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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-11-14
Municipal Matters

fered a resolution that the follow
ing named persons, tOwit: Frank
Dandy, 308 Twenty-second street,
and Josephine Cirvello. 512 FIJI
teenth street, be granted soft drink
licenses. Carried by unanimous
vote.
Commissioner WITCH offered q
resolution that the ordinance pro-
viding for the Improvement of For
ty-first street from the south line
Of Fourteenth avenue to the north
line of Eighteenth avenue, by grad
ing. draining, curbing and paving
with brick. be adopted. Carried by
unanimous vote.
Commissioner WITCH offered
resolution that the ordinance pro-
viding for. the construction of
10-inch Waterman on Thirtieth
street from Nineteenth to Twenty
first avenue, and an S-inch sewer
on Thirtieth street from Nineteenth
to Twenty-first avenue, and on
Twenty=first avenue west to Twen-
ty-ninth street. be adopted. Car
ried by unanimous vote.
Mayor Schriver read an ordin-
ance regulating the location OF
public and private garages, which
on his motion was considered by
unanimous vote.
Mayor Schriver read a report Of
the board of local improvements
recommending the adoption Of an
ordinance providing for the con-
struction of a 6-inch Waterman on
Thirty-fifth street from Eighteenth
to Twenty-first avenue; also an es-
innate of the probable cost Of said
improvement in amount Of $4,495;
and an ordinance providing fo1
said improvement, which 0rdin-
ance on his motion was considered
by unanimous vote.
Adjourned on motion of Com
missioner Murrin.
NJ. T. RUDGREN,
City Clerk.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-11-14
Boy Scout News

The court OF honor which meets
at the court house tonight will find
a large number of Scouts prepared
for merit badge tests, first class and
second class badges. Every court
Of honor member will have a def
ute task to perform when he comes
to the meeting. The following
! Scouts have qualified for merit
badges: Marvin Billiard Of troop
No. II has qualified for badges in
mining, camping. safety first. craft
work in wood carving. craftwork
in wood and first aid; Lester Pari-
don Of troop No. 2 for scholarship;
Charles Sackville of troop No. 5 in
swimming and first aid: Eugene
Loe Of troop No. 5 in pathfinding:
Arthur McDougall Of troop No. s
for camping. and Eugene Young of
troop No. 3 in pathfinding. The fol-
lowing Scouts have qualified for
first class badges: Eskil Ekholm.
Eugene Young, Mac Weiss, Med
ard De Rocker. Second class
Scouts are: Elmo Bledsoe. Walter
Lundy, Wilmer Interest, Leroy
Wilton, Philip Clark, Gilbert Gus
tafson. Several other boys have
qualified for second class Scouts.
but scoutmastefs have failed ia
send in their names. The meeting
will be held at the circuit court
room at 7:30 PROMPTLY, Call to
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-11-14
INJURED WHEN
She IS STRUCK
BY STREET CAR
Mrs. J. n. Llttig, $40 Ninth Ave.
nue, Rendered Unconscious
From Force Of Blow.

Mrs. J. H. Littig. 1890 Ninth ave
niue. was painfully injured when a
street car struck her at Third ave-
nue. and Sixteenth street, about
7:46 o'clock last night.
She was one Of several people
who were standing on the curb 1t
Sixteenth street waiting for
bridge line car. When they stepped
out to the track to board the car,
. Fourth avenue car which was in
front. backed up. it Is said, without
warning and turned the corner at
Third avenue. Mrs. Littig was
standing near the track and she
was thrown to the pavement When
the rear end swung around ald
struck her. She was rendered un-
conscious from the blow. and was
removed to her home in the police
ambulance.
1t was thought at the time that
she was severely injured. but an
examination revealed that no bones
were broken. She will be out In
about week
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-11-14
PROPER COOKING
KILLS MENACING
POISON IN FOODS
BY DR.>F. w. TANNER
associate Professor of Bacter:Ol-
ogy Of University Of IllinOis.I

Ogy OF University OF IlllnOis.)
All home canned foods should be
thoroughly cooked before serving.
Comparatively recent investigations
show that botulism, an acute food
poisoning, may result from foods
put up under the so-called cold
pack" process, unless the canned
goods are carefully sterilized.
Botul.sm is an acute poisoning
caused by eating food in which
bacillus botilinus has been grow
ing. The sickness was first Observ-
ed In people who had eaten partly
decayed sausage. 1t is now known.
however. that the poisoning does
not always result from the eating
Of sausage, but that 1t may be con-
nected with home canned string
beans; peas, corn, asparagus. etc.
The immediate cause Of bOtulism is
. powerful poison or toxin which
ia formed by bacillus botuIinus in
the cans. When canned foods con-
tanning this poison are eaten, very
severe symptoms result.
Professor Dickson OF the Uni
versity of California reports very
briefly the following case, which
emphasizes the important charac-
teristics OF the disease: "On Friday
Mrs. H. tasted small portion OF
q bean pod from q jar of home
canned string beans. The beans
had q peculiarly irritating taste,
but she swallowed q small amount.
The beans were placed on the stove
to cook and gave on such foul odor
that they were discarded. On Sat-
urday Mrs. H. was dizzy when she
got out Of bed and staggered when
she walked. BY afternoon visions
were blurred in both eyes and
physician was called. She stated
that there had been no pain nor
intestinal disturbances and
that she had not been nauseated.
Examination showed a dilation
Of both pupils and pulse rate Of
100 per minute. After midnight
the patient complained that her
tongue was swollen and she began
to have difiiculty in speaking. On
Sunday morning there was droop-
ing of the upper eyelids from pa
ralysis and beginning difficulty in
swallowing. Speech rapidly be-
came unintelligible and vomiting
commenced. Toward Sunday eve
ming the temperature approached
102 with a pulse rate varying be-
tween 90 and 120. The patient be-
came rapidly weaker with an in
creased pulse rate and died Tuesday
morning about IS hours after eat
ing the beans"
1t should not be inferred that
home packed foods are always dan
gerous or that canned foods which
have spoiled contain this powerful
poison. However, il it is known
that such foods may cause this
trouble. greater care may be taken
in preparing the food. Numerous
instances are recorded where the
housewife merely tasted of the
food. The poison is very quickly
destroyed by boiling.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-11-14

Miss Eva Booth. upon whom the
distinguished service medal was
recently bestowed In recognition OF
her work during the war, has com
pleted Is pears - commands Of
u salvation Army forces IN the
Emitted States.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-11-14
Council Meeting Held Oct. q. 1919.

City Council Chamber, Rock Is
land, ILL.,, Oct. 81, 1919. The city
council met in regular session at
5 o'clock p. M. Mayor Schriver and
all commissioners present.
The minutes Of the regular meet
ing held Oct. 20, 1919, were read
and approved.
Commissioner Rudgren submitted
the following weekly pay roll for
week ending Oct. Is. 1919, which
on his motion was allowed by
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-11-14
DR.. ". 0. COFFEE

Practices limited to eye ear. nose and
throat diseases. stfaightens cross-eyes,
removes adenoids at one visit. no chloro-
form. Treats deafness. loss Of hearing
head noises. catarrh. tonsils and most
IL in his Davenport onlces in the First
National Bank Bldg. corner Of Second and
Main streets. on Saturday. Monday and
Tuesday. from 8 q. N. to $40 p. m.
Phcue Davenport 7314
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-11-14

Perry Bel~n' home Warrington and Perry Belmont
During his three Cay Washington the prince Of Wales Is
palatial Of Mr. Mrs. Belmont his
headquarters. The house is on New Hampshire
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1919-07-10
Whitefy Eating Lady Beetles
Available for Distribution

In the fall of 1917 the Expert
ment Station secured a supply of
lady-beetles which prey upon the
citrus whitefy, from California.
In a grove near Bradentown these
have multiplied to such an extent
that the June spraying was omit
ted in that part of the grove
where they were first started. The
beetles are now so abundant that
there are probably enough to sup
ply all who want them. 1t has
been thought best to double the
number of beetles sent out as a
colony and to make the charges
fifty cents. This is barely suffi-
cient to cover the cost of collec-
ton and mailing. Anyone wish
ing a colony should enclose so
cents to Mr.. H. G. Clayton, county
agent, Bradentown, who will
make provision for collecting the
beetles.
The grove from which these are
collected has been inspected by
the State Plant Board and found
free of serious diseases or insects
other than those found in most
groves.
Prof. j. R. Watson advises that
when the colony is received, it
should be opened under a white
fly infested tree. Tie the open
box to a water sprout and leave it
there until all pupae have hatch
ed. One need not expect to see
many lady beetles before next
year, as they must have time to
raise several generations before
they will be noticeably abundant.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1919-07-10
ERADICATE FOOT ROT
Cutting and Painting Affected
Parts Will Do It

If foot rot is found in your cit
rus grove, do not be alarmed. II
can be cured and the disease elm
mated, says Fl, E. Stevens of the
Florida Experiment Station. Foot
rot is confined to the crown and
main roots of the trees and ex-
tends from a foot or so above the
ground downward to slightly be-
low the ground level.
Here is the simple method for
its eradication, which has been
found effective:
Remove the soil from about the
crown roots as far back as the
disease occurs, and cut the dis
eased material away. This can
be told by a yellowish or dark
coloration.
Apply an antiseptic wash such
as crude carbolic acid one part,
water one part and avenarius car
bolineum, dilute or full strength.
Make KAN n a t i ons every
month or two for a temperance
of the disease.
Paint the lower parts of the
trunks and crown with a paste of
ir-slaked lime and sulphur flour,
equal parts, mixed with sufficient
water to make a thin paste. APP
ply this to all the trees in the
parts Of the grove where foot rot
occurs. The lime-sulphur paint
frequently cures small infections
and prevents others.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1919-07-10
Act Quickly

Do the right thing at the right
time!
Act quicklysin time of danger.
In time of kidney danger
Doan's Kidney Pills are most eff
fective.
Plenty of Punta Gorda evil
dence of their worth.
Mrs. W. H. Walters, Goldstein
St, says: "a few years ago | be-
gan taking Doan's Kidney Pills
for a severe case of kidney com
plant and they gave me great re-
lief, My right kidney panied if
drew up my side. My kidneys
didn't act as they should and
caused me a lot of misery. | suf-
fered off and on for ten years and
in spite Of what | tried | could get
no relief. Finally | began taking
Doan's Kidney Pills and | am now
free from every symptom Of kid
ney complaint. / have great
faith i'll this remedy" Estate
ment given June 8, 1914
On April 4, 1918 Mrs. Walters
said; " | am glad to repeat what
| said in my statement of 1914.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1919-07-10
What Does a Town Need

1t needs to grow. If it doesn t
grow it is no good these days.
What will make it grow? Men,
real men. Men who are not hide
bound. Men who are not mad at
each other. Men who are not
jealous of the other fellow. Men
who like to see every one prosper
Men who smile rather than scowl
when you speak to them of public
improvements, men who viii come
to a public meeting called for the
purpose of promoting public wei
fare, men who are honest, honor.
able in their dealings-real live
boosting men with faith in THEN
town and the courage to go ahead
and try to make something out OF
what thew have at hand.-Tarpor
Springs Leader.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1919-07-10
Splendid Club Record

Loris Hall of Lowell, Marion
county, paid $40 for his pig in
September, 1906, buying it
through. the pig club of that
county. The money for the pur-
chase of this pig was borrowed
from the banks of the county.
Since that time the proceeds, from
his pig has been $112 in cash, a
$50 Liberty bond, and he has IA
purebred pigs now. Is that not a
good record for two and a half
years work?
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1919-07-10
The People and the Mob

The people en- masse constitute
what was called the mob. MObs
have rarely been right-never ex-
cept when capably led. 1t was the
mob of Jerusalem that did the UNI
offending Jesus of Nazareth to
death. 1t was the mob in Paris
that made the Reign of Terror.
From that day to this mobs have
seldom been tempted, even had a
chance to go wrong, that they
have not gone wrong. I h e
people" is a fetish. 1t was the
people, misled, who precipitated
the south into the madness of Sc
cession and the ruin of hopeless
ly unequal war of sections. 1t
was the people backing if not
compelling the kaiser, who com
mitted hari-kari for themselves
and their empire in Germany, 1t
is the people, leaderless, who are
now making havoc in Russia.
Throughout t h len G tn a n d
breadth of Christendom, in all
lands and ages, the people when
turned loose, have raised every
inch of hell to the square foot
they were able to raise, often up
on the slightest pretext, or no pre-
text at all.-Col. Henry Waiter
son in Leslie s.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1919-07-10
POTASH STARVATION
Evidence Shows in Plants in Po-
tato Fields

Since the war began the potato
growers in Florida have found 1t
necessary to reduce the amount OF
potash contained in their fertiliz-
ers. Many have fortified with
out any potash whatever. During
the past two years, B. F. Floyd,
PLANT Psychologist to the Florida
Experiment Station, has been con-
Quoting a fertilizer experiment on
a plantation near Hastings to OBJ
tain more information on fertiliz-
ers. Complete fertilizers were
u d h At contained various
amounts of potash from none at
all to 5 per cent. The land con-
sisting Of five acres used in the ex-
pertinent was new and had never
received any fertilizer or grown
a crop previous to the time the ex-
pertinent was started.
During the first season, which
was in the spring of 1918, the
plants in the blocks that were Civ
en- ammonia and phosphoric acid,
but no potash, made just as good
top growth as did those receiving
the fertilizers with potash, but
the yield Of tubers was less.
During 1919, the plants in these
same blocks that were given a
fertilizer with no potash showed
slowness Of growth early in the
season, that continued during the
season. When top growth was
completed the plants averaged
fully Is per cent less in size than
did those receiving potash.
The plants receiving no potash
developed an abnormally deep
green color, so that during the
latter half of the season the blocks
of plants without potash could be
easily located in the field by their
color.
When the crop was more, than
forty days old, plants here and
there showed an inward curling
Of the margin of the leaves, with
more or less crinkling of the It's
sue in spots along the margin and
toward the tips.
None of the plants in the blocks
where fertilizer containing potash
was used, showed any of these
symptoms.
In potato experiments carried
out in the green house at the Ex-
pertinent Station at Gainesville, |
when the same fertilizers were
used and soil was used that had |
been cropped repeatedly with vel
vet beans and other crops, but |
given no fertilizers, every potato
plant that was given no potash |
developed the same symptoms
that were found in the field, but |
the appearances were more strik-
ing.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1919-07-10

Subscribe for The Herald.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1919-07-10

All about us they are voting for
bonds for various improvements,
among the latest being Winter
Garden, $4,000 having been
voted, $4,000 for a water and
light plant and $4,000 for sewers
and a city hall, and, perhaps most
important of all, is the election in
the Punta Gorda district in De
Soto county, which voted $4,000
for the completion OF the Char
lotte HarbOr bridgeport Myers
Press.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1919-07-10

My health has been fine ever
since and | owe it all to Doan s
Kidney Pills. "
6Oc at all dealers. Foster-Mil-
burn Co., Mfgrs., Buffalo, n. Y.
(adv.l
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1919-07-10
The Iceless Refrigerator

Are you having trouble this
summer because you can't keep
food cool without ice and ice you
cannot get?
Send to the I. S. Department
of Agriculture for Farmers Bull
letin 927 and get directions for
making can Iceless Refrigera-
tor" 1t can be made easily and
will aid greatly in keeping meats,
fruits, and vegetables cool, and
will extend the period for keep
ing milk and butter. 1t costs lit
tie to build the refrigerator and
nothing to operate it.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1919-07-10

The U. S. departent of agricul-
ture gives out the information
that fertilizers should cost the
southern farmers 30 per cent less
by next planting time.
The Washington times., 1919-07-03
Fairfax Writes Problems Pitfalls the War Workers
Especially for Washington Women

iris will be girls" .
II United States Senator
said to me the other
day with an amused chortle. At
the same time, he handed me a
letter from a lady demanding a
Congressional inquiry into. the
high cost Of living.
The letter stated that the writer
had been recently enfranchised
and as a voter she wished to have
the impossible prices of food in
vestigated.
read the letter which seemed
reasonable enough to have escaped
the Senator's fling at the sex.
Then the signature caught my
eye, and l joined him in the
chortle.
The letter was from a lady who
had worked early and late to de-
feat woman suffrage. While con-
scientiously repeating the parrot
formula Of the disgruntled sister
hood that suffrage would take
woman from the home md cause
her children to be neglected" this
anti-suffrage Mrs. Jellyby was
seldom to be found at her own
hearthstone.
Other Women's Interests Kept
Her From Home.
Stoutly maintaining that she re-
manned away from her own sacred
precincts-only to compel other
women to keep to theirS-the habit
seemed to grow upon her, and it
was a red-letter morning indeed
when Mr.. Jellyby drank his break
fast coffee opposite Mrs. Jellyby.
Many is the time / have seen
this good lady in the Senate gal
lery, reserved for anti-suffragists
"a pink rose pinned to her bosom
gazing down admiringly on the
junior Senator from New York
who was similarly garnished. But
that is all over now, and the pale
pink dog-in-the-manger rose is not
as popular as it used to be. And
behold the first to leave the sink
ing anti-suffrage ship, is the lady
who demands an investigation Of
the high cost Of living now that the
new order is practically estab-
lished.
Well, as the Senator said, "Girls
will be girls"
In the meantime, we women
have been promised a Congress
sional investigation into the high
cost of living. A good many of us
are feeling rather "fed up" on this
kind of tea party. We recall so
many Investigations that began
with the beating of tom-toms and
The Washington times., 1919-07-03

so cents a pound, cheese at 45
cents a pound, and butter at 20.
1t will be interesting to see If
the recently acquired political
power Of women will produce an
investigation that will really in
vestigate. In the meantime,
whether the investigation is pro-
ductive of actual results, or only
a futurist whitewashing, the food
producer has been unwittingly
hurting boomerangs at his bust
ness, along with his high prices.
The cost Of meat has been so
tremendous that many people have
learned to do without it, or are
eating it in ever lessening guam
titles. Furthermore, they find
they are just as we'll off without
meat, and there is ample medical
authority to back them up in their
economy. Diabetes, Bright's dis
ease, rheumatism, and high blood
pressure are less prevalent among
the spare meat eaters than among
those who are in the habit of eat
ing it two or three times a day.
The Value of Meat Substitutes.
When round steak SCARED to fifty
and sixty cents a pound, and even
the humble franfurter command
ed thirty-fVe and forty, women
throughout the country turned
their attention to meat substitutes.
AS a nation, We have never been
very sklltul in preparing these
dishes, until the tremendous cost
of meat forced US to learn. We
have never understood the culinary
value Of cheese, rice, milk, eggs,
tomatoes, and other vegetables the
way that the Latin countries have
understood them.
But the war gave US a shove in
the right direction, we rolled up
our sleeves and learned to make
macaroni with the skill of Italians
and yellow rice with the under
standing of Spaniards. The
women's magazine and the
women's pages of our better
dailies, took things in hand and
taught women how to prepare
palatable and nutritious food
without meat.
The Agricultural Department
did valiant work, too, with their
pamphlets dealing with "The One
Dish Dinner" even when house
wives did not strictly adhere to
the one dish, but helped out with
a soup and a salad or a dessert.
And now, in the, words of bel
ligerent school children, many
housewives find themselves say
ing, 1--WE can do without your old
meat" This is the boomerang
that will still confront the pro-
Queer, which ever way the cat of
investigation jumps.
The Washington times., 1919-07-03
TODAY'S TOPIC
The High Cost of Living Boomerang.

them-they won't stand too much
"bunkum" about the cost of pro-
duction, etc.
1t may be comparatively easy to
fool all the men all the time about
the cost of food. Men, as shop
pers, have always helped to fill
the joke column. But it's different
with women. They have been
trained in too hard a school, you
can't fool all the women all the
time about the cost of food and
the other necessaries of life.
1t will be highly interesting to
watch what this latest of investi-
cations will develop. Food pro-
ducers describe the beggarly mar
gin of their profits, their bare liv-
ing wage, their struggles with
labor and continue the martyrdom
of selling round steak at 55 and
The Washington times., 1919-07-03
What's Doing; Where; When

Address-To new American citizens
Monument Grounds, 1880 a. m.
Medal Awards-To ID. c. men in service
during war, by Secretary Baker and Sec
rotary Daniels. Monument Grounds, at 1890
a. m.
Festival-East Front American Red
Cross building, Seventeenth and d streets
northwest, y. m. White Lot. p. m. !;
East front OF D. A. r. building, Seventeenth
and streets northwest, $50 p. m; east
front Pan American building, Seventeenth
and B streets northwest, at $50 D. m. !;
White Lot, $50 p. m. south front of
Treasury. 30 p. m: Agricultural grounds
Thirteenth and p streets, $50 p. m; Ma
tional Museum, p. m; Capitol. $50 .. m.
Float Parade p. m, leaves Treasury
down Pennsylvania avenue to Peace Monu-
ment. 10 cast front OF Capitol via north
roadway.
Spectacles-s p. m. at United States
Capitol
Festival-walter Reed Hospital. tomor-
row night.
Observation-Disclosures grounds. at $50
o'clock
The Washington times., 1919-07-03

the boom and crash of oratory, and
concluded with a little futurist
white-washing of all parties con-
cerned, that we are not losing any
sleep over the pending investiga-
ton.
Women feel, however, that at
last they hold the medicine in
their own hands, they are able to
vote and common sense indicates
that they will not vote for men who
are Indifferent to their interests.
Women are more difficult to de-
ceive than men in regard to the
high cost of living. most women
spend their lives in petty econo-
mics, they don't at ali mind walk
ing a block or two to save a
couple of coppers. And in the way
Of making over clothes, economic
camouf1age is second nature to