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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-04-20
STATE MEDICAL SOCIETY.
Annual Convention I'm Laurens, April
1920.

1920.
Laurens, April 1.-THE sixty Sec
ond annual meeting of the South
Carolina Medical Society will be held
in Laurens next week, the prelimin-
aries Of the session opening Monday
evening with session Of the board
of councillors at Gray's Hotel. On
Tuesday meeting of the county
secretaries will be held in the fore
noon and the house of delegates will
hold sessions in the afternoon and
evening. BY Tuesday 1t Is expected
that all the delegates. numbering pro-
badly 200, will have arrived for the
Convention.
Wednesday morning, April 20, the
sessions of the Convention proper will
be formally. opened in the Masonic
Temple, Enterprise Bank building,
with President John w. Dawson, Of
Charleston, in the chair. The exer-
cises will open with Divine invocation
by the Rev. William E. Thayer, pas
tor of the First Baptist church. Then
Will follow the addresses of welcome
by DR.. w. d. Ferguson, DR.. Hugh K.
Aiken. president of the Laurens
Chamber of Commerce. and DR.. w.
II. Dial, president Of the Laurens
County Medical Society. The annual
address of the State president will
be delivered at the conclusion Of these
exercises, after which the schedule
work of the Association will be pro-
ceeded with.
Several distinguished visiting doc
tors are expected for the conyA-tion,
including DR.. George B. Johnson, of
Richmond; DR.. ]. II. Musser, Of Phil
adelphia, and DR.. Charles Hunter
Dunn, Of Boston, who, II Is announc-
ed, will address the Association on
special subjects.
For the entertainment Of the WIS.,
itors the local committee, consisting
OF Drs. r. f.. Hughes w. II. Dial, 1.
Schayer and T. L. w. Bailey, has ar
ranged for the delivery Of lectrue
at the graded school auditorium We'd
nesday night by Joseph G.. Camp,
whose subject will be Truth and
Shams'" and on Thursday evening a
buffetsupper will be given at the
armory
The officers Of the State Associa-
tion elected last year at Summerville,
are: DR.. John l.. Dawson, OF Char
lesion president; DR.. +. II. Mcleod,
of Florence, first vice president; DR..
&. Nj. Rees, Of Charleston, second vice
president; DR.. A. III. Hayden, Of Sum
| merville, third vice president; Or.
! Walter Cheyne, of Sumter. secretary:
Dr. G. p. Aimar of Charleston. treas
uror.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-04-20
GRAFT IN PHILIPPINES.
> MARTIN SAYS SUGAR TRUST Is
GETTING FRIAR PROPERTY.
Charged That War Department L.
Withholding Information That
Would Prove His Contention
Asks An Inquiry.

Washington. April 15.-Represen-
tative Martin of Colorado. a Demo-
crat. who for weeks has been waging
fight I'm the house In an effort to
show that the F'riar lands OF the
Philippine Islands are being seized by
the sugar trust" with the acquisc-
ence OF Attorney General Wicker
sham and the war department. to-
night gave to the press an interview
In which he reviews his atfortr. ss-
sails the government officials alleged
TO be involved. charges that informa-
ton which would prove his ronten-
tlon is being withheld oy the war
department and demands a full con-
gressional inquiry into the matter.
Mr.. Martin characterlzes the action
Of the Republican majority OF the
house yesterday In defeating his reg
olution, calling upon the war de-
partment for information regarding
Athe sales OF the Friar lands. a "blan-
keting move" He points out a num-
ber OF alleged discrepancies in the
reports sent by the war department
to the house committee On insular
Affairs concerning the Friar land
transaction and accuses the govern
ment officials OF duplicity and deceit
He charges the administrator
with having begun 'policy of ex-
ploitation in the Philippines" and
declares that If II has been falsely
accused let II take off the lid" Mr.
Martin announced that he was pre-
, pairing a new resolution of Inquiry
into the Friar land deal. which he
said he would introduce In the house
as soon as he had finished drafting
II.
III there was ever any 1oubt about
the necessity for an investigation OF
Philippine affairs" said Mr. Martin
eft Is removed by the disclosures
made by the war department In re-
sponse to my resolution of inquiry
II could point out many other
things" continued Mr.. Martin. "but
the proper time and place II point
them out will be In a congressional
Investigation. The administration
must investigate this matter or stick
It's head In the sand like an ostrich
to blind It's eyes to the storm that is
coming"
War department officials tonight
!, declared that the statement made by
Representative Martin Is not worthy
ot serious consideration, as no had
taken the facts In the case and gar
bled them to make II appear as II
the government had been a party 10
wrong dealings" II was said that
the records furnished To the insular
committee by the wac department
would prove that the department. had
ected I'm the matter with perfect
propriety.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-04-20

ever existed, it will still be chan+;ne
the praises of the great Virginiain.
There are some men whose souIs oro
so shriveled and whose minds are so
srunken that either would rattle in
a mustard seed. Senator Hevburn
may not belong to this catergory, but
ne is endeavoring to make the world
pelleVe that he does.-Atlanta Geor-
gian.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-04-20
WOUNDED BY UNKNOWN COW
ARD.
Beaufort County Man shot Down
From Behind and Seriously Hurt.

beaufort. April 15.-Paul Rauch
was shot i'm his back by an unknown
party shortly after o'clock tonight
rs he was standing i'm his store on the
Port loyal ferry road near Gray's
Hill. cigHt miles out Of Beaufort. 1t
Is not now thought that the wound
will be fatal. Thirty small shot were
extracted from his right side and
arm. No arrest has yet been made
though the victim has strong sus-
pillon against a negro whom the
sher!9 expects to get in the morning.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-04-20
CAROLINA COTTON SCHOOL,
II WEST TRADE ST,
Charlotte,

Want ed men 10 increase their earnings by
learning the cotton business in our sample
10 lnis. under an expert cot ton grader.
buying and selling coLuCn, American and
Liverpool cla>Sltca,iOn. Great demand
through the Cotton belt fer men who under
StahG 'ht cotton busIrrss. We guarantee to
learh any one Win ordinary eyesight in so
days. NJ w IL the time tu enter and make
g0ou cO..lra - Lhc C'n.l my season. Write Tor
terms ana endorsements of former students
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-04-20

II your Watch Is out of fix or needs
attention, take 1t to G.. M. Joye. the
watch repairer, at The Savoy. Accu-
rate work promptly done. Satlsfac-
tlon guaranteed. 4-15-1w
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-04-20

Watch, Clock and Jewelry repair
ing, also engraving, promptly and ac-
curately done. Charges reasonable.
e. Nj. Joye. AT Savoy. 4-15-1w.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-04-20

Prompt work a speciality. c. NJ.
Joye. Matchmaker and Jeweler, at
Savoy. 4-15-1w.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-04-20

Does your clock keep accurate
!. time? II not send 1t to c. M. Joye,
at Savoy. 4-15-1w.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-05
MOLINE MAN DROPS
DEAD IN DAVENPORT
NeIs HaIIgren COllaPses in Streets
and Expires in City Ambu-
lance.

Nels Hallgren, for the past % years
resident of Moline, died suddenly
last evening in Davenport. Yesterday
afternoon he went to Davenport and
was visiting with friends. In the ev-
ening, after he had finished his supper
at a restaurant, he walked outside, and
had gone but a few feet when he
swooned and fell to the walk. He died
in the ambulance while on the way to
a hospital. A post mortem eXamina-
ton today showed that death was caus-
ed by water on the brain. He had suf-
fered for the past five months. He
was native of Sweden, where he was
born IS years ago. He was a black
smith by trade, and for the past two
years had been employed at the Silvis
railroad shops He is survived by a
nephew John Hallgren, 715 Sixteenth
street, Moline.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-05
MRS. j. A. ELM IN
HER FINAL SLEEP
Well Known East End Resident
Expires After Ailing for
Six Years.
ACTIVE CHURCH WORKER
Complications Follow an Operation
and Cause Her Death-Fun-
eraI Tomorrow.

Mrs. Mary Hyde Elm, daughter of
the late Mr.. and Mrs Henry Hyde,
died last evening at 1925 at the fam
lily residence, 4224 Seventh avenue.
For six years her health had been i'm
paired and gradually her condition be
came more serious. Finally she was
obliged to submit to an operation.
which took place Oct. at the Moline
city hospital. Complications set in
last Wednesday evening and caused
her death.
Mrs. Elm was born in Chicago, Aug.
19, 1868, and a mere child, moved with
her parents to Cleveland, Ohio In
1871 the family came to Moline and
lived there. 1t was in Moline schools
that deceased received her education.
Besides a course in the public schools
she studied music and became accom-
piished as a vocalist and instrumental
list.
Married in 1892.
She was married to John A. Elm,
June %. 1892, the ceremony being per-
formed in Moline by Rev. A. NJ Stock
ing. Shortly after their marriage they
settled in their home in Edgewood
park, and that had since been their
residence. Mrs. Elm was for many
years a member of the First Metho-
dist church of Moline, and for years
took an active and earnest part in the
work of the church and many of it's
organizations. She was organist of
the Sunday school for IL years. Later,
after the establishment of the Spen-
Ger Memorial church here. she chang
ed her membership, and till her health
failed, was active in its work The
survivors are her husband and a little
daughter, Marcia, and one brother,
Frank H. Hyde, Muskogee, Okla.
The funeral will be held tomorrow
afternoon at o'clock from Spencer
Memorial church. Services will be
conducted by the pastor, Rev. F. E..
Shut, assisted by Rev. d. S. McCown
of the First Methodist church, Moline
Burial will be in Riverside cemetery,
Moline.
Mrs. Thomas O'Shaughnessy.
Mrs. Thomas O'Shaughnessy died
suddenly of heart trouble this morn
ing at 12:45 at the family residence.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-05
BOOSTERS ON THIRD
AVENUE THE FORE
Improvement Association Agrees on
Style of Curb Lights to Be
Installed.

Plans for the installation of or
namental curb lights on Third ave-
nue. between Seventeenth and Twen-
tieth streets have progressed to the
point of delegating a committee to
investigate the cost of the improve
INIT to the individual property own
er. D. c. Murphy, Edward Bauers-
field and L. S. McCabe compose the
committee, and a report is expected
the coming week. 1t has been decided
to adopt aluminium colored posts
for the lights, The Third Avenue
Improvement association is to be
made a permanent organization to
boost for that thoroughfare after the
fashion similar bodies of merchants
are doing in Davenport and other
cities. A constitution and bylaws
are to be reported at the next meet
ing, when it is expected a perma-
nent organization will be effected.
T. J. Medill is temporary chairman
and Edward Bakersfield secretary.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-05
UNDERWOOD HELD
ON LARCENY CHARGE
Bell Boy Who Stole from Hotel
Guests Must Answer to the
Grand Jury.

Earl Underwood, the bell boy at the
New Harper hotel, who was arrested
Thursday night charged with steal
ing from guest rooms, was held to the
grand jury this morning by Magis-
trate c. ]. Smith. The charge
against him is larceny. His bonds
were fixed at $500 and as he was I'M
able to furnish them he was taken to
the county Jail to remain is custody
until his case is investigated by the
grand jury.
James Murray was sent to the
county Jail this morning by Magis-
trate Smith who found him guilty
of disorderly conduct. Murray has
been intoxicated for several days
past and the Jail sentence of 20 days
was given him in order to allow him
to sober up and make a new start
in life.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-05
SHOWS NEW CARS TO
MONMOUTH PEOPLE
Rock Island Southern Gives Tangi.
bic Evidence of Progress in
Plans.

Manager Mccullough of the Rock
Island Southern announced yester-
day that one of the large new cars
to be used on the north line of the
road would be run to Monmouth this
afternoon at o'clock to give che
people a chance to see what it is
like. The car has been set up at
Cameron.
The new cars are equipped with
four 100-hOrse power motors and
each car has the capacity of 500
horse power. They are So feet in
length over all, and weigh about 49,
900 pounds The electrical equip
ment on the car cost $11 900 and
the car complete. $4,000. Each car
will be capable of carrying two trail
ers easily.
The manager also announces that
it seems certain that the north line
will be ready for operation by Nov.
pa, Thanksgiving day, and service
will be opened on that day. The
schedule calls for the running of cars
every three hours. beginning at $50
in the morning. Cars will leave both
Monmouth and Rock Island at $50
in the morning and two hours and
40 minutes will consumed in making
the trip. Thereafter the cars will
leave at $50, 1890, $50, $50 and
$50.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-05

1921 Main street, Davenport. Mrs.
O'Shaughnessy, whose maiden name
was Catherine O'Shaughnessy, was
born at New York city, Aug. IS,
1916, and when a child removed with
her parents to Rock Island, where
she lived till 1877. She was mar
ried in February OF that year to
Thomas O'Shaughnessy and since
that time had resided in Davenport.
Beside her husband she is survived
by son, Thomas, and three daugh-
tiers, Mary, Catherine and Estella,
at home. The funeral will be held
Monday morning from st. Anthony's
church, Davenport, and burial will
be in ST. Marguerite's cemetery.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-05
RINGDALL IS A GOOD
MAN FOR SENATOR
John OhIweiIer, Who Has Known
Democratic Candidate 40
Years, Writes.

Rock Island, H., Nov. editor The
Argus: If every voter in the Thirty
third senatorial district knew Peter
Ringdall, democratic nominee for state
senator. as well as | do, it would mere
ly be a matter of the size of the ma
jority he would receive. Mr.. Ringdall
is an old settler of Mercer county. He
has been in business in Aledo for 40
years, and l have known him person
ally nearly all of that time. He is a
man of high integrity, and while he
has never taken a prominent part in
politics, his experience and ability fit
him TO be one of the very best repre-
sentatives in the upper house of the
legislature this district ever had.
Yours truly,
JOHN OHLWEILER.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-05
Saves an iowa Mans Life.

The very grave seemed to yawn be.
fore Robert Madsen of West Burling.
ton, Iowa. when, after seven weeks in
the hospital, four of the best physi-
clans gave him up. Then was shown
the marvellous curative power of Elec.
trio Bitters- For, after eight months
of frightful suffering from liver trou
bic and yellow jaundice, getting no
help from other remedies or doctors,
five bottles of this matchless medicine
completely cured him. 1t is positively
guaranteed for stomach liver or kid
ney troubles and never disappo;nts.
Only soc at all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-05
Some Pointed Questions Anent
the Campaign.

today the communication which
is self
91oEditor the Daily Union: At the opeins
of
respectfully submit
in yours issue,
!. S 70 o 10,
for he
living
ever i
3. Mckinney made by
republicans the
o
4. $4,000 fer
mons
"a
and wome a pe
chndns clothing why he voted
uine
questions.
only
fendM sincerely
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-05
Large Committee to Appear Be-
fore Meeting of Rock Island
Council Next Monday Even
ing With Request.
OUTSIDE TRADE is SOUGHT
One Means of Encouraging 1t Is TO
Afford Free and Accessible En-
trance to Town-Plenty of
Examples.

Monday evening a committee of
Rock Island business men will appear
before the meeting of the city council
and ask that the charging OF toll on
the Rock river bridges be abolished
The committee, which was appointed
by a mass meeting held yesterday az
ternoon at the Rock Island club, is as
follows:
II. E. Casteel, chairman; f. B. Nc
Kown, G. w. McCaskrin, F. T. Myers,
l.. S. McCabe, F. G. Young, NJ. c. Rice,
George Bennett. A Mosenfelder, John
Gustafson, W. H. Sexton. Carl Hellpen-
stell, H. s. Cable, Eli Mosenfelder, II.
B. Simmon, ]. ]. Ullemeyer. Captain
John Streckfus, S. w. Bowlby, Fred
Bleuer, Presley Greenawalt, L. J. Daw-
son. 7. H. Dolly, Henry Horst, DR.. +.
NJ. Sala. E. B. Kreis, w. NJ. Reck, w.
Mueller, DR.. Joseph De Silva, Louis
Salzmann, w. c. Maucker. 8. W
Searle, Mayer Levi, Phil Mitchell X
T. Anderson, f. w. Lewis, DR.. G. /.
Eyster. Charles Goff, II. J. Frick. w.
P. zimmerman, Samuel Ransom, Hen.
ry Krell, J. w. Tremann, Louis Week.
ell. w. L. Hartz, A. ]. ID. Moeller. b. r.
Knox, S. r. Kenworthy, Thomas w.
Clark. f. E. Lawyer, J. P. Sexton, j.
NJ. Colligan. II. o. Rolls, z. T. Dolly,
William Trefz. T. b. Reidy, DR.. ]. w.
Stewart, William Schaarmann. w. s.
Parks, T. J. Medill, w. A. Rosenfield.
Henry Carse, l. S. White. Richard
Champion, William Jackson.
Have Meeting st Club.
A mass meeting Of business men was
held yesterday afternoon at the Rock
Island Club. Mayor G. W. McCaskrin
presided and DR.. Z. NJ. Sala was sec.
rotary. S. r. Kenworthy explained the
legal status of the Rock river bridges,
showing that the city had not the con.
stitutional right 10 exact toll for cross
ing the structures. There was a gen
eral discussion, and the unanimous
sentiment was that not only should the
bridges be maintained free as a means
of encouraging patronage from the
territory at the south and west. but
that the highway between this city
and Milan should be kept in first-class
condition. The example of Moline was
cited; the business interests there
have raised $1,000 among themselves
to build a macadam road into Rural
township.
City Able to Keep Up Bridges.
The opinion expressed at the club
meeting was that the city was big
enough to support the bridges by gen
eral taxation; that the idea of collect
ing foliage was primitive. aside from
the injury that it did in discouraging
travel from the rural territory towards
Rock Island.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-05
Monster Petition Filed in Coun-
ty Court Asking for Special
Election to be Held in Rock
Island Jan. 8.
Is NEARLY UNANIMOUS
Four Times Required Number of Sig
natures Secured-Labor Organ
izations Join With Business
Men in Preliminaries.

Eighteen hundred eighty-nine citi-
a monster petition filed yesterday af-
ternoon with Judge r. w. Olmsted in
the county court requesting that he
call a special election on Jan. to give
the people an opportunity to pass upon
the proposition whether they desire
the adoption of the commission form
of government in Rock Island. At the
last election in Rock Island the total
vote cast was ALSO. The law passed
at the last session of the Illinois leg
islature empowering cities to change
the plan of government requires that
10 per cent of the vote polled at the
preceding election shall be represent
ed on the petition calling for special
election to determine the question of
changing the form of municipal gov
eminent. Under the legal require
ments it was necessary TO obtain here
but 4S9 names. Over four times the
needed number have been secured.
thus indicating the general demand for
a change in the order of things locally.
Union Labor Takes Active Part.
The signatures of voters were solicit
ted by so different citizens, and a sig
nificant fact in this connection is that
two-thirds of the solicitors were men
employed in the shops and on the
railroads, the majority of them afilia-
ted with union labor organizations.
This should serve as a pretty good
answer to the representations of some
of the political elements in the city
that the commission form agitation in
Rock Island is confined 10 few of the
business men.
In the event a majority of the voters
at the special election record them
selves as favoring adoption of the
commission form. then. under the law
il will be the duty of the court to fix
the date of the election at which a
mayor and four commissioners are to
be chosen within 80 days after the
adoption of the new plan.
Election April T..
This would bring the election of
mayor and commissioners on April 4,
allowing time for the present admins
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-05
BARBER SHOPS TO
BE IDLE TOMORROW
Are to Be No More Sunday Shaves in
the Establishments of Rock
Island.

Unless you have a razor of your
own that you know how to use, you
had better remember that beginning
tomorrow, the union barber shops of
Rock Island will be closed Sunday.
Heretofore the shops have remained
open until II Sunday morning. The
local union of Journeyman BARRIERS, by
a majority vote, decided TO join in the
Sunday closing movement, which is
general over the country, and the de-
mand was asquiesced in by the bosses.
A year ago the Davenport shops clos
ed, and those of Moline followed soon
after.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-05
1883 CITIZENS CALL FOR CHANGE
TO COMMISSION GOVERNMENT HERE

trative officers to finish the business
of their legal term before their sue
cessors take control Preceding the
election for the choosing of mayor and
commissioners there must be held a
primary. Under the law this should
be held Feb IS. At this primary as
many as may desire may enter as can
didates. The only legal requirement
is that the candidate obtain the sigma
lures of 25 voters on his petition. The
two candidates for mayor receiving
the highest vote will have their names
printed on the election ballot, and the
same rule will apply TO the eight as
pirants for commissioners.
The mayor and commissioners are
elected to serve four-year terms. I'm
der the present plan of government
here there is a city election every
year. The records at the city clerks
Office show that the expense of these
elections average $4,000 annually.
With the adjustment of the annual
city election there would be a saving
sufficient to pay the salaries for four
year term of two of the commission
ers.
Congratulations From Green.
Charles Golf, secretary of the RoclS
Island Business Mems association, has
received the following communication
from George E. Green, secretary of the
Illinois Merchants association:
Peoria, Oct 29.-Dear Sir:-I have
returned to the office after an absence
of more than a week, and find your let
ter of Oct. 20. l want to congratulate
Rock Island on the manifest interest
for better government which it is TAX
ing. You have certainly done remark
ably we'll in securing the great mum
Der of signatures to petitions, which
makes the outlook for the adoption of
the commission form by your people
most promising. In answering your
inquiry concerning other towns which
are circulating petitions, ones that l
know of are Rockford, East ST. Louis.
Champaign and Moline. Springfield
and Decatur, l believe, will circulate.
At least they are talking about It
Peoria is somewhat in doubt about get
ting started this fall. l hope, however,
that they will. Wishing you abundant
success. l am. Truly Yours,
GEORGE E. GREEN, Secretary.