The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-02


Enraptured by her loveliness-
She was a dear wee miss
He hesitated, then he dared
To slyly steal "a
glance to see if the was coming.
He gazed Deep deep into her eyes,
! And said: THE stars above you
Bear witness to my feeling, sweet
Oh, Helen DEAR
Goodnight, here comes my carl"
Yoohoo, Mac, I think the above ought to
body either having already been there or
wanting to.
oh yes. Mac, I'm she, not he.
Just a word about Pegasus. The other Sat
urday night Pegasus and l went shopping in
Davenport, l to shop and Pegasus to carry me
back and so-forth- Pegasus had been acting
poorly for week and l guess maybe he being
OF the male nationality, the shopping was too
much for him, anyways coming over on the
Govt island he began hollering something pain
fu so l says: Whoa faithless steed," and
put the brakes quick and then when asked
him to start again do you think he would move?
No, not cenumeter. So let him rest a cou-
pie minutes while | repeated quietly a few
words not in the dictionary Then l asked
him again to move, but no, not another cent?
pede would he bulge. So called the garbage
to send an interne.- anS on giving Pegasus a
cursoring examination he found the pore ami
NAL was losing bis muller and no wonder he
panied, that must be as bad as appendi-
citus and the pus busting, so Pegasus and
got roped in that night. l got home at the
witchin midnight hour of 1890 p. M and
Pegasus was laid up in the garbage for a
couple days. Don't it just make your pulse
beat to hear how that pore animel suffered, !
Mac, you ben gentle and syntheticO
SPEAKING of afectionate regard, we have |
achieved one for Cactus (which is not les
sened by the revelation that Cactus is a she). /
Cactus quaint use of words convinces that /
she is a direct descendant of the reVered Mrs.
Darlington. So long as she continues to be
helpful we'll permit her to joyfully split all .
the infnitives she wants to.
SOME day when We are feeling particu-
larly wicked and desperate we shall print Mrs. |,
Partngtons famous comment on the two !!
schools OF medicine.
Oh Henry!
[From the La Harpe QlL) La Harper.l
family passing through LaHarpe J.
last week going from Washington, D. C.,
to Portland, Ore. in a Ford truck, had
a new invention for a Ford. They had
a small house the truck body and
lived in it The man had run the ex-
haust pipe up into the Ford and they II
were doing their cooking by the heat
from the exhaust He said it wasn't hot
enough for short orders but that he could
cook all the vegetables by it What
next?
"WANTED-To Buy. Ford Roadster With
Tarter. 744 Fifteenth Street.-The Argus
Scratch any Ford roadster and that's what
you'll find.
Probably Buying a Flock of Saxophones.
New London Corr, Burlington Hawk-Eye.J
NeIs Wind and daughter Miss Laura
Wind and Mr.. and Mrs. Horace Wind
were in Burlington Monday on business I
FOR SALE-Household goods, Coles high c
IN cultivation and grass, except 10 acres AS
stove, heating; coal oil stove, four burners /
and oven; piano, linoleum-C. A. MERCER, S
Apartment, Sixth and Locust.-Bowling Green T
MOI Times. b
The congregation will now rise and sing T
What viii the Harvest Be?' v
THE foregoing clipping and the Ford road | d
'ter wheeze came to US pasted tightly on a n
postcard signed Min. Oh, Min. Please r
.ont do that It's a hard job FASTING post O
ard clippings on our copy. i,
ANY newspaper man will concede that a :,
eadline writer must needs have ina gination Il
iut the imagination of the Decatur Herald
ead writer ought to be curbed when he writes :,
eadiines like this: War Looms in W. Va y
,alkans".
herein fha Farmer Ash 10