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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-19
ACCEPT SPANISH
VETS IN SERVICE
Those Who Fought In rs Fan Join
United States Guards, Q Branch
Of Regular Army. .
MUST BE FORTY YEARS OLD
Ex.Pollcemen and Firemen Also De-
sired for This Work and Excellent
Pay Is Provided.

Veterans Of the Spanish-American
war, who are in good physical condi-
ton, are now being accepted for SER
vice in the regular army according to
Corporal Alec Johnson. who is now
stationed at Spencer square in this
city.
Spanish war veterans are being
placed in a special branch of the ser
vice, known as the United States
guards These men will not see duty
overseas. being stationed throughout
this country to guard arsenals. bridges
and public utilities. All who apply
for enlistment in this division must be
over 40 years old. Ex-policemen and
firemen are also being accepted for
this branch of service.
Good pay prevails for all who enter
this branch. The man is allowed SIS
a month for his own needs II mar
ried, his wife will also receive SIS a
month. For one child s25 month is
allowed and for two children $3.50 is
allowed and SO on UP until the $50
mark has been reached. The men are
provided with board and clothing
Those desiring to enter this branch of
service can apply at the regular army
recruiting station in Davenport. Com
panies in this branch will consist of
$50 men. with 600 men to battalion
Many Youthful Recruits.
Most of the recruits accepted for the
regular army and for the past few
days, have been young men from IS to
q years Of age A group of 20 r.
cruits were sent in special car over
the Burlington lines yesterday to the
Jefferson Barracks. Mo. One of them
weighed 240 pounds.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-19
TWO MORE WORK
FINES ON STREET
Commissioner JuhfS Prison Street
Gang Augmented by Pair From
the County Court.
TAKEN on LARCENY CHARGES
Albert Ross and Richard Brewer At
tempt to Sell Sack of Stolen
Brass in Davenport.
etrograd when Lenine was

Commissioner N. T. Juhls prison
street gang was augmented by two
new recruits this morning through ac-
ton taken by Judge N. A. Larson this
morning in county court.
Albert Ross, aged 80, MinneapoliG,
Mimi, and Richard Brewer, aged Is,
Omaha, Neb., were arrested yesterday
on larceny charges and bound over
to the grand jury in police court this
morning. Both were taken immedi
ately into county court. Ross was SEN
fenced to work 40 days on the streets
of the city and Brewer was sentenced
to work 20 days. Commissioner Juhl
already has three men and his gang
will now number five.
Ross and Brewer were arrested in
Davenport yesterday while trying to
dispose of a sack of scrap brass. Ross
admitted that the brass had been stol-
en- in Rock Island and the pair were
turned over to the local police. The
brass had been taken from a scrap
yard in the rear of 1000 Third ave-
nue., it was learned later. Ross plead
ed guilty, then explained that he had
stopped Brewer, who was walking
along the street, to help him carry
the sack. Brewer pleaded not guilty.
. Betty Martin Fined.
Betty Martin, Negress, who has been
lying in the county Jail for two
months, being arrested on a charge of
contributing to the delinquency Of
Lucille Johnson, also Negress,
was fined 81 and costs. Re-
Gently the girl in the case was sent
back to her parents in Chattanooga,
Tenn. Lige Young, who was arrested
with Betty Martin, was unable to
appear in court, being at present con-
fined in the detention hospital with
the smallpox.
The case of Miss Anna Rembus of
Moline, arrested on a delinquency
charge preferred by Mrs Rose Sails
bury, police matron Of Moline. came
up in county court this morning and
was continued until Monday, the par
ents of the girl being unable to be
present.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-19
BOY SCOUTS WILL
AID THE COUNTRY
Junior Soldiers are to Be Commits.
stoned as Dispatch Bearers
For United States.
TO BOOST AMERICA IN DRIVE
All Troops to Distribute Copies of
President Wilson'S Flag Day
Speech to Homes.

President Wilson and George Creel,
chairman Of the committee on public
information, have addressed letters to
the Rock Island Boy Scouts head
quarters. requesting immediate coop
Grafton and plan has been worked
out with the approval of the exec
utive board for rendering a definite
service of a nature which will not in
volve any arduous effort though 1t
will require very intelligent direction
and thought by scoutmasters and
scouts.
In short, the Boy Scouts are to
serve as aids to the committee on
public information and as officially
appointed dispatch bearers under the
slogan, Every Scout to Boost Amer
lea" in cooperation from time to time
in the different forms of service
which the committee may request.
The initial service is to be a house
to house distribution (no street dis
tribution is to be permitted) of Presi-
dent Wilson's remarkable Flag day
address as given at Independence hall
June IA, 1917. This document has
been pronounced one of the most eff
fective publications in answering nat
ural questions as to the causes which
led the government to enter the war.
The first service is in the week of
Jan. 20, when the local scouts will be-
gin their campaign. The way the
scout will boost is to find at least Is
influential persons who will promise
to read each pamphlet as it is pre-
scented to him and also to pass it along
to another person to read 1t is not
the task of the Boy Scouts to single
out persons whom it is thought need
conversion to the support of the coun-
| try. The scout as booster for Amer
lea is going to have a group of men
or women as Co boosters" who will
recognize him and through whom he
will work.
AS in all our national service &C
| tivities the success of this campaign
will depend upon the intelligence with
which the scoutmasters direct and
support the efforts of the scouts. Di-
rection is the keynote No literature
is to be delivered at random. The
scoutuldstelS nave udue Soou ou lie
! Liberty loan campaigns and other en-
terprises and the local council eXecu-
tive committee fully expects as hearty
cooperation in this newer and greater
responsibility.
Scout Credentials.
! Each scout in this service will have
| to be fully registered at national
! headquarters with some local troop
F, and will carry with him his individ-
ual Identification card which he is
| to show as he enlists his readers as
go boosters"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-19
ESSELTON IS TAKEN
INTO ARMY SERVICE

. Herbert Esselton, vaudeville actor,
who was arrested yesterday by gov
eminent agents to failure to report
to the draft board at Butte, Mont,
where he registered, was taken be-
fore the local exemption board today
and then turned over to the authori-
ties at the Rock Island arsenal. Es-
seltOn will no doubt see immediate
service.
Isadore Lerner, aged 80. charged
with selling liquor to soldiers while
employed as porter in a local hotel,
was taken to Peoria yesterday after
noon to be arraigned Lerner had
been confined at the county Jail since
his arrest.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-19
MAYORS WILL HOLD
MEET AT ST. LOUIS

st. Louis, Mo.-Henry W. Kiel,
mayor of this city, has invited may
ors, city engineers and superintend-
ehts OF streets of all the large cities
IN the United States, to attend the con-
ference Of the American Road Build
ers association, which meets with the
american Good Roads Congress in
mis- city Feb to 7.
The principal topics of discussion
Will be motor truck transportation as
means OF relieving the railroads, and
.ne urgent needs of a highway system.
Two thousand delegates including
some OF the country's foremost en-
sineers, are expected to attend the con-
ference
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-19

to Jail she smilingly remarked that
she was certain she would meet some
Of her friends. Every county Jail
within a radius of so miles now has
its quota of l. W. w. leaders who
are awaiting trial before Judge Lam
dis.
When the girl boarded the train at
Steubenville Thursday the suspicious
of the Pullman porter were aroused
when the mysterious Carl" who put
her on board, refused his aid in carry
ing the suitcase and threatened to
strike him if he attempted to touch it.
The porter reported the affair to
the conductor and all the passengers
were ordered into the next car on
the excuse that the heat had to be
turned off the car. The girl was in
duced to leave her baggage, and
while she was out the suitcase was
opened and the sc packages of so per
cent dynamite were discovered.
The conductor telegraphed ahead
and the Chicago police grabbed the
girl as she alighted, but their action
frightened away the covey of waiting
radicals.
When arrested the dynamite carrier
had $65 in cash in her pocketboOk. She
admitted she knew her act was a vio-
lation of federal law, but explained
she did not think she would get caught.
81 was carrying the dynamite to my
uncle here in Chicago" she said. Il
don't know what he intended to do
with it. No, Carl did not give me the
stuff. but | won't tell who did, ard l
won't tell my uncIes name or give his
address.
Il don't belong to the |. w. W. and
have never been in one of their
strikes. l had nothing to do with the
big strike and riot at Youngstown"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-19
JUNIORS AT VILLA
TO STAGE BENEFIT

The members OF the junior class of
Villa de Chantal are to give an en-
tertainment next Saturday afternoon,
Jan. rs, at the academy for the benefit
OF the war fund of the local Knights
OF Columbus. A nominal charge of
Is cents will be made the public and
students and the young girls hope to
have large attendance at their show.
The Class Play" is the vehicle chosen,
pretty little college play, the au-
thor being Alice Gerstenberg. Miss
Bartell, teacher of dramatic art at the
academy, is coach. The play will be
given in the library suite, the per-
Torrance to begin at $3.50. The pro-
ceeds from everything that is pro-
duced in entertainment features at the
academy this year are to be turned
ever to the Knights of Columbus.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-19
URGES CHILDREN
ALL BUY STAMPS
AXIS Parents to Allow Riddles to
Earn Money to Buy Government
Seals.
cpowNuPS SHOULD COOPERATE
Gan Run Errands and Do ALI Kinds of
Odd Jobs In Order to Obtain
Sufficient Cash.

c. A. Hallgren, chairman of the
Rock Island county thrift campaign,
Who is advancing the interests OF
thrift savings stamps, calls the atten-
ton Of the fathers and mothers of the
children of Rock Island to the need
for giving the boys and girls oppor-
tanities for earning money with which
70 buy stamps The schools of the
city of Rock Island are taking up
through the teachers the desirability
for making investments in thrift
stamps. and the enthusiasm which the
bows and girls are putting into the
movement seems to demand the coop
Grafton Of the fathers and mothers.
One little boy states that he is earn
ing money for thrift stamps by help
ing his brother in his place of bust
ness on Saturday A little girl earns
he- money for thrift stamps by help
ing her mother to such an extent as to
make unnecessary the hiring of a
maid. Still another tell that, "One
day nv mother has company for din
uer and had expected our laundress to
come and wash the dishes. 1t hap
pened that our laundress could not
come. so my sister and l said we
would do the dishes and mother would
give us the money instead. We each
cot 50 cents and | used that to start
nv thrift stamp book" Other boys
and girls are running errands and
doing ali sorts of odd jobs to get
start in thrift savings stamps.
Mothers and fathers should appre-
ciate the possibilities offered by this
thrift savings stamp plan by inculcat-
ing the idea Of thrift in the minds of
the children. If they thoroughly ap-
preciate and acquire the principle and
habit of thrift while they are small
they are sure to carry it with them
when they are grown, and the little
ones should be given every possible
opportunity to make money to invest
in these stamps.
Should Encourage.
Attention should be directed to the
point that aside from the mere act of
saving, patriotism should prompt
every parent to encourage the chill
dren to buy these stamps and certifi-
Gates up to the limit of their capacity
o, the limit that any one person may
hold under the law. Thrift stamps are
not just for children. They are for
grown persons as we'll and offer
splendid advantages and opportunities
for family saving.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-19
HELD TO JURORS ON
A BURGLARY CHARGE

Bapae Alexander, Negro, who was
arrested On a charge of breaking into
and entering the saloon of John Err
bacher, 23O Twenty-first street, was
this morning bound over to the grand
jury on burglary charge by Magis-
trate c. ]. Smith. The proprietor
caught Alexander in the act of rob-
bling the saloon. but the Negro es-
capped, only to be picked up several
days later. Erbacher charged that
Alexander took a watch valued at $40
and several bottles of whisky.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-19
LOCAL ELKS TO MEET
ON TUESDAY NIGHTS

Rock Island lodge $50, Elks, will
hold its regular meetings on Tues
days instead of Mondays. starting next
week, due to the order issued by the
fuel administrator. This was decided
upon at meeting of the officers of
the local lodge held last night.
Local delegates to the state BUSH
ness convention of the EIks at Deca-
tur. will leave for that city tomor-
row night unless further orders are
received. The meeting was postponed
one week because of the blizzard.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-19
HOLD SERVICES FOR
DEPARTED MEMBERS

Memorial services for deceased
Eagles of Rock Island, county will be
held at 2 O'Clock tomorrow afternoon
at the Eagles home in this city. Ad-
dresses will be given by A. B. Duncan
o. St. Joseph, Mo-, and Rev. F. J.
Rolf. pastor of the Evangelical Church
OF Peace. Special musical numbers
will be given.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-19
MACHINE DAMAGED,

"A delivery car. the property Of
henry Thode Liquor company, was
oadiy damaged at 430 yesterday aft
erhoon in front OF the Horst e. Strict
" company's garage.
=, An Elm street car. eastbound, hit
,ne machine as il was leaving the
Duiidlng, smashing one rear wheel
81 Sao damaging the body and tenders.
Tue driver was not injured
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-19
Daily Bulletit,
OfFOOd Prices

Inc United States food admin.
istrati0n. through it, local board,
prepares the following statement
Of prices being paid wholesalers
by retailers for the staples named
and the retail prices which should
be charved I'm Rock Island, Mo.
line and East Moline:
SUGAR (Per 100 Lbs.)
Consumer
Retailer pays. should pay
Best gran
ulated ..793 .0S35 to .0S86
FLOUR (Per Bag).
We'll known advertised mill brands
in cotton bags).
u Dbl. ...2.65 to2.S0 $50 to 3.05
" Dbl. ..137M to Las Las to 1.55
RYE MEAL .tPer Bag).
'''s IL RYE F; FLOUR (pe ri Bag, 70 lie
1917 lib. ..1.O6 1.20 to LIS
GRAHAM FLOUR (Per Bag.
10 lb. 80. SO to .55 ,65 to 10
CORN MEAL Per Bag).
Yellow. 10
lib. go. 81 to go .65 to 20
RICE (Per Lb.)
F'ncy head .O91z to 10 IL to .13
Blue Rose OSA to .09 10 to IL
BEANS (Per. Lib
Navy, hand
picked Is to Is Is to 10
Lima -. Is to .16 Is to 10
CHEESE (Per Pound.
Full; cream
cut 80. .27 to .2S .3S to .s5
Brick
whole .2SEs to 80 "a to 80
Brick-cut
to order .2S1s to 80 SO to .37A
(Per doz. cans) (Per CAM
Blue cans:
11s-lb. ..1s2k to 1.35 .13 to Is
5-lb. .....3.s5 .4o1s to .4s
1O-lb. .:..740 rs to so
Red cans:
,11s-lb. ..1.55 OLGA .16 to .17M
5-lb. .4.65 to475 .471a to so
1O-lb. $50 to90O .S7k to .921s
POTATOES (Per BusheD.
Per bu. ...1.50 to 1862 LIS to- .S7
Per peck. - .43 to AS
MILK, EvAPORATED (Per CAM.
Large cans .121a to .13 IA to Is
Small cans 06A to .O61s .061a to .071a
EGGS (Per Dozen.
ICandl ed.
storage 4. AS to so so to SO
BUTTER (Per Lib
Creamery.
fresh :. 81 to 80 "a to 81
Creamery.
storage As 81 to SO
Dairy -. .43 to AZ .46 to 81
OLEOMARGARINE.
lib car
ton -. &c to 80 80 to 81
2-lb. car
ton .... 81 to .63 SO to rs
Other commodities will be added
from time to time.
| Note-Consumers are advised tina
the prices above quoted are for tn.
day following publication. The con
sumner should not pay in excess Of thu
! figures quoted The consumer viii
lend cooperation by trading elsewher
if his dealer attempts to charge in ex
cess of the foregoing figures. Price
are interpreted from time to time b,
the Rock Island county food inter
probation board, a representative body
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-19
FINED S2i AND COSTS.

II. A. Shriner was fined s25 and
COSTS on charge of disorderly con-
saet and placed under peace bonds of
'sl'ooo on complaint of c. ~ Sprouse
~ police court yesterday afternoon.
az ar. shriner had some quarrel with
SSprouse, who is renter at the
onrlner home.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-19
NEW JERSEY WOMAN
SEARCHING FOR SON

Chief OF Police Phil Miller this
morning received a letter from Mrs.
Mary l.. Van Bunk. aged resident of
Pitman. ~ j.. who is asking the DO
lice to aid her in locating her son,
George W. Bratton. She stated that
she had not seen her son in 25 years.
She is not certain that Bratton is liv-
ing in Rock Island.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-19
MISSING DAVENPORT
YOUTH Is IN PEORIA

Albert Briggs, who has been miss
ing from his home in Davenport, PIG
West Second street, since Dec. Il has
been located through the Peoria
Young Mems Christian association in
that city.
His mother in Davenport was mott
fled and she left this morning for that
city to bring him home. Briggs has
been working on train running be-
tween Minneapolis and Peoria as a
candy butcher and has been making
his home in the latter city. He is II
years old and is former Rock Is
land boy.
All the news all the time--The
Argus
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-19
SpJRTTUALTSM.

Psychical Science church will hold
services Sunday, Jan. 20, at s p. m.
in Odd Fellows hall, 1920 Fourth ave-
nue., Rock Island. Subject, After
Death, What?" Good music. All well
come. Seats free. Rev. r. S. Rea,
pastOr.-(Adv.)
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-19
TWO DIVORCES GRANTED.

TWO divorces were granted in cir
WI. court yesterday afternoon by
yudge W. r. Church as follows: Glenn
ferguson, Rock Island, vs.. Henry
ferguson. desertion, and Christina
pruischer, East Moline. VS.. Mitchell
fulscher, drunkenness.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-19

All the news all the time-The
Argus.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-19

Grip Follows the Snow
LAXATIVE BROMO QUINlNE Tab
,s.s taken in time will Prevent Grip.
= ". GROVES signature on box. zoe.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-04-06
Specifications

Motor: Fourcylinder salvein-head type. 11-1e-in.
BORE Ain. stroke.
Cylinders: Cast enblock (includng upper haif OF
crank case.) Head detachable
Valves: 1H-n. diameter.
Connecting Rod Bearings: 1Nin.x1A-in.
Crank Shaft Bearings: Front, 5l6-inx1 Asin.;
Center. 1M.inx1 21.32in. Rear, 211-16-in.A1Ain
Center bearing Of bronze back babbitt lined
Cam Shaft Bearings: Front, 2%-in.x1 5-16in Gen.
ter 2in.x1 9-32in.; Rear. 7.16-in x1k-in
oiling SYSTEM Splash, gear pump and individual
oil pockets.
Carburetor: Zenith improved double jet
Ignition: New Improved Remy.
Clutch: Cone type.
Transmission: Selective type, sliding gear, three
speeds forward and reverse.
Cooling. Water pump radiator extra size.
Rear Axle: Three-quarter floating, wheel bearing
carried on the wheel.hub and in axle-housing not
on axle shaft. Nickel steel shafts and gears.
Hyatt roller bearings.
Front Axle: Drop-forged Lbeam. with integral yokes
OF special STEEL doubeheat treated; tie rod ENDS,
steering spindles and arms of Chrome Vanadium
steel, heat-treated. Wheels fitted with cup and
ball bearings.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-04-06

Brakes Emergency, internal expanding type: serv
Ice external contracting type; l0in. brake drums
Wheels: Wood. artillery type, demountable rims
large hub flanges.
Tires: 30.n.x3h-in Touring Car. Roadster and
Coupe '31-n. x4-in on Sedan; ron-skid front and
rear
Tenders: Front and rear fender skirts extended to
meet the radiator splash guard and rear splash
guard on body
Drive: Left side center control; spark and throttle
under steering wheel Foot accelerator.
Steering Gear: Compound spur and sector adjust
able for wear 15-in. steering wheel.
Springs: Semi-cantiever front and rear, each with
extra wide main leaf. driving plate made of
Chrome Vanadum steel.
Bodies: Two-passenger Roadster; fvepassenger
Touring Car; Coupe; Sedan.
Wheelbase: 102-n.
Equipment: Electric lights and starter. highest
type two-unit system, single wiring used Com
plete lamp equipment including head light dim.
mers; Mohar tailored oneman top, top cover and
side curtains tilted windshield speedometer;
electric horn; extra rim and carrier on rear com
plete tool equipment, including pump and Jack.
Foot rest, robe rail, pockets in each door
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-07-18
About Eugene v. Debs.

Subscriber, Pctcrsburg.-Eu W
Debs is a leading American Socialist
who has several times been n candidate
for President of the United States on
the Socialist ticket. lie was born in
rerre iiaute, Ind, in 1855, and educate
there in the common schools. He be-
gan life as locomotive fireman on
the Terre liaute and Indianapolis Rail-
road He next sold groceries for a
wholesale grocery house. lie was city
clerk of Terra Haute from 1879 TO 1888
and in 1885 entered the Indiana Legis-
lature. y few years later he organized
the American Railway Union. which,
under his leadership won an important
strike on the Great Northern Railway
in 1894. He was the most important
figure in the great tie-up Of Western
clerk of Terre Haute from 1879 TO 1888,
which was broken by the interference
by the Federal courts by the vigorous
measures of President Cleveland In
July Of that year he was arrested on
a charge of violating a Federal injunc-
ton in connection With the strike and
was sentenced to six months in Jail
While he was serving his term he was
visited BY n Socialist leader and given
various Socialist works to read. From
then on he has been active in tho
Socialist party III the United States.