Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-07-08
DAVENPORT

Honor for Rabbi Fineshriber. - DR..
w. H. Fineshriber leaves Saturday for
Elkhart Lake, Wis, where he will at
tend the annual convention of the
B'nai Birth society. From Elkhart
Lake Rev. Fineshriber goes to Buffalo,
N. Y, to attend the National chautau-
qua. The eloquent Davenport divine
has been selected to deliver the annual
chautauqua sermon on Saturday. July
II. This is a distinct honor for DIR.
Fineshriber, he being selected from
the entire list of Jewish rabbis in the
country,
Select a Marshal.-Colonel Park Nc
Manus has been selected as marshal
of the firemen'S tournament parade
which takes place Wednesday of the
week of the tournament Aug. 81. The
tournament directors convened at the
city hall and made the appointment
and Mr.. McManus has consented to
serve.
Gets Runaway Daughter. A hard
hearted father, whose daughter was
sent to hotel in Davenport to work,
now threatens to prosecute the porter
who fell in love with her. and instead
of wedding for his daughter, says it
is her to cloister. and her lover 20
the prison. Nearly everyone else
seems to agree that the couple should
find a minister and that the parental
blessing and the fatted calf would be
more in place than the talk of prosecu.
tions and iron bars. The Peoria Jour
nal tells of the case as follows: MAX
ing love in skiff in the river near
Captain Heffele's boat yard, Lena Len
court, aged II. and Frank Beyers
aged 20, the clipping couple from Dav
export. Iowa, were discovered this
morning by Detectives Kerr and Will
liams and were placed under arrest
At headquarters Chief of Police
RhoadeS ordered the boy locked up
while he took the girl in his office to
await the arrival at the station of her
father, Charles Lencourt, who came to
the city yesterday in search of his
child At the time the arrest was
made the father of the girl was wait
ing for the police matron in her quar-
tiers on the second floor of the city
hall. and when he learned that his
daughter had been found and that she
was in the chiefs office, his joy knew
no bounds. He almost ran down the
stairs to the chiefs Office, and when
he entered the presence of his mis-
guided daughter scene was enacted
which brought tears to the eyes of all
pears to be hardly more than IL years
old and who still wears dresses above
her shoe tops, ran to her father and
threw her arms around his neck Both
burst into tears, and between her Sobs
the girl kept saying, ''Oh, papa, papa,
did not mean to do wrong, but l want
cd him so and he was SO good to me-
Wants 20 Saloons Closed.-Attorney
H. B. Betty of the civic federation
was in conference with County At
torney Fred Vollmer yesterday af
ternoon, his mission being to demand
the closInT of all saloons within 30l
feet of churches. school building
and cemeteries. Mr.. Betty is nov
engaged in preparing list Of IN
saloons. he Fiendhds the county Il
9 >5n1l cIose. These ~ under
- ~ shout 80 s. pn1ecr. ~
IL Hetty takes the stand mat tn
X Mission building on East Sec
Hohd street is practically speaking
both a church and school building
and that under this section of tn
mulct law all saloons within 80
feet of it must close. This ruling o
Attorney Betty, if sustained by tn