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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-18
Social Announcements.

The box sociable which is to be
given this evening by the Epworth
league of the Spencer Memorial
Methodist church, is to be held at
the church. 1t had been announced
for the gymnasium of the Long
fellow school, but it has been
found necessary to change the
place.
The Loyal Daughters of the Fiji
teenth Avenue Christian church
will meet this evening with Miss
Gladys Kinsman, 502 Twenty-fifth
avenue, Moline. Members are
asked to be present,
Members of the Woman's Relief
ing to be held at 2:30 tomorrow
is to be the regular business ses-
sion.
Court of Honor No. 81 will give
a card party tomorrow afternoon
at Odd Fellows hall The game
of 500 will be played, and will start
promptly at 2:15. Members and
friends are invited to attend.
Busy Bee Sewing circle will meet
Thursday afternoon with Mrs. Ed
ward Stran, 1912 Fourteenth-and-
a-half street. Members are re-
quested to be present. Friends are
also welcome.
Arsenal lodge No. 1886. Mystic
Workers, will bod its regular meet
ing Wednesday evening at Odd Eel
lows hall.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-18
Hold All Day Meeting,

Barbara Freitchie tent held an
all day meeting yesterday at the
home of Mrs. Bessie Barth-Rich-
ardson, 604 Fifteenth street. The
time was spent sewing carpet rags,
and piecing quilt blocks. There
were As members and friends pres
ent.
At noon a delicious picnic dinner
was served by a committee COM
posed of Mrs. Richardson, Mrs.
Mary Barth, Mrs. Nancy Babb, Mrs.
Essie Siemon and Miss Jennie
McAfee.
A short business session was
held in the afternoon, after which
the time was spent sewing and in
sociability. There will be another
all day meeting at the home of Mrs.
Charles Donovan, 1895 Fourteenth
street, in two weeks.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-18
81 a y

When Miss Frances Marion left
for France last year little did she
think that she would be the first
American woman to cross the
Rhine. But that is the record which
she now has. Miss Marion. who has
been an artist, a newspaper woman
and a scenario writer, went TO
France with the purpose of filming
the activities of women in the war
and also of doing some secret prop
uganda work for the committee OF
public information. She was in the
midst of this. when the armistice
was signed.
1t was the desire OF the commit
tee that she get to Germany as
quick as possible. The Red Cross,
following its usual custom of send
ing supplies and comfort ahead of
the troops, began loading its cam
ions and ambulances soon after No
vember IL. And so, at the request OF
the committee of public informa-
ton, the Red Cross, always ready
to cooperate, took Miss Marion as
cured passage with an advance sup
.
ahead of the army.
Upon this part of her trip and
the reason for it Miss Marion pre-
fers to remain silent, but she has
many interesting things to tell of
her ride through the battle-scarred
fields and cities of northern Franco
"Since my return" she said, when
interviewed in her apartments in
New York, Il happened to remark
that l had written screen comedy
while l was in the devastated coun-
try A woman said to me, You
heartless creature, How could you
possibly write a comedy or even
think in terms of humor in the face
of such misery and destruction? 1t
was difficult TO make her see that
it was the only thing l could write
at such time. When ones imagIn-
alton has been stirred by scenes too
big for words, one turns by a
strange quirk of human psychology
to the opposite extreme for sheer
relief"
Miss Marion brings back with her
many pitiful tales of the war-torn
country and also an interesting ac-
count of the work OF Anna Coleman
Laid, the noted American sculptor,
who is making masks for these men
whose faces have been seriously
disfigured. Miss Marion worked for
some time in Miss Ladd's studio
while in France and brings back
her information first hand.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-18


For two years now women have
worn serge suits and frocks from
January to January with never a
change. But this season things are
going to be different-women are
returning to summer fabrics for
summer weather. Serge frocks and
serge suits, even those with lined
coats, were worn all last summer
through the hottest, stickiest days.
This season, however, we are going
TO see cool, comfortable looking
frockS made of taffeta, foulard,
Shantung, printed chiffon and
georgette.
Fashions seem to take a flyer in
foulard every spring and then sud
denly it drops out of sight and no
more is heard about it until the
next spring. This year seems to
welcome foulards with more enthus-
iasm than ever and it looks very
much as if they would not exit from
the fashion stage quite so suddenly
as other years.
If all of the frocks made of it are
as attractive as this one il is al
most certain that its vogue will be
a lasting one. French blue foulard
with white figured design all over
it is made up in a very simple drap-
ed model. The skirt is rather egg
shaped with wide folds near the
hips and a scant 80 inches around
the hem. A dainty organdie collar,
and cuffs which reach the three
quarter sleeves to the wrist, form
the only bit of trimming. OF course
there is the usual little gilet.
The hat is a French creation of
rose taffeta and black milan with a
wreath of fruits and flowers about
the crown. 1t is also a French no.
ton to wear the. rose hat with the
blue frOck
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-18
DRUNKENNESS AND
DISCRETION CAUSE
OF WIFE'S ACTION

Drunkenness and desertion are
the charges upon which Lena p.
ArchbOld asks a divorce from John
NJ Archbold in circuit court. The
bill alleges that the couple was
married in Mystic, Iowa, March %,
1912. and lived together until July
9. 1918.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-18

bration next April in honor OF the
tenth birthday of little Princess
Juliana, the heir 10 the Dutch
throne.
It is no rare thing now to see
women preachers in England, where
many of the churches have replac-
ed their pastors with females.
Over 100000 women acted as
farm managers while the war was
in progress.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-18
Tickets Selling for Concert.

Tickets are selling for the con-
cert to be given at the high school
auditorium Wednesday evening,
March 20, by the Grinnell college
girls glee club. There are "a girls
in the chorus, and they are well
known in this part of the country.
The club is being brought here
by the Girls Hi-Y club, of the Y.
w. c. A, and will give an informal
concert. Reservations can be made
at the Y. W. G.. A.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-18
Given Farewell Banquet.

L. A. Grove, 12IZ SlXteenth
street, who for the past Is years
has been chief clerk in the medical
department OF the Modern Wood
men head offices, and who is TO
leave the first of next month to
make his home on ranch near
Paonia, Colo, was rendered a fare
well banquet Saturday evening by
the chiefs of the departments OF
the Modern Woodmen.
At $50 a delicious banquet was
served to the company of 20 and
the after dinner hours were spent
enjoying a smoker. Mr.. Grove was
presented with a gold watch by the
men in appreciation of his services
at the Offices
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-18
Large Crowd at Dance,

There were 300 :tri-city couples
in attendance at the Purim dance,
held last evening at Unity hall,
Davenport, and sponsored by Tenn
pie Emanuel. The affair was a
masquerade and all came in fancy
costumes, many of which were
most unique: Peterson,s orchestra
furnished the music for the dane
ing. During the evening ices and
cakes were served the dancers.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-18
Married in Rock Island.

Miss Margaret Faust and REQ
James of Moline were quietly mar
ried Saturday afternoon at the home
of Rev. Henry C. First, 1881 Twen-
tieth street and the announcements
of their marriage comes as a COM
plete surprise to their many friends.
The bride wore a dainty gown of
dark blue crepe de chine, with a
black hat. She is the daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. F. Faust of Gales
burg, ILL.,. and has for the. past two
years been in training as nurse at
the Moline City hospital. She is a
graduate of the Galesburg high
school and attended Knox college.
Mr.. James has recently returned
from service overseas, where he
had been for the past six months,
and is now employed in the service
department of the Moline Auto
company. The new home is to be
in Moline until Mrs. James has I'm
ished her training course.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-18
Outline Work for Year.

The work for the year was dis
cussed at the meeting of the Mon
day Study club, held yesterday af-
ternoon at the home of Mrs. S. J.
Collins, 1920 Eighth avenue. The
society decided to take up the
study of THE New Nations" and
make a detailed study of the small
provinces of Europe
Yesterdays meeting was led by
Mrs. F. H. First. She gave a
splendid paper on "Why France
Wants Reparation" Mrs. F. O..
VanGalder also gave a good paper
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-18
Fan Second Annual Dance.

The Theta Beta Sigma girls are
planning to hold their second an
nual dance some time in the near
future, and arrangements for the
affair were discussed at a meeting
held last evening at the home or
Miss Dorothy Horblit, 2736 Sixth
avenue.
1t was also decided that new pins
would be purchased, and Miss Ida
Sosna was appointed to take charge
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-18
PerrY.NieIS.

Miss Goldie Emma Niels, only
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. W. D.
Niels of 1921 Ripley street, Daven-
port, and James Royal Perry of
that city were married at s o'clock
Saturday evening at Trinity Ca
thedral, the Very Rev. Marmaduke
Hare, dean of the cathedral, Off
ciating. The couple was attended
by Mr.. and Mrs. H. c. Stitt After
the ceremony a wedding supper
was served at the home of the
brides parents to the immediate
relatives. Mr.. Perry is employed
at the Rock Island arsenal and he
and his bride will make their home
at 1221 Ripley street.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-18
Clears s155. From Coffee.

The ladies of the Altar guild of
the Sacred Heart Catholic church.
cleared S155 from the annual st.
Patrick's tea heald during the aft
ernoon and evening yesterday at
the home of Mrs. Joseph Kali, 2713
Seventh avenue
The house was decorated with
pots and boquets of jonquils and
early spring flowers, and was
crowded during the hours with the
many guests who called. In the
dining room jonquils were used in
decorations, as was st Patrick
green. The serving table center
piece was a huge basket of rose
colored carnations and ferns. The
handle of the basket was arts
tically trimmed with ferns and was
tied with a big bow of the same
color as the flowers.
Members of the guild assisted in
pouring and serving during the
afternoon, and also attended the
apron and fancy work booth,
which was very popular. Dainty
refreshments were served.
The guild is to have a card party
after the lenten season.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-18
Party on Birthday.

Mrs. William Johnson was COM
pletely surprised when "a of her
tri-city friends gathered at her
home, S14 Second avenue, last
evening to celebrate her birthday
anniversary which passed a week
ago, and to enjoy a st. Patrick's
party.
Five hundred was the diversion
of the evening. Games were play
ed at three tables and the mems
high score prize was awarded to
Otto J. Suess; women's high to
Mrs. Grant Zimmerman; mems low
went to John Fasserl and women's
low to Miss Irene Culbertson.
Dancing, vocal and piano selec-
tions, also supplied enjoyment for
the guests.
At midnight a delicious lunch
was served in the dining room at a
table pretty in its decorations. The
centerpiece, large blue and white
birthday cake, lighted with green
candles, made very pretty effect.
Among a number of gifts re-
ceived by Mrs. Johnson was a
beautiful set of silverware pre-
scented to her by the guests.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-18

of this matter. After the business
session the time was spent socially,
and Miss Horblit served dainty re-
freshments. The girls will meet in
two weeks with Miss Charlotte
Lewis, 1886 Fifth avenue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-18

on Increased Home Rule for
India"
The club will meet in two weeks
with Mrs. H. w. Ward, SOP Twen-
ty-third street.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-18

There are now thirty cities in the
United States in which the Young
Women's Christian Association has
opened International institutes.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-18
National Worker to Speak.

Miss Emma Stephagen of Chi
cago. a representative from the
Woman's- National league, is to be
in the city Friday and will speak
Friday afternoon at 2:30 at the
meeting of the Tri-City Woman's
Trade Union league.
This is to be a special meeting
and members of the league are
asked to attend the meeting.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-18
What THEY'RE Doing.

The Highland Park, Mich, post
office has thirteen women mail car
riers.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-18

Mrs. Mary S. Burnham OF Port
land is the first woman in Maine to
be appointed a deputy sheriff.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-18
PLAY Cast Announced.

JCl o. WHICH 10 W UC given ny tAC
Westminster guild of the Central
Presbyterian church, has been an
nounced, and final arrangements
for the play were made at the
meeting of the guild held last eve
ming at the home of Mrs. T. A.
Rowland, 1917 Sixteenth street. The
play is to be presented at the
church March %.
Mrs. w. G. Murphy led the study
hour last evening, after which the
hostess served dainty refresh
ments. The club will be enter
tanned at the home of Mrs. Frank
Park, 1924 Sixteenth avenue,
April Z.
The play cast includes:
Mrs. VanHorn, a Christian lady
of wealth-Mrs. F. D. G. Walker.
Mrs. Stuart, her invalid mother
Mrs. Emmett Burr.
Miss Jeanette McCrea, a mis-
sionary's daughter-Mrs. w. E.
Park
Rachael-Dorothy Soady.
CharlOtte-Marie Writ.
Helen-Martha Riddell.
Mrs. c. Vanderbilt Jones, a trav-
eler and lecturer-Miss Blanche
Bromley.
President of the culture club
Miss Bessie Bladel
Secretary of the culture club
Miss Mary Bromley.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-18
SOCIAL EVENTS

short period stationed at Rock Is
land arsenal. He is now COM
manding mobile repair shop No.
104, with the Twenty-ninth divis-
ion in France.
No date is set for the wedding,
but it is expected Lieutenant Sims
will be home during the summer
and the nuptials probably will be
some time in the early fall.
Dance a Success.
The dance given last evening at
the Masonic temple by the drill
corps of Rock Island commandery.
Knights Templar, and the ladies'
auxiliary, was a decided success,
both financially and socially.
There were 300 couples in at
tendance and a good program of
dance music was given by Whites
orchestra. For those who did not
dance, card tables had been provid
ed. A large sum was cleared as a
result of the affair, which is to be
used by the drill team.
The hall was decorated for the
occasion with flags and in red,
white and blue. This dance was
such a decided success that the
team and auxiliary are planning
for. another to be given after Eas-
ter, April %
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-18
Miss SchMecke Entertains.

Miss Ethel Schwecke, 2029
Fourth avenue, entertained a COM
pany of girl friends at a ST. Pat
riCk's dinner party last evening at
her home There were IA guests
present, and the st. Patrick's idea
was carried out in the table deco
rations and in the dainty course
dinner served. The guests had
came dressed as children, and
after the delicious meal, the time
was spent playing children's
games. Prizes were won by Miss
Regina McCarty, Miss Rhoda John
son, Miss Carrie Young and Miss
Lillian Deisenroth. Dancing was
enjoyed, and the party ended late
in the evening with the taking of
f1ash1ight pictures of the company.
Coffee Nets $50.
The st. Patrick's coffee given
yesterday afternoon and evening by
the observation-disclosures association
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-18
Class Entertains Husbands.

The Workers class of the First
Baptist church entertained the
husbands of the members at st.
Patrick's party held at the home
of Mrs. William Ullemeyer, 1907
Nineteenth street, last evening.
st. Patrick's games and contests
occupied the evening. Refresh
ments suggestive of the day were
served late in the evening. The
class is to meet Thursday at the
home of Mrs. Warren Anderson,
1903 Sixteenth street.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-18

Holland is preparing for a ce.e-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-08
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

A young woman can get more out of man by showing two feet of stocking than an old woman can by doing a Salome dance for him.
 A lot of men can't understand why their wives order ice these days. There is no beer to keep cool
 Don't waste any time contradicting liar. Let him go ahead and he will contradict himself
 A man isn't so blame proud of his ability as writer when his letters are being read in breach of promise suit.
 If every dollar some men had was made honestly they would not be worth more than 30 cents.
 One difference between hogs and chickens is that hogs look a whole lot better when they are dressed
 Any time you see a corn fed running after a street car you will admit that the more waist the less speed.
 Many man who is too pure and holy to recognize his neighbors here goes around preaching that we shall know each other there.
 The average man would want to fight if some other man would try to treat his wife as meanly as he treats her
 If you keep harping on one string you will find yourself out of tune with the rest of the world.
 At 15 girl can't get her skirts long enough. And at 25 she can't get them short enough.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-08

heaviest, with Nancy Bal.,cs, s. mile in 2:o4. Six seconds have been knocked off that record since 1892, when it was made
 Doble up to 1916 had been superin- tendent of a big stock farm in South ern California. He gave up this job at the age of 75. His last active year saw him in the sulky on the race track One cannot quite say he died in the harness, but he came closer to it than most old men do.
 As for the vogue of the trotting horse, whose achievements had inter est because of the trained restraint of the animal, the horse always knowing that it could go faster at another gait, it is not what it was, though the fancy still survives and is kept alive by coun- try fairs. To the spectator the five heat trotting race has a sustained fas- cination that the hectic excitement of a running race cannot offer But the farmer who used to pride himself on going faster than other farmers be- hind his trotter, understands that he can go much faster in "flivver." Now adays he is chiefly interested in fast walking horses, and for obvious req sons. That trotting will never ret back to it's old rank and that 1t wAtl never develop another Budd Doble lF very reasonable prediction AN
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-08
BUDD DOBLE

From the Brooklyn Eagle
 I1M R. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES y wrote three years ago the
 short poem, How the Old Horse Won the Bet" in which are the lines: With them at third, and who is he That stands beside the fast b. B.?
 Budd Doble, whose catarrhal name
 So fills the nasal trump of fame
 And now we read that Budd Doble is dead at the age of almost seventy eight, after a career as a horseman of more than half century, chiefly iden- tified with the sulky and the driving of trotting horses. Prior to 1865 he stuck to the saddle. Five years before that. at the age of nineteen, he had won honors on the old Centerville, L. l., track, where he rode Rockingham, beat ing Lancet with time of 2:24.
 General Grant, before and after he was president, had a fancy for horses and & quick judgment as to horse values It was he who picked Dexter out of butchers cart and bought him. His judgment of men was equally good. for Budd Doble in 1867 drove Dexter to a record trotting time of 2:17h. Dexter improved on this. But in 1872 Doble began paying attention to Gold smith Maid, and in 1874 he drove her 2:14 mile, breaking all records. It was at the age of fifty that he scored
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-08
AMAZON WHO CRIED

From the New York Times.
 Out of the chaos there comes, now and again, human note to remind us I that elemental nature will probably endure. On the Murmansk railway front, Canadian troops captured party of bolsheviki in the red guard uniform. among whom was a young woman of 22, Olga Semenova PetomtZeva. fully armed and with a bandoleer of car tridges across her breast. She submit ted mutely to being disarmed; but when her captors took a little scrapbook of pictures she broke down in tears. This mystified the officer in charge, for the
 photographs of babies cut from maga-
 zines.
 Mime. Petomtzeva left Petrograd on April to join her husband. who Was
 in the red guard. In order to remain
 with him, she donned uniform and
 joined the fighting. In the action in
 which she was taken, at Urosozero, she
 was separated from Petomtzeva, who
 escaped Questioned as to her interest
 in the photographs. she at last ex-
 plained that she had had a child, who
 died, and of whom, owing to the dis
 order of the time. she could get no
 photograph. So she was collecting pho : tographs of children of his age in- tending to keep the one that most re-
 sembled him. When the Associated
 Press correspondent cabled these home- ly details, Mime. Petomtzeva was serv- ing as cook for a Canadian mess.
 great philosopher to the contrary notwithstanding. clothes do not make the man--nor yet the woman. Even
 war may not wholly unmake them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-08
Cotton Crop and
 Question of Price

TT HE conference of cotton growers
 x and bankers, which will begin two days session in New Orleans this morning, will have for it's chief aim an agreement upon the minimum price which farmers should receive for their crop.
 The meeting, called under the auspices of the American Cotton association, of which J. K. Wanna ims,ker of South Carolina is president, lis indorsed by practically all the gov lernors of cotton states. Several dis ltinguished speakers will address the gathering and the proceedings are sure to be interesting and should re-. suit in practical good. The crop will be less than the last govei nment estimate, because the weevils and army worms are playing havoc every day. The ravages have been more serious since the first of September than they were during any similar period in August.
 The crop may total 10,500,000 bales, but it need be no surprise if it drops to 10,250,0O0.
 There is everything to make the naTket bullish and if the growers will only carry out the advice of the American Cotton association and sell gradually and not below the minimum price agreed upon the farmer who is so fortunate as to have much cotton after the pests are through with it will have more money than usual. The price is sure to soar.