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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-05-01
CHURCHES

Fifssanth ssenue md Thirtyuzixsh stscst
Rev. Guy B. Williamson. pastor. Bible
school 1t $50. A. 81. Levin. gupefintend-
ent Mems clasz meets in east annex OF
Horace Mann school 1t Gas. Junior
Christian Endeavor at O'Clock. Senior
at 4 O'Clock. Services at 1915 and 1880.
LUTHERAN
Immanuers Lutkeran-Twentieth street
and Fifth avenue. Rev. n. Wilhelm.
PASTOR. Sunday school at 8 .. N. Eng,
iish confirmation services at 10 o'clock.
Evangelical Church OF Peace0Cornef
Twelfth street and Twelfth avenue. Rev
r. J. Rolf. pastor. German services first
and third Sundays.
Grace English Lutheran - Corner Scv-
enth avenue and Forty fourth street. d.:
q. A. Brandelle. pastor. Sunday school
ct Obs a. N. Services at 10:45 .. N.
and 7.43 p. n. Luther lesgue q = p. 10.
Zion Lutheran church - Fofty-nith
street and Sev1 tn avenue. Rev. John
Ekholm. pastor SUNDAY school - 0:50
.. m. SERVICES at 10:4S .. n. and 2 80
p. n.
First sweds n LutherHn-Cc1ncf Four
tesntA atfues and Fourth svenue. Hev.
Rssi NiIsscn. pastor. SUNDAY school q
o:1E .. N. Services 1t 10:45 .. n. and
holy communion.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-05-01
CHRISTIAN sCEENCE-

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
First Church Of Christ. Sciendst--Cor.
neF Seventh aycc-. erd Twenty second
street. Sunday school at 9:45 =. n. Tcs-
timonial u,eetin. every Wednesday at
p. m. Sunday service at 1895 a. m
The church maintains fl9e readins
room in the Peoples National Bank
building, which is open every weekday
from II 80 a. N. to ) p. m. and every
Saturday from IL 80 to 5 and from 7:30
q. m. to 3. All authorized literature on
Christian Science may be read or pur-
chased.
CATHOLIC
s.. Joseph's Parish church - Second
avenue and Fourteenth street. Dean P.
H. Durkin, rector. Masses at 7:30. $3.50.
ESQ and 1850 o'clock. Sunday school
at 10 .. n.
Sacred Heart Farisa church-Fifth ave-
nus and Twenty-eiEhth street. Father
Clement P. O'Neill. rector. Sunday
masses at 7. $3.50 and 1890 a. m. Sun.
day school at els q. m Weekday
4
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1920-04-21
BUT WHO GOT THE WORM
LATEST FISH STORY

Wirstead, Conn.,, April 2l.-The
early bird gets the worm, but listen
AT ITO a. m. yesterday morning a
rcbin flying low crossed Sucker Brook
at its widest point where the stream
enters Highland Lake, carrying in its
bill an angleworm, which was extract
ed from the soil near the brook.
A trout in the brook saw the worm
dangling from the robins bill and
jumped for it, clearing the water by
several inches and striking the robin
with such force that the bird nearly
tumbled into the water. When the
robin flew out over the lake the worm
was missing, but whether the trout or
the brook swallowed it eye witnesses
did not agree.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1920-04-21
HAD NO EVENING SUIT

On the occasion of the recent press
ball-an annual occasion of note in
Berlin--a committee waited upon
Chancellor Bauer with an invitation.
THANK you," he replied. q shall
come. But see by your invitation that
ore is expected to wear evening
clothes. l have none
His appearance in a cutaway was
regarded as one Of the evidences OF
'the new Germany; but one of the
saddest features of the occasion to the
old-times was that it was found ne
cessary to publish in the newspapers
a notice that gentlemen were expected
to wear white ties and that ladies in
high-necked gowns would not be wei
coined.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1920-04-21
Richmond, Fredericksburg
and Potomac R. r.


New York Jacksonville
335 a. m. ;. CA. c. L.) ;. 11.S0 p. m.
Washington Richmond
532 a. M. COACHES only :. -
Alexandria Quantico- fredericksburg
and local beyond
Washington Richmond
r.57 n. m. 49,. U4ocaD -. 1l.52 a. m.
New York Atlanta Jacksonrtllc
1907 a. nj. ;. IS. \. ID ;. 1915 p. IN.
WaShington-Quant
1852 q. m. 80. l.ocaD 80. liO D. m.
Washington Richmond
1l.iI a. M. -. (EXpreSs) -. 6.2S y. m.
Northumberland
kS12 p. m. 49,. CLocaD -. 5.S3 p. NIX
New York; alm Beach-Key West.
$50 D. nj. :. CA. c. LID 80 p. IN.
Neutrality-suspicious. Memphis
SIT D. m. -. Is. 4. Id 80. IL noon
Washington Richmond
J,27 y. m 80. Locall -. 1.3I p. m
New York TampaSt. Petersburg ;.
S.o7 u. m. :. IS. A. ID ;. $40 a. m
New York Jacksonvillc-St. Petersburg
917 D. m 80. "a. c. Id -. $40 q. m
Washington Fredericksburg
1910 midnight LocaD ....>. S.U9 a. -.
Richmond Washington
~ (EXpress) 2.2e =. ~
K Saturdays only.
S. D. shelton, Ticket Agent. Alexan-
dria. Va !. B. Mordecai. Traffic Man
arer. Richmond. Va
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1920-04-21
BAD BREATH
)r. Edwards Olive Tablets Ge'
at the Cause and Remove 1t

Dr.. L1warts' Olive Tablets, the suhsti'
lie for caiomel, act gently o. the bowes
nd positively do TIC work.
Pcc;:,e afflicted with bed t-octh E"
u:ck relief th-or-h D. Edwar1.4'
Jiive Tablct,,. The r:icc--cocc--ts, sr1c-
coated tablets crc t;Sl:ca % iccd t--c:c...
~ all who know them.
Dr.. Edwards Olive 1l'aa.i,lot2 act &C..
sut firmly OF tl,eS bowels I'D l.vc-
stimulating them - :ccee;c:--al ec:@:o--:.
clearing the bl:cd al s.:o....y rcr:eIis2:tc,
the entire systc--l They 60 TT ws,ic:
dangerous calo-Iel docs without -.
Of the bad after effects.
All the benefits Of nasty, sicEen!nc
gripping cathartics are derived from II
Edwards Olive Tablets without g1i9;a-
pain or any. disagreeable effcc S.
DR.. F. M. Edwards discovered the
formula after seventeen years of prac
tice among patients afflicted with
bowel and liver complaint, with ths
attendant bad breath. 6
Or. Edwards Olive Tablets are purely
a vegetable compound mixed with olive
oil: YOU WIN know them by their olive
color. lake one or two every night to
a week and note the effect. loc and 2x
rer box. All druggists,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1920-04-21
Ideal Shoe Repairing Co.
1901 King Street
SOUTHERN RAILWAY
SYSTEM

- ~ Il I4A
Arrival and Departure of Passenger
Trains, Union Sation. Alexandria, Va.
The following schedule figures pub
lishcd as information and not guar
antecT.
Eastern Standard Time)
South North
4 New York Memphis
325 a. M CVia BristoD, .12.13 a. m.
WashinGton-Danvill
1877 a. m..... .LocaD .SlS p. m.
New York-New Orleans
SAT q. M. CFia Atlanta) lbs p. m.
% a. III. Wash. -HarrisonburG 9.13 p. m
Washington Atlanta
g3T q. M. (Coachest ll.l5 p. m
Memphis
2.27 D. NJ. (Via BriStol) Ass p. m
Washington Birmingham
ali p. m. (Via Atlanta) ..l2.OS p. m
.l2 d. m. Wash. -HarrisonburG 1903 am.
Washington Charlottesville
a.22 m 80. uocaD 49,. lO.oS a. m.
Washington-W arrenton
5.22 p. m..... IocaD ~. I.53 a. m.
7.12 p. m. y. y. Aiken Augusta 7.1S am.
New Eork-New Orleans,
1902 y. N. /. (Via BristoD LIB a. m.
1917 y. m. New Iork-Atlanta SIS a. m.
New York-New Orleans
Hop D. M. (Via Atlanta) ..9.2S a. m.
Charlotte-W Washington
500. GocaD ...... Gag p. m.
The Southern Serves The South
s. d. Shelton. Ticket Agent. AeXan-
dria. Va: S. Z. Burgess, Division Pas
scnger Agent. 1890 Penna. Ave. Wash
inEton. d. G.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1920-04-21
LOSES ITS MooNsHINE
Travellers en- the Seminole Limited
Will Have to Quench Thirst
nm Another Train

Chicago April 21.-Nine disconso-
late gentlemen of color, the dining
car crew on the Seminole Limited,
crack Illinois Central4train to Florl-
Ga rent the air with their lamenta-
tions yesterday. They had two reas-
ons for their poignant grief. One was
that they were to be held in bond for
trial as bootleggers and the other,
which was more severe, was that
several Kegs of "good ole gage CO.
hn Juice was to be obfsculated.'
Prohibition agents received tip
that travellers on the Seminole Limi-
ted were unusually merry and that
there was no perishipg from thirst
between Chicago ana Augusta, Ga.
One of the agents went out to Kan
kakee to meet the train and keep
watch on the cooks and walters. At
Kankakee he saw one of the crew
drop off a 1O-gollon key which was
quickly snatched up by waiting
negro and put in a taxicab. 1t was
Immediately confscated and put back
on the car. When the train arrived
in Chicago the crew was permitted
to scatter to their homes and a
search of the dining car yielded
three 10-gollon kegs Of rare old
Georgia moonshine.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1920-04-21

for. each vessel, the amount for which
they were sold exceeds their present
appraised value by 5000. Terms Of
sale were 25 per cent, cash and like
amount in annual installments begin
MING with the third year after pur-
cnasa with 4 - per cent interest on
deferred payments.
The Yale and Harvard were among
the. first vessels taken over by the
Navy when this country entered the
war. They are 407 feet long and have
maximum speed Of % knots.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1920-04-21
BLASTS KILLS SIX.

II Allentown, Pa, April 21.-six
men, were reported killed in a pre-
mature explosion in the quarry OF
the Lehigh Po:t.ard Cement Conf
pany at Ormrod Yesterday.
Hundreds of tons Of earth aid
rock were hurled in the air. A NUM-
Der of men were buried under the
mass. Others were struck by flying
fragments of stone. The premature
blast, it is stated, was due to some
unknown cause
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1920-04-21
HURLED THROUGH DOORS .
Carpenter Blown Over Fence; Woman
Thrown Across Room

IL
Philadelphia, April 21.-While re-
pairing house at Reese street and
Indian avenue yesterday, carpenter
was blown out through the door of
shed behind the house and over a
seven-foct wall into the street, when
a member of the family exploring the
cellar for gas leak found it-with a
lighted match.
A 17-months-old baby boy sleeping
in the kitchen, was hurled out through
the open back door when the first eX-
plosion caused another upheaval in the
gas range. The child Edward Schlpps,
was found unhurt.
His mother, Mrs. Lena Schipps, who
Was in the kitchen, was thrown across
the room by the exploding range. She
received bruises.
William. Carr, the repairman, pick
ed himself up after his sudden flight
and discovered he had only been slight
~ bruised.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1920-04-21
BIG LINERS SOLD
Yale and Harvard Bought by Los
Angeles Syndicate

Washington, April 21.-The steam
ers Yale and Harvard were. sold to-
day by the Navy Department to agents
for a. Los Angeles syndicate which
will put them back on the Pacific
Coast rran on which they were operat-
ing wl1tnfpuruhased by the navy. The
price .for' both vessels was s1,755,0o0.
Although it istiunderstood the de-
partmrent paid more than 81, 100000
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-01-16
A QUEER ARGUMENT
Chicago Evenina Postl


New their brief requesting permits
sion to file suit the Supreme Court
adya a
They amendment submitted to the Legislatures
bv yo-thirds vote of Congress ratified
Of the assemblies.
Upon they build the following contention:
public officials which at the maximum may
less than l,4O0 hold their
United and the the liberty
and even the 00O00O00 Their the Eighteenth
consutna absolute and arbitrary beyond
tina of any group OF known to history
OF New Jersey the TACT that
all been adopted by similar
This absolute arbitrary" power simply
men The argument oonsdtuionaiy OF the
Eighteenth the Constitution itself 1t is
whereby the people elect their lawmakers and
charge them and amending the Constr
rather in a discovery that the
hold hands
the liberty and
be we'll remind ourselves OF the
and fact it has been since the first
"Wednesday ground than this must be found
for protest serious consideration
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-01-16
DEFINING INTOXICATING
DRINKS

In an editorial on the Supreme
Court decision UNFOLDING the Volstead
enforcement act the Chicago Daily
News said:
What bearing this decision, or the
strong dissenting opinion, will have on
the pending cases testing the validity
of the Prohibition amendment itself
is not clear. What is certain, how
ever, is that if Congress hasthe power
to define "intoxicants" it's definitions
will in the long run correspond to the
facts and to public sentiment. What
one Congress does another can undo,
modify or amend. The Prohibition
amendment does not provide any def
milton; that would have given it an
element of rightly that is not wise or
desirable. Congress and the states
have concurrent power to enforce the
Prohibition amendment and undoubt-
eddy the power will be exercised with
proper regard for the welfare of the
nation and the mature judgment Of
the majority of the people.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-01-16
Just Before Constitutional Prohibition Became
Effective

January permission
the Association bring
Proh
biton amendment ande non its enforcement n Jersey
The held had jurisdiction On the
Island for original
proceedings oonsuonay
tona enforcement
the
legae Wisconsin begun January
filing suit Mantowoc Products Company, seeking
with the of beer.
Carpenter leniency
Constitutional Prohibition There will
Conviction will maximum both in fines
and in imprisonmens.
Major A. Daympe in the Chi
cago district issued the following warming
Preparations of voators completed
They pursued
nhexibity service.
that
homes Liquor found outside of
places is liable o seizure.
January Smith York. his
Legislature the action the 1919
lature in ratifyng the Prohibition amendment.
January Jersey said:
Legislature bill sale light and
federal They will have
definite decision what constitutes Intoxicating liquor
they these fight will be
made pledge have New Jersey wet state and
pledge"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-01-16

any state in the Union. has for the
most part been dry state q number
of years.
Will Reduce Death Rate
The economic effect of Prohibition
from the standpoint of life insurance
should be excellent Prohibition will
remove the undesirable risks which
were the result of the liquor traffic,
and will widen the field OF insurable
lives to that extent.
The life insurance companies of the
nation as a general rule will expert
ence a more favorable mortality un-
Ger Prohibition because of the fact that
they have in the last generation is
sued life insurance on the lives of
moderate drinkers.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-01-16
How Chicago
Greeted 1920

Louise Brown, a special writer i'll
the Chicago Post does not believe that
Chicago welcomed the New Year in
the old-fashioned alcoholic way. She
says:
The new year received a good,
old-fashioned alcoholic baptism, they
say. | am rather inclined TO doubt
this. That strange trait in human ma
ture which not infrequently makes in
nocent persons work almost as hard
to convey the impression that they are
law breakers as the professional law
breakers do to prove that they are
guileless, well-behaved citizens is, in
my opinion, responsible for number
of the widely circulated stories about
damp and hilarious parties on New
Years eve Few people are willing
to admit that the party they went to
was even approximately dry
Il suppose it is natural enough that
in these times even one glass of wine
should assume enormous proportions.
Many thin and vinegarish beverages,
with a kick no stronger than a PIN
prick, that were treated with some
thing akin to contempt before the
days of Prohibition, are now accorded
almost as much respect as the stuff
known as hard liquor.
The streets OF the loop looked
much as usual during the last hours.
OF 1919.
at was the wine OF youth more
than anything else, think, that ami
mated the shrieking young men and
women who went about arm in arm
exchanging frivolous greetings aud
producing miracles of sound from tin
horns with bells on the end.
at was cheerful and fairly bois-
ferrous New Years in spite of the
relative dryness which, am con-
vinced prevailed everywhere except
in those discreet sanctuarics behind
closed doors where woman reporters
are not admitted"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-01-16
City Greeting to New
Year Is Sober Jubilee
Contrast Shown to Days Before Pro-
hibition Was in Force

Under the above heading the Joliet
Herald-News published the following
account OF how the New Year was
welcomed in that city:
With the ringing Of bells, blowing
OF whistles and the small clamor Of
a few parties that sought to keep up
tradition on a base OF tea or coffee
Joliet welcomed the New Year
sober.
Save where the occasional oasis
welcomed the invited few the city and
county celebrated dry New Years
eve. Not one arrest was made for
drunkenness despite the fact that as
far as city police were concerned no
opportunity was missed to protect
precedent and at least in part add to
the clientele OF the city lodging
house.
Suburban trains to Chicago took
small toll from Joliet and returned
the would-be revelcrs in the carly
morning hours. The number was only
slightly larger than the average week
end and little larger than the exc
dus to the city OH Christmas night.
It was not remarkable, and those who
returned, according to Union station
employees who were on duty in the
early morning hours, left the station
without assistance.
Practically speaking, Joliet for the
first time welcomed new year So
berly and began practice it is des-
tined with the nation to observe for
all time"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-01-16
REFORMED BREWERIES

The Western Brewer OF Sep
TENDER, 1910. gives the follow
ing report on new lines OF ac-
tivity that have been taken up
by brewers:
About Is per cent OF the
brewers are manufacturing near
beer. and IS per cent are turn
ing out soft drinks other than
cereal beverages, but in general
i'll connection with the same.
About q per cent arc en-
gagged in the ice business and
have converted at least part OF
their plants to cold storage.
OF the lines other than beverage
to which we have received re-
ports OF conversion. are edible
oil rehneres, canning factories,
candy factories, vinegar plants
packing houses, creameries,
beet sugar factories, chemicals,
etc. In many instances the
brewery is being utilized for
several lines"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-01-16
Says Prohibition Is Effective


There seems to be no question but
that in the main Prohibition is pro-
hibiting. The statistics of such for
merly wet cities as Milwaukee, St.
Louis, Chicago and the coast cities
show that the number of arrests for
drunkenness have decreased almost to
the vanishing point, and that the num-
Der OF criminal arrests from all causes
has shown remarkable diminution
with Prohibition in effect.
There, of course, will be some of
the effects OF liquor indulgence which
will continue to affect the mortality
of our nation in the next and even
unto the third and fourth genera
TONS" but the real and wholesome
effects of Prohibition begin to be felt
in a substantial way from the stand
point of the life insurance companies
with the gradual elimination from our
people of those who were liquor users
prior to July of this year.
The future OF the nation under Pro-
hibition can be forecast to certain
extent from the experience of COM
munities which have had Prohibition
for number of years prior to Ma
tional Prohibition.
The state of Iowa, which is admit
teddy one of the most prosperous
states of the Union, and which has
the lowest percentage of illiterates of
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-01-16
Prohibition Is
Arrest Reducer
Only 2,483 Recorded In Springfield
For 1919

Prohibition left its mark on the po-
lice records in 1919. Instead OF the
usual six or seven thousand arrests
made during the reign OF John Barley
corn, now deceased, the number
dropped to 2,4s5 last year. Disor-
derby charges led in number, followed
b. larceny as close second. May,
1910, was the most prolific month for
arrests, total OF $40 appearing be-
fore the chief during the balmy days
OF early spring.
The arrests, taken by months, fol-
low:
January, 200; February, 205; March.
2l3; April, 24o; May. $40; June, 252;
July, los; August. I'll; September,
los; October, 162; November, 12s;
December, 90
Morris Praises New System
Chief OF Police Morris believes that
the system now used in detecting
criminals has something to do with
the drop in number of arrests. Grim
inals seldom come to city the size
of Springfield, where they know that
the Bertilon and other systems make
them easily recognized.
That Prohibition has caused a big
decrease in arrests is attested by the
fact that the charges of drunkenness,
in wet times. were decidedly in the
majority. The jail was nightly
crowded with men arrested on disor-
derby charges whereas at the present
time, the jail is often empty for days.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-01-16
THE BooTLEGGER
Sterling Gazette)

The bootlegger just naturally
evoluted from the saloon. The
bootlegger represents the still
living tail of the venomous rep
tile known formerly as the Ii
censed liquor traffic, 4 traffic
that killed its tens of thousands
yearly, but was not in any way
molested because il was paying
a heavy license fee for the priv
ilege of committing legal muir
ders and atrocities of all kinds.
The bootlegger is without
the pale of law. He is an out
law and a price has been set
upon his head. He should be
given the full penalty of the
law and in cases of selling poi
soned alcohol under the guise
OF whisky to those unfortunates
who have not yet recovered
from their legalized saloon
created appetite, which results
in death and blindness, he
should be tried for cold-b looded,
premeditated murder and made
to suffer the full penalty.
officials whose business it is
to enforce the law should
throw out drag nets i'll every
community and drive the boot
logger out of the country or
into the pen. There should be
no let up on that sort of cattle.
They are the scum of the earth.
Sterling Gazette.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-01-16
THE FIGHT OF THE BOOZE MAKERS
By Nathan A. Cole

presented the makers of booze the enforcement
fight they fought of
Men who do shrink from
making thing which kills people destroys mental and physical ca
than the
attitude wherein conscience not and does
contributed by Their degraded victims
them than God or humanity.
should their fight the right kill and
the constitutional amendment and after the
of the United States only
the liquor evil its to law and order
dealers have always been nve law
themselves with the criminal e
men OF feather flock together.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-01-16

The figures of life insurance COM
panies show that the inhabitants OF
the United States will live longer with
Prohibition in force than they have
lived in the past without Prohibition.
This statement, in fact, is based on
the actual experience of life insurance
companies in this and other countries
that have made a special class for
their policyholders who have been to-
tai abstainers. The experience of
these companies conclusively. proves
that total abstainers live longer than
the best of the risks who are not to-
tai abstainers.
Prohibition in the United States
should have an immediate, although
slight, effect in lengthening the lives
of its people, but the final and COM
plete effect will not be registered un-
til the next generation.
The end of the liquor business is
not yet from the standpoint of the life
insurance companies, and the cycle of
its influence will not close until the
slate has been wiped clean by the
passing of all of those who have in
the past been affected by the use of
alcoholic beverages. The men who
have been users of Intoxicating liquors
are inferior risks to those who have
been total abstainers, even though
they now have renowned the use OF
alcohol