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0 r THE ROCK ISLAND 1 ! ATtGXTS . mXDAY, OCTOBKR 26. 191 i. j3TjGT; S;-3v; ) (f ffkzr'f vs n s j stn ps vs r7 -t "v 5; v t-;.-... i 7 :- :rr'' 3T '-y H Oi TTl iii, 7 i-ilT-i i I l l i IT iITT s.' J.-.JC .. . Sr .ft' .S' .'.; Vt- .-. . s ,ssr fr- 4P --v Opportunity is Knocking at Your Door, Inviting You to Come and Take AdvantageofThisSale 1 "j;. , 1 th, is the opening day of the greatest event in the history of Rock Island. It vvill be a day when you can N combine pleasure and business. Come and make your visit a pleasant and profitable one. Come to this store and take advantage !of the special bargains that are here for you. YOU CAN ALWAYS GET A BARGAIN HERE. Bill THE SPECIAL BARGAINS WE OFFEil F01 WIS DAY MAY NOT LAST LONG, SO COME EARLy s. This sale is so complete 'J ly out of the ordinary that we advise you to the extra special offered this Inaugural Day. come early while the new sizes are stood, on For the Men One big lot of men's dull leather and vici.kid shoes, in button and bluchcr style, built on the new lasts. Regular 2.50 value, for the opening "Q Cr$k day will sell them at fl OrS? One big lot of men's work shoes, in all sizes, with good heavy soles, worth 2.00 a pair. yQ Our price on these is B 3"5 With every pair of men's shoes at 3.50 or over we will give, free, a pair of rubbers on the opening day. With every pair of men's 2.45, and 3.00 shoes we will give free one set of Kitno Shining Outfit. A Big S 1 .00 Special for This Day One big lot of men's, wo men's, misses' and boys shoes and slippers. This lt consists of regular 1. 25 to 2.50 values. Your choice per pai rfor this inaugural day Everything you buy from us we guarantee, no mat ter how much you pay you never lose. For the Ladies I Our big lot of ladies' shoes in patent and dull leath er, with military and low heels, made over the new lasts and a 2.50 value which we offer for thefl opening da)- of the block at S vJ?r s.oo Our ladies' 2.45 shoes, which are known all over Rock Island county, really need no introduction, come in patent colt, dull leather and vici kid, with dull leath er and cloth tops. Button and blucher style, Cuban and low heels and built over the newest lasts. Try a pair of these shoes, then you will wonder why you ever paid more. It's a M big value at The new "Baby Doll" last shoes for ladies, in dull , and patent colt, dull leather and cloth tops, with the new low heels, two big . values at 3.00 and A pair of Rubbers Free with every pair of ladies' j.oo shoes or over. You who have never visited this store before, we ask you to come this day. Then you will understand why your neighbors and friends came here. Always a big saving. We Are in the 1800 Block or The Block of Values ! SMMi S QW j Harper House Block "The Store That Saves You Mcrey On Your Shoes" oe Rock Island, 111. Ai s? &&s . .4. f. -r. SIDELIGHTS ON European War 1 c ' n.hat flour 4s felt in Holland. At' a meting last Saturday the bikers of : Vflstn decided to bake rye bread only. Th- Netherlands produce ver little ' heat, rye and barley being the prln Iciral cereal crops. Due to the fact that during the last four weeks no lheat has been imported, owing to the i rizorous enforcement of the cor.tra ; band by the British and French cruls eis. the supply of wheat is nearly ex hausted. C hristiana. Oct. -26. The Norwegian povf rnment has received from Count ToI:oi. mayor of Petrczrad. a com- GERMANS SURPRISE FRENCH IN FOREST; KILL WHOLE REGIMENT Loaior.. Ort. 26 ( rorrer-pondrr'e o: The Associated Press. The boycott of German and Aus'rian muf iciar.s. Tf employed lo the detriment r-f Kne!is!i musicians, has been approved a, a meeting of the Lcndon rnusicisns. ovrr which Sir Fredrick Cow en pres!ded. A ccmn".it;ee compr.-ed of the chair man. .Sir Edw ard fcT.gr. Kdw ard ilr-i munication in w hich, on behalf of the man. LaLdon Rosald. Sidney Jones. , Rtjp.sjaa people, he expresses gratitude Hubert Ea.t'n. Fred James and Gil-1 for t;1P kindness which Norwegians K.. Tl'.KK r .nnninlBH in .irilll3riZA i l I . 11 .. . I n n i.rln. t Vl I 1 - ' I-. -. oyj.yiu. j . - nave p:io 11 iu ivutsiAnn "ji 1 r . ' j ice Lro:-.-ion on tr.is suc-jeci. ; r.i:ap of the latter through mis While Engiir-h musicians phouid not ."country, taboo g-C'Od rr.uiic from whatever London, Oct. 26 (Corrmpandence of ource i: comes. Sir Fredritk Cow. en j lnfl Associated Press. The call fo declared, they rrutt reeoc.iize the fact' contributions of Jam. w n'ch la made by tftat foreign muslciar.s had for many j certajn British w-ar relief societies years usurped the places which could ' jjac-Ke(j by f:e press, may lead Btrang be Cid by equally comp"'ent British-! prs fo i,e'iieve that Tommy Atkins is 'M- ! Cue most pampered of fighting men. "It i r.r,l a jurstj0n of animus.- he j h, , . tru 6nce ln j,,rd It i a ouevtlon of our being able i ....,. -i-n 1RS4 nroved neres- Millions laid loccrr.e into cur own. I The t-revailing cpinicr. was that the pti2n au ar-' preventive ci scurfy. l.A. 1. n. I . n... n liivMfV hilt A aro'ir d an r-jcpptional opportunity 1 ,js of Jam w.re coi.hu 5pJ,:"r:ih I?" 'J, f'Tlthe British trocps in the Bo away Frrucx-Russian ar.O I'.al- a -L . t. Vou Ka j w ell fcupplied wlt'i H In t I f orr--':Por. dc ncr . . ! ; campaign. for !n Cir.pr-t .TfTf-. Lri.rl 'irr. 2C, I of The As-f ociat-il Pr-Fs. - Snoc niak r Vcgt. b"fT known as t!i- "i-aptain of Ko'-r r If k." his err fen ntv-n a chacc-- to ah-urr."- a i.ni'.i'ury r'". He work'r.e in the local military bhoe factory, m :ier he ! IwkH upon as a most jr' lent orkrr;an leveru! vears a" when, dressed as pounds of salt. 80.0fo rounas or coi aiials ,f the o-rxan army, he took .' and 4'-.f.i;f pounds of tea. 4'.'' charge ,,r the bunrf.ma iier'a cilice at gn'.'.cns of rum. 64 00 bottles of port Koen-Rick. ar. ir. ii-nt v. hi h for a. and 14.0'K bottles of whisky, and 2. long t.r..f wes reruen-.bred by thei ).,ii t.ns of jam of one pound each. Cemar: r.-ihMc a. a clfT satire upon, Among tho miscellaneous O'rirHn rr:il.tarv and o't'.'-ial life. The British soldier Is the best fed in Kurope- A force of 200.000 men !s given four months' rations cu thM tcale: 24.00O 0'j pounds of hard bread. 18.000.O00 pounds of beef. 1.600.- ('( pounds of compressed vegetaDies notoriety I 720.O00 tins of condensed milk, fcoo.ooo Mi l.f 1.2. ,. stores used at the fr( nt are tons of alum for purifying water, chloride of lime and cr-rbol't arid powder disinfectants. la. cats and bran ere also furnished on a generous scale for the horses A really gruesome plioto is this showing an entire regiment of French infantry which was surprised In the forest of Mesnel and completely annihilated by the Germans. Note tha at over the head of each soldier a white cloth has been placed. go to school and that everything pro gresses more or less in the regular channels. I am compelled to say Lor c"' o Oct. 2t iCorr'-FDOPdence of Ti; V .'.Hated presOMe-pages from t';.- front iaint: that tobacco i liko golr; fjust to the s'.di'-r has so to'jr-i 1 ?.. sympathy of hmokers ti:at : j,nd mules, mall !'i irr i.f,r,tlr,i.nl t no.' f.lled v. ith i ciga." :; ... pipes and plug cut. Socie-: Tl;e Hague. (Correspondence of try has been spared. You ought to see t'' ar- fori.-ied f r iii- col.f rticn of The Assjciated Press.) The traK'a-v ! the disorder here. Tue countryside is loo'", in it, vario'is forms a:id boxes r war is piciureu iu i...- ,,.,.-.. w.,h troou, there is no notliing because we had to conceal our positio i. "Tiiere is one picture I will never On September first we shot nraver of Uianksgiving that our coun-l . . . ... i - - - clown a patrol oi cuassours; two in " A-ki: ''T.- to d ... A ; t .. . l . ' ATi- f.-'-vT.t!y i;rp.'r.g !.:m not ( this morning: Ti'fe Foriet! want the I who were in cover were taken prison cis. When the skirmish was over I went witli one of the chasseurs to wheia the oflicer in charge of the pa trol had fallen. "I saw immediately that the man had died from a shot through the heart. But tho chasseur who accompanied nie. auu who evidently was very fond of the oflicer, asked me, wiih great concern . ... , . A . . ll...if i nn rif U'nli'll An or i n rontnrja.lor.s are n-wr nuun- uaaariuKu mo,. . .... . .,ni i r,:, .ote, de,l:, a.d Hub tah.es ared in ,he Cologne Oa.ette of re .dm U" fr,"J"""" d ' -T woman in who,, house I an, Up,, are irresolute and dented ... -r ..a .h,- liu.band in in1 "It Is now eight days bince the flght- i.u a.ifiiii' are uhiii j ........ j , n v.. - , , , t.-.,,r. ,,r . 1 lr:,p.rare..!e field." he writes, "lo,,. me m .ear., . ,,.,,,.... i!s morning: . L. " , .i,,i, ni ' . & j i.. : in fii rnn nuL 10 iikiii 111 uir ""v- ir.ea , vclur.teer to -fo v. hat was rn:.le , nc, know where '''" .. the deep dark forest -is awful. "-Dees by officer live?' - ccn.pu:r.r- in ,! Itus-lan army by the; -The woman and her far,, I do not , In J P na .., ,.ho(,k my t.ad. s.ljinR: Zir-, a,.! vodka d,, .e'. i,ae wrll-v.-n know in v ,h ri'nen t he man The n--"n f 11 .. ,,p js dead . .. know,, A..K,.!;,an Ur.iicp lies akod t:..; serves. That is terrible! The woman e rated u ,f.s hrouin ,he ..And a very touching thin oc rr-r. to ,,edg. .1,, .. Tr'urnS.o t C We dTd noieven know most of currrd. The ,o,d.er fell to his knees fr..m drinking even beer or light v. Lies h' -n killed. I tried to console her toy fr()m I bt(1 (,Pud ,)1Iu.Pr Htld pravPd for --he..!, they nay know the water tf ullg ,!er na' many . u ... ... i ,mrriM,hl, , ,-..., ,,e Pre. 'a long time. A gripping picture. On J to be poll-ited. The bishop hinse'r prisoners of war. Ana n. ..- morning we saw the French i lie grrund. in a flood of fiiiiligh!. lay-the women distracted by failure to get U i.ot Joining ti.e exp. -d'tionary force, fastened every hope .upon "'J"... lcook their breakfast, but we could do four dead horses. My mea blood auou- news of their relatives and are con Aanerdam. Oct. K (Correspond- hen I near that ax uom . them in a ring, and in this circle rest ed the dead oflicer with the private praying at his side. We were silent the silence of de'ath was upon us; but through it we heard the steps of death. who may gather us tomorrow. "I, too, said a prayer for the brave enemy, the dead comrade Lieutenant of Reserve Gastcn Forgues of Bor deaux." London. (Correspondence of the Associated Pn ss.) London has pro duced the meanest crowd of swindlers on record since the English troops got into the fighting line in France. Kveiy day the London papers are filled with appeals from the wives, mothers and sisters of missing officers, seeking informatics as to their fate. Hundreds of officers are not accounted for w ho are not, kuown to be dead. Swindlers have taken advantage of , stantly preying oa them. Tho mother of a voung officer who has not been heard from since the bat tle of Mons was recently approached by the swindler who represented him self as a valet and said he had seen the missing officer in Brussels and ex pected to return there the next day. The swindler was short of cash through the failure to get a remittance and asked for money which he would promptly return upon his arrival at Brussels. The money was rupplied and letters to the missing son were en trusted to the sympathetic courier who never was heard of again. These men have even represented that they saw- wounded officers in cer tain hospitals near the fighting zone and have delivered fictitious requests for funds to supply delicacies to the injured. Paris, (Correspondence of the Asso ciated Press) The American embas sy, under its obligations to represent German and Austrian interests in France, is looking after about 80,000 persons who are detained as alien en emies in eleven localities in France. These were Germans and Austrians living in the country at the outbreak of the war. The French government provided special trains going to neu tral frontiers for two days after Vios- tilltles had begun, and all those rs-1 rr.aining within France after those j days w ere obliged to report them- j selves to the police and .so to those! towns in trance to which they were assigned. The state department at Washing ton has attached H. Percival Dodge, icrmerly minister to Panama, to tht embassy here as special agent to have charge of German and Austrian I affairs. The third floor of the embas-j sy office building Is taken entirely for this work and a considerable staff of secretaries and interpreters are at ! work. . j The reason that France .'aolds S0.00O J civiliens as prisoners of war appears , to be as hostages fcr the proper treat-; msnt cf French citizens who are sim- ilarly held in Germany and Austria, and to have in hand a means of re-,' prisal should there be any ill treat-1 men', of French soldiers captured by , German or Austrian armies. T'ae most) d:stinguihed priscner is pro'oabl ' Count Pejacsewich, member of the!) Hungarian cabinet fcr Croatia, Slav-; onla and Dalmatia. He happened to be at Vichy takinj a cure when the war began. He is allowed to remain in his hotel and has entire freedom of movement within the town. A good : many hundreds cf German and Am-' trian subjects have been allowed to! remain where they were, in each be-' cause of speeial reasons; other hun dreds upon the representation oT tho American ICmbassy have been allowed to leave the country. In each case also, for several reasons, usually taose of ; ill health. Bi-t there are sti'! about' 80.0,10 who bid to go to the detention1 camps. These are usually in barracks ' formerly occupied by troops. There i3 a good deal of crowding and the food is probably about what French, soldiers receive. There appears to be every intention on the part of the French government to treat these In voluntary hostages as well as they can under the necessities of war. There is in France a great deal of suffering among French people. It is likely that millions are less well fed than the German and Austrian prisoners. Nev. ertheless these prisoners, being forced to live away from their own homes, find IKe difficult and full of Inconven iences. They are allowed to receive money and spend it as they please. They also write and receive letters freely except that they are all read bjj censors. Switzerland has undertaken to con duct the exchanges of prisoners, and among the first that are being ex changed are French people caught In Germany and Austria by the war, and Germans and Austrians detained u France. Germans and Austrians are taken by French police to the Swiss border and turned over there to Swiss agents, who In turn transfer French citizens to the French representatives. All New Englanders must admire the whole-souled character of Maine Yankees, and it now appears that they have a sense of humor as well as other humane qualities. The other day a hackman of Kennebec found this order written on his slate: "Joe Send hacks and wagons in time to carry the foi'owing to the Bar Harbor train: One wife, two nurses, three servants, four children, five trunks, four valises, three grips, two bundles, one me (out side preferred)." The New White Cafe and Dairy Lunch , Rock Island's newes M. . St and most up-to-the-mn- nte eating place. Our v 'and sanitary conditions prevail in our kitchen. We Feed Them All for 2 sc. 0