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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-11-15
REYNOLDS

Richard Davis Of the United States
, army arrived from Norfolk, Va. 70
/ enjoy a short fuTluugh with his sis
! ter. Mrs VIII Parks. and family
" 4. Clark of Alexis was a guest
at Grandpa Milletts home Sunday.
Mrs. Gust olson. Jr-. and baby son
( have been visiting here at the Olson
home since saturday
Miss Mildred Wait returned SAT
u-day from a long visit with her sis
ter, Mrs Harry Conrad, at st Jo-
[ seph. Mo. With her came her little
nephew. Robert Wait Conrad.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Burkett OF
near \ EIngdon We're guests at N a,
Ta ylor's home Monday
EdGInEton township is called upon
10 raise $4,000 for the united war
fund drive starting next Monday
Sergeant Roy A Anderson has
! been transferred from Camp Humph
reys. Va. to Camp Dodge, Iowa
Mrs ". J. McEnttre left yesterday
TO Join her susbaud in Rock Island,
/ where they will do light housekeep-
! ing through the winter
Rev and Mrs Edward McOmber
and children, Paul and Louise. re-
atives in Wyoming. Ill
Miss Pearl Wait was in the tri-
cities W edncsday-
from the village this winter, Mrs.
Emily MarSton win act as Super1n-
tendent of the Red Cross knitting
Bert Souders of Washington, D.
o, was ia the village the latter part
Of the week calling on old friends.
Harold MCEntire returned last
week 10 his duties in the railway sta
ton at Henry, Ill
I Farmers were Offering to deliver
time late potatoes last week in this
village at SI35 per bushel.
Mrs Martha Cozad is planning to
leave about Dec. l for Hanford,
Wash, where she will spend the win
ter with her daughter, Mrs Bash,
and family.
Mrs. James Keueher was in the
tri-Citles Tuesday.
Miss Minnie Fitzpatrick of Rock
Island y sited with her parents here
Sunday.
Mrs G.. L. Ekstrom and children
returned Monday from a nice visit al
y II. Savers home near MarstOn.
Mrs Sadie Mayau visited on Sat
1.rday at F. W. Rathburn's home in
Presumption.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-11-15
Feeble Aged Woman
20 Years Cd Welkened By Fhel'
mOnia-VfnOI Restored StreHgth

20 Years Old Weakened By Pnea'
mOnia-VinOI Restored StreHgth-
Winchester, Val am q farm
er's wife, rs years OF age, and pnsa-
monia left me IN a weak rundown
condition, so l could hardly keep
about and do my work A neigh
bor brought me Vinol and II ms
built NJ my strength 50 fast thaS
l think IT is the best medicine !
have ever taken Mrs. JenAi5
Chapman
There is no secret about NinoL-
1t owes its success 70 beef and Gu
liver peptones. iron and manganes-
peptonates and giycerophosphatsi
tho oldest and most famous bol!
building and strength creating top-
les. Red Cross pharmacy, ChafleS
J. Strate. Bengston's drug Sloi''
and druggists everywhere
7. S.-For any skin trouble q,
our Saxol Salve. Money back L j
fails Adv
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-11-15
Old PRESCRIPTION
FOR WEAK KIDNEYS

Have you ever stopped to reason
why il is that so many products
thar 80 extensively advertised, all
an once drop out Of sight and are
soon forgotten? The reason is
plain the article did not fulfill the
promises of the manufacturer. This
applies more particularly TO a med
ll.Le. A medicinal preparation that
has real curative value almost sells
itself, as like an endless chain sys-
tenn the remedy is recommended
lE those who have been benefited,
10 those who are in need OF it
4 prominent druggist says. Take
for example DR.. Kilmer's Swamp
Root, 81 preparation l have sold for
many years and never hesitate 10
recommend for in almost every
case ii shows excellent results, as
many Of my customers testify No
CHER kidney remedy thai l know
Of has 81 large q saleP
According 10 sworn statements
and verified testimony Of thOus-
Eu1s who have used the -prepara-
ton. the success Of Lr. Kflmer's
sgaEu-E0Ot is due 10 the fact that,
50 many people claim, II fuldlls al
most every wish in overcoming
Kidney, liver and bladder ailments,
CORE cts urinary troubles and neu-
traIizes the uric acid which causes
Thaumauism-
You may receive q sample bottle
Of Swan p-IIDOI by parcels post
Address DR.. KiImer & Co, Bing-
Lauton, n. Y. and enclose 10 cents;
also mention The Rock Island Daily
Argus. Large and medium size bot
ties for sale al all drug stores.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-11-15

Stirratt, secretary of the Young
Mems Christian association, will
have charge of the organization
work among the boys, and Miss Lou
Harris, county superintendent or
schools, among the girls.
This feature Of the war fund cam
paign will emphasize the good that
the boys and girls can do by pledg-
ing at least So to the allied welfare
organizations for their work among
the soldiers while in France and in
the training camps in this country
1t is especially stipulated that
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-11-15
CHANCE FOR BOYS
AND GIRLS TO AID
IN RAISING FUNDS

Much interest is being created by
the announcement that the boys and
girls of west Rock Island county
are to be given an opportunity of
helping in the united war work
campaign by enrolling as victory
boys" and victory girls" o. j.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-11-15

tasks undertaken by the boys and
girlAto earn their pledges must not
be allowed to interfere with school
work. Both boys and girls. how
ever, are to be instructed in ways
and means of earning their pledges.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-11-15

This is Special Week for Men
Wear, Boys Wear and Women s
Underwear at McCabe's.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-11-15

This is Special Week for Mems
Wear, Boys Wear and Women g
Underwear at McCabe's.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-11-15

DR.. Coffee
TARRH, DEAFNESS, HEADACHES, EYE
DISEASES AND FAILING SIGHT
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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-11-15

This is Special Week for Mems
Wear, Boys Wear and Women 8
at McCabe's.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-11-15
STUFFED UP With
"A BAD COLD?
Get busy with q bottle of
DE-. Kings New Discovery =
at once

Coughs, colds and brozchiaf setact5'
- they are all Likely to result In dangz-
1us aftermzths unless checksdin tCns'
And how efectivelysnd Quirky D..
Iing's New Discovery helps 70 DO the
checking work. Inhamed, irrtstsa
membranes are soothed, the mncos
phlegm Ioosened freeEys and quEt'
restful sleep follows. 60c and $l.M
Andruggists have It Sold since lsoS
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-11-15

Constipation Emancipation
No more lazy bowels, yellow Con-
pSextion, SICK headache. indigestion,
embarrassing breath, when you use asa
corrective Or. Kings New Lie PIa.
They systemzEize the system and Essp
the world locking cheerful 2Sc
Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-07
Views of the Vigilantes
THE FETCH OF
GERMAN EFFicIENtY
By Robert Adser Bowen of The Visi-
 iantes.


 It continues to be the fashion with certain types of mind to laud German efficiency to the echo and thereby lay 6 fiattering tinetion to the soul of de- ing what, 1t is cornplaeently asserted, is rendering credit where credit is due God knows Germany needs all the credit that may be coming to her, she whose load of disCrsdit is so over- wheEmifgly heavy. But why are these conscientious people 50 liberal Of praise Of Germany while they have no word Of credit where it is at least ed- ually due to our Allies and even to ourselves as a nation? Truly the sllib- bolefh of German efficiency has been run to death!
 Not that Germany is not efficient terribly efficient-in her way, but why bef6g that way by a false assumption of generosity at the expense of others whose efficiency in three years with all the stress and strain of the might jest contest in history has over and over again brought Germany up at bay against her own long and studi- ously cultivated perfection Tt may be answered that Necessity is the Mother of Invention, and that, therefore, our Allies deserve no praise. It may also be said that Germany is not the rnoth- CT of invention, not even in her la= tionally chosen field of perfectonAwa ---aad receives much praise that is not her due, even in matters in which she is undoubtedly efficient
 We do not hear quite 50 often to- day the questions as to what Great Britian has done in this war--Great Britain without whose ubiquitous ser- vice the war would have been over years ago with Germany the victor east. west, and not iruprobatiy. If she
Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-07
own the activities of the underwatsr

down the activities of the underwater boats.
 It was some time ago that Mr. Ford announced his determination to stop the building of pleasure automobiles and to turn his factory to such use as would best meet the needs of the country in its war preparations. In view of the success which he has at- tained as an automobile manufacturer the country will have full confidence In his ability to so change over his factory that he can manufacture sea automobiles and do so in tue quickest possible time. This should put the country into possession of an effective weapon for combating the submarine menace. which. though the first lord of the British admiralty says the U.boats are being held in check, Is stfll the cause of too great losses in shipping. This new addition to the naval vessels, in the construction of which Mr. Ford is going to play an important part. will therefore be watched with deep con- cern both here and abroad.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-07
STORIES OF THE WAR
Conditions in Fres Belgium

Associated Press Correspendenee.)
 Conditions among the 9o,0e0 civilian inhabitants of free Belgium are not bad except as affecting special class es, according to Captain John van Schaick, IT,, acting director of the Department for BilgiuIn, of the Amer iean Red Cross. Captain van SchAick told the correspondent of The Assoei- ated Press that farm laborefs were suffering through combination of low wages and high prices and that the department had arranged to furnish relief to distressed families.
 l'The farmers get enormous prices for their products" said Captain van Schaick, ''but the farm 1aborers get the same low wage they had before the war, and as they are exempt from military duty because Of labor on the farms, they are not free to change their employment or force higher wage. There is genuine, suffering among many families of this class on account of the high prices they have to pay for everything they use. The Department for Belgium has arranged to meet the need of such families and other cases of emergent distress in the following way:
 1.-The Friends Ambulance Unit. un der the command of British army of ficer, has had for three years a HeaItl Service in the British zone of fret
 Belgium. Several young university
 men have regularly visited homes
 studied conditions and reported upof
 dangerous or unsanitafy health situa. tions. This work has been done undel the' Minister of the Interior. It hal now been arranged to use these sam, young men to distribute relief wher, needed. Their perfect knowledge 0 the language and of conditions com bi1ed with the high ideals which tn,
 Friends put in all of their relief worl makes the Department for Belgun feel that the thing could not be han dled better It is the conviction of tn Department that this kind of work i helping win the war by keeping ul the spirit and morale Of the people, .
Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-07
MAKE THE PERIOD sRtgF.

The question as to when the rail- roads, which have been taken over by the government for the purpose of getting greater efficiency at this time through 6 standardization Of the con trol, will be turned back to the re- spective corporations has not as yet been decided. It is understood that it will continue until after the war ends and reasonable time can be expected to elapse after peace is signed before such transfer will take place. But the matter ought not to be left in the air. The uncertainty regarding it ought to be eliminated and a time fixed now.
 There are those who advocate that the government continue the control for. a period of two years after the war is terminated. Others hold that IS months is enough and there are others who believe that it should De done within few months Or ss year -ss the outside limit.
 It is highly probable that there viii be shown the need of making some change in the legislation which has governed railroad operation in the past but certainly that ought to De taken up speedily and not be allowed to drag along for an indefinite period yet that is just what can be expected unless time limit is fixed within req senable bounds. The longer the period of government control after the wal the greater will De the prescrastir1a- tion in taking up such changes where as if the time limit is placed wfthir a year the quicker the action win hay. to be taken and justice done te ths railroad systems on which 50 rntIef depeudss
Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-07
MEN WHO CAME BACK
"REMEMsER YOU ARE PATs.S

Copyrighted by the British Canadian
 Recruiting Mission.
 By P. F. Meehan
 Go. l. of the Princess Pats.
 They called us the candy boys" when we first went in to fill tip the ranks in the original 66mpany. Those were fine picked men at first. Six Hooters, and when they began to send recruits from McGill University they thought the tIntraifed school boys" as they called ls, would never live up to the reputation of the Pats" In fact, the name of the jam served with the army ra4 tions was re-naraed for Us, and it WAS Pass me the MGGfli" and probably that name for apple and plum fam will always stick.
 But they soon found the "candy boys with only four Of five nfonths' Training could hold up their end. They had to shove us right through. In all they have sent six different e6lua paties from McGifl.
 I joined them during that big sc.ap in June ,1916, the YpFes salient when the Germans had the offensive. We were sadly outruinbered and the Ger. mans advanced with Il heavy artillery barrage. Nobody said then that the ''candy boys" did not do their part. It was in that battle that our Major Hamilton Gault. was badly wounded. He was one of the gas1sst fellows ever
Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-07
Advice to Hunaarian Miners.

Representative Hungarian citizens have prepared and published an ad- vertisement urging loyalty of Hungar- ian miners employed in this country. The following is a translation of the same which has been duly filed with the New York Post Office with the affidavit which is required by law:
 "fn any country when war com mehces everybody belonging to the country of the enemy is intefned.
 "The United States has not done this. It will not intern Hungarians so long as they continue at work and make no trouble.
 sNo one who does his duty will lose his job. Everyone will be as well treated as if he were 8 citizen of the United States. so long as he behaves himself.
 "He will not be deprived of his say ings orr his property. Huhgafian miners, therefore, have reason to De
Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-07

had so elected, across the seas-but
 we still do not hear from these afore-
 said generous souls any admission of
 what she has done. We need go no
 farther back than a few weeks for an
 instance. There was no credit for ef-
 ficiency in Byng'S advance upon Cam
 brai, would not have been had he not
 failed Of ultimate success; but when
 Germany, By force of superior num-
 bers and Counting no cost. drives him
 back q part Of the way he had won
 against her impregnabIe defenses, and
 is in her turn brought tip short Of
 complete success. at, we are told, is
 efficiency. Tare was no efficiency in
 Italyss remarkable campaign across
 the Isonzo but when Germany drives
 Italy back to be checked short of eom-
 plete success on the Piave, again the
 paeafs are rung in honor of German
 efficiency. The familiar refrain is
 again being raised now that Germany,
 pFofting by the treachery and stupid ity of the Bols4ievikf, is enabled to throw against the western front her vastly augmented forces. and at
 tremendous loss of life gain less than the British gained a few weeks ago. What wonderful efficiency! exe1aim these hypnotized minds, slaves to a shibboleth.
 Just what does it mean? The sports mans love of fair play? It is not fair play. Rather it is the instinetive wor- ship of force seduleus1y. cultivated for half a century which a word un- prepared to cope with it has not been able to crush in three yearsAof a force efficient, indeed but frequently so because of anything but praise worthy reasons. And why should the l fact that that force has not been able 1 for all it's tiger spring, to crush it's | relatively tinprepared enemies win no word of credit for our Allies from these apostles of fair -nlindedness? 1 These people are not pro- Germans Often they are intensely anti-Ger- man; but they are emphatically pro- Ignorants. They are. too. the intel l lectuaHy iIideiert. Their war know1- edge is mainly derived from a read | ing of the display headlines in the daily papers. Their interest wafies 1 before review, af editorial, ever
 news items. They know nothing ot l the causes that make for German ef- 1 f1cisncy in this warAthe long worked out and almost perfect military pre-. l paTedness, the foftditous eircun stance of her central geographical DO. i siti6n, tlle strong, masterful d6mifia-
 tien she exefts over lief allies so thal | her will is their law It is curious phase of fetieii worship that they rep. resent, and it becomes an unpatfi6tit
 and tingenereus one. Te deprive 6d1 | Allies of the great praise due them l notwithstanding the blui1ders tIeJ have made, or because they have fi6 l taken this or that ultimate objective and to see no t5ltindef iii German pro. eedures and no failures in their plan.
 betokens d remarkably fa1laei5us pro. cess of reasoning. 1t is full time tha these individuals took stock of tht comfort they are however iiiiwittingly giving to the enemy:
Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-07
TIE LIGHTING PLANT FUEL.

Another special city meeting has been called to take care of the needs of the gas and Electrical department regarding the important matter of fuel. According to the call the department will require not more than S75,00e ads ditional for coal, over and above what was estimated last June. Anyone who has been obliged to pay emergency prices knows that tiie cost of fuel has taken big jump and that the neces- sity of getting coal has made 1t neces- sary at times to disregard the cost. This of course has been felt by this department as well as by the individ- ual so that it is not surprising that the coal bill has far exceeded the es- innate and will continue te during the remainder of tie fiscal year.
 It can therefore be anticipated that favorable action will be taken upon this matter especially when it is afl- nounced that the increase in the re- ceipts of the department will probably take care of the added expense. But in connection with this matter Of fuel thefe appears to be an excellent op- portunity for this department to cur tail on much of the street lighting that is being done at present. Other cities have been forced to it and eer- tainly the need exists here. There are a few lights which are now turned off at midnight because of the saving which is effected. There are many others about the city which might be shut off at the same time and there are those which could Dc eliminated altogether where they afe close and used largely for display. It is a time when safe and sane econoniy should be praeticed wherever possible with full regard of course for the danger which goes with the lack of adequate light.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-07
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
To Remove the Danieison Postcffice
 Will Cost Over $4,0oo.

To Remove the Danieison Postcffiee
 Will Cost Over $4,00o.
 Mr. Editor: On Friday evening of this week & special town meeting is to be held to see if the town will vote to instruct the seleetmen to put bid in fer the leasing of quarters in Town Hall building for the pestofiee.
 We are informed by CHI. Bacon, in whose building the postofice Is now located, that it will cost the town over $4,e00 to make the change. MT. Ba- con states that he has every item of expense called for by the government, and that he is positive that 1t will cost KiliingIy oyer $4,000 to make the change.
 The voters should note this last. The town is greatly in debt. nearly s250, 900, and it cannot afford to add more to this debt The change will not be 8 good financial investment for the town, and will add over $4,g00 to it's pres ent debt.
 The postoffiee was removed from Town Hall building because of the snallness and inconvenience of the quarters furnished. Those same con ditiens exist today
 Another thing to take into consid- 
 ever moved into Town Hall building it will forever spoil Danielson's chances Of getting a federal building. If it is Kept in it's present quarters the prospects are exceedingly bright that Dahielssn will ifi the not distant fu- ture be given first class federal building. The room in Town Hall where it is psoposed to move the office is rented at good price to a respofl- sibie party who would retain it's rem tai indefinitely. Most people look iip- on the change as a mighty poor one for the town. involving. as 1t does the great expenditure of $4;o06: It is believed that economy should be tfe watchword of the hour. Certainly nd town needs to be more careful of. her finances than does Killing1y. To de- libefately add s4 GOO and over to Her present great debt seems suicidal. and we do not believe that any property owner who thinks sensibIy will saac- ton stieli action and most people pre- dict that the proposition will be voted down. =. ...-s CITIZEN.
 Danielson, Conn., Feb. 5, 1918.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-07
HOLLANDS AMERte4N SUPPLIES.

Strange as it may seem Holland still
 hafbors the idea that this country
 should lift it's embargo of1 the sending
 of foodstuffs to Holland regardless of
 the amount of goods which that c0tifl-
 try is sending to Germany. c. J. K.
 van Aalst holds to the idea that Ho1-
 land is giving little aid and comfort
 to the enemies of the entente though the trade is of vital iEnp6rtaIiee to
 Holland.
 A difference of opinion exists as to the amount of feodstuffs which are sent from Holland into Germany. The estimate of the entente is that 1t amounts to over 91S,060 tens yearly, while one Dutch professor declares it to De only about twosthirds that amount. Tie entente figures are based upon the official reports for 1916 and the imports for tie safne year in Hol- land amounted to practically the same figures, so that if Holland had kept it's goods at f1efne it would have had enough in the way of food to take oare of it's own wants. wlifle it must De recognized that from tlre exports to Germany it was possible to maintain the kaiser's army for an entire year. Neither Holland nor any other neu- traI country contiguous to Germany can expect that the United States 6f
 any other allied country Is going to give up it's stores that Germany may get sufficient food to continue the war. Yet that is what it amounts to if we are going to supply Holland and Hol- land in turn is going to put over it's | border the same goods CT an edufva- lent aIaodfit. Holland d5esfist find
 Gertiiany contributing to the, aid oi | America iii any such way. &s