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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-10-04
Auxiliary Card Party,

Last evening members Of the
Ladies' auxiliary to the Eagles
sponsored a card party at the
Eagles hall, which was well attend
ed, and a neat sum was cleared
from the fair. There were five
tables of 500 played, and prizes
were given the winners n the
games. The drill team of the
Eagles is to give a party in two
weeks.
Members OF the Standard Bear
ers of the First Methodist church
will meet at $3.50 Monday afternoon
at the home of Mrs. Flora Buckner,
rs Twenty-first street. All the
members are asked to be present.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-10-04

cial hour followed and refresh
mentS were served.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-10-04
Clear s1s From Pie Sale.

At a special meeting and pie sale
Id yesterday at the Francis Will
d school by the members of the
>rent-Teachers' association the
N of SIS was cleared. which will
used to make the last payment
the piano which the association
dertook TO purchase last year
e address of the afternoon was
Zen by Mrs. J. w. Maucker. and
following program was carried
T.
Mother Goose songs-Fourteen
vs..
Song, Lovely Moon" = Four
Is.
5lue bird game-First grade pu-
song. Mothers Knives and
rks''-Boys and girls.
Piano duet-Roberta Nelson and
Their Nolinsky.
song gsme-First grade pupils.
song. Little Shoemaker'-First,
lde girls.
Piano duet = Bert and Esther
iinsky.
7alk-Mrs. J. ". Maucker.
\ short business meeting was
d and a social hour enjoyed. The
It meeting will be held Nov. 10.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-10-04
adv TO Help Meeting Changed.

he meeting of the Ready to
. circle of the Kings Daugh-
3. which was to have been held
has been postponed a week,
il Oct. II. because OF the COM
of the king and queen of Bel
n. The circle will be enter
led by Mrs. c. J. F. Rochow.
: TNentE-aecond street.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-10-04
ROsa-St. Claire.

The marriage of Miss Dollie St.
ire, daughter of Mrs. Fred Ma
of 1I37 West Fifth street, Dav-
loft. and Walter H. Rosa of
tx Island took place at o'clock
ursday afternoon at the Calvary
otist church. Davenport, DR..
INK Hauser officiating. Mr.. and
;. Bert ST. Claire were the at
dants.
4 wedding supper was served
er the ceremony at the brides
ne to a company OF 20 relatives.
! and Mrs. Rosa have gone to
isekeeping at HOS Fifth avenue,
X Island. Mr.. Rosa is a flag
Il for the Burlington read.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-07-23
ICE FAMINE, AT KNOXVILLE.
Company Quits Business and Bust
ness Men Are Worrying.

Knoxville, Ia.-Knoxville is up
against an ice famine for the first
time. A statement was made yester-
day by William Grant, head of the
local ice company that he would quit
the business for the season.
The basis of the trouble goes
back to last winter. The weather was
so warm that no ice froze on the city
pond, where the ice for the local
trade is put up.
No ice in Knoxville works a real
hardship. 1t means that the ice
cream parlors will close down, there
being no ice cream or cold soft drinks
and the meat shops will be unable to
get ice for their refrigerators. it is
a bad state of affairs but there are
other towns in the southern part
of the state who are in the same
state Of affairs.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-07-23
BRICK ON COUNTRY ROAES.
Some Think 1t Much Better Than
Concrete, Will Last Longer.

If we had to make the rural pave
ment in Iowa out of either 5fick or
concrete, one or the other, we be-
lieve we would prefer the brick
laid in ordinary sand 10 the con-
crete laid on top of mud. The con-
crete will crack when it is heaved
by the frosts and after :he cracks
have appeared it soon begins to
disintegrate along such openings and
there is nothing with which it can
be stopped. If the brick are heaved
bit by the frosts they can soon
be relaid.
OF course, that is not the best
way to lay brick and it is MT the
way in which they should be laid
on good road-and without brick
you cannot make good roads in
Iowa-but brick so laid, on the
loose sand, have lasted we'll in
Cedar Rapids. 1t was in that way
that many of the first brick pave
ments were made and We believe
that some on the west side are still
down in that form and that after a
quarter of century OF city traffic
over them.
If we shall be wise enough 10 lay
good paving brick on our Iowa roads
on four inches, or five, Of concrete,
there is no one who will! be called
upon to help pay for them who will
live long enough to see that pave
ment destroyed. Such pavements Will
outlast all who are now alive and
at the end of thirty or even fifty
years they ought still to be in good
condition.
But if We plaster the country
roads with concrete made out of
Iowa limestone we shall have a state
filled with grief and the g"iaf will
begin in many places in ten or a
dozen years, if it can be that long
postponed. If we will make them out
of river gravel We shall fare better,
much better, but not one-half as
we'll as we will if we have the good
sense to invest little more to be-
gin with and use brick. There are
no concrete roadways that have had
any permanence and it is some de-
gree Of permanence that We are seek
ing in hard surfacing the roads.
Concrete roadways are failures in
states like Iowa because we have
too many rains and too deep frosts.
Cedar Rapids Republican.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-07-23
Gaping to America.

Never has it been the fortune of
a girl to serve her own people as she
has done. For once she told her story
here to influential people it's great
lesson was seen and she was urged
to do everything in her power to i'm
press the American mind with its
seriousness.
So, in addition to writing her eX-
periences she went before the motion
picture camera and acted them once
again, that the sympathy of the
hundred million people in America
might go out to the greatest suffer-
ers in human history.
After seeing the picture Gov.
Burnquist of Minnesota cabled
Pres. Wilson to do all in his power
toward prompt readjustment of
conditions in the Near East.
Society people paid ten dollars
per seat to see it, the receipts all go
ing to the Armenian people. All the
profits from the film rental is now
being turned over to them also.
Three full showings will be given
daily here, at $3.50, 1880 and $3.50.
The late show will give those from
the country plenty of time TO come to
town and see it all. Prices here are
but CSC.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-07-23
DOCTORS FIND FARMER SANE.
Hundred Witnesses Puzzled Judge
Who Called Experts.

Waterloo, Ia, Dr. ]. e. Luckey of
Vinton, DR.. A. w. Rohlf of WaVerly
and DR.. J. H. McGready of indie
pendence couldn't find anything
scientifically wrong with the men
tally Of Patrick SINNERS of Tama
county and Judge ]. E. Williams has
released him as sane.
He had been forwarded to indie
pendenCe as insane by tho Tama
county commission blu: stopped ~at
Waterloo to get released and habeas
corpus.
He is a bachelor, 46 years old
and lives alone on his farm. He
wouldn't farm fifteen acres OF his
land, claiming a neighbor had
poisoned it, and burned a lot of hay
claiming some one had poured
poison en- it. He testified he saw the
former, the grass died; and mis-
stock got sick when he fed them
the hay.
A hundred witnesses testified;
one side as emphatically as the
other. Judge Williams threw his
hands in the air and appointed the
doctor experts who decided Shin
ners was sane.
He returned to Tama couGty.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-07-23
AUCTION OF SOULS"
Will Appear at Star Theatre, July rs
and Goth.

Coming to the Star theatre, next
Monday and Tuesday, July 1929 is
the most astounding presentation of
fact ever shown in moving pictures.
auction of Souls" taken from the
book "Ravished Armenia" are the
picture and the beautiful twenty
year old Armenian girl, Aurora Mar
diganian is the one person who
made the picture possible
Miss Mardiganian is the sole sur
vivior of half million Christian
Armenian girls and the film shows
truthfully and without exaggeration
what she went through during two
years in Turkish Harems and in the
hands Of bands of Kurds, before es-
Gaping to America.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-07-23
BATHING TOGS UNCENSORED.
No Regulations As to Style, Length
or Hosiery at Sioux City

Sioux City.-Bathing suits are not
regulated at Sioux City as to style,
length nor stockings, city officials
investigating the subject, learned to-
day.
A search of the city's rules and
regulations failed to disclose a sim
gle word about bathing costumes and
amateur Annette KelIermans may
frolic as unhampered as they wish.
In many other cities stockings and
skirts of an arbitrary number of in
ches are required.
Councilman Winfred c. Gray, sup
erintendent Of city park was con-
suited as to bathing suit regulations.
"We can find nothing at all re-
garding the matter" he reported
after an investigation.
Chief of police Fred Morgan, who
ought to know if anyone does, had
never heard of any regulations for
bathing suits.
GAS far as I know the Annette KEEL
lerman' goes" said Chief Morgan.
"No stockings, too, guess"
During the last two or three sea-
sons the bathing suit models for
women have been pushed into the
background by the increasing
preference for ease and comfort of
mans one-piece jersey. More girls it
is said are learning to swim, too,
since they have discarded the old
fashioned skirts and boomers.
Women in increasing numbers are
buying their bathing suits at the
counters for men.
There they have a wide choice of
color combinations; the brighter the
better the word is this year. Suits
of scarlet, of purple and white, and
even the new camoufiage suits, not as
sensational as they sound, however,
have found popular favor.
Tho the beaches at Crystal Lake
and McCook are most patronized, the
Sioux River at Stone park and River
side is utilized.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-07-23
An Iowa Giant.

Some years ago the three Robinson
brothers of Knoxville carried off the
honors when it came to height, each
of them being a little over seven
feet. They were headliners in one of
Barnum's side shows for year or
two. And now comes Bernard Coyne,
of Otto Woodbury. county, who not
only pushes the Robinsons off the
diving plank, but breaks the worlds
record. He is 81 years of age, stands
eight feet and one inch in his stock
ing feet and wears % shoe. He is
being exhibited over the state as an
independent attraction.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-07-23
PUT 81 BILLIONS INTO WAR.
u. 5. Contributed That Amount to
the Great Conflict.

Exclusive of public debt disburse-
ments, which include matured certi-
ficates of Indebtedness refunded out
of the proceeds Of bonds and taxes,
total treasury disbursements for the
twenty-six months that have lapsed
since the United States entered the
war amount to over $31,631, OO0,-
600. This includes $9,047, 900, 900
loaned to the allies. The ordinary
expenditures of the government for
its own war account and the usual
administrative expenses (Which
would have amounted in normal
times to about 100000, OOO,)
amounted to $22,412,O00, 900.
The governments total expendi-
lures in May, exclusive OF public
debt operations, aggregated $1,112,-
337, 470, compared with $1,42S,928,-
3O5 in April. Mays expenditures,
outside Of public debt operations,
were the smallest Of any month
since February, 1918. The ordinary
expenditures Of the government in
May amounted to S907,492,923
against $1,003,s72,122 in April.
Loans to allies last month were
only s194,911,S57 comparing with
$4O9,60S,6S9 in April and, except
for February last, when they were
$145,379,302, the smallest for any
month since we entered the war.
Disregarding receipts from the
sale of certificates of indebtedness
and the usual deposits for the re-
tirement of bank notes, receipts by
the treasury in May, aggregated ST.
443, 532,523. Included in this
amount is s2,156,647,6 500 received
from the sale of Victory notes.
During the twenty-six months
since we entered the war, the treas
ury has raised total of $S,203,-
106,573 through ordinary receipts
and $2O,323,497,891 through the
sale of bonds and stamps, making
a total of $2s,540,8S0,453 including
Panama receipts. These receipts are
exclusive Of the certificates of in
debtedness sold in anticipation of
the Victory Liberty Loan.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-07-23
GAVE GUESTS CRoToN OIL.
They Were All Suffering From Pangs
Resembling Seasickness

Des Moines, lathe hotel at AL
toona was a strange sight last night
men We're draped over banisters,
over the tables and everywhere. They
were all suffering pangs resembling
seasickness as a result of the desire
of William Cook,a 19-year-old boy,
to have some fun.
Deputy Sheriff Kelley was called
to the hotel and Cook now anguish
es in the county jail until authorities
can tell what to do with him.
The young fellow went to the drug
store and bought bottle of croton
oil, poison but also a very strong
cathartic.
Enough of this croton oil was
stirred in the pudding to put thirty
men out of business, according to
doctors, and only fifteen ate it.
In five minutes after the desert
had been served every fellow in the
place but Cook and couple of his
friends were doubled up with cramps
and deathly sick. Every bucket in
the place was in use, the Iandlady
bent over the kitchen stove and
bannisters were in demand.
Deputy Kelley, who had been cal
led, went back to his wife to help
take care Of the sick and two doct-
ors were summoned but could give
little relief. A bridge man who didn't
eat pudding had the daughter under
his care and Cook was busy trying
to show regret over his fun.
Now. Cook, oh-h-!" moaned Mrs.
White, the only thing you can do to
square yourself is to eat the rest of
the pudding"
Gosh, l am sure sorry" returned
Cook. I'll eat every bit of it or do
anything else you folks say"
AS the stuff was poison, it was nee
cessary to arrest the boy, but now
that the sick folks are recovering
each one got his own breakfast toast
and tea this morning-they have de-
cided that thirty days in Jail or eat
ing the pudding is all that is nee
essary to punish him for his prank.
They favor the pudding tho they
wanted to hang him last night.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-07-23
$4,000 Worth of Wbiskey Stolen.

Jackson, Minn.-Francis L. West,
a wealthy farmer living nine miles
south of Window, drove to Jackson
today and told the county officials
that nine bandits in two automobiles
broke into his home while he was
away and looted his cellar of $50
cases of liquor, valued at $4,000.
Mrs. West, her son and a farm hand
were in the house when the bandits
drove up late in the afternoon. The
latter showed fight and was badly
beaten, West said. West has offered
rewards for the arrest OF the men
and the return of what is left" of
his property.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-07-23

Our Want Column.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-07-23
No Law to Stop Home Brewing, says
ATTORNEY.

Unless "home brewers" start boot
Logging there is no law, either feder-
al or state, under which they can be
prosecuted, in the opinion of John
DeMar, United States district at
torney.
Stills operated in secret, however,
will still bring prosecution, for even
water distilling plants must take out
licenses.
Home drinks will still be able to
have the kick" as the sale of yeast
cannot be prohibited, inasmuch as it
would stop bread making.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-07-23
officials to Pay Poll Taxes.

Dubuque, Ia.-County employees
at the court house here yesterday
looked at their monthly pay checks
in open-eyed amazement, the amounts
being somewhat less than usual.
Their befuddled minds. however,
were quickly put Alright by the coun-
ty treasurer who informed them
that it was the first move in a cam
paign to secure payment Of poll
taxes from every resident in the
county. In the past poll tax was col
lected only when the resident pre-
scented bill to the county for jury
Or IS 'tness service.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-07-23

The Rock Rapids Review says,
1T is not so much question
whether it can afford not to pave.
After the experience of the past
several months no one can say that
dirt roads are good enough. To con-
tinue to waste money by patching up
roads under the old system is a
crime. 1t is too much like pouring
water into a rat hole. To gravel them
is only little better. The only way
to solve the road problem is to solve
it right"
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-07-23
Trade Secret,

A West Dallas widow says that the
latest proposal she has received was
from lunch counter magnate, who
said if she would agree to marry him
he would show her how to make a
chicken pie without monkeying with a
Chicken.-DallaS News.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-07-23
-. When Money Is a Curse.

1t Is only when money is cheapened
to worthlessness for some, and made
impOssibly dear to others, that il be-
comes a curse. In short, it is curse
only in such foolish social conditions
that life itself is q curse.-George
Bernard Shaw.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-07-23

mo one stands to lose more thru
q speculative era in Handwriting
than the farm sales agencies" says
the Muscatine Journal. "They may
clean up on a rising market, but the
history of disaster and slump will
seriously cripple their business"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-08-12
ADVERTISEMENT
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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-08-12
MOUSE IN GEORGIA
SINGS SWAN SONG

ALBANY, Ca, Aug. 12.-That mice
really hing has been demonstrated in
Albany.
Herschell Killebrew is the owner OF
a little rodent with a voice that IL
walls that OF a knocking bird. The
mouse is on display in a revolving
cage at a prominent drug store in
this city and many skeptical ones
and nearly every one was when he
first heard of the singing mouse
have been convinced when the spirit
of song comes over the little prisoner.
Members of the Killebrew family
had heard the MARBLE of what they
believed to be a bird about the hone
for several months, but were never
able to find the bird. Finally the pet
cat caught a mouse, and, catlike, was
tormenting the little fellow before
killing it. Realizing that he was
about to embark on Charon's craft,
the little fellow burst forth into song.
Members OF the family immediate ely
recognized the familiar notes they
had once thought came from the
throat OF a bird. The mouse was
from the cat and put in a
cage and has since been the center Of
much interest in this city.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-08-12
COMMISSION ROW..
CUTS FOOD PRICE

, CHICAGO. Aug. 12.-First effects Of
the nations fight against the high
cost of living have ben felt here.
The first blow against profiteers was
struck when an order was issued set
ting IL cents as a fair price for a
pound of sugar. and the second blow
was the sale of $1,000 cans of vege-
tables, the first Chicago sale of Gov
eminent foods, at two Loop depart
ment stores. Those who purchased
the goods saved cents on each can,
or about so per cent.
Prices asked for fruits and prod
uce along Commission Row" went
tumbliDg, potatoes leading the down.
ward trend. They fell from so cents
to. 81 per 100 pounds Arrival of
many peaches from Southern. and
Western States caused a drop in
prices.
While prices are dropping Federal
Government agencies are continuing
gathering evidence for prosecution of
food hoarders ands prOfiteers. Evil
dence which has been gathered
against sugar hoarders will be pre-
sented to the grand jury soon.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-08-12
MAY TAX STORAGE
AFTER SIX MONTHS

Congress today took up a number
OF measures designed to reduce the
cost of living.
The Myers resolution, to study the
advisability of legislation TO limit ex-
ports of fOodstuffs, clothing and other
necessaries, was before the Senate for
action.
Senator Reed CNIo.) expected to
speak on the cost of living in the Sen
ate today.
Il am not in favor of letting great
quantities of food, shoes. and cloth
ing go abroad while we are required
to pay tribute to prOfiteers here,
Myers said in urging adoption Of his
measure.
The grain situation engaged the at
tentiOn OF the Senate Agriculture
Committee. Heads of farm Organiza-
tions were in conference with the
comittee over proposals to abolish the
United States Grain Corporation. wipe
out the minimum wheat price guaran-
tee, and revise grain-grading regu-
lations so millers cannot take cheap
wheat and make high-priced flour
from il.
Presidents Wilson's recommended
tiOns for new legislation contained in
his cost of living message last week
were before a special subcommittee
of the Interstate Commerce Commit
tee headed by Senator Townsend
of Michigan.
Sharp division is expected within
the committee as to measures to be
sponsored. and a minority report is
considered probable.
Senator Nick ellar of Tennessee was
preparing a speech in favor of regu-
lat.nE cold storage which he expects
to deliver tomorrow.
In the House the Agriculture Com
mittee was trying to decide on some
Legislative action that would force on
TO the market the large amount OF
food in cold storage warehouses. With
the plan for licensing declared ineffec-
tive and probably unconstitutional by
Government attorneys. the committee
was today considering the bill 20 put