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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-13
Obituary
Mrs. Dora Alice Perry.

Mrs. Dora Alice Perry, 723
Twelfth street, Moline. passed away
at her home yesterday afternoon.
She was q years old and sinc1
her residence in Moline she had
had charge of the music at the
Edgewood Baptist church, Rock Is
land. Her husband survives her.
The funeral services will be held
at the home tomorrow afternoon
at 1890 and will be conducted by
Rev. w. E. Schliemann. The burial
will he in Reynolds, Mrs. Perry s
old home.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-13
MORE CHICAGO VOTERS.

Chicago, March 10. - Registra-
ton for April election resulted in
126.62S names being nlaced on the
books YESTERDAY, 2670 more than
were added to the noll sheet in 1915
when a lively mayoralty contest
was under way.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-13
Nargnerita LeSthaetat.

Marguerite Lesthaetat. infant
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Lesthaetat, 205 Fifth street. Silvis,
died yesterday afternoon at 2:30.
The child was born March 20, 1916.
Surviving are the parents and two
brothers.
Funeral services will be held at
s O'Clock this morning at the home
and at $50 at ST Mary's church.
Father Van StaDDen will officiate
and interment Will be in ST. Mary's
cemetery.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-13
Gust L. Anderson.

Funeral services of Gust E. An
'derson were held yesterday after
noon at 2:30 in the Danielson &
Furgie chapel. Moline. Rev. G. H.
Johnson officiated and the singers
were Mrs Carl Larson and Mrs.
Oscar Anderson. Palibearers were
T. E. Lundell, Arthur, julius and
Harry Lundell, John Peterson and
E. r. Stein. Interment was 10
Riverside cemetery.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-13
SCHOOL LEAD sTIDENT.

Wilson P. Hun, president of the
Moline board Of education. was
one OF the members OF the public
speaking class OF the Y. N. c A
night school who performed last
evening when an ex tempo pro-
gram was given Everything from
Abe Lincoln 10 the reasons WIZ
a, person should pay his debts was
discussed.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-13
HOME ON FURLOUGH.

Leslie Miles. formerly employed
at the Root & VanDervoort plant,
East Moline. is home for a visit
with Moline relatives from Camp
Logan. Houston. Texas He is Il
corporal and expects to spend 10
days in the north.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-13
OPPOSES BAR TO WOMEN.

Washington. March Suspen-
sions of laws or ordinances prohib-
iting married wome. from teach
ing school is advocated by Federal
Commissioner of Education Clax-
ton today as the best means of re-
placing the large number of teao h
ers who have quit to enter war
work.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-13

Q. T. Nelson was named Tor toWn
clerk and George Ramsey for as
SCISSOR. Supervisor Child caused
something of a stir by declaring
he thought it an opportune time
to take the Craftsmanship of the
board away from the country pre-
cincts where it has so long re-
manned and to hand it to a Pillow
city member. A candidate for con
stable will be named by The central
committee.
DR.. W. Z. Taylor made a ringing
patriotic speech in which he saiu
no candidate of any party should
be supported at the polls who was
not a real American. c. +. Dietz
was chairman of the meeting and
\. E. Munson secretary
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-13
BOWLING

Silvis shop bowlers won the first
game of a series with the engi-
neers and then dropped the other
two at the Moline Y. NJ. c. A alleys
last evening. Here's the figures:
American League.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-13
Eelma HOSSfettPr.

Funeral services for Velma Hoss-
letter, were held this afternoon at
2 o'clock at the HAMPTON Methodist
church. Rev. Thomas Van Lear of
ficiated and interment was made in
Hampton cemetery.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-13
THREE ARF FINFu

Leo Condor. Rock Island: Hal
sev Bengster. Davenport. and II. ~.
Smythe, Moline. were each fined
81 and costs in Moliuo police court
yesterday afternoon for hopping
trains.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-13
Dates to Remember
EAST MOLINE.

Election-April 16. Vote on To-
cal option and for four aldermen.
TOWNSHIP.
Election-April 2. Name super
visors and other town officers in
Hampton and South Moline town
9hiDs
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-13

After a bit of old-time fireworks
in which an effort was made to dc
feat the women candidates for as
sistant supervisors, the Republi-
cans of Moline township in mass
convention last evening at Turner
hall not only named one but two
pettiCoat nominees, the latter prov
ing a bit more adept at the poltti-
cal game than those who would
GUST them.
Not only did this said faction fail
to keep the feminine members or
the ticket, but in their anxiety 10
put over three candidates on Us
late it lost J. Austin Schaible. in
cumbe who was not obnoxious to
the group John Weckel, for many
years a member of the county
board, was also ditched in favor OF
Elmer Mowry, clerk at the DeWoI
& Blomgren store. MIR. Weckel was
a member Of the special jail build
ing committee, one OF the staunch-
est of the regulars and known as
Chairman John Liptons right hand
man.
Previous to the convention it was
HSuIeu Ludt uut OLS "OLAoh "ouiN
be nominated. The term Of Mrs.
Mary G. Ogden expired. She was
a candidate again and Mrs. Z. H.
Sleight, former member of the
board, who was defeated last year
Dy Mrs. Alice Child Walker, also
pitched her bonnet in the ring. But
when tickets were distributed a.
the meeting bearing only the names
of Elmer Mowry, William Sunblade
and Clyde White, and an effort
made to put them over, the women
got together and both were nomi-
nated, along with o. E. Child AM;
c. ). Kerns, present supervisors.
Following is the vote taken, l.
being agreed that the five highest
should be candidates for assistant
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-13
Letter ia
DIR. kiimer ~ CO..
Blngbanton, v. y.
Prove What swamp Rect WIN Do
For You.

Send 10 cents to Or. Kilmer & Co,
B.nghamton. n, Y. for sample size
bottle. II will convince anyone. You
will also receive booklet of valu-
able Information. telling about the
Kidneys and bladder When writing
be sure and mention The Rock Is
land Daily Argus. Medium and large
size bottles for sale at all drug
stores.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-13
WOMEN Good At
POLITICAL GAME
Effort to Defeat Gentle Sex for
Nomination for Assistant Su-
pervisOrs Falls Down.
G. o. +. NOMINEES.

G.. o. L. NOMINEES.
Assistant supervisOrs-O. f.
Child, G. ). Kerns, Mrs. l.. I'll.
Sleight. Mrs. Mary q. Ogden,
Elmer MOwry.
Town clerk-0. T. Nelson.
ssessOr-Ge0rgc Ramsey.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-13

Moline lodEa No. 1873. / 0. o. F..
Iaet evening, the second degree was
conferred on II members. Three
applications were received After
the work there was a business
meeting.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-13
Jews of the DAY i'm Moline and East Moline
The Argus.

MOLINE OFFICE.
1897 ~ Third Avenue A.
Phone Moline so.
T. c. Nandar. -....-..- City Editor
EAST MOLINE OFFICE,
Telephone East Moline l6S-R
{. D. Temple. Circulation Manager
Delivered by carrier at l2i- cents
re- Week f. Moline t-ast Moline,
SilEtS and Waterfowl
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-23
PREACHER SEES CATHOLIC PERIL ,.
 IN PROHIBITION
(Hartford Courant.)

Speaking on Some Startling Vaga- ries of the Puritan Conscience" to the Catholic Library Association, the Rev Joseph H. McManan, pastor of tha Roman Catholic Church of. Our I.adv of Lourdes, declared that what he called the intolerant, narrow-minded bigotry of the Puritan" conscience was forcing in this country intouEs state of prohibition which would aez, stroy the right of free will and wo6ld mean a struggle between the liberal minded Roman Catholics and the P(ir- itans. Speaking of the forces at work to pass the prohibition law, Father McMahan said: IsJ v "They are going to attempt to make man moral by statute, somethifig do. There are only 16,00O,O0O CatffOL lies in this country, but we should clamor for the rights of others by every means. Prohibition is aimed at the destruction of the individual free dom of man. It will remove the right to decide between good and bad, and will make a man a slave. Wine has often been conducive of happiness and mirth in those countries which did not abuse it.
 "Then, there is the denial of justice
 by prohibitionists to the vested rights of business. The drink interests have grown up with the sanction of the Government, but in no State, so far as know, which has become prohibition has any consideration been given ,,ta those engaged in the liquor trade. Pros hibition violates the fundamental law of the right of property But what lconcerns us most vitally is the jeopar- dizing of the rights of our religion. by prohibition. Do you realize that in
 practically every State where there is prohibition it is violation of the law for priest to have wine in his pesz session to celebrate the mass? If pEed hibition goes into effect throughout the country we will have to face the pros pect of abolishing the mass or else of holding it in secret, as in the days of | the catacombs."
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-23
HOOVER URGES
 SHIPBUIL LDERS
 ID VOLUNTEER
Says Problem of Getting Food to Our Forces and
 Allies Is Most Urgent.

Hartford, Feb. 23-Ships for the transportation of food to American soldiers and the nations Allies con- stitute an urgent problem for this gov ernment, according to the opinion voiced by United States Food Admin istrator Hoover in a telegram received today by the Connecticut State Coun- cil of Defense, urging rapid enrolment of shipyard volunteers.
 MT. Hoover's appeal follows:
 "The problem of getting food to our soldiers overseas and to the soldiers and the war workers of the Allies and their women and children includes not only the finding of the food but the finding of the ships in which to send it. No amount of increased produc- tion, decreased food use, or general food substitution and saving will help unless the ships are available for send ing the saved food over there. My anXieties about ships are no less num- erous and various than those about food itself. Hence it is with the ut most earnestness that I endorse the idea of creating a voluntary reserve of men from which the man power necessary to solve the great problem of shipping can be recruited as rapid ly as it can be used.'
 Service in the shipyards though not of the fighting kind, is lauded for it's patriotic character by MT. Hoover, who says: There are many more ways | than fighting by which loyal men of America can do their share in win ming the war. Not all can fight but all can help in some way. For every army of fighters there is necessary a much larger army of loyal eager men devoted to the maintenance of the fighting unit. One is as essential and truly patriotic a service as the other. So by all means let us enroll a vol untary reserve corps of men from which the necessary man power for the shipyards can be recruited"
 Leo A. Korper, state director of the Public Service Reserve, is daily re- ceiving enro1lments of many Connecti- cut men of skilled trades for the Ship yards Volunteers. The enrolment campaign will continue throughout the state until the quota of 10000 has been raised Enrolment blanks and pledge cards can be obtained from the local agencies of the Connecticut State i Council of Defense throughout the state. Volunteers remain at their present employment until called by the government.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-23
FIRST AMERICAN
 CATHOLIC DIOCESE

Special services were held in the Catholic churches of San Juan, Porto Rico, yesterday in commemoration of the 405th anniversary of the creation of the first Catholic Diocese in the New World. The diocese of Porto Rico was created in 1514, only twenty years after the discovery of the island by Columbus, during his second voy- age. Juan Ponce de Loon was the first to explore Porto Rico, and be- came it's governor in 1909, founding the town of Caparra, near the present site of San Juan. It was Ponce de Leon who induced the church authori- ties to establish the diocese of Porto Rico, which had Jurisdiction over all the Spanish settlements in the West Indies.
 The second Catholic diocese in the New World was that of Peru, also es- tablished in the sixteenth century, fol lowing the conquest of that country and the founding of the city of Lima by Francisco Pizarro. The convent of St.. Francis, built in 1536, and the Lima University, founded in 1571, are the oldest institutions of their kind in l the Americas.
 | The first Catholic see of North
 America was that of Quebec, of which the famous Mgr. de Laval was the
 first Bishop. This diocese, to which de Laval was formally appointed in 1874
 covered nearly the whole of the North
 American continent. De Laval found- | ed the Grand Seminary for the educa- tion of priests at Quebec in 1863, and
 Laval University also serves to com memorate the name of the first bishop of the Dominion.
 The diocese of Baltimore is the oldest in the United States, having been created in 1789.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-23
on the occasion of Washing

sembly, on the occasion of Washing tons Birthday.
 Congress realizes the necessity of unity, concentration and co-ordina- ton in time of war; said Senator Colt, land that to accomplish these ends the President must have en- larged powers: Congress also finds .in the great war powers conferred by the constitution on the legislative branch of the government abundant justification for clothing our com mander-in-chief with every authority necessary to win the war. But when the war ends we shall retain on the statute books no more of the present legislation than is compatible with the public interest and in full accord with the personal rights of the indi- vidual under the constitution"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-23
ALMANAC FOR TO-DAY

ALMANAC FOR SUNDAY
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-23
NO FEAR OF U, S.
 DICTATORSHIP,
 DECLARES COL !

Providence, R. L, Feb. 22-Con- gress will continue to place wide pow CTS and the resources of the nation in the hands of President Wilson and the country need have no fear of a dictatorship" Senator Colt of Rhode Island, declared today in an address tc members of the state general as
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-23
LORD LANDSDOWNE PRAISES WILSON,:
 COST OF VICTORY
Fears Proongation of the War Will Mean Ruin of the World The Sacrifice of Blood and Money and the Danger of Famine and World
 Pestilence Threatens All.
(By The International News Bureau Incl
 BY LORD LANDSDOWNE

Now is quite true that there have been from time to time statements of the aims of this country Those statements broad outline, and could be filled their different according to the inclination of the reader But those statements made there have been the the developments of them not of character very to contemplate which seemed to call for reconsdera- ton the question: and besides that there been owing various accidents the revelation uteror war not included in the original description which to many people negble and therefore, needing ex- planahon.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-23

Federal Reserve banks and Ma tional banks in large cities will be allowed to open branch banks under the provisions of a bill reported out by the House banking and currency committee. - .-s-e ,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-23

The Bridgeport Christian Union, Inc, (City Mission), S6S Water St., Rev. Charles W. Simpson, Supt. Ser vices every, evening at 8 o'clock and Sunday afternoon at 3. Tomorrow af- ternoon Rev. c. W. Simpson will speak. ... .
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-23
Need of Enlightenment

I think both the people in Ger many and in England are at this mo- ment moulding the views of their own government. But if it is necessary that that process should be under taken, surely it follows that all pains should be taken on both sides in or der to educate the people concerned, and to make them fully aware of the true facts of the case. I feel that the German people have been grossly and deliberately misled as to the reasons for which Germany went to war, and equally misled as to objects for which we are proIonging the war, and I don't think it would be entirely wrong to say that our own people require good deal of enlightenment on the same subject.
 Outsiders can speak with a frank ness that is not always open to those mistake as to the objects we have in view. We desire in the first place c clean peace-a peace based on ade- quate repacation, and a peace that will give adeduate security for the future.
 We desire such peace to be ob- tained as soon as possible, and we J trust there will be no unnecessary fencing in exaggerated fear of fall ing into peace traps. Finally, may I express our hopes that our own gov
 ernment, in pursuit of these objects.
 will leave no effort unmade, however difficult, and no avenue unexplored.
 no matter how unpromising it may seem to be? (By The International News Bureau, Inc, Boston, Mass.)
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-23

Much of the senator's speech was taken up with emphasizing the pro- found influence exerted at the present time by the example of Washingtons life.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-23

One good strike fomenter is worth soldiers.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-23

brings me to another point. I think that the importance of the discus sion which I have been endeavoring to promote lies in the fact that they tend to bring the points at issue to the notice of the people concerned on both sides
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-23

SWEET PEAS, VIOLETS, TULIPS
 DAEFODTIlS, JOHN RICK S SON.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-12
REVIEW BIG
SPECTACLE

The first great review of the
91st division with arms began to
move promptly at 2 o'clock
Thursday afternoon, before Mai.
Gen. Greene and his staff, who
were mounted and stationed at
the middle of the great parade
groundw at Camp Lewis.
For more than two hours the
wonderful procession passed, reg
iments of all branches of the
army. the artillery, the cavalry,
the infantry, engineers, medical,
all in one long array. Numbers
of trucks, supply trains and pack
burros were included.
Gen. Greene, sitting on horse
back a few feet in front of his
staff, saluted the regimental COM
manders as they passed by upon
their prancing horses.
The infantry in mile-long lines,
with their bayonets cleaning in
the sun, were a spectacle to take
the breath of the beholder.
The only one who did not
seemed at all impressed with the
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-12
JORDAN TO
TALK HERE

David Starr Jordan. president
emeritus Of Leland Stanford uni
versity, again will be the guest of
the Public Forum Sunday night,
speaking on THE Problem of
Alsace-LOrraine."
Since his visit here last fall,
DR.. Jordan has written two books,
Democracy and World Rela-
tions," and "The Ways of Pan
Germany"
His address on "The Problem of
Alsace-Lorraine," is by request.
President Wilson has said,
THE wrong done to France in
1870, must be righted." Just
how, is the problem.
DR.. Jordan was in Alsace-Lor-
raine few days before the war
broke.
The Forum committee has said
that the last address of DIR. Jor-
dan here on 1.-THE Political Ana
tony of Germany" was the most
effective indictment of Germany
yet given in Tacoma.
The Forum meets at the First
Congregational church.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-12
America No Longer Mere sBabylonia

You can we'll imagine the
kaiser, as he finishes cleaning mp
the crumbs in the East and comes
toward the end OF this breathing
spell, calling in Hindenburg and
Ludendorff, to survey the situa-
ton, to cast the balance, and make
estimates of what Is ahead. And
in such a conference you can cas-
lily imagine the kaiser asking his
aids: What OF America"
Hindenburg may Dluster and
bluff; but Ludendorff is a man of
thought; Ludendorff would say:
"A thing has happened, Majestat,
a thing that is like the pulling of
the lever of a great machine. At
first the wheels turn quite slowly,
but they gather great momentum.
America has taken a step.
1T was for her a very strange
step, an unfamiliar step, but hav-
ing decided to take, she has taken
it all, and whole-heartedly. She
has willed to war. She has turned
herself for the time into a war ma
chine, and that machine has been
gathering momentum for now two
years already. A very great de-
mocracy, the greatest of democra-
cies, has organized for war, to
make the world safe for democ-
racy,' their President Will
son says. They have adopted
what we always assumed such a
loose democracy would never
adopt-the draft, as they call it.
1--WE did not count upon that,
we counted on these Americans
adopting the traditional system,
the volunteer system. 1t is a thing
to be considered, Majestat. It is
a serious thing, not merely for
now and for you, but for the fu-
ture, for your son and your dy-
nasty and for the system Of au-
tocracy that is the concern of us
all. They have registered ten mil
lion young men between the ages
of twenty-one and thirty-one.
About a third of them they are
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-12
british col ONEL CALLS
SITUATION EVERY CRAVE"

Extremely grave" was the COM
mt on the west front situation
de by Col. Murray, Earl Of Dun
re, in his address at the Union
BIB banquet to Mai. Gen. Greene
night.
Col. Murray comes right from
,ardy and, In fact, had been sta
ned for q time at Armentieres,
ich the Germans occupied yes
day.
He was introduced as "a man
0 has accounted for more Huns
IN any other war visitor Ia
ma has yet entertained
Armentieres, he said, however,
a worthless ruin and had long
en- a decidedly uncomfortable
zee to hold as a river flowed at
back, with only a few bridges
supply and communication
,es.
The earl declared he thought
; British and French could
,intain the western line, tho it
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-12

Pacific ave. and Broadway, be-
tween 9th and 18th, looks like a
dust storm between 8 and 9
o'clock every morning. And to
pass along one of these streets at
that time of day is like saunter-
ing past threshing machine.
At least that's the complaint
that George NJ. Elliott, Tacoma
real estate man, and of the Com
mercial club civic bureau, has to
make.
Every morning between 8 and
9, Tacoma merchants land they
all do it, seem to feel it their
duty to sweep off the sidewalks
in front of their places of bust
ness" says Elliott. Some of
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-12

might often be bent in the coming
stages Of the great battle.
Gen. Greene spoke in warm ap-
probation Of Tacoma's co-opera-
ton with him and of his men and
his staff. Other speakers includ-
ed Col. Brees, T. H. Martin, DR..
M. A. Matthews of Seattle, Henry
Rhodes, Roger Marchetti, a priv
ate at Camp Lewis, Scott z. Hen
derson, Ole Hanson, Seattle may
or; j. w. Spangler of Seattle and
Herbert S. Griggs POSTMASTER.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-12
Railway to Train and Care
For Small Army of Women

There is one Tacoma organiza-
tion that is preparing to train and
care for the growing army of
women who are marching into the
ranks of business to take the
places of men who battle at the
front.
The O.-W. railway has Just es-
tablished a Bureau of Women S
Activities extending over its en-
tire system, probably the first
move of this kind to be made in
the L. S.
Miss Avis Lobdell, who has
been appointed head of the bur-
eau, was in Tacoma Thursday
getting acquainted" and prepar-
ing for the big job she believe is
ahead Of her.
My work will include not only
the employment Of women in the