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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-09
WEATHER NAN is
BEING CHEATED
Young & McCornbs Install New
Ventilating System Which
Makes Store Cool.

When it comes TO having the goods
on the weather man you have got to
hand it to Young & McCombs. Early
this week the members of the firm
sized up the weather situation and
when nothing but torrid days were
promised for several weeks, an cleo
trician vas summoned and now the
main floor Of the establishment is
equip dlyith at least a dozen large
oscills ding electric fans that keep the
al IN the large room in constant mo-
ton. An experiment yesterday after
noon revealed the fact that tempera-
ture inside the building was some 25
degrees cooler than il was outside and
the new improvement will be vel
coined generally by the shoppers as
we'll as the clerks who are forced 10
remain inside all day.
The idea of having fans in depart.
ment stores is a new one in Rock
Island and at this time OF the year is
almost a necessity. Shoppers who
have remained at home for fear OF be
ing Frustrated with the heat while in
the stores may come TO the city now
and find a place that is equally as
cool as their own front porches
While the other stores Of the city
have not yet installed fans it is under
stood that they expect to in the near
future, thus giving the trade of the
city ideal places in which to shoI
during the warm afternoons at this
time of the year when extensive clear
ing sales are in progress.
Aside from the fans in Young e. Nc
Combs, the store is also equipped with
a ventilating system that has no equa
In the state. A large vacuum pump
works constantly throughout the day
sending fresh air into the store anC
driving the foul air out.
II is a well known fact that ice
water Is injurious during the days
when the mercury is lowering arouIC
the 100 mark. In order that the pub
lie may have the best obtainable. the
firm has installed. at a great expense
a water cooling system that has me
with instant favor. From the drinkinl
fountains throughout the store flow.
water tina: is cooled by a special pro
cess by which the water itself neve1
comes in direct contact with ice
may be interesting to know that thu
water cooling plant at Young & Nc
Combs Is the largest Of it's kind In The
state and is identical with those useC
by the big stores In larger cities.
Mr.. McCombs stated yesterday tina
he believed he had inaugurated plal
that would be duplicated by ever!
large firm in the city before man.
weeks had elapsed.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-09

in the Kewanee city court from West
ern.
Mrs. Berquist and baby have re-
turned to their home in Milwaukee
after weeks visit with Orion friends.
Although Mrs. BerQUist was formerly
an Orion girl this is her first visit
here n twenty years.
Mrs. Louie Fuller and her youngest
daughter Of Williamsburg, Iowa, are
visiting friends in Orion and Alpha.
Mrs. McCahon is enjoying a visit
from her son Robert of Kansas City.
Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Jordon and little
son of Alabama are visiting relatives
n Orion. On Their return home they
will stop in West Virginia where Mr..
Jordan will superi-tend a large con-
struction job
Mr.. and Mrs. J. NJ. Johnson and
children visited relatives in Cameron,
H., Sunday and Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Hawman and
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Butter from Gen,
eseo visited at the Rohrback home
Sunday.
Mrs. Fred Johnson and daughter OF
Cameron are visiting at the home OF
Mr.. and Mrs. J. VI. Johnson.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. c. Quayle with
their children and grandchildren en-
joyed a family reunion at the home
Of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Quayle south
of town. At noon a splendid dinner
was served TO seventeen guests. Al
enjoyed a very pleasant day.
Luther Swanson purchased the
/ Studebaker six passenger auto from
I the Ahlstraad & Love agency.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charlie. Okerbloon
and family and Mrs. Palmer ATTENDED
( the funeral of a relative in Kewanet
Saturday.
The Ladies' Aid society of the NJ. f
church will meet with Mrs. Amos Dya
Wednesday afternoon at 2:30.
Miss Selma Hedlund of near Molin,
is visiting Miss Della Asplund
Mrs. Charles Wagner Of Reynold
and her daughter Mollie, who has beel
attending Oberlin college, left New
York Wednesday for an European
trip.
Mrs. II. X. Mack OF Paducah, KY
visited Friday with her brother, F. 2
Fullerton of Orion.
Charles Swanson who lives south
east of Orion. sold his SO-acre farm
recently for S275 an acre.
The Ladies' Aid society of the Bar
fist church met with Mrs. c. F. LaI
son Thursday.
Miss Stella Wayne returned HON
Tuesday evening from Colorado an
Iowa where she has been visitin
friends and relatives for the past tw
months.
Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew Peterson er
tertained a number of friends las
Sunday at their home, in honor O
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Anderson of CHI
cago.
Miss Cora Peterson has returne
to her home in Geneseo after spendin
the week end with Miss Vennie Isaac
son.
Mrs Fanny Taylor and two son
of Indianapolis, Ind, are visiting rel;
tives in Orion.
l.. II. Tamme has sold his Overlan
automobile TO Wilbert Swanson.
Gerald and Ruth Moore are visitin
friends in Maquon.
DR.. and Mrs. w. ID. Chapman of ST
Wis were in Orion Sunday.
w. II. Rohrbach, who has been S
seriously i'll, is able 10 be about again
William Lembke of Coal Valley wa
an Orion visitor Wednesday.
Frank Hamilton Of Geneseo was i
Orion Wednesday.
Mrs. Emeline Cowperthwaite an
daughter Of New York city are visi
ing at the home of her parents, NJ
and Mrs. G.. w Tomlinson.
Mrs. =. J. Peterson has returne
from Moline where she has been visi
ing her daughter and son. Three Ii
tie grandchildren accompanied he
home.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-09

ished BY Mesdames ]. A. Brodd, c, E.
Olson end Titus Samue.son and the
Misses Esther Brodd and Annie Bro
berg. The pallbearers were c. v.
Larson. Fred Lindbeck, Edwin Carl
con, Ed Walline, Frank Anderson and
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-09

son. Mr.. and Mrs. Osia Berglund, Mr..
and Mrs. Alfred Fair, and two daugh-
tiers. Florence and Hazel, Glen Sea
holm, Mrs. Nels Nelson, Selma Ander-
son, c. w. Gustafson and daughter.
Irene Of Rock Island; Andrew Gustat-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-09

son and daughter. Anna, Mrs. Charles
Swanson and Mrs. Carl Swanson, Chi
cago; Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Swanson OF
Opheim, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Peter
son of Alpha, Mrs. Wayne Peterson
OF Fort Henderson.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-09

held from the home and Lutheran
church Wednesday afternoon. June IS.
The church was filed with rela-
tives and friends and there was an
immense array Of flowers. DR.. II. J.
Laure oficiated and music was furn-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-09
To 81 Stamped Combination Suits SOC
Stamped Corset Covers, Choice Csc
Stamped Dresses for Children SOC and CSC

Childrens Dresses sizes from to years, all
made and stamped ready to embroider. Choice at
SIC and 9sc.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-09

George Rindstrom. Out OF town reia.
tives present from Moline were Mr..
and Mrs. George Swanson, ST., Mr.
and Mrs Emil Lundahi, son Roy and
daughter, Hazel, Mr., and Mrs, Martin
Swanson, Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Swan
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-09
ChiIdren'S R0mperS.

Children's gingham
Rompers specially
priced at 21c for
tOmorrOw's selling.
There are sizes for
the little tots from
2 to 6 years only.
Just what a mother
will need for the
baby TO roll about
the lawn in; saves
wash i n z dresses
and allows the child
the freedom that
insures good health.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-09

Again We offer a lot
of Wilson Bros. $3.50
Shirts at the greatly re-
duced price of s9c. A
fine lot of white pleated
bosoms in narrow or wide
pIeats. While they last,
Thursday, sec.
A fine soc silk Hose
with high spliced heels
and garter weave tops.
All sizes, 8 for ST.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-09
Cool, Lawn 1Kir71OnO 81

big assortment OF Empire style Lawn Kmonas This value
spsoai ' poa ps at each they are $119
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-09
Summer Shirts,
worth up to 81,
Z hurSdQY OnLp9Sc

We have a large assOrt-
ment of Summer Shirts
which we are closing out
SO as not to carry over
any stock into next sea-
son. This lot contains
Shirts worth 81, SIPS,
$3.50 and 50. They are
made with the regulation
French cuffs and military
collars. A beautiful as
sortment of plain colored
soisettes and fancy
stripes. To So Shirts, CSC.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-09

$3.50 SILK Shirts, $1.98
A Sale From II a. m.
to 3 p. m. Only.
A limited number of
soft silk Shirts in all
sizes will be placed
on sale Thursday from
II a. m. to 3 p. m. They
are made of pure silk
with attached soft
collars and are the
regular $3.50 Shirt for
$1.9s.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-09
I2Nc Printed ,Scrirrl &c
500 YARDS PRINTED sCRIM, in
all-over patterns and colored borders,
12hc quality at &c.
Buy LinOIeur71 NOzv!

Linoleums expand with heat and will
more readily At themselves to the floor if
laid now.
First qua lily Inlaid Linoeum, $3.50 to 81 so
quality. sale price, square yard, SLAP.
F rst quality Printed Linoleum, 70c quality, sale
price, square yard &c.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-09
Bathing SnitS--Reduced

Right when a Bath
ing Suit is most de-
sired We have pric-
ed them at figures
that should sell all
we have tomorrow.
T h e II e W
prices will range
from $3.50 up, for
Bathing Suits in all
sizes, of browns,
blues, blacks and
checks. Come pick
out your Suit to-
morrow
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-09
Underwear and
Hose Reduced

At 5c-Women's 1Oc
Gauze Vests, sizes 4, 5
and 6
At 39c-Women's SOC
GauZe Knit Union Suits,
tight knee or umbrella
styles.
Misses fine ribbed black
Hose and boys heavy
ribbed Hose, 1Sc and Csc
values for 15c.
Infants cashmere and
silk Isle Hose, pinks and
black only, Csc values for
1oc.
Main Floor
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-25
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCHIsoN GLOBE.

Laugh at a mistake and you will make
another.
Sometimes a man is bashful and wins a
reputation for modesty.
Possibly an auctioneer is called colonel
because of his commanding voice
Mother should get over the notion that
she can help the children by worrying.
Failure to sneeze when you feel like it
is another deep and ingrown disappoint-
ment.
1t is human nature to want to receive
more invitations than one is willing to
accept
A ail-fellow-well-met, as we understand
it, is one who wastes his money on
strangers.
A man rarely has time to look over
his old love letters and see how silly he
was. IT'S a busy world.
Our notion of a financier is a man who
can lead Double Life on a. salary of
average dimensions.
One fact about romance which many
overlook, is that 1t frequently ends in
the divorce court or more sordfd places
An Atchison girl has a gold engagement
tooth. She needed the tooth and took it
in the place of an engagement ring.
It doesn't make any difference if she
did kill her husband. the jury can be re-
lied upon to remember that she is a poor
weak woman.
IT am mild and credulous, and some
thing of easy mark, but no poor
stranger is going to have much luck SELL
ing a scheme to get rich.'-Rufe
Hoskins.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-25

fingers trembling, tears falling on her
cheeks. She choked
think men are not as vain as you
thlnk them. I did not know-your
Iamlly was annoying you-about me-
I was perfectly unconscious. 1t is due
myself to say that 1 have also been
perfectly honest. 1 have STAYED about
you because have learned to love
you wanted to win you. I wanted
you-to marry me. But not unless I
could-unless you could truly-love
me. I suppose that now this is nv
dismissal? Don't you think that if we
had been left to ourselves without
others meddIfng that you might have
liked me better?''
Still she was very pale, but she
looked up and met his glance bravely
I-d1d-like you-at first-but-s
1t is not my fault that meddlers
mo, it isn't your fault. of course.
m sorry 1 spoke so to Hal. 1 was
very angry. But I'm glad you heard
me. T. Something tremulous and
sweet dawning in her face walked hope
in him. He came and very gently took
one of her hands.
-Margaret, you don't want that
For wretched moment she did not
hemently.
'Of course not" John Norman took
her other hand.
Margaret, can't you learn to care
for me? The shrinking left her, and
she met his glance quietly. Can you
Margaret? Are things to be spoiled for
US by these people who don't under
stand 2"
She let him draw her toward him.
1T wouldn't be fair, Margaret Would
it ?" With a quick little movement
she hid her face against his sleeve and
stood limp and passive in his arms.
Dearest, dearest" His voice was
low and poignant with joy and tri-
umph. You do love mel" She nod
ded her head against his arm.
1T hurts to care so much" she
murmured.-(C copyright 1913 by the
Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-25
NO FIFTH. NO TYPHOID.

If scientific cleanliness were COM
pletely attained, typhoid would disap-
pear, states the Kansas Industrialist,
and it continues: Scientific cleanliness
means perfect drainage of the house,
satisfactory disposal of sewage, eff
cheney in the protection or treatmen
of the water supply, segregation of
patients and the typhoid material ex-
GREETED by them, and typhoid carriers
annihilated. Typhoid bacilli are bac-
terra belonging to the plant kingdom,
propagated only in the human intes-
tine except those grown in the labora-
tory on cultures.
Rural districts do not lend them
selves to the influence of public
health authorities as urban conditions
do, and consequently there has been a
much greater reduction in the death
rate in the cities during the last few
decades than in the rural commune
ties. Statistics on this point are not
wholly reliable, since many cases in
the country are not properly dag
nosed or reported. Cases contracted
in rural districts are often removed to
city hospitals and resulting fatalities
arc reported as urban.
Typhoid is infectious only through
carriers. Milk, water, flies, and peo-
pie are the principal carriers. Milk
is the most dangerous, because ty-
phoid bacilli will increase in it,
through to an almost negligible ex-
tent. Fortunately, however, not as
much milk as water becomes con-
taminated. Most water is infected by
the drainage from barnyards and
houses. Statistics show that so per
cent of the wells and cisterns in the
United States are polluted with house
and barnyard drainage. House flies
also are dangerous carriers of the
typhoid bacillus.
Persons often spread this disease
for years without knowing they are
infected. A cook in a girls boarding
school was the cause of sixty-five cases,
not long ago. The epidemic ceased
when she was discharged. 1t is esti-
mated that more than $4,000 persons
in the United States carry this typhoid
germ with them constantly and are
the direct causes of terrible epidemics
'If every case of typhoid could be
traced, the trail would lead to some
previous case" said L. d. Bushnell,
head of the department of bacteriol-
ogy at the Kansas Agricultural COL
lege, recently. I'm a large number of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-25
AXHAWKER JOTS

AS the Burlington Republican locates
the silver lining: The city water may
be muddy, but the street crossings
have been kept cleaner than ever be-
fore.
OF course the gas got low as soon
as the cold came, remarks the Law
renee Gazette, and it calls attention to
the trite truth: You can't eat your
cake and have it.
that you are more apt to die after you
are 20 than you are before, notes the
Hutchinson Gazette, and it adds: Not
all the revelations of statistics arc
startling.
An observation by Charlie Scott in
his lola Register: When a man says
frequently and in a loud tone of voice.
1 am in this fight to a inish," it is Il
pretty safe guess that he expects to be
licked. And he usually is.
More trouble for the smart men who
attempt to flood Kansas with substi-
tutes for beer and booze under the
guise of soft" drinks. The chemistry
department of the state university has
installed new apparatus for the detec-
ton of alcohol in other liquids.
Isn't this the whole truth, from the
Hiawatha World? The odor of bub-
bling apple butter when properly
mixed with the sound of chopping
wood, the steaming and simmering
pot, makes up the book and lyrics of
a mighty fine opera in the autumn.
Some inside information from Char
lie Blakesley of the Kansas City Star:
Professor Dyche is considering a plan
to place a couple of whales in the state
fish hatchers, in order that there may
be some real spouting in Kansas next
year.
L heard a man say that his father
had never raised his hand to strike
him. said Bill Sincaller the other day
within the hearing of the Vinland
Vine man. But it occurred to me that
there was nothing to boast of in that
1t was not the raising of the hand that
bothered me, it was the coming down
of the same"
What would a man say to his wife,"
asks the Jennings Echo, "if she were
to leave her $50 sewing machine out
in the yard over night in a rain storm?
Well he would do a plenty if she per-
sisted in leaving it out in the weather
And yet the same lord of creation has
left his farm machinery standing in
the fence corner. Many of these costly
tools will stand out unprotected all
winter. What should your wife, Mr.
Farmer, do to you? She should get
the rolling pin after you and make you
house them now. You can save a ten
dollar bill any day this week by acting
on this suggestion
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-25
BY THE WAY
BY HARVEY PARSONS,

The K U. department of chemistry
has an apparatus for detecting the
presence of alcohol in any liquid. 1t
has been suspected by some that in
f1nitesimal amounts of alcohol are con-
cealed in Topeka bootleg whisky, and
if the K. U. apparatus is perfect, the
question may be definitely settled
'"The effort to utilize all the space on
billboard says Hondo Murphy, re
suits sometimes in misleading the pub
lie. For instance, a show board on top
of a building at Tenth street gave me
the impression that Topeka theatcr-
goers were to be given a rare treat in
the near future. The sign read: MRS.
FISKE in-McFadden's Flats
1t is reported that the famous
Painting Bertha" has been released
from the Nebraska penitentiary, and is
to be married. In other words, she is
to confine her future touches to one
victim
AS freeze-out weather approaches,
the fly redoubles his efforts to get in
bad with the world and the inhabi-
tants thereof. In that respect the fly
resembles Hon. Huerta of Mexico; the
nearer he approaches to his finish, the
worse he gets.
An unusual discovery has been made
by the Morning Squash. 1t was that
some ice in the southern part of the
state was found to be frozen. Some
of the late pumpkins were also frozen,
but that was nothing phenomenal.
About $500 quarts of booze were
shipped into this county during the
month of September-an increase Of
$1,000 over the preceding month. 1t is
evident that some of our leading citi-
zens are doing their Christmas shop
ping early.
KNOCK on Mrs. Punkhurst If you
want to- says Jack Supp, but I am
for her-and every time I see an En~
lish man it makes me stronger for
her."
Mrs. Su1zer will campaign for Will
lum. If she is no better fitted to coa-
the family financial affairs, he had
better keep Ter out of it. Her alleged
Wall street stunt was not a bowling
success.
Mr.. Suffers campaign seems to be
based upon his declaration that Nc
Call paid Murphv for his judgeship.
He is so insistent about it that one
might almost gather that Murphy was
trying to collect a second time and
that Mccall had employed Sulzer for
the defense.
According to London correspondent,
Great Joy is being experienced around
Buckingham palace over the suspicion
that there is to be an addition to the
royal family. Joy, under the circum-
stances, is perfectly proper. The in
creased cost of living is not one Of
King Georges favorite worries.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-25

cases it could be traced from the
waste of one to the drinking water of
the other"
Professor Bushnell believes that
proper sanitation will prevent nearly
every case of this parasitic disease.
Cesspools and faulty sewers should
not be allowed to exist. While the
typhoid bacteria will not increase in
these places, they will live there quite
while, although the sunshine and
open air destroy many of them. 1t is
only when the temperature of the
human body is initiated that this bac-
terra can be grown in the laboratory.
Previous to the creation of animals,
typhoid, as a disease, did not exist.
Man is the only animal that the ty-
phoid bacillus inhabits. Typhoid
bacilli can live for weeks in ice.
Because of the isolated condition of
the people in the country it is almost
impossible for the health authorities
to enforce any laws of sanitation.
Every farmer has his own water and
sewage system. Individuals and not
authorities must prevent the passage
of this germ from the infected to the
uninfected, in rural districts. This
can be brought about only by proper
sanitation, and education alone will
make the conditions on the farm more
sanitary.
Every farmer in Kansas can have
his water tested for the typhoid baciI-
lus. AT Lawrence, controlled by the
state board of health, is the water sur
vey commission. 1t has a laboratory
especially equipped for this work. In
this laboratory the water of any
citizen of Kansas will be tested, free.