The Dispatch from Moline, Illinois • 7

(I ikBJXUAiti rjn. 7 i TTJE MUDGE, PESSIMISTIC, FEARS DULL PERIOD THAW SEEMS DOOMED TO BE CONFINED ENTIRE LIFE LEAGUE AT COLLEGE SDAY EVENTOP MU-LilJNijJ LfAlLiY UlsrATUH I 7UTTrrTTSr, ill It 1 1 II II 11 1 1 1 11 ITi 11 ll I Willi r.l I Ir I (XI "I i I A 17 TTXTr' TT" 111 IllirJI UUIIHIHIIIIiri il at thf. Mni ilhuiiuh rnuiuuiiiuii nwiNuni, rEDKUAKY I 0 President of Rock Island Contributes Article to Railway Age-Gazette. Students Will Take Up Liquor Problem and Its Solu- tion. WW LJIUU 1 I 1 Absolutely Puro MAKES HOME BAKING EASY Light Biscuit Delicious Cake Dainty Pastries Fine Puddings Flaky Crusts and the food Is finer, more tasty, cleanly and wholesome than the ready-made found, at the shop or grocery.

Royal Cook Booh BOO KocolptaF room Send Mama and Addroaam ROYAL BAKINQ POWDER NEW YORK. plIiM i HAmY THAW Harry K. Thaw, the Pittsburg millionaire who killed Stanford White, the famous New York architect, seems doomed to spend the rest of his life in the State Hospital for the Criminal Insane at Matteawan, N. Y. Thaw's mother appealed to the court of appeals from the decision of the appellate division adverse to her contention that he is being detained illegally.

When the case came up Thaw's counsel said he had practically entered into a stipulation with, the attorney general that the appeal might be dismissed and that the state was entitled to costs. A remittitur dismissing the appeal was sent to the attorney general. EDGEW00D PARK AND ROCK ISLAND EAST END Mr. Jessie Baker and two little daughters have returned to Chicago after a visit here with Mrs. E.

Johnson and other friends. Mrs. Baker was formerly Miss Jessie Meckling of Moline. Mr. and Mrs.

Elliott Slocura and children have returned home to Albany, after a visit with Mr. Slocum's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lyman Slocum. Mr.

and Mrs. Witter have returned to their home near Cambridge after a visit with their son, Attorney J. B. Witter. Grandma as she is lovingly called by all her friends, has returned to Carbon Cliff after a visit with her daughter, Mrs.

J. Corbin. Wilford Eitman, small son of Mrs. Wm. Eitman, issued cunning invitation to a number of his young friends to attend a Lincoln party at his home Saturday afternoon from 2 to 5.

A delightful afternoon was spent with games and contests and each guest, when called on, told what they could about Lincoln. Mrs. Eitman, assisted by her sister, Miss Gladys Palmer, served dainty refreshments, and a huge cake was carried in, adorned with nine candles, and it was then learned that the small host's birthday anniversary was being celebrated. Cunning little souveniers of the occassion were given each guest. J.

Bowen of Media, 111., is here visiting his son, Frank, and his daughter, Mrs. Trone of Moline. J. G. Smith spent yesterday in Cambridge.

Mrs. Knapp has returned to Kewa-nee at a visit with her daughter, Mrs. Earl Mahaffey. Traffic on the interurban line was tide up for nearly an hour today as result of the derailing of a car at street in East Moline. It was 1 o'clock before cars resumed scheduled trips.

Only One "BROMO QUININE," that Is Laxative Bromo Quinine Cures a Cold in One Day. Grip in 2 Days Irree PRESENT EQUIPMENT GOOD Few Repairs Should be Necessary During Twelvemonth Rail Mills to Be Short on Orders. U. Mudge, president of the Rock Island Pacific Railway company, is out with a gloomy article the immediate future of the railroad equipment business. Writing on the Existing Railway Situation in the current Issue of the Railway Age Gazette, he says: "The railways made quite heavy outlays last year for rails and equipment, and so far as I can learn, their expenditures on these accounts for the nixt ten or twelve months will be tfry light.

If I am correct, the rail mills and car and engine manufacturers will find themselves short of orders in the near future. This of course, will throw a considerable number of men out of employment and will effect the lumber, fuel and steel markets, and it seems to me must, of necessity, mak things very qiw-t for a time. My personal opinion is, therefore, that we are in for a period of nonexpansion and that the length and severity will depend largely upon the trend of public opinion with reference to the rights of the railways. Railways Need Stable Basis. "This western country is a country of wonderful resources, and it is only because of this that we have survived the terrific onslaught made on large capital.

I am, by temperament, an optiniisit. I believe in the west, and I believe in The western people. I be-lipve that they mean to be fair and will be fair when they have time to learn the farts and the effect of this continual hammering of the real industries of the country by the so-eall-rcl politicians. Th- railways can adapt themselves to almost any condition, if the condition is stable." Regarding the rate controversy Mr. Mudge continues: "During all the discussion and agitation attending the enactment of the Hepburn law and the Mann-Elkins law, there were many far-seeing railway men who thought that the additional authority conferred upon the commission would be beneficial to the country an( to the railways, and theie were other men.

whose views were entitled to equal consideration, who felt that to place the life and liberty of so much cantial absolutely under the control of a commission that might he swayed by political was. to say the least, a dangerous experime nt and almost sure to result in disaster. It seems, therefore, that the outcome of the present controversy is looked upon by men holding both these views as having a much greater importance than the mere question of the increase in the revenue involved. Pleads for Reasonable Tariff. "The railroads are merely asking to le allowed an even break.

Thev a'e A.w'OUOL 3 PEK CENT. Acgc(aWe fopparaf tonTa-As-stmiiating chcFoofJamfRcgufc ng the aiuUtowb of IVomotcs DirfpstionGcrfuI ncss and Restrnnfains neiffrr Opiuni-Morphiae norMraralJ OT AARCOTIC. AvstSiml Aperfcct Remedy forCtansfya- non, aour 5roraacn.uiamea WonnsjCtaivuls'ioiisJevtnslr nesaandLoss OF Sleep. IcSinale Signamreof NEW YORK. 2 i willing to pay their employes more than twice as much as is paid in other countries and they are willing to furnish transportation at less than one-half the charges made in other countries, and they only ask that they be allowed to charge a sufficient tariff to enable them to secure money to do what the public requires, furnish a safe and efficient service and still allow a sufficient return to capital to make the investment an attractive one, which it is not at the present time." The statements credited above to President Mudge of the Rock Island are in line with remarks of a pessimistic nature he made on the occasion cf his first official visit to the tri-citics last year.

At that time he emphasized the great expense under which the Rock Island road operates and gave figures showing the ratio of overhead expense and net earnings to overhead expense. GUESSED RIGHT. He Be mine, darling, and you shall have everything that money can buy. She Whose money? Mine? For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the 7rX Signature AA of A'VU In Use For Over Thirty Years It 9 FIRST OFFICERS ELECTED Augustana to Send A.

F. Schersten to Abingdon' to Enter in Prohibition Oratorical Contest. A prohibition league was organized last night at Augustana college by C. Wilbur Nelson, national traveling secretary for the Intercollegiate Prohibition association. The local league will be affiliated both with the national and state prohibition associations.

A good meeting was held and a great deal of interest was manifested in the prohibition movement by the students present. The object of this league is to study the liquor problem, its relation to other social problems and its solution. Monthly meetings will be held. The following were elected officers of the newly organized league: President A. F.

Schersten. Vice President Irving Munson. Secretary A. B. Swanson.

Treasurer Daniel Hult. Reporter Verner Swanson. Enter Oratorical Contest. Augustana is to be represented in the state prohibition oratorical contest, which is to be held at Abingdon, April 7. A.

F. Schersten has been chosen as orator to represent the college at this oratorical contest. Two prizes will be given, $75 for first place and $50 for second place. Mr. Schersten is a member of the senior class of the college.

Last year he led the Augustana debating team to victory against Bethany college. Augustana's chances in this contest look good. This will be the first time that Augustana has been represented at a prohibition oratorical contest. Hereafter "a representative will be entered each year. MECHANICAL DRAFTSMAN EXAMJ NATION MARCH 11 The United States civil service commission announces that hereafter applications will be accepted at any time for the position of mechanical draftsman in the ordnance department at large, and that examinations will be held whenever it becomes necessary to secure eligibles.

The salaries of these positions are $1200 per annum. In this district mechanical draftsmen are employed at Rock Island Arsenal, age limit, 18 years or over. Examination is scheduled to be held at Rock Island Arsenal March 11, 1M1, application to be filed on or before. March 6, with Peter Newton, secretary Seventh civil service district, thirteenth floor of Federal building, Chicago. Oscar F.

Freeman is secretary of the board of examiners at Rock Island Arsenal. MARRIAGE LICENSES. Harvard Smith and Elizabeth Williams, both of Clinton. Henri De Becker and Augusta Le-kins, both of Moline. George Brown of Preemption and Anna Schmidt of Buffalo Prairie.

Read the Classified Short Ads on page 11. WHAT MOOl For the Old People. It may be your father, your mother, your grandfather or your grandmother who is very dear to you, but it is sad to see them lose their interest in life because their strength is fast ebbing away and they seem doomed to the weak, feeble and decrepit condition of the aged. Now is the time for you to come to their assistance. Call at our store and get a bottle of Vinol, our delicious cod liver and iron tonic, without oil, aand see what a change it will make in your dear ones.

A case is recorded in Litchfield, 111., of a man 71 years of age who seemed to be getting old and feeble, suffered from indigestion and a nervous trouble. His druggists asked him to try Vinol at his risk. He did and says he is better and feels younger than he has for fifteen years. We wish every feeble aged person would try a bottle of Vinol with the understanding that their money will be returned If it does not give perfect satisfaction. Gus Lindvall, Druggist, Moline.

Complexion Sallow? Take and brighten up MOLINE MEN IN SPRINGFIELD CITY'S LOCAL OPTION FORCES WELL REPRESENTED AT CONCLAVE. Mr. Story Representative from the League While Churches Also Send Delegations. Moline is well represented at the local option conference being held in Springfield today with a view to influencing the state legislature to favorable consideration of the county unit bill. The Rev.

W. M. Story of the United Presbyterian church departed for the capital yesterday afternoon and will vote at the conference sessions as a delegate from the Moline Local Option society. Others who went from Moline to lend their moral support include the Rev. R.

S. Haney of the Second Congregational church, C. S. Trevor, Fred Miller, Charles Edgar and Dr. L.

A. Johnston of the Swedish Lutheran church. "The conference will be merely an expression of opinion on the part of the 10,000 county option advocates who will gather," said Mr. Story as he boarded the train here. SILVIS Mrs.

J. H. Cain and daughter, Mary, of Colona are at the home of Mrs Cain's daughter, Mrs. Frank Hall. K.

H. Hagedorn has returned to Brainerd, his daughter, Marie, having recovered from an attack of pneumonia which lasted seven weeks The Epworth league will hold regular monthly business meeting and so cial Thursday evening at the home of Mrs. F. H. McKenrick.

The social will be in the nature of a valentine party. J. U. G. were entertained Saturday night at the Crowder home.

Follow ing the business meeting games and refreshments were enjoyed. Mrs. Matthew Murrin and son, Mat thew, were over-Sunday visitors in La Salle, where they were guests of Mrs Grace Connelly, who has visited here often. Friends will be pleased to learn that Miss Connelly has almost entirely recovered from her recent illness. Mrs.

G. W. Foster visited a few days in West Liberty, returning home yesterday. Mrs. Geo.

Morrison has returned from a visit with relatives in Prince- ville. Mrs. Luther Anderson of Swedona is the guest of her sister, Mrs. T. W.

Rettick. Mrs. E. E. Warren was happily surprised last night by twenty friends and relatives, the occasion being her birthday anniversary.

Five hundred was played during the evening and social music and a social time followed. Mrs. Warren received many pretty gifts. The young men's class of the Methodist Sunday school held a special meeting Sunday afternoon at the home of their teacher, W. M.

Slover. A visiting committee was appointed to visit young men's classes of the different cities and report. They also pledged $50 towards the new church. They will give a social Friday night at the Crowder home. CRUSHED.

Sometimes, when, we are out of smokes, We sit here thinking sadly of Those hundreds of first-class cigars We busted when we were in love. Houston Post. ONLY OiE "BROMO QUININE" That is LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE. Look for the signature of E. W.

Grove. Used the World over to 1 DEPOT AT MILAN IS ROBBED OFFICE OF ROCK ISLAND AND PEORIA ROAD ENTERED DURING NOON HOUR. Thief Takes $16 from Cash Drawer, Operating While Agent Is at Dinner. While the station agent of the RocK Island at Milan was absent during the noon hour yesterday some ono forced an entrance to the office, and tapped the cash drawer, taking about $16. Entrance to the office was gained through a window, and the cash drawer was pried open.

When the agent returned from his dinner and found that robbers had visited the place du ring his absence, he reported the matter to the railway company's offlceB In Rock Island, and to the Rock Island, police. To Cure a Cold in One Day Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine Tablets. Druggists refund money If it faiU to cure. E. W.

Grove's blguaturo is on each box. 25c. fLf Jsy? on box. 25c more who will want a Victor of his least. You will not be asked to Cat out and mall today notice the pay- J' Ar Griggs, Dept.

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