Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-23

Bermuda high.
The hangover coal pile.
HOT Weather Makes Concert Crowd
Small HEADLINE OF course the in
feriority of the program had nothing
to do with it. Still it is one way of
letting the artist down easy, as the
press has a habit of doing, despite its
W. X. reputation, among purveyors of
entertainment, of dealing harshly with
those who bid for the public's beans
via the box Office.
FREEP0RT contractors, owing to
the scarcity of labOrers, are asking per-
mission to pay fines of inmates of the
wOrkh0use there SO the men can be
pressed into service I'm filling vacant
jobs about the city. If this thing keeps
on pretty soon the professional IOafer
will be without vocation.
JUST the same those girls at the
Lake Geneva military training camp
will have beautiful tan to exhibit at
the opening of the social season. And
that's something.
CRISES are not without their COM
pensations. For instance, the dearth
of print paper may, in a measure,
thanks be, lengthen the periods be-
tween the showers of publicity matter
from the professional press agents.
Even the Navy league appears to have
seen necessity for curtailment. At
least we haven't had anything from
it for these many weeks. Or is 1t
possible that we have been scratched
from its mailing list? That would be
cruel, for we did so enjoy watching the
flight of the n. l.. press matter from
the desk to the W. p. b.
COLONEL Henry WattersOn says
that Kentuckians don't take their
Iikker straight. Same as they do i'm
Iowa, where they take 1t crooked.
WelIe! WelIe.
Just as we went to press last Thurs
day night Joe Welle sent word that he
was the father of a fine boy and we
got it in the paper just in time. About
an hour after we had yanked the last
page off on our Washington press, Joe
sent word again that there was anoth-
er son. Sorry, Joe, but them twins
simply had to run into two different
editions. AS far as we know there's
no more bulletins from Joe's house
Lebanon (Mo) Herald.
COLORADO girl, poor but beautiful,
has Tilted a United States army cap
tain, poor but patriotic, for a Rockford
milliOnaire's son. In the Verbiage of
financial circles, "a cOrking good bust
ness woman"
SECRETARY Baker has decided that
state troops shall remain in the south
until the border is safe. Puzzle When
is, or was, the border safe?
IF this weather continues we may
soon get into a frame of mind where
we can, in safety, resume reading of
the war news.
THERE is said to he 100000 in the
treasury of the Congressional Union
for WOman's Suffrage. Some day an
enterprising merchant is going to adj
yertise cut price sale while the or
ganizatiOn is i'm session, and then ii
will be all off with the exchequer.
AS a rule, the candidate who goes
about saying ugly things about his
rivals, down deep in his heart doesn't
expect to win. If he does cherish such
a belief at the beginning, invariably
he makes success for himself impos-
sible by his own perverted efforts Just
watch the outcome of the fight now
in progress among the republicans
seeking the nomination for governor in
Illinois.
THE Minneapolis Tribune announces
&c. H. Sothern in a new play, Abe and
Mawruss in Society,"" And If Miss
rocOucrc hot.
sumo we shall see her as Mrs. Potash.
1t ought to be a bully play.
WHEN a 16-year-old girl confesses
to a spinster friend that she has fallen
in love said spinster usually cheers her
along by claiming that she had a sim
liar attack when she was the same age
Leaving the inference that the man
she was in love with either had since
succumbed to the infirmities of age or
hadn't yet stopped running.
VERONINE VestOff conducts a "na-
ture dancing" studio in Chicago. Where
they take 'em all off, we suppose.
THE Chicago Herald says Billy |
Mason. who wants to be congressman /
at-large, will cover Jackson county on /
widened since last we gazed upon his /
portly form.
SCIENTISTS have discovered noise |
less mosquitoes. You may not hear /
them, but they will manage to make /
heir presence felt
ENGLAND says the execution of /
Captain Fryatt was a violation of law.
AS If England had a right. in view of 1
her recently perpetrated outrages on
leutrals. TO discuss law violation with |
any nation.
EVA Tanguay is to tour the Pacific
coast as the head of vaudeville COM
lany. One especially sensational act
: promised. One guess as 10 who will
present IL. Correct.
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