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

tastes. We may be poor, but golly,
how proud we are. We would
rather pay Sc a bushel for apples,
curse the profiteers and watch the
department of justice noisily hunt
for a goat to skin, when there isn't
any goat.
Thus you and are just as much
to blame for the high cost of liv-
ing as anyone else, if not more so.
A government expert was asked
what he thought was the remedy
for this situation. He said in the
first place, that neither congress
sional nor departmental action is
apt to remedy it for a long time
The people midst solve this prob
lem for themselves. They have a
tendency to do so by instinct. For
example, right now you hear a
great deal about cooperative asso-
Citations all over the country, both
for buying and for selling. This is
an instructive move on the part of
the people to shorten that long
line of needy gentlemen between
the apple-raiser and the apple
eater. The people haven't thought it
out, but they feel what is wrong,
and what they feel is a great deal
more than what congressman
think.
The expert above mentioned sug-
gested three remedies which the
people may apply.
First, direct marketing. This
means going to the market, select
ing your food, bargaining for it,
and carrying it home. 1t means
going to the country and buying
stuff on the farms. 1t means
making arrangements with farmers
to send you things direct. 1t means
patronizing the new parcel post
marketing system, and every other
system which brings you into
more direct connection with the
source of your food.
Second, canning. Buy Gull ap-
pies from the farmers now, and
can them Can fruits and vege-
tables of all kinds. 1t will pay,
even if you have to hire help to
dot it. If you don't know how, get
the famous Farmers Bulletin S39
and learn how. And as an Access
sorry to your home canning, have a
garden in your own yard, if you
possibly can.
Third, community action - the
league of neighbors. Band togeth-
er with your fellow sufferers to
buy comparatively The pOstofice
department will help you reach
the farmers, and the war depart
ment will sell you staples in large
quantities at low prices. This idea
cannot be too strongly emphasized
You and your neighbors can solve
the cost of living question, if you
have got it in you to act together
for the common good.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-10-04

with asphaltic concrete of Sixth
avenue from the east line of
Twenty-first street to the west line
of Twenty-second street, and the
ordinance for the same being on
file in the Office of the city clerk OF
said city, and said city having ap
piled to the county court of Rock
Island county, ia, for an assess
ment of the cost of said improve
ment according to frontage, said
assessment being payable in nine
!nstallments, each bearing interest
at the rate of per cent per annum,
and an assessment therefor having
been made and returned to said
court, the hearing thereon will be
had on the 10th day of October
A D., 1919, at the hour of o'clock
a. m, or as soon thereafter as the
business of the court will permit
All persons desiring may file OBJ
jections in said court, before said
day, and may appear on the hear
ing and make their defense.
Dated. Rock Island, ILL, Oct l,
1919.
NJ. L. JOHNSON,
Officer appointed to make assess
ment
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-10-04
$4,000 PERISH
IN BOILING MUD
FROM VOLCANO
River of Red-HOt Lava Wipes Out
26 Towns in Java - Victims
Limbs Stick from Debris.

Singapore. - Correspondence of
the Associated Press THE awful
scenes which prevailed when the
volcano of Kalut in Java burst
into eruption on May 20. destroyed
26 villages and caused a loss Of
life estimated by some at $4,000,
are wildly described by Miss E.
W. Cranen, who has arrived here
from Sourabaya.
A river of boiling mud and lava
which overwhelmed the village of
Blitar, where Miss Cranen was
staying, she says was 10 miles
wide and four feet deep.
The first symptoms OF the com
ing eruption, Miss Cranen said, were
sounds like thunder and vivid
flashes in the sky. Enormous
boulders were flung from the vol
cano into the lowlands around it
for great distances. There was
pitchy darkness owing to a rain
OF ashes.
Then came warning to the occu-
pants of the hotel at Blitar that
the river of lava and mud was ap-
preaching. I'VE were almost be-
side ourselves as to what to do to
avoid a hideous end" she said.
Twenty-four of those staying at
the hotel escaped death in the boil
ing mud by fleeing aboard a motor
car driven by the wife of the as
sistant resident commissioner.
Lava Buries Towns.
According to Miss Cranen the
river of mud ran for three hours
and wrought fearful damage to life
and property. 1t covered the rail-
way station, buried the locomo-
tives and cars and virtually de-
stroyed every house in Blitar,
Wlingi and Srengat.
A Mr.. Boekhont managed to res
cue his wife and some of his chill
dren, but owing to the velocity Of
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-10-04
DECLARES REED
HAD IT COMING

Oklahoma City, Okla. Oct. A.
Governor J. B. A Robertson said
United States Senator James A.
Reed, who was egged and hooted
from the stage at Ardmore, Okla,
got what was coming to him"
Ardmore, Okla, Oct. 4.-No Of
fetal action has been taken with
regard to the disturbances which
resulted in preventing Senator
Reed, Missouri, from delivering an
address in convention hall against
the League of Nations. About one
dozen eggs were thrown at the
senator and others on the stage,
Senator Reeds coat and hat were
spattered with the broken eggs.
Before he left Tulsa Senator
Reed dictated the following state
ment:
MY compliments to the decent
people of ArdmOre. My contempt
for the thugs who denied to these
people the privilege of this as
semblage under the flag and con-
stitution of the United States.
'If friends of the League of Ma
tions imagine that the character of
the argument employed will win
friends for their cause 1 believe
they have mistaken the temper of
the American people. l am very
sure they mistook the temper Of
the people of Ardmore.
$50 far as l am concerned, the
incident is closed, but I desire to
remark that the occurrence may
serve to illustrate the fact that
probably we had better learn to
govern ourselves before we take
charge of the rest of the world and
undertake to run it."
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-10-04

today's Republican state conven-
ton in Massachusetts and deliv-
cred the address which sounds the
keynote for the campaign in that
state this fall, is the representa-
tive in congress of the First Mass
achusetts district. His home IS al
Stockbridge, in the heart Of the
Berkshires, a district that has
turned out many especially tne
men. Mr.. Treadway was in the
Massachusetts legislature from
1904 to 1911, and for three years
of this time was president OF the
state senate. His record as a par
Humanitarian was more than ordi-
nary. and when he went TO con
gress, in 1918, he went as a man
well versed in the process Of max
ing laws. He was born at Stock
bridge in 1867 and received his
education at Amherst college.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-10-04

the mud river was unable to save
two of his little ones, who perish
ed before his eyes. One European,
while in bed in his house, was car
ried away and deposited miles dis
tant.
$1,000 Perish.
A Sourabaya paper which places
the total loss of life at $4,000
says that Is Europeans persisted,
and that after the volcano subsid-
ed the arms and legs of the vic
tins were seen protruding through
the mud all over Kediri district, in
the vicinity of Kalut Many thous-
ands of persons are reported miss
ing.
1t is learned that three lava
streams flowed from the volcano,
all taking the same course as in
the eruption of 1901. One of
these destroyed Blitar. Govern
ment biologists who assembled to
the crater of Kalut after the erup-
ton found it empty.
(The Dutch governor OF the dew
astated district reported that 5.100
persons were killed in the erup-
ton of Kalut.)
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-10-04
SHED BURNED.

A small fire was discovered in
the alley in the rear of a tinship,
owned by John Noftsker, ICES
Fourth avenue, at $3.50 last night.
There was nothing in the building
except some castings packed in
straw Little damage was done.
The blaze is supposed to have been
started by a cigaret thrown in the
shed.
The Keota news., 1919-10-31
School Notes

The following pupils Of the primary
room had their names on the honor roll
for October: Clarence Dodder. Elmer
Rhoadarmer. Guy Stockham. Donald
Watt. Raymond Rhoadarmer. Paul
Wagner. Arthur Workman. Wilbur
Zeigler. Fred Wagner. Irene Moore.
Caroline Underwood. Frances Wertz.
Mary Reichel. Alvis Zeigler. The honor
roll for the grammar room has the
names Of Dorothy Byrne. Efsie Dodder.
Marguerite Dodder. Mildred Rhoadar-
mer. Ellen VanHoosen. Fred Bowles.
Glenn Bowles. Harold Knipp. Clarence
Rhoadarmer. Melvin Werts. Mabel
Wertx.
The Keota High School basket ball
teams played Carpenter. Wyoming.
high school teams last Friday afternoon.
at Carpenter. The score for the boys
game was q to In favor Of Keota: and
the Keota girls won by score Of l6 to
l. Robert Rumsey had the misfortune
to sprain his ankle during the game:
but everyone arrived home jubilant
over the results. Sidney Baker refer
eed half Of the boys game: and Miss
Ona Marks refereed half Of the girls
game.
One Of the sunflower girls handed this
In: Tho boys Of The manual training
class work 20 hard that they don't need
stove to keep warm. However Prof.
watches over them tenderly. and 20 put
up stove for them. to avoid any danger
Of their catching cold.
Found on test papers: The skeleton
10 hard bone In The head. 1.-TWO kinds
Of muscles are the nervous and neees-
sary." "A tissue 70 . rubber like
peace. Bacteria b the disease that
forms digestion.
The Keota news., 1919-10-31
Gets Baeoa at Gin

Winning l. getting to Be . confirmed
habit with the K. H. s. basket ball
teams. Thursday afternoon they jour
neyed to Gill: and - 10 customary. put
up two strong games that brought home
the bacon. The boys used the first half
to get warmed up. and At the close the
score stood 4 to In favor Of Gill. Civ
ing the home.tsam rooters undue cause
for early jubilee. They turned the
tables. however. In the second half. and
the score at the finish was 22 to s. In
favor Of Keota. The Keota girls won
their game by score Of 8 to 2 Fol.
lowing the game. six Of the boys went
on to Greeley. whore they saw . vaude-
vile show by way Of celebration.
The Keota news., 1919-10-31

Miss Ruth Boyer came from Goodrich
Friday evening and visited until Sunday
with her parents. Ar. and Ars. G. w.
Boyer. Miss Boyer teaches the third
and fourth grades In the Goodrich school
and has forty.six pupils.
Miss Ida Dhooge left Friday morning
for Fremont, Ncbr.. to attend the we'd
ding Of her sister. Josephine. During
her sbscnce her position at the s. w.
Fox store 10 being filed BY Miss Katie
Hoyt.
Alex. Rohn came from Fl. Morgan
Sunday for visit with his family.
Mrs. N. J. McMcekan spent Monday
and Tuesday In Greeley.
The Keota news., 1919-10-31
Open Mine to Combat Coal Shortage

Open Mine to Combat Coal Shortage
Methods Of averting distressing fuel
famine in this locality. in case Of pro.
longed coal strike. received discussion
following the meeting Of the Keota
town council Thursday evening; and
steps were taken looking to the open.
ing up Of coal veins on the j. L. Rucker
farm. fifteen miles southwest of Kcota.
Arthur E. Myers volunteered to take
charge Of the work. IL found feasible.
and accordingly he and C. l.. Gibson
drove out to the Rucker place this NOR
ming to investigate the proposition.
They found that . little work would
open up the vein. so that usable coal
may be secured. Early ext week Mr..
Myers. with the help Of Ed. Compton
and Isaac Workman. will start on the
job. and hope to start hauling by Tues.
day.
In the past coal has been taken from
the Rucker and Scdsr places: but it has
been Of poor quality that slacks very
quickly. II is thought that as the vein
10 followed farther into the hill the qusi.
ity will be better. and also that the vein
will become thicker. II Is about thirty
inches in thickness where il crops out
Of the hillside. A. long M twenty years
ago . man by the name OF. I.awton
or,erated n mine n short distsnce from
the Ruckcr place: and II 10 said by old
timers that his coal was hauled long dis
tances. A. he operated the mine for
several years. the workings extended
for . considerable distance underground
and this probably accounts for the bet
ter grade Of coal he is said to have had.
Those who have burned the Ruckcr
coal say II makes hot fire. but requires
. stove Of extra good draft to burn II
successfully. "
The Keota news., 1919-10-31

Fire destroyed the electric lighting
plant operated by Earl McQuown at
New Rsymer. last Wednesday morning:
and the family. who were occupying an
other part Of the same building, mar
rowly escaped with their lives. They
were awakened In the night by their
parrot: but were unable to save the pet
that had given the warning. A new
lighting plant will probably be installed.
either by Mr.. McQuown, or with him
as manager. Fire about three weeks
ago destroyed the old Burlington Hotel
and other buildings, at Grover. Altho
Keota is now supplied with plenty Of
water and good pressure for fighting
fire, the fire hose. ordered some months
ago, has not yet arrived, and % this
town 10 in practically IN unprotected
condition.
Mrs. Thomas Ferry was called to
Denver Friday by the death OF her
father.
Fortner, PHOTOGRAPHER, Sterling, Cole.
The Keota news., 1919-10-31
Rev. Mcmillan Home From Fra.es


Rev. H. B. Mcmillan. secretary Of
the American Sunday School Union for
this district. with headquarters In Gree
10y. has returned from ls months over.
seas service with the Y. N. C. A. The
Rev. Mcmillan. who has organized
numerous Sunday schools In the outly-
ing districts Of this county will waste no
time before returning to work. This
week he Is attending to some work and
Monday he will be actively op the job.
The Rev. Mcmillan was nine months
in England and the remainder Of the
time IN France. He WAS four and q
half months At Chimonix At tho foot Of
Mount Blanc. two months at Desune
university. and two months at Paris In
salvage work. Tribune Republican.
The Keota news., 1919-10-31
Old Clothes Gift Finds Lost Sister

Old Clothes Gift Fiads Lost Sister
Mr.. and Mrs. S. Meiman Of Denver
gave all the clothing they could possibly
spare in the Red Cross clothing drive
last spring. Mr.. Meiman put . note
in the pocket Of . jacket. hoping that
he might hear Of the disposition made
Of It. BY IN extraordinary coincidence
the jacket was received by Mrs. s. Gar
bar Of Warsaw. Poland. who IL Mr..
Meiman's sister. She wrote telling Of
the receipt Of the jacket. this being the
first letter Mr.. Mciman has received
from her for five years. She had lost
her husband and son in war. and the
American Red Cross had bsen aiding
her and her daughter. The Meimans
have sent further relief.
The Keota news., 1919-10-31
NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY
items of Interest to the People Of
Keota Community

grocery and cream station business
which Mr.. and Ars. Ray Butler have
been operating for the past few months.
and took possession this week. BY an.
other deal. Mr.. Butler secured the
REIMBURSEMENT Of the Frank Bevins
quarter section homestead. eight miles
east Of Keota. and fled on It ~ an addi.
,ional homestead. He traded his Ford
and made 4 cash payment for the re-
linauishment. Mr.. Bevins has shipped
his immigrant movables. and ID driving
thru to his former home in Nebraska.
Delegates from Grover. Keota, Buck
ingham and Raymer will meet In Keota
Saturday to arrange high school bas-
ke, ball schedule. Keota ID reported to
have fast bunch Of basket shooters
this year. and have the championship
bee buzzing loudly In their bonnet
Not much 10 known concerning the
strength Of the other teams In the
league. .-Pawnee Press.
The following young people Of Keota
attended Epworth League and church
services At Buckingham. Sunday eve
ming: Misses Mildred Robinson. Minnie
Lineelbach. Myrtle Krum. Wilma
S;mms. Maude Gabriel. Mary Hemp
hill. Mary Haworth: Messrs. Guy vaw-
ter. Harold. Perry. Clark and Forrest
Hemphill. aud Harley Baker.
Frank Bosler. who sold his personal
property here last Friday. expects to
leave early next week for Grand Island.
Nebr.. where hs viii either farm. or
again engage In railroading. He has
rented his Keota farm to Vincent A.
Burkcy. who has planted fifty acres Of
It TO fall wheat.
Frank Trumbo motored to Fl. Morgan
Wednesday to meet Mss. Trumbo. just
returned from Indianola, Iowa, where
she was called several weeks ago by
the illness and subsequent death Of her
mother.
J. T.. Milford was down from Chey.
ennc TO attend the Knipp sale. and to
spend few days with his wife and ba-
BY. who are with Mrs. Milford's par.
en's. Mr.. and Mrs. W. J. Simms.
Mrs. A. H. Currie left Monday for
her former home In Cedar Rapids.
Nebr.. where she will visit with her pa
rents. Mr.. and Ars. r. A. Gray.
The Baptist Ladies AID have installed
ahawood piano In their church, buying
tAe instrument from Ralph Currie. who
bad it SHIPPED from Missouri.
Mrs. Charles Roby entertained last
rnday evening in honor Of Mrs. Fey
:'d her son. Carl, who will soon leave
'of their home in Nebraska.
Mrs. Matte Hollsmbeak arrived Sat-
sFday from Denver where she has been
LOT several months for medical treat
ment
W. A. and Ben Rhoadarmer were Ea-
... .0a visitors Wednesday. They returned
WIN load Of potatoes and other vege-
Jolly crowd Of young psopls attend
~ =, me party given by Alva Wecas and
~ nane, last Monday evening.
D. asses Mary Haworth, and Mildred
o0,nson ~" ms were Sunday dinner guests Of
"e ". E. Baker family.
expert kodak Aalshiag. Mail your
81, ~ 70 Gilbert's Park eters, Greeley,
The Keota news., 1919-10-31

Farm Loans: Twenty years II want
ed. May be paid of any time. Call
at farm. eight miles due west Of keots.
or address G. w. Cochran. Briggsdale
Colo. PS6
The Stork Express stopped Sunday
night at the home Of Mr.. and Mrs. B.
A. Rhoadarmer and left fine boy.
Mrs. Jcssc Archer. Of Fairbury.
Nebr.. is visiting at the home Of her
sop. Henry Becbc.
when you look your best zee Fortaes.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-08-29
LABOR'S own DAY
First Monday in September Is
Legal Holiday in Almost
Every State Now.
"HE American Federation of La
Dor held an annual convention

"HE American Federation of La
Dor held an annual convention
at Columbus, O.. December S-12
1886. AT this session the officers re-
ported the following:
"At the fourth session of the fedora
tion resolution was adopted making
the first Monday in September of each
year labor's national holiday and rec
Ommending its observance by wage
workers generally throughout the
country. This met with response that
exceeded the most sanguine expecta-
tions. In our great manufacturing and
distributing centers thousands of
workingmen marched in procession
and participated In the festivities of
the picnic grounds, where the most
skilled mechanics and workers in pro-
fessions and laborers united In COM
mon celebration, exchanging friendly
fraternal greetings while they listened
to the champions of labor discussing
the economic and political questions of
the day. The good effects of this are
SO well understood that we recommend
it's more general observance still until
1t shall be as uncommon for q man to
work On that day as on Independence
day."
Nearly all of the states in the Union
now have statutes making the first
Monday In September a legal holiday,
mus observing Labor day.
In order that there be no misunder-
standing with reference to the action
of congress In enacting legislation
upon this subject 1t is well to state
that the law passed by congress June
Labor day a national holiday only pro-
vided that Labor day should be OBJ
served In the District of Columbia, as
well as the then territories.
Labor day was established In the
various states and in the order and on
the dates named below: 1887, February
81, Oregon 1887, March IS, Colorado
1887. April 8, New Jersey; 1887, May 6.
New York; 1887, May II, Massachu-
setts; 1889, March 20, Connecticut
1889, March 20, Nebraska: 1889, April
25. Pennsylvania 1890, April %, Ohio
1891, February 10, Maine; 1891, Feb
ruary "a, Washington; 1891, March 4,
Montana; 1891, March 4. Kansas; 1891,
March 9, Indiana 1891, March IL, Ten
nessee; 1891, March 81, New Hamp-
shire; 1891, June IT, Illinois; 1891, Oc-
tober 16, Georgia; 1891, December %,
South Carolina; 1892, February 5, Vir-
ginia; 1892, February %, Utah; 1892,
July z, Louisiana; 1892, December IL,
Alabama; 1898. February IL, Texas ;
1898, February IA, Delaware; 1898,
March %, California 1893, April 18,
Minnesota; 1893, April 10, Wisconsin ;
1892, April 20, Florida; 1898, May %,
Rhode Island; 1894, June %, District
of Columbia and territories; 1895,
April 8, Missouri.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-08-29

days labor of the workman commits
crime against good morals, and in
such degree strikes blow at the
foundation of peaceful society.
Suppose the laboring classes should
demand and undertake by force to
compel the payment of a sum for their
services which all men would agree to
be twice its value, what would hap
pen?
Immediately the cry would go up
that anarchy was In the land, and the
strong arm of the government, civil
and military, would be called out to
prevent the confiscation of the money
of the employer, and properly so-but
why? Because labor had demanded too
much. But who is the anarchist when
the laborer gets too little? 1t is poor
rule that will not work both ways.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-08-29

| call wealth in the world, and 1t is alb
solutely nothing without labor to make
1t productive.
On the other hand, put labor naked
on the earth, and soon it will do again
what it has done in the past-produce
the food cut forests, drain the marsh
es, build the houses and build civili-
Zation.
But the laborer of any kind who re-
joices in his strength and who feels
conceit proves his smallness, whether
he be laborer with pick and shovel,
or laborer working at a great scien-
tific problem.
The thing for us to do Is to remem-
ber our littleness, our shortcomings,
and try, by giving full credit to others,
to deserve credit for ourseives.-Ex-
change.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-08-29


Il American France
Our boys for the learn the French dances but
would
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And
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The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-08-29
ABOR left unrestricted and unre-
, strained will produce and fix its
own reward.

Labor should have Its reward. When
labor fails to receive Its just reward,
confiscation has happened.
When man is deprived of his prop
erty without due process Of law, the
law says that is confiscation and will
not be allowed. AS labor Is the work
ingman's property, and in most cases
all the property that he has, the only
commodity which he has to sell-it
must therefore follow that it is as
much the duty of the government to
prevent the confscation of labor S it
is to prevent the conflscation of any
other kind of property, asserts the
Washington Star. The man who takes
more than a reasonable profit on the
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-08-29

"HE member of the union" Is the
man that pays only when he is
forced to. Usually comes to the
meetings only when he has an ak TO
be ground. He is the man that will
always say that the union has never
given him anything, as he would get
good wages If there never was a union
In existence. And he cannot see what
the officers are doing with all the
money.
The "uniun man" is a very different
person. lie auen Is his meetings reg
ulariy rH.r- 'H~ iu the debate that
is liz t.-- .....-- tf the union. never
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-08-29

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