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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-20
MULTIPLE ELECTRoLYsIs.

ELECTROLYSIS-S
GUS hairs on face and arms perma-
nently removed with one to SIX
needles; four to six hours work in
one with six; treatments given at
home unless otherwise desired. Ad-
dress Miss A NJ. Kittridge, 1919 Per-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-20
FLORISTS.

HENRY GAETHJE - Proprietor Chip
pfannock nursery. Cut flowers and
designs OF all kinds. City store. 1907
Second avenue. Telephone 111o.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-20

FOR RENT-Furnished rooms for light
housekeeping at 2312 Fifth avenue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-20
BOARDING HOUSES.


WANTED - A few first class table
boerders; home cooking: 1900 Fifth
avenue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-20
ABSTRACTS OF TITLE.

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ABSTRACTS of Title prepared or con-
tinued to date covering any real es-
tate in the county. Prompt and ac-
curate service at reasonable rates.
Rock Island Title & Abstract Com
pany; ]. J. Ingram, president; w ].
Sweeney, secretary 200-2O3, second
floor. Peoples National bank build
ing.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-20
INSURANCE.


INSURANCE on dwellings and house
hold furniture speciality. Chamber
lin & Anderson.
e cox Real estate and
insurance. Loans a speciality. Best
fire companies represented. Your pat
ronage solicited. Phones west %, and
new 5172. Once at court house.
Insurance Agency Fire.
life, accident, health and plate glass;
real estate and loans; second floor.
Safety building. ONCE phone west
$50. Residence phone 736K. Open
Wednesday and Saturday nightA
WE WILL BOND YOU-Executors', ad-
mfnistrators', guardians, trustees or
any kind of judicial bonds: lodges and
society officers; city, state or u. 8.
government officials; contractors, po-
sitions of trust, in fact, any kind OF
bond you want Except bail bonds).
Terms reasonable. Hayes & Cleave-
land. resident managers. Fidelity &
Deposit Company of Maryland.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-20

FOR RENT-Modern furnished room at
1915 Seventh avenue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-20
BUSINESS CHANCES.

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FOR SALE - well established and
strictly up-to-date boarding house.
well furnished, all modern convent
ences, good locality, and fine bust
ness; excellent opportunity for one
who desires a bargain. for $400; party
wishing to sell desires leaving town
at an early date. Address 1905 Fourth
avenue. Phone Say.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-20

FOR RENT-Modern furnished rooms
at 602 Thirtieth street.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-20

FOR RENT-A nicely furnished ROOM
strictly modern, at 1880 Second ave-
nue..
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-20
MISCELLANEOUS.

IF YOU WANT to buy, sell. trade or
rent anything, engage help or secure
a situation, the Mail and Journal Is
the one paper in Moline that can do
it for you. Mail and Journal wants
are popular. and Mail and Journal
wants bring results. One-half cent
per word is the price to all alike,
cash in advance; two-cent stamps will
do. Evening and Saturday Mail and
~ournal Moline. III.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-20

FOR RENT-A large furnished front
room, with heat. Inquire at 215 Fiji
teenth street.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-20

FOR RENT-A seven-room cottage with
modern improvements on Fifth -and-a-
half avenue. Inquire 1884 Fifth ave-
nue..
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-20

FOR RENT - Seven-room house, ali
modern. Inquire at Beardsley &
Bailey Company, at Eighteenth
street.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-20

FOR RENT-Two strictly modern fur
nished rooms. with heat. Apply 1901
Fourth avenue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-20

FOR RENT-A two-room house at SIT
Fourteenth avenue Inquire 515 Four
teenth avenue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-20

FOR RENT - Modern furnished rooms
at 1900 Third avenue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-20

FOR RENT-A newly furnished room
entirely modern. at 1116 Second ave-
nue.. Old phone 6SSx.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-20

FOR RENT - Two modern six-room
houses, Nos. 1907 and 2S09 Sixth ave-
nue.. Inquire 2811 Sixth avenue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-20

FOR RENT A seven-room house in
good condition, with bath, gas and
electric light Inquire SAB Nineteenth
street
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-20
LODGE DIRECTORY.
NTRkOnfc.

TRIO LODGE. NO. 81, A F. & A. M
a Meets in stated communication
~ - the first Thursday of each
lFSAF[ month. Special for work Thurs
day Jan. 20 The craft are invited.
NJ T. Stevens. w. NJ; William B. Pet
tit secretary.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-20

EXPRESS. STORAGE, BUS AND CAB.
RELIABLE STORAGE-On first floor;
also manufacturer of awnings, tents,
wagon covers, etc. Tents for rent B.
Roessler & Co. 200 Fifteenth street,
opposite the court house. Rock Island.
INDEPENDENT EXPRESS CO. - For
good service call on the Independent
Express Company, sos Twenty first
street. Old phone 9S1. Packing and
storage and all kinds of express haul
ing. Also buying and selling second
hand goods
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-20

FOR RENT - Furnished room, with
steam heat and bath; gentleman pre-
ferred; S22h Twentieth street, Hurst
building.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-20

FOR RENT-A five-room cottage, mod
ern improvements, at 1851 Fitth-and-
a-half avenue. Inquire 1884 Fifth
avenue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-20

FOR RENT-A flve-room cottage at 594
Dearborn street. South Rock Island,
J. S. Scheuermann. 100 Sixth street.
city.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-20
Executors Notice.

Jackson. Hurst 3 stanord. attorn
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-20
FOR RENT-HoUsEs.

FOR RENT A seven-room house at
Ills Third avenue. Call old phone
west 7SS-X.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-20
wANTED-MALE HELP.

Neutrality-suspicious.; Rock Island Man
ufacturing Company.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-20

FOR RENT A good warm furnished
room, all modern, suitable for gentle
man; 412 Nineteenth street, opposite
public library.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-20
Notice of publication.

John X. Scott. attorney.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-20

FOR RENT-Newly and nicely furnish
ed rooms for light housekeeping;
also sleeping rooms; location very
central. on car line: 1897 Second ave-
nue..
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-20
wANTED-MALE OR FEMALE.

WANTED-Talented amateurs for dra-
matte clubs. Channon L. Davis, au-
thor The Plunger." Masterpiece"
etc. Personal interview Saturday 8
g. m. to p. m. Studio. New Harper
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-20
FOR sALE-cIrY PROPERTY.

FOR SALE-A small house in a good
neighborhood near car line; $3.50 cash
will buy this place. W. z. Bailey.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-20

An the news ali the time-lHE
ARGUS.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-01-20

FOR RENT - a nice large furnished
south room, with lavatory and hot
water heat in room Inquire 1OA
Thirteenth street.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-01-01
Waldo County.

Harriet n. Abbott, VS.. Margaret A.
Niles. Rescript. Per Curtain.
The defendant, a daughter of the
PLAINTIFF. Qhe mother) had come into
the possession of certain bonds of the
plaintiff ana had also received from the
plaintiff an assignment of certain saw
inSs bank deposits. In this suit for the
value of those bonds and deposits after
demand, the defendant, however, aided
by presentations, still had the burden
of a!iirmatively proving the PROPOSE
tion set up by her that the bonds and
deposits were delivered and assigned to
her as an outright gift for her sole use.
Ihere was considerable evidence from
witnesses and circumstances in support
of the defendants contention, but the
plaintiff testified positively that there
was no gift nor intention of gift, that
the bonds were taken without her con-
sent or knowledge and that the bank
deposits We're assigned to the defend
ant simply for the more convenient
management of them for the plaintiff.
The plaintiff was eighty three years of
age and not able to go about much out
OF the house. Her testimony, however,
shows clear. strong mind and MEM
DRY. Further, the defendant stated in
one or more letters that her mother,
the plaintiff, was rather unduly fond
Of money. Still further, the plaintiff
had already decided her homestead to
the defendant reserving a life estate
and if the transfer of bonds and de-
posts was an outright gift, the plain
eff was left penniless except her life
estate in the homestead and a war PEN
sion of $25 per month These circum
stances make it somewhat improbable
that a gift was made or intended.
Whatever might be our own views as
10 the facts or the preponderance of the
evidence, there is some evidence for the
plaintiff and enough to sustain the YER
dict if true. The jury has found it to
he true and it is not intrinsically i'm
probable. We are not fully satisfied
that the jury were undoubtedly msta-
ken, hence the motion to set aside the
verdict must be overruled
Motion overruled. Judgment on the
verdict.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-01-01
York County.

George w. Tibbetts, VS.. Inhabitants
of South Berwick, Aprts. (No opin
ion) Rescript. Per Curtain.
The crucial point in this case is
whether certain goods which We're sold
by the plaintiff and delivered by him
to the defendants road commissioner
for the Defendants use should have
been charged to the defendants, or
whether, by reason of special agree
-nent, they should have been charged
to the road commissioner himself The
jury found in effect that there was no
such special agreement. and returned a
verdict for the plaintiff.
The court is of opinion that it is not
clearly shown that the verdict is
wrong. The defendant had a greater
number of witnesses than the plaintiff
And it may ne that upon the face Of
the record. the apparent weight of evil
6ence favored the defendants conten-
ton. But that is not enough, The jury
seeing and hearing the witnesses, may
properly have concluded that the plain
tiff's evidence was in fact weightier
and of more convincing effect The
court cannot interfere with the verdict
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-01-01
Cumberland County.

Michael Morahan, vs. The Grand
Trunk Railway of Canada. Per Gu
riam.
This was an action brought by the
plaintiff to recover damages for inju-
ries received while employed by the de-
PENDANT company. After the evidence
Of the plaintiff was submitted the pre-
siding justice upon the motion of the
defendants counsel ordered a non suit
and the case is before this court on the
PLAINTIFFS exceptions. Allowing all
proper differences to be drawn from the
evidence which are most favorable to
the plaintiff, it is not proved that his
injuries were caused by the defendants
negligence or failure of duty toward
the servant. 1t is evident that the fall
of the PLAINTIFF to the floor of the car
from bale OF hay on which he was
standing, was either the result of pure
accident from the breaking of the wire
binder of another bale which he was
attempting to move, or by the plain
tlffS own want or reasonable care in
pulling heavily with his cotton hook
upon the binder causing it to break
suddenly and producing his fall. The
non suit was properly ordered.
Exceptions Overruled.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-01-01
Nervous Women
will find that Nature responds
promptly to the gentle laxa-
tive effects, and the helpful
tonic action of
&acAazy
AW
Sold Everywhere. In boxes 1oc. and Csc.

instructions concerning it, Afterward
I will send those on the list, prior to
the test, a set of directions for filling
out the test papers. This will enable
everyone to come well prepared.
Nothing could be fairer or better calcu-
lated to insure satisfactory applicant
passing the test.
THE test itself need not deter any
one Any person with common sense
and a common school education can
pass it. All it consists of is giving the
candidates sample population and agri-
cultural schedules, upon which are to
be written in the proper columns the
required details, which are found in
printed descriptions, in narrative form,
of typical families and farms supposed
to be in a district. There will be some
instances requiring the exercise of
Judgment to decide whether a given
entry should be made under one col
umn heading or another You can see
how simple and elementary it is.
THE test will be held all over the
country and in every supervisors dis
trict Feb ). There will be several
places in each district for taking it,
ONE place Ntuit pt IL
would not hold all the candidates. AS
supervisor. I shall have the direction
of all, and the test examination at each,
no matter under what official agency it
is held, will be that sole and simple
one prescribed by the census director
Il am given until Feb. % to rate the
papers in a very simple way, and to
gain an idea of the qualifications of
those rated as having passed. Next I
will forward the papers OF the success
full candidates, with my Recommended
tons or designations, to the census di-
rector. He will, if satisfied that suit
able persons have been selected, give
his consent to their appointment, and
they will be commissioned. The mid
die or latter part of March should see
everything settled, and the selected
and commissioned enumerators will be
sent more circulars and books of in
structions relative to the interpreta-
ton or meaning of the questions on the
two schedules.
April Is the census army will move
forward in the enumeration.
Certainly the federal census taking
is as necessary and as honorable as
jury duty, and, as all good and useful
citizens do not hesitate to respond to
the call for such duty, 1 therefore ask
the same highs grade citizenship to
come forward and help me have the
census taken accurately and eXpedi-
tiously.
LAS President Taft has said, the pay
is not large bHt the work is worth do
ing well, and some day we shall all feel
proud in the consciousness that we had
o part, however, humble, in taking this
census"
The census directors for Maine are:
First district: Morrill, N. Drew of
Portland; second district, Elmer P.
Spofford, Deer Isle
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-01-01
OBSERVES LAW.
Speaker Cannon Disposes Of Venison
Gift in Quick Time.

Washington, Dec. 31.-When "Uncle
Joe" Cannon arrived in the National
capital last night on his return from a
Christmas season spent at his Dan
vile home, his secretary, l.. White
Bsbee, informed him that an entire
deer had arrived during his absence as
a Christmas gift from Col. James A.
Owensby of Colorado.
"Why Bisbee," exclaimed the Speak
err, cts against the law here to have
venison in your possession after Jan.
l. Only &c hours to consume an entire
deer!"
Whereupon, not to be undone by an
item of district legislation, the Speak
er referred the matter to himself as
chairman of a committee on ways and
means, with Bisbee as a sub-ccmmit-
tee, and in less time than it takes TO
tell it, the resolution was reporter
back and adopted:
Resolved, That we will call upon our
friends to help us dispose of Col,
Owensby's deer before midnight of Dec.
81 rings out the old year"
The telephone was soon busy and TO-
day number Of the Speakers friends
enjoyed venison for dinner.
2 i -
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-01-01
York County.

Edward B. Blaisdell, Petr. VS.. George
F. Plaisdell. Per Curtain.
This was a petition for the writ of
nandamus to compel the town clerk of
he town of York to amend his record
If the proceedings of a meeting of the
inhabitants of the town Oct. 10. 1906. He
mad recorded as carried a motion to
accept bid to construct a certain rail
road bridge for 100000. 1t is alleged
that the motion was in fact defeated
md the petition is to procure an
amendment of the record to that effect
The alternative writ was issued and
The question is whether the peremptory
writ should issue despite the return
that the record as made is correct
We realize that to establish the in
correctness of public record made at
the time and place of the transaction,
the evidence should be plenary, but in
this case we think it is plenary. The
mover of the resolution to accept the
bid, the moderator who put it to vote,
the lawyer who read in the meeting the
terms of the bid, distinguished pro-
lessor in the Harvard Law School and
many others testify positively that first
4 vote by voice was taken and the re-
suit doubted, and that second vote
by show of hands was taken showing
an overwhelming majority opposed.
There also is planary evidence that up
IN a citizen afterward in the meeting
making some objection to the accep-
lance of the bid he was assured by the
moderator that the motion to accept
mad been defeated.
~,
The main directly and explicitly. Many
Of them We're interested and watchful
IF the proceedings. 1t is exceedingly
improbable they were mistaken or mis-
stating.
On the other hand the main body of
the witnesses for the respondent testl-
fly that they do not recall any hand
vote being taken though many of them
10 recall that the viva voce vote was
doubted. They do not seem to have
been interested or watchful. 1t is not
unusual for a considerable number of
people in a town meeting not to notice
all that is being done especially near
The close of the meeting after the main
business was disposed of and there is
considerable confusion in the hall as
was the case here from the evidence for
the respondent.
Another corroborating circumstance
| is that soon after the meeting several
| men who were present hearing of the
| state of the record visited the clerk and
| insisted to him that he had made a
mistake in recording the motion as car
ried. This shows that these men had
! been Watchful of what was being done.
| The mistake alleged was one that
| could be easily made. There was con-
| fusion. The main business was over.
| This particular matter was a mere in
cident not especially noted in the war
rant. Ii was at the very close of the
| meeting. The omission of the word
mot may have been an unconscious
slip of the pen.
| Upon the whole evidence we are fully
| satisfied that the motion TO accept the
! bid stated was rejected upon the hand
vote and that the clerk should SO cor
rect the record: as to show such rejec-
| ton.
/ Peremptory mandamus to issue.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-01-01
Follows the Christmas
Rush in Business Lines.
Years Business Excellent In
Some Branches, Record Breaker.
The Coming II Months Is Promised
Even Better Business.

New York, Dec. 31.-Bradstreets
State of Trade tomorrow will say:
Quiet has followed the preceding weeks
rush of business in retail lines, while
in wholesale lines statesmen are in from
the road and inventoring is general.
All obtainable information points to a
satisfactory-in many sections indeed,
Il record volume of business done in
the year just closed, and the feeling is
general that a still more satisfactory
12-months faces the country's COM
mercial and manufacturing interests.
Prices of commodities show undimin-
shed strength and some of the highest
prices of the year were made in the
last week. Cotton for instance, reach
ed and passed 16 cents, a price never
heretofore reached at this date since
war times Live hogs also reached
new record prices this week at leading
Western markets.
After-h holiday collection are fair to
good. Copper is firmer, and belief in
higher prices is growing Domestic
consumers are buying in small lots,
and the principal part of the business
done during the week was for export.
Business failures for the week end
ing with Dec. 80 were 256, against 299
in the like week of 1908; 1856 in 1907;
220 in 1906 and 27S in 1905.
Wheat, including flour, exports from
the United States and Canada for the
week ending Dec. 80, as reported by
telegraph to Bradstreet's aggregates
',6S9,456 bushels, against 3,116,601 this
week last year. For the 26 weeks end
ing Dec. 80 exports are S7,73O,OS9
bushels against 113,963,659 in the cor
responding period last year Corn ex-
ports for the week are LII Isl bushels
}gainst 1,025,495 in 1908. For the &c
weeks ending Dec. 80 corn exports are
S,696,963 bushels against 1O.O64,177 last
Year.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-01-01
Beware of Ointments for Catarrh
That Contain Mercury

as mercury will surely destroy the sense
of smell and completely derange the whole
system when entering it through the mu-
cous surfaces. Such articles should never
be used except on prescriptions from re-
putahle physicians. as the damage they
possibly derive from them. Halls Ca
tarrh Cure. manufactured by F. J.
Cheney & Co Toledo. O.. contains no
mercury and is taken internally, acting
directly upon the blood and mucous sur
faces of the system. In buying Hall S
Catarrh Cure be sure you get the genuine
1t is taken internally and made in Tole-
do, Ohio. by F. j. Cheney & Co., Testi-
monials free.
Sold by Druggists. Price 75c. per bottle
Take Halls Family Pills for constipa-
ton.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-01-01
CHRISTMAS GIFTS BURNED
In the 100000 American Express Fire
At New York.

New York, Dec 31.-Belated Christ
uas packages and other valuable ex-
press parcels in large numbers went up
in smoke today in fire which z de-
stroyed the American Express Cos. Of
fees and storerooms near the Grand
Central station, causing loss estimat-
ed at 100000.
The flames ragged for several hours in
the main building and smaller struc-
lures adjoining, covering the greater
part of block. At periods the fire
was punctured by explosions believed
to have been supplied by oil barrels
among the goods in the warehouses.
Two men We're badly injured when the
flames shot fiercely out after one of
these blasts, which served as well to
spread the flames.
The Adams Express Cos. buildings
nearby were threatened, but hard
work by the firemen saved these
structures. The blaze was a spectac-
ular one and thousands of persons
gathered to watch the firemen's hard
fight against it's stubborn persistence.
A large part Of the loss was said today
to be due to the destruction of a guam
tity of valuable furs stored in the
warehouse and which were to be
shipped today to Europe. Some of the
furs were saved, but in damaged
condition.
Guests in the New Weston hotel
nearby were panic stricken when the
explosions occurred, but were quickly
treasured and did not leave the hostel
ry.