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THE ROCK ISLAND ARGUS FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1914. 3 PROGRAM FOR BIG M. W. A. BANQUET IS ALUMLETE ybree Hunared and Fifty Ex pected to Attend Reception to Head Officers. SPEECHES FOLLOW MENU flJ Clerk-Elect Jamei McNamara Will Preide Toattmatter After Dinner Talk. Head officers, new ami retiring, of tfce Modern Woodmen of America will honored at a banquet ana recep tion to be riven them by the m Pl9e of the head offices here, at the vaaonic temple tomorrow evening. It will b a feasl fjr botn mi"d and boCr and Indications are that the after Ssier program . will rival the repast , f.ror of the tresis. James Mc- Vaaara. head clerk elect, will preside u toast master. Tie event mill attract about 3o0 people. Members of the executive council, law committee, board of audit ors, state deputies, state niedi al ex mlcers and lecturers will be includ ed among those from out of town. The ; remainder of those present ui dh made op of the employes, numbering tearly 300. The Menu. The following is the menu: ; Fruit Cocktail Olives Tickles Nuts Roast Lola of Href. Brown Gravy Browned or Mashed Totatoes C"aned Peas Clover Biscuit Roils Combination Salad Salted Wafers Rrirk Ire Cream Cake be Cheese Coffee After Dinner Program. At the conclusion of the repast the following program will be carried out: Song, "America" Everybody. -Our Future" A. R. Talbot. "Our Employes" Major C. W. Kawes. Song, "To Our Honored Guests" Everybody. The Situation" E. K. Murphy. "Our Neighbors" Hada M. Burk tart Song, "Employes Jubiiee Song" Everybody. The Loval East" E. B. Thomas. The Psycholocical Moment Ales hire. E. SITTIG'S Sanitary Grocery The Quality Store Two Phones 12 and 59 SPECIALS FOR Potatoes Extra fine good sized Early Ohio potatoes, peck.. 30c We give you 15 lbs. to a peck. Tomatoes Heme - growa, ripe and of good flavor, basket, 20c Corn Well filled, tender and weet, every ear guaran teed, dozen 10c Salmon "Camel" brand, a fan cy Red salmon in tall cans. a. 25c quality at 1 7 1 c FREE with 1 lb. of our "Camel" bran'" Steel Cut coffee at special price. 33c, we will give you free 1 Fly Swatter. Butter Our "Jersey" creamery butter is absolutely the best butter that can be produced and costs you no more than a poor grade. Our "Jersey" creamery is always good, lb. only... 30c Sardines Imported, put up in pore olive oil, each JQc SITTIG'S Two phones, 12 and 59. Call up and we will do the rest. This Beautiful Triple as vou switches priced to Sons. "Star Spangled Banner" Everybody. Taylor Writes Parodies. The songs "To Our Honored Guests" written to the tune of "He's a Devil In His Own Home Town" and "Employes Jub'lee Song" to Uie air "This Is the Life" are from the pen of Carlton G. Taylor, chief of the correspondence department at the head offices. Both are clever and the sentiment expressed in each Is befitting of an occasion such as that tomorrow evening. The executive council, composed of the chairmen of the various commit tees which had in charge the arrange ments for the reception, and to whom much credit must be g'.ven for the un tiring efforts in planning the affair, follows: Invitation J. W. Houder. Reception K. K. Burt. rrogram W. X. Philips. .Music T. F. Wheelan. Decoration L. A. Grove. Menu H. C. Hunt. PALMER CLAIMS DISEASE FATAL Chiropractic School Head Files Answer to Suit for Causing Death of Father. Claiming that his father did not die as a result of injuries received when this automobile struck him B. J. Pal mer, head of the Palmer School of Chi ropractic in Davenport, has filed an an swer to the $52,000 damage suit in dis trict court in which he requests that the action be dismissed. Palmer in his answer claims that his father. D. D. Palmer died of a disease unknown to him, but he believes that it was typhoid fever. He declares that his being struck by his (B. J. Palmer's) automobile had nothing to do with bringing about an untimely death. Joy M. Logan is administrator of the estate of the father of the chiro head and he instituted the action for $52,000 damages. The litigation is up for the second time, criminal action having been dismissed by the grand jury at the last term of court. Pal mer's mother is now at Los Angeles and Logan claims she has given her consent to the suit. EVERY SUNDAY AFTERNOON EXCURSION on the steamer Helen Blair through j Moline lock to Hampton. Leaves 3 p. itn., returns at 6:00 35c. (Adv). 515 17th Street SATURDAY Olives A large jar and large Queen olives, regular 35c jar for 25c Dill Pickles Keep fine in our cooling room, crisp and tasty, dozen 20c Catsup "Snider's." made from fresh ripe tomatoes the best quality, 25c bottle 19c Cucumbers Good size and fresh from the Earden. each 5c FREE with 'i lb. or our Extra Quality green Japan tea at 25c we will give you free a useful kitchen utensil. Canned Goods This week is your last chance to take advan tage of our special offer of 2 cans free with a dozen of our Camel" and "Happy Hour" brands fruit and vegetables 1&14 canning delivered in the fall when the new goods arrive. Stem Switch $1.85 Saturday we will offer these fine triple stem natural wavy switches, all shades to choose from, "I Q at only aOJ 26 inches long, quality such will nntl onlv in 3.25 s n I Ths .Smm 4nr All tt Pontile VOUNG & MCfOMBS 1 Cooperative Store 1 'C: Rock Island WILL OPEN CLAM HATCHERY JULY 30 Formal Exercises Marking' the Dedication of Fairport Plant Are Planned. DAWSON TO BE SPEAKER Fine Laboratory Building Just Com pleted, Government Having $200,000 Invested. Superintendent Richard F. Coker of i the United States government biologi j cal station at Fairport, has secured permission' from the authorities at Washington to have a public Inspec tion and opening of the entire clam hatchery plant July 30. A. F. Dawson of Davenport, con pressman from the Second district when the original appropriation to es tablish the hatchery was secured, has been asked by Superintendent Coker to give the address at the public open ing exercises. He will tell of his struggle to get the appropriation through congress and of its import ance to the poarl button industry of the' upper Mississippi valley. Dr. Hugn m. hmtth or Washington D. C, commissioner of fisheries, and Dr. H. F. Moore, assistant, in charge of inquirv of bureau of fisheries, will be present. Dr. A. S. Forbes, director of the Illinois state historical society may also be on hand. Congressman Henry Vollmer has ex tended assurance to X. Barry, of Mus catine, that he will be present at the dedication if it Is possible for him to leave Washington. Senators Cummins and Kenyon, and Governor Clarke will also be invited as will R. A. Wilkinson of Burlington, president of the Upper Mississippi River Improvement association and Attorney William McEairy of Rock Island. The hatchery was established in 190S. on an original appropriation of $25,000. Since that time additional appropriations have been spent for new buildings and maintenance until the government now has over $200,000 invested. Laboratory Finished. The government has just finished building and equipping a large labora-' tory and general oflice building. In this structure dormitory rooms are provided for apprentice agricultural college students who will be- connect ed with the station during the sum mer vacation months. The principal work of the hatchery is to raise mil lions of clam eggs, inoculate the gills of fish with them and turn the fish loose in the Mississippi and its tribu taries. When the hatchery was es tablished the supply of fresh water mussels was being rapidly exhausted. H.W.WARD PURCHASES . BLAKESLEY HOMESTEAD H. W. Ward, manager of the Adams Wall Paper Co.. has purchased tne Captain A. M. Blakesley homestead at the southwest corner of Fifth ave nue and Twenty-third street, and has a force of men at work remodeling and REDUCING PENCIL SALE OF BOYS' SUITS Right NOW is the best chance economical par ents will have to save on their boys' apparel. So why wait, your boy must have clothes, and you'll save more now than at any other time. BOYS' SUITS 2.gS for j.gs Suits j.gS tor 5.00 Suits j.gS for 5.c?5 Suits j.gs ior 6.10 Suits 4.85 for 7. go Suits 6.66 for 8.go Suits 6.66 for 10.00 Suits 8.88 for' 12.00 Suits g.go for 15.00 Suits BOYS' TROUSERS $ .79 for S1.00 values $ .8g for $1.25 values $i.ig for $1.50 values $1.49 for $2.00 values ll-tfl&0rrifHfri3 Rock Island redecorating it preparatory to occu pylng it . as a residence. The home was purchased from Mrs. O. C Blaks- lee, daughter of Captain Blakesley, who with her husband recently left here to locate in Kansas City. The consideration is not named. RIVER WORK ENDS AWAITING FUNDS Delay of Action by Senate on Appropriation Causes La bor to Be Abandoned. Although the bouse of representa tives has passed the river and harbors bill, which provides, funds for work on the upper Mississippi the senate has delayed action upon the measure for so long, that yesterday all work on the river stopped. The fleets which have been at work on the stream at Stillwa ter and Fountain City; Minn., Dubuque, Moline, Milan, Keokuk, Quincy and Al ton, abandoned labor under orders from Major G. M. Hoffman of the local U. S. engineer's office.. While there are a large number of men thrown out of work in the field, the office force has not been decreased. It may be that if the appropriation is 'not made within the next few weeks. , that tne number of men employed In tne ofices may also have to be" maa less, although there is work on hand for several weeks. For some time the river work was practically at c standstill and with the exception of the work mentioned be fore, there has been no labor on the river improvement. SCORES POINT AS WEATHER PROPHET Port Byron Man Points Out That Long Range Forecast Has Been Verified. S. C. Braganza da la Coralla, the Port Byron meteorologist, writes The Argus again to point out that he has scored on the first lap in his race for the Xobel prize for best discovery in the domain of astro physics. He calls attention to the fact that while his long range prediction, of storm for yester day was verified the weather bureau assured us on Wednesday we should have "Generally fair and continued warm in this vicinity tonight and Thursday." Writing July 10 at Port Byron De la Coralla made the following prediction: "Hastening on boreal wings on wid ening curves from polar regions ad jacent to the north magnetic pole on Bothnia island, is. a storm which the weather bureau chief will record on the weather maps of next Monday, July 13, 1914. as hovering in the north west along the Canadian border, pro ducing precipitation at Portland, Ore., and adjacent Pacific points near the coast, at above date or very close to it. Thunder, lightning and rain will mark its advent in this region and in Minnesota, and Wisconsin on Thursday and Friday. July 16 and 17. This storm wiiV visit New England and dis appear on the Atlantic 'coast July 18-19. Mark the accuracy of this predirtion. The temperature in this region and around Chicago will be excessively hot on Wednesday, July 15, and Professor Cox will swelter in the federal weatner building as a penalty for his largely imaginative work and his numerous sins of omission and commission." In his letter of yesterday the Port Byron man writes: "In view of today's violent storm of thunder, lightning and rain, realizing my prediction in The Argus it seems awfully' funny to read with a sober face the weather bureau's prediction." De la Coralla discusses his own qual ifications and preparations for a sci entific career as follows: "After four years' study in a medical college in Paris the abstract, unsolved problems of seismology and meteorol ogy offered to my youthful mind many seductive charms and I neglected the cause of medicine for the transcendent delights of pure science. Travel In for eign countries appealed to me. I ex amined the geological structure and adjacent surroundings of Mt. Vesuvi us and Mt. Etna; I have wandered over Horeb's holy, volcanic mound and its contiguous volcanic territory In the Holy Land; I have traveled the equa torial regions on both sides of the Andean ranges of South America for nearly a 1000 miles on each side, note- ing the numerous volcanic peaks and making tri-daily observations with barometer and themometer of meteor ological conditions and phenomena." FUN PRODUCING CLOWNS Over Fifty With Barnum A. Bailey Circus to Make Crowds Merry. One of th6 things that delighted the hearts of our fathers and grand fathers when thoy were youngsters wore the songs of the clown In the circus: in those days there were but few theatres in the country in which singing was done, only the largest cities had theatres in which vaude ville performances were g5wu and they didn't call it vaudeville in Ibose days, it was "variety shows." Since the circus has grown bo largo as to require tents of ruch enormous size, as those for instance of the Bar num & Bailey show which comes to Rock Island next Friday, it has been necessary to Increase the number of rings and add two stages upon which performances may be given, in order that they may be brought within see ing distance of the enormous audi ences. These great tents obliterated the talking and singing clowns, for i ot one clown in a thousand could make himself heard in all parts of a tent co big, so instead of the merry ' (TrCP ' '"V. .' ". ..' . , i- ( ... I 5-V:.. :-:v. . .-. . ;.. ' . " V4M- ;- . : - r&Lm r J? -r The Beer of Quality . :l jest and the comic song the cloWn has become a creature of action and must create his fun by his grotesque ap pearance by little pantomimic play lets r.nd his foolish movements, funny falls and visible pranks. The "producing" clown is the real clown of today; he is the clown who can create new tricks, in which he is assisted by one or more of his fellow fools, and in such a show as Barnum & Briley's it is a necessity to have a great many of these fun makers. The actual number being between 50 and 60. these merry sons of Momus are busy almost every ' minute in some sort of foolery that keeps the audi ence in a continuous roar of laughter, Watch Tower Martin's Gorgeous Fireworks 6 Nights Beginning Sun., July 196 Nights 8:00 p. m. Admission 10c. Free Pictures After the Fireworks CHANGE OF PROGRAM EACH NIGHT Otto's Full Band Each Day Afternoon & Eve DON'T FORGET THE DATES-- " t: When you're dry, fagged out or nervous, when you're hot or tired, Blue Ribbon has just the mild pleas ant taste and goodness that refreshes. E. T. MURRI!!4 Phone Rock Island 15U. 1800-1802 First Ave, Rock Island, III. strange to say, however, there. is with th-a Barnum & Bailey show one sing ing clown and he makes himself heard by every one in the audience with the utmost distinctness. CONCERT POSTPONED ON ACCOUNT OF RAIN Owing to the threatening weather conditions last night, the band concert at Long View park was postponed in definitely. The concert was to have been the third of the . Rosenfield me morial series given by Bleuer's band, under the leadership of Prof. Ernst Otto. 31 REWORKS! The Martin's Firewo rks Company comes to the Tow. er with the highest recommendation of. both press and managers, and some elabo rate and masrnificent displays are assured. .... Forest Fires, Sparkling Gems, Imperial Bril liants, Chromatic Star, Star of Bethlehem, Niag ara Cataract these are some of the beautiful pieces and Happy Hooligan, Mutt and Jeff, Simple Simon and the Dancing Skeleton represent the comedy pieces that delight the children. ;'-? Copyright 19i4jPabst Brewing Gou J PREEMPTION CATTLE BRING FANCY PRICE John Blakley, stock buyer of Pre emption, passed through Rock Island on his way to Chicago today with 40 head of fat cattle bought from Clar ence C. Clarke and John De Block. The purchase price was 9 cents per pound and the steers weighed on an - n n J rr.'t average or arouna i.ouu puuuuo. w hnx of the highest priced bunches of cattle ever shipped from Rock Is land ounty and was fed on the Clar ence C. Clarke farms near Preemp tion. ' i Park