The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1915-03-05
WEDNESDAY CLUB
TO BOYCOTT BAD
MILK DEALERS
Members of Social Organi-
zatiOn Will Notify Dairy
men Today.
DEALERS MUST SHOW
HERDS TO BE HEALTHY
Ladies Will Insist That Certii-
Gates be Shown Before Buy
ing Again

nesday Club, who were present at yes
terday's meeting, voted to boycott
their dairymen unless they furnish
medical certificates showing that their
herds are healthy.
The conditions of the milk sold in
Cape Girardeau, as revealed in yester-
days Tribune, shocked the people of
this city, especially the wives and
mothers. The major part of the We'd
nesday Club meeting in the afternoon
was taken up with a discussion of the
milk condition.
Every member of the organization
was incensed as a result of The
Tribune's exposures" said Mrs. Wal
ter f. Cobb. "The revelations came as
a shock to everyone While it had been
generally known that some of the milk
sold to the people in this city was not
what it should be, no one supect-
ed that it was as bad as it is. We
sincerely hope that The Tribune will
continue its exposures until the peo-
pie get pure milk"
Mrs. d. B. Smith urged the men,
bers of the Wednesday Club to have
certified milk shipped into the Cape
from St. Louis, if the people could not
get assurances from the dairymen that
their product was wholesome. 81 am
not going to buy any more milk or
cream until l know that it comes from
herds that are not contaminated" she
said. "I have three babies that must
have milk, but if l cannot get it purc
here, l will have it shipped in from
St. Louis"
Many speakers discussed the urgent
need of immediate action by the City
Council, and Mrs. John H. Himmelber-
ger, president of the club, suggested
a plan that she believed would be fair
to the dairymen and would also pro-
tect the consumers, and the members
unanimously agreed with her. This
was her solution:
81 suggest that every member pres
ent notify their milk men in the
morning that they will not buy any
more milk or cream until the dairy
men can produce a certificate from
some member of the medical frater-
nifty, showing that their cattle are in
good condition. And / urge every
member to live up to their demand
This will not work a hardship upon
the dairymen who have healthy cattle,
but it will force those who sell infect
ed milk to discontinue it. We should
also make an effort to get as many la
dies as we can, who are not members
of this club, to cooperate with u.s."
Every one of the thirty-five ladies
present voted to accept Mrs. Himmel-
berger's suggestions. Mrs. Himmel-
berger announced that the thirty-five
ladies would in all probability be able
to issue the clubs ultimatum to every
dairyman who sells bis product in this
city.
Milk and cream will be accepted at
the various homes of the Wednesday
Club members this morning, but there
will be no milk or cream delivered at
any of their residences tomorrow un-
less the dairymen can show conclu-
sively that their herds are free from
disease.
DIR. ]. S. Lehr's statement published
in yesterdays Tribune, that he had
found a COW in the last stages of tu-
berculosis the milk from which was
sold to families in Cape Girardeau,
caused CONSERVATION. Housewives
were telephoning The Tribune all day
to ascertain the name of the dairy
man who owned the diseased COW.
This information was not furnished
The Tribune by DR.. Lehr, but The
Tribune was able to furnish those who
made inquiries with the names of
families who had purchased the milk
taken from the tubercular COW. And
by this means the name of the owner
of the animal was ascertained.
A prominent woman, who has been
buying milk and cream from the
dairyman who owned the COW from
which the tubercular tumor was re-
moved, called at the office of prori-