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The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1917-02-22
WATER TOWER Will
GET HEARING TODAY
City Officials 10 Hold Meeting
On Advisibility of Building
Crib in River.

City Counselor Knehans. City En-
gineer Silver and several councilmen
today will make an investigation as to
the practicability Of installing a water
tower in the Mississippi for the par
pose of supplying the city with water.
A representative Of the Public Serv-
ice Commission at jefferson City will
be in the Cape next Tuesday to attend
a hearing that has been called by the
City Council to hear the arguments the
Missouri Public Utilities Co., advances
against installing this tower.
Several weeks ago the City Council
received letter from the State COM
mission, informing the council that a
representative would be in the Cape
Feb. 27, and asked that a hearing be
arranged between the council and the
representative of the water company.
This hearing has been set for the aft
ernoon Of that day at the Courthouse
The Missouri Public Utilities Co.,
which furnishes the city with water,
has repeatedly advised the council that
it would be impractical to install such
a tower as was required Of the COM
pany by the city ordinance.
The water company has offered to
lay drainage pipe from the river
bank to large basin which would be
erected some distance from the river
bank, thus enabling the city TO get
water from the current.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1917-02-22
MADOO'S DAUGHTER TO WE'D

Washington, Feb. 21.-The engage
ment of Secretary McAloo's daughter,
Miss Mona Hazellurst McAdoo, to
Ferdinand de Mohrenschildt, second
secretary of the Russian Embassy,
was announced today.
Miss McAdoo is the Secretary's eld-
est daughter. She kept house for her
father before his marriage to Miss
Eleanora Wilson, the Presidents s
daughter.
In February, 1915, Miss McAdoo
went to France with Miss Katherine
8ritton, daughter of a Washington
banker. to be a nurse in the war zone.
They returned home in the following
June.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1917-02-22
L. s. PHOSPHATE ROCK
WASTED, SAY EXPERTS

New York, Feb. 90. Means of con-
serving the country'S phosphate rock
deposits, the latest developments ir
fiotation and the commercial use OF
potash as a blast furnace by-product
were taken up by the American In
stitute of Mining Engineers in its ses-
sions here today:
The cream of the phosphate rock
production of the country, according
to DR.. w. C. Phalen, of the United
States Bureau of Mines, has been
wastefully depleted because of a pref
erence shown for European export
ing over American fertilizer manu-
facturers. Phosphate rock deposits
are now found in nine different States
and DR.. Phalen stated that the expor-
tation of high grade rock during the
past ten years averaged close to half
of the country's output.
This evening the institute holds its
annual dinner, at which President L,
D. Ricketts, will act as POSTMASTER. To-
nights diner is in honor Of Herbert
C. Hoover, vice president of the in
stitute and distinguished during the
past two years as head Of the Belgian
Relief Commission.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1917-02-22
ILLINOIS COUPLE WILL WE'D
Willard Cameron and Miss Dora Moore
to Marry Today.

Willard Cameron and Miss Dora
Moore, both of Eastgate, H., will be
married today in the Cape. They ap-
piled yesterday for a marriage license
at the Office of Mayor Kage. The Ii
cense will be issued today.
The conD were accompanied by the
girls father who had to give his con-
sent to the marriage, owing to the
brides age. The girl is II years old,
while the bridegroom is four years her
senior.
The couple told the Mayor they had
known each other from childhood and
had contemplated marriage for some
time, but the parents Of the girl would
not consent because of her age. They
finally won over the father and he
accompanied them to the Cape. The
couple will return today and make
their home in Eastgate.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1917-02-22
MRS. LEIBLE HAS A
NERVOUS COLLAPSE
Widow of Man Slain by ST. Louis
Highwaymen to be Brought
to the Cape.

Mrs. Joseph Leible, whose husband
was shot and killed by two negro
bandits Inst January IL st. Louis, has
suffered a nervous breakdown, her rel
ativeS in the Cape were informed yes
terday. Mrs. Leible is sister OF
Martin Nothdurft. He left yesterday
afternoon for St. Louis TO be at the
bedside of his sister and make ar-
rangements to have her removed to
the Cape, if she consents.
While Mrs. Leible's condition is not
considered critical it is believed that
a change of location may prove bene-
fetal to her.
LeibIe, who conducted saloon in
st. Louis, was formerly in business in
the Cape. He had a grocery store on
South Hanover for a number of years.
Early last January he was halted by
two negroes after he had closed his
saloon Although he complied With
the bandits command to hold up his
hands, he was shot and died several
hours later.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1917-02-22
NEW CONSTITUTION BILL
PASSES MISSOURI HOUSE
Measure Authorizing Vote on Calling
OF Convention Wins by
73 to 81.

Jefferson City, Feb. 21.-The House
today, by margin of one vote, pass
ed the bill authorizing a special cleo
ton to decide whether a constitutional
convention shall be called to draft a
new Constitution.
The bill passed by vote of 73 to
81, a two-thirds majority being re-
quired. Under the provisions of the
bill three special elections must be
held.
At the first election to be held in
September the people will decide
whether a convention shall be called.
A second election will then be neces-
sary to elect delegates to the conven-
ton.
A third election will be called subse-
quent to the convention to ratify or
reject the provisions Of the new docu-
ment. The principal opposition to the
bill arose from the fact that the three
elections probably vii lcost more than
S1,OOOOOO.
The bill, which passed the House to-
day is still in committee in the Senate.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1917-02-22
MISS LYDIA RITTER is ILL

Miss Lydia Ritter, stenographer for
Attorney Lee Bowman, is at st. Fran
cis' Hospital suffering from adenoids
and it is believed that she will have
to undergo an operation. Miss Ritter
was forced to leave her duties Tues
day afternoon. Yesterday morning
her condition became so serious that
her physician advised her to go to the
hospital. It will be decided today
whether the operation will be neces-
sary.
Miss Ritter's parents live in Jack
son. She has been employed by Mr..
Bowman for a long time.
Miss Dora Menneke, who is employ
ed by Arthur C. Bowman as stenog-
rapher, has also been seriously i'll since
Tuesday. She is suffering from a Sc
we're attack Of grip.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1917-02-22
PIONEER OF CAPE
COUNTY SUCCUMBS
Mrs. Mary Maintz Died at Far
mingtOn Hospital-To be
Buried To-day.

Mrs. Mary Maintz, of of Cape
County's oldest residents, died yes.
terday morning at the State Hospital
in Pennington after a lingering i'll
ness. The body was shipped to rela-
tives near Oak Ridge for burial. The
funeral will be held this morning al
st. Johns Church, near Oak Ridge.
Mrs. Maintz was born in Germany
in 1893. She came to this country
when a young girl, accompanied by
her parents. Soon after their arrival,
the family settled in Cape County,
where they lived the rest of their life,
Mrs. Maintz was a resident of Cape
County for more than so years.
During the Civil War she was mar
ried to Ernest Maintz. Her husband
died about 10 years ago. One son
preceded her in death 10 years ago.
She is survived by three sons, Robert,
Emil and William.
More than year ago Mrs. MaintZ
was taken to the hospital at Farm
ington. Several months ago she fell
and fractured her hip, and owing to
her advanced age, the injury would not
mend. She fingered three months.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1917-02-22
Rim of Broadway School
Grounds Needed to Widen
Themis Street.
KNEHANS SAYS CITY
CANNOT CONDEMN 1T
Will Appear Before Board To.
morrow Night and Ask
1t As Gift.

City Counselor Knehans will appear
tomorrow night before the School
Board to urge the members to donate
strip of ground II feet wide to the
city for the purpose Of widening The
mis- street, along the Broadway
School. If the School Board fails to
comply with this request, then the
city can not widen this street, because
the city has no right to condemn
property belonging to school.
Several weeks ago City Counselor
Knehans drafted an ordinance, which,
if passed by the City Council, would
authorize the city to condemn numer-
Gus pieces Of property along Themis,
independence, Harmony, Bessie, Paint
er and Henderson avenue.
It was said last night by one of
the members of the School Board that
this strip could hardly be taken off the
Broadway schoolyard, because it would
reduce the site to almost nothing. The
ward is now almost too small for the
children, and if 4 strip of II feet
would be donated to the city to widen
the street. there would not be enough
left for a playground.
Several years ago the School Board
donated a strip of 40 feet which was
cut off the site on which the High
School now stands for the improve
ment of the street, and it is believed
this precedent may be followed by the
board in reference to the Broadway
site.
Another important matter to be dis
cussed at the School Board meeting
is the fixing of the appropriation for
the cbming year. 1t is estimated that
the School Board will need approx
mately $4,000 to cover its expenses
during the coming year.
The bonds on the Broadway School
will be retired today. A warrant to
the amount of $500 has been drawn
on the treasurer for that purpose.
This payment vii lreduce the expenses
Of the School Board during the year,
but other expenditures will have to be
incurred to properly take care of the
pupils.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1917-02-22
MAY PUT CAR SHORTAGE
QUESTION UP TO PRESIDENT
Chicago Board of Trade to Ask Action
by Congress if Roads Delay
Beyond Friday.

Chicago, Feb. 21.-1t was authorita-
lively stated this afternoon that un-
less action adequate to solve the car
shortage situation has been taken by
next Friday, the administration of the
Chicago Board Of Trade will appeal to
President Wilson and Congress to take
the situation out Of the hands of the
railroads, and the Interstate Com
nereeCommission, as might be done in
time Of war, and place it IN the hands
of q body with dietatorial powers for
the time befng.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1917-02-22
POTATOES REACH 81 A PECK
Record Price Quoted in Chicago;
Onions Is Cents Pound.

Chicago, Feb. 21.-Potatoes reach
ed 81 a peck today. This record price
was quoted by grocers in the better
residential districts. In other parts of
the city they sold as low as 80 cents
at retail.
Cabbage sold at 10 to 12k cents a
pound, and onions at Is cents. Other
vegetables wese propoFtionately hisa.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1917-02-22
BONE DRY BILL IS PASSED
House Approves Measures By Vote of
Five to One.

Washington, Feb. 21.-The House
this afternoon voted to concur with
the Senate in the Reed amendment to
the post-office appropriation bill, max
ing prohibition States 'fbone dry" by a
vote of 321 to p, six members present
not voting.
The amendment prohibits the trans
portation of intoxicating liquors in In
terstate Commerce into any State pro-
hbnting the manufacture or sale of in
toxicsnts. Party lines were disregard
ed in the vote.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1917-02-22
PNEUMONIA KILLS YOUTH
Louis Fl. Ostendorf Died After Four
Days Illness.

Louis H. Ostendorf, IS years old
was buried yesterday afternoon in St
Mary's Cemetery. The youth died
Tuesday after an illness of four days
of pneumonia.
He was a son Of John Ostendorf, a
farmer, living about six miles west OF
the Cape. Besides his parents he leav-
es several brothers and one sister.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1917-02-22
new BRITAIN, CONN.,, THINKS
IT Is DOOMED TO DESTRUCTION
Twenty Explosions Occur inHour
and Police Say it is Plot to destroy
the City-British Gain in France.
Fy International News Service.

Washington Feb 2The unofficial from tonight that Eng
land would tighten blockade against neutral commerce
recognize international law the py
cpa of which provides search and not ruthless estue
ton, the situation i Il grave one
However likely protest be made The State
department tonight stated that the last to
regarding the prisoners message demand for
the release Of the p Americans announcement
made Government event the Amer
leans still prisoners.
New Britain tonight following
20 explosions believed plot has been
city, been arrested
this wholesale campaign prevails city
and of the State militia Boy
have police
Fire from nearby have brought New Britain
battling confagaon city
population o
London -Tonight headquarters
capture enems
yards
prisoners The trench 500yrd front in
Ypres radel many Germans killed
Memphis NJ Pond George Kingbeg
student Army fell with
tpane afternoon seriously fatally injured
Philadelphia seriously by
police
Franklin tonight. The followed demonstration
marched the refinery bread Mounted patomen
police and when they arrived the strikers and their hungry
charged police bricks The police fired Mareuecn
Cetkobzo deada nine wounded.
Washington gigantic campaign conditions
large by shortage
tel state Commerce Commission tonight Following information
housauds of people animals
rp directing railroad
suffering communities There be prob
ability tonight that railroads and
them as in wartime
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1917-02-22

said, was part OF IN anti-subm9rina
department which had beer establish
cd, he explained, with the best and
most experienced personnel"
During the period from Feb. to
IS, the Admiralty lord said, 6,076 YES
sells had arrived at ports of the United
Kingdom and 1913 had departed--and
this despite the German submarine
blockade.
This was a total of II $40 ships to
and from British ports.
"Since the start of the war;" Sir
Edward continued, "we have examined
either on the high seas or in harbors,
25.S74 ships. This constitutes cur
blockade with Germany"
Carson announced that the number
of armed ships had increased 47.5 per
cent during the last two months. An
increase in the number armed for de-
fense against submarines is noted each
week, he added
The Admiralty Lord said S,000,O00
men and 9.420,000 tons of explosives
and material had been moved across
The seas up to October last year and
during this time only one or two uH-
toward incidents had occurred.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1917-02-22

Berlin, (Via Sayville Wireless) Feb.
21.-It was officially announced this
afternoon that the Government will
ask the Reichstag for new war cred
it of 15,OO0,O00,OOO marks (about S4,-
O0O,OO0,0O0).
London, Feb. 21.-"The submarine
menace is grave and serious and IS
growing. 1t is not yet solved, but l
am confident measures now being de-
vised will gradually mitigate its seri-
ousness," declared Sir Edward Carson,
First Lord of the Admiralty. today.
The Cabinet Minister made this
statement in connection with his pres
entation of naval estimates to the
House of Commons. One Of the pro-
visions of the bill was for an increase
Of Britain's sailors by 100000.
Sir Edward said that during the
first Is days of February-since in
auguration of the German ruthless
ness" at sea-there had been 40 fights
with submarines.
Sir Edward aly9 announced that
Lord Fisher. former First Sea Lord,
had been returned to the Admiralty
staff as president of a board of in
ventions. This invention board, he
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1917-02-22

Confined on page threeJ
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1917-10-26
BUY A BOND!

"Buy Bonds and Back Our Boys" IS
the call that is being answered today
from everywhere in the Great North
west.
The whole great country is rallying
to the cry to get behind the men that
are going to fight for our rights, our
liberties and our homes.
1t is never going to be said that the
people of the United States Of Ameri-
ca let their mel go into battle un-
prepared to fight, Or without shoes
and clothes and food that they must
have, or the means to take care of
them if they are bowled over.
The great truth is being realized
that the government is not asking
anyone for money, but wants only to
borrow it and is giving for it the
finest security that exists in the
whole world. And patriotism and 10y
atty today are words that are synono-
nous with Liberty Bonds"
Men everywhere in Minnesota, in
North Dakota, South Dakota, and
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Perhaps blind hatred. Perhaps the

Perhaps blind hatred. Perhaps the
same purpose as the kaiser expressed
when he issued instructions to the
German army that marched against
the Chinese Boxers in 1900:
s'If you meet the enemy, you will
defeat him, give him nc quarter, make
no prisoners. Let whoever falls into
YOUR hands be doomed. Just as a
thousand years ago the Huns. under
the King Etzel, made for themselves
a name which to this day is a mighty
one in tradition, so may your appear
ance make the German name be
feared for a thousand years in China,
so that never again will a Chinaman
dare to look askance at any German"
But it won't work with America. 1t
didn't even work with China, for
those same Cinnamon are today at
war against the Germans who so
proudly assumed the role of Huns. 1t
ONLY makes the whole world more
sternly resolved to put an end to such
barbarity forever.-Great Falls Lead
err.
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FIRST BLOW

Germany has at last really taken
notice of the fact that the United
States has entered the war. In ac-
cordance with the Prussian rule of
warfare, she has struck first. And
her stroke is typical. She has well
coined her American antagonists by
blowing up their hospitals, numbering
the sick soldiers and the doctors and
nurses that minister to them.
There seems no question that these
attacks are deliberate. Such hospi-
tails as those bombarded lately could
not be mistaken by any aviator ex-
cept a blind one-and blind men are
not chosen for the air service. They
are all plainly, Enthusiastically marked
with the Red Cross, and are other
wise easily distinguishable from any
other sort of military or civilian es-
tablishment.
Thus the German government goes
from barbarity to barbarity. This is
the r~!ural climax of a long series of
ferocious performances that would
have been incredible before the war.
| And no doubt there will be other
climaXes.
What is the purpose back of it?
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1917-10-26
THE FAULT HUNTER

The most unfortunate of men is
he who hunts for something wrong,
who strains his ear again, again, to
hear the false notes in a song.
'Tis he who marks with gloomy eye
the bridal couple as they pass and
says, "Their joy will soon pass by;
they'll grow old; all flesh is grass"
'Tis he who stops the flow of mirth
by preaching trouble and despair,
who says that everything on earth is
but a pitfall and a mar He sees
the ring around the moon, when
other men the moon behold, and says
a storm will come full soon, with hail
and sleet and bitter cold. He sees the
sundogs standing guard, when other
men behold the sun, and says We'll all
be frozen hard before the current week
is done. Oh, gloom and trouble are
his pets, with them he eats and drinks
and sleeps; he's only happy when he
frets, he's only joyous when he weeps.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1917-10-26

Montana. in northern Wisconsin and
in northern Michigan are being told
not to let the sun go down on them
without having their names on the
Liberty Bond subscription lists and
they are needing it nobly.
The Liberty Loan campaign in the
Ninth Federal Reserve district has
started so we'll and with so many evil
dences already that counties and
townships are going to oversubscribe
that it all spells Success and Honor
for the Great Northwest"
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ARE YOU DOING YOUR SHARE?

ARE YOU DOING YOUR SHARE?
The boys who enlisted are giving
their blood
In battle for mine and me;
The women and babies are giving
their food
In countries across the sea;
They suffer privations undreamed in
our land
For the same ideals we hold,
They make sacrifices we can't under
Where in plenty are bread and gold;
The mothers, the children, the old,
the unfit,
Are giving their all over there
BY George! l don't want to do mere
ly my bit
But do my full share-my share!
It's little enough l can do over here.
For the boys who are fighting for
But I'll give "till it hurts" and III
give with good cheer
When it pinches the prouder I'll be
Why, the shirt from my back l would
joyfully tear
Just to feel less accused, less
ashamed
Every time my thoughts turn to oul
boys owe there
And the women and children ant
MANNED;
Just to feel that I was doing my ut
most with grit,
Just to feel l was playing thing
square,
Just to know l was not merely doin,
my bit,
But-thank God was doing m
Lee Shippey in Leslie's.
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Two PerfOrmances-3:OO and $3.50
Reserved seats on sale now at the
Glasgow Drug Store.

1t would be no concern of mine if he
would nurse his crouch alone; but
publicly he weeps his brine and
heaves his deep, heartrending groan.
And in these crucial times we need
no added weight to loads of care, no
signs that make our bosoms bleed, no
threats or omens of despair.-Walt
Mason.
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of the candy sale last Friday night
given for the benefit of the Red
Cross. Twenty dollars was realized,
which is a neat sum for the treasury
of the Red Cross to work upon. This
week they will hold a flower sale at
the same time and place. These girls
are working for the boys at the front.
Everybody come and buy a bouquet
for their wife, sister or sweetheart.
The members of this little club, made
up chiefly of business girls Of the
city, are the Misses Kelly, Hoey, Bel
zer, Grossman, Caldwell and Mes
danes Hapgood, Belzer, White and
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1917-10-26
WHAT LIBERTY BOND WILL BUY

The $50 you loan the government
will buy any of the following:
Thirteen %13-pounder shells for de-
stroying submarines.
Four 5-inch shells for the same pur-
pose.
One hundred pounds of smokeless
powder.
Eighteen gas masks for a like num-
Der of soldiers at the front.
Enough coal to drive a destroyer
12O miles.
Enough gasoline to drive a subma-
rine destroyer $50 miles.
A soldiers uniform outfit.
Four months subsistence for a SOL
der
The government desires to find out
the reasons that prompt persons to
refuse to buy bonds, and has furnish
ed all solicitors will blue cards giving
the name of the men that refuses to
buy, his nationality if a citizen or
otherwise; if he ever took up a home
stead; if any member of his family is
serving the country; if he bought any
of the last bonds; if so, how many;
and the reasons assigned for not buy
ing.
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NJ. F. Il Aid.

The members Of the Methodist
Ladies' aid met for the first time in
the new basement, Wednesday after
noon After the regular business
session the afternoon was spent in
work and partaking of an appetizing
lunch served by Mrs. Adolph Behner
and Mrs. George Hansen.