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Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1918-11-23
SIaaA xCHE
No Time to Abandon Custom.

1t has long been the hOnored custom
Of our people to turn in the fruitful
autumn of the year in praise and
thanksgiving to Almighty God for his
many blessings and mercies to us as
a nation. That custom we can follow
now, even in the midst Of the tragedy
of world shaken by war and immeas-
urable disaster, in the midst of sorrow
and great peril.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1918-11-23
turkey BELONGS to America,

The turkey Is an American bird.
Iucullus and the Epicureans did not
know about him. He was found in his
wild state after Columbus fist voy-
age. About hundred years after the
discovery of America broiled young
turkeys became great delicacies on
the Frenchman's table.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1918-11-23
that CHANGE IN
WOMAN'S LIFE
Mrs. Golden Tells How Il
May be Passed in Safety
and Comfort.
Fremont, OIL was passing t rough
the critical period of life, being forty.

Blk years OF age ana
had all the symp-
toms incidenttothat
change-heat fash
es, nervousness, and
in a general run
down condition, so
it was hard for me
to do my work.
Lydia E. Pinkham's
v Vegetable Com
pound was recon-
to me as tho
best remedy for my
frOr,hloo Uhich =
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1918-11-23

London will erect public memorial
to American soldiers killed in France.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1918-11-23
Not Valid.

"Gadspur is disappointed man."
"Why sof''
'He wanted to get into the army,
but made mistake In his question
naire"
'How was thati"
ale wo.fed exemption on the ground
of domNstic infelicity and the exemp-
ton beard couldn't see 1t that way
Birmingham Age-Herald.
I takes a man TO win a fight; any
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1918-11-23
Much More Than Material Are
the Blessings for Which We
Now Give Thanks.

T IS to be hoped that this
Thanksgiving will not be a
pagan holiday, and that
those who do render thanks
will do so not as a heather
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1918-11-23
This Year the Spirit of Thanks
giving Should Properly Be
Filled With Praise.

1HO that views the universe
! in its orderly movements
\ and sees the mind of the Al
mighty in the fixed blessings
of existence can doubt that
ont from the cataclysms of
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1918-11-23
Our Nations Greatness Founded
on Fatherhood of Man and
Brotherhood of God.

ITH the growth of the nation
there has been correspond
ing growth in responsibility.
The raw experiment Of a
nation framed from the skel-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-27
LIBERTY POSTER
PRINTS WILL BE
DROPPED ON HUNS

Washington, D. c.. April 81
Some OF the third Liberty loan
posters sent to General Pei shing III
France will be dropped from air
planes behind the German lines OF
the western front to impress on
such German soldiers and civilians
as see them the idea that the Unit
ed States considers the winning OF
the war a definite necessity A let
ter from General Pershing to the
war loan organization of me treas
ury received yesterday says:
The third Liberty loan posters
have been received, and L desire To
say that | consider their use and
display among the troops 81 France
most excellent method OF i'm
pressing on the a. E +. the fact
that the people back home are
standing behind them.
Some of them dropped from air
planes back of the German front
line will help also to impress on
such German soldiers and civilians
as may see them the idea that the
United States considers the win
ming Of the war definite necessity
and that our people are both ready
and willing to make the necessary
Scrifices to accomplish this end.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-27
POLICE PLACING
FORCE ON DRIVE
Campaign Asked by Thompson
Against LoafeTs Is Started by
Rock Island.
SIN SENT DOWN FIRST DAY
VIII BE Among Those Who VIII
Go 10 Work at County Farm
Under New IdIer Plan.
SIX SENT DOWN FIRST DAY

Rock Island police made a small
cleanup last night IN cooperating
with States Attorney Floyd L.
Thompson in Kidding the county Of
idlers.
Six men were sentenced to \he
county jail for 40 days by Magis-
trate Smith this morning. All
were charged with disorderly con-
duct The police have promised 10
assist Mr.. Thompson in his cam
paign against loafers here and are
already taking steps to do so.
First to Work.
As soon as plans materialize the
men in the county jail Will be put
10 work. None viii remain idle.
Work for them will be found eth
er in the city or elsewhere. The
men sentenced this morning, John
Williams, George Hartley. Samuel
Hayden. John Murphy, William
Jackson and Frank KELLEY, will be
among the first to work for the
county under the new plan. No
definite outline as to what work
they Will be put at has been de
cided.
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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-27
WAR RULES FASHIONS FOR MEN NEXT
YEAR WITH COTTON POSSIBLY TO BE
USED IN CLOTH MORE EXTENSIVELY

Although some of their patrons
have not solved the spring and sum-
mer clothes problem, the business
men are contracting for their fall
and winter stocks in mems clothes.
Advance information received by
one local merchant is to the effect
that the war will show in every
cloth and every style of the 191819
season. War prices will be so pro-
nounced chat many lines Of suits
will be discontinued.
The gentleman who camOufiaged
the cost of this springs suit in such
beguiling designs that MI. Plain
Citizen delved SIS into his clothing
allowance to buy a nifty modelled,
tight-ftting. brilliantine hued suit,
tight a-la-militaire, will be face to
face with a real problem next fall
that will tax their ingenuity to the
highest degree. Where is the win
dow decorator who can so arrange
a S70 price mark that his victim
will not faint before getting into
line to buy the suit? Yet that is
what clothiers will be doing next
year.
There will be a few of the cheaper
suits-'to meet the trade, you
know" as they say. priced at per-
maps $40, but the office man will
pay more than double his 1915 al
IOwance for suits next fall and OBJ
tain high per cent cotton mixture
at that.
Spring styles have shown a
marked tendency to get away from
the superfuities that identified last
years trench models, although
pleated back effect is retained in
many instances and other features
of finish required an extra high
quality Of material that will be
saved next winter.
Close fitting, absolutely plain
suits will reign. The government
has not 'decreed the style-it
merely suggested TO designers that
sense in clothes. The time Is to
be ushered in with the 1918 fall
lines.
Already many tailors have given
up stocks that met with wide sales
two years ago. Ihe $40 or 500 tall
Ored suit OF the pre-war days can
scarcely be duplicated nOw-at any
price. 1t is said that these suits
could not now be put on the mar
ket for less than $S5 or $50 and the
result has been that the manu-
facturers are not producing the ma
teriaI.
Men who never before wore cot
ton mixed cloths are adopting them
perforce this summer and will wear
them TO an even. larger extent next
winter.
The demand for wooden goods is
the primary cause but with the sub
stitutfon OF cotton IN making up ma
terials and despite the record
breaking cotton crops, raw cotton
prices have advanced TO such an ex-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-27

rival of the supplies will save the
day. IL Is better that d few men.
say ten or dozen, are made sick
even to the extent Of dying than
that 5000 men be killed and the
battle lost because the supplies
failed to arrive. Again 1t is as
sUredly better that the available
medical supplies be sent to the
frOnt lines 10 the possible deple-
ton OF other departments, that the
men there are kept in the best pos
sible condition, with the chance
that someone or ones back Of the
lines may have to go without what
would cure him. The doctor OF
course seems. in that case. TO be
willfully neglectlng the man, but
such is not really the case. He IS
making the greatest use OF the
available supplies.
Then there is another side TO
the question. | have seen many
cases of men who WiIlfuIly feigned
illness in order to get out of some
Sort of work that they did not like
or when they wanted to take a day
off. We must REDUCE these cases
to the lowest possible limit. With
this necessity one will surely max"
honest mistakes in judgment ana
someone is Mound to be sent 10
duty who should be left in quar-
ters"
In mechanics for instance. the
French or English mechanic is fine
beyond question and far more
ar n 70 M A 4ysf
can mechanic. But too slow for
comparison. l saw six Frenchmec
work from 1880 in the morning un-
til 11:30 doing a piece of work on
a locomotive that took six husky
Americans less than ID minutes to
do. This seems absurd, doesn't it,
But it is the case, nevertheless.
In the United States a powerful
locomotive can be built in 20 days
from pig iron while the same ma
chine takes many months to buiii
over here. l was amused at some
of the Frenchmen who were on
hand when the first one of those
locomotives was assembled and
ready to start up. They had heard
that it had been built in 20 days
and when all was ready to start
off they fell over each other get
ting out Of the shop-they expect
ed it to blow the shop up To be
sure these engines are not elegant
pieces of workmanship, but they
are good for five or more years of
hard wear and tear. Whereas, the
French engine is beautiful from q
of workmanship, and
will outwear these from Unitef
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-27

states many times over
are too slow in producing tEs, .asI
be Of value at this time aI,d ~ Y
when they are wanted. TsaH Y
gines from the United s.s.ss 90
more powerful than the 49, 49, az
OF French engine. They -, Iil4i
30 be able 10 get our ideas.as sssl.
ticie efficiency A thing mn5,
done exactly so or It Ia mo- ~,
Whereas, the American eap ga
dozen ways Of doing The ~
thing, and can. when deglrad -l'
lect the quickest way to - =
Is wanted. even though il : ~
perfect as it could be mac :.
put it tersely. the Americana.
in terms Of output wn5Ia -
FTenchman thinks In tsr--s
quality OF product.
The Ford cars are quite uo.-1.
with the French. but such -
as Ford car could never -
been conceived by a Freneb---.
trained as they are to place ssisi.
before results.
So far as the navy is oones--as
/ know less than you do aboas -.
branch Of the service. as I a..
get the news that you car "a :
have every confidence that 4 vss
give a good account Of itself -
ever.
At the present time 7 sm -.
chief surgeon OF our or@anszsfie-
and have two medical officers -
der me, also a medical defacsrs-.
OF nurses. We are quite BUSY ~.
of the time. During the cold vel
er tif one could call Sc colds. =.
had lots of bronchitis, pneamoois
etc. That has cleared I'D 70 H..
extent now.
/ am studying French and hsT.
made considerable progress. A.
least can go in to store -
buy what l want. That Is =
more than I could do al first.
Well, / win glance over the nan
and turn in for the night.
Affectionately.
FRED
-Buy d Liberty Boad-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-27

Miss Sara E. Nieman has Red
Cross task that stretches over five
continents She is director of
women's work for the territorial,
insular and foreign division of the
Red Cross. Wives of American
missionaries, teachers, engineers
and business men in Latin
America, China, Japan and the
Philippines are working lin the
chapters of this newest division
the 14th to be formed in the Amer
lean Red Cross. Whether they
are in Asia or scattered across two
oceans; in Guam, the territory of
Hawaii, Puerto Rico, or the Virgin
islands, they are making the same
kinds of surgical dressings and
garments as the women of thou
sands of Red Cross chapters back
home American women in Tam
pico raised $500 in an hour at an
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-27

allied Red Cross bazaar One woman
in Porto Rico directed the making
OF twelve and a half tons of Guava
jelly for Red Cross hospitals. Thou
sands of little Filipino children
have become members of the Jun
ior Red Cross. Miss Nieman is
bringing them all together. sending
over the earth accounts of how to
do Red Cross work, helping Amer
lean women to organize for war
work, and getting back from the
mining camps of Mexico, mission,
schools of the far east, the planta-
tons of Brazi land Chile, knitted
stockings and sweaters, hospital
garments and surgical dressings,
money, jolly little notes like this
one from Japan: Il can never be
grateful enough for the chance you
have given me to help. and to feel
close to the women at home dur
ing this war"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-27
WARNS AUSTRIAN
| BLOOD WILL NOT
AID HUN CONQUEST

London, April 27.-'One thing is
certain" says the Arbeiter Zeitung
Of Vienna as quoted in an Exchange
Telegraph dispatch from The
Hague. We are not going to al
low Austrian blood to be shed,
either now or later on to retain
German cOnquestS.'
This statement is made in a crit
icism Of Germany's action in the
direction of virtual annexation Of
the former Russian border states
Of Livonia and Esthonia. The news
paper asks whether the treaty con-
cluded with Russia at Brest-Litovsk
is still valid aid adds:
''Germany's action will have to
be paid for with another war as
soon as Russia is strong enough.
This of course is entirely Ger
many's business"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-27
ONLY TWO KINDS PEOPLE AT END WAR,
ASHAMED AND THE UNASHAMED SAYS
DIRECTOR LIBERTY BOND SALESMAN

sands of our boys are now some
where in France" should be all ad-
ditional incentive that is needed
We call upon all citizens of Illinois
who have not bought bonds to go to
their banks or to their local COM
mittees and, in the spirit of Hottest
patriotism and love of country, en-
ter subscriptions at once. We ask
those who have bought bonds to
make additional subscriptions to
the full limit of their ability
There will be only two kinds of
people at the end of this war
those who are ashamed of them
selves and those who are not. Let
each citizen of Illinois make a rec
ord upon which he will be able to
look back with pride.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-27
HORSESHOERS TO
CLOSE SHOPS AT
NOON SATURDAYS

Blacksmith shops in Rock Island,
Moline and East Moline are to be
closed on Saturday afternoons be
ginning after today and continuing
during the summer months.
This was decided last nighS at a
meeting Il the Master Horseshoers'
association of the three cities be
FIRE mentioned The horseshoers
have also appointed a committee to
take charge of arrangement for the
state convention of master horse
shoers which meets in Moline in
March of next year. Appended is
the committee: L. Haberthur and
Phil Weber OF Rock Island; John
Radcliffe. c. Verhale and Albert
Mussman of Moline and William
Wilcox and Louis Haemer of East
Moline
-R-Iy Liberty ROnd-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-27
ENGLISH LOSSES
FOR WEEK PLACED
AT Is, 1863 IN ALL

London, April 27-Casualties in
the British ranks reported this
week totalled 1850. 4le losses
were divided as follows:
Killed or died Of wounds: Off
GERS, 408; men, 1851.
Wounded or missing: Officers,
2,071, men, 1929
despite the fighting for more
than a month past the British cas-
ualties reported are only now be-
ginning to approach the high fig
ures for last year, when the Brit
ish were on the offensive Of the
western front The increase re-
Gently las been on the average Of
so per cent each week over the
week preceding. Last week the to-
tai was 6,308 and the week previous
&.12g)
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-27
HUNGARIAN BODY
SELLS BONDS BY
EFFECTIVE WAY

Chicago, April 27.-At a banquet
Of the Hungarian charity society
of Chicago, attended by several
hundred men and women last night.
the POSTMASTER ordered the doors
locked until each person had sub
scribed for a Liberty bond Door
men refused TO allow any individ-
ual TO leave under any pretext
whatever and each was required 10
present a receipt before being per
mitted TO pass. But before the
'driYe" had proceeded far all were
singing national airs and when it
was over more than $4,000 had
been added to the third Liberty
loan fund.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-27
HELP HOLD LINES
PLEA OF OFFICER
AFTER RECRUITS

Chicago, April 27.-While the al
lies are making a supreme effort
to protect the channel ports from
the German drive the British
Canadian recruiting mission is
making every effort to obtain re-
cruits to KEEP the ranks replen-
ished. Major j. A. Wallace Owen,
commanding the western division of
the mission today issued a stirring
appeal as follows:
Every man and woman in Chi
cage and the western states can to-
day tur9~in to help the British hold
acting on the call for men from
the lines in France by needing and
overseas. Help to find men who
can go blythe quickest route to the
front with British and Canadian
contingents. Americans cannot be
accepted but there are still hun
dreds of thousands of British sub
jects who have not responded to the
call to help turn back the German
hordes. You can help them to en-
list by assuming for them any fam
lily responsibilities which maybe
holding them back
Go yourself if you can. The por-
tent of this battle is grave and it
up to you to support your gov
eminent to the extreme of your
ability. A few can stop The many.
VIII you be one of the heroic few %
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-27
PEOPLE OF ILLINOIS WILL BE ASKED
TO PROMISE 500, 100000 FOR USE or
GOVERNMENT DURING PLEDGE WEEK

war work aud to inculcate a habit
of thrift in all the people, so tnat
when the time comes TO tax the
country to pay interest on all the
billions of dollars of securities that
must be issued, the many Z Il he
axed for the benefit OF the many
and not for the benefit of the ia
vored few who have, in times past,
accumulated surplus funds from
which to purchase bonds in large
quantities
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-27
AMERICAN HELD BY
CHINESE rs FREED

New York. April 27.-George A.
Kyle of Portland, Ore, the Ameri
can engineer. who, since March )
has been held captive by Chinese
bandits in the province of Honan.
China. has been released, accord
ing TO adyices to the state depart
ment from the American legation
in Picking. Two other Americans
and a Chinese engineer lad been
previously freed.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-27
: BY HERMAN CLIFFORD.
Federal Reserve Director of Sale
for Illinois.

GUtTdI ftSStIFt DITtCIUI UI SALTS
for Illinois.
Illinois has subscribed her mini
mum quota of So, 100000. This is
but a milestone that we have pass
ed. The secretary of the treasury
has officially asked for a so per
cent ver-subscription. Therefore
the new goal which is set for our
state is SIS, 100000, or only $1,000
600 more than was subscribed for
the second loan. Surely the people
of Illinois can be counted upon to
meet this new demand which is so
evidently within the capacity of
their resources. The critical situa-
ton existing on the western front
and the fact that hundreds of thou
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-27
ONE FLAG STILL
MISSED; PLEASE
RETURN AT ONCE

Attention is called to the fact
that one Of the flags of the allied
nations, carried in the Liberty day
parade last evening, has, by some
oversight, not been. returned to the
campaign headquarters and if it Is
not returned it will cost the com
mittee S25 to replace it. Whoever
has it should kindly return it to
the Rock Island club at once
7 =
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-27
KANSAS LAWYER Ill.

Atchison, Kan, April Z7.-Balie
P. Waggener, general counsel Of
the Missouri Pacific railway, and
widely known In Kansas, who has
been i'll for several days, was in a
critical condition this morning. His
physicians said he could survive
only a few hours.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-27

tent that the market is rejecting
il visibly and adding TO the war
worries of the fashion designer.
-IRLtN q IL t-rft. Itnnn---=
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-27
Licensed To Wed

Louis Wilson Rock Isls-s
Mrs. Maude Jones. -. Rock Islsus
Richard Dorward ......... Molips
Agnes Virock Hannaford. :. Moline
JOhn grimm MOllns
Mildred Frances Chinlund Molina
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All the news all the time-Tns
Argus.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-27
PROPERTY HOLDERS NOTICE.
Warrant No. 453.


Notice is hereby given to all per-
sons interested that the board of
local improvements of the city of
Rock Island, ILL.,, has filed in the
county court of Rock Island county
a certificate of the cost of the i'm
provement entitled in said court,
I'm repetition of the city of Rock
Island, H., to assess the cost of
the paving with brick of West Sew
enteenth street from First to Sec
ond avenues" and said certificate
also shows the court costs, the
amount of accrued interest, and the
total amount oY said assessment,
and said certificate also states
that the said improvement con-
forms substantially to the require
ments of the original ordinance
for the construction of the same as
required by law, and that final
hearing on said certificate will be
had on the 18th day of May, A. d.
1918, at 8 O'Clock a. m, or as soon
thereafter as the business of the
court will permit. All persons de-
string may file objections in said
court before said day, and may ap-
pear at the hearing and make their
defense
Dated this 9th day of AnriI A
d. 1918.
WILLIAM M'CONOCHIE,
n. JUHL,
M. T. RUDGREN,
JOHN H. LIEDTKE,
JOHN A. MURRIN,
Board Of local Improvements of
the city of Rock Island, Ill.
Buy Liberty Bond
G!:f!.tXB.:T2fY|
Trt-Cfty Towel Supply company.
For express call William Trefz
R. l. Clean Towel Service Phone
r. |. 4476.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-27

a Liberty Bond
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-28
Dr. GrOner to Preach
 at SOuthside Baptist
Pastor of Leading Church of Waco, Tex, Will Visit Birming-
 ham

Dr. Frank s. Groner who is to occupy the pulpit of the Southside Baptist church next Sunday morning and even ing. is one of the great young preacher pastors of Texas. His church at Waco has grown within few years to won- derful proportions. Not alone in Waco is his power felt, but throughout upper Texas. Tn the city of Waco he is mi
 versal farorite for his works sake, Strong and vigorous in body and spirit, he devotes his energy increasingly to his work. He is the pastor of one of the great Texas churches; not only his own people, but the public is devoted to him. Called a few years ago from Stamford, Tex, one of the large towns of the state. to a small struggling church at Waco. his genius of success was at once real ized. his congregation and membership grew and now he has the largest mem bership in the city. One of the chief monuments of his success is the great Sanatorilm of Waco, of which he was the chief factor. His congregation is one of the most cultured in the city.
 Dr. Groner is one of the leading young men of the denomination, and while un- demonstrative, he has way of winning people to him and of bringing things to pass Tho public is cordially invited to hear Dr. Groner on Sunday, June 90. at the Southside Baptist church.