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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-07-10
By United Press,

Bethany, W. Va, July 9.-w. a.
Reeves, postmaster here, and elder in
the Christian church barely escaped
mob violence following his arrest on
q serious charge brought by the pars
ents of a fiva year old girl
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-07-10
Mexico Seeks
Good Will of
United States
Mexican Ambassador to United States
Arrives In This Country With Mes
sage from Carranza.
tBy United Press)

Laredo, Texas, July Carrying a
personal message from President Car
rama to President Wilson which it is
said assures the American chief execu-
tive that the conditions in Mexico, are
greatly improved and voices the desire
Of Mexico for most friendly relations
with the United States, Ignacio Bonil-
las, Mexican ambassador to the United
States, arrived here today.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-07-10
(By United pressl

Washington, July 9.-The Army Of
Occupation, composed Of the first five
regular army divisions is homeward
bound, according to unofficial reports
in Washington today. It was stated
that the fifth division was embarking
at Brest, the 4th was enroute to Brest
and that both would sail by the 18th
of July.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-07-10
fRY United PresSl

Warrington, July 9-The soldiers
land settlement bill, with its plans pro-
viding farms for thousands Of service
men, will be reported out by the House
Public Lands Committee within the
next few days, Chairman sinnntt said
today. Efforts will be made to have it
considered in the House as soon as the
prohibition enforcement legislation is
disposed Of.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-07-10
fBy United Pressl

Washington, July 9-President Will
son will start his tour Of the United
States campaigning for the League of
Nations in about two weeks, it was
announced today. The trip will extend
across the continent to the Pacific
Coast where he expects to review the
newly formed Pacific feet.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-07-10
(By Associated Press,

Washington, July g.-Oficials of the
Department of Justice asserted today
that the ratification Of the peace trea-
~ by the German National Assembly
would probably be followed by the i'm
mediate release of all German or Aus
TRAN alien enemies now interned or on
parole in the United States.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-07-10

Washington, July 9.-The new Pa
cific fleet will leave Hampton Roads
for the Pacific on July 18th, according
to the announcement of Secretary of
the Navy Daniels today.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-07-10
(By United Press)

Washington, July o. Secretary of
State Lansing will sail from Brest for
the United States Friday. Under Sec
rotary Polk announced today.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-07-10
(By Associated press)

New York, July Give transports,
the Nansemond, Marisca and Re
d italia and the Santa Olivia and Deep
water, arrived here today with 301 Of
fcers and 1854 troops.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-07-10
Buy New School site.

The Board voted to buy the Wit
scheafer property on Fairfield avenue
as a site for school which is to III
timately take the place of the Grant
school. The price paid was $500 and
the property contains five acres It is
admirably located as school site and
real estate men agree that the price
paid is reasonable one.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-29
Opposing Annexation.

1t is doubtful if there is any serious opposi-
ton in the district to annexation of the tract
cast of Twenty-first street and south to Thirty
first avenue. 1t is hardly conceivable that
there should be, in view of the experience of
other areas which recently have embraced the
opportunity to become part of the city.
There is one way for those Immediately con-
cerned to satisfy themselves as to what the
effect of annexation will be and that is to make
personal inquiry in places where it has been
tried. If they do they will find evidence suff-
cient to satisfy anyone who is open to con-
viction.
The chief bugbear when annexation is pro-
posed is the matter of taxes. People owning
property in the district fear they will have to
help pay the expenses of the rest of the city.
Those who live in annexed localities will tes-
tify that the increase in taxes is not unreason-
able and that their property Immediately be-
comes more valuable and more readily mar
ketable. Furthermore, the city always has
paid for improvements in such regions more
than the revenue received from them.
Fear expressed in this case that any con-
siderable part of the land will be cut up into
lots and thus withdrawn from agricultural
uses is idle. If this happens it will only be
after the land has been sold and present own
ers need not worry then, for the price paid for
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-29
In the Days News

Prof. David Todd, who is to try
tie novel experiment of taking OBJ
servations of today's solar eclipse
from a soaring aeroplane in the
South Atlantic, has had a wide
experience in practical astronomy.
AS far back as 1875 he was an
assistant in the United States tran
sit of Venus expedition. He was
chief of the United States naval
observatory eclipse parties in
Texas in 1878, chief assistant on
the United States nautical almanac
in 1S7S-1881, astronomer in charge
of the Lick observatory observa-
ticns of the transit of Venus in
1882. astronomer in charge of the
American eclipse expedition to
Japan in 1887, chief of the United
States scientific expedition to West
Africa in 1889, and The head of half
a dozen or more eclipse expedi-
ticns in later years. For five years
he was professor of astronomy at
Smith college. and since 1881 he
las been professor of astronomy
and director of the observatory at
Amherst college.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-29
Cause of Cedar Rapids Explosion

The coroner's jury which Investigated the
explosion in the starch mill at Cedar Rapids
came to the conservative conclusion that the
disaster was caused by fire. For stating the
obvious that is hard to beat.
When chemical engineers of the u s. de-
partment of agriculture get through with their
inquiry into the matter it is hoped that there
will be something more definite. The depart
ment has been working for years to devise
methods of reducing danger Of explosion from
plant dust. These Devices it is claimed. have
been proving uniformly successful in grain
dust disasters. 1t il proposed to extend their
use to all industrial enterprises where dust of
inf1ammable nature is formed.
The campaign against grain dust explosions
was begun in November, 1917 with a fund pro-
vided by the emergency food production act
Since that time not single fire or explosion
of great magnitude has occurred in grain mills
or elevators upon which attention has been con-
centrated. Previous to the beginning of the
campaign there were from to eight large
disasters annually in grain mills or elevators.
In the IS months preceding the campaign, six
disastrous dust explosions and fires in mills
and elevators alone killed 80 persons. injured
60 others, destroyed two and a half million
bushels of grain and over 100000 worth of
property.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-29
Memorial Day.

Memorial day will have greater significance
in the United States this year than it has had
since the Civil war was fresh in the memories
of the people. In the last year every COM
munity has given up some Of its bravest young
men as sacrifices for freedom and their remains
are now resting for the most part in the fields
of France. In more than one hundred thou
sand American homes the meaning of tomor-
rows exercises has been brought forcibly home
by the severing Of family ties and by examples
of heroism performed on behalf of those who
survive.
Tomorrow will be generally observed, not
SO much as a day for pleasure seeking, which
it had become to a great many, but as time
for doing honor to all the men who have given
up their lives for their country since the re-
public was born, for renewing our faith in our
fellows and for readjusting our ideas of gov
eminent and our duty toward it to meet the
vast changes that the last IL months have
brought about.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-29
Brad'sBit O. Verse
PRFCFDENTS.

I'm for it good and plenty" the
old contender chimes, but l have
read full twenty good books. of an
Gent times, and find for it no title
nor cen the slightest jot; so this
thing must be brittle, / visit; and
also wot. That it would be a glory,
I'm willing to admit: but codds and
pandects hoary don't even mention
il: no doubt it's good and golden
for nation or for gent but in the
classics olden find no precedent"
Some men, throughout the ages,
have made the world more slow be-
cause dull mouldy pages have not
said thus or so; and many dried
up geezer each forward plan will
fay unless great Julius Caesar en-
dorsed it in his day. "Oh, 1t looks
fine and dandy, and doubtless it is
sound; but let's keep volume
handy. where presidents are
found; i seems, in my opinion.
without a flaw c. kink: but let's
look up Justinian before we dare to
think" Old fossils and old fogies,
how wearisome their chant. They
see grim spooks and bogies, in
every upward slant. I'd sell them
by oodles for less than fifty cents;
there's nothing in their noodles but
ancient precedent.
-CLEM BRADSHAW.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-29
Protecting Others Health.

Quarantine cards are becoming more nu-
merous about the city and not few of them
reveal the location of cases Of smallpox.
Spread Of the disease is such that the health
commissioner feels justified in calling attention
to the urgency of preventive measures Vac
cination is advisable for everybody who has not
recently submitted to incubation and the
health department proposes to see that more
persons take this precaution.
There always has been a good deal of lax
ness on the part Of those with contagious dis
eases in the family and sometimes attending
physicians have failed to make proper reports.
Most Of the epidemicS of the past have resulted
from violation of simple precautionary rules.
The hand of the health department is now
strengthened with a new state law which
makes neglect of proper measures for safe
guarding the health of others a misdemeanor
and it is proposed to enforce the statute. Those
having contagious diseases in the family, it is
hoped, will thus be aroused to a sense OF thalx
responsibility.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-29
Neglected Hospitality.

Rock Island was host last night to wan
dering airplane. or it would have been if the
pilot could have found a safe landing place
within the city limits. AS it was he came down
out on the Thirty-eighth' street road and the
plane slept on the cold, damp ground, while
the two members of the crew sought the shell
ter of a downtown hotel
This was not the first time gadding avia-
tors have come this way and it will not be the
last. They will come with greater and greater
frequency from now on and something should
be done to make them feel at home and to look
after their wants while they here. There
ought to be central landing place marked so
that stranger can find it and provided with
hangar and facilities for the use of mechanics.
If we had such place we might let circus
use it now and then till flying becomes more
popular. AS matters stand now airplanes are
likely to steer past the town and circuses are
sure IN
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-29
THuE DAILY SHORT STORY

this more fortunate finance, as she
recovered her wonted calmness.
You have not offened nor hurt
me, DEAR" she said. 1T was after
those reminders of a happy dream
that 1 came, but long since the
memory of the one loved and lost
has become consolation. Come, all
your bright happiness in life is be.
fore you! We may add to it by look
ing over my cherished mementoes. ,
To both those mementoes were
precious and sacred. In her quiet
way Miss Williston showed one aft
er another of the articles. She even
placed the veil upon her head to
please Rhoda, and then
Marcia My Marciai"
A bronZed, weather-worn man had
burst in the screen door. He caught
the swaying form of the wife that
was to be in his strong arms and
covered her face with kisses. And
then, as Marcia revived and chung to
him sobbing amid her wild joy, she
heard the words that told her that
he alone of the ice-rushed North
Star had escaped back to civiliza-
ton after half decade exile in far
Arctic regions.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-29
Heart 1pHOm0
17,9DrODTOT11cC i
V>1 MRS ELIZABETH THOMPSON'B

Dear Mrs. Thompson: am a girl
sixteen years of age. l have always
gone with a crowd OF girls my age
and had a good time with them.
Now it seems they never want to
include me in their good times.
This makes me feel so badly that
sometimes l want to cry. try TO
be just as nice to them as I can be,
but it is so hard when l feel as if
l am not wanted around.
am just as smart and I dress
just as well as they do. / am good
looking enough not to be unbear-
able, although l am not what you
would term beautiful. Can you tell
me why l am not wanted?
At school l have many friends
girls and boys. Although l can talk
and joke with them and they APP
parently like me, the boys never
think of taking me to a movie or
any place like that They talk
about me and say nice things about
me to the other girls.
Some people say 1 am cold, but
really I am not. When l know peo-
pie 1 can talk and joke with them
in the best of ways.
Can you tell me what the trouble
is? YVONNE.
You are passing through a period
of change. At your age most girls
are unhappy for one reason or an
other. Your tastes and temperament
are changing and your friends are
changing. You have lost the har-
mony which makes you a part of
the old crowd. Do not feel badly
about this because it is perfectly
natural. Before long. you will md
yourself interested in new things
and new friends.
Do not feel badly because boys
are not interested in you enough to
call or take you places. You are
very young and just as well Of. not
to be going to movies and having
dates" with boys. In due time you
will attract young men.
Guard against a passive personal.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-29

Harry Hawker is brave man, but it seems
he cannot stand popular laudation. He is
showing evidences of a swelled head. 1t is
true that the feat of the American flyers was
not as spectacular as that which he essayed,
but the Americans reached the other side and
he did not. He was exceedingly lucky to escape
with his life Americans have admired Hawk
er's nerve as much as his own people and per-
haps more for we take to that sort of thing
more readily than the people of any other coun-
try, and we are less clannsh and do not often
deign to deprecate a feat simply because some
body besides an American happens to perform
it. Hawker would have been given all that
was coming to him without setting up any
claims on his own behalf. He may not get so
much now.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-29
Severe Anemia.

Pernicious isn't the word for it
Nor is it primary anemia; it is as
secondary as everyday anemia.
And aplastic anemia won't do,
either, because sometimes the trou-
BILE isn't failure, to manufacture
red corpuscles. but too rapid death
and disappearance OF red cells.
To those good old souls who are
content to change bodies every
seven years-and maybe the itch
and other complaint along with
the body-it will come as a shock
when we say that in health the
spleen is constantly destroying red
corpuscles, and a complete new
outfit of corpuscles must be pro-
duced about every 80 days regard
less of the phase of the moon.
And to that irrepressibIe reader of
this column who insists upon call
ing herself a young girl 10 years
of age"-no girl who reads this
department ever grows oId-it will
be a great disappointment to know
that the total amount of iron pres
ent in a girls blood could be car
ried in a spoon.
AHGIuld 1911 SpOuldueOuS state,
as so many OF our readers seem to
think. 1t isn't a primary disease
condition which can be intelligent
ly or successfully treated by some
set remedy or method. Anemia,
lack Of blood, is a symptom which
appears in the course of many
widely different diseases; it is
sometimes produced by excessive
confinement indoors, lack of suffi-
cient exposure of the body to d.
rect sunlight, poisons which break
down the red blood corpuscles
(such as the acetanilide or as
pirin habit, hidden infections,
slight but frequently recurring
bleedings which may be known to
tho patient or concealed, the tox-
emia or poisoning of unrecognized
Bright's disease, the hncipiency or
earliest stage OF tuberculosis, and
scores of other causes.
Although an arbitrary distinc-
ton between primary" anemia
and secondary anemia was at
tempted by old-time physicians,
such distinction is now known to
be of no practical importance. If
the blood is weak there is a cause,
whether the cause is easily discov-
cred or not.
Lack of iron is almost never a
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-29
THE SOLE SURVIVOR.
BY GEORGE ELMER COBB.
fF7Op1rf0hf 1910 nv Western News


paper UniOn.)
Rhoda Lusk was singing fully a
quarter of her time. smiling and
CHEEKY whenever she was with her
friends, and happy all of the time.
Just now she was unusually joyous
and she went tripping about the
house thinking herself the most for
tunate young lady that ever was, or
could be.
For the past six months of her life
had been a rare and radiant ro-
nance. She had met Ronald Dud-
ley. and her fate, at one and the
same time. He was a manly, hand
some young fellow and he had won
the good will of Rhoda's parents
and that of all her other relatives.
Ronald had to go south to settle an
estate, would return for good IN
six months and then there was to be
a grand wedding and the young
couple would settle down IN
pretty bungalow within sight, and
even call, of the Lusk home.
Mr. and Mrs Lusk had rented the
old Marsden mansion for five years
It was ready at hand, had a beau
tifuI garden and was sumptuousiy
furnished. Miss Marcia Williston
had inherited it from her widowed
mother, had found it lonesome ltv-
ing all by herself and had decided to
make a permanent home with a
married sister
She was a tall, stately woman of
perhaps thirty. and Lad given up
Der home as eShadsgtYenzup. the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-29

hope of passing many happy hours
under that roof. Rhoda had heard
her story and it excited gentle pity
in her gentle soul. For five years
Miss Williston had waited for the
lover, the pledged fiance, who never
came. There had fallen to him
through a legacy several whaling
vessels, and he had sailed away in
one of them to familiarize himself
with the business that was to bring
him his living income. His voyage
was to end in a year. Two went by,
three. Nothing was heard of the
missing North Star, or its owner, or
the crew. Mutely Miss Wilton bow
ed with resignation to the blow that
swept from life all she cared living
for She never paraded her sorrow
before others.
IF Ronald should meet the fate of
Miss Williton's poor lover!' breath
ed Rhoda, and she shuddered at the
mere thought. ooh, must not for
get" she added. Mamma told me
to be sure to find some odd corner
or closet where we can put our UNI
brellas and rubbers.
Her parents had gone downtown
to obtain some odds and ends need
ed for kitchen use, and except for
the cook no one was in the house
except Rhoda. She puzzled her &C
tive brain searching for a suggestion
as to the disposition OF umbrellas
and rubbers, and finally gave up the
task as she dropped to a window
scat under the oriel window in the
reception hall.
"The only way see is to buy
nazrowWar7robe and fit it into the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-29

corner under the stairs" planned
RhOda, and then, arising from the
window seat she noticed that its oak
top moved. She had not observed be-
fore that the top was hinged. Just
the place!" she exclaimed, lifting
the board. "Oh, my"
Rhoda stood transfixed gazing
down into the Deep long space.
There was a layer of tissue paper
at its bottom. Above showed a be-
wildering array of finery-silk,
satin, ribbons, embroidery, a we'd
ding dress and veil and dainty slip
pers; in fact all the accessories of an
elegant bridal trousseau. Rhoda
stood in an enraptured dream. Only
when for the second time the door
bell rang, did she hasten to the YES
thule. She unlocked the screen door
latch and admitted Miss Wilton.
Il came to remove some personal
belongings" began the latter, and
then, with a sharp catch in her
voice, stared at the fineTy exposed
in the interior of the window seat.
Her lips trembled and a quick pal
lor came into her face. In an instant
Rnoda comprehended that the
trousseau must be the only she had
prepared when her lover went away
and had not returned Rhoda looked
awed, sorry. She was almost at the
point of tears, as she realized how
cruelty the unexpected confronta-
ton must lacerate the heart of her
visitor.
ct was quite by accident that I
lifted the cover" began Rhoda, but
Miss Williston with q wan, but kind
lysspile, stroked the goldenshaatr Of
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-29
Col. William G. Ball.

Washington.-ThaL work of Colo
mel William G. Ball in managing
the bakeries that supplied the daily
bread for 100000 U. S. soldiers
abroad has earned him two honors.
The U. S. government recently
made him colonel and France
awarded him the legion of honor.
Colonel Ball had one of the big
gest jobs in the A. E. F., the sup
plying of one pound of bread per
man per day to an army which he
saw grow from a few thousand men
to 100000. When General Per-
shing went to France he picked
Colonel Ball, then captain. for the
job, although he was an infantry
man and not a member of the quar-
termaster's corps under which come
TIE army bakeries. He went at the
JOB in big way. He quickly saw
that the old-time field bakeries
would be inadequate to feed an
army expected to become 100000.
He introduced mechanical, bakeries,
securing the machinery in England.
ard personally superintended the
construction of three enormous
plants, each capable of turning out
100000 loaves per day of two
pounds each, untouched by human
hands. One of these was in opera
ton the day the armistice was sign
cd, and the other two almost ready
TO begin operations. These three
bakeries supplemented with field
bakeries could have supplied the
largest army contemplated by the
u. s., and at fraction OF the man
power and fuel expense. a big item
in France of the old system. Colo
mel Ball entered the army as a sec
ond lieutenant in 1899, served in
the Philippines. acted as aide to
General Funston in the Vera Cruz
expedition and commanded the
company farthest south in Per
shings dash after Villa
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-29
Today's Anniversaries

REHABILITATION of a monument to
Washington and Lafayette in
Philadelphia.
19OS-The International Polar con-
gress at Brussels, twelve
countries being represented.
1910-Glenn H. Curtiss won a $10,-
600 for an airship flight from
Albany to New York City.
1915-Russians delivered heavy at
tacks along the lower San
river and menaced German
rear.
1s16-dtalians stopped Austrian as
saults in the Astico region.
1917-Italian offensive ended with
a total of nearly $4,000 pris-
oners captured.