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THE ROCK ISLAND ARGUS MONDAY, AI'KIL 0, I9R 'CHORUS SINGS TO ( ADVERTISEMENT.) VACCINATION FOR FEVER INDORSED Illinois Board of Health Will Furnish Typhoid Preventive to All Free ot Cost. SAYS SHE'LL NOT REVED FIRST LOVE LARGE AUDIENCES Augustana College Club Enter tains 1,300 at Joliet Armory for Church Benefit. Y'f r " v" r-" 1 i ( I i i f ARMY PROVES EFFICACY Distribution Is Ordered Made Through Antitoxen Agent of the State in Every County. SprinjsflelJ. 111.. April 6. Vaccina tion against typhoid fever has been in dorsed by the state board of health, which will furnsh the vaccine free of charge. The distribution Is being made through the antitoxin agent of the board In every county eat and the ten agents in Took county. It can be obtained by anv physician upon the delivery to the ant of a recetpt stat in to whom it is to be administered. Kast treatment consists of three dowes at Intervals of t-n days, the firt dose containing 5uO.0DO.ttOO killed bacteria and the ther l.ooo.ooo each. Each dose is put up in a glass syringe with a sterilised needle. Its efficiency in illustrated by the manner in which It has exterminated typhoid fever from the I'nited States army. There was not a single typhoid case either in the United States army or the insular forces in 1913. In 1&09 thre were 173 case In the army, with sixteen dt-aths: In 1910. US 'cares with ten deaths; in 1911 sixty nine cases with nine deaths; In 1912, twenty-seven cases with four deaths. The successful use of vaccine has : been demonstrated also by the French military authorities. In 1911 there were $33 and in 1912 . 774 deaths from typhoid fever In 1111 . nois. There Is no reason to believe ' that, with the same general use of vaccine, and the observance of essen- tial sanitary measures, the ratio of de crease of cases in the state will not be the same as reported In the I'nited States and French armies. "While Impure water Is often the -ause of an outbreak of typhoid fever, contaminated foods are also a cause." says a statement issued by the board of health. IT tit--' Finds Stab Wound in Heart. Kewanee. 111.. April 6. The body of an unidentified man. believed to have been a traveling union plumber, was found beside the Burlington tracks yesterday. The body was mangled by a train that passed during the fore iiocn. At a coroner's inquest It was discovered the victim had been stab bed in the heart, and police believe It is a case of murder. The coroner's jury adjourned to let the police make n investigation. The man was well dressed. Willi clean-cut features, and the address of E. C. McCoy. 414 No. Fourth street. Quincy. III., was found in a plumber's notebook. The coro ner Is unable to find any witnesses. Miss Rosebud English. Nashville. Ga.. April 6. Miss Hose bud English, who was first the wife of A. D. 'Oliver and then married Clar ence James without getting a divorce, believing Oliver to have another wife. says that she won't go back to Oliver even if it is true, as the Mississippi courts have held, that Oliver wan never married to anyone but her. The case is rather tangled and Miss English would be glad to know for sure whether she Is married or uoi. i ue uegrsm couns nave neia me Eastern Stars had their regu mat sue isnt; the Mississippi courts for meeting at the Masonic hall last have handed down a decision by i Tuesday evening when four new mem-! w hich it would appear that she is. I hers were initiated. The new mom Hut anyway. Miss English says that j bers are Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hartline Joliet. April 6. Greeted everywhere by large and enthusiastic audiences, the YVennerbcrg chorus of Augustana college is having one of the most suc cessful tours in Its history. At Rock- ford Wednesday night an audience of 1200 people heard the concert In the First Swedish church, among them many alumni of Augustana. It was the first concert by outside talent given In the main auditorium of the church In 18 years. In commenting on this fact. Rev. J. F. Seedoff praised the work of the chorus highly, and stated that if the Wenuerberg chorus ever desires a re turn engagement, it may sing in his church any time. The largest audience that has as sembled in the Armory hall of PeKalb In many years welcomed the chorus at that place Friday night. The concert was held under the auspices of the Swedish Lutheran church for the bene fit of tiie building fund. The members of Itev. Fahlund's church are working for a new church edilice. and $27,000 has already been subscribed by the con gregation for the undertaking. It was estimated that more than 1300 people heard the concert, and the chorus was given an enthusiastic ovation. "Den Store Hvide Flok" by Grieg was rendered in response to a special request by members of the Northern Illinois state normal faculty, who de sired to hear the composition sung in the original Norwegian. Musical crit ics give the work of the c'.iorus under Prof. Hergqulst's direction the warm est praise .and declare that the Wen- nerberg Is far above the average col lege glee club. :siini(dl: WD ass E 66Rsl "Where is the money coming from to pay the increase in taxes in the event of Rock Island going dry?" is a question which is being daily asked. SILVIS II HAWKINS RELEASED AND WILL SUPPORT FAMILY Joseph Hawkins, former resident of Campbell's Island, arrested at Bloom fngton charged with wife and child abandonment, and returned to this city, was arraigned in county court before Judge B. S. Bell and later re leased on 9500 bond on his promise to support his family. Hawkins told the court he would pay $3.50 weekly toward the mainten ance of the family. she won t go back to Oliver, no mat ter what his matrimonial status mav be. "Some years ago Oliver came to Climax. Ga.. and held himself out as la 'business giant.'" declared Miss English in a recent newspaper state- I ment. "He told n:e at that time that he was worth five million dollars and represented to me many other flattering statements of himself and his business ability. He told me of his love for me and how- he would always care for me if I would marry him. I was only fifteen years old and was In Young's Female college, at Thomasville. I left school to get married to this man, not realizing just what I was doing. "In about two months after we were married It developed that this man was a failure in business, as It was then stated. He was Immediate ly arrested and placed in jail at Bainbridge. Ga. Later it developed i and Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Neill, the former of Silvis and tli9 latter of Wa tertown. A large number attended the services of installation. There was- a very interesting meet ing of the W. C. T. V. at the home of Mrs. A. C. Hanson last Monday aft-! ernoon. The ladies will next meet with Mrs. Loyal M. Thompson. Mrs. Harry Hill visited relatives at Perry. Iowa, last week. The members and friends of the Memorial "Methodist church met at the home of Mrs. Bert Beerbower last Thursday afternoon. It was a pleas ant and profitable meeting. Mrs. George McKinley has recover ed from a recent illness. Miss Florence O'Melia was married to Olin P. Beals last Monday in Chi cago. They will return to Silvis to make their home. Mrs. H. W. Hill has been sick the past week. The Memorial Methodist Ladies' Vote the Saloons Out of Business IF you want higher taxes. IF you want to Imperil public improve ments. IF you want empty houses and store buildings. IF you want your money to go to Dav enport, East Moline, and Moline. IF j-ou want skilled labor to seek freer fields. IF you want to frighten away capital, contemplating investment and de pendent upon liberty-loving labor. IF you want a dead town. IF you want Rock Island to fall be hind in the procession. IF you want "speak-easies"without the license revenue. IF you want "searches and seizures" to locate "blind pigs" and "holes in the wall." IF you want your townsmen to be-' come educated liars to dodge the "speak-easy" prosecutions. IF you want to encourage hypocrisy. IF you want to favor moral dishonesty. IF you want to prove that prohibition does not prohibit. IF you want to lessen respect for the law. IF you want to be deluded as to the value of the law in temperance re form work. IF you want sumptuary legislation and are willing that the other fellow may regulate your food and cloth ing. IF you want to stigmatise the worthy men of prosperity and of good standing in the liquor business. m m t Can any moral uplift ever be really accomplished that does not embrace a doing away with the root of the evil? There can be no question but that this must be answered in the negative. The individual must be educated to realize that abstinence from the evil is for his own personal good, in order that the moral uplift be genuine. This the local option law does not do. Government statistics show that in spite of the nation wide support of local option, there is more wine, liquor and beer consumed'than ever before. So long as a person can acquire the appetite, just so long'will he satisfy that craving and if he can't do it lawfully, the chances are largely in favor of his finding a way to circumvent the law. Then is the moment that that person's moral self begins to go downward. He soon makes himself believe that the laws are not for him to obey and as a consequence his whole aspect of right living has been changed. When we allow such a state of mind to grow in Rock Island we are starting backward, for disregard for one law means disregard for all laws, if they do not please us. In order that this great county of ours shall prosper, we must feel that our laws were made for us personally and that it is our duty to obey them. that he was w anted in Mississippi as j Aid society w ill give an Easter bazaar an ex-convict." (Thursday. April 2. Supper will be Miss English says that when the i served after the sale of fancv wnrw i-onviciea Georgia courts when Oliver 83 j A. F. Otto has sold out his drug store Where Disease Lurks. the X antenna fly Z hae long, feathery i used In gather . ing minute particle of food. In th and th stiff hair on th body lurk th dis- j eaae gtrmi that th nous fly 2 praad avarywhar h goe. -j a Digamist, sue thought It unneces-! nn.i mmH p0ri. sary to go through the form of get-i Mr. and Mrs Jnhn'k'vto .r r,. j ents of a daughter who arrived, i Wednesday. F. Shannon returned home from Chl- tlng a divorce and married James. j She also says that she was divorced irom james Deiore uie Mississippi courts found that Oliver was not a bigamist. As to whether she Is now a single or a married lady she does not. in her statement, venture decld ed opinion. cago last week. A Municipal League of Hock Island County Do Your Duty and Vote "NO 11 IE 21 -! ..UW Ulysses Bell very delightfully enter- Meeker From Missouri. Hear Meeker expose some of the local prohibitionists tonight at the Illinois theatre. 7:45. Metropolitan quartet will sing. (Adv.) Don't Forget To vote for the old soldier, the Inde pendent candidate for township col lector. W. II. Carpenter. (Adv.) Mrs. Kinsley of Whining U visiting tained the members and friends of the relatives In Silvis. Kensington Embroidery club. One Miss Finch of Seattle. Wash., is new member was admitted to the club visiting friends here this week. after some time spent in chatting and A Taste Of Health Is Sweet And some folks use it toward mone yand fame. Are you eating right for health? Grape-Nuts FOOD is delicious with cream; easy to dgest in fact, part ially pre-digested ; and perfect in nourishment. It contains all the nutrtion of wheat an dbarley in. eluding the vital mineral salts (phosphate of potash, etc, )in just the right proportion as grown in the grans. A regular ration of Grape-Nuts in place of rich, greasy ,indigestble food generally shows a definite gain. Doubt it? Have a try! "There's a Reason" for Grape-Nuts sold by Grocers everywhere. School will close next week for the Bprlng vacation. Dr. K. X. Johnson Is In Chicago at tending the dentists' convention. Mrs. Mary Phelps Is 111. Arlino Thorp is quite 111 as the re sult of falling against the stairs. While playing she became dizzy and cut and bruised her head quite badly. Rudolph Watklns Is ill with the small pox. James GIbblns Is expected home from a visit at Cedar Itapids, Iowa, Wednesday. - Willie Peterson and sister, Ada, re turned home from a visit at Denver, Colo., with their uncle, James McGin- nis. Mrs. Andrew Tubba Is quite HI. C. Clark Is visiting relatives In In diana. Mrs. C. Watklns Is 111. Mr. and Mrs. Morton Purnell were visiting relatives in Joslin and vicin ity last week.- Mr. and Mrs. W. It. Cowles have ar rived home from a brief visit at Fair bury. HI. Xext Tuesday afternoon the mem ber of the Crescent Reading and Em broidery club will be entertained at the home of Mrs. James Shannon when Mrs. Harry Hockmaa will give a reading. Mrs. Ulysses Bell entertained the Pioneer Birthday club at her home on Fourteenth street last Monday afternoon. j. i. cariey or .waicoim. Iowa, was looking after his property Interests here last week. Mrs. A. Huut Is ill, threatened with pneumonia. Miss Edna Ranson and brother and sister of Sherrard visited relatives here last Tuesday. Joe Jones and brother of East Mo line have purchased the Pottigcr res- tauruiit. .Mr. Heed and family have departed for their new home In Oregon. Mrs. Jess!e Brown and son, Hollie, of Osborne, 111., vi.slted relatives nnd friends here last Friday. O. Kline is sick. Henry Johnson Is 111 and unable to attend to his duties in his grocery store. Last embroidering a delightful repast was served. The club will next meet with Mrs. Charles Schmidt. Mr. and Mrs. Chapman are the par ents of a little daughter who arrived Wednesday morning. Last Wednesday afternoon the home of Mrs. Charles Frew was the scene of a very pleasant social gathering when a number of her lady friends were in vited to a farewell party in honor of Mrs. A. F. Otto who departed for her future home at Peoria. H. S. Silvis Is very ill at his home on Fourteenth street. His son. Sharp Silvis, and wife or Wagner, South Da kota, are with hint. II SHERRARD I -4 Wednesday afternoon Mrs. William Miller returned home Sat urday from Peoria where he went as a de'egate to the subdistrlct convention of the United Workers. He returned to Peoria Monday. Mr. and Mrs. William Haddlck went to Rock Island Tuesday, where Mrs. Haddlck submitted to an operation. Mr. and Mrs. E. IL Haddlck and son who have been residents of Montana the last 7 years, visited with Mr. Had dick's father in Cable last week. They Intend to make their home In Rock Island hereafter. Fred Simpson was badly bruised by a falling rock at the mines. Mr. and Mrs. Robert McWhorter of Peoria came Tuesday to visit Mrs. Mc Whorter's mother Mrs. James Dodd, and Mr. Wliorter's sister. Mrs. Jthn Hodges. H. H. Worthington went to Colfax last week. James Gibson returned to Marshal town, Iowa. Saturday after a few days' visit with his parents Mr. and Mrs. William Gibson. Mrs. Ray McFadyen and child ren i are visiting her parents Mr. and Mrs.! Di liate In Minnesota. Lester Bloom of LnSalle visited his p.'.rents. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Bloom last weel:. Miss Delia Andersou of Rock Inland visited her parents Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Lnnham last week. MIa Aguos Rhode haa returned to school at Macomb after a week's va cation with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Henry Rhode. Mr. and Mrs. Camblin of South Rock Island visited at the home of Mrs. Mary Wilson last week. Mr. Hobart has returned to the home of his daughter, Mrs. Elmer Laity, after a five months stay in Rock Island. Albert Davison of Danville came Wednesday for a visit with his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Davison. Mrs. Gurney Farrow of East Moline visited her daughter Mrs. Sam Langs- ton last week. Mr. and Mrs. Amil Mueller have re turned to Sherrard. Mr. Mueller has gone into the restaurant business hav ing bought out Stephen Frego. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lee, Mr. and Mrs. George Lee and Glenn Ouain- jtance attended the funeral of Frank Lee at East Moline last week. Mr. and Mrs. David Engholm of Mo line visited Mrs. Engholm s parents Mr. and Mrs. S. F. Greer Inst week. Mrs. Vance Sherrard returned home Friday from Osco where she had been visiting her sister Mrs. William Stev enson. Olin P. Beal of Silvis and Miss Flor ence O'Mealia of Silvis. oldest daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. John O'Mealia of: bherrard. who has been assistant post mistress at Silvis the last six months, were married In Chicago March 23. The bride wore a blue serge travling suit. From Chicago Mr. and Mrs. Beal went to Iowa City and visited till Wednesday with Mr. Beal's parents. They returned to Rock Island Wed nesday, came to Sherrard Thursday and visited the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. John O'Melia. They returned to Silvis Friday where they will make their home. The groom is a brakeman on the Iowa division. NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS! Bids will be received at the mayor's office 9 a. m. April 15, 1914. for paving of Forty-sixth street with brick from Railroad avenue to Seventh avenue. (Adv.) II. M. SCHRIVER, Mayor. Hear Meeker Tonight. Rock Island never heard Meeker. He is at tha Illinois theatre tonight at 7:45. If you want a seat be there oa time. (Adv.) MAKE HOUSE CLEANING EASY By having your carpets cleaned on the floor, with our MODEL POWER VACUUM AIR CLEANING SYS TEM the finest carpets cleaned without injury; also garages, base ments and outbuildings whitewash ed with our compressed air spray ing system. R. H. GRIFFE & BR0. Phone R. I. 2146 1136 Second Ave. HOT Cross Buns for Thursday, Friday AND Saturday OrJer them from Yonf Grocer H. Korn Baking Co. HOT BUNS (Advertisement ) SPECIMEN PROPOSITION BALLOT To Be Voted Tuesday, April 7 Shall this Township become YES Anti-Saloon Territory? jq Be Sure and Mark Cross Opposite "NO" By voting: "NO" you preserve the business interests of Rock Island County and as sist in making: this city a greater industrial community. Municipal League of Rock Island County