neve
be allowed to lag.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-01
Keep Up the War Against White Plague

tuberculosis is the subject of the
last bulletin issued by the state board
CT health. Ii is shown that one OF ev-
cry seven OF all mankind die of this
disease, its victims numbering be-
tween seven and eight thousand in
1906. BY far the greatest proportion
OF those fatally affected die between
the ages of 20 and 80. over 50 per
cent of those between these ages dy-
ing in 1896 being victims of the white
plague.
The bulletin goes on to show that
the disease is caused by a germ which
breaks down the tissues of the body
tuition and one that the consumptive
bacilli readily work upon may be and
often is inherited. i; is very rarely
that the disease passes from parents
to children by heredity.
The chief mode of communication of
consumption is from the dried sputum
of consumptives. The germs of con-
sumption, which are the cause of the
disease. exist. by the million in the
sputum which may be hawlled or
coughed up and cast upon the size.
walk, the floors of public halls, work
shops, and all public buildings, or
upon the floors or carpets in dwell
ings in fact, any place where the con
sumptiye chooses to spit.
When the sputum becomes dried up,
the germs, which it contains in enor.
| nous numbers, mingle with the air
and dust of the building and may be
breathed into the lungs and thus in
feet susceptible persons. one consump
tive spreading the disease. to many
others. The danger is increased by
the great vitality of the germs which
exist for a long time after drying and
mixing with the dust.
| The minute drops of the sputum
which consumptives eXpel when cough.
ing may also contain the germs OF
consumption
| 1t will thus be seen that the con
sumptive who is able TO be about and
goes from place to place and spits on
the sidewalk, in the street cars or OF
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-01

son: secretary, Miss Alice Orr; organ
list, Miss Faye Merlin; assistant organ
list. Miss Melissa Orr: librarian, Mrs.
Mamie Daley. There was no change
made in the teachers, Mrs. Justin
Daley teaching the infant class, Mrs.
C. l.. Markee the intermediate, Justin
DALEY the young ladies'. c. l.. Markee
the young men, and Wesley Hudson
the bible class. y
While saving wood Saturday Will
lam Cain had the misfortune TO badly
smash his toe by being struck with
a log of wood.
Mrs. Nancy Scott of Erie is visiting
at the home of her son. John Scott.
William Donohoe was in Rock Island
Monday to get the tax books. as he is
collector for this township.
Mrs. Kesia Anglesy of Albany is Wis
itins this week at the home of her
sister. Mrs. James Dillin.
William Berendt is hauling lumber
from Hillsdale to his farm near JOS
lin. He will build this spring.
George Scott is visiting relatives in
Iowa this week
jake Simkin is home from ST. Louis
where he has been for the last two
months working for bridge company
The fourth number on the lecture
course will be given Wednesday even
ing. Feb. 5. when Pitt Parker will b,
here.
Three local people exchanged home:
Monday, Gilbert Waters moving into
| the Grandma Virgins home shor
distance west of town: Tom eros:
moving onto his own farm which III
bought last autumn from Mrs. Eliza
beth Walker, and Jesse Walker NOV
| ing from the farm TO his town house
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-01
Isconic.

rs the proprietor in?' asked the
visitor.
NO. sir" replied the Office boy.
is he in the city,"
Yes, SIR
will he be back soon?"
no, sir"
Tonight
no. sir"
Tomorrow some time"
no, sir"
did he leave any word for Mr..
Nash?'
NO sir"
The stranger looked at the office boy
sharply.
when did he go?''
Yesterday afternoon
Didn't he say when he'd be back?"
no. SIR"
We'll. where the dickens is hep"
AT the undertaker's."
What's the matter?''
Hes dead."-Harper's Weekly.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-01
DAVENPORT
Glucose Works Resumes.-A force

Glucose Works Resumes.-A force
OF about 300 men was given employ
ment this morning when the manu-
featuring department of The Corn
Products company's plant resumed
operation after shut down of over a
year. The mixing house. at the big
west end factory has been the only
part which has been turning out goods
and it was supplied with glucose ship
ped here from other plants of the com
1lany. Work ON the new tin can fac
tory and the alkali house is not COM
pleted. 1t is thought that they will be
ready To start in about six weeks at
which time the force of employees will
be raised to- about 700.
Golden State Limited Stops.-Rock
Island railway officials say that they
understand that the point raised here
in Davenport in reference to stops by
the Golden State limited has been
satisfactorily met sby the company A
bulletin which was sent out and which
they believe is being lived up 70.
reads: Nos. > and ! (the Golden State
limited) will stop at Davenport when
there are passengers to be accommo-
dated. To or from points at which this
train is carded To stop.
Tom Walsh Refuses to Sign.-The
Chicago Nationals are after Thomas J.
Walsh. son of Mr. and Mrs. p r.
Walsh of Davenport. TO play baseball
again with the Cubs during the coming
year. but the Davenport Young man
has declined the offer and will not
play ball this year owing to his bust,
ness connections President Charles
W. Murphy of the Chicago Baseball
club wrote letter TO p. T. Walsh and
sent a contract already drawn up fol-
Tom TO sign. asking that the Dayen
port boy join the ranks of the organi
zation for the season of 1908 There
is a salary of $500 a month and eX
penses connected with his afiliatior
with the Cubs. but Tom is now inter
ested in a construction company
which at present is doing extensive
construction in Indiana and he intends
to devote his undivided attention &c
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-01
rheumatism Cured in pay.

DR.. Detchon's Relief for Rheuma-
tism and neuralgia radically cures in
one to three days. It's action upon the
system is remarkable and mysterious.
It removes at once the cause and the
disease Immediately disappears. The
first dose greatly benefits. IS cents
and 81. Sold by Otto Grotjan, 1891
Second avenue, Rock Island; Gust
Schlegel & Son, 20 West Second
street, Davenport.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-01
For Rheumatic Sufferers.

The quick relief from pain afforded
by applying Chambeilain's Pain Balm
makes ii favorite with sufferers from
sciatica. lame back, lum-
bago. and deep seated and muscular
pains. For sale by all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-01
After Once Tasting


no one wants an old-fash-
toned cod liver oil prepare
ton or emulsion, because
Vinol is a much better body
builder and strength creator
for old people, weak children,
and for coughs, colds, bron-
chitis, etc. If it does no good
we will return your money.
HARPER HOUSE PHARMACY.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-01
MOLINE

Got Cold Ducking.--Word has
reached relatives and friends that Phil
Anderson, a Moline boy who is study
ing law at the University of Michigan
experienced narrow escape nom
death by drowning during the Christ
mas holidays while spending the hoii-
days with il college friend at the lat
ter's home at East Tawas. Mich. The
two men We're riding about on the
Huron river on an iceboat when the
ice broke at the thin edge of an air
hole and Mr.. Anderson was thrown
into the water. Heroic work on the
part of his companion finally resulted
in Anderson's being pulled from the
river before life was extinct After
much work he was resuscitated
Moline Druggists Close Early
Druggists of the city have decided to
close their stores, excepting Saturdays
at 8 O'Clock each evening hereafter
during the winter. instead of at $50
the hour that has been observed un
der. the agreement in force for several
year.
o.
May Change to European Plant
is said that the management of the
Manufacturers hotel is thinking OF
changing from the American plan tC
| the European plan. 1t is understood
that plans have been drawn providing
for the reconstruction of the hotel
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-01
Suffering and Dollars Saved.

e. S. Lopez of Marilla. \. Y, says:
Il am carpenter and have had many
severe cuts healed by Bucklen's Ar
MICA Salce. 1t has saved me suffering
and dollars. 1t is by far the best heal.
ing salve I have ever found Heals
burns. sores ulcers. fever sores
eczema and piles. % cents at all drug.
gists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-02-01

Kodol is a scientific preparation of
vegetable, acids with natural digest
ants and contains the same juices
found in healthy stomach. Each
dose will digest more than 1000 grains
of good food. Sold by all druggists.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-11-17
Fast Telegraphing.

The Democratic convention at Den
yer saw other records broken besides
that for political demonstration.
One record that was smashed was for
long-distance telegraphing. The man
who broke this record was George w,
Conkling, the Suns chief operator.
Working over wire that stretched
more than half way across the CONT
nent, about $500 miles, Mr.. Conkling
attained the high speed of $4,000
words an hour, or 52.27 words to the
minute, a record which has never be-
fore been equaled anywhere. Fur
thermore, Mr. Conkling, in just TWEEN
ty-eight working hours, sent over this
wire to the Sun, by the Morse system,
and using the Phillips code, total OF
$4,000 words, an average of 2607.14
an hour, or 4345 words a minute
Much of this matter was sent from a
seat in front of the speakers stand in
the convention hall, while pandemo-
mum was being raised.-New York
Sun.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-11-17
The Decline of Immigration.

There is probably no good reason
for regretting the marked decline in
immigration which is reported for the
last fiscal year. We are told that in
1907-1908 not half as many immi-
grants arrived at this port as in 1906
1907, while more went abroad than
came hither. 1t is not to be sup
posed that such conditions will long
continue, and that emigration will
permanently exceed immigration.
There is a pretty general agreement
that last years conditions were due
to the financial disturbances and bust
ness depression which prevailed here
for time, and perhaps to the fear
that they would grow worse until
the country was struggling with a
genuine and protracted period of
hard times" and there is a reason
able expectation that with the restora-
ton of the full tide of business pros
perity here the tide of immigration
will again rise toward the flood
New York World
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-11-17
DESPERATE KILLS SEVEN
Himself Burned in House in Which
He Took Refuge.
Day Of Bloodshed in Oklahoma Town
2 Police Official the First Victim
Sheriff Shot Next.

Okmulgee, Okla.--Janes Dechard,
a negro desperate, quarreled with
Steve Grayson, an Indian boy, and
beat him with. stone until he was
insensible. The scene of the quarrel
was the station of the ST. Louis and
San Francisco. Railroad. Friends Of
Grayson called the police Assistant
Chief of Police Kiaber went to the
station, and then Dechard fed to his
house, near by, and barricaded him
self. When Klaber approached the
house Dechard shot him dead.
Sheriff Robinson gathered depu-
ties, among them a number of ne
groes, whom he commissioned, and
advanced on Dechard's house.
AS the attacking party approached
Dechard began shooting with a rifle,
firing as rapidly as he could load his
weapon The sheriff fell first, in
stantly killed Then FIVE of the me-
gro deputies were slain.
Dechards house was soon sur
rounded by frenzied mob of armed
men. Fire was set to house just
north of Dechard's. Volleys Of bull
lets were poured into Dechard's house
and he was shot down. He was seen
to roll over on the floor, strike a
match and set fire to his own house,
which was soon roaring furnace, in
which his body was baked. Dechard
evidently had a large quantity of am
munition stored in his house, for
many cartridges exploded while the
house was burning
The dead: - Chapman, colored,
and his brother; James Dechard, coll
ored Henry Klaber, Assistant Chief
of Police; Edgar Robinson, Sheriff of
Okmulgee County; three unidentified
negroes.
The injured: Victor Farr, chief Of
Sioux, shot through shoulder; Steve
Grayson, Indian boy, probably fatally
beaten.
A deputy sheriff's arm was broken
and seven others were slightly
wounded.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-11-17
Riding to Get Most speeo.

Why does man seated near the
neck of horse travel faster than one
seated near his tail? For it has
been proved within recent years in
very striking fashion that he does.
But why?
The reason is very simple, and yet
when little Tod Sloan, the jockey.
came forward with practical proof
nobody seemed to be able to explain
it. A horse to move forward at all
must thrust at the earth and the
chief force of this forward thrust
comes from mis- hind legs. If the
chief weight is just over or close to
the thrusting power naturally it d.
minishes its efficiency; instead OF
thrusting the horse forward a por.
ton of 1t is wasted in lifting the
weight of the jockey at every stride.
Strand Magazine.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-11-17
CORNSTRLk PAPER
SAID TO BE ASSURED
Government Experts Announce Sue
cess Of Their Experiments
to That End.

Government Experts Announce Sue
cess of Their Experiments
to That End.
Experiments conducted by chemists
of the Bureaus Of Forestry and Of
Plant Industry in the new laborator-
les at Washington have demonstrated,
1t is said, that paper can be made
from cornstalks, by much the same
process as that used in treating wood
pulp, at cost, when machinery has
been perfected, of little over half
the cost of making it from wood pulp.
The scientists feel sure that 1t is abb
solutely practical, the newly discov-
cred process having been subjected
to every test.
Samples of the cornstalk paper
made by DR.. H. S. Bristol and his
assistants were shown recently. 1t
is made in five grades of different
color and texture. The frst grade
is of dark gray color and heavy tex
ture. resembling parchment. 1t is
almost as tough as sheepskin and
commercially might be used for many
purposes. Another grade is of a
lighter gray of the same character.
There are two shades of yellow, and
one of white
The white paper is made from the
hard outside she'll of the cornstalk,
and the yellow from the inside, or
pith. The yellow paper has large
fibre, and in many respects is like
the paper manufactured from rags
and linen, soft and pliable, and might
be utilized by newspapers.
In making paper from cornstalks
the scientists have used the soda
cooked" process, which is acknowl-
edged by paper manufacturers to be
the best means of making paper from
wood pulp. The cornstalk pulp is
cooked for from two to two and
half hours; it takes from twelve to
fourteen hours to cook wood pulp,
DR.. Bristol says he has already
made paper from cornstalks almost
as cheaply as it can be made from
wood pulp. 1t has taken fifty years
to develop the present methods of
making paper from wood pulp. DR..
Bristol believes that when proper
machinery is built and the farmers
realize that good revenue may be
derived from the sale of cornstalks,
paper will be manufactured from the
new material at half the cost of wood
pulp paper
With wood at SIS cord, paper is
made from wood pulp at a cost of $13
a ton. Cornstalks can be bought for
SIS ton and the paper made with
the present primitive machinery for
$14 a ton.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-11-17

A Rare Hybrid.

The Hon. Water Rothschild has
Just presented to the British Museum
of Natural History unique example
of a cross between the Alpine ibex
and an Italian domesticated goat.
The animal, male, presents the pro-
fuse beard and shaggy coat of the
ibex, combined with the peculiar
white marks above the eyes and nos
trils characteristic of domesticated
goats. The horns are also goatlike,
since they lack the knobs so consp!c-
uous in the horns of ibex
The Alpine ibex. it may be re-
marked, is now extinct in the Swiss
Alps and Tyrol, but survives, thanks
to the protection of the King of Italy,
on the Piedmontese side of the Monte
4.osa. Hybrids between the Italian
goat and the ibex of the same region
would, it might be supposed, be met
with at least occasionally Neverthe-
less such crosses appear not to take
place save on very rare occasions
Westminster Gazette.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-11-17
Uses Of Salt.

Salt can almost be regarded as a
panacea, so many and varied are its
uses
We are told that it cleanses the
palate and furred tongue, and gar
gle of salt, and water is often effica-
cious.
A pinch of salt on the tongue, fol-
lowed ten minutes afterward by a
drink of cold water, often cures a
sick headache. 1t hardens the gums,
makes the teeth white and sweetens
the breath.
Bad colds, hay fever and kindred
affections may be much relieved by
using fine dry salt like snuff.
Dyspepsia, heartburn and indiges-
ton are relieved by cup of hot wat
er in which a small spoonful of salt
has been melted.
Salt and water will sometimes re-
vive an unconscious person when
hurt if brandy or other remedies are
not at hand Hemorrhage from tooth
pulling is stopped by filling the
mouth with salt and water.
Weak and tired eyes are refreshed
by bathing with warm water and salt.