Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-26
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Report has it that Commodore Marcus L.
Henderson, in view of the prospect of street
railway strike, is repining his haste in dispos-
ing of the good ship Rock Island. Moral: When
you have anything with the name Rock Island.
attached stick to it.
Fashion DEGREES short skirts again this fall
Time was when such an announcement would
cause gasp. Not now. The women may go
as far as they like. The men don't care.
What constitutes the perfect husband?"
asks an. exchange If you want to get the core
rect answer ask the wife of the husband who
lives next door.
Dead Game Sports.
A crowd of girls forced to walk during the
trolley strike gladly accepted an invitation TO
ride to town in hearse in Boston. And with
out coffin cent, either, it is said.
A man arrested in Louisville for drunken
ness explained that he accumulated his on
honey and water He might have known that
he would be stung mixing with bees
says Coal Men Trying to Brighten People"
Headline Trying. Bless, you, they don't have
to try any longer. They have already succeed
cd beautifully. Despite the. humid tempera-
will be CONCEALED by Christmas.
May Come to That.
Go where you will and the placards appear:
Warning to motorists-no parking here"
Go where you please, you meet with reproof.
Wish that fellow could park on the roof
What has become of the old-fashioned girl
who used to dream OF the day when she would
be old enough to wear long skirts
o.
Those FIVE girls who have been swimming
in the nude in Rock river may have not blacked
any eyes, but they have given eyeful to lot
of the opposite sex
The original bolshevists were Adam and
Eve. who wanted everything in sight.-Louis
vile Courier-Journal.
Igorrote girls wear wire bustles. Remember
when the American girl wore the paper affair?
Those were the days when one couldn't tell
whether she was coming or going. And, mercy!
how she careened when gust of wind struck
her.
Cy Derry has been dismissed from his po-
sition as head keeper of the Lincoln park zoo,
Chicago, because it is alleged he assaulted a
been the same since Cy left them, indicating
their attachment for him And the people do
not approve of the discharge of DeVry. They
are signing petition asking for his reinstate-
ment. 1t is possible that politics is at the bot
tom of Cys troubles And the people will Eot
stand for his dislodgement. And the pets will
have their master back with them before long.
You can safely bet that.
The Mount Clemens jury will acquit the
Chicago Tribune of the charge of libeling Henry
Ford, and both sides will be satisfied, inasmuch
as they will have obtained the results they
sought-publicity. What hoakum is doled out
under the shelter of the courts!
nd nd Toda
The ordeal has been the public, not the
litigants.
MarysviIIe Pa population 100, had one
birth and deaths last year. If that average
continues how long will it be until the last in
habitant will have disappeared from earth?
Here is problem for mathematician.
A man in Pennsylvania followed a ground
hog. He dug for the little animal. In digging
he uncovered six quarts of perfectly good harG
likker. He didn't get the grounding, however.
Keep your eye on groundhogs these days.
Latest Air Service.
A tornado which struck the outskirts O.
Empress, a small town near Medicine Hat,
picked up a railway in which an entire
family living, and carried it some distance
to coulee.
GLOW I buy socks that will not wear
out at once?" queries anxious victim of
the high cost The only way we know would
be to put said socks away in your dresser and
wear your feet bare in your shoes.
Sir: Saw auto sail past the other day
with the initials F. L. Y. painted on the side
Couldn't help thinking how the colyum con-
ductors will rave when that man trades in his
fivver and comes out with one of those new
popular priced planes. ky.
We are told the coal situation is to be Sc
rious next winter. It would seem the only way
Of getting by these days is to lie down and Gle.
Cheer up. Only few months hence You
can reduce the ice bill, anyway.
J.MC