The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-11-04

|ssaNe liEs tsA,is ANCIENT Enepav.
QUA cARE.
tsno DsssNreRs TIE ussLoveo cuss.
i COxELEGY.
The ballots toll the. kneli Of parting day.
( A somber shroud hangs DER Democracf;
The presidential skies. once bright. are gray;
The sun Of hUpe no longer shines for me
would not have you think feel aggrieved
Because I've suffered such fearful blow,
But wouldn't you feel Just wee Bit peeved
Had you been buried meath that heavy snow?
Though seemed not to be the peoples choice
Ny smile has not been put to utter r0ut,
But could we'll have heard the peoples voice
At milder pitch-they didn't need to shout
All, well, there's nothing more that I can say;
How can eer forget the bunch that they
Have handed out to Franklin and to me!
FOR the liberties we have taken in H.
foregoing verses We make no apology, Though
admitting that perhaps we've damned them
Win Ialnt paf6puIdSeJ IOE We OOH 1ScI 0pOiO-
setic Elections are trying things AS this
paragraph Is written we haven't been Graded
in the arms of Morpheus mot OrpheusD for
Sc hours. And before we start home today
Ne must procure letter Of introduction to our
family
Would You Conclude This Man No Longer
LoyeekHis Wife2
(From the Chicago Tribune)..
Zion City, ILL.,. Oct. 20.-(To the Legal
Friend of the opley.-Please advise me :
II a man is obliged to live with his wife?
O. Can he get a separation from her
or does he have to have good grounds?
g. How would lie 60 about getting
| such separation.
L. Would it cost him much money?
s. How much would he have to al
low his wife?
s. II there is child does that make
any difference?
g. II he should leave her for year
| and she found out where he was. what
| could she do? j. NJ.
LAS reported to this Headstone of Horri-
bifty by H. S., there is sign near Twenty
fourth street and Third avenue reading.
AUTOMOBILES WASHED IN REAR"
Which may remind you of that old one
about the preacher who announced: Tn the
morning Brother Snowfall will preach at the
east end; in the evening he will preach at
the west end. Babies will be baptized at both
ends"
Usually They Are Not Quiet Till Later.
(From the Aledo Times-Record.
Mrs. Conrad Peterson received word
on Monday that her brother, Gust Ander-
son of near Galesburg, was quiet sick
having had sudden attack of appendi-
citis.
DISH PANTRY GIRL-CALORED. CALL
}room S25. - E. Adams, Pullman bldg.-Chi
Icago Tribune. =
Or. in the slang of other days, "a warn
baby"
Iored" wheeze. who apparently does not pant t.
carve his initials on this Miniature Mausoleun
o. Mirth. filled long envelope with almos
the entire want ad page: We were disappointed
upon opening it, as We expected nothing les!
than column Of wheezes or deathless poem
Considerable. Catastrophe.
From the Moline Dispatch
First my wife left me-" said Fon-
tenoy. as he started in On his recital of
hard luck, "theh my farm burned down;
then was arrested by Levin Lindblad;
then Negley got NE, and now you pick on
me-"
A MONMOUTH clothier advertises "a regu
lar overcoat" and adds: You're through whel
you buy one" From which you may deduc
it sells for regular" price,
Interesting II Must Have Been.
From the Galesburg Republican Register).
Her husband was FIRST lieutenant in
the German army and Mrs Brenninger's
experience during the war is very inters
esting. She secured a divorce from her
husband before she could return to the
United States
LATE Tuesday night Gov. Coxs brothe
Charles resolutely turned his back to the cas-
and said: Our hope lies in the west" An
: then an avalanche descended upon it where
, lay.
!. FARM1NGTON, which was the o,
E iiginal name OF the town that eventually bf
: came Rock Island. The Argus
The name" says Z. g. sarcastically. "wa
not Pennington, but Farnhamsburg." A
right call it Buzzard's Bend-its all one wit
i lus
! :. j. HAN LEWIS was, SO to speak, caugi
BUT cheer up; his whiskers still wave
r. E. MIG.