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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-24
WHEAT FINE AT
ILLINOIS CITY
Yield and Quality Above Average
John Riexinger Saving Crop
With Own Thresher.
IspeciaI to The Argusl.

Illinois City. July 24.-With the
wheat crop ready for the threshers
and this section of the country, as
elsewhere, suffering from a short
age of farm labor, and finding
threshers almost unobtainable.
John Riexinger of Buffalo Prairie
has come to the rescue Mr.. Rick
niger, who has a threshing machine
for his own use, consented to go
to the aid of his neighbors in put
ting their crops away. His action
was greeted joyously and as a re-
suit Mr.. Riexinger is about the
busiest and most sought man n
this vicinity.
An especially good yield of wheat
is being reported wherever thresh-
ing has been done in this section,
the quality Of the grain being above
the average as well as the yield
per acre being higher than ordin-
arily. This is a source of especial
satisfaction to the wheat growers
of this locality, in view of the fact
that elsewhere over the state the
wheat crop has been hard hit by
various pests and unfavorable
growing conditions.
Gets 30 Bushels Per Acre.
Probably one of the best crops
of wheat harvested about Illinois
City was that threshed by Mr.. Rick
niger on the farm of Henry Schnier.
From seVenAacre patch Mr..
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-24
COAL WANTED.

Sealed proposals will be re-
ceived at the City Clerks office
until 2 O'Clock p. m, July %, 1919,
for furnishing the Water Works
with two-inch screenings, F. o. B.
Water Works Switch, until June
1, 1920.
Bidder must state mine from
which coal will be furnished.
The City reserves the right to
reject any or adj bids.
M. It. RUDGREN,
City Clerk.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-24
COAL WANTED.

Sealed proposals will be re-
ceived at the City Clerks Office
until 2 o'clock p. m, July %, 1919,
for furnishing six-inch lump coal
to the following buildings until
June 1, 1920, to-wit: Filter Plant,
City Barn. City Hall, Detention
Hospital. Fire Stations and City
Sanitarium.
Bidder must state mine from
which coal will be furnished.
The City reserves the right to
reject any or all bids.
NJ. T. RUDGREN,
City Clerk.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-24

teenth avenue from Forty-fourth
street east 200 feet, and on the
north side of Seventeenth avenue
from Forty-fourth street east ESQ
feet, and the ordinance for the same
being on file in the Office of the city
clerk of said city, and said city hav-
ing applied to the county court of
Rock Island county, Illinois, for al
assessment of the cost of said i'm
proVement according to frontage,
said assessment being payable in
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-24
FIRE HOSE MANrFn-

Sealed proposals will be re-
ceived at the City Clerks Office
until ? O'Clock p. M, July rs, 1919.
for furnishing the City with 5000
feet of "a inch fire hose and
couplings, F. o. B. Rock Island.
Hose must be capable of stand
ing a pressure of 400 pounds per
square inch.
The City reserves the right to
reject any or all bids.
M. T. RUDGREN,
City Clerk.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-24

Schnier obtained a total of 225
bushels Of wheat-a little more
than 80 bushels per acre. Mr..
Schniers reports the quality as be-
ing especially good, too. The aver
age yield being obtained around
here this year is said to be about
25 bushels per acre, which is larg-
er than usual
Besides wheat, a great many OF
the farmers are also threshing oats
and barley.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-24

three installments, each bearing
interest at the rata of 5 per cent
per annum, and an assessment
therefor having been made and re-
turned to said court, the hearing
thereon will be had on the 9Th day
of August, A. d. 1919, at the hour
OF 9 O'Clock a. m, or as soon there
after as the business Of the court
will permit.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-24
CAME FROM COUNCIL BLUFFS
TO HAVE EYES TREATED.

Mrs. Lizzie Glasner of Council
Bluffs, Iowa, was in Davenport
Monday and Tuesday in reference to
her eye sight. She had been losing
her sight several years and was
getting almost blind. She went home
much pleased with the treatment
Advt.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-24
NnTICE TO COYTnACTORS.

Bids viii be received at ? p. m.
July Is, 1919, for furnishing ma
terial and labor for macadam Aroad-
way on the Colona bridge approach
in Rock Island county. Plans on
file at highway engineers Office,
Rock Island, III.
Road and Bridge Committee,
Rock Island County.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-24

All persons desiring may file Of
jections in said court, before sad
day and may appear on the hear
ing and make their defense.
Dated, Rock Island, H., July %.
1919.
FRED W. YOUNG.
Officer appointed to make assess
ment
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-24
PROPERTY HOLDERg NOTICE.

NCu. NO. 454.
Notice is hereby given to all per-
sons interested that the council jof
the city of Rock Island, ILL.,, having
the construction of side
walks on the south side of Seven
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-24
Put Up Every Pound of
Fruit You Can Get
This Summer

Many woman hesitates to try putting
up fruit at home.
She fears she will only waste expensive
materials.
It really is very simple. Just make your
preserving syrup with "a Karo (Red LabeD
and Is sugar instead of sugar alone.
You can then be as sure of your results
as the woman who always has luck, with
her preserving.
Nice fine, clear Karo Syrup has a natural
affinity for the fruit juices. It blends the
sugar with the juice-brings out the rich
'tfruity'' flavor, and insures firm jams and
jellies that never candy in the glass.
A well-flled fruit pantry will give you
much pleasure this winter, when fresh fruits
are scarce and high, if you just use Karo
Syrup with your sugar.
For Cooking, Baking and Candy Making Karo
(Red Label is used In millions OF homes. In all
cooking and baking recipes use Karo instead OF
sugar. It is sweet, of delicate favor and brings
out the natural favor. of the food.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-24
ATTENTION. MEMBERS.

Maraquino IIAir No. 5. Military
Order OF the Serpent. will hold a
meeting at 102 Sixteenth street
Thursday, July "A, at p. m. Elec-
ton Of officers and arrangements
for initiation.
G. P. GARRISON.
T. G. G.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-24
0UENCHES PERSISTENT
THIRST

HorsfOrd's Acid Phosphate
Added to any drink makes 1t
more satisfying-acts as a whole
name stimulant and tonic. Buy a
bottle TODAY.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-12-18
What Are They Drinking Now.

A while ago I Travelled from Oklahoma
City to Tulsa on a night train and was
kept awake by two noisy celebrants. The
next morning. the porter consoled me with
the information that our noisy friends
were drinking cologne.
a missouri editor asks for the compost
tion OF lemon extract, saying some OF the
people in his section are using It for booze.
Lemon extract is 5 per cent lemon oil In
~ per cent alcohol. Whisky is 40 to 30
per cent alcohol.
The Chicago health department Inform
ant tells me that some confirmed booze
Hgntersr are fortifying temperance drinks
with denatured alcoholeand wood alcohol.
One drug store keeps some ormalin solu-
ton IN a tun1bler. When a person buys
eight ounces of alcohol the clerk sQuirts
IN a medicine dropper full of the solution
from the tumbler, puts on q poison label,
warns the customer, I'M passes the bottle
across the counter. Since fomaline is VOL
atile the solution in the lumber gets weak
and there is no taste or smell of formalin
in the alcohol.
Wood alcohol carries a punch equal to
that of grain alcohol. 1t is poisonous and
whenever the druggist sells it he puts q
poison label on the bottle. The newspapers
say II people have died in Chicago from
wood alcohol poisoning since the author--
tiles began Tightening up.
However. this does not give any idea
OF the prevalence of the use of wood al
cohol. The boozers see the poison label.
They pour a fair shot, but far less than q
fatal dose. of wood alcohol into their tenn
perance drink. They swallow the mixture.
When they sober UP and find they are not
dead, they think the poison label is a liar.
So they take another drink. Occasionally
they keep it up until they get a fatal dose.
More frequently they stop short CT q fatal
dose, but take enough to bring about
Other harmful effects of the drug.
Even though a man gets trunk on Cos
logne, ba.' rum, patent medicine, lemon
extract, ~denaturued alcohol or wood also
hol and surprises himself by not dying
and loses all faith In poison labels, he
does not go scot free. II a man will stick
to some of these substitutes and kick
provid ers" for a few months he will find
out~that he was unlucky when he did not
die as the poison label told him he would.
l am not at all disturbed about this in
formation. l nave seen communities sober
up and know they also have their kat
zenjammer. When the regular supply
shuts down or the price goes out of reach
there is a group Of addicts who will get
their drug regardless of aw, even regard
less of personal risk. Not very much can
be done about this group of people.
Fortunately for the community they do
not last very long. Some wink out rap
idly. some slowly, but the drug gets
them all before long.
In the meantime their influence for,
harm. so far as other men are. concerned.
is not great. There is nothing heroic or
| appealing about a ma drunk on cologne.
They do not write poetry, indulge in ora
torical flights or do heroic deeds. They
| generally fall down somewhere and sleep
| 1T off and time gradually brings a new
order.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-12-18
The Uses ofAdversity.
From the New York Times.

The present test Of labor m capital is wortha IL it costs If it leads to a
better understanding Q. their relation to each other n to the public welfare
la stel with les trouble than before thu strike. am to n ny more nm m, ame 70 70
bring Ill right in the end. Things may be worseb before they are better-:n fact.
not letting hat worry him. He going on wit his daily tasks and leaving tn
loahng to others. Others are Illustrating in waste, ut he thinks h is doing
more for thu commons good by making profits throushi industry.
The public cannot fail to remark the contrasting attitude of son leaders of
labor, 10 breathing forth threats not alone against capital but against the
general welfare. Nobody shall have coalt % burn if the miners mi
exact the wages they demand, and they will have nothing to do with arbitration
The economic outlook is now like that of the silent pancs" of the s9osa n
later, when values dropped away ceaseessly, apparently causelessly. The
comforted themselves with the saying, This toe. will pass away. And better
days han weree verb before known ensued.
&c. too, there will ea notherc chapter in the ever changing relations of abor
destroved CAPITAL is not now dismayed hecanse it is heyond dianuts th ns 1.h h.
with a greater share of that personal onaderation which, is the due of those
who help the general welfare in proportion to the efficiency With which they
help themselves. Iabors attempt o dominate capital is in reality a n attempt to
dominate economic conditions, viii meet tn same defeat az capitals
Laborers passed, when he Black Deathw which alved The population of England
trial activities by the wage which they extorted. Capitals attempt to keep
wages down failed, labor hadt to be paid what it as worth.
wages up and procuring statutes in it's favor. Labor thinks hat profits are
waste nd has yet to learn hat wages which stop profits may keep u the
oauitalc could compel labor to work. for less than canta1 was forced ny na me man nan
impartial Judgment o their relations. Labor hs lot freed itself from the
not so foolish as Sol Of its leaders think it. Mr. schwab knows his workers
better han do III steel strike leaders. The coal strike leaders are riding Tor a
turned it from its uservaiv policy. There is neither novelty 10 merit in
n pr areSaH leeae ha pro- ope 1W and profit are obbers 1t is 50 far from
about the time that capital was passing its futile statute to control wages. Said
as y5hs ,S pc sS ssES how Or s T. sses sm ~ IVY " IF s5Sa seu55 e e ~ sss f s.
amer With ermhe m otherf Ws while we are forced to year poor s eh:
t .ns straw nns @ sd If y Ne s ad it nm must sf s wM xEe : e hae buey 1t rs IS fp na t oMr Gsbss>t ad
's re centuries h%e 1m@ taaheredi he hctth t the DOR depend N the rich as
~M. h re=ssr.- evc.ers.@ .a tbs Tta IL thai "a are paupers compared With
the rich OF today. Both classes have thriven together will suffer if they
fight each other. The public interest requires tina neither should dominate thu
other.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-12-18
War Helps African Hunting.
From the Milwaukee Journal.

A Frenchman from one of the colonies.
writes that, due to the suspension of hunt
ing in Africa for the last five years, wild
only to remain in one place long enough
to have a whole menagerie pass before
his gun. Along the valley of the Niger
this hunter found the cartridges so thick
that the natives were killing them by
spearing into the thick flocks which flew
up on every side.
Next a herd of wild bears ran past, then
elephants came to the bank. of the river,
and their large numbers disturbed a pan
Their which. upon leaping up a rocky part
of the shore, sent eagles soaring into the
sky. When another large bird was shot
AT while flying overhead it dropped an
enormous fish it had been carrying and
escaped unframed. And all this game the
hunter saw in less than GO minutes!
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-12-18
Do You Know?
From Wroe's Writings.

FTUHNW'oe -Wfr1nv6
Doyou know the young fellow who works for $25 week and who
IS wearing a new winter suit that cost $S5?
DO you know the wage Garner who loafs because he is afraid it he
does too much he work himself out of a jobii'
Do you know the housewife who is ashamed to be seen with a
market basket on her arm or to carry home5a brown paper sbundlei
Do you know the factory girl working for $1S a week who is
buying and wearing a $3.50 fur coat?
Do you know the man who lets a fresh clerk sneer him into buying
a$15 hat for fear he III seem acheap', when he can buy a satisfactory
one for $79
Do you know the investor who has traded his Liberty bonds for a
promise of a 100 per cent profit in a stock company backed by a dis
honest promoter?
Do you know the shopper who says WRAP it up instead Of
How much?"
Do you know the person who lets the desire for the moment
destroy the results of days and weeks of thrift and saving?
Do YOU know the man who thinks it is not necessary to save?
DO you know the married couple who do not think enough of their
children to buy War Savings stamps for them and to teach them to
save?
Do you know the man who says that the government savings
securtles-Lberty bonds, War Savings stamps, and Treasury Savings
certficates-ar too slow or too small or too old fashioned for his
investments7 3E -
IF YOU DO, YOU KNOW PRETTY WELL WHAT is THE
MATTER WITH THE UNITED STATES.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-12-18
The Farmer and Labor.

From the Milwaukee Journal.
Evidence Sccumulates that the farmers
are not going to work well in double har-
ness with labor as a political grouping.
Points of difference tend to multiply.
The farmer. for example, cannot be ex-
pected to grow enthusiastic over national
ization Of land. He doesn't see how the
ix-hou day will benefit MIN. Radicalism
that puts class or group interest above
the general welfare goes directly con-
trary to his Instincts.
The laboring and farming Interests
would doubles like to enter Into a mu-
tually helpful enterprise, but II such q
thing as a political alliance should happen,
1t would be on the basis not Of common
interest but Of you do something for
us and we'll do something for you" A
contract of this kind would stand only 50
long as both parties felt It to their interest.
The farmer's interest as a consumer
merges into that Of labor. hut his interest
as q producer is different. This Is the
rock upon which the alliance will split.
Farmers are determined to free themselves
from interests that ave heretofore used
them to their own disadvantage, but tina
Is no reason for going over to any other
interest which may alseo want to use
them The farmers best course is to stay
independent and use his influence in be-
half Of no special interest, but only Of the
public, national interest.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-12-18
War Dogs In Parade.
From the Milwaukee Journal,

FFOHl tH0 Journal.
In Milan a parade of dogs which had
served in the war was held recently. Led
by soldiers, 125 canine veterans, many of
which had been wounded along with their
companions, passed in review. Some of the
dogs pulled machine guns, others iimped
along with wound stripes on their collars,
and those which had suffered amputation
were carried upon the shoulders of their
soldier masters. Many of the logs wore
flower wreaths donated by the feminine
ad,airers-a:5 at-the emo little wagons
holding the badly injured were dragged
along b. large sheep dogs.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-12-18
The K Glove.

From the Chiidren's Newspaper, London.
An extraordinary invention is announced
from America, where a doctor has devised
a glove which can be worn by people who
are both blind and deaf, enabling them to
converse with others.
The letters of the alphabet are. written
in Braille type on the fingers OF the glove.
spaced out along their length, and the
sioved hand is held out or laid on the table
and the finger touched upon each letter
in turn to spell out the words.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-12-18

up In the morning at four o'clock, do my
h~ousework, them go to a factory and work
all day, come home and get supper and
feel good. / don't know how many of
my friends l have told what Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has
done for me."-MRs. ANNA METER1ANo
36 West 10th St, Peru, Ind.
Women who suffer from any such all
ments should not fail to try this famous
root and herb remedy, Lydia E. Pink.
hams Vegetable Compound.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-12-18
Wouldn't Be There Long.

From the Edinburgh Scotsman.
A country yokel was brought before a
London magistrate for stealing a bicycle.
I've a good mind to give you three
months imprisonment" said the magis-
trate, frowning.
Yer can't" replied the offender dis
painfully.
Indeed! And why, pray?'
"'Co I've only COON oop for three
days"
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-12-18
The state pepsrtment,s SOB.

Undoubtedly there have been genuine
outrases perpetrated by Mexicans upon
American citizens, and equally beyond
doubt there have been stage managed"
outrages Inspired by Interior motives. It
is the sad and thankless task of the
American state department. to sift all out
g tsTEs determine to which class each
tslonvs
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-12-18
WOMAN WORKS
IS HOURS DAY
Marvelou. Storyof Woman's
Change from Weakness
to Strength by Taking
Druggists Advice
Peru, Ind.-"I suffered from a dis.
placement with backache and dragging

down pains so
badly that at times
] could not be on
my feet and it did
not seem as though
I could stand it. I
tried different
medicines without
benefit and
several doctors
told me nothing
but an operation
would do me any
good. My drug
giSt told me of
Lydia E.. p ink
hams Vegetable
Compound. ! took
it with the result
that ] am now well
and stronp. I get
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-12-18
"Cold In the Head"

is an acute attack of Nasal Catarrh. Per-
sons who are subject to frequent colds
in the head" will find that the use OIL
HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE will
uild up the System, cleanse the Blood
and render them less liable to colds.
Repeated attacks of Acute Catarrh may
lead to Chronic Catarrh.
HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE Is TAX
en- internally and acts through the Blood
on the Mucous Surfaces of the System.
$4,000 for any case of catarrh that
HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE Will not
cure.
+. j. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio.
1t is impossible to defeat an igno-
rant man in an argument.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-12-18
An Insinuation.
The cuticura Toilet Trio

Having cleared your skin keep 1t clear
by making Cuticura your everyday
toilet preparations. The soap to cleanse
and purify, the Ointment to soothe and
heal, the Talcum to powder and per-
fume. No toilet table is complete
without them. 25c everywhere.-Ady.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-12-18
Back to %Purgatory.
From the Los Angeles Times

From the Los An~geles@Times.
Among the recent news items in a New
York paper was the report OF the suicide
of q member of the family of an alien
about to be deported by reason Of his rad
ical activities in this country. The unfor-
tunate was a woman. She had come to
America to escape political and class ser
vitude in Russia. While her husband had
been abusing the sanctuary granted to
aliens in a land Of liberty his wife had
lived the life Of the lowly. But she found
1t infinitely preferable to the miserable
existence from which she escaped nine
years ago, and to which she was about
to be returned.
Her husband was one Of 1000 Slavs In
America whose heads were turned when
Russia freed itself from the dominion of
the c1ars. He believed all that the boil
shevist emissaries told him about Russia
under Trotzky and Lenfne, and he Joined
q movement to overthrow the American
government through violent means and
establish a soviet republic on the ruins.
The wife knew what that meant. She
was as one who had tasted the joys Of
paradise only to be thrust back. because
the man had sinned, into %purgatory. The
picture of the penury the misery or
the past was engraved too deeply on her
brain to be ever forgotten. The tragedy
was greater than her simple mind could
sustain SO she sought surcease from it all
u4A0SA kAo ANo
This woman was bound by heart n
by law to this man. Her only crime was
to have married one who was not Immune
TO the virus Of sadicalism. We shall never
know the effect Of that tragic death upon
the husband. Perhaps his crude radicalism
has steeled him to remorse. The Mephis-
topheles responsible for this tragic death
and broken home is probably too busy
spreading his radical propaganda n
spending his foreign subsidy to take any
account Of the Tower that he crushed
under his ruthless heel He has walked
on so many of them!
Bulgaria Signs Blank Check.
From the New York World.
The treaty of NeuiiIy, signed by Bull
ga,ia, is in some ways definite. She limits
her army. gives up arms n ammunition.
surrenders for trial offenders against the
laws of war. pays a heavy indemnity and
kisses Thrace goodby. But one vital ques-
ton is left open.
Almost more important ever tina terri
tory to Bulgaria is her long for window
on the Mediterranean" Her trad rolls
downhill to the Black sea, but at the
mercy of C~onstantinople, sitting at the
cross roads Of commerce.. For more than
40 years Bulgaria has schemed. fought.
plotted. ssnned and sssse-ea fora. asssaF
mort
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1919-12-18
Private Stock All Gone.

From the Boston Transcript.
Marks-Dr. Voronoff's idea of grating
monkey glands
Parks-Oh, that reminds me. Poor
Boozer! He asked me the other day If
thought it would relieve him If he had a
few camel glands grated on to his thirst
pipe.