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The Kevin courier. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1922, 1922-07-19
Kevin Blacksmith Shop

L. R. Pyke has opened his new
blacksmith shop on First avenue
south, and is now prepared to handle
all sorts of acetylene welding, boiler
work and general blacksmithing. Mr..
Pyke has successful shop in Havre,
and seeing the great need of shop
in Kelvin, he is determined to put in
a first-class shop here.
The Kevin courier. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1922, 1922-07-19

The heavy rain Saturday afternoon
and night has furnished additional
moisture for the growing crops and
range and ranchers are, as a conse-
quence, in a happy frame of mind.
The Kevin courier. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1922, 1922-07-19

The Adams wholesale oil station
has been completed and doing busi-
ness.
The Kevin courier. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1922, 1922-07-19

The editor Of The Courier and Thos
Amerman were at Sunburst Friday
night.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-10-31
ALFALFA FOR MEN.

Once more a group Of dietitians are urging
the tired business man to include mullins or
biscuits made from alfalfa meal in his morn
ing refreshment. When man begins to live
on vtamines and calories instead of dinner
and supper the alfalfa suggestion should have
its appeal. There are as many vitamines in
bale of alfalfa as there are in a whole nest
of pork chops. II worse comes to worst we
can keep Europe alive by feeding il bread
made from alfalfa The beTeficiaries will not
be eager for second helping If folks ate more
alfalfa and less lobster they would live longer
and bleat more. II the portly banker would
browse gently On his alfalfa bed instead of
filling his face with steamng mess of gou-
lash he would last longer and his blood pres
sure would be much reduced. The alfalfa
water is dainty breakfast fodder and it car
ries no sting. The processes of digestion are
simplified and the brain is freed from the
slavery to the odors of high cooking 1t is
said that the heavy use of alfalfa as refresh
ment conduces to amiable reflection If the
world were made up entirely of alfalfa eaters
there would be no more war.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-10-31
IF 1T EVER IS TOLD,

II there is ever a full investigation OF the
Rock Island police department, which is ex
tremely doubtful the people may be informed
in the public prints Of the name of the official
who was the personal sponsor and protector OF
the notorious bootleg bar and house OF prosti-
tuition at the nnrthwest corner Of Twenty
fourth street and Fourth avenue, Many of the
people of Rock Island already know, but some
of them not so we'll informed might be just a
trihe surprised if they saw the name Of the
gentleman in print, together with the name Of
his female consort woman that it is under
stood has been induced to leave the city until
the storm subsidies. This is but one of nuLi-
erous little salacious incidents that might be
revealed by an investigation of the police de-
partment
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-10-31
NEW ENGLAND cONsCIENCES.

Much water has flowed under the bridge
since people wasted away in vain efforts to
determine whether or not they had "sinned
against the Holy Ghost. What was the New
England conscience is now Freudian COM
pick, and it is doubtful whether anybody in
these days is more than necessarily concerned
with the possibility Of having sinned. y
Dangerous as the habit Of morbid SELF
searching undoubtedly is. it is probably NO
more dangerous than the neglect of the soul, as
a field for cultivation. which rather charac-
terizes the present generalization. II the older
generation often sprained a spiritual thigh
in the' nightly wrestling with the angel, is it
not possible that present practice Of gaily ig-
noring the whole business can be as conduc-
tive to spiritual degeneration as the old way
Of going to the mat with sin was conducive to
over-training?
The New England conscience was developed
when people were too much alone. The new
Indifference to conscience comes from the fac.
that we Of today are not alone enough We
the soul. The pressing problem Of when t,
never find time for the most casual probe Of
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-10-31
THE SANDY REPORTER.

The newspaper reporter goes pretty much
unsung. Nobody writes him in along with coal
miners and ship radio operators as one of the
-heroes of industry" He is commonly drawn
in drama as scribbling feverishly With a pen-
ell on neat little notebook. He is conceived
~ the pest Of the recent widow and the goad
OF the police station. He is always crawling
under fire lines or asking for photographs
That he really has "a-calling" and q sense OF
his mission is too seldom suspected.
Ben Bainss of the San Antonio Light went
up--and come down-in the Inflated dirigible
CO the other day. When he blast had blown
him. stunned and broken-armed. to the floor
of the hangar, he staggered out and found a tel
ephone Burns cuts and fractured bones were
forgotten. Here was story! And Bens tale
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-10-31
RrsaeAial Coafahslatlens.

Even when an alleged "cold On
the chest" really is acute brof-
chftis there 10 still q chance it may
prove to be something else after
all. About once a year." wrote
DR.. Osler, in the medical bible, II
see q case of typhoid fever, IN
which the diagnosis ut first has
been-aeute bronchitis And NO
doubt DR.. Osler encounters many
more such cases now.
One of the several misleading
modes Of onset of lung tuberculosis
is with acute brouGhitis. And SO
familiar to the laity is this form Of
influenza that the popular dag
nosis Of grippe" has come to cover
about every acute respiratory in
lection in the category. from COM
mon coryza to meningitis. Grippe"
is a meaningless term-a blanket
diagnosis. a short and simple sy
of saying you don't know v hat
really is the matter. There il no
such disease or condition as
Grippe" except 50 far as the idea
serves to fit the numerous sure
cures offered the credulous layman
for never-mind-w hat-ails-him.
Acute bronchitis is as much q
part Of measles as is the skin rash.
1t is in no way dependent on the
rash striking in" from exposure
or from taking cold" as the, super
stitiouS still imagine. In fact, there
is no more reason for keeping a
measles patient too warmly covered
or dressed or in an overheated
room than there is for keeping a
person with tuberculosis or typhoid
fever under such unhygienic con-
ditions.
Acute bronchitis generally accom-.
panies whooping cough, and is all
the more reason for keeping the
child in the open air as much al
possible.
Young persons whose education
has been sadly neglected-beloN
the eye-brows-are much NOR
likely to have acute bronchitis thar
are those who have received fail
| physical training. Particularly
liable are children with spina
curvature.
!. Adults in the early, and otter IN
recognized stages of arterioscler
osis. heart-muscle impairment, o.
chronic nerhritis tBright's disease
are susceptible to acute bronchiti:
and likely to develop the chroEi,
form.
People of all ages, conditions
and classeA who cherish the fatuou
notion that the way to keep goot
and warm is by wearing excessive
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-10-31
GOODBYE, HOOK AND EYE.

The last hook and eye manufacturer in
London has gone out of business. 1t is an elo-
quent illustration of the progress toward sim
plicity and convenience which woman's dress
has made in the past few years. Even the
snapper and the button are reported by the
feminine fair to be going down into oblivion
before the popular dress which slips on over
the head.
An army of husbands hail the passing of
the hook and eye and its pernicious associates
with joy. No wife is sweetheart to her
'hooker-up". But no less does the vanishing
of these small tyrants speak freedom for the
woman-freedom from hours of petty sewing
and delay in dressing One reason the woman
of today has time to interest herself in the
bigger topic which once lay within the male
realm is that she can dress almost as swiftly
as a man. Who can deny that the change is
for the peter? --
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-10-31

Ter who unconseiously gave the
thing away.
Hes always doing things like
that for folks like you, giving 'em
one of his own places to live in,
bless his heart"
1t was sober family. and very
white little Ellen that greeted Mr..
John Trent that night as he jumped
boyishly over the low gate.
How could you?" Ellen lifted
great, reproachful eyes.
1T wasn't right" said her father
bit brokenly.
at was bully, though" sighed
Jimmie.
How could you say it was from
a relative" the tears ran freely
down Mrs. Watson's cheek.
For answer Mr.. John Trent stalk
I, ed to the girls side.
II love you, dear" he said ten
Derby. will you marry me~ And
as Ellen's face hid on his shoulder
| for answer, a smile broke through
his gravity.
THE place is yours. dear folks.
he told them. He reached out and
encircled Mrs. Watson with his 9th.
er arm.
/ IT wasn't hbbing at all. was l
1 mother!' he demanded. "It is from
; Z relative. your soh-in-law,"
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-10-31
THE RoosT STILL OPEN.

omcials have been reluctant to raid the
Looney vice vultures' roost ON the grounds
that 1t is private residence. The Argus dis
agrees with these officials The Ioeney vice
vultures' roost is nothing less than the meeting
place Of an armed gang Of dope-eating
white and black thugs engaged in the framing
Of blackmail plots and schemes to defeat the
laws against whisky and dope trafficking. The
James boys were gentlemen compared to that
gang Of thugs and scavengers. Not one of them
has legitimate means of livelihood, and under
the law, il it were not that more serious
charges could be preferred against them, they
ought to be arrested as Migrants. They would
not be tolerated "a hours in any other civilized
community in the world, and the officials Of
Rock Island know it. The roost Of the vice
vultures ought to be closed as menace to the
decent neighborhood in which it is located and
as another step towards making Rock 1saand
safe and decent.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-10-31
WITH AID OF cLAMoR.

The modern literati bangs ut gathering
typewriter Realism. It seems. must be at
tanned the aid Of clamor and realism
must be attained at all cost. It would seem
that this world seeths with curses. that.there is
nothing Of sentleness with which to deal gent
", that sweetness and light are mid-victorian
or adorned with some Of her horriic labels.
The character of the very modern and often
very young writer is husky fellow, mauied
by bitter fate and hence hob-nailed and Vi
Imperative, With callouses in his palms and
corns on his soul He is fighting fellow a
hard fellow, a fellow with infinite noise, blat-
ting and stomping his way through pages de-
void Of beauty and barren Of peace. 1t is a
time for cotton in the ears.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-10-31
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
Cocoa Butter.

Please tell me whether massastng
the chest with cocoa butter viii
put on fiesh.-Mrs. c. X. ].
Answer-No known substance ap-
piled to the skin will increase the
local nutrition or cause the local
accumulation Of fat. No known
food is absorbed through the skin.
Cocoa butter is rather an inferior
food as compared with lard, suet or
dairy butter. Perhaps you need TO
increase the weight. l should be
glad to send you some suggestions
to help you gain weight
Precipihted Chalk.
Kindly tell me il it is injurious to
take one teaspoonful Of precipitat-
ed chalk in half glassful OF water
daily for the nerves.. A. c.
Answer-No, although 1t has no
particular effect on the nerves.
Cancer of the Lung or Liver.
Is there such a thing as cancer
of the lung or liver? Would that
fill you up and make you feel bloat-
ed?-Mrs. Y. H.
Answcr-Cancer often occurs in
the liver and in the lung, usually
secondary to cancer elsewhere in
the body. 1t would not make you
feel bloated.
Slippers the Year Around.
3 would like TO know if wearing
clippers the year around would take
the shape out of the leg.-A. r.
AnSWer-N0.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-10-31
ONE OF THE ECHOES.

1t is understood one of the crimes that is
TO be Investigated by the grand jury when it is
reconvened by order of the attorney general
of Illinois is an alleged murderous assault
made upon woman of the underworld by an
attache of the Rock Island city hall. 1t is re-
ported to have been one Of the most brutal
affairs ever staged in the Rock Island under
world and that the friends of the woman are
insisting upon full inquiry and punishment
OF the assailant.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-10-31
HEALTH TALKS
BY William Brady. Nd. D.


amounts OF clothing and keeping
the temperature indoors we'll aotve
6s degrees Fahfcndeit, are motor
iodsly susceptible to bronchitis:
Their \bronchiai tubes are weak
or sensitive" rs they say, but
they might understand. II they were
capable Of ratiocination, that 1t IS
simply q case Of coddling.
The essential or primary cause OF
acute bronchitis is as clearly deter
mined as is the cause Of septicemia
(acute blood poisontng), and that
is bacterial infection. Everybody
today knows that acute blood Pois-
oning is caused by infection, ana
that the infection (the germsl need
not come directly from another cas-
Of acute blood poisoning, but may
come from a mere boil or pimp!e
or improperly treated cut OF other
minor wound. Likewise the ind.s-
criminate boor who snee1es or
coughs on his neighbors may have
"enly a slight head cold" but yet
give the unlucky neighbor acute
bronchitis.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-10-31

doabn three no-srumps forbids much agony
over snch question a. Have ssvsd = soal
TO-DAY, o.. have failed!~ Even wheh We Rad,
we must smoke or eat. - II we were afraid of
an unstimuIated reality as ii We were afraid
of what the soul might get away with not
occupied with some diversion Of the yssomotor
nervous system or the alimentav canal. Have
we any more serenity than the dear old spins
tiers Of 4 generation which now. seems rs re-
mote as the ancient Axtecs? Probably nobody
will ever lind out
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-10-31

Of the passing Of the good ship c. vas the nrst
to flash ont across TIA country.
Getting the facts 70 the people is. after III.
genuine profession. 1T numbers thousands
Of trained men. with considerable sandt aid
nose for news" and knack # inyestisatins
quickly and writing briefly. Their devotion to
the lob OF newsgathering in no way differs from
that Of Ben Blaine who was simply blsNn into
an unusual assignment
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-10-31

Washington, D. c. Give fuN name 80
,turn postage. Be brief. All inauiri-s ="
70 each ind vldual No attention VII D
The number of completed bicycles
in 1919 was 470,675 and in lsZl was
1882. Motorcycles decreased III
production also. In 1919. os,l--
were made, while in 1921, only 20
SOL were put'out.
Q. What are regarded as the best
of Macaulay's essays?
A. Probably the most famous Oh,
the essays Of Macaulay are tnose
on Lord Give, Warren Hastings
and William Pitt, but others tna'
deal with men of letters, Addison
for instance. or Samuel johnson
are equally brilliant
@. Who was the first uniteu
States senator to oppose slavery
A. John Hale Parker. OF ne"
Hampshire, who was elected TO u.
senate in 1S47. was the first anu
until Joined by Salmon T. Chase !"
1S49, the only ayowed anti-sia'ei'
member Of that body. :.
! @. Hcw much gold is there IL
the worIdo \. II. L.
| A. Accurate gold statistics nav
been kept for 430 years In ina,
time S75,000,000 fine ounces OF CIV
have been produced, valued al sio,,
! 000, 900 geo. About $4,000 .Ooo,eW !.
it has been made into money, .ne
remainder having been used IN ln'
Industrial arts or in some way los "
/ @. What salary did General uos
thals have while he was Wo'k.Ne
on the Panama Canal? +. J. "
! A. The Panama canal ONCE sais
that at that time General Toe
was a colonel. and served as cnan
man and chief engineer OF ine 81 -
gineer commission, at a saiar. a
$4,000 per annum. At the comp, a
ton of the canal he was appoint.
governor of the canal zone 81
salary of $4,000 per annum.
| @. What was George WsHre
tons first battle? 1. NJ
| A. The engagement al o .ss
meadows. Pa. May 2S. 1io4' 10 IN
French and Indian war, is kh' Us
as Washington's first fight, ,,i.l
! surprised a French camp Md nd
the commandant and nine men al
captured the others, with a,s.,,sd
ties to his own force OF one A
and three wounded
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-10-31
CINDERELLA AND THE PRINCE
nv Miss Grace r. Olin.
Copyright, 1922, by Wheeler
Syndicate, Incl


Quarter to seven-get up, chill
drens. Mrs. Watson's voice shriiled
upstairs.
s Avail right grumbled 14-year-
old Jimmie, as he reluctantly push
ed back the warm covers. ~
BE down in Is minutes, mother,
answered Ellen, the daughter of the
house. And JIM" she added, II
know you don't really mean it, but
it sounds awful to answer mother
in that tone"
Say, what's biting you?" Jimmie,
characteristic OF his sex. was at his
worst in. the early morning.
Who's answering mother fresh?
It's my natpra! tone and, besides, Of
course it amt mothers fault, but
all I'll get for school lunch is
cheese sandwiches and an apple.
At this bit of information the heart
of Ellen softened for her brother.
Never mind, Jimmie boy she
said, lust wait till you finish school
and get a job. Think of the swell
lunches you can have"
Leave it to me-" said Jimmie,
leave it to me-
Whereupon Ellen heard him
whistling with vigor as he splashed
cold water ON his face and thick
hair.
The girl stretched herself luz
| uriously. 1t was good to be is, and
wasn't this to be a pleasant, very
pleasant day?
Wasn't she glad she had launder-
ed her prettiest lace collar and
| cuffs, though she had been tired
/ She looked on them with deep sat
isfaction ere she slipped into the
plain little black blouse.
But the GROWING event was
launch. No cheese sandwiches OF
apples for her today. She would
have griddle cakes and coffee, and
afterwards ice cream. She pictured
the joy Of DOMINIC her hat and coat
clasping her much-mended gloves
and elegantly and languidly drop.
ping into a chair at the restaurant
and ordering lunch.
For the last year she had takeI
sandwiches and bit of fruit for {
frugal meal. And the few time.
she had managed to save up enough
to dine out" had been gala day,
Indeed.
She knew just how Jimmie fell
about it. But it couldn't be helped
her mother was doing her best
what with fathers sickness and h,
working only half-time now
was no cinch for mother, Ellel
knew.
OF course they wanted Jimmie t,
30 through grammar school, an
didn't the lad work In the loca
drug store and study hard nights t
accomplish even that feat?
WELL" soliloquized Ellen, pin
: ming the snowy collar at her slin
. white throat, II wish / had brains
that's all. If had brains I'd max
a lot of money and take the Who'll
bunch of us out in the country t
, live. I'd like to see mother hav
, roses in her cheeks again, and "a
Their lose that bend to his shoulder
! And I'd like Jim to play ball an
have time to do things other boy
do.
!. And as for myself" Ellen din
. pied charmingly at the mel
thought. "I'd keep a maid just fe
y Tx months and I'd read all l wan
b ed to, and raise flowers and chicl
a ems and I'd bring old Granny Bate
down to sit on my spacious We
anda. And wouldn't l love to giy
l. the Duggan kids . whole month
t run wild in the fresh air, but il
= stead OF that" Ellen frowned
herself in the little mirror, II hal
: M hEAinA Ana1a0 I must be CO..
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-10-31
The Daily Short Story

tent to measure ribbon in Gerry
Brothers basement"
The girl secured a lock of soft
hair. Perhaps" she told the love-
ly eyes in the glass. II might meet
a prince, just as Cinderella did;
who knows? There isn't a chance
in the world. but there's no harm
Epretending, and"
your coffee is poured OUT Ell
len," came her mothers voice
again.
Good morning. said Ellen to
her folks in her cheeriest manner.
, Isn't it going to be a lovely day.
Good morning. daughter an
swered her parents, and the girl,
, noticing that their eyes were ev!-
IDENTIFY on the same object, turned
hers in that direction.
Her brother, having finished his
; breakfast, was unmindful of the
gazes fastened on him as algebra
book in hand he sat with his fest
resting conspicucusly on the edge
of the machine. The girls heart
sank as she looked, for Jimmie's
shoes were practically soleless.
why didn't you say how bad
! your shoes we're, son." asked his
father.
! And it's beginning to be cold"
added his mother, and you don't
i get your money from the drug store
until tomorrow and your father
won't get any till Saturday"
They'll be all right until tomor-
| row." answered the boy.
But Jimmie" worried his moth
er, I'VE don't want no more sick
ness. Perhaps now Ellen has lit
tie money to lend you; you can
wear your fathers to school and
yours will be ready when you come
back"
And no one noticed the little
catch in Ellen's voice when she
said: Mother, l only want one
cheese sandwich, and just give me
a little apple"
i And it is right here that Mr.. John
Trent comes into the story.
He (Mr. John TRENT bound fol
Trent & Trent's law office, anc
:! Miss Ellen Watson, bound for Gerr,
Brothers Basement, had hung to {
strap side by side all the way down.
town.
i To the man, used to the luxur,
Of his automobile, it was a novelty
To the girl its daily repetition
amounted to 4 tragedy.
Awful, isn't it," asked Mr.. Johi
Trent as he rescued Ellen's chees,
, sandwiches from the floor where
fat mans vii exit had throw,
them.
1T is" returned Ellen, her can
did gray eyes meeting his keen blu
!, ones without attempt at coquetry.
Il wouldn't be going to Gerr
Brothers BasemaAt in this mob
. l had any brains" she had added.
That was all. But later in tn
i day Mr.. John Trent had made it hi
4 business to talk the matter owe
!, with Gerry Brothers themselves.
e And the younger Mr.. Gerry ha
e condeScended to introduce tn
o young lady quite properly. An
e after that Mr.. John Trent had toll
= Ellen he was a lawyer and lionel,
}. for his folks were dead.
d In turn, Ellen had brought bib
s home to supper and confded &c
aspirations.
/ And then one day a wonderf,
. thing had happened. Mr.. job
= Trent had come to them to tell the,
: relative had left them wealth an
+ home in the country.
IS And the roses had come back
? the tired mothers cheeks and Il
e erectness Of the fathers shoulder
o. And Jimmie had played tennis al
l. padded his canoe, and Ellen hi
It raised posies and chickens to h
re hearts content.
r. 'Twas.Af. John Trs6t's Old BIZ
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-10-31

Remember that the lawless element centers
its strength on the candidates from which It
expects privileges that are not tolerated by
Law. The lawiess element makes its strength
felt In elections because it doesn't scatter its
ammunition. You know the men who are
seeking your vote and don't give it to the can
didate who is attempting to straddle. Support
the candidates you know are not wearing two
facea.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-10-31

You have An entire county ticket to vote ON
next Tuesday. 1t is an important election. and
you Will be false to your own interests if you
TAIL to do your duty as citizen Watch the
oootieggers and the other law-breakers on cleo
ZION day. They will be out in force. Don't
let them put anything over or you.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-10-31

When the Gabel murderers are caught, as
they are going to be, you will know the men
who considered themselves and actually were
above the law in Rock Island. Proof Of this
assertion is had in the fact that not one Of those
under suspicion has ever been questioned by
the local authorities.