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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-16
DAVENPORT


Bankers Outine.-Thc Davenport
Clearing House association at a meet
ing held Wednesday afternoon at the
Citizens Trust aEd Savings bank, de-
cided upon Thursday, May 20, as the
date for the annual bankers outing.
The affair will be held this year at
Binwood, where a big chicken dinner
will be served as the pricipal fea-
ture CT the excursion. The excur-
sion last year. which was held at
Linwood. was attended by nearly 100
president, directors. cashiers and en-
ployes. The bankers this year will
make the trip to Linwood by boat. A
ball game will take place ia the after
noon, and following the supper will be
served.
To Hold Spirited Debate-The Ath-
enaean debating and declamatory con-
test will. be held in the high schoo!
auditorium this evening. The debate
the subject OF which is Resolved,
that the commission form of govern
ment should be adopted by the city
of Davenport" will be contested, with
Harry Gebhardt on the affirmative and
Oscar Lemme on the negative. The
defamation contest promises to be
closely contested.
Leaves for Newpraaue.-G. ]. Schil-
Zig, transfer manager for the Western
Flour Mills. has been transferred to
the Newprague Milling company at
Newprague, Mimi. a company under
the same control. Mr.. Schilling is
succeeded by Joseph FLICK. who has
been connected with the mill at New.
prague. The new traffic man has ar.
rived in the city, and Mrs. Schilling
Will leave early next week.
To Prevent infant MortaIity.-BaSy
welfare work is to be inaugurated in
connection with the work of the Visit
ing Nurse association Arrangements
were made at the May meeting of the
advisory board OF the association held
yesterday at the public library clut
rooms. The mothers, whose babies
have been under the care OF the visit
Ing nurses, are to bring them at stated
intervals, once a week or once a fort
night, Ito the Office OF DR.. Z. o. Ficke
city physician, where the infants will
be weighed and examined, their food
discussed and the mothers given 8
short talk on the case and food fol
the babies during the coming hot
weather. This is splendid preventiv,
york, and will keep the nurses In toucr
with the babies after they have ceased
their daily visits to the household.
Water Company What
Is the property of the Davenport Water
company worth? The question that
is now troubling the Davenport city
council was answered a short time
ago by an expert hired by the city
and for the munificent remuneration
of $1,000 decided that the company.
property was worth about a millior
and a half The reply has not beer
satisfactory to the council. In fac
the company seems to be unwilling Il
state just wha: II considers the prop
erty worth. Joe r. Lane told the coun
oil that the stock in the Davenpor
Water company is worth at the pres
ent time one million dollars. In ad
dition TO this the company has out
standing bonds for $4,000, whicl
would bring the total up TO nearly
million and half Professor F. +
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-16
Slow Chan.

Yes laughed the girl with the pink
parasol, 10 is the slowest young man
] ever saw"
I'm what way, dear?" asked her
chum.
"Why. he asked for kiss. and [ told
him l wore one of those knotted wells
that take so long TO loosen"
And what did he dog"
why. the goose took time TO unite
the not."-Mack's Monthly.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-16
irst addition. South Moline. 81.

First addition, South Moline, 81.
Lamont & Breen to Gladys Rub,
part lot and s, Walnut Heights,
South Rock Island, $3.50.
Alfred Larson to Leota Wharton, lot
IA block 1913, East Moline, 81.
T. Richter e Sons to William j.
Donnelly, lot 7, and 8, block 2,
Fourteenth street addition, southeast
one-quarter, northwest one-quarter,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-16

property at s1,500,O0O He included
nearly a half million dollars worth Of
paving in his valuation. Whether or
not this paving cost should be consid-
cred an asset of the company the coun-
Gil is unable to decide.
Pastor to Attend Mee!ine.-Rev.
John t. Houser, pastor of the First
Christian church. went to Chicago yes
terday to consult with 20 specialists
in church work regarding the church
efficiency congress which will be held
at his church in Davenport next No
vember. The efficiency congress will
be one Of the most important gather
ings of its kind ever held in Daven-
port, or anywhere else, to quote the
Christian Standard. a church pubIica-
ton, which is arranging the meeting
The meeting in Chicago today is for
the purpose of outlining the plans for
the congress. DR.. Houser was request
ed to bring the plans for the new
church which his congregation is build
ing, in order that the space may be
allotted for the different meetings,
many Of which will be held at the
same time.
Placed Under Observation-Disclosures
case of smallpox was taken to the
pest house Wednesday afternoon when
d. w. Wilson, 1918 Ash street, was
placed under quarantine by the Dav.
export health department According
to Health Officer Mullen, a brother OF
Wilson from Des Moines had been Wis.
ting the latter in Davenport and be.
came sick. Wilson urged that doc.
tor be called and the brother refused.
Shortly after this he is said to have
broken out and fearing that. the case
was smallpox he Immediately left the
city. A week later Wilson became i'll
and the case was pronounced smallpox
This makes the fifth case of the dis
ease under quarantine at the pest
house.
| Obituary acknowledgements even.
| ing at 1925, at st. Luke's hospital oc
CURED the death Of John Delarue, a
well known engineer of Davenport
Three and one-half weeks ago Mr.. De
larue was taken suddenly i'll and was
operated on at st. Lukes hospital
He recovered from the operation sui
ficiently to see a few of his friends
However. a second operation was nee
essary, which he underwent a week
ago, and from which he could not
rally. The deceased was born Dec
4, 1851, at Tiverton, Devonshire, Eng
land, coming to Davenport in 1864
where he spent the greater part of his
life. He was married in 1879 to Heller
Stewart who survives him, besides the
following children: Mrs. o. G. Boder
of Mitchell, Neb.; Edith, Ethel, Doro
thy, Sidney and Edwin at home; also
a brother, DR.. Edwin Delarue of Oak
land, Cal The funeral was held to
day at 2 p. m. from the family home
504 West Eleventh street, with inter
ment at Oakdale
The funeral of Mrs. Marguerite Rep,
was held from the family home, 1O231l
West Third street, at $50 o'clock yes
terday morning Rev. Purtell celebrat
ed requiem high mass, at St Mary
church at 9 O'Clock. The pallbearer
were Jack Diver, Al Buergel, Ear
Kennedy, Joe Knox, Ed Knox an,
John Holdt. Interment took place Il
St Marguerite's cemetery.
|
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-16

John D. Rockefeller would go broke
If he should spend his entire income
trying to prepare a better medicine
than Chamberlain Collie, Cholera
and Diarrhoea Remedy for diarrhoea,
dysentery or bowel complaints. 1t is
simply impossible, and so says every
one that has used it. Sold by all
druggists.-(Adv.l
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-16
MOLINE

Field Day May 22-Moline public
schools have substituted fed day TO
take the place of the final exercises
that nave existed SO ,ous. On Thurs
day, May %. will occur the first OF
what will be an annual event. The
children will participate in outdoor
sports including athletic contests and
calisthenics, flag drill, and dress par
ade. Pennants will be awarded the
winners. All children OF the third,
fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh grades
will report at Browning park, Fiji
teenth street, between Twenty-frst
and Twenty-third avenues, at o'clock.
Space for each school will be desig-
mated by large printed signs. Ar
engagements have been made for spe-
cial cars on the Interurban to leave
Forty-second street at O'clock and
pupils of the Mckinley school will
meet at the school house at S:45, and
bring lunches, which may be eaten at
the noon hour at the park or at Gar
| field school.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-16

Find Disease ExpensiVe-Smallpox
cases since the middle of last winter
will cost the city approximately
$4,000. The plague was worse than
last year and every precaution will be
made in the future to prevent the
disease in the city. Nine cases were
reported obtaining at the first of this
month, three of which have been
cured since and the last of the quar-
astined will be released by June Is.
The six afflicted, are doing nicely and
there is little evidence of any new
cases this summer.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-16
nl0SI VITALITY
COPENHAGEN
MEN SPECIALISTS
SI1 18Th street.
MOLINE.

Onen only on
Wednesday AZ
ternooD md ey-
cling. 2 20 g.
Friday cvc. Z 70
8. and . "a r. De y
morning, 9to T.
On other days.
call al Daven
port
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-16
CAMBRIDGE

Mrs. A. ]. Lindstrom and two chill
dren returned to their home in Rock
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-16

northeast one-quarter, section 7-17-1
west, 81.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-16

Two Injured by Autos-Two serious
automobile accidents occurred yester-
day. Neither resulted in any grave
injuries although one of the victims
received two severe scalp wounds and
the other, man of IS, was badly
Jared. Rudolph Hincher, Fifty-fourth
street and Fourth avenue, was struck
by an automobile as he was crossing
Fifty-fourth street a: in the after
noon. DR.. Donohoo of East Moline
wa SCALED and examined Hincher,
but no broken bones were discovered.
The other accident occurred at about
II a. m. August Hedin was riding his
, bicycle down the Fifth street hill and
in some way he failed TO see an auto
going at fair clip over Twentieth
avenue. He ran into it and was
hurled to the sidewalk DR.. A IL. Arp,
being summosed, found two bad scalp
wounds, one two inches long and the
| other four inches.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-16

Extended European Trip - Rev. N.
P. Glemaker pastor of the Swedish
Methodist church of Moline, will join
Moline's large cotorie of European
travellers, and will depart next Tues
day upon an extended trip, which will
absent him from this city for period
Of three months. Leaving Moline, the
local pastor will 60 TO Chicago, where
he will be present at the commence
ment exercises 10 be he'd at the Swed-
ish Methodist Theological seminary at
Evanston, going thence TO Worcester,
Mass, where he has been engaged to
deliver a sermon on Sunday. He will
sail from Boston, May q, going 10
England, where he will remain for sew
eral weeks to study institutional
church work From there he will go
to his former home in the southern
part of Sweden. Rev. Glemaker plans
to attend a conference to be he'd June
%. in Gutenberg, and will go north
from there to see the midnight sun. He
will also be in attendance at the world
Sunday school convention in Switzer-
land, which begins July ., after which
he will sail for the United States and
home.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-16

obituary-Mrs. Leona Hutsebant OF
East Moline died in the Moline city
hospital Tuesday Afternoon. Death was
the result of an operation performed
last Friday. The deceased was born
in Belgium 81 years ago, and was
there united in marriage to Mr.. Hut
sehant, who survives, with three
children who are Herman, Maurice
and Helen. Four brothers are also
living, Jerome, Thomas and Maurice
Of East Moline. and Otto Of Kewanee.
The funtral was conducted from st.
Mary's Catholic church. Father Van
Stoppen officiating. with burial IN S..
Nary cemetery, East Moline.
The funeral OF the late Mrs. A. T.
Holmquist was held from the home.
1925 Ninth street. Many friesds and
relativts were present TO pay their last
respects. The fcra, tributes were
many and beautiful Rev. A. F. Berg.
strom oficiated, and a quartz; com
posed of Lydia Hut, Martha Serene,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-16

Makes Good Showing-A report of
Captain ]. L. Dowell of the Volunteers
of America covering the last six
months shows that great deal of
good has been accomplished during
that period. The income and expen-
ditures have been s1,116.40, while the
total Indebtedness is $500. Much good
has been done through the employ
ment agency Of the organization.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-16

Historical Society at Sprinsfield-A
number OF Nome residents interested
in Illinois history have gone to Spring
field, where they are in attendance at
the annual meeting of the Illinois
State Historical society, beginning
yesterday morning and continuing
through today. William A. Meese of
Moline, is among the number attend
ing the meet.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1913-06-19

ton. 1t is the same house and vino.
mill in each case, but what differ
ence! The one repels; the other at.
tracts. The one Is merely place to
ssly; the other is home. Boys and
girls reared in the first house will
want to leave it as soon as they can.
while those reared in the house sur
rounded with the trees and shrubs
will not want to leave home, and II
they do they will look back to the
old home.
The wind break does not show in
this view. This should be IL to 10
rods back from the house so as to
keep the snow drifts at distance.
Trees do we'll on the prairie, provided
they are cultivated or mulched. Ii
the grass or weeds are allowed to
grow over the tree roots the tree will
not do we'll
Study the accompanying illustra-
tons. They bring out very plainly
the Identifying effect Of trees and
shrubs about home.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1913-06-19

SALES COMPANY
REAL ESTATE BARGAINS FOR
MAY.
BUY DIRECT FROM THE OWNER.
We are advertising managers for the
owners Of all property listed below.
A POSTAL CARD

will bring you the name and address
Of the owner of any property listed
below and put you in position ia
deal direct with him.
If you have anything to sell, write
for detail particulars. Our advertis.
ing is thorough and systematic.
No. 89.-16O A. 10 miles north of
Minot; all level; best soil; good
neighborhood; 40 A. cultivated, bal
ance prairie. $4,000 per acre.
No. 1O6.-160 A. miles north
east of Surrey, all cultivated; $4,000
per acre. Thos. Kenyon, Granville,
No. 124-160 A. 3 miles south Of
Deering; 100 A. broke, balance equal
ly as good; $1,000 per acre.
No. 1870 A. 4 miles north of
Minot; 80 A. cultivated; 40 A. to
break this year. 80 A. in pasture;
good buildings. $41.0O per acre.
Orwin H. Hunt.
No. 1870 A. 3 miles east OF
Granville. $500 per acre.
No. 82.-160 A. ~ miles south of
Surrey.
No. 1O8.-16O A. 1 mile from Ben.
edict, N. D.; virgin prairie; all can
be cultivated. $3.50 per acre.
No. 1870 A. miles south of
Fl. Clark, Oliver Co., all under cult
walton; small house, we'll and barn
$4,000 per acre.
No. 116.-16O A. in MountrailC Co.,
wild land, all can be broke. $500
per acre.
No. 1O4.-160 A. in Mckenzie Co.;
rs A. cultivated; 100 A. to break this
year, balance pasture; good build
ings. $1,000 per acre.
No. 112.-16O A. miles north
west Of Ryder; 60 A. cultivated; bal
ance to break this year; $1,000 per
acre. Easy terms.
No. 130.-48O A. 4 miles from Pow
ers Lake, Burke Co., N. D.; one-half
of this is cultivated; balance can be
broke this year. Will sell all or sep
arate quarters. $3.50 per acre.
No. 131.-480 A. south of Dawson,
Kidder Co., N. D.; can all be cult
waited. $1,000 per acre.
No. 132.-640 A. in Custer Co.,
Montana; IS A. cultivated; 100 A. to
break this year. 500 A. pasture. An
excellent stock ranch. $3.50 per acre,
easy terms.
No. 1880 A. 5 miles north of
Minot, N. D. / mile from school: ru-
raj mail and telephone. This farm is
rented and owners share of crop goes
with farm if sold before July LIST.
$500 per acre. Easy terms.
No. 131.-16O A. z miles south Of
Des Laos, IS A. cultivated; 96 A. to
break this year; 10 A. hay; school on
the farm; rural mail and telephone:
$500 per acre.
No. 1876. 400 A. 8 miles from
Wild Rose, 8 miles from Cotton Lake,
Divide Co., Is A. cultivated, balance
can be broke this year. $500 per
acre. Easy terms.
Nos 1876 to :1S6-FIFTY improved
farms, comprising 10000 acres in the
vicinity Of Moose Jaw, Sask., rang
ing in price from $1,000 an acre up.
Full description and articulars on ap-
plication.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1913-06-19

Albin c. Peterson, of Minot, has
purchased fine three-year-old black
Percheron stallion. This is gov.
eminent approved horse, having been
imported from France in February
of this year. We are pleased to know
our best farmers are taking pride in
raising good horses. Mr.. Peterson
lives two miles west of Minot. The
horse was purchased from A. H. Fisk
of the Greeley Horse Importing Co.,
of Greeley, Iowa.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1913-06-19
BLOWING OF TOP SOIL
heighbor Gets Best of Your Farm
When Wind Blows Hard.
Farmer Should Never Pillow lIaht Soil
Early in Spring and Then Keep It
Bare Rest Of Season-Discino
Holds Moisture.
NBy ]. EAsTGArE, I.arimore. N. D.

HBy j. EASTGATE, I.arimore, N. d.
When the humus content of our soil
begins to diminish as they surely do
with continuous grain farming, the
wind starts in its work of blowing
the top soil and making drifts in
whatever happens to be around to
catch them, it may be ravine, a row
OF grass. or weeds along the roadside
or the trees around the farmstead
(where the farmer has planted them)
Almost always a neighbor with an un.
plowed field gets the best of your farm
when it blows.
One of the surest ways to lose the
best of the soil is to practice what is
called bare summer following. There
Is one thing man should never do
on light soil, namely, pillow land early
In the spring and then keep it worked
bare the rest of the season. The bare
summer fallow will be fine thing so
long as the land is full of the original
grass roots but when they are de-
cayed then the dry land farmer finds
his hands full of trouble all of the
time and the air full Of dirt good
part of the time. A farmer who ia
: carrying on the pooper system of
cropping very seldom has any land to
; summer fallow.
But In case one does wish to sum-
mer fallow he should begin the first
thing in the spring and disc the stub
BILE field q take it for granted the
held ia stubble from grain crop
grown the previous year,. During
the fore part of June another discing
will help to hold moisture and kill
the young weeds that may have start
ed, then, about the first Of July the
land should be plowed good and deep.
This will leave four to six weeks to
pack the ground with a packer, har-
row or whatever machine one uses for
the purpose and about five or six
weeks more before the first frost is
expected. After the packing is COM
pleted SOW the land with very light
seeding Of oats or barley Goats are
the best as the frost does not seem to
shrivel them so badly In the falD, and
1t will get large enough to protect the
land during the winter and to hold
some Of the snow, which will leave
as much moisture in the ground AZ
che oats have taken from It,
In the spring go once or twice over
1t with the disc and you will have a
fine seed bed that is ready for the
drill. The drill used on drifting land
should always be press drill as
they pack the land and help to hold
moisture, they also leave the surface
In small ridges which do not blow as
quickly as the fields sown with chain
drills.
A still better preparation than the
above for field is crop of corn to
either cut for fodder, husk standing
in the field or to turn stock of some
pEtnd on to feed OF; corn field can
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1913-06-19
Notice Of Meeting.

To the Stockholders Of the Minot
Farmers Grain Assn:
You are hereby notified that the
annual meeting Of the stockholders
of the Minot Farmers Grain Asocia-
ton will be held at the Farmers Ele-
vator, at Minot, N. D., Thursday, June
rs, 1913, at 1 o'clock p. m. Three di-
rectors to be elected for three years.
Harry Edwards, Secretary.
5-29-t4cg
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Army worms are doing much dam
age to the gooseberry crop. The
writer has been spraying with nico-
tine and other concoctions, but the
worms are doing business just the
same.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1913-06-19

An 11-year-old girl confessed that
she planned to kill her foster mother
Mrs. Peter Sorenson of jamestown, in
an effort to get her property. The
girl put three-quarters of an ounce Of
muriatic acid in a glass of water
which she gave Mrs. Sorenson, but
the lady discovered something wrong
with the water before she drank much
of it.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1913-06-19
AFTER PLANTING

,e plowed deeply in the spring and
he cultivating firms 1t and gives the
deal seed bed for small grain and .
whole year is not lost. With the
proper kind Of cultivation you are as
Iured Of fine crop of feed and II
he grain crop fails the next year it
will be no fault of the farmer.
In potato growing the land IL put in
good shape for a grain crop, but 1t
8 also in fine shape for the wind to
blow 1t away. When the potato dig
ger goes over the field 1t makes the
;op fine and loose as ashes to . depth
If six inches After that the first
hard wind makes your real estate be-
gin to move. l saw fields, last spring
where the wind had blown six inches
I the dirt away and two seedlings OF
grain along with 1t. After the pota-
toes are dug the land should have .
thin coating of manure put on with
spreader. Now II your land drifts and
you cannot put on something to stop
it after digging your potatoes the
next best thing to do Is not to raise
potatoes.
We farmers in what 10 known az
the dry belt should always have one
half of our farms into grass. Sod 10
the very best thing to have as with
it one can give the proper cultivation
to the land, as plenty Of grass roots
in the soil almost wholly do away
with the drifting problem. A two
year timothy sod is better to prevent
drifting than twenty-five loads Of
stable manure per acre after the ma
nure has been out two years. Just
let me say one word here in regard
to sowing grass seed. If you intend
to SOW bronze grass be very careful
to see that it does not contain quack
grass seed We have number of
patches Of quack grass in our part of
the country and nearly every one can
be traced to either bronze grass or
garden seeds.
A tame grass sod can be broken up
In July, plowed deeply and can stand
lot of working with very little dan
ger Of drifting or it can be worked
down and seeded with winter rye or
winter wheat II the latter will stand
the climate. The next year after the
winter grain crop Is removed the land
can be plowed early, worked down
and a light seeding of oats made up
on it and it is again safe for that
year.
If you have land that has begun to
blow Just as soon as it is seeded take
your hay rack. go to some old straw
stack and haul straw and spread on
the field. 1t will surprise you to see
how much ground can be covered in
day, especially If the wind is blow
Ing right as that makes 1t much cas-
YER to spread the straw. A few strips
of straw spread thinly across the field
will stop lot of damage to the crop
and 1t also serves as mulch to keep
the land from drying out so fast.
This light land farming SINNERS
down to one thing, that Is to good
rotation system with plenty OF live
stock to use the corn crops, the hay
crops and the pasture lands that it ID
necessary to have in order to get the
grass roots in the soil You need the
live stock to use up the straw so It
will be in proper shape to apply on
the land to help out the fertility al
we'll as to keep up the humus content
to such a state that you are assured
Of good crops unless something ~
usual happens.