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THE ROCK ISLAND ARGUS 16 FRIDAY. JANUARY 10, 1913. MEN WILL STUDY SOCIAL PROBLEM Methodists Form Club to Inves tigate Local Sociological Conditions. "The Richest of Rich Cream at Young men of the First Methodist church have organized a club for the pur pone of studying local sociological conditions and correcting existing j atubfs If possible. The membership J of the club Is limited, the Idea beThg i to make the organization a student one. Meetings, which will be held one e every two weeks, will be Informal. Professor H. L. Howard, a member of the Rock Island high school faculty, has been named as bead of the club and arrangements have been made for the securing of text books which wr aid In the mastering of fundamental the ories and which will also enable the men to gain .an Insight of the prac tical phases which confront them to day. ' Among the questions which will be Investigated and studied are child la bor, the employment of women and sweat shops. An investigation of local conditions Is promised and agitatltfh for reforms is promised should they be found necessary. City Chat ( AflvrtleniTit ) Fieblg sharpens skates. Buy a" home of Reidy Bros. For express, call William Trefs. Tri-City Towel Supply company. Home made lard a' 12V4c per pound at Schroedt-r's. Plenty of fresh dressed chickens at Schroeder Bros. Have your skates sharpened at Fie bfg's. 1619 Third avenue. Kerler Rug company for vacuum doaning. and rug making. We repair all makes of grapho phones, Charles Fieblg, 1619 Third ave nue. Our B. B. serge at $33 Is the best value ever offered. J. B. Zimmer's Eons. Flash lights and electrical novel ties. Charles Fiebig. 1619 Third avenue. Blx per cent farm mortgages. Litten & Roberts. "People's National bank building Remember that Ralph Stanton has everything to make your friends, who moke, happy. Coal, cgcl. coal. The Rock Island Fuel company will deliver to you all the best grades of hard and soft cooi. 11.60 box of Bowers for $1 every Saturday for cash at Hensley Floral tore, Fourth avenue and Twentieth atieet. Sewing machines repaired and war ran'ed lor one year. Supping for ail Bicchines V iebig, locksmith. 1C19 Tblra avtnue. ' Ward & McMahou will give you estimates ou your plumbing, steam Brady, the Hustler Reduces Living Expenses! Plan to buy your table sup plies at our store daring the coming year. We are In a po sition to give you better and fresher goods at lower prices than many dealers have to pay. Jerpcy Cream flour, per a-k $1.23 Gold Medal flour, per sac $1.33 Ccreeota flour, per sack $1.33 10 pound back New York buckwheat for 3gc Three packuges pancake or buckwheat Hour. self-rising 26o Large sweet oranges, regular price 50c. dozen 33c New York Baldwin or Imperial apples, per peek 25c Seven pounds sweet Potatoes 25c Good eK. per dozen .... 22c Freeh creamery butter, guaran teed the Lest on the market, per pound 37 VC 19 pounds best cane granulated sugar for $1.00 Regular ;i0c coffee, per pound 25c New curly June peas, per can ifjc Tw0 cans corn, pumpkin or kidney beans 15c Three cans of two pound pack tomatoes 25c Six cans Pet or Van Camp's milk 2 5ft Two tall cans salmon 25c Four pounds navy beans or Jap rice 25c Two pounds gingersnaps. soa or oyster crackers 25a Seven pounds fresh oatmeal 25c Three packages National or Quaker oats 25c Seven pounds popcorn, guaran teed to pop 25c Parsnips, carrots, turnips or beets, per peck 19 Five pounds rutabagos .. Qq Three pounds bulk corn starch for Qi F.lght bars Leaox soap tor 25c Phone your order early. De livery to any part of the city. ERADY GROCERY CO. 700 Twelfth Street. Old phones west 443 and 669. S H Ik r f- .r. a - i o - the Cost of kimmed Milk" Yes sir, that's exactly what we are giving you during our great Annual January Clearance Sale the very richest of the rich cream for the price of the poorest skimmed milk. Look here, please. Here's Hart Shaffner & Marx's very finest tailored apparel. Here is Society Brand De Luxe apparel. Here are the swell Clothcraft garments and the fashionable Yorkshire suits and overcoats. The very flower of the highest class makers' garments at the cost of the cheapest sweat shop brands. How can you hesitate? How can. you doubt? With all our heart and soul we urge you to buy now because if you do so you'll be so satisfied, so enthusiastically pleased and you'll become such a good booster for Mosenf elder & Sons' that even though we are actually money out of pocket the friends we'll gain will repay us for the dollars we lose. Can we. make it any strong er? Could we be more sincere? Then get busy now. Look at this feast of good things. Our fine Hart Schaffner & Marx and Society Brands $30 suits aid overcoats at Our fine Hart Schaffner & Marx and Society Brand $28 suits and overcoats at Our fine Hart Schaffner & Marx and Society Brand $25 suits and overcoats at Our fine Hart Schaffner & Marx and Society Brand $22 suits and overcoats at Clothcraft brand, excellent values $20 suits and overcoats a: $2 2 o if 3 3 21 0 Ciotncrait Dra o4tvLD ?;5 E"a " m.7 Z'&F? til-Li 15.0 Clearance of Trousers and Sweater Coats Clothcraft brand, excellent values $18 suits and overcoats at Ciothcraft brand, excellent values, overcoats at Clothcraft brand, .excellent values, $32.50 suits and overcoats at Clothcraft brand, excellent values, $10 suits and overcoats at Here's a bargain Twenty-five young men's suits worth $10, your choice during this sale . . . 14.5 $111.75 .$75 &5.0) 1 Tf $7.50 trousers $6.50 irousers $5.00 trousers 6.25 5.00 4.25 $3.50 trousers $3.00 trousers $2.50 trousers ....2.95 2.55 1.95 $5.00 sweater coats for $4.00 sweater coats $4.25 $3.25 $3.50 sweater coats $2.50 sweater coats $2.95 $1.95 25 Off on Boys' Clothing All $10.00 boys' suits and overcoats ' ft mm mm now P750 All $6.50 boys' suits and overcoats gT ja 4v now All $5.00 boys' suits and overcoats -p ma mm now B P All $3.50 boys suits and overcoats rT mm mm row &&m 4 All $2.50 boys' suits and overcoats $10 caps now $8.50 caps now $7.50 caps now ...... $6.50 caps now Sealskin Caps 785 .6.4.5 5.00 . Flannel Shirts $3.00 shirts PZtfh now mm3Jr L25:rt:..i.95 $2.00 shirts -A PZ. now 1 $1.50 shirts 4 now Wmi '.Hill. .J..I.J.I.-IIILILI.U.iJI . Ill .! .. LI IIIV :.r ""ll' I - I. II ' ' ' 1 1 I "' " " '' ' " mill ' 1 "' ' . i.i i.i - ROCK ISLAND t ww on in indium !,,. mij a pa tMvmim miw ,.n.l ii.piwyjwuiiim t m'mw-.n mM ' i' 'mhi it i 11 i pii.i n kii-h inn uui . mmrnmmmmmmmmm. ji jwliui f Win" 11 iiwj .11 1 ijnii 1 1 ma 11 1 hi i w 1.1 nmmmmm - -' - ..-:t-L y:i. .....i.a.-i i-.- : :.:.-j:--:-i.::i.v..:.r i-z..-:. .a ; ; .- , , - 1 and hot water heating tbat will aave you money. Dunsmore & 0'Connll smoke house and billiard parlors, corner of Twen tieth street and Fourth avenue. Every brand of good cigars and all kinds of smokers' supplies. Mueller Lumber company vm en able you to build a fine house or barn out of the choicest select lumber aud you will be surprised and yet pleased I to learn the low prices they are mak Ug- Souders Lausaertng company at 501 1 503 Twelfth street. This laundry if ; equipped with the very latest modern j machinery, turning out work that I not surpassed by any laundry in the I state. Kain ft Relncardt cigar store still ! takes the lead. Most liberally patron iiaed. Everything in, tobacco, cigars land smokers' supplies. Man is never : better satisfied than when smoking their choice brands. I 1. S. O'Haxs, flour and feed atore, la having a big trade on stock aad poultry food. Dr. Hess' stock food for horses, cetue. hoes, sheep anu i all Idnd aof poultry. It makes the hers lay every day. The Rock Island Lotneer and Manu facturing company, lumber and build- ! tng material for all purposes, housts. ! barns, granaries. W will giv you an i opportunity to sav a big per cent. Let pie ray they are superior to any home taking. Let them serve you. Vs'e are the leaders ror up-to-date laundry work. Each shirt finished by band and put up in a carton, insur ing work. Delivered to you in good condition. 'e guarantee no cracked collars or cuffs. City Steam laundry. Reid & Bollman, 417 Seventeenth street. E. E. Lamp, plumbing, steam and hot water heating, gas fitting. His efficient knowledge of the business Justly entitles him to your patronage. His 6hop has all modern equipments. Everything in plumbing supplies. M. R. Iglehart, marble and granite works, save you the middleman's prof its. From 15-to 25 per cent saved on every monument and all kinds of mon umental work. Call at our shop on Second avenue and see for yourself. improving sight, that's wnat our glasses are doing. If you have reason to believe that there la anything wrong with your eyes at all, you established headquarters here today and prepared to urge passage by the legislature of 30 labor laws, including one preventing the acquisition of land by aliens incapable of becoming citizens. MAN MUST WORK OR LEAVE TOWN Such Are Alternatives Given Austin Mills in Police Court This Morning'. expected that Austin will prefer a change of scenery rather than the al ternative of work. Austin Mills, a hanger-on In the red light district, was brought Into police court thla morning charged with dis- ! oi derly conduct, and after being 1a- I icrniea oi nis snortcomlngs, was or dered to get a Job, move his beiong- OU. IUU - . should have them examined by Fred:! ''""t ""er .ou m,n re" cs be of service to you. j Math's baxety ana confectionery tore, the finest la the trinities. J Bread, cakes, plea, cookies gal hot t ml'.a, They can't bt beau loat f Bleuer, expert optician. Second ave nue near Seventeenth, street. Johnson's Wood Dye la not a mere tain not simply a surface dressing, it la a real, deep-seated dye, that goes to the very heart of the ooa and stays there fixing a rich and perma nect color. Johnson's Wood Dy- Is maue In 14 standard shadea. For sal by Larch Oreve. 2002-2004 Fourtc avenue. Jarred Her. A Chicago woman was traveling la the orient. On a trip through a desert she was carried by four stalwart blacks In a chair suspended on poles. The natives started out with great cheer, but as the Journey progressed and the sun beat down upon them they began to chant a prayer to Allah. It was melodious, though a bit mournful. Its constant repetition was soothing, and the lady W.ed. On awakening, the prayer, prt-wn more mournful, almost despairing, wns still being Intoned. Turning to ber Interpreter she asked the meaning of the mysterious words. The Interpreter pretended not to hear, but belns; pi eased for an answer final ly bowed low and said: "Madam, since you Insist, they pray that the great Allah may make yoo less fat" Chicago Tribune. old attorney of Orlando, Fla., Jumped from his lied in a local hospital and dashed toward a window. He pushed two nurses aside and after tearing a heavy wire netting from the window, leaped out. He was instantly killed. Hart within 24 hours. If Mills does not. Bad work within a period of one day he will have to find another town In which to loaf, as the authorities are t!ed of his presence hereabouts. A S10!i tna was suipendcd over Mills' head and he was required to pay the cctts !a the case. It will bo remembered that Mrs. 'A.l'.i, a notarloua chcr&eter about tcv n, was arretted come time ago. ct-arged with conducting a disorderly Incapable Aliens Opposed. I hci:se In "Marble Row." Since that Paeraraen.o, Cal., Jan. ID. Repressn- j t;rco the has found another nan. and U-ivca cl ors&&J4 labor la Ca&et&ia ' a. migrated tot part u&ksowa. It In ' Despatch from Dept. of Agriculture, Wash., highly recommends Cheese as regyiar food Cheese is the greatest health food produced A v aluable aid to digestion when properly cured. The robust, long-lived Swiss eat cheese instead of meat. El Ellis Is made In the famous Elkhorn Sanitary Dairies of Pure Ulllk. Elkhorn Cheese Is properly cured, making It far mora digestible than ordinary bulk cheese. Elk Accident Victim Improving. According to advices from St. An- thonv'. hnsnital. A. F. Olsen. the car penter who feii from the Rock island i horn Chesse Is sold only in sanitary packages and Jars, Bash & Door company's roof, a dls-j . tance of 20 feet to the ground yes- . A DIParilC:' terday noon, is resting easy today and ! I rKICS- I I tSm9 hi chances for recovery are excel-! Ask Your Dealer For lent. . Ellrhnrn Cream Elkhorn Pimento Rockford. ill., Jan. 10. Moses Leary 'died at the breakfast table from aa j overdose of a headache powder. Now York William Balna. a 27-yaar- Elkhorn Tasty or Devilled Elkhorn Club 1