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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-29

freighter 900 feet long also is being
set up at Toledo. The total tonnage of
the Toledo contracts is said to be
10000.
Detroit reports the receipt of orders
for a score of ships by Michigan COM
panies and Ohio firms not mentioned
in the Cleveland reports. The tonnage
of the vessels that will be under con-
struction in Michigan harbors during
1916 is estimated at 100000.
Duluth says the first ship to be built
at the Superior, Mich, yards since 1910
will be constructed this year provided
the steel can be secured" The scare
ity of steel also is mentioned from De-
troit. The inability to purchase great
er quantities of building material, De-
troit says, has prevented several COM
panies from enlarging their plants.
At Chicago, the Calumet docks which
have been occupied only with repair
work during the last eight years, have
just received an order for the con-
struction of freight steamer, $50 feet
long and 43.6 foot beam. This boat,
which is to be launched the latter part
of April, was ordered through New
York agents for a concern in Nor
way, the name Of which is not known
at the Calumet docks.
Detroit firms have received orders
from European shippers which under
normal conditions would have been
built on or near the salt water. East
ern coast shippers. it is evident, are
buying freighters wherever they can
be obtained.
Of the ships ordered at Cleveland, a
score will be built at Lake Erie yards
whence they will be sent to the At
lantic coast and dozen or more will
be launched for use on the Great Lakes
during the current year. Four more
are to be delivered to the coast in 1917,
The American Shipbuilding company
at Cleveland has an order for six steam
freighters from Norwegian interests
and the Toledo Shipbuilding company
for four boats from the same source.
The latter company also is building
six auxiliary schooners for New York
interests.
The Manitowoc Shipbuilding COM
pany has orders for three steam tra&l-
ers from a Boston concern and for a
government survey boat to be used in
Alaskan waters. Five huge bulk
freighters are to be built by the Ameri-
can Shipbuilding company at its Lor-
rain yards in 1916 and 10 in 1917. Or
ders for seven other such boats for
1916 delivery have been distributed
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-29
MEAT INJURIOUS
TO THE KIDNEYS
Take a Tablespoonful of
Salts if Back Hurts or
Bladder Bothers.

We ere . nation OF meat satsrs and
our blood is filled with uric acid, says
. we'll known authority. who warns
US to be constantly on guard against
kidney trouble.
The kidneys do their utmost to free
the blood of this irritating acid, but
become weak from the overwork; they
get sluggish; the eliminative tissues
clog and thus the waste is retained in
the blood to poison the entire system.
When your kidneys ache and feel
like Jumps Of lead and you have sting.
ing pains In the back or the urine il
cloudy. full Of sediment or the bladder
Is irritable, obliging you to seek re-
lief during the night; when you have
severe headaches nervous and dizzy
spells sleeplessness acid stomach or
rheumatism In bad weather get from
your pharmacist about four ounces OF
Jad Salts; take tablespoonful in .
glass OF water before breakfast each
corning and In few days your kid
neys will act fine. This famous salts
ig made from the acid OF grapes ana
lemon Juice comb ined with lithia and
has been used for generations to flush
and stimulate clogged kidneys to neu.
tralize the acids In urine so II is no
longer a source of irritation thus end.
Ing urinary and bladder disorders.
Jad Salts IL inexpensive and can.
hot injure; makes delightful effer-
vescent lithia water drink and nobody
can make 4 mistake by taking little
occasionally to keep the kidneys clean
and active.
Harper House pharmacy.-(AdvJ
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-29
HOLDING A PRIMARY
AND NO CANDIDATES

East st. Louis, ILL.,, Feb. 29.-There
are no candidates today for the nomi-
nation by primary of eight city
councilmen, a city assessor, a chief
supervisor and ten assistant super
visors, but the election commissioners
opened the polls in So precincts. Sixty
FIVE election officers were on duty at
IS each. Party organizations ignored
the primary and plan to file nomina-
tons by petition later.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-29
GyhIGf}
Buy a home Of Reidy Bros.
Tri-City Towel Supply company.
For express, call William Trefz.

For express, call William Trefz.
Leap year ball Given by the booster
committee of the six Rock Island
camps Of the Modern Woodmen OF
America in the large odd Fellows
hall, Tuesday evening, Feb. 29, 1916
Admission soc per couple.
Three candidates were given the or
der Of the temple at the meeting OF
Rock Island commandery No. 49,
Knights Templar. last evening.
Members of Rock Island chapter No
IS, Royal Arch Masons, will enjoy a
banquet this evening at $50 at Ma
sonic temple. Following the spread
the past and most excellent master de-
grees will be conferred.
Quarterly meeting of the fourth de-
gree assembly, knights of Columbus,
will be held Thursday evening at $50
at the Rock Island house. A business
session will follow dinner
B. A. Stewart has been retained as
counsel for Richard Allen, who is held
to the grand jury under $1,000 on a
charge of marrying Minnie Marie
Conas when he knew she was the legal
ly welded wife of Sam Conas, Gales
burg The woman is also in Jail on a
bigamy charge. An attempt will be
made to have an information filed
against the defendant and the indict-
ment nolle pressed. Counsel for Allen
claim that he did not know that the
girl he was marrying was the wife of
another and that his worst offense was
in making affidavit when he secured a
marriage license, he was q years of
age, when he had not gained his ma
jority.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-29
Lorimer Jurors Selected.

Chicago, Feb. 29.-Unless there are
unforeseen developments, II jurors ten
tatively accepted by both prosecution
and defense will be sworn in tomor-
row, to which day the beginning of
the actual trial of William Lorimer
on charges resulting from the col
lapse of the La Sale Street Trust and
Savings bank has been postponed.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-29

among smaller shipyards on the Great
Lakes.
At Cleveland 1t is understood that
Italian interests are negotiating for Is
ocean-going trading vessels of 5000
tons each. In addition to all this build
ing activity "a freighters with total
capacity of 112,700 tons have changed
hands on the Great Lakes in the vicin-
ity of Cleveland since the first of the
year. Since last October, when the
present boom first began to be felt, so
vessels with an aggregate tonnage of
100000 have been sold on the Great
Lakes. This is exclusive of package
| freighters and Canadian ships.
A new shipbuilding company has
Just been organized at Duluth by Cap
tain Alexander MacDougall. who has
been interested in the Collingwood
yards. The new company already has
an order for boat of the Welland
canal size.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-29
Obituary
Lambert Funeral Held.

The funeral of Cass Lambert, col
ored, was held this afternoon at 100
at the home, 609 Twentieth avenue,
Rock Island, and at o'clock at the
Mckinley chapel. Rev. Saunders was
in charge of the services. Interment
was in Chippiannock cemetery.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-29
John King.

John King, sexton at st, Mary's Gem
etery, East Moline, died in his sis
ter's home on Third street road, East
Moline, Sunday at 12:45. Death came
after a long illness with tuberculosis
Deceased was born March 10. 1858
For some time he lived in Tacoma
Wash, and is survived by three sons
there, as well as four sisters, Mrs
Mary Cole, Anna King and Mrs. H. De-
Baets of Moline and Mrs. Lizzie Par
sonage of Minneapolis. Two brothers
Henry and John, of Moline, are also
bereaved.
Funeral will be held from ST. Mary s
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-29
Deadlock in Sioux City Strike.

Sioux City, Iowa, Feb. 29,-The
deadlock in the packing house strike
here continued today. Strike leaders
are awaiting reports from Omaha, st.
Joseph, Kansas City and other points,
where they hope to bring sympathetic
strikes.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-29
PERSONAL POINTS

Mr.. and Mrs. D. B. McCarty,> Mil
waukee, have arrived in the city for
visit with relatives in Rock Island and
Davenport.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-29

church, East Moline, at Sis tomor-
row morning. Rev. Van Stappen oftic-
iating. Burial will be in St. Mary's
cemetery, East Moline.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-29

All the news all the tins - The
Argus.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-29
Md Week Specials
At the store that cut
down the high cost of
living

pounds fancy apples ........ 25c
! / pounds of the best graduated su-
gar soc, with $500 order of other
goods. not to include flour.
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1916-03-09
FOR MORE AND BETTER FRUIT

In Bulletin No. IS of the Farm
er's Reading Course On Fruit
Culture, Mr.. G. f. Niven, of
Clemson, says:
After working with farmers
in all sections Of the State for
three years, l am thoroughly con-
vinced that there is only one OBJ
stacle that prevents farmers
from being well supplied with
fruit from their own farms the
year round. and that obstacle is
the lack Of proper care of or
chards.''
1t is the expressed aim of the
writer in producing this bulletin
to supply needed information TO
the farmers along this line.
Each fruit has been discussed
separately. Territories to which
the various varieties are suited
are indicated; methods of plant
ing, fertilizing, spraying, prun
ing, budding and grating are
given in perfectly clear and
understandable manner.
This bulletin is free for the
asking, and in the hands of Chcs
tertield county farmers should
be worth thousands of dollars tC
the territory.
There is probably no other one
item in which Chesterfield coun-
ty is so lacking as in good home.
grown fruit. A plentiful fruit
supply will have not only direct
financial value but will undoubt
edly improve the health of the
community.
A careful study of this bulle
tin in connection with the excel
lent demonstration work now be
ing done in this line by Mr.. W.
j. Iiller, county demonstration
agent, should prove Of inestim.
able value to Chesterfield county
in the near future
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1916-03-09
Model Orchards

OIe acre model orchards are
being set out in various sections
of the county by Demonstration
Agent Tiller, assisted by Mr.. @.
+. Rivers, of Clemson.
These orchards are to be sup
as to pruning, spray
ing etc, by Mr.. Tiller for a peri
Cd OF three years and are to
serve as centers of instruction in
this most important branch of
farming, as well as to demon
strate what can be done in that
line.
Many good farmers, Mr.. Tiller
says, have spent money liberal
IL on fruit trees and have moth.
i lg to show for it, when they
might have had q fine orchard
Failure was due to wrong meth
DDS of pruning and lack of spray
ing.
The orchard recently set out
is on the property of Mr.. j. O..
King, near town. There is one on
MIR. Raynor's place near Page
land; w. J. Black we'll, near JEFF.
ferson one at Patrick and one
on Mr.. n. P. Watson's place
near Chesterfield.
There is a very fine demon
stratlon orchard three years old
on the property of Mr.. l.. L
Parker at Page.and. Those who
think Chesterfield is not good
fruit county should see this one.
Good trees can be bought from
Clemson College as low as three
cents each. Apples. pears and
nlums at 12h cents and cherries
at 10. Grapes also at very low
price.
| Mr.. Tiller says that one reason
why fruit trees i'll the county
have suffered so severely is the
difficulty of getting merchants
to handle the lime-sulphur solu.
tion for spraying. Hundreds OF
barrels should be used every
year here and the merchant is
allowed to make 100 per cent on
his investment for handling the
che micals. The demand is al
ready good, he says and is bound
: to i, crease as knowledge spread:
Of the benefits to be derived
! therefrom.
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1916-03-09
SOME TEUTONlC HYPOTHESIS

At last we understand why
Ger many has not whipped Eng,
land, France and Russia. 1t is
because that country is not at
war with the United States also.
Should war be declared be.
tween the United States and
Germany, say the German naval
officers, that country would be
relieved of the necessity of hav-
ing any further regard for the
United States and could set up
her own sea laws and proceed at
once to destroy all merchantmen
approaching the British Isles.
IF England, then, is left to the
fate she at first planned for us, -
say ithey, when she is con.
fronted by starvation. she will
be compelled to surrender un.
conditionally, unless she wishes
to be starved out. With the fall
of England, however. Russia and
France will also automatically
collapse like the organs of body
whose heart has been bored
through. Then also America
| will remain isolated and must
for her part accept any conditions
which we impose, because in the
peace treaties with our Euro
pean foes we can, among other
things, also demand the handing
over of all large battleships and
submarines, whereby our fleet
would become seven times the
strength of the American navy.
Then America would simultane-
ously be compelled TO surrender
and as a matter of course she
would not only have to give up
all the interned German liners,
but also pay all the war expendi-
lures of the Germanic powers
and their allies"
This sounds suspicisouly like
whipping the enemy with our
mouths"
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1916-03-09
Home Demonstration
Work Increases Rapidly

The reorganization If the hom e
demonstration work for 1916 has
just been completed and all
agents have been appointed for
the year. There is an enroll
ment of 81 counties and 81
agents. Darlington county hav-
ing two agents. Last year the
enrolment was only "a, showing
an increase of seven new CO n
ties this wear.
The authorities are very much
pleased with the corps of agents
at work; the prospects are that
this will be the most sucC essful
year IN the history Of the work.
The splendid training given to
the agents during their short
course at Winthrop college in
January is proving Of great bene-
fit to them.
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1916-03-09
Gard of Thanks

To the Officers and Mem bers,
Palmetto Camp 1876, W. %. w.
Chesterfield. S @.
Dear Sovereigns: From the
depth of u grateful heart want
to thank you for your kindness
to me during my prolonged af
Fiction. | appreciate what you
have done for me. Both as u
camp and as individuals you
have been so good to me. that
with all the gratitude of my soul
l desire to express my apprecia.
tion OF your continued Kindness
to me. Through you | desire to
extend to many friends outside
of our noble order my apprecia-
tion of their thoughtfulness of
me in the hours through which 1
am passing.
Gratefully yours,
K. A. Melton.
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1916-03-09
Gard of Thanks

Mrs Ellen Btantly's mother
Mrs, d. ID Douglass and her
brother Mr.. Carl Mouglass to-
gether with Mr.. j. p. Brantly
desire through the Advertiser to
express their thanks to the
many friends and neighbors for
klDdnesses sbown Them during
Mrs. Brantly's recent illness.
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1916-03-09
WORTHY AND KrRrED TRIBUTES

Hon. Kenneth d McKeller,
member of the lower house of
Congress, but recently elected
Y. 5. Senator, recently made
this concrete statement as to
President Wilson'S excellent
management of affairs in the war
crisis through Which we ar ?
passing.
For more than a year and
half President Wilson has under
most difficult circumstances.
kept US out of war and at the
same time has ia the highest
and truest sense defended and
upheld American rights and
American homer No President
could have done more than this,
and few could or would have
ne as well. For these two
things alone he is entitled to the
highest respect and deepest
gratitude Of the American peo-
pie. Our foreign policy is pecu-
larly in the hands of the Execu-
tive. The most of US agree that
in the past 10 months he has
done marvelously we'll in keep.
ing US out of trouble. He has
peculiar knowledge of the situa-
tion that we as body do not
have. We have trusted him uu
to this and he has not failed US.
While almost all the other ma.
tons are up to their eyes in
trouble, ours, under his leader
ship, is at peace with all the
world. Whether one is for him
or against him, one must admit
these facts. Let US continue tc
uphold and sustain him.
Savoyard, the brilliant news.
paper correspondent, pays this
high tribute to President Wilson
and it is just and true estimate
of the Presidents exalted and
responsible position.
The Office of President of the
United States is the biggest po'
Iitical job in the world. 1t is ter
times what it was ia Grants day
fifteen times what it was ir
Jackson's day, and it is a jot
that demands the inexorable iror
will of Jackson, or a Cleveland
or Wilson to discharge it's du
ties. Grant handed his admin
istration over to Hamilton Fisf
and Roscoe Conkling. Hayes
handed his over to Jim Sher
man. Mckinley handed his over
to Mark Hanna. But Woodrow
Wilson, as emphatically as was
Grover Cleveland or Andrew
jackson, is President himself
No other sort of man is fit f.,
the job, and the tribe is mighty
small "
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1916-03-09

What has become of the old.
fashioned preacher who used co
make his opening prayer 45 min
utes long, calling by name and
blessing all things in the heavens
above, the earth beneath and the
wa ers under the earth?
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1916-03-09
Cut This Out-It Is Worth Money

DON'T MISS THIS. Gut out
this slip, enclose with Sc and
mail it. to Foley & Co., Chicago,
Illinois, writing your name and
address clearly. You will re-
ceive in return a trial package
containing Foley's Honey and
Tar Compound, for lagrippe
coughs, colds and Group; Foley
Kidney Pills, for lame back,
weak kidneys, rheumatism, blad.
der trou bles, and Foley Ca
thartic Tablets, a wholesome
and thoroughly cleansing cathar.
tic, for constipation, biliousness.
headache and sluggish bowels.--
Square Deal Drug Store.
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1916-03-09
Attention Mr.. Roosevelt

There is happy negro living
on the farm of Mr.. r. +. Rivers
that deserves the attention of
the anti-race suicide societies in
general and Theodore Roosevelt t
in particular.
This mans name is Silas Low
ry. Silas is the father of %
children. Tive -eight-count
'em. Twenty-siX by his first wife
anG two by his second. Mrs. ST.
las No. 3, however, has just
started. Whether or not she
can beat Mrs. Sllas No. rs re- :
cord remains to be seen.
OF the twenty-six children
there were eight sets OF twins.
The former wife, by the way,
died of measles or something like
that.
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1916-03-09

While Congress is engaged in
hunting for more means of rails.
ing revenue for the support of
the government, Mr.. Young, OF
North Dakota, has hit upon an
excellent plan. 1t is to place a
tax on future sales of grain
where no grain is bought or sold.
On grain sales-futures several
million dollars would be raised
In advocating the measure Mr..
Young said there was 300 times
more grain sold than was raised
on the farms.
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1916-03-09

Swat the fly! A bit early? Not
all 1t is estimated that one fe-
male fly allowed to live now will
by Oct. 1st, be the mother of
181, ,2eoR boo, 600, 600, 600 900, 900
ITherefo every fly killed now is
The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1916-03-09
Photographs.

Will be at Chesterfield on
Saturday before tie 1st and 3rd
Sundays in each month to take
pict9lAs. Studio up stairs over
sa pea Drhs ssnnu
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-11-11

In many cases 1t is desirable to have elections
much more frequently.
Several schoolroom governments may be
Joined in a school state and several states in a
school national government, to look after matters
which pertain to the whole school. 1t is possible
and practicable to go still further, and join these
school national governments in a federation. AS
has been said previously, let us reiterate: The
teacher helps the pupils to become Independent
in solving their social and civic problems as he
does the problems of mathematics. Each pupil
is continually exercised in Independent thinking,
judicial conclusion and immediate action. To take
the initiative soon becomes habitual. Co-opera-
ton for every good purpose is developed and
team work becomes the ordinary practice. The
teachers authority is not weakened but strength
ened by the cooperation of the pupils in their
democratic republic.
Teachers Should Cooperate.
"If we were to look upon this matter as If 1t
were a mill, the mill would serve no purpose I'M
! IS it should have grist to grind, and in this case
the grist is the government of the children's con-
duct to suggest useful and constructive activi-
ties for the good of each child and the communi-
ty of pupils and of the entire community of which
the children are a part. The pupils time, minds
and energies being fully occupied doing right con-
structive things, the amount of wronGdoing drops
to an almost negligible quantity. What there is
of this is dealt with by the children in their own
courts much more effectually than is possible by
any other means in the reach of the teachers,
even If corporal punishment is permitted, which
is prohibited by law in some places.
ut is not to be supposed that the children can
handle these social and civic problems without
the same kind of interest and assistance by the
teachers that is necessary for success in any
other school work; nor that the teachers can
make the best use of this laboratory method of
moral and civic training without the co-opera-
ton of the children's parents, and, until the
teachers have become well accustomed to the
new method, they need the suggestions of one
who has had large experience in its use.
Co-ordinates With Other Studies.
"Does this not add another burden to the
teachers already too heavy load? No. 1t en-
cages the cooperation of the pupils to help the
teachers bear their burdens. Does 1t take the
time of a recitation each day or once a. week
No, but it co-ordinates with other studies such as
English, civ1cs and history, and is that good spirit
which proves TO be a lubricant for all recitations.
for all the machinery of the school. and releases
the teachers from police duty, enabling them to
give their whole time, strength and nervous force
TO teaching, uninterrupted by misconduct and in
attention. Relieved of the ordinary pull on the
nerves and drain of ones vital strength. helping
the children to develop their own character and
to use the tools and processes of education for
their own salvation, the teachers work becomes
exhilarating and a joy"