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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-07-31

When Mozart WAS at the height Of
his fame he composed the music for
BretZner's Belmont und Konstanze'
c'The Abduction From Scraglio'D IT
the request Of the Emperor Joseph H..
The author Of the drama was so angry
at this that be inserted the following
notice in the Leipziger .ZeitE~ a
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-07-31
lin EarIv

THE boss asked me what made me
look so tired" said Galley, the clerk.
''and | told him was up early rhis
morning
"Huhr' snorted the boOkkeeper You
never got up early IN your life"
Il didn't say that got up. said I
was up"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-07-31
SMALL MARGIN
between z BIDS
Independent Construction Com
pany to Pave Twenty
seventh Street.
TOTAL COST is s13,s62
Another Movement to Pave Forty
fourth Street to Eleventh
Avenue.

BY margin of S14, the Independent
Construction company of Davenport
underbid the nearest competing con-
slruction company when bids we're
submitted for the paving of Twenty
seventh street from the south lire CT
Fifth avenue to the north line Of
Ninth avenue. The total bid of the
Independent company amounted to
$l3,962, while that of the next near
est company, the Tri-City Consiruc-
ton company was $13,976. p +.
Trenkenschuh and the Mccarthy I'm
provement company also submitted
bids, but they were much higher than
either of the others. The improve
ment is for brick on a concrete ;oun-
dalton. The contract price is SI95
for the paving per square yard ana
G5 cents for the curb and gutter per
foot. The contract will be awarded
by the board of local improvements.
START NEW MOVE.
Property owners residing on Forty
fourth street from Seventh avenue
south to lot 7, block X in EdgewoOd
park addition, near Eleventh avenue
have presented a petition to the i'm
provement board asking that the
thoroughfare be paved between the
points specified with brick on a con-
crete foundation. A hearing on the
matter has been set for Aug. u at 9
o'clock in the morning. All of the
owners of houses along the thorough
fare have signed the petition. A pre-
vious move to pave Forty-fourth street
from Seventh TO Fourteenth avenue
was knocked out because of the ac-
tivities of A W. Billburg, but tire
property owners north of the Billbu"S
property have shown that their de-
sires are not to be thwarted by his
actions.
ACCEPT JOB.
The board accepted the Waterman
contacts of P. F. TrenkenscEuh "a
tween Forty-fourth and Forty sixth
streets and Fourteenth and Eighteenth
avenues.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-07-31
STRIKES AN
ATKINSON GRAIN ELEVATOR

Lightning struck a grain elevator
in course OF construction at Atkinson
yesterday afternoon between and
3 o'clock and four men, including
three carpenters and Clyde Attwer. a
teamster, were stunned by the shock.
No serious injury or damage resulted
from the bolt.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-07-31

Perslans was caused by the eloquence
Of the immortal Miltiades. He led his
10000 Greeks against the Persian host
and gained a decisive victory. The glo-
rious day of Marathon beat back the
advancing tide of eastern despotism
and barbarism and saved the freedom
and civilization OF the western world
Pearson's Weekly.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-07-31

certain fellow Of the name or Mozart
has dared to misuse my drama. Bel
mont ind Konstanze,' for an opera
text. | hereby solemnly protest against
this invasion OF my rights, and / re-
serve to myself further procedures.
(Signed). Christoph Friedrich Bretz-
ner. author Of 'Rauschchen.'
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-07-31
CIVIC ROW AT WAUKEGAN:
TWO OFFICIALS ACCUSED

waukegan, Ill, July 31.-Wauk'gan's
commission form Of government, in
augurated here in the spring Of 1911,
has furnished its second sensation
within a week with Commissioner Z.
V. Orvs as the central figure in the
second as well as the first affair
The latest sensation Is an attack on
John W. Barwell. senior member OF
the city's civil service commission,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-07-31
Obituary
FUNERAL OF MRS. FERKEL.

The funeral of Mrs. Nick Ferkel was
held from the late home, Sal Hendricks
street, South Rock Island, this after
noon at o'clock, Rev. F. ]. Rolf of
the German Evangelical church offici-
ating. Burial took place at Chippian-
mock cemetery.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-07-31
FUNERAL OF MRS. DETLEFsEN.

The funeral Of Mrs. Charles Detlef-
Seventeenth street, tomorrow morning
at 10 o'clock, Rev. F. J. Rolf of the
German Evangelical church officiating
Burial will take place at Chippiannock
cemetery.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-07-31
IN Authorization
was up

HOwell-RowcIl is always borrowing
trouble. POwei.-Yes; he's the kind If
fellow who. If be thought he was going
10 get fat would go out and walk off
the weight before he got 1t
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-07-31
WITHOUT AUTHORITY.

State OF Illinois. Rock Island county
Sc
NJ. l. Morris. first being duly sworn
upon his oath, says. that he is OF law
full age. and resides at 1902 Fourth
avenue in the city OF Rock Island,
county OF Rock Island, state of Illi-
nois. and that he has examined sheet
167 OF the petition filed with the city
clerk Of the city Of Rock Island. state
OF Illinois. for the removal of Harry
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-07-31

tional bank of Rowlesburg, W. Va,
was closed by a bank examiner, who
today reported serious irregularities.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-07-31
Examiner Closes Bank.

Washington, July 3L-The First Ma
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-07-31
ACCEPT JOB.

The board accepted the Waterman
contacts of P. F. TrenkenscEuh "a
tween Forty-fourth and Forty sixth
streets and Fourteenth and Eighteenth
avenues.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-03-21
ALESSON FROM
THE ALMANAC

Well, son, SO you want to learn to
be an editor? You think it would be
such a fine thing to mould public
opinion to help lift up the mass
es;" to write choice puffs worth five
dollars a paragraph, in return for
twenty-five cent, paper-covered nov
els; to tell the public that the man
your party has nominated is one of
Gods noblemen, while the other fell
low is rascal from the crown of
his head to the sole of his foot?
Yes, yes, son, so it would! But
don't you remember the Ayers AL
manac that used to hang in grand
pas gitchen, up in New Hampshire?
And don't you remember the poor
chap that always stood in the cen
ter of the first picture on the first
page, with the fish and the scor-
pions and the sheep and the bulls
and the twins around him? And
don't you remember that he was max
ed and that he had nothing in his
stomach to speak of?
Well son, that poor fellow used
to edit a newspaper.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-03-21

until the corn is out of the way
and they are put upon the clover in
that field
In this way, Mr.. Kruger saves the
difference between the fifty or more
acres usually, assigned to pasturage
for that number of cows and the IL
acres, but that is not all by any
means. The result of this practice
of putting clover in with every crop
IS that the land is kept well filled
with humus, the nitrogen contents
of the soils is well maintained and
the manure put on the land is near
ly equal to the plant food consum-
ed in their production. In addition
to this, the soil is kept in shape
for the easy action of the plant-roots
open for the penetration of the air,
more resistant of drouth, less affect
ed by excessive rains and more COM
Portable for the bacteria that are the
wonderworkers in the production of
crops.
Who shall say that this practice
that saves 81 acres of land is not a
material secret in Mr.. Krueger's a
bllity to capture nearly all the a
wards at the national grain contests.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-03-21

costly work Is hiatt Of the cleaver
After he has indicated the division
of the stone, any ordinary lapidary
can grind and smooth II. The theo-
~ apparently was in this case, that
by marking the facets Of the stones
with fine lines of red ink, it could
be imported free, and put on the mar
ket at a greatly reduced cost.
In handling all lines of art goods,
pottery for instance, the appraiser
must be able to locate at a glance
the period Of workmanship, and esti-
mate the skill of delicate craftsman
ship
II it should prove true that Uncle
Sam has been bled out Of great sums
through inability OF the appraisers
to tell one kind of knife from ano-
Their, or by deliberate fraud, it would
seem as if the opportunities for such
trickery existed to even greater ex-
tent in other departments.
For instance, it takes both a very
bright man and very honest one,
to say whether a jewel case shall
come in as manufactured wood at
35 per cent, or shall pay something
for its plush lining at a dollar
pound and Is per cent ad valorem.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-03-21
CITY LETTER
CARRIERS

Some idea of the amount of work
done by the local city mail carriers
NAV be obtained from the following
which shows some of the stunts per-
formed by the boys in gray for a pc
riod covering just one week To be
exact, for the week ending March g.
And while you are reading this, just
keep in mind that this is not the
busiest season of the year for the
post office and then ask yourself
How would you like to be a mail
carrier?" The total number of pounds
of mail carried during the week end
ing March 9Th by the five city car
rjers was 1870, which consisted of
1907 letters and 1877 papers. The
average number of pieces carried by
each carrier a day was Csc; the a.
Yerage number of pounds carried by
each carrier a day was 70 pounds, of
which pounds were letters. The
average number of miles covered by
each carrier a day was 141a miles.
80 per cent of the homes and bust
ness places are supplied with mail
receptacIes.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-03-21
A DISTINCTION WITH
DIFFERENCE

That it is not necessary to follow
the ways of our ancestors all the
way back to the time Of Adam is in
Dictated in the modern way Of pas
turing dairy COWS. And it is usu-
al that the farmer who follows the
modern way in this connection does
the best in other directions. To IL
lustrate, H. E. Kruger OF Beaver
Dam has taken more awards at ma
tional contests than any other exhi-
bitor Of fine grains in the world in
modern times, or, for that matter,
any time. He has been success as
farmer from the time he started
as boy. He has made his way from
nothing to wealth and he is still a
young man.
Mr. Kruger keeps % cows and
uses only thirteen acres exclusively
for pasture This would be impossible
under the ordinary farm practices,
but under the modern plan it is easy
He sows clover in all crops. The con-
dition of his soil resulting from the
proper treatment is such that rarely
ever does he fail to get a good
catch The result is that after
harvest every field for a time is a
pasture. Some OF the land that is
plowed in the spring serves as pas
ture until it is plowed Then the
COWS go upon the regular 13 acre
pasture until the rye is harvested
when they are put upon that field.
Soon the barley is harvested and the
clover in that field is ready for the
cows, who have hardly done away
with it before the wheat is out OF
the way and that field in turn ser
yes as a pasture. When the COWS
have got the better of the tender
young clover in the wheat field, they
are sent back to the regular pasture
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-03-21
BOWLING

Abel q Podawiltz took another fall
out OF the Klean En- Up Kids Mon
day evening. The battle was fought
or rather the massacre took place
on the East Side Alleys. Time was
called at eight o'clock and the slaugh
ter started. Abel & Podawiltz took
the first game with a margin of So
pins 10 spare-the Kids came back
strong in the second round and by
excellent foot work managed to nose
out the second round by % pins.
They shook hands, both Immediately
tried for a knock out, Roenius rush
ed Normlngton TO the ropes, Smith
had Natwick groggy, Mulroy landed
on Freidstein's solar plexus and put
him out Of the running, Abel came
up Wobbly but managed to hang a
figure eight on Pinch Hitter Nash.
Church was sure that he had slipped
over a sleep producer, but Lester
made a strike and Won the game.
The fighting in the last round was
fast and furious but the A. & P's.
won out by shade of six pins.
After the game Master at Arms
Charles Natwick, U. S, P. o. E. gave
a farewell banquet to the members
of the Kids team-Charles has grown
to full manhood and will occupy
place OF honor on the roster of the
world beating Giants. The score by
teams and games:
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-03-21
THE Do NOTHING.
ISM OF CONGRESS

One of the most marked impress
sions made on the visitor to the gal
leries of Congress is the tendency
to block legislation by a policy Of
idling. This does not seem to be
so much Jazipess as an attempt to
defeat something else by indirectio1.
For instance, on a recent date,
the Senate spent large part Of two
days having the clerk read verbatim
from the reports of the majority and
minority on the case of the election
Of Senator Stephenson of Wisconsin.
The galleries We're greatly edited
thereby. but a large part Of the time
there would be scarcely half a doz-
en- senators who gave any appear
ance of listening.
The reports We're in printed form
so that any senator could familiar
ize himself with their contents in
short time. Not merely were the
conclusions of the committee thus
read, but extended portions of the
testimony given to the committee.
On Washington's birthday, the Sen
ate gathered in solemn conclave to
read the resounding periods and con-
servative philosophy of Washingtons
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-03-21
ALIENS NOW
LODGED IN
ROANOKE JAIL
Floyd, victor and Bud Marion
Secretly Removed From
HilisviIIe.

ROANOKE, Va, March 17-Floyd
Allen, the outlaw, his son, Victor,
and Bud" Marion, ali held as prin-
cipals in the sensational shooting
at Hillsville, Va, We're safely locked
in the Jail here today to await ac-
ton by the authorities.
The utmost secrecy surrounded the
removal of the bandits from the cen
ter of disturbance. Judge Staples,
who has been in charge of the Hills
vile court since the assassination of
Judge Massie, the sheriff and the pro
secutor last Thursday, not only made
out the papers permitting the reno
val of the prisoners, but accompan-
led them personally from Hillsviue
to this city. The trip was made by
special train, Allen, who is desperate
ly wounded, being carried to and from
the train in an ambulance.
The party accompanying the outlaw
stated tnat the Aliens have so far
evaded the 500 detectives, deputy
sheriffs and feudists who are scour-
ing the mountains in an effort to To-
cate their hiding place. The gang
is believed, however, to be entrench-
ed in the mountain Businesses around
Devils Den, where over a score of
international revenue officers have
met their deaths in the oueSt for
moonshiners
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-03-21
162 SHORT
COURSE MEN
GET DIPLOMAS
Big Glass of Farm Boys Com
pIete Practical Course in Az
ricuIture at State University.

MADISON, Wis, March 14.-One
hundred and sixty-twO graduates of
the short course in agriculture at
the University of Wisconsin receiy-
ed their certificates at the commenc-
ement exercises this morning. The
class entered with 175 members and
as only 13 have dropped out, 80 per
cent of the original class were gradu-
ated today. This is the largest per
cent of any short course class that
have received diplomas. Of those
who did not graduate with the class,
several We're compelled to go back
to the farm to get the spring work
started.
Rural Leadership" was the subject
of the graduating address given by
President w. o. Thompson of the
Ohio State University. c. A. Soren-
son, Keyenville, delivered the ora
ton on behalf of the graduating
class. Musical numbers were rend-
cred by the short course orchestra
and the long course gIee club.
In 1885, when the short course was
started, there were 10 students; this
year over ATS were in attendance.
Some 1916 students have attend
ed the short course since its estab-
Iishment. Over 80 per cent are now
engaged in agricultural pursuits and
over 80 per cent are on farms in Wis
consin. Several counties have over
a hundred short course graduates.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-03-21
CUSTOMS UN-
DERVALUATI

The government has closed its in
vestigations of reported frauds in
the valuations of surgical instruments
knives, and razors, and is suing for
81 100, 00o, on account of alleged I'M
dervaIuations
Public attention as respects the
custom house is mostly turned on
the small contingent of people who
attempt petty smuggling while return
ing from European travel 1t takes
more tears and carnage to collect
a million or two there, than the hun
dreds of millions levied for merehan-
disc in the ordinary channels of trade
where the chances of fraud are cor
respondingly greater.
Few people have any conception
of the delicacy of the questions a.
rising from the Interpretation of our
labyrinthine customs law, or of the
acuteness required to circumvent the
agile devices of importers.
For instance, a quick witted ap-
praiser one time noticed that a lot
of uncut diamonds were marked with
very slight lines of red ink. Most
men would have thought nothing of
such an infinitesimal detail
Uncut precious stones come in free
being of comparatively little value
until expert workmen have furnish
ed them. The most delicate and
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-03-21
TAKE YOUR LOCAL PAPER

One of our leading metropolitan
papers was kind enough to publish
the following which contains more
or less poetry" Our state is dotted
with small villages, in each of which
one or more small newspapers are
published. They do not make any
claim to being a review of the en-
tire word, even though they do not
carry feature articles of a general
nature, nor do they boast that their
circulation is something prodig-
ious. Yet these county newspa-
pers appearing faithfully week after
week, recording the happening of
the neighborhood, lending assist
ance to the unfortunate extending
sympathy and consolation to the be-
reaVed, chronicling with pardonable
pride any improvements in the town
and bringing to the fireside a record
of those apparently trifling happen
'ngs that are really of more i'm
POA INV ~ INC 1Vo0tteIS tudu Tie
GROWING of George the Fifth as
Emperor Of India, meet a demand
in our rural life. The country
newspaper is of inestimable value
in maintaining the moral and finan-
cial standards of the community
1t is something in which the entire
neighborhood can feel a common in
terest. 1t is deserving of the
steady support, not only of the
homefolks, but also of those who
Look back with cherished memories
to their life in the little town.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-03-21
RIO HAS UP TO DATE
POST OFFICE

There are many of our readers
who do not have an opportunity to
visit our post office, and some who
do visit it possibly never give a
thought to the nice and convenient
arrangement of the office nor the
expense required to put it into its
present condition.
Postmaster Inquest has gone to
considerable trouble and expense to
make the office convenient for the
patrons and also for the rural car
riers. Recently he has had the rear
which for some years has been given
up to the millinery business, form
erly conducted by his daughter, Miss
Nettie, and later by Miss Julia Ell
lis, vacated, and is now using the
entire space for post office purpos
es. This arrangement gives more
room for the postmaster and assist
ant behind the cases and also more
room and better light for the rural
carriers. He also has a seperate
window Tor large packages where sucl
matter can Ne taken care Of without
interfering with the other work.
The building is heated by fur
mace and is always warm and COM
Portable We doubt if as good SER
vice can be found in other towns of
the size of Rio and feel certain that
our small cities cannot boast of a
better equipped office nor better SER
yice.-Badger Blade.
Postmaster Linquist is one OF
Judge Webb's comrades and a mem
Der of Wood County Post. G. A. r.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-03-21

farewell address. To the galleries
this appeared to be such an exhaus-
ting process, that the Senate had to
adjourn from Thursday to Monday 10
permit the Solons to recuperate.
The excuse given was that no work
was yet ready for the senators to
take up. Yet here the session was
nearly half gone, and if the commit
tees had not got some tough legis-
lation nuts ready for the Senate to
spend its skill in cracking, they very
much needed prodding.
The Senate in decorum, dignity. a
bility, statecraft as seen in debate,
is naturally superior to the House
The House has its own sins to ans
Wer for, but the Senate is the grave
yard of legislation This is no new
condition, but tradition handed down
irrespective of party.
During the period referred to a
gentleman in the Senate gallery was
rebuked by a door keeper, because
on the day previous he had consult
ed a pocket memorandum book to
answer lady's question. The ser
geant at arms on the floor had spot
ted him with his eagle eye, and no.
titled the door keeper to look for
him the next time he should enter,
and inform him that he had YioIat-
ed the rules of the Senate.
L is a pity that this strictness
of rule imposed on the people who
come in to witness these delibera-
lions, cannot be enforced upon
some of the senators.