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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-09-11

foot for q comprehensive system
Of better highways IN Peoria coan-
~ Z should receive the enthus-
iastic support Of everyone IS d
most feasible way OF accomplish
ing this result In the near future
II ts proposed 10 issue bends for
the tmproE emert but whatever
plan Of paying for IT may be adopt
ed it Is imperative that something
be done for the improvement OF
the roads al once. It Is to be
hoped that the city council the
Association Of Commerce the bus
mess men, the farmers and tho
citizens generally wiz At once
lend their aid 10 movement
which IS bound % be productive
OF such excellent result
Rock Island is sorry for Peoria
Iut at the same time. misery love
company.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-09-11
USE OF CANNING COMPOUNDS

Information has come to the depart
.meDt Of agriculture shat the canning
season has brought the usual demand
on the part of housewives for salicylic
acid and borfc acid. These prepare
lions are sometimes sold in the form
OF powder under various trade names
and are recommended by the promot
ers for use in preserving canned goods
in home canning In the directions for
use the housewife is told TO fill the
jar with the fruit or vegetables. cover
with water, and add teaspoonfuI OF
tile preserving powder While it is
true that these compounds may re-
yarG the decay of the fruit or vegetable.
it is pointed out by the experts of the
department that their use may be at
tended by serious disturbances Of
health. Salicylic acid is well known as
a poisonous substance, and one Of the
evils which may accompany its use is
arrangement of the digestion. It Is
therefore plain that its extensive use
in food may lead to disturbance of di-
gsstion and health
The federal food and drugs act pro
hibts the use OF harmful preserva-
r5ves in foods that enter interstate
The food law OF nearly
every state in the union forhids the
sale within the state OF foods that
have been preserved with harmful sub
stances. Neither the federal nor state
food laws apply 10 foods that are
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-09-11

American imports fell off during the
last fiscal year $219.700, 600, ana prac-
tically the entire decline was on man
ufactured goods, dutiabIe at the high
est rates. This accounts for the de-
acit in federal revenues. II the i'm
ports fell OF S219, 100000 under a dem
ocratio low tariff it is reasonable to
assume that they would have decreas-
"a a great deal more il a republican
high tariff had been In force. AS a
matter Of fact American Industries
never had things so much their own
way as they have had since the war
began. No tariff wall could operate
to give them such a complete monop-
oily of the worlds markets as they
now have. And vet the republicans.
for want OF a more plausible issue.
continue 10 blame the tariff for ev-
e-ything that has gone awry.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-09-11

New York women, in their battle
for the ballot plan TO shoot money
bullets as well as verbal pellets,
Dollar day for woman suffrage" is
the newest project Of these vote seek
ers. Every voter, every woman and
every child is urged TO earn dollar
save a dollar or beg a dollar and 10
contribute that dollar to the cause on
Oct j. The promise is made that the
dollar VIII be put where it will do the
most good toward winning votes for
women on Nov. 2
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-09-11

The incident told Of in New Or
leans dispatch in which the United
Fruit company offers to pay q ransom
demanded for the safe return of the
captain and members OF. the crew Of
one Of its ships recently lost indicates
that piracy on the high seas is not yet
obsolete II the United States should
happen to become involved in war.
vigilance in policing the waters might
be expected to lapse to such a degree
that buccaneering would again be-
come common.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-09-11
THE WORST ROADS

Rock Island county. it had been sup
posed, had the worst roads in the state
OF Illinois, but it seems that We are nor
to be permitted to carry of the palm
without being challenged. Several
other counties, also. think they have
the worst roads Peoria is one Of
them. Listen TO this from the Peoria
Star:
Peoria. like other communities
IA the state, is confronted with
the road question. But Peoria,
unlike many other communities in
the state. Is confronted with the
fact that is has the worst roads
imagina bic That this condi-
ton is responsible for the loss Of
enormous sums of money every
year TO merchants and business
men Of the city, cannot be doubt
ed; thar 1t is also responsible for
the loss Of enormous sums Of
money 10 the farmers and country
dwellers IS equally true. It is 10
be regretted that both city and
country dwellers have not sooner
come 10 8 realization OF the fact
that the permanent Improvement
Of the roads Of the country is the
best investment they can make.
not only from the viewpoint OF
convenience, but from that OF dol
lars and cents. Peoria is one OF
the most progressive cities in the
land, yet It IS an unfortunate fact
that the citizens OF this commun-
munigy have permitted the prin-
cipa.l highways leading into the
city 10 become practically lmpas-
sable A movement is now on
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-09-11

War. indeed, as Lloyd-GeoTge told
the British labor convention, has be-
come a struggle Of mechanics. II
must be remembered however. that
not ali of these men work in shops.
1t takes mechanics not only to make
the big shells, but TO handle the guns
which shoot them and to keep the
military transportation systems on
land and sea and in the air in opera
ton Next TO the dnancjer, the me
chanic is the big factor. The common
soldier is merely cannon fodder.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-09-11
0pinions Of Another.


] a stitch in time may close the
mouth of a gossip
/ And q little widow with q dimple is
q dangerous thing.
I Wealth and religion seem to have
but little in common.
There is more or less graft in the
+ construction OF family trees.
The bet you intended to make but
didn't is always the one safe bet.
No man like to have q lawsuit. but
+ If he has one he dtslikes to lose it.
Some men couldn't hear the small
voice Of conscience through q mega
phone
An old bachelor says that most
fashionable young women are engag-
ing works Of art.
You can rely on a man 10 keep his
word when it is 10 his advantage so
10 do.
The fools that rush IN where angels
fear to tread are lucky if they are able
to crawl cut.
When a man tells you how you
ought to run your business just take
q look at the way he is running his
own,
Except for the headache a man has
the morning after he probably would
not remember the good time he had
the night before.-Chicago News.
IT'S getting so ones dough isn't
safe anywhere, Delegate to Lutheran
convention missed S2g5 while attend
ing session of that body at a Moline
church.
SUPERINTENDENT of Sioux City
schools favors shorter vacations for
pupils. Wait till the boys under him
get the vote
DURING alteration between two
leaders at a eolored Baptist conven-
ton in Chicago the other day dele
gates called on the Lord for help and
a brace of bulls responded If our ia
nous baseball evangelist had been
there he might have been expected to
have laid the policemen in a heap at
his feet, That would have been nuts
for Bill
AND one would never take the kind
" looking Doc Dumba for a slicker.
YUSSIF Mahmout denies he has
been killed fighting with the Turkish
army. Which may be taken as a 20
lite way Of informing those Of US who
still fall for the wrassling game that
the big boy will be in our midst again
to challenge all corners.
SCENTS a Plan to Bring About
War With America. Headline. You
probably noticed that the scent was
had in Cologne.
PETROGRAD claims another effec- +
tive blow. Mostly wind. as usual. says
Ignatz.
81 AN 16 years old and weigh 145
pounds Please, Oh, please. give me
some quick reducer," pleads one of I
Mrs Thompson's correspondents. We T
wonder if she ever tried getting up at +
Monday morning and doing the
weekly family wash?
REV. E. A. Taper, who presides
over a congregation at Aurora. III. T
is said TO have his church in good
financial condition.
IT'S getting that time of year when
the girls in the corset ads will have
to begin wearing clothes.
J. NJ. c. !
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-09-11

And what do you. expect TO be whe1
you grow up. Bobby. asked a minis-
ter, "a lawyer. like your father
mo" Bobby replied. Mother says
I'm too much like papa 10 make sue
eegsful lawyer I did think II be a
drum major, but I guess III be a lion
tanner. Chicago News.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-09-11

Liverpool Correspondence OF The
Associated PressJ For the first tine
since war broke out, there are no ships
in the river awaiting beTths This
clearance Of the congestion difficulty
which not many weeks ago was hold
ing up 30 boats daily, is attributed %
the strenuous efforts Of the harboF
officials and shipowners. Prize carg0es
have been removed from the quazs
thus affording greater facilities Tor
handling cargoes from arriving boats
and a clear way is also made for the
forthcoming cotton cargoes from the
southern states
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-09-11
go SAVING Of Children.

Little Lucifer, aged 3 months, met
his uncle Uriah for the first time.
Uriah had long, flowing whtskers.
Lucifer, with the cunning Of one of
his age, gracefully tangled his right
hand in Uriah's brush. and said, just
like that, "Ba-a-a-a-a-hi"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-09-11

Budapest, Hungary. - lC5re5pga-
dence of The Associated Prassl-m
suppression Of the dueling mania ll
Hungary the war has accomplished
more in six months than the Jaw hal
been able to do in 90 years Up t5 Is
year ago it seemed that nothing could
be done to stop dueling Notwifhsall-
ing all legal prohibitions, such au sll-
portant parsonage as the Minister
President. Count stephen Tisza. ca--
tiuued fighting duels, having bad
dozen to his credit six OF them during
his term of Office and openly defyius
all the penalties threatened by law
In the first six months. the change
was SO marked that fewer dueIs were
fought during that period than had
ordinarily taken place in "a single wne-
before. Since last spring not a single
case of dueling has been reported. in
contract with the fact that during
one week in July. 1914 Sd dgels were
recorded in Budapest alone.
HOY public opinion has changed on
this question Of dueIiug is shown 81
a document recently published in The
Hungarian papers A provincial law
yer made some disparaging remarks
about the army in the presence OF q
wounded officer, who resented bis ecl-
Quoted In very sharp language. TIE
lawyer sent a challenge but the sec.
onds met and drew up a document
setting forth that an officer ready TO
sacrifice his life for his country WIS
not obliged TO give tine so-cailed Sat
isfaction' and that iu the present VAT
the life Of every soldier, and 81 every
civilian, was too precious TO be risEaa
in dueling,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-09-11

The case Of the Illinois man who
murdered his benefaetress, was in
dicted, arralgned. convicted and sen
fenced to death ali within q period Of
six hours shows that it is possible to
speed up the wheels OF Justice, even
IL this state.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-09-11

Somebody. we may be sure, has paid
a handsome price for She "a NOR
wegian ships which have been tor
pedoed and sunk since the war began
Norway, according to all reports, is
not engaging In trade these days for
its health
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-09-11
What ID Yon peduce, Watsonl

CAledo Times ecord.}
FOUND-An auto top clamp, Claim
same at this office.
FOUND blue satin girdle. Call at
the Record Office
FOUND mans leather gauntlet
glove. Call at the Times-Record
office.
FOUND-Man' eyeglasses. Owner
please call for same at the Times
Record Office
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-09-11
Rock Island-From River to
River

There may be some rising repub-
1ioan statesmen 81 Illinois who have
not made Up their minds TO run for
governor next year. but one would
need searchlight and telescope to
pick them out
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-09-11

1659--Hendrik or Henry Hudson dis
covered the river bearing his name.
1914 - Commodore Thomas Macdon-
ough's brilliant naval victory on
Lake Champaign. defeating and
capturing British squadron su.
peri0r IN strength
1s3A-Pio Plco. last Mexican governor
of California. died: born 1851
T91+--Brieish and French pursued the
retreatIng Germans north IF the
Ourca and the Saulx. making heavy
captures.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-09-11
C0MRLY BUT CARELESS.

4 hole in her stocking,
And she is . queen
It's not very shocking,
But what does it mean2
She's not much at darniugs
We can but surmise.
So young men take warning 49,
A word 70 the wise.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-09-11
CHORDS AND
DLSCORDS

DOUBTLESS your social program
OF the year has been all shot to pieces
BY the decision Of King Alfonso TO
delay indefinitely his contemplated
visit to America. It's getting so one
cannot figure for certain what one
is going to do the next day.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-09-11

Noble-*Then we viii cremate You. %
HalIey-"You viii what2'
NobIe-sWe viii place your ashes
in a vase"
HaIley-fNo, thank you5 I always
use a cuspidor."
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-09-11

Mr.. Cushing is defending a wealthy
eastern woman accused Of inspiring
murder Of her husband. Mr.. Cushing
will soon be cashing.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-09-11

Discretion Of speech is more than
eloquence, and TO speak aereeabIv to
nm with whom we deal is more than
TO speak in good words and good or
der.-FTancis Bacon.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-09-11

BISHOP Seeks Cash for Starving
Headline IN Chicago
Trtb. Such a crime should not be per-
mitted to 60 UNPUBLISHED.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-09-11
More Explosions.

Fred Bagby Of Macomb did dyna-
hitting work IN Walnut Grove town
Monmouth QIL} Atlas.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-09-11

means Of defense, the party wogId
have Norway keep no army or navy
at all. The socialists at the last cleo
ton numbered two-dfths of all sae
voters. Since then the party HAS
gained considerably, SO it is not su-
possible that in combination with non
armament sympathizers they may get
control of the next storthing.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-09-11

IT'S getting that time Of year when
the girls in the corset ads will have
to begin wearing clothes.
7 NJ =
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-09-11

REV. E. A. Taper, who presides
over a congregation at Aurora, III,
is said 10 have his church in good
financial condition.
The Nevada County picayune., 1915-08-20

years ago to marry the hand somest and best-dressed man in town" and she was supporting him. A third didn't dare say her soul was her own when her husband was around, though she used to write some lovely essays when she was at school on the emancipation of women," and the fourth woman she visited was divorced. After visiting them and summing up the evi- dence she went home and wrote the young man. She will be married next month.
The Nevada County picayune., 1915-08-20
HEALTH A PATRIOTIC DUTY
Pamphlet Urges Every Citizen to Join an Organized War on
 Disease

In a pamphlet entitled Fighting Trim" issued by the United States public health service, Surgeon J. M Eager lays stress upon personal en- deavor of every individual as of the highest public importance in the or ganized war against disease The wonderful victories that have been won in combating infectious maladies have had tendency to divert popular attention from the equally important personal fertilization against diseases of all kinds. The question of prepared ness against onslaughts of the ene- my, query prominent in the minds of everyone in these days of warfare, is put in special personal bearing as relating to the dangers threatened by disease, the permanent enemy of mankind.
 Are you personally prepared, 1t Is asked. for the hand-to-hand encounter with disease that you are sure to be forced into sooner or later or in which perhaps you are already engaged? Un-
 
 out a struggle, fight you must, no mat ter how feeble your fighting proclivi- ties are. The inevitability of the bat tie against disease is strongly insist ed upon.
 In the defense against disease two things are necessary-a systematic union of fighters, the sanitary organi- zation, and personal preparedness, the product of intelligent and diligent per sonal hygiene. Personal prepared ness Is the patriotic duty of every citi- zen as an aid to national sanitary de- fense. No man as a member of so- ciety is morally free to live unhy. gienically or to acquire disease through lack of personal care. Like slovenly soldier, the person who neglects his health risks imparting to others his loose morale, or even trans hitting disease to the whole commun- ity.
The Nevada County picayune., 1915-08-20
Unique lightship.

Off the Island of Islay, on the west coast of Scotland, there is stationed, at the Otter Rock, a unique lightship. It is unnamed; yet it can be relied on to display the warning light to guide the mariner on this dangerous coast. It is a most ingeniously con structed vessel and the only one of it's kind. In its two steel tanks a sufficient quantity of gas can be stored to supply the lantern for several months.
 Experiments have shown that the light may be depended upon to burn continuously for months at a time. The approximate duration of the light can be predetermined, and there Is no danger whatever of its being extin- guished by wind or spray.
 The light is visible at distance of from eight to twelve miles. The light ship also has a bell, which Is made to ring automatically by means of an ingenious device that utilizes the gas as 1t passes from the tanks to the lantern to work the bell clapper.
The Nevada County picayune., 1915-08-20
EARLY PATENTS IN AMERICA
First One Is Said to Have Been Grant cd as Far Back as the Year
 179t.

It Is reported that the first Ameri- can patent for a piano was issued to James s. Mclean of New Jersey, May 27, 1796; the first United States patent for washing machine was to Nathaniel Briggs of New Hampshire. March 2S, 1797; first United States patent for steam engine was to James Rumsey, August 26. 1791 first United States patent for gas engine was to Samuel Brown of England, March 2, 1924; and that the first United States patent for air engines was to E. and J. Prentiss of Baltimore, June 22, 1924.
 Richard M Hoes first United States patent for printing machine was grant ed May 20. 1S42. last patent April >27. 1880.
 John Ericsson issued his first Unit ed States patent February 1, 1888. when he lived In Sweden his second patent was issued November 5, 1S40, while he still resided in Sweden: a third patent issued in December, 1844. when he was living in New York; the last patent issued to him was on De- cember 6, 1887. while a later patent issued to his executors July 8. 1890
 Thomas A. Edison's first patent is- sued June l, 1869, No. 90,646; many hundreds of patents have issued to him since that date. the patent office of dollars.-Scientific American.
The Nevada County picayune., 1915-08-20

Office weighs mails 
  
  half nothing this addition carrying the mails the rail distributing the mails while transit But the Post Office Department whole nothing the in which merely requires the use post office apart  railway office only More than 2oo apartments of this
  the Post Office Department Failure for them has been especial
  O
  Office back  rail roads additional to the mails Now for the remedies the railroads ask They do ask to have the
  @ as done the of private shippers They merely ask to malls railroads adjusted instead of once in four They also ask that apartment post
  the Post Office Department cease to require of them free messenger offices either relieve
 
  VIII
The Nevada County picayune., 1915-08-20
NOTICE

Is Hereby Given That by virtue of the decree of the Nevada County Chancery Court made and rendered at it's June Term, A. D. 1915, in a cer- tain cause therein pending. wherein Louis Suckle ct al were plaintiffs. and Isaac Christopher Jr. was defendant. that the undersigned as comms- soner of said court, will Saturday the llth day of September. 1915 sell the following described real estate in Nevada County. Arkansas to-wit: All the right. title and interest of the defend ant in and to West half (w 1-2) of the Southwest quarter (sw Ia of Section seven (D township eleven CID South. Range twenty (20) West con taining 30 acres more or less. at public auction at the North door of the court house in Prescott. Nevada County. Arkansas.
 TERMS OF SALE.
 Said sale will be made on a credit of three months and the purchaser Will be required to give security to be approved by the commissioner for the purehase price bearing interest the rate of ten (l0l per cent per annum from date of sale uR- til paid.
 Said sale is made to satisfy as far as 1t will decree Of foreclosure of a deed of trust.
 C. C. Calhoun.
 Commissioner. August 2nd 1915. 8-6-4t
The Nevada County picayune., 1915-08-20

the right of suffrage natural women should settled
 
 whether will nteF government judgment nfeority It that that t rent rom capacities of quail our Maker the the nance of other rules today by and noble influences her character into these s o the world and she takes into her hands feeble and ney
 
 removed oman in strife becomes hard harsh unovabe puse as lar
 
 % confess submission the heaven is removed from the earth science protecting lire ana the & a the pursuit of happiness In the divine distribution or powers ana the right the It IS s t It Is with will consent to part with right daughter @ me women whom the brhgh of and place
 
 protected government conception or the "' ana or the right men
  will believe to be pm Is deeopmnt centuries civilization which must not differentiation
The Nevada County picayune., 1915-08-20
fOREWARNeD ! fOREARMsD!

A girl h a d a proposal of marriage Sunday, and asked a week to consider it before ans wering She then organized
 herself into an Investigating committee and began taking testimony from married ladies of her acquaintance. The first one she visited used to be a belle and the most admired girl il town before she married six years before. The cross exami- nation brought out the fact that she had six children, did all her work. including washing and ironing. and hadn't been down town for four weeks, and that her husband had given her but two dollars since she married,
 and that he had borrowed and forgot to pay back ten dollars which her brother once gave her for a Christmas present. He bought himself a new overcoat with the money, while she wore the same plush coat which she wore while he was courting her. Another woman whom she
 visited quit teaching school rec
The Nevada County picayune., 1915-08-20
NOTICE

Is hereby given that the undersigned Bank Commissioner of the State of Arkansas in charge of the assets and affairs of the Citizens Bank & under Section 50 of the Act of the General As sembly of the State of Arkansas. approved March 3rd. 1915 providing for the organization and con trol Of banks and trust companies, calls upon all persons having claims against said Citizen Bank X Trust Company to present the same. and make legal proof thereof to Thos. c. MeRae Jr special deputy bank commissioner at the Bank of Pres cott in the Cit, of Prescott. Arkansas, on or be- fore the 7th day of October. 1915.
 Witness my hand as Bank Commissioner of the State of Arkansas this the 2nd day of Aug. 1915
 JN0. NJ. DAVIS,
 Bank Commissioner.
 THOS. c. McRAE JR.. S-5-9t Special Deputy.