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MAHCH

1-Trustees Of Hedding college.
Abingdon, reject Rock Island's
ofIer Of $500 900 for removal Of
the institution to this city and
voted to maintain the college ct
Abingdon.
Island high school won
third in the district basketball
tournament at Augustana. Mo-
line was 1fst and AnnaNan
second.
Louis A. Flack. bricklayer, 20e7
Ninth street. seriously bruised
in 25-foot fall from the scat
fold to the basement Of the
Sturdevant & Baker building.
Fire swept the first, second and
third foors Of the Bon Ton
building department store. Dav-
export. causing $lo0, 900 loss.
Charles Dixon, S.. son Of Mrs.
Albert Lawrence. Ninsteenth
avenue and Thirty-ninth street,
killed In Z machine shop In st.
Louis. No.
Illinois State Bottlers' Pro-
tecttve association opened 2-day
session IN the New Harper.
The Illinois Sheet Metal sCon-
tractors' association opened 4
3diy conventian In tie New
Rabbi No.h ". Brss,er. brook
The Rock Island Argus and daily union., 1922-12-30
APRIL.

Excavation of q two-story build
ing to be erected by Eli Mos
enfelder, ut Seventeenth on
Second avenue. started.
Alfred C. Mueller, Republican.
elected mayor OF Davenport,
He defeated Mayor C. L. Bare
wald, Socialist-Democrat
A"Pussyf0ot" Johnson, prohibi.
ti0n leader. gives several ad-
dresses in Rock Island.
3Police handle 1,206 cases in
fiscal year, according to annual
reports from all departments
submitted at the city council
meet.
Township elections were held and
Rock Island and South Rock
Island elect conflicting groups
9Burglars attempt to enter shoe
store OF L. ]. Vessel, go Fourth
avenue
@Dr. Walter Matthey. Davenport.
convicted of violating espion-
age act and sentenced to a wear
and a day In Fort, Leayenworth
penitentiary, spardoned by
President Warren Harding.
Temperature rose to "A degrees at
noon.
W. E. Brooks, 40, dairyman. mar
rowly escaped death when At
lacked by mad burl.
Jacob 8. Hill, president and
manager of the Hill Furniture
company. 1916 Second avenue.
phrchaSed the Rock Island
House for $4,000.
7-Twenty-two bootIeggers Of
Rock Island, Moline and East
Moline arrested and fines to-
falling $500 were assessed in
: county court,
Students and teacher6 OF Angus
tana college honor Tooth anni-
versary Of the birth of Fred
erick C. A. Denkmann.
8Emil Stuhr serving q six
months sentence in county Jail,
escaped.
High wind breaks . number, Of
windows and damages trees in
Rock Island.
0-Rock Island high school wins
debate from Oklahoma City
team in Rock Island.
for the new Audubon no
story 1s-room grade school
we're approved by the board Of
education.
REV. John NcGown Stevenson
was chosen moderator OF the
Rock river presbytery at the
meeting In Kewanee.
Tract Of land at Second street,
between Eleventh and Twelfth
avenues experimenting 10
ecres, purchased - ste for
The Servns Rubber company.
plant.
Killing frost threatened dam
age To cfoes. gardens and flower
bedA
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grocery store of Mr.. and Mrs.
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The Rock Island Argus and daily union., 1922-12-30
JUNE.

A-GeOFee M. Luk0ns, b, we'll
known printer in the tri-cities,
fell dead at noon while walk
ing i4 the garden at his home.
3-Colonel Harry Burgess, corps
of engineers, officer in charge
of the Rock Island district, adj
vanced to chief engineer Of the
Z entire army corps In the eighth
area, stationed at San Antonio,
Texas.
BADLY decomposed body Of an
unidentified man, about 40
years Of age, taken from the
Mississippi river near Krueg-
er's island.
5-Mrs. Sarah A. Walker, 1859
Fortieth street, celebrates 96th
birthday anniversary. s
6-Justice Floyd E. Thompson
elected chief justice for the
year, the youngest chief JUS
tfce In the history Of Illinois.
Colonel Harry Burgess and Ma
jor Oscar E. Kuentz bid fare:
we'll to Rock Island at a meet
:. of the Rotary club.
William Miller, ~, 14OOA Third
avenue, died from injuries re-
ceived in fall at the home OF
r P. F, F,,Trenkenschuh, 1885 Four
teenth-and-a-half street, where
he was painting.
Honorary degree of doctor OF di-
. vinity conferred upon Rev. W.
G. Oglevee. pastor of South
Park Presbyterian church, at
commencement exercises Of
Lincoln college, Lincoln, Ill.
SEGraduation exercises for 10
held at Villa de Chantal.
Police seize 1000 bottles Of beer
in two raids at the He6ry Klu-
gers soft drink bar, $50 Elev-
.enth street and the place of
Reuben Lebowitz, 412 Ninth
street.
9-Commencement exercises for
143 graduates OF the Rock Is
land high school held in Angus
tana gym.
I0-William N. Pratt, 13, 1917 For
ty-second street, killed and Mr..
and Mrs. Pratt and daughter
and other son were injured
when their auto overturned
near Dixon, Iowa.
L2-Major Beverly Charles Dunn
succeeds Colonel Harry Bur-
CESS as head Of the Rock Is
land district, U. S. Engineers.
lLCurtis Behlke, 12-year-old son
of Mrs. Elizabeth Behlke, 1901,
Fourteenth-and-a-half street,
drowned in Rock river at foot
Of Thirty-second street.
l5-John HAuberg elected one Of
the two representatives from
Illinois on the board Of trus-
tees Of the-International Sum-
day School association.
L7-Mr. and Mrs. William Hayes,
3421 Sixth avenue, bruised
when they were struck by an
automobile at Thirty eighth
street and Seventh avenue.
SAFour hundred Rock Island citi-
xens gathered at a banquet to
pay tribute to Walter A. Ros-
enfield, recently elected chair
man Of the Republican state
central committee.
'0-ThA warehouse Of the Rock Is-
land Transfer and Storage
company, First avenue and
c~>-AA~AkA n
The Rock Island Argus and daily union., 1922-12-30
JULY

| JULY
.l-DairyMen boost milk prices 2
cents 1 quart after producers
increased price from Is to 20
cants q gallon. =
Acting unders orders from inter-
national officers, 1850 men en-
ployed at the Silvis shops and
about two hundred men be-
longing to shop crafts, laid
down their tools at 10 o'clock
to participate In the shop
crafts strike.
Miss Ruth Moody. -, visiting
in Moline, drowned , mile
north Of Port Byron. Ehile sew
en- people risked their lives to
save her.
Donald Dowell, Z, son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred Dowell. 1922 Park
Sixteenth street. Moline, drown
ed near old watch works, above
Watch Tower, while wading in
Rock river.
Yeggmen get $50 cash. camera
and radio apparatus from Heinz
warehouse. Winter garage and
the John P. Hand battery shop.
William Oldfeld, 249o Fifteenth
street, Moline, died In hospital
as the result Of a gunehot
wound in the abdomen, infiict-
ed by Constable C. b. Ellis.
while Ellis went\ to Oldfeld's
house to serve papers pertain
ing to the payment Of paying
a bill. Ellis was convicted
later of assault with deadly
weapon and sentenced to q yeal
in the county Jail.
4-HenrY r. Rathbone, Chicago,
+, Republican nominee for con-
gressman-at-large, speaks at
closing day exercises and fire.
works of Trans-Mississippi ex-
position and Pageant Of Prog
Z ress, which was attended by
10000 people.
5-William B. Schroeder, 3219
Tenth avenue, is appointed first
assistant to District Attorney
Thomas Williamson. in the
southern illinois federal dis
trict 80
Three Rock Island boys find body
Of Charles Strobbe, aged So,
1920. Third street, Moline, who
committed suicide by hanging,
in the woods at Forty-fifth
street and Twenty-fourth ave-
nue..
6-Several cartons Of cigarets and
r IS in change we're taken from
the w. P. Gerlich pool room,
300 Fifth avenue. ,
8-John Kipp and Chauncey Ruhl,
4, 1901 Fifth avenue, injured when
their car turned q somersault
near Nineteenth street on Sec
ond avenue.
Sire caused by lightning 'caus-
ed damage Of $500 to the Inn
manuel Lutheran church, Twen-
Geth street and Fifth avenue.
SIEsther Pardon, 1S-year-old
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Law
4 renee Pardon, 100 Eighteenth
avenue. was attacked by Will
liam Horan, paroled from Jo-
liet. He was sent there for
similar offenses in this Ncity.
Len Small spent sew
eral hours In Rock Island while
I his boat, the Illinois. docked at
Seventeenth street.
William Thoms, 1896 Fifteenth
!, street, elected president Of
board Of education.
holdup man gets $50
from Ernest Anderson, 60s
Forty-second street, and Les-
ter Weinrott, Moline, at Eigh-
teenth street and Seventh ave-
DR.. Joseph A. Anderson, Boxholm,
Iowa, reelected president Of
Augustana college and theolog-
ical seminary board of direc-
l4-Eusene Kalina. s-year-oil SON
OF Mr.. and Mrs. Adoiph Kaliua,
suffers a broken leg whom he
was canght ina swing In Long
View park.
H. Horst. 2S. 443 Forty.
fourth street. was electrpcuted
while working with. circle
saw in the Tri~Ctty Arttacial
Ice plant, 1897 Third ayenue.
1- Gasoline drops 2 cents and
The Rock Island Argus and daily union., 1922-12-30
AUGUST.

Judge Louis FitxHenry in Pc
oria were served on IA OF the
% men arrested On liquor SELF
ing charges during the grotto
convention and all gave bonds
of $1.6ee each for eppearance
in court.
s-Appointmept of Ben D. Fsrrar
as probate Judge, succeeding
Frank J. Landee, who was
drowned, made BY Acting Gov
ernoe Fred E. Sterling.
1City and county officials hold
conference and promise q
moral cleanup, thorough and
permanent, for the city d Rock
Island.
6Thieves get $50 worth Of gold
tooth bridges in dental offices
OF jones McNufty and Edgar B.
Phelps, State Bank building.
Mrs. Myron r. Bundy appoint
ed physical director Of Rock
Isla1d Y. W, C.. A. :
c. ]. Larkin was reelected presi-
dent Of the Rock Island public
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collego to tho. board g tn.
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eoly contest S q
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cn&E9eo VAIN tos mutaeS ot
Harry Mueller. acsuittee ~
Jury ~ Ieee tnka naiK nour:
-Rock lsleud pupils WIN giris
deciamatofy contest Win DaS-
enpoE; ). - -.
s-Leu Ion.aooa' Y, touna uese
in bed from esphyxiation ct
nome OF =. =. Davis' zzs Six-
leentn st!eet. wnsre % ns IvoMsu'
rive ottccIe ~ .as AoyA y ssp
snese sImy vlpN lno 1eA 10
land arsenal wniis on = tour.
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when ne was run oveI W
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crushed 70 deasn oetwesn 'wo
treixnt cars.
Avalon apartments. eeoond sse-
nue. ana Ientn s.reGs, sou roi
$So,VUV 10 MTS. luz 11OWeAA' w
lumbus Junction, iowa, oy
Archie and Albert =. Mcinnls.
Carl Hermann, IormeEly " nocn
H. Island, mysteriously muroereu
near Hunter. Mo. - 2
l3-Raymcnd J. Btschoff, e. chi.
ca8o "Ponxi, ana natiNe Oh
Davenport, said to have empcz.
aled more than $A.S0o.Wo ot
working peoples money IN
wildcat schemes: :
16-Burglars steal xiS from Dla-
mond bar. 1Sl5 second avenue.
Rev. G. A. Brandeiie returns
from seven weeks tour OF Eu-
rope.
1S-A well drilled on properly
owned by Rock Island mves,
tors in Slick, OKLA yieiaea
1000 barrels OF OIL the Iifst
day.
20-Expert yeggs cracked sa1es IN
the club rooms on tne ROCK ~,
land aerle, NO. 700, Eagles, anu
escaped Win $e1o IN checAs
and cash
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The Rock Island Argus and daily union., 1922-12-30
jAsUAHY.

/ JANU4HY. Z
l--Riysr frozen acsoss at the
bridge the iirst time this winter.
3-Forty-seven Of f7 candidates
for citizenship pass the exams
ination In circuit court.
(. Robbers get goods valued at 500
from George c. Etxel grocery,
1101 Twelfth avenue.
q. Z. Caiktns. 1923 Fifth street,
seriously injured on the Rock
Island bridge when his auto
sNerved into q Bridge line car.
l-The warmest, wettest year eyer
. on record ct the local Nsather
station VAS reported for 1921.
All the west end and three streets
III the east end of Milan Were
flooded by Is inches OF wster
following an Ice gorge (which
.caussd Mill creek to 60 over
the banks,
e-Ftrs originating in the base
ment Of the storer0om Of the 8.
8. Krssge company. In the Lon
don building. caused Z loss OF
$4,000 and threatened the
whole buaiusss block.
e-AFthur y. Meadef. 50, insur-
Ance man, killed In . fall from
the NTH story window Of the
Best building.
10-Four union pickets staged .
nght with uoa-uni0n men and
with l.. Ben Dritill, in front OF
the DrifHll Printing oompany.
lS-C. l.. Beardslsy elected COM
: mander Of the Island City Boat
ing association.
14-Burglars get $50 from two
safes Of the Stapdard Oil com
pany.
ls--Hugh E. Curtis succeeds H. s.
Gable. resigned. a. president Of
the Rock Island Savings bank.
Mrs. w. j. Sweeney succeeds the
late Mrs. Lydia B. Hobbs al
president Of the Bethany Home
Protective association.
17-Fire caused $1,000 damage at
the residence of Elmer c. Bow
man, 213S Seventeenth street.
4 Yegks entered four business
places, cracked three safes and
obtained $3.50.
l9--First zero temperature since
1920 occurred at 9 o'clock this
morning.
Two negroes robbed seven men
in q bunk car at the Rock Is
land Lines tracks between
Twenty-seventh and Twenty
eighth streets and got $2S.
c0-James Kelly and Earl Vaughan
captured in the ONCE of the
Rock Island Fuel company,
1890 Third avenue, while they
were trying to open safe.
3 They had previously stolen $235
from two other safes.
John e. Greim, 81, fell dead at
the bedside of his wife while
she was unconscious in st. An
th0ny's hospital. She died Mon
day morning without learning
of her husbands death.
Despondent because he was jilt-
ed, Harry Snider. 2S, 252S Fifth
and-a-half avenue. attempted
suicide with razor.
3l-Federal agents raided the resi-
dence OF Adolph Gossen, 8O1
Sixth avenue, and found stills
with 800 gallons Of mash.
S2-First below zero temperature
at $3.50 O'Clock In the morning,
rr,Nnv, fta .ro~c,,r~, Fnf1 - xA~>n
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DEMOCRATIC TIcYEr L D z R 8
GUST MAYOR SPROUTS AND
CHEZ LANDERS
rrseH Three New Councilmen, But Re
pubHcans Maintain Council Con-
troll with Eoldovers

James Cov. Democrat vas e!ert'd
mayor OF Eenwnod In yesterdays nun'-
c!pal election n ~" atN town. de.e2t-
ing Mayor Clark Sprouts. Republican.
who sough, reelection for the httH
term OF two years. cox defeated Mayor
Sprouts hv a majority o. 81 votes. haE-
ing 7I3 ballots 20 Sprouts SOB.
By an even greater victory. FAt":ri
7 Sculley. veteran o: Battery
Sl4th Field Artillery. and "S rlH'd
Artillery unit % I've Rainbow p.HlS!"h.
wrested the office 90 chief Ut police
from Al I.anders tho present RN1uh-
ucan incumbent. S.u'lv. with 7S6 votes
10 T.anlers' 625. defeated the present
chief by a majority Of us votes.
The Democrats succeeded IN etec''nG
three out OF five candidates tor Coun-
eli Yesterday. The two Republican sur
vivors OF the Democratic londS'!N" mr."
George +. Kessler. who was elected ="
council in the First ward. and G"nr%S
r. Smith. who was elected IN the Sec
crd. The Third. Fourth and fH:th wards
elected Democratic CNUn"'men. George
r. Kelley. William J. Nahc and John
Rodgers.
Council sau Republican
The Republicans. however. retain con.
troll OF the Rerwond cry council ny VIZ
tue Of The fact th2t four nut ~ ~" five
holdover counc'lurr ar" RHHuhI'rn7
end only ore Democrat TIE now cornc!'.
nrter tho new BODY takes II" -c.ns 90
Renwood cltv gn""-nTI""t May frs.
will be six Republicans 20 four Demo-
Gratis
The most rotah'e victory 90 an"
councllran!c candidate n Tenwooa NsE-
,erdav was that % William !. RakA.
tho successful DCroc-a.lH candidate in
the Fourth ward NJ. FAX" won BY The
handsome majority or'tl3 votes, poll
Ing 100 ballots ~ against - votes Sc
cured by his opponent. Thomas Bore
man.
Rousing Celebration
A. ~ O'Clock last night. 4 rous!n-
Democratic celebration was n progress
IN Benwood There was n parade over
the PRINCIPAL streets. with nearly every
Democratic voter IN the city in line. 4
drum corps led the nroc"ssion and
there was whooplnG and hurrah!aS "a
lore over the victory. Speakers 1T 'hH
street corner gatherings expressed great
tubllation over The result OF the c!""-
tlon. Particular stress vas laid upon
the fact that the town had honored on"
OF lis most prominent young veterans
pat" Scul,y-wlth election to the oclCe
Of chief OF police.
The successful candidates wH-e among
the speakers. and II was noticed tha :
N their talks .hcy. thanked Rc3uhliCa :,
friends who. as one speaker said. "1h0r-
dnned strict rarty limos TO vota FOR THH
who stand for cool government cTl
efficient administration ot the c!;y's
affairs"
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CHARLES RAUER DIES

Charles Bauer. we'll known glass; how
cr If this city f"r many Years. pa* So"
away NJ his nom" in the East End, Mon
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MORE WET" CONVICTIONS

IIunt:ngtom. w Va. April i.--Ja!l
sentences were imposed to-day hv fed
eraI Judge NrCHntic against J. w
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ROBERTS FUNERAL.

Tho funeral uf Mrs Gertrude Roberts
wiro of I. r. Roberts. and daughter or
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Fight million American women now
earn salaries.