Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-10-26
DAY IN DA NEWPORT

man in charge of the outfit He has
not seen anything of potatoes, horses
or wagon since. The hired man is
said to have telephoned Mr.. Sothman
that he had been arrested and would
be back Friday. Saturday Mr. Soth-
man received no word and notified the
authorities. II was then discovered
that the team and wagon had been
sold at Moeller's livery barn in Rock
| Island. The police are now looking for
August.
ScaffoId Falls; Workman is Hurt
John Often, an employee of the Puri-
ty Oats plant, was injured Saturday
afternoon when a scaffold gave way,
burying him under the wreckage. OF
tens right leg was fractured just be-
low the knee and he was badly cut
and bruised by flying timbers. He
was taken from the Oats plant to
Mercy hospital in the police ambu-
lance. DR.. w. II. Rendelman being sum-
moned.
Police Recover Auto.-An automo-
bile belonging to Herman E. Alex, 1888
Ripley street, which was stolen from
in front of the Columbia theatre Fri.
day night. was recovered by the police
early Saturday. The car had been
abandoned at Front street and West
ern avenue.
Davenport Boy in Radium Field
The many Davenport friends of Gerald
Wendt, graduate of the local high
school aud former reporter on the
Democrat, are pleased to note his con-
tnued advancement in the scientific
world. After leaving Davenport, Mr..
Wendt entered Harvard. 1t was soon
after his entrance there that PRINCIPAL
Marshall of the Davenport High
school received a letter from the pres
ident of that institution commencing
the many admirable qualities in the
Davenport boy and requesting Mr..
Marshall to send more lads like him to
Harvard. Mr.. Wendt is now seeking
new properties in radium. A Boston
paper of recent date refers TO his ex-
periments in this line as follows:
Harvard aims to give to the world
of medicine and science new informa-
ton on the curative proprieties of ra-
dAuAA anu It's 6dStOuS as a
result of the work of Gerald Wendt,
a NJ, OF So Chestnut Hill avenue, a
student of chemistry at the university.
is carrying on in Cambridge.
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Oavenporter Advises Neutrality
Writing to Davenport friends from
Hamburg, under date of Sept 20. At
torney w. II. Petersen gives an interest.
ing account of their stay abroad. The
letter follows: / thought that perhaps
you would like to hear from Daven-
porters now abroad. My father and
mother, Mr.. and Mrs. Max D. Petersen.
and myself are now in Hamburg.
where we will remain until next week !
when we go to Rotterdam Holland. in |
order to sail from there on the steam |
er Potsdam, of the Holland-American |
line, for New York, from New York
we go to Baltimore and Washington. !
ID. C., and then to Davenport. When l
the war over here broke out we were
in Carlsbad. Austria; there was much /
excitement there. this was intensified
by the fact that there were over 600
Russians there taking the baths
These were permitted TO leave and
some were taken as prisoners of war.
We witnessed some stirring scenes
while in Austria. but we Americans
were never molested. About Aug. %
we left Carlsbad and went To Leinsic
in Germany and then arrived here in
Hamburg after two or three stops else
where. We can testify to the fact
that the Americans were everywhere
in Germany treated with the CREATES,
courtesy. at the custom house when
we entered Germany from Austria we
were politely handled, our passports
examined. also our baggage and we
we're then allowed 10 proceed on. Here
in Hamburg one can not notice that
there is any war. things are very quiet
and orderly. | sincerely hope that my
fellow countrymen in America will not
be mislead by any reports as to cruelty
on the part OF the people of Germany.
as any such reports are false. | can
verify that the people of this country
are not that sort of people. havei