The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1918-10-17
Committee Of Farmers Wait
On Him And Ask Him To
Buy Liberty Bonds q.
HEORDERS MEN TO
GET OUT OF YARD
NeighbOrs Will Not Associate
With Him Hereafter-He Will
Be BOycotted

about two mi es from Cape Girardeau,
was waited on by a committee of two
dozen farmers Sunday night, and
when he refused to buy liberty bonds,
they informed him that he would be
boy-cotted by his neighbors.
The delegation, which was headed
by Thomas H. Lewis, reached the
Kuss home about s o'clock in the ev-
ening. Mr.. Lewis and John job
knocked at the front door and a
young man opened the door and in
vited them in. '1'm afraid there
are more men here than You have
room for" remarked Mr.. Lewis. I'VE
are here to see Mr.. Kuss."
Mr.. Kuss then came to the door,
and when he was invited to step out
| side, he refused. Mrs. Kuss stepped
out on the front porch and demanded
to know the reasons for the unex-
pected visit. When she was inform
ed, Mr. Lewis said Mrs. Kuss berated
them.
The committee was not there to be
driven away. They invited Mr.. Kuss
to subscribe for Fourth Liberty Loan
bonds, and he refused. He told
them he would decide how many
bonds he would buy and from whom
he would purchase, and that if he
chose not to buy at all, that was his
personal business, and he wouldn't
tolerate any interference with his
personal rights.
The charge was then made by one
of the visitors that he was rich
man and that he had only invested
/ $50 in Liberty bonds, and that pur-
issue. He then invited them to
leave his place and never return, and
that he would do as he pleased about
buying bonds.
i The quarrel between Kuss and
John Schwab became so heated, Mr..
Lewis said, that it was feared for a
time trouble might result The far
mers informed kuss and his wife
that they did not visit his home for
the purpose of furnishing him, but
merely to ask him to buy bonds.
When he refused absolutely, the
farmers announced they would not
associate with him again, that he was
urpatriotic and that people who did
visit him would be looked upon as
siackers. Hereafter, the farmers in
that neighborhood viii, refuse to
help him in harvest season, and will
not permit him to use any of their
machinery.
The farmers were from the Camp
ster School District, and spent yes
terday selling the quota of bonds al
lOtted to that school district. Henry
Keller, the well-known farmer, who
was a member Of the committee
sometime ago loaned Kuss his hay
bailer. He announced h weould get
possession of it and that Kuss never
could borrow any machinery from
him again. Threshing outfits will be
notified that if they thre:n grain at
the Kuss farm, they cannotdo bust
7 ness with any other farmers living
in the Campster school district. A
committee of farmers were also sell
ected to keep record of Persons who
visit at the Kuss home. These WISH
tors will be looked upon as slackers
and treated as such.
| Among those who waited on Russ
Sunday night, were: Richard Spald-
ing, Joe Job, Arthur Job, John
Schwab, George Schwab, Herman
Schabbing, John Schonhoff, Robert
Keller, Henry Keller, Barney Koch
field and Thomas H. Lewis.
! These farmers had attended bond
issue meeting at the Campster school
house during the afternoon, where
Hon. Louis Houck made an address,
urging the men to subscribe their
quota to the Fourth Liberty Bond
campaign. The district was asked
to buy $4,000 in bends. On the two
volunteer days. $4,000 of this amount
was subscribed. After Mr.. Houck's
speech the farmers subscribed $1,000
more, putting the district over the
top. 1t was stated yesterday that
the total sum of SIT, 600 was subscrib-
ed by thirty-eight farmers.
While this district is made up al
most exclusively Of farmers of Ger