Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-03-01
DAY IN DA NEWPORT

Out of Work for Eight Months, Sui
cides - Despondent because he could
not find work, Frank McCleary, room
ing on the third floor of the South Put
nam building, committed suicide Sat
urday afternoon at $3.50 o'clock by
turning on the gas. Mrs. Theodore
Flick, living in the room next to Nc
Cleary, noticed the smell of gas COM
ing from the room. She opened the
door. which was not locked, and
found McCleary huddled over a little
one-burner gas stove. She ran to the
phone and notified the police. Officer
RuhI hurried to the scene and the cor
oner was notified. DR.. Sala, who has
an Office in the building, was immedi-
ately told of the case and worked over
McCieary for several minutes in the
effort to bring him back to conscious
ness. He said that if the young man
had been found five minutes >ooner
his life could have been saved. Nc
Cleary was 81 years of age. He had
been out of work for the past eight
months and had worried a great deal
over his inability to find employment.
He lived with his brother. Ernest. who
saw him last Saturday forming at $50
o'clock. AT that time Frank appeared
to be in a cheerful mood and said he
was going out to try his luck at job
hunting again. 1t is supposed that an
other failure to land a job made Nc
Cleary so respondent that he decided
to end his life The deceased left no
word for his relatives. None of them
had ever heard him talk of ending his
laF he
at 1880 in the afternoon, Frank being
out at the time. Another brother, L.
A McCleary, lives in Davenport at
270S Davis avenue. The parents are
MI and Mrs. Moses McCleary of Mar
shalltown, Iowa. Two other brothers
survive, W. B. McCleary Of Kansas
City, Mo, and ]. G. McCIeary of Kan
sas City Iowa.
Davenport Woman't Club Issues Ap-
pesi-The Davenport Woman's club
has issued letter to the voters at the
coming school election, bringing out
the relative merit of the public play
ground question and urging them to
support this measure. The letter fol
lows: The school election of the In
dependent School District of the City
of Davenport, Iowa, takes place on
March s, 1916. The school board has
submitted several propositions which
Will be voted upon on thai date. We
take this occasion to call your atten-
ton to one of these authorizing the
school board to levy a tax of one-half
mill for playground purposes. If this
proposition carries at this election,
the school board, under the authority
granted at the last session of the legis-
lature, can install in various parts of
the city. public Fairgrounds and play
fields. which will be properly super
vised. These Fairgrounds would be
open to ali children up to 81 years OF
age and their use would be subject to
such reasonable regulations as may be
made by the school board. The value
of public Fairgrounds to community
is conceded by everyone. IL a tax of
one-half mill is levied for this pur-
pose it would mean that a person hay
ing property of the actual value of
two thousand dollars $4,000 would
contribute 25 cents. Could you spend
a quarter to better advantage Both
men and women can vote on this ques-
ton. We need your vote and that of
your friends and acquaintance, May
we have your earnest cooperation?
Help Themselves to Skates-Sneak
thieves engineered raid upon the old
skating rink at the corner of Fourth
and Myrtle streets. stealing 20 pairs
of skates, valued at approximately %
cents per pair.
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"Uncie Biif' Gray Is Handed a Lem.
on.-"Uncie Bill Gray has the big
gest lemon ever seen in Davenport. II
measures Is inches in circumference