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THE ROCK ISLAND ARGUS. THURSDAY, JUfcT 17, T913.
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MOLINE'S SECTION OF THE ARGUS
Day's News Happenings in Rock Island's Sister City
I Dollars Coming"
NO SHOW PARADE;
DISAPPOINTMENT
FOR THOUSANDS
Cramped Quarters in East End
of City Compels Resort to
Bluff Grounds.
PAGEANT KEPT OFF HILL
Strike of Colored Stakemen and Team
sters Complicates Troubles
of the Management.
morning and attending the circus m
the afternoon and their comig evi
dently had been anticipated by house
wives intent upon replenishing the
family larder.
Announcement is made that in about
another week home grown musk
melons and watermelons will be on the
market here, this being an unusually
early date for these varieties of fruit
to ripen. tCar.y ar1et:rfa of appl'.6,
mainly windfalls suitable for cooking
liae been on sale f a week.
Thousands who thronged the down
town streets today and waited for
hours for the Ringling llros.' parade
were disappointed when at noon an
announcer made, a tour of the route
that the pageant was to have followed
and gave notice that the parade had
en abandoned, owing to failure to
r riffm tiilr in Trnrn Tti r-irv rrttnm a.
e heavy equlppage over
pavement on the Fifteenth
It was feared that much
l permission
mVii to ljul til
UiJm aspll.it pa
t:eyg
fliis
WOBBLY LEGS GET
MAN 'INTO FIGHT
Theodore Mettler Receives 10
Knife Wounds from Trio He
Bumped in Street.
BLOWS 0FFT0P0F
HEAD WITH A GUN
Grant Griffin Commits Suicide
at His Home on the Coal
Town Road.
HAD BEEN IN POOR HEALTH
Retires to His Bedroom, Takes Off
Shoes and Pulls the Trigger
With His Toes.
ter, Mrs. "W. A. Bjorkman, 4526 Eighth
avenue, Rock Island. Rev. A. F. Berg
strom spoke, and the singing was by
the ladies' quartet of the Swedish Lu
theran choir. Interment was in River
side cemetery, the bearers being Gust
Carlson, Gust Gidding, John Olson,
John Miller, William Efflandt and Peter
Peterson.
da;jtf would be done to the road
is was one or the results of
Changing the place where the show
"was Riven from Thirty-eighth etreet
to Fourteenth street and Twenty-fourth
avenue. The hange was found neces
Fary only after part of the equipment
had been taken off the train in the
cast end of the city. When all was
in readiness to begin pitching tents
tliis morning it wan found that the
grounds there were not large enough.
ok IIOV TRIS.
There was a delny while a new
place was being located and after
tin: site on the bluff had been decided
upon the show trains had to be moved
downtown, most of the equipment be
ing disembarked on sidings west of
Twelfth street.
It was late before arrangements had
been completed to start the parade
and then came notice that the use of
the Fifteenth street hill would not be
permitted and to the parade was
abandoned.
The grounds on Twenty-fourth ave
nue are large enough and well suited
for show purposes. Though no car
line reaches theiu, both the Elm street
and Prospect park lines run within
a few blocks of them.
OI.OHKI IIA.MIS STIIIKK.
Troubles of the. circus managers
were complicated this morning by a
Ktrike of 57 colored employes, stake
men and teamsters. They served no
Mce when the show reached Mollne
that they would not serve longer un
der their buss, a man named Calla
han. It was necessary to fire either
the boss or the men and the manage
ment was not long in deciding it
should be the latter. They were turn
ed loose all practically penniless, and
heir places filled hy others with the
show and by such help us could be
picked up.
The men complained that Callahan
was u hard taskmaster and that he
had invited trouble by throwing a
driver off a wagon at laSalle and
injuring him. Besides the boss the
strikers objected to the quality of
food they had been given and claimed
that the $25 per month they had bien
getting, with $10 held back at pay
days, was not enough for the work
they were doing. A number of the
men said they intended to remain
with the show und would leave town
with it tonight.
With 10 knife wounds in h!s body,
three of them of a serious nature,
Theodore Mettler, 1516 Third ave
nue, lies at the city hospital in a pre
carious condition. Two of the cuts in
the shoulder and one in the neck al
most penetrated vital parts and hem
orrhage from one or more of them Is
feared. The assailants are not known.
Mettler, who admits be was slightly
intoxicated, claims he was walking on
Ninth street near Fourth avenue Wed
nesday night about 10 o'clock. In
passing three strangers he accident
ally jostled one of them. He was im
mediately attacked and when he at
tempted to defend himself all three
pitched onto bim, and when he recov
ered consciousness he was in the hos
pital. The cuts are nearly all deep, the
assailant evidently trying to stab rath
er than to slash bim. No one can be
found who 6a w the trouble.
MERCHANTS BACK OF
CLOSING MOVEMENT
Wednesday night closing of stores,
and the closing on other evenings ex
cept Saturdays at C o'clock, now has
the backing of the Retail Merchants'
association, which body has gone on
record in favor of it. These hours
have been almost generally adopted
by retailers during the last few weeks
through agreements that have been
signed by most of the business men.
Through the influence of the associa
tion, however, it is hoped that the
few
Despondent because of ill hea'.th
Grant Griffith, aged 46. and living on
the Coal Town road southeast of the
city, committed suicide at 9:45 this
morning. He placed the muzzle of a
12 guage shotgun against his forehead
and pulled the trigger, the top of his
head being blown off and death result
ing at once. Coroner Meyer impanel
ed a jury which returned a verdict of
"Euicide while despondent".
Griffin had indicated no intention of
ending his life. He had not been well
for some time and this morning when
he arose he said he was feeling worse
than usual. Advised to consult a phy
sician he gruff'.y refused.
THOl'CillT BED FELL.
After taking a walk about the yard
he returned to his room and a short
time later his mother heard a muffled
sound that she supposed was made by
the collapse of the bed. Entering the
room she found the body.
Griffin had taken off his shoes in
order to touch off the trigger with his
toes. His mother and brother testified
at the inquest.
REMODELING OLD
WILSON FACTORY
Will Be Put in First Class Shape
for Branch of the Oliver
Plow Company.
TO EXPEND MUCH
IN EAST MOLINE
Central Union Telephone Com
pany Will Improve Its Fa
cilities There.
Improvements which will give the
new lessees the finest display rooms
in the city are being made at the old
plant of the Wilson-Moline Buggy
company on Third avenue. Th? Wil
son company recently removed to the
plant of the Otis Elevator company,
the Sechler Carriage & Implement
company taking its old stand for use
by the sales department of the Oliver
Chilled Plow company of South Bend,
Ind. The Oliver people will in future
market the Sechler output. Alter
ations now in progress at the old Wil
son building will cost $4,000 and are
being made by the Sechler company.
They are expected to be completed
next week.
BEATEN TO JELLY;
FOUND IN STREET
Car Crew Discovers Uncon
scious Man Lying on First
Avenue, Silvis.
PROPOSES TO FORM AN
"INCUBATOR" CIRCUIT
F. I. Lovins of East Moline is en
deavoring to interest the boys of
Moline, East Moline, Silvis and Water
town m a baseball league. The "in
cubator circuit," he proposes to call
it. His plan is to organize eight or
1 more teams and play a schedule of
games in the cities and villages named
and at Campbell s island.
IS DEMANDED BY GROWTH
Extension 'of Lines, Purchase of Site
and Erection of New Ex.
change Proposed.
YourWay! 1
Nearly $50,000 will be expended on
its plant , in East Moline during the
next year if the plans under consider
ation of the Central Vnlon Telephone
company are carried out. Estimates
formerly made called for an outlay of
$18,000,. but officers decided that the
present and ' prospective business of
the hustling young city demanded
better facilities than could be provid
ed with that sum.
J. W. Day of Springfield, 111. has
been in East Moline for some time
planning- the . improvements that the
plant needs. As a result he has sub
mitted estimates which require $42,
000 for outside work and $3,000 for a
new switchboard and other improve
ments at the present exchange, which
is in a rented building.
PROPOSE SEW' EXCHANGE.
It is the company's intention to se
cure a site and erect an exchange
building. Most of the money it is pro
posed to expend will be used in ex
tending and improving lines in the
city.
Here's a Shoe Sale that will
put Dollars in your pocket.
Its time to clean house again and get
ready for the large lines of Fall
Footwear that are already
coming in
Our Present Stock Musi Go
It isn't a question of What these shoes are worth or what
they cost. Every pair must GO even if it be at a loss.
Won't Some of these Bargains Attract You
$2.00 Boys' Oxfords $1.39
$4.00 Men's Oxfords $3.15
$3.00 Men's Oxfords $2.45
$3.50 Ladies' Oxfords ...$2.00
$4.00 Ladies' Oxfords ...$3.15
$3 and $3.50 Pumps at $2.39
20 Discount on AH White Footwear
20 Discount on All Children's Footwear
Can you invest your money where it will earn more than
AKIN-SCHWEN&ER CO.
Succeeding
SCKWENKER'S, Inc.
Q MOLINE
DAVENPORT
ROCK ISLAND
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A dark-skinned man,- evidently a
Mexican, was picked up just across
the line from East Moline on First
who have held out against the j avenue, Silvis. this morning. He was
reduction of business hours may
brought into line.
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RECORD CROWD BUYS
IN THE CITY MARKET
Two thousand people, mostly buy
cru, were in the city market this morn
iu. the attendance being near the
record. Growers also were there in
unusual numbers with produce for
sale. Many farmers and gardeners
brought truck and fruit to the city
with the latentio.i of sellliq it in tho
PARK ROWDY INSISTS ON
WAITING FOR CAN OF BEER
Unwilling to leave Sylvan park till
a boy who had been sent for a can
of beer returned, Ben Gully "sassed"
a policeman who ordered him to be
have or leave, and was fined $5 on
the charge of disorderly conduct. He
was accompanied by a woman against
whom the same charge was filed.
Much trouble has ben experienced at
this park with such characters who
have made it a practice to loiter there
and have acted in such manner that
respectable people nave felt con
strained to stay away. The police are
endeavoring to improve conditons and
the arrest of Gully and the woman is
the first step in this direction.
unconscious and at first was believed
to be dead. The crew of a Silvis car
were the first to see him and they
notified the authorities. His face had
been pounded to a pulp and there was
a gash in his scalp. He w:s removed
to the Si":vis jail and given surgical
attention.
Three men were seen running from
the spot where the unconscious form
was found and it is presumed that they
are the ones who administered the
bearing. The fact that $30 was fou j
in the man's pockets indicates that the
motive for the assault was something
else than robbery.
MOOSE GIVEJJP CARNIVAL
Think Guaranty Demanded by Com
pany is Excessive.
There will be no carnival in this
city this season under the auspices of
the Loyal Order of Moose, unless a
better proposition than the one pre
sented by the Paine Fireworks com
pany is taken up. The Paine people
offered to stage the carnival, the
lodge to get all over $6,500 of the
proceeds. Local Moose feel that this
guaranty is too high. Besides, they
feel that it would be difficult to find
a place in the business part of the
city to exhibit the usual attractions.
PEORIA MAN MADE
MIDLAND TRUSTEE
J. H. McCullough Selected by
Creditors Despite Efforts
of Local Attorneys.
NEWLY PURCHASED COW
IN FOUND TUBERCULAR
Finding that a cow he had bought
from John Weaver, Jr., was not in
good h ali,h, H. Carlson colled Dr. S. H.
Kennedy, who found the bovine suffer
ing from tuberculosis. The cow will be
killed, while a suit over the purchase
price is possible.
Must Pay for Walk.
As the result of the finding by a
ju'y in the court of Magistrate Cart
wright in East Moline Tuesday after
noon George Meyers of Slivis will be
compelled to pay for a sidewalk laid
in front of his premises. The Cement
Products company did the work and
entered suit to recover the price,
which Mr. Meyers refused to pay.
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II OBITUARY RECORD II
JOH i .inilVM).
Johannas Johnson, in his 92d year,
died at 9 o'clock Wednesday evening
at his home, 608 Fifth avenue. He
had been seriously ill for a week,
though his health had not been good
for some time. His wife is an in
valid and has been confined to bed
for 18 months. Mr. Johnson was born
in Sweden Sept. 26, 1821, and had
been a resident of Moline since 1890.
He was a carpenter by trade. H9
was married three times, the third
wife surviving, together with a son,
John, and a daughter. Miss Christtna.
Funeral services will be be;d at the
home at 2:30 Friday afternoon with
Rev. A. L. Widell In charge and inter
ment at Riverside cemetery.
fil STAF Al.MI.OF Ft XEHAL.
Funeral services for the late Gustaf
Almlof were held at 2:30 Wednesday
afternoon at the home of the daugh-
SILVIS IS AFTER SPEEDERS
Arrest of Those Abusing Traffic Rules
on First Avenue Premised.
Motorcycle and auto speeders using
First avenue in Silvis may be up
against trouble shortly. Residents of
the village have decided they have
j been imperiled long enough by reck
j less joyriders and so they have pre
vailed upon the administration to em
ploy a motorcycle cop for a few days
with the object of making a few ar
rests. It is the intention to make the
fines pay expenses of the extra policing.
MAY BUY AN INCINERATOR
Village of Silvis Faces Problem of
Disposal of Its Garbage.
Disposal of garbage is bothering the
village trustees of Silvis. Until now
a farmer has been gathering and
feeding the refuse to hogs, but it is
claimed that collections are not suffi
ciently thorough and that some other
plan will have to be inaugurated soon.
The village board may decide to in
stall an incinerator.
Attorneys G. W. Wood, William A
Meese and G. A. Shallberg failed in
their efforts at the meeting of the
creditors of the defunct Midland Mo
tor Car company at Peoria yesterday
to secure the election of J. D. MetZ'
gar as trustee. Attorney Brown of
Chicago held the whip hand through
representing the majority of the cred
itors and his vote elected J. H. Mc-
Cullotigh of Peoria to the place, over
Mr. Metzgar.
Moline attorneys who represent
Midland creditors in an open letter
have charged Attorney Brown of being
in league with certain officers of the
Midland company in an alleged effort
to cover up assets of the concern and
to pile up expenses of settling its af
fairs to the disadvantage of the cred
itors in general.
Encampment Installs.
J. C. McDowell, acting as installing
officer, seated new officers for East
Moline encampment No. 74, I. O. O. F
Tuesday evening as follows:
Chief Patriarch George Stang.
High Priest Herbert Conn.
Senior Warden Earl Bookman.
Junior Warden Jacob Jordan.
First Watch J. C. McDowell.
Second Watch M. A. Ingersoll.
Third Watch Arthur Hughes.
Fourth Watch George Christman.
Inside Guard O. M. Westphal.
First Guard of the Tent G. A. Kia
mander.
which may be so stretched that an ob
ject considerably larger than the head
Itself may Iks swallowed if ri.chtly seiz
ed; hence prey is usually turned about
after killing it until its nose is fore
most, when the undertaking begins. A
copious flow of saliva assists degulti-
tlon.
Once started, a snake never knows
when to stop; has little ability to do
so, indeed, and the prey rarely kicks
loose. It has happened frequently in
zoological collections that a lnrge snake
has swallowed a smaller one meclian-
icnlly, as it were, when each has seized
the same food animal. Both swallowed
at It until the larger reached the nose
of the smaller diner and then kept
right on as long as there was anything
in Its mouth, unless the victim of this
discourtesy managed quickly to let go
of the fare and escape.
Bartlett tells us, in his book on the
care of animals in the London zoo, of
one case where a boa constrictor de
voured a cage mate nine feet long who
did not feel disposed to let go of hi.s
half of a pigeon. Next morning this
boa could not curl up, but had to lie
straight out for several days, and a
month was spent in the digestion of
this inhospitable men!. Snakes will
keep pushing their jaws over n strini
of frogs or mice tied together until
they have got outside the whole chain.
These animals have little, if any, souse
of taste and when they get their teeth
Into anything soft try to eat it.
$12,000 A YEAR NOT
ENOUGH FOR CLARK
Like Eryan, Speaker Takes to
Platform in Order to
Make Living.
Giving Himself Awan
"Here, ma." requested the boy. hnr-
rylng In from scuooi miuic
"bang my Jacket up uemnu me
"Is it wet?"
Va. hut teacher sent me hcrr.e to
tell yon to warm my jacket fc:-
Judge.
St. Louis, Mo., July 17. That
Speaker Champ Clark finds his salary
of $12,000 a year inadequate and like
Colonel Bryan must supplement his
wage by earnings on the lecture plat
form, became known yesterday when
a letter from the speaker to the Good
Roads association was made public, in
which he stated that he could not ad
dress the good roads meeting in No
vember as he had contracted for eight
weeks of lectures in October and No
vember. His letter says:
"I would be dt'lighted to be with
you at your good roads 'meeting in No
vember, but it is utterly impossible.
The only way I have of making any
money is by lecturing and occasionally
writing for magazines. Five or six
months ago, taking it for granted that
congress would certainly adjourn by
Oct. 1, I sold eight weeks in Octo
ber and November to a lecture bureau.
"The contract is just as binding as
any other contract, except that it con
tains the clause Vtibject to the exigen
cies of public service," which means, of
course, that if congress is in session
at that time, I am not compelled to
lecture. So I could not be with you on
that day without bringing on a law
suit, which would certainly go against
me." '
All the
Argus.
news all tjae time The
TWO
DAYS
Friday and
Saturday
To Take Your
Pick of
S X V
Price V )
at S1.50 Jy
at $1.75 I
at $2.00 7&?s4
All Men
Oxfords
S3 OO Grades
$3.50 Grades
$4.00 Grades
$4.50 Grades at $2.25
Florsheim$5 Grades $2.50
Edwin Clapp$6.50at$4.95
BOTH WANT TO BUY BEER;
A FIGHT IS THE RESULT
Cyril DeGruyse was fined $5 by
Magistrate Cartwright In East Mo
line Tuesday for assault and battery.
The victim was Charles Cercuyies.
From the evidence it seems a quarrel
arose over which one of the two
should pay for drinks purchased in
an East Moline saloon. Both wanted
to liquidate and finally blows were
resorted to, Cercuyies getting much
the worst of the encounter and swear
ing out a warrant.
CHICAGO TEAM TO PLAY
BALL AT SILVIS SUNDAY
Silvis shop men will clash on the
diamond at East Moline Sunday with
a team from the accounting department
of the road at. Chicago. The Chicago
ans are among the leaders in the Mer
chants' league of the windy city, while
Silvis is tied for the lead of the lxcal
Factory league, and an interesting
contest is expected.
Falls From Engine.
G. O. Slocum, engineer on the Rock
Island, was painfully bruised in at
tempting to board an engine in th.
yards at Thirty-first, street, Rock Ifc.
land, Tuesday evening. He had b-n
called to Silvis to take out a train
and attempted to catch an engine
headed east, but miscalculated the dis
tance and was thrown. He waa iable
to go on to Silvis, where he was treat
ed by a physician.
Assaults Accuser; Fined.
Harley Kay was fined $5.05 by
Justice Entrikin on complaint of
George Khekowica, who charged as
sault and battery. He claimed , he
missed his watch after talking to Kay
in a saloon and when he asked about
it he was given a beating. Kay claims
that his accuser was intoxicated and
his watch was taken from him in the
saloon for a joke and later returned
to bim.
City Pays Judgment.
An order has been given by the
city commission for the payment of
$1,588.13, judgment, interest and costs
in the damage suit of Mrs. Elizabeth
Harding against the city: This case
was fought by the city and carried to
the supreme court following an ad
verse derision in the circuit court two
yeasr apo
'Want Avenue Opened.
Residents in the vicinity of Twenti
eth at jnue from Nineteenth to Twenty-
first etreet have petitioned the city
commission to open that thoroughfare
at the point named. The petition waa
referred to Commissioner Anderson.
Lands Big Contract
3
Paul H. U Lorenz of this Jry has
secured a subcontract from the E.
Jackson Case company, whicU has the
general contract for the e- ection of
a building for the First National bank
at Havana, 111. The buildi: g will cost
$53,000 and Mr. Lorens till receive
$30,000 for his part of te work.
Tuberculosis Is Fatal.
Lloyd Daley, 4-year-old son of Mr.
and Mrs. John Daley, colored, died
yesterday at the home. 1418 Sixteenth
avenue, of tuberculosis. Besides the
parents, two brothers survive.
THE BANKING HABIT
We want every man, woman and child in this community to acquire tne
habit of keeping a personal savings account.
Your income may be limited and your savings comparatively small, but
that is no good reason for delay whe n a savings account may be started
with a deposit of $1.00.
Open Saturday evening front 7:00 to 8:00 o'clock.
SNAKES AS THEY FEED.
When They Start Swallowing They
Never Knew When to Stop.
The swallowing process is a serious
matter for any serpent, which must
draw itself painfully over its prey by
bitching its jaws, armed with back
ward curving teeth, forward, on one
side and then the other, and by simi
lar movements of the neck, ribs and
skin, until the whole mass has finally
reached tho prolonged stomach. The
snake's jaws are attached to the skull,
and the bones of the head and neck
are. connected, .by laflc ligaments
Why Not Wire Your House
and be up-to-date like your neighbors. Telephone West 1356 and
we will tell you what it will cost to install the electrical wiring in
your residence. Do not let your wiring contract until yo-i have seen
us.
Y.'c guarantee our electrical wiring to he absolutely fireproof.
Illinois Contracting Electrical Co.
308 Twentieth StJr-ct, Rock Island, III.
RTIN McNEALY, Mgr.