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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-22
COLONEL BURR TO
co TO Francois
WORD IN CAPITAL
News Dispatch From Washington Says
Rock Island Commandant Will
Be Overseas.

Notification that Colonel George w.
Burr, commandant of Rock Island
arsenal for the last seven years, is to
be on the staff of General Pershing in
France came today in press dispatches
from Washington. The dispatch said:
Colonel George W. Burr. ordnance
department, for several years in COM
mand of Rock Island arsenal, will
leave soon for France for service with
the expeditfonary forces. Colonel
Burr will be succeeded at Rock Island
by Colonel Leroy T. Hillman."
Is Still Here.
Colonel Burr still is at Rock Island
arsenal arranging for his departure
for Washington. When he intends
leaving could not be learned at the
arsenal today or when Colonel Hill
man will arrive could not be learned.
1t is expected, however, that the new
commandant will come here next
week. No order< have been received
at the arsenal concerning the time OF
his arrival. 1t was stated that Colo
mel Burr has not been officially advised
he is to go to France.
All the news all tine time-The
Argus.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-22
FRlDAY.THE ROCK ISLAND ARGUs-FEBRUARY o. 1918

William ]. F. Brunswig, TIA Tenth
street, died at 6:45 last night after
a lingering illness of heart trouble.
Miss Brunswig was born in Rock
Island Oct. 6. 1897. She attended the
German Lutheran parochial school Of
this city and has been lite long
resident. Surviving are the father.
William J. F. Brunswig, and brother.
William, both Of Rock Island.
Funeral services will be held Sun
day at the home and at the I'm
manuel's Lutheran church, in which
she was an active worker. Interment
will be in Chippiannock.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-22

street and Third avenue and tho n
Y. Siedlitz and Albert Rostock saloons
az seventeenth street ard Fourth ave.
nue. are on the edge Of the zone. Tho
line cuts through the Parker and
Lewis saloons, but they will be per-
mitted to sell liquor in the building
back OF the line.
The order. therefore. will leave Al
saloons and II wholesale liouor
houses in operation in this city. The
line touches the Miles Mckinney sa-
loon at Forty-sixth street and Fifth
avenue. but includes 1t in the dry
zone.
ID. II. Limbaugh, special assistant
attorney general, in addressing these
present at the public meeting held al
the Rock Island club this noon stated
-that the government will not take
steps that would be unfair in closing
the saloons within the half mile zone
tomorrow. He stated that all of the
retail and wholesale dealers will b.
allowed reasonable time to remove
their stock. providing no transactions
OF any kind take place.
Soldiers As Agents.
He warned the men of the tfi-cities
that-soldiers who obtain liquor after
the law takes effect may be federal
agents or privates, bat that their
identity will not be known. Mr.. Line
baulgh stated that wholesale or retail
drug houses can dispense alcoholic
drinks providing they are sold only
for medicinal purposes and to a Il
censed physician or a government sur.
geon or doctor. He stated that the
city authorities had promised coop
Grafton in enforcing the law and tina;
no drastic steps would be taken unless
necessary. He said that liquor deal
ers may after o'clock tomorrow
morning sell their stocks or otherwis,
dispose Of it providing it was to &C
| cut Of the dry zone.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-22
TYPO UNION PLANS
TO ASK INCREASE
10 PERCENT WAGES

Arrangements for the adoption Of a
new and increased wage scale for the
members OF Tri-City Typographical
union No. 107 will be discussed at q
meeting in Rock Island Industrial
home this evening.
A call for the meeting was issued
to all tri-city chapels yesterday by
Secretary James A. Weed. The meet
ing date was set by the executive
committee OF the Allied Printing
Trades at session Feb. 10.
In basing their claims for an In
creased wage scale, members of the
Typographical union cite the fact that
all job printers were recently granted
a 10 per cent increase.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-22
PERSONAL POINTS

Mrs. Julia Cash of Grand Island.
Neb., is the guest of Mrs. J. H. Smith.
712 Forty-sixth street, for a few days
when she leaves for Chicago to take
a post graduate course in the Burn
ham School Sf Beauty Culture.
Nick Coyne has returned from q
several months visit with his family
at San Antonio, Texas.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-22
FILES DIVORCE StrIT.

Virgil Holland today filed suit for
divorce in circuit court from Mary
Holland. Statutory charges are made.
They were married Aug. Is, 1916, and
separated Nov. Is, 1917.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-22
DRy.:z0NE LIMITS
SH0W52SALOONS.
cL0SET0M0RR0W
Olicial Government Map Shows Bars
on West Side Seventeenth
Can Re Operated.
BOUNDARY OF DRY ZONE.

Starting on Seventeenth street
and First avenue. south on Sew.
entecnih street, running through
The eastern ends Of the two "a.
looms al the corner Of Seventeenth
street and Third avenue. including
the two saloons on the east side
Of the street nj Fourth avenue,
swinging around east Of Fifth ave.
nue. and Seventeenth street 10
Ninth avenue. over TO Seventh
Avenue between Twenty. eighth
and Twenty-ninth streets. thence
east aImcsf on a straight line with
seventh avenue as lar as Forty.
fourth street and thence north.
easterly. intersecting Forty .siyth
streets 100 feet south of Railroad
avenue. and including all Of the
so.callcd "border saloons"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-22

The official government survey
pIaces a bone-dry zone in Rock Is
land. which includes 81 saloons and
Is wholesale liquor houses, which will
suspend business at o'clock tomor-
row morning.
The Rock Island house, the Simon
Lewis saloon aud Wholesale house ard
C~S. Parker saloon at Seventeenth
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-22
Obituary
Lieutenant Hiram C. Prather.

Lieutenant Hiram c. Pfather, sta
toned ION, the Rock Islanu arsena,,
died yesterday in st. Luke's hospital
in Davenport, after an illness of one
week of pneumonia.
Lieutenant Prather was an officer
in the ordnance reserve corps and
came to Rock Island from Detroit
Dec ~. The widow survives. Fu-
neral services and arrangements for
burial have not been completed. Mill
tary services may be held and burial
made on the island.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-22

Miss Rosa N. Brunswig.
Miss Rosa M. Brunswlg, daughter Of
the late Mrs. Amelia Brunswig, and of
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-22

All the news all tine time-The
Argus.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-22

Just in! Latest Military overgae for women khaki col
brass buttons They the last word in footwear Pair
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-01-18
GREYHOUND FAST AS PIGEON
English Dog Can Cover Ground at the
Rate of From 18 to % Yards
Every Second.

Comparatively few people realize OF
what remarkable speed dogs are capa-
bic. observes a writer in the Spring
field (Nlass.) Republican. The wolf
can run between 50 and go miles in one
night and the Arctic fox can do quite
as well, il not better.
Eskimo and Siberian dogs can trav-
el 45 miles on the ice in five hours,
and there is one case on record in
whick q team of Eskimo dogs Travelled
six and onc-half nailes in % minutes.
English settlers and pointers hunt at
the rate Of IS TO 10 miles an hour, and
thcy can maintain the speed for at
lcaSt two hours FoxlounGs are extra
ordinarily swift, as is proved by the
fact ttat q dog Of this breed once
Dc0t thoroughbred horse, covering
ram miles in six and ono-hnf minutes.
Greyhounds arr the swiftcst of ell
four-footed creatures. and their speed
may be regarded as equal to that Of
carrier pigeons. English creyhounds
which are carefully selected ard which
arr used for cojrslng are able 10 cover
vt full ealop a sraoc between IS sud
.@ Yards every second.
II IL said that a(harc at It's greatest
rctd nevcr goes faster than at The
,pto ~ IS wards a second. These IN
crossing statistics fully prove the right
Of llc grnghnunds to rank as the swift
est of the quadrupcds.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-01-18

have just had the pleasure OF meet
ing their old French teacher in the
nearest earthly approach TO Inlerno5-
the trenches
Officers now, the ex-stulents fl
nally reached the battalion comman-
der's post in certain American sec
tor after a fierce two-mile trudgo
from the rear through Maud and ice.
water Up to their hips.
A French interpreter met them at
the door of the post
Yes, the major is in" he said
"but he won't see you till you shake
hands With me"
Both officers thought they were
face to face with a nut
Then as they recognized their old
teacher two hands shot out and
grasped both of his
"Well I'll be darned-you haven't
changed bit" was all the French
they could remember.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-01-18

EubscrIOe for the Oanz Express.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-01-18

There is to be a Jcdgmont day, isn't
there?"
yes, they say So"
Gabriel viii blow his horn?"
II expect he will"
"And the quick and the dead will
rise up?'
Eyes"
Deacon Coodhue, how far is 1t from
this to the town of GuilfordY
"Just seven miles, widder."
And Il straight road?"
"Therc hain't bend in it,"
"Well, everybody in this village
knows that my Peter used to start for
Guiiford every Saturday for years and
years"
"Ie did, widder-he did"
"And everybody also knows that he
got lost as regularly as he started, and
it took two days to find him."
Two days widder, and sometimes
three"
"When Gabriel blows that horn amt
there goinh 10 be such IA bustlin' and
huSllin as this world has never seen?"
quite likely
peter will be among EN- When
he pops out Of his grave he'll take a
look around, and if he sees the same
old landmarks he'll hustle straight for
the golden gates. If he's been dug up
and buried in strange spot it'll be
like goin 60 Guilford oyer again, and
the gates will be shet agin him. No,
I want to give Peter fair show with
The rest Of em, and l shan't withdraw
my protest"
Did the deacon argue the point?
MOI a bit Of it.
Did he offer a whopping big PRICE,
and thereby arouse the widows cupid
ity, and start her making inquiries?
Not at all. lie just went home and
sat down and thought aloud;
"When a widder woman is a widder
woman what does she want most on
this earth?
"Nhen widder woman has to make
her own garden, milk her COW, feed
her hogs, take care Of the chickens.
split the wood, shovel snow and build
her own fires what does she most sigh
for?"
For a man, of course" he answered
himself amy fool knows thatl"
The deacon set out with horse and
buggy and rode over most of the coun-
try. He finally found the man he was
looking for, and accosted him with:
do YOU want to marry wilder
woman with about $4,000"
"You bet your hat 1 do" was the
ready reply.
1t did not take over half an hour TO
settle the details, but the deacon
thought best to wait ten days longer
before calling on the widow Raymond
again. She met him with a smile and
said:
Deacon, 1 am ready to withdraw
my protest"
'IIas something happened, widder?'
he innocently queried.
Il am going to marry a man named
Rogers"
"You don't say"
"Yep. No more single blessedness
for me-"
"But about Peter when the horn
blows?"
"Oh, as to that I've been thinBln'.
II Peter, when the Judgment day
comes, can't keep up with the scram-
bic, he must put up with the best he
can doW
And when the villagers heard that /
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-01-18
THE HABIT OF TAKING COLD

With many people taking cold Is a
habit. but fortunately one that is
easily broken. Take a cold sponge
bath every morning when you first
get out of bed-not ice cold, but a
temperature of about 90 degrees F.
Also sleep with your window up. DO
this and yiu woll seldom take cold.
When you 40 take cold Chamber.
lain's Cough Remedy will get rid of
it as quickly as possible. Obtainable
everywhere d&w
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-01-18
STIFF JOINTS
SORE MUSCLES
Gnber Up Quickly Under the Soothing,
Penetrating Application of
HsmIins Wizard OIL

In cases of rheumatism and lame
back it penetrates quickly, drives out
soreness, and limbers up stiff, aching
joints and muscles.
Wizard Oil is an absolutely reli-
able, antiseptic application for cuts,
burns. bites, and stings, SRrains and
bruises heal readily under its sooth-
ing, penetrating qualities.
Get it from druggists for so cents.
If not satisfied return the bottle and
get your money back.
Ever cohstipated or have sick
headachcs Just try Wizard Liver
Whips, pleasant little pink pills, SO
cents, Guaranteed
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-01-18

the deacon had made a clear $4,000
by securing a husband for the widow
ana selling the property TO the rail
roads, they went to the parson again.
"As | take it," he replied, the
widow. couldn't look around, and so
the deacon did it for her"
"But he made $t5,000.'
"And out of it he has paid up my
back salary, and is going TO repant
the meeting house and provide it with
a spire and pew cushions. The dea-
cons all right"
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-01-18
a Bitter Reflection.

"Do you subscribe TO the theory that
it is better to have loved and lost
than mover to have loved nj all?' asked
the sentimental person.
"1hat depends on the circum-
stances" replied the cynical bachelor
There's precious little consolation in
the thought that YOU have loved and
lost if the object of your affection has
n fortune approXimating seven fg-
ures."
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-01-18
Important pIscoyerx.

1t has been discovered that large
quantities of the dust that accumulates
in certain portions Of the apparatus
used in making pig iron from iron
ores-that is, in the blast furnaces
contains appreciable quantities Of pot
ash. The amount found depends on
the kind Of ore used in the blast-fur-
mace charge.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-01-18
1IIIIElIHllIIIIIII IIIIllllIIHIIIIgI :
! SHORT STORIES :
- =
! OF THE TOWN !
] a@s
i ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Poverty Social Tonight.

. ONe'lF ooS'al OilgHt'
Don't shine your shoes or doll up
in a white collar, ct al when YOU go
to the Christian church tonight TO
attend the Poverty social Ii you
do it will cost you money. The In
teremdiate Ehdeavor is giving the
entertainment land the members have
been working hard A program has
been arranged A part of the money
derived from the affair will go to
missions and a part to war funds
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-01-18
cHAMeERLAIN's COUGH REMEDY
MOST EFFEcTUAL

q navetaken a great many bottles
of Chamberlain Cough Remedy and.
every time it has cured me- | have
found it most eHectusl for hackinf
cough ana for colds. After taking i
a cough always disappears, write
J. f. Moore, Lost Valley, Ga. Oh
tainable everywhere. d&W
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-01-18
A Deacon S
Deal
q
By John Boylan
By John Boylan

x - = y 1N@ y "a N~~~~~~~~~~
Copyright, 4gi7, by the Mcclure Newspa-
per syndicate)
Thcre is an ancient idea stll floating
around that because man is charch
deacon he must take the small end
Of the bargain when he either buys or
sells. If he trades horses he must
take q blind one in exchange and be
thankful that the equine has four legs
to move about on.
If he makes cider TO sell lie must
turn out the pure quill whereas any
one else is excused for a dlution of
five pals of water to a barrel.
For about fifteen years Deacon
Goodhue had been governed by the an
cicnt idea, and had been looked upon
as a man that would be leader among
the angels, but all of a sudden there
came d change. He had been think
ing things over and when he Killed
an early fail plg he did not send the
remains around among the nearest ten
families as had been hs wont, and
keep the ears and brlstes for his por-
ton. And hereupon the people ex-
laimcd:
Deacon Goodhue has surely back
Slid !"
"Within d month he'll be selling milk
instead Of giving il away
"He can't develop such spirit as
this and expect to remain in the
churchw
Deacon Goodhue dug thirty bushels
of potatoes from his garden that fall,
and instead of giving away twenty of
them, and living on turnips after Janu-
airy. he stored every peck of them in
his own cellar. Some folks said that
the evil omen had surely got hold of
him, and some almost excused his un-
heard and unwarranted conduct by
saying that he was losing his mind.
Whatever it was, he Kept right on
springing his surprises. Brother Alb
SALON. Springtree had sick COW. He
asked tin peddler to diagnose the
case, and, after looking at her eyes
and twisting her tail, the man looked
wise and said:
"That re cow has got bad case
of the holler-horn."
"Shool Win SHE die of it?'
"rhc chances are nine out of ten
that she will"
"What had l better do about it?"
"Trade her off, and that without a
days delay Don't you know of any
one around here you can stick?
"Um! Why, there is Deacon Good
hue?"
"Go for him"
The COW was driven over to the
deacon's. He stood a rod away and
looked over and shook his head and
replied:
bad case of the holler-horn."
"But you can cure it."
'T don't want to. Let her die on
your handsl"
That reply went to the parson, and
he was asked to entertain charges.
"Was there any cheating on the
part of the deacon?" he asked.
MOO not skassly."
"Then what can he be charged
withY'
"why, refusing to do a neighborly
actw
"You believe in Moses, don't your?
"Of course parson."
'IIe was a good man?" "a l@
"A mighty good man." t&
ole was the owner of COwsW
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-01-18
OFFICERS MEET
FRENCH TEACHER
(By j. ". Pegler, United Press Staff
Correspondent

Correspondent
with the American expeditionary
army, france, Dec. 15.-(By mail1-
faemember along about examine IN
time how you used to think Hades
would be good pace for the pro-
ressor2
] Two Williams College graduates
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-29
NOT TO
ESCAPE DNHONOR
IN WAR PLOTTING
Proves She Was Accomplice
of Berlin and Vienna; Blood
Bath Is Prepared

London, Nov. 29.-Newspapers
here devote much space to discus
sions of the revelations made by Ba-
Naria in publishing official kilograms
which passed between Berlin and
Munich Just before the war broke
out in 1914. They agree that the
g.:.lt of Germany and Austria, per-
sfstently denied during the past four
years, has been proved by the Ba-
varian government.
Germany has been challenged
again and again to produce the
whole correspondence between Ber-
lin and Vienna during July, 1914
SAYS the Times. She never has
dared produce it. Will the new gov
ernment dare-just to show the gulf
between it and its predecessors? Ba-
varia has proved she was an accom-
plice of Berlin and Vienna. She sup
ported them until they lost and now
she shall not whiten her character
in the eyes of the Allies by blacken-
ing the records of her confeder-
ates."
THE Kaiser after taking every
possible step to throw the Allies off
their guard, struck, expecting in a
few weeks to have the world at his
feet" says the Mail. The revela-
tions made by Bavaria will not sur
prise the Allies nor dispassionate
historians in neutral countries"
Thus was the blood bath pre-
pared. Is the Kaiser to be allowed to
go without trial?" is the comment of
the Express.
The Morning Post says that DIR.
Solf, in appealing for modification of
the armistice terms, is following eX-
actly the tactics disclosed in the pub
lished telegrams.
1T now appears that his repre-
santations of starving conditions in
Germany are false" the newspaper
continues. NO doubt there is hard
ship in Germany, but whose fault is
that? So far as the associated gov
ernments are concerned, domestic
dissensions in Germany serve mere
' ~ to put them on the alert against
that treachery which is ingrained in
the German
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-29
POrters and Conductors
Smuggle Siberian Opium

IndivOsiOlk. -- Opium smuggling
from Eastern Siberia into Harbin Of
fers such alluring rewards that
scarcely an opportunity is overlook
ed by train porters and conductors.
Across the Manchurian frontier the
hillisides are ablaZe with poppy fields.
The prepared drug will bring triple
its purchase price if safely delivered
in the Manchurian town.
A young American woman. travel
ing in a private car from NladivostolS
recently unearthed a mysterious
package i'm her compartment The
car porter seeing it in her hands at
tempted to snatch il. Being q young
woman of spirit she grabbed up a
pistol, whereupon the porter fell upon
his knees and begged for mercy.
With a little persuasion he produced
from beneath the young woman's S
berth a dozen more similar packages.
They aggregated several pounds of
opium.
Other Americans on board were
summoned and it was decided to turn
over the opium and the porter to the
first customs officer encountered. This
was done-in the station at Harbin.
The customs officer confiscated the
drug, thereby earning a reward of
several hundred rubles. but declared
he had no authority to arrest the
smuggler and the porter went his
way.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-29
Specially Priced Gift Items
in Furniture For Saturday

Pieces OF beauty and dignity in designing assembled for the
beneEt OF gift seekers at attractive prices
ivingroom
Mahogany bed imitation
Mahogany bed tapestry special S65OO
enameled special
finish special
Dives Pomeroy Stewart, Fourth Floor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-29
Cunard Line Loses Half
Of Total Ships by War

New YoTk.-Fifteen steamships,
aggregatng 200. 769 gross tons, were
lost by the Cunard Line during the
war, it is learned here. All except
two were sunk by torpedoes or
mines The Campania and the AS
cania were lost through accidents.
The tonnage sunk represents approx
imately one-half OF that possessed
by the line at the outbreak of the
war. Nearly all of the Cunard liners
were well-known Atlantic grey
hounds, the largest of which was the
Lusitania.
The Anchor Line. a subsidiary of
the Cunard lost eight ships, includ-
ing the 14,340-ton Tuscania The to-
tai tonnage loss of the Anchor Line
was 65,4SS. A list of the ships lost,
with their tonnage, follows:
Cunard Line-Lusitania, 30,396;
Franconia, 1850. Laconia. 1909;
Transylvania, 14,50O; Ivernia, 14,27S;
Carpathia, 1868; Alaunia, 13,405:
Aurania, 1896; Campania, 1850;
Royal EJward, L1,117; Ultonia,
1O,4O2; Ascania, 9,121; Ansonia,
S,15S; Feltria, 5,254.
Anchor Line-Tuscania, 1890;
Cameronia, 1O,963; Caledonia, 9,223;
Athena, S,66S. California, 1852; Ii
IBERIA, 1850; Perugia, 1876; Assyria,
4,476.