The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-05-26
Only One County Fails to be
Represented in Acre-Yield
Competition.
SCHOLARSHIPS AND
MONEY ARE PRIZES
MissOurians viii Grow Corn to
November 49,
Entrants.

conducted by Prof. Seth BabcCck of
the Normal School, now is in full
swing with 106 contestants entered,
representing all but one of the TWEEN
ty-seven counties in this Normal
School district.
The county that is conspicuous for
its absence as a corn grower is Dent.
The others are: BOllinger, Butler,
Cape Girardeau, Carter, Crawford,
Dunklin, Franklin, Gasconade, Iron,
jefferson, Madison, Mississippi, New
Madrid, Oregon, PemiscOt, Reynolds,
Perry, Ripley, St. Francois, Ste. Gen
evieve St. Louis, Scott, Shannon, StOd-
dard, Washington and Wayne.
Under the rules of the corn contest,
the person having the highest yield in
each county will be given a scholar
ship by the Normal School which must
be used within one year from the date
of its issue. If the winner does not
care to use it, the scholarship may
then 90 to the next best corn grower
in that county.
In addition to the scholarship, cash
prizes are offered by the Cape Com
mercial Club, as follows: $50, $25, SIS,
$40 and So.
The entry list for the contest was
closed April 10, when the growers
began working with their acres. The
contest will conclude November Is, by
which time the corn from the various
acres shall have been matured, dried,
cribbed, husked and weighed.
The entries by counties are as
follows:
Bollinger-Homer H. Yount, age 13,
Marble Hill; Elmer Sites, Gipsey;
Roscoe Mckee, Zalma; Samuel Mckee,
Zalma; Lee Fisher, Lutesville.
Butler-Louis Campbell, Rombauer;
Fred Payne, Rombauer.
Cape Standardization Sanger, of
Jackson; BrOthe- Vincent, Cape Girar-
deau; B. z. Winderlick, POcahontas;
Harold Lewis, Cape; J. b. Lewis,
Cape.
Carter-Myron Coleman, Van Bu-
rem; Thomas Clark, Van Buren,; Ev-
erett Bowen, Van Buren,; Lee Link,
Ellsinore; H. D. Caudray, Liberty Bell;
Roy Southerlin, EllsinOre.
Crawford-W. D. Towe, Cuba.
Dunklin - Chester C. Biederback,
Kennett; A. T. Adams, Campbell; w.
B. Schaffer, Campbell; Charles l..
Wickham, Kennett; w. P. Chatham,
Kennett; Martin j. Baird, Clarkton.
Franklin-E. L. Wallach, Catawis-
sa; George D. Bader, st. Clair; R. H.
Woltijen, Luebbering; Matthias J.
Brown, Catawissa.
GascOnade - Oscar Eberlin, Her
mann; F. w. Brandenburg, Hermann
Coax Hill; Elmer Brandt, Drake;
John r. Fisher, Owensville.
Iron-Ernest NJ Frank Annapolis.
Jefferson-E. L. Vineyard, Pevely;
Herbert S. Vineyard, Pevely; c. Frank
Vaughn, Victoria.
Madison - Corn Club of Madison
County, all under IS years old; George
Turner, Woodberry Byers, Herman
Skaggs, Thomas White, Hirl Graham,
Arthur Revelle, Sidney Matthews, Or
min Cooper, Ernest Wilcox and Geo.
Banes, all of Fredericktown; Phonnan
East and Will Stumbaugh, of Jewett;
and Clarence Stephens, Saco.
MissisSippi-G. W. Danforth, Char
lesion.
New Madrid - Charles Shelby and
WeltOn Grow, of LilbOurn; Vivian
Greer, Clarkton; James D. Twitty
Noxall; Trez Thompson, Clarkton;
Conn Shields, LaForge: Ray Barney
Parma.
Oregon - Scott Lawrence, Koshko-
nong.
Pemiscot-Ronnie Greenwell, James
r. Burch, Charles G. Rose, all of Ca
ruthersville; Claude Edwards, Hol-
land; L. H. Gale, Hayti.
Perry - Edward Post, Perryville;
Arnold ]. Huber, Perryville.
Reynolds-Drew Duncan, Hadley.
Ripley = Joe McClaren, Doniphan;
Earl McCauley, Doniphan; Elmer l.
Bounds, Grandin; Emmett L. Bounds
Grandin.
St. Francois-Jesse E. Hunter, Bis.
marck; Alpha Bone, Bismarck.
Ste. Genevieve-. w: Hudson, st
Marys.
st. Louis-John R. Wright, Eureka
Frank w. Harris, Attention.
Scott-Charles Arbaugh, Sikeston
Milburn Arbaugh, Sikeston; Richard
T. Hopper, Sikeston; Joseph Chand