Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-01
THE DAY IN DAVENPORT

Shook As They Passed Home-Not
unlike a haunted house, Tor several
days has stood the home of a well
known Davenport minister. Neighbors
and pedestrians in passing the place
have trembled with fear and the less
daring ones have crossed to the OppO-
site side of the street. A yellow sign
tackled on the porch near the door
way was the cause of alarm. To the
neighbOrs and others it gave forebod-
ings of smallpox Investigation has
shown their fear to be groundless. In
stead of a smallpox warning the sign
is an appeal for woman suffrage. The
minister is leader in the votes for
women" campaign.
Price Discussed BY Ad Mems Club
Price" was the subject discussed at
the meeting of the Davenport Ad
Mems club at the Commercial club.
The discussion brought cut the fact
that in the advertising of high quality
goods price does not need to be &C
cented with as much Importance as in
lower quality goods.
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Get Recruit From the Regular Army
Captain A. NJ Compton Of Battery
B has secured the enlistment of James
Van Dyke, who has been a member
of Battery d Of the Third Field artil-
lery, L. S. A, serving as battery me-
chanic and first class gunner in that
command. There are now several eX-
regular army men enlisted in the local
/ battery.
Made Baby Drunk pitiful little
mite of woman, with a 4mOnths-Old
babe in her arms. Mrs. Tom Cirameris,
appeared in police court against her
husband, who was charged with as
sault and battery. He entered a plea
+ of not guilty, and was fined 81 and
/ costs. Neither Tom Cirameris nor
his wife could speak English with any
1 fiuency, and the story the little woman
told the court, hating now and then
to find appropriate phrases in the
strange language was pitiful one
! from start to finish. HE hit me in the
/ mouth with his fist yesterday" the
woman said and she turned back her
! lip, exposing a ragged wound where
! the flesh had been cut by her teeth
He threatened to run away, and to
+ kill me, and TO divorce me, and &c
marry another woman, and all kinds
( of things like that He called me lots
+ of awful names, too. He didn't knock
me down when he hit me the first
( time yesterday, and then he took me
/ by the neck and threw me on the floor
T Two weeks ago he came home drunk
and broke a half gallon bottle OF
whisky over my head. He has been
drunk lots of times, and when he's
/ drunk he does all kind of things to me
Yesterday he came home and made
the baby here drink half glass OF
whisky, and made it drunk, too
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! Suicide Motive Unkn0Nn-CleOna
township authorities were still puz-
Zling today over the motive which led
Minnie Lillienthal, 80 years old, tC
hang herself in her brother-in-law' S
/ barn several miles from Sunbury. Miss
+ Ldllienthal was apparently in good
health and high spirits, she had nc
financial worries and no domestic
troubles nor entanglements, according
/ TO facts learned by d COrOner's jury
+ in charge of Emil Stoltenberg, justice
of the peace of Cleona township, who
/ was delegated TO investigate the case
/ by Coroner Cantwell The body was
found hanging to rafter IN the hay
NOW of the barn by her brother-in-
law. Tom Johansen, who went into the
NOW to throw down hay to his stock
7 She had left the house several hours
before. Johansen called doctor from
SunburY, who IL turn called DR.. Cant