Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-11-17

T.
Hakes, assistant secretary of the Dav-
export Commercial club, has been
commissioned first lieutenant in the
new national army. according to word
received by Secretary Norwood. For
the past three months Lieutenant
Hakes has been in attendance at the
officers training camp at Fort Smell
ing, MINI
Marriage Licenses Stanaltz,
Bettendorf. and Anna Nieoloff, Betten-
dorf.,
Quota Is Exceeded The Seventh
district, comprising Scott. Washington,
Johnson and Muscatine counties, was
the first over the top" in Iowa with
its assigned quota in the Y. NJ. c. A.
campaign for $50,000.0 600 fund, ac-
cording to messages received by s.
A. Cohagan, district secretary. The
districts quota was $4,000. Over
$4,000 had been subscribed up to
noon yesterday with many sub-dis-
tricts missing.
Plenty Coal On Hand,-A total of
IS cars of coal has been received by
local coal dealers in the past TWO
days, according to the report of T. K
Putnam, secretary of the local com
mittee of the federal fuel admInistra-
ton This brings the total up to 347
cars of coal since the first of No
Vember and puts Davenport out OF the
possible danger of a coal famine The
fuel received in Davenport since the
first of November included cars of
soft and hard coal and coke Fuel
dealers in Davenport are required to
make a report to the local committee
daily stating how many cars OF fuel
/ they receive
i Anna keIle! Discharged. Discharge
/ papers signed by Governor W. H.
Harding in the case OF the state OF
i Iowa vs.. Anna Kelley, sentenced to 4
term in the reformatery at Anamosa
by the Scott county district court in
February. 1916, we're fled yesterday
/ in the clerks Office. The woman was
convicted OF permitting a minor child
to enter house Of III fame. She was
paroied in November. 1916.
O.
Daxon liz Fined, $. r. Daxon. Rock
Island. was fined s1035 before Police
Magistrate Ernest Claussen yesterda5
on a charge Of violating the building
code. Information againsl the mar
was sworn out by Building Inspector
Il. c. Graham. He was charged wifi
removing cribbing from beneath I
raised house, contrary to the commits
sioner's orders
Desefter Is Arrested Rolland S
Black, former private in Company NJ
stationed in Kansas, was arrested b,
Detective Estes and officer Sehwirdel
in a rooming house in East Daven
port and turned over to federal au
thorities. Black, according to the DO
lice, deserted on April II. five davi
after the United States entered tn,
war. He was stationed for a tint
on the Pacific coast. and shortly be
: fore April 8 was sent to Kansas witt
his regiment. Immediately after hi
: desertion. government officials notifiet
; every police department in the coun
! try. Black was a private under Cap
: tain II. w. PefklnS.
], Refuses to Grant Decree.-Becaus
| Ida Kruger failed to await the pass
i ing of II months before remarryin
: as prescribed by the Iowa divorc
: law, Judge William Theophilus in tn
| Scott county district court refused t
!, annul Mrs. krueger's marriage TO Pc
{ ter Kruger ana grant her a deere,
Mrs. Kruger went to Minnesota an
was married to Kruger nine dav
: after she secured divorce from he
/ nrst husband
Y! Mayor Watches offenders,-Mayo
: John Berwald has invented q bran
a new plan for keeping tab on city off
s Gals and employees without the al
r OF his long-desired time clock. Tn
q mayor has had the plan working &c
f several weeks. but he has so car.
e fuliy guarded his invention that
was not until city officials began con
e pairing notes recently that its ingenl
L ity came to light. Promptly on tt
v dot of s O'Clock every morning II
n mayor calls the switchboard operate
d at the city hall He asks In turn fc
n each city official If they happen
g be on time he gives them some con
d plant that has come to- his office {
o suggestion that has come TO his min
Ell II they are not there he makes car,
e ful note of that fact. The same thlr
Y happens every afternoon at / o'c,oc
d city officials say that he has n,
1swerved 80 seconds from the dot