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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-24
HALT MEETING
OF SOCIALISTS
Frank L. Watts. Party Speaker, Is
Taken in Custody Saturday
for Having No Permit

The expected happened Saturday
evening when Frank l. Watts, 1919
Sixth avenue, Moline, Socialist
speaker, was arrested by Officer
Ernest Walline at the corner of
Fifth avenue and Fourteenth street,
Moline, for speaking to an audi
ence on the streets without a per-
nit from the city commission.
Hundreds witnessed the arrest,
all were not Socialists. Many were
onlookers who were anticipating
some such action by the Moline po-
lice, as final warning had been is
sued that should a meeting be held
on the streets, the speaker would
be placed under arrest.
Watts had been on the platform
tut a few minutes. Officers were
stationed at the four corners at the
intersection and several uniformed
men mingled with the crowd pre-
pared if disorder would arise. At
s O'Clock the crowd had grown to
d large size.
The speaker took his place on
the improvised rostrum on the
southeast corner of the street He
started and got this far before the
arrest occurred:
Comrades" as cheers came up
from hundreds of voices, Com
rades, there will be a meeting at
Eagles hall next Monday evening"
More cheers) Comrades, l don't
know how far we will get with this
meeting tonight. That depends upon
the good wishes of the city COM
mission" Then he began the dis
cussion of the industrial situation
in Moline Moline" he said, sis
noted as one of the most disorgan-
lied places. one of the most uncer-
tain cities for making living that
man has ever come across. Com
rades-"
At this point Officer Walline ap-
peared. Have you got a permit to
speak en- the street, said the
guardian of the law.
Comrades" said the Socialist
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-24
News of the Day in Moline and East Moline

speaker and he appeared to smile
triumphantly, Il am asked to be
pinched."
Then" said Walline, you'll have
to come along to the station with
me-"
Comrades" said Watts, zone
word more. We've got to organize"
"All right" said the officer, lets
CO."
Watts, accompanied by another
Socialist and two officers, the other
officer, Kittilsen, marched on Four
tenth street to Sixth avenue; up
en- Sixth avenue to the Fifteenth
street alley, through the alley and
then east to the police station.
Meanwhile hundreds were follow
ing the procession, but not a
threat was heard and all seemed
orderly, though cheering and yell
ing was continual.
At the station only the four who
led the march entered. The door
vas closed. Mayor Clarence S.
Trevor and Sergeant Grell awaited
the men in the station. Formal
ties were gone through with, Ser
geant Charles Grell taking Watts
name, address, age, occupation and
asked him when he wanted to ap-
pear in court. The hearing was to
be held this afternoon. Upon the
recommendation of Mayor Trevor
the station door was opened and
several people allowed enter.
The hearing at the station lasted
less than five minutes. Watts was
released without bonds on his own
recognizance until this afternoon,
when he will be arraigned before
MAGISTRATE Frank Gustafson.
AS the released prisoner reached
the station door, he addressed the
waiting throng:
Comrades, we are going to have
another meeting at our headquar-
tiers in Fifteenth street, now"
A large part of the crowd fol-
lowed the speaker to the headquar-
ters, where a good oldfashioned,
orderly meeting was held.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-24
SCOUTS GUESTS OF
COL. HARRY JORDON
AT TANK EXHIBIT

Boy Scouts of Moline, East Mo-
line and Silvis will be guests Of
Colonel Harry Jordan. comman-
dant of the Rock Island arsenal.
Prescott Brunstrom and Cyrus
ChurchhiII, both Moline scouts,
will be honored by riding in the
tank. when the machine is demon
strated at the arsenal on March
81, before Illinois members of the
Daughters of the American Rev
olution Colonel Jordan will put
the tank through its PAGES that day
and he has asked that all scouts
with honors be sent to the arsenal
and take part in this demonstra-
ton by riding in the tank.
Two more troops for colored
boys and two for white youths will
be organized in East Moline. Two
troops will also be formed in Sill
Wis, all coming about as the result
of the financial campaign now I'M
der way This is the first of the
many benefits to be derived from
the drive, which has been in pro-
gress a week and which will close
Wednesday evening
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-24
MARRIAGE rs WAY
: TO BEAT PROBLEM
OFUNEMPLOYMENT

Marriage is one way in which
the unemployment problem can, to
an extent, be solved, in the opinion
of Rev. Herbert C. Noonan, presi-
dent of the Marquette university,
by careful figuring can maintain a
home on what man would spend
on himself" if living alone.
Women should realize that it is
their patriotic duty to step out of
jobs needed by soldiers" he said.
Women members of many fami-
lies could relinquish their employ
ment without hardship. Women
should realize their employment
was a war measure and that the
emergency has passed. 1t may be
difficult to convince some women
of their duty because they have
had taste of economic independ-
ence." He added that economic
independence of women would
prohibit such a thing as family
life. There are, of course, cases
where the family income is insult
ficient and the women members are
compelled to go to work"
at is estimated there are six
million unmarried men between 81
and 43. This involves an economic
problem which will become acute
in these post-bellum days. If ever
there was a time when marriage
should be encouraged, 1t is now. If
the women try. they will find that
they can make ends meet without
the service men of their
jobs"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-24
ELECT FIVE To
BOARD APRIL IS
School Election Is Third in Next
MOnth-Terms of Four Ex-
pire, One Resigned.

The third election in April in
Moline will be to choose five mem
bers to the Moline school board of
education. April 10 falls on Sa.-
urday.
Four of the five to be elected
will serve three year terms and the
fifth will fill a one-year vacancy
which was caused by the resigna-
ton of Theodore Weizandt, who
recently left Moline. Terms of DR..
Mabel Otis, AL Anderson, c. r.
Rosborough and T. F. Wharton
will expire.
There will be no parties. primar~
les or caucuses. A candidate can
be named. if his petition has so
legal signers and is presented to
the secretary of the board. The
four polling places will be the fol-
lowing, the same as used at other
school elections: Willard, McKin-
ley and William Carr SCHOOLS and
the Central fire station.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-24
PROGRAM FOR ODD
FELLOWS MEETING
rs NOW COMPLETE

The program for the fve-days
from April 81 to &c, when the
three branches of the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows of Moline
will celebrate the centennial of the
order, has been announced.
The three lodges, Nos. 1873, 4S5
and $50. divisions of the grand or
der founded in Baltimore, Md,
April 26, 1919, will all take active
parts in the following program:
Monday, April 81 - Meeting at
$50 p. m. in the Swedish Olive
building. A short business ses-
sion will be held after which the
opening address of the evening
and of the celebration will be Civ
en- by Rev. George r. Cady of
Clinton, Iowa. Local speakers will
also make short talks.
Tuesday. April 22-Meeting at
Eagles hall. Initiatory degree
given by team of past grands from
Nos. 1873, 4S5 and $50.
Wednesday, April % Rebekah
day. School of instruction in the
y
chief instructor.
In the evening, Rebekah degree,
past noble grands of the two
lodges, Myrtle and Olive.
Thursday, April al o'clock
Special session of the grand lodge
to confer past grand and grand
lodge degrees.
2 o'clock-School of instruction,
conducted by Grand Instructor H.
NJ. Blood of Chicago.
Evening No. SO meeting
to confer Patriarch Militant de-
gree. Canton No. ~ will also
meet with them. General Joseph
Fairhall, commander of the de-
partment of Illinois, will be pres
ent at this meeting, together with
number of his staff.
Friday, April 25-Encampment
day. School of instruction in the
afternoon, with the giving of the
Patriarchial degree in the evening.
Grand Patriarch Huntington
James of Kankakee will be pres
ent.
Saturday. April &c = The pro-
gram for the day has not as yet
been arranged. In the evening the
parade will be held at o'clock
through the streets of Moline. o.
]. Jordan, past grand chaplain, re-
siding at Evanston, Ill, will make
the address of the evening. Pres
ent Grand Chaplain Rev. Robert E.
Henry of Decatur, Ill, will also
be present.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-24
Thomas PattiSOn.

Thomas Pattison, Civil war vet
eran, died in a local hospital at 9
o'clock Saturday evening following
Is months illness of cancer of the
liver. He was 70 years old
He was born May 8, 1877, in Dur
ham county, England, and came to
this country on May 3, 1852, max
ing his home in New Orleans.
Shortly thereafter he came to Rock
Island and then to South Moline.
On Jan. 9, 1877, he married Miss
Eta Cooper of Kansas. who died
Sept. %. 1916. Mr. Pattison was
a veteran volunteer, having enlist
ed Dec 2, 1863 with Company F,
Sixty-fifth regiment of illinois in
fantry. He was discharged from
service July Is, 1865.
He was a miner by trade and
upon his arrival in Moline became
employed in the mines at Coaltown
South Moline.
He leaves four children, George
R. Pattison of Hampton township,
John Pattison of Fairview, ILL.,,
Mrs. Fred Englehaupt of East Mo-
line and Clark Pattison with the
ers, John Pattison of Green River,
Ill, and Richard Pattison of La
fayette, ILL.,, also survive.
Funeral services will be held at
1:30 tomorrow afternoon in the
Knox chapel and az 2:30 in the
Bowlesburg chapel with Rev Ed
ward Morton in charge. Interment
Will be in BOwlesburg cemetery.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-24
NEW OIL FILLING
STATION WILL BE
BUILT IN MOLINE

A modern oil filling station will
be erected on the vacant lot at Fifth
avenue and Thirteenth street, Mo-
line, directly across from the First
Lutheran church by r. W. Eggert,
manager of the Moline Oil com
pany
Mr.. Eggert this morning present
ed plans to the Moline city commits
sion. The commissioners advised
him to apply for a building permit
The commission accepted the bid
of the White Hall Sewer Pipe and
Stoneware company on $50 feet of
eight-inch sewer pipe. The price is
14S cents a foot
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-24
ROCK RIVER LAND
FLOODED, DUE TO
RECENT BIG RAINS

Water three and four feet deep
has covered thousands of acres of
Rock Island county land in Rock
river valley believed to be the re-
suit of the rain storm week ago
Saturday night.
The river has overflown and is
damaging some CO the fall wheat
Farmers residing in the valley fear
that their spring planting will be
delayed, unless the water recedes
quickly. Little damage has been
done so far but unless the water
recedes it is feared the losses will
be considerably heavy.
The water appears to be highest
west of Colona bridge. Water has
overlooked here for a quarter of
mile west. Many of the homes in
the valley are flooded, Easements
being covered with several feet Of
water. Many homes ar surround
ed by streams. All the cottages on
the north side of the river at the
Moline bridge are surro Inded by
water and some are threatened
with being washed away.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-24
WARM CONTEST IN
GENSEO EXPECTED
AT CITY ELECTION

Geneseo, Ill, March 24-Gene-
SEQ is engrossed in the coming
spring election and wise-acres pre-
dict one of the warmest contests
ever staged for municipal office on
Monday, April II. The municipal
ownership ticket is already in the
field as follows:
For Mayor-H. r. Oft.
For aldermen:
First ward-L. B. Rastede.
Second ward-Charles Anderson.
Third ward-Andrew Smith.
Fourth ward-George J. Smith.
The Citizens party held a eau
Gus in Mystic Workers hall Satur-
day evening, B. E. Summers call
ing the meeting to order. DR.. Ar
thur Parsons was made chairman
and Thomas H. Taylor was named
secretary. The following ticket
was nominated:
For Mayor. A. Stein.
For aldermen:
First ward-Jesse L. Lamont.
Second ward-Frank DeLander.
Third ward Elmer Weiden-
hoeft.
Fourth ward-James Ensey.
Petitions of candidates were
placed in circulation this morning,
that the necessary signatures may
be secured to insure names ap-
pearing on the ballots. Ward COM
mitteemen were named by the citi-
Zen's party as follows:
First-B. E. Summers.
Second-Frank Guild.
Third-Ben Obrecht
Fourth-Jonas Stafford.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-24
BUSINESS MEN TO
BANQUET TONIGHT

A. T. Miller, superintendent of
the r. & V. ordnance plant, J. W
Casio, superintendent of the East
Moline township high school, and
Father =. J. Barry, recently as
signed TO the Holy Name Catholic
parish in East Moline, will per
form the heavy roles on the speech
program at the banquet of the
East Moline Business and Profess
sional Mems association this even
ing. The booster will be staged at
Eagles hall, and festivities are
scheduled for 7 o'clock.
Committee members are silent
on the character of the entertain
ment for the evening. There will
be music, and plenty Of it, and IN
less plans fail to develop the wind
up of the banquet will be the
browning feature of the evenings
gaiety.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-24
DRAFT OFFICES
CLOSE IN week
Exemption Board Rooms to Shut
Down and Equipment VIII be
on Sale by March 81.

The Moline exemption board
rooms will close one week from
today, completing a gigantic work,
Instructions that the Office in the
Sohrbeck building shut down on
March 81 and that the Office equip
ment be disposed of have been re
ceived here from the government
Among other things at the ex-
emption rooms to be sold are a
Remington typewriter, several fl
ing cabinets and small articles for
clerical work. Bids for same should
be made with money orders for
same enclosed to Major F. B. Tol-
man, state diEbursing officer,
Springfield, Ill
Moline will send 80 crates Of
steel files and eight wooden files
full of records to Washington.
when the special train which will
carry all such records to the cap
ital pulls into the city. The gov
eminent has arranged to have 80
special trains to convey the rec
ords to Washington, and in no city
will these reports be entrusted to
railway employees.
Moline has contributed much to
the exemption board room and
work. Services have been freely
given. Much of the furniture used
in the offices was loaned by local
concerns. John II. Coburn, exemp-
ton board head, has given a year
of his time to the work. without
one cent compensation.
When questioned as TO what he
will do when the exemption rooms
are closed, he replied:
60 fishing"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-24
FEWER ASK CITIZEN
PAPERS THAN WEEK
PRECEDING MAR. Is

Only one-f1fth as many persons
filed first citizenship papers in
Moline city court Lass week as
during the preceding seven days.
Twenty-seven persons made dec
laration of becoming citizens dur
ing the week of March II to March
%. One hundred and forty came
up to see Clerk Schrader between
March 10 and March Is inclusive.
March IS was the last day on
which income tax returns were
filed and that accounts for the
large number of declarations for
the week ending that day. For
large majority of the declarations
were filed by men seeking to es-
cape the additional tax imposed on
nonresident aliens.
There will be no more declara
tons filed until April q, because
of the law prohibiting filing of
first papers on election day and
for 80 days prior to election.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-24
MORE SPEED FROM FETERITA

A new variety Of feterita, de-
veloped by the Texas experiment
station and tested by the United
States department of agriculture,
excels the common varieties of this
crop in yield, leafiness, strength of
stalk, and of all-around adaptable
ity for southern culture. Spur fe-
terita is less likely to lodge or fall
down than the common varities. 1t
carries one-third more leaves
which are longer and broader than
the common ones. On experimental
plots in Texas in 1916 it produced
8 bushels and in 1917 10 bushels
more per acre than common fe-
terita.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-24
INCURS INJURY IN
STREET CAR FALL
SATURDAY NIGHT

Mrs. Charles Crippen, 1924 Tween
ty-fourth avenue, Moline, was in
jured Saturday evening when she
fell to the pavement on leaving a
Prospect park car at Sixteenth
street and Twenty-fourth avenue,
Moline
The injury, she charges, was due
to careIessness of street car opera
tfves, who, she says, started the
car before she had gotten off.
Mrs. Crippen is under physi-
clans care. She sustained several
cuts on head and face and bruises
en- the body.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-24
THIRTEEN
MEN FOR GAMING
SUNDAY MORNING

Usual Sunday raids yesterday
morning at 2 o'clock resulted in
the arrest of IS men at a room at
1927 Third avenue, Moline. The
charge is gambling against IL of
the men and Carl Engstrom, al
legged proprietor of the house, is
charged with being keeper of the
place. The men were released on
cash bonds. All will be arraigned
before Magistrate Frank Gustafson
in the Moline police court this
evening.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-24
Obituary
RENE Verhaert.


After one weeks illness of pneu-
monia, Rene Verhaert, SAT Forty
fifth street, Moline, Cied at 1
o'clock yesterday morning in a To-
cal hospital. Mr.. Verhaert was
born in Belgium &c years ago. He
came to America and Moline in
1910. He was employed as a
mouIder by Deere & Mansur COM
pany.
Surviving is one brother, Cyril
Verhaert of Rock Island. Funeral
services will be held at $50 to-
morrow morning in the Danielson
& Furgie chapel and at s o'clock
in Sacred Heart Catholic church.
Services will be conducted by Rev
]. B. Culemans Interment will be
in st. Mary's cemetery. East Mo-
line
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-24
WILL TEAR DOWN
WAITING STATION?
PUBLIC NUISANCE

The public waiting room at the
end of the Fourth avenue car line,
Fifteenth avenue and Twenty-sev-
enth street. Moline, has come to be
a public nuisance, according to T.
W. Jennings, owner of the property
in front of which the building is To-
Gated.
Mr.. Jennings today filed a COM
munication with the city commits
sion asking removal of the building.
Commissioner Ericsson said that
he probably will order the build
ing removed.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-24
SELLS LIQUOR TO
MAN; rs ARRESTED

Chris Void, 80 years of age, was
arrested at 1905 Third avenue, Mo
line, last evening on a charge of
violating the liquor ordinance.
Void is alleged to have given or
sold liquor to another man who
escaped arrest. Void was to be
arraigned before Magistrate Frank
Gustafson this afternoon. He was
released last evening on cash
bonds.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-24
The Day in Davenport

Davenporter Murdered n. An
derson, a former Scott county resi-
dent. was murdered by his wife
Saturday afternoon in Tulsa, Okla,
according to a telegram received
by the Davenport police. James
Wooley. sheriff, has asked the po-
lice to locate the dead mans rea-
tives. who are believed to reside
in or near Davenport. Anderson is
believed to have lived about three
miles west of Davenport on the
bluffs above Linwood, where he
conducted a farm. He left for Ok
lahoma 10 or Is years ago.
Mexican DepOrted-It won't be
long now until Salvador Patilla,
Mexican, will be back, in Mexico.
Uncle Sam has decreed that Saliva
tor is not a desirable citizen. Per-
haps the fact that he has served
three years in Anamosa may have
something to do with the decision.
So he's on his way back to Mexico.
In company with government i'm
migration officer, the Mexican
stepped off a train in Davenport
Saturday night and was lodged for
the evening in the city jail. He re-
sumed his trip southwark yester-
day.
Steals Ticket MOney-On charges
of embezzlement by bailee filed by
Fred F. Vedder as commander OF
Walter C. Nagel camp No. 10,
Spanish-American war veterans.
William Loitz was arrested Friday
afternoon in Maquoketa and
brought to Davenport. Saturday
he was released without prosecu-
ton when he promised to pay the
$50 he is alleged to have stolen.
The members of the organization
claim Loitz collected money for a
dance on Feb. 16, 1916, and failed
to turn it in.
Had His MOney-When ]. E
Foss. farmer residing west of Day-
export, came to the city last week
he made purchases totaltng $50,
and passed worthless checks for
all of them. They were passed on
Bertha Rich and Eckman's gro
Gerry at Fourth AMI Brown streets.
There were three checks altogeth-
err. But it seems that Mr.. Foss
had made a mistake in his bank,
for when the police Saturday after
noon brought the matter to his at
tention he promptly gave them a
certified check for the full amount
Home DestrOyed-Ffre OF un-
known origin totally destroyed the
sanitarium of DR.. w. A Benadom
at Telegraph road and Benadom
lane, Blackhawk, Saturday night.
The building, Of frame construc-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-24
E. M. POLICE GET
NEW REVOLVERS

East Moline police are now
armed with revolvers specially
adapted for police purposes. The
guns are .3S caliber, lCng-barrel
Colts. Every member of the force
will be equipped with a new weap-
on.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-24

ton, burned to the ground. Imme-
diately surrounding the house are
four or five acres of dried weeds,
which were not cut last fall and
dried on the stalks. These caught
fire from the burning house. and
for time it appeared that a
prairie fire would sweep that sec
ton Of the country.
Divorce in Nine Manifestation
ney M. V. Cannon, astute. polished
and convincing, secured a divorce
for George L. Brashear Saturday
morning in exactly nine minutes,
and established a record. The &C
ton against Ella E. Brashear was
brought on the grounds of infidel-
ity. In Plaintiff Brashear Attor-
ney Cannon had an exceptionally
good witness and perhaps this
helped him to speed up the divorce
mill. Mr.. Brashear was brief. He
wasted no words.
At Federal SchOOl-Bruce Eaton,
private, of the Sixteenth field ar
tillery, and later of the Thirty
ninth infantry, both a part of the
fourth division, is to be sent to
one of the government reconstruc-
ton schools for disabled soldiers
Eaton, who is a son of Mrs. M. W.
Smith, of EOS East Eleventh street,
was overseas for something over
nine months and saw extended SER
vice at the front. losing one of the
fingers of his left hand as the
result of injuries received in the
Argonne.
Well Known Resident Dead
James K. Buck, an old and highly
esteemed resident of Davenport.
died Saturday night at ST. Luke's
hospital, following a short Illness.
Deceased was well and favorably
known over the city. He was born
in Xenia, Ohio, and came to Dav-
export when a young man.
Obituary Record Harold Charles
Lantau, two-months-old son of Mr..
and Mrs. Harry Lantau. died at
the home of his parents, four miles
east of Walcott, Friday evening.
The child had been i'll for only a
short time. The parents are the
only survivors.
After a lingering fitness, Mrs.
Herman Doennecke, 1920 Fulton
avenue, died at Mercy hospital Sat
urday morning. She had been III
for the past ten months. Deceased
was born I'M Davenport March IL.
1869.
Marriage Lfcenses-Roy Jacob
Brandt ind Ella Christian Stern,
both OF Davenport. Frank c..
Rosche and Violet Irene Luke, both
OF Davenport.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-24

Only One "BROMO QUININE"
To get the genuine, call for full
name LAXATIVE BROMO QUI-
NINE Tablets. Look for signature
of E W. Grove. Cures a Cold in
One Day. 30c.-(Adv)
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-24

Marriage Licenses-Roy Jacob
Brandt ind Ella Christian Stern,
both OF Davenport. Frank C.
Rosche and Violet Irene Luke, both
OF Davenport.