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TUESDAY EVENING'- THK DAVENPORT DEMOCRAT AND LEADER -NOVEMBER 26, 1918. 15 IIOUSNG MEN bSeflocalnews Davenport Hoy Gives Life for World Freedom DIES 12 HOURS AFTE-RREBOVAt I TO HOSPITAL SPANISH FLU GOES UP AGAIN; 147 NEW GASES EMPLOYE OF ARSENAL IS DEAD OF FLU BRADY STREET BRIDGE JOB TO LJ.M'CARTHY 11 iimnuiuun GET ORDERS TO USE LEAD PIPE Washington Official Visits Davenport and Brings Word Here. A Washington official of the United States Government Housing corporation, visited Davenport Monday night and brought official orders to local houRlng experts to comply with city ordinances and state laws In regard lo plumbing. This was the result of Mayor Littleton's recent trip to the Washington headquarters of the corporation. As a result, specifications for the community houses are now being changed and will be made to comply with the ordinances.

Lead pipe will be used for connections, and a thick cast Iron pipe for soil pipe in all the houses. Other features of sanitation which are provided for by law here will be enforced. INFLUENZA IS FATALT0A28 YEAR OLD LADY Mrs. Louisa Jacobs Dies At Home Early Today. An attack of Spanish influenza resulted fatally to Mrs.

Louisa Jacobs, 621 West Locust street, who succumbed at her home at 6:20 o'clock this morning. Mrs. Jacobs was 28 years old and was born and reared In Scott county. Her marriage to Herbert A. Jacobs took place In 1910.

Beside her husband, two Martha and Alice, survive. Her mother, Mrs. Sophia Drewes, a sister, Miss Sophia Drewes, and a brother, John Drewes, also survive. Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock from the late home, with Ihtermcnt In Fairmount cemetery. HOME ECONOMICS TEACHERS OF TRI- CITIES ORGANIZE An organization has been perfected by the home economics teachers of the tri-citles with the purpose in view of promoting mutual helpfulness and sociability among the members.

The organisation at present has a membership of 19 and It is planned to meet three times yearly. The first session which was in the nature of an organization meeting, was held Saturday afternoon at the Commercial club and followed a luncheon at the rooms. The officers chosen are. Miss Josephine Schaller of Davenport, president and Miss Love of Rock Island, secretary and treasurer. Tha next meeting is planned for the first Saturday in February while the third meeting will occur the first Saturday in May.

MORE EXAMS FOR GOVERNMENT JOBS The civil service commission has announced examinations for chemical laboratorian, chemist's aid, production expert, statistical draftsman, Junior sub inspector and sub inspector (air service), and automotive draughtsman. All examinations are open to both men and women, and further information regarding time and place of examinations can be secured from W. C. Guy, at the Davenport post office. Contract Awarded By Council This Afternoon; Bid Is $17,000.

Contract for the erection of a handsome concrete arch bridge over Duck Creek on North Brady street was this afternoon let by the city council to T. J. McCarthy, local contractor, on his bid of $17,000. By the terms of the agreement, work is to start by December 10, and to be finished by April 1. It is very probable, however, that a gang of men will be set to work at once removing the present bridge and building a road for de- tounng.

Only four bids were received on the Job. One lump sum was stated by each bidder for the erection of the new bridge, and another sum for the moving and dismantling of the old bridge. The bidders and the bids in each case follow. T. J.

McCarthy, N. M. Stark of Des Moines, $23,400 A. A. Ar-foould.

$17,406 F. E. Marsh of $22,500 $1,000. The bids were opened at 2 o'clock by the board of public works. The council met in special session half an hour later and awarded the contract.

At the meeting, also, an agreement with James O. Baker, owner of land abutting the bridge, was read. By tho terms of this contract Mr, Baker allows the city an easement for the use of a strip of his land for a detouring roadway for the sum of $50, and donates the land necessary for straightening the road on the approach to tho bridge. ALL SKIP STOP SIGNS MUST GO SAYS COUNCIL Conservation of Coal is No Longer Vital Necessity, Hence Order. Acting at the orders of the city council, City Attorney Frank Betty today sent notice to the Tri-City Railway Co.

to at once discontinue the "skip-slop" system, and to comply with its franchise by stopping all cars on all Interesctlons on signal. A letter to tula effect, addressed to B. Ben man, president of the company, wast signed by Aldermen Peck, McAdam and Ballow and the city attorney. The aldermen are members the street car This matter wag taken up by the council at its last meeting. It was the opinion of the city fathers that the skip-stop system was no longer necessary, since the conservation of fuel is not now a vital necessity.

The letter of the city statee: "Since there is no longer the great need for conservation of fuel, you are hereby requeued to Immediately comply with your franchise which requires that all cars be stopped on signal at all Intersex tions of streets for the receiving or diachnrging of passengers. You are further requested to Immedi-j ately take down the so-called 'skip-stop' signs." At the offices of the Tri-City Railway company' it was stated this afternoon that no communication from City Attorney Frank Betty bad been received as yet. MerchanU Trana. Stor. Co.

bars expert packers and movers. Tel. Go to Henderson, who Is charged with being an incendiarv. Melvin Rose and Adolph Willers, delinquents, were taken to Gtenwood today by rwn, chorlif Harrv Parrish. Ulivim i Union Saving Bank.

A strong bank. Third and Brad? streets. To- Play Skat A pkat tournament is the pleasure scheduled for Northwest Davenport Turner hall on Thursday, Thanksgiving day, at o'clock. Everybody is invited to take a hand. i May we quote on your envelope j-equirements? Quality and prices nf intprpst.

neat printing. nulck deliveries. LeClaire Enve-, Jope Co. Ct' Din Rraneh to Meet St. PiUS branch of the western Catholic tmion will meet this evening at 8 o'clock at St.

Joseph's schoel hall. The play, "The Victim," win be presented at the gchool hall Tuesday and Wednesday evenings at o'clock. I Settle Suit. A settlement was 'effected yesterday ia the district 'court in the suit brought by Mc-Craney Sand Gravel company Against N. Lairsen to recover on a bill of goods sold defendant.

j( -PERSONAL Mrs. A. O. Cook and daughter, JMisa Clella, of 16 Riverview court, have left for Kansas City, where they will make their future home. Miss Alice French is in Des Moines attending the meeting of the food administration.

She expects to be home this evening. Miss French is state chairman of jatrlotic meetings. i Mrs. W. G.

Smith of Bridge ave-'nue. left Monday noon for Old Comfort, to spend Thanksgiving with her son, Lieut. Gardner Smith, who is stationed at the aviation camp. She expects to be labsent from home about two weeks. Dr.

and Mrs, J. W. watze ieu Friday for the Ohio camp, where thir vouneest son. Lieut. John Whittier Watzek is stationed, to pend Thanksgiving day witn mm.

They expect be home Friday. POLICE NEWT) Harry Wilson, Harry Roth and William McAnnaHy, all charged with intoxication, were given suspended jail sentences of five days. MALLPOX CASE IN BETTENDORF; AT ST. ROBERT'S Government Female Pris oners Also Held There; Creates Problem. A grave problem arose in the board of health today when a smallpox patient was found in Bettendorf, and was removed to St.

Robert's hospital, at the orders of the attending physician. The hospital, or pest house, is being occupied1 at present by female government prisoners, who have baen picked up under the five-mile vice zone act and are being treated for social diseases. Now it. is feared that the girls at the hospital will be exposed to the disease unless strict care is taken to segregate them. The board of health has taken the matter under advisement, and will attempt to straighten out the tangle at once, MYSTERY OF MARKETING TO BE EXPLAINED Plans for the winter's work, will he outlined at a meeting of the Patriotic Home league to be held In the court house this -afternoon at 4 o'clock.

One subject which will receive considerable attention is the question of marketing. The subject will be a feature of the home demonstration work during the cold months. The instructions will have to be carried to the doors of those who need this education because it often happens that those moat in need of instruction are least apt to attend formally arranged meetings. Another feature of the, work this winter will be the visits to the homes of many of whom are assuming home responsibilities for the first time, and who will find the assistance of the league valu-, able. Food conservaiton programs and practical demonstrations are Included in the schedules for the winter' work.

To Peters Jor Glasses FORMERLY WITH RABEN OPTICAL CO. 3rd floor Security Bidg. Fred N. Ruhl TO THE MINUTE FUNERAL PARLORS Phone Dav. 8S3 504 Brady Street OBITUARY Henkle.

Jay C. Henkle, 60 years' old, succumbed to a three weeks' illness at the Davenport hospital at 7:30 o'clock this morning. He resided at 3191,4 Harrison street and until last spring bad been road-master of the R. N. W.

railway. Since that til 3 he had been employed at the Rock Island arsenal. The decedent was born April 3, 1858, in Pennsylvania, and came to Cotler, with his parents when a small child. He was united la marriage with Mrs. Lucy Bateman in 1911 at St.

Louis. Mo. He had lived in Davenport since 1901. The survivors are his wife and the following 'step-children: Mrs. May Stokey, Major Francis Bateman, in France, Clyde E.

Bateman, in France, and Raymond at home. Five sisters and two brothers also survive. The Swindler Funeral. The funeral of Charles V. Swindler was held Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock froui ha home of hia parents at 623 i in street.

Rev. Ceffman of the First Presbyterian church officiated and interment was made in Oakdale. The Mann Funeral. Funeral services for Mrs." Fred-ericke Louisa Maim will be held Wednesday afternoon at: nnn-thir. ty o'clock from the home of hor auagnier, Mrs.

K. w. Keller, 607 West Seventeenth street. Interment will be made in Falrmount. The Venzke Funeral.

The funeral of Miss Ela; Kath- erine Venzke wag conducted this morning at 8:30 o'clock. Rev. Horn officiating. Six young women friends of the deceased acted as pallbearers. They were the MIssea Ella Gruber, Freda Hanne-man, Emma Rehfuss, Anna Cars- tens and Camilla Anderson.

The remains were shipped to Ly ons, where funerav services were held this afternoon. Kav Body ShlDDed. The remains of Harry Kay were shipped from the Stapleton funer al parlors to Keokuk Monday evening at 6:55 o'clock, from which place the funeral was held this arternoon. The Guenther Funeral. Funeral services over the re mains of Miss Edna Guenther were held Monday afternoon at two o'clock from the Nissen and Hartwig undertaking establish ment to Maysville cemetery where burial was made.

Johannes Kroe- ger conducted the services. Those who acted as pallbearers were Albert Andersen, Harry An dersen, Emil Andersen, Henry An dersen. Otto Andersen end Fred Guenther. The Hartmann Funeral. The funeral of Mrs.

Alma Hartmann was held from the family home at 715 Marquette street, at 8:30 o'clock this morning, to St. Joseph's church and services were conducted there at 9 o'clock. Rev. A. H.

Schoeningh celebrated requiem high mass and pronounced the burial absolution and officiated at the grave in Holy Family cemetery. Those who acted as pallbearers were Stephen Ruefer, Martin Gad-lent, Henry Fraunie, William Koos, George Moss and Joseph Piersch. LEAKY OPERA HOUSE, ROOF STARTS SUIT Motions for More Specific Statements Start Damage Action. When the roof of the opera house at Victor began to leak it started a bunch of trouble including a suit for damages. The action was brought some time ago by J.

E. Wilson, owner of the tho-ater who holds the Davenport Roofing company responsible for the roof. What are figuratively the opening guns in the suit were heard this morning in the district court before Judge William Theophllus in the arguments on a motion filfd by the defendant for more specific statements. The defendant also askg that the petition be separated into seven counts on the ground that the petition as fijed presents three separate causes of action. The suit grows out of a clause in a contract for repairing the roof of the opera house.

Under the terms of the contract the defendants were to keep the roof in repair for five years. After two years it began to leak. The plaintiff claims he notified the ompany, which agreed to have tha leak repaired, lie claims this was never done and he hnd to have tha repairs made by another firm. He alleges that the celling was damaged $255 worth and that it cost him $161. to have the roof repaired.

He asks judgment in the sum of $161. WAGE HEARING IS POSTPONED TO DECEMBER 9 The officials of the Tri-City Railway company were notified today by the secretary of the war labor board at Washington, 1. C. that the hearing on the wage scale of the employes of that company had been postponed from Dec, to Dec. 9.

Influenza Causes Death of George Thompson at I Mercy. Twelw hours after he had been! removed to Mercy hospital foj; treatment, for Spanish influenra; George 1i. Thompson, 920 street, miccumbed to the malady, his death occurring at 11 o'clock, Monday Bight. Mr. Tlmmpson had been a fesK dent of Dfcvenport for one year and was about 50 years of age.

He was born in Aarren county. 111. He Is survived by five sons Laurence of John V. with the American Expeditionary Forces ia France; George of Davenport; Thomas Bi of Davenport; and Ed gar of Davtnport; three daughter Florence, Margaret and Ruth, all of and the following brothers: W. C.

Thompson of. Camp Grant, Edward Burlington; C. ef Alexis. H. of Kdina, -and J.

of 111. The body will be sent to 111" tomorrow morning from the' Halligan funhral chapel and sery-i ices will be conducted at that place 1 Thursday morning from Theresa Catholic church. Inti ment will be made in St. Theresa cemetery. rungeTaMily i NOTIFED SON! AMOUSING War Department Gives Oct 9 as Dnte of Missing in Action.

Mr. and Mrs. Henry Rung, R. 4, recently received a telegrarn from the war department notifying them that their! son, Richard Runge, had been reported miasiBf in action since Oct 9th. last letter recoived from him by his parents was about the 15th of October.

He was in a hospital at that time, for an operation upon his foot, not from wounds received in action. Thi.j operation was intendej to remedy a slight imperfection which he had been suffering from for some tlnie. Private Runge was in thi United Stales for about a yettf. been in Minnesota and at Camp Cody. Deming, N.

M. He arrived in France the first part of July. Letters received sent to him overseas by the family have been returned to them as undelivered. WANT ADF (Too UU to classify.) WANTKtt A purs at Arlington Ave. Sam lt-bo.

1 20c 27c 25c 27c 8c Money Saving Busy Store No. G-13634 1 COATSALE THE BEE XHIVE Jl Special Meeting of Health Board Called for Wednesday Morning. NO QUARANTINE LIKELY Majority of Those in Charge Deem It Is Unnecessary. Spanish nu la again on the increase, This morning reports to the board of health from practicing physicians totaled 147 new cases. This is a jump of 27 over Monday's reports and shows beyond a doubt that the city is in the grip of a fresh epidemic.

Only 22 of the cases reported today are classed as severe. Those in close touch with the situation say that this proves that the attacks are of a lighter nature than heretofore; They regard the situation as alarming, but do not believe that a quarantine is necessary as yet. Mayor C. M. Littleton this morn ing called a special meeting of the board of health for Wednesday morning at 9 o'clock.

The situation will be threshed out. "I do not believe another quarantine will be ordered," the mayor said today. "Of course the situation is bad. But the majority of members of the board of health and of th emergency relief committee of the Red Cross do not favor a quarantine. We can only Act as we think Is best." Citizens are again urged by the board1 of health to use the utmost care and to prevent so far as possible from exposing themselves to the disease.

The board is taking fteps to see that utreet cars and business houses are thoroughly cleaned and disinfected. This is the extent of the action so far. COURT NEWS) The final report of Theodore Ast, executor, was filed In the district court today in the matter iot the estate of Henry Ast. William Hoersch appears as plaintiff in a suit filed today in the district court to recover from A. Stevenson $135 alleged to be due for.

rent. A resistance to a motion to discharge the First National bank as garnishee has been filed by the plaintiff in an action pending in the district court and in which the Atalissa Savings bank sua the Smith-Reiniers company and J. Morgan Reimers, as endorser, to recover on a promissory note for $2,000. Alfred F. Norgordt, administrator, today filed his final report in the matter of the estate of the last will and testament of Samuel Norgordt.

The final report In the, matter of the estate of Henry Naumann was filed in the district court ttoday by Anna Baumann, executrix. Daily Visits of Dr. Stork Mr. and Mrs. Henry Englehart, 17 WTinthrop street, a daughter, Jane; born Oct.

23. Mr. and Henry P. Schener-man, G33Eas't Lombajd street, a daughter, Ruth, born Nov. 2.

I MARRIAGE LICENSES a Peter A. Woods and Emma Mary King, both of Big Rock, John R. McDougall of Omaha and Bertha D. Kohn of Davenport. (fraternal Cedar Branch Camp, No.

1292, R. N. of wjll meet this evening in regular session at Hibernian hall. Business of Importance Is announced for the session. Be Prepared fo Fight the Flii Keep a supply of preventatives in your home at alt times.

Don't wait until someone in the family hie it. It' too late then. Take advantage of our complete stock of reliable thing to PREVENT SPANISH INFLUENZA TODAY Some thinoe you should have in your home Atomizers Fever Thermometer Cold Tablete Hot Watef Bottle Aspirin Tablet-. Pluto Water Quinine Ca. eulee Lavorie Alcohol for Rubbing Purpose.

ep's a DRUG STORE 30 BRADY STREET Phone Dav. 800 Richard Parkins Passes Away at Davenport Hospital. Richard Parkins, a resident of Davenport for the past twelve years and an employe of the Rock Island arsenal, passed away at the Davenport hospital Monday afternoon at three o'clock as a resnlt of Spanish influenza from which he had suffered for the past week or more. His' home was at 2207 East Locust street. He was united in marriage to Misg Bessie Wells in 1905 and to this union two children, Paul and Elda, were born.

They, together with his wife, two brothers, Everett and George of Minnesota, and a sister residing at Beman, survive. Funeral services are announced to be held Wednesday afternoon at three o'clock from the home, Trinity Ixtdge, No. 208, A. F. A.

to have charge of the services, It II FARMER OF ELDRIDGE DIES David Snyder, Is Victim of the Spanish Influenza. Eldrdige, 4 Nov. 26. David Snyder, well known farmer of this vicinity, passed away at his home here at 9 o'clock Monday evening, death resulting from Spanish influenza. The deceased was born in Pennsylvania, April 11, 1844, and came with his parents to Iowa in 1853.

He engaged in farming until the death of his wife in 1890, when he retired from active life. He is survived by three brothers, William of Harlan, and George and Henry of Pearson, la. The body has been removed to the Nissen and Hartwig funeral parlors to await word from out of town relatives. LEGAL FIGHT BACK TO THE LOWER COURT Must Determine if Drainage Ditch Is An A Obstruction. A drainage ditch is the subject of a legal fight which has just been returned to the district court for a rehearing after being carried to the supreme court of Iowa.

The ditch divides the farm properties of J. H. Mumm and Henry Holat and scimiter-like it appears to have divided the friendship of the principals to the suit, who are neighbors. The action was brought origin- Lally by the. Plaintiff Mumm, to en join Holet from completing an alleged dam on the line between the adjoining farms.

Subsequently a cqunter-action was brought by the defendant. Plaintiff Mumm in the original suit points out that his land is higher than the elevation of the Hoist property and that the surface water collecting on his farm after heavy rains is drained naturally by overflowing to the Hoist farm, if it is not obstructed. In 1914, it is alleged, Mr. Hoist began the erection of a hank three feet high which prevented the water from the Mumm farm from draining Into his land. A suit to enjoin the defendant was brought in the district court and $300 was demanded for damages alleged to have been done by the overflowing of the Mumm crops as a result of the obstruction.

In a counter-action Hoist denied that he had built an embankment as alleged. He claimed in his answer that he had opened a ditch between the two properties in order to carry off the surface water. He charged the plaintiff with filling In a former ditch which caused the drainage water to overflow his land. He asked for $1,000 damages. The district court set forth that both sides had failed to prove their claim to damages.

A permanent injunction was, however, granted compelling Defendant Hoist to discontinue the drainage ditch. The case was carried to the supreme court and it is now returned on a procedendo. YOUR GREATEST OPPORTUNITY If you respond quickly you can buy ray little Missouri farm for only $150, payable $5 cash and $5 monthly, without interest Gently rolling; highly productive; no waste land; abundant rainfall; splendid, healthful climate; good schools and churches; close to good railroad town and three big markets; perfect title, foot oil and gas test well being drilled nearby; photographs and full information free. Hunger, D-313, N. Y.

Life Jjansaa City, Mo. WELL KNOWN WILLIAM WULF, Another Davenport boy has given his life In one of the last battles of the great war In France. William Wulf, son of Mr. and Mrs. Hans Wulf, 2127 Scott street, has been killed in action.

Word has been received to this effect at the Wulf home. SOCIETY EXPECT BRIDAL COUPLE FOR VISIT SHORTLY. Mr. and Mrs. Simon Moritz of Perry street returned home Monday night from Chicago, where they went for the marriage of their daughter, Pauline, and Milton H.

Walkersteln, of Paducah, took place Sunday in the Congress hotel. The bridal couple are expected in Davenport shortly for a visit, probably before the holidays. The wedding, which was at high noon Sunday, took place in the Old English room of the Congress, located at the end of the famous Peacock Alley, Here Rabbi Fine-shriber, the brother-in-law of the groom, read the marriage service. The bride wore a gown of blue georgette made with bands of sat in the same color, her flowers being in a corsage bouquet, of orchids and iillles of the valley. The was in his khaki uniform as a private at the Great Lakes Naval Training station.

There were no attendants. The wedding luncheon was served in the ceremony room. Covers were laid for 16 at the oval table, decorated with a low mound of small shaggy chrysanthemums, in colors ranging from pale pink and cream through' the Bhades of rose and mauve to burnt orange and brown. Among the guests were Lieut. Roy R.

Rosenfeld, Carol Klein and Harold OcM all from, training camps near Chicago. Mr. and Mrs, Wallerstein have a cosy apartment in Lake Forest where they have gone to house-" keeping until Mr. Wallerstein is releosed from his duties at the camp. The new home will eventually be in Paducah.

Class in Democracy at Library. The class in Democracy joined with the Colonial Dames Current Events lecture for its first meet-in thia morninsr in the library club rooms, Rev. A. M. Judy giving a tulk on the revolutionary movement which has swept the variouB countries Russia, Austria and Germany as an outcome of the great vworld war.

a Mrs. E. T. lleald added to the interest of the discussion of the Russian situation with a short account of her visit to that country, where slut joined her husband and stayed for a time in Kiev. There was a good attendance at the meeting.

Tri-City Mixer Coliseum Nov. 29. A Tri-City "Mixer" will be given at the Coliseum Friday evening, Nov, 29, by the three high schools of Davenport, Rock Island and Mo-line, with the object of students becoming better acquainted. The dance is the first of its kind and if i boned to make It a great and pronounced success in every way. The entertainment is open to all young people of the three cities.

The Davenport committee in charge is composed of Frederic Zeuch and Erwin Schaeffer. The General Gesses circle will hold a regular' meeting Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 at Memorial hall, The Mothers' Benefit Association of the West Side Settlement will hold ita regular meptlng Friday afternoon in Ethical hall. There will be a short program Mrs. Herman Staack to sing, and Mrs. Eli Mosenfelder to give a reading.

The cafeteria supper planned by the Woman's guild of Trinity cathedral for tonight ban been, indefinitely postponed, because of the prevallance of the flu. The every member canvass of the First Christian church will begin next week, the lists having been arranged and given out at the meeting which was held Monday evening at the parsonage wiht the pastor. Rev, C. R. Neel.

There are 220 me nln charge of the canvass, which wjll be a true to came ux "every church member" affair. 'oultry Prices are igh'Wie fats remain normal and the watchword of the United States Food Administration is Save. THEREFORE One not only saves money in buying meats instead of poultry, but also helps preserve the poultry supply for the future. Thanksgiving Specials 18c Freh Spare Ribs 901 idVls Pork Loin Roasts Porl? Shoulder Roasts Pork Butts Pork Shoulders (whole) Neck Bones Young Beef Pot Roasts Young Beef Chuck Roasts Young Beef Sirloin Sieaks Young Beef Round Steaks Young Beef Porterhouse Steaks Young Deef Short Steaks 107E. Third United States 23c 23c 23c 22c 0 Food Adminiat ration License.