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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-08

Mr.. Gottschalk Of Seawaren, N. j.,
who has had patented his process for
synthesizing rubber, attained that end
only after two serious explosions, of
which one fatally injured his wife and
the other killed his son-in-law.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-08
CITY LOOTED AND BURNED
BY STRIKERS.

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Men danced and sang and women join
ed them. Liquor was passed around as
freely as water and those who had no
cups scooped it up in the hollows Of
their hands, for within half an hour
other saloons had been looted and the
fire was spreading rapidly.
Wilson avenue, the main street, par
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-08
W0MEN'S MISSION
B0OIES!NARALLy
Societies Of Mercer County Arrange
for an Ail-Day Meeting to Be
Held In AledO.
REV. F.E. SHUT TO GIVE ADDRESS
F. NJ. Baker Is Installed as Command
er Of Warren Shedd Post OF
Grand Army.
Especial to The Argusl.

NcpCNldt W Ac al SusJ-
Aledo, Ill, Jan. S.-The Woman's
Missionary societies of Mercer county
will hold an all-day union meeting con-
ference in Aledo on Thursday, Jan. Is.
The meeting will be held both morn
ing and afternoon at the United Pres
byterian church. The following pro-
gram has been prepared:
1890 a. m.-Devotional-Mrs. F. E.
Shut.
1O:45 a. m.-How Can County Or
ganization Help the Local Societies.
Mrs. William McHard.
Discussion.
Solo-Corrinne Baldwin.
11:15 a. m.-Why Do We Not Have
More Time for the Masters Work.
Mrs W. L. Ray.
Dinner.
1870 p. m.-Devotionals-Mrs. NJ.
Johnston.
Music-Mrs. Mccullough.
Address-Rev F. E. Shut.
Business.
Post Instalis Officers.
The following officers Of the Warren
Shedd post, No. 262, for the coming
year were installed at the meeting held
this week in the Grand Army hall in
the court house:
Commander. NJ Baker.
Senior vice commander-H. S. Mid
daugh.
Junior vice Communication Nc
Pherren.
Adiutant-C. c. Walter.
Chaplain-Joseph Pomeroy.
Quartermaster-M c. Danford.
Officer of the day-A. A. Rice.
Officer of guard. c. Summers.
nt-maior-George ". Werts,
Sr.
Quartermaster sergeant. B. Eel
ton.
Relief committee for Mercer town.
ship-M C. Danford, George Werts,
Sr, and J. P. Nesbitt.
The township relief committee and
township supervisors are to serve on
the general relief committees in their
respective townships.
Branch Fruit House.
The firm of A. Pusatere Of Mon
mouth, which conducts a wholesale
and retail fruit and vegetable bust
ness in that city, has leased the DR.. l.
W. Wright grocery and will establish
a branch here, making Aledo dis
tributing point for wholesaling, ant
will also conduct retail store.
Restaurant Changes Hands.
Mrs E. A. Braucht and her son, L
M. Braucht, have purchased the Sta
restaurant, which has been run b
Bjorkman & Bjorkman for severa
years. The business will be run unde
the firm name of Braucht & Brauchi
They will retain the old force, ais
Walford Bjorkman will remain unit
Mr. Braucht is thoroughly familia
with the business.
Becomes County Advisor.
Professor j. H. Lloyd formerly
resident of this city where for severa
years he had charge of the agricul
tural department of William and Wash
college, has accepted the position {
county advisor Of Hancock count!
This position was made vacant recent
ly by the resignation of A. N. Wilson
Professor Lloyd is now serving his SCI
ond year as instructor in Purdue IN
versity, Lafayette, Ind, and is thol
oughly competent and well fitted fC
his new duties.
Farm Is Named.
Charles Kinsey Of Richland Groy
township has just had his fine farm {
200 acres copyrighted and hereaftt
his farm will be known as North Pra
RE Stock Farm" Mr.. Kinsey is IL
10th Mercer county land owner wi
has dignifed his farm b. giving it
title
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-08

Rock Island, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Reynolds, former residents Of
this place.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-08

Continued from Page One.)
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-10-12
HOUSTON STARTS ON
VIGOROUS CAMPAIGN
Republican Nominee for County
Commissioner i'm Second Dis
trict Visits Kennewick

Local interest in county politics,
which has been at low ebb since the
primaries, received new stimulus to-
day when E. c. Houston, of Prosser,
republican .nominee for commissioner
in the second district, arrived in town,
accompanied by several well known
Prosser men who are campaigning in
his behalf.
Mr.. Houston intends to make thoro
canvass of the entire county before
November z. He is making his cam
paign on a platform that calls for
greater value for the money expended.
In speaking Of road expenditures, he
says:
During the last three or four years
this county has spent about 100000
a year for roads. The past year count
ing the $4,000 we got from the pub
lie highway fund and the $4,000 we
ran in debt, we spent over $150,000.
In my opinion, and of the most people
/ have talked with on the subject we
have not been getting more than so
per cent value received for our road
money. One hundred thousand dol
lars have been levied for road work
for the coming year and I am in favor
of using every cent of It on the roads,
for we need more good roads and need
them badly, but for this 100000 1
believe we should and can do twice as
effective road work as was done last
year or the year before"
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-10-12
WASHINGTON
STREET TO BE
IMPROVED, TOO
Council Proposes to Give it Same
Treatment as Second and
...s Side Streets
CREATE ANOTHER DISTRICT
Indications are that Protests Against
Proposed Improvement Will
Not Be Many

At the request Of several Washing
ton street property owners the city
council met in special session Tuesday
evening and declared its formal inten-
tion of improving that street from its
north end at Annis' corner to the city
limits in Morain's addition.
When it became known that Second
street was to be improved number
of Washington street residents insist
sed that their street should receive the
same treatment. They argued that the
present condition of the street is real
ly worse than Second and that it ac-
commodities even greater volume of
traffic. 1t was pointed out also that
it connects up with the state highway
and is used much more for thru travel
than is west Second street.
Altho members Of the council re-
garded the improvement idea with fa-
vor they We're unwilling to include
Washington street in the same i'm
provement district with Second but
put it in district by itself. The
same plan of improvement, however,
will be followed. The street is to be
surfaced with river gravel and thoro-
ly rolled this fall and next spring it
will be given coating of asphaltum
oil and sand.
Members of the council believe that
objections to the proposed improve
ment will not be so numerous or Wig
orous as they were when the propo-
sition was up several months ago. In
fact word has been received from III.
A. Hover, who is one of the largest
property owners that he will offer no
objections to, the proposed improve
ments so long as an expensive pave
ment is not contemplated. 1t is un-.
derstood also that M. o. Kitten, who
is another large property owner, will
make no objections.
Every effort will be made to. rush
the preliminaries as fast as possible
SO that graveling may be finished be-
fore weather conditions become unset
tied. The hearing on the Second street
proposition will be held the evening of
October % and the Washington street
hearing has been set for one week
later, October 80.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-10-12

94.2; Agnes Halvorson 9Th, with "a.
The subject which has been selected
for the series of high school inter-
scholastic debates for this year is:
Resolved, That a system of compul-
sorry military training of the equiva-
lent of not less than two hours per
week should be required in the public
high schools of the state of Washing
ton, having an enrolment of at least
twenty boys" The Kennewick high
school will probably enter these de-
bates altho they think that the ques-
tion is a very poor one.
The debates for this year will come
on November 10, 1916, December Is,
1916, February 9, 1917, March 9, 1917.
The various high school committees
have been selected by the president
of the assembly and are as follows:
athletic, Mr.. Meikle, Mr.. McKim, VIM.
Sly, Earl Anderson, Ernest Dickinson,
Warde johnson; advertising, Mr.. Lew
is, Perry Soth, Norman Lynch, Will
liam Byrd, Randolph Sly; literary,
Miss Spencer, Miss Nelson, Bess Hem
bricks, Marjorie Taylor, Earl Tweedt,
Jessie Sonderman; music, Miss Shier,
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-10-12
GROSSCUP GETS CONTRACT
FORSURFACING STATE ROAD
Will Gravel from Hop Yard West un-
til the Appropriation is ex-
hausted

At last the state highway depart
ment has started something toward
relieving that nightmare to travel
between Richland and Benton City.
With about $4,000 left of the $ss 900
appropriated by the last legislature
the highway department will begin
surfacing this end of the road.
The contract for this work has been
let to Thad. Grosscup at 95 cents per
yard. The specifications call for sur
facing the road with nine inches of
gravel, IA feet in width. It is esti-
mated that the funds now available
will build about three miles of the
road.
Work will start at the crossing of
the lower Richland camel east of the
old hop yard and will extend west
ward. Gravel will be taken from the
Yakima river.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-10-12
City TAX LEVY IS
FIXED BY COUNCIL
hate of Municipal Taxation is
Within Fraction of Limit
Il Allowed by Statute

Inc hearings held by the city coun-
III on the annual budget developed
hoenlng more sensational than the
members of the official board hearing
each other. No taxpayers appeared
- protest against any of the proposed
expenditures, which had been pruned
% tne last cent necessary to meet the
actual running expenses of the city.
In making up the budget the coun-
Gil had figured on an 1S mill levy, IL
mills for current expenses and 6 mills
!or the Indebtedness fund. These lev.
les We're slightly reduced as the city's
assessed valuation is higher than was
expected. County Assessor Wheaton
mas notified the council that this years
assessment would show cut in valu-
a'lons but the reduction was not SO
great as was first thought. The valu-
atlon is fixed at ss5O,OOO or reduc-
'ion OF $4,000 under last year.
Inc levy as fixed at the final hear
ing Friday evening was 11.75 mills
,or current expenses and 5.S5 for in
oeotedness, making total of 17.6
,,iiiis. This is within A of mill of
Tie limit allowed by state law.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-10-12
QUICK WORK is MADE OF
FREIGHT TRAIN HOLDUPS
Three Men Who Robbed Companion
Hobo are Arrested in a Pasco
Restaurant

Night Operator S. A. Phelps, at the
Northern Pacific depot, who is gaining
quite reputation for capturing bad
men, was on the job again last night.
A short distance west of here hobo
was beating his way on freight No.
COZ, and was held up and robbed by
three other fellow passengers. Just
as the train was pulling into the sta
tion the three robbers, all of whom
were armed, made their victim jump
from the train and took a shot at him
as he sprawled in the alfalfa.
The train didn't stop here and was
just showing its caboose lights to the
town when the robbed man accosted
Phelps with his hard luck story. The
operator Immediately flashed the news
to Pasco and ten minutes later the
three men were picked up in a restau-
rant near the depot, just as they were
in the act of changing ten-dollar bill
which they had frisked from their vic
tim. .l's.H @
All three men carried revolvers and
flash lights. They were loaded aboard
one OF the night passenger trains and
taken to the county Jail in Prosser.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-10-12

Among the four candidates for the
Superior court judgeship John Truax,
of Ritzville, received the highest vote
at the recent primary election. His
home county of Adams expressed her
appreciation of the man by giving
him 749o of her total vote. He will
be forty years old on the 18th day of
February next; was born in Calhoun
county, Michigan, completing the law
course at the University of Michigan
at Ann Arbor in 1904, coming directly
to Adams county where he has resided
ever since. He is married man and
maintains his home and place of bust.
ness at Ritzville where he has built
up good law practice. Since taking
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-10-12
GEO. W. SHERK
IJNOPPOSED FOR
MAYORS CHAIR
prominent Business Man Con-
sents to Wishes of Friends
and Becomes Candidate
pROGUNIER AND BESTE FILE
with Exception of These Three there
will be No Changes in the
Municipal Offices

On the first Tuesday evening of
next January when the city fathers
eather around the administration ta-
ble in the council chambers there will
be two familiar faces missing. Henry
A. Bier, who has served nine out of
the thirteen years he has been in Ken
newick, either as councilman or may
or, and L. E. Johnson, who is serving
his fourth term as mayor will like
wise be missing. Both of these men
flatly refused to heed any of the inn
portunities of their friends to become
candidates again.
Saturday was the last day for filing
declarations of candidacy for the city
primary election and for a time it
looked as if several of the Offices would
20 by default. Councilman R. Gil
crist, Of the third ward, and Council
man Hayden, of the first ward, City
Clerk NJ. E. Soth, City Attorney F.
R. Jeffrey and City Treasurer j. l..
Johnson filed their declarations early
in the day. 1t was not until the last
half hour before closing time that DR..
D. S. Brogunier and F. F. Beste filed
respectively for councilman. at large
and councilman from the second ward
and the last minute before Geo.. w.
Sherk consented to the wishes of his
friends and attached his signature to
declaration blank as candidate for.
mayor. I
All filings were made on the citi-i
zens' ticket and there is no contest
for any of the Offices, consequently
there will probably be little doing in
city politics this fall.
The last three men to file are all
newcomers in the official family. The
noiu-oVer members OF the council are
Councilmen Chas. Haas, first ward;
Councilman Geo. Tweedt, second ward;
and Councilman Geo. Egbert, third
ward. The retiring members are
councilman at Large H. A. Bier, and
Councilman F. j. Arnold, of the Sc
cond ward.
Hereafter the city election will be
neld only every two years on the
years of the state and county general
elections. The mayor, coYpcilman at
large, clerk, attorney and treasurer
are elected for two years and the ward
councllmen for four. The city pri-
marles will be held November z and
tne general election December 5.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-10-12

up his residence there he has serve 4
Two terms as prosecuting attorney and
one term in the state legislature.
Mr.. Truax invites the fullest inves-
tigation concerning himself on the
part of the people and is willing to
stsnd on his record and on his repu-
ta:i as an index of what he can do
and will do if elected. He has no con-
nect: ons and has formed no alliances
in a business way, political or other
wise, that can embarass him or that
would tend to influence his actions as
q judge. He announces his purpose to
administer the duties of that high Of
fee with entire fairness. and impair
tiality and with absolute justice tc
everyone.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-10-12
UNION REVIVAL TO
BEGIN NEXT SUNDAY
Meetings to be Held in Congre-
gatiOnal Church Instead
of Tent
Especial Correspondence


On Sunday morning at ll:OO o'clock
the Rev. F. R. Margetts, of Spokane,
VIII speak at the Congregational
church on the theme: ".Why This Re-
vival?" This is to be the opening SER
vice of the big union revival for which
preparations have been going on for
weeks, and which is to continue into
November.
1t had been hoped to hold the meet
lngs in a tent on some vacant lot near
Second street. But plans have mis-
carried and the committee in charge.
unwilling to burden the community
with the heavy expense of building a
tabernacle, fixed upon the only avail
able building which it was thought
would be at all adequate for the meet
lngs. Accordingly the services will be
held, temporarily at least, in the Con-
gregational church, and it is hoaed
that people will adjust themselves to
TINS arrangement and will respond to
this united special effort to bring re-
lglon to bear directly upon the life
OF the community and to give it its
rlghtful place in peoples lives and in
their thoughts.
This is to be no ordinary revival.
1t Will make its appeal to thinking
people. Mr.. Margetts has had pecu-
liar training for his work. Forced at
very early age by the death of his
rather to take up the struggle for ex-
lstence, he began as cash boy in a
large department store. From this be.
ginning ne worked his way up, serv
ing in turn as dry goods salesman.
shipping clerk, employee in freight
claim bureau, stenographer on car of
railroad division superintendent, Sec
retary to vice-president of largest fire
insurance company, secretary to rail-
road president, court reporter in state
and U. S. courts, attorney, anti-salocn
league superintendent, minister.
In each of these positions he made
good. And now he gives up lucra-
tive position to take up the work of
evangelism. He brings to his work.
therefore, warm heart and an under
standing of peoples needs and their
desires.
Mr.. st. John, who is to conduct the
singing is conservatory graduate.
He has taught music in university,
and he comes just now from the east
where he has been training a chorus
of fifteen hundred voices.
The meetings will be held every
night of the week except Monday.
Day meetings will be held from time
to time as announced. On Sunday
night (7:30 o'clock) Rev. Margetts
will speak on the theme: "The Real
Need of the World Today"
The several churches uniting in
these meetings, viz: the Baptist, Con-
gregational, Christian and Methodist,
will omit all regular separate SER
vices except those Of the Sunday
school and of the Young Peoples So
cieties. These meetings will be held
in the separate churches at the regu-
lar time.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-10-12

Smythe Brothers, of Pendleton, un-
loaded 5000 head of sheep here We'd
nesday. The sheep were shippd from
the summer range in the northern part
of the state and will be pastured here
for several weeks. The shipment was
made under the supervision of E. l..
Hoppel, travelling freight agent for the
N. p
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-10-12
Nelson Harding in Brooklyn Eagle.

Sheridan Delepine, Lorene Kennedy,
Erma MacAuley, Laverna Bier; social,
Misses Opal and Vera Bonsall, Fern
Johnson, Jean Stewart, Allen Arnold,
Edward Horten; entertainment, Miss
Pearl, Miss Morris, Cedonia Gravens-
lund, Audrey Graham, Mary Kinkaid,
Paul Craver.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-10-12

Pat Mooney, of this city and Fritz
Bremmer, of Richland, returned home
Sunday from their jaunt to the border
with the Washington National Guard.
Pat says it is all very nice but he has
had enough of soldering for some
time.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-10-12
FORM JOINT COUNTY
DEBATING LEAGUE
Old Benton County League is
Dissolved at Meeting of
School Principals

AT a~meeting of the principals of
the Benton and Franklin county high
schools held during the teachers in
stitute at Prosser, the Benton County
Debating League was dissolved and a
debating league was formed including
all the high schools Of both counties.
This action was taken because of the
objection made last year by several
grade school teams that were members
of the league against debating with
high school teams. The new league
will match high school teams against
high school teams and such grade
teams as care to compete against
grade teams. It also includes the ac-
tivities of spring track meets and pro-
vides for county defamation contests.
The affairs of the league will be man
aged by committee of seven princi-
pals Of the different schools, Miss Opal
Bonsall, of the local high school act
ing as secretery. The Kennewick high
school has twice won the county cham
pionship under the rules of the Benton
county debating league and will be
represented in the contests of the new
two-county league.
The following resolution was passed
by the teachers of Benton county, at
the teachers institute held at Prosser
last week: Resolved, That the teach
ers of Benton county express to their
county superintendent, Mr.. A. c. Jones
their very great appreciation for his
highly efficient and conscientious SER
vices in advancing the educational in
terests of the children Of Benton coun-
ty, by the general betterment of the
school conditions thruout the county,
by the promotion of industrial educa.
tion, by his conscientious enforcement
of the compulsory attendance law, by
his many efforts to harmonic warning
factions within the various school
districts, and for the splendid exam
pie he has set school administrations
in this county of hewing to the line
and letting the chips fall where they
may"
The standing of the different
classes after the first months marks
had been given out was as follows:
Senior girls: 9OA; Junior girls, 80 and
SO IA; Junior boys, 80 40 rs; Sopho-
more boys, 85 Al /57; Freshman boys,
85.2; Sophomore girls, 85 4 /47; Fresh
man girls, 83.7; Senior boys, s1.5. The
highest individual marks in the diff
ferent classes are as follows: Fresh
man boys, Clarence Schuster, S8 /3;
Ross Willsey and Edward Horten,
8SA; Ralph Brown, S8; Freshmen
girls, Florence Halvorsen, 92h; Ag-
mes Halvorson, "a; Noma Terril, 93A;
Sophomore boys, Ernest Dickinson.
91A; Allan Arnold, 81; Allan Paul,
S9A; Sophomore girls, Mary Kinkaid,
SO 2/s; Adeline Simsen, 92 2 /3; Louise
Simsen, 81 1 /3; Junior boys, Tom Soth
95; Norman Lynch, 9SA; Earl Ander-
son, 9O.2; Junior girls, linda Smith,
94A; Marjorie Taylor, 93A; Burdette
Hoadley 92.s; S,nior boys, Howard
Paul, 84A ;Scott Williams, 80; William
Sly, 81; Senior girls, Anna Halvorsen,
942/3; Bess Hendricks, 94.2; Cilcria
Gravenslund, 90.
Tom Soth led the high school with
an average of 95, linda Smith came Sc
cond, with 94A; Anna Halvorsen, :'rd.
with 1923; Florence Halvorson, 4th
with 941s; Bess Hendricks, 5th, with
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1916-12-23

Howard w. Perrin Of Philadelphia,
who formerly scoffed At golf and called
It an idiotic game, has been elected
president of the United States Golf
association. He has won many medals
and twice captured the Philadelphia
championship
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1916-12-23
Color Parts in Orchestral Music.

Degrees of emotion from placid con-
tentment to intense manifestations
are wildly expressed by color parts
used in connection with orchestral
music now produced in some of the
greatest concert halls of the world.
The mechanism and operation of the
color organ was described in the June
number of Popular Mechanics Maya
zine, and the cover design of this is
sue depicts a color phase as it ap-
pears to the observation-disclosures. That
colors have decided influence on the
nervous system has long been estab-
lished, but their adaptation to the
expression of musical themes has only
recently been worked out.-Popular
Mechanics.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1916-12-23
A Luxury Denied.

Don't you think we give too much
attention to the frivolities Of fash
ion?'
Yes. replied the business man.
But the only way to make money is
to follow the fads. l haven't any
time to be serious"