The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1917-09-14
News From The County Seat

| ]. c. Hoffmeister is having his bar
Der shop newly decorated and beauti-
fled on the interior.
Rev. ]. C. Handy of the Cape de-
livered a sermon in the Methodist
Church in this city last night.
Fred Hartle of Millerville passed
through Jackson yesterday on his way
home from Sikeston, where he sold
some stock.
Mrs. Frank Brakeman and children
who have been with Jackson relatives
the past few weeks, today will return
to their home at Bonnie Terre.
The Young Peoples League Of the
Evangelical Church at a meeting last
night decided to have a marshmallow
toast at Little Schumer Springs next
week.
A crowd of Jackson young people
Tuesday night took the boat excur-
sion on the Majestic.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. M. McWilliam will
move from the VIM. B. Schaefer prop
erty on First South street, to the
home of Mrs. lMcWiiliams' mother
Mrs. Maggie Morton, near the gram
mar school.
Mrs. Davis, the landlady of the Gen.
trail Hotel, is having that hostelry en-
tirely overhauled. All the rooms are
being newly papered, the woodwork
painted, floors finished in hard oil, etc.
When finished the interior will look
like a new place.
The 1-year old baby of Mr.. and Mrs.
Linus Pencil is very sick with cry
sipelas on her leg, between ankle and
knee.
Title Weltecke and Meta Meier
operators in the local telephone Office
Sunday will 60 to the Cape to work
in the Office there.
The Evangelical Church at Tilsit
will have their mission feast next Sun
day.
Miss Marie Taubert of the Cape
spent Tuesday and Wednesday with
her sister, Mrs. Adam Hoffman.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Haupt of Terre
Haute, Ind, who have been visiting
relatives near Egypt Mills, are spend
| ing today with John Haupt, who has
been ill a long time. Mr.. and Mrs.
Haupt made the trip from Indiana in
their automobile.
Leon Clippard is in Poplar Bluff on
business.
Miss Lorena Dalton has gone to the
Cape, and Friday will go from there
for a trip to st. louis. Miss Char
lotte Medley will accompany Miss Dali
ton.
Ralph Russell of Puxico has enter
ed the Cape Normal and is boarding
in this city with his grandmother, Mrs.
Louise McCombs. He goes back and
forth each day.
Mrs. Ben Schwab will clerk at Helm
berg's store while Miss Nora Weltecke
attends the Fair.
Mrs. Dewitt Sawyer and little
daughter, who have been with Mrs.
Sawyer's sister, Mrs. J. J. McNeely
since last spring, have gone to the
Cape to make their home with DR.. H..
Hopes family.
Mrs. Alex Hendricks today went to
the Cape to meet her daughter, Vir-
gle, who is at the home of her uncle,
L. Mansfield. Miss Hendricks has been
working in st. Louis and mother and
daughter have not seen each other for
five years.
Miss Ella Hart Jones left Tuesday
for Mexico, Mo-, to enter Hardin Col
lege.
The Red Cross representatives of
Jackson held meeting yesterday aft
ernoon for the purpose of electing a
directress for the Red Cross work in
the county seat. Mrs. Gayle Ranney
was the unanimous choice for direc-
tress, and Miss Julia Wright was
elected her assistant. Those who at
tended the meeting were: Miss Clara
Mueller, captain Of the First ward;
Mrs. c. N. McWilliams, captain of the
Second ward; Miss Katie Greer, cap
tain of the Third ward, and Mrs. Will
linn Wanenox. I,. aaaka: kLa