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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-05-04

Let Bank COntract-The contract
for the new Scott County Savings
Bank building, to be erected at the
northwest corner of Third and
Brady streets, was awarded to the
Martin E. Nelson company of Chi
cago, by Causen & Kruse, archi-
tects. The building will cost in the
neighborhood of $250,000. Build
once and the new structure will be
ing operations will commence at
completed by Feb. 1, 1919. The con-
tract for the vault work, tellers'
cages, equipment and the interior
decorations of the banking room
was secured by the Weary & AL
ford company of Chicago. The
contract for the plumbing work
was awarded to the D. ]. Ryan
company of Davenport. The build
ing will have a fronting on both
Third street and Brady street. 1t
will have frontage of 50 feet on
Brady and so feet on Third.
Bond Sales FOrced-Bond slack
ers who have been yellow carded"
have been compelled by United
States Marshal n. F. Reed to sub
ecribe 100000 in the southern dis
trict of Iowa since the third loan
campaign was launched. OF the
amount $35, 900 was secured by Mr..
Reeds deputies in Scott county
with the assistance of Sam It.
White, chairman of the Scott coun-
ty counsel of national defense. The
United States is determined that
every man who can afford to do so
shall subscribe to the Liberty
loans" said Mr. Reed I'm all of
the cases investigated by this de-
partment not one individual was
found who could give valid eX-
cuse why he had not subscribed"
Charles BOettcher Detective
Charles Boettcher, former chief,
has been re-appointed detective by
Chief of Police P. J. Pheland. He
was reduced from detective to Pa
trolman by Acting Chief Schlueter
before the latter resigned Wednes-
day night. Boettcher will keep
his old beat in West Davenport. In
a short talk to the members of the
department at roll call, Chief Phe-
Ian outlined the policy to be fol-
lowed during his regime. He i'm
pressed on the men the necessity
of doing their work well. There
will be no change in the personnel
of the department at this time, the
chief stated. Desk sergeants will
shift every month with the men, ac-
cording to the present system.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-05-04
The Day in Davenport

Commits Suicide-Deserte three
days ago by his wife and baby
daughter, George Fischer, 1916
West Fourth street, committed sui
eide by inhaling gas at his home
Fred Neuman, his step-son, was I'M
conscious from the fumes when fire.
men from hose station No. z broke
into the house He was taken to
Mercy hospital in the city ambu-
lance and will recover. Fischer
had been dead for several hours
when his body was found Every
gas jet on the first floor of the home
was open, including all the burn
ers on the-kitchen range.
Memorial Services for
memorial services in honor of Ar
thur Charles Franz, Davenport's
first soldier to die in action on for
eign soil, have been made by Sam
T. White, chairman of the Scott
county council of defense The SER
vices will be held at the Grand
opera house next Tuesday night
Rev. Frank Cole, who recently re-
turned from the war zone, will be
the principal speaker. DR.. Cole
was with the regiment that Franz
belonged to in France and will be
able to tell of many incidents that
will be closely related to the dead
soldiers life on the battlefield. The
complete program will be annOun-
ced next Monday
Court Ends Term-The United
States district court for southern
Iowa concluded it's Davenport term
yesterday afternoon. Approximate
ly a hundred criminal cases have
come before the court at the ses-
sion just concluded Judge NJ J.
Wade, United States Marshal n. F.
Reed and the various deputies and
court attaches left for Des Moines
tonight. The federal court will
convene in Des Moines Tuesday.
An unusually heavy docket faces
the court i'll Des Moines, Mr.. Reed
stated. Judge Wade expects to
have practically all of the court
business disposed of at Des Moines
by May 81 when he will leave for
st. Paul to sit on the court OF APP
peals. In the event that a number
of cases are still pending when
Judge Wade is scheduled to appear
in st. Paul another judge will be
assigned to complete the Des
Moines terms A special session
of the court will be held here to
try the sedition cases probably
early in June, Judge Wade has an
nounced.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-05-04
TIE[[E DAILY SHORT STORY

if you are both of the same mind,
there shall be a wedding"
And now Gerald had returned, his
love stronger than ever, and Irma
had welcomed him as the only man
she had ever cared for.
1t was their wedding eve, two
days later. A disappointment ush-
cred in the ceremony. Rev. Arthur
Gride, who was expected, tele-
phoned at the last moment that he
was called urgently to the bedside
of a dying parishioner Another
clergyman was sought for in great
haste. A sedate, well appearing
guest of the town hotel, ION his
way to a call in the west" was To-
Gated He claimed TO be OF the same
denomination as Rev. Gride. He
performed the ceremony and Irmz
and Gerald were one.
1t was at the end of a happy year
that Gerald Dale was visited late
one afternoon by a stranger. The
latter announced a secret and i'm
portant mission. He claimed TO be
a lawyer representing client who
was now at safe distance. who
had some valuable documents to
sell
II shall leave you copies OF
these" stated the visitor They
prove that an enemy of your fam
lily. out Of revenge, supplanted the
clergyman chosen 10 perform the
wedding ceremony by the use OF
money. inducteh another TO imper-
senate clergyman. and your
daughter and Gerald Farnham are
not legally man and wife"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-05-04

mo go with the boss. He's got
wife and children. AS to myself,
incidentally I'll take the job
Revenge is dear, but it's my
only consolation. l will pay you in
advance if you are sure you can
keep Rev Arthur Gride away from
the ceremony"
YES, l can without doubt.
And the substitute will pass
muster as a welcome and finished
adjunct Of the occasion"
Bryce Walworthy, the man with
out a soul, passed some money
which the other, who was man
without a conscience, grimly pock-
eted. The former left the den, a
fiendish smile on his thin, scornful
lips. He had truly said that all
he had to live for was revenge. On
whom? A happy, innocent young
girl, inspired with all the radiance
OF perfect love. He had loved lrma
Dale. Now he hated her. She had
repealed his advances. fully aware
of his dissolute character. Her
father had all but ordered him from
the house, and Gerald Farnham won
from him the only thing on earth
he craved to possess.
It was natural that Irma and
Gerald should wed. for they had
known one another since childhood.
A year previous Gerald has asked
General Dale for the hand OF his
daughter.
She is too young" the father had
said Go away for year. let us
see II absence will strengthen or
dissipate your mutual love. Then,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-05-04
OUTWITTED!
BY Gladys Ethel Salter.


That man is the most unmlu-
gated scoundrel 1 have ever met!"
The speaker was himself neither
moralist nor likely to shrink from
any labor, no matter how villainous.
where money was involved, but he
evidently considered that the man
who had just retired from the room
overmatched him. The apartment
was one of suite occupied by the
Wixon secret service. a private in
curry concern notorious for its
record and methods. Here were
hired sluggers. frameup artists. all
that malodorous crew who manu-
featured perjury evidence as a
trade and for moneyed reward
undertook any mission under sheer
murder. 1t was WiXon himself who
spoke, and to a subordinate.
He's a bad one and no mistake. >
was the response, but he's got a
thousand to spend on whims"
"A whim? A hideous crimei
won't take his case II You want 10.
independent of the agency. so
ahead"
Business is business" oracuiar-
~ quoted the subordinate. and went
Bryce WalWorth was awaiting him.
Certainly the courtenance of this
arch knsve emphasized the state
nent OF Wixon.
"Weli?" propounded Walworth.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-05-04
lE15IISEs AnlK8
BY N!LLl !,!!. BRADY RAD nd.
MOI 20
Light, Dark and Medium.

Light. Dark and Medium.
When we were young. we used
TO think most of the talk about the
old doctor with his vast store os
experience and his intimate ac-
quaintance with his patients con
stitution, tendencies, idiosyncrasiss
and all that was about nine-tenths
buncombe circulated for the bust
ness benefit of the old fossils. But
now that we have achieved some
years experience it is quite nat
urally different We can see now
that there is a great deal of trut,l
in the idea. Old Auntie Binnell
used to tell us in our raw ap-
prentice days that we would know
more when we got older: we knew
then that Auntie was talking
through her bonnet. but we feel
now that she was uttering wisdom
Almost instinctively a doctor
learns that he can do things to A
brunette that he can't do to 4
blond. And also that the blond
patient can worry the very life our
of him with symptoms which the
brunette patient will scarcely
think worth mentioning. The blond.
when i'll, displays more physical
signs of serious import than a Bru-
nette could ever muster in any one
siege of sickness.
The blond needs a general anes
thetic for a bit of carving work
which may be easily done on thu,
brunette under local anesthesia.
When the blond has a pain it is a
severe, unbearable sort of pain !,
whereas the brunette admits il
hurts much only on cross-exami1l-
alton. When a blond is sick sac
shows it, she fairly shrieks it
and when she)is very sick she ca
ries the Hippocratic facies from.
beginning to end. be the end happy
or sad. The brunette desperately
i'll manages to conceal the fact by
maintaining a comparatively calm.
restful expression that deceives
even the doctor if he is not on his
guard.
Blends VIGOROUSLY fight tuber-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-05-04

General Dale directed look OF
horror at his visitor. His trembling
hands took up the documeRts pre-
sented.
You can purchase the Original
of those papers for S09OUV, o.
served the intruder. Your dausH-
ter and her husband need never
know the truth. You Will hear from
me by telephone within "a hours
and the speaker was gone, leaNlns
General Dale overwhelmed. ne
buried his face in his arms our
stretched across the table. mus
Gerald Farnham found him, gl&ncs,l
over the papers and touched Ms
wife's father on the shoulder.
Asleep" he questioned, ar
there was a strange thrill IN ms
tones. -.
No" groaned General Dale
crushed! Those papers ia
Il have read them, SAID UetaiI'
and lightly. Let me add . doSu.
ment. and he drew from his poeNess
a folded paper. Father. Ena anu
/ deceived YOU. We were secreeiy
married when you sent me a"Sy
one year previous 10 the see"HSS
ceremony. which we Went thfoGs"
because of our secret. Wheh t'ls
vampire. doubtless an emissarf
Bryce WalwOrth. comes asa"
show him this, our first ana van
marriage certificate ..
Which General Dale din ana ll.'
miscreant skunk away like a %aip
ped cur. to impart 20 Bryce VS.
worth the crushing intelligence ln"'
AL his evil plots had failed.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-05-04
tory returns

Not so long ago were assured by we'll known
authority that mushrooms were of no food value
whatever. The department of agriculture, which has
been studying the question length since the
world shortage of edibles became apparent reports
that 80 per cent of the fungi and the bal
mostly starches and sugars. There is food
but neither fats heterogeneous matter. Mushrooms
may do entree, but not a substitute for meat
eggs.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-05-04

hundred thousand additional freight cars and
than thousand locomotives, have been con-
racted for by the federal railroad commission during
the year. This ought to help in avoiding freight
congestion next winter, though the number is
comparatively small when the mileage which the
equipment will be distributed is considered.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-05-04

The slayer of the heir to the Austrian throne and
latter's wife is dead of tuberculosis In a prison
II he made the supreme atonement of the flesh for
: crime but the world cataclysm he started goes
. History will place Gavrio Prinzip at the head
the class in which the most celebrated member
retofore has been the COW that kicked Chicago.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-05-04

Since we fighting autocracy, the shah of
Persia who is monarch with absolute powers, can
hardly be assumed to favor cause, even If he
has bought $1O0 900 worth of Liberty bonds 1t is
more likely that he simply put his money where he
believed it safest and would yield most satsfac-
tory returns.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-05-04

The allies have won another battle in the third
Liberty loan. The in which the common
people have their capital for the use of
the government shows where they stand
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-05-04

Swiss citizen was shot in France as a spy His
vernment made no representations to his life.
itzerland sitting mighty steady in the boat these
Us She does not mean to let erratic conduct on
part of any of her sons endanger her equilibrium.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-05-04

Now asked to get acquainted with sweet po-
tato flour. All right. Well try anything, so long
it is not made of straw sawdust
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-05-04

Are you you loaded up with Liberty
bonds? Better have another
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-05-04
500 HORSES CAUSE PANIC.

Bombay.-Eight hundred unbrok-
en- horses ran wild recently in a
paddock at the Byuulla Racing club
here, smashed down the fences and
spread all over Bombay, causing
considerable panic in the native
quarters. and dislocating railway
and street traffic for the entire day.
A number of the animals got
onto the railway lines, where sew
eral of them We're killed. Six of
them fell into ii large sewage Gull
vert. Horstmen from the race track
spent the whole day and the fol-
lowing night in pursuit of the ami
mails. Only $50 horses were finally
recovered, the remainder having
either been killed or escaped INTO
the countryside.
One man was seriously injured
in the bazaar district by being
trampled by a herd. while in a main
street a motor car was wrecked by
the horses rushing madly over H..
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-05-04

You may yet buy bonds, but there is no time to
lose.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-05-04

| culosis better than brunettes DO.
Some doctors have attempted to
explain this by assuming that the
blond skin permits the healing
tonic, germicidal, bodybuilding
actinic rays of sunlight to pene-
trate, whereas the pigment in the
skin of the brunette excludes such
rays. We opine that the real ez-
PLANTATION is the blond raises n
greater hue and cry over her fail
ing health in the incipiency of tu-
berculosis, hence demands more
immediate attention, obtains an
! earlier diagnosis, and gets after
the disease in the proper way be-
fore it has progressed to the stag ,
of consumption
A wise doctor never knows just
what brunette is thinking about,
but he can tell almost at glance
what blond patient is thinking
about. The brunette may be think
ing about her children, her hus-
bands darned socks or the fate OF
Belgium. But the blond is think
! ing about symptoms.
We much prefer them medium.
Questions and Answers.
Seventeen Pounds on a Pint
have been drinking a pint of milk
each night and morning for the
past eight months, following a sug-
gestion of yours, and have gained
II pounds in weight. l feel that We.
who have benefited by your advice
should tell you of our good for
tune.
Answer-Very unconventional,
unless the beneficiary has further
questions which will be gladly an
swered.
Lost. a Marble.-My little boy,
aged 4, swallowed a small marble
yesterday. He seems ID feel no
i'll effect. What should 1 do? Mrs.
r. j.
Answer-Buy him another mar
BILE. Watch the stools, and the lost
marble will be passed in about IS
to 70 hours after it was swallowed.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-05-04

Go qtinued Monday
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-07-19
VIM. BLACKMAN is
DRAFTED AGAIN

VIM. Blackman has been taken
from the dictatorship of the Labor
Division of the Emergency Fleet
Corporation, to the Labor Depart
ment of the Railroad Administration
Secretary McAdoo knows a good
man when he sees him.
Billie Blackman is our own Wash
ington man. He was a locomotive
engineer in 1914, but went out in
the A. R. U. strike and was never
reinstated. He took prominent
part in organized labor affairs and
served several terms as president
of the Washington State Federation
of Labor. When the office of state
labor commissioner was created the
late Governor John R. Rogers ap-
pointed Blackman to fill the place
and he was continued in office when
Governor Henry Mcbride took the
chair following Governor Rogers
death. Later Blackman went to
Washington as secretary to Con-
gresham Albert Johnson. Shortly
thereafter he was appointed as an
adJuster by Secretary of Labor Will
liam B Wilson.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-07-19
G. w. KNAPP is
BACK on THE JOB

c. w. Knapp, business agent of
the Building Trades and custodian
of the Labor Temple, returned from
Savannah, Mo-, last Tuesday with
err he went to undergo al operation
for cancer. The operation was sue
cessful and the world now looks
brighter to Bro. Knapp. He'll tell
you about it.
On the day Bro. Knapp left for
the East he received the bad news
Of serious accident to his son, E.
J. Knapp, who resided at Horland,
Iowa, and went direct to his sons
home. Mr.. E. j. Knapp was work
ing on railway trestle near his
home, from which he fell, sustain
ing a compound fracture of the hip
and knocking off the corner of the
hip bone. Bro. Knapp says when
he left Iowa on his return his son
was out of the hospital, where he
was held four weeks, and on fair
way to recovery as the result of
splendid surgical attendance.
Bro. Knapp is enthusiastic over
the skill of the doctors of the
sanitorium where he was treated
for cancer, and has words of praise
for the splendid treatment patients
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-07-19
MISSISSIPPI
IS ORGANIZED

The state of Mississippi has been
redeemed from the shame of being
the only state in the union without
State Federation of Labor.
The disgrace was wiped out by
tom" Flynn, of Pittsburgh, nation
al A. F. of L. organizer, who was
delegated by President Samuel Com
pers to organize a Mississippi State
Convention, thereby at zone fell
swoop" to crystalline the chaotic and
weakling union sentiment of this
southern state.
This glorious result was attained
when, under the direction of Or
ganizer Flynn, the Mississippi State
Federation held its first convention
in Jackson, Miss, on June "a, amid
an enthusiasm that showed conclus-
lively that perhaps the most back
ward state of the South has awak-
ened and has pledged itself to
catch up" with progressiveness in
the national struggle for the main
tenance Of living standards, indus
trial solidarity, opposition to child
labor and the primal loyalty that
is embodied in brotherhood
The Mississippi State Federation,
blessed with a set of vigorous of
ficials, announced a statewide cam
paign of organization and in ending
their session passed laudatory
resolution, thanking "Tom" Flynn
and eulogizing him as the god
father of Mississippi unionism"-
which is "some" honor for a Pitts
burgh organizer to attain in a hur-
rier trip South.
The Pittsburgh spirit of hustle,
however, impelled Flynn not to crest
on his laurels" with the result that
during convention week, he organized
Jackson city firemen into a 100 per
cent organization, with comprehen-
sive plans for similar union organ
izations in other southern cities.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-07-19
FIRE FIGHTERS

Fire Fighters Local 46 held a
meeting Thursday night. Had q
good attendance
Two new firemen made applica-
ton for membership
Bro. Minch was elected delegate
to Trades Council to fill the unex-
pired term of Bro. Chas. Blunt
who has enlisted in the U. S. serv-
ice
Fire Fighters Local made a dona-
ton to the mine workers of Gle
Elum who were so unfortunate in
having their homes wiped out by
fire on June 25th.
We would like to see all the other
unions make donations as the United
Mine Workers were never backward
in making donations to locals that
needed their assistance.
w. H. MARTIN, Pres Com.
Local as, |. F. F. U. of A.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-07-19
Try BLUE RIBBON" Cigar, Sc
LABOR DEMANDS
A HEARING

The Drys are not having it all
their own way at Washington, as
Labor's Emergency Liberty League
points out in its advertisement else
where in this issue. The right of
the workers to glass of beer either
with their meals or in a leisure
hour, or both, they show no dis
position to surrender upon any such
grounds as those put forth by Pro-
hibitionists who now agigate in Dor
rowed livery.
The brewing of beer was several
months ago reduced to 80 per cent
and government order, recently
made, restricts the quantity to so
per cent of the output of last year;
and while there has been less of
barley used in the making of beer it
does not appear to have been used
to any unusual extent by house
wife, stock raiser or dairyman. And
as the league points out, this years
grain crop promises to be of un-
precedented size.
In the light of these undisputed
facts the food conservation argu-
ment so industriously exploited by
| the Drys falls to the ground. The
utter fallaciousness of such use of
this argument lies rather in the as
sumption that to whatever extent
person uses beer that person
wastes food. The obvious answer
to this is, (a) the bulk of the beer
consumed by the workers is taken
with their meals; (b) and so tax
en- it represents not waste, but
saving of food, in that it makes
more enjoyable and more sustain
ing their daily fare.
Deprive them of this aid to their
meals, and how shall the deficiency
be made up? In one way only could
this be done: by increasing the solid
proportions of their fare, and would
not this make further demands up
on the grain supply or it's sources
No economy would be effected,
and this the Drys must know. But
what boots it what argument is
used if prohibition can be put over!
That the effect of this continued
nagging of the workers may throw
them off their stride, concerns these
doctrinaires not little bit. Sensi-
BILE men and women admit that when
a country engages in war drink must
be restricted, just as restrictions
need to be placed upon many other
things. But this can be overdone
to such other things.-Adv
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-07-19
UNFAIR LIST
BARBER SHOPS

BARBER SHOPS
l. H. Turner, 1104 Hewitt; William
Whitaker, Lowell; Barnhart Shop,
Monroe; Independent. 11O7 Hewitt.
BUILDING LABORERS
Peter Jackson, L. Starke, Emil Nit
tersbach, E. Cloke, John Grant.
CARPENTERS
R. B. McAdams, Tyner, and N. E.
Butts Amiel Larson.
CONTRACTORS
Christ Kruppler & Son and the
Standard Oil Bldg, at corner of Pa
cific and Virginia.
ELECTRICIANS
F. R. Hare, electrical contractor;
Globe Wall Paper Co.'S electric de-
partment; John Thueson.
FISH COMPANIES
San Juan Fish Co., Seattle,
MEAT MARKETS
Everett Avenue Meat Market,
Riverside; Carstenl Meat Market,
281S Colby.
CONDENSED MILK
Libby, Mcneil & Libby, Packers
and Gamers; Carnation, Aster, Mt
Vernon and Washington brands.
PAINTERS
William Christensen, M. Koken,
Globe Co., / /. Swartz, H. E. Main,
Fl. Patzman, II. O. Johnson, R. j.
McCrcgor, j. G. Jensen, Carl Steen,
R. D. Garner, E. Drolet, C. A. Barr.
PLASTERS
A. G. Wright, A l. Knapp, Booth,
Tom Nygard, W. L.. Porter.
PLUMBERS
c. R. Schweitzer, Otto Merz and
Globe Paper Co.'s plumbing depart
ment
STORES
E. ]. Long, grocery store Nine
teenth and Virginia.
Textile Fabrics
Scotch Woollen Mills Goods.
MISCELLANEOUS
c. W. Anguish, 1906 Lombard;
American Packing Co., Everett; CAL
Smiley and son; Fitz Gerald; M.
Anderson and house, 21O9A Rainier
Avenue.