The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1915-08-20
SOUTHEAST MISSOURI
BUTTER men ELECT
Thomas E. Eugas, of This City
Made Vice. President of
League.

With the acquisition of better mar
kets for butter and ways and means
of improving manufacturing processes
as its primary objects, the Southeast
Missouri Butter Makers Association
last night was organized by creamery
men from various points in Southeast
Missouri at meeting in the Idan-Ha
Hotel
The initial organization was formed
by eight men who assembled for din
ner last night and retired to a room
for their organization meeting.
The officers of the new organization
are as follows: Theodore Thelanious
of Prairieville, president; Thomas f.
Eugas, of Cape Girardeau, vice presi-
dent; A. Miller, of Altenburg, secre-
tary-treasurer, and Mr.. Eugas, J. Mil
Ter of Frome, and E. D. WOODBURY., of
Paragould, Ark, as members of an ex-
ecutive committee.
It is the object OF the eight men,
bers to enroll every dairyman in
Southeast Missouri in the association
within the next year. The territory
they expect to cover will range from
the Cape, south to ParagOuld, Ark.
In each of the members localities,
they make more butter than they can
dispose Of in their immediate vicinity.
Consequently there is a disposition to
sell at a loss or waste in getting rid
of the commodity.
The purpose of the organization of
creamery men will be to eventually
work out a system whereby all the
surplus product may be gathered to
some central point and shipped in car
load lots to markets in the Southern
States.
"The butter market in the South is
much stronger than in this part of the
country" one of the men said last
night after the meeting.
There is a strong demand for but
ter in Memphis and other Southern
cities. If we can send carloads of the
surplus products down there, then we
shall be doing a great thing for the
Southeast Missouri butter man.
Another feature of the association
will be the discussion among ourselves
of the problems of making better but
ter and improving our mandatory
processes.
"For the rpvt two weeks, we will
have Prof J. D. Jarvis, of Chicago, in
this section of the country working
with the Individual creamery men,
showing them scientific improvements
in making butter. Professor Jarvis
talked to the creamery men at the
meeting last night.
THE organization will not have the
effect of raising the price of butter
in our communities, because that is
governed to a very great extent by
the prevailing price in st. Louis"
The present price of butter in the
Cape ranges from % cents to 80 cents
a pound at retail, depending on the va
rious grades of butter.
The next meeting of the creamery
association just formed will be at
Prairieville, September IA, and the
men will meet once a month.
Organization similar to the one just
formed for Southeast Missouri have
been affected in Wisconsin and In
diana, two of the greatest dairying
and creamery States in the Middle
West.
In addition to the offices and men,
bers of the Executive Committee those
who attended the organization meet
ing of the association are John Scha-
fer, of Uniontown; c. StOllenwerk, of
Cape Girardeau, and Paul Bacon, of
Poplar Bluff.