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The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1918-08-22
S. 7. NEELY DIES;
ILL THREE WEEKS
Was Manager OF Floesch Con-
struction Co. And Worker
For War

S. T. Nceiy, manager CT the
FIcesch Construction Company, ser
gcant of the Cape Girardeau Home
Guards Company, and one of the
most patriotic men in this county,
died at his home $50 Bellevue street,
shortly before s o'clock last night.
He had been i'll only three weeks,
his ailment being spine trouble and
nervous collapse.
During the past few days he had
been in a precarious condition, and
his physicians announced that he
could rot survive. DR.. st. Avit had
been attending Mr.. Nicely, and one
week ago Dr.. W. G. Patton was
called in consultation and had admin
istercd TO him with DR.. st. Avit since
that time.
Mr.. Nicely came to Cape Girardeau
two years ago from Chicago and took
charge of the construction work on
the drainage project. tie was an en-
gineer and an expert in drainage
! work.
No one in this part of the state
took more active interest inpatri-
| otto work than Mr.. Nicely. He was
made chairman of the Thrift Stamp
and War Savings Stamps campaigns
and performed excellent work. He
was in the midst of a drive to put the
county over the top when stricken
three weeks ago. He failed rapidly
/ from the day he became i'll.
/ His sister, Mrs. Lucy Colville o
Paris, KY. has been at his bedside fol
the past two weeks
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1918-08-22
EMIL HIRSCH Is
GASSED IN DRIVE
ON WEST FRONT
Mother Here Gets Two Let
tiers From Soldier Telling
OF Experience
IS NOTPERMANENTElY
INJURED, He WRITES
Lieut.. Frisse.ll Enjoys Thrills Of
The Big Drive, he Writes
To Tribune

Emil TIirsch, oldest son of Mrs
Soma Hirsch of West William street
was gasscd in the great Allied drive
in Franco, according to two letter.
which Mrs. Hirsch received from hel
son yesterday. The letters were
written from a base hospital IT
France and were dated July - and
July %.
Young Hirsch told his mother that
he encountered 4 wave of gas as nc
went over the top at the beginning OF
The drive. It is supposed that he was
gasscd about July 10, or day or 81
later.
He was picked up unconscious and
taken to base hospital, where nc
revived, and will recover. In rs
letters to his mother, he said he was
getting along as well as could De ex-
pected.
1t is mot known whether he has
been permanently disabled or not
Some victims of gas attacks are I'm,
dered unfit for further military ser,
vice, but the tone of Young Hirsch' &
letters indicates that he has not
been seriously injured.
He was one Of the first Cape Glrar
deau boys to volunteer last year. HI
| entered as a private, but was pro
nloted to sergeant 4 short time at
| ter he coached camp. He has been II
! France about six months, but was on
" called into active service when tn
great Foch drive started about Jul
Is.
Owing to the strict censorship, h
was not permitted to say where h
was located when he was gassed o
name the town in which he is now lo
Gated.
A letter from Lieut. Howard \
Frisseil, which. was. received by Tn
Tribune yesterday, stated that he wa
in excellent health and that he enjoy
cd the excitement of the drive. Lieu
Frisscll's letter was dated July 20. T.
has been in the trenches for tw
months.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1918-08-22
CATTLE POISONED
NHOWELLC0UNTY
Grand Jury investigates Myster-
iOus Slaughter OF Cattle
Herds.

WEST PLAINS, Aug. 81
All week long the grand jury has
again been probing into the cattle
poisoning cases around the historic
but now deserted town of Horton
near tbs Howell and Douglas county
boundary line. Almost one hundred
witnesses have been examined. We'd
nesday several women were here
from the vicinity CT old Horton &c
Sell the grand jury what they kiloy
but thc shooting ana poisoning
cases.
All told 81 head Of cattle have
been lost by farmers along the Doug
las county line. Galloway Bros.
Tom Aylor, Joe Aldridge, W. C. Cone
ard Ant Collins have been the heay-
lest losers. TIE cattle were found
dead or the open range, some .pois-
oned, others shot by unknown per-
sons.
The trouble first broke out July
81, little over year ago when Gal
lowav Bros, had 16 head shot on the
range near Horton. The next out
break was May "a, of this year, when
% h ad Of cattle and one mule were
found dead on the range. They were
poisoned. On July s, twenty-four cat
tie were poisoned near the old Heck
.rt mill, between Spring Creek and
Noblctt. Paris green in salt was
found on the ground where the cattle
we're grazing. On August 18th sew
eral more dead cattle We're found OF
TIE range in this vicinity.
BI0odhounds were secured from
Fierce City ard were put on the trail,
which was IS hours old. The dogs
followed the trail for quite distance,
but a light rain obiiterataed the
tracks.
Then came the attempted assassi-
nation of J. w. C'Buck") Kelly, q
merchant whose store is near old
Horton. Kelly was. pulling off his
shoes to retire for the night when
someone fired Il shot through the
lass window. Kelly ran to the home
of Il neignbor and borrowed a shot
gun to defend himself. 4 few days
before this Kelly had testified before
the grand jury in tie cattle poison
ing cases.
The grand jury is still investigal-
ing these acts of lawicssncss and sew
cral indictments against prominent
citizens in the range fight may be eX
pacled the last OF the week.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1918-08-22
W0RMAN MADE
CHAIRMAN BY
THE DEMOCRATS
Congressional Committee,
InSession At Poplar Bluff,
Made Flannery Secretary
BUTLER COUNTY MAN
ELECTED SECRETARY
G.. II. Burdette And Mile Gres'
ham is Elected Members OF
Tbe State Committee.

Ralph Warmack, Bloomfield attor-
ney was elected chairman of the De-
mocratic Congressional Committee OF
this district at the meeting at Pop
lar Buff yesterday, H. n. Flannery
of Bloomfield, secretary, and J. S. o.
Neal of Popldr Bluff, treasurer.
DR.. 3. w. Hays, chairman of the
Cape Girafdsau County Committee
and J. L. jenkins, also Of jackson, re-
presented this county at the meeting
c. H. Burdette, of. Iva, and Milo
Gresham of Sikeston were elected
members of the State Committee
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1918-08-22
CITY NEWS in BRIEF

Ering your inncrtubcs to Us for re-
pairs. Quick service. Geo. bafir
Phone .6O5, formerly Harris Motor
Co.
We wash your auto clean and do II
quick. Geo. Balm, Phone Cos, for,
merly Harris Motor Co.
II. q. CGrtrighth, an employe OF the
Frisco, aud wife icavc today for bu1-
falo. New York for a months visit to
relatives.
Earl Mcbride returned to Camp
Pike at Little Rock yesterday after
visiting his mother, Mrs. Alyra Nc
Bride On North Fainter for S-vcral
DAYS. He IS being trained as mu-
stefan for service in one Of the rcgi-
mental bands.
Charles Gelvin, the Pacific street
florist. left yesterday morning tor
st. Louis to attend the National Cor
vention of Florists which met We'd
nesday morning and will be in session
two days.
Mrs. Sophie Hutchinson Went to st
Louis Yesterday morning to consult Z
physician from whom she is taking
treatment.
C.J. Hannah and daughters Misses
Elma and Edna left yesterday morn
sing for st. Louis.
Mrs. J. W. Speed and children OF
Fdwardsviilc, H., arrived here yes
terday aft rroon to visit John III
Rou-e. their father and grandfather
c. ]. McBroom, chief clerk in the
supc!intendcnt's office at Chaffee was
in Cape Girardeau yesterday.
Chief Dispatcher Campbell at
at Chaffee has been taking a iay-of1
to be at home here when his sor
Arch was at home on short visit
from the navy.
II. f.. Alexander went to Benton tC
look after cases in circuit court there
O. A. knehans is in st. Louis OF
business.
Mrs. c. V. Ransom is in receip
of card from Arthur Metz a couSr
who is being introduced to militar!
life at Camp Macarthur, Texas. H'
has been there three weeks.
Frisco Conductor NJ. f. Dale OF ~
Puxico-Willow Springs run is enjoy
ing brief recreation in Cape Girar
deau.
Robert Baumann and family an
Mr.. Burger and on of Bclleville, Ill
arrived here a day or two ago by aut'
to visit Mrs. Theodore BaUarle an
family of South Pacific street.
Homer Smetzer, formerly men
Der Of the Capaha base bali team c
the Cape, arrived here from Sikesto
yesterday afternoon to spend sever;
days here.
Major Giboney Houck returned We:
terday from St. Louis, where he a
tended meeting of the Democrat
State Committee.
Friends of DIR. John d. Portertiel
Jr., a Captain in the L. S. Army Me-
ical Corps, have received letters fro
him, stating that he is elated with
nv life. He is stationed at 70
Sam Houston. Texas.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1918-08-22

Chairman HAYS declined to divulge
any names Of Democrats who will go
on the county ticket. He said that
would he left to the Committee, ard
that no slate had been prepared.
The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1918-08-22
81 SOLDIERS Will
LEAVE AUGUST so
Large Contingent Is Drawn By
Local Draft Board At
Jackson.

The names of y men who are to
compose the next draft contingent
were drawn by the Cape Girarsleau
County Draft Board at jackson yes
tcrday. The men will leave Jackson
on the $40 train en- the morning of
Friday, august so, and will be sent
10 Camp Funston, Kansas. The last
tnree names were further down on the
list Of numbers but asked to be ad-
vanced so they could go at once.
The proclamation of the president
calling on all young men who have
reached the age Of y years since TIE
9Th OF June to register on Saturday,
!Augus1 u has been received. The
registration will be conducted ut
jackson by the County Board.
The following is the list OF those
who were drawn to leave on Augusts
30. Part Of them are last years and
part this years rCg;strants:
REGISTRANTS OF 1917.
Samuel c. Adams
Joseph Ohm Selle,
C.yde Trickey,
August X. ShattaueT,
Frank Jcscph Fucrth,
Rufus CuTlee Burgess,
Oscar Matthew's nil,
William Fred Sander,
Lee Anderson Eumont,
Louis William Bender, yJr.,
". Albeit Sc!IWab,
Lee Birdie Peter,
Earl Blk Kirby,
Rudolph Paul Dietrich,
Leonard Franklin White,
Amos Andrew j. Paxton,
Chris ian George Kaufman,
Vernon Algernon Chapman,
Paul Dewitt Masterson,
REGISTRANTS OF 1918.
August Henry Vosage,
CIete Sans,
Orc Otis Niswonger,
Goldena Walker,
w. J. 3. Mcbride,
Floyd Monroe Hicks,
William NJ. IL. Jenkins
Joseph VI. Hinch,
Elmer Floyd Hobeck,
Walter 3. McGough,
Leo. r. Sander,
Edw. Aug. Schrader,
Monroe McEntire,
Isaac Myer,
Cledes'E. Limbaugh,
Henry William Biester,
Herman Henry Book,
Edwin Ferd. Brasc,
| Austin Farris Clark,
Frank Luebbers,
Glenn W. Dickersol,
Harry Jones,
william Herman Schneider,
William Henry Jacobs,
I Leo Martin Creaser,
Guy Earl Martin,
August Richard Leimbacn,
Homer Ford Stearns,
Eldon Roberts,
Ernest Herman Gerecke,
James Lee Hurst,
Charles Frederick Pencil.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-09-13
DISL0YALIsT FINED 500
Soren Peterson Was Before Judge
Dean At Fairmont.

Soren Peterson Was Before Judge
Dean At Fairmont e.
Fairmont, September is or n
Peterson, Minneapolis bricklayer, who
while working at Ceylon, uttered a
number of disloyal remarks, pleaded
guilty before Judge Dean Thursday
500 or &c to Jail for ninety days.
lie did not pay and is in the coun-
ty Jail where be has been occupying
a cell since his arrest nearly a
month ago. Peterson admitted max
ing the following statements. ''This
is rich mans war. This country
had no right to jump onto Germany.
/ used to think Germany was wrong
in this war but / have changed my
mind. The l. w. w. is the best or
ganization in the country and Lind
bergh is the smartest man in the
United States, He should have run
for president instead of governor.
The, people of Ceylon are all fools
because they didn't vote for him.
The only sensible thing Bryan ever
did was to quit Wilson's cabinet"
A man who would make a state
ment like this has no business in the
United States. He should be shipped
''c'r to Europe as fast as cattle
boat can carry him. A bricklayer
makes S6 or 81 day in this country
md Peterson ought to thank God for
the day ne was allowed ito breath
American air. 1t is too good for a
kaiser lover who has not even back
bone enough to resent Hun ravages
IN his own country
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-09-13
CAPTURED WAR EXHIBITS
They Will Be Shown In Minnesota
COMING to Mankato.

They Will Be Shown in Minnesota
Coming to Mankato.
Charles F. Stuart, Minneapolis, di-
rector of publicity for the Fourth Lii
5erty loan, ninth district, wired The
Free Press today as follows:
Arrangements have been made here
.oday to send the two big train loads
IF war exhibits through the ninth dis
trict as big feature Of the Fourth Lii
berty Loan campaign. The date of
leaving Minneapolis and the exact
itinerary is not definite today, but one
train will make Wisconsin, Northern
Michigan and Northern Minnesota and
the other Southern and Western Min
sofa and the Dakotas. The trains
Will carry captured German machine
runs, aeroplanes, trench mortars,
bombs, parts of destroyed Zeppelines.
Returned soldiers of the allied armies
and bands will accompany the eM-
hibit Each train is to carry the most
complete numbers of exhibits ever put
on wheels. Onlp limited number of
stops can be made" -
Arrangements no doubt will be
made to have the exhibit stop in Man
kato
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-09-13
,Rapidan,

Leland McDonald's little baby boy
has been on the sick list for the past
few days.
Harry Hesson and wife and two
daughters Ferne and Doris and son
Floyd of Hector, Mimi, were guests
at the Garrett home for short time
Saturday. They were returning from
a trip down in Iowa and stopped a
couple of hours to visit their aunt
and cousins.
C. S. Erickson and Mr.. Carlstrom
have built a large new chimney for
the schoolhouse. The new heating
plant has also been installed and every
thing will be in readiness for school
which will begin Monday next, Sep
TENDER 8. III ST
Lonnie Mcdonald and John Kriel
are state fair visitors this week e
Guy Mendenhall moved his house
hold furniture Sunday into one of the
T. L. Rodgers houses and will live
there for a month. k,ae
Mr.. Perkins will soon move into the
house just vacated by Guy Menden-
hall. ~.
Mason Hynson is putting down a
well on the school grounds. He has gone
to depth Of fifty four feet and now
has forty five feet or more of water.
Mr.. Strand and Oscar Lee hauled out
the, tile and piping from Mankato. for
the new well Wednesday. The we'll
is something that has been needed
for long time. sl. n
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Erickson visited
relatives and friends in Northfield
recently. 7S SD
Claude Nelson and Myron Perkins
left early Wednesday morning for the
state fair and spent couple of days
there
Mrs. Carrie Oleson of ST. Paul is
visiting at the C.. S. Erickson home.
Grover Weir of North Dakota spent
Tuesday night here with his parents.
The nice weather for the past
week or so has given the farmers a
chance to get caught up with their
work which was somewhat delayed
on account of SO much rain.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-09-13
FROM BOYS
IN the ARMY CAMPS

The following letter was received
by Harry Adamson from William R.
Witty, who is in France:
August Is, 1918.-Dear cousin
Harry: / must drop you few lines
while l have time and let pou know
that l am well and hope this will find
you all the same. I just got located
SO l can write and give you my ad
dress. This sure is some place here.
l enjoyed my trip. saw some very
nice country. l haven't heard from
anyone since I left so don't know
how they are at home. The weather
is really nice here. | had a letter
from mother and she told me that
your brother in Jaw was home for a
few days, how does he like army
life? Do you know if he is over here
yet? Our company is all broke up
now so / am the only one in this
company from st. Peter, but there
are sure some nice boys in this COM
pany, it is just like being in the old
company. Is there much doing
around there now, or is it quite like
every place else? / must tell you
th0t We spent our Fourth on the
boat, there wasn't much doing. We
was on the water nienteen days i
sure was glad when we got off, Are
they going to have very much doing
at the fair this year at Kato? Well +
can't think of very much now so will
say goodbye for this time hoping to
he ar from YOU soon. / send my best
regards to you and your family and
your FOLKS. l remain as ever YOUR
cousin, William, R. Witty, Com
p: NY L, ninth Infantry, American e. F.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-09-13
WILL WE'D SCOTCH GIRL
Rev. John Robertson to Marry Her
Whom He Christened.

Rev. John Robertson to Marry Her
Whom He Christened.
Twenty lone years ago in the city
of Glasgow, Scotland, Rev. John Rob-
ertson, former pastor of the First
Presbyterian church, st. Paul, bap-
tized and christened a baby girl
Rev. Mr.. Robertson was a young min
lister and the baby was named for
his wife.
Five years ago the wife of Rev
Mr.. Robertson died. Last Saturday
in New York City the engagement
of Rev. Mr.. Robertson to Miss Rob
ertson Wotherspoon was announced.
The young woman is the girl bap-
tized by Rev. Mr.. Robertson twenty
one years ago. She is well known
Scotch singer and it was during Rev
Mr.. Robertson's work as chaplain
among the Irish soldiers in France
that he again met Miss Wotherspoon,
VINO sang at the services he con-
Quoted. .fs
Shortly after leaving st. Paul, Rev.
MI. Robertson enlisted for service as
a chaplain with the British army in
France. He occupied the pulpit OF
the First Presbyterian church here
one year, in 1918 and 1914. 20
The bride to-be has three brothers
officers in service, a fourth brother
having fallen at the first battle of the
Somme.
Rev. Robertson formerly was mas
tor Of the Presbyterian church at
Redwood Falls and he has a number
vi acquaintance in Mankato.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-09-13
PASSING Of VETERAN
CAUSED THE SORROW
THIS 0LD,TlME SOLDIER DIED
AS he WISHED
Sergeant Jim Payne Fell Over
There RiddIed BY Machine
Gun Bullets
WEBB MILLER

Paris, August 19.-[By MALL
There'll be many moist eyes among
the "Old Army" men who are now
wearing gold and silver leaves and
silver stars on their shoulders when
they hear that "Ol' Sergeant Jim
Payne of the-th Infantry fell, riddled
by machine gun bullets, on the first
day of the scissors fighting.
Sergeant Payre was one of the old
est and most experienced of the old :
time non CONS, and had seen service
in every land where American soldiers
set foot for the past twenty years.
He .'soldiered" and fought Moros in
the wilds of Mindanao under Captain
j. J. Pershing, and helped Pershing
chase the Villistas into the interior of
Mexico. aF,
God Bless OF Jim. &
, In many a headquarters, dugout
and mess shack they will say "Poor
OF Jim, God bless him." when they
hear that Payne is gone. Probably
no other man in the army had as
many close friends among the Off
GERS. For the last twenty years
Payne has been training second lieu
tenants and seeing them gain their
majors gold leaves and SO on toward
the major generals double stars.
z A good many of the youths that
Payne "mothered" are now generals
in the new army. But no matter how
high they went in rank, they always
retained their love for the leathery-
faced, grizzled old sergeant Year
after year Sergeant Jim has been TAX
ing shave tails" fresh from West
Point, and nervous as cats about
their first commands, under his arm
and teaching them the fine points
Of handling men, as only an old first
sergeant can do.
T.. Always First Sergeant.
But Payne remained always first
sergeant In the old days there was
not much chance for a man to rise
1ut of the ranks to commissioners
oecially if he hadn't had much
,choolin'," as Payne would tell his
friends who urged him to try for a
commission.
At the outbreak of war Payne was
offered captaincy, but refused it.
81 want to win my shoulder bars on
he field with the boys" he told them.
Last winter he served as first serg-
,ant, but this spring asked to be re-
1uced TO sergeant, so he could go
out and lead a platoon. Only few
weeks before he was killed the rec
commentator went through for his
promotion to lieutenancy. Within
a few days Sergeant Jim would have
been wearing the coveted silver bar,
won as he wanted to win it.
But he died as he wanted to die
with the boys" s8
And there will be many misty eyes
along the lines when they hear about
"OP jim"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-09-13
HAD FIVE FORTUNES
Lipsey Is Now Broke AMI
Railroad Brakeman.

Associated Press Dispatch.l
Sioux Falls, S. Oak. September g.
Although he is broke after having
the experience of being classed five
different times as millionaire, Will
liam Lipsey, a resident of Mitchell, S.
OAK, is not without hopes of again
becoming man of wealth.
Lipsey today is brakeman on the
Chicago, Milwaukee and ST. Paul
railroad. He made five trips to the
Alaskan gold fields. On each occasion
Lipsey put his fortune in some enter
prise which Immediately went into
bankruptcy or in towns which were
fiourishing with prosperity at that time
but soon suffered set back.
Although Lipsey is labouring man,
his parents are relatively wealthy
Before losing his entire fortune, Lip
sey gave his parents 100000 that
they may live comfortably.
Although / have been millionaire
five different times and broke now,
have not lost hopes of striking an
other yellow spot and again becom-
ing wealthy Lipsey said Il intend
to stick to my job until / accumulate
a grubstake and l aim to get the rest
that is coming to me in Alaska. It Is
there and all it takes is the nerve to
get it. When get my next batch Of
gold it will be hard to find stingier
man than l."
Lipsey said he had the distinction
of bunking with Jack London, The
author, for whole winter.
London was broke and wanted I
place to stay" Lipsey declared 81 was
coming out of Alaska at, that time and
left London in the cabin