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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-03
Army Worm Found in Rock island County
Cuts Wide Swath in Texas, According
to the Federal Agriculture Department

The army worm has cut a wide
swath this year in the vicinities
of Dallas and Fort Worth. Texas.
Strenuous efforts to prevent ats
spread have been made, and abb
sence of other reports gives
ground for the hope that it may not
appear elsewhere this summer, but
! United States department of agri-
culture entomologists urge all
/ farmers in all states east of the
Rocky mountains to remain on the
watch for the pest until cool
weather comes next autumn.
There are usually three genera
tons of caterpillars-the form in
which the pest greatly damages
crops by feeding upon them-in a
year but seldom or never are there
two successive outbreaks in any
one locality. The insects usually
appear in the fields very suddenly,
and it seems certain that the
moths-the parents of the cater
pillars-at times fly in great num-
bers for many miles, and alight in
a body to deposit their eggs at
some place favorable to the devei-
opment of their offspring. This
fact accounts for the appearance
of the army worm in regions far
removed fromauy known source of
infestation.
The full grown army worm is a
nearly naked, smooth, striped cat
erpiIlar, about IL inches long. It's
general color is usually greenish,
and the stripes, one along eacn
Il fhO
centeT of the back. are dark and
often nearly black. The stripe
along the back usually has fine,
hghb colored broken stripe run
ming down its center. The color
of the body between the dark
stripes varies from greenish TO
reddish brown. The head is green
ish brown, speckled with black.
when an army of these worms
is at work in field" says one Of
the publications of the department
of agriculture, which are not given
to eXaggeration or to seeking after
melodramatic effects, "the champ
ing Of their jaws is plainly to be
heard as they greedily deVour
every blade in sight. In this stage
the army worm frequently con-
sumes all of the food supply near
the place where it has developed
from the egg. When such is the
case the caterpillars mass together
and crawl away in a body in search
of other food 1t is this habit which
has gained for the insect the pop
ular name of army worm"
Normally the caterpillars
march" forward during the day
and rest and eat at night, but
sometimes they eat voraciously
during the day, and sometimes they
eat each other when foraging
proves vain. The army worm in
jures crops in but one way-by
eating away all the tender portions
of the leaves, the immature seed,
and sprouts, and when numerous
it may even devour the plants down
to the very ground. The greed and
capacity for food of the fulI-grown
caterpillars are almost unbeliev-
able. The pupa takes no food. The
moth subsists principally upon the
nectar gathered from flowers.
1t is the massing together of the
caterpillars which gives to the
farmer the chance of destroying
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-03

with one Of the following MKT
ures: Arsenate OF lead powder
form, two pounds, or four pounds
of the paste form, in so gallons OF
water; or one pound Of paris Frean
and two pounds OF freshly sIaked
lime in so gallons Of wafer.
Scatter poisoned bait broadcast
over infested fields Take "
pounds OF bran and mix tLoro ~
~ with it either one poanG of pans
green or crude arsenic, thenAadd
two gallons Of low-grade molasses
diluted with from three to four
gallons or water and six finely
chopped lemons. This ig especially
recommended for lelds containing
mixtures of grass and cOwpeas,
cowpeas and sorghum. or fields IN
which grass has been consumed
by the caterpiilars.
DO not pasture stock in fields
where the grass OF other crops
have been sprayed with a poison
mixture until after heavy rains
have fallen, and not before three
weeks after the application OF the
insecticides.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-03
LEADERS SEE NO
PRICE DECLINES
IN CONSTRUCTION

Leading bankers, merchants and
insurance men throughout the
country are unqualified in their
statement that there will he no
early decline in building and con-
struction costs. In statements pre-
pared at this instance of Director
General Roger W. Babson, ofSthe
department of labor, these men de-
clare with certainty that there will
be no sudden decline of prices fol-
lowing the signing of the treaty of
peace other than the elimination
of war prices, which were made
necessary to stimulate production
in high cost plants.
One business leader says that the
greatest danger to our economic
structure today arises from the
failure OF many to recognize new
and higher level of prices, based on
permanently increased cost of la
Dor and high taxation
Those who postpone building or
buying in the hope of materially
lower prices are specializing in the
future misfortune of the nation, :"
he says, for falling prices, when
reaching the point where profit is
eliminated, mean panic, depres-
sion, unemployment, and other
troubles.
Nothing in tie labor situation
warrants any one in expecting ma
terially lower costs of commodi-
ties in general, and building in par
ticuIar. Wages will not be less for
several fundamental reasons, viz:
81. The practical stoppage Of
immigration since 1914, depriving
America of the several million
workers who would normally have
come to our shores:
"2. The retention by the ma
TONS military and naval establish
ments of nearly 100000 workers,
which may continue for an indef1n-
tie period.
"3. The creation of new indus
tries, such as shipbuilding, and
manufacture of chemicals and
dyes, requiring hundreds of thou
sands of workers.
"a. The urgent demand for
building and construction of every
class, due to their having been
forcfbly held back for several
years.
as. The shortage of the worlds
food supply.
ION the one hand, then, we are
facing a serious shortage of labor
as soon as we approach normal in
dustrial activity, and on the other
hand, there is confronting us
tremendous unsatisfed demand for
many necessities which it was diff
ficult or impossible to obtain dur
ing the war. A new level of prices
has been established from which
there can be no material recession
until inventive genius Succeeds in
correspondingly increasing labor's
productive capacity by mechanical
means"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-03
WATER ANALYSIS.

Urbana, ILL.,, July I, 1919.-La'
boratory No. 41258. Report Of the
sanitary analysis of water sent by
]. A. Murrin, superintendent of fl
tration plant, Rock Island, Ill
June "a. 1919, z a. m. Source ri
water, raw water.
Amounts are stated in parts pei
million:
Turbidity, 255; color, so; odor, 0
Residue on evaporation, $50; chic
rine in chlorides, TO; oxygen con
sumed, 1916; ammonia nitrogen
.032; albuminoid nitrogen, $50
nitric nitrogen, OOPS; nitrate nj
trogen, so; alkalinity, methyl or,
ange, s124.
Bacteria per &C: Gelatine, lique
fed; agar, too many.
Gas formers: Presumptive tests
10cc, TX; Loco, *.
The raw water is polluted.
STATE WATER SURVEY DIV.
By M. c. Perry, Bacteriologist.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-03

them in great numbers. Burrows
or bitches are plowed or dug com
pleteIy around the infested area,
or directly across the path of the
advancing horde In attempting
to cross such bitches the worms
fall into them, and can easily be
destroyed by crushing them with
log dragged back and forth
through the ditch or furrow. II
shallow post holes are sunk IL the
bottom of the ditch az intervals OF
about twenty fest, the worms Will
crawl along the ditch bottoms and
fall into the holes, where they may
be destroyed by crushing or other
means. If the subsoil is of such
a nature that water penetrates il
but slowly, the post holes may be
partially filled with water, with a
layer of coal oil or petroleum on
the top of IT, The oil kills the worm
Immediately.
Watchfulness and quick action
on the part of farmers are essen
tial in all the control measures,
which include, in addition to the
ditching method, the following:
In case of a general invasion,
give the ground light cultivation,
il possible, after the caterpillars
have gone into the ground to
change to the next stage, the pupa
This will kill many of the pupae.
Spray infested grass or other
vegetation not intended for forage
purposes with a mixture of one
pound of paris green to so gallons
of water. Do not use the sprayed
grass or vegetation for forage.
Spray growing grasses and other
forage crops intended for use at a
considerably later date with a So
luton of one pound of arsenate of
lead (powder form) in so gallons
of water, or two pounds of arsen-
ate of lead (paste form in so gal
Ions Of water.
When corn is infested, spray
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-03
WATER ANALYSIS.

Urbana, Ill, July l, 1919.-La-
boratory No. 41259. Report of the
sanitary analysis of water sent by
r. A. Murrin, superintendent Of fl
tration plant, Rock Island, ILL.,,
June %, 1919. $3.50 a. m. Source
of water, filtered water tap.
Amounts are stated in parts per
million:
Turbidity. 10; color, 20: odor, BE.
Bacteria per &C: Gelatine, 70;
agar, 100.
Presumptive tests for B. Coli /.
B. Coli confirmed-10cc, s.; Loco,
q.
This supply conforms in every
respect to the requirements of the
U. s, treasury department stand
ard for drinking water to be used
on interstate carriers.
STATE WATER SURVEY DIV.
By NJ. G. Perry. Bacteriologist.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-03
AD0PTRULES0F
FIGHT WITHOUT
ANY QUIBBLING
Final Details of Championship Ba:.-
tie Are Settled ut Meeting
This Morning.

Toledo, Ohio, July 3.-The meet
ing of the principals and various
officials of the Willard-Dempsey
championship bout here tomorrow
to decide upon the rules to govern
the contest, passed without a hitch.
It was decided that Willard and
Dempsey should box according to
the Marquis Nof Queensbury rules
with the kidney lunch and side
hand chop blow barred. In cIinches
the men may box and protect them
selves until the referee orders them
to break at which command both
must step back without hitting in
the break-away. In all other re-
spects the same rules which have
governed the heavyweight cham
pionship contests of the past will
be in force.
There were no changes made in
the personnel of the officials not
withstanding many rumors to the
contrary. Major Anthony ]. Drex-
eI-Biddle of Philadelphia will act
as one judge, while Tex Rickard
will serve in similar capacity.
Ollie Pecord, of this city, will be
the referee with Jack Skelley as
alternate, ready to take Pecord's
place in case the necessity should
arise. w. Warren Barbour, of New
York, will be the official time keep
er. The two judges will st on OPP
posite sides of the ring and not
together as originally planned, this
change being made at the request
of Dompsey's manager.
Those present at the conference
were Tex Richard, w. A. Gavin,
representing the board of boxing
control; Jack Kearns, manager of
Dempsey; Referee Pecord, and q
representative of the champion
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-03
TRAVELS FROM
SWEDEN TO WOO
MARY PICKFORD

Los Angeles, Cal. - Ernest K.
Backlund, a matchmaker, 45 years
of age, journey 1000 miles from
Sweden to Los Angeles to propose
marriage to Mary Pickford, only to
find that the little star is already
wed. Having made this discovery,
he is now on his way back home
with a heavy heart and 1000 miles
Of dreary travel ahead of HIM.
Backlund appeared unexpected
ly at the Pickford home, won his
way past all the servants and gain
ed an audience with Miss Pickford,
who was posing for a painting for
the Hall of Fame.
How do, Miss Pickford," he be-
gan. 81 bane come from Sweden.
You get my photograph" Miss
Pickford registered" surprise.
'fWhy-no-I-oh, yes, L got it,
When did you send it?" she replied,
a bit confused.
"And did you like my letter? And
you will like me-and marry me?-
oh joy"
By this time Miss Pickford was
becoming quite alarmed. She re-
membered having rea9 stories of
cavemen and she wondered. Just
then Lottie Pickford, her sister, en-
tered Becoming aware of the pur-
pose of the mans visit, she sug-
gested that he go to the studio, OBJ
tain his letter and picture from
Miss Pickford's secretary and re-
turn Reluctantly he left the Pick
ford home.
Upon his arrival at the studio he
was informed that Miss Pickford
is already married and he nearly
collapsed.
"Ya, come all da way from Mar
ieham, Finland, my home. to see
her, and ask if she my wife would
be-" he said. 81 did not know she
married already was. now go
back to New York and sail for
Sweden. / am glad / see her. She
is Just the same girl have the
picture of at home. Goodbye"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-03
All age 10,957 1000 $4,000 "a
WILL CONSIDER
ENLARCINC The
HIGH BUILDING
Board of Education May Decide on
School Improvements, While
Other Work Gees Forward.

Whatever improvements are to
be made on the Rock Island high
school or its equipment during this
summer, to prepare for the coming
rave, will be decided upon in the
first regular meeting of the new
school board next Tuesday.
The building was crowded last
winter, and enrolment figures in
dictate that in the coming fall a
much greater assembly Of students
is due to fill the rooms. 1t is the
opinion of all concerned that en-
largement of the housing space
must take place, and that before
the coming school season. 1t is
thought that an annex to the build
ing on the east or the south wing
will constitute the enlargement In
addition there will be some re-dec-
Grating, cleaning and repairing in
various parts of the presen, build
ing.
At present the manual arts build
ing on Sixth avenue and Twenty
first street and the new Franklin
school on Tenth street and Thir-
teenth avenue are being redecorat-
ed throughout the interior Some
repairing and cleaning is going on
in all the city schools, as a part
of the regular summer program
Edison Crowded.
Attendance at the Edison or Sears
school in South Rock Island was
so congested last year, and prom
Uses to be so much more so next
season that two-room portable
school house has been ordered to
take. care of the overflow. This
will accommodate another possible
hundred pupils and relieve the con-
gestion.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-03
THREATENS JAIL
FOR HACKERS OF
u. S. WAR MOVIES

Washington, D. c., July g.
Chairman Graham of the special
house committee investigating war
department expenditures has an
nounced that in investigating Che
extent to which motion pictere5
made by private concerns for
vertising purposes have been en-
cuiated at government expense.
the committee has obtained In
formation which should result in
several persons at least being sent
to jail"
Mr.. Graham said he did not be-
lieve those who are guilty will
have time 10 cover up before we
get after them"
Mr.. Graham added the commit
tee had obtained a large amount
Of discriminating evidence" which
would be disclosed as soon as
hearings were resumed next week.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-03
SHOE REPAIR MEN
HAVE JOLLY TIME
AT THEIR PICNIC

zone of the best times I've had in
20 years." is the way one who at
tended the annual outing of the tri-
city shoe repairers at Linwood
park yesterday AFTERNOON, spoke
of the affair. Games of all kinds
and any number of various races
added to the merriment of the so
persons who were there, and the
picnic dinner served at noon is re
ported as a great success. Prizes
were given to the winners of the
races. They consisted for the most
part of watch fobs, pencils and
rubber heels.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-03
FRANCE HAS FIRST
DUET, IN FIVE YRS

Paris, Wednesday, July 2.-The
first duel to be fought in France
since the beginning of the war oc-
Cured at Bayonne when NJ. Farat,
mayor and deputy, exchanged pis-
toll shots with NJ Gemmes, vice
president of the chamber of COM
merce. The affair dates back a
long time, but was held in suspense
until declaration of peace. 1t is
not expected however, that there
will be an epidemic of duels, time
having settled many of the quar-
rels.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-03
SCHOOL CENSUS
SHOWS A CLIMB
IN POPULATION
School Age Ranks Swelled BY lis
Newcomers in 1919, Accord
ing to Annual Count

Rock Island gained 246 residents
since the 1918 census last summer,
and of these more than half-or ia
are between the ages of and 81
years, or in the recognized and
official school age. These are the
figures of the school census just
completed.
Despite the fact that when ar
senal employees considerable in
number were released at the close
of the war the population was sup
posed to have suffered more or less
of a drop, the city now numbers
80 ,002 population, instead of the
32,756 it could claim last summer.
The school attendance in proper
ton to the number of children of
school age-6 to 21-is very graft
flying to those who would see uni
versal education, since more than
1000 of the 1880 of the population
in this class attend schools of some
strata in the city.
The census figures compiled by
the board of education and issued
by superintendent E. c. Fisher,
are as follows:
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-03
Personal Points

Mrs. NJ W. Campbell and daugh-
ter, Frances Orth, 1905 Glenhurst
court, returned today, after about
a month spent at Bedford and other
places in western Iowa.
Mrs. J. J. Felt, 1914 Fourteenth
street leaves tonight for visit at
Kansas City, Kan, from where she
will go to Junction City, Kan, for a
visit in her former home.
Mr.. and Mrs. William GuIder,
3017 Seventh avenue, are the par
ents of a son born yesterday after
noon.
S. A POLAND and Charles OIL
weller, 1925 Twelfth street, have
gone for a months visit with rela-
tives in Pueblo, Colorado Springs
and Denver, Colo.
Fred Nowack has returned to the
home of his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
William Nowack, 2701 Seventeenth
street, after IA months in the ser
vice, IL of which were spent over
seas as a horseshoer with the Sew
enth division. He received his dis
charge at Camp Grant this week
George MaskelI of Springfield
arrived yesterday afternoon to at
tend the Mason-Olson wedding last
evening.
Mrs. D. B. Shaw, 1922 Fifteenth
street leaves this afternoon for
Kansas City, Mo.
A. C. Behlke, 1900 Fifteenth
street, is recovering from the ef-
fects of a serious operatfon which
he underwent in Chicago Tuesday.
Mrs. Behlke is with him.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. E. Waters, 1909
Seventeenth avenue, are the par
ents of son born this morning.
This is the third son in the family.
The mother before her marriage
was Miss Julia NJ. Lerch.
Mark A. Murphy, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Steve Murphy, 1888 Eighth
and-a-half avenue. has been pro-
NOTED to the rank of sergeant in
the Fourth ammunition train,
Fourth division. Sergeant Murphy
is one of the fighting boys sill
overseas being stationed near Co
blenz, but like the rest is impatient
for the time to come to set sail for
home and which may be in the
course of a month. He has been in
the service for a period of two
years.
George Ehman, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. William Ehman, 40 Seventh
street, has returned home, having
been discharged from army service
at Camp Grant Mr.. Ehman left
Rock Island June 27, 1918, and re-
turned home June %, 1919, having
been overseas 10 months He was
a member of Company C, Fifty-ffth
infantry, Seventh division.
Kenneth WEIGH, son of Allan D.
WEIGH of 99S Twentieth street, has
arrived in Camp Mills, New York,
after seven months in Paris with
the Fourth aircraft artillery and in
the motor transport service. He
entered the service April 2, 1918.
w. A. Mielke of $40 Thirty-nihth
street, received his honorable dis
charge from the United States
navy at Great Lakes, Ill, yester-
day. He has been in the navy for
Is months,N and during that time
has made three trips overseas in
three different vessels.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-03

ChrystaI Macmillan is secret4ry
or the International Congress of
Women for Permanent Peace which
is meeting at Zurich. She is also
one OF their delegates to the peace
conference in Paris and is secretary
OF the International Woman Suf-
frage Alliance. The Women's In
ternationa1 congress at Zurich re-
Gently decided to invite the various
national sections OF the Interna-
ssunal Women's league to organize
meetings Of protest against some
Of The terms of the peace treaty.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-03
TRINITY CHURCH
TO RETURN THANKS

Tomorrow morning at 1880
O'Clock in Trinity Episcopal church
there will be a celebration of the
Holy Eucharist with special pray
ers of thanksgiving for peace. The
regular service of the church ap-
pointed for Independence day will
be used.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-03
SALVATIONISTS TO
HOLD MEETINGS ON
THURSDAY EVENING

Captain and Mrs. a. Davis of the
Davenport Salvation Army, will
hold open air services on Nine
teenth street, between Second and
Third avenues, this evening, as the
first of a series of regular Thurs
day night meetings. Future week
ly services will also be held at this
place.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-03
WILL FIX WOMEN'S WAGE.

San Juan-The project provld-
ing a minimum wage for women
and girls employed in Porto Rico
was approved in the lower house
recently, after many stormy ses-
sions. The bill provides that wo-
men under IS years of age shall be
paid not less than 81 a week and
women over IS years Sc a week.
The first three weeks of appren-
ticeshfp are exempt from this re-
ouirement.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-03

One of the popular women in the
military circles in London is the
Hon. Mrs. Whitehead, wife Of Sur
geon General Sir Hayward White
head, who has used his knowledge
of medicine in serving his country
during all her wars since 1882,
when he first entered the army
medical department. Surgeon Cen
eral Whitehead has won many med
ais for his untiring devotion to his
duty during many campaigns.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-03
Obituary

Funeral of Mrs. Marguerite Burk.
guerite Burk, who died in Free
town, N. Y, early in the week
were conducted this afternoon at
4 O'Clock in the church of the Sa-
cred Heart, Rev. c. P. O'Neil1 Off
ciating. Interment took place in
Calvary cemetery.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-03
FnneraI OF Miss MarY Brinn.

Funeral services for Miss Mary
Brinn, who died yesterday morn
ing in her home, 2115 Ninth ave
nue., will be held in Sacred Heart
church at 8 O'Clock tomorrow
morning, Rev. G. p. O'Neill officiat-
ing.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-03
ROAD COMPENSATION FIXED.

Washingtcc, July 3.-Contracts
signed today by the railroad ad-
ministration fixes annual compen-
sation of s30,O35, 093 for the Balti-
more & Ohio and subsidiary COM
panies, and $S,319,376 for the Den
yer & Rio Grande.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-03

All the news all the t:me-Ths
Argus.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-08-19
PUNITIVE EXPEDITION
ORDERED BY WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON, August 19.-(By
Associated Press 1.-THE punitive ex-
pedition after Mexican bandits being
conducted by American cavalry with
the full knowledge of Washington au-
thorities, who have been Withholding
announcement until the two Ameri-
cans were safe. Secretary Baker an
nounced today that the troops went
over on specific instructions from the
War Department. In its diplomatic
aspect it is an expedition on hot
trail. 1t does not take on the char
acter of an act of war. is its sole
purpose, under information laws, is
not to invade the sovereignty of
Mexico nor to attack the government,
but to punish or exterminate bandits
who held the Americans for ran
som.