The Rock Island Argus from Rock Island, Illinois • 42

0 4 0 1 0 John T. CarsrtIl. Island IS Leslie Dailey, 23, 811 Sixth ave- llioiric'ii. 22 Thirty-tire rsfnbers of tbe Black Hawk Hiking, club return from 1.127 rlle Journey Tfcrraas J. Q'SIarron, fonsrRsck Island grocer, sentenced on a charge of areon, was taken to Jaliet penitentiary for a term J3 Fire caused dsniase of 200 at borne cf John Lutx, 62S Eighth street.

24 Rev. Karl Nilssoa. pastor of the First Swedish Lutheran church, resigns to take up work at Varna, HI. 21 City council passes ordla--- for 35 blocks of cr-im walk to cost $1UC0 in west of Eighth strrtv I 23 Rock Island merchanti stores it -noon to atu t.i 'Rock IsUrld county fair ja tin. nue.

creman on a uurjicgron engine, lost bis left leg when an air chamber exploded. Modern Woodmen vote $2,500 for relief ef'tnenrbers in Cool area in Illinois, Kansas and Texas. 17 Barn, valued vat $509 and owned byJHeory Winrod, 612 Seventh itreet, destroyed by fire. Charles Ehontz, alias Eddis Mur 24 Tbe temperature was fl? the hottest day of the year i the hottest Aug. 24 for 0 I 25 Price of coal In Rock UV was announced at $10.60 a cafohlnwr trilled through Illinois, MUsourl and Iowa.

23 WillSaia McCrelllas, r-l X4. nearly drowned near the ferry landing at Eighteenth, street, when he attempted fb rescue the body of Marguerite. Orran, negro girl, whose body bad been in tbe water several days. Auto containing Mrs. Allen Zim merman and eon, Harold Montgomery, 1308 Fourteenth street, struck, by a train on Vandruff's island and hurled 30 feet down an' embankment Mrs.

Zimmerman' died a week later. 25 Ben Schumeister, f5, slashed his wife's throat with a razor and then cut his own wrists; and throat, ih his apart-; ments, 6212 Twenty-second stret, when be became enraged at her. Both recovered. illle at I resumed work ia central v-nois. 29 Fires occurring at the- of Eylvia Panicked.

2200 owned by Harry Kau, i -ioss or $2:00., 31 Thieves enter house of FYf-i 111,,.. nnt rr iweniiAin and spend the night while Mixter family is out of the 'r 5 C' 7 JlSt i 13 ed ks lome je li: avo 29 "Big Ben" Quintano, 40, klng'r 2 Rock Island Brewery comry truck driven by Herman 1. fel, Davenport, crashed into Fourth avenue street Fifth ixnno rr i-lCni endl Ion; bon a ver ight! street. 3 Rev. i.

B. Howard assumes ii-' ties as pastor of the Clelail Presbyterian church. A gang of six youths attacked J.i beat up Julfus Turkpr ratioi Twenty-third street, when ht go left a Bridge lina car at tL. Ihe.n til IwskeEls' ITcBlripal Conscience Parallels JJevtlcnient of Life, MIHOUCH tie routine daily r- daily happenings ia Hock I-jdul during lb 23 was woven a pattern cf community revival and progress. An awakening of civic conscience was reflected ia tile strengthening cf-civic confidence, evidenced ia broadening commercial develop-, ient and the erection of majniri- cent fcomes in all parts of the city.

Scores of enterprises established modern plants and work is under way' upon others, which will be finished early la the new year. Qutsuading events of the past 12 months as recorded in The Argus, day by day, were: jaxuauy. 1 River frozen across at the bridge the first time this winter. 3 Forty-seven of 67 candidates for citizenship pass the examination Mn circuit court. "Robbers get goods valued at $100 from George C.

Etzel grocery, 1101 Twelfth avenue. L. Calkins, 1523 Mfth street, seriously injured on the Rock lslaad bridga when, his auto swerved into a Bridge vline car. 4 The warmest, wettest year ever on record at the local wither station was reported for 1821. All the west end and three streets An the east end of Milan were flooded by 18 inches of, water following an Ice gorge -which caused Mill creek to go over fthe banks.

6 Fire originating In the basement of the storeroom of the S. Kresge company, in the Lon-. don building, caused a loss of $150,000 and threatened the whole business block. 9 Arthur E. Meader, 59, Insurance man, killed in a fall from the fifth story" window of the Best building.

10 Four union pickets staged a fight with non-union men and with L. 'Ben Driffill. in front of the brinni Printing company. 13 C. L.

Beardsley elected eom-- mander pt the Island City Boat- ing association. 14 -Burglars get $S0 from two safes of the Standard Oil company. 16 Hugh E. Curtis succeeds H. S.

jt i i end of the viaduct. 4i-Charles J. MacGowan, Ameri-can Federation of Labor oS-clal, speaks at Labor-rfav- nir. nlcat Watch Tower which foi Jan lowed a mammoth parale fc celebration by the Trl-Cltv i Mrs red 1 arne i.ob eorgt Mrs. Federation of Labor iuUhj morning.

6 Enrollment of publk schools at opening sessions. Charles L. SDecl heart wm nver. come by heat at hfs Btore'. Rocl Eleventh street.

rs- A ti. i wn. 1 land ionai rs. bridi Mrs, land Second Ktrppt. elpptpd Tirlri- of Rock Island county Olij tiers', nf tha pM annual picnic.

Temperature was 100 degrees t-day at 4 o'clock. Mrs. Joe Merk, Z26 Twenty-first street who took bichloride of attempt to end her life, recovers. 99 1 1 Jill. I I ra.

i land. war vjaoriei aaiiiu, incao bbc- Rjmue I nn'e Indlu lliiyti tion nana, nas scaip neariytorn off and skull frarturrd when be is hit by train in the Rock Island Lines yards at Twenty-seventh street Ernest Vroman. 1027'" Nlnta'n F. Islaii Btreet, painter, overcome wlla Augu a fit Keithsburg alter blowing safes in Monmouth. GalH-Curci sings In Davenport.

18 Lonergan Automotiv a-Radiator company s'elects Rock Island as slant site. 1 Two negroes arrested by Rock Island polices on a Rock Island train with $32,000 worth of gov eminent "bottled in bond" stamps and 10 gallons of pure grain alcohol In their posse B1UU. 20 Calvin Coolidge, vice president of the United States, ftfops. in Rock Islan4 enroute to Des M6ines. Thirty bricklayers declaTed strike when employers paid them off In checkrf contrary to "agreement for cash pay, -r 21 Burglars get $7 from cashreg- Jster of Sanitary Butter store, 1618 Second avenue.

22 Walter A. RosenJield elected chairman of the Republfpan state committee in Springfield. James F. Witter elected president of the Y. M.

C. A. board of 23 Clarence Ressler, 27, 1206 Nineteenth street, died from injuries received when he was crushed between two cars in th Silvis yards. 24 Rock Island grade schools graduate 259. 25 List of Roc Island high school graduates numbers 143.

27 Federal Officers raid farm still in home of Mrs. Mattie Tim- merman, 10 miles from Moline on tha Hillsdale" road, and get 1.000 gallons of mash and 150 gallons of white moonshine. Mrs. Elizabeth Dade. 2903 Thirteenth avenue, dislocates both shoulders in.

fall downstairs. 28 Second Assistant Postmaster General Paul Henderson and Colonel O. II. Fogg visit Rock Island in two U. S.

mail "air-, planes. i Twelve hundred persons attend laying of corner tone of new! seminary building at Augus tana college. 20 Rock Island observes Memorial day with a large paracV and exercises in court house square and Chlppiannock cemetery. JOE. 1 George M.

Lukens, 85, well known printer in the tri-citios, fell dead at noon while walk-t ing in the garden at his home. 3 Colonel Harry Burgess, corps of eflgtneers, offiyer in charge of the Rock Islarfd district advanced to chief engineer of the entire army corps in the eighth area, stationed at San Antonio, Texas. 4 Badly decomposed body of an unidentified man. about 40 years of age, taken from the Mississippi river near Krueg-ena island. 5 Mrs.

T3arah A. Walker, 1556 Fortieth street, celebrates 96th birthday 6 Justice Floyd" E. Thompson elected chief justice for the year, the youngest chief Justice in the" history of Illinois. Colonel Harry Burgess and Major Oscar E. Kuentz bid farewell to Rock Island at A meet of the Rotary club.

7 William Miller, 42, 1400H Third avenue, died aVonf injuries re-reived in a fall at tbe borne of P. "F-Trenkenschuh. 1535 Fourteenth-and-a-half street, where he was painting. Honorary degree of doctor of divinity conferred upon Rev. V.

G. Oglevee. pastor of South Park Fresbyterian at commencement exercises of Lincoln college, Lincoln, 111. 8 Graduation exercises for 10 held at Villa de Chantal. Police seize 2,000 bottles of beer in two raids at the Heflry Klu-ger's soft drink bar, 630 Eleventh street and the place of Reuben Lebowitz, 412 Ninth street.

9 Commencement exercises for 143 graduates of the Rock Is-- land high school held in Augustana gym. 10 William M. Pratt, 13, 1517 Forty-second Btreet, killed and Mr. and Mrs, Pratt and daughter and other son were injured when their auto overturned near Dixon, Iowa. 12 Major Beverly C.haNes Dunn succeeds Colonel Harry Burgess as head of- the Rock Island district, U.

S. Engineers. 14 Curtis Behlke, 12-year-old son of Mrs. Elizabeth 1201 Fourteenth-and-a-half street, drowned in Rock river at foot of Thirty-second street. 15 John Hauberg elected one of the two representatives from Illinois on the board of trustees of the International Sunday School association.

17 Mr. and Mrs. William -Hayes, 3421 Sixth" avenue, bruised when thty were struck by an phiin Artli; land. irf. the Rock Island Savings bank.

13 rtaymona j. W. J. Sweeney succeeds the cago "Ponzi," and native of IU ll i. SCO.

reelected coalman of the Hock Island county Republican cen- tral committee. IS Kanaacturisf! ia the west end of the city closed down and a number of resi dents in eisacka along tfcf shore forced tt vacate because of high water frora the JJissLs- sippi river. Eenor Sebastian Sampalo, Brazilian consul and commercial attache, addressed 200 Rock Island business caen. 1 Water from tbe Mississippi river in the west end of town rose continually and reached1 the top ofHbe Rock Island lines embankment. Fayette Skinner, supervisor-elect of Boutn Rock- Island township organization, seated and a report of the committee on creaenua.18 retomuiruucu that W.

F. Bradley, supervisor elect of the alleged newly tre ated township of Rock asland and l3 assistant supervisors, be not seated. 20 Louis First, Moline, elected chairman of the Rock vlsland connty board of supervisors. Memorial Christian church celebrated organization of church 54 years ago. 21 Bridge Iron Works had IS inches of water in ins factory and New Boston called for 1,000 volunteers to raise levees against expected J.

W. Armstrong nominated trustee for the University of UKL-nois by the Republican state convention. 22- Fire destroyed roof over double bouse occupied by Mrs. Hazel K.1 Mudre and Alpha Anderson. 943 1 Twenty-first street, resulting In damage of $500.

24 Flood water reached 1920 high mark, 17,1 feet, and started to drop' agaltf. Tri-City Railway company bridge to Campbell's island' swept away from moorings. RevT. E. Porter appointed pastor of the Edge wood Baptist church with alternate services in Andalusia.

Edward A. Holtxer, -15, son of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Holtzer, 2012 Ninth street, died in Dav-. enport hospital from injuries when he attempted to jump on a freight car at Rockingham and fell beneath the -cars.

25 City estimates flood damage at $10,000 to residents of the river front and factory owners. Charley Buckhannon was badly slashed about the face In a brawl involving ir other colored people at Fourth avenue, between Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth atreets. Colonel C. Miller, chairman of state highway commission and staff, hold bearing ia Legion ball upon location, of state aid highway from Hamlet to Rock Island. 26 Hugo C.

JLarson, 39G Eighth avenue, appointed Xo tbe Royal Institute In Stockholm, Sweden, for an honorary scholastic, ex- change. 27 Safety sonea established for passengers and to speed up traffic at downtown corners. Camiel de Sernno. 40, Moline, sustained a fracture of the left bag when a side of the excavation for the new Augustana seminary building collapsed. 28 One hundred young people from the country gather in Rock Island for a two-day young people's religious conference in the First Methodist MAT.

1 Plants forced to fclose because of high water resume operations. Rock Island opens the baseball season of tne Mississippi Valley league with Dubuflue' in Douglas park, by winning, J19 to 2. A. Brown, supreme dictator of Loyal Order of Moose, speaks In Rock Island. Prosper Cocquyt, 5, 234 Thirty-sixth street, Moline, was run down and killed by an automo bile a short distance from his home.

2 Ellas. Kipnls, 38, 913 Twelfth street, near death, and Meyer Morossky, 19, 1208 Eleventh street, suffered from ammonia fumes which escaped in the work room of the Palace Dye Works. 1614 Second avenue. 3 Rock Island and Moline Masons Joined with Davenport In laying the corner 6tone of Daven-port'B new Masonic temple. 6 Davenport high school won Big Eight extemporaneous and stenographic contest held in Rock Island.

L. C. Knox, Moline undertaker, and three men in the automobile with the corpse of a baby were Injured when Mr. Knox's auto was demolished between two street cars in front of the Thirty-first street railway station. 6 'Yeggs got $125 from ibe safe v.

works, 2434-2436 Third avenue, after blowing the combination. 9 Arnold Lau, principal of the high school, resigns and Eugene Youngert appointed his successor. 10 Matthew Johnson, colored, and Clarence Farden, white, sentenced to Joliet for street car robbery. 11 Dr. James D.

Banta, Rock Island physician, sentenced to two years in Fort Leavenworth prison on drug act violation charges. Alidor Van 700' Second avenue, seriously cut bis arm In a fall against a window pane. 13 Six Speakers of flying squadron arrived In Rock Island for three-day meeting in Fifteenth Avenue church. Rock Island high school wins quad-city track meet In MolIn. 14 Mr.

and Mrs. HugbMcGee, 70 ana years oi age. respectively, found dead from afephvxia-tion in their, home, 647 Fourteenth avenue. tan.i, ov-er a iov Los is Van fcleenbeck. It, was.

fcuni dead in a garssa at the. r-r cf tt Pfctsr lf, 2ZA Tbird avenue. Reprccstitive cf various, ffSde ujron one-fund cecrs-dnlty welfare drive. 21 Ctarlea J. fearle.

attorney. was appelated tscia.1 assistant to Uc'e-l States Atxcmey-Cen-eral Daagheny la war contract iavess'satioas. -r ir t- Rock Island Chamber cf Commerce makes bid for Hedding college to the. board of trustees for removal from At hjg-don. Bert Carban, 2108 Third avenue, seriously Injured when ber auto crashed into a girder on the rladuct over Sylvan slough and overturned.

Rock Island and Moline blgb schools in girls' declama tory contest. 4 John and William Weaver. charged the murder of' Harry Mueller, acquitted by a jury in less than a half hour. 5 Itock Island pupils win "girls' declamatory contest with Dav-eap-prt. 7 LevP Pontious, 46, found dead in bed from asphyxiation at borne of II.

R. Davis, 229 Sixteenth street, where he roomed. Five officers of the Royal Japanese army visit the RocTc Island arsenal while on a tour. M. II.

Sexton, president of the National Association of Baseball clubs, elected president of the Mississippi Valley Baseball league at the meeting in Cedar Rapids. Kenneth J. Koch, 6year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. John R.

Kocn, 446 Forty-fourth street, killed when be was run over by a truck on Seventh avenue, between Forty-second and Forty-third streets, while returning from school. 10 Governor Lea Smalfand members of the Illinois highway commission endorsed tbe project for a $1,000,000 bond issue for EOd roads in 'Rock Island county. Miss Blanche Williams wins Girls Big Eight Declamatory in Geneseo, and Miss Gretcbcn Graves, Geneseo, was second. 11 Daniel McLaln, 62. 94 Forty-fifth street, switchman In the Rock Island yards, in crushed to death between two freight cars.

i Avalon apartments, Second avenue and Tenth street, sold for $93,000 to Mrs. Ida Howell, Columbus Junction, Iowa, by Archie and Albert B. Mclnnis. Carl of Rock Island, mysteriously murdered near Hunter, Mo uavenpori, saia iu ujio mere than $4,500,000 of working peoples' money in wildcat schemes. 16 Burglars steal $75 from Diamond bar, 1815 Second avenue.

Rev. G. A. Brandelle returns from Beven 'weeks' tour of Europe. 18 A well drilled on property owned by Rock Island investors in Slick, yielded 2.000 barrels of oil the first day.

i i 20 Expert yeggs cracked safes In the club rooms of the Rock Island aerie, No. 956, Eagles, and escaped with $815 in checks and CaVl Brockman, 18, Davenport. shot and killed by. Officer Pat He ran when the officer ordered tolm to halt. 21 Bottling works owned by the Coca Cola Bottling Works Third avenue and Twenty-fifth street, sold to Gorge Hof-stetter, Nashville, and capitalized for $50,000.

23 Ice in the Mississippi river at the point of Rock Island start- ed to break at 8 o'clock tonight. Arthur Brooks, negro, 27, 2510 Eighteenth street, Moline, held on charge or murdering Harry Stewart, released. Dorothy Gibson, aged 12 years, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Smith, Davenport, died of injuries from a bullet wound, accidentally inflicted by her brother, Raymond.

27 Rev. G. Sheets, Rocklrd. accepted pastorate of the First Baptist church, Rock. Island.

MARCH Trustees of Hedding college, Abingdon, reject Rock Island's offer of $800,000 for removal of the institution to this city and voted to maintain the college ft Abingdon. 3 Rock Island high school won third in the district basketball tournament at Augustana. Mo line was first and Annawan second. Louis A. Flack, bricklayer, 2027 Ninth street, seriously bruised in a 23-foot fall from the seal fold to the basement of the Sturdevant Baker building.

4 Fire swept the first, second and third foors ot tbe Bon Ton building department store. Davenport, causing $100,000 loss. 6 Charles Dixon, 26, aon of Mrs. Albert Lawrence, Nineteenth avenue and Thirty-ninth street, killed in a machine shop in St. Louis, Mo.

-v f. 7 The Illinois State Bottlers Protective association opened 2-day session in the New Harper. 5 The.Illinoia Sheet Metal Contractors' association opened a 2-day convention In the New Harper RaSbi Noah W. Bresler, Brook- lyn, N. accepts the call of two orthodox Jewish congregations in Rock IsJand.

9 The John, Ericsson Representative leagne of Illinois opened its 2Sth anneal conventloaTtn the Moline Turner ball Vith representatives from every sec-- tion and county of the etate. 12 14 17 H. I 'hlca of or.e to tea years for viola t- ing probation. Gustav Jensen, watcbmaji at Rock Island garment fac tory. committed suicide by banging in the residence of An taony Motidth, 225 Fourth ave- cue, Moline.

ia F. W. Tledemann. 22. Twenty fourth street road and Fortieth avenue, severely hurt when the wagon be was driving was hit by an auto at Twenty-ninth-and-a-haJf street between Sixteenth and Seventeenth, ave- nued.

12 Buntlara get $20 at the Bert S. Metcalf grocery, 3211 Sixteenth avenue. 14 Yergs'get $40 from safe of Lange gTocery, Seventh avenue. Board of education decides, upon new school at Audubon because cf crowded conditions. 16 Henry Mortler.

1323 Twenty-sixth street. Rock Island, conductor on Fifteenth street car. held up at Prospect park, Mo-' line, and of $60. 17 Fire in garage at the home of Samuel Weisman, 1601 Twenty-ninth street, caused loss of $6,900. 18 Mrs.

Stephen Daniels, 43, 1221 Seventh avenue, ends life by taking parts green. 20 Matthew Johnson, negro; robbed grocery store of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Karisch, 82.1 Fifth avenue, of $25. Mrae.

Margaret Matzenauer sings at-Augustana gymiiasitim. 21 Lttdwig Sindt, 27, Davenport, employe of the Rock Island Brewing company, crushed between two trucks on Fifth avenue at Thirty-eighth street. He recovered. 22--First ppring work of motorcycle policeman resulted in ar-j rest of two motorists. 23 ChArles Hobert.

722 Eleventh ptreet. and Arthur J. Weirath-er, J.017 Seventeenth avenue, arrested for theft of 72 chickens in southwest district of tbe Clarence Farden, 21, and Matthew Johnson; negro, 19, confess to robbery of Third avenue car at Second street and Twelfth avenue, when $24 in cash and 56 tokens were taken. 24 Augustana college team wins triangular debating contest between Illinois, Monmouth and Augustana college teams. 25 The force of Rock Island post-office and families honor Assistant Postmaster Oliver P.

Qlson on hi3 70th birthday anniversary. 26 Tri-Citj Lutheran choir makes first appearance in St. Paul's Lutheran church, Davenport 28 Jacobus Schroder, 32, commlt- iea euiciae oy snooting nimseu through the bead in the home of John Noe, 618 Ninth street Fourteen bootleggers arrested and paid fines totaling $3,900. 29 Karlowa radio station. WOC, re-1 moved to Palmer School of Chiropractic, Davenport.

Fire resulted in a loes of $300,000 and threatened the lives of several firemen at the old glucose plant, Rockingham road, Davenport Committees representing various civic organizations set one-fund community campaign budget atl APRIL. 1 Excavation of a two-story build ing to be erected by Ell Mos-r enfelder, at Seventeenth on Second avenue, started. Alfred C. Mueller, Republican, elected mayor of Davenport Hedefeated Mayor C. Socialist-Democrat 2 "Pussyfoot" Johnson, prohibition leader, gives several addresses in Rock Island.

3 Police handle 1.206 cases In, fiscal year, according to annual! fonnrt fVswvt all 1 shbmitted at the' city council meet. Township elections were held and Rock Island and South Rock Island elect 'conflicting groups. 5 Burglars attempt to enter Bhoe store of L. J. Wessel, 620 Fourth avenue.

6 Dr. Walter Matthey, Davenport, convicted of violating espionage act and sentenced to a year and a day In Fort, Leavenworth penitentiary, pardoned by President Warren Harding. Temperature rose to 74 degrees at noon. W. E.

Brooks; 40, dairyman, narrowly escaped death when attacked by a mad bun. 7 Jacob S. Hill, president anil manager of the Hill Furniture compaqy, 1615 Second" avenue, purchased the Rock Island House for $50,000. 7 Twenty-two bootleggers of Rock Island, Moline and East arrested and fines to- taiing 55,600 were assessed in County court Students and teacher of Augus- tana college honor 100th anniversary of the birth of Fred erick -C. A.

Denkmann. t-mll btuhr serving a six Jnonths' sentence in county Jail, escapea. v- High wind Ireaks a number of windows and damages trees in Rock Island. 10--Rock Island high school wins debate from Oklahoma City team in Rock Island. ll-Rlans for the new Audubon two- rtory 16-room grade school Iwtfre approved by the board of education.

Rev. John McGown Stevenson chosen moderator of the Rock river presbytery at the meeting in Kewanee. Tract of land at Second street, between Eleventh and Twelfth avenues approximating 10 acres, purchased as site for the Servus Rubber company plant. Killing frost threatened' damage to crops, gardens and flower beds. beat 8 Major W.

L. Clay, salvage cS- cer -at itock isiana arni, leaves to take charge of ordnance depot post in Honolulu. Miss Frances Robinson, Lloeo!" chosen supreme of the Royal Neighbors John McGown Stevenecn, pastor of the Broadway Presbyterian church, elected pre-w dent of the Ministerial Alliance. John Murrin, 63, 1014 Tenth avenue, killed wbeu eeveriil boxes ofVcastlngs weighiug pounds each fell on him at the Rock Island arsenal. 14 MrB.

Josephine Jurneraeyer, 1820 Fourth avenue, and Mr. Mamie Dyer, 400 Nineteenth Mrs. Trans-Mlssiaif? I Exposition and Pageant of Progress opens with children's day at Douglas park, under direction of Arthur Da vis. ji ranip weocr, at, avenue: frac tared a vertebrae of the neck, when he dore Bhajiow ater. ne jied four days later.

26 Fife thousand delegates from all parts of the United States gather for the supreme council meeting of the Mystic Order of Veiled Tropbets of the Enchanted Realm, In Rock Island. 27 More than 13,300 grotto delegates registered la 4be tri-cit-Ie3 23 James F. Witter and H. A. Clevpstlne reelected to the Rock Island board of educa-x tfon, defeating Mrs.

E. B. Kreis and Mrs, Hubert Ward. Edward Pelouse, Richmond, advanced to office of grand jmonarch, and others yelevated at the supreme council session of tbe Veiled Prophets. Election of Lamar Field, monarch of Hinda grotto, Montgomery, to the office of grand ven erable prophet and choice of Cleveland, Ohio, for the 1923 session of the BUpseme council featured morning business of the order.

Johnny Giimore, 14, 215 Seventh street, badly beaten and thrown in river by playmates, who believed that Gilmorn haa stolen a. bathing suit. JULY ,1 Dairymen boost milk prices 2 cents a quart after producers increased price from 15 to 20 cents a Acting under orders from inter-i national, officers; 1,350 men employed at the Silvis shops and about two hundred men belonging to shop crafts, laid down their tools at 10 o'clock to participate in the shop crafts' strike, 2 Miss Ruth Moody, visiting, ih Moline, drowned, a jaUe north of Port Byron, wbilo. seven people risked thelrJlves to save her. Donald Dowell, 7, son of Mr.

and Mrs. FTed Dowell, 3122 Park Rixtee.nth street Moline. drown-T ed near old watch works, above I Watch Xower, while wading "in Rock river. 0 Yeggmen get $53 cash, camera and radio apparatus from Heinz warehouse. Winter garage And vjhe John P.

Hand battery shop. William- Oldiield, 2420 Fifteenth street Moline, died in hospital as the result of a gunshot wound in die abdomen, inflicted by Constable C.13. Ellis, while Ellis wentto uianeiasi house to serve papers pertain- ing to the payment of paying) a bill. Ellis was convicted later of assault with deadly weapon and sentenced to a yem in the county Jail. 4 Henry Rathbone, Chicago, Republican nominee for con-gressma n-at-large, speaks at closing day exercises and fireworks of Trans-rMissiasippl exposition and Pageant of Progress, which was attended by people.

William B. Schroder. 3219 Tenth avenue, is appointed first assistant to District Attorney Thomas Williamson, in the southern Illinois federal district Three Rock Island boys find body of Charles Strobbe, aged. 52, 1820. Third street, Moline, who committed suicide by.

hanging, in the woods at Forty-fifth street and Twenty-fourth avenue. 6 Several cartons of clgarets and $5 in change were taken from the W. P. Gerlich pool room, 3100 Fifth avenue. 8- rJohn Kipp and Chvauncey Ruhl, 4501 Fifth avenue, injured when their car turned a somersault near Nineteenth street on Second avenue.

9 Fire caused by lightning 'caused damage of $300 to tbe Im- manuel Lutheran church, Twentieth street and Fifth avenue. 8 Esther Paridon, 18-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Paridon, 1700 Eighteenth avenue, was attacked by William Horan, paroled from Joliet He was sent there for similar offenses in thisclty. 11 Governor Len Small spent Rfv-eral hours in Rock Island his boat, the Illinois, docld at Seventeenth street -William Thorns, 133J5, Fifteenth street, elected president of board of 1 13 holdup man get! $C0 from Ernest'' Anderson 609 Forty-second street, antfrLes-ter Weinrott, Moline, aVEigh-teenth street and Seventh avenue.

Dr. Joseph A. Anderson, Boxholm, Iowa, reelected president of Augustana college and theoiog- ical seminary board of dirftc- tors. 14 Eugene Kal ina, 8-year-oli son of Mr. and Mrs.

Adolph Kalina, suffer a broken leg when he was caught in a swing In Long 15 Carl H. Horst, 2G, 443 Forty fourth street, was electrocuted while working with-a circle Raw In the Tri-CUy Artificial Ice plant, 4327 Third avenue. li Gasoline drops 2 cents and kerosene 1 cent 1 20 Frank Julian Landee, probate Judge, drowned in Rock two miles southeast of Bar-. stow, while swimming. 21 Evelyn Organ, aged 15.

and, Marguerite Organ, aged 17 negro girls, daughters of Mr. and A. II. Organ, 214 Forty-ffth street, wers drowned in the Sylvan waters, while swlm-' mhag at the foot of Forty-fifth street 4 19 20 1 1 l.i ilttr s. Ft mqix R.

'ha rl -ij. Wort tlhlan VI Ut XAL OU LUiVU TV 419 shot in' a brawl by Julian Alba in Alba's pool room, 1522 Third avenue, Moline, am filed a-few hours later, SI William C. Gabel, aged 26,1323 Twenty-fifth street, was shot and killed at 12:15 o'clock mid night in front of his saloon. 2319 Fourth avenue. Donald Hart, 24, tnemhec, of 1 i 1 died of injuries' suffered in an-uto accident near Davenport AUGUST, 2 Bench warrants issued by Judge Louis FitzHenry in Peoria were served on 14 of the 22 men arrested on liquor selling charges during the grotto convention and all gave bonds of $1,500 each for' appearance in court.

3 Appointment of Ben Farrar as probate Judge, succeeding Frank J. Landee, who was drowned, made by Acting Gov ernor Fred E. Sterling. 5 City and county officials hold conference and promise a moral cleanup, thorough and permanent, for the city ct Rock Island. 6 Thieves get $190 worth of gold tooth in dental offices of James McNulty and Edgar B.

'Phelpsstate Bank building. 7 Mrs. Myron F. Bundy appointed physical director of Rock Island Y. W.

C. J. Larkln was reelected president of the Rock Island public 1 Hr rv Vvna rrf 8 Contract for new Auduhtfn school building was awardtl on a bid for $123,547 for the general work and. the entire plant is estimated to cost more 9 Two holdup men rob James Pierce, a camper, east of the Watch Tower of $2:75. Modern Woodmen and Royal Neighbors hold annual picnic 1 in Long.

View with, attendance of 2,600. Charles Sackyille, 18-year-old son of Mr. and Sack- ville. 1605 Ffit ty-fourth street, drank chloroform in the Cal-Lutheran church, Moline. died several hours later in ioline hospital.

win LeYeen, 68, 536 Sixteenth street, killed near Clinton, Iowa, when an automobile in which he was riding with his daughter, Mrs. C. J. Smith and Mr. Smith, overturned three times.

11 Mayor C. P. Skinner, Moline, who removed two injunction placards directed to striking railway shopmen, was arrested on federal warrants' and put under $4,000 bond. 12 John Roderick, 41, 1028Flrst avenue, switchman la the Burlington road yasds, injured when a freight train struck a loading platform step and threw him to the concrete paving, died in St. Anthony's hospital.

13 Five hundred attend services, of dedication for the new Cen- tenary ''Methodist church, Thirty-eighth street and Eight eenth avenue, which coet 14 Three hundred young peopj of northwestern Illinois and southern Iowa attended the Kp-worth league which opened at Tlndall's grove south of Milan. Mississippi Valley fair in Davenport opened. George, D. Long, East Moline, -re-eelved tbe nomination of the county central committee to fill vacancy on the Republican ticket for. county judge.

15 -Senator Harold Kessinger, Au rora, addressed 2,000 people at the annual farm and borne bureau picnic at the Watch Tower. Ralph Lamont was chosen to flU unexpired term of R. Noursus as president of the Rock Island club. 16 Ethen Allen, 21, Sixth avenue, and Clyde Pounder, 2, 2840 Fifth-and-a-half avenue, badly Injured when their racing car somersaulted on the track at the Marengo fair. 17 Tbe mercury reached 96 degree.

18 August aged 7, 4618 Twelfth street, cut about the hands and face 'when ttfe automobile driven, by his mother, Mrs. George W. Place, overturned at Forty-second avenue and Twelfth street Carl, 28, 2302 Glenwood avenue, Davenport, was burled alive when the sand in a 25-foot well which he was digging at the Frank L. Patterson borne, 1123 Nineteenth avenue, caved in. His body was not recovered until six hours afterward.

County supervisors at a special meeting decided to offer a $5,000 reward for the apprehen- elon apd conviction of the murderer or murderers of Bill Gabel, -Rock Isfand saloonkeeper. Total attendance at the Mississippi Valley fa'ir was. 73437, about 6,000 less than last year, Charles R. Thompson. 23, received four knife wounds in his 'left side in a fight with his father.

Charles J. Thompson, at the family residence, 2624 Fourth avenue. treet. Incurred numerous in. lawl Juries when the car in they were riding was struck by a speeding machine on tni Maysvllle roa'd, near Davenport 15 Board of supervisors voted In crease from $2,500 to nry bcrt 8.

Si! eo. loll! tbe-talary of county treasurer, irit-fc but, other recommeri'latloqs for irlet i uny. I lo.sir erni i via CO. arl Ci i tlan Increases In county offices were rejected. 16 The central Illinois.

MetbOdUt church turned down the projw- sitlon of staging a campagn for the reopening of HeiiiH college and referrrd fcturt In-' tereats to the college board of trustees. i Taul bowmif, son of Mr. and -Mrs. W. K.

lawman, 2558 Eigbth-and-a-half atenue, died of tranniatic pneumoai following accident in tbe Y. M. C. A. swimming pool.

17 Daniel Martin. Augu.Una 'sen-; lor, appointed pastor of First Swedish Lutheran cbucH to 'fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Wlsson, a. 1 ink Gu ('. Mo. vVllIa Iowa, late Mrs.

Lydia B. Hobbs ats president of the Bethany Home rfotective association. 17 Fire caused $1,000 damage at the residence of Elmer C. Bowman, 2133 Seventeenth street. Yeggs entered four business places, cracked three safes and obtained $160.

19 First zero temperature since 1D20 occurred at 9 o'clock this morning. Two negroes robbed seven men in a bunk car at the Rock Is-, land Lines' tracks between Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth streets and got $28. 20 James Kelly and Earl Vaughan captured In the offiqe of the Rock Island Fuel company, 2230 Third avenue, while tijey were trying to open a sare. They had previously stolen $225 from two other safes. John K.

Grelm, 61, fell dead at th bedside7 of his wife while tho was unconscious in St. An- tnony nosDttai. sne dica Aion- day morning without learning of her husband's death. Despondent because he was jilted. Harry Snider.

23, 232S Fifth- and-a-half." avenue, attempted suiefde with aTazor. 21-I-FederaI agents raided -the residence of jkdolph Gofsen, 801 Sixth avenue, and found stills with 500 gallons of mash. i 12 First below-zero temperature at 8:30 o'clock in the mornfhg, when the mercury fell to three degrees below zero. Henry Abel. 1221 Washington street, Davenport, of the Arm Abel Son, 2104 Fourth avenue.

Rock Island, knocked down by a team of runaway horses barely escaped death. Zi Robert Holdorf, aged 12; was seriously injured when bis foot slipped and he was thrown under the wheels of a truck OB which, he had caught-a ride. 25 3larry Stewart, negro, aged 2S years, 1646 Ninth street, Mo line, was at 8:30 o'clock on the corner of Sev enth avenue and "Fourteenth street, Rock Island. Action of the Rock Island county board of supervisors relative to the extension of the. township boundaries of Rock Islandco-' extensive with those of the municipality of Rock Island were 25 Gustav Sosal.

aged 0 years, r013i Fifth avenue, fell dead at tie Rock Island Lines' Thir ty-first street station on bis way to work. 27 J. Burgess reelcted president cf the Rock Island Chamber of Commerce at the annual meeting. -Burritt H. Miner, 1514 Sith street, shot (n the foot on a hunting1 trip.

23 Th. Servus company, Chicago, decides to locate in Hock Island with a capital of William Mikesell. 2302 Fourteenth avenue, was attacked by holdup, man at the Penn OT1 service Plation. COO Thirtv-eighth street, and shot throueh "the bat, the bullet grazing his scalp. .0 Jose Rodriguez, section hand.J was shot .3 the abdomen by 1 ob Dr.

J. T. Jones reappointed u- perlntendfent of the Rock 1- land district of Methodist Ep- in copal church at closing ink slons of the 18-r-CharIes Wenks, Andalusia, ap-Lpalnted foreman of the grni. Jury by "Judge N. A.

JUrsoa. The Jury served three menu a score of Indictments In the Rock Island vue probe. h. J9 Lawrence Hourlgan, 24, Eighth-and-a-half avenue, ed instantly when he plunge-a 30 feet to the floorof the Ef- I tendorf plant, alighting on tis head. Burglars entered 10 homes in tbe east billj district, and, afVr falling frightened away seven others, espel wJ $400, cash and valuables.

20 Roy J. McAllister, 43, 1 Twenty-fifth street, was kiiJM uUn ha nlltnmnhl OVertUrB" ea on mm bhu hjt strangled him to death, soutn-: west of Hillsdale. 21 Stev. F. Menze, appointed to Centenary MetB-odist church.

2.3 John Huss, sexton at nock cemetery for 29 years," retire. 25 Three thousand delegates rros all parts of Illinois gather Ir the opening seatilons of. the annual state American Lelcr3 convention. Two thousand, glonnalres marched In ma-f moth parade. (Continued on Cage automobile at Thirty-eighth street and Seventh avenue.

19Four hundred Rock Island citizens gathered at a banquet to pay tribute to Walter A. Ros-enfield, recently elected chairman of the Republican state central committee; 20 The warehouse of the Rock Island Transfer 'and Storage First avenue and Seventeenth street, dedicated at a dinner with. 300 Rock Island business men as guests. 21 Six boygf journey in canoes from JanesTille. to Rock Island, down Rock river.

22 Man with identification cards giving his name as Robert Henry, 35, 2015 Fourth avenue, Rock Island, was killed when a northbound DfM. interurb-an can ran over him at Schut-ter's crossing, near Pleasant Valley; Iowa..