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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-06-13

FOR RENT-A building for q garage on
Seventeenth street between Third and
Fourth avenues. Address Garage"
care Argus Office.
FOR RENT-A suite OF two ONCE rooms
with steam heat, over Maths confec-
tionery; cheap rent Apply to Mr..
Krel or Mr.. Math, city.
FOR RENT-Two very desirable store
rooms. two rooms each. located at
2s09 Seventh avenue. city; very good
location for lunch room, ice cream
parlor, and confectionery. tailor shop.
ouire cas- Thirty-ntnth street, Rock
Island
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-06-13

FOR RENT-Furntshed rooms for Light
housekeeping at 307 Third street
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-06-13

FOR RENT-A nicely furnished room
in a modern home at $40 Twenty
third street
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-06-13

FOR RENT-Furnished front room. fl
modern house, at 4oS Fifteenth street
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-06-13

FOR RENT-In private family. furnish
nue..
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-06-13
FOR NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

E<lks RENT-In Robinson building. well
lighted Office: all conveniences. Ia
Guiding elevator service, roomy vaEits
etc; one choice suite with large prI-
waite vault Apply room 400. b. K
Rhoads.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-06-13
MIsCELLANEOUs.

LET Fross do your painting, varnish.
ing. decorating, and paper hanging
prices right, work guaranteed; an es-
innate Will cost you nothing; 2o2l
Sixth avenue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-06-13
FOR sALE-CrrY PROPERTY.

FOR SALE - $1,000 buys almost new
cottage near Long View car line; Wen
built and nicely finished. basem ent,
large level lot, city water in yard;
S5T5 cash. balance SO per month. "
n. Mercer. 403 Safety buiiItng-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-06-13

FOR RENT Nicely furnished front
room. with all oonveniences; 1872 Sew
enteenth street
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-06-13

FOR RENT-Furnished room. suitable
for two people Call at 1904 Fifth
and-a-half avenue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-06-13

FOR RENT-Furntshed sleeping rooms
also light housekeeping rooms, at 215
Fifteenth street
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-06-13

FOR RENT-Three furnished rooms for
light housekeeping, with sewer, wa
ter, and gas, at 705 Fourth avenue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-06-13

FOR RENT-Nicely furnished modern
rooms, also light housekeeping rooms
at 30O9 Fifth avenue. Phone l447-Y.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-06-13

MORRIS GRAND CO., 1920 Harrison
street Davenport, has opened a paint
shop in Moline, 1919 Third avenue: all
kinds of painting and paperlng salts
factorily done by responsible men;
lowest prices. Phone north 1921.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-06-13
wANTED-MALE HELP.

WANTED-Porter at the Cross Cou
try; 1906 Second avenue.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-10-26


selected for making and planting the
cuttings very few will fail to grow and
an excellent crop may be produced.
In the north sweet potatoes are dug
as soon as the vines are nipped by
frost In the south the potatoes are
allowed to remain in the ground until
convenient time for handling them,
and in Florida or Texas they are fire.
quently left until required for use.
Sweet potatoes should be dug on a
bright. drying day. when the soil is
not too wet
On a small scale they may be dug
with spading fork. and great care
should be taken that the roots do not
become bruised or injured in the proc
ess OF handling. 1t is desirable that
the roots should lie exposed for two
or three hours to dry thoroughly. after
which they may be placed in a warm,
well ventilated room to cure for sew
eral days. The proper temperature
for curing sweet potatoes is from 80
to 80 degrees +. and As or So degrees
+. afterward. A small crop may be
cured around the kitchen stove and
later stored in dry room where
there will be no danger Of their be-
coming too cold. Sweet potatoes
should be handled as little as possible.
especially after they have been cured
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-10-26

There are about twenty-one miles OF
wire on the induction coil. Although
It is easy to produce in the shed the
ughtings and cracklings associated
with wireless telegraphy. nothing or
dinarily happens but a slight sizzling
and a much greater generation OF
ozone than Is pleasant
The field wires are kept running at
the high tension OF 100000 volts.
Walking below the network barehead-
ed one feels sensation as II brush
ing against spider webs.
For five years now this crop shock
ing" has been going on
The result seems to have been In
the case Of wheat at Evesham an In
crease in crop Of from % to 80 per
cent. Last year the increase was not
more than % per cent. but the electric
discharges had been much weaker than
in previous years. At Balmakewan
there has been marked difference in
oats.
Experiments have also been conduct
ed with Strawberries and tomatoes nj
Evesham. again with encouraging re
suits as to yield. One year the cleo.
trified stra berries were found to be
much sweeter than usual
Any one who has Il dynamo or ac'
cess to an electric cable could begin
experiments in electrification on be-
tween five and ten acres at an expendi-
ture of about $500 To deal with sixty
acres the expenditure would be about
81 900 Apparently what electrifica-
ton does is to give the plants kind
OF electrical massage. That was Sir
Oliver Lodges phrase. The discharge
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-10-26

are not needed on fine. sunny days.
but in dull weather they take the place
Of sunshine.
or course the whole problem Of tho
nutrition Of plants is obscure. 1t Ii
perfectly clear that this discharge OF
high tension electricity has done some
thing to the crops treated, but what
exactly IL In some doubt.
SO far there Is no evidence Of shock
ed plants suffering from premature
exhaustion due to overwork. Indeed.
there is some reason for believing that
the effect Of electriHcation is to give
the plant tone and go.
An American worker has shown that
electrical discharges help the micro
organisms OF the soil. SO electrification
may be doing something Ia that direc'
ton too.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-10-26
MASSAGE YOUR CROPS.
Experiments Abroad Show That Plants
>..> El>.<s;niAu

Experiments Abroad Show That Plants
Love Electricity.
There Is a field Of wheat near Eve
sham which is like no other feld OF
wheat In England. says the London
Graphic.
Up north. at Balmakewan. how
ever, there is a field Of oats which
looks very much like It. On both these
fields there are rows Of rough tele-
Rraph poles, about seventy yards apart
and some hundred yards between the
rows.
On the top Of each pole is an in
sulator ten times the size Of those seen
on ordinary telegraph poles. The In
sulators carry the usual telegraph
wire, and extended between the rows
there are strands Of thin wire. fasten-
ed to the telegraph wire. about ten
yards apart.
Very soon there will be a difference,
perfectly visible to the passerby, be-
tween the part Of the crop which Is
below the wires and the part which Is
not. The difference is due to dis
charges of electricity from the curious
network. 1t IS connected TO wire
which runs to little shed and from
that shed to a dynamo at the farm.
But 1t is what happens In the little
shed that matters. The current from
the dynamo is transformed to high
tension and rectited by Sir Oliver
Lodges well known valves. They look
rather like glass fire extinguishers. and
they glow in various tints.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-10-26
I arm ana
Garden
GROW SWEET POTATOES.
That They Thrive Only In the south
Is Now an Exploded Fallacy.

That They thrive Only IN inc 'o"t''
Is Now an Exploded Fallacy.
While the sweet potato is of tropl-
cal nature and is generally considered
vegetable TO be grown only in the
south. experiments by the department
of agriculture show that 1t Will grow,
and grow well, rs far north as Mlcm
gan
The ridges for planting sweet pola
toes should be three to five feet apart
and the plants about fourteen inches
apart in the row Cultivate sufficient
ly to keep the surface soil loose ana
free from weeds. and the vines VIII
soon cover the ground. after which no
cultivation will be necessary. In the
warmer parts of the country the SEED
is not bedded. but Is cut in small piece
and planted In the ridges instead oil
plants. After the plants come up ana
begin to make vines freely pieces or
the vines are removed and used as
cuttings for planting additional areas.
the cuttings taking root and growing
the same as plants grown from seed
In this manner three and four plant
ings are made. the last being as late as
the middle Of July. II q rainy spell be
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-10-26

Men who are 80 afraid OF doing fool
ish things that they lack the courage
to attempt wise ones will never do
much.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-10-26
Hum of the Hive.

Remember that bees crawl up in
stead Of down.
Send your honey to the market in
as attractive form as possible.
Stand at the side Of the hive and not
in front Of 1t while handling your
bees
Be sure that your bees have a good
prolific Italian queen. and the ants
will not bother them.
The honey extractor saves the bees
much time in comb building and thus
the beekeeper can secure more honey.
Improve your bees by always rear
ing queens and increasing from COL
honey.
A large number of farmers are en-
gagged extensively in honey production.
Some Of them ship over a car Of honey
each season.
Heartsease was formerly not worth
considering as a honey plant because
Of its scarcity. but of late years It has
become plentier. and now it is worth
many dollars; same with dandelion.
Honey and wax were never In great
er demand than at the present time,
and beekeeping bids fair to take a
higher rank among the productive in
dustries than has hitherto been accord
I'd It.
The present improved system Of
management requires that hives should
not stand too near each other. There
should b 1t least six feet between
them. and ten would BE- q preferable
distance.
A bee expert gives away this little
secret: II bees arc kept In a shed the
cr0ssest of them can DO handled with
out fear Of being stung. A bee shed
ought to be long enough to give Mt
least two feet to each hive and sufii-
GENTLY wide and high. SO that one can
work comfortably back of the row of
hives. 1t should open preferably to
the east, SO as to get the morning air.
Cleaning and casing honey must be
done In u well lighted place and a
large bench or table provided for It,
The shipping cases to receive the
honey should be placed so as to face
the packer and should he arranged so
no propolis from scraping will fly into
them. 1t is desirable to have several
cases for each grade on the bench, so
that honey Of the same shade and fin-
ash may go into the same case.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-10-26
M. WESLOW
CLEVELAND TAILOR

Advanced Styles for Mon and Young
Men. BEST ON EARTH-SUITS or
OVERCOATS S12.5O and $1,000
TROUSERS $500 and $500
Ladies and Gents garments dyed,
cleaned, pressed and repaired equal to
new. Ladies coats pressed 4Oc, shirts
Acc, suits 75c. Steam and French Dry
cleaned, ladies $3.50
Mems suits pressed SOC. Trousers
l5c. Overcoats SOC French or Dry
Cleaning Mems Suits 81. 90.
The best plaster. A piece of
flannel dampened with Chamber
lain's Liniment and bound on over
the affected parts is superior to
plaster and costs only one-tenth as
much. For sale by Owl Drug store.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-10-26

Untainted.
Tempted by an offer Of considerably
more than the property had cost him.
Mr.. Kreezus. who counted his wealth
In millions. had parted with his subur-
ban villa.
"You didn't need the money" said
his Disguised business partner. who
had Just heard OF the transaction,
yet for little filthy lucre you sold
that beautiful home"
81 didn'tw exclaimed the equally in
dignant Mr.. Kreezus. II sold 1t for
clean cashw-Youth's Compantu.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-01-11
DESP0NDENT HUSBAND
BEATS WOMAN To DEATH

OLEAN, n, Y. Jan. 10-Word was
at Little Valley, where Edwin Smith
probably fatally beat his wife with a
hammer and then cut his OWN throat
from ear to ear with Il razor.
The man had been looking for work
several days. Finding none, it is said,
he declared that he would kill his wife.
They have Eve children.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-01-11
|17AT0 SPECIAL
/ FOR FARMERS
"A Coming Is Looked Forward
TO With Keen Interest
n by Them.
<aI,yATI0N OF FARMING;
WHAT A NOVICE DID
Great Money in Alfalfa, and
Profit in the Alfalfa
Seed.
BY G.. E. ARNEY.

<oeclaI TO The Tribune.
BOISE. Ida, Jan. l0.-The potato
<pe:,a to be operated again this year
I upder the auspices Of the Oregon Short
Line Railroad company is looked for
rsrd to with keen interest by the farm.
crs of the state II was the initial
arousing of the people Of southern
idaho. n year ago. which began high
81 order of farming throughout the
Spake and Boise and Payctte river
rnlleys of Idaho, and the "Burley
irain'' was responsible for this.
The fields of this portion of the state
told the story of the wisdom of Eugene
(;rubb and of J. G. Wing wherever Il
potato patch OF an alfalfa field was
sen this year, whose tender was pres
ent al these periodical lecture courses
. held in the south of Idaho.
This style of farming is the salvation
Of the irrigated portion of our state.
II is only in the success of this scheme
81 Intensive scientific farming that an
Increase in the agricultural lands of the
Iained By the old reckless method of
inrming large acreage with little re-
paTd TO seed quality or TO rotation of
(rops OF the physical needs of the soil,
fhere will be Il decline rather than an
Increase in these irrigated sections.
Both Quantity and Quality.
II On the contrary intelligent labor will
Increase the quality and the quantity
OF our agricultural and our horticultural
products, and IN consequence the price
Of our acreage, and will, in addition,
demand the building of factories and of
I-. t,t, u l.
means payrolls. with the regular dis
4fibution of money.
The present is a most interesting time
10 6ve and 10 be part of this intense
agricultural development in TINS coun-
TRY where nature has been so kind to
those who own and till the soil.
All these agencies. totally depending
on the inculcation Of the wisdom men
. tioned above and the appropriate appli-
eaton nj that wisdom TO our rapidly
. developing resources, forecast increase
4 Of settlement, doubling of the popula-
fion of our cities and our rural dis
'rcts as well, good roads, added rail
way facilities, factories 10 handle at
greater profits, our own products, and
fonsequeDt prosperity commensurate
nth our needs and our most ardent
hopes
ls what a Novice Did.
Apropos of this situation, and with
|espaGal reference TO the potato indus
Try, produce here from Twin Falls
c1ehange, the following which serves
20 explain what novice at the indus
Try can do, with scientific skill, i'll the
potato business IN Idaho, and when we
reason that what this former Utah
miner has done. as an experiment, ap~
preciate what better results be will at
tain, with experience, and then mul-
.tIply his acreage profit by 100000 acres
'of Just such land, all in southern irri-
gated Idaho. we are at the beginning
'of realization of the primo possibilities
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-01-11
COLONIAL WASH DRAPERIES
In the Toilet Goods Section

10c Turknt wash cloth for .....,......... DC
75c rubber cushion hair brush (better than
soc box of DR.. E. L. Graves toothSpowder .25c
15c package of Rice powder, for --.....-,. .1Oc
SOC jar of massage cream, for ............. .3Sc
soc jar of Malvina cream, for ............. .39c
25c bottle OF Rubifoam tooth wash, for ..... 15c
25c tube Of Euthymol tooth paste, for ..... .15c
25c tube of Pasteurine tooth paste for $500 15c
$1.00 bottle of hair tonic, for ............ SOC
$40 bottle of shampoo for .,............5 soc
25c can Of Squbbs talcum, for ............ .10c
25c bottle Of Bathasweet, for ..............19 .19c
| pound roll of absorbent cotton, for ....... Csc
Zoe cake Of Williams shaving soap, for ...... Sc
15c cake of Pears unseented soap, for. .10c
$1.00 bottle of Antiseptic. for ......... SOC
16 ounce bottle of Peroxide (U. S P.), for . 25c
soc jar Of Peroxide cream for ......,..,.... 25e
10c cake of La Primera first quality CASTLE
soap, Tor ..,....,-... &c
SOC jar OF Burnham's Kalosozone massage
cream for ,.......,.... .............,......3 3Sc
$125 hot water bottle for. Observation-Disclosures. .9Sc
Sl.2o syringe, for..-,... ........--.-.......,9 Csc
&1.43 combination water bottle and syringe. $50
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1911-05-25
COLUMBIA GARAGE
CHANGES HANDS

The building. in which the garage is
conducted and two thirds interest in
the business itsef of the Columbia
Garage has been purchased by Frank
Chandler from Nichols, Lisco and
Foust, the former overs. The deal
was consummated yesterday and Mr..
Chandler will take immediate possess
sion of his new purchase. l.. E..
Fouts, who has conducted the mechan-
ical department of.the garage for the
former owners, will continue to mold a
third interest in the, business and will
continue to ssuperintend the machine
shop.
MIR. Chandler, will sever his connec-
ii \ with Geo. d. Culbertson & Co.
real estate dealers, and will devote his
whole time to the automobile business.
His son, W. D. Chandler, will be con-
nected with him in the business. The
new owners of the garage will con-
tinue to handle the E. M. F. and
Flanders cars.
Fred r. Lisco and W. l. Nichols
have made no definite plans as to their
future plans. Both are owners OF
ranches i'm the Valley,
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1911-05-25
APPLE PAMINES.

Many southern and middle western
points are feeling keenly the lack of
supply of good apples. The follow
ing clipping, taken from an Indiana
paper, has the effect of taking the
wind out of the sails of the preacher
of oyerproduction.
"A general famine in apples is being
experienced in Indiana now. The
poorer qualities are bringing 81 and
upward barrel now. This is said to
be due to the bad spring last year, and
only the well-to-do can afford apples
at all.
"The unusual shortage has allowed
Idaho apples, which are strangers IN
these parts to enter the local market,
These apples are in boxes containing
short bushel and are of the most
high-priced varieties. They sell ut
from 50. so to %. box.
1.-The first relief that may be eX-
pected is from the early harvest apple
of the South. Even this will not lower
the price much, for the freight charges
will raise the price to high figure.
Bakers and makers of apple pies
are already suffering from the famine.
They have been forced to revert tC
the dried or canned article.
Indeed, the art-for it is an art as
much so as the work of raising the
fruit--of selling apples has scarcely be
gun. Practically all of the middle
western and southern states are meet
ing with the conditions as those re
ported in the lndianna newspaper
The available markets for good frui
are many. The reports last week o
the introduction of the yellow appl,
into the German market, a recen
development of:the trade, was receive,
with appreciation by the Hood Rive
growers of Yellow Newtowns, wher,
these apples grow to perfection. Z
short time ago it was thought to be al
most an impossibility to sell the Ger
mans any other than red apples. |
the problem of distribution is rightl
handled there is no fear of the or
chardists finding no market for thei
products.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1911-05-25
THE OLD BATES HOUSE.
A Hotel That Once Startled 'nd,snspo

A Hotel That Once Startled IndIanapo'
lie With its Innovations
| remember that when indianapolis
became II great railroad center and a
city Of enormous proportions-popula.
tlon from $4,000 to 10000, according
to the creative capacity of the imaglna.
ton making the estimate-a wonderful
hotel was built there and called the
Bates House.
Its splendors were the subject Of
wondering comment throughout the
west 1t had washstands with decorat.
ed pottery on them in all its more ex'
pensve rooms 50 that a guest sOIOurn.
ing there need not go down TO the
common washroom for his morning
ablutiOn and dry his hands and face
on jack towel
There were combs and brushes In
the rooms, too, so that If one wanted
to smooth his hair he was not obliged
to resort to the appliances of that sort
that were hung by chains to the wash
room walls.
Moreover, IL a man going to the
Bates House for q sojourn chose to pay
q trine extra he might have a room all
to himself.
But all these subjects of wonder
ment shrink to nothlngness by COM
parison when the proprietors Of the
Bates House printed on their break.
fast bills Of fare an announcement that
thereafter each guests breakfast would
be cooked after his order for 1t was
given, together with an appeal for
patience on the part Of the breakfast.
ers-a patience that the proprietors
promised to reward with hot and fresh.
ly prepared dishes.
This innovation was so radical that
1t excited discussion hotter even than
the Bates House breakfasts. Opinions
differed as to the right Of hotel keeper
to make his guests wait for the cook.
ing Of their breakfasts. To some minds
the thing presented itself as an In
yaslon Of personal liberty and there,
fore CT the constitutional rights of the
citizen. - Edward Eggleston's "Recol.
iecuons."