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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-15
ESTIMATES FOR
PAVING AGREED
Board OF improvements Approves
OF Cost OF Watcrmains and
PaEements.

Estimates for paving and water
main improvements costing S32,-
59I were approved yesterday by
the Moline board of local improve
ments. The proposed pavcments
follow:
Twenty-fourth avenue from Six
teenth street "a Eighteenth
street 4
Eighteenth street from Twenty
third to Twenty-fourth avenues
Eighteenth street A from Tweu-
ty-third to Twenty-ffth avenues.
Forty-eighth street from Second
to Fifth avenues,
The proposed Waterman i'm
provement is for Twenty
avenue from Fourth to Seventh
streets. The board recommended
asphalt for all the payements eX-
cept that on FOrty-cighth street,
where concrete was suggested,
Work on these improvements
can not be started for at least 100
days. There must first be pub
lie hearing TO listen to possible
objections from property owners,
an ordinance must be introduced
and adopted, assessments must be
levied and the entire improvement
must be approved by Moline city
court.
The public hearing on all the
will be held at the
Moline city hall. March %,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-15
CONTINUE RUSH
FOR CITIZENSHIP
Sixty-scvcn Apply for Papers at Mo-
line Court Within the Last
Three Days.

Aliens continue to rush the Mo-
line cit ycourt asking fo- citizen
ship papers. Within the last three
DAYS e. persons have flied deClar-
atoms Intentions to become cit
liens.
The same reason is Sc forth for
the great number OF people seek
ing to be naturalized nO--, as that
given for the 70 who applied at the
city court during the first 10 days
of March II is believed that these
people are trying to escape the
eight per cent tax which nOn-clti-
zens of the country must pay.
Those who declare their inten-
tions Of becoming citizens are not
subject to the additional two per
cent tax on incomes
The majority of persons asking
citizenships are native % Sweden,
numbering -. Fifteen of these
APPLICATIONS are from natives Of
Greece. Three women a~e includ-
ed in the list. One gave i'er Occu-
patton as labOrer. one as cook and
the third as an Office worker. 9th
er nations represented IN the list
are Belgium. Il. Russia. ): Aus
Hungary. 5; and Great Bri
tain, 4
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-15
BUILD SACRED
HEART CHURCH
New Edifice to Grow Up in Moline
This Year, Estimate Cost
Is Put at S57,0O0.

Members of the Sacred Heart
Catholic congregation of Moline
are to erect a new church building
on the corner of Thirteenth street
and Seventeenth avenue this var.
The growth of the congregation
in recent years has found the
church inadequate to meet the
needs. The present edifice was
erected II years ago and has now
served its time. The new building
plans have not been drawn up as
yet, but the structure will b. one
o. the most up-to-date in this COM
n,unity. The site chosen is ideal,
being centrally located in the par
ashland being in near walking dis
lance to cars.
Plans for the campaign to raise
funds to carry the building idea
through are being made by a com
m.ttee appointed earlier in the
year. The committee is composd
of Edward Coryn, Louis Some
vile, Arthur c. Wander Vennet and
Frank Styvaert. The drive will be
launched Monday and will con
tinue through Saturday of next
week. Approximate estimate on
the cost of the building is set by
the committee at $4,000, and it is
their aim to get at least one-half
of this amount by voluntary
pledges.
Sacred Heart parish was organ
lied in September of 1906 and has
grown so as to now only be able
TO accommodate about one-half of
the Catholics of Moline.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-15
MINSTREL SHOW
MAKES SCORE AT
HIGH LAST NIGHT

An appreciative audience az
tended the senior fellowship min
strel show in the Moline high
school auditorium last evening,
and after each singer made his ap-
pearance he was recalled two or
three times.
Ben Cohn and Willard Larson
were the hits of the evening. The
clever conversation and their con-
tinual chatter kept the audience in
an uproar during the entire per-
Torrance. The originality in which
these boys put over their !orles per-
haps was the most pleasing feature
of the entertainment
Cohn in the role of an old darby
parson in the little playlet preced-
ing the minstrel proper, scored a
hit. The play was entitled Fellow
ship Banquet" and was inter
mingled with jokes, vocal solos and
choruses.
The show will be repeated this
evening and a capacity audience is
anticipated.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-15
CRAFLUND WINS
FROM STYvAERT
Republican Nomination for Super
visor to Doctor by Majority
OF Six Votes.

DR.. Fred Graflund won the Re-
publican nomination for supervisor
by six votes at the Republican con-
vention held in Moline last evening
to nominate candidates for town
ship offices. Two hundred enthusi-
asts were present, the number be
ing a surprise to the leaders, who
thought due TO other entertain
mcnts in the three cities last night
and the Indictment weather. that the
membership would be small.
Alice Child Walker and Frank
=. Styvaert were named in Opposi-
ton to Dr. Grafiund. Mrs. Walker
withdrew. leaving the fight between
Grafund and Styvaert. On the for
NAL ballot Graf1und received 80
votes and Styvaert 80.
The defeat of Mrs. Walker for
denomination was a surprise to the
convention. Mrs Walker served
with two other women on the board
from Moline township. She was
placed in nomination, together with
J. A. Schaible, Louis c. First, Frank
Styvaert and Henry G. Wilke. Roy
Daley was also nominated, but he
declined to make the race. This
left five candidates in the field, and
On motion it was decided that the
four receiving the highest vote
should be declared the nominees.
The first ballot resulted: Schaible,
1876: Walker. -; First. 90, Sly
vaert. 1O7 and Wilke II.
L. !, r-tv
nominee for cons able to fill va
Cancy by reclamation. l.. c. Bland
ing called to order and was made
chairman of the convention. y. f.
MunsOn was the choice to make
note of the proceedings.
George w Wilson Of Quincy, Re
publican nominee for judge of the
supreme court from the Fourth jul
,iicial district, spoke preceding the
nominations.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-15
BARREN FRANCE
NEEDS ALL HELP
TO RESTORE LAND

Conditions in devastated France
and especially in Lille, where Otis
Howard. formerly eXperime ntal en-
gineer at the Deere & Co., is sta
toned. are beyond description. ac-
cOrding to a letter from him How
ard, who left Moline, April s. 1917.
with 27 militiamen. is now a lieu
tenant in the United States navy,
working with Herbert Hoover, food
commissioner.
OF thecOuntry and the suffering
of its people, Howard writes to his
wife in Moline:
From a military point Of view
the advance Ci The allies was Won
derful but tho country of France
and especially Lille. is now abso-
lutely barren Of a standing house.
The question was, what would be
done for these people who not only
were penniless but had absolutely
no shelter
The navy has brought 10 France
hundreds OF barrack buildings
which the Hoover commission pur-
chased and then found had no one
to erect them. The naval relief
unit has been formed SC now
command some fifty men who are
building shelter for the homeless
in this devastated section.
The men are to be CHARTERED
in Lille and sent out in trucks to
the surrounding dOuntry, carrying
with them portable barracks and
living here and there. It is my
object to have a comfortable ref
uge for them and bring ttem in at
the weekend.
Our doctor has started two lit
tie hospitals out in the bad area
These people sure have Z love of
the old home for they all come
back. The boche, when ne depart
ed, took only the able-bodied and
they are not back. so there are lots
of old and sick people. Hoving no
place to go, they come back, often
only to die. There are nc medical
SUPPLIES other than those we bring
Probably our work Will never be
noted but each of us will have a
feeling that he helped.
Il am looking forward 20 tomor-
row night with some mlsgivings."
writes Lieutenant Howard on Feb
%. "Thirty-fye babies under
year old are to spend the night
with us. These poor kids were
picked up from battlefieIds and
ruined homes Most of them are
Identification.
One French town pear here has
an old woman mayor says Lieu
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-15
STRICT WATCH is
KEPT ON GERMANS
IN OCCUPIED LAND

COblenZ-The intelligence section
of the American army continues to
keep strict watch of the movements
of the German army and will con-
tinue to do so until the American
army of occupation leaves the
Rhineland for home after the sign
ing of the peace treaty.
Recent reports to the Americans
holding the CoblenZ bridgehead are
to the effect that the few units of
the old German standing army
which were performing any active
service early in February appeared
TO have been reOrganized on a uni
form plan. The majority of these
troops, information in the hands of
the Americans indicate are simply
drawing pay and passing the time
the best way possible in their home
depots. patiently awaiting discharge
or having made up their minds to
remain in service in preference to
seeking employment in civil life.
These units are divided between
those who are perfectly willing to
perform active service and those
who are not The willing ones,
usually including most of the OIL
ffcers and commissioned Of
ficerS, have taken a new name for
their organization, but continue 10
use the depOts and other facilities
of the old unit. The unwilling SOL
diers also have been remaining in
the depots of the old unit.
1t was in this manner that the
Reinhardt regiment which fought
the Spartacists in Berlin and which
early in February had companies
assigned to Weimar when the ma
tional assembly was convened and
also other attachments sent to the
eastern front, was formed from the
Fourth Foot Guard regiment in
Berlin and has retained possession
of that depot.
The new German Schuetzen di-
vision consists of volunteers of the
Thirty-first division. the volunteer
regiment being stationed in Berlin.
while the remainder of the Thirty
first has been in depots in the
HartZ region.
German press dispatches from the
region of PoIish-German clashes re-
Gently mentioned the Volunteer
Battalion KoOp" which was reor-
ganized from the One Hundred and
Forty-Ninth regiment of Schneide-
muehl. Another recently mentioned
unit was the "YOrchsche Jaeger
corps" which reports indicate was
the volunteer contingent of the
First Jaeger battalion, the corps
using the battalion depot at OrIals-
bur o.
Each of the units appear to in
clude many volunteers. from out
side their ranks. and all of them
were actively conducting recruiting
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-15
CAPTAINS NAMED
BY EAST MOLINE
SCOUTS COUNCIL

In the organization of Boy
Scout council in East Moline, to
which F. W. Solo was recently
named chairman, G. l.. Rowe. vice
chairman; Arthur a. F'ryxell, sec
rotary. and Ed He;der, treasurer,
the following captains were chOs-
en- to head the II districts in which
East Moline, Silvis and Hampton
wert divided to launch a member
ship campaign:
t'irst-From First to Seventh
streets, excepting business blocks,
Z. w. keat.
Second Seventh to Thirteenth
streets, David Johnson.
Third-Thirteenth to Four
teenth streets, south of the Bur
lingtOn tracks, Carl Mitchell
Fourth Burlington tracks
to Seventh avenue, on Nineteenth
to Twenty streets, Russell
Archibald
F'ifth-Seventh avenue to Third
avenue, Nineteenth to Twenty
sixth streets, Lloyd Thunderstorm.
Sixth-T bird to Nineteenth
streets, including Hampton and
Watertown hospital, Scott Evans
Seventh-Burlington tracks to
Ninth avenue, Thirteenth to Nine
teenth streets, L. A. Edwards.
Eighth-Third to Ninth avenues,
Thirteenth to Nineteenth streets,
A. II. Angel.
Ninth-Negro settlement, B. ].
Smith
Business district, c. D.
Metcalf
Eleventh. All factories-Paul
Andree, John S. Simmon and Ben
J. Rough
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-15
MAYOR ELECT OF
MOLINE rs GIVEN
HINTS BY TREVOR

In announcing that he would
not run in the spring mayoraly
race this year, Mayor Clarence S.
Trevor of Moline offers few sug-
gestions to the mayOr-elect. The
principal suggestion refers TO
time.
1.-THE mayor-elect" said Mr.. Ire
vor. Ought to devote all his time
to his office. 1t will be a big job
and will require all the time that
q man can give to it.
THE mayor-elect ought to
spend the greater part of each day
at the city hall. That's what the
people need. They may not ask
that a man spend all his time at
the city hall during the day, but
they ought to have it.
Under the commission form
of administration there has gen.
orally been from two to four COM
missioners here all the time TO lis
ten to the citizens of the city
There has always been one or two
members of the commission here
during the entire day.
There won't be any commits
sioners here during the day under
the aldermanic form. And there
went be any aldermen. SO it will
be up to the mayor to be here to
serve the people"
1t is we'll known fact that
Clarence Trevor has been at the
Moline city hail from O'Clock in
the morning until O'Clock in the
afternoon practically every day
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-15
MOLINE CLOTHIER
OUT $40 BECAUSE
TOO SYMPATHETIC

He had a gold stripe on the left
sleeve that signified foreign service
and another stripe of like color on
the other sleeve, which meant that
he had been wounded in battle.
Three silver stripes, each repre-
senting six months of service in the
United States army were also part
Of his honors.
He entered the FitzGibbon cloth
ing store. Moline, one day this
week He was thin and leaned weak
" for support on one of the coun-
ters Fairly rushing toward the SOL
dier of the trenches, the clerk, sym
pathetically asked what he wished.
1t was a suit. Half hour later the
apparel was selected. The suit must
be altered. so the soldier asked if
So pay-down would be all right.
More than satisfactory, said the
clerk. The soldier couldn't find his
S. bill, so he pulled a $25 check
from his pocket. He wouldn't bother
the clerk for change, but said ne
would cash the check at the Hickey
Cigar store, just across the street.
He came back, but the cigar store
had no funds, so Mr.. Fitzgibbons
willingly cashed the check for the
returned soldier. kept 81 for the
suit and handed the lad $40 in
bills.
Today in Rock Island there is be-
ing held one Harry McCaffey OF
Clinton, Iowa. charged with passing
bogue checks. He is said to number
his victims in Moline, Rock Island
and Davenport.
Mr. FitZgibbons is one of the VIC
tins. He is holding the S25 check,
unable to cash it on any Moline
bank
"All is not gold that glitters,"
says Mr.. FitZGibbons.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-15
NOSE is BITTEN
OFF BY AFRIEND
Id Nelson in Lutheran H0spi a!
Suffering Injury as Result
OF Quarrel

Ed Nelson, aged p years. 1922
Third avenue, Moline, lost the
greater part of his nose when it
was bitten off in fight which oc-
CURED in his room last night.
Axel Johnson, aged 81, d soldier
home on furlough from Camp Shell
by, Miss. is charged with the
crime, and was arrested and held
today on a charge OF mayhem.
Johnson claims that Nelson took
$50 from him and this Occasioned
The fight that resulted so disas-
trously for the latter
Nelson's condition is not serious.
Hospital attendants and physicians
are authority for the statement that
Nelson's nose was bitten off and
that this was the first time that
one man has bitten off the nose of
another in this city.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-15
BELGIAN BABIES
DAY ON APRIL 10
Quad Cities to Have Flower Sale to
Relieve Starving Children
in Foreign Land.

Belgian babies flower day will
be held in Moline Saturday, April
TO- The quad-cities are to join in
:he spirit of the day and flowers,
the forget-me-nots chosen by Queen
Elizabeth, will be sold in punches
at 10 cents.
Decision on the date of the flower
day was made by committees of
this community at a meeting with
!. P. f. Giffrey of Chicago, official
delegate of the Belgian military
mission at Washington.
There are thousands upon thou
sands of babies in Belgium who
were left orphans, and many who
have lost the family breadwinner.
are entirely dependent upon help
to be received from outside sources.
Many of them have been long de-
prived of nourishing food and are
found to be in the incipient stages
of tuberculosis. They constitute
the next generation upon whom
Belgium has to depend in the flu
ture
Funds secured through Forget
Me-Not day will be sent directly
TO Queen Elizabeth, who gives her
personal attention to their distribu-
ton. so that they may reach the
lost needy
The first Forget Me-NOt day was
held in Washington. the work being
directed by Mrs. Lansing and Mrs.
Hoover. The entire stock of more
than 10000 flowers was sold in one
hour. netting $1,000 Other import
ant cities of the country have fol-
lowed the plan and have collected
thousands of dollars to relieve
starving Belgian BABIES.
Announcement Of the committees
Of the Guad-cities in charge of the
DAY. will be made later.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-15
The Day in Davenport

: now anti-pneumonia serum used
| here in thousands of cases during
| the influenza epidemic las fall and
! winter. The serum is regarded as
/ having been very successful and
/ having been the preventative OF
many deaths here.
Close Office-The United States
employment service in Iowa or
dered reduced so per cent through
failure of the last COZ gress to pro
vide funds for the continuance of
the work. may be taken over and
operated by the state, according to
D. H. Caldwell. federal examiner,
in charge of the Davenport Of
fee.
New Wan Lieutenant D. F.
DEAFNESS of Cincinnati, recently
discharged from the Coast Artil-
lery branch of the United States
army, has arrived in the tri-Cities
and will be connected with the To-
cal Office of the Tri-City Camp
Community service. He is to su-
pervise the community work of the
Arsenal clubs. and will assist with
other activities of the service.
Fire at Y. W. c. A. - Sometime
the chimney on the y. W. A
roof will go too far and start
something. AT o'clock yesterday
morning when the occupants of the
dormitories were getting a good
grip on their beauty sleep some
Cro 1fSgpr0rol
pouring out of the chimney. S. O.
$. signals were photographed to
the fire department. With visions
of a small roof fire some months
ago and memories of the other dis
asters fresh in the mind there was
a scene approaching baby panic.
The fire was confined to sparks in
the chimney. There was nothing
for the firemen 10 do but go home
and make the bed
Obituary Mrs William n. Hill.
mother Of Mrs. J. { Kline. 2125
avenue. died yesterday
after a three months i'll
ness. She had made her home in
this city for the past year and
half Mrs Hill was bOrE in Ken
lucky April 30. 1910.
Roosevelt KOhn. a longtime resi-
dent OF Davenport. died Yesterday
at the county farm after an i'll
ness of considerable duration. MI
kOhn was born in Ulster county. 4
New York. Dec %, 1S47. and came
% Davenport 80 years ago. /
Mr.. and Mrs. Max KlCppenberg.
$3.50 Warren street. are mourning
he loss of their seven wee s-old
son, Harry, who sucumbed Thurs
lay afternoon.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-15
JULIAN ARNOLD OF
BRITAIN TO SPEAK
TO MEN TOMORROW

Julian Arnold. a member of the
British parliament. will lecture on
international Ideals" to the young
men of Moline at the Moline Y. NJ
c. A. tomorrow afternoon. taking
the place of Senator Roscoe Kiper
of Indiana, who on account of i'll
ness, will be unable to address the
men now.
c. B. Hall, secretary of the as
sOciatiOn, Immediately secured Mr.
Arnold, when he received word of
the illness of Senator Kiper
Mr. Arnold is a scholar on inter
national affairs and what he has to
say to the young men of Moline will
be first-hand facts.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-15
AMMUNITION TRAIN
BOYS REGISTER AT
MOLINE RED CROSS

Twenty eight Moliners, members
of the Fifty-fourth ammunitioL'
train. discharged from Camp
Grant last Monday, registered al
the Moline chapter Of the Red
Cross yesterday. All are mighty
glad to get back and are 6ot sor-
ry for the experience, but they
don't want another taste of IT,
But there's always an exception
to the rule and in this case it's Ed
mond Van De VALE, not Of the
Fifty-fourth, but veteran OF
Chateau Thierry, St Mihiel and
Verdun. Edmond was wounded in
the back by shrapnel during the
Verdun drive. was in a hospital
month and a half, came back 10
the United States and was dis
charged with the Moline bunch on
Monday, but, says Edmond:
Il want TO enlist once again. I
like the army"
In yesterdays list Of registrants
is another casual, Joseph NatOtt
1901 Sixth avenue, who was
wounded Sept. IS, 1918, near Metz.
YatOtt was a member Of the One
Hundred Thirty-eighth infantry
Those of the Fifty-fourth who
nave registered: julius Engholm,
Anton Burncike, Frank y, Phares
Jr., Arthur F Koetzing, Kyle w,
Rask, Rene Van DeCasteeie, julius
Roelens. Henry Castor. Gustav
Beyck. John Doxee, Carroll +,
Swanson. Emil Loete, Gustaf
Bjorklund, Oscar +. Bohman, Leo
W James, George Nauderbeckg
James P Gibson. Wiley DaniCrr
Carl II. Rasmussen, Charles II.
Morrison. Wallace Olson, Elmer +.
Lindquist, James Major. Jacob
Hermsen, Frank Scidloski, Axe
Peterson.
Other registrants;
Great Lakes Glenn Carl Had
dick.
Camp Dodge STANLEY c. Hestor,
Elmer E McCorkel,
Camp Grant-Herbert Schmidt,
Alex Chacharon. Nicholas Grivcs,
John T. Pares. Frank Acke. Nick
DoorenveIt. Norman Burgess, Tame
G. Vagis, John Albert, Joe Witkov-
ski. Joseph Peterson. +. r. Hail,
James Andrews. Harry p. Econom-
opulos. Loreto Dijulio. Joe Poled-
nick, Cyril j. Whiteside, East Mo-
line
Fort BENZ. Harrison Albert
FTitzke. East Moline.
Camp sherman George IL.
Moses, East Moline.
Camp Dodge Oliver A. Engdahl,
Camp Dodge.
Bermurton. Wash.-W r. Hood
Chicago, S. A. r. c., Louis v.
Webster.
Camp Shelby Harry A, Scder-
land Alfonso Van Mieeham.
Quantico, Va. j. f. Smet.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-15

tenant Howard in another letter
When the Germans first came
four years ago, the mayor fed.
After the occupation this woman
took charge. She ran the place
during that time, staid while the
British bombarded the boche out
and is there now that is under
French control again
she tells us that she has been
everywhere to get relief for her
people who are now coming back
as they filter through the allies
lines. The town is completely
wrecked. not a roof standing. One
sees old women and little children
sitting in the debris, waere once
stood their homes. No food, no
clothes. no possibility of employ
ment. and no shelter
We. the American sailors. were
the first TO come there with as
sistaance. She thanked us with
tears running down her cheeks"
zptoutSo uarcmf mfw nfwypmfw
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-15
NOMINEE BUILDING
POLITICAL FENCES

Republican nominees, chosen at
the primaries last Tuesday for the
general Moline city election, were
seated at luncheon yesterday noon
with George H. Wilson, republican
candidate for judge of the supreme
court of Illinois from the Fourth
judicial district.
Mr.. Wilson spoke on his cam
paign and he was followed by by C..
P. Skinner, f. l.. Nordgren, L. A,
Vinton, CASTOR Veys, F. D. Holt,
George j. Anderson, c. Fl. Elmer,
Frank A. Herbst. E. f. Morgan, P.
A Merriman, o. F. Anderson, F. G.
Entrikin. George Landee and John
Swanson, who gave talks.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-15
POLICE HAVE WORD
FOR JENNIE HUTTON

Chief Ben DeJaeger received a
telegram from Lafayette, Ind,
asking policeaid in locating Miss
Jennie Hutton, who is said to be
employed by a man named Will
liams. Miss Hutton's grandfather
is dead at Lafayette, according to
the telegram. Police investigation
failed to find Miss Hutton.