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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-09-05
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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-09-05
Social Announcements.

The Past Noble Grand club of
Eudora Rebekah lodge will be en-
tertained Monday evening, Sept. IL
at the home of Miss Anna Ransom,
1870 Twenty-eighth street.
Busy Bee Sewing circle will meet
Thursday afternoon with Mrs. Gus
Thierman, 826h Thirtieth street.
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Miss Fay Booth. daughter Of Mrs.
Olive A. Booth. 1928. Ninth avenue.
whose marriage to Harry H.
cleveland. Jr.. only son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. H. H. cleveland, SOS Nine
teenth street, will be an event Of
10 o'clock tomorrow morning, at
the Memorial Christian church. has
chosen to have only two attend
ants. Miss Eleanor Cleaveland
sister of the bridegroom. wiz serve
her as maid Of honor and Margaret
Altz OF East Moline, niece OF the
bride will be flower girl
Franklin Searle will attend Mr.
Cloaveland as best man. Howard
Ramser, Wilmer Cox and David
McCredie Of Aurora are to be ush-
srs and. Ralph Booth, BROTHER OIL
the bride, is to give her away. The
ceremony will be performed by
Rev. Launcelot Hadaway, pastor o.
the church.
Following the wedding service
there will be breakfast at thu
Outing club in Davenport for tn.
immediate families and the bride
and bridegroom will go or a north
ern motor trip.
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sss III I'll. City Garden club has q
schednls this month, starting
I s':1i, the meeting to b held Tues
s.,~ sept. II, at the home OF Mrs.
III MI HI Sharpiey, 740 Oneida avenue,
l sns Plans at that meeting
mi be completed for the flower
unit set for Sept. 18 at Spencer
snraiture company in Davenport.
I IN club will also consider an invi-
.ss,on to visit the dahlia gardens
belonging to Miss Halle Conkling
IL Nuscatine.
A the meeting next Tuesday.
NM Sharpley will exhibit some
go =. Kindred water color studies OF
vild bowers which she herself has
done.
Mss Helen Carter of Porf Col
horne. Canada, who knows a great
deal about Canadian gardening,
and who is a houseguest Of Mrs.
charles NJ. Stone OF Moline, will
nfobably address the club. Mics
Elizabeth Putnam OF Davenport
hi tell Of her recent visit in Eng
and and France. The meeting il
called for 3 o'clock. Mrs Park G..
Bsrrows of Davenport, president
81 the club. is expected home for
the meeting. s
All of the one hundred members
I Of the garden club are expected To
have an entry in the exhibit plan
ned. If unable to send bouquet
single flower may be entered
The large window space of the
Spencer store will be used by the
club for the exhibit. There are to
be no prizes. but ribbons will BE-
awarded.
The exhibit committee includes
Mrs. A. l.. Friedel of Moline, Mrs
B. D, Connolly Of this city and Mrs
Louis DeArmand Of Davenport.
Scout Council Meets Thursday.
Mrs. W. H. Marshall, new chair
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Rev. Mr.. Marston to Lecture.

Rev. Frank Marston will give a
stereopticon lecture on my Over
land Trip Through the Rocky
Mountains at the Spencer Memo
rial Methodist church this evening
at 7:45. The board Of stewards
will meet imlkediately following
the lecture.
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Kintervarten 10 Open Soon.

kinferg1Tfen to Open Soon.
Announcement was made today
that Broadway Kindergarten will be
opened within few days. Miss
Ella Quinn, who last year had
charge of the school, has gone to
Goodman, Wis, SO will be unable to
be in the city this winter. The
mothers club is making tentative
plans for the school. and making
an effort I'd secure q new director. Z
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Club Board Members to Meet.

The executive board of the Rock
Island Music club is to hold an im-
portant meeting at 2 O'Clock Thurs
day afternoon at the home Of Mrs.
Fred Soper, 709 Forty-second street.
Active members are asked to attend
meeting at 2:30 o'clock at Mrs.
Soper's home. The two ladies will
plan for the first meeting of the
club to be held next month.
Luncheon Dinner for Visitors.
Mrs. Henry Groth, 1881 Four
teenth street, entertained at a L.
O'Clock luncheon yesterday, honor
ing Mr. and Mrs. William Wallace,
Mrs. H. Zeigler, Mrs. E. Gordon and
daughter Dorothy OF Chicago. who
spent the weekend in the city.
There were covers for II and the
afternoon hours we're spent infor-
mally.
Last evening Mrs. John Fee, 11c1
Twelfth avenue, entertained at a
6 O'Clock dinner for the visitors
Her guests number IA friends and
relatives. The Chicago visitors left
today by motor for their home.
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SATURDAY..

Weekly bridge at Golf club.
Mrs. W. H. Rendleman. Davenport. gives
morning bridge for Miss Suzanne Davis
at Outing club.
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Scout Couucil Meets Thursday.

Mrs. W. H. Marshall, new chair
man of the Girl Scout council, has
called the first meeting of the
council. 1t will be held at 1920
Thursday morning in the library.
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\ H.
Civic department Rock Island Woman's
cub meets.
Amoo Caldron sewing circle.
| 81. Anthony's hospital guild Ueets at
hospital.
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Golf Club Dinner.Dance Success.

The dlnner-dance AT ROCK lSlanO
arsenal golf club last evening was
q most decided success, some 140
club members and their friends en-
.oying the society event.
Dinner was served in the ball
room last night instead of on the
veranda, every table having a CEN
terpiece Of garden flowers. There
were some small parties. but the
dutch treat tables were the most
popular as well as hilarious.
Miss Florence O'Neill entertained
a company Of IA at a table and
Major, and Mrs. Charles N. Chaplin
of the arsenal post had IL guests
Miedke's orchestra played for the
dancing in the ballroom after the
dinner tables had been removed
Some of the members played cards
in the parlors.
There will be no mid-weekly In
formal Thursday night, last eve.
ning's affair taking the place OF the
weekly dinner. Bridge will be play
ed Saturday afternoon.
Alumni to Meet Tonight.
St. Joseph's alumni association
will meet at 1880 this evening a
the convent, Nineteenth street ant
Sixth avenue. A report will be Civ
en- on the social sponsored las
week Members are all asked tt
attend.
Honor Son at Birthday Party.
Mr.. and Mrs. Seth Ague. 100
Sixth avenue, entertained at
birthday party Sunday evening q
their home in honor of their eldes
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To Make Convention Plans.
The American legion. auxiliary
will hold meeting this evening to
make final arrangements for the
convention to be held Sept. 25-26,
in this city.
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Alumni to Meet Tonight.
Honor Son at Birthday Party.

Mr.. and Mrs. Seth Ague. lOOS
Sixth avenue, entertained at a
birthday party Sunday evening at
their home in honor of their eldest
son, George Waldo Ague, who OBJ
served his 21st birthday annivers-
arr yesterday. Music was enjoyed
and games were played and at 10
O'clock a delicious luncheon was
served by Mrs. Ague and the hon
cred guests sister. Miss Mildred.
Mr. Ague received many gifts.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-02-24

with assurance, guiding himself with
touches here and there that showed
his familiarity with the vessels rig.
He approached the cabin skyllght lift
ed 1t on the port side. Through 1t
came the murmur Of voices. The
blind man nodded in satisfaction and
widened his grin with a warning
"hush-sh to his guide.
"We'll fool 'em proper" he Tipped
rather than uttered.
The companion doors were closed,
but they opened noiselessly. The
stairs were carpeted with corrugated
rubber that muffied all sound. Two
men sat at the cabin table, leaning
forward. hands and forearms out
stretched, lingering something. One
Rainey recognized as the captain,
Simms-a heavy, square-built man.
gray-haired, clean-shaven, his flesh
tanned, yet somehow unhealthy. as IL
the bronze was close to furnishing.
The other was younger, tall, nerv-
ously active, with dark eyes and a
dark mustache and beard, the latter
trimmed to vandyke. Between them
was q long. slim sack Of leather, a
miners poke. It was half full Of
something that stuffed its lower ex-
tremity solid. without doubt the same
substance that glistened In the mouth
Of the sack and the palms Of the two
men-gold-coarse dust Of gold!
a.
side as the blind man straddled
across the bottom Of the companions
way, towering In the cabin while he
thrust his stick with a thump on the
floor and thundered, In a below that
seemed to f1ll the place and come tum-
bling back in deafening echo:
"Karluk ahoy!"
The face Of Captain Simms paled,
the tan turned to a sickly gray, and
his jaw dropped. Rainey saw fear
come into his eyes. His companion
did not stir muscle except for the
quick shift Of his glance. but went on
sitting at the table. the gold in one
palm, the fingers Of his other hand
resting on the grains.
"Jlm Lund!" gasped the captain
hOarsely.
That's me, you skulking sculpin
Thought I was bear meat by this
didn't you. blast yore rotten soul ia
HI! But I'm back. Bill Simms. Back
an this time you don't slip me-"
Jim Lund's face was purple-red
with rage, great veins standing out
upon It so swollen that 1t seemed they
must surely burst and discharge their
e6ngested Contents. He looked. Hal.
ney thought, like blind Berserker. re-
strained only by his affiiction.
you left me blind on the foe, Bill
SImms :" he roared. Blind. in driv.
in blizzard with the Ice breakin' up!
n didn't have use for yore cancass
I'd twist yore head from yore scaly
body like I'd pull up a carrot"
Lund's fingers opened and closed
convulsively.
IT looked for you, Jim." pleaded the
captain, and to Rainey his words
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-02-24
NEW NATIONAL FARMERS
PARTY Is IN PROSPECT
Third Party Would Have National
Ticket In 1924

In a meeting held in Chicago, the
National Farmers Farm Bloc, said
TO be influencing Congress for leg
lSlatiOn suitable to its demands made
"A bid for third political party to be
representative of the interests of the
farmers of the United States Lead
erS said that they will have a nation
al ticket in the field in 1924 from
candidate for President on down.
Organizers claim the bloc now has
membership of 225.0O0 and will have
more than one-million in 1924,
Arthur c. Townley, president Of
the Nonpartisan League which had
such powerful sway in the Dakotas.
is said to hold the whip hand over
the organization. 1t is said he plans
to fight the Nonpartisan League, and
draw his followers in that organiza-
tion with him into the new party.
Townley processes to be dissatisfied
with the showing made by radicals
in the League in his control of North
Dakota.
Hopes are also entertained of a
coalition with labor groups.
The platform upon which a mem
bership campaign it to be launched
is as follows:
/. Operation of the railroads fol
public service instead of private
gain.
2. Government guarantee of the
cost of production of staple farm
products.
3. Taxation of excess profits, in
comes and inheritances to pay the
soldiers bonus.
4. Legislation compelling packer!
to pay prices for live stock com
mensurate with price charged fol
dressed meats and other live stool
products.
5. Government conservation anC
operation of national resources.
6. Restoration to the Government
of the power to issue credit cur
rency to be furnished the people a
cast.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-02-24
GRANDSTAND FALLS BUT
NO ONE is INJURED

Packed to the limit of it's capacity
with over enthusiastic basketball
fans, the grandstand in the high
school gymnasium collapsed Friday
night just previous to the game. For
tunately no one was hurt with the
exception of slight bruises and bark
ed shins, as the stand fell straight
down instead of twisting. About half
the stand, in the middle tier, col
lapsed. The game was transferred
to the Teachers College court down
town.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-02-24
MORE GRAvELED ROADS

Graveling of a two-mile stretch of
road east of Hugo. which will con-
meet the town with the new hard
surfaced highway route, will begin
Immediately, according to an an-
nouncement BY c. S. Johnson, con-
struction engineer in charge of the
work. All grading with the excep-
tion of short stretch of road be-
tween Fort Towson and the highway,
is now complete, Johnson says
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-02-24

heavy wood landed fairly on the filled
the gold to leap out NJ the mouth.
whats that hit?" asked Lund.
soft. like rat" He lunged forward.
felt for the poke and found 1t, lifted
1t. hefted it, his forehead puckered
with deep seams, discovered the open
end, poured out some OF the colors on
one palm, and used that for a mortar.
grinding at the grains with his finger
for pestle. still weighing the stuff
with slight up-un down movement Of
his hand.
He nodded as he slipped the poke
Into side pocket, and the cabin grew
very silent. Lund's face was grimly
terrible. He stepped back across the
companionway.
so" he said. his deep voice muf-
t1ed by some swift restraint. you
found 1t. And yo're going back after
more?" His forehead was still creased
with puzzlement "Wal. I'm going
with ye, eyes or no eyes. an I'll keep
tabs on ye, Bin Simns, by day and
night You can lay to that, you
sllmy-hearted swab!".
His voice had risen again. Rainey
saw the sweat standing out on the
captains forehead as he answered:
"Of course you'll come. Jim. No
need for you to talk this way"
mo need to talk, BY the eternal.
what I've got to says bin steamin' In
me for fourteen months O blackness.
an it's comm out, now It's started I
Who's this man, who was talkin' with
ye when I come abOard?"
that's Doctor Carlson. He's to be
surgeon this trip, jim" said Simms
deprecatingly, though he darted a look
at Rainey half suspicious. half resent
full
Rainey, on the HAT, turned toward
the ladder quietly enough. but Lund
had nipped him by the biceps before
Rainey had taken a step.
you'll stay right here" said Lund,
while tell you an this Doc Carlsen
what kind of a man Simms Is. with
his poke full Of gold and me with the
| hesSS va NY ao0s AuCut DRCut lWO
ago. l won't spin out the yarn.
II rescued an Aleut Off a bit Of a
berg one time. There warn't much Of
him left to rescue. Hands an feet an
nose was frozen so he lost 'em, but the
pore devil was grateful, an he told
me something. Told about an island
north Of Bering strait, west Of Kotze-
bue sound, where there was gold on
the beach richer and thicker than II
ever lay at Nome. makes for 1t, gifts
close enough for my Aleut to recog-
nize lit amt an easy place to for
get for one who has eyes-an' then
we're blown south. an we git into ice
an trouble. The Aleut dies, an I
lose my ship. But was close enough
to get the reckonin' Of that island.
"Finally land at Seattle, broke. I
meet up with the man they call Hard.
luck Simms. Also they called him
Honest Simms those days. like him,
an finally tell him about my island.
l put up the reckonin', an he supplies
the Knrluk. grub. an crew.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-02-24

NEW RECORD is REACHED
IN s. S. ATTENDANCE
Total attendance 2245, Nearly 400
More Than Week Before

Records for attendance at Durant
Sunday Schools were all shattered
last Sunday when a total of 2245
men and women and children turned
out, making the attendance 383 more
than the Sunday before.
The attendance at the Christian
Sunday School,, $40 was the largest
in the schools history. The Baptist
had the largest mems class they have
ever assembled together.
The record by schools is furnished
this paper as follows:
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-02-24
DISTRICT SINGING CONVENTION
The Durant Weekly News:

i ne DuTdHI "eehly Ne"s'
Sir.
Please announce for me that the
District Singing Convention, No. q
will convene with the Smith-Lee
singing class three miles east OF
Wade on Sunday, March the 18th.
All singers and singing classes are
cordially invited.
]. S. Wright, Pres.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-02-24

Honey and money are almost alike
in spelling but they differ greatly
in sticking qualities
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-02-24

lacked conviction. II didn't know you
were blind. ! heard you shout Just
before the blizzard broke loose.
There's others present. Jim. can ex-
plain It to you when we're by our
solves. When you're Q mite calmer,
Inn"
Lund banged his stick down on the
table with q smashing blow that made
the man with the vandyke beard, still
sBsnt, keenly obsSTvant, draw hack
~ arm with q satiibs swiftnsss that
saAV tust Svadsd u str0kA M
The Washington times., 1922-08-10
When q Girl Murries Hf;i'7s' e.! s''
e.>-. % s.AsL.s sAxA sssss.

Sorry but 1 have to make a
trip to the capital tomorrow.
win you make it at four the day
after?"
"Spiendid."' l said. "I1l be
there at four day after tomor-
row. And until then I'll trust
you to pep up my copy as you
think best. You see, I'm. trust
ing you absolutely. The whole
situation Is in your capable .
hands, Mr.. Lacy. But 1 won't
thank you--yct."
l said goodbye and swung
around with elation to give an
account OF matters to Miss May.
But a mocking face smiled up
at me from across the room and
a teasing voice cried out:
o "You tell me once like a little
Puritan of the North that Hus-
band would not like you to have
much to do with other men, Mrs.
Harrison. So I wonder who Is
the Mr.. Lacy who so interests
the wife of my jaime"
It was Rosa Cordova. At her
words my feeling Of accomplish.
ment toppled over as II 1t had
been a house of cards.
tTo Be Continued Saturday.
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CHAPTER xxvIn.

Late that night John Merkls
telephoned Bob Wharton to say:
Headquarters just rang me up
and told me-prepare yourself for
a shock-Lilas Lynn is dead"
"Dead?" Bob cried. in a startled
voice. Dead! How? when did II
happen? I can't believe. IT." 4
Merkle made known the details
that had come to him. Looks like
suicide, but they're not sure. Any
how. she took too much dope of
some sort. You can sleep easy
now. wish I could"
IT suppose it's the law Of com.
pensation."
Compensation" Merkie's voice
sounded queruious. There's no
such thing. Don't talk TO a Wall
Street man about the law Of com
pensation."
"weil, then. call II Providence.
Providence has too much on Its
hands to bother with people like
her. No. there 10 a oertain-weii,
inmovabiiity about the conven.
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The reclining position gave her
some relief, but that odd. night.
marish overstimuiation continued:
in fact. in increased until It
became almost unbearabie. she
closed her eyes only to be-
hold a whirling confusion Of
shapes and visions. Gradually
her mind became peopied by dis
torted fancies. The moments crept
on and the phantasmagoria con.
tinued. Liias realized at
Inst that she was ILL., She was con-
fused. hysterical. wretched. She
tried to rise. but failed.
She found herself swimming
through space; binding lights and
choking vapors enyeioped her. She
noted with a dull sense Of alarm
that her heart was skipping; this
frightened her into calling for help.
but her voice sounded weak and
unreal, -. Everything was un-
real; objects in the room were dis
torted and queer. 30 What was
II that 10 terrified her? Was II
death7
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hoping / didn't have some stupid
blunder which needed rectifying."
Yep" he answered tersely.
did a bit Of investigating. Called
Derringforth. Went into things
with their store managers. Sent
a couple Of my staff over TO see
how the sale was going. 1t
wasn't going. And I've doped 1t
out this way. Your copy il
great. But it's evidently ad-
dressed to the wrong public-to
a group that does it's buying in
higher-priced neighborhoods than
the places where the Derring-
forth stores are located.
Now, 1t strikes me that II we
pep the stuff UP a bit. breeze
around-hit 'em between the eyes
as II were--we may get results.
Also we may not. How about
taking a chance?"
"I'll take the advice gladly"
replied. i've nothing to lose,
since I'm not improving the Der.
ringforth business now. More
over I've an idea that you've put
the finger on the weak point In
my campaign. It's been a little
too high-brow, too dignified. I've
been working along the lines Mr..
Derringforth laid down. But
since his conservatism won't save
him from failure, blazon his copy
all over the place If you will, and
maybe Wen save him in spite Of
mistakes"
You're all right cried Mr..
Lacy in a tone which he might
have borrowed from Neal. IN
turn myself loose. on this stuff.
Tomorrow I'll have to run with.
out your o. X. But I'll shoot a
bunch Of IL up to you in the morn
ing and you're free to edit out
any Of my editing that doesn't hit
you square between the eyes"
l caught myself back on the
verge OF protesting that I was
sure Mr.. Lacy's copy would be
satisfactory just as he wrote T..
This felt would be ultra-feminine
and not in the least business-like.
SO, matching my tone to his abso.
lutte sincerity, said:
"I'd like to look over the copy.
But I believe II would do me more
good to go through II with you
and see just how you score the
/. points I've missed. Could you find
time 10 do me this additional fa-
vor-or am ] asking too much?"
"The customer IL always right"
he returned, with a nice twist of
the phrase. Also. we aim to
please. I'd be more than glad TO
take a run up to your office II j
could be spared. Now, will I be
asking too much II I request you
to come down here?"
Tomorrow afternoon" said,
eagerly.