The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1917-05-10
MARKET TO
BE ESTABLISHED
FOR FARMERS
Judge Schaefer Suggests
That ComI Club Help Pro-
ducers Dispose of Stock.
FIRE LOSS 100000
in U. s., SAYS EXPERT
COml Club to Ask for Regulation
of Ice Sale-Club Has 692
Members.

\ A move to locate market for home
: grown products was started last night
at the meeting of the Commercial Club
at the suggestion Of William B. Shaef-
er, president of the Cape Exchange
Bank, when he proposed that an effort
be made by the club to help the truck
gardeners and farmers to dispose of
the products they could not sell in the
city. Mr. Schaefer called attention to
the fact that great deal of food
stuff was wasted, due to the fact that
the producers could not sell all prod
ucts in the city.
A committee consisting of Mr.
Schacfer, William H. Stubblefield Jr,
and A. w. Hinchey, was appointed to
engage a market expert from st. Louis
to establish a branch of large
produce concern in the Cape or make
arrangements for daily shipments to
the markets in st. Louis. Several other
suggestions were made to curb the
increase of living in the city.
Secretary Martin was authorized by
the Commercial Club to go before the
City Council next week to ask for the
enactment of an ordinance compelling
the ice men to sell their product by
actual weight. 1t vas suggested that
a provision be made in tie proposed
ordinance to the effect that every ice
man weigh the ice before selling it to
the consumer. The suggestion was
made by Prof. Cooley of the Business
College.
Prof. Seth Babcock asked that the
grocers of the city be requested to
buy homegrown products instead of
having their stock shipped here from
States that raised fruits and vege-
tables earlier than the home producers.
He said that in most instances the con-
sumner was tired of certain kinds of
vegetables before the homegrown |
crops were fit for the market. The |
merchants were anxious TO place fresh |
vegetables on the market as soon as |
possible and when the vegetables |
grown near the city were ready for the |
stores, the consumer would not buy |
them as readily as during the earlier
part of the season.
A lengthy address instructing the
members of the Commercial Club of |
the enormous fire loss in the country |
caused by defective wiring of build |
ings was given by Mr. Wood, a repre-
sentative of the Fire Inspection Bu-
reau. The total loss Of property by |
fire averaged about 400 million dollars
every years, Mr.. Wood explained.
About II per cent of the fires could be
traced to electrical defects.
He then related the death toll due
to the defects in wiring business
houses and residences, stating that
hundreds of persons lost their lives by
a defect in the electric wiring system
of houses. He told what he found in
the home of one of the members with
whom he spent the evening. The feed
wire leading from the street to the
house was hun through screen. The
insulation was worn, and could at any
time have charged the screen, especial
" in wet and damp weather. Any per-
son coming in contact with the screen
would receive a heavy shock, perhans
strong enough to cause his death, the
expert said.
Several members of the club sug
gested that an inspector be employed
for all towns in Southeast Missouri to
look after these defects. The COM
mercial clubs of Southeast Missouri
will be communicated with in an effort
to get such an inspector, who Will be
paid by the cities, in which he makes
his annual inspections.
The plan to rent the adjoining hall
of the present rooms of the CONNER
cial Club was abandoned, because of
difficulties making the connections with
the present rooms. President Leming
advised the club that it would have
accented a nOsitiOn as SuDerintendent