Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-06-20
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Villa is always taking something. He deals
mostly in towns. For a change the other day
he took a bride. This is number three for the
Mexican bandit leader. Villa does not approve
Of long courtships. He gives a girl the once
over. If she looks good he tells her to grab a
pony and that's all there is to it. Villa has
such winning ways you know. He rarely loses
a battle.
Beautiful Spy Kills Herself When Cap
tured Headline. She "a. She was hired
by Germany. She had gay time while it last
game. Another victim Of the kaiser's dirty
work.
Robert Minor, an American newspaper cor
respondent, has been arrested orders of the
French government. Robert has been carrying
his yellow tactics to a country where they
won't stand for them. That's all.
A New York show girl has ventured in
public wearing one of the short skirts popu-
larized in Paris. No, girls, you don't have to
have much nerve to follow suit But it is adj
visable that you be well proportional between
the instep and the knee.
The piano used by Jenny Lind on her tour
of 1850 has been sold as an antique at Middle
town, Conn., If that old instrument could talk
and could recreate the golden voice that it &C
companied in the good old days what memories
it would revive!
Captain Kidd has been dead for couple of
hundred years, but he left whole lot of rela-
tives who are doing their best to keep alive his
system in getting the money.
Captain John MacVicar of Des Moines cap
tured a German daschund in Alsace. The dog
was killed by an auto in New York the other
day. Probably of the kaiser's agents was
at the wheel of the that struck the dog.
had agreed not to do any rough work
Another Customer Saved.
The Enterprise owes an apology to Martha
Forsyth for leaving her name off the list of
graduates as mentioned in last weeks paper
The omission was an unintentional one and we
cheerfully make this apology.-Viola Enter
prise.
Why2
Word was noised about town the first of the
week that Mrs. John VIM should have died
very suddenly at her home in Michigan City,
Ind, but on inQuiring about the matter from
relatives here we find that there is no founda-
ton for the rumor. or the relatives surely
would know something about it-Viola Enter
prise.
Allowance to child is the road to economy
says Ruth Wardell, head of the home economics
department of the University of Iowa Every
kid in the land will agree with her.
An Office wag has asked if Ray Leak, for
mer Chicago newspaperman. had anything to
do with the premature publication of the league
of nations compact. A vaudevillian could cop
out first class act by hanging around his
sanctum for a day after all the grinders had
gone to bed betimes the night preceding.
Street Car Comedy.
What do most women talk about?"
About all the time when they are not
asleep"
little stranger who disappeared in No
Mans land during the war will be welcomed
back among US on July 1. Really, we all have
been lonesome since the withdrawal of the 2
cent stamp.
Professor Garner proposes to uplift the ape
family. If we are to believe what this scientist
claims for the chimp family it is progressing
satisfactorily without need of assistance from
mere man. The professor might more chart
tably devote his efforts to uplifting the two
legged monkeys running at large in our
cities.
The telephone folks appear to have made
the error of acting tri1e late in going after
the easy money that was available as a result
of the war. II it had decided to increase rates
when everybody was busy making dough
that he didn't care for expenses there probably
would not have been murmur against it But
now it's different. Folks have cooled off and
they don't propose to stand the gaf. If the
telephone business managed to get along the
past two years at the present charges, it is
argued, it can do so now.
Chairman Hays of the Republican national
committee holds that the peace treaty is in no
sense a political issue. Evidently this young
man has a mind of his own that he isn't afraid
to express. But, for his temerity, he is likely
to early feel the thud of the W. k. steam roller
The Philadelphia Bulletin has discovered
that there is not man in the city who will
admit that he wants to be the next mayor A
mind reader could make some interesting dis
coveries, we'll wager.
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