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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-10-18
Boy Scout. News

The scoutmasters' meeting was
well attended last evening In
spite of the stormy weather. Rally
plans were thoroughly discussed
and it is the aim OF troop leaders
to make this years rally the best
exhibition of the Scout program
that the local public has witnessed.
Every troop in the city will also
have a booth to exhibit Scout OBJ
iects- j. F. Witter, president of the
local council, urged the troop lead
ers to put forth every effort to
reach every boy in the city.
Camp Winnie Taska is being
used daily this week by various
troops. There is no school and
Scouts are taking advantage of the
wonderful weather to pass their
outdoor tests
Members of troop committees are
to meet in Scout headquarters Fri
day evening, Oct. IS. A program of
instruction is to be gone through
SO that these men will know how
best to assist their scoutmasters.
Scoutmasters will also be invited to
attend
Troop NO. IA composed or color
ed boys, was reorgauized last eve
ming under the leadership of E. R
Reynolds, scoutmaster. Harold
Robinson will be assistant scout
master. 1t is expected that this
group will become one OF the larg-
est groups in the city.
Troop No. 16 will not meet this
evening as Scheduled
Troop No. % is sponsoring a
Scout show at the Fifth Avenue
theatre tomorrow evening. A A.
reel film, THE Knights of the
Square Table, will be shown. This
is special Boy Scout film.
Troop No. will meet this eve
ming in the Broadway Presbyterian
under the leadership of the
scoutmaster, George Schneider, Jr,
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-10-18
KEY men OF OLD
IN ANNUAL MEET
Telegraphers Of Edison's and Car
Regie's Day Gather in
Richmond.

Richmond, Va, Oct 1.-THE Old
Time Telegraphers' and Historical
association is holding its annual
meeting here today. Wednesday and
Thursday. The association, which
numbers among it's members
Thomas A. Edison and of which the
late Andrew Carnegie was a men,
Der is a nationwide organization,
composed of telegraph operators Of
the old school, some of the mem
bers having been in the business of
manipulating the key much more
than a half century ago, and all
of them having had an experience
of at least quarter of a century
Among the 1000 members there
are numbered men of diversified
ability, prominent in the higher
walks of life-lawyers. doctors,
captains of industry and finance,
and in official life. Quite a number
of prominent railroad officials are
on the roll of membership and not
a few of them will attend the an
nual convention this year.
The association has one unique
regulation-the officers elected for
one year at time are always select
ed from the membership residing
in the city or community in which
the forthcoming annual meeting Ia
to be held. General 10 Lane Stern
of this city is the president for this
year and will preside at the meet
ing to be held in October.
When he was not quite IL years
OF age and was~with his mother and
father on the farm at Chesterfield
Station, now called Ruther's Glenn,
in Hanover county, the confederate
government established a tele-
graph Office there, and the opera
tors placed in charge found board
and lodging IN the home of the
Stern family. These operators took
a fancy TO young 10 and he took q
wonderful fancy to the telegraph
instruments and in an incredibly
short time became a good operator.
He made quite a hit when, one Sun
day in the spring of 1862 in the
temporary absence of the regular
operator he sat in" on the wires
and reported the doing of federal
raiders.
Soon afterwards the young teleg-
apher was taken into the confeder-
ate regular service
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-10-18

Chicago Livestock.

Chicago, Oct. 18.-Cattle receipts,
$1,000; desirable corn-fed steers
and yearlings, steady; others sloW,
about steady; early top yearlings.
Ills; bulk beef steers, 6.00@9-50;
fat she-stock, slow to unevenly low
er; Gamers, steady; bulls, steady
to weak; veal calves, Is cents high
err; best vealers to packers, 11.25;
stockers and feeders, steady to
strong.
Hog receipts, 10000; hogs and
light butchers, mostly 25 cents low
er; packing sows 10 to Is cents
lower than yesterdays average;
top early, $50; bulk lights and
light butchers, S.25@S.50: bulk
packing sows, 6.65@7.25; pigs, 10
to Is cents lower; bulk desirable,
80 to 100 pound kind, S.25@S.5O.
Sheep receipts, $4,000; mostly
steady; some native lambs. Is cents
lower; early sales fat native lambs
to packers, mostly 500; to city
butchers, 8.25; choice Montana
wethers. mostly 2-year-old, SIS;
feeder lambs (early) 7.60@7.75;
no western lambs sold today.
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Kansas City livestock.

Kansas City. Mo- Oct 1S.-Cattle
receipts, $4,000; beef steers and fat
she-stock, steady To to strong; top
sters, 1000; other early sales, 4.5e
$3.50; common to good COWS, $50
@450; medium grass heifers, 4-50
@5.25; other classes, generally
steady; Gamers, 2.00@2.5e; cutters
mostly around 500; odd Fealers,
10.0e; practical top, $50; bulls
mostly 3.00@375; selected stock
ers, 7.25; other early sales, Also
700; feeders, early. 5.0096.50.
Hog receipts, 1000; Is to Is
cents lower; mostly Is cents low
er; fairly active to packers and
shippers, bulk l90@210 pound
weights, 7.90@S.1o; 130@150 pound
weights around 500; early top to
shippers, SIS; packer top, 500;
bulk of sales, 25@S.10; stock pigs,
steady to 10 cents lower; best,
S.25.
Sheep receipts, 10000; sheep
generally rs cents lower; mostly
fat ewes, 425; lambs, steady to rs
cents lower; top western, $50;
numerous lots without sort, 7.40@
$40.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-10-18
NOON LETTER

., Chicago, Oct. IS. - Wheat bulls
!, discouraged by liberal wheat re-
ceipts, Canadian congestion, large
United States wheat stocks, rail
strike fears and the Sc million
wheat visible U. S. exports wheat
and -four July l to Oct 1 are very
u large at 136 million, but this means
Europe is well supplied. Problem
lis how can Canada sell her crop in
ga hurry on current foreign money
q situation. Rail strike dispute I'M
changed. Winnipeg expects 1900
/, ears tomorrow. Huge. North
America Oct 1, probably had 270
million wheat to export. The Oct
Il wheat report remains a mystery,
but at that it has hurt the bull side
4 seriously. Bears say Europe can
I not take Canada's big surplus in q
y hurry. Nebraska has a burn corn
versus coal campaign, but burning
corn will not bull corn while De-
a .cember wheat suggests 81. Over
night the wheat market action is
easy.
E w. WAGNER & co.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-10-18
RAILROAD MEET
CAUSES BRISK
RALLY IN RAILS

New York, Oct. 1S.-On the stock
exchange today rails rallied br1sk-
ly before noon on announcement
that representatives OF the railroad
brotherhoods were to meet with the
railroad labor board. Mexican OILS
improved with Royal Dutch and
domestic oils moved upward under
the lead of. California Petroleum.
Houston and Cosden. Equipments
and motors were moderately better.
but food specialties showed furth-
er declines, American Sugar COM
mon and preferred being features
OF greatest weakness. Call money
opened at per cent.
The professional element in the
stock market seemed to take a
more hopeful view of the railroad
board situation today. This was in
dictated by the light dealings and
narrow price changes at the open
ing of the session. Some Of the
rails were lower. notably Chicago.
Rock Island & Pacific seven per
cent preferred and Delaware 6
Hudson Among equipments Gen.
eral Electric reacted moderately.
The only feature among oils was
recovery of one point in Royal
Dutch. American Sugar Was the
only weak specially, falling IL
points to 503s, it's lowest quotation
for q number of years.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-10-18
MANY HURT IN
7. P. WRECK
Sunshine SpecGalv Runs Into
Broken Rail Near Van Horn,
Texas-None Killed.

Dallas, Tex. Oct. ia number
OF persons were injured, but none
killed when eastbound '.Sunshine
Special" of the Texas & Pacific
railroad was wrecked last night
near Van Horn Tex, according to
advices to the roads general Of
fees here. If any passengers re-
ceiVed serious injuries they will be
taken to Ell Peso for medical at
tention, it was stated.
The wreck was caused by
broken rail and the engine, three
sleepers and dining car left the
none turned over The passengers
have been transferred to another
train, which is proceeding east
ward.
/, The Sunshine Special is a fast
train operated between Ell Paso.
New Orleans and st. Louis. The
wreck occurred at 1888 last night
at a point 125 miles east Of El
Paso and SCI miles west OF Dallas.
Officials here received telegraphic
information today from Van Horn
saying the wreck has been cleared,
that the injured were only slightly
hurt and that the train has pro-
ceeded to Fort Worth.
FL Paso, Texas, Oct. 1S.--A score
or more persons were injured. but
none seriously, last night when
three Pullman cars and q diner OF
the Texas & Pacific railway Sun
shine Special" eastbound, were
wrecked at Wild Horse, near Van
Horn, Texas, according to reports
received at the local ofice today.
Names OF the injured have not been
received here.
Doctors, nurses and railroad Of
ficials who left here for the scene
Of the wreck at midnight have not
returned. The wreck is eight miles
from Van Horn, more than 100
miles from FL Paso, and Is isolated
as far as telegraph communication
is concerned.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-10-18
Wheat MARKET
IS DEPRESSED
AFTER OPENING

y Chicago, Oct fS.-Although the
uheat market showed little re-
ipevd of strength at the opening
u. today, depression quickly set in
..yain. Initial upturns were as
E--shed to a disposition in some
.srarters to take a less beaFish
view of the government report than
vas general at the close yesterday.
IN the other hand, uneasiness over
Z ne industrial outlook tended to de-
snriye the market of support Open
;ng anotations which varied from
unchanged figures to IN cents
higher with December $1.10 to s1.11
md May $114 to $1.15, were fol-
i loved by material declines all
7 around.
~ subsequently, despite liberal ex-
port buying, December and May de-
! .Iiyeries touched the lowest level yet
This season. Financial conditions
a in Europe received considerable at
tention. The close was unsettled,
sac to 4%c net lower with Decem-
Der $1e5A to $1.057z, and May
s109A to $1.1O.
y Corn and oats were relatively
3 firm. SmaIlness of receipts had a
bullish influence. Corn after open
ing unchanged to nc higher, De-
cember 46c to 461se, hardened a
little more and then reacted some
what.
ele Export inquiries helped later to
sustain values. The close was
: steady at the same as yesterdays
Z finish to g % re lower, with Deem
? Der at Acc
Oats started unchanged to Il off,
i December 322sc to 325sc, and later
3 scored slight general gains.
az Provisions were lower with hogs
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-10-18
ELECT OFFICERS
AT WIENER ROAST
OF GIRL SCOUTS

Three troops of Girl Scouts com
land high school, will be the guests
of the council women Thursday
posed of so girls of the Rock Is
evening at a wiener roast The
party will meet at Eighteenth ave-
nue. and Thirtieth street at o'clock
and hike up the Thirtieth street
road to Rock river.
The outing will be for the pur-
pose of creating livelier' interest
in the organization and the estaD-
lishment of the club on a perman-
ent basis. Scout officers will be
elected and plans for the session s
activities discussed. Mesdames
Morris Geismar, Flora B. Buckner
and F. w. belong will chaperon
the girls.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-10-18
MOLINE BATTERY
OF FEDERAL,G GUARD
NOT TO BE FORMED
(special Moline service.)

Further organization of the pro-
posed Moline battery in the feder-
allied national guard has been in
definitely postponed because the
war department, as result of lack
Of funds, has withdrawn its sane
ton of such organizations in Illi-
nois.
The Moline unit was on tie point
of completing its organization when
Captain C. Fl. Burgston received
word from F. S. Dickson, adjutant
general of Illinois, that the war de-
partment has decided to build up
divisional troop units before spend
ing further funds on artillery.
This decision will mean post
ponement of the plan to convert
the auditorium at Prospect park
into an armory. Virtual agree
ments had been reached between
city officials and the state in &C
cordance with which the state was
to pay sufficient rental to cover
the cost of alterations.
Announcement of the change in
policy of the war department came
as an unpleasant surprise to tenn
porary officers and to members of
the Moline organization, who had
been working hard to complete the
battery here.
In replying to Adjutant General
Dickson, Captain Burgston declar-
ed Moline had finally reached the
point where the battery could stand
muster or liberalization within
few days notice
I'VE had" said Captain Burgs-
ton, forty enlistments and about
fifteen other men ready to sign up,
waiting only to see some Indication
of action by the state 1t was real
ly fine to see the spirit of these
men, even after your letter was
read, for to man they asked that
/ keep their papers in my files and
later the federal government would
surely see fit to give the state adj
ditional funds with which to make
the, 155 nm. Howitzer regiment, of
which the Moline battery was to be
a part, an actuality.
1T was decided to try to keep
the organization intact, with the
hope that some time in the near
future the state of Illinois and the
federal government will see fit to
give Moline a battery of federalized
national guard"
Adjutant General Dickson re-
piled that at is a splendid and en-
couraging thing to know that your
men desire to retain their connec-
ton with this potential organiza- |
ton so that when the matter de-
velops to the point where these |
additional organizations can be an
they will be prepared 20
go ahead.
%State authorities will exercise
every endeavor to persuade the war
to make some earlier al
of these additional units to
the state and the first moment the
war department does make this ad-
iitional allotment, the work can
rapidly progress from the point
where we have had to stop tempo
-arily by reason of postponement"
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-10-18
HOLD EXAMS FOR
STATE JOBS SOON
Especial to The Argus.)

Springfield, Ill, Oct 1S.-The
state civil service commission an
nounced today that examinations
would be held in East Moline Sat
urday, Nov. Il, for the following
positions:
Advanced teacher, assistant to
the diagnostic bacteriologist, senior
social service workers, university
senior accountant, university ju-
nior clerk, university registration
clerk.
Examinations will be held fin
East Moline Saturday,, Nov. 19, for
court stenographer, university Sc
Nor stenographer and university
graduate stenOgrapher.
Mrs. Nellie J. Johnson, log Tween
tieth street, East Moline, and Miss
Alta L. WaddeII, BOT Thirteenth
street, East Moline, have passed
the state civil service examination
for hydrotherapist, the civil service
announced today.
Both Mrs Johnson and Miss Wad-
dell are attendants at the Water
town state hospital.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-10-18
Weather Forecast

Illinois: Generally fair tonight
and Wednesday; moderate temper
ature.
Missouri: Generally fair tonight
and Wednesday; slightly warmer
in northwest and extreme north
portions tonight; cooler Wednes-
day afternoon in west portion.
Wisconsin: Fair tonight, becom-
ing unsettled Wednesday with pos
sibly showers; colder in west por-
ton Wednesday.
Iowa: Fair tonight, slightly
warmer in east and south portions;
Wednesday unsettled; colder by
afternoon.
Indiana: Fair tonight and We'd
nesday; cooler tonight in east and
south portions.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-10-18
FEAR PERMANENT
INJURY TO GIRL
IN AUTO TRAGEDY

Jane Merry, 2503 Fifth avenue,
Moline, in St Anthony's hospital
with compound fracture of the
thigh bone, the result of the auto
mobile accident Sunday night at
the intersection of Ninth and
Twelfth streets, when the car
turned over, is still in a serious
condition. The injured knee is bet
ter, but the fracture of her hip is
of such nature that fear is ex-
pressed that she may be perman-.
emily crippled.
Nellie Blackwell, 1882 Second
avenue. Moline, is recovering and
will probably be removed to her
home at the end of this week.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-10-18
Foreign Exchange.

New York, Oct. 18.-FOreign e1-
change: irregular.
Great Britain: demand 3901z;
cables 3.91; 60 day bills ON banks
3.S71s. France: demand 71S1a !;
cables 7.19. Italy: demand $50;
cables 3.901k. Belgium: demand
1851; cables 7.8S. Germany: de-
mand So; cables $50. Holland: de-
mand s4.25; Cables 34.31. Norway:
demand 1925. Sweden: demand
$500 Denmark: demand 1915.
Switzerland: demand 1878. Spain:
demand 1927. Greece: demand
424 Argentine: demand 1888.
Brazil: demand 1897. Montreal:
91A.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-10-18
New York Money.

New York, Oct 1S.-Call money:
easy; high. 5; low, 4; closing bid,
az; offered at 4; last loan 4; call
loans against acceptanees Az.
Time loans: steady; 60 days,
5A @51h; 80 days, 5A@5h per
cent; months. 5H @5h per cent.
Prime mercantile paper: 5k@S
per cent
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Liberty Bonds.

New York, Oct 1S.-Liberty
bonds: closing prices today were:
31zs, s1-32; first As, 92.40; sec
ond As. $3.50; first AIS, 92.70; sec
ond ANS, 92.42; third ANS, 1852;
fourth ANS, S2.72; Victory. 3As,
99.3S; Victory AIS, $40.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-10-18
GEORGE W. HENRY
ESTATE TO WIDOW

Antoinette NJ. Henry. widow of
George w. Henry of Rock Island
inherfts estate of the latter by
terms of the Will admitted TO pro-
bate today by Judge F. J. Landee.
The will was made Jan. 81, 1910.
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Peoria Cash Grain.

Peoria, Ill, Oct, 18.-Corn: re-
ceipts 40 cars, " to y cent lower;
No. 1 yellow, 42A @43; No. 2 yell
low, As; No. yellow, So; No. S yell
low, 36%; No. l white, AN.
Oats: receipts cars; unchanged
to 11zc lower; No. 2 white, BIZ;
No. 8 white, 81.
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Chicago Potatoes.

Chicago, Oct 18.-Potatoes, IN
settled; receipts. 161 cars; Wiscon-
sin, 1750210 per hundredweight;
Red river Ohi0s. 1.75@1-95 per hun
dredWeight; South Dakota whites,
L7o@1.S5 per hundredweight.
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st. Louis Futures.

st. Louis, Mo, Oct 1S.-Futures:
wheat: December, 1.14A asked;
May, 1.19A asked.
Corn: December, 44c bid; May,
49c bid.
Oats: December, 3tAc asked;
May, 36c bid
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Kansas CITY Cash Grain

Kansas City, Mo-, Oct. 18.-Cash
wheat: No. 2 hard, 1.03Q1.14; No. 2
red, 1.20.
Corn: No 2 white, 37@37; No.
2 yellow, 371a.
Oats: No 2 white, 31h; No. 2
mixed, 30031.
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New York Sugar.

New York, Oct 18.-The raw
sugars market was steady, 400 for
duty free centrifugal and all for
Cubas
Refined: steady, $50 for fine gran
ulated.
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Toledo Seed.

Toledo, Ohio, Oct. 18.-CIoyer
seed: prime cash and October,
1880; December, 12.45; February,
1860; March, 12.45.
Timothy: prime, CASH $500,
2.75; cash Q92D and October,
ESQ; December, 2.85; March, 500
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Peoria Livestock.

Peoria, Ill, Oct. 18.-Hogs: re
ceipts 1000; 10. to 20 cents lower;
lights, S.00@S40; mediums, S-0oQ
$40; heavies, 7.75@S.3O; packers.
6.25@725.
Cattle: receipts 100; steady.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-10-18
st. Louis Cash Grain.

ST. Louis, Mo, Oct 1S.-Cash
wheat: No. z red, LIS; No. 8, LII
@1.20.
Corn: No. 1 white, 431k044c; No.
2, 431a.
Oats: No. 3 white, 321aQ33; No.
5, 301h @32.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-10-18
MINNEAPOLIS Grain,

Minneapolis, MINI, Oct 1S.-
Flour: unchanged to 10 cents
lower; family patents, 740@7.7O
per barrel in 80 pound cotton sacks
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FORMER RESIDENTS
OF MILAN SUFFER-
BIG LOSS BY FIRE
(sneciaI Observation-Disclosures

Milan, Ill, Oct. 1S.-Word was
received in Milan this morning tell
ing of the misfortune which has
befaIlen Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Mat
thew, former residents of this place,
at Sails. Miss. Mr. Matthew is the
son Of Wilson Matthew. A fire last
week completely destroyed their
home, burning all Of their clothing.
household goods and furniture, the
only thing that was saved being
some winter clothing that was in
storage.
SERBS ATTACK ALBAEIANS.
Rome, Oct. 18.-The Serbs at
tackled the Albanians, capturing
several towns along tbs Dr1na
river.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-10-18
MOLINE OFFICERS
FIND LIQUOR WHEN
|. THEY RAID HOUSE
Especial Moline S@v5e.)

Moline police last night raided a
dwelling at Sixth street and Rail
road avenue and confiscated sew
eral empty jugs and a quart OF
whisky. August Claeys. 524 Rail-
road avenue, and Alfons DeClerk.
$40 Seventh street, were arrested
and will have hearing this after
noon. While no charges have yet
been filed against them, 1t is I'M
derstood they win be accused of
ownership of the property seized
by the police in the Railroad ave-
nue. house.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-10-18
Silver.

New York, Oct 18.-Foreign bar
silver, .70%; Mexican dollars, .54A.
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nXh1QfY

Tri-City Towel Supply company
Davenport s34.
r. L Clean Towe Service. Phone
r |. 243e.
Try q load of Energy Franklin
county lump. 1t satisfies. Sold by
Black Hawk Coal & Dock company.
r. l. 342.
Money to loan on real estate w.
L. Ludolph, Best building
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Horses and Mules.

aEast St Louis, Ill, Oct Is
Horses and mules, unchanged.
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An the News-An the Time
The Argus. -.
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AREN,T YOU GLAD

That Deltanut, the famous pecan
CONNECTION, is again to be had? One
pound box, 81; half-pound box. 60c-
A so per cent reduction.-(Adver-
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E w. WAGNER & CO.