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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-08-18
MOLTNE'S SECTION OF THE ARGUS

for the parade in Davenport this eve
ming. at which time the lodge will as
sist the knights of that city in opening
a carnival, the World at Home.
News was also received of the death
of Grand Secretary John III. Mekens
of Fairfield, Iowa. He had held this
office during the last nine years and
was one of the leaders OF the Pythian
order in the middle west. Lodges of
Davenport will hold memorial services
for him in the near future and the
members of this city will attend.
Swedish Olive lodge, No. $50. l. o.
o. F., is making extensive improve
ments on the lodge building, and last
evening let contracts for painting and
new lighting system.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-08-18

have the pump in place Aug. Is, which
they did.
Failure OF Kehm to have his work
completed worked to the disadvantage
of the waterworks plant last week
when the Dean pump was put out OF
commission, as we'll as the 10-inch city
supply main. The Dean is in working
condition again, but it will be put on
the reserve list as soon as the new
pump is in running order.
In the city's contract with Kehm
nothing was mentioned regarding a
forfeiture by the contractor in event
of delay beyond the specified time, SO
it is not likely he can be held for
damages.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-08-18
Ericsson NAMES
HIS APPOINTEES
New Commissioner Will Also
Look After His Old Job
With No Extra Pay.

In assuming the duties of commits
sioner of streets and public improve
ments as successor to Clark G. Ander-
son, G. E. Ericsson will also continue
in his former duties as chief public
works inspector, thus effecting saw
ing in the city's salary list of 800
monthly. This was made known yes
terday at the executive session of
the commission when Commissioner
Ericsson made his appointments to the
engineering and inspection depart
ments under his control. No chief in
spector was named. Mr.. Ericsson de-
claring his intention of being out ION
the job" every day. In so doing he
will draw only one salary, that of ST.
600 a year. allotted for services as
commissioners.
Appointments recommended by
Commissioner Ericsson and approved
by the commission with monthly sal
aries.
Lyle Payton, city civil engineer,
SIPS.
Frank Dawson, first assistant engi-
neer. SIS.
Albert Payton, second assistant en-
gineer, $40.
Hjalmar Swanquist, chairman, $50.
Roy Entrikin, plumbing and water
inspector, 800.
Andrew Peterson, assistant superin-
tendent of streets, 1898.
Temporary appointments to posts in
the engineering department were al
loted to Vernon Kerns, Emery Gould.
Earl Ermstedt, Arthur Hunter and
Marcus Vernon. Sub-inspectors on
paving work are named as Julius
Herwyn. Theodore Charlberg, Oscar
Abraham, Hubert Beal and Lynn
Walker.
The new ordinance governing the Of
fee of the city civil engineer, intro
duced last week, was formally adopted
this forenoon.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-08-18
Funeral of George Quick.

Funeral services for George ID. NJ.
Quick were held from the Presbyterian
church OF Albany this afternoon, the
Rev. T. ]. Clagett and the Rev. Mr..
Ross officiating. 4 quartet composed
of Mesdames Paddock and Blean and
Messrs. Paddock and Van Nest rem
dered special music. The pallbearers
were G. W. Wells. Robert Plean, Ed.
Higgins. LATE hewitt. John Blanck and
E. c. Lewis, all of the X. of p. lodge,
of which Mr.. Quick was a member. In
terment was in Oak Ridge cemetery.
His final summons came in the
home of his youngest daughter, Mrs.
Fred c. Sheets in Winfield, Kan. He
had been i'll for several months and a
stroke OF paralysis in the first part of
July hastened the end.
He was born in Albany. July !, 1S47.
and had lived the greater part of his
life there. He served for a short time
in the civil war as a member of Com
pany X. 156th Illinois infantry.
On June 19. 1871, he was married to
Miss Orvilla Booth OF Logansport.
Ind She survives, also the following
five children: George s. of Clinton,
Iowa: John II. of Bingham Canyon,
Utah; Mrs Will S. Slocum of Clinton.
Iowa; Mrs. George II. Thompson of
Fulton. Ill, and Mrs. Fred Sheets Of
Winfield. Kan. He also leaves one
sister and one brother.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-08-18
Mrs. Bette Olson.

Mrs. Bette Olson died this morning
at her home, 1879 Twenty-third ave
nue., after an illness of four months.
She was born Aug. IL. 1857. in Swe-
den. and was married in 1887 to Swan
Olson in the old country. They came
to this country shortly after their mar
riage, settling first at Mineral. Later
they moved to Davenport. then went
to Pittsburgh. and returned to Moline
in 1909. Mrs. Olson was a member
Of the English Lutheran church.
Surviving are three daughters. AL
ma, Selma and Agnes. and a son AL
bert. all at home. Her mother. a
brother and a sister live in Sweden.
She also leaves another sister in Mas
sachusetts and another in Pittsburgh.
Funeral services will be held at 2
o'clock Thursday afternoon in the
home. with Rev. Samuel Miller Off
ciating. Burial will be In Riverside
cemetery.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-08-18
CONTRACTOR FAILS
TO FINISH In TIME

Connections for the new Epping-
Carpenter 100000 gallon pump at
the city waterworks plant will be com
pleted Wednesday, it was announced
by Commissioner L. o. Jahns. Work
men employed by John R. Kehm of
Chicago, who won the piping contract,
are at work on the job, but they are
behind schedule. The contract with
Kehm called for the completion of
his part of the work Aug. 1, while the
Epping-Carpenter company was to
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-08-18
Sent Woman Funds.
OBITUARY RECORD
Mrs. Louise Verschore.

Funeral services for Mrs. Louise
yerschore. who passed away at her
Andalusia home last Saturday evening
at the age of 30 years. were held at
$50 this morning at the home of Mrs.
A. De GhselIe. 1888 Third street. Mo-
line. and at the Sacred Heart church
AT O'Clock. Burial was in the Cal
vary cemetery in Rock Island
Mrs. Verschore was born in Belgium
in 1914, and in 1874 was married in
that country to Charles Verschore.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-08-18
Hurt While in FIiant.

While fleeing from a pursuing motor
cycle policeman who wished to arrest
him for speeding, Frank Jameson of
South Moline drove his car at such
speed on Sixteenth street near Tween
ty-second avenue that when he was
forced to make a quick turn to avoid
striking a post, Merritt Hunter, a bluff
resident who was riding in the ma
chine, was hurled out. striking the
pavement and having his collar bone
broken.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-08-18
CORONER'S JURY
HOLDSAN INQUEST
Verdict of Accidental Death Ia
Reached in Drowning of
Oscar Olson.
VENTURED BEYOND DEPTH
Body Discovered Some Hours Ate,
Drownins-Mother Becomes Hys
tericaI and Falls in Faint.

Coroner r. c. ]. Meyer impaneled
a jury this morning and held an in.
quest over the remains OF Oscar o.
son, the 13-year-old boy who wa
drowned in Sylvan pool yesterday AZ.
ternoon. After taking evidence in tia
case from Witnesses and the boy with
whom young Olson was in bathing. the
jury rendered an open verdict fnding
that death was due to drowning. Tho
inquest was held at the EsterdahI III.
dertaking parlors.
Young Olson went out with a boy
friend yesterday afternoon for the pur
pose of taking a swim in the pool The
unfortunate lad happened to venture
beyond his depth. Being unable 10
reach shore he struggled and cried
for help, and his companion rushed
for assistance. When two men arrived
with rope they made every possible
effort to save the drowning youth. but
to no avail. He had gone down for
the last time when they reached the
scene.
The body was not recovered until
some hours after the accident, when
the local police succeeded in bringing It
to the surface by use of drag hooks.
Mother is Hysterical.
Mrs. Olson, mother of the youth,
who resides at 322 Fourth street, was
notified of the accident, and rushed
to the scene OF the drowning While
standing upon the bank she became
hysterical and tainted. The woman
was considerably bruised when she
fell upon the rocks.
A story in circulation today to the
effect that the Olson boy met his
death when ducked and showed into
deep water by his companions with
whom he was bathing in the Sylvan
pool was denied at the inquest. The
boys and also his brother who was on
the shore at the time Of the accident
said that the lad seemed to have been
seized with cramps and that all efforts
to save him proved in vain.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-08-18
FARM NEAR CISCO SOLD AT
RECORD BREAKING PRICE

A deal has been completed whereby
the James Stevenson farm of $50
acres, located one and a half miles
northeast of CISCO was sold to Charles
Betcher and son, August, for $4,000.
At the rate of $3.50 an acre, the price is
one of the highest secured for farm
land in this vicinity. c. NJ. Bills of
Geneseo was the agent in the deal.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-08-18
Miss Hattie Miller.

Miss Hattie Miller. daughter OF Mr..
and Mrs. Alfred Miller of Rock Island,
who died at Watertown hospital OF
anaemia. was buried in Riverside GEM
etery in Moline. funeral services being
held in the Rock Island home.
In addition TO the parents. Miss Mil
Ter is survived by four sisters. Mrs. l.
White. the Misses Helen. Elizabeth and
Margerite. and five brothers, Elmer,
Carl, Lorraine, Leroy and Vernon.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-08-18

The couple moved to America and
settled at Atkinson on a farm. After
residing in that place for six years
they came to Andalusia. at which place
they have since made their home. The
husband died four years ago.
Left to mourn are three sons, Peter
of Atkinson. julius OF Andalusia. and
Arthur OF Moline. One sister. Mrs. A.
De Ghselle of Moline. also survives.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-08-18
JEALOUSY CAUSE
OF NEAR MURDER
Coroner Finds Sensational De-
velopments at Inquest
Over Suicide.
WOMEN DRINKING WITH NE
De oryfe Becomes crazed With Jeal-
ousy Upon Finding His Flanee
in Company Of Stranger.

Sensational developments were dis
closed at the inquest held over the re-
mains OF Edward DeGryfe. OF East
Moline. who committed suicide follow
ing his attempt 10 murder his sweet
heart and her landlady. which dis
credits the story told by the two wom-
en- in the case. The story as told by
the women was to the effect that De
Gryfe visited his fiance. Mrs. Alice
Termote. and asked her to marry him
at once She refused, so she says. be
cause his arm was broken and he had
no means of supporting her Mrs
CAMEL De Meyer. the woman who
runs the rooming house on Eighteenth
avenue where the tragedy was enact
ed. and who was also a victim OF
De Gryfe's assault. told the same
story.
That this story was complete false
hood and told by the women for the
. purpose OF protecting themselves. was
disclosed at the inquest held when
Coroner R c. J. Meyer secured jury
for the purpose OF investigating De
Gryfe's death.
Drinking With Mn.
In addition to attempting the murder
OF the two women, it developed that
De Gryfe also tried to kill another
man. Z. Dawaartdegraore. a fellow
countryman Il was learned that De
- Gryfe came TO the De Meyer rooming
house for the purpose of discussing his
approaching marriage with Mrs. Ter
mote. who came TO this country from
Belgium presumably for the purpose of
marrying him. Upon reaching the
place. however. he found the two wOm-
Ell in company with two men and all
were drinking. One of the men was
.Dawaartdegraore. and the sight of his
fance in company with the men so
crazed De Gryfe with jealousy that he
pulled a revolver and attempted TO
kill the entire party. He fired the
first shot at Dawaartgraore, the bullet
81 missing and the two men made their
escape through a window, leaving the
women to their fate.
De Gryfe then turned his weapon
upon he women. shooting his fiance
twice. once in the arm and once in the
head. and then shot Mrs. De Meyer
when she attempted TO interfere. None
OF the bullets proved fatal
Sent Woman Funds
De Gryfe had sent Mrs. Termote
enough money to pay her passage to
this country in order that they might
get married She accepted the money
and came here but refused TO marry
him Immediately.
The jury turned in verdict of hang
ing with suicidal intent, nothing be-
ing said concerning the other develop
ments in the case.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-08-18
Baptism az island,

Baptismal services on the west
shore of Campbell's island Sunday af-
ternoon attracted a large attendance
Fourteen new members, ten women
and four men, were received into the
Swedish Free Evangelical church
through immersion. Rev C. w. Mel
son, pastor, conducted the services.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-08-18

The government of Chile has IN
der construction POS miles of railway
to cost $3.50, 900. When completed
the nation will own 2,270 miles OF
railroad
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-08-18

The town of Bulger. Colo. has been
sold for 81. Established three years
ago in a railroad boom, the road was
moved Is miles away
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-08-18
NAME A.H.SLOUCH
ASSCH00L COACH
Graduate of Knox College to
Succeed w. G.. Bur
roughs.
OTHER TEACHERS SELECTED
Committee of Educational Board Men,
bers Secures Competent Staff
for Local Schools.

The Moline board of education has
selected A. II. Slough OF Boyne City,
Mich. to succeed W. G.. Burroughs as
athletic coach of the local high school.
Mr.. Slough is a graduate of Knox col
lege at Galesburg and thoroughly
equipped in every manner for the po-
sition made vacant by the recent res
ignation of Mr.. Burroughs, who accept
ed a more Lucrative position in an
other city. Mr.. Slough was secured
for the local school through the efforts
and recommendation of George HUFF.
coach of Illinois State university, and
is also recommended by Coaches
Zuppke and Carrothers.
While a student at Knox Mr.. Slough
was a member of the football, basket
ball and baseball teams and met with
considerable success as a coach at
Boyne City. his home town. He at
tended the summer school for coaches
conducted by George HUFF at Urbana
this year.
Other Teachers Named.
Miss Elizabeth Peterson of Chicago
has been named by the board to sue
coed Earl Baker as teacher of music,
Mr.. Baker having resigned to go TO
Minneapolis to accept n similar posi-
ton. Miss Peterson is a graduate of
the Oberlin Conservatory of Music
and has had a special training for the
position she will assume here.
Miss Maude E. Morse OF Muskegon,
Mich. has been elected to the position
of school nurse that is to be filled for
the first time this year as an expert
ment. She will have the title of in
structor of hygiene. Miss Augusta
Jones OF Burlington. who was previous
ly elected to this position, did not ac-
cept.
Another change in the high school
teaching corps will be that of instruc-
tor of English, Miss June Chase hav-
ing resigned to go to Sioux City, Iowa.
and Miss Elizabeth Rice, graduate or
the University of Wisconsin, has been
named to fill this vacancy.
In the Manual Arts school, Reno
White. graduate of James Millikin
university manual arts department, is
added to the teaching force This
change was made necessary by the
resignation of John Williams, who has
been an instructor here for the past
four years. E. Freeman succeeds Mr..
Williams as an instructor of high
school students in the manual arts de-
partment, while Mr.. White takes Mr..
Freeman's work as instructor in eighth
grade work.
FIJI Grade School Vacancies.
To fill vacancies in the grade schools
the board has named the Misses Ger
trude Moody of this city, Myrtle Ward
of Geneseo, Edna Stuebinger of Ke-
vance and Olga Zude of Aledo. They
will be assigned TO their particular
duties by Sept 1.
For all of the important positions to
fill there were many candidates and
the committee which had the matter
in charge feels that they have secured
an unusually good body of instructors.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-08-18

New York Tribune is said to be
preparing to give up the site it has
occupied since 1850 at Spruce and
Nassau streets
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-08-18

All the news all the time-Ths
Argus.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-18
An Easy Way to Get
Fat and Be Strong

The trouble with most thin folks who
wish to gain weight is that they insist
on drugging their stomach or stuffing
it with greasy foods; rubbing on USE
foolish physical culture stunt, while
the real cause of thinness goes un-
touched. You cannot get fat until your
digestive tract aSsimilates the food you
eat.
Thanks to a remarkable new scien-
ti1c discovery, it is now possible to
combine into simple form the very ele-
ments peeded by the digestive organs to
help them convert food into rich, fat
laden blood. This master stroke OF
modern chemistry is called Sargol and
has been termed the greatest OF flesh
builders. Sargol aims through it's re-
generative, reconstructive powers to
coax the stomach and intestines to lit
orally soak up the fattening elements
Of your food and pass them into the
blood, where they are carried to every
starved, broken down cell and tissue
of your body. You can readily picture
the result when this amazing transfor-
nation has taken place and you notice
how your cheeks fill out, hollows about
your neck, shoulders and bust disap-
pear and you take on from 10 to 20
pounds Of solid, healthy flesh. .Sargol
Is absolutely harmless, inexpensive, eff
ficient. George A. Gorgas and other
leading druggists of Harrisburg and
vicinity have 1t and will refund your
money II you are not satisfied, as per
the guarantee found in every pack
age.
Caution,-While Sargol has given ex-
cellent results In overcoming nervous
dyspepsia and general stomach troubles
1t should not be taken by those who do
not wish to gain ten pounds or more
Advertisement.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-18
Passing Impressions Of Finance
By H. L. Bennett

usual numbers and they VIII spend all
the way from $60,0O0,000 to $780,
100000. They thus help swell the bal
ance against us, and we are also shin
ping much gold to pay for our securi-
ties dumped upon us by hard-up Eu-
rope. We are going through a dull
period in business and this makes
money rates cheap here, so we are the
easiest money market in the world at
this time. Military-ridden Europe is
again in fever of anxiety over the
future and all the great capitals of the
continent are boarding gold like old
m1sers In preparation for they know
not what. In such a state of affairs
there is nothing for us to do but let the
gold go. When our crops are gar
nered and 1t is found we have enough
10 reed ourselves and provide huge
exportable surplus at low prices. we
Will get good deal of that gold back
again. The movement could 20 some
distance further and do no great dam
age.
Considering the languishing condi
ton OF general business, the public
utility Interests of the country have no
reason to complain of conditions. An
important investment house has lately
compiled record of prices of a num-
Der OF representative railroad, munich
pal and public utility bonds from 1907
TO and including 1913, and the average
show that while the railroad bonds
nave fallen in the period named from
80 to 80, and the average of munich
pals from 6B to 92A, the average
OF the public utility bonds has risen
| from 981a to 9SA
But this Is not all that is encourag
ing for the public utilities The mar.
ket for public utility preferred shares
has taken a squirt recently and the
leading issues are up from 2 to I6
points from the levels of a month ago.
The American Gas and Electric Com
pany mas been so prosperous that last
week it announced an extra stock divi-
dend of 2 per cent which it is believed
Will be paid quarterly. Western Power
/ directors are now said to be consider
ing plan for paving in stock all the
accumulated dividends on the pre.
ferred stock, amounting to 1S per cent
and then paying the full cash dividend
from 1915 on. The stock pays nothing
now. The capitalization will be rear
ranged to permit this. Crop prospects
are very encouraging to all public
utility interests.
Canada is having a mild taste of
what we got in 1907. The Grenfell
failure and the failure of the Montreal
loan in the London market have hurl
Dominion securities considerably and
a dull period of some length is likely
before the recuperation sets in. The
truth is the Canadian boom was great
/ ly overdone as 1t was bound to be.
with two great transcontinental roads,
the Canadian Pacific, pushing every
where and with thousands of Ameri-
cans and Britishers pouring in from
every side. The illusions of sudden
wealth have vanished and It is now
/ realized that it will take much steady
national effort to build up the Domin-
ion to the levels which the boomers
had in mind and the situation sound
and the reaction is bound to be bene-
fetal in the end.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-18
Short Jaunts For Little Money
in Glacier National Park

l want to send you a folder, of
which the above is the title. | want
every family in the country to realize
that it is possible, without great eX-
pense, to go to the American Alps and
spend few delightful weeks there,
trout fishing and taking little trips on
foot, or in automobiles or on horse
back or by boat, which cost only from
81 to So per day.
When people fully understand what
this country offers them in the Glacier
National Park of Montana, many more
hotels and picturesque chalets will
have to be bui there to accommodate
visitors. l tell you the combination
of high mountains, great chasms, mys-
terious glaciers, those moving rivers
of solid ice, and with all, the health
giving climate, the wonderful inyig-
Grating air, is a gracious gift that is
being offered by nature to all those
who will take the trouble to inquire
and find out IL trip to the Glacier
National Park is a possible thing for
them.
Let me give you complete infor-
nation. Let me send you a copy of
the Short Jaunts" folder, a map of
the park and some other interesting
illustrated booklets, and also tell YOU
about the luxurious "Oriental Linn
ited'-the only train that runs through
from Chicago to Glacier National
Park.
VIM. Austin, General Agent Pas
senger Depts., c., 3. & @. r. r. Co.,
$40 Chestnut street, Philadelphia. -
Advertisement
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-18
ALUMNAE REUNION
OF G|LLELEN CLASS
Remarkable Gathering of Grad
yates Of 1850 in Famous Me-
chanicsburg Institution
SbecidE to The Tdeproth

Mechanicsburg, Pa, June 1S.-A
delightful event of yesterday morn
ing was the alumnae reunion of the
Gillelen school, a former educational
institution in Mechanicsburg, of the
class of 1850, at the home of Mrs
Robert H. Thomas, Sr., member, in
West Main street 1t was an informal
gathering and the first in the history
of the class. The guests were re-
ceived by Mrs. Estella Thomas Steele
and Mrs. Joseph B. Angus. Reminis-
cences of school days of the early
period and comparisons of modern
day teaching were INDUCED in by the
ladies, who, though all beyond the
three score and ten years of age, were
once more in their teens.
The program was given as follows:
Song, "Aund Lang Syne"; prayer;
welcome from the hostess, Mrs. An
nette Kimmel Thomas; response, by
chairman, Mrs. Mary Ann Strock
Shearer; class history, Mrs. Lydia Ha-
verstick Longsdorf; song, "Old Folks
at Home; reminiscent talks, Mrs
Martha Oliver Ewalt, Mrs Sarah Coo
yer Hood, Mrs. Mary Reigle Zachar-
las and Mrs. Mary Ellen Sadler Sing
er; song, Happy Girls; letters of re-
gret read by Mrs. ]. B. Angus; song
Rock of Ages; piano solo, Mrs E
Steele. Luncheon was served to the
guests who included Mrs. Mary Ann
Strock Shearer, of Carlisle; Mrs Mar
tina Oliver Ewalt. of Hogestown; Mrs
Lydia Longsdorf, of Camp Hill; Mrs
Joseph B. Angus, of Elizabeth, n. j.;
Mrs. Sarah Coover Hood, Mrs. Carrie
Haverstick Williamson, Miss Maude
Williamson, Mrs Estella Thomas
Steele and Mrs. Annette Kimmel