Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-08-08
The Day in Davenport

ciaI list giving city and county quota
will not be completed before ten days
or two weeks.
Gundaker Honored-Jobn Gunda-
key. city assessor, has been houoFed
BY tbs grand aerie Of the Fraternal
Order Of Eagles By being made
NJ ember Of the finance committee Of
that body. according TO dispatches
reaching Davenport Mr. Gundaker
has gone to attend the grand aerie
meeting. The convention is being
held in Buffalo. \. Y. Sessions Will
be held all next week Topics Of ma
tional Importance are slated for the
convention. Fine papers will be read,
and discussion on important prob
LENS before the order viii follow. Mr..
GuRdaker IS Il prominent member OF
the local aeris of Eagles. He took
9 leading part in the recent state
convention OF the order held here,
Feigned Deafness Somewhere he
had read o. machine guns moving
down men in raves as they advanced
across No Mans Land. and gas at
tacks, and liquid FIRE. and all the rest
Of the grim implements of modern
warfare He was young and he didn't
want 10 10 ID "a III ii pass I%l%
examiner was telling him a S he sat in
the east court room before the county
exemption board But one more test
remained bef0re 0. * would be
stamped upon his papers Was his
hearing goo12 What is your name %
said DR.. z. 0. Ficke. examining ply
stefan. from his place across the
room. The query was made IN an
even tone Of voice No answer. Turn
around, whispered the physician. The
man forgot his pose for an instant
and that slip proved his undoing. In
voluntarily he turned IN his chair
His hearing IS very acute. re-
ported the doctor. The name was sup
pressed by the examiners.
Wants 10 Help Russia-AIigir
Azizyan of Bettendorf is mighty an
Xious 10 Can the kaiser" but he is
particular about the army in which
he does his strahng Azizyan was in
cluded III the first $40 drafted men
summoned to appear before the c0un-
" exemption board, and, being an
alien, he had his choice Of accepting
or refusing service in the United
States army When the question was
put to him Nigirtich pondered a mo-
ment before replying Me Wanta
fight and lick the kaiser but I lika
tight with my own people Further
questioning brought to light the fol-
lowing facts; Azizyan, who is an Ar
meniaH and subject Of Russia,
would prefer to 90 back 10 his native
land and enlist in the Russian army
rather than 60 10 France as a part Of
the United STATES national army. The
case was taken under AMUSEMENT by
the board and Azizyau was instructed
to return on Aug, Is when some dis
position Will he made in the matter.
Bug Coal Now-Put in your winter
supply Of coal right now, This is the
advice Of the Scott county council of
defense, which met and talked the
coal situation over thoroughly ia the
city han Monday night.
Secure is Observation-Disclosures was
busy day al the local army recruiting
station and Is recruits for the reg
ular army were accepted to give the
beginning Of the week a good start.
Those enlisriug Fred 3 Grunder.
Bentley, Mich. signal corps. Lee c.
Brown. Bloomfield Iowa medical de-
partment; Otto A Krewson Bloom
field. Iowa. medical department: Ellis
worth O. Thomas, Fort Madison.
Iowa, stenographer Delbert L.
Pierce Winfield. Iowa. chauffeur.
Max Baskins. Waverly. Iowa. medical
department, Charles A Russell. Wa
terl0o Iowa. quartermaster corps:
Herbert 5. Thomas, River Rouge.
Mich aviation section Edward RI.
Portzl1ne, Van Horn, Iowa. infantry.
Leo ? Heuner. Northington. Iowa.
medical department; John Holmes.