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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-08-07

prize, fine casserole, End prize, at.
Thermos bottle.
50-Yard dash, married ladies'; LIST
prize, aluminium rooster. End prize,
choice ham, 3rd prize, 10 records.
Commencing at 2:3O p. m.
Address-Colonel H. B. Jordan.
Baseball game. best players pick
ed from r. I. A. employees. Umpire
Dan OLeary. ex-III. league man
ager. Prizes: SIS to winning team.
Longest hit, briar pipe. Most stolen
bases, hair cut, shampoo and shave.
First three base hit. So tie. Pitcher
having most strike outs. shirt. The
catcher having most assists at End
base, gents silk hose.
1OO-Yard dash, gents free-for-all !;
LIST prize, gents high grade hat, End
prize, So bathing suit.
25-Yard dash, stout ladies, 140
pounds; LIST prize. IS merchandise.
End prize, 10 movie ticekts.
75-Yard dash, r. I. A ladies' free
for-an; LIST prize, $15 ladies UNI
brelIa; End prize, ladies' purse.
5O-Yard dash, married men, 40
years; LIST prize. gents umbrella,
End prize, So merchandise.
50-Yard dash, fat r6en, 40 years,
200 lbs; 1st prize. SO merchan-
disc, End prize. box cigars.
Horse shoe pitching contest, open
to all; two LIST prizes, tie, Lifts
safety razor; two End prizes, tie,
Ever-Ready safety razor; 3rd prize,
tie.
Tug Of war. North Side vs.. South
Side; hand made cigars, hand made
cigars.
49-Yard dash, free to all commit
tees; LIST prize. cigars, End prize,
cigars, Bird prize, cigars.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-08-07
PAROLED CROOK
TO GO BACKTO
JOLIET PRISON
Theodore GrOWner. Arrested For
Two Offenses, VIII be Return
ed to State Penitentiary.

Theodore Growner, one of a num-
Der of paroled men sent to the tri-
cities last fall, is lodged in the city
Jail to answer charges of many Of
lenses.
Growner was arrested yesterday
by Bert Carter, state parole officer,
and Detective Ginnane Of the Rock
Island police force. He was nab
bed as he stepped off the east end
Of the Rock Island bridge.
He is alleged by the police to
have passed worthless checks on
a Moline bank and may be found
guilty OF .bigamy He has been
pany and has resided in different
places, it is said.
Aside from passing worthless
checks, Growner is also alleged to
be guilty of bigamy. He himself
says that he has wife and three
Children in Chicago. A woman
&ving her name as Nellie Buchner
before marriage. claims the conf
dence man is her husband.
Bad Record.
The paroled man has a bad rec
ord, according to information in
the hands of the police. He served
at the penitentiary at Joliet from
Cook county in 1915 for obtaining
money on false pretenses. He was
sentenced to six years, but paroled
last year in order to meet the labor
shortage. He is one of a number
of men sent here for the same pur-
pose, many of whom went back to
their old tricks and soon found
themselves right back in the place
they were paroled from, the Joliet
state prison
Growner will be sent back to the
state prison soon. the police say.
Charges for the offenses committed
in Rock Island may also be held
Against him in an additional SEN
tenor.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-08-07

Island agency will receive an in
crease of 80 per cent over what
they are now earning, with back
pay effective to Aug. l, 1919, or in
all sum amounting to 80 per cent
of two months wages. From then
on the raise will be incorporated
in the periodical pay checks. Nor
is that all. On Dec. 1 a further in
crease of 20 per cent against COW
ering the period between then and
Aug. l. 1919. TO continue hence
forth, will be allowed all employees
@rMore to Gomez
In the communication ANNOUNCE
ing this fact the company also
states that there is more 10 come
in the way of raises. It assures
them that 5000 cooperation" will
be it's rule in dealing with EN-
ployes. and that all superffuOus
profit will be turned over TO its
workers in this way.
This double increase is oyer 50
per cent of the present wage being
paid. The second raise, 20 per cent
covers the former pay including
the first increase sof 30 per cent
Therefore the total pay roll OF the
Western Union company on Dec.
will be 1.56 times as great as that
of Oct. 1. or a Sc per cent increase
in all.
In the same communication the
company reestablishes the rate OF
time and one-half for Sunday work
which was done away with under
the government control. No men
ton is made of an extra allowance
for ordinary overtime, but the To-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-08-07

guests of Mrs. John Hoffman last Wednes-
day.
Mrs. Wallace Chaplin of Morrison was a
guest of her parents. Mr.. and Mrs. George
Sawyer, Tuesday and Wednesday.
Miss Toinette GilIeland, who has been
the guest of her sister. Mrs. r.. &. Bur
chell a part of the summer, has returned
to her home at Pueblo. Colo.
Henry Head came here from Fort Sher-
idan last week to spend a few days with
his parents. Mr.. and Mrs. John Head.
He went from here to Denver, Colo. here
he will take treatment for injuries recey-
ed while overseas.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-08-07

struction of the. mezzanine book
floor over the semi-circuIar book
room of the library Work on this
project will start at once as the
construction company has agreed
to complete it within three months.
Cost of the new floor will be $500.
The board has secured the ser
vices Of Mrs. Dora Kirschner as
assistant librarian. Mrs. Kirsch-
ner has had previous experience
in this field.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-08-07

When Arabian women go into
mourning they stain their hands
and feet with indigo for eight days,
and during that time they will
drink no milk, on the ground that
it's white hue does not harmonic
with their mental gloom
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-08-07

Wine tasters, employed I'm their
professional duties, seldom swal-
low the wine they taste They
merely hold a sip OF the beverage
in their mouth for a few moments
and breathe through the nostrils
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-08-07

cal employees expect 10 hear that
time and one-half will be granted
for this also.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-10-22

Nr ana Mrs Chester lupwau
ag.r r..rn,I from ID. visit % clare
The daily times., 1919-08-21
PRICES IN WILMINGTON

The following list of prices from
the Wilmington Despatch have been
handed Ysfor publication. we
quote fron-4 ssde Despatch:
To-day The Dispatch is furnished
with a list Of the necessaries of
life with the cost and selling price
by the Union Grocery Company, op-
eratingS at Ninth and Grace streets
and with a telephone number of
316. The company sells for cash,
but will deliver anywhere in the
city. Its fine advertising for the
company and is printed by The Dis
patch gladly and without charge in
an effort to clear up a situation
that has become intolerable. The
Union company is making a mighty
reasonable profit on sales made; in
fact less than it would be justified
in charging Yet the manager says
he's getting by. Read this price list
and then determine whether you
have been hello up in tho past or
not Following is the Union COM
pany's table:
The daily times., 1919-08-21
THE STATE BANKERS IN
ANNUAL SESSION
Continued from Page One.)

United States Senator Lee S.
Oyerman. of Salisbury, will deliver
an address on 1.-THE League of Ma
tions'' before the State Bankers AS
sociation in Winston-Salem tomor-
row. Senator Overman left Washr-
ington last night to fill his engage
ment.
What Secretary Carter Glass says
about the bankers:
No group of men in the United
States measured up to the test OF
the great war more admirably than
did the bankers. The success of the
United States Treasury Department
in floating over $21, 100000 in
Liberty Bonds and Victory Notes
during the past two years was due
in no small measure to the patriotic
cooperation of the banks. They
took a most active part in each of
the loan campaigns. They sub
scribed generously for themselves,
made loans to their customers in
order that they might buy bonds
accommodate those having small
savings. In other words, the banks
did everything possible to promote
the sale and distribution of govern
ment securities. The banker can
render an equally great service in
reconstruction cooperating with the
government in it's movement to
teach the people of the United
States the lessons of sound finance
and of wise investment. In promot-
ing this cause the banker will aid
his institution and the financial sit
nation in general at the same time.
Now that the war is over the
people should be impressed with the
wisdom of holding their government
securities and also of purchasing
more from time to time. The more
generally the people of the United
States absorb our government Sc
curities the greater will be the
ability of the commercial banks to
devote practically all of their re-
sources to furnishing adequate cred
it to the commerce and industry OF
the country. Providing short time
credit to commerce and industry is
their normal peace time function
The sale and movement of farm
crops, manufactured products, and
all other commodities, as we'll as
the continuous and efficient en-
ployment of labor, in fact, the whole
by permitting the commercial banks
to devote all their resources to this
The daily times., 1919-08-21
function.

The people of the United States
should therefore be encouraged to
save and pay off their installments
and borrowings on bond collateral
as rapidly as possible and also to
purchase additional government Sc
curities as issued from time to time
or in the market. If this is done the
people of this country will be bene-
flied in a two-fold way, in saving
to pay their loans and installments
and also in order to buy additional
Liberty Bonds and notes, they will
refrain from waste and unneces-
sary expenditures and thus free ma
terial and labor for the production
of commodities which are now so
desperately needed the world over.
At the same time they will be
STRENGTHENING themselves financially.
No one can do better than to make
a substantial PROPORTION of govern
ment securities the foundation of
his investment fund. Nothing else
will give such sound and unfailin g
support to his entire financial struc-
ture and at the same time yield
such excellent returns. The less one
can afford to risk his funds, the less
time he has to devote to his invest
ments, and the less experience he
has had in the things which are
daily affecting the values of ordi-
nary bonds and stocks, the larger
should be the proportion of his
funds invested in securities which
need practically no attention, which
are acknowledged by all to be alb
solutely safe, and which yield sat
isfactory return.
Therefore, on account Of the di-
rect financial benefits to the invest
ors, on account of the indirect as
sistance which it will give the gov
ernment and on account of the eff
fects in bringing about normal fnan-
cial, industrial. and living condi-
ton, 1 bespeak the cooperation of
all the people and especially of all
saving and investment institutions
in the promotion Of nationwide saw
ing and the distribution of United
States securities among the people.
The daily times., 1919-08-21
40 YEARS AGO.
BLOOD POISON WAS CONQUERED
BY OLD DOCTORS PRESCRIP-
TION WITHIN YOUR
REACH TODAY

40 years ago Number 40 For
he Blood" conquered many cases
L specific blood poison in it's worst
crms, which have not returned
his disease is manifested by mu-
GUS patches, copper colored spots,
ching bones, ulcers, or runnig sores,
falling hair, glandu1ar swel1ings
pimples on the face, constipation
nd form of dyspepsia. Your health
lis important, insist on Number
4O," put up in blue carton bear
ing the signatue of J, C. Mendenhall
40 years a druggist, Evansville, Ind
Sold by Patterson Drug Company
and Wilson Drug Co.-Advt.
The daily times., 1919-08-21
DEPOSITS FOR YEAR s<'ssa2
JUMP SO MILLION

A net decrease of more than thirty
SIX millions of dollars is shown in
deposits i'll North Carolina State
banks for the period ending June
29th., as compared with the same
date in 1918, says the State Corpor-
alton Commission, in statement
of the resources and liabilities of
All banks, including 81 branches
as of June 29th.
Total deposits on June 3Oth.,' last,
amounted to $151, 1,4OO,076.43 as
compared with $114,9O1, ,167.63, for
June 20, 1918. The total resour-
ces of the State banks show net
increase during the same period of
$46, 328.56. Only in gold coin
is there a decrease noted in the en-
tire statement and there is $2,S65.-
65 less this year than last.
The daily times., 1919-08-21
MAYORS Court.

John Hinson and sister Leo were
ARRESTED last night by Chief Dick
ms under the capias of the Mayor
and locked up for failure to leave
town as ordered. They gave bond
this morning for their appearance
lat court.
Joe Murphy was charged a dol
lar for jumping on and off of a
train.
The daily times., 1919-08-21
'OHN L. BAILEY,

A 21 Fri w once wk 4 wks
The daily times., 1919-08-21

sent them to the undersigned or to
II. D. Grady Attorney, KeDly N. c.,
On or before the 18th, day of August
1920, or this notice will be pleaded
in bar of their recovery. All persons
Indebted to said estate will please
make immediate settlement.
J. w. WATSON, Jr.,
Kenlv, N. G.
p. D. Grady, Attorney.
This August L., 1919.
Aug. 16-1 wk Wk)
The daily times., 1919-08-21
WEATHER.!
overs and thunderStOrms.

and thunderstorms.
For North Carolina showers, and
probable tonight and
Friday and slightly warmer in the
extreme western por tion with gentle
to moderate south west winds.
The daily times., 1919-08-21
s tops The Tickle

Heals tie Throat and Cures the Couch
HAYES HEALING HONEY. Price She
A free Box of GROVES O-PEN-TRATE
SALVE for Chest Colds. Head Colds ana
Group is enclosed with every bottle
The daily times., 1919-08-21
ADMINISTRATOR NOTICE.

If the estate of Mrs. Martha P. Wat.
on, deceased, late of Kenly, N. c..
his is to notify all persons holdine
laims against said estate to pre-
The daily times., 1919-08-21

twas murde. ed at the company club
house at Tapetate. the report OF
which was made public by the State
department.
The daily times., 1919-08-21
ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE

Having qualified as administrator
of the estate of B. H. Barnes, de-
ceased, late of Elm City, N. c., this
is to notify all parties indebted to
said estate to settle same, and all
parties having claims against said
estate will file them properly ad-
judicated within one year, or this
notice will be plead in bar of recov-
cry.
JOHN L. BAILEY,
Administrator.
A 21 Fri W once wk wks
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-04
Pin Eco Results

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ANA il5 ,N anmer,. So -. $50. 50. sc.
Nifd Iinr l.l1 4-s, Cock ~ ~ Eno.
Leaves. s4n'aace. Dick Kcllser.
So f7ia' belgian Queen and Lola also
an
Second ~ac- nNrce -,.ea~-,ld.. cla,-oire,-
one Ilc)--lo,fuI III, el,St4o,D Sr1'
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-04

An intercollegiate Spy
His C0nfeSSi0uS)
BY w. O. Mcclellan

Just how arreachng the intercollegiate spy system really
shown by the fact that Podam working the
padded pnochl
high
stupid In the intercollegiate
lIZi kAPlAN, which is | or depending college.
The Kaiser highly leave
him with the the padded pmoh partly
1t had bahld all
lite friendly pnoctc
when the Grand Duke of O. husband OF the notorious Grand
Duchess of O. who caused the much by TIL
vanishing vodka NEEDED fifty
bold stroke the broke with the usual
Balkans The head the kascrs
had been padded Highest
dgntay ne
quarters he
ho head with chain Then knew tat o
that had been ned from losdam lie kicked
abruptly a where could be entirely
There something mysterious Irrceon
YOU'RE about dumb enough find what +
bowed gracefully this This digntary
pimens those who efficiently
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-04
AUTOMOBILES FOR REM

- hfD FOR HIRE paSsenge-.
4@t1l driver. "a an hour. Plaza 5Aee.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-12-24
QUINLAN'S PHARMACY
Baker Ducks Issue"

+ IL will be no surprise to Vermonters
to learn that Senator Dillingham; and
Congressman Greene were among the
4early and often" callers on Secre-
tary Baker to protest against the
passing-over of General Clarence Il.
Edwards of the Goth division for pro-
motion Also it will be no surprise
to discover that the smooth and willy
secretary of war "ducked the issue
The story of the Vermont delega-
TONS visit is told in very few
words:
The visit established the fact that
Gen. Edwards, one time commander Of
the 26th Division, had been deliberate
ly passed over by the war depart
ment and had never been considered
in connection with promotions.
Recognizing, doubtless. that his pre-
vious statement about Edwards act
ing like a presidential candidate had
kicked back" the secretary took
refuge in the following:
Secretary Baker said that seniority
had nothing to do 1 with promotions.
"&* that Gen. Edwards had not
been considered for promotion y
that no prediction could be
made regarding the future, saying
that each promotion would be made
on its merits.
This, of course, Isl false if the pre-
vious "alibi" regarding General Ed
wards indicreet utterances should
stand If the general was passed over
for making noise like a presidential
candidate, then his name was con
sidered. Ii it was not considered,
some one has been doing some alti-
tudinous, political lying.
Nothing has ever pinned" politics
on the war department like this Ed,
wards business. Nothing has ever
better verified the deadly hatred of
the regulars. supported by the war de
partment. for the National Guard reg
iments and divisions. Moth ng has
ever better proven the fact that what
the independent newspapers have
said about eliminating politics and
prussiapism from the army was true.
Wen. this cheerful outfit of politi-
cal side-sieppe1's might as well do
their worst, while y they last When
the republican party takes possession
OF the national government one year
from next March, there will be a lot
of.~lew faces in tho political hades
where wan politicians belong Chief
among them WIN be the physiognomy
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-12-24
of Newton D. Baker-RUtland Her
aid.
LIQUOR Prices High

There may be complaint about the
prices of groceries and meat, the cost
of clothing may be lamented, and
rents raise a protest, but when it
came to liquors ii appear that a con-
siderable number of people felt they
were well worth all that was asked
In instances where federal judges
have opened the bars and wholesale
houses, the news reports told of
transactions at figures that might be
thought prohibitive, but the only diff.
ficulty appears to have been in han
ding it out fast enough and in keep
ing the supply equal to the demand.
Men contested for the privilege of
paying SIS to $40 a quart fer whiskey,
apparently proceeding on the theory
that no price is too high in case it
can be had. 1t may be that difficult
ty in obtaining liquor in the last few
months whetted appetites unduly,
and that such a condition explains
the eagerness to buy exhibited when
the stuff was on sale. 1t might
seem that it would naturally follow
that such prices would result in small
demand, but that was not the way it
worked out apparently. Men who
had money, for nothing else could pro-
duce a roll when there was liquor to
be bought
However, these exhibitions are not
TO be construed as manifestations of
a reaction from the demand for pro
hibition Those rushing to make
such purchases in fact constitute but
a small portion CT the population, and
are the ones who feel most keenly the
restriction placed on the liquor traf.
fic.
They realize that the day of open
sales was brief and therefore must be
made tine most e. When the pres
ent supply is gone all is gone except
for that produced by Illicit manufac-
ture. NORTH Adams Herald.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-12-24
Gen. Woods Strength.

South Dakota Republicans. the first
to act on the question. endorse Gen
Leonard Wood for the presidential
nomination next year Polls and
straw votes have shown Wood lead
ing in favor However, much may de-
velop before next years primaries.
The drift to Wood is unaccountable.
He has never held an elective office.
and his war record is that of an of
ficer held back by his superiors and
disappointed in his assignments. Due
TO 60 overseas and slated for an i'm.
portant command, the order was re-
voked and Wood remained on this
side in charge of organization and in.
struction work. Washington said at
thai time that Pershing did not want
Wood with him, the inference being
that he feared a possible rival in
heroship, or else that his subordinate
would prove troublesome. as he had
been known to before. Some criticism
has been voiced at Woods treatment
in recent years and he is not regarded
as being in high favor with the politi.
cal mililarists at the capital. This
may be the natural reactive result of
Woods rapid rise in rank under the
Roosevelt regime, which was much re.
scented in certain circles. Gen Wood
has proved a strong, efficient execu.
tive in Cuba and elsewhere and his
pubic utterances have generally
struch a responsive chord, but he has
never been put under the keen test
that the American people are wont to
require of man considered as ripe
presidential timber We do not recall
that a president has ever been chosen
who had never been either governor
OF a state. a member of either branch
OF Congress, or a notable military
Communicating Randolph Herald and
News
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-12-24
Sugar PrOfiteerlna.

There is no sugar shortag e, "
says Senator Pomerene OF Ohio. He
believes that nothing is the trouble
but a sugar holdup, brought about
by sugar spectators who have cor.
nered the sugar supply and intend
to hold it until they can brighten
the people into sugar prices higher
than anything this country has
known.
The senator evidently doesn't ac
cept the sugar scare stories coming
from sugar sources at their face
value. Nor should anybody. The
facts are against them. There is no
sugar shortage in the United States
other than that purposely and illeg-
ally manufactured by the sugar gam
blers.
This years sugar beet crop ex-
ceeded that Of 1918 by 20 per cent.
The 1919 sugar beet yield was the
largest this country ever harvested.
1t totaled 1898 tons. The annual
average for the ten years preceding
the war was 5491 tons. Sorghum
syrup produced this year was more
than 10 per cent greater than the
1918 crop. 1t was $50 per cent great.
er than In 1916-when sugar sold at
10 cents a pound.
Sugar men say that the sugar
shortage is due to enormous export
1 ing of refined sugar to feed starv.
( ing Europe" But the fact is that
it was 50000O,000 pounds less for
These facts do not seem to fit in well
with the sugar spectators stories of
sugar shortage.
The real shortage facts are these:
Sugar spectators have cornered the
supply; the equalization board is
due to go out of business January l /;
when the Equalization board dies
sugar spectators can charge what
they will for the sugar they are
boarding.
That is why sugar now costs three
times as much as it did before the
war, twice as much as it did when
this country was sending its largest
sugar exports abroad. And sugar
will cost you IS cents a pound after
January l If the Sugar Equalization
board goes out of business.
No useful purpose can be served
by continuing the Sugar Equalization
board as proposed by the McNary
bill passed by the senate last week,
without giving it power to regulate
prices and control of the movement
of sugar, says George A. zabriskie,
president of the present board If
that is the case it should be contin-
ued with all the additional powers
needed.
Merchants, in Rutland and of
course in other cities have bought or
contracted to buy sugar of South
American manufaeture-which is not
amenable to control by the Equaliza.
tion board-for substantially seven
teen cents a pound in ton lots They
haze been held up, and dealers as
we'll as the public need protection
from the rapacious profiteers.-Rut.
land News.