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The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1915-10-01
MRS. mister dies
AFTER OPERATION
MCGEE Woman Succombs at
Hospital at 4 A. M.-Funer-
al Friday.

Mrs. Lora Belle Mister, of MCGEE,
County, Mo-, who was operated upon
a few days ago at St. Francis Hos
pital for cancer, died shortly before
4 o'clock this morning.
Mrs. Mister was the wife of Harry
L. Mister and a sister of Mrs. Walter
Desselmann, of 434 Good Hope street.
She was SO years old, and had been i'll
for several weeks with the cancer for
which the operation was performed.
She was brought to the Cape We'd
nesday afternoon, September %, and
first was taken to the Desselmam
residence before being removed to the
hospital in preparation for the opera
ton.
The body early this morning was
taken to the Walther Undertaking
rooms, where it will be prepared for
shipping. 1t then will be taken to the
Desselmann home where funeral serv-
ices will be held tomorrow morning
and the body will be shipped Friday
to MCGEE over the Hoxie line.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1915-10-01
LUTHERAN WOMEN
TO TRY ALT Home
Old Ladies Aid Society to Hold
Fine Mansion in
Probation.

After the former residence of Capt.
George Alt on Pacific street, which
this summer was purchased by the
Lutheran Congregation, was named
Trinity Hall by the church people, the
Old Ladies' Aid Society, of the Luther
an Church yesterday determined to
hold a trial meeting there.
Since the fine old mansion at the
head of Themis street was acquired as
a church property, the organizations of
younger folks have been trying to get
the Old Ladies' Aid Society to make
one of the rooms the society's head
quarters and hold their meeting there
The older women have for about the
last so years, been accustomed to
meeting at the homes of the various
members of the society. Each has
taken particular pride in the enter
tainment of the Aid Society at her
home.
The society members hesitated to
make the change in their scheme of
meetings and many of them chung to
the old style of meetings where each
home is made the gossip center for the
time being. The younger women per-
sisted and invited some of the older
women to their meetings to see what
the mansion was like as club and So
cial center. For several meetings the
women stood dead-locked.
Yesterday they met at the home of
Mrs. Aeverbeck, and when the subject
was brought up, they finally deter
mined to hold one meeting there in
order to give the place trial.
Several days ago, it was rumored
that some of the members were hang
ing back from the Alt home because
the mansion had belonged to Capt. Alt,
who died in the English ranks, where
as for the most part, the women are
allied with the German side through
blood relations.
This was emphatically denied, how
ever, by the women, who pointed out
that had such feeling existed against
the place, it never would have been
purchased.
1t is said that some difference of
opinion has existed between the older
and younger women as to how the
place ought to be furnished. This, it
is said, has been a potent cause for the
older women's hesitancy in going into
the new place.
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GERMANS AGAIN
DENY THEY Are
LOSING TRENCHES
Continued from page 1.

my north of Loos, it was officially an
nounced this afternoon.
On every section of the battle front
Anglo-French attacks have been re-
pulsed in the last "a hours, the War
Office reported.
1--WE have been unable to eject the
enemy from 100 meters of trenches
northwest of Souain," it was admitted,
"but constantly advancing waves of
French troops have broken down be-
fore our inflexible resistance"
The official statement especially
mentioned the gallant resistance of
the Baden, Rhinelanders and Westpha-
lians in meeting the furious attacks
of the French, who suffered the great
est losses in the fighting east and
northeast of Vimy.
All around Loos English troops at
tackled fiercely throughout yesterday
and last night, aiming to improve their
positions around Lens. Despite the
fury of these assaults the Germans
maintained their positions and poured
in a hot, steady fire that sent the enc
my Keeling back to his trenches.
The French attacked determinedly
on wide front around Souchez and
Melville and continued their onslaught
in the Champagne. All these attacks
were repulsed, the War Office stated.
Important successes on both battle
fronts in the face of the greatest at
tack the Allies have yet developed has
aroused the greatest enthusiasm here.
Dispatches today from the Western
front report all Anglo-French attacks
since Sunday have been repulsed. In
the East, Won Hindenburg is threaten
ing Dvinsk and the Russians are being
thrown back across the Volhynian
fortress region.
1t is fully realized here that the
Western battle has not ended and that
the allies may make further slight
gains. But the allies best blow was
struck on Saturday, German military |
critics believed. Then the British were
halted southwest of Lille.
The War Office charged that the |
English used asphyxiating gases in
their attacks around Loos Describing |
the operations in the Champagne re-
gion, the official statement said:
"Battalions of Baden and Rhenish |
and Westphalian regiments
inflicted heavy losses on the enemy,
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1915-10-01
FIRST BIG RACE
AT FAIR SLATED
This AFTERNOON
Continued from page ~

and has been created to accommodate
those who attend the fair with their
machines.
The track will be in excellent condi-
ton today for fast events. The sched-
ule for today is:
Pill pace (stake) $1,000
Z'1o IFot. .............. 3OO
l mile running. ......... 100
5 mile motorcycle. .... 80
In the motorcycle race that finished
the contests yesterday afternoon, l..
P. Stone, of st. Louis, won in a walk,
driving his car around the track in
5 minutes and seconds. The track
was still heavy from the rain Tuesday
morning.
Albert Huters on an Indian, the
same make as the machine that Won,
got second, and Albert Mogler. on an
Excelsior, took third place.
The machine that Won has been
driven $4,000 miles in various races.
1t is a light roadster.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1915-10-01
3 men STABBED IN
COUNTY DANCE ROW
Fight Caused Over Admission
Argument to Cause
Prosecutions.

Warrants have been issued against
three men who, when they refused to
pay the fiddler" at a dance last Sat-
urday night near Byrd's Greek on the
Jackson Burfordville road, precipi-
tated a general fight that ended when
several men We're dangerously cut and
beaten.
The three escaped in the confusion
that followed the start of the fight.
The struggle among the men ere
ated a panic among the scores of wOnl-
en- who were present and they fled
from the hall en- masse and several
started home afOot.
Young men left their partners at
the dance to join in the melee at one
time it is said more than a dozen men
were engaged in the struggle.
The battle took place in a dance hall
owned by Christian and Louis Burg
field, who live six miles out on the
Burfordville road from Jackson. The
dance was being managed by three of
the Birk boys, and a large crowd had
assembled.
The dance had been in progress for
about an hour when three men arrived
who entered the hall and began to
dance without having paid the door
man.
Here, you fellows will have to ante
up" one of the Burgfield's said to the
three after than dance had been fin
ishcd.
"Not usw one of them replied. eve
come in for nothing. You'll Just have
to count US as the invited guests of
honor or elss Just plain deadheads.
"Come on fellows, here's some pref
ty girls over her, lets get 'em for the
next Dance"
Both the Burgfields blocked traffic
in that direction.
you'll either pay or you get out, "
was the stern rejoinder.
who'll make US get out ?"
eve will" was the threat from the
owners of the place.
Without much mode ado, the three
men struck out. Before assistance
could reach the Burgfields the three
men had beaten them over the head,
cut their faces and neck and had
knocked them almost into insensibility.
The fight ragged around the five men.
Three kept hammering upon the two
Burgfields and friends of both sides
Joined the battle. The Birks when they
Joined in the melee were severely beat
en- about the face and shoulders.
The women ran shrieking and
screaming out of the place and after
the two Burgfields had been floOred,
the three men who precipitated the
trouble. fled.
The Burgfields were carried to the
home of Christian Burgfield where
they were in a serious condition till
yesterday afternoon.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1915-10-01
HY. J. BRINKOPF.
PICK SEED CORN
IN EARLY FALL
Select Ears From Standing Stalk
to Study its
Growth.

C. NJ. McWilliams, County Agent.
Good seed corn will be more plenti-
full this year than it has been for two
or three seasons. Some fields are not
so good but if care is used in selection
it will not be a difficult matter to get
good corn for seed. From now until
the first of November is the best time
to select seed. The ears should be
picked from the standing stalk. This
method affords an opportunity to
study the stalk that produced the ear
and the conditions under which it
grew. Breeding and parentage is as
important factor with corn as it is
with livestock.
Corn taken from the field now and
we'll cared for will dry out thoroughly
before freezing weather. Dry corn is
not injured by low temperature. The
corn grower has one main object in
view, that is to plant corn that will
produce, other things being equal, the
most bushels per acre OF sound corn.
That is the object of improved vari-
cites and of seed selection.
One bushel of good seed will plant
about eight acres Of corn, consequent
~, it is not big job and does not take
long to pick enough for home use. A
sack with a string tied around one low
err and one upper corner can be put
over the shoulder and makes a very
handy receptacle for the corn as it is
gathered. Stalks that are short jointed
and broad leaved have more vitality
and a greater capacity for manufac-
turing plant food than others and are
the best kind to select. The ear should
not be too high on the stalk and should
hang with the point downward.
Such ears shed water and are not
so easily damaged by bad weather as
those that stand erect. The next thing
to look at is the ear itself. The ideal
ear of corn is one that has from Is
to 20 rows of sound corn, is mature,
has deep kernel, very little space be-
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1915-10-01
REPUBLICANS TO ST. LOUIS

A party of five Cape County Re-
publicans departed on the early morn
ing train for St. Louis, where they will
attend the big Republican dinner to be
held in St. Louis tonight at the plant
ers Hotel.
Those who are making the trip are
Prosecuting Attorney J. Henry Caru-
theirs, Postmaster f. w. Flentge, Ed
Regenhardt, U. S. Referee in Bank
ruptcy Oscar Knehans and George
Cross.
Probate Judge Ed D. Hays had plan
ned to attend the dinner, but subse-
quently found it impossible to make
the trip.
State Chairman ]. L. Babler will
preside at the dinner and speakers will
be William Meeks of Wisconsin, Con-
gresham Mann of Illinois and James
E. Watson of Indiana, all spoken of as
possible presidential timber by men in
the Republican party.
Babler will introduce John Schmoll
and Mayor Henry W. Kiel of st. Louis.
Schmoll is the chairman of the st.
Louis Republican City Committee.
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tween the rows and is we'll filled both
at the butt and at the tip. The cob
should be of medium size. A very
small cob does not possess space
enough for corn, and very large cob
usually has shallow grains and an ex-
cess of moisture.
Sleect at least plenty for your own
use and if you have few bushels of
good seed to spare, a sale can always
be found for it at satisfactory prices.
This year there are some attractive
prizes offered for corn at the South
east Missouri Agricultural Products
Show, which will be held at Cape Cir
ardeau, October 81, %, 20, 80. Win
ming one of these premiums is decided
ly worth while. There are other local
shows in the county that offer prizes
on corn and it costs nothing to try for
a premium.
The most important reason for Sc
lecting seed now is for improving your
own crop. By planting good seed and
giving it proper attention you can al
ways win a substantial premium.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1915-10-01
PUBLIC SALE

l, the undersigned, will sell at my
residence, six miles north of Cape Cir
ardeau and six miles east of Jackson on
Tuesday, October 5, 1915
Six head of mules from to Z years
old; one saddle and roadster horse; 8
milk cows; heifers; l Holstein bull,
2 years old, registered, good type; 1
three-fourths Holstein bull, 9 months
old; 2 steers, z and 212 years old, 5
young steers; 1 o. l. C. boar, register
ed; o. l. C. sows; 2 buggies, sur
rey, l spring wagon, 3 farm wagons,
1 truck wagon; buggy, wagon and
pillow harness; 2 mowers, 1 binder, 1
hay rake, 8 wheat drills, check-row
corn drill, disc harrow and section
harrow, l corn cultivator, 4 breaking
plows, shovel plows, one-horse turning
plows, riding pillow; blacksmith tools;
1 new cream separator; lot of house
hold goods; Port Huron Is H. P. en-
CINE in good order; log wagons and
chains; Pony E. saw mill, power feed
grinder; one car load timothy hay, f.
o. b. Cape; one car load clover hay, f.
0. b. Cape, and other things too numer-
Gus to mention.
Terms: All sums of S. and under,
cash; all over S., a credit of 10 months
with note and approved security. Four
per cent discount for cash on amounts
over S.. Sale begins promptly at 900
o'clock a. m.
HX RRINK0PE
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1915-10-01
MAN GROSS CAUGHT GETS
3O-DAY JAIL SENTENCE

Frank Stratton, the man whom G..
H. Gross caught early yesterday
morning standing near a rear window
at his home, 735 William street, plead
ed guilty to a charge of trespass be-
fore Justice of the Peace Orren Will
son yesterday and was fined SIS and
sentenced to thirty days in the County
Jail at Jackson.
Stratton declared that he was in
Gross yard looking for drink of wa
ter when Gross found him and after
marching him along the street to
Haarig at the point of a revolver,
turned him over to Patrolman Groce
on Good Hope street.
Gross found the man while he was
looking for a man who was supposed
to have attempted to force an entrance
into the homes of D. A. Nichols and
John H. Rouse who live near Gross.
William Dye yesterday was fined
$40 by Police Judge Fristoe for fight
ing on the Fairgrounds Monday. Dye
had a fight with the owner of a con-
cession at the fair.
F. A. Kinder, who was arrested by
Partolman Whitener Monday night on
charge of disturbing the peace, was
fined S14. Willis Beal, negro, was
fined S. and costs for driving an au-
tomobile without lights burning at
night.
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who repeatedly charged our positions
on the heights near Massiges. All our
positions at this point were maintain
ed.
"French attempts to regain lost
trenches near The Daughter of Death
Hill in the Argonne were defeated
We took more prisoners at this point.
"In Flanders two English aeroplanes
were brought down and their occu-
pants made prisoners.
'In the Eastern theater of war Field
Marshal Won Hindenburg's army con-
tinues to advance southwest of Dvinsk
to the region of Sventsiany. German
cavalry, after effectively backing up
Gen. Won Eichorn's army operations,
have abandoned the district east of
German troops are advancing
VIGOROUSLY between Smorgon and
Vissny. Gen. Won Lisingen has thrown
the Russians back behind Kormin and
Pultowa."
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candy at the crowd. Santa Claus was
unable to gaze over his abdomen in his
cramped position and therefore it was
necessary to inaugurate the signal
service. Charles H. Overstolz arranged
this float, but declined to serve as sec
ond for Potty, because he always gets
sea sick when sleigh riding.
The Funny Fellows" presented Il
plantation scene. The characters on
this float were selected because they
are known as singers. They did sing
at least they said so, but spectators
mistOok it for Ford with the muffler
open. Howard Quarles and Gene St.
Avit will probably be arrested today
on charge of disturbing the peace
They were caught in the act
The "Deestrict Skule" was a float
that represented country schoolroom
fifty years ago. The teacher was at
tackled by his pupils with fly swatters
when he attempted to interfere with a
spooning couple.
In the "Deestrict Skule" float were
Eddie Throlf, teacher, and the follow
ing pupils: Charles Etherton, Robert
Bacon, George Davis, Bud Baker, Ed
ward Raker, John Frischet, Leslie
Henson and Bill Ruskamp.
The float of billikens was the occa-
sion for merriment around the city,
and the wagon load of suffragettes re-
sembled the real thing.
The animals attracted much atten-
ton, as did the Dutch band. In the
cages of animals, were lions, tigers,
giraffes, elephants, bears, wolves,
and leopards. Angelo Demp-
sey and Charles Overstolz occupied OPP
posite cages and growled at each
other.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1915-10-01
WITNESS In NIGHT
RIDER CASE FLEES
Deputy Marshal Orchard Learns
Sikeston Man Gets Letter
and Then moves"

Friends of the seven Sikeston men
indicted by a Federal Grand Jury for
night-riding in Scott County, have
been successful in intimidating one of
the chief witnesses for the prosecu-
ton of the case.
By means of threatening letters they
have forced him to move from his
home in Sikeston back to his former
homestead at Youngstown, o. The
mans name is w. H. Taylor, whose
testimony is said to be the most po-
tent toward a conviction of the men
accused of night-riding.
The intimidation and the fact that
Taylor had left the community yester-
day was learned by U. S. Deputy Mar
shall George Orchard when he went to
Sikeston and Charlottesville to sub
pena witnesses in the night-rider case
which will be tried before Judge Dyer
in the U. S. District Court here Octo-
Der IL.
The night-riders are charged with
having sent threatening letters
through the mail and committing de-
predations in connection with a strike
for higher wages in the vicinity of
Sikeston.
The men were indicted April IA, last,
and arrested by the Federal author
tiles a short time later. They were
brought to the Cape, where five of
them were released on bonds to ap-
pear in court this fall, and the re-
manning two We're held in Jail.
The men are charged with con-
spiracy as we'll as misuse of the mails.
A short time after the arrest of the
men, Taylor began receiving threaten
ing letters, the purport of which was
that if he testified against the men
indicted, he "would get his"
The city marshal at Sikeston told
Orchard yesterday that he had learned
that Taylor had received the letters
some time ago, and he said that some
of the other witnesses also had got
ten letters.
The men whom Orchard subpenaed
were: w. H. Baker ST., of a Sikeston
lumber concern whose property was
threatened by the night-riders; w. c..
Bowman, manager of the Scott COun-
ty Milling Co.; Sam Parish, a former
policeman; Lee Mason, laborer at the
milling company's plant, and two men
in Charlottesville.
One of the Charlottesville men is
said to be a detective and his COM
panion is a stenographer. 1t is said
that these two came from Caruthers-
vile to attend a meeting of the night
riders preparatory to commencing
their work. The stenographer is said
to have made record of what trans
pired at the alleged session.
The men indicted will be defended
by Robert Rutledge, of New Madrid,
and District Attorney Arthur L. Oliver
expects to come to the Cape to con-
duct the prosecution.
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QUITS AS TIMBER AGENT

H. H. Hundhausen, of 20 South Ellis
street, has resigned his position as
general timber agent of the Cape
Cooperage Company, it became known
yesterday.
George Mcbride, president of the
cooperage company last night an
nounced that J. B. Berry, Hundhaus-
ems assistant, has been appointed to
tn OPPOSITION to succeed Hundhausen.
had been with the COM
pany for several years.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1915-10-01
FIGHT Wild ONION
in SPRING And FALL
Wheat and Corn Are Best Its
"Nurses"-Other Farm
Advice.

lhere are TWO periods in the year
when the Wild Onion must be fought.
One is in the spring, the other in the
fall. Sometime during October or No
vember they must be plowed under. If
they are in the cornfields, then the
corn must be cut off and shocked or
the ears gathered and the stalks cut
up and turned under. The onion makes
its growth in spring and fall and it
must be attacked then.
1t must not be permitted to have
time to make seed or to multiply under
ground. The best nurse for onions is
wheat for it holds the ground undis-
turbed during spring and fall and
gives every opportunity for the onion
to multiply itself. The next best nurse
is corn if allowed to stand until winter
as is usually the case. Keep the soil
well stirred, spring and fall, and the
blight of the wild onion on the farm
will pass away.
Did you thin any of the fruit this
year? If not you missed very i'm
portant part of fruit culture. No fruit
requires thinning more than the peach.
Thinning should Away accompany
spraying. Trimmed fruit is much less
subject to insects and disease; it sells
more readily and at better prices; it
saves the tree from exhaustion, pro-
longs its life and insures more regular
crops.
The soil of the apple orchard should
be rich enough to produce a heavy
corn crop-50 to rs bushels. If you
know it is not equal to this, then it
should be top-dressed this fall or win
ter with stable manure. Sow vetch,
cowpeas or clover and turn them all
under without hauling away any for
hay.
Peaches do not require so rich
soil. A clay ridge is best for them but
there must be nitrogen enough in the
soil to allow them to make plenty of
new wood for it is on the new growth
only that the next years fruit is
borne. If we would remember that
heavy crop of fruit removes as much
fertility as an average crop of wheat,
we should more easily realize the ne
cessity of annually adding plant food
to the soil. The most common cause of
unproductive orchards is starvation of
the trees.
The large bills posted up over the
county giving some of the principal
requisites of wheat growing, facts re-
lating to the Hessian Fly and direc-
tons how to avoid damage by this in
sect, are new feature in the progress
of agriculture in this county. 1t strikes
one as an excellent method of spread
ing information that is of great value
to every farmer and, if followed out,
will add many dollars to the farm out
put. This is another example of the
work which justifies the employment
of county farm adviser.
If you want a good bulletin on
Methods of Making Farm Butter,
write to the director of the experiment
The fall of the year is the best time
to plant all kinds of trees and plants
with the exception of strawberries,
though these latter will do we'll also.
November is the best month for this
purpose. L. R. Johnson, Cape Girar-
deau Normal School.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1915-10-01
DEWEIN FOUND TO BE SANE

Little Rock, Ark, Sept. 27-The Su-
preme Court today declared Clarence
Dewein sane, affirming the Judgment
of the lower court All that now stands
between him and electrOcutiOn is ex-
ecutive clemency.
Dewein is young man whose home
is in Belleville, Ill. He was convicted
of the murder of l.. Fl. Thompson, an
aged merchant at Benton.