Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-28

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A SMALL boy, while the men in
charge Of the job had knocked off for
lunch. took charge of pump at
tached to a city fire plug. He was
working at it with all his strength,
and he mad the water gushing into
the gutter. A passer inquired II he |
wasn't being made tired by his ef-
forts. Should say not" he answered |
Bob said that water wouldn't run
in winter and I'm showing him that |
it will. Nav. this isn't work. It's
fun" And Bob was hiding alongside |
a nearby house laughing his head OF. /
IT soon will be 1918. Then you will
begin figuring what has happened to
the year that has just expired.
OUR notion of a real patriot is
Charles NJ. Schwab. president of the
Bethlehem Steel company, who has
abandoned his private car and states
that he will ride in day coaches or
ordinary Pullmans for the dur alton OF
the war.
NOW let's all boost for sane
Fourth of July.
DON'T laugh at a man VINO itmps.
We heard of a person who did. Next
day he fell off a street car, went to
hospital, remained there two weeks,
had a bill that went beyond the hun
| dred mark when he was released, and
chances are he will have an impede
ment in his walk the remainder of his
days,
! SOMEHOW when an agent of the
/ federal government speaks he puts a
punch in his conclusions Here is
what Deputy United States Marshal
! Williams said yesterday: THE federal
government can't prevent a saloon
keeper from selling liquor TO soldiers
in uniform. But the federal govern
ment can close up that saloonkeeper's
business" g
WE have been told OF a citizen. who
complains that men on their way to
work in the early morning waken him
an hour or so before his scheduled
rising time He ought to consider
himself lucky that he can lie abed
while his fellows have 10 hit it of
for their places Of employment before
daybreak. Still, there are some folks
who wouldn't be satisfied no matter
what their position in life. But you
may have noticed that most Of the
men you hear beating the pavements
= between . and in the morning swing
ing dinner buckets, are either whist
ling or humming an air. Evidently
they don't consider their lot as I'M
; happy as you do yours and you lie
J abed until and don't bulge anti
, the bath is fixed for you and friend
wife says that the breakfast will b.
: ready for you whenever you are pre-
pared to make your appearance il
= the comfy dining room.
l. 1T may not have any significance
but there are those who viii be in
= terested in hearing that Felix Frank
e furter was one of those instrumental
g in adjusting the Chicago stock yard
n labor dispute this week.
e GENERAL Pershing Is, still callinj
d for bricklayers in France And W
i in the United States are asking 70
I egg layers.
S FOOD will win the war Yes. tina
y in the home as well as that acros
r the seas.
0 DON'T put away your snow Shove
" yet That recent fall of the beautiful
g was the first Of the season, not tn
o LASH
s NEWS item from Atlanta, Ga.
h Billy Sunday cleans a German at hi
e meeting here. At the police static
II the German refused to talk" Her,
s, we take IL, the evangelist's press ager
g fell shy He should have had til
ie newspapers state that the German wa
1t unable TO articulate because Billy h
is him so hard on the kisser that h
le was unable 10 open it, Il does III
rs sound at all like Billy Sunday to pei
Z. form such an incomplete job as til
ig item quoted above would indicate.
"2-SSALN%at iOSd. udS JdiSSu } / u.
he for the Red Cross. Hot stuff
~
Sc THEY must be having summer
l. weather in Iowa. postcards E. P.
ty While passing through Dess Moint
Id on train Monday noticed a postt
OF announcing that Annette kellerma
he was to appear in theatre there til,
It. night in A Daughter OF the Gods"
Id THERE are numerous inquiries
to what sort of looking outfit tn
years water wagon will be. Judgir
sh by the increase in passengers that
Il. anticipated it is likely that II will
as constructed after the style OF a b;
ly rack, SO that the late arrivals CT
LEI their feet hang over the sides.
EVA Tanguay has the latest Fo
joke. Ford is her husband. She h
a. decided to shake him She saws 81
is through with the runabout.
"a TIP to Hoover: Mr.. Eatwell is
Id member OF the city council of Wa
er rem, Ohio.
an
ut THE man--taking it for grant
lis that he has the price Of a membersh
h. who would frown when asked
as buy Red Cross membership III
US not be friend of the kaiser's. but
to would be behaving just as the XII
mt of the Huns would prefer that
lal should,
! J, NJ. G,