Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-03-26
DAY IN DAVENPORT

Donates Office to levee Commits
sion-The Davenport Levee commits
sion is in future to be saved the ex-
pense of office rent, the engineer OF
the commission, A NJ. Compton. hav-
ing donated the use of an Office in the
I Whitaker building. The Office will
be moved from the Putnam building
to room &c of the Whitaker building
this week, the new Office to be ready
! by Monday. Mr.. Compton received
a letter from Prof. Leonard Smith,
dean OF the civil engineering depart
ment of the University of Wisconsin,
Hotel Proprietor is Fined-A.
E. Bowie, proprietor of the
Peerless hotel. Second and Perry
streets. pleaded guilty TO the charge
of violating the state sanitary laws
preferred against him Monday in
Justice Names court and was fined
SO and costs. The charge followed
an investigation by Deputy Marshal
Matt Lamb and City Food Inspector
William Kniphals.
Grand Jury for March Term-The
grand jury for the March term of dis
trict court in Scott county was
drawn before Judge A. j. House yes
terday by Clerk of Court Harry J.
Mcfarland. The ten prisoners
awaiting the action of the grand jury
were brought into court while the
members of the investigating body
were being drawn. None of the jur-
ors were challenged. Following is the
personnel OF the jury: w. A.
Auliff, Princeton township; r. X.
Brownie, Long Grove; William Fell
ner. r. A. No. 4, Davenport; William
Henry. LeCaire township; George
Pope, r. r. No. 1, Davenport; Alfred
True, r. r. No. 4, Davenport.
Must Give Honest Weisht-Selling
As pounds of potatoes for a bushel
led to the arrest of Jack Palmer,
peddler. Palmer sold the short
weight bushel to a Mrs. Emery on
Hobson avenue. She thought il look |
ed short and took the bushel to the |
office of the Killing Moulding Ma !
chine company. where it was weighed |
and found IL pounds short of the re- |
quired 60 pounds. Matt Lamb, city |
weight and measure inspector, was !
notified, and his scales also revealed |
the same shortage. Inspector Lamb |
filed information charging short |
weight before Justice w. r. Names
Endorse the City Institute-St. |
Johns Sunday school board at its |
meeting in the ladies' parlors |
at the church voted approval of the
City Institute, the establishment of
which was suggested by w. A. Brown
at the time of his visit to Davenport
in February. The superintendent,
George l.. Kemper will name repre-
sentatives from the school later, when
there Will be a general meeting of
delegates from the different schools
Of the city to take action on the mat
ter
Licensed to Wed-Charles Ewert,
Jr.. and Elizabeth A. Sheahan, both
OF Davenport; Frederick Overmuel-
Ter, Davenport, and Emma Seifert,
Homestead; Robert II. Dearborn,
Rock Island, and Gertrude c. Wund-
er, Davenport; Ralph Smiler. Albany,
Ill. and Eta A Sorrowfree, Daven-
port.
old Timers In CeIebration-The
ranks of the Veterans OF the war of
1S4S5O are rapidly thinning, but
seven old campaigners meeting at the
Turner hall in the annual meeting on
he Goth anniversary of the enamel
patton of Schleswig- Holstein from
Danish rule. All the veterans had
passed the S0th milestone. or the
hundYeds of German soldiers, who
It one time lived in Davenport, and
Who periodically met every year on
he birthday OF Holstein's freedom,
'nly the seven octogenarians remain
o observe the day. At the business
ession all old officers OF the Kampf-
were reelected as follows:
President, Fritz Rohlff: secretary.
Johannes Speetzen; treasurer, j.
ritz Flick. A resolution was passed
n memory of the members who had
the last call OF taps during
he past year. Those who died were
; ". Jacobsen, Sr, Hans Ehlers,
Ians Peters, f. F. Wiedemann and
|. ]. Voelker. or the seven remain.
lg veterans present. Johannes Speet-