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"?? T'tTnfrfl'Bwgj-SffJTIr-pgpsMjsjT - ( : THE EVENING MISSOURIAN TENTH YEAR COLUMBIA, MISSOURI, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 26, 1917. NUMBER 10 1 s PREDICT "BEST EVER' BOONE F W. B. Nowell, Jr., Says Pros pects Are for Largest Ex hibits in History. OFFER GOOD PRIZES Officers Are Now at State Fair in Sedalia Booking Exhibits. Preparations and plans for the Boone County Fair to be given here October 9 to 12, are under way and being completed rapidly according to W. B. Nowell, Jr., of the fair com mittee in a statement this morning. According to present indications, he said, the coming fair will be the big gest effort of the kind that the county has ever made. V. H. Thompson, president of the fair, and R. L. Hill, secretary, are now visiting the state fair in S,edalia gathering ideas to be put into execution here and picking up running horses and also some of the other prize exhibits to be brought here. Besides the stock and running horses to be imported from the state fair, many will be booked from the Royal Stock Show, now in progress in Kansas City, and many of the prize horses and some of the stock exhibited at the Independence fair will be shown here. Mr Xowell believes that this year will bring the largest exhibit of farm products eer shown in Boone county as the lateness of the fair this year will make a larger and more varied farm showing possible. To meet the demands of a larger exhibit many extra tents will have to be set up and the exhibits will be spread oer a large area. The amount of iritcrest that is being shown in the fair is indicated by the generous prizes offered for the best exhibits. At the state fair in Sedalia the highest award offered for any prize stock was $30, while the aggre gate of the prizes offered for mule colts was $100. In comparison to this Turner Clinkscales of Columbia has offered a complete Van Gleckland rural lighting system for the best pair of mules 3 years old or over. The system is applicable to a house, church or store building and is worth $175. The aggregate prizes offered by the county fair committee for mule colts amounts to $500. There will probably be a change in the character of the races this year, according to Mr. Xowell. The com mittee has been able to book more running races and fewer harness races which have before been prevalent in the county fairs here. LEATHER HERE AT TOP PKICE Factory Thinks Rronkljn Warehouses Are Holding Hide-, for HNe. According to the management of the local branch of the Hamilton Brown Shoe Company, the price of leather at present is the highest that it has ever been. Xot only is this true of leather for army purposes, but also of other grades for commercial purposes. It was said that 100,000,000 hides are at present in warehouses in Brook lyn, being held for higher prices, and these grades were for commercial use only The shoe factory here thinks that when the reduction in prices conies it will come all at once. The local plant is working a full force and is turning out four grades of shoes, part of which are for the army. Car-lot shipments are made daily from Columbia. ."00 EXItOLLEII AT CHHISTIAX Seu-ral Xew Teachers Added to Fac ulty List. The total enrollment at Christian College this year is 300. of whom 1CS are boarding pupils. Seventeen states are represented. The new faculty members are: Mrs. Rose Lee Lisenby, teacher of English, a graduate of the University of Chi cago; Miss Mary McLoon, teacher of science, a graduate of the University of Missouri; Miss Margaret Mumford, teacher of home economics, a gradu ate of the University of Missouri; Miss Anna Laura Johnson, teacher of voice, formerly associate teacher with Perley Dunn Aldrich. Philadel phia; Miss Era Bench, teacher of pi ano, a graduate of DePauw Univer sity; Robert J. White, teacher of vio lin, graduate of Indianapolis Con servatory of Music. Leonard Coatsworth at Fort Riley. Leonard Coatsworth, a junior in the School of Journalism of the Uni versity last year, has been transferred from Spokane, Wash., to Fort Riley, Kan., with a medical corps in which he enlisted during the vacation. His home is at Mexico, Mo. War Knitting Club at Christian. A knitting club has been formed at Christian College to make garments for the soldiers. All of the students have been organized into sections and will sew at the Red Cross rooms each day. PROMISE BIG ROADS MEETING Assurance of Interest In Oct. C Meet Inj? Chen Old Trails Tourists. Every county and perhaps every road district along the Old Trails road in Missouri will be represented in the annual convention of the Missouri Old Trails Association in Columbia, October 6, If the promises made to the committee, which inspected the road Monday and Tuesday, are kept. In addition to a delegation of road en thusiasts, members of the county courts will come. These delegates will be instructed to report at the convention just what the counties are prepared to do toward raising money to get state and federal aid for the immediate construction of a perma nent, hard surface high-way. In two days the committe appointed to stir up interest in the coming con vention held more than twenty meet ings and conferences between Kansas City and St. Louis. The trip ended in St. Louis last night. E. W. Stephens went from there to Jefferson j City today. Judge J M. Lowe, presi I dent of the Old Trails Association re turned last night to Kansas City and Dr. W. P. Dysart and Prof. Frank L. Martin returned to Columbia today. A. C. McKibbin also returned to" his home in Jefferson City today . Interest in the good roads move ment was noticeable in every town along the second day's trip. Thirty five road enthusiasts were in the Cifcuit Courtroom at Fulton to hear the report of the inspecting committee when it reached there. In the Callo way County crowd at Fulton were all the members of the Calloway County Court. From Fulton the inspecting party preceeded to 'Williamsburg and then to Mineola Springs where they received perhaps one of their most enthusiastic welcomes of the entire trip. They were taken to the new Old Trails Tavern which has just been completed there, and which stands on the site of the historic old mill on Louter Creek. A typical old fashioned southern dinner was served the in specting committee at Mineola. Fried chicken, every vegetable grown in Calloway County, home made jellies and preserves and for dessert, ice cream, three kinds of pics, cake, watermellon, followed by coffee and cigars. The new tavern at Mineola Springs is built with broad verandas and sleeping porches which extend out oer Louter Creek. It was interesting to the delegates to hear that equipment for a model convict labor camp would arrive at Mineola today, and that convicts would be sent there at once to start work on the Mineola Hills. Already thirty teams of horses are being used in the work of smoothing the road. The other towns at which stops were made were New Florence, Wright City, Jonesburg, Warrenton, Forsitell, Wentzville and St. Charles. At the last named plare the commit tee was met by the Chamber of Com merce of the city, which took the en tire party to Lindenwood College for dinner. From St. Charles the party motored to St. Louis. REASOX OF SUICIDE IX A XOTE Shelly Ridgnay Wrote That He Was Tired of Lhing. Written on a piece of scrap paper, an incoherent note told the relatives and friends of Shelly Ridgway, who committed suicide yesterday after noon, the cause of his act. He had been despondent for a long time, the note said, and he was tired of living. He was a victim of tuberculosis. Mr. Ridgway had told of his in tention to end his life many times. He had been closely watched, but yesterday afternoon he escaped from his mother long enough to shoot him self. Final arrangements had not been made today for the funeral. Burial will be in the Pisgah cemetery in Audrain County. The family is wait ing to hear from relatives who live out of the state. Mr. Ridgway lived with his mother at 213 McBaine ave nue. S3 TRY OUT FOR GLEE CLUB Material Much Better Than Last Year First Practice Tomorrow. Eighty-three men tried out yester day afternoon and last night for po sitions on the University of Missouri Glee Club. The try-outs started at 4:30 o'clock in the afternoon and were completed at 11 o'clock. Selection of the number of men needed to complete the club of forty for this year is being made today. The names of those chosen will be posted tomorrow morning on the Glee Club bulletin board at the east end of the corridor in Academic Hall. The first practice this year will be held at Roth well Gymnasium at 7:15 o'clock tomorrow night. "The material this year was 100 per cent better than that on hand for the try-outs last year," said Prof. Chester Murray, director of the club, who had charge of the try-outs. An unusually large number of second basses turned out, as was also the case in the first tenor section. Hold Buria arriecs for Infant. Burial service- were held this aft ernoon at Dripping Springs for the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Coats, who died last night. L HAVE I SHIPS IN A YEAR United States Now Building Vast Fleet of Ocean-Going Merchantmen. FIRST IN 60 OR 90 DAYS Vessels Will Total 7,900,000 Tons Millions More Will Follow. By Associated Tress WASHINGTON, Sept. 2G. Within a , little more than a year the United States will have an ocean-going mer chant fleet of more than 1,600 ships, aggregating 7,900,000 tons, the ship ping board announced today in report ing progress made on the shipping bill program. This amount, compared with the present tonnage of 3,500,000, of which 700,000 tons represent German and Austrian ships interned by the United States, will relieve for over seas transportation 45S ships with a tonnage of 2,S71,000. The emergency fleet corporation has commandeered an American shipyard, nearly 700 steel ships of more than 2,500,000 tons and has contracted for C36 ships with a tonnage of 3,124,000. "The fleet in prospect," said the statement, "is already becoming a reality. Several of the commandeered ships have been equipped and al ready are taking on cargoes. Others will be taken over and put into use promptly and in increasing numbers. The first launching of new vessels should take place within sixty or ninety days." In addition to the ship constVuction now under way several more .million tons of shipping will be arranged with the two-billion-dollar appropri ation which has just been asked from Congress. AXOTHER 31. U. MAX IX FKAXCE Haney Evans Joins The Automobile Truck Sen ice. A card reccned here today, from "somewhere in France" brought the news of another University of Mis souri student who is in France. Harvey Evans, a student in the Col lege of Arts and Science, has joined Automobile Truck Section, No. 9. This section recently received a citation for bravery during a German gas attack and is under shell fire now almost every day. Mr. Evans reports that Aldredge, another University man, a senior in the School of Medicine, is located near him in an ambulance training station. He has not seen any of the members of the Uniersity Unit of the American Field Service since he reached France, he sajs. WABASH OFFICIALS VISIT HERE Boone TaTi-rn Inspected By Railway Men lesterday. Officials of the Wabash Railroad were here yesterday on their regular inspection tour. They came from St. Louis on a special train at 3:35 o'clock and left for Moberly at 4:05 o'clock. While here they drove over Columbia in cars and visited the Daniel Boone Tavern. Those in the party were: S. E. Cotter, general manager: j. e. Taussig, assistant to the president; R. H. Howard, chief engineer; N. B. Casey, superintendent of transportation; W. II. Eckard, division superintendent, and J. T. Sheahan, engineer maintenance of ways. THIS THIEF A POLE CLIMBER Grocery Store of L. W. Berry Robbed Last Xighf. A telephone pole and the roof of a lean-to shed were the means used by someone to break into the grocery store of L. W. Berry, 12 North Eighth street, last night. The cash registers were robbed of from $12 to $14. The safe in the rear of the store and all stock In the store were left untouched. The robbery was noticed when one of the clerks tried to make change early this morning. He found all the cash registers empty. The police were notified. A window, level with the roof of the shed in the rear of the store, was broken open. TO IIISCUSS OLD TRAILS PLAXS Dr. W. P. Dysart Will Speak at the Commercial Club Luncheon. The weekly Commercial Club lunch- con will be held in the dining room of the Daniel Boone Tavern tomorrow. Plans for the meeting of the Missouri Old Trails Road Association, which will be held here October 6 will be discussed. Dr. W. P. Dysart, who was a member of a committee which in spected the road this week, will tell of the condition of the road and the sentiments of the people along the route. Fortnightly Clnli to Meet Friday. A called meeting of the Fortnightly Club to elect officers and to discuss plans for Red Cross work will be held at Read Hall at 3 o'clock Friday afternoon. E T British Offensive Last Blow at Teutons by Less Than Week. IDT A AT pa-mmt A cMm rLAJN bOMMh MOVE General Retirement of Ger mans Expected to Follow Concentrated Blows. Iiy Associated Tress LONDON, Sept, 26. With less than a week's wait after delivering the smashing blow at the German lines in Flanders, the British renewed their attack ott a wide front northeast and east of Ypres early this morning. The trend of the battle was only briefly' ,,,...,. , f. , indicated in the early statement, ! Field Marshal Haig reporting that his ,. .-.. ,,., .. - i Apparently the effort is to drive in deeper the wedge started in the Ger - man lines around Miaunt north of the Ypres-Roulers railway lines. Last Thursday, Haig pushed this wedge approximately a mile further into the enemy territory, where the gained ground was well fortified and held against desperate counter-attacks. The point of the wedge has al most reached Lilla, emelopment of wich is assumed to be one of the great objectives of the Flanders at tack. The launching of the Ypres salient is likewise haing the effect of en dangering the German lines to the north extending to the Belgium coast. suiiuiiuut'uusiy, ii is now tne purpose of the British to concentrate their of - Simultaneously, it is now the purpose fensive moves here and, by repeating their attacks of last year on the Somme, compel a general German re tirement on a wide front, both to the north and south. The British blow was struck today just as the Germans were staggering from the effect of a sanguinary re pulse they sustained yesterday in heavy attacks delivered to the north east of Ypres. The Germans had made their way into the lines at two points on a narrow front in one of these at tacks, but were forced out in the later British counter-attack. At the same time the British are continuing their aerial and naval bombardment along the coast held by the Germans in Belgium. Another at tack on Ostend, one of the German naval bases, was carried out yesterday by British warships. The Germans ap parently attempted an aerial attack on the fleet, for British reports state that the patrols encountered two enemy planes and brought them down yester day. 100 JOIX MISSOURI UXIOX Results of First Day's Campaign An nounced Last Xight. One hundred members were added to .the Missouri Union yesterday, the first day of the membership campaign. The results of the day's efforts were reported at a meeting of workers last night. Two teams, the Reds and the Blues have been organized. Baxter Bond is captain of the Reds and R. E. Barn hart leads the Blues. These students are members of the Missouri Union Board. The women of the University are being accepted as members of the Union. Yesterday afternoon a meet ing of University women was held in the Auritorium. Miss Eve Johnston and Miss Mary McDanicls spoke to the women about the campaign which the Union has instituted. It is the aim of the Union to get 1,000 new members by means of this campaign. A bulletin board will be put up at the Union Building so that all students may follow the progress of the work. There will be a meeting of all of the workers from all of the different departments of the Uni versity at the Union Building at 7:15 o'clock tonight. ONLY SEVEX DOGS LICEXSED Fees Remain to Be Paid on Rest of 300 In the City. Seven dogs are entitled to life and liberty under the laws of Columbia, this number having been granted tags since the 1917 dog tax notices were M.tn.l Cn. Ami.... 01 T TTT Innnlia FLANDERS V. ,77 ., '. .J V drafted men would be another 40 per city collector, estimates the number""? ,"'"' ... . T. of dogs in the city at 500, a hundred less than last year. For the last three years, he says, dogs have been grow ing fewer in number. Most of them "" uwueu 1U Uie UCBIU """ "!,.,. .lf.,1 l rinono rnl.ntr 1 ! . A4tnn town. .llJl'lhinr the date for reaching lllJ UIC lUiUVVU lilkl. wt. I'uuuu ut.i'v by the School of Medicine of the Uni versity and are used for dissection. Miss Sarah C. Wood to Marry. A marriage license was issued j . -.-.. nt. t. TA1. XI ff J r T-, nn,r vu,' Affolter of Kansas City and Miss Sarah C. Wood of Columbia. 3Iarriagc License for Guthrie Couple. A marriage license was issued today to Marvin Wesley Richardson and Miss Mary Lee Turner, both of Guthrie. i i For Columbia and Vicinity: Unsettled weather with showers tonight and Thurs day; cooler. For Missouri: Unsettled weather, prob ably rain east and south portions tonight and Thursday, and northwest portion to- THE WEATHER P7llire""Ki,.l: roer t"nWt ami east and south POllOWS i portions Thursday. u miner Conditions. Moderate to heavy rains have been general In Northwestern Teias, over Oklahoma. Kansas. Western nml rnini I Missouri. Iowa. Nebraska, and Minnesota; the heaviest falls, two Inches or more, oc curred over tue northwestern part of Missouri. The weather Is cooler from Kansas and western Missouri northward; and freezing or near freezing lemperatures obtain In the Dakota. Wyoming, nml Alberta: also In pirts of Colorado, and Nevada. In the remainder of the country, however, they approximate the seasonal average. The atmospheric pressure waves have a slow eastward movement, nnd the nresent unsettled, showery weather will probably "ntliiue In Columbia during the next as houn "l,h ,0r "". Tlie llBliet , CoIliraMa jeMcnlay was S3 degrees and the lowest L,rtnls:,,,t ,,V,,.S i"Uintion o.ci; relative humidity 2 p. m. yesterday 40 per cent. A jear ago yesterday the highest icmperature was 87 and the lowest CO; precipitation O0O Inch. The Almanac. Sun rKes today, COO a. m. Sun sets, j ": p. m Moon sets, 12:49 a. m. The Temperatures Today. T a. m (S 11 a. m 63 S a. m 02 12 m 04 !t a. in KS 1 p. m fit 10 a. m (3 2 p. in C7 10 KILLHIX 1 ORE Again the Germans Make an Air Attack on Outskirts of London. Iiy Associated Press LONDON, Sept. 26. Six persons ,.,,,,,. , , , ' lCTQ k,"ed ?ml " x,t?n J"1?1 !n iuu suuuieasL umsiuris ui iuiiuun in last night's air raids, according to a war office announcement this morn ing. Fifteen persons were killed and seventy injured when two German airplanes made a raid over the east coast Monday night. The planes did not penetrate far inland, being driven away by gun fire. Three women were among those injured. 31RS. MATILDA J. WREX DIES Ashland Woman Had Many Relatives In Columbia. Mrs. Matilda J. Wren, 68 years old, died at 6 o'clock yesterday evening at her home west of Ashland. Her death was due to a complication of diseases. Mrs. Wren leaves four sons and three daughters: James A. Wren and Edgar Wren of Ashland, W. A. Wren and Horace M. Wren of Columbia, Mrs. Maude Bittix, who lives in Kan sas; Mrs. Eva Rollins, who lives in Oregon, and Miss Mamie Wren, who lhed with her mother near Ashland. Mrs. Wren also leaves four sisters and two brothers. They are Mrs. Malinda Estes and Mrs. J. R. Hamil ton of Ashland, Mrs. Minerva Mc Cracken and Mrs. Nannie Emery, who live in Hickory County; James R. Sapp of Ashland and J. W. Sapp, as sistant cashier of the Central Bank of Columbia. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Sapp and Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Sapp attended the funeral which was held this afternoon at the Liberty Church, Ashland. The Rev. Ira Turner conducted the services. Burial was in the Ashland cemetery. COLUMBIA BOOKS TO SOLDIERS Donations Arc Still Coming In at tlie Library Here. Donations of books and magazines for the library for soldiers to be es tablished at Camp Funston are still coming In at the University Library. Three large boxes of these have al ready been shipped and the prospects are that more will be sent in a few- weeks. Although magazines and light fiction are popular with soldier read ers, they also enjoy the classics, ac cording to Henry O. Severance, Uni versity librarian, who is now at Camp Funston organizing the library. He and his son, Philip Severance, will return home Saturday. THIRD QUOTA OFF OCTOBER 3 Scarcely Enough White Men To Fill Another 10 Per t'enr. The Boone County exemption board received word from the Provost Marshal yesterday that the third in crement of the Boone County quota of ct'ill ui mc mvc mm uioj. -..,, will leave here October 3. Sheriff T. Fred Whitesides said that he hoped a change would be made be- scarcely cnougn .WU3C U1C1C ".v. .n..A thn.a qm wiiuu men uiautu i w..v. wUu...j 1 to make up another 40 per cent. He camp will be changed to October 5 instead of October 3. Motorists Stop on Way From Fair. Two automobile parties returning from the State Fair at Sedalia stopped here last night Those in the party g Q Gm Mr anfl Mrg M y Davis and Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Clark of Prairie, Mo., and Mr. and Mrs. II. F. Wilkerson of Lexington. Ky. Mr. Clark was a student in the University in the early seventies. They probably will leave in the morning. GERMANY IS WILLI TO LEI Official Statement Declares Evacuation Depends On Certain Conditions. DEMAND OPEN DOOR Separation of Flanders and Walloon Is Specified Must Remove Menace. ny Associited Press LONDON, Sept. 26. Germany has agreed to evacuate Belgium on certain conditions, it is declared in a German official statement, according to a dis patch from Berne, Switzerland, given out today by the Wireless Press. Germany, it is stipulated, must have the right to develop her econo mic enterprises freely in Belgium especially in Antwerp. The proposal was made in a supplementary note to the German reply to the peace intita tive of Pope Benedict. It was in the form of a verbal communication made by the foreign secretary to the papal nuncio at Munich wherein the foreign secretary specified conditions under which Germany was willing to con clude peace on a basis of evacuation of Belgium. Germany Will Help Pay Damages. The verbal note said Germany would contribute her share of the compensa tion to be paid to Belgium for war damages. Belgium would be required, it is said, to give a guarantee that any such menace as that which threat ened Germany in 1914 would in the future be excluded. Belgium must undertake to maintain administrative separation of the Flanders and Walloon districts intro duced by Germany, the verbal note said, because this separation cor responds to the wishes of a majority of the Belgian people and Germany desires such separation on account of racial sympathy. JIattcr of Throne Left Open. A semi-official communication dn the German press in explanation of the new German proposal says the government intentionally avoided stat ing more clearly the conditions thus outlined. These conditions are said to be compatible with the dignity of Belgium. Germany avoided mentioning the question of the throne because this was a Belgian domestic matter. Ger many, the communication says, will agree to any government in Belgium which accamplishes the conditions set worth. The principal question is how the guarantees enumerated can be formu lated. TO COXSIDER FAVIXG BIDS Council Will Meet In Adjourned Ses sion Tomorrow Afternoon. There will be an adjourned session of the city council at 4:30 o'clock to morrow afternoon, when bids for the paving of parts of Melbourne and Third streets will be opened. Third street will be paved from Hickman avenue to Sexton road and Melbourne street will be paved from Broadway to Windsor street. Macadam covered with tarvia will be the method of con struction.. No bids on the work had been filed today. The decision to pave these streets was reached at a recent meeting of the council. MAKES RECOUP FOR COXVICTIOXS One a Day is the Estimate of Police Judge Edwards. Approximately a conviction a day in police court has been the record for September, according to M. L. Ed wards, police judge. There Is -less crime in Columbia considering its size than there is in any town in the state, the judge believes, and even winter, he says, does not bring on a rush of mis demeanors. STEWART BRIDGE OI'EX SUXDAY Closed Since May, Yladoct has Been Repaired and 3Iade Safer. The Stewart road bridge, crossing the Katy tracks west of the University, will be open Sunday after being closed since last May. A $5.2000 concrete approach has been built, and the bridge strengthened and refloored. It is being painted this week, and is ex pected to be dry before Saturday. ARTILLERYMEX IX EXGLAXD Men Belnir Trained Preparatory to Going to France. Iiy Associated Press SOMEWHERE IN ENGLAND, Sept. 2G. Several thousand American ar tillerymen who soon will be handling heavy guns in France are encamped here for drill and training after sev eral weeks aboard a ship on the Journey overseas. The men belong to the regular army and are officered by West Point graduates. Xew Douglass School Ready. Classes will be held in the new Douglass School building Monday. The equipment will be moved from the old building next Friday and Saturday. The old building will be torn down this fall. m 'iVI