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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1918-03-28
CAME BACK FOR OPERATION

Private Vern Swezey and wife
came from Camp Pike, Ark, Satur-
day where Mr.. Swezey has been sta
toned for several months and where
his wife has been near; him since
leaving Camp Dodge. During her
stay there she became i'll and during
the past ten days her condition be-
came SO alarming that 1t was con-
sidered imperative to remove her to
q hospital for treatment. She was
taken to the hospital in Atlantic and
after passing through an examination
1t was decided that a surgical oper-
alton was necessary. She submitted
TO the ordeal Saturday afternoon
and since has been making satisfac-
tory recovery. Mr.. Swezey spent a
few days here visiting relatives, but
most of the time he has been at the
bedside of his wife. The time for
his leave of absence will expire to-
day, but the attending physician has
wired the commanding officer at
Camp Pike asking for an extension
until such time as Mrs. Swezey is
considered out Of danger.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1918-03-28
ALL AVAILABLE GERMANS
IN WESTERN OFFENSIVE

London. March 27.-Telegrams,
received late on Tuesday, the cor
respondent of the Daily Mail at Brit
ish headquarters In France, says that
nearly two-thirds of the entire STRAIT
egic reserve of the German army
now has been thrown into the fierce
and vigorously continued attack.
This German reserve" he adds.
consisted of IS divisions, totaling
1,275.000 men, out of a total num-
Der now reaching not for short of
200 divisions. or possibly 100000
men which they have upon the west
ern front. After the first day 80 of
these divisions were put into the
battle. On the third day another %
are known to have taken part. Since
then they must have drawn upon the
reserve for few more divisions.
ut is therefore clear that we have
been struggling with the whole
available strength of the German
army and the marvel is that our SOL
diers have held out so obstinately
and steadily against odds SO heavily
against them"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1918-03-28
VICTORY OR DEATH

II the British and French finally
check the German Onrush, as every
body hopes and as the allied leaders
confidently expect. Germany will be
far worse off than il no drive had
been attempted. She will really be
worse off than IL the offensive had
been opened and abandoned as a
failure after the first days attack.
The great area covered by Ger
many in the advance is of no
stragetic value. In fact, its reten-
ton will weaken Germany the in
slant the situation in the west
shifts back where the kaiser's
more.
Germany must either break COM
pletely through and destroy the al
lied armies. or be permanently Grip
pied on account of the terrible losses
that have been sustained.
Moreover, it becomes a question
whether the German people will re-
main submissive under such a fear
full drain of life. wasted for the sole
purpose of satisfying the lust Of
conquest.
The battle Of verdun is too tender
a subject to be mentioned in Ger
many. 1t is thought of by the Ger
man people only with reference to
the sacrifices they made in vain
If the present battle does not bring
victory. It will be another Verdun
multiplied by two.
There is one unknown factor in
the great conflict-unknown to any
but the war leaders in France. Do
the allies possess a great reserve
which can be thrown onto the flank
Of the enemy when the last avail
able division has been put into the
fray by Hindenburg? Or has the
battle exhausted the allied reserves
which might be used in counter
offensive?
There Is some reason to believe
that the allies have been conserving
their reserve power, even at the ex-
pense of a great loss of territory.
in order to deliver a counter blow
when the German lines of communi-
cation are stretched far out, the
German reserves are exhausted and
the enemy's line bends at sharp
angles into the allied positions. II
in a state of flux with the odds re-
versed and Germany's drive may be
turned into a catastrophe for the
central powers.
II 1t is too much to assume that
such reversal will come about. at
least the allies should possess suf-
ficient reserve to restore the dead
lock and permit the German people
to count their losses. while the
American army Is built up and pre-
parations are made for the campaign
that will end the war.
Germany has made far greater
gains in territory than the allied
command thought probable. The at
lacking troops have gone ten miles
beyond the prepared positions" to
which 1t was announced last Saturday
that the British were retiring. But
every foot of the advance has been
paid for in blood. The British
based their expectation of holding
the line Of the Somme upon the be-
lief that the Germans would not
make the sacrifices necessary to
carry 1t out. But the Germans drove
ahead without artillery support.
They carried the new line Of defense.
1t is too early to say definitely that
Hindenburg's grand strategy has
failed, but the odds now appear to
be against him and failure in this
instance is close kin to destruction
from without and within.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1918-03-28
BOY ACCIDENTALLY SHOT

Lawrence the twelve year old SON
of Mr.. and Mrs. l.. p. Madsen, living
five miles west OF town, was acct
dentally shot in the leg above the
knee. at his home late Monday ev-
ening. He and his brother Magnus
were playing with small rifle in
the barnyard. and while in the hands
of Magnus the rifle was accidentally
discharged. The bullet entered the
right leg just above the knee and in
flicted quite serious wound. Law
renee was taken to the home and q
physician called. The bullet. though
probed for, has not been found. The
boy Is getting along as well as could
be expected and 1t may yet be pos
sible to remove the bullet. 1t was
q very unfortunate affair and both
boys feel sorry that the accident
happened. It is hoped. and thought,
however. that the injury will heal
and leave no serious affects.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1918-03-28
PARTY TO LEAVE FOR
CANADA SUNDAY EVENING

A party of men from various parts
of Audubon county will leave Audu-
bon and Manning on Sunday evening
for Alberta, Canada, being accom-
panied by II. c. Topping. Many OF
the men who are going have already
purchased land in the new Danish
colony and others are going so as
to make preparations for putting in
this years crops. There are others
who have been contemplating going
and IL they will inform Hans Hansen
or C. H. Topping between now and
Saturday evening, arrangements can
be made for their transportation.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1918-03-28
ENJOY SURPRISE PARTY

Last Saturday evening some sixty
neighbOrs and friends went to the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. c. W. Krauel
one mile north and one mile east of
Ross, and caught them completely
by surprise. They had come to spend
the evening in a social way and brot
Entertainments with them, so there
would be no embarrassment on the
mart of Mrs. Krauel for fear that
she could not entertain her uninvit-
ed guests. AS soon as Mr.. and Mrs.
Krauel had become reconciled to
their surprise they entered into the
spirit of the occasion and set about
to make their lends at home. Az
ter an hour Of visitation. dancing
was INDUCED in and later refresh
ments were served. At late hour
the guests departed and their only
regret was that they had not come
sooner.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1918-03-28
HORSE KILLED IN
TUESDAYS RUNAWAY

b. f. Dryden lost one of his horses
Tuesday just after noon, the bay one
used on his transfer and express
wagon. Clark Sloan, the driver. was
at the Rock Island depot unloading
freight from a car. when the team
became frightened and ran north to
the canning factory. near where they
ran into a telegraph pole, which
loosened them from the wagon,
which was made a sad wreck bv the
compact. The bay horse then ran
west into the auto loading platform
Of the Rock Island road. The col
lision put an end to his career as
his back was broken and he had to
be killed. t.g- -, ~ !
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1918-03-28
JOINS AVIATION SERVICE

Carl Hoover. who has Joined the
aviation branch of the U. s. service,
left the fore part of the week for
Cambridge, Mass, where he will take
special training for period Of eight
weeks. He will then be sent to one
of the aviation fields and later to
France. Mr.. Hoover spent last week
visiting his wife and parents, after
having been on the road several
months. Here Is hoping that Mr..
Hoover will soon be able to fly over
Berlin, and II he ever does. It will be
good night for the kaiser.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1918-03-28
GOOD CROWD ATTENDS

A large and appreciative audience
attended the concert at the Presbyter-
ian church given by the Sono orches-
ira last night. The orchestra. which
is composed of Audubon young ladies
gave splendid program. Miss De-
Luhrey. one Of the high school teach
ers, entertained the audience with
humorous readings.
The concert was given under the
auspices of the ladies of the Pres
byterian church, and they netted a
neat sum. It was a splendid evenins
of entertainment for . worthy cause.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1918-03-28
MAY LOCATE AT YUMA

Allen Smith who recently sold his
half interest in the plumbing bust
ness to his partner. John Butterton.
drove overland with his family to
Shenandoah Sunday. His family re-
mains there for the present and to-
night Mr.. Smith will Join Charles
Tramp, Levi Kopp. Adolph Wolf and
l.. ID. Ross at Omaha and accompany
them to Yuma. Colo. where he will
look at the land, with view to pur-
chasing a farm. II he does he will
move his family there at once.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1918-03-28
RAISING THE WIND

Every farmer has seen a windmill.
Millions of farmers own one or may
be two. And every farmer knows a
windmill can't go without wind.
There is an old fashioned expression
about raising the wind" meaning
that one is raising the money for
some venture. Uncle Sam is raising
the wind at this time for one of the
biggest Jobs he has ever had on his
hands. 1t is up to all Of us to help
out. The purchase of Liberty bonds
will make certain the turning of the
machinery that will defeat the COM
mon enemy.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1918-03-28
SEE THE RASTER CHICKS

c. II. Wilde. the progressive pro-
duce dealer, has Queen Incubator
that will have good sized hatch of
Easter chicks which he will have on
display at his place of business be-
ginning with Saturday afternoon.
He invites everyone to call and see
the little chicks. He has been hav-
ing wonderful success with the
Queen Incubator and there are per-
haps, many women who will be In
terested in knowing how successful
this Easter hatch viii be. ~
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1918-03-28
METHODIST CHURCH SERVICES

Appropriate Easter services. both
morning and evening. will be held
at the Methodist Episcopal church
next Sunday. Sunrise prayer meet
rfhg under the auspices of the Ep-
worth League. led by Miss Ida Rey-
nolds. An Invitation Ia extended to
Al n attend these services.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1918-03-28
SPECIAL MEETING

There will be a special meeting of
Veritas Lodge No. 392 at the Mason
ic hall, Friday evening March 20, for
second degree work. A good attend
ance Is desired. J. w. Landrum,
Worshfpful Master.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1918-03-28
FOR SALE

Good work mare and yearling colt
Enquire of D. w. Wood. 13-2
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1918-03-28
CITY ELECTION IS
A QUIET AFFAIR
There Were No Special Questions at
Issue to Bring Out Large
Vote

Last Monday was the day of the
city election at which time a mayor,
two councilmen at large. one council
man from each of the two wards, a
treasurer and an assessor were to be
elected. Two tickets were In the
field. The vote was light as COM
pared to previous years. Following
is the vote:
EOD MAEOD
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1918-03-28

Graham, mayor; A. L. Viewer, asses
sor; Harp Wilson. treasurer; A. F.
Beason and E. M. Johnson. council
men at large; II. G. Rice, councilman
first ward and VIM. Rucker council
man second ward.
The old council held a meeting at
ter the votes had been counted to
canvass the votes and to transact
their unfinished business. On next
Monday evening the new council will
meet and organize and make their
usual appointments.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-10-31
MAY RUN TRAIN
FROM ARSENAL
Organization of Car Service Be.
tween Cities and Island May
Be effected.

An organization Of a shop train
to run between East Moline, Mo
line, Rock Island, Silvis and the
Rock Island arsenal, may be eff
fected shortly by arsenal author
lite to accommodate employees of
the arsenal and to relieve the con-
gested conditions of street cars of
the quad-cities.
The putting of the system in OPP
GRAFTON depends largely upon the
number of employees who will take
advantage of the offer. The shop
train will be installed on the or
der OF the train running between
the arsenal and Muscatine The
Muscatine train is said to be prov
ing successful and to be serving
200 people daily The local train
will be run on the same basis, and
trips to and fro will be made to
bring employees to work shortly be
fore working hours.
Arrangements to put the car in
operation are in charge Of Lieu
tenant j. Reed and arsenal work
ers who will take the opportunity
Of using the special car are asked
to turn their names in to Lieu
tenant Lan's Office.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-10-31
LEWIS OPENSuP
CHICAGO DRIVE
Senator in Statement Declares
DownSta.e Is Solid in It's Sup
port of President.

Chicago. Oct. 31.-United States
Senator James Hamilton Lewis re-
turned TO Chicago yesterday, COM
pleting his downstate tour, and will
go before the voters of Cook county
tonight with an appeal for the vot-
ers to support President Wilson.
Upon reaching his Chicago office
after two weeks spent in GOwnstate
counties on a tour confined to hand
shaking because of the influenza ep-
idemic, Senator Lewis issued the
following statement:
I have been in all except five
counties in southern Illinois. l
have talked to citizens of all poll
ties and all creeds. Southern Hi
nois has strongly in its mind the
days of the Civil war under LIN
coin.
1T remembers the refusal of GER
tain of our citizens to stand by Lin
coin because of political leaders. II
remembers that Democratic leaders
such as John A. Logan and John
McClarnand got behind Lincoln and
led the southern Illinois Democracy
to his support at the time Lincoln
asked for congressman and sena-
tors to uphold his hands.
Central and southern Illinois
are going to repeat this patriotic
work for Wilson. Seven of ten
counties heretofore scheduled as
greatly Republican will give the
Wilson ticket a clear majority This
vote viii come from citizens who
have put party lines behind them
except to refuse to support any man
who they think might for any rea-
son no. support Wilson.
Southern and central Illinois
were generous to remember my
services in behalf of the state. par
ticularly my work as vice chairman
Of the naval committee in the mat
ter OF the Great Lakes and of the
sons of Illinois who had gone TO the
training station.
The citizens of the state seemed
TO approve of my measures upon
which the railroads passed into
government control, and also the
telegraph and telephones They
had remembered that it was I as
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-10-31
HEMBORC
UP new DUTIES

DIR. C. A. Hemborg, former min
lister OF the Moline Swedish Luth-
eran church, and more recently
pastor of the Swedish Lutheran
church at Riverside, Cal. has an
swered a call to the pastorate of
the Angelica Swedish Lutheran
church of Los Angeles. He will
succeed DR.. julius Lincoln of Los
Angeles, well known locally and in
the AUgustana synod circles. and
who was on the United States food
administration commission sent to
Europe last January, and has now
accepted the appointment of execu-
tive secretary Of the John Ericsson
league of public service, under the
United States bureau of public in
formation.
DR.. Lincoln is organizing
branch of the league in Lindsborg,
Kan, and will go from there to
Chicago. where he will have his
headquarters and later to New
York to confer with officials of the
bureau of public information.
After DR.. Lincoln returned from
studying economic conditions in
France. elgium and England with
six others selected by Herbert
Hoover, United States food admin
istrator, he began a campaign of
addresses throughout the middle
west On account of a break in
health he gave up his work to take
the Los Angeles pastorate.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-10-31
MOLINE QUIET
LAST EVENING
Boys Not Up to Yearly Franks
Militia Dispense Crowds,
But Make No Arrests.

Moline Halloween mischievous
lads must have slept last evening.
as members of Company f, Sixth
Illinois reserve infantry, who acted
as citizen policemen last evening,
found no disorder or made no ar
rests. The militiamen came near
arresting a group of boys who had
refused to dispense when ordered
to do So The chief of police was
notified and authorized the home
guard" to arrest the bunch. The
crowd Immediately broke up.
The militiamen will also enforce
the disbanding of any group and
will prohibit all parties, in accord
ance with health regulations is
sued. Last night was the quietest
one in Moline for years in the cele-
bration of pre-Hallowe'en. The
reserve militia will be on duty
again this evening, with orders to
arrest all violators of health or
ders or all boys who are up to
their yearly pranks.
Small damage was done in East
Moline The police were on guard.
but made no arrests. Boys of East
Moline have not entirely abandoned
their fun, as this morning chairs,
rockers, benches, etc, were found
hanging on trees along Sixteenth
avenue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-10-31
PLAN MEETING
FOR TWO DAYS
Conference of Christian Patriots to
Be Held In Moline Church
Nov. II and 13.

Preliminary plans for the con-
ference of Christian Patriots TO be
held in the First Congregational
church of Moline Nov. y and ID,
have been completed. The five fol-
lowing reasons are given for mold
ing the convention, at time when
the situation OF the country is
acute:
To consider new world conditions
caused by the war. and America s
enlarged responsibility.
To interpret and urge the impor-
lance of winning the present war
for democracy as necessary for the
contamination of the missionary
program of Christianity.
To increase the spiritual power
and efficiency of the local church.
To inspire laymen to take their
part in the extension Of the king
dom of Christ.
1t is the strong purpose of the
leaders of the convention to give a
permanent impulse to the mascu-
line life of Moline. Careful follow
up plans are being made. On the
convention committee are:
Warren Eastman.
First vice chairman-Mauritz
Johnson.
Second vice chairman-W. L.
Clark
Secretary-C. A. Parmiter.
Treasurer-Carl Lundberg.
Northumberland Trevor, L. f.
Mutt, l. o. Bennett, l.. L. Greenfield,
p. S. McGlynn.
General convention themes will
be: THE Church in War Times
and "Men Wanted for the Conquer
ing of the World"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-10-31
LOUVRE IS FIRST
ACE SCOUT; SOLD
MOST LOAN BONDS

John Bruce Lourie, aged u years,
son Of Mr.. and Mrs r. B. Lourie Of
Moline. is the first ace scout in Mo
line, having received honors in the
fourth Liberty loan campaign for
selling s1,l00 worth of bonds to 50
individual purchasers Announce
ment to this effect was made yes
terday by Emil Peterson, scOutmas-
ter, and Leonard Steigel, assistant
scoutmaster of Troop 5. It was pre-
yiousIy stated that Lester Swanson
was Mohne's first ace. This was a
mistake Lester Swanson is an ace,
but Lourie is credited with being
the first ace here.
Troop 3, OF which Lourie is a
member, was organized in Febru-
airy this year and has a member
ship Of 80 scouts, four of them
tirst-cIass, nine second-cIass, and
the others tenderfeet-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-10-31

the representative of Illinois in the
senate who had led these measures.
and for the administration led the
debates.
From the assurances of the Citi-
zenS, l am confident that on the
basis of giving the approval for
such work as l have been able TO
do for Illinois, and such position as
/ have been able to take in the pub
lie counsels of the nation as the adj
ministrMion spokesman in the SEN
ate for IlliI<~5, they will give me
their support as a duty to Wilson
and as a compliment to me.
The same men would have sup
ported Mr. Mccormick had he been
situated as l had been, done the
work that l have done, and was
asked to furnish it under his chief
the president-as l am.
1t is as citizens of Illinois that
they are giving me their endorse
ment-nOt as partisans or politi-
clans
For the same reasons applying
to me, the congressman who have
given support to the president and
his policies will be chosen. Repub-
lican congressman who gave to the
president the support he should
have had no opponent nominated
against them by the Democrats, and
the Republicans in those districts
will reciprocate by giving their
vote to the faithful Democrats.
"All of this means that outside of
Cook county the majority of the
state and majority of its counties
will come up to Cook with a major
ity in the support of men whom
they can wholly rely upon to sup
port Wilson"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-10-31
POPULAR YOUNG
WOMAN CALLED
Frances DeSaulniers Dies of ~Elu'
Prepared 10 Go Overseas
for Canteen Service.
Miss Frances Desaulniers. beau

Miss Frances Desaulniers, beau
tiful and popular girl Of Moline,
only child Of Mr.. and Mrs Charles
Cesaulniers. died at Gas last even
ing at the home. after few days
illness Of influenza, which affected
her heart.
Last Thursday the news that
Miss Desaulniers was going to
France for canteen service, spread
throughout the city and hope was
expressed that the work. for which
she was well fitted. would bring
her overseas safely On Friday she
had planned to purchase her outfit
for the overseas trip, when the
. disease seized her. She had beer
I extremely active in all war work.
having been a member OF the war
camp community service board.
She did her work willingly and
will be remembe by the thou
sands of soldiers she had served
while they were stationed at the
Rock Island arsenal
Miss Desaulniers was born in
Moline in 1889 and lived all her
life here. She attended the pub
lie schools and Moline high school
and later made a special study of
music. for which she had a SPLEEN
did talent, and was a clever harp
list, She was always ready to give
Of this talent to the public and she
could always be counted on to as
sist any worthy project She was
q charter member of the Between
Times circle of Kings daughters
and since its organization she had
been active in its work and play.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-10-31
GENESEO MAN
IN CASUALTIES
Private LOuis PetriBi Injured, De.
gree undermined tousin
Receives Word.
Especial to The Argus)

Gereseo, oct. 3I-The name OF
Louis Petrini Of Genesey appears
in this mornings casualty list Is
sued By the war department. az
wounded in service, degree unde-
termined. Word reached his near
est relative. a cousin, Mrs. Joe
Orsi of Geneseo. this week. The
telegram states that Private Pc
TRIM, Of the machine gun battalion.
was injured. degree Undetermined.
about Aug. 30
The soldier is a native Of P.eve
di Compile, Italy, and came to this
country in 1907. He came TO Gen
eseo in the spring of 1917 and pur-
chased a confectionery and fruit
store with Joe Orsi, at South State
street. and dissolved partnership
in April this year, when he lelI
Cambridge with the increment for
Camp Grant In June he sailed for
France. His father resides in
Pieve di Compile, Italy.