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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-17
BAND To RENDER
REQUEST PIECES
Music Lovers Can Hear Their
Favorite Numbers by Liber-
att at the Watch Tower.

In spite unfavorable weather condi-
tons large crowds are attending the
concerts OF Liberati and his famous
band OF Italian musicians at the Watch
Tower. Announcement was made to-
day that request programs will be pre-
scented during the remainder of the
week. Music lovers wishing TO hear
their favorite selections are asked to
leave their requests at the inn.
The opera singers are also attract
ing favorable comment. Bernard Begue
and Miss Valdez have been members
OF the Metropolitan Grand Opera COM
pany of New York City, being promi-
nent singers in that organization. Both
have appeared often in the same cast
with Caruso. Farrar, Scott and other
famous singers. Their selections for
this week are varied, iscluding all
leading arias and solos from the best
known operas.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-17
LOCAL ELKS WILL
GO WITH I0WANS
Rock Island Members of Ant
Tered Tribe Will Journey to
Iowa City Friday.

The Rock Island lodge of Elks and
the Moline lodge have received an in
vitation from the Davenport order OF
the antlered tribe to attend the Iowa
state meeting. which is in session at
Iowa City.
The meeting opened today. but the
local members will not go until Friday,
when a big parade will be he'd and
other entertainment will be provided
for the visitors.
A large number of both Moline and
Rock Island Elks are planning to join
the Davenport tribe. and in special
cars will depart for Iowa City Friday
morning. They will leave at o'clock
A uniformed band OF 25 pieces will &C
company the crowd TO furnish enter
tainment on the way and to participate
in the parade with the local mem
bers.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-17
RIVER CABLE To
CONNECT CITIES?
Central Union Telephone Board
TO Consider New Prof.
ect June %.
NEW SWITCH BOARD is HERE
underground to BE Laid Between Mo-
line and This city7-WiiI Do
Away With Poles on Seventh.

rune % the board OF receivers OF the
csrtral Union Telephone company
IN decide whether or not a marine ca
.ls shall be laid IN the Mississippi riv-
- AZ this point 10 connect the Rock
r,i.nd and Davenport telephone lines.
RE officials have had this plan in
,iaw for some time, and A J. Bever-
Ia manager OF this district. stated to-
dsv that the proposition would proba-
Nv he carried at the June session.
mis- Improvement would mean the re-
naval OF the heavy cables now run
rinr over the government bridge. The
cable would probably be laid at the
foot OF Eighteenth street, connecting
With Brady street in Davenport.
APPROXIMATELY $4,000 will be spent
N outside contracts by the company
this year. including extension OF aerial
cables. etc. The feature of tn eoutside
Improvements will be the laying of
an underground cable from Moline TO
the Rock Island Office. The main line
row runs down Seventh avenue in
Rock Island. and as soon as the under
ground cables are laid the unsightly
poles and wires on this beautiful boule-
rard will be removed. greatly improv-
Ing the appearance OF this street
Owing TO the steadily increasing
business. the poles on this main line
are hardly able to support the heavy
cables. and for this reason the under
ground project was carried through.
Putting in New Board.
The new $500, 900 switch board to be
Installed at the Office on Eighteenth
street arrived yesterday afternoon and
the actual work OF putting II up COM
nenced this morning. Nine box cars
we're required to carry this immense
board and its equipment from the
Western Electric company's plant in
Chicago, where IL was made. The
board is being installed in a large
room on the second floor at the north
end OF the new building. All of the
<ood parts on the board are of solid
mahogany. The new board has a ca
'scity Of 10000 subscribers, and the
ompany has at present approximately
200 subscribers. The work of INSTALL
lg the new board will not be complet-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-17
AS TRAIN KILLS

and Waits TO Be Crushed.
Kenosha. Wis. June II. A man,
presumed to be Henry Padden. 4e4s
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-17

South Halsted street, Chicago. stood In
the center of the tracks OF the North
western railway. four miles north OF
Kenosha. Monday night, and smiled
as he was crushed under the wheels
OF a passenger train running at the
rate of a mile a minute.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-17
CITY CHAT
(Advertisements.)

Buy a home Of Reidy Bros.
For express. call william Trefz.
Tri-City Towel Supply company.
Buyers sale at Young & McCombs.
Soda in the Green room. Harper
House pharmacy.
Independent Express Storage.
r I. ISL.
Soda in the Green room. Harper
House pharmacy.
BIaschke's Cleaning works. I4I2
Fourth avenue. for blocking hats OF
al kinds.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-17

By taking 900 pairs, we got low price
and you get the greatest hosiery treat
of the year. Every woman knowing
the excellence of Wayne Knit hosiery
will be here tomorrow, that is sure.
They are full-fashioned, and made of
pure silk through and through - no
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-17

There was never a more deliberate
or more nervy case of suicide" said
one OF the train men. 81 saw him on
the track when we were fully a quar-.
ter OF a mile from him. The whistle
blew a blast and he turned about and
watched the approaching train.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-17

ed before Nov. 10. and the old ex-
change board on Nineteenth street,
Will be used until that time.
klems nurseries of Moline are bus
klehm's nurseries OF Moline are bus
IN 'front.' OF the new building. with a
beautiful lawn and shrubbery. Two
ornamental light posts are also being
put up.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-17

We unusually large cunning little
girls from IA of
styles OF lawns linens piques and trimmed with
the most becoming laces snd embroideries
Attractive styles of lawn trimmed with lace ST 0S
Others with band Baby Irish
of waist and at waist line yoke OF Baby Irish GO
Third floor.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-17
REXDALE TALKS TO
REYNOLDS ALUMNI

Robert Rexdale. Rock Islands poet
and lecturer, was one OF the principal
speakers at the Alumni association of
the Reynolds high school banquet held
last evening at Reynolds. The theme
OF Mr. Rexdale's talk was Random
Thoughts OF an After Dinner Poet"
The spread was served in the opera
house at $3.50 and over 100 members
attended
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-17

got frae We could haze soled ma bootf'
WI it. Butcher-And why did We ma
dae IL? Woman-So | wild IL l could
hae got the pegs tae gang through it's
Boston Transcript. 8
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-17

when We We're only few rods
from him he smiled and lifted his
hands as il in prayer. He did not ninch
as the train swept upon him."
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-17
ODD FELLOWS TO
HONOR THE DEAD
Memorial Services Will Be Held
Sunday-Grand Master E.
r. Sayler Is Coming.

The annual memorial services of the
Odd Fellows will be held next Sun
day with Rev. VI. L. Chauey as the
principal orator OF the day. Past Mas
ter z. r. Sayler OF Springfield will also
deliver an address. The band in the
parade is one OF the features of this
years exercises.
Members OF the orders will meet at
Odd Fellows hall at 1880 p. m, leav-
ing for Chippiannock cemetery by
street car at O'Clock. Exercises will
begin at 2:3O and thc program fol-
lows:
Selection by band.
Prayer.
Proclamation of the grand master
Past Grand Master Charles Forsburg.
Song. Sometime We Will Under
stand'-Mrs. Katherine Scheruble.
Reading of names of deceased mem
bers of Rock Island lodge No. IS, Ucal
lodge No. sos. Eudora Rebekah lodge
No. 20, Rock Island encampment No.
II and Canton No. s.
Song, Nearer My God to Thee
BY assemblage.
Eulogy-Rev. NJ Z. Chatley.
Selection-Mrs. Scheruble.
Address-Past Grand Master E. R
Sayler.
Selectton-Band.
Benediction-Rev NJ z. Chatley.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-17
Pretty Tough.

OLD scotchwoman-rhe last steak
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-17

All the news all the time-The Argus
Las Vegas optic., 1914-09-04

(cash In Advance for Mall
subscriptlons.)
Remit by check. draft or money
srder. II sent otherwise we will not
se responsible for loss.
Specimen copies free on application.
Las Vegas optic., 1914-09-04
advanced standing.

advanced standing.
The most interesting feature In the
vacation school idea is the teaching,
to degree amounting to specializa-
ton, Of manual training, domestic sci
ence and the trades. Many OF the
oder pupils will be enabled to secure
employment at a great deal better
than beginners wages as the result
OF the training they have received.
Educators throughout the country
favor the vacation school as opposed
to the school vacation. There are
still too many theories regarding this
kind of teaching, but they gradually
are disappearing before the practical
methods evolved in the actual prac-
,tice of vacation teaching.
Las Vegas optic., 1914-09-04
SEARCHING FOR ARMS
IN MEXICAN CAPITAL
FEDERAL GENERAL is ARREST
ED; MADERo's CLOTHING
is DISCOVERED

Mexico City, Sept. 4.-The constitu-
tionalist military authorities today
discovered a human heart, preserved
in alcohol in glass jar, in private
residence here. Several arrests were
made in connection with this discov
cry. but the authorities refuse to di-
vulge the names of those taken into
custody. Other arrests are exected
shortly.
Blood-stained clothing which be
longed to President Madero and Vice
President Pine Saurez, who were kill
ed in Mexico City in February, 1918,
also has been found together with
watch which belonged to the presi-
dent, and pin which was the prop
erty of his brother, Gustavo Madero.
These pieces of jewelry will be plac-
ed in the national museum.
General Joaquin Jiminez Castro,
one of the federal commanders, was
arrested today and the charge against
him was not made public. The search
for arms in Mexico City is being pros
ecuted with vigor.
Las Vegas optic., 1914-09-04

cents net.
Corn swung upward with wheat. Al
ter starting 1s cent off to as@R cent
higher, prices scored a moderate gain.
The close was nervous at IA to1B
above last night
Unabated export call had bullish
effect on oats.
First transactions In provisions av-
craged a shade to 5@71s cents under
last night. The closing quotations
were:
Wheat, Sept. 1905; Dec. 1889;
May 1904.
Corn, Dec. 765s; May 79A.
Oats, Dec. 541a May 575s.
Pork, Jan. $2297.
Lard. Oct. $1O.25; Jan. $11.
Ribs, Oct. $12. Jan. $11.70.
Las Vegas optic., 1914-09-04
FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER A, 1914.
THE VACATION SCHOOL

Some time ago The optic cautioned
fae boys and girls of Las Vegas not
resent too loudly the early opening
the public schools, hinting that
thin a few years there might not be
summer vacation to be brought tc
either an early or late termination.
The Optic based its prediction upon
tho growth of the vacation school
idea. which is proving of practical
benefit in the larger cities.
This plan has been given fair
trial in New York City, and, accord
ing to a dispatch received today, is
proving increasedly successful each
year that it has been in use. 1t has
5leen found that the children, instead
of being physically harmed by not
being allowed the absolute freedom of
a long vacation, are actually benefited
in health by not being allowed ito
run loose" Many have been enabled
TO make up back work that would have
prevented their taking their places
with advanced classes this fall, while
Others have been engaged in gaining
Las Vegas optic., 1914-09-04
NO SCHOOLING FOR HIM

Italy at present occupies the posi-
tion of the athletic young man with
4 football record who has just been
graduated from the high school and
who is being solicited by numerous
college acquaintances to Join us and
make a place on the team" Italy
would make a mighty fine fullback
for Germany and doubtless would put
up a good showing on the left end of
the Austrian lineup. Russia wants
the little power for quarterback
while England and France wouldn't de
spise having him try out for a Job
somewhere on the official roster OF
rough and tumble players.
But Italy, apparently. is not han
kering after higher education. He is
content to look on from the sidelines
and watch the other fellows buck the
center, pile up and be carried off the
field. To all invitations to matricu
late. he replies that he has decided
to eschew college life for business
the business of minding his own bust
ness.
Education is greatly to be desired
but Italy viii find plenty of people
who will commend him if he decides
not "to go away to school this fall
Las Vegas optic., 1914-09-04
Ar MY OF mercy
IS OFF FOR
War
AMERICAN BRANCH OF SOCIETY
WILL SEND A SHIP TO-
MORROW

American women wearing the Red
Cross will follow the armies of all the
warning nations on the battlefields of
! Europe. There will sail from New
York tomorrow a ship that will carry
between 15O and 275 doctors and
rdrses, the majority of them women.
The hold of the ship will be filled with
all kinds of hospital supplies for the
mefs wounded in the greatest war the
world has ever known.
Although it is a German ship that
VIII carry these women with the red
lLadge of service on their sleeves there
is no danger that it will be molested
bv the ships of the allies that are
fishting Germany. 1t will be manned
BIZ an American crew and commanded
| Ly retired American naval Officers.
1t will fly, by special act of congress,
the American flag and the Red Cross
flag. France, England AID Russia have
each notified the Red Cross society
that it would recognize the neutrality
of the ship that is bringing American
women to nurse the wounded in bat
tie regardless of what army they
fought in.
This is the first company of Red
Cross nurses and doctors to be sent
to the European battlefields. Others
may follow. There are 5000 trained
nurses in this country who are mem
bers of the Red Cross, each pledged to
go when called and wherever sent
Many of these live in New Mexico and
they are waiting for the call to the
thunder of the big guns, the tramp OF
feet, the rattle of the rifle fire.
In times of peace the nurses of the
Fed Cross pursue their own course
They are in hospitals, in private serv
ice, teaching in training schols. When
they enlist they pledge themselves tc
lie service of the Red Cross. They
get no pay from the society until call
ed out, then the pay is $50 month
for service in this country, $50 g
month if sent outside the country.
The pay is small enough for the
risks they run and the hard work they
do. In battle they will be in danger oi
bullets and bursting shells, and theil
days and nights will be filled with un
certainty, fatigue and nervous strain
There will be little of romance in the
work, with its long lines of sufferers
with limbs shot away, crushed heads
torn bodies, lips that babble in deli
rum.
The American Red Cross society has
been making an appeal for money tc
SEND its nurses and doctors to the war
The mayors of all large cities in this
country have been appealed to for aid
The press has been printing the appeal
sent out by Miss Mabel T. Boardman
of Washington. chairman of the Red
cross relief board. Subscribers are
assured that, where desired, their con
Las Vegas optic., 1914-09-04

Advertisers are guaranteed the
mrgest daily and weekly circulation
Ut any newspaper in northern New
@exico
Las Vegas optic., 1914-09-04

Entered at the postoffice at East
Gas Vegas. New Mexico for trans
saission through the United States
wails a. second class matter.
Las Vegas optic., 1914-09-04
KANSAS CITY LIVE STOCK

Kansas City, September 4.-Hogs.
receipts 1000. Market lower Bulk
$a@9. 20; heavy $9.15@9. 25 packers
and butchers $9@9.2 25; lights $3.50
els; pigs 81. 5O@S. 80.
s Cattle, receipts 400. Market steady
Prime fed steers SO. 75@1O. so; dressed
beef steers $7.SO@9. 60; western
steers $6.50@9.35; stockers and feed
ers 5.SO@S. so; bulls $5.25@6.75;
calves 6.5O@1O. so.
4 Sheep, receipts 1000. Market steady.
Lambs $7.25@7.75; yearlings $500
6.25: wethers $5 25@575; ewes $3.50
@5.25
Las Vegas optic., 1914-09-04

t~fbu.ions will go to the assistance of
tie sick and wounded of the country
specified, or, If no instruction of this
kind accompanies the gift, it will be
applied to the general fund for the
relief of soldiers of all nations Con-
tributions may be sent to Walker Hill,
treasurer of the Red Cross, in st.
Louis, or direct to Miss Boardman
in Washington.
In response to Miss Boardman's
call the society leaders of Newport
collected $4,000 in bazaar held in
"The Breakers" Mrs. Vanderbilt's
villa.
When the American Red Cross vol
unteers get to Europe they will be
assigned for duty with the medical
staffs of different armies, where the
European head of the society decides
their services are most needed. They
will go to the front at once, and with
in two or three weeks will be in the
thick of the fighting.
In Germany and in France the Red
Cross is officially recognized and is
placed under the direct military con-
troll In England, while it co-operates
in every detail with the army medical
corps, the Red Cross preserves its
own organization intact In Germany,
The volunteer organization is presided
over by an imperial commission or in
spector general, and the Red Cross
operates according to his instructions.
Nurses and doctors volunteering are
assigned by him to various commands,
but 1t is a rule of the German service
that no volunteer who is not of Ger
MAJ. nationality can be assigned to
duty with the army in the field. AT
tase hospitals, however, the services
CT foreigners are welcomed, but auth
orization to engage in the work must
still emanate from the war office. The
same rules regulate the service in
France
In France and Belgium unique fea
ture of the Red Cross service is the
mployment of dogs. These, bearing
the Geneva Cross on a miniature sad
die strapped to their backs, have beer
trained to go to the front, find the
wounded, and stand by until the strick
en- soldier, if he can help himself al
all, obtains from the pack on the dogs
back, water stimulant or bandage
They have already performed gallant
service, carrying assistance to friend
and foe alike.
In all the European armies regiment
al stretcher bearers, numbering two
to eacm company, have been carefully
trained in time of peace to perform
the duties that devolve upon them ii
actual battle. When the engagement
begins these men relieve themselves
10 ftheir arms, adopt the Red Cross
Insignia to indicate their noncombat
ant functions, and take post where
they can be on immediate service il
re moving the wounded from the line
lThey deposit their burdens in the EN-
ergency stations and return imme
diately to the front.
Las Vegas optic., 1914-09-04

men are mostly trusted employees of
conservative houses and the houses
have put up the money. How they
are now going to pay for their seats
is the problem. Eating cornbeef and
cabbage doesn't help much, but it
shows good intent
A few days ago a broker told one
of his clerks that he would have to
either reduce his salary or set him
adrift. He had been getting $45 a
week and thought he couldn't live on
that When he was offered SIS he ac-
cepted, we'll knowing that this would
be much better than joining the great
army of unemployed. Some estimates
place this horde of clerks at $4,000.
Others say 1t is greater 1t is certain
that 100000 men and women have
beeE affected in one way or another.
Probably more women stenograph-
ers have been dispensed with than
clerks, for it is easy to duplicate an
average stenographer. Thousands of
these girls have disappeared from
Broad, Wall and New streets. When
they will return depends wholly on
how soon the market opens and how
good business is. Business isn't ex-
petced to be good at the opening, but
the brokers are buoyed up by the hope
that Europe will eventually invest in
American securities, not daring to
buy its own.
Even Honest" John Barkley has
felt the stress of the times Honest"
John has truckled gold between the
banks and steamships and the sub
treasury ever since he took over the
job from his father. His trucks have
carried more gold than Creosus ever
saw, but he isn't doing any trucking
now. The reason for this is that gold
has quit travelling. Those having it
hold unto it, and Johns horses are
eating much and doing nothing.
Any one who has an idea that brolx-
ers are spending money on the sly
and that all this economy is bluff has
only to visit the uptown lobster pal
aces and hotels. He will find that
the broker has not only vanished, but
that his accounts haven't been settled.
The hotels know the accounts are
good, but they realize they will have
to wait until the broker is in better
frame of mind.
| Many of the real big men in the
street went into the country after the
crash and are enjoying themselves as
we'll as their peace of mind will per-
nit. They realized that they must
meet fixed charges and after cutting
down as much as possible they left
town They argue that they will need
all the strength they can muster
when the market opens up.
1t is the man of smaller mental cal
iher or financial standing who is stick
ing to the job and doing the worrying
He is going around in the hat he
bought last June and in the suit he
had pressed around the corner. One
thing about him is that he doesn't
"sgueal. He is willing to take his
medicine, no matter how bitter 1t is
and that helps a good deal.
The broker of New York feels moi
only badly bent, but broke. although
as a matter of fact his affairs are in
good shape and he will be able to bob
up serenely when commissions again
begin to come in.
Las Vegas optic., 1914-09-04
CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE

Chicago, Sept. 4.-Wheat today con-
tinued to break high price records of
present war. The opening, which was
II to III cents higher. was followed
by an additional ascent, averaging
more than two cents all around COM
pared with last nighr. The close was
unsettled at an advance of to 5N
Las Vegas optic., 1914-09-04

Forrest Cady now uses the Aus
tralian crawl slide in stealing bases.
1t would be classy stuff if it were
not for the fact that the baseman is
always waiting to tag the Red Sox
catcher.
Las Vegas optic., 1914-09-04

Tri-State league officials are con-
sidering proposition to transfer the
Reading franchise to Atlantic City
next season.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-24
Summit Cleric to Manage
Sunday Baseball Team


SUMMIT, April 24.-At the meet
last night, Robert ]. Murphy, who is
Ing of st. Teresa's Amusement Club
assisting in the organization of a
baseball team, to be composed of
members of the club, reported that
the Carlton Academy baseball ground,
near Morris avenue, had been secured
for Sunday games.
Rev. John M. Bennett, assistant pas
tor of st. Teresa's Church, was
elected manager of the team, and he
will receive challenges from all first
class semi professional teams. IT was
d.. aed TO order uniforms at once,
which will be of white and maroon
color. The team will play under the
name of st. Teresa's B. B. c.
There are fifteen candidates for the
team, who will report for their first
practise game Sunday afternoon. The
Carlton Academy baseball field is one
of the most perfect in this section.
1t is easy of access, being only a
short distance from the centre and
adjacent to the trolley line. The
young men of the club are very en-
thusiastic, and Father Bennett is
looking forward to a successful ini-
tial season.