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Newspaper
Rock Island Argus
Location
Rock Island, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1909
Page
2
Longtime clerk Paul T. McSteen was unanimously reelected to his lodge post at the Woodmen of the World Carnival camp Number 1 in Hibertnian hall. The vote kept McSteen in office for another year as distrust of vagrants lead to other local court actions.
Milan LeRoy Miller of Reynolds visited with his sister Mrs. J Criswell on Wednesday. Miss N Harris is ill. Miss Bessie Mosher of Black Hawk has been visiting for a few days at the home of Mrs. Rene Ruge. Mrs. Hal Smith of Toulon is visiting relatives here.
Hamlet Mrs John Reader is suffering with planker. Riley Halstead and Jesse Cooper visited Rock Island Wednesday. The Ladies Missionary Society met at Mrs Beb Halstead's home Thursday. Odd Fellows aided in picking corn for Jake Wentz Friday. Wentz has typhoid fever. McAdam & Sons of Reynolds completed the church chimney Thursday. The new furnace was fired Sunday morning for the first time.
Hampton preparations are underway for Christmas entertainments at the Methodist church and at the school house. George Turner has recently returned from a trip to Wayne County Illinois and visited Jacksonville during his absence. William Jacobs and wife visited their son John Jacobs and family below Port Byron. Mrs. M. L. Cook attended Mr. Kiefer's funeral in Rock Island. Mr. and Mrs. P. R. McCown left for Salt Lake City Utah after visiting relatives here.
Professor Donald McMillan, once a Worcester Academy chair and Peary polar expedition member, vows arctic exploration as life work. He plans to join a Crockett island expedition next summer to study the land and possible Eskimo inhabitants, though details of the mission remain undecided.
Admirers of Henrik Ibsen seek to acquire the Grimstadt apothecary shop where he apprenticed from 1844 to 1850. They plan to restore the site to its mid nineteenth century appearance as a memorial to the author of Hedda Gabler. The old Reimann house still stands with fittings largely intact awaiting purchase.
The proposed building will rise three stories high to match the present block. It will cost about 15000 dollars with a 66 foot frontage on Fifth avenue and 40 foot on Sixteenth street. It uses the same brick as Kneberg's current block and Kneberg plans to move his residence on the lot by early April, after which construction begins. Mrs. Kneberg notes two floors are nearly rented, though she does not reveal tenants. Also includes an ad for Dr King’s New Life Pills claiming cures for digestion and related ailments at 25 cents.
Professor Wilber J Fraser of the University of Illinois presents five herds from Illinois Circular 134 to show how individual cow records affect profit. Herd 1 yields 5565 lb milk 198 lb fat with $11.18 profit per cow. Herd 2 4233 lb milk 163 lb fat with $1.91 per cow. Herd 3 all 12 cows profit over $16. Herd 4 15 cows average 3147 lb milk 124 lb fat with $112.39 total loss. Herd 5 13 cows average 8628 lb milk 326 lb fat with $42.60 per cow and total $553.84. Emphasizes tracking per-cow production to discard unprofitable animals.
Rock Island readers are urged to learn kidney trouble signs such as cloudy foul urine, back pain, headaches, and fatigue. The warning stresses early treatment with Doan's Kidney Pills, citing a Rock Island testimonial from Miss A Webb and noting price and U S agents.
Report by Arthur J. Bill for Illinois Farmers Institute notes comparing cows within a single herd to measure genetic or productive differences. The findings promise significant insight for the owner and broader farming practice.
Judge J Otis Humphreys ruled that 50 cases of preserved eggs seized last March by federal inspectors were injurious to health and justified. The W H Hippolite Egg Co of St Louis shipped the eggs, barred from Illinois. Defense appeals to higher court. Dr Wiley testified boracic acid at two pounds per 100 eggs is deadly. District Attorney Conyers led the prosecution. Rheumatism Cure Advised by Dr Detchon.
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