Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-02

In the history OF the police depart
ment, reports at the station showed.
Only six arrests were made all even
ing, although number Of plain
DRINKS" were lodged in the city Jail
over night and released in the morn
ing.
Discontinue Freight Service-Effec-
tive today the Clinton, Davenport and
Muscatine Railway company will dis
continue it's freight car leaving Dav-
export for Clinton at 1855 a. M, and
also its Monday morning service for
perishable freight from Davenport to
Muscatine.
Marriage Licensees. J. Brinck,
Moline, and Norma Haussen, Daven-
port; Andrew o. Fosse, Sandwich, ILL.,,
and Bessie L. Sweger, Davenport.
Obituary RecOrd-Andrew Hawkin-
son passed away at his home, 224 East
Ninth street, at 2:3O O'Clock yester-
day morning after short illness of
pneumonia. Mr.. Hawkinson was born
in Sweden April II, 1916, and was II
years old. He came to America So
yeas ago and during his first year in
this country made his home in Chi
cago. sThe following year he came to
Davenport and found employment
with the Thomas Mccullough Sons
TailOrs as a cutter.
PIasterers Get BO0st-A new wage
scale for the plasterers of the tri-
cities went into effect yesterday. The
men will now receive 81 for eight
hours, or S7k cents an hour. The for
mer scale, which was in effect for
several years, was S. per day.
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Forty Per Cent in Class One-Ap-
proximately 40 per cent of the Daven-
port draft registrants will enter class
under the new selective service reg
ulations, according to estimates COM
piled by the city exemption boards,
based upon the returns received from
approximately so per cent of the ques-
tionnaires. ..-.. ....
French Gets COmmissiOn-Another
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men will soon don the olive drab, G.
| Decker French having received first
lieutenantcy in te ordnance corps. No
tice Of the granting of the commission
was received by Mr.. French late Mon
day afternoon. He as not yet received
orders to report for duty, but expects
them shortly. He does not expect to be
stationed at Rock Island arsenal Mr.
French is the head Of the Central En-.
cheering Co.
Uniform Price Desired-The loca
fuel committees of Scott county and
Rock Island county will hold a john
meeting in the near future, according
to plans now being arranged. One o.
the main desires of the two boards
is to establish uniform prices on botf
sides of the river. The Rock Island
committee is composed of H. A. Clev
enstine Of Rock Island, chairman
Mayor Carlson of Moline, secretary;
and NJ. J. McEniry of Moline. The
Davenport committee is now receiv
ing from the dealers and forwarding
to State Fuel Administrator Webster
weekly reports of coal received ant
on hand instead of bi-weekly as wa.
done heretofore. The dealers repor
all coal received during the week ant
the amount OF coal on hand at the tim,
Of making the report. The state fue
administrator in turn forwards re
ports to National Fuel Administrator
Garfield.
Burglar Drops HB Watch-Fair ex
change is no robbery. in the estima
ton of burglar who entered Bar
Bros. dairy. SIS Brady street, befor'
1898 New Years eve. In fact, he CAV,
the dairy q little the best OF it. II
climbing through a cellar window t,
gain entrance to the store, the burg
lar dropped his Columbia watch. t,
which was attached fob bearing tn
letter 3D." He apparently did not no
tice his loss. Going on into the store
! he found an axe belonging to the dair.
company and smashed the combina
; ton ON the Office safe But when. h
. found that this would not open tn
door. he gave up and broke open
J desk drawer. From this drawer h
took an Ingersoli dollar watch tina
wouldn't run, and then gave up. leav
. ing the store by the same cellar win
dow which he had climbed In.