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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-19
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thing Unless 1t Cures.

If you suffer from constipation in
any form whatever, acute or chronic,
We will guarantee to supply you med
icine that will surely effect a cure if
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of time. Should the medicine fail to
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we promise that it shall cost you moth
ing.
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it forms preparation which is in
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ener. Rexall Orderlies are noted for
their agreeableness to the palate and
gentleness of action. They do not
cause gripping or any disagreeable eff
feet OF inconvenience, and may be
, taken at any time, day or night.
| We particularly recommend Rexall
Orderlies for children, delicate or aged
persons, because they do not contain
anything that could possibly injure
the most delicate organism. They are
just as easy to take as candy, and, un.
like other preparations for like pur-
pose, they do not create habit, but
instead they over come the cause OF
habits acquired through the use of or
binary laxatives, cathartics and harsh
physic, and permanently remove the
cause of constipation or irregular bow
ell action
We want you to try Rexall Orderlies
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nothing that will do you so much good
i'and We will refund your money with
out argument if they. do not do as we
say they will. They are prepared ir
tablet form ia two sizes of packages
&c tablets, 25 cents, and IL tablets, IL
cents. I. H. Thomas drug store.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-19
NEWS OF THE NEIGHBORS

who was married yesterday. About
% of her friends were present and a
most pleasant evening was spent, af-
ter which refreshments were served
Miss Reynolds was the recipient of
many pretty as well as useful presents
Mrs. Frank Fox of West Liberty re-
turned to her home last Thursday af-
ter visiting several days with relatives
in this vicinity.
Miss Julia Eckhart, who closed her
winter term of school at Wrayville
Friday. returned to her her home in
Rock Island Friday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Goldberg and
daughters of Sweetland Center, Iowa,
came over Saturday and visited until
Monday with relatives.
The b. Y. P. u. will meet Sunday
evening, Feb rs. The leaders viii be
the Misses Ethel Foster and Jessie
Bendle The topic will be Adoniran
Judson and his co-laboTers.
/ Miss Emma France of Illinois City,
spent Sunday at the home of her
friend Miss Eleanor Kleist.
Those suffering from the measles i'I
this vicinity are getting along nicely
DR.. c. o. Morgridge, one of Musca
tines best known physicians, who is
also well known in Rock Island and
Mercer counties, where he has done
both medical and surgical service fol
many years, passed away at his home
-, loy oh
| Feb H. the cause being general de
/ bility and heart disease. He is surviv
] ed by his wife, one daughter. Mrs. w
S. Norton, also one granddaughter
little Miss Ruth Norton. The funeral
was held Saturday morning at 1913
to'clock from the First Congregations
church, of which DR.. Morgridge was &
member, Rev. II. ID. Heer OF De Witt
Iowa, former pastor of the Muscatine
church. and Rev. B. G. Preston hav
! ing charge of the services.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-19
PRIMARY ELECTION, NOTICE.


Notice is hereby given that on Tues
day, the 23rd day of February, A. ID.
1909, in the city of Rock Island, Ill,
a primary election win be held, in pur-
suance of and subject to the provisions
of the act entitled, "An act to provide
for holding of primary elections by po-
litical parties" for the purpose of NOM
mating candidates of the republican
party, democratic party, and socialist
party, for the following Offices:
One mayor for two years.
One city clerk for two years.
One city attorney for two years.
One city treasurer for two years.
One police magistrate for four years.
One alderman in First ward for two
years.
One alderman in Second ward for
two years.
One alderman in Third ward for two
years.
One alderman in Fourth ward for
two years.
One alderman in Fifth ward for two
years.
One alderman in Sixth ward for two
years.
One alderman in Seventh ward for
two years.
Which primary election will be open
ed at 6 o'clock in the morning and con-
tinue open until in the afternoon of
that day.
The colors of the ballots will be as
follows:
Republican party-White.
Democratic party-Green.
Socialist party-Pink.
l:.LACES OF VOTING WILL BE AS
FOLLOWS:
First ward, first precinct-413 Fourth
avenue.
First ward, second precinct-600 Sew.
enth avenue
Second ward, first precinct - 1O14
Third avenue.
Second ward, second precinct = 919
Sixth avenue
Third ward, first precinct - County
Jail building, Third avenue and Four
teenth street.
Third ward, second precinct = 1922
! Seventh avenue.
Third ward, third precinct-1101 Fiji
teenth street.
Fourth ward, first precinct - 1914
Third avenue.
Fourth ward, second precinct = NJ
Levy's carriage house, Nineteenth
street, between Sixth and Seventh ave
,nues
Fifth ward. first precinct - Hose
house on Twenty-second street.
Fifth ward, second precinct-Schmid':
grocery, S23 Twentieth street
Sixth ward, first precinct - Hose
house on Twenty-sixth street.
Sixth ward, second precinct = A. J
Reiss' barn, 709 Twenty-seventh street
! Seventh ward, first precinct Bill
Fifth avenue
Seventh ward, second precinct-Pe
terson's carpenter shop, 510 Forty-fiftl
street
Seventh ward, third precinct-Gan
mons paint shop, Fourteenth avenue
between Thirty-eighth and Thirty-nintl
streets.
Rock Island, ILL.,, Feb. 8, 1909.
M. T. RUDGREN, City Clerk.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-19
SHERRARD

Z. l.. Gregory, county superintend-
ent of schools of Aledo. was visiting
the Sherrard school this week.
William Stone was accidentally
killed in the mines Friday about 1880
a. m, Feb. II. The funeral was held
Sunday, Feb. IA, from the Congrega-
tional church at O'Clock. He leaves
his wife. one daughter. Florence, and
four sons. Walter. Rebey, Quincy Lee
and Wayne, his aged parents and
brothers and sisters at Colchester. Ill
He was 40 years of age. He was a
member of the K. p lodge OF Colches-
ter. H.. and member of the Odd Eel
lows, the Fraternals and the local I'M
ion of the United Mine Work No. 110f
of Sherrard, of which he was pre.,i-
dent Rev. Mr.. Reed of Moline Off
eiated and the remains were laid TO
rest in the Sherrard cemetery.
Mrs. Guy and daughters of Colches-
ter, ILL.,, came Saturday to attend the
funeral of William Stone They re-
manned till Friday before their re-
turn home.
/
urday from Owen, Wis, where he had
been called about two weeks ago oy
the sudden death of his mother.
Miss Annie Hughes. who has been
visiting in Collinsville. ILL.,, since last
July returned home Saturday. Her
mother, Mrs. Jane Hughes, accompan-
led her home as she had been visiting
! in Collinsville since the holidays at
the home of her daughter, Mrs. Rich
ard Haddick.
Mrs. Stone and sons of Colchester
ILL.,. came Saturday to attend the fun.
eral of William Stone.
] Miss Lizzie Davidson returned home
Friday after a weeks visit with
friends in Milan
Guy Sayre returned home Saturday
after few days visit with relative:
land friends in Sherrard.
Mrs. Gamblin of South Rock Island
who has been visiting at the home
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-19
FOSTER

Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Zollner of North
Dakota and Mrs Frank Fox spent
Wednesday night at the home of their
brother and wife. Mr.. and Mrs. Ben
ianJn Zollner.
Several from this vicinity attended
Maucker's sale at Bay Island Tues
day
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Noble and
children of Pine Bluff visited last
Thursday at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas Watson.
A miscellaneous shower was given
Saturday evening at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Frank Reynolds in honor of
their daughter, Miss Belle Reynolds,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-19
HAMPTON'S
MAGAZINE
March-on Sale Now

Among other great features in
this great magazine:
An Amagtng article on "Psy-
chic Reseayrh-Vance Thomp-
sons contribution "On the Trail
of the Ghost propounds a re-
markable theory of psychic phe-
nomena.
Il Conscious Ar0nSing Fact
Story of "Atghf Riding The
shameful details in the case of
the Black Patch tobacco war.
Worse than the Guerrilla raids of
the Civil War.
\ Fighting Bob Exams at his best,
hitting straigbtfrom the shoulder.
Vivid, patriotic, fSHkltnk.
An Honest Mans. Woyk in the
.Ssnate-A character sketch of
La Toilette, Political Evangel-
ist",
8 Val Street and the Bauks-
Telling how yoay money may get
into the great gambling game.
Rex Beach's Ne7rest St0yy
The Silver Horde" and is bet
ter all the way round than Rex
Beach's best. Short stories by
Josephine Daskam Bacon, Mary
r. s. Andrews, Charles Battell
Loomis and others.
Buy it today-any live newsdealer
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-19
New Books at Library

The following books have been re-
ceived at the public library and viii
be ready for circulation tomorrow
morning.
Arts and Crafts in. the Middle Ages
Mrs j. ID. Addison
The Strawberry Handkerchief Mrs.
A. e. Barr.
Young Lord Stranleigh Robert
Barr
The Nun-Rene BaZin.
A Lord of Lands Ramsey Benson.
BY Right of Purchase-Harold Bind
loss.
Three OF Kind Richard Burton.
The Sunny Side of TIE Hill-R. n.
Carey.
The Iron Way Mrs. S. p Carr
Camps and Cruises of An Oraitholc
gist-F. NJ Chapman
The Diva's Ruby-F. NJ. Crawford.
Prophet in Babylon-W. j. Dawson
GATHERINGS Child-Mrs De la Pas
ture.
University Administration W.
Eliot
My Little Boy-Carl Ewald.,
Corrie Notwithstanding Foster.
Life of John Authenticated Ga"-
nett
Edward MacDowell- Gil
man.
Medical Inspection of Schools.
H. Gulick.
Library of the Worlds Best Mys-
terry and Detective Stories, 6 volumes
Julian Hawthorne
Piano Playing-Josef Hofmann.
54-40 or Fight-Emerson Hough.
The Niagara Rivera. B. Hubert.
Brand Henrik Ibsen.
Through Ramonas Country-C. w.
James.
Passing of the Third Floor Back
| ]. x. Jerome.
Theory and Practice of Surveying
| ]. b. Johnson.
The Roman Empire-H. s. Jones.
Keister's Corporation Accounting
and Auditing-D. A. Keister
| Rosnah-Myra Kelly.
| The Winterfeast-C. r. Kennedy.
Morals of Marcus Ordeyne-W J.
Locke.
Septimus-W. J. Locke
Lynch's Daughter-Leonard Mer-
, rick.
In Calvert's Valley-M. P. Monta-
que.
The Missioner. P. Oppenheim.
The Red Mouse-W. H. Osborne.
Abraham Lincoln-Carl Schurz.
Wanderings in Ireland-M. NJ. Shoe
maker
Further, Experiences of An Irish
R. NE. 40. Somerville.
| Works-M. d. Thoreau
| The House of Rimmon-Kenry Van
| Dyke
Electro-plating and Electro-Refning
of Metals-Alexander Watt.
The Whispering Man-H X Web
lster
The War in the Air7rH. G. Wells.
A Motor Flight Though France
Edith Wharton 'N'~s
TIT WHOLE FAMMILY. ~
Richard Mansfield-Paul Wilstach.
Spinster Farm-H NJ Winslow.
Mexico and Her People of Today
N o. Winter.
| The Silver butterfly. NJ. Wood
ROW.
The Other Sarah-Curtis Yerke.
BOOKS FOR CHILDREN.
/ Augsburg's Drawings-D. L. Augs
burg.
! The kidnapped Campers-Mrs. A
Garfield
David the Giant Killer-E. S. Cohen
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-19

of Mrs. Mary Wilson east of town, re-
turned TO her home Monday.
j. l.. Vernon of Aledo was, in Sher-
rard Thursday.
Mrs. Ben Kettering and children OF
Orion came Friday and visited with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Brian Essex
this week.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-19

Annes Terrible Good Nature-E. .
Lucas. ., 4rs.F -e q.5.f....I... o-s
. How to Dress a Doll7Mrs NJ e.
Morgan. ~f 80 sa
Life of Abraham Lincoln for Boy :
and Girls-C. w. Meeres. ~
Boys Life of Abraham lincoln =
Helen Nicolay.
Harper's How to Understand Elec-
trical Work-W II. Onken. -
Our Little Australian Cousin-M. F.
Roulet
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-19
Fl Child's Guide to Mythology--H

a Child's Guide to Mythology-H. =.
Clarke. =
Story of Grettir the Strong-Saga
Grettis.
Jack, the Young Explorer-G.i B.
Grinnell L
Folklore Primer-E. o. Grover
Williams of West Point-Hugh ).
Johnson.
The Eternal Boy-Owen Johnson.
Wireless Telegraphy for Amateurs
T. NJ st. John.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-19
The Man with Dandrun

Can now be cured. He should buy
bottle of Zemo today Zemo destroys
the germ that causes the disease. Its
use stops itching instantly, prevents
falling hair and leaves the scalp in a
clean healthy condition. For sale at
Harper House pharmacy
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-19

Buccaneers and Pirates Of Oar
CoastS-F p. Stockton. bin,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-02-19
You Like
| to Go to Africa
I With Roosevelt

Yes' All right. At your lib
rary table tonight read Captain
Fritz Daqucsuc's article HINT
ing Ahead Of RooSs7et in East
africa It's all there-every
sensation, every bit Of informa-
ton, plenty of vivid photographs,
too. You get the thrills and
excitement without the danger.
Captain Duquesne is a Boer
ivory hunter, a professional, who
has made his living for many
years from the big game of the
veldt and jungle. His article is
authentic, and romantic. The
bestand first description of where
Roosevelt will hunt that has APP
peared in a magazine.
HAIMPTON' s is frstl
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-01
GREAT BOOST
 FOR SEATTLE. A Visitor Talks of The
 City. IT IS A LAND OF PROMISE I. H. McGough Tells of Some of
 the Wonders. Life Of Hsra.Aip In the Far Serthwes' |. over and Great cppertual- : tie. Are Af-
 forded.
T IS A LAND OF PROMISE

With his face bronzed and ruddy from a life of activity in the Far West and the fartirest north, II. H. Me Cough sits before the blaze of an Ala bama hearth. and talks wistfully of Seattle.
 MT. T. H. McGough. of Seattle
 Wash, brothersof T. D. MeGough and
 Mrs. l.. A. Baarcke, of Montgomery
 is yisftiSg his relatives here for few days. MT. McGough was born in Amer icus, Ga, and still loves the South, but 1t is easy to see that his life Is too closely interwoven with that of the West of romance and growth for him to long for a return to Dixie
 ; Mir, ,McGougti left the South in 1889 making for the far Northwest. And du.
 ring his twenty years he has beer through much. seen much of life ir the land of the midnight sun. has ex- per'anced hardships and privations
 cot. and hunger, but he loved it all, hs says.
 But now the life of hardship Is ovei for Mir McGough, and In Seattle, . town which he describes as the great est in the world in opportunities, he l; | a real estate agent of extensive pat. rOnage and much promise. And in 2 town that Is growing at the rate oi 25.000 to s0,000 people each year., ana with building pefinits that average $1,,
 100000 each month. real estate agen'
 cy is in the. way of being a lucrative E profession. And Mir. McGough, apart from his professional interest, Is sincere in his
 declarations of the greatness of the West. and of Seattle especially. With
 enormous resources, with timber that in some instances cut hundreds of feet to the tree, that can turn out three foot timber of 100 feet in length, with fisheries, and mines not far away, ana with the enormous trade between
 Alaska and the orient pouring through
 It's gates. there is no limit to fts growth, says Mir. McGough.
 Now that his day of comparatige af. Auence has come, and with the neees.
 sity for work in Alaska gone, Mir. Mo. Cough is fain to speak but little of the farthest north of Uncle Sam's posses. sions as he has seen 1t. But the lit
 tie he tells of his own experiences is
 rife with romance.
 MT. McGough spent two winters in Alaska during the nineties, both al Dawson City, and an entire summer al Teller. not far from the Arctic Ocean
 He was engaged In the mercantile bus Iness at the time, and never took up mining or prospecting. Therefore. he declares smilIngly. he never found a chance to make a strike" as did many of the others T,., ,s, IA \
 l,@ Esn! Giakamiazn LSacIxy.. .''s s.''.. Z. :.
 There were ~strikes" a-plenty during the last years of his stay in Alaska, he relates. He tells particularly of one couple, whose name he has forgotten, who hailed from Alabama, either Selma or Montgomery. The two. a placid Ger man and his wife, struck Dawson, broke hat Opening a bakery, they subsided for some time, and then joined in the rush to the cape when the big gold dis covery was made. The Alabamians with a few others, bought an old.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-01

all the top crop. Since have got used
 to boll-weevils make as much or more
 cotton than formerly. break deeper,
 blow oftener and work harder. raise
 everything on my farm to support my
 family, and all do not need sell. l
 do not owe q dollar, and pay cash for
 all buy.' He tells about seeing on tue
 same class of land twasfelds seneratea
 by the public road, and on one side was
 next to no crop at all, on the other the
 cotton, was good He asked the man
 who had the poor crop how it happen
 ed, and the reply was that though ne
 had plowed his cotton four times, the
 man across the road was plowins hls
 ''all the time., This shows there ts
 way of escape from the ravages of this
 beetle, but 1t also shows that this way
 Of escape will not be open to "the plant
 er'' who lives in town and who rents
 out his land to negroes whom he sel.
 dom sees except when taking his rent. notes at the first of the year, and in the
 fall when the cotton is brought in. To
 these large landowners there Is open
 hnt one Of three courses--either to go
 live on their plantations ana by force
 of sheer personaI insistence compel
 their tenants, hired men or share farm
 ers las the case may be) to cultivate
 as. they must cultivate in order to cir-
 cImvent this pest, or sell out or go
 broke."
 cone way to sell out is to start right now and follow the example of man named Jack Roberts who (to quote kagain from Colonel Stringfellow) owned (, 00e to 1000 acres of land, and sent an agent to Poland and brought over a colony of Poles, who were successful.
 Now 500 of these people finhabit Rob ertson County around Bremond, Tex, who are thereby industrious, clannish, and who work day and night and Sun day, too. When they can, they buy more iand and never turn 1t loose. They make cotton in spite of the boll-wee- vii. and have fertilized their lands, originally very sterile, until they give handsome returns, some as high as three-fourths of bale to the acre"
 "A better way for the large land owner to meet the coming, emergency, | if ueradventure he has good common sense. and practical knowledge of ] farmina, is to begin right away seien- l tifically to diversity. There is an excel lent example right heFe In Sumter | County well worth following. The Me- Cain brothers started out sfew years ago to raise alfalfa on 'Black Belt" plantation. This year one of them asss
 W. T. Mccain, of Livingston, Ala, showed me an account he had kept on one 15-acre Held. In this account ev-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-01
LoUrsvILLE's PHONE WAR.
City ConneIl Declares Cumberland Company is Operating Without
 Ewamalnfae

Louisville, Ky,. Jan. S1.--So far as the city of Louisville. through its Gen. araI Council, Is conceFned, the Cum berland Telephone and Telegraph Com pany has been operating in this city without a franchise since midnight Monday, Jan. 25.
 lon that night. the General Council passed an ordinance repeating per petuar franchise which the company secured twenty-three years ego. On that night ,also, twenty-five year franchise, secured by tue company in 1883, expired. It was the contention of the city that the company couldspot operate ! under the. perpetuAl fran chise under it's original twrptys five year grant had run out. By repeating the perpetuity at the date of the expira- tion of the first grant. the city claims that 1t took away all the legal rights of the city. The Cumberland claims that it had given up the twenty five year grant and was operating under it's perpetuity.
 The entire fight is . matter of-rates. A new ordinance recently passed makes s5. 50 the monthly rate for a business telephone. The Cumberland charges ss.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-01

ginal pine forests are giving way to the poorest kinds of lumber"
 But even more regrettable to MT. Browns mind. is the absence. of hu- mus in the soils of the state. due to the burning of the dead vegetable matter before 1t has an opportunity to decay Wherever the practice or an annual raxing of the preceding summers grasses. weeds and failen leaves prevails. the. soil Is so poor as to require heavy applications of com mercial fertilizers to produce even moderate crops.
 ..The soil of south Alabama has been largely formed. from the disin- terorated rocks, tclays and iron de- posits of the mountain regions ,of North Alabama centuries ago, before the formation of the present river sys- tenn. Tn most of the South and Mid dle Alabema. as well as generaiiy throughout the South. the continued burning of the vegetation for more than a hundred years has prevented the formation of fertile soils except where sufficient moisture was present to stay the flames No less than c ton Of pine needles grass weeds, etc. etc, are each year produced upon every acre of Southern lands. Could this material be retained and be made to become incorporated naturally with the earth. 1t would become equivalent to twenty tons of the best fertilizer ln the world"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-01

 PRACTICE IS
 CONDEMNED Burning of Unenclosed Lands Discussed. RENDERS sons REPRODUCTIVE Secretary International Arboricul- tural Society Writes. soAn r. nra~A says Custom of soush- sra Fsrrser h Firing Dead vexstasie Matter Ae-
 count. fer Absence
 of Humus.
RENDERS SOILS REPRODUCTIVE

The practice among farmers in Ala bama and other Southern states of burning unenclosed lands. each sea- son. to stimulate the growth of young grass, is resulting not only in the devastation of the forests but also In the exhaustion of the soil for agri- cultural proposes. Such is the es- selice of an attack upon forest man. agement in the South, by John P. Brown, secretary of the international Society of Aboriculture in the current number Of "Aboriculture."
 tsThe young pines in the long leaf yellow pine fregions.' he explains care killed by the heat, created by the dre fiaring up from the weeds and dead grass and catching upon the drops of rosin on the pine needles. At the same time, many inferior tree andscrub species are enabled by their thick and less infiamable bark as well as their dormant condition to resist the heat and ifAthey are burned to the ground they send up new shoots from beneath tue surface. Also the other inferior tree species are very nersistent and increase regardless oi klie annual ravages-
 "on the cut-over lands in South Alabama where the fires have been suppressed during the past few years there are fine groves of long leaf vel low pine of from five to fifteen years growth, which have already overtop- ped the scrub oaks and other less de eirable species, and will soon destroy them.
 ssOn the contrary. where fires have been of frequent occurrence, there are few pines. but in their place many uf the smaller black oaks. some dog wood and various growths of no value Thus. over a very large area the ori-