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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-09
VOLUNTEER DAY
TO Be APRIL 10
Victory Committee Follows Plan of
Last Drive to Subscribe With
out Solicitation.

The Moline committee in charge
of the Victory loan campaign which
opens Monday, April 81, has decid-
ed to follow the plan used in the
fourth Liberty loan drive of having
vOlunteer day. They have deslg-
mated Saturday, April 10 as the day
when subscribers may call at any
of the Moline banks to purchase
bonds in the loan drive.
This committee is expanding all
efforts to make Moline and the up
per half of Rock Island county show
a record breaking mark by the time
the drive is completed. Teams and
captains were given instructions on
how to go about the work. The city
will be thoroughly canvassed dur
ing the drive. A part of the working
organization, under r. NJ. Johnson,
general chairman of the campaign
for the upper half of the county,
has been named and is:
Vice chairman-A It. Foster.
Manufacturers B. Lourie.
Detail and office-Will Onion.
Factory offices-O. E.. Mansur.
Speakers-Charles 3. Hall.
Publicity-L. r. Blackman.
City workers.. d. Metzgar.
Several Moline boys may fly over
the Plow City as an incentive to
citizens to buy bonds in the Victory
drive. The committee for the upper
half of Rock Island county is max
ing every effort to get an airplane
from Rantoul field or some other
nearby United States aviation camp
for use during the campaign.
Should the committee be success
full in obtaining the airplane, sew
eral Moline boys who are now out
of the service have pledged their
willingness to fly over the upper
half of the county to bring the peo-
pie to the realization of their duty
in the drive. Lieutenant Frank
Johnson is one of the local boys
who has already announced that he
would fly.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-09
SHORT CHANGER
GIVEN 20 DAYS
Men Plead Guilty to Dis0rderly
Charge Is Changed
From Confidence Game.

Charges against Brookfeld Laugh
lin, professional crook; Warren
FIack and Glen Roe, all of Indus
try, Ill, were changed from that
OF confidence game to disorderly
conduct, on. request of Henry
Siebke, East Moline druggist, a vic
tim of the men, VINO agreed tc
changing the charges if the men
would plead guilty to disorderly
conduct. They pleaded guilty and
were fined $50 and costs. Unable
TO pay the three were sentenced to
the Rock Island county Jail to serve
&c days. The hearing was held be-
fore Magistrate A. A. Niles in the
Fast Moline police court yesterday
afternoon.
The three men were held for
playing a confidence game on six
business men of East Moline. They
W ere arrested yesterday morning in
Rock Island by police of that city
The men are all about % years of
age. They tried the game on the
Van Quathem grocery, 1915 Eigh-
teenth avenue, East Moline, and
on the Siebke drug store, on Fiji
teenth avenue, Monday night
Laughlin and Flack were first
believed to be the holdup men who
successfully worked a holdup game
at the Zimmerman grocery, Rock
Island Saturday night. Jake Rim
norman, part owner of the store,
failed to positively identify any of
the men as being implicated in the
deal, although he partly identified
L2ughlin, but asked that he be not
held on the charge.
The scheme the men pulled off
at the Van Quathem grocery,
Siebke pharmacy and the bakery
SHOP on Thirteenth street. between
Eighteenth avenue and the railway
tracks. as they did to their other
victims, was like this: They pur-
chased some small articles, amount
ing to Is or 20 cents, then handed
the clerk a SO bill and after the
clerk made the change from the
cash register the men find that they
can pay with small change. Mean
v lille they take back the SO bill,
also the change laid on the counter
and pay for the articles that they
bought.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-09
VOTE FOR new
SCHOOL APRIL 19
Moline Board Adopts Four ResO-
lutiOns To Be Put to Decision
OF People at Election.

Four propositions involving the
erection of a new building in the
Logan school district, in the south
east part of Moline, will be put to
the electorate at the school cleo
ton April 10. Resolutions submit
ting the propositions to the peo-
pie and regarding the higher tax
levy were adopted yesterday at the
meeting of the Moline board of ed
ucation.
The election of four members to
the school board will also be voted
on at the school election. Three
viii be for terms expiring this
year and one will be to fill a va
cancy. So far only four have an
nounced themselves candidates for
the Offices. If no other petitions
are filed with the secretary of the
board at the high school this week,
the candidates will be unopposed.
Each of the four following prop
ositions concerning the erection of
a new school will have to be vOt-
ed on separately and each will
have to receive the majority of the
votes.
Shall a new school be built to
take the place of the present
building at Twenty-fifth street and
Nineteenth avenue?
Shall the board be authorized to
purchase the Blackwell site on
Twenty-ffth street and Eighteenth
avenue?
Shall the board be authorized to
borrow money not to exceed $7O,-
900 to build the school?
The fourth proposition to be vot-
ed on is: Shall the board be au-
thorized to increase the tax levy
for educational purposes from
three to four per cent?
The first three propositions must
necessarily carry before the build
ing can be constructed. Should the
first question carry without the
second designating a place and the
third for the raising of money to
pay interests and so forth, the
board will have nothing on which
to start it's work. If only the site
proposition carries, the board will
have no money with which to
build and should only the bond
proposition be favored then the
board will be left without a site.
The site is but a few blocks
from the government housing dis
trict and has a frontage on TWEEN
ty-fifth street of 204 feet. 1t ex-
tends PIT feet on Eighteenth ave-
nue. and FOG feet on Eighteenth ave-
nue. A.
The polling places will open at
s O'Clock in the morning and close
at O'Clock in the afternoon. Both
men and women are permitted to
vote and may cast their ballots at
any of the polling places regard
less of precincts. The following
five polling places have been des-
ignated by the board for the cleo
ton, Saturday, April 10:
Central fire station on Sixteenth
street, between Fourth and Fifth
avenues.
William Carr school on Nine
teenth avenue near Seventh street
Willard school, Sixteenth street
and Sixteenth avenue.
Gordon Memorial chapel on
Twenty-sixth street, near Six
teenth avenue.
The Moline Welding company Of
fee, Fifth avenue and Forty-frst
street.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-09
G. .. WIMAN MADE
CAPTAIN OF OAR
CREW IN FRANCE

Charles Deere Wiman, of Moline,
grandson of John Deere, the found
er of Deere & Co., is captain of the
American eight-oar racing crew
that will compete in the French IN
ter-allied races on the Seine river at
Paris April %.
Captain Wiman is in the artillery
service. He is a resident of Moline
and was graduated from Yale uni
versity, where he was an oarsman
of note in 1915. Other members OF
the crew have not been announced,
but will be chosen from American
service men in France following
elimination trials.
The race will be over course of
1900 meters and because of numer-
Gus obstacles will be a spectacular
event The racers will pass unGer
four bridges and none of the bridges
will permit more than two crews to
pass at the same time.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-09
HANDY MARKET IN
IN. is PURCHASED
BY HENRY DIERKS

The Handy market, GAS Seven
teenth street, East Moline, has
been purchased from ]. d. Krone,
proprietor, by Henry Dierks of East
Moline. Mr.. Dierks took possession
of the store this morning.
Mr.. Dierks ran the grocery store
at the corner of Sixth avenue and
Seventeenth street, East Moline,
which he sold several months ago.
The Handy market is the store that
was burglariZed week ago. The
market has changed hands several
times in the last several years. Mr..
Krone has been the proprietor since
last spring.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-09
PEORIA MAYOR
MOOSE GUEST
E. W. Woodruff VIII Give Talks to
Clubs of Quad Cities at Booster
Session April 10.

Mayor z. w. WOOD uff of Peoria
will address the Moose club of East
Moline in its club rooms Saturday.
The clubs of Davenport, Rock Is
land and Moline have been invited
to attend the booster meeting and
hear Mayor Woodruff.
The mayor of Peoria is we'll
known state wide as an able speak
er. On just what he will talk is
not known. a communication re-
ceiVed today from Governor F. o.
Lowden says that he will be unable
to answer the request of the Moose
club to be present at the booster
meeting. He stated that he will be
unable to make any speaking trips
for some time but that at some later
date he would be glad to address
East MOlinerS.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-09
MiIIer's Antiseptic Oil, Known as


has perhaps relieved more sufferers than
any other known remedy in the same
length of time Three million bottles sold
under an absolute guarantee to give sat
lsfaction or money refunded and less than
dozen bottles returned. Many have tes-
tohed that they have suffered with rheu-
matism and lumbago until they had been
forced to give up their work because they
could not use their limbs. Some who
could not even raise their arms above
their heads have been relieved and are
now praising this wonderful oil that other
sufferers may be benefited. No wonder
this great oil treatment has sprung into
such tremendous popularity in so brief
time and is so much praised today by
thousands throughout the country. For
rheumatism, neuralgia, lumbsgo. stiff and
aching Joints or any kind of an ache or
pain it is said TO be without an equal.
For sore throat. tonsihtis and for cuts
and burns it has been found most effec-
tive This wonderful new oil remedy that
is producing such remarkable results
throughout the country is now for sale by
all leading druggists. Accept no substi-
tute. for there is nothing like it. See that
II Is manufactured only by Herb Juice
Medicine Co. Every bottle guaranteed or
money refunded. soc, Coo and S1.-At
Een&Rt0nsS drug Etara
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-09
TED WHEELOCK
DIES SUDDENLY
Moline Justice of the Peace Found
Dead on Floor of His Office,
Following ApOplexy.

Theodore NJ. Ted" WheeIock
aged AZ years, Moline justice of the
peace and known throughout this
county as a singer, was found dead
in his Office in the Peoples bank
building, Moline, at 7:45 last even
ing. He was picked up by several
occupants of the building.
The coroner's jury this morning
came to the verdict that death was
caused by apoplexy. Drs. ]. D.
McKelvey and p. H. Vessel, who
examined Justice Wheelock shortly
after he was found lying Oh me
floor, declared that apoplexy was
the cause of the demise.
Justice Wheelock appeared in
excellent health yesterday. Frank
Herbst, a brother-in-Iaw, testified
that about GAS in the evening he
spoke to Ted" over the phone and
that the latter joked and laughed
and appeared in fine spirits. About
7:45 stranger walking past Mr.
Wheelock'S office noticed the man
on the floor next to a chair. He
notified j. B. Hill, whose office is
directly across the hall.
Mr.. Hill, A. d. Knoop, the jani-
tor, and the stranger walked into
Justice Wheelock's Office and call
ed the physicians. The stranger
walked away and up to noon today
he has not been identified.
Death was instantaneous, &C
cording to DR.. Mckelvey. He tes-
titled, as did others, at the inquest
this morning that there were no
signs of foul play.
Theodore NJ. Wheelock was born
Oct. IS, 1876, in Moline, and was
the son of Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore
B. Wheelock. He attended the Mo-
line high school and the State uni
versity OF Iowa, from where he
was graduated in law in 1900. Fol-
lowing this he went to McAlester,
Okla, where he practiced law for
five years, and then came to Moline.
He had practiced in Moline since
1907. His work was principally of
a commercial character, he having
made a specially of commercial
law. In politics he was a Repub-
lican.
On June 10, 1904, he married Miss
Grace Wizard of Moline, who sur
wives with two children, Margaret,
aged -, and Alice, aged II; his
mother, Mrs. T. d. Wheelock of
Moline; two brothers, StiIlman W.
Wheelock of New Orleans, Henry
T. Wheelock of Moline, and two
sisters, Alice H. Wheelock and
Mrs. Lucy G. Herbst, also of Mo
line.
Funeral services will be held at
2:30 tomorrow afternoon, in the
residence, 713 Eighteenth avenue,
with Rev. p. c. Ladd in charge.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-09
MILLS AT SYLVAN
PLANT TO START
ROLLING MONDAY

Reopening Of the Republic Iron
and Steel company on Sylvan is
land will take place Monday since
large steel orders have been re-
ceived by the company. The plant
was closed on Dec. 81, last year,
when because of the ending of hos
tiiities orders were cancelled.
With the receiving of large or
ders now it is believed that the
plant will be kept going. Steel
prices have dropped considerably
since Nov. II and more orders are
now being given. Republic plants
in Youngstown and other cities
were not forced to close on account
of shortage of orders.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-09
VOTE SATURDAY ON
BOARD CANDIDATES
FOR E. M. TOWNSHIP

Candidates for office on the East
Moline township high school board
Al the election Saturday of this
week will have no opposition. There
will be one polling place and that is
III the high school building. Both
men and women may vote.
Those seeking reelection are: c.
e. Mitchell, now president of the
board, and who has served three
TRIMS; C. B. Chambers, present
member of the board, who has
served two terms and L. F. Haemer,
also member of the board who has
Eaxzed two terma
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-09
In the Lodges

John H. erik, member of Mol
line aerie No. 1112, F. o. E, ad-
dressed about 400 people last ev-
ening when Moline aerie adjourned
to Davenport to be guests at a well
come home party given by Daven-
port aerie in honor of it's returned
soldiers. Other talks by officers of
both aeries were enjoyed during
during the evening. A supper was
served at the close of the speeches.
Moline aerie has been invited to
assist in the large initiation to be
held Sunday afternoon by Rock
Island aerie, when a class of 100
candidates will receive the degree.
Moline chapter No. 262, Women
of MoOseheart legion, and Daven-
port chapter No. 1877, will unite in
a monster mass meeting to be held
tomorrow evening in Stag hall,
Third avenue and Seventeenth
street, Moline.
The purpose of this meeting is
to discuss the welfare and the pres
ent conditions of the Mooseheart
school, located at Mooseheart, Ill.
This school, which was established
nVe years ago, Is one OF VOcatlOnal
training. The United States gov
eminent has found that Moose
heart was one of two places in the
United States where a soldier could
receive the desired instructions on
concrete construction work.
During the war there were not
less than 100 disabled soldiers at
the school, being trained in var
ious occupations. The government
recently called upon the school to
accept more disabled soldiers for
training, in order that they may be
prepared in self-supporting occu-
pations.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-09
MRS. SARAH TRACY
DIES AT ST. PAUL.

News of the death of Mrs. Sarah
Tracy, formerly of Hampton, which
occurred Sunday, came to East
Moline friends yesterday Mrs.
Tracy died at the age of rs years
in the home of her daughter, Mrs.
Jennie Staples of st. Paul. Death
was due to heart trouble.
Sarah Tracy resided in Hampton
until a few years ago, when she &c
moved to ST. Paul to make her
home with her daughter.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-09
r. G. Honor Roll

Following are the names of the
returned soldiers who have regis
tered at the Moline chapter of the
Red Cross during the last several
days:
Camp Grant-Vincent n. Holgren
Elmer E Haggerty, Carl J. Fred
erickson, Douglas B. Seaver, Clyde
N. Johnson; Alex Lapedas, East
Moline.
Camp Jackson-Carl E Olson
Walter E. Brooks.
Camp Dodge-Steve Panteloples
East Moline.
Wilbur Wright field, Dayton, o.
Ralph W. Peterson.
Portsmouth, n. H.-Horris De
Ridder
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-09
WILLIAM KOESTER
RETURNS TO E. M;
SERVED OVERSEAS

Corporal William Rooster, for
mer mail carrier in East Moline,
returned to the city yesterday, hev-
ing been discharged at Camp
Grant. Bill Rooster saw service
overseas after three months of
training at Camp Grant. He sail
ed for France last August. He
served with the One Hundred
Eighty-sixth division as a mounted
police.
While enroute to East Moline,
Rooster stopped at Wyanett to
visit with relatives. He will soon
be back on the mail CARRYING job.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-09
HOME ON FURLOUGH.

Walter Lowe. son of Mr.. and Mrs.
John Lowe, 1929 Eleventh avenue
A. Moline, is home on furlough, Wis
iting his parents and his wife, Mrs.
Ellen Lowe. He is still in service
in the navy department and he has
had many interesting experiences.
He was assigned to the steamer
George Washington, the transport
that took President Wilson to
France
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-09
Mrs. Cordelia Van de Genacht.

Mrs. COrdelia Van de Genacht.
Mrs. Cordelia Van de Genacht,
aged 43 years, a native of Belgium,
died yesterday at her home, 150O15
Thirteenth street, East Moline, from
organic heart trouble. Surviving are
the widower, Charles Van de
Genacht, one son and one daugh-
ter at home and a sister, Mrs. Vic
tor Lamdit of Hillsdale. Funeral
services will be held at $50 Friday
morning in the st. Mary's Catholic
church of East Moline with Father
Leon Van Stappen in charge. Inter-
ment will be in st. Mary's, East
Moline.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-09
Obituary
FnneraI of John w. OFT.

uHtIdI UI JUHH W. UIIs
Remains of John W. OFT of East
Moline, who died Monday evening
in a Moline hospital, will be sent
tomorrow morning to Lyons, Iowa
for interment, services to be held
tomorrow afternoon in a church in
that city.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-09

A big middle west hominy plant
is to install on a large scale the
process for the manufacture OF
corncob adhesive developed by the
United States department of agri-
culture. This adhesive, dark
brown, gummy scubstance, is said
to Be suitable for use in making
fiber board and paper boxes, bill
posting, labelling and wherever a
colorless adhesive is not required.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1919-02-18
Want Uncle Sam To
Quit Bachelorhood

able peace, not by league of gOs-
ernments, for the intent is not to
supplant, but to uplift nations, as
civilization has lifted men from the
plane of physical force to intellectual
moral and spiritual force, and this
can only be accomplished by league
not of power, but OF honor,
Referring pointedly to Germany.
Mr.. Banroft declared no nation
should be eligible until organized
as free government, and warned
the Germans that unless their new
government measures up to this i'd
cal 1t should be excluded. This also
he said, applies to Russia.
After reciting the original plan OF
the league, which included an inter
national court to decide upon call
justiciable issues; court OF con-
Citation ito recommend compromises
on all questions not justiiable"; an
agreement to unite the economic pow
er Of nations, or If need be, their
military forces TO RESTRAIN and sup
press any member Of the league that
might begin war before submission
to one or the other of these two
tribunals, and congress of nations
to add to and codify and improve and
revise international law, Mr. Taft
said:
"In the absence of any definite
statement or what the league of ma
tiops means. think for practical
purposes we can discuss it in the com
mon struture of these voluntary or
CARNATIONS in the three great allied
ountries-United States, Great Brit
ain, and France.
I'VE have not advocated in our
American plan reduction of armam-
ent not because we do not think it of
the higest Importance but because
we thought 1t was questionable whe-
Their to put that in our fundamental
principles would secure adhesion to
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1919-02-18
Cable the Peace Conference


Americas prestige is at stake in
the coming Victory Liberty Loan. The
eyes OF the world are fixed upon us.
The nations Of the world are going to
rate US on this last effort. 1t Is right
that they should Judge US, not by
what we do In the heat OF the strug.
gle, but by our condition after the
fight.
One Of the best guarantees OF world
peace for years to come would be the
successful flotation OF the Victory LIB
erty Loan for five OF six billion dol.
lars. Even combination OF powers
inclined to start another war would
hesitate in the face Of such display
OF tremendous national strength.
Every man who buys a Victory Lib
erty Bond next April. moreover, will
be adding to the determination with
which America speaks at the Peace
Conference. There are undoubtedly
going to be many moments during that
Conference when every whit OF the
power of the United States will be
needed to shape into actualities those
ideals for which we entered the world
struggle.
Let the cables carry into the Quai
d'Orsay this message:
America has oversubscrlbed her
Fifth Liberty Loan by more than a
billion dollars"
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1919-02-18
WHO SAYS IT?


slogglng through the mud OF
France,
Camping in the rain:
Hiking in a frozen trance
Down some German plain:
Fall inl"--hear the sergeant yell,
Far from home ana clover;
Tell me. who the bally hell
Said the war was over?"
Chow for breaafast--slum for
noon
Who says men are free
While the bugler's foolish tune
Pipes the reveille?
Right dressl"--hear the sergeant
buzz
From Mainz across to Dover;
Tell me who the hell Il wuz
Said the war was over3"
Cleaning up q mass OF wire.
Stained with clotted blood
Where the big trucks bog and miro
In the winter mud;
Full Of hlth and fieas and fuEz--
Cannoneer and drover,
Tell me who the fat.head wux
Said the war was over?"
-Grantland Rice.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1919-02-18

or plan.
"Now, that l would like to DEM
l think 1t is capable
of demonstation--ist that II is impos
sible and that the natnions are going
to find 1t impossible before they get
through to make complete agree
ment upon this treaty now formula
ting in Paris-they will find II in
dispensable. In achieving the purpos-
es Of the war. to have q league of
natinns such as we have outlined in
order to secure the purposese OF the
war. With respect to these nations
engaged in debating this treaty we
might as well face the fact that we