Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-06-11
DAVENPORT
Davenport Eagles to Cedar Rapids

Davenport Eagles to Cedar Rapids
Thirty members of the Davenport
aerie of Eagles will go TO the eighth
annual convention o. the Iowa aerie
10 be held at Cedar Rapids next week,
June II. is and 10. Eight Of these
are regularly appointed delegates.
The local delegation will make an ef-
fort 70 land the 1913 convention for
Davenport. The delegates will leave
at O'Clock in the morning OF June Il
ia two fve-passenger touring cars
The cars will be driven by Ed Breh-
mer and John Reimers and will start
from Eagle hall, 319h West Second
street. The delegates from Davenport
aerie No. 235 to the state convention
are Chris F. Sass, II. n. Boy, c. L.
Hall, John Jensen, A. F. Norgordt
Theodore Lamp. B. NJ. Strom and Fred
Little. Adolph Angst OF Davenport is
state treasurer and Fred c. Naeve is
state secretary. Mr.. Naeve will give
response 10 the address of welcome
10 be delivered to the delegates by the
mayor OF Cedar Rapids. The automo-
biles taking the Davenport delegation
TO Cedar Rapids will be decorated and
the members will wear ulsters and
caps. Davenport will be advertised
along the entire route 10 the conven-
ton city. There are over 900 mem
bers in the Davenport aerie, which is
the largest aerie in the state.
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G. A. r. to Conventional. P. Risley
and e. l.. Raff OF Davenport, together
with j. ID. Barnes and family OF lie
Claire. have left for Des Moines to at
tend the 39th annual reunion of the
G. A. r. OF the state of Iowa. Several
other Davenporters are expected to
make the trip to the capital city, for
the purpose of attending the reunion
and meeting OF all old soldiers in
Iowa. In addition to the G. A. r.
meeting. all old veterans Of Iowa will
gather in. Des Moines 90 observe the
43rd anniversary of the meeting of
Iowa veterans. The last meeting held
by the old soldiers took place in 1870.
This year is the last time that all Of
the old men will ever have an oppor-
tunity TO meet together. as the
ranks are rapidly thinning. and every
year marks an ever increasing num-
Der OF absent answers at roll call
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Flower Committee Named. - Mem
bers of committee No. 3, otherwise
designated as the blue committee, TO
assist In flower day next Saturday for
the West Side Settlement. were an
Coll
Charles Steel. chairman Ruth Won
Koeckritz. Blondina Carstens. Olive
McCabe, Ruth Bishop Selma Ewert
Hilda Scharnberg, Edna Walker, Helen
and Ruth Steel At a meeting of the
flower committee, held at the CONNER.
Cial club, II was reported that all ar.
rangements were progressing nicely
Wins Rosedaie Prize.-Michael J.
McGiveru. a student at St. Ambrose
college. won the prize offered by the
platters OF Rosedale addition for the
best heading suggested for circular
advertising the addition. The prize is
a $500 lot in'the addition. and a deco
10 the lot was given to him Monday
The winning sentence was: Invest
cation in the Rosedale addition mater
ializes your dream Of Home, Swee
Home The judges were NJ. J. Nal
10y. Arthur II. Ebeling. Henry A
Kuehl and George J. Sternsdorfi.
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Interest Remitted.-The accrued In
terest on the Goldstone bond, amount
ing 20 $4s.33, was RENTED TO Ma,
Reuban. bondsman. by an order o
Governor Clarke received by Count.
Auditor Edward Collins yesterday
Recently the board OF supervisors rec
commended that the interest be no
charged against the bondsman. and /
was upon this recommendation tina
the state executive issued the order.
Insurance Agents Fire Drill.--A FIR
drill will be given Thursday afternoo
at 2:15 o'clock az the Kimball hote
by the Davenport fire department 70