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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-29
AUTO COMPANY TO
GO ON EXCURSION
TO FORT MADISON

Auto booster excursion from Mo-
line to the Perfection Tire & Rub
Der company plant at Fort Mad
son. Iowa, next Sunday is the plan
of Moline stockholders of the com
pany.
Many are planning on making tie
trip and large crowd is expected,
as from three to four hundred in
vitatiOns have been sent. The eX-
cursion is open 10 the public. Ed
ward Petit, manager of the Perfec-
ton Tire Supply company of Moline
is planning on the trip, and has
made arrangements to take with
him a motion picture operator. The
trip will begin at the store, 1909
Fifth avenue, Moline, at $50 Sun
day morning ana the return jour
ney will be made Monday evening.
A stop will be made near Musca-
tine for a basket picnic and a lee
ture on crude rubber by B. o. Pes
erson. Monday morning the ex
cursionists will visit the Fort Md
ison plant and if possible the state
peDitentiary
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-29
Moline SCOUTS
REPORT S13,5OO
Subscriptions by Lads Represents
225 Bonds Sold During Vic
tory Loan Campaign.

Reports yesterday from Boy
Scouts of Moline show that $13, 500
worth of bonds have been sold in
the last week. This report is from
Only a few teams in Moline and
several in East Moline and Silvis.
The canvass of the scouts is being
completed today, and it is thought
that they will reach the $4,000
maximum mark made in the fourth
Liberty loan Hampton scouts re-
ported $500 bond sales yesterday.
The money subscriptions collect
ed by the scouts represents 225
bonds in the Victory drive Rec
ords Of subscriptions taken by each
scout are being prepared and will
determine distribution of helmets
sent by General ]. J. Pershing to
Coy Scouts for their activities In
this campaign.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-29
LET CONTRACT
LOGAN BUILDING
Whftsitt and ScsfuIxke Let Job for
Building One Story Struc-
ture on Blackwell Site.

Contract for the new Logan
school was yesterday awarded
Whftsitt & Schulzke, Moline archi-
tects. The building viii be erected
on the Blackwell site, Eighteenth
avenue and Twenty street,
Moline. Bonds to the amount Of
$4,000 to finance the project was
favored by voters at the school
election, April 10.
Request was made by the board
of education that plans similar to
those of the William Carr building
be submitted. The William Carr
school building, designed by Whit
slit & Schulzke, has given genuine
satisfaction. 1t is the first school
building of the one-story type
erected in this locality.
The feature that has gained uni
yersal favor S0r this type is the
saw-toOth roof, which permits a
maximum supply of natural light
at all times, light being available
though the window shades be
drawn tight.
The William Carr building has
four class rooms, a kindergarten
-oom, a teachers room, and a com
bination auditorium is equipped
with disappearing chairs, which
may be easily put out of the way
when the room is to be used as 4
gym.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-29
COLSTON FAMILY
HAS MORE HONOR
ADDED IT'S NAME

A. ]. CoIston of the British
army. brother of f. ]. Jack" Col
ston. Chauffeur for Harry Good of
Moli1e, has been awarded the
military medal for bravery at
Monchy wood last September.
Jack Colston has just received
word to this effect from his
brother.
Jack Colston is himself a re-
turned soldier. Another brother,
who was married and the father
of five children and who had been
in the service for four years, re
Gently died of wounds received in
action. A sister is with the medi-
cal field forces in England and
third brother has been in the
English navy for 16 years.
Friends are beginning to call
the family the fighting Colstons.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-29
OPEN MEMBERSHIP
TO AUTO DEALERS
IN TWO COUNTRIES

Membership in the Tri-C:ty Auto
mobile Trade association is 10 be
opened to all automobile dealers
and tradesmen in Rock Island and
Scott counties.
This decision was reached at the
regular monthly dinner and meet
ing of the association held at the
Manufacturers hotel in Moline
Iowa now has a state organization
of automobile dealers and trades
men known as the Iowa Motor
Trades bureau, of which C. g. AL
ford of Davenport is a director, and
Davenport and Scott county mem
bers of the tri-City organization
will affiliate with the Iowa state
organization.
Discussion of progressive ac-
counting and business methods and
the scarcity of efficient and trained
mechanics were other features of
the meeting.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-29
ASK FOR ASPHALT
INSTEAD OF BRICK
FOR 18th STREET

The once doomed Twenty-fifth
street paving project, is very much
alive. Property owners are anx-
ious to have the paving con-
structed and are circulating a pc
tition asking the city to have the
job done in asphalt-concrete pave
ment in place of the brick construc-
ton as mentioned in the contract
made with the Mccarthy Improve
ment company, two years ago.
II the contract is changed to read
asphalt the improvement company,
as it previously informed the city
commission, would build the pave
ment at the cost of $37, 49O.25. The
company claims that they will be
unable to lay the pavement-at the
contract price if brick is to be
used. They claim that a loss of
SIS, 600 will be encountered
The property owners contend
that asphalt paving is suitable for
the stretch on Twenty-fifth street
from Fifteenth to Twenty-third
avenues. The present administra-
ton is in favor of the new sugges-
tions, but this administration will
be out of office tomorrow.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-29
ALUMNI OF {. M.
ARE ORGANIZED
Leonard Nelson Is Named President
of Association Which Was
Formed Last Night

Leonard Nelson, graduate of the
East Moline township high school
in 1917, was elected president of
the East Moline Alumni asso-
citation formed last night. Seven
teen alumni of the high school met
in the building and laid plans for
permanent organization.
Harry Palmer of the class of IA
vas named vice president; Estella
PARROT, Is, secretary. and Kathryn
Wiley, IA. treasurer.
A committee of three was named
to make complete plans for the first
activity of the organization, a re-
ception to be given in the school
building on May % to welcome into
the organization the class of 1919.
The class will graduate on May %
and will become members of the
alumni association the following
day.
The constitution of the organiza-
ton will be drafted by committee
Of five appointed last night. Both
the reception and constitution COM
rnittees will report to the associa-
ton at a meeting to be held May s.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-29
COUNCIL TAKES
OATHTOMORROW
Public Invited to Witness Change
From Commission to Alder
manic Administration.

Molfne's change from the COM
mission to the aldermanic form OF
government tomorrow afternoon
will be witnessed by the public.
Mayor C. P. Skinner and other
newly elected officials will take
their oaths Of office at o'clock to-
morrow afternoon in the Moline
city hall at a public ceremony NO
formal program has been arranged.
The ceremony will probably con
sist Of speeches made by both the
outgoing and incoming officials.
The meeting will be brief and there
will be no business transacted, ex-
cept that of qualifying for office H
A. Douglas, alderman IN the sew
enth ward, was member or the MO
line council eight years ago [. v.
Johnson, whose term expires tomor-
row, was on the city commission
which came in office eight years
ago
The first meeting of the new city
council will be held next Monday
night. at which time Mayor Skinner
will probably announce his com
mittee appointments The principal
officesto which the mayor VIII sub
nit appointments to the council are
that of superintendent of water
works and street superintendent
Within the next few days the mayor
will also name members for the
new board of police and fire com
misioners.
THE new council will consist of
the following mem
First ward-J- A Swanson and &.
J. Anderson -.
Second ward-EL-Nordgren and
R S Hosford-
Third ward-Fred d. Holt and
Charles Fl. Elmer
Fourth Ward-FTank Fl. HerbSt
and Perry A. Merriman-
Fifth ward-Gaston Veys and l.
A Vinton.
Sixth ward-E- e. Morgan and
o. F. Anderson.
Seventh ward-John F. Huey and
r A. Douglass.
The last aIdermanic council,
eight years ago, was:
First ward-CarI Bergfund and
John Day.
Second ward-C. v. Johnson and
r. w. Anderson.
Third ward-Henry c. First and
J. H. Mcbride.
Fourth ward-Thomas Burtcheu
and V. e. Brown
Fifth ward-Ernest Carlmark and
Theodore Weig2ndt-
Sixth ward-W. H. Christison and
A. C. Stouffer.
Cavaptb yuard-R D0upIaSS
and J. II. Meditation
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-29
SCHOOL. Men TO
MEET SATURDAY
East Moline to Entertain Peda-
gOgueS OF InSti uiiOns of Three
Cities for First Time.

The first meeting of the four ses-
sions of the year Of the Tri-City
SChooimasters club to be held in
East Moline will take place Satur-
day of this week The meeting was
scheduled for last fall, but due to
the influenza epideLlcs the session
was postponed.
The East Moline hospitality com
mittee, composed OF J. W. Caste,
Justin Washburn OF Silvis and ID.
B. Hoffman, has invited all members
WHO wish TO inspect the Root q
Y&nDeryoort engineering and ordS.
nance plants and TO take a hike
through the industrial district OF
Fast Moline TO meet with the COM
Eittea at Seventh street and Fiji
teenth avenue az 3 O'Clock in the
afternoon. Inspection of the East
Moline township high school and
a social hour will be held from )
to 6:15. A dinner is 10 be served
by the home economies department
of the township high school. The
menu to he served is: fruit cock
tail, salted waters, veal crOQuet es.
huttered peas, potatoes on tie half
shell, radishes. olives. onions. but
tered rolls, tomato salad, cheese
waters. stra berry shortcake, cof-
fee and assorted corrections.
Smoking in the boiler room" is a
par Of the social program,
The business meeting will pre-
cede the following program, which
Will be given in the auditorium at
S o'clock:
welcome F. Mitchell, pres
idcnt of township board,
Girls chorus with Miss Mile,
Beck.
Rlackface artists -Rastus WasE
ard Washington Weigman.
Jokestown hotel Carl Erbstein
and Henrietta Dittman.
Reuters sympathy orchestra"
"Schooldays' Erbstein and com
pany
Balopticon Finale"
The clubs committee is cOmpOs-
ed of j. W. Casio. chairman; F. L.
PhiIbrook. Rock Island: r. F. Win
does. Davenport; c. R. Crakes. Mo
line, and Justin Washburn, Silvis.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-29
SCHOOL BOARD
is REORGANIzED
Hrs. s. A. Cartwright Again Named
Secretary standing Committees
Are Selected.

East Moiine's city board Of edu-
cation was reo-ganizod at a special
meeting held last night, The old
city board met and gave vote of
thanks 10 its only retiring mem
Der, G. z. Schilling, who had served
faithfully on the board for seven
years. When the board adjourned.
the new board met and welcomed
two new members, De Loss Met
caife and James Westphal, the lat
ter named to fill the vacancy left
By the removal from the city of
l. A Paradise.
Mrs. S. A. Cartwright, who has
served as secretary on the board
fer five consecutive years, was re-
named secretary last night. Mrs.
Cartwright has been a member of
the board for ten years. The board
decided II close city schools for the
summer months at noon on May
g. Graduation exercises for eighth
graders who will receive diplomas
have not been arranged Report
cards viii be issued by teachers on
the afternoon Of the 18th
"A special meeting Oh the DOdTd
will probably be held next week to
decide on the date Of the special
election to be held to vote on the
proposition of floating bonds for a
new school in the John Deere dis
trict and also if the revenue tax
should be increased from three to
four per cent Enough names have
now been obtained on the petition
asking the election, to have it filed
with Mrs. S. A Cartwright, secre-
kary of the board.
Standing committees for the
year were named by A E Adle-
man. president of the board Com
mittees named are:
Teachers salaries-W. 3 Pot
ter, Mrs S--A Cartwright, Oscar
Lundeen-
Text books and course OF study
James Westphal, A D. Cox, DeLoss
Metcalfe.
Buildings and grounds
Potter, Cox, Metcalfe
Supplies Cartwright,
Cox, WestphaI-
Andnng-Cox Potter, Lundeen-
Finance Metcaffe, Cartwright,
1Testphal-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-29
WATERFOWL WINS
MERIT DIPLOMAS

Two diplomas won by the Wa
tertown institution for insane at the
medical convention held in Chicago
last June reached the hospital yes
terday. One of the diplomas was
awarded the hospital for its merits
in the reeducation of the insane and
another for its miniature models
of various articles made.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-29
DESTITUTE FAMILY
IN NEED CLOTHING

A cot. bedding. underwear and
other clothes are needed by a des-
titute family of Moline, whose
breadwinner is paralyzed and
whose oman-of-the-house must be
at home and is unable to work.
Mrs Rose Salisbury, police matron,
asks that people who wish to do
nate bedding and wearing apparel
bring them TO her at the Moline
city hall
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-29
SEXTET
IN CONCERT MAY g

Next number Of the Young Peo-
pies Lyceum course will be pre-
sented at the MolWe high school
Friday, May 9. when saxaphOne
sextet will give the program, The
sextet was originally booked Tor
April 7. but a change in date be-
came necessary.
The organization was assembled
and is coached by the famous band
master and comet virtuoso. Bohumir
Kryl. There is piano, violin. ceLo.
saxaphoue, trombone, clarinet and
cOrnet.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-29
RESIDENCE RAIDED;
FIND BOOTLEGGING

Hearing of Mfr. and Mrs. Louis
Moncuch, alleged to be bootleggers,
will be held next week, if Mrs. Mon
ouch is then able to leave her bed.
At the present she is i'll and IN
able to leave the house.
The MonCuch house was ralded
last Saturday night and one bar
rel of beer, one case of beer and
one gallon of whisky were conf1s-
Gated. The house is located at 754
Twenty-third street, East Moline.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-29
rs FIRST WOMAN TO
DEMONSTRATE CARS

East Moline claims one of the
first women automobile demon
strators in the quad cities. Mrs
F. E. Harvey, wife of the propri-
etor of the Harvey garage, East
Moline. is not only able to dem
onstrate the workings of a car,
but she is capable of repairing
and doctoring all parts of a ma
chi.e. She is familiar with al
most every type of machine made.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-29
Obituary

Funeral of Robert s. Blakemore.
Funeral services for Robert S.
Blakemore will be held at 10: 80
Thursday morning in the residence.
1921 Seventh street, Moline. Rev. P.
c. Ladd will be in charge. Inter
men will be in Riverside maus-
oleum.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-29
FRED BURNS HOME,
NONE THE WORSE

Fred Burns. 1908 Sixth avenue,
Moline. formerly employed in the
stockroom at Borg {, Beck plant, is
home after having participated in
some of the fiercest battles of the
world war. He enlisted with Battery
IN in Davenport, and his active SER
vice was with the Twenty-sIxth
Yankee division, one that paraded
Through Boston on the 2G. Burns
icame home in advance of his unit.
lie was ten months overseas and
seven of these months he was IN
efrcnt line trenches He fought
Through Chateau Thierry, St
lMihael and the Meuse-Argonue and
twas never wounded Tor gassed.
Then they sent him to the hospital
|for three weeks with Influenza.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-29
ELECT DIRECTORS
FOR YEAR MAY 13

New directors for the ensuing
year for the Moline Commercial
club will be named May IS at the
club rooms. Candidates for direc-
tors are now being posted on the
club bulletin. The new directors
will meet in the latter part of May
to organize and elect officers.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-29
Police News

Charging that Rene De Cassier
and Andrew De CASTER, brothers.
entered her apartment at 613 Fifth
avenue, Moline, last night while in
toxicated, Mrs. Marie Staes asked
police to arrest the men. The hear
ing of the brothers on charges of
disorderly conduct will come up
Saturday afternoon. The defend
ants allege that they entered the
apartment to protect the complain
ant from an attack by Mr.. Staes.
Charges against A. ]. Soeder of
Davenport. for driving a motor We
hicle without lights, were dis
missed last night by Magistrate
Frank Gustafson. Soeder said that
his dash light was on and that he
thought the others were on, too.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-29
TO ANSWER CHARGE
WIFE ABANDONMENT

Elmer o. Edstrand, 1854 Nine
teenth avenue, Moline, and the pro-
prietor of a grocery store at 1903
Fifteenth street, will b arraigned in
the Moline police court May to
answer to a charge of abandonment
preferred by his wife. Lillian. He
was arrested Saturday night and
was released Immediately on bonds
of $500.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-29
BY PIECE
OF FLYING STEEL

+. w. Hoover was struck by some
flying metal this morning while at
work at the Silvis shops. The in
buried man was taken TO the Mo
|line city hospital, where it was
Hound that the wound in the head
was not of serious nature. DR.. W.
ID. Chapman attended him
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-29
CITY CHEMIST rs
BACK IN AMERICA

l.. A. Fritze. former Moline city
chemist, VINO has been in service in
France, has wired Moline friends
that he has landed in Boston and
that he might be expected in Moline
next week on furlough. He has been
sent to Camp Devins and after Ills
visit here he will go to Washington
for special work, as he has been
named historian OF the water supply
department OF the division of sani-
tation.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-29
HONOR PLACES IN
BELGIAN PARADE
TO RETURNED BOYS

Places OF honor in the parade in
celebration q Belgian independ-
ence day, July y, will be given 20
the some two hundred Belgian
American boys of this community
who return from service Bricf
plans for the celebration are being
outlined by the Belgian-American
alliance OF Moline Edward COryli,
president of the alliance, made the
announcement today and said that
the boys will also be given prom
inent places in the festivities at
Central park.
All the News All the Time
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-29

EAST MOLINE OFFICE,
Telephone East Moline 168-R
a. Martens. K. Circulation Manager
1040 Fifteenth avenue.
For social and personal items call
East Moline 1O4-W.
Delivered by carrier at Is cents
per week in Moline. East Moline.
SiIvis and WATERFOWL
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1919-05-22

Strawberries were ready for the short
cake.
1--WE been wallerin' since the dew
was of gittin' them berries an W.
lets-ayes |" said Aunt Deel. now busy
with her work at the stove.
"Aunt, you look as young as ever" I
remarked.
She slapped my arm and said with
mock severity:
"stop thatl w'yi You know better
ayes"
How vigorously she stirred the fire
then.
II can't return the complimentary
soul how you've changed-ayes !" she
remarked.
IL hope you aln't fit no more. Bart.
can't bear TO think o. you flynn az
folks an poundln' of 'em. Don't seem
right-no, IL don'tw
"Why, Aunt Deel, what In the world
do you mean?" asked.
"It's Puryis' brain that does the
poundin'. l guess" said my uncle.
"It's kind o. got the habit. It's a reg
lar beetle brain. To hear him talk
ye'd think he an you could clean out
the hull Mexican nation-barrin' acct
dents. Why, anybody would suppose
that yer enemies go to climbin' trees
as soon as they see ye comm an that
you pull the trees up by the roots to
git at EN-"
"a certain amount Of such deyiltry
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1919-05-22

Ing" Betsy went on. HShe said that
young Mr.. Latour was at the same no
tel and that he and her father were
good friends"
wonder II she really enjoyed stick
ing this thorn into my fiesh-a thorn
which made II difIicult for me to fol-
low the advice OF the schooimaster and
robbed me Of the little peace I might
have enjoyed. My faith in Sally wav.
cred up and down until II settled at
Its wonted level and reassured me.
II was a perfect summer morning
and I enjoyed my walk over the famil-
lar road and up Into the hill country.
The birds seemed to sing n welcome
to me. Men and boys I had known
waved their hats In the hayfields ana
looked at me. There are few pleas
ures In this world like that Of boy
getting home after long absence.
My heart beat fast when I saw the
house and my uncle and Purvis coming
In from the twenty-acre lot with
load Of hay. Aunt Deel stood on the
front steps looking down the road.
Now and then her waving handker-
chief went to her eyes Uncle Pea
body came down the standard OF his
loud and walked toward me.
"Say. stranger, have you seen any
thing Of a Teller by the name o. Bart
Baynesf" he demanded.
'Have your" I asked.
'No. sir, I amt. Gosh Almighty !
Say what have ye done with that boy
of our'nl"
"what have you done to our houseT
asked again.
"Built on an addition"
"That's what I've done to your boy"
I answered.
Thunder an llghtnln'i How you've
raised the roof" he exclaimed as he
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1919-05-22

is necessary to the comfort of Mr..
body else to take the responsibility
for 1t he assumes II himself. His imag.
ination has an intense craving for
blood and violence. It's that type OF
American who. egged on by the slave
power is hurrying us into trouble
with Mexico"
Purvis came In presently with
look In his face which betrayed his
knowledge Of the fact that all the cob
webs spun by his fancy were now to
be brushed away. Still he enjoyed
them while they lasted and there was
kind Of taclt claim In his manner
that they were subjects regarding
which no honest man could be expect
ed to tell the truth.
As we ate our dinner they told me
that an escaped slave had come into
"A neighboriing county and excited the
people with stories OF the auction
block and of negroes driven like yokec
oxen ON plantations In South Carolina
whence he had escaped on a steam
boat.
II b'lieye I'm goin' to vote for abo
lition." said Uncle Peabody. II won
der what Sile Wright will say to that
Hell probably advise against 1t; thu
time isn't ripe for SO great a change
was my answer. HE thinks that the
whole matter should be left to the gla
cial action OF times forces"