The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-07-29
81 KNEW HIN WHEN

When Cox and Harding. back in 81.
| Were boys. and pom mere boyish pleasures
! bent,
/ wonder if they ever thought they'd run
| For president.
when Jiinmy Cox sat on his fathers knee
| And entertained his dad with his quaint
| wonder II Jim ever thought he'd be
In politics.
/ wonder il, when Warren used to blow
| An old cornet and thought 1t lots OF fun.
He ever dreamed that some day he might go
/ To Washington.
| When Jimmy, full of bovish pep and vim.
! Upon his "stick-horse" went q merry clip.
1 wonder il vision came to him
| OF craftsmanship.
When Warren, as youngster, tried to spin
| Rmes for his friends to prove he was a bard.
/ wonder if he then e'er thought he'd win
Such high regard.
But more than all I'm wondering today
If, as their minds drift backward once again
They're not bored stiff by all the folks who
say:
II knew him when!
| DURING the latest earth shimmy at Los
Angeles one resident was so badly fright
ened that he leaped from bed at his home
grabbed a revolver and dashed out Of doors
in his night clothes. He leaped over high
board fence, crawled beneath palm tree and
shot himself through the heart" But he, Of
course was not native son.
A Saturnalian Revel.
lFrom the Galesburg Republican Register).
The William Neuneker Post Of the
the pavement at West Park, Bushnell,
Ill.,, on Thursday, July 20, commencing
at O'Clock p. m. Plymouth girl band
to furnish good music. Everything goes,
dancing " franc.
"yOU will have to go back to 1873" assert.
a Davenport dealers ad, ito find a sensation
like this in ladies' ready-to-wear." But on
really doesn't need to go back that far 4
visit to any popular bathing beach will suffice
Editorial Amenities.
(From the Bardolph [Ill.l News).
Brother Jim Dertinger Of the Bush
nell Record proudly boasts of 90-year-
| old subscriber who has digested the con-
| tents of the Record since its first issue
in 1S64-more than half century ago.
This Is not only compliment to the
Record but it is a strong argument in
support of the theory that a light diet
is conducive to longevity.
"HOON is WINNER IN IOWA SHOOT
ARMED MAN STAR."-Chicago Tribune.
To shoot, naturally the man would b
armed
What's the Key to Thisl
From The Imperishable Argus).
Rev. Mr.. Killing has a voice of grad
yates of the Moline high school in this
the class of 1918. Mrs. Butter has been :
teaching school and her husband has
been student at the University of Illi-
, , nois The home will be in Hillsdsle
HARDING MAKES 2 MORE DATES.
Davenport Times.
Oh dear; does Mrs. Harding know this?
| YOU may recall reading in the press dis
patches some days ago of the supposed suicid
in New York of Miss Yuki Onda Of WASHING
; ton, D. c." But you haven't read anythin
3 further, have you? Perhaps you'd like I
know that Miss Onda is well and happy Sh
, is an actress. who employs desperate pres
agent.
a "BOLSHEVIKI TAKE BRODY."-Headlin,
STUDDED their toes on the Poles, perhap.
: THERE is persistent rumor having tn
with an alleged yacht race taking place some
where off the New England coast the nam
d of one Sir Thomas Upton is heard freuuentl
r in connection Herewith.
RUT we don't believe yet there was
J. RACE. R. b. MIC