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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-07-08

Solomon E. Van Noorden. attor-
ney at law and a well known JUS
tlce of the peace, died Saturday aft
ernoon at $40 at his home, 1854
i thirteenth avenue.
Death was due to a complication
OF diseases. He had been i'll for
several weeks. Although for sew
cral years not until a month ago
old he become seriously i'll.
Mr.. Van Noorden had served as
justice of the peace for the last four
years. He was elected first to fill
the unexpired term of the late Oil
yer Olson He was later chosen at
the general election heM in 1917.
Mr.. Van Noorden was born at
The Hague, Holland, Feb. 7. 1854,
and came to American when a lad
but a years old. His parents first
settled in New York, later coming
west. In 1903 he came to Rock Is
land and remained here until 1911.
In that year he left for Batavia,
Iowa, where for several years he
was editor of the Batavia News In
1914 he returned to Rock Island
and soon after was elected justice
of the peace.
Mr.. Van NOorden was united in
marriage with Miss Sarah Phillips
in 1879 at Charlton. Iowa, who. with
enc son. A. B. Van NOorden. of this
city, survive. There are two grand
children. He is also survived by a
brother living in California and a
sister in Holland.
Mr.. Van Noorden belonged to the
Masonic organizations, the Odd Eel
lows and the Modern WOodmen Of
America. In his earlier days he
was a school teacher and was well
read and educated. He had read
law in Iowa, Kansas, Colorado and
in Illinois He was admitted to
the bar in this state and was a
member of the Rock Island County
Bar association.
Funeral services were held at 2
O'Clock this afternoon at the home.
Rev. W G. OgIevee. pastor Of the
South Park Presbyterian church.
of1ciated Interment was made IN
ChippiannOCk
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-07-08
HEAVIEST RAIN
OF THE SEASON
Over An Inch Falls in 90 Minutes
and Total Within "a Hours
Was 2.S7 Inches.

This vicinity was visited by what
is usually referred to as a cloud
burst Saturday evening. In the 20
minute period ending at o'clock
over a ninch fell. Seldom has this
record been exceeded. The total
precipitation Saturday night was
2.16 inches. which is much more
water than has fallen in any period
of similar length this season.
Considerable wind came at vari-
Gus periods of the storm and much
damage is reported from rural dis
tricts. The heaviest part of Satur-
day evenings storm passed north
of here. Small grain and meadows
in many places were leveled and
heavy losses are sure to result.
Some of the grain is too ripe to
rise again. Fields in the hilly dis
tricts were badly washed, whl-~
damage was done to roads and
bridges.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-07-08
SHOW YOUR COLORS
BY WILLIAM HENRY DIXON.

Wear some badge on vest or coat
Show your colorsi
Be you either sheep or goat.
Show your colors!
Don't go round like German spy,
Spreading treason. plot and lie,
They may Jail you by and by
Show your Colors!
If you really are true blue,
Show your cOlors'
Honest folks may question you,
Show your colors!
Show the world you are awake,
For our gallant soldiers sake,
For the hearts that almost break
Show your colors!
Never leave good folks in doubt,
Show your colOrs,
Put suspicion quick to rout,
Show your colors!
If for home and native land.
Wear some badge and show your
sand,
Let the world know where you
stand
Show your colors!
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-07-08
BEEF AND SUGAR
RULES GIVEN TO
LOCAL FOOD MEN

The food administration has Is
sued the following orders which go
into effect at once:
Roast beef. whether hot or cold.
should be served only on Monday
at midday meal; stewed, boiled
beef, or beef hash, including corned
beef hash, on Wednesday and Sat
urday at midday meal: steaks in
any form. including hamburg steak.
Thursday only at midday meal. By
products of beef, such as oXtails.
livers, tongues. sweetbreads,
hearts. kidneys, brains and tripe,
may be served at any time.
1t is expected that every pat
riotic person will comply at once
on a voluntary basis. Notice will
be given to dealers 10 stop supplies
10 those who do not have this pat
riotism. All loyal proprietors Of
public eating places shC,ld I'm
mediately report TO the food ad-
ministrator any who fail to com
ply.
The above restrictions on beef
will doubtless remain effective unit
September.
ruled that all boarding houses, res
taurants, lunch rooms, hotels and
other public eating places furnish
ing meals TO an average of 25 per-
sons, or serving regularly 80 meals
or more a day. must make applica-
ton for sugar certificates. Such
eating places will be allowed
three pounds of sugar for each so
meals served, or three pounds for
each boarder for one month.
Until the certificates are issued,
which will be as soon as the ma
chinery of the government can get
them out, grocers are requested 10
furnish sugar TO such eating places
upon the basis of three pounds TO
the person a month, giving not to
exceed 10 days supply at one time.
This rule does not apply to
boarding houses, restaurants, or
other eating places serving meals
to less than twenty-five people.
All boarding houses, hotels and
eating places of all kinds are here
by directed to send their names,
address, and number of boarders to
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-07-08
LIGHTNING TEARS
HOLE THROUGH ONE
FLOOR LOCAL HOME

The Emil Giericks home at 602
Seventh street. was badly damag-
ed Saturday night, when a bolt of
lightning tore through the roof and
the attic floor. Although flames
broke out. they were extinguished
by the heavy rain which was fall
ing. The fire department was
called. but its services were not
needed. The damage is estimated
at about 5000. Although the attic
floor was pierced by the bolt, the
floors beneath were unframed. One
member OF the family was at home
when the lightning struck the
house, but is none the worse as a
result
Great damage was done in the
city Saturday night by the rain and
wind. Paving was damaged when
the water swept the foundations
away On several of the streets
where paving work is now in pro-
gress. new curbing. which had
been placed, was washed several
feet from the mornings as the rain
washed the newly laid concrete
away.
Asphalt paving was the worst
hit. On the Seventh avenue bOule-
ward between Thirty eighth street.
Rock Island, and First street. Mo-
line, large pieces Of paving were
torn from the street, where holes
had allowed the water TO enter.
The lowlands in the west end of
the city were flooded. Homes stu
ated ar the base of the hills were
Inundated when the sewers became
flooded and water backed up, fore
ing it back through the basins.
Many Easements Of Rock Island
homes are still flooded as a re
suit OF the storm
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-07-08
SEVERAL FIRES
CAUSE MYSTERY
Police and Fire Department Offic-
iais Think Some Unknown Per-
sons Are Responsible.
CIRCUMSTANCES PECULIAR
Four BlaZes in the Same District
Within Few HOurs-Find One
While Putting Out Another.

Police and fire department Of
lcials are of the opinion that per
sons of incendiary inclinations are
at work in Rock Island. This con-
cluslon is based upon circum-
stances surrounding four mysteri-
Gus fires of yesterday afternoon and
last night III the same district.
About ) yesterday afternoon the
police received a call from the In
dustrial Home building on Twenty
first street and Third avenue to in
yestigate a small blaze. 1t was
found that a small keg containing
paper had been moved several feet
from its former position and placed
beside a locker door and then ignit-
ed. Persons at the hall had ex-
tinguished this blaze before the DO
lice had been called. AT. 9:O5 the
fire department received a call and
on arriving at the hall found a
considerable blaze in a store room
on the second floor of the building.
This was put out after a small hole
had been burned in the floor.
Get Other Calls.
At 6:35 yesterday evening the de-
partment was called to fire al the
plumbing establishment of Ward &
Mcmahon at BIS Twentieth street
This blaze was confed TO the cellar
and was soon eXtinguished. Be
fore leaving the scene of this fire
one OF the firemen noticed another
blaze in store room across the al
ley. Entrance to the vacant room
was effected and this blaze was
also soon eXtinguished. Small
damage was done at both places.
At 7:15 the department received a
call from 800 Twentieth street. This
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-07-08

which is situated in the same build
ing as that of the Ward & McMa-
hon plumbing establishment Mr.
Mintz was not present at the fire
IN the other part of the building
and when he arrived later and
found smoke in his offices he i'm
mediately called the department
Smoke from the extinglished blaze
had penetrated to the offices
through doors connecting the
plumbing establishment.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-07-08
SPECIAL Notice.

Notice is hereby given to all con-
cerned, that, owing to the death Of
Solomon Z. Van NoOrden, justice of
the peace in and for Rock Island
township. county of Rock Island,
state of Illinois, that the Office OF
said Justice of the Peace S. E. Van
NOOrden is vacant.
Notice is also given that under
the provisions of the law the books
and records of said Office have been
taken over by me and will be held
until they are turned over by the
county clerk to the next nearest
justice or to the successor of the
late Solomon Z. Van Noorden, JUS
tice of the peace.
W. A. FREWERT,
Town Clerk.
Rock Island, Ill, July S, 1918.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-07-08
ATTENTI0N

Members UcaI lodge No. sos, l. O.
o. F.. and visiting brethren:
You are requested to meet at 1.
o. o. F. hall Tuesday afternoon,
July 8 at 100 o'clock sharp, to at
tend the funeral services of Broth
er W. ]. D. Jones, 1901 Seventeenth
avenue.
RAY MALLORY. y. G.,
VIM. GULDENZOPF, R. S.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-07-08
TRY WAN LANDED BY SUB.

London. July S.-Trial by court
martial opened here today Of Cor
poral Joseph Bowling, who landed
CT the Irish coast in a German col
Iapsible boat two months ago, and
since has been a prisoner in the
Tower of London.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-07-08

Rev J. Francis Robinson. field
secretary Of the National Baptist
association, Will give a patriotic
lecture at the Second (colored)
Baptist church Wednesday evening.
July 10. Refreshments win be
served at the conclusion of the lee
ture
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-07-08
ARREST MAN FOR
THROWING ROCKS
AT RIVER FERRY

Jacob Smoke was arrested last
night by the local police for throw
ing rocks at the Rock Island-Dav-
export ferry. The police state that
Smoke had evidently been unable
to get enough liquor TO finish up
his spree according TO his desires
and had obtained a quantity OF gas
oline which he had also imbibed.
On being arraigned in police court
this morning he was fined S. and
costs in the case.
John O'Neil was arrested yester-
day while in an intoxicated condi-
ton On appearing before Magis-
trate Smith he was dismissed On
payment of costs.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-07-08
MEETING TONIGHT
TO PLAN A UNION

If present plans are realized. a
new union will be organized to-
night at the Industrial home build
ing.
Cooks. walters, Mattresses and
soft drink dispensers OF the tri-
cities are urged TO attend a mass
meeting scheduled for tonight. la
which the subject OF organization
will be dealt with.
The gathering will be held under
the supervision OF the culinary
workers and all members of tri-
city unions are invited The meet
ing will be called to order at $50
sharp.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-07-08

DR.. Francisco Bertrand has sue
ceeded in uniting the warning po-
litical factions in the republic OF
Honduras. it is believed. Bertrand
became president on the death of
General Manuel Bonilla five years
ago. After the overthrow of the
Davila government in 1911 he serv-
ed as head Of the provisional gov
eminent one year.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-07-08
NEW FUEL RULE
EFFECTIVE NOW
Rock Islanders Are Affected BY
Latest Laws of Administra-
tion in Washington.
TO RATION EACH HOUSEHOLD
Expected To Prevent Repetition of
Coal Famine Experienced in
City and Elsewhere.
Rv Associated Press.)

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.,-s-,rr.-. 4f coal will he nut on
- -a-=ons ur5er nIans beinp
-. s--, ,ne-a--on TODAY nv Tho
% % asrr--- srration IN nrayent y
I...-f.,- -e,t yrfn+ar of Tho f,aI
- mitch rausad suma-;ng
To- -. .-.,,-rt-,- t,rrs,,e, no Ias7
- -,.---
HouseEalHers Will be allowed
unly the amount Of coal necessary
10 heat their homes to a tempera-
ture of - degrees and it is an
uounced that those who fail TO OBJ
serve conservation rules and elm
mate waste Will have only them
selves 10 blame if they are without
fuel before the cold eason ends.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-07-08

NJ. o. Griswold at the Rock Island
club before July u. The name and
address must be written plainly
This notice applies 10 all eating
places in Rock Island, Moline, East
Moline and Silvis.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-07-08

Dry clean your comb and brush
this way: Sprinkle a handful OF
Cornmeal on the bristles OF the
brush, and run the comb back AMI
forth till bot hare clean. When
cleaned in this way, the bristles
will be snowy white, and the back
of the brush will not be wet nor
the bristles lOosened.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-07-08

All the news all the ume-The
Argus
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-10-17
TEUTON TROOPS
TOLD OF PLANS
FOR ARM|ST|CE
Germany Wanted Neutral
Strip Between Armies Dur
ing Withdrawal From
Occupied Territory.
BY WILBUR FORREST.

Special cable to the New York
Tribune and Omaha Bee. Copy
right, 1898, by the New York Tri-
bune, Inc.)
With the American Armies in the
Field, Oct. 16.-The elements of the
German army opposing the Amer
leans have been told that all plans
for an armistice and the withdrawal
from the occupied territory have
now been arranged. The plan EN-
braces the withdrawal of the Ger
man troops 20 kilometers while the
allied armies withdraw 10 kilo-
meters; then, with neutral stri p of
80 kilometers between the armies,
the general withdrawal commences.
the allied armies hating 10 kilo-
meters from the German frontier
until peace is signed.
An American sergeant captured
by the Germans Wednesday was
taken considerable distance to the
German rear by his captors, given
biscuits and liquor ration and then
turned loose. His captors said that
the war would soon be over and
they did not want to bother with
prisoners. The sergeant regained
our lines at darkness without diff
Guilty.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-10-17
GERMAN DEFEAT
IS ADM|TTEDb BY
ARMY LEADERS
Man Power Reduced by 80
Divisions Since August and
Armament Greatly
Depleted.
By Associated Press.

With the American Army in the
Laon Area, Oct. l6.-The first news
that reached the inhabitants of Laon
of the radical change in the military
situation came from German officers
who had, after the victories of the
allies, already ceased to agree with
the Berlin military critics whose ar
ticles proclaiming Germany un-
beaten are now being circulated by
wireless. With an utter lack of cau-
tion, which the hearer took as a
betrayal of despair, the officers
opened their minds and barred their
hearts in the presence of people who
had felt their oppression for four
years.
Before a man in whose house they
were billeted and who understood
the German language, German Off
GERS declared:
"The central empires are no longer
able to stand out against the whole
world. Hard times are in store for
the fatherland unless peace is OBJ
tanned promptly"
4,6oo Cannon Captured.
Without a word of regret for op-
preston of the people whose roofs
had sheltered them, they talked with
unconcealed anguish Of the posi-
bility that their own people might
also feel the hardships of invasion.
These direct confessions of de-
CONTINUED on Page Two, Column six.)
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-10-17
Over 100000 Men
Contributed by India
To the British Army

London, Oct. 16-(British Wireless
Service)-General Allenby's great
victories in Palestine and Syria. in
which India has played a prominent
part, make the time opportune to
place on record the answer of India
to the call to arms issued by the
British empire.
Indian troops have borne their
share of the war in France. Meso-
potamia, Egypt, the Dardanelles,
Saloniki, East Africa and in Central
Asia. Up to July 81, 1918, India had
contributed no fewer than 1,ll5.l89
men to the British army. The first
Indian war loan reached the sum
of 940,000,000, and the second loan
has reached even a greater amount.
India has sent to the various the
atres of war more than $500 miles
of railroad track, ESQ engines and
4,500 cars.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-10-17
PERSH|NC'S BOYS
TAKE Grand Pre-
ON ARE RIVER
Junction of Railways Feeding
Great Part of German
Army Falls Into Amer
leans Hands. =

With the American Army North
west of '>Verdun, Oct. 16.-The
American troops today occupied the
town of Grand Pre-, on the north
bank of the Aire river, north of the
Argonne forest
Since early last night rain has
fallen over the entire field of COM
bat, converting roads and trenches
into muddy canals.
Aviation was impossible today and
the artillery fire was directed entire
ly maps except in rare instances
when direct fire was used
Grand Pre- is only a village and its
normal population is less than l,500
but the place is of great strategic i'm
portance.
1t is the junction of the railways
feeding a great part of the German
army and lies at the foot of the
valley extending northward, at the
entrance of which the Germans have
fought so stubbornly.
French Take Talma.
Paris, Oct. 16.-Northwest OF
Sissonne in Champagne the French
have captured the town of Notre
Dame De Liesse and west of Grand
Pre- have taken the village of Talma
according to the official communica-
ton issued by the war office to-
night.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-10-17
Boy Birth Rate Grows.

Los Angelo Oct. l6.-A notable
instance of increase in the percent
age of boys in births in the last few
ronths reported from Blythe, Cal,
and the nearby Palo Verde valley.
According to DR.. w. J. Chapman,
health officer at Blythe, five times
as many boys as girls have been
born in his section in the last two
months. He declares the children
are unusually large and well de-
veloped. Reports of increases in
percentages of male births have
,cme from many sections since the
United States entered the war, but
none so marked as this.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-10-17
Dual Monarchy, in
Fear of Czechs, Plants
Guns in Citu Street.

London, Oct. l6.-A dispatch to
the Central News from Amsterdam
says in Prague the streets from the
suburbs to the city proper are oc-
cupied by troops armed with hand
grenades and machine guns in con-
sequence of a threat by the Czechs
to call general strike throughout
Bohemia. The dispatch adds that
pamphlets have been circulated de-
claring that Czech republic will be
proclaimed shortly,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-10-17
WILHELM MAY
PLACE CROWN ON
GRANDSON HEAD
Berlin Said to Be Debating
How Emperor Can Disap-
pear Without Endanger-
ing Dynasty.

Paris, Oct. i6.-According to a
source of information not without
value Berlin is considering how Enl-
peror William can disappear win
out endangering the dynasty, says a
dispatch from Geneva to the Temps.
One solution being considered.
it is said. is the abdication of the
emperor in favor of his granson,
William, he eldest son of the Ger
man crown prince, with the EN-
peror's brother, Prince Henry, as
regent.
The formal Des Debats yesterday
mentioned editorially the possibil-
ity of such a plan but it condemned
it as unacceptable.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-10-17
German Council Votes
To Take War Making
Power From Kaiser

Copenhagen, Oct. 16,-Germany's
federal council has accepted the
proposed amendment to the consti-
tuition, making it read:
"The consent of the federal coun-
Gil and the reichstag is required for
declaration of war in the empires
name, except in a case where i'm
perial territory has already been in
vaded or its coasts attacked"
Another section was amended to
read:
Treaties of peace and treaties
with foreign states which deal with
affairs coming under the compe-
tence of the imperial law giving
bodies require the consent of the
federal council and the reiclstag."
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-10-17

Later the Neuwe Rotterdamasche
Courant withdrew its statement
representing capitulation and abdi-
cation of the kaiser while the Brit
ish official press bureau announced
it had been officially informed that
such rumors had no foundation in
fact.
Kaiser's Overthrow Inevitable.
There is in Washington no Off
cial word that the kaiser has abd1-
Gated, or that he has been over
thrown, or that Germany is ready
to accept all of President Wilson's
terms.
Official and diplomats, cautious
and conservative by nature and
practice, regard with incredullty
the intimations that one or all OF
these things has happened. OF
course, they all hope they have;
they all know that one or all OF
them are inevitable.
The official opinion in the capi-
tai tonight is that coming of these
things is timed only by the un-
known degree to which the Ger
man military power has been brok-
en-. There may be more informa-
ton on that point in the chancel-
lories of the allies than there is in
Washington.
Ferment Working in Germany.
When President Wilson's reply
to the German peace proffer went
forth Monday night, it was pre-
dcted here that if it did not bring
a complete and unconditional sur-
render of the military autocracy
the German peoeple themselves
would force one. President Will
sons words were plain invitation
to the German people to take such
a step and an ultimatum that there
would be no peace with kaiserites.
The coming hours will show how
the leaven has worked; the intlma-
tions in today's dispatches from
London, Paris and Holland sug-
gest the progress of the ferment.
Most significant of all is regard
ed the report from Holland by way
of London that Germany will i'm
mediately reply to President Will
son accepting all his terms and ask
ing only guarantees for the inter
ests of Germany and the German
people.
When the German reply to Presi-
dent Wilson's note comes this gov
ernment's only course is to forward
it to the co-belligerents. Guaran-
tees for the interests of Germany
and the German people which may
be asked will not intervene as an
obstacle if guarantees are sought in
Continued on Page Two. Column Two.)