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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-01-12

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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-01-12
STAGE A FIGHT IN
REDLICHT RESORT
Pair of Travelling Men and
Quintet of Women Ar
rested as Result.
BOTTLES AND FISTS USED
One Fair Damsel Is Felled by Flask
That Is Hurled by One of the
Battlers.

Throwing empty beer bottles and
using their fists to best advantage in
a free-for-all fight in the house of Grace
Campbell on Twenty-second street be-
tween Second and Third avenues, two
travelling men and five women engaged
in fierce fight there last evening, and
as result landed in the police station,
where all were held over night and
released this morning on payment Of
fines assessed for disorderly conduct
John Brown and James Green were the
names given by the two statesmen.
Brown paid fine of $40 and costs.
while Green paid one that was SIS
higher. Grace Gordon was fined SIG
and costs, while each of the other
women, Josephine Martin, Mamie Mad
ison, Bessie Howard and Hazel Edgar
was assessed SO and costs.
WOMAN FELLED BY BLOW.
One of the women arrested was fell
ed by blow from one of the bottles
that was thrown, and her face showed
the results Of the fight. Had Detective
Herman Sehnert and officers Furlong
and Mccarthy been less prompt to
answer to the police call from the
place, it is probable that the results
would have been more serious. AS 1t
was, the reports of the fight show that
it was one of the worst ever staged in
any disorderly house.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-01-12
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IN RIGHT PLACE
You Can Acquire the Knack
of Using Ian
guage.

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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-01-12
Regular Meeting Dec. 20, 1911.

City Council Chamber, Rock Island,
ILL.,, Dec. &c, 1911.-The city council
met in regular session at o'clock p.
M, Mayor Schriver presiding and
Commissioners Rudgren. Hart, Rey-
nolds and Bear present.
The clerk read the minutes of the
regular meeting held Dec. is, 1911,
which were approved.
Commissioner Hart offered resolu-
ton that the ordinance relating u
weights and measures, be laid over.
Carried by unanimous vote.
Commissioner Rudgren submitted
an ordinance which was Immediately
considered and adojted by unanimous
vote allowing the weekly payroll for
week ending Dec. %. 1911. in amount
of $18S.20, as follow:
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-01-12
$3,35S.96

Commissioner Reynolds offered a
resolution that the sum { $500 be set
aside from the contingent fund &C
count to be used for cleaning streets
and alleys. Carried by unanimous
vote.
Mayor Schriver read report of the
board of local improvements recon-
mending the passage of an ordinance
providing for the construction of
Waterman on Forty-fourth and Forty
sixth streets and on Sixteenth, Seven
teenth and Eighteenth avenues, to-
gether with city engineers estimate
of the cost of said improvement in
amount of $7,770.05.
Mayor Schriver offered resolution
that the estimate Of the cost of con-
structing Waterman on Forty-fourth
and Forty streets and on Six
teenth, Seventeenth and Eighteenth
avenues, is a fair and reasonable one
and that the same be approved.
Adopted by unanimous vote.
Mayor Schriver read an ordinance
providing for the construction of
watermains on Forty-fourth and
Forty-sixth streets and on Sixteenth,
Seventeenth and Eighteenth avenues.
Mayor Schriver offered a resolu-
ton that the ordinance providing for
the construction of watermains just
read, be considered. Carried by
unanimous vote.
Adjourned on motion of Commits
sioner Reynolds.
ROBT. r. REYNOLDS,
Acting Clerk.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-01-12
BRIDE OF go WISHES ALL
YEARS TO BE LEAP YEARS

Washington, Jan. IL. - Mrs.
Christian Barney Hemmick, who at
the age of so last year became the
bride of Christian Hemmick, a club
man, aged &c, declared last night
that the girls of today are too slow
and fail to take advantage of leap
year. Mrs. Hemmick, who just now
is in the throes of Thespian social
war with Preston Gibson, the mil
lionaire playwright, paused in her
arduous enjoyment long enough to
add: Leap year is a splendid insti-
tuition. / wish it could be arranged
some way so ii would come every
year. Girls should be more forward
and progressive. l never could I'M
derstand why girls will sit back and
wait for the young man to make the
advances. Why should they not
change from the defensive to the ag-
gressive? l have noticed the back
wardness of girls, especially at
dances. yes, girls, take advantage
of your leap year opportunity and
pray for leap year to come often"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-01-12
Innuest Is Held.

A coroner's jury in session Wednes-
day evening at WATERFOWL returned a
verdict Of suicide by strangulation" in
connection with the death of NJ. A. Pc
terson. former inmate Of the state hos
pital. whose lifeless body was discov-
cred Wednesday morning in the cook
house on the hospital farm. The body
IS being held at the undertaking par
lors Of d. Y. Allsbrow az Watertown,
pending funeral arrangements
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-01-12
MUNICIPAL MATTERS

ment and head engineer of the water
works.
Commissioner Hart offered resolu-
ton that the reports just read be re-
ceived and placed on file. Carried by
unanimous vote.
Commissioner Reynolds read an or
dinance which was Immediately con-
sidered and adopted by unanimous
vote, allowing weekly payroll for
week ending Dec. 80, 1911, in amount
of S19O.25. as follows:
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-01-12
CIRCUIT COURT
TRIAL LIST SET

Below is given the list of cases
which have been set for trial in the
circuit court before Judge w. H. Gest
beginning next Monday All of them
are of civil nature. Their order for
hearing is as follows:
Monday-State Bank of Rock Island
VS.. Bryan, ct al. Larson VS.. c., r. l.
& P. Railway company.
Tuesday-State Bank of Rock Island
VS.. Bryan, ct al Stein, Hirsch & Co.
VS.. Gundberg. Goldman & Co. VS.. Fer
stenberg, ct al.
dnesday-Dismer VS.. Rock Island
Cotton & Mattress company. Lambros
VS.. Republic Iron & Steel company
City of Moline VS.. DeLoof. Dewey, Ell
al, VS.. Bite.
Thursday-Kuehl, ct al, VS.. Kuehl
ct al. Taylor VS.. Taylor. Tropp VS..
Deere & Mansur company.
Friday-State Bank of Rock Island
VS.. Shields, ct al Konosky VS.. United
Breweries company.
COUNTY COURT DOCKET.
Judge R. w. Olmsted had the county
court docket called this morning and
it resulted in the following list of cases
being set for trial in the order indi
Gated:
Stoneberg VS.. Dowing.
Hartman vs. Battles.
Scott VS.. Paint Manufacturing com
pany.
National Biscuit company VS.. Boil
linger
Bostock VS.. Sodini.
Moran VS.. Eckstrom.
Erickson VS.. Stanley
Falk VS.. Rosenberg.
People VS.. Clark.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-01-12
At High School

The following lineups will be pre-
scented this evening when the alumni
basketball team clashes with the high
school team at the high school gym:
High school-Tremann, center;
Neussili, Behnaman or Hinkley, for
wards: Brough, Chalk, Kittilsen or
Huxley, guards.
Alumni-Brennan, center; Voss
and Lift, forwards; Young and
Wilcher, guards.
The second team will line up as fol-
lows in the game with the w. c. T..
team: Hughes, center; Reeves and
Whistler, forwards; Kane and C.
Whistler, guards.
The Theadelphic Literary society
met last evening, and before the regu-
lar program a business meeting was
held. 1t was decided to hold a spread
next Wednesday evening Immediately
after school. 1t will probably be held
in the cooking room, although some of
the girls favor the library. The pro-
gram was as follows:
Piano Solo-Bessie Sosna.
Vocal Solo-HaZel z. Weller.
| Foreign Customs-Hilde Grothe
! Original Story-Neva jerks.
Piano Solo-Emily Sundehn.
| Physical Director George B. Corneal
will resume duties at the high school
Monday. He has almost entirely re-
covered from the effects of the recent
operation for appendicitis. While
ccnvalescing he visited at his former
home in Philadelphia and at points
in Ohio and Michigan.
! The class basketball tournament
set for Jan. II, IS and 10 has been
indefinitely postponed. Some of the
teams are not yet organized and il
was felt that longer period of prep
aration was desirable.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-01-12
GIRLS MUST WORK |
IN SERVING Time.
Mayor Schriver Decides That
Week of Labor Will Do
Them Good.
FIRST 0FFENSE AT THAT
Never Had 20 Exert Themselves Be-
fore and Go at 1t Daintily
Now.
FIRST oFFENSE AT THAT

When Edna McVickers and Hazel
Richmond. caught IN Wednesday
nights raid OF the Standard hotel,
leave the city police station within
week. It is expected that the upper
rooms OF the city hall will shine, for,
loath 10 have the two women repose
In a cell without lifting a hand to pay
for their meals, Mayor Schriver has
ordered that they be put to work for
the entire time of~their Incarceration.
Yesterday afternoon when he decided
that IL would be a wise plan to detail
an officer 10 see that the girls do their
duty for the city, Edna, being the
sturdier Of the pair, was placed at
work. Never in her existence, it is
thought, has she lifted hand to do
mental work.
LOATH TO LABOR.
From the pensive and sidelong
glances from her eyes as she peered
20 see II the bailiff was watching her,
81 appeared that she was as loath TO
work as the mayor was TO have her
loaf. After studying for a few min
utes, she tackled the job. Daintily
grasping a wash cloth, she dabbled 1t
against the wood work in the hallway
OF the city hall. Finally she was
obliged 10 mount step ladder so that
she could reach the transom above a
door. From it's shaky heights her eff
forts TO produce brightness and spot
lessness were successful, for the
"gold dust twins" aided in the work.
40 doubt she slept the sleep OF the
1ust last night, for it was the first
time in cons of years that she had
been obliged to do physical labor.
WORK 'EM ALL.
II is the plan Of the mayor to work
all of the female city prisoners in the
future, as well as those of the male
sex. No longer will immoral women
be allowed TO lie back in their cells
and merely await the day for their
sentence to expire. Possibly, the In
novation will be a boon to them, Tor
It will help to pass the time more
rapidly. The city hall will be kept
more immaculate and the woman who
cares lOI IL W III NC oeANNN man. - AAS@- -
effort in her days work.
PLEADS WITH MAYOR.
After plying her wash rag yester-
day, the girl that was put to work
showed her ignorance of the duties
of cleaning. Standing on her feet
while washing up the floor, she hurt
her back little bit, and, taking that as
an excellent excuse, she stalked be
fore Mayor Schriver and with all the
arguments that she could summon
pleaded with him TO allow her TO rest
before working more. Her back had
been hurt, she said, and so the mayor
was obliged 20 grant her a brief re
spite from her labor. The girl was
given a little talking to and finally
decided TO write to her folks and Sc
cure their assistance to get out Of hel
dilemma. She promises to return &c
her home II they aid her.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-01-12

For years I suffered unspeakable
torture from indigestion. constipation
and liver trouble" wrote A. K Smith,
war veteran at Erie. Pa. but DR..
Kings New Life Pills fixed me all
right They're simply great" Try
them for any stomach. liver or kidney
trouble. Only % cents at all drug
Eists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-01-12
$1SS.20

Commissioner Rudgren offered a
resolution that ]. G. Warner be al
lowed the sum of $24 as inspector on
the Seventh ward sewer. Carried by
unanimous vote.
The clerk read a petition signed by
over 1900 alleged legal voters and
also ordinance accompanying same,
asking that the council pass attached
ordinance relating to allowing the
Union Electric Telephone and Tele-
graph company to sell to the Central
Union Telephone company or any 9th.
er company.
Commissioner Rudgren offered a
resolution that the petition and ordi-
nance just read be received and
placed on file and that this council go
on record as refusing to pass said or
dinance Carried by unanimous vote
Commissions Reynolds offered a
resolution that William O'Brien be al
lowed the sum of $40 to be paid out of
the contingent fund. Carried by
unanimous vote.
Mayor Schriver read a report from
the city engineer showing the cost OF
constructing wateramins and sewers
in Archer & Brien's addition, Rud-
gren & Johnson's Addition and Brien
& Lamont's Addition, accompanied by
statement showing the proportionate
cost of said Waterman to be credited
to each lot in said addition.
Mayor Schriver offered a resolution
that the statement of costs of said
watermains and sewers be referred to
the board of local improvements to re-
port. Carried by unanimous vote.
Mayor Schriver read an ordinance
relating to making connections with
watermains.
Mayor Schriver offered resolution
that the ordinance jus read relating
to making connections with water
mains be considered Carried by
unanimous vote.
Adjourned on motion of Mayor
Schriver.
NJ. T. RUDGREN,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-01-12
Death In ROARING Fire

May not result from the work of fire.
bugs, but often severe burns are caus-
ed that make quick need for Buck
lens Arnica Salve, the quickest, surest
cure for burns, wounds, bruises, boils,
sores. 1t subdues Inflammation. It
kills pain. 1t soothes and heals
Dives off skin eruptions, ulcers or
piles. Only 25 cents at all druggists.
Chamberlain Cough Remedy is a
very valuable medicine for throat and
lung troubles, quickly relieved and
cures painful breathing and danger.
ously sounding cough which indicates
congested lungs. Sold by all drug
gists.
All the news all the time-The Argus.
Argus.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-01-12

Robert E. Lewis, who spent ten
years In Y. NJ. c. A. work in China
ana VINO Is now, perhaps. the best
posted American on Chinese affairs.
declares the new Chinese republic
VII De shaped along socialistic lines.
Win compulsory education, the sin
SIC TAX, governmental ownership of
advanced system of law. He knows
the plans II President Sun Vat Sen
ana the revolutionist leaders They
used TO meet at his house years ago
wnen the fame of revolution was
Only spark. and discuss them.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-01-12
Recapitulation.

Commissioner Reynolds read an Or
dinance which was Immediately con-
sidered and adopted by unanimous
vote allowing claims against the gen
eral and waterworks funds in amount
of $3,35S96, as follows:
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-01-12
Regular Meeting, Jan. 2. 1912.

City Council Chamber, Rock Island,
ILL.,, Jan. 2, 1s12.-The city council
met in regular session at o'clock p.
m, Mayor Schriver presiding and Com
missioners Hart Reynolds and Bear
present.
Mayor Schriver offered a resolution
that r. r. Reynolds act as clerk in
the absence of the city clerk Car
ried by unanimous vote.
The clerk read ne reports OF the
plumbing inspector and police depart
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-01-12

The conceited young man is sure that
all the girls are madly in love with
him. and many OF them let him think
30 while bis candy keeps coming.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-01-12

Berlin.-The lottery players of Prus-
STA have been victorious in their con.
hlct with the government. The gov.
eminent hitherto has utilized the I'M
sold tickets in the first four classes to
play on its own account.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1912-03-09
THE CRIME Or SOCIAL LEGISLATION.

The real Of the death of the unfortunate working o
man and her four children has not in opinion been fully
stated W ''
There has been talk about industrial readustment being
necessary TO avoid such cmecrmes that laid to our
social structure
OF course the social structure is fundaenav denendent
upon the underlying industrial foundation
But the crime far be laid to the doors of the COM
munity is a social crime.
The community has been guilty Of soang an Individual until
that individual succumbed to the strain Of isolation
Why do people attend social functions parties s0cabes balls
receptions and banquetsto ward off isolation
II isolatonwan Of social couact-ack of human inter
course that makes life dreary and hopeless and not worth
living
Isolation is the real Of so many women from the rural
districts going to the insane asylums
Social isolation the prime cause of the working woman
taxing poison and administering poison to her four children
How many socaled Christian people ever look over their
negnDorhood to see If there is not socially submerged?
ROW many Of us love negbor do ourselves in the
gle? -Ne
Do not pull skirts about us and keep away from such
status? ~ W i " 49,
Is not the practical working out of the social organisms to
mix? ~ w W NV
II half dozen good had been friends of this unfort
hae WORKER mad been In the habit of going to her as social
equal, would she have lost all interest in life?
would not such mnraons have saved her from the awful
deed and is not social mnaton the greatest need of the
world? ~ - WY
There lesson in this for reformers and for church workers
ligion " NY -
The need of the world today higher socazatonthe unfit
that comes from the social condonsa greater equalization
OF social interests and opportunities
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1912-03-09
BEAUTY. AND FOOD
MADAME Qua win No glad to any questions pertaining
70 "omany beauty Personal replies will be given stamped
and seli.addressed envelope 10 enclosed.

That the food we eat has much to
40 with our compilations there is no
doubt, but among all the faddIsts |
nave failed to observe very many good
compilations. One breaches the doc.
trine OF meat and water, and other
raw foods of all kinds; the vegetarian
who Will touch nothing which has
ever had in It the vital spark OF blood
yet do eat animal substances In the
form OF eggs, butter, cheese and milk.
Then we have the natural food faddlst
who finds all the materials 10 buiId
up the perfect body In nuts and fruits
OF the earth.
Now the truth is that often kernel
OF good can be found In every new fad
but II must never be forgotten that
what one person will thrive beautl-
fully upon means sickness and suf
ferlng to another,
For perfect development man re-
quires a greater variety of food than
any other animal. We have to eat
In order to repair the natural waste
OF the body-which Is one twenty
fourth OF It's weight daily-and conse-
quently we have to supply like nate
rials, We must eat a variety of food
because each food contains a particu-
iar element and II Is the combination
OF these elements that build up the
body.
There Is no country In the world
where there Is 40 varied and abun-
dant food, as In the United States,
yet ] doubt II the world can show
elsewhere 80 many well-to-do people
who are badly nourlshed, and the very
ones who are nearest the source of
supply, the agrlculturists, live from
one end OF the year to the other on
the most limited diet, utterly obliyi-
ous OF the value In the fruits OF the
earth which could be their often with
out labor or price. The French and
German peasants would reyel and
thrive on the refuse from an American
farmers kitchen, because necessity
has taught them to extract every par-
tlole Of nourishment from food SUP
piles and on ak square feet OF ground
they would raise all the savory herbs
needed to give their pot au feu" It's
delicious flavor,
Food affects the body for evil or for
good, and Of the two evils II Is better
to 80 hungry than TO eat when over
weary or In great haste, It Is an
insult TO the stomach to thrust into
Il a load Of half-mastlcated od,whlch
under depression OF fatigue Il Is in
capable of digestlng, Decomposition
ensues and sour stomach results.