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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-11-28

5 Per cent pr annum. and an a.
sessment therefor having been
made and returned tb said court.
the hearing thereon win Be had on
the 10th day Of December, A. D.
1913. at the hour OF . O'Clock =. m,
or as soon thereafter Is the bust
ness Of the court will permit.
All persons desiring may file oh.
jecti0ns In said court, before said
day. and may appear On the hear
ing and make their defense.
Dated ct Rock Island. ILL.,, Nov.
Is, 1919. JAKE LISTEN,
Oflcer Appointed to Make the As.
sessment.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-11-28

Icy had been losing his sight for
80 years with scars and groWths
over his sight. Dr. Coffee restored
his sight 90 he could see to read
the finest Newspaper print. The
doctor IL in his ofnces every Sat-
urday, Monday and Tuesday.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-11-28
NOTICE! TO WELL DRnLRRs.

~ 49, ~ 1880 $1,000 49, es>ss
Notice is hereby given that bids
will be received by the Water
Works Commission Of the City Of
Galena. State OF Illinois. for the
drilling Of q new artisan we'll, for
said city of Galena.
Specifications for the drilling Of
said well are now on file In the Of
nee Of the Water Works Commits
sion.
All bids are to be filed on or be-
fore 600 p. m. December LIST. A
D., 1919.
The commission reserves the
right to reject any and all bids.
WATER WORKS COMMISSION
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-11-28
DIR COFFEE TREATING MANY
CASES OF FAILING SIGHT.

Many people think that blindness
or failing eyesight cannot be cured
only by q surgical operation. You
should read an article in another
part Of this paper today about DR..
Coffee and his treatment. Dan Fo-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-11-28

sheep and cattle, and theOhowingI
OF the magnificent draft horses to
wagon, will make up the nightly
program.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-11-28

All the news all the time-The
Argus.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-11-28
An Enormous
Mid-Season Display Of
Fine 0vercoats

renders the
value and value of deeper significance during this period of high
living than before Clothes that further last longer and retain
their good greater ZENITH of time added
We're firm and confident that clothes
you satisfaction for each dollar of than you obtain
anywhere else hereabouts.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-11-28
DR.. COFFEE

HAVING SPLENDID SUCCESS WITH his
SPECIAL METHOD OF TREAfIN0
EYE DISEASES, FAILING SIGHT,
DEAFNESS. LOSS OF HEARING,
HEAD NOISES AND CATAR1H-AE
STRAIGHTENS CROSS-EYES, AND
REMOVES ADENOIDS WITHOUT
CHLOkOFOBM Oh ETHER.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1919-01-13
GAVE GREAT WRITER THEME
How Patriotic Protest of Gentle.Heart-
ed Man Furnished Inspiration to
Joel Chandler Harris.

In one of his stories of farm life in
Georgia Joel Chandler Harris tells Of 8
wealthy planter who wanted a few
acres of original woodland cleared near
a village in which he lived Labor was
scarce but he finally induced a thrift
less fellow in the village to do the
WOrk-a man who had always been
honest, but a kind of dreamer and
"ne'er do WELL"
After few days the man came to
his employer and frankly confessed
that he could not do the work, al
though he needed the money. Pressed
for a reason he said that the first tree
he started TO cut down was hollow and
occupied by two squirrels, who made
violent complaint at the destruction of
their house. The next was the home of
a chipmunk, with a large family, and
the third was occupied by at least four
pairs of jaybirds. "That piece of
woodland is peopled city, throbbing
with life, busy from morning until
night. 1t contains their homes and
families, they have built and lived
there for years and I have not the
heart to destroy what belongs to these
helpless creatures" And out of that
incident, simple but impressive as it
was, Mr. Harris drew inspiration for
one of the most graphic pictures in
all literature.-H. g. Harman, in the
South Atlantic Quarterly.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1919-01-13
Death TAKES HEAVY TOLL
IN RAILROAD ACCIDENT
PEACE DELEGATES MEET
First Session for PreIiminaries Is
Held in Paris.
Conference Lasted From 2:3O TIL
6:30-Said to Have Been Devot-
ed to Armistice.

Paris, Jan. 13.-At the conclusion of
the first session of the peace confer
ence, which lasted from 2 80 till 6 80
o'clock, Secretary of State Lansing
told newspaper correspondents that
the greater portion of the session was
devoted to questions pertaining to the
armistice, the remainder of the time
being spent discussing the procedure
Of the formal conference of all dele
gates.
InaSmuch as many questions regard
Ing that procedure were still unsettled
the same officials will meet again, Sec
retary Lansing said.
This means a PostpOnement of the
first formal conference until q decision
is reached on all matters pertaining
to the procedure
Secretary Lansing said a formal
statement on the armistice matters un-
der discussion which he described as
largely technicv, would be made later
He also promised q formal statement
on the procedure of the conference
when an agreement upon that subject
has been arrived at
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1919-01-13
Music Is a Moral Law.

There is an intense need for art, and
above all for music in the daily lives
of our people, and it is through the
public schools that the musical re-
sources Of the younger generation, at
present lying dormant, must be
awakened.
Why should our girls and boys being
educated to be good business men and
women be denied develSnment Of all
higher intellectual and moral side OF
their natures? 1t is here that music
most directly exerts it's influence. TIC
quote the words of Plato: "Music Is
a moral law. 1t is the essence of order
and leads to eli that is good, just and
beautiful"
There is always the possibility, too
that embryo PATHS and Carusos are
amongst our children and these can
add as much to the future fame OF
our country as orators, poets, writer's
or successful business men-then let
them too, have their choice in school
days, as well as the others.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1919-01-13
800 CERkIAH REDS
TAKEN PRISONER
LedebouT aid Meyer Arrested;
Report OF LiebkneCht's
Killing Is Denied.
ARMIST'CE signed, REPORT
Berne Dispatch Says the Latest Word
From Berlin Is That Government
and Spartacides Have Agreed
to Stop Fighting.

Berne, Jan. 13-The latest word
from Berlin is that an armistice has
been signed between the government
and the Spartacides and that fighting
has stopped.
Berlin, Jan. i3.-GeOrge LedebCur
and Ernest Meyer, independent social
lists, have been arrested by officers and
soldiers. The charge against them has
not been made public. Ledebour haS
been one of the most active leaders
against the Ebert government.
The plant of the Vorwaerts has beer
recaptured by government troops In
heavy fighting. Three hundred Spar
tacans are reported to have been taken
prisoner.
Hungry, Declare Truce.
A truce between the government
and Spartacan forces temporarily halt
ed fighting in newspaper row. The
truce was reached Friday night.
There was humorous element to
the armiStice in that 1t was dictated
by the urgent need of the civilian
population in that zone to attend the
restocking Of its food supply.
Liebknecht's Death Denied.
Copenhagen. Jan. 13.-Dispatches
from Berlin resurrect DR.. Karl Lieb-
knecht, saying the reports that he was
killed proved false.
He appears to have been superseded
as leader of the Spartacides by former
Chief of Police Eichhorn, whose re-
moval by the Ebert government direct.
ly led TO the past weeks upheaval In
the Prussian capital.
After heavy fighting the Reds have
surrendered the Rudolf Moss printing
works. The surrender was uncOndi-
tional, the Spartacans being completely
surrounded by government troops.
When the government @recaptured
the Vorwaerts building they found 125
Spartac can dead In the building
At the time the dispatch was filed
government troops, supported by artil-
lery, were renewing the siege Of the
Tageblatt offices.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1919-01-13
STRIKING SUFFRAGISTS CUT
Four Women Fast Their Way Out or
Washington Jail.

Washington, Jan. 13.-Two of the
hunger striking suffragists in the dis
trict jail were released before their
terms were completed. The authori-
tees sent them back to the headquar-
ters of the National Woman's party,
fearing continuation of their fast
might have serious permanent effect
on their health. They We're Miss Julia
Emery of Baltimore and Miss Mary
DubrOw of Passaic, n. j. This makes
four hunger strikers released because
of failing strength. The Jail authori-
ties have been loath to forcibly feed
the women arrested in the recent
series of raids on guards of the watch
fire of freedom" lighted before the
White House to burn until the senate
passed the suffrage amendment, though
suffragists arrested on former occa-
sions have been fed against their will.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1919-01-13
FORM NEW LABOR PARTY
Union Delegates Organize in New
York-Oppose Prohibition,

New York, Jan. 13.-The American
Labor party of New York was organ
lied here by delegates said to repre-
sent $50 organizations and 100000
trade uniOnists.
The platform adj pted favors Presi-
dent Wilson's IA points, self-determi-
nation for Ireland, a 44-hOur week.
equal pay for women, guarantee of a
wage to every adult worker based on
the average cost of supporting a fam
fly of five persons, provision for SOL
diers, sailors, munitiOn workers and
others similarly affected by the end of
the war, and government insurance for
all citizens. The new party went on
record as opposing prohibition.
There should be no subject nations,
subject races, subject colonies subject
classes or a subject SEX" the platform
declares.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1919-01-13
HEADS OF THE NATION
WANT MORE MONEY
TO RUSH YANKS Home
President Wilson Has Conference
With Gen. Pershing.
Executive Anxious to Cut Red Tape
and Let Men Go Home az
Once

Paris, Jan. l3.-It President Wilson
men now in Europe will he back in the
United States within the next eight
months.
1t became known here that the pres
idents conference with General Per
shing dealt exclusively With the sub
ject of demohlization
The president is SnnWn to be deep
]y interested in the SpcedieSt possible
return of the American troops. He
realizes tleir homecoming affects ev-
cry fireSide in the United States. and
he is, therefore, anxious to cut the
red tape and allow the men to go back
to civil life without any delay not alb
solutely imperative.
Mr. Wilson, it is understood, Ques-
toned General Pershing particularly
with regard to the German merchant
marine available for the transportation
Of our soldiers. 1t is believed COM
Wandering by America of such ships
as the Bismarck. Hindenburg and 9th
er giant German liners, together with
other vessels in German ports. will do
much to expedite the situation.
To finish the job within the next
eight months is not impossible. 1t is
impossible for anyone in France-and
this includes the president-not to
know the deep longing in the heart
of every American soldier to get back
to his home folks.
This is the prime reason for the
presidents summoning General Per-
shing, and he will continue, despite
his other pressing duties in connection
with the peace conference, to do all
he can for the soldiers.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1919-01-13
DESTITUTE WILL GET FOOD
Jews and Polish immigrants Agree to
Spend S2,5OOOOO.

Washington, Jan. 13.-Polish immi-
grants in America and the Jewish
joint distribution committee have
agreed to expend $2,5OO,0OO for food
stuffs to be shipped from New York
city within few days for the relief
of the destitute in Poland. Each party
to the agreement will contribute half
the cost aid distribution will be on
the same basis under the direction of
agents named by Herbert Hoover.
This will go far toward bringing ac-
cord in the smaller factions OF Poland,
who have sought to spread the report
that dissension exists between the
Poles and Jews in Poland, according
to officials here
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1919-01-13
MOTOR ROUTES ARE PLANNED
Congress Asked for Money to Help
Cut Food Cost.

Washington. Jan. 13.-EStabiSh
ment of mOtortruck routes to reduce
the cost of living by transporting farm
produce to the cities is advocated by
Fourth Assistant pOstmater Blakslee
He asks the senate post office commit
tee to appropriate $S,975000 in the
post office bill for that purpose. Mr..
Blakslee said such routes not only
would enable farm produce to be trans
ported to cities at much less cost than
at present but considerable income
would be derived by the government.
His plan. he said, called for establish
ment of 600 routes, two in practically
every congressional district.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1919-01-13
PADEREWSkI IS shot
Reds Held for Plot to Kill Pole
Leader.
WorId-Famous Pianist Wounded by
Assassin in Warsaw hotel-Left
". S. in November.

London, Jan. 13.-Ignace Jan Pade-
rewski, the great Polish leader, haS
been wounded by IN assassin, who en-
tered the room Of his hotel at Warsaw
and fired one shot at him, according
to an Exchange Telegraph dispatch
from Copenhagen reporting adVlces
from Vienna. 1t is believed he will
recover.
Several bolsheviki implicated in the
plot to kill him have been arrested.
Ignace Jan Paderewski sailed from
New York to go to the aid OF the free
Poland movement November %, visit
ing London, Paris and Rome before
proceeding to Warsaw, where he i'm
mediately became the chief of the tenn
porary Polish government and began
the formation of a cabinet.
1t was planned by the provisional
government to proclaim a Polish re-
public, with Paderewski it's first pres
ident.
Upon his departure from American
TIE WOTlu ldiuOuS l)ldlliSl, al lileu Win
power of attorney to act on behalf OF
the various Polish committees in the
United States, said:
poland will be free and so will her
nhabitants-the democratic cOnstitu.
ton of Poland will assure liberty and
equity to every citizen without dis
tinctiOn as to race, religion or pOlit-
ical opinion"
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1919-01-13
WARNING BY YANKEE CO-EDS
Tell Doughboys They Must Not Phi
lander With French Maids,

Philadelphia, Jan. 13.-CO-eds at the
University of Pennsylvania have sent
an appeal to General Pershing to pro-
tect our boys against the wiles Of the
French girls.
Reports reached Pennsylvania CO.
eds that their sweethearts in the army,
since the armistice was signed have
been philandering with the Paris girls
So they held a mass meeting and
adopted the following resolution, which
will be sent to General Pershing:
"ResOlved, that we. the coed stu
dents at the University of Pennsyl-
vania, will fight to the last bit of our
strength the influence which is being
brought to bear on our boys overseas
by French girls, to the complete for
getfulness of ties which those same
boys had contracted on this side of the
Atlantic"
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1919-01-13
BRITISH WAR LOAN SUCCEEDS
Sale of Bonds Called Most Stupendous
Success.

London, Jan. 13.-The sale of ma
tional war bonds, which will close
next Saturday, has been the most stu
pendOus financial success ever conduct
ed. George Sutton of the National
War Savings association declared that
the total has now been brought within
measurable distance of 100000, 600
pounds sterling (S7 .5O0,OO0,OOO) and it
is hoped to reach fl 900, 100000 before
the campaign closes. The previous
record, held by the fourth Liberty loan
n America, totaled just under Fl, 400
100000 $4,000. .OOO,O9O).
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1919-01-13
PRO!GERMANS NOT WANTED
France Will Not Issue Passports to
Dublin's Mayor.

Dublin, Jan. l3.-It developed that
lin for passports to Paris. where he in
tended personally to invite President
Wilson to the irish capital was turned
down not by the British foreign office
as had been believed. but by the
French ministry of foreign affairs.
When the lord mayors request was
referred to the French authorities as
is the customary procedure, the French
miniStry's reply is reported to have
been that ''frientls of Germany are not
welcome in France. especially while
France is honOring the most friendly
president of the most friendly repul,-
lie"
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1919-01-13
CONNECTICUT MEN ASK WORK
State Said to Be Overlooking With
Unemployed.

Bridgeport, Conn, Jan. l3.-The
state of Connecticut, which is said to
have manufactured 40 per cent of
Uncle Sans war munitions, today is
overf1owing with thousands of unem-
ployed. due to the release of large
forces of workers since the signing of
the armStice.
The city of Bridgeport alone has sew
eral thousand idle men looking for
Jobs, and the situation here would
have been even nI"Ie serious had not
many discharged O:kers been assimi
lated by other sections of the country
through the operat:onS Of the govern
ment employment agencies. Union Of
ficialS say that 1G,CGG workers are now
unemployed here, but federal authori-
ties place the figure at 1000:
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1919-01-13
JOHN MASON, ACTOR, is DEAD
Dies at Stamford (Conn.) Sanitarium
of Br.ght's Disease.

Stamford Conn. IAN l:s.-.Iohn Ma
son, the veteran 400" died here at a
sanitarium of Bri@!ts disease, with a
complication of my 'arttitis. Mr. Ma
son broke down .hY-irai,A about a
week ago at Providence e. /. while
preparing for MS :'.iSrn iii ~, ioun-
an in Room IL. The fnn.,r;r wall
probably be held i'll Aen !ork lily.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1919-01-13
BALLOON MAKES FIRST LEG
Big DirigibIe, CT, Arrives at Norfolk
on Tria! Trip.

Norfolk, Va, Jan. 13.-The CT, the
largest dirigible balloon owned by the
navy department, arrived here, com
pleting the first leg of it's 1,5OO-mile
flight from Rockaway Point, L. l., to
Key West, Fla. In the glaSS-rimmed
car supported by the dirigible were
Capt. Stanley V. Parker, commanding !;
Lieut.. ]. c.. Lawrence, pilot Ensigns
E. r. Packard and w. P. Hanson Gun
ner w. j. Medusky; H. G. Ritter, en-
gineer, and George DuBOn, helmsman.
The C-1 will proceed to Brunswick,
Ga, and thence to Key West. The CT
is 900 feet long and has gas capacity
of 100000 cubic feet. Her twin mo-
tors, Hispane-Suzfa type, develop 300
horsepower. She has 20 by 1O-foot
cabin, equipped with sleeping quarters.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1919-01-13
SIR CHARLES WYNDHAM DEAL
Great Actor, Native of U. S., Passes
AWAY in London.

London, Jan. l3.-Sir Charles Wynd.
ham died here, aged eighty-twO. Actor.
theatrical manager and promoter, he
was at one time almost as well known
in America as in his native country.
He fought in the American civil war
and was a brother-in-law of the Ameri
can dramatist. Bronson Howard Sir
Charles first appeared on the Ameri
can stage with John Wilkes Booth
brother of Edwin Booth and assassin
of Abraham Lincoln.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1919-01-13
MONTREAL HAS BIG BLAZE
Mysterious Fire Causes $1,000 900
Loss in Canadian City.

Montreal. Jan 13.-A fire believed
to be of incendiary origin, which start
ed in the plant of the Jennings Auto
mobile company and spread to the
and the McC4ary Manufacturing com
pany. caused damage estimated at ST.
100000 One hundred and fifty luto-
SlObiles and motortrucks and 80 mill
airy ambulanceS were destroyed in the
blaze.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1919-01-13
ASKED TO PAY FINE IN EGGS
Two Dozen Eggs Is Penalty Inflicted
on New York Man for Keeping
Chickens in Yard.

New York-Anthony Burnish was
fined So and costs by Magistrate Rob
ert @. Ten Eyck, in the West side
court for keeping chickens in his back
yard.
''I'1l fine you the price Of two dozen
eggs" said the magistrate. AS soon
as he heard the sentence Burnish
opened a basket and showed two dozen
eggs.
''Will you take these as my finer"
he asked.
"Not unless there is some one here
who wants to buy them," answered
the magistrate. Call the next case"
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1919-01-13
BIG UPRISING WAS PLANNED
Plot Discovered to Kill Many Promi-
nent South Americans.

MOEteviedo, Jan. 13.-A plot for a
Uruguay, which included plans for the
killing of many of the prominent polit-
ical and commercial leaders in both
countries, is reported to have been re-
vealed by confessions of seven radical
socialists arrested in this city. Isaac
Moiunoff, one of the men under arrest
is said to have implicated ~ others
in the plot which was scheduled to be
carried out within thirty days
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1919-01-13
"HEALTH SUNDAY" is ASKED
Ministers Requested to Deliver Spe-
ciaI Sermons February 9.

Washington, Jan. 13.-Surgeon Gen
eral Rupert Blue of the United States
health service has asked the ministers
of the country to set apart February
they are asked to deliver sermons
stressing the social responsibility of
the nation to protect the returning
soldiers as we'll as the community at
large and especially to inaugurate Wig
orous measures for combating vener-
cal diseases.
A proclamation by Surgeon General
Blue to this effect has been sent to
the ministers with the reques that 1t
be read from all pulpits.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1919-01-13
ENGLAND DEP0RTING ALIENS
Invalids and Men Over Military Aue
Sent Home.

london. Jan. la.-During December
63O interned alien enemies were Sent
back to their own countries. These
were invalids OF men over military
age The authorities have now decid
ed it is no longer necessary to retain
enemy civilians of military age, and
on January ., 75O civilians sailed for
:ermany.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1919-01-13
MARINE MEN BACK TO WORK
Normal Conditions Again Prevail at
New York.

New York, Jan. 13.-Normal condi-
tons prevail in the marine traffic of
the port of New York. Practically all
of the striking workers were back on
their jobs, pending a conference The
government may seize all the tugs.
lighters and other harbOr craft, it was
limited in certain quarters, unless all
parties to the dispute speedily find
ground for a workable understanding.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1919-01-13
TO BACK LEAGUE OF NATIONS
Scandinavian Countries Fall in Line
With Wilson Idea.

London, Jan. 13.-It is learned off
cially that the Swedish foreign office
has assured the peace delegations at
Paris through diplomatic channels of
the cooperative efforts on the part of
Sweden, Norway and Denmark. to-
wards sharing in the constructive
work with the United States. Britain,
France an Faly. in building up
league of nations.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1919-01-13
Women Huskina Corn.

Rantoul, Ill.-A survey of the corn
fields of Illinois by air shows many
women have gone out to help in the
corn husking. One of the aviators
here reports seeing hundreds of wom-
en- doing their part to save the corn
crop.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1919-01-13
Prevent Diseases.

Prevent diseases among chickens by
providing sanitary conditions and feed
ing the poultry with care.