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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-03
LODGE DIRECTORY.
Masonic.


Masonic.
TRIO LODGE, NO. 81. A b. q A. NJ
a Meets in stated communication
~ ~ the first Thursday OF each
w month at 1880 p. M BY order
of M T. Stevens. w. N; william AN
Petit, secretary.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-03

WANTED - Foremen, timekeepers and
school teachers on r. +. u. IS out of
Davenport, Rock Island and Moline,
and others TO assist in forming Flor
ida land club; turn your spare time
evenings into money. Address d."
care Argus.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-03

WANTED-Price filters; Corn Products
Refining Company. Davenport.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-03

WANTED-Man to do corn cutting; ap-
ply Joseph Ballinger's farm on Thir-
ty-eighth street.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-03

FOR SALE-Two and one-half acres of
corn, one acre of potatoes, and garden
truck, ct Ills Thirty-fifth street New
phone 5905.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-03

FOR SALE-Cosy five-room cottage on
Fourteenth street; city water, gas,
electric light furnace, and cement
walks; price $4,000; a snap. Lininger
& Meyer, real estate, 222 Eighteenth
street
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-03

FOR SALE-That elegant modern home
at 4224 Seventh avenue, the owner
expects to leave city about Nov. I, and
Is anxious to sell quick; IL is on that
nice Seventh avenue boulevard, and
is all in = No. condition; owner lives
in the house; go and look 1t over, and
if 1t suits we will try and make price
satisfactory. Inquire of II. K. Walker
or the owner.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-03

WANTED-Young man to learn jewelry
business. Address "Jeweler," care
Argus.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-03

FOR -SALE-Household goods; practIc-
ally new; party leaving city; s23
Third avenue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-03

WANTED Manufacturers Enor-
NOES hydro electric power pnacttc
ally free; other Inducements. on two
great railways, st. Croix-A1isSissippi
river route, and near St Paul. Mime
apolis and Duluth; raw materials
convenient and cheap; illustrated
booklet and full information. Write
st. Croix Falls Improvement AsSocia-
ton, St. C-oix Falls. Wis.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-03

WANTED-Two good carpenters; call
at 800 Safety building, or S22 Twenty
ninth street. Blankenburg & Blank
enburg.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-03
FOE sALE-crrx pRoPuRTx.

FOR SALE-Two lots in Snalley's First
subdivision. Rock Island, H. A E.
| Simmons, Andalusia, Ill.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-03

ger auto; bargain. VIII consider car
in trade for real estate. Inquire 1923
Fourteenth street, or phone west 4.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-12-13

FL q--T-T o I'll UNTIL
rar--s TT '-E GULAI
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-07-12
WEEDS AND WEED FARMERS.

The man who raises a weed crop Is
a public enemy. whether he rears ii
along the roadside, in his fields, or on a
vacant lot in the city. 1t would be ar
excellent thing to do if those who are
fighting weeds would invoke the laws
against those who are raising new
crops of weed seed TO be scattered by
the winds and the birds over adjacent
farms and lots. Iowa has a very good
law against roadside weed propa CATION.
it should be set in operation. Cities In
general have ordinances providing that
weeds on vacant lots may be cut ana
the cost assessed to the property. II
should be done. And city administra-
tions should see to it that all the by
streets and city property are kept free
from weeds A street rank with noxiouS
weeds is an offset for a block lighted
by electroliers.
The man who owns vacant property
who has invested in lots and is wait
ing for other people to move in, make
MONIES anu ldiSe AA4O pA4NC VI nc 49,
is not entitled TO the consideration ne
appears TO be granted without even the
asking. He should be obliged to care
for the lot and keep it decent in ap-
pearance, free from weeds. II is Of
small avail to dig dandelions and pet
lawn if the vacant lot next door
raises a crop of seed which is suffici-
ent TO seed a section. The man who
keeps his parkings neat and shovels
his walk in winter ought to have suf-
hcient consideration given his efforts
toward a city beautiful from those II
authority TO relieve him from the weed
grown parking and the dillapidation Of
the vacant property which may adjoir
his. And this without having to rur
with complaint thru the summer anc
after every snowfall.
The weed problem is one easy o.
solution. All it needs IS attention OF
the part Of those whose business it is
to see laws and ordinances put int
effective operation. The weed farmel
should be suppressed.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-07-12
WHAT RpsuLr7
INT. Vernon Record1

mt. Vernon Recordl.
What does the so-called Taft" club
of Iowa have to show for its work?
Nothing at all except a little more bit
ter feeling within the party than be-
fore.
The only thing 1t succeeded in doing
was in putting in jeopardy Governor
CAROLS chances for a second term
Before the advent of the "Taft" club
movement it had been decided definite
ly that there would be no progressive
candidate for governor. But this
m ovement. with Its intent to capture
the convention and belittle the work
Of Iowa's senators, made a progressive
candidate for governor necessary.
Without the candidacy Of Governor
Garst, we venture to say, the coming
state convention would be in the hands
of the standpatters instead Of in the
hands of the progressives by a majority
Of 2o9. Without his candidacy the pro-
Rressives would have had no one to
rally around, and enough would have
remained away from the polls to have
lost the convention.
But what does this Taft" club have
to show for Its work? Not solitary
thing. 1t has the pleasant thought
Of having stirred up a fight only to
get licked and of very nearly causing
Governor Carroll to lose renomina-
ton, but nothing more.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-07-12
THE BABY'S RING.
A15eo TirneS1

This has doubtless happened many
times before. but it happened once
anyhow: a father bought ring for a
baby daughter-that Is, when she was
five years old. 1t was slipped on her
chubby finger and she was proud for a
whole day, glad for a month happy for
a year, we'll contented for five years.
Then the day came when the circlet
was a fetter. The finger had grown
and the ring would not come off. The
more effort to remove 1t. the tighter 1t
chung until a friendly file had to be
brought to bear and the finger released
from it's prison. AS the file coursed
its way down thru the yellow band we
could not help thinking Of the day it
was put in place. OF the caution that it
must not be taken off. lest 1t be lost,
of the obedience, and the outcome. The
thought, too, Of how odd world we
live in where 1t Is ordered that the joys
Of one day may be the corrows OF the
next, could not be kept back. If a
five-cent file could release all the peo-
pie who wish they were free from gold
rings they once We're proud Of, wouldn't
there be mess OF it?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-07-12
HORSES AND 1NHuMANE MEN.

lChelSea Cr1t1c1.
We have people in this neighpornooo'
but not wholly confined to 1t, OF tnat
great class which depends upon the
strength or speed of the horse Tor IT'S
livelihood, yet who seem to forget tnat
the efficiency Of the horse In Its work
depends upon the care and thousnt
given the horse at all times. We nave
m en- farmers and youngbloods living In
this vicinity who drive to town, some
times in the early morning and allow
their horses to stand in the hot sum-
such as we have had the past two or
three weeks without feed or water Tor
the greater part OF the day, others do
not have flynets for their horses and,
as they stand tied to the posts about
town, they are at the mercy OF the
ravenous flies. We have several young
fellows in the vicinity Of Chelsea who
seem to think that all a horse is for
is to drive it to death on hot day or
in an evening. Why do not men show
the sense they have or else get a sup
ply and show the world they have got
ten it by treating their horses with
more consideration.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-07-12
Topics of the Times

If the Pullman company is losing
money, it might learn something TO IT'S
interest by communicating with it's
pUrters.
An aviator named PsistZner was
thrown from his machine into river
His name must have made the water
size.
II is probable also that no further
effort Will be made to have the Iowa
republican convention ndorse Aldrich.
Those men who put out that forest
fire in California and saved those big
trees are conservationists worthy Of
the name.
There are 10000 Elks in Detroit CIV
ing living demonstration of what
prosperity really means.
Champion Johnson is glad that the
ban runs against the pictures only. He
is interested only in the real thing.
be4iS I'd hed VI Iol SOHS iloi W tiio
EMPIRE state, is one of the penalties
of being mayor of New York City.
Hearst may try for the dem ocratic
nomination for governor of New York.
]. all depends on whether he decides
that a bigger splash is 70 be made in
some other way.
History may be somewhat impatient
at finding Norris Brown written down
in the newspapers as father % the in
come tax
But TIE Idly still fingers in darkness.
Burkett of Nebraska has not yet been
there.
Walter Wellman is going 10 cross
the Atlantic ocean with a dirigible bal
loon. Oh, no, wait; that isn't it. He's
going TO try to cross. Psha.! Wait
again, that isn't it, either He says he
is going to try to cross.
The vitagraph company says It will
not go to law to show the pictures of
the big fight. But If it did, wouldn't
it be a puddin' for the jurymen?
A primitive institution brought to
bear in an Ohio town the other day
dealt with saloon raider, not wit I an
auto speeder The public, however. il
prepared TO pick UP its morning parer
almost any morning now and read ;7,t
somewhere a community has been
goaded into desperation by the cynical
speed maniac. The seeds of real tro be
are sown when the maniac leaves his
victim in the road and rushes on to
escape detention. That is crowdns
the limit of public patience and public
self-controI.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-07-12

has never received. never asked Tor
never expected penny for its work.
in setting for the advantages and the
superiority Of Iowa. That has been
labor Of love, of patriotism and OF
gratitude. But it does lrritate the 1nen
who have been doing splendid work
nnon these lines for life time, to see
good money squandered for absolutely
useless and ineffective advertising IN
eastern papers and magazines 4t
would be much wiser to put the money
into fireworks. Then some one mere at
home might get some pleasure, hence
some benefit, out Of 1t. AS 1T IS 'tne
money is simply wasted, and even the
eastern publications must feel some
thing akin to regret when taking coin
for which they can give the advertiser
no possible return. But of course, the
fault is not theirs, but that of the ad-
vertiser.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-07-12
THE LODGES.
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MARSHALL LODGE. 1os. "A. F. &
A. M. Stated communication, Friday
July IL. at p. m.
r. w. Chamberlain. W. NJ I;
II. g. Lawrence. Secretary.
SIGNET CHAPTER No. 50. r. A. NJ.
Special convocation Thursday. July IA.
Work in Royal Arch Degree.
George II. Boggie. 3. H. p.
/. 8. Willard. Secretary. u
KING SOLOMON COUNCIL, No.
20, r. & s. M.-Stated assembly Mon
day. July 10. p. m.
A. D. Meeker, T. I. NJ.
!. T. Forbes. Rec. u
ST. ALDEMAR COMMANDERY. No.
80 K. r., stated conclave Tuesday even
ing, July 10, 1910. at 8 o'clock sharp.
Fred Wallace. Recorder.
Fred NJ. Wilbur. 3. G.
CENTRAL CHAPTER. Nc. 81, o. b.
S.-Regular meeting Wednesday even
ing, July 10, p. m.
Mrs. George Downing, W. NJ. :
Edna G. Fe1Iarton. Secretary.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-07-12
WHAT SHALL THE PLATFORM BE?

What shall the platform say? is the
question which is exciting unusual ed
itorial comment at this time. The edi-
tor of the Sioux City Journal in behalf
of the coming conventions minority
insists that with the progressive con
troll of the convention comes respons-
Utility for a platform which shall unite
the party, The Register and Leaders
news reporter finds in and about Des
Moines a sentiment among progress
sives for strong, clear resolu tons
showing to the United States how
Iowa stands while the editor of that
paper publishes a warning against the
resourcefulness of the Jackson COM
mittee in being able to prevent the
progressive majority writing a plat
form which will declare for progress
sive principles to the nation.
among the progressive leaders,
writes the Des Moines reporter there
is no desire to make promiscuous en-
dorsement of everybody, the national
administration and the state admins
tration, but to state frankly and open
ly the attitude of the Iowa progress
sives."
The Journal at Sioux City from an
opposite view point says that it car
zee mo clear way to harmony in the
state convention by resolving that the
party has proved itself so emphatically
wrong that it is entitled to suffer the
criticism freely passed upon it by tn
men who are in the leadership of tn,
opposing party"
The discussion is largely loaded wit
desire on the part of the minority t
brighten the majority from expressin
itself with frankness. There would b
no need for a state convention at thf
time were this platform to be a wishy
washI straddle and compromise. Tn
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-07-12

10 apparently satisfied with them Per-
haps with the coming Of Mr.. Roosevelt
into the political arena Mr.. Ballinger
can be induced to become more COM
municative on a subject that is Of a
good deal of interest to those that wish
well to their country, tho we trust that
he will never become 'unbusinesslike"
or academic" Mr.. Taft has stood by
him as Loyalty as he could ask, but to
the philoeophic 1t is useless to contend
that the secretary of the interior does
any particular good to the administra-
ton. On the contrary, he is cause
OF constant criticism from people who
believe he is public official who has
not given of his best to his employers,
the people.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-07-12
Mr.. Roosevelt and Mr.. R.Ilinser.


These two gentlemen are at least at
one in that they occupy not a little at
tention in the public eye. but they
seem not to be quite agreed on other
matters, one of which IS presumably
conservation. This country is so large
in its physical proportions, its popula-
ton is so great and political compiled
tons vary so much in its different parts
that it is not always an easy matter to
state q political question. much less to
settle it. 1t may easily be that IN
ones hasty conclusion one may do an
other an Injustice. but the fairly COM
mon impression thruout the country is
that Mr. Roosevelt and Mr.. Pin
chot tried to save the resources
Of the country in view OF the
future, and that Mr.. Ballinger did NOT
seem to be quite so solicitous ABOUT
that future. He manifests, moreover
disposition to dispense with the ser
vices of subordinates that do not share
his views and shows a certain indifrer-
ence or opposition to what may pretty
safely be called public opinion. and
an opinion that in some quarters was
thoroughly crystallized.
He seems to object to Mr.. Newell
who, he is reported to say, is ''unbusi-
nesslike" Mr.. Ballinger we trust, Will
not allow this adjective to have the
same dreadful Significance that another
academic" has when used by other
statesmen that are misunderstood. III
Mr.. Newell is 80 unbusinesslike that
he is not permitted to perform his dut-
les, no doubt Mr.. Ballinger will see to
1t that the public service Will not suffer
thereby. But here. again, the public
have an impression that Mr.. Newell IL
a good public officer, and they are ask
ing why, If Mr.. Ballinger is SO very
much In the right as he says he is
does he adopt an attitude half belliger-
ent, half regretful. We have intfmated
before this that the people feel that Mr
Ballinger is over-zealous in his oWr
behalf and not enough so In certain
other directions.
Some cabinets are unfortunate
enough to have member that must al
ways be explained, tho in Mr.. Balm
gers case the explanation is conspicu-
Gus by it's absence. The only fact OF
which the people can be quite sure Is
that Mr.. Taft retains his services ano
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-07-12

but will demand at least four cylfn-
der. What could more completely fill
the heart of the taxpayer with pride
than the sight of load of Dos riding
magnificently thru the streets in six
cylinder dominated and controlled by
zone Of the finest" like a cage of lions
in a circus parade are checked, sub
dued and controlled by their tanner
Surely 1t is worth the money, easy on
the sore feet of tramps and the adipose
of the fat policemen.
Yes, We need more public automo-
with the joy ride. Indeed, let JOY be
unconhned Dads rich.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-07-12
DAD S RICH.
oughly.

This is how it works in Des MONIES
according 20 the editorial assurances OF
The Des Moines Register and Leaders:
First one department of the Des
Moines city government bought an au-
tor1aobile, then another, until now the
city has three or four in use for pub
lie and private convenience,
Then the school board concluded that
it needed an automobile and it Is serl-
ously debating the purchase Of one, al
tho holding its inclinations very nice
Iy in check for the present.
Then the sheriff of Polk county be-
gan teasing the county authorities for
motor car He told them that he
needed it awfulIy bad and that he just
couldn't get along without it.
Now tt7e county uperintendent Of
schools SAYS she needs one and while
she is presenting her claims to the
board Of supervisors, the members Of
the board show symptoms of needing
an automobile in their business, too
The contagion of spending public
money runs faster and carries farther
than smallpox. The virus once inocu-
lated speeds like fire thru the blood
Ana Lpt dulOlllOD44N - a Ao7S4ii' -
machine It is quick transit, ii con-
veys distinction. costs good money and
possibly in the big cities outside Of
Iowa offers the chance Of neat little
commission to the purchaser, Such
things are outside Of Iowa-of course
outside Of Iowa.
Then too, the public automobile has
its private charm 1t is convenient and
inexpensive except to the taxpayer A
joy ride in a city automobile with city
gasoline is an inexpensive amusement
and fishing trip of ten or twenty
miles may be had without private out
lay and constitutes a healthful and
modest outing without the ugly neces-
sity of digging up 50 to SO at the de-
mand of the garage owner. And when
the night has been filled with music
or what passes for music after mid
night where the Wurtzburger flows,
the telephone and the public's automo-
bile point the way whereby public
personages, given to Wurtzburger and
song o nights, may get down town to
business with the least exertion. The
public's automobile is not all business.
/ It has its softer side. In the mad
whirl of carrying on public affairs 1t
finds time for the sweet private cour-
tesies which most endear it.
Ninety-nine counties in Iowa have
school superintendent, board Of super
| visors, sheriffs and the like. Each
needs an automobile. Hundreds Of
towns OF towns AMI cities e the stete
all incorporated. The trustees or alder
men need an automobile; the mayor
ought to have one: the town marsha
or the chief of police can't get alonf
without one, and it is coming to thu
pass that the lowly tramp will sooI
} refuse to ride to the lookup on a ORA!
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-07-12
TIMES REPUB11CAN AARsHA1LrowN. IOWA, JULY

bottom asking the finder, should there
be one so lucky, to write to one of the
party telling where and when they had
found it, Hardly dreaming of ever
hearing Of 1t again. weeks and months
passed by, and the little incident was
almost forgotten. But fate had some
thing vet in store for on June 20 one Of
the party received a letter containing
the slip OF paper and names as written
almost year ago. Also a note saying
that while fishing in the Gulf of Mex
leo, near the mouth Of the Mississippi
river, the writer had found the bottle
and out OF curiosity he answered the
note
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-07-12

Jackson committee set out to have the
Iowa republican platform declare Tor
the Taft side of controversy that has
continued turnout the present session
Of congress, The committee announced
in it's circular that it would Organize
eyery precinct" on this issue It failed.
Now what will the friends OF the Iowa
delegation do?
Iowa's two senators and a majority
of her congressman are just as good
republicans as is President Taft or
Speaker Cannon or Senator Aldrlch. 1t
is not a controversy Is to who is re-
publican They are all republicans.
The question at issue is what shall
republtcanism be-" Did Senator Dol
liyer's demand for real tariff reduc-
lions constitute Iowa's kind of republic
canism or were the Aldrich schedules
the best party doctrine? Did Senator
Cunmins amendments to the railroad
bill constitute Iowa's kind of repup-
licanism or did the Wickersham corpo-
ration draft define orthodoxy? Did the
stand of Iowa's congressman for the
end of ring rule in the house constl-
tute western republica nism or is the
Cannon leadership to be deitied? To
declare frankly upon these vital issues
is merely a vote of a board Of direc-
tors upon important policy 1t con-
tains no desire nor danger of wreck
ing the company.
A study of resolutions adopted by
the county conventions discloses the
fun measure of this controversy. The
.Jacksonites resolved endorsements for
Taft and ignored the senators Whlle
the progressives endorsed the senators
and referred to Taft incidentally. Pres
iaent Taft should be accorded the sup
port of the party in all efforts 10 carry
out the promises of the national plat
form of 1908 and he Will be. He should
not be given a blanket endorsement
which can be read outside of Iowa as
placing Iowa's approval on his side Of
the controversy with her senators
when Iowa, in fact STANDS with her
senators. What foolishness that would
be.
our state ticket contains nominees
from both progressives and reaction
aries. The ticket as a whole is worthy
of endorsement and no one candidate
deserves to be singled out for praise
above another. a progressive con-
vention will endorse the state ticket
and since it includes nominee for
governor who was opposed by those
who will constitute the majority in the
convention that should offer the basis
for united party so much besought
at Sioux City. President Taft is en-
titled to know how Iowa republicans
stand on the vital policies of the party
and it should be stated in the platform
frankly with malice toward none and
charity for all II will be.
The above prediction can be made
with the utmost positiveness for we
have I.afe Young's permission to make
the platform what it ought to be-
shoot or give up the gun" says LATE
IF the progressives are in possession
of any special principles they should
give expression to the same by resolu-
ton Aug. g. Put up or shut up and
Lafe understands politics most thor
ougilly.