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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-02-28
IS WRITTEN IN
HEBREW FILED
VIII in Jewish Language Is Sec.
Ond Entered in History of Pro-
bate Court Office.
TRANSLATION is FURNISHED
Claim of Diamond Salesman for
S79S Against Estate of Jacob
Sehaul Is Allowed.

Will Of Mordechai Joseph Kot-
lar, written in Hebrew and dated
Sept. 25, 1918, has been filed for
probate before Judge Frank ].
LaDdee in probate court.
With the instrument was fur
nished an English translation. The
document is the second of it's kind
received in the history Of the pro-
bate office, one other OF like ma
ture being recorded.
Heirs are designated as the
widow, Rachel of Rock Island, and
two daughters, Lea Weinstein and
Sneva Alter, both in Russia. To
the widow is awarded the bulk of
the property Of the deceased in this
city, while each Of the daughters is
bequeathed the sum Of SO.
The will of Frank H. Lubnow,
dated July IL, 1915, has been adj
mitted to probate by Judge Landee.
Instrument sets forth that all OF
the property of the. deceased shall
revert to the children, share and
share alike. Beneficiaries are
Frank, Jr., Anna krakow, Title
Nelson, Charlie, Albert L., Fred,
Carrie Brace, and Augusta Kurtz.
A son, Albert L Lubnow, is named
as executor.
After a hearing before Judge
Landee in probate court yesterday,
a claim totalling $798, brought by
Samuel Epstein of Chicago, was
allowed against the estate of Jacob
Schaul, Rock Island pawnbroker,
who was murdered in his place of
business by Arthur Miller, alias
James Ellsworth, on the night of
Nov 80, 1918.
Epstein is a diamond dealer and
jeweler. The amount of the claim
was for various articles Of mer-
chandise purchased by Schaul. B.
A. Stewart appeared for Epstein,
while H. A Weld represented the
estate.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-02-28

is effective July 1 and the postmas-
ter has been authorized to invite
proposals for carrying the mails in
regulation auto screen wagons as
well as horse vehicles. 1t is believ-
ed that the service can be main
tanned by auto trucks with much
more satisfactory results at nom
inal cost, due to the saving in run
ming time.
The longest haul is between
Thirty-first street depot and the
post-office which is nearly a mile
and a half. and Postmaster Simp-
son expressed the opinion this
morning that the time saved on
this run can be reduced one-half.
Auto service was strongly urged
by Postmaster Simpson four years
ago. but the department was not
then prepared to invite proposals
for other than the parcel post con-
yeyances which have since been in
operation in Rock Island.
All the news all the time-Thc
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-02-28
CLOSE GUILD.

London.-Queen Mary's. Needle
work guild, which has done such
good work during the war, is to
be closed with the exception of the
orthoepedic branches. In making
this announcement, Lady Lawley
Gays: Her majesty desires me to
take this opportunity of making
known her high appreciation of the
wonderful spirit in which her
branches throughout the empire
have responded on her appeal I'm
behalf of the sick and wounded.
The record of the work done is one
of which the queen and guild may
we'll be proud.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-02-28
MOTOR SERVICE
TO START SOON
Postmaster Advised to Ask for Bids
from Auto Owners Seeking to
Garry City's Mail

Specifications for proposals en-
bodying a contract for the carrying
of the mails to and from the Rock
Island postoffice and the various
railway stations have been receiv-
ed from the department by Post
master Harry P. Simpson, who is
gratified to know that in inviting
bids, opportunity is offorded for
automobile service in place of
horse drawn screen wagons here
tofore in use. The new contract
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-02-28
HIGHEST WAGES IN 1918.

Greensburg, Pa.-Ihe highest
scale of wages ever paid in West
moreland county was in force i'll
1915. the miners average daily pay
being $500. an increase of nearly
$500 over 1917. The average yearly
earning of mines for 1918 was
$1,000, in some instances this sum
reached s. 1000. While $3.50 was
the monthly average. many miners
drew as high as $500.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-02-28
On County Records
Warranty Deeds.

Charles Reynolds and wife to J.
D. Johnson, N. II N. W. n and N.
10 acres Of s. II Of N. W. Il, Sec.
34-17-2w. 81.
Sam E. Craig and wife to W. NJ.
Hammer, part lot Z, c. F. Mueller's
heirs, assessors plat Of w. so acres
Of N. II of N. E. u, Sec S-17-1w. 81.
Walter Karstens and wife to Hy.
H. Kuehl, lot IA, second Wheelock's
Fifteenth street addition, Moline. 81.
Anton E. Froyde and wife to VIII
lard D. Nordahl, lot 81, West High
land, South Moline. $3.50
John johnson and wife to Fred
W. Miller, s. H S. E. n, Sec 80
16-5w. $12.S00.
John W. Clark to William Har-
lock, undivided II of tract N. Z
acres Of E. IA of n. 80 acres Of E.
u of N. E u, also acres Of same
u, Sec. 36, also o. L. 8, Sec. So
19-1e. SO.
Joseph and Louis Scheiber to
Kark Helfrick, lot 9, block 4. B;
Davenport's third addition. Rock
Island 81
William E. Harris and wife to
William Harlock, Jr.. o. L. IL and
10, township 19-1e.
r. H. and A. E. Nessler to Charles
Brabant, lot 5, Fleming's addition,
Rock Island. 81.
Joseph Hermes to Theodore
Hermes, lots / and 2, block 20, Old
Hampton. 81.
D. and Ida Reed to William Roth,
lots and s, block 43, lower addi-
ton, Rock Island. 81.
Thomas Agar and wife to George
and Edward Brussel, lots 6 and Z,
block 8, Wallace Grove. Rock Is
land. 81.
Kate Connell to Theodore Sal
lens and wife, lot 4, block 4, Sin
nets addition, Rock Island. 81.
Quit Claim Deeds.
Michael Brotman and wife to
Martha A. Tontch, lot in block ~,
Charles Reynolds and wife to j.
D. Johnson, tract s. E. Il, Sec, 81
17-2w. 81.
Anna Karsters to Henry H.
Kuehl, lot IA, second Wheelock's
Fifteenth street addition, Moline.
81.
Christine D. Gustafson to Hy. H.
Kuehl, lot IA, second Wheelock's
Fifteenth street addition, Moline.
81.
Moline Trust & Savings bank to
S. H. and r. J. Montgomery, lots
1876, block z, Fruitland Rel. 49,
$50.
E. H. Guyer and wife to Jacob
Kramer. lot 8, block "K' Edgewood
Park addition, Rock Island. 81.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-02-28

All the news all the ume-The
Argus.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-02-28

Aunt Jen1in1a Buekwhesf
Flour comes in a yellow
psckaee-the regular pan
cake package is red. Aunt
Jeminla Mills Company,
St. Joseph, Missouri
New-York tribune., 1919-08-04
Two Missing Girls, One
Gone Four Days, Found

Margaret Forrest, the sixteen-year-
old girl of East Orange, N. j., who
disappeared from her home at mid
night Friday, returned home at l
O'clock yesterday morning.
She was brought back in the auto
mobile of Henry V. Connolly, jr., sew
enteen years old, who had been miss
ing from his home in East Orange
since the same night. The girls faith
er, Henry Forrest, called up the police
yesterday and said his daughter told
him she had been to Philadelphia, but
gave no further explanation of her
disappearance. Young Connolly. i'm
mediately after bringing the girl
home, drove away in his automobile.
Grace Magil, fourteen years old,
who ran away from her home at 5O6
West 172d Street Wednesday, was
found in Newark yesterday She left
home with SO cents and bag of rolls.
After leaving the Hudson tubes at
Harrison. n. j., she walked the rest of
the way to Newark, sleeping at night
on park benches. She told the police
she ran away because no one loved
her and because her little sister al
ways told on her. She sent a post
card to her father, Max Magil, a
Lutheran evangelist, saying that She
was "automobiling with joe"
New-York tribune., 1919-08-04
NeW g0Wns introduce
tlU0 silh0uettes
The very straight Chemise line
and the wider line at the sides

The straight, chemise silhou-
cite is found in the knee-length
tunic of a black or navy blue
satin dress treated at the bottom
of the skirt and tunic with stun
ming bead motifs and girdled in
true medieval fashion with a
heavy bead chain.
Trotteur costume of navy blue
tricotine features the panel back
and strictly straight lines.
And, from Paris
a chemise frock of tricolette-
new and attractive-plain weave
alternating with wide drawn
stripes. Tunic is finished with
fringe of the material. Very Pa
risian. $175.
Second floor, Old Building.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-04
Mrs. Kramer Fears Plot
TO Poison Entire Family

Mrs Abraham Kramer, of $50 Shelf
field Avenue, Brooklyn, whose three
year-old son, Solomon, died Friday
after drinking poison, has told the
police she suspects a plot to poison
her entire family. She tasted some
thing suggestive of poison while drink
ing cup of tea on Saturday, she said.
The tea has not yet been analysed.
How the child was poisoned is a
mystery. He was found screaming
with pain and frothng at the mouth
by his mother on Thursday afternoon,
and was taken to the Kings COUNTY
Hospital where he died. An autopsv
performed by DR.. Edward Nj. Martin.
medical examiner. showed that the bow
had swallowed either one or two spons-
ful of corrosive sublimate. There were
severe burns on the mouth, tongue and
larynx. The acid had also fallen on
the right side of the face from the
chin to the right tonsil, intimatine a
struggle while the dose was being ad-
ministered.
According to Patrolman Alfred AL
brecht, Mrs. Kramer reported that
Solomon had been playing with an
empty lysol bottle for several davs
1t is believed the child may have got
hold of another bottle containing the
poison.
Frances Sulinki, thirteen years old,
employed as a servant by the Kramers
has been arrested in connection with
the case on charge of juvenile de-
linquency: She is held by the Brook
lyn Children's Society, and will be
arraigned to-day in the Children's
Court. When Solomon was found suf-
ftering from the poison she ran uot
for aid.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-04
Clergymen Urge Laity
Be Given Broader Field
Episcopal Ministers Would Lift
Present Bar; DIR. Manning
Sounds keynote

Episcopal clergymen interested in
the Every Name movement in New York
urge that laymen he given greater
latitude in church activities and
church government and not be limited
to taking part in worship.
Speaking of the waste of "latent
power" existing in the Episcopal
Church, DR.. William 7. Manning, rec
tor of Trinity, said yesterday:
'Perhaps there has not been freedom
enough in religious expression and en-
terprise. The Church must now make
a real and daring advance. If Chris
tian people do not now take the lead
and call men to real advance they will
follow different kind of leadership
which may carry us into grave results.
IT all the power of the Episcopal
Church can be called into active e&-
preston great things will follow. And
this is what the nationwide campaign
now proposes to do-awaken the
Church to meet the unprecedented op-
portunity and responsibility of this
day"
New-York tribune., 1919-08-04
Movies to Portray
Child Welfare Work
What Women Have Done to
Save Babies TO Be Shown
to Nation
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 3--First dis
plays of the motion picture lin "Our
Children" photographed by the Chill
drens Bureau during the recently end
ed children's year. will be made in the
towns on the route of the bureau S
child welfare special.
This film was taken at Gadsden, Ala.
1t shows how the citizens of one small
town organized for child welfare 1t
traces through the photoplay what the
citizens did to make Gadsden a safe
place for children to live. Members of
the Rotary Club, the Women's Club, the
City Council and the Mayor have roles
in the picture, but the stellar parts are
played by the Youngsters.
The child welfare special began it's
tour few days ago in Illinois to dem
onstrate how the auto truck can carry
scientific advice and information to
the rural mothers of the country. The
picture which it is exhibiting was made
by the Children's Bureau for its per-
manent record of the work done by
women of America to save thousands
of babies during chldren's year.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-04
Helping
In Search for Lost
Baby in The Bronx
Refuses to Leave
Home, Hoping Some One
Will Bring Child; Police
at Work on Several Clews

81 know my baby is crying for me.
Some one must hear it and let me
know if there are any people with
hearts left in this world. l was nurs-
ing him and he wasn't dumb at home
when he got hungry. Surely some one
will hear his cries and listen to mine. ;"
Her features swollen with weeping,
the distraught mother who for six
days and six nights has sought in
vain for her stolen baby rocked herself
in her home at 725 Home Avenue, The
Bronx, yesterday.
Mrs. Elsa Wentz, the bereft mother,
has barely turned thirty, but during
the week she has aged almost beyond
recognition. She sat bumped in her
chair and talked, in her grief, of going
mad.
Standing on the stone flags in the
cellar entrance and out of sight of the
mother was the baby carriage from
which the little one was stolen as it
stood outside a shop at the corner of
l5Oth Street and Third Avenue last
Tuesday. The pillow still shows the
dent left by the bays head as it re-
posed there before the mysterious
stranger snatched it away.
"What can't understand is why
any one should have picked on my
baby" she said. GAS far as know
| haven't an enemy in the world 1t
might be that some woman was board
ing baby; that something happened
to it, and that rather than tell the
people she stole mine"
Yesterday morning Mrs. Wentz went
to church and prayed for the return
OF her baby Her minister, too, prayed
publicly for it. Every one in the
neighborhood is helping. The police
are securing all quarters of the city
and have several clues. The father Of
the child was out with them yester-
day: Billy, the nineyear-old brother
of Baby Arthur, is disconsolate.' He
wanders around the neighborhood
poking his freckled little nose into
baby carriages. More than that, at
least half a hundred children of the
nelghborhood are doing exactly what
billy is doing and inquiring at h5uses
with all the persistence of extreme
youth.
Arthur Philip-to give him the title
which he had borne but week-was
chrlstened the Sunday before he was
stolen. His aunt told yesterday of the
pretty little lace dress she made for
the christening, and how Arthur cried
and what dear little fellow he was
with his fair skin, his blue eyes, light
brown, downy hair, and the tiny birth
mark behind his ear. On the day of
his strange disappearance he wore a
white dress, flannel petticoat and white
stockings. He couldn't have weighed
more than 1919 pounds.
The mother refuses to leave the
house, hoping every minute that some
one NAV bring the child in
New-York tribune., 1919-08-04
Addicts Won't Harm
Pelham Residents,
Says DIR. Copeland
Declares Naval Hospital Will
Be Used Only Until Christ.
mas and No Criminals
Will Be Treated There

Drug addcts will be housed at Pei
ham Bay only until next Christmas if
the 900 appropriation asked by the
Health Department is approved by the
Board of Estimate. No addicts will be
sent there without commitment There
will be no invasion of public rights
Criminal addicts will not be permitte
to go to Pelham Bay to disturb the
peace of the summer community there
This in effect is the answer of DR.
Royal S. Copeland to the charges made
by residents Of the summer colony at
City Island, who tonight will hold a
mass meeting to protest against quar-
tering drug addicts in Pelham Bay
Hospital, right in the centre of their
colony.
The objectors, whose campaign is
being conducted by John Kadcl, a
lawyer residing in The Bronx, say
they will fight strenuously against
having "an atmosphere of misfortune
and immortality at their very gates" "
They contend that GO per cent of the
drug addicts have criminal instincts.
Presidents Are Mistaken"
"The residents of City Island who
I ing under a apprehension" said
Dr.. Copeland 'In the first place, we
only propose to use the Pelham Bay
| Hospital as temporary harborage
until Christmas. We want it to take
care of the addicts who arc now on
Our hands and must be looked after.
We are not taking it over as a per-
manent institution.
"1n the second place, addicts will
not be sent out there without commit
ment. 1t is on the statutes that the
addict who volunteers for hospital
treatment is lf-committed. All our
patients at Riverside Hospital are
legally committed. 1t will be the same
at Pelham Bay.
"ln the third place, no criminals will
be sent out there. 1t is a msstate-
ment to say that 60 per cent of the
addicts have criminal instincts. The
criminals will be carefully weeded out
The residents of City Island have
nothing to fear. The boundaries at
Pelham Bay Hospital are we'll Defined
There can be no running around OH
the part of addicts."
Occupancy in Two Weeks
The Pelham Bay buildings, number
ing some two dozen, are surrounded
by high wire fence. The equip
ment is complete, and the Health De
partment hopes to begin sending the
addicts out there within the next two
weeks, providing the appropriation
asked for is passed by the Board of
Estimate at its special meeting carly
this week. Beds were being taken
down and dismantling was under way
when Secretary of the Navy Daniels
Informed the Mayor that the city
might have the use of such buildings
as they wanted. Immediately orders
were given to cease dismantling, and
now the beds are ready to be rein
stalled in the wards for occupation.
No official notification has yet been
given the naval authorities at Pelham
Bay that the Board of Health is tax
ing over the hospital quarters
New-York tribune., 1919-08-04

Tiers of black lace over an
accordion-pleated skirt of satin
is the distinctive note of a dance
frock
The elusive sea-gray of an ex-
quisitely beaded evening gown
enhances its dignihed draped
lines.
Dance frock of blue taffeta
features wide and slanting
overskirt, edged with ostrich
feathers.
Trotteur costume Of soft
mouse-colored duvetyn extends
into saucy drapery at the sides.
The charm of this frock is its
bare simplicity and exquisite
lines.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-04
&AQt&SAKR, s; g !! J !: ), !, 3 !,

EOR three days Luna Park detectives
4 had been on the watch for thief
who systematically distracted small
sums from the till of the F-7 subma-
rine exhibit. Cashiers, employees and
even patrons were under scrutiny un-
til yesterday afternoon, when patron
saw Minnie, the monkey mascot of the
submarine, skipping along the pilas-
ters to The roof of the Moon building
with "a crisp banknote clutched in her
paw. Minnie had been an itinerant
organ grinders collector before going
to Coney Island and .could not resist
the temptation of small change.
BY tying a long rope to Minnie, and
giving her some more money, employees
traced her to her buried treasure. Part
of it was devoted to the purchase of a
harness and chain, which will restrict
Minnic's freedom hereafter.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-04
Legion Plans Clubhouse
Harlem Post to Raise Funds by
Subscription

Harlem business men have organ
lzed committee which will meet to-
night at the Harlem Board of Trade to
discuss plans to provide a clubhouse
for the Harlem Post of the American
Legion. Members of the post will at
the same time adopt bylaws and elect
permanent officers. 1t is purposed to
canvass Harlem for funds to build the
clubhouse. Major Philip McCook, who
was on the staff of the 9th Division
until he was wounded will be one of
the speakers.
Members of Theodore F. Mead Post
will meet this evening at headquarters,
Broadway and Sixty-sixth Street.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-04
Finds Mother a Suicide
Lighting Gas, Son Sees Body
Swinging i'm Doorway

When Charles Muller lighted the
gas last night on his return to his
home at 721 Ninth Avenue the light
revealed something swinging across
the door of his mothers bedroom. 1t
was the body of his mother, Mrs.
Elizabeth Muller, eighty-four years
old. She had hanged herself with a
clothesline she fastened to the tran
som and had been dead for hours Her
health had been poor.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-04
Five Barges Break Moorings;
Police Rescue Vagrant Craft

A spirit of unrest seized empty barges
around New York last night and kept
the harbor police busy. Three broke
away from the southern end of Govern
or's Island and were towed into Erie
Basin by police launch, and two more
got loose at 105th Street and the Eass
River and started south 10 be caught
within block by the police and taken
back. No one was aboard any of the
errant craft.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-04
nonpAy/ Mem 11ork Gribume AUGUST

Street. asked Elizabeth Hutoff. of 1920 Sec.
ond Avenue, to dance. The girls brother.
Frank, sailor objected. few minutes
later Jardy was found in the street with
a stab wound in the abdomen. Hutofr and
three others were arrested.
The three last of the series of free COR.
certs at Columbia University will be given
to-day, Wednesday and Friday Audiences
have averaged $4,000 at each concert.
August Vogleno and Joseph Kenny were
held for trial in Special Sessions charged
with having assaulted Joseph Bloomington.
a subway guard. who told them a train
they sought to enter had made its last trip
of the night
Arthur Gould. charged with having
Killed l,;l Richard Gallagher after he had shot
MS "iie, Irene. at the Good Husbands pic
nc at a Harlem River resort Saturday
n:lent was held without bail for examina-
tion tomorrow in Harlem Police Court,
The City Club which equipped twenty
elght ambulance cars for service in France,
mas applied for post charter in the Amer
lcan Legion for 500 members who served in
the war.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-04
Brooklyn Man Fatally
Stabbed; Another Hurt

Anthony Dellucco, thirty-six years
old, of 26 Richardson Street, Brooklyn,
was stabbed to death last night at
Union and Skillman Avenues, Brooklyn,
by an unidentified man, who also
stabbed Nougi Torti, twenty six, of 335
Union Avenue. Tort is in the Green
point Hospital.
The assailant fled.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-04
VIII it Pay me to buy furniture just nolo;
Yes, indeed it will.

Yes, indeed it will.
Furniture prices at tn.
workshops are going to re-.
main high.
How can you know
that positively"
We cannot know i
positively infall;.
bic predictions not be;no
our boast Or our business.
but we can and do believe
it positively; in fact, We
have proved that we have
over a million dollars
worth of faith in it.
No sound-headed busi.
ness house invests reckless.
ly in furniture that it can't
use, any more than a sound.
headed individual does.
"A morning newspaper
published only last week
an authoritative statement
regarding conditions in the
lumber business.
The substance of it is
that materials are scarce
and that prices are likely
to remain high or go higher
for three to five wears
more.
This gives the 1919 Au.
gust Sale an investment
significance even greater
than previous August
Sales have had.
All the furniture Offered
in it was ordered or bought
months ago, and the re-
ductions 90 to 40 per
cent. are based on prices
much lower than those pre-
valllng now. Even with
in the past few weeks,
many Of the very makes Of
furniture which are in
cluded in it have been ad.
vanced in price at the fac.
tories.
a saving of even 10 per
cent. will mean more in this
Sale than a saving Of 20
per cent at ordinary times.
Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Gal.
leries, New Building.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-04
Demand exceeds supply

This is caused partially by
the natural reaction after
war. After the stress and
strain of it all, the privation,
worry and self-sacrifice, af-
ter giving so much to others,
to war funds, people feel
like buying something for
their own dear ones; for
wife or mother; often the
returning soldier buys a ring
for his sweetheart-an en-
gagement ring.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-04
Books for SWeet Sixteen"

Sometimes girls of this age have little trouble find
ing things to read They entirely too read
the endless silly grl book people always thrustng
upon theand yet Miss Sixteen does not want grave
Gus books.
She likes, above all, good, entertaining love story
The Book Store has assembled for her special benefit
table of books from which she will surely find stories
which will delight her on long summer afternoons
4 List of Stories
"Da1un' by Eleanor Por- "A Lapd Girls lave
ter the romance OF boy Story by Berta Ruck is the
bhnded IN war and his doc story of girl who meets
tors daughter. The hero her fate' while dutif1Ilv