The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-05-26
JUDGE RANNEY
MEMORIAL SET
ONNEXT MONDAY
Cape County Attorneys Will
Hold Services in Court
room at 80 p. M.
LAWYERS TO ORGANIZE
LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
Hays, Alexander and A. L. Oliver
Named to Plan Incorporation
of Project.

Memorial services to commemorate
the life and accomplishments of the
late Judge r. G. Ranney Of the Com
mon Pleas Court, will be held by the
members of the Cape County Bar
Association next Monday afternoon in
the Common Pleas Court room.
The date for the memorial service
was set yesterday afternoon at a
meeting of the bar association in the
Common Pleas Courtroom at the same
time that steps were taken by the
attorneys in regard to the organiza-
ton of a Southeast Missouri Law Ii
brary Association.
The memorial services will be OPEN
ed at 100 o'clock by an invocation,
following which resolution will be
presented upon Judge Ranney, which
has been drafted by a special COM
mittee of the association.
The resolution committee is also in
charge of the memorial services, and
is composed of T. d. Hines, Judge
Wilson w. Cramer, both of Jackson,
and Judge B. F. Davis of the Cape.
When the resolution Of respect has
been read, members Of the bar asso-
citation will deliver addresses eulogiz-
ing Judge Ranney's career and the
activities of his life. No definite pro-
gram of addresses has been outlined
by the committee, but it is anticipated
that Louis Houck, who aided Judge
Ranney when the latter was a young
lawyer, will speak.
Judge Ranney died suddenly Janu-
airy % last, when he went to bed and
was in his room alone. His health mad
been failing for some time previous
to his death. He had been Judge of
Common Pleas Court for nearly eight
years.
In making their plans for a pro
posed Southeast Missouri Law Library
Association, Senator Thomas +. Lane,
president of the bar association, ap-
pointed Judge Edward D. Hays. Harry
f. Alexander and Allen l.. Oliver rs
a special committee to find out the
sentiment of attorneys in this ecti0n
of the State with view of learning
what the support for the project may
be, and also to devise detailed plan
of Incorporating the association, so as
to make it permanent.
Judge Hays yesterday afternoon
spoke on the project, declaring that
he believed the lawyers of Southeast
Missouri will support such an insti-
tuition.
If proper arrangements may be
made for the coordination of the pro-
posed public library with the lawyers
library, it is probable that the attor-
neys as a body will join the wOmcn's
organization in their ende&vOr to
acquire a public library for the Cape.
Other plans provide for rooms in
OH NiiINS Ouii'iIIS NCHli any lOCdltNi,
where the books acquired by the
organization could be stored and kept
by librarian employed to take charge
of the library.
by combining the interests of all
lawyers, library surprising any now
in this section of Missouri could readi
ly be built up, and in time it could be
made an institution of remarkable
value" Judge Hays declared.
"Cape Girardeau is the hub of
Southeast Missouri. 1t is a natural |
center for all Southeast Missouri at
torneys and, as a consequence, is the
natural location for such a community |
library"
The committee in whose hands the |
library has been placed will conduct
its investigation over a period of sew
eral weeks and submit a detailed |
statement of the feasibility of the
plan as well as a working scheme for
the incorporation.