Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-05-30
The Day i'm Davenport

Farmers Make RecOrd-Rural
Scott county and the smaller
towns have subscribed over $4,000
to the Red Cross relief fund. Win
one of the 16 country branches
missing-the New Liberty district
reports at noon tabulated yes
terday at the local chapter head
quarters shows $9,001.40 and a
prize hog given to the war fund
outside Davenport.
Arsenal Men Leaye-Between 90
and 100 members of the ordnance
department left Rock Island ar
senal last evening for an eastern
cantonment to complete their
course of work. The order for
their transfer came several days
ago. The time of departure and
the name of the new camp were
not announced.
Ensign Goes to France-Ensign
S. n. James of the Salvation Army
in Davenport will depart Sunday
night for Chicago and on June Il
will sail for France where he will
be assigned to Salvation Army
work in the front line trenches for
the duration of the war He re-
ceived his passports yesterday.
Marriage Licenses-George c.
Poppe, Davenport, and Marie l.
Seligman, Davenport. Walter F.
Schoellermann, Toronto. Iowa, and
Meta Mathilda Stahl, Davenport.
Louis H. Wunschel, Davenport.
and Ruth K. Benkert, Davenport.
May Revoke 0rder-That the
federal government will revoke its
order barring the sale of 100000
worth of Davenport school bonds
during the period of the war and
permit the issue to be placed upon
the market Immediately was the
impression gained by school Off
Gals from a conference held with
P. P. Claxon, commissioner of edu-
cation, at Washington Sunday.
VIII Sail SOOn-Private Jansen
is a member of Battery b and ex-
poets to sail shortly for France.
He is former high school boy
and is but 10 years old, being the
only child of Mr.. and Mrs. Chris
tan Jansen. The father . is the
well known West Second street
jeweIer. He is one of the As mem
bers of the Davenport batteries
selected to go from Camp Cody to
Camp Upton, \. Y, preparatory to
their departure for France.
Wheat Rum6r Denied-Dick r.
Lane, U. S. food administrator for
Scott county, has received the fol-
lowing message from Herbert
Hoover, national food admins
traitor at Washington. Reports
have been circulated that food ad-
ministration officials state that
further wheat conservation is not
necessary. No statement of the
character has ever been issued.
The actual position is that our sup
ply until harvest will allow home
consumption of approximately one
third normal if we are to maintain
our supply to the allies. In the
farmers hands and storage we had
at the beginning of May 10000, 900
approximately three months or
with an early harvest perhaps two
weeks shorter. Our normal con-
sumption for three months would
be 120,000,000 bushels. not allow
ing the allies anything"
Troop Trains Pass. A ru-
NOR to the effect that men,
tSers of the two Davenport batter
les were on a troop train which
passed through Davenport yester-
d-y morning sent scores of local
people to Rock Island. where the
train stopped for about half an
hour at the Thirty-first street sta
ton. An investigation revealed
that the troopers were engineers
from Camp Funston. Kansas. Their ,
destination was not known. Two
more troop trains went through In
the afternoon.
Obituary Record.-Netaa Crews
.uehl, former resident OF this