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The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1918-07-12
SUGAR LURES MAN
FROM DUTCHTOWN
]. H. Reyes Only Finds Two
Bits For Sale
Here.

]. H. Keyes, ex-blacksmith and far
mer of Dutchtown drove over to
Cape Girardeau last night to buy a
quarters worth of sugar and to
transact other business.
This form of sacharine nourish-
ment is getting to be almost as rare
and valuable as South African dia-
monds on account of the loss of five
ship cargoes of the precious sweet
ening by German submarines off the
Atlantic coast recently, and by the
general demand.
There is famine in sugar in the
Dutchtown market, Mr.. Reyes stated
and none is to be had for love or
money. He was allowed to buy a
quarters worth at one grocery store
here although he was turned down at
other places.
There is no famine in angling for
cat and crappie at Dutchtown, Mr..
Reyes said, and he has a boat which
amateur fishermen may use if they
want to try their luck.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1918-07-12
LAST BONDS TO Be
BURNED NEXT MONTH
Railroad B0nks Received From
Bank-Were Redeemed3
Months Ago.

The last six railroad refunding
bonds which have rested on Cane
Township over half a century will be
destroyed by order of the county
court sometime during the next
month. The bonds were recently re-
turned to the county court by a st.
Louis bank, through which they had
been sold. These six bonds amount
ting to $4,000, are the last of the
issue which was authorized more than
% years ago for the construction of
a cross county railroad.
AT the April term of the county
court the order was made to retire
these bonds with interest. ut re-
quired some time, however, before the
bank through which they had been
placed on tire market could locate the
bonds. After search of more than a
month they We're discovered in the
hands of st. Louis financier and
We're redeemed.
The bonds will be submitted to the
county court at the August term,
when a date will be set for the de-
struction of the bonds. When it was
announced by the county Judges in
April that the bonds had been called
in and had been ordered redeemed and
would be destroyed as soon as they
were returned to the county court,
many of the old residents of the
county reioiced at what they termed
"sweet music"
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1918-07-12
BICAMIST IS HELD
In KENNETH JAIL
Young Wife Nouns Because Z.
l.. Kirby Failed To Divorce
First Spouse.

Zode Lee Kirby is being held fol-
trial in the Dunklin County Jail at
kennett, according to the Kennett
Democrat, and his pretty young wife
is mourning the hard heartedness of
the public all because he overlooked
getting divorce from his first wife
before he married Miss Goodman al
Bell City some weeks ago.
Kirby was apprehended last weel
on complaint of his father-in-law
A. U. Goodman, on charges filed
against him by Mr.. and Mrs. Jen
nings of Bell City, who say that they
know wife number one we'll and that
she, with two children, is living at
Bertrand in this county, and that he
has not bee ndivorced. He came te
Bell City posing as an unmarried mar
won the heart and hand of Mis-,
Goodman and they were married 3
few weeks ago. Kirby alleges that
his arrest is spite work.
His preliminary trial was called al
Bell City last Wednesday, but he was
taken to Kenneth on a change Of
venue.
Kirby was in the Mississippi Coun-
ty contingent that was called to en-
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1918-07-12

H. ]. Karracker shipped his family
and household goods to Cairo where
they will residel He is connected
with wholesale grocery house in
that city.
Harold Mabrey, naval recruit, went
through here yesterday for Jackson
to visit his parents.
G. L. Meyer returned yesterday
from a business trip to st. Louis.
Mrs. Allen Oliver returned Satur-
day from St. Louis.
Joe McElroy went down to Com
merce yesterday afternoon on bust
ness trip.
J. NJ .Shortell returned yesterday
from Sikeston where he is erecting a
mausoleum.
w. l.. Barrett, field agent for the
Normal school, returned yesterday
from trip to the counties in the
north end of the district.
Henry Wolter returned yesterday
from visit at Neely's Landing.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1918-07-12
OBERBECK CHARGE
May Be DROPPED
Evide nc For Charge OfChicken
Theft Said To Be
Weak.

The evidence thus far collected by
he authorities investigating the
charges brought against August H.
Oberbeck by Peter Stein, second
hand dealer, who accuses Oberbeck
Of stealing some chickens from his
Darn, appears very weak, it was said
yesterday and the prosecution will
most likely be dropped.
While the prosecuting attorney
would not say whether he considered
the evidence sufficiently strong to
hold Oberbeck, it was learned from
other sources that the evidence
,gainst Oberbeck was only light, and
thus far only the charges made by
Stein against Oberbeck constitute the
evidence.
Oberbeck, who will be given a pre-
HIM binary hearing before Justice of
he Peace Willer Tuesday afternoon,
,mphatically denies the charges
brought against him by Stein. He
told the authorities when arrested he
vas satisfied that his arrest was the
result of spite work. He said he COM
1elled Stein to pay for the damage
lone to his car by STEMS son.
Oberbeck, an employe of the ex-
press company here. formerly stored
ais machine in TIE second hand shop
# Stein on North Spanish street. Ac-
ording to Stein he caught Oberbeck
chickens in a sack into his
automobile, wnich Oberbeck denies.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1918-07-12
MAIDEN FARMER, 60,
COMMITS SUICIDE
S. H. Johnson Ends His Life
After Preparing WiIl-Had
Been III.

MAIDEN, MO, July 23.-S. H
Johnson, aged about GO, a prominent
farmer who resided few miles east
of Malden, committed shicide by
shooting himself through the head
with a IA calibre revolver, last
Thursday afternoon. The cause of
the rash act is attributable to the
poor condition of his health, but the
real cause is not definitely determin-
ed.
On last Saturday he was in the Of
fee of Morris G. Hill, at Maiden, and
had them draw up a will disposing of
his property, and insisted that should
anything happen they report the fact
that he had made the will and see
that his property was disposed of in
accordance with it. At the time he
made the will, he did not read it as
he did not have his glasses with him,
he said, but came back later and read
it and said it was all right. Mr.. Hill
thought at the time that he acted a
little peculiar, but thought no more
of the matter until he heard of the
suicide, just before he was leaving
Maiden Wednesday morning for Ken
nett, to attend Circuit Court.
None of the circumstances sur
rounding the act were available here
before going to press.
Mr.. Johnson formerly was employ
ed by the Townley Manufacturing
Co., timber manufacturing concern,
and was engaged in logging for their
mill at Townley. He later quit work
ing for the Company and had for
few years been engaged in farming.
At the time of his death he was par
TALLY paralyyzed He was a married
man and leaves a wife and five chill
dren to whom ne left what property
he had, which was, it is said, only al
small amount.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1918-07-12
l43 men TO GO
TO WAR JULY y
FROM CAPE co.
Chairman HutsOn, Of Local
Board, Announces Big
Call For Month
JULY WILL SEND 233
SOLDIERS TO THE WAR
Sheriff Believes 1000 Or 1900
Frem County Will Be In Ser
vice This Year

Sheriff N. j. Hutson, chairman OF
the local board, announced last night
that l43 men would be called to the
cOlors from this county during the
week beginning July %. This will
make the largest draft month from
this county during the war.
Forty-one men left for camps last
Sunday and forty-one white soldiers
and eight colored men will depart on
July II. At the conclusion of the
drafts during the week of July %,
Cape Girardeau County will have sent
233 men to the army in this month,
the largest call yet made.
The departure of the 143 men will
almost exhaust all Of the men placed
in Class One for the June 5, 1917, reg
istration, Sheriff Hutson informed
The Tribune. He stated that after
the departure of the 40 men on July
II there would still remain ITO men
of the 1917 registration in Class One
After the call of July % there will
be IS of the old registration in Class
One.
Those who registered on June 5 of
this year have replenished class one.
1t is not yet definitely known how
many of the new draft will go into
class one, but out of the more than
two hundred who registered, it is be-
lieved that almost 200 will be in the
first class.
Sheriff Hutson is Of the opinion
that all of the men in Glass One Of
the two registrations will have enter
ed the army by the end of the year,
the board has no official fig
ures to substantiate this prediction.
This county has contributed large
quota to the various departments of
the army and navy. It is the belief
Of Chairman Hutson that by the end
Of the year Cape Girardeau County
will have sent between 1000 and 1900
ment to war. This will include, of
course, the men who entered the SER
vices with the National Guard, the
for the marines, navy and
he men who were called into service
~ the draft law.
More than one month ago the draft |
aw had sent 345 men into the service. |
This number does not include those |
Who will go this month or any of tne
Chairman Hutson announced last
light that st Francois county has ex-
lausted Glass One, and is therefore
lot sending any more men to the war.
When county exhausts all Of the
nen in the class from which all of !
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1918-07-12
LOUIS WOLTER, Is,
dies SUDDENLY
Well Known Farmer Stricken AT
Supper Table-Funeral Today
APP. M.

While seated at the supper table
at his home six miles west of the
city, Louis Wolter, one of the oldest
farmers of this county, was stricken
suddenly Friday evening and died
instantly. His death was due to a
heart stroke. The funeral will be
held this afternoon. At o'clock the
cortege will leave the house to take
the body to the Williams Cemetery
where interment will take place.
Services will be conducted at the res
idence.
Mr.. Wolter was one of the pioneer
farmers of this county. He was born
in Hanover, Germany, December Is.
1910. When II years old, he emf
grated from the old country to the
United States, his parents settling in
Southeast Missouri shortly after
their arrival here.
Mr.. Wolter then spent the rest of
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1918-07-12

J. J. Craig of limo was in the city
on business Saturday.
L. w. Barrett, blacksmith of Oran
and Bob France, merchant of Coney
Creek, were visitors.
Mrs. Charles Golfer and Miss Agnes
Osterloh returned home from a trip
to st. Louis on the Bald Eagle Satur-
day morning.
Mrs. Nellie Strevens of Battle
Creek, Mich, arrived on the Bald Ea-
gle Saturday morning for a weeks
visit with her cousin, Mr.. Claud Nc
Spadden.
Mr.. and Mrs Henry Rodgers, of
Monticello Heights, are the pround
parents of a big girl which arrived
today.
Ike Kugman, promoter and trader,
and Gus Heeb, farmer, of Chaffee,
were in the city yesterday.
Mrs. Ben Caldwell, wife of the sec
rotary of the building and loan asso-
citation, returned yesterday afternoon
from a visit to kinfolks in Campbell
Her sister, Mrs. Pearson, came home
with her.
Miss Lizzie Hannah, manager of the
Hinchey store, while the owner is
running a store at Salcedo, Scott
County, met with an unpleasant ac-
cident few days ago when she fell
and partly shattered her cheek bone.
Mrs. Ed Lightfoot has returned to
her home in Chicago after visit with
Mr.. and Mrs. Emil Sebastf0n of n.
Pacific street.
Mrs r. J. Wright arrived here
from Maiden Saturday afternoon for
visit with friends.
Mrs. Bert Baird and little daughter
returned yesterday from Clarkton.
Wade Anderson of Comu -rre went
through the city yesterday afternoon
in his return from a business trip
to St. Louis.
August j. Doll got home yesterday
from a few days visit in St. Louis.
He will leave in the draft Wednesday
Mrs. f. G. Manning returned Sat-
urday morning from a visit with her
daughter, Mrs. H. E. Russell at Nee
ly's Landing. Mrs. Russell and little
son came home with her.
"Cap" Snider of Delta, brother of
Judge John A. Snider, came in from
Delta, where he is and has been for
several years cultivating land owned
by his brother, the Judge, Saturday
morning and went over to Jackson to
visit his daughter, Mrs. Katherine
Snider Kline of st. Louis, to meet
her husband, H. S. Kline, for the first
time. Mr.. and Mrs. Kline were mar
ried about seven or eight months ago.
Mr.. Kline is linen buyer for the
Famous-Barr store; also manager of
the sixth floor and draws big salary
They were met here by Judge Snider
and escorted to his home in Jackson
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1918-07-12
BALLOON MAN HERE
Tells OF WAR WORK
Says "Sausages" Are Used To
Observe Enemy In
Action

F. G. Miller of Omaha, Neb., a
balloon and parachute man, now
wearing the United States Military
uniform as a student in the govern
ment observation balloon school, at
Fort Omaha, near the city of Omaha,
spent several hours in the Cape yes
terday.
Miller was granted furlough of
sig days and started to use it I'D by
making trip to Southeast Missouri
20 see his wife. He received a mes
sage that she was at Puxico with
show troupe, but was told at the de-
pot here Saturday morning by a man
who had dropped out of the company
that it was at Ste. Genevieve and
that he had passed his wife on the
way here. He was very impatient to
go back and offered service car men
$40 to take him to Ste. Genevieve.
but not finding any takers was COM
PEELED to wait for S02 yesterday aft
ernoon. His furlough was nearing
its end.
Military camps, naval training sta
tons and aeroplane training schools
are familiar to all, but little has
been heard of balloon observation
schools. Mr.. Miller related interest
ing facts concerning ten work of the
balloon school at Fort Omaha.
The balloons, or sausages as they
are known by the army, are anchored
to the ground at a height of three or
four thousand feet or more, Miller
said. The students are required to
ascend in the basket of the sausage
and make sketches of the bridges.
roads, landscapes and buildings be-
low. After they have made prelimi-
larry drawings they come down and
make draftings of the sketches made
in the sky.
When the school was first opened
Miller said, the students were given
parachute practice, but this was or
iared discontinued by the war depart
Elent on account of the danger from
buildings. The boys were a bit air
shy and when ordered to cut loose
frequently failed to do So
The baskets of the sausages in use
al the Fort Omaha school are now
suspended underneath and attaches
to parachute, Miller said, and if ?
balloon of this character was de-
stroyed by artillery fire or by ma
chine gun fire from an aeroplane. the
observer could release the parachute
and descend to the ground in the
basket
A balloon recently escaped from its
moorings at th,r school and was car
red by a current of wind on q circle
through Nebraska and West Missouri
Kansas and Oklahoma. The wine
veered when the big sausage reached
Oklahoma and sent the ballon back t.
is starting place at Fort Omaha
Miller said.
Miller made balloon ascensions anf
parachute leaps for exhibition pur
poses ut fairs. picnics and other pub
lie functions before the war and TO-
this reason joined the observation
balloon service. This is regarded a.
lie Of the most dangerous of all war
service, even more so than aviation
work
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1918-07-12
BARRETT COTNER
TO GET new BLDG.
F. A. Rage To Remodel Spanish
Street Structure For Auto.
mobile House.

Pete Stein, who opened junk shop
IN the Rage building on North Span
ish street, several weeks ago, will
move his establishment to st. Louis
Turing the coming week, he an
lounced yesterday. He found COM
petition in Cape Girardeau too swift.
Former Mayor Rage, who owns the
building, announced that he would re-
model it and would lease it to the
Barrett Cotner, the well-known auto
mobile man, for garage. Con-
.rete, walls will be constructed and a
glass front will be installed. Tnc
building will be remodeled throughout
md concrete floor will be laid.
Mr.. Rage expects to transform
his building into a modern structure.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1918-07-12
POPULAR BLUFF, MO-, July s.

Former Governor Jos. w. Folk, can
lidate for the Democratic nomination
'or United States senator, addressed
large audience at the fairgrounds
near this city today arriving early
the afternoon from Dexter. He
opened mis- address by indorsing the
war and the aims and accomplish
nents sought, CHASING himself as a
100 per cent American citizen.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1918-07-12
COLD AND SNOW DAMAGE
COFFEE CROPS IN BRAZIL

RIO JANEIRO, July 13.-Unusual
cold and heavy snow is reported from
all parts of Southern Brazil, and the
coffee plantations in the State of San
Paulo have been damaged seriously.
The coffee production of San Paulo
in 1918, 1919 and 1920 probably will
be curtailed and thousands of plants
have been destroyed in many sections
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1918-07-12
notice.!

Miss Item, the public health nurse,
has taken up her duties for the sum-
mer and is prepared to answer all
calls. Phone $50.
CHILD WELFARE COMMITTEE,
Mrs. Emil Pott,
City Chairman.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1918-07-12
MARKETING HOGS

beats burying them. Steve Hoover,
Mount Pleasant, Iowa, writes, Com
menced feeding my herd Of about
100 hogs B. A. Thomas Hog Powder
over two months ago. Fifty were
sick and off feed Nearby herds had
cholera. / did not lose one-they are
well and growing fast" F. F. Braun
and Brothers.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1918-07-12
NOTICE..

DIR. r. A. Hall, Chiropodist and
Foot Specialist. HOURS a. m. to
s p. m. Sundays-9 to IL a m.
First Natl. Bank Bldg, Phone 14S.
LADY ASSISTANT.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1918-07-12

FOR SALE OR TRADE-New 1918
Ford Sedan, electric lights and start
or, shock abs, speedometer, demount-
able wheels, Gale lock, one extra
wheel, 5 non-skid new tires. would
trade for a large new car. F. A. Rage.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1918-07-12

the counties are drawing it must dis
continue calling men until the State
orders the counties to call from the
remaining classes. Cape Girardeau
had an unusually large registration
and it is believed that it ranks among
the high counties in contributing to
the fighting forces Of Uncle Sam.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1918-07-12

$500 and $500 at 11O1 and 1902 Will
lam street. Apply to l.. Ripping, 543
Hanover street; phone 1869.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1918-07-12
Wood! WOOD! Wood!

| Will Deliver Good HARD
WOOD at $500 per rank; 16
inches long. or to suit stove;
rank to be 4 feet high and 8
feet long. l will begin deliv-
erins Aug. 18th.
c. N. MITCHELL,
"a Main Street.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-07-02
MUST GIVE EXCESS
PROFITS TO U. S.
Flour Mill Cougars Limited to
Csc q Barrel.
British.

Washington, July 2.-F'lour millers
who made excess profits during the
last fiscal year, as charged by the
federal trade commission i'll its report
Saturday 70 the senate. must return
the amount of such profits TO The
government in the form of millcG
flour. under regulations made public
by Food Administrator Hoover.
The federal trade commission
charged that the millers had made Il
profit of forty-tive cents a barrel on
flour despite the food administration :
regulations limiting the different'al to
twenty-five cents. 1t develops that the
commissions report was anticipated,
rs the administration regulations We're
sent out June II.
NillerS whose profits at the close OF
the fiscal year which ended June 20
are in excess of the maximum permit
led. are required to credit the amount
Of the excess 10 the food administra-
ton to be liquidated by flour to be
sold to the army, navy, marine corps
and the food administration grain
corporation in New York at 81 a bar
rel.
The millers' books will be balanced
as of June 80 and again as of July L
20 show the amount of the excess
profit
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-07-02
j. S. TROOPS TO
RESIST HUN DRIVE
General Liggett in Command,
Baker Announces.

Washington. July 2.-ResumptiOn OF
he German offensive on the west
rront is now expected momentarily
by army officials here.
General Pershing's reports, as well
- French and British udvices from
he front. have shown increasing enc
ny activity day by day, indicating
that the Germans are preparing an
1Uher assault.
There is great stir and movement
amnng the Germans hefof I t Amer
can lines around Chateau Thierry.
Fart of the drive may be directed
against this front in Il renewal of the
thrust at Paris through The Compeigne
gateway If so, an army corps Of
American troops stands SlN iider to
shoulder with the French again to
block the road.
Secretary Baker disclosed that or
ganiZation of the. first army corps,
under Major General Hunter Liggett
probably had been completed. although
lie made no announcement.
Il suspect, the secretary said in
reply to a question, that several OF
"ur divisions are operating together
rs an army corps under command of
General Liggett Whether any other
divisions have been created into an ar
my corps. and tentative army corps
commander chosen. | have not heard.
1t was learned, also, that the first.
second ~ third divisions (re~ulrly)
commanded respectively h.: Major
Generals Robert l.. Billiard, Omar
Bundy and Joseph T. Dickmah, are
either at Chateau Thierry or at Can
igny.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-07-02
INSISTS ON WHEAT INCREASE
Senate Stands Pat on $3.50 Per Bush
Ell In Face of Opposition.

Washington, July 2.-The senate by
an overwhelming majority refused to
Weld to house opposition to an in
crease In the governments minimum
guarantee for wheat to $3.50 per
buShel.
A nation of Majority Leader Mar
tin, proposing to instruct the senate
conferees to abandon the senate price
increase amendment to the annual
agricultural bill, was defeated, 46 t."
10.
Senators Sterling, of South Dakota ;
Cronna. of North Dakota; Borah, OF
Idaho; Curtis, of Kansas, and Reed
OF Missouri, opposed the senate recea-
ing from its position
The farmers would be perfectly
satisfied to take their position along
side of other industries and have the
food control law repealed Senator
Borah said. "The farmers are not
asking for any exception to the rule. =
Senator King, of Utah, Interrupted
10 say he thought u halt should he
called in the raising of prices and
wages. Senator BOrah agreed. but
said what the farmer protests against
now Is being given different treatment
than is accorded other lines IF in,lus-
try