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SATURDAY? THE ROCK ISLAND ARGUS MAY 13, 1922.
HOUSING TAXES
TO BE SETTLED;
END INJUNCTION
ROCK ISLAND'S
FUTURE, TOPIC
OF "PEP MAN"
WILL DEGORATEOH
THIRTY BLOCKS;
FOR BIG MEET
Betrayed, Betray er and Belgian King
Obera'mmergau Passion Play on;
Refuse Huge Of fer For Movies
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"if T , -
rjty Officials and Corporation
Offiwr Confer; Farther Pay
meats Cp to Owners.
Claims in lieu of taxes against
former United States Housing Cor
poration property in Rock Island,
Moline and East Moline will be set
tled by a representative of the cor
poration here next Friday.
On that day a meeting of the
three mayors, city clerks and city
attorneys, will be held in the city
hall of Rock Island, with the cor
poration representative present,
and data of assessments against the
corporation's property will be pre
jented him. It is believed that all
claims up to date will be settled
then.
.Injunction restraining Rock Is
land county officials from collecting
assessments against the housing
corporation property in the three
municipalities may be modified or
annulled following this meeting is
an intimation which came from au
thoritative sources this week.
This injunction has been in ef
fect three years, ever since the
county first attempted to collect
taxes on property then being sold
by the government housing corpora
tion under partial payment plau.
The government officials at that
time promised that the tax claimed
on the housing corporation's com
munity project would be paid from
the United States treasury.
Repeated efforts on the part of
the administrations of Rock Island,
MoJine and East Moline since then
to secure this money, was success
ful a few months ago when con
gress authorized appropriation for
the payment of tax claims against
the housing corporation. Of this
fund. Rock Island is scheduled to
receive approximately $70,000.
To Adjust Claims.
The action expected to be taken
at the cities' meeting with the cor
poration next Friday is the adjust
ment of tax claims up through 1922,
since the injunction went into ef
fect three years ago.
It is expected that then the
housing corporation may go into
court to have the injunction dis
solved, or at least modified.
This will invest owners of the
former government property, or
persons who now hold such prop
erty on contract to purchase, with
the duty of paying future install
ments over the 10-year assessment
period. The exact nature of the
action the corporation will take in
court is not known, but the unof
ficial information current is" that
either a modification or a dissolu
tion of the present injunction will
be sought.
PLAN TO BREAK
GROUND JUNE 1
Sorvus Rubber Annonnres Early
Mart in Building Operation;
Stock Issue tioin:? Fast.
Judson J. Adams, president of the
Servus Rubber company, announces
today that the company expects to
break ground June 1 for the erec
tion of the first unit of its Rock
IMand plant.
Announcement is made also that
the sale of the stock of the com
pany is progressing at such a rate
that it is anticipated the entire
$-00,000 issue, the quota for Rock
Island county, will be sold within
two weeks.
REV. G. W. CALDWELL,
PRINCETON CHURCH
PASTOR, INSTALLED
Rev. George W. Caldwell was in
stalled pastor of the Princeton
Presbyterian church. Thursday eve
ning. Rev. John McGown Steven
sun moderated the meeting. Rev.
H. W. Lee of the Congregational
church. Princeton, offered the in
vocation, the Scriptures were read
by the Rev. Arthur Bowman of the
Lutheran church. Princeton. The
installation service was conducted
by the moderator. The charge to
'he people was given by Rev. W. W.
Wilson. Kewanee. The charge to
the pastor by Rev. M. M. Walters,
Joy. At the close of the serice a
reception welcoming the pastor an:',
his wife was tendered' Mr. Cald
well opens his ministry full of
prrraise by reason of the unity and
enthusiastic spirit at the people.
DAVENPORT PUBLIC
LIBRARY ADDITION
TO COST $180,007
John Soller & Son were lowest
bidders for contract for the addi
tion to the Davenport public li
brary, the firm's bid being $145,417.
Other submitted figure on interior
crk will bring the total cost up
to J1S0.007.69.
Eleven contractors submitted bids
, on the general contract. The Sol-
r ma win oe submitted to the city
council. Friends of the library de
clare that the expenses of the im
provement can be raised through a
tax of .6 of a mill spread out over
period of 10 years.
SPECIAL SERVICES
FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
SUNDAY MORNING
ioujig people of the Evangelical
niunh of Peace will celebrate the
th anniversary of th orsraniza-
rt j'On of the society tomorrow morn-i-lnS.
Rev. F E J Krhpnk of Fort
Madison, Iowa, a son of the congre
gation, will preach at the special
morning services at 10:45. The
yonng people will attend in a body.
Tuesday evening the society will
Hold a banquet, to which all the
yung people of the church are in
YOUNG PEOPLE TO
HONOR MOTHERS AT
BROADWAY CHURCH
Special Mothers' day services
will be observed in the Broadway
Presbyterian church tomorrow
morning .and evening. At the
morning service the subject of the
sermon is "The Divine in Parent
hood". The music by the quartet
is as follows 'Seek Him that Mak
eth the Seven Stars" and "When I
Consider the Heavens".
At the evening service at 7:30
o'clock the following is the pro
gram: Organ prelude...'. Miss Gest
Organ prelude.
Hymn.
"The Magnificat".
Duet, "Mother's Prayer"
Elinor May Huesing, Faye Mc
Cabe. Reading, "Somebody's Mother"..
Dan Snively
Organ solo, "Berceuse"
Miss Minnette Herrick
Reading Florence Nagel
Violin
"Evening"
"Negro Chant"
Miss Muriel Ammerman
Reading, "Which Loved Best"...
Lois Donaldson
Reading, "Our Mothers"
Ben Haverstick
VocalVocal solo, "Mother" ...
Miss Ruth Blakemore
Reading, "To Mother". Faye McCabe
Organ solo... Miss Alice Blakemore
Offertory, "We Praise Thee"
(Buck! Quartet
Sermon, "Our Debt to Life".
Hymn.
Benediction.
Organ postlude Miss Gest
Two flower girls. Misses Cather
ine Hauberg and Madeline Foster,
will welcgme the worshippers and
present them with lilies of the val
ley. Rev. John McGown Stevenson
will preach at both services.
TRIES TO COLLECT
ON SWEEPER; CASE
TAKEN INTO COURT
G. M. Perrin, Davenport, an
agent for the Leithner & Weisher
company of Rock Island, was held
at police court today on a warrant
charging assault and battery, sworn
out by Mrs. Annie Silverman, 609
Seventeenth street. Mrs. Silver
man complained that yesterday
Perrin entered her house, claiming
to be the agent for the company he
represents, though she had never
seen "him before, and demanded a
sum of $7.50 as the final payment
on a vacuum sweeper sold her
some months ago.
There was a controversy, Mrs.
Silverman told the police, in which
Perrin attempted to take the sweep
er. She attempted to stop him and
was struck during the quarrel.
The case was to be heard this
afternoon.
UNIQUE SERVICE
AT PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCHES SUNDAY
A very unusual Mothers' day ser
vice has been prepared by Rev. W.
C. Snider, Rock River Presbyterial
superintendent. He has arranged a
musical accompaniment to Ian Mc
Laren's beautiful story, "His Moth
er's Sermon," which is played soft
ly during the reading. Such .old
time favorites as "I Love to Tell
the Story," "Day 13 Dying in the
West," Traumrei, the Berceuse
from Jocelyn and other selections
are introduced in such a way as
to best bring out the th?mes of the
story.
Tnis reading will be given by
Rev. Mr. Snider tomorrow in the
Milan Presbyterian church at 3 p.
m., at the Cleland church at 7:30
p. m., and at the South Park Pres
byterian church at 8 p. m. Rev. W.
G. Oglevee. pastor of the South
Park church will play the piano ac
companiment at all these services.
LAYWORKERS TALK
TOMORROW AT THE
EDGEWOOD CHURCH
Four talks by laymen and lay
women will feature the Mothers'
day services tomorrow at Edge
wood Baptist church. The services
will start at 10 o'clock and con
tinue throughout the morning hour.
Flowers will be given to the moth
ers. Tomorrow evening the pastor
of the church. Rev. T. E. Porter,
will speak on "The Bible and the
League of Nations."
MAN WITH BADLY
LACERATED ARM
STILL SERIOUS
Alidor Van Deputte, 700 4 Sec
ond avenue, in St Anthony's hos
pital with a badly lacerated arm. is
still in serious condition, according
to Dr. De Silva, who is attending
him.
Mr. Van Deputte slipped on the
porch of his home Thursday night
and cut his arm in many places
when he fell against a window
pane. It is doubtful as yet wheth
er his arm will be permanently ai-
fected by the injuries or not, Dr.
De Silva stated.
The amethyst is often called the
"prelate's gem", from the fact that
in the Roman Catholic church it is
eet in the pastoral ring of bishops.
BURY BELGIAN
TRAITOR ALIVE
IN HONS PRISON
Armand Jeannes, Man Who Be
trayed Edith Cavell to Ger
mans, "Lost In Prison.
BY MLLTOX BROSSER.
Special Cable to N. E. A. Service.
Copyright, 1922, by X. E. A. Service
Mons, Belgium, May 13 "Armand
Jeannes is dead!"
It was the commandant in charge
of the gloomy, brick-towered pris
on at Mons who told me this, when
I inquired for the Belgian arch
traitor who sold his country to
Germany for 25 pieces of silver.
I had learned positively that this
renegade spy believed by many to
have been the betrayer of Edith
Cavell, the heroic nurse who was
executed in the war by a German
firing squad had not gone to the
guillotine as reported, or commit
ted suicide, or died a natural death.
"Monsieur Commandant," I press
sed my inquiries, "has Jeannes said
anything since his conviction and
death sentence which would clear
up the mystery surrounding Edith
C& veil's betrayal?"
"Dead men tell no tales." said
the commandant. "Armand Jeannes
is dead."
Actually Buried AHtp.
It is death a living death that
has befallen Armand Jeannes. He
is buried alive!
Though sentenced to the guillo
tine, he probably will not feel the
knife across his precious neck.
Only a tidal wave of public senti
ment can keep him from thi execu
tioner. But Jeannes is dead so far as the
authorities are concerned. He is
hidden away in Mons prison, and in
prison he will probably remain the
rest of his days, seen by no human
being, and always in the shadow
of the guillotine.
Belgium still has the death pen
alty in the penal code. But no one
has been guillotined for nearly eo
years. The reason is that back in
1S65 two men were guillotined here
in Mons and when shortly after
ward it was found that they were
innocent. Belgium was so shocked
that since then the king has com
muted all death sentences to life
imprisonment.
Usually the law authorities sign
;a petition asking the kins to com
mute death sentences. But in the
arch-traitor's case they have refus
ed. Meanwhile all Belgian organ
izations of ex-soldiers are demand
ing Jeannes' execution, and the
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Perhaps you think you haven't space for it. But
have you asked the man who knows?
Or, perhaps you have doubts about the cost, if so
it is almost certainly lower than you think.
Better see us and let us give you a figure on it.
If you can't come in, telephone and we will at
tend to it at once. No obligation on your part.
Allen, Myers & Company
Tel. R. 1. 18
HEADQUARTERS OF
WELFARE LOAN TO
BE IN DAVENPORT
Davenport has been made Iowa
headquarters for the Welfare Loan
society, which ha3 been incorpo
rated to do business in 11 principal
cities of the state and is being fully
organized by officials of the N. B.
Hawkins Mortgage company. Port-,
land, Ind., a concern with a busi
ness record of nearly 100 years.
Headquarters have been estab
lished at 407 Kahl building and the
company expects to be in operation
within 60 days. Clarence Heisler,
fiscal agent for Iowa, is in charge.
newspapers are carrying on a cam
paign for his death.
'one See Him.
It is futile to try to see Jeannes.
The prison authorities have reach
ed the point where they do not
even admit his existence! Thus
they save both the king and execu
tioner from bearing the brunt of
public sentiment.
This man of 33 originally sold
his country for 25 francs a month.
The Germans later increased his
pay until he was getting 750 francs
a month.
Jeannes disappeared when the
German war machine collapsed,
but fate played him a trick. When
the fleeing Germans destroyed their
documents, one heap in a bam near
the Belgian frontier in northern
France was overlooked.
In this mass of papers were
found 200 reports made by Jeannes,
together with his German police
card, and letters from him to his
German chief. Kirschenheim. in
which he boasted of his exploits
and asked for more money for his
"faithful service."
Jeannes claimed he had caused
the deaths of 126 Belgians. French
men and British, including Miss
Cavell.
His trial was a sensation. At
first he was contemptuous and de
fiant, but the evidence against him
was so strong that his bravado soon
vanished, even though no direct ev
idence was brought that he per
sonally reported Miss Cavell to the
German police.
TO JULIAN TAX WIXKLE
And to all whom it may concern:
Take notice that on the 10th day of
May, A. V. 1922, a petition was
riled by Rose C. Salisbury in the
county court of Rock Island coun
ty, Illinois, to have certain chil
dren named Irene Van Winkle and
Orville Van Winkle declared de
pendent children and to take from
you the custody and guardianship
of said children, and that the court
appoint some proper and suitable
person guardian over the person
of said children and authorize and
empower such guardian to assent
to the legal adoption of said chil
dren should any proceedings for
their adoption be commenced in
any court at any time during such
guardianship without any notice to
or assent of any person other than
such guardian of said children and
make such other and further or
ders in this cause as to the court
shall seem meet according to equi
ty and good conscience and accord
ing to the statute in such case
made and provided.
Xow, unless you appear within
twenty (20) days after the date cf
this notics and show cause against
such application, the petition shall
be taken for confessed and a de
cree entered.
HENRY B. HUBBARD,
Clerk County Court
Dated May 13, 1922.
The omnibuses of London travel
about S5,000,000 miles a year.
Concluding: YTisehanpt Lecture
Enumerates City's Assets Calls
for "Team Work."
"Get the vision of the many ad
vantages offered by Rock Island
and make the future of your city
what it can and ought to be," was
the parting message of Howard J
jWisehaupt, Cleveland, Ohio, "the
pep man, who concluded a series
of five lectures to business men in
the Rock Island Chamber of Com
merce last night
Picturing Rock Island's central
location as a decided asset, he call
ed upon one and all, merchants,
employes and citizens in general
to "get together," "work together,"
"boost together" for Rock Island.
"Since I have been in your city,"
continued Mr. Wisehaupt "I have
met a good many people. Perhaps
two-thirds of them were what I
call 'knockers.' But they failed to
influence my view point I find that
it is difficult sometimes to eet
much out of the men who really
know things. The men who don't
know can tell all about everything.
I can tell President Harding all
about the bonus bill, and congress
what to do, because I don't know
anything about the question at is
sue." The "pep man" said he would
like to spend six months in Rock
Island because there "is such a
splendid chance to do work that
will count here."
There were some people, he said,
who had told him that merchandise
could be purchased cheaper in Dav
enport than in Rock Island. He
had tried that out, he affirmed, by
causing two similar articles, of
standard make to be purchased, the
one in Davenport, the other in
Rock Island. The result he said,
was. that the Davenport article,
while a little bit cheaper, was so
much inferior to the article pur
chased in Rock Island, that the
Rock Island article was in reality
much the cheaper of the two.
Commends Community Projects.
He commented upon the united
effort being made to raise $50,000
for the Rock Island Community
Fund as a good piece of team work,
and said he hoped to hear the
movement was successful. The
Trans-Mississippi Exposition and
Pageant of Progress, he said, was a
good thing for the community.
He compared the types of people
in a city to the types found in
lodges and other organizations. One
man, he declared, pays his dues,
but won't engage in any work
leaves it all to a few officers. There
is another type which will pay no
dues, or belong to no institution
which calls upon him to make any
sacrifice whatever.
"If you want to find out if you
are really live members of your
community," he said, "stick a
needle in yourself. If you do not
bleed, call the undertaker, but if
Is Your Blood Good Blood
Or Is It
Weak, Sluggish, Thin, Watery,
Without any Snap or Vitality?
You can tell by the way you feel.
You need Hood's Sarsaparilla to
make your blood rich, red and pure,
tingling with health for every organ
and tissue. You need it if weak and
tired day in and day out, if your
appetite is poor, sleep unrefreshing,
for humors, boils, eruptions, scrofula,
rheumatism, headaches, nervous
prostration. It is simply wonderful
to give strength to your whole body.
Whv should yon not get all the help
Mrs". Maloncy did and more? Read
her letter :
"It was because my grandmother
when she was 80 took Hood's Sarsa
parilla with so much benefit that I
have used it myself. I was troubled
with an eruption of
Sores and Boils
caused by impure blood. My head
and face" were especially afflicted.
ANNOUNCING
The opening of our
Chiropractic Health Home
and offices at 643 Seventeenth Street
Rock Island, III.
B. W. Hostetler,
D. C.
Phone
Office hours 9 to 12
Former patients and friends cordially
invited.
A Trial Order
Will assure us a steady customer. Work received
one day usually returned the next. Good, prompt
service is our motto.
KERLER RUG CO.
CARPET AND RUG CLEANERS
We do anything pertaining to carpet and rug bus
iness. Sewing, mending, patching, remodeling.
A Firm That Knows How
Carpet binding. All colors for sale.
2116 Fourth Ave. Phone R- I. 692
Anton Lane, the Christus, working: in bis pattern shop.
The twenty-eighth decennial celebration o fthe Passion Play at
Oberammergau is now under way. The first performance was given
before a select audience invited for the occasion. Anton Lang again
is taking the role of "Christ" and Martha Veit is the ney "Mary."
the blood runs out in a stream, you
are a live one," i
Every chair was filled at the Wise
haupt meeting last night, and his
remarks have been so much appre
ciated here, and have made such a
good impression that the hope has
been expressed by many that the
"pep man" will visit Rock Island
again next November.
He left this morning for Clinton,
Iowa, where he will deliver a
series of lectures next week.
EPWORTH LEAGUE
WILL CELEBRATE
SUNDAY EVENING
Tomorrow evening the Epworth
league will have charge of the serv
ices at the First Methodist church,
when the members will observe
the 33rd anniversary of the general
organization. There will be a pag
eant, "The Epworth League Mir
ror, or the Story the Emblem
Tells". - Rev. J. A. Chapman, the
pastor, will give a short address
on "The Stirring Gift". Officers will
be installed during the evening.
At the morning service there will
be a special Mothers' day program.
The pastor's topic will be "Mother,
Home and Nation".
and it was very humiliating to me.
Our family doctor when asked about
Hood's
Sarsapa
rilla said I
should
take it,
and ought
to have be-
(Mf, I f9- WS before. He
believed
Hood's
Sarsap a
rilla would
bring me
out all
right, and
it did. It
puri f ied
m y blood
and gave me a beautiful complexion."
Mrs. -Samuel Malo.vey, 1 529w
Edgelv Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
Marguerite Hostetler
D. C, Ph. C.
R. I. 1767
a. m. ; 2 to 5, 7 to 8 p. m.
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SCHOOL CHILDREN
TO HONOR MOTHER
I The Mothers' day exercises by
i the Sunday school, will be held at
the conclusion of the lesson study
tomorrow morning at the Memorial
Christian church. There will be a
short program, and at the morn
ing service a special recognition of
mothers. The pastor's morning
theme will be, "Mother, the Hone
j of the World." In the evening Rev.
I Launcelot Hadaway, the pastor,
i will speak on "The Danger of an
Empty Heart."
Following is the program to be
given in connection with the Sun
day school observance:
Song Primary department
Reading, "Mother o' Mine"
Gladys Steele.
Song. "Mother Knows" Mrs.
Robinson's class.
Duet. "My Mother" Gwendolyn
I Smith and Florence Nelson.
Selection Quartet.
Vocal solo, "Mother o' Mine"
Miss Sara Sampson.
An apron ,ia th Persian royal
standard.
Little Mother of Mine
Sometimes in the hush of the evening hour.
When shadows creep from the West.
I think of the twilight songs you sang
And the boy you lull'd to rest
The wee little boy with tousled head.
That so long ago was thine.
I wonder sometimes if you long for that boy;
O little mother of mine?
And now he has come to man's estate.
Grown stalwart in body and strong.
You'd hardly know that he was the lad
You lulled with your slumber song.
The years have altered the form and the life.
But the heart is unchanged by time:
And still he is only your boy as of old,
O little mother of mine.
Say, Father
Say, Son
Say, Daughter
Does Mother Ever Have a Holiday?
No : Well then, let us resolve ; That, Moth
er having worked and slaved for us all these
years, we will give her a much needed and de
served holiday by sending our weekly washing
to the Iowa Steam Laundry Company. They
are doing the best laundry work in their history,
work that will delight Mother.
God Bless Mother,
the happiest year
For Particulars
Telephone Q
Davenport OxJ
Our
cars
pass
your
door
daily
Wra.8hJmann
Pretax
SOFT WATER
RE-ROOF FOR THE LAST TIME
By laving asbestos shingles right over the old shingles. Asbestos
being mineral cannot rot, cannot burn and is lmp-jrviou-i to ail
weather conditions. We do all kinds of fireproof roofing and
save you 25c on the dollar. Our roofs are different our
prices are different. We carry a special fireproof rocf
paint for tin roofs and gutters which makes them as good as
new. See our samples and get our prices; honest roofs and hon
est prices. We do all kind3 of carpenter work. -0 years' ex
perience in the business.
Independent Roofing Co. Not inc.
711 Twenty-ninth Street. Phone R. I. 5406;
Grotto Committer Contract for.
Beautifying City for National '
Convention.
Rock Island will be a bower of
beauty during the Grotto conven
tion in June. Contract was signed
with the Home Decorating com
pany, Chicago, yesterday, when W.,
L. Short, a representative of tho- ;
company met with the local grot---,
to decorating committee. Contract. ,
calls for the decorating of 3i .
blocks with the national and grot-'
to colors. The grotto committeo
will also cooperate with Mr. Short
in securing the decorating of Rock -Island
business houses during tho
week. ;
That the grotto convention is at
tracting national attention is at
tested by the fact that 15 compan--ies
entered bids for the local dec-
orations, and the Home Decoratins
company's was considered the mosw
attractive and acceptable. The com--
pany will also decorate treei
of Davenport.
The grotto will offer suitable
prizes for-the most beautiful dec
orated float in the evening parade.
June 2S, as well as cups for the
most beautifully decorated build
ings.
The grotto parade committee
meets Monday evening to lay out
the line of march, which will bn
three miles long. Approximately
35 bands have been entered in tho
parade and contests.
Call for Rooms.
The housing committee is stiil
short a number of rooms to housn
visitors as well as visitors to th-Trans-Mississippi
Exposition and
an appeal is made for residents tu
list available rooms with the Hook.
Island Chamber of Commerce. It. 1. :
730, where the lists will be tabu
lated. A rate of $1.50 a day. a per
son, has been set by the committeci.
for rooms in private families. ; ,
CHOOSE DAVENPORT
AS LOCATION FOR
DEPARTMENT STORE
Harry Waxenberg and J. ;- M-i
Siegel will conduct a new depart
ment store at 314-313 Went Second
street, Davenport, having closed a
contract with A. C. KUr.dt. owner
of the premises, for a long-term
lease.
Both are known as successful
merchants. Mr. Siegel, although a
Davenporter of long standing, has
been located in Wichita, Kan., fo
the past six years. The building
is to he romDletelv remodeled. T!i!
property has a frontage of 40 feet
on West Second street ana consisn
of four stories and basement. Th
new firm expects to be operating
by Sept. 1.
May this be
of her life.
LAUNDERERS
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