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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-07

At a meeting of the Weman's Bene-
fit Association, Hive No. 119, held last
evening in Swedish Olive hall, Moline,
one candidate was initiated and ar
rangements were made to hold knit
ting bee at the home of Mrs. Mile
Smith next Wednesday evening.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-07
In the Lodges

Members Of the Ancient Order of
United Workmen. Moline, are urged to
attend the meeting to be held this
evening at Turner hall. Three candi-
dates are to be initiated and State Or
ganizer Jensen will be present.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-07

All the news all the time-The
Argus.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-07

izer or any
kind. Notl
lnha1e. No
bing or in,
triclty or
Licking Valley courier., 1918-04-25
Huns Find Yanks Are Fighters.
ONLY 20 LEFT OUT OF BAND OF 200
RAIDERS.
Germans Gradually Becoming Disabused
of Idea Americans Are Not Scrappers.

NEW YORK, April PA raid by a
party OF 200 Germans on a portion Of
American. held line, in which all but 20 Of
the attacking force were accounted for BY
the defending Americans, was described by
Raymond Starbard, an adjutant in the
War Work Organization of The Salvation
Army, who arrived here today, after having
been within range Of German artillery on
the western front for seven months.
In making report 10 headquarters here
Adjutant Starbard said:
"The raid occurred March 7. One G :
man Ia member of the attaking party }
leaped. TO an exposed position, and in
very excellent English shouted: "Ccme on
out, you American dogs, and fghtl" Be
fore he could leap back to safety, one OF
our men had thrown a handgIenade. which
took of both Of his legs. Then ensued a
Ilerce encounter, in which the Americans
accounted for $50 Of 200 in the ,raiding
group"
Gradually the German fighting forces
are becoming disabused Of their idea thai
the Americans are not "scrappers," Adult.
ant Starbard declared. Men of the Allied
forces on the battle lines are confident o.
victory, he added Huntington Herald
Dispatch.
Licking Valley courier., 1918-04-25
Convenient Religion.

Everybody knows Of the Conscientious
slackers, who in order 10 save their worth.
ess hides from becoming targets for Hun
bullets, profess deep religious resentment
against war and all thereto appertaining
The other day, at the plant of the Monte
Stove and Range Company, three men
employe ed at good wages, refused 10 pur
hase liberty bonds because their religion,
beliefs opposed contribution OF any kline
10 anything having to do with old mar
Mars game. The other 10 molder
patriotically purchased the bonds, an,
we're glad to do it. The these blasphem
srs who used religion as a cloak to hid,
'ither their pro. Gelmanism or their pen
uriousness or both. were discharged by II
l.. Gorsuch the company's treasurer, ant
Comment wants TO congratulate Mr.. Cor
such for this prompt and wholesome ex
abition of Americanism. We expect tC
can the kaiser, and it will help nightly
It all concerns, with this aim in view
would "can" the slackers, be they bono
slackers, service slackers or what not
Comment.
Licking Valley courier., 1918-04-25
Not Guilty.

A young lawyer not noted for intelli.
:, nee, succeeded in getting client acquit-
ted OF murder, Meeting with a friend Il
w days ailelward the lawyer was greeted
with warm congratulations,
"les," he said, mopping his brow, 81
got him of, but 1t was narrow escape"
"a narrow ESCAPED How?'
"Ah, the liz h. est slue, ze you ever saw.
You know examined the witnesses an
made the arguments myself, the plea be-
ing self defense. The jury was out two
Nhole days. Finally the Judge asked what
the trouble was.
"'Only one thing, your honor replied
he foreman. WAS the prisoners counsel
retained by him or appointed by the court;
"'No, gentlemen; the prisoner is a man
of means, said the court, and engaged hls
own counsel.
81 could not see what bearing the ques.
ton had on the evidence" continued the
lawyer, but 10 minutes later in filed the
jury, and what do YOU think the verdict
wasl"
WHAT" asked his friend.
"Why, not guilty, on the ground of in.
Sanity."-Exchauee.
Licking Valley courier., 1918-04-25
The Days Mail.

It's all in the days mail. The
Government, as expressed thru
Congress and freaks of censor
ship, doesn't think very well of
the newspapers as a rule.
Through adverse legislation
ard lack of proper protective
lie gislation, twelve hundred A
marican newspapers have died
ignominious deaths starved to
death in a land of plenty, during
the past twelve months.
This would indicate that the
Government does not feel kindly
toward newspapers and periodi.
Gals, and that it places but a poor
estimate upon their value as fac.
tors in the national life,
And yet there is abundant
proof to the contrary. Take the
days mail, for example. On
yesterday the Herald d-Dispatch
received eighteen pieces of Gov.
ernment propaganda three from
State bureaus under the Council
of Defense; five from the Com.
mittee of Public Information
three from the Department OF
Agriculture; four from the
American Red Cross, and three
from the Federal Reserve Board
all of this exclusive Of probably
a dozen opon circulars thrown in
the postoffice waste basket, max.
ing at least thirty pieces of pre-.
uganda received from the FEEDER.
al government and marked "Fol
Publication"
This is but the average mai
that the average American daily
newspaper gets every day in the
year. The subject matter con,
tained in these envelopes marked
For (free) Publication" re
ceived daily, would fill every col
umn of a newspaper twice al
large as the Herald-Dispatch.
When it comes to recognizing
the rights Of newspapers wher
it comes to giving to the news
papers, the Government is botl
deaf and blind. But when i
comes to asking it is lavish in it,
requests and not at all modest il
making them,
We believe the Government i.
not wholly insensible to the gooC
the newspapers do. We believe
that many public men recognize
in the press of the country an in,
fluence without which the pres.
ent structure could not be main.
! tained. The fact that every de.
Licking Valley courier., 1918-04-25

pratme Of the Governme Il
bombards every newspaper in Il e
the country daily with request
for voIuminous free publication
of matter deemed necessary to
the proper dispatch of war busi-
ness is tacit admission that the
authorities at Washington place
great reliance upon the assist
ance of the newspapers.
And yet the newspapers are
being sacrificed upon the altar of
a narrow and selfish policy, which
could have had its birth only in
the minds of a few thin-skined
individuals who have their own
peculiar reasons for hating the
newspapers.
The Herald-Dlspatch has been
generous in its treatment of the
matter confded to its judgment
and patriotism for publication.
1t will continue to pursue this
policy of liberalitv.
But the differential between
the Congressional and Admins.
tional attitude toward the news.
papers and what the Government
seems to expect of them is SC
wide as to be positively ludicrous
Huntington Herald Dispatch.
Licking Valley courier., 1918-04-25
A Bathtub, a Summer Necessity.

Mrs. Farmer, how about that
bathtub you vowed last August
that you were going to have this
summer? Are you going to give
up the idea altogether? | would
not. Think of how much it will
rest you to have a tub bath after
you have been canning or ironing
all day.
You can have the tub without
having water piped all through
the house. Isn't there a corner
OF the pump house that you could
cut off for the tub so that you
would not have to carry water
for the bath. except hot water to
take the chill off,. A collapsible
tub can be bought for a few dol
lars or a movable tin or zinc one
can be built for a small sum.
A shower bath is very much
more easily arranged than a tub
bath. A bucket to tip over into
an old dishpan which has holes in
the bottom will make a good
shower. Two buckets, one for
warm and one for cold, would be
better than one.
Get your boy working on the
problem for you, Mrs. Farmer.
He will solve it; for where is the
boy who if he likes a bath at all,
does not love a shower?- HELEN
BUQUo, In Southern Agriculturist
Licking Valley courier., 1918-04-25

Conservation" is the slogan of the American people,
and iti good slogan But it should apply to the gov
ernmen as well as to the citizens Although doubtless
officials at Washington doing their utmost in this
direction yet there is in the rank and file of government
employees large room for Improvement
Some months ago. when the food conservation cam
paign opened, there appointed in certain state
publicity agent who proudly announced that he had left
his business in the hands of employees while he served
his country without pay His first act was to dispatch
teegrams to every newspaper in the state, calling aten
ton to the necessity of cooperating with the government
and urging the support of the paper to the fight for food
conservation No can doubt that every one of
those kilograms were paid for by the government at full
rates. when twocent stamp would have taken each one
and gotten it to its destination in twentyfour hours
There is such thing as Saving at the spigot and
wasting at the bung" The government machinery is the
bung, and can not be watched too closely
Licking Valley courier., 1918-04-25
Freedom.

| will take my choice with the
blowing grasses
They shall lift me up through
the living sod
Till | stand where the clean, keen
west wind passes
And laugh to the great, glad
heart of God.
| will take my chance in the far,
free spaces
Where the great Dark hovers
on soft, wide wings,
Forgetting the fret of these
earthly places
In the claim of changeless,
eternal things.
| will take my chance with the
raptured wonder
Of souls unfettered and up-
afraid,
Where leaping lightning and JOY
Gus thunder
Call to the paths that the gods
have made.
| will take my chance-there is
none shall bind me
To sterile hope or to futile
breath,
While out from the things that
smother and blind me
Sweeps the free, bright high
way that men call death. =
Exchange.
Licking Valley courier., 1918-04-25
Our Job Work is worth
inspection.

In all your talk of and longing
for peace remember this: Any
peace that may come before the
German war machine is smashed
is a greater world calamity than
another year of war can possibly
be. Southern Agriculturist.
Licking Valley courier., 1918-04-25
The Beasts We Are Fighting.

Mrs. Florence Claerhout, a
Belgian woman who lived in Iowa
and who went home-in May,
1914-to visit relatives in Lende-
lede, got out of Belgium by walk
ing ninety miles, accompanied by
and often carrying her two child
rem, who were too young to stand
the hardships of the journey un-
aided.
The German-American Patri-
otic Association of Iowa here's
an honorable use of the hyphen
publishes Mrs. CIaerhout's
story, accompanied by her affida-
yit and print from a photograph
of her passport with her photo
graph in one corner, and issues
the folder under the auspices of
the Iowa State Council of Nation
al Defense.
Mrs. Claerhout's affidavit is in
part as follows:
"On August A, 1914, | saw the
German soldiers invade Belgium.
saw them kill and imprison the
male citizens of Lendelede. |
saw the German soldiers rob the
people of my village, and burn
their houses and cut the fingers
from the women and children for
the rings on them. Two young
boys were imprisoned in a house
which was then burned. saw
children around Leavie that had
their hands cut off by the Ger
man soldiers. / saw a woman
carrying two buckets of water,
and saw a soldier pass her and
draw his sword and cut off hel
right hand. saw the priest OF
a Catholic church plead with the
soldiers to spare the lives of the
women and children, and saw
one of the soldiers draw his sa.
ber and cut off the priests head.
Il knew two young girls Is
and 20 years of age who had t
submit to the German officers af.
ter serving them their dinners,
This was told to me by the girls
themselves. | know shortly af.
ter this one of these two girls
became insane and the other com
mitted suicide. saw five ysune
boys shot by the German soldiers
while out riding on their bicycles,
| knew a Young married couple
that had retired for the night
when five soldiers forced the door
o their room and forced the wo
man to submit to them, while
others stood guard over her hus
band with a revolver. This wa:
tod to me by the woman herself
AT the depot at Vlaanderen
saw an English soldier wounded
: that had no hat or shoes or socks
and it was cold and he complain
! ed because he suffered with the
: cold and | found an old blanke
: and covered him up and then tht
: soldier on guard knocked mt
! down for doing it. saw Ger
: man soldiers have in their pos
: session the cutoff fingers of wo
$ men and children with rings OIL
them.
II saw a French aeroplant
! shot down and the aviator wound
: ed, and then saw the wounded
aviator thrown into a hole anC
t buried alive. | could hardl!
stand the sight. | saw German
aviators fly ever our village ant
drop bombs on the people. "
Licking Valley courier., 1918-04-25

Plant seeds and grow bullets Impossible, you say?
Not at ALL The great need of the allied forces the
front today is ample supplies of food The need of the
allied nations is food Without it the would prove
failure it matters not how many bullets mold and send
across Food and more food is the cry and with it we
will make effective the bullets Hungry soldiers can have
no heart for fighting and must fight this to
finish. RAISE SOMETHING TO EAT.
Licking Valley courier., 1918-04-25

If any one doubts the ability of the women of this
country fighters they reminded that just these
women are successfully prosecuting three great
They are doing yeoman service in whipping the kaiser
successfully prosecuting war for political recognition
and are whipping John Barleycorn to standstill.
Licking Valley courier., 1918-04-25
WHY so, GOVERNOR?

Governor Stanley vetoed the bill, passed by the last
session of the Kentucky Legislature prohibiting the teach
ing of German in the schools of this State. Why soGoy
ernor? German has recently been adopted as the official
language of hell, why not cut it out in Kentucky?
1t is the humble but honest opioion of the Courier
that you did bad days work when you put the seal Of
your disapproval upon that measure. al
Licking Valley courier., 1918-04-25

Several hundred submarine
chasers, built since the war, have
been delivered to the Navy by 81
private concerns and 6 navy
yards; many of these boats have
crossed the Atlantic, some in
severe weather.
Licking Valley courier., 1918-04-25

Uncle Sam might have thoughthe really had hurt the
Dutchmans feelings when he took those Ships if he
hadn't seen the old fellow wink the off eye at the same
time he let out that howl
Licking Valley courier., 1918-04-25

The farmer who is unwilling to raise $2.25 wheat
should ask himself the question if he is willing to ex-
change places with his boy who facing German bullets
for $780, month.
Licking Valley courier., 1918-04-25

why so sad and downcast?"
my wife has threatened to
leave me-"
Cheer up, Women are al
ways threatening something like
that, but they hardly ever doit. 4"
That's what | was thinking, I"
Houston Post.
Licking Valley courier., 1918-04-25

English market reports show
the amount of home, grown meats
of all kinds coming to the princi-
pal markets has averaged So, 00O,-
600 pounds a week since January
l, as against 22S, 100000 pounds
average for the same period of
1916. The number of cattle CON-
irg to market has decreased 65
per cent, sheep 40 per cent, hogs
6S per cent, compared to the
same period in 1916.
Licking Valley courier., 1918-04-25
What The Good Road Did.

"A man used to put twelve or
fifteen hundred pounds on a wag-
on, start to the station before
sunup and get back after dark"
said a man in a little village fif-
teen miles from the railroad to
me a few days ago. Now he
can put on a ton, go by here at
seven o'clock and get back before
sundown these long days. That's
what a good road has been worth
here"
That's what good roads are
worth anywhere. Only the peo-
pie who don't figure at all can
figure out that good roads cost
more than they are worth. Elk.
Licking Valley courier., 1918-04-25

The defeat of the entire Thompson ticket in Chicago
would argue that Big Bill must be content to the
kaiser in humble sphere than the United States
Senate.
Licking Valley courier., 1918-04-25

1t is said Germany is discussing plan to insure wo-
men against spnsterhood AS Germans are experts at
venting substitutes, perhaps they invent substitute
for man.
Licking Valley courier., 1918-04-25

ADVERTISING RATEs-l0 cents per
inch, net, for space. Composltion'
position, etc, extra.
Obituaries (cash to accompany Or
der), business readers, political read
ers, ETC., cents per line per insertion,
Licking Valley courier., 1918-04-25

draft the pool rooms of the cities ought to round
up many good marksman whose time could be better
employed in projecting lead balls than rolling ivory.
Licking Valley courier., 1918-04-25

That Missouri hog that coughed up dollar upon be-
ing kicked was mischef-maker in his tribe Everybody
will be "kickin' my hog aroun' " now.
Licking Valley courier., 1918-04-25

Those women and children killed and mangled in that
Paris church by the big German gun merely another
acceptable sacrifice to Gott
Licking Valley courier., 1918-04-25

Colorado man had his jaw-bone patched up with a
rib But this isn't the first instance in which rib was
used to perfect talking machine
Licking Valley courier., 1918-04-25

Better feed our boys over there if don't want
to feed the Germans over here later on
Licking Valley courier., 1918-04-25

"Czernn lied," said Clemenceau. Truly, brevity is
the soul of wit.
Licking Valley courier., 1918-04-25

Hindenburg can now plead, his apology for breaking
that Paris date, that his royal master wouldn't let him.
Licking Valley courier., 1918-04-25

Blank Deeds for sale at the
Courier Office.
Licking Valley courier., 1918-04-25

In regard to the demoralizaton of aviation pro-
gram would it be right to characterize up in the
air."
Licking Valley courier., 1918-04-25

Make it ''interment' instead of ''internment" !"
Licking Valley courier., 1918-04-25
LICKING VALLEY COURIER

Entered as second class matter
April 7, 1910, at the post.office at West
Liberty, ky., under the Act OF March
8, 1879.
The courier-index., 1918-08-09

4 In an aeroplane factory in the west
investigated by state division of the
woman's committee Council of Ma
tional Defense, great deal Of work
is being done by girls. They pack
parts, stuffing bags with excelsior,
work on wire parts. cut copper pieces
bind wires with tape, and solder
joints of wire. They put the dope,
a water proofing mixture, on wirgs
and body Of the plane, and pair. the
United States emblem on the. aoodies.
They do light carpentering and metal
The courier-index., 1918-08-09

line.
21.8 Strike Ievee. Keep road to
left.
22.7 Turn to right and cross
bridge. Reece Porter's.
$50 Strike levee and turn to left.
1863 Pass McDanieI's store and
turn to right.
27.2 Turn to left.
1872 Keep straight UP levee. Leave
store to left.
32.6 Pass Bruens Mercantile and
Porter Lake ON left.
34.6 Cross Ievee at SeypeI and
turn to left in front of store.
$50 Cross levee and turn to right
Keep on road just outside Ievee.
47.9 Keep road straight ahead
Cleft hand road) leaving Ievee.
48.4 Turn to left across small
bridge on to Range Line road.
49.2 Turn, cross Mud Line.
49.5 Turn to right through field.
SOL Cross railroad Keep road
straight ahead.
The courier-index., 1918-08-09
WILL HOLD
COTTON BUSINESS
TRADE WHICH HAD BEEN GET
TING AWAY FROM THIS STATE
WILL BE HELD AS RESULT OF
IMPROVEMENTS

Little Rock, Aug. IA large
amount of cotton business which has
been getting away from Arkansas
will hereafter be held in this state
as a result Of revolutionary changes
In warehouse construction, which be-
gan gradually months ago and has
now reached the stage where results
are being felt.
1t is said that the New Orleans and
Memphis markets will be the ones
to feel most keenIy the fact that
Arkansas has been quietly building
in her cotton centers a new and
improved type of fire resistive ware
houses, plans for which were worked
out by the Arkansas Actuarial Bureau
engineers.
The new type of fire resisting
construction has worked a great re-
duction of fire insurance rates ON
cotton and thus made Arkansas a
most attractive holding place. In
some instances the rate has been re-
duced from s4.90 to SOC per $500.
This illustrates the fact that at
tention given to fire protection
gives great savings in insurance and
in, fire loss by cutting down the haz-
ard
In Fort Smith one cotton company
which has seen 10000 bales of cot
ton annually going from their terri
tory to concentration points outside
of the state figures on getting prac-
tically 100 per. cent of the 10000
bales produced on the average there
each year.
The courier-index., 1918-08-09

500 Cross bad bridge and turn to
right.
59.4 Turn to left at store ON left
corner, onto Riceville road.
55.2 Cross railroad at Amanica.
56.2 Riceville. Follow Rock Island
to Hubert. Dad road.)
$50 Hubert. Turn to left at sta
ton and cross Rock Island tracks.
1913 Turn to right. Keep straight
road to tramway.
68.2 Memphis. Turn to left, take
first viaduct, turn to left, turn tc
right at first paved street and turn
to left at South Main street.
The courier-index., 1918-08-09
HUN TROOPS WANT
IMMEDIATE PEACE
DOCUMENTS FOUND ON GER
MANS SHOW THAT NATION IS
GREATLY DEPREssED-FR ROM
AN OFFICERS DIARY.

With the British Army in France,
Aug. 5.-Documents of the most sig
nificant character, indicating that
recent events have brought about
an extremely marked state of depres-
sion in the German army have fallen
into the hands of the British. Most
significant OF all perhaps is an ex-
tract from a German officers diary,
in which he relates he had been
The courier-index., 1918-08-09
|PIANNA-MEMPHIS
lGHWAY VIA. SEYPEL

AasuiIle river bridge, turn TO.
Pssis under railroad, cross rock
4 and turn to right.
4 Turn to right along Cow
! Cody. Turn to left across
bridge and take ferry.
4 Turn to right across railroad
oagin.
! Cross bridge and turn to left.
Tura to right.
/ Pass Brickey on right.
| Turn to right across railroad
assett. Follow telephone line.
4 Cross railroad, Leave tele-
b line.
! Sharp turn to left.
Gin on ght.
Gin on left. Follow telephone
The courier-index., 1918-08-09

When the baby is suffering the
double affliction of hot weather and
bowel disorders, the femedy needed
is McGee's Baby ElfSir. 1t reduces
the feverish condition, corrects the
stomach and checks Ieoseness Of the
bowels. Price 25c and soc per bot
tie. Sold by Harrington Bros. eff
The courier-index., 1918-08-09

asked by the divisional headquarters
whether the troops in the dne favor.
ed peace or a continuation of the war
his answer being, Immediate peace
or an immediate decisive battle"
Then entry was dated before the
Garman drive for the Marine began.
The courier-index., 1918-08-09

Water is heated IN a new garage
incinerator which contains spiral
CRATE made of brass pipes through
which the water circulatss. garbage
being placed at the top Of the device
and falling as It Is consumed
The courier-index., 1918-08-09

Don't buy . typewriter with your
eyes shut The Woodstock has the
best features OF other machines with
added improvements See It Ct
The courier-index., 1918-08-09
F.LiAL- ANXIETY

Father Occurring wild son) Sup.
pose should be taken away sudden.
ly, what woul4 become OF your 81.
Son-"Ot, I'd be here, guvnor.
The question Ii. what would be-
come Of a"-Boston Transcript.
The courier-index., 1918-08-09

work and sew linen on the wings
Waco Tfmes-Herald.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1918-04-11

Two or three rooms wanted, modern
conveniences for light housekeeping.
Address T. ]. Duffey. New Postoffice.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1918-04-11

The Franklin Journal, published at
Pennington, is on sale at F. w. Buck
mans.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1918-04-11

New Stripped Madras House Dresses
Black and White and Blue and White
Stripes, $3.50 each.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1918-04-11

New MILDLY Blouses In VOiles and
MILDLY Cloths, s1.O0 to $500 each.