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THE WEEKLY TRIBITXE AND CAPE COUNTY HERALD, THURSDAY MORMXG, JANUARY 25, 1917. Cheaper Than Fire Insur ance and Safer for your valuable papers in that you run no chance of having them destroyed in the event of fire or burglary if you have them in the SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES at the FIRST NATIONAL BANK CITY HEWS IN BRIEF Weather, Forecast: Fair today and colder with the lowest temperature at 20 decrees. Mr. and Mrs. F. P. Miles entertain ed last night in honor of Miss Beauton O'Quinn of Portageville, who is visit ing here for several days. Those pres ent were: Mr. and Mrs. Earl Cook sey, Mr. and Mrs. Leo Brooks, Mr. and .Mrs. J. D. Stewart, Mi. and Mrs. Charles Pringel, Mr. and Mrs. James 1'ringel and Mrs. Stollenwerk; Misses Birdie Sinks, Alta Abernathy, Susie Blumer, Marie Whiteaker, Mildred and Grace Miles; Messrs. Joseph Moore, Robert Litterer, Arthur Poinsett, Chas. Sietz, Bud Blumer, Irvin Miller, Clay ton Robertson, Pierre Chappius and D. A. Nichols, clerk of the Common Pleas Court, was back in his office yes terday after an absence of two days, owing to a cold. Mrs. G. W. Sharp was called to the bedside of her daughter, Mrs. Heber Nations of Jefferson City, who is said to be seriously ill. She departed yes terday morning. W. E. Walker, who visited relatives for a week, departed yesterday for Rockyford, Colo. This was his first visit in 11 years. W. O. Bowman has moved into his new home on North Ellis street, which he purchased 'a month ago. Mrs. M. W. Cooper of Bloomfield was brought here yesterday and taken to the St. Francis Hospital. She is suffering from a complication of dis eases. She was accompanied by her husband and Dr. H. V. Ashley of Bloomfield. J. H. Schonhoff of Advance was a visitor in the Cape yesterday. W. W. Tell of Commerce had some business in the Cape yesterday. G. 1. Moore, president of the Illmo Pressed Brick Co., transacted some t - .i L l u Usui css in knc upe vi-sveituiy. i Mrs. Harvey C. Jones and her little daughter are visiting her mother in Illmo for several days. O. J. Snider of Fredericktown spent the day in the Cape looking after busi ness. John Parmenter, former poolroom owner in Haarig, is spending several days in Bloomfield. City Clerk R, W. Frissell is still confined to his home, suffering from a bad cold. H. J. Houser returned yesterday afternoon from a trip to Illmo. W. J. Webb of Parma was in the Cape yesterday. Sheriff Hutson returned yesterday from Jefferson City, where he deliver ed two convicts to the penitentiary. A. D. Parker accompanied him guard. as Mrs. William Bryan will leave for j Dallas, Tex., today. Deputy Sheriff Summers departed yesterday afternoon to Fulton to take Harry Wunderlich, 18 years old, of Egypt Mills, to the State Sanitarium. The Roth Tobacco Co., shipped a carload of tobacco to several towns in ' the Ozarks yesterday. Mrs. C. D. Matthews Sr., of Sikeston is spending several days with her sis ter, Mrs. J. J. Hunter, of South Span ish street. The Euchre Club will meet this aft ernoon at the home of Mrs. Silas Lail on Independence street in honor of her birthday. Chris Betten, auditor of the C G. N-, is suffering from la grippe, Mr." and Mrs. C. R. Champion cele brated their fifth wedding anniversary Tuesday. Mrs. Russell Pearaont e&tert&ined a number el friends at ber home ca North Pacific street yesterday. The funeral ofAs thony Benson, an aged negro, who died at the home of his sister on North Sprigg street Tues day evening, will be held this after noon. A short service will be conduct ed at the A. M. E. Church. Burial will be at the Fairmount Cemetery. The annual candle sale will be held Saturday by the ladies of St. Yin-' cent's Church. The sale will be in the old building of the Missouri Public Utilities Co., on Main street. Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Hunter are tour ing the West. Later they will visit Florida. Emil Roth of Illmo moved to the Cape yesterday. He has secured work at a brick kiln in the city. The Cotton Belt Railroad will oper ate a fast mail train in the near future to establish a connection with the fast mail from Memphis to Forth Worth. The new train will run between St. i Louis and Illmo. M. G. LaPierre of Jackson spent sev eral hours in the Cape yesterday after returning from a business trip through the South. News From The County Seat Charles Alexander of St. Louis is visiting his sister, Mrs. Ralph Coontz. j Mrs. J. A. Snider will entertain the j Literary Club tomorrow afternoon, j Mrs. Conway William this afterno6n entertained the Bachelor Girls at the home of her father, Hon. Wilson Cra mer. Mr.s Williams will leave Mon day for Hayden, Ariz., to .join her husband, who is a mining engineer at that place, Jake Atchinson of near Leemon was a Jackson visitor today. A message was received announcing the death of Mrs. Eliza Pearson, at 5:30 last night, at her home in SLj F I Louis. Mrs. Pearson was the aunt of the Messrs. Du Ree. Harvev and Mhn -o,- Arj,, -Ax; ray, and .Misses Winnie and Jones of this city, and the mother of 1 Sam and Harry Servant, who were here several years with the late H. L. Jones, and are well known here. Mrs. Pearson will be laid to rest in Chea ter, 111., her former home. Mrs. Doc Moore today took her lit tle grandson to a specialist at the Cape. The little boy for some time has suffered intensely with pains in his head, the nature of which is baffling j the physicians and oculists who so far have treated him. Mrs. Guy Deck today went to the Cape to consult an oculist. Mrs. W. Dickey tomorrow will en tertain the Westminster Circle. Mr. and Mrs. Golightly of Sikeston came yesterday to visit their sick grandchildren, the little daughter and son of Mrs. Irene Golightly. Martin Ritter, oldest son of Mrs. Mary Ritter of this city, is now a fulfledged lawyer, having passed the 'examination vrhich entitles him to hang out his shingle. Mr. Ritter's home is in Searcy, Ark., and he will be the law partner of his father-in-law. Dr. Geo. Vinyard left this morning for DeSoto.to attend the funeral of hia sister, Mrs. McKee. t lit. Nettie Howard of the Cape ia for her renter, Mr. J. D. Fisher. MARRIAGE LICENSES William Lagrand Randies Minnie Barker Randies in town getting her home in readiness Monroe Beers Craborchard, 111. Gertrude Edwards. .Thompsonville, 111. Wm. R. Davis Cape Bertha J. Gilliland Scopus Chas. R. Stager Cape Myrtle E. Bibb Cape Samuel Farmer Dexter Hattie Parmerly Jackson Ed Waldo Boyer Flat River Vesta E. Bowman Cape Geo. J. Mier Randies Lulu Evans Randies J. D. Stewart Cape Jewel L. Horn Cape Mrs. Maud Poe of Cape Girardeau came out this evening to nurse Mrs. Christine Beattie until some other nurse can be procured. Miss Birdie Mae Adams of the Cape, Common Pleas Court stenographer, is in Jackson today taking the deposi tions in the Thompson preliminary which is being held before Justice of the Peace D. B. Hays. Albert Kerstner, today visited his mother, Mrs. J. Gluckhertz, of Gor donville, who is very ??ck with pneu monia. Mrs. A. M. Robertson will go to Illmo to visit relatives the latter part of the week. Miss Kate Loos retunred from St. Charles, where she spent several weeks with the family of Ab. Steimel. The High School pupils will present "The Hoodoo" at the Gem Theater Thursday night. The play has been well rehearsed and the Methodist or-i chestra will furnish the music, so an;, j , . , ... . . , . , bought from the dealers because of th evening splendid entertainment is , , , . , guaranteed. GUARDIAN'S NOTICE (Insane Ward) Notice ia hereby given that, on Nov. 18, 191G, the undersigned was appoint ed guardian of the Person and Estate of Mary Roling, a person of unsound mind, by the Probate Ccart of Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, and that letters bearing date Nov. 18, 1916, were issued to him. All persons having claims against said estate arc requested to present them to the undersigned for allowance r jv jp ia j within six months from date of said letters; and if they be not presented v.ithin one year from said date, they will be forever barred. H. W. Kuss. Guardian. BRITISH LEADER WANTS MORE WAR (Continued from page one.) ture wars." The pacifists are hailing President Wilson's speech as an heroic utter ance. The President himself has been eieTaiea oy tne pacific faction to a pedestal of glory. This is shown by the tumult of applause which greeted the mention of the American execu tive's name at the labor meeting in Manchester. In this connection Professor Alfert F. Pollard, the historian, said: ".President Wilson uses the terra 'peace without victory' and says that is what the 'btflJigerenta (imply by their statements when they speak of the ultimate end of the war and as surances of the future. That is not my understanding of the attitude of either side, certainly not of the Allies. When we say we mean to crush Ger Trsny, of course we do not mean the German people, but we mean the Ger man military machine that, after a feneration of preparation, suddenly Sugg the whole of Europe into war. 1 BRYAN MAKES DRY TALK TO SOLONS Tells of Church Deacons Who Liked Their Mornin'g Mornin. Jefferson City, Jan: 24. William J. Bryan, addressing the State-wide Con vention of Prohibition forces at the Methodist Church here this afternoon, declared he was in the thick of a fight for three reforms, the greatest he ever advocated. He named them amid cheers as extension- of suffrage to women, prohibition and world peace. Bryaa came here to open the State wide campaign for prohibition. "I got into this fight seven years ago," said Bryan, Vwhen I found the liquor element in my State trying to make its State Senator secretary. For some time 1 clung to the theory that the small unit was the most desirable to vote a district dry, on the theory that most men want to vote the saloori on someone else. But I gave up that theory when I was shown that many men vote against prohibition in the city or county because they have no faith in the laws being enforced.. So today. I am advocating national pro hibition." He scored drinking among church going people, and told of a pastor, who in inviting Bryan to address hia congregation, apologized because all his elders drank intoxicants. "My God, think of the tipsy elders trying to convert the world," he said. Declaring his previous campaigns had been along the economic lines, Bryan said the new fight was to be along moral lines. CAPE SCHOOLS ARE SHORT ON COAL Edward Hely Gives Board Car Load to Tide Schools Ofer. A coal shortage in the public schools was averted by the kindness of Ed Hely, owner of the rock crusher on the Rock Levee Road, when he "loaned"' the School Board a carload of coal in the early part of the week. Owing to the shortage of freight cars, the School Board could not secure any coal, and the supply in all the schools was nearly consumed, when Hely stepped in as the "angel" and prevented the schools from closing. The School Board ordered coai be fore Christmas, but no fuel could be I snorcage 01 1 reign 1 cars, several .1 a - f 1 . J dealers in the city were asked to de liver coal at the school houses, but none had a sufficient supply to meet the request of the School Board. When Mr. Hely heard of the scar city of coal in the publio schools he offered the School Board a carload. He had just received a large shipment of coal to cover his consumption for several weeks. GUARDIAN'S NOTICE (Insane Ward) Notice is hereby given that, on Dec. 22, 1918, the undersigned was appoint ed "guardian of the Person and Es tate of William J. Ulrich, an insane person, by the Probate Court of Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, and that letters bearing date Dec. 22, 1916, were issued to him. All persons having claims against said estate are requested to present them to the undersigned for allowance within six months from date of said letters; and if they be not presented within one year from Paid date, they will be forever barred. M. H. Wilier, Guardian. EXECUTOR'S NOTICE! Notice is hereby given that letters testamentary upon the estate of James A. Murtaugh, deceased, have been granted to the undersigned, by the Cape Girardeau Court of Common Pleas of Cape Girardeau County, Mis souri, bearing date the 2nd day of January, 1917. All pel-Ecng having claims against said estate are required to exhibit them to him for allowance, within six months from the date of said letters or they may be precluded from any bene fit of such estate; and if said claims be vol exhibited within one year from the date of the last publication of this notice, they shall be forever barred. Stereo Paul Hueber, Executor. Herman Voss, formerly emnloved in a barber shop on Main street, has re signed hia position. He will later be connected with C. A. Rodgers en Bioadw-ay. CQNTINUE5HUNGERSTFIIKE ADVOCATE OF BIRTH CONTROL REFUSES TO EAT. Commissioner of Correction Lewi Threatens Mrs. Sanger's Sister With Forcible Feeding. New York, Jan. 14. Pale and hag gard and snowing signs of physical weakness, Mrs. Ethel Byrne began the second full day - of her hunger strike. Following a night spent in the Tombs, after habeas corpus pro ceedings had failed to free her, the sister of Mrs. Margaret Sanger was returned to Bladtwell's Island to serve a sentence of SO days for dis tricting birth control literature. Mr. Byrne refused breakfast in the Tombs, but drank several oups of water. Sbe has had no solid food since Monday night. "This is the lat time I go before any court," Mrs. Byrne said as she was being returned to toe "island." "When I come out from the work house I mnst be free or I won't come out." "It is just a question of time before people will understand." sbe added, in defense of birth control. "We are seeking to lighten the burden of wB ackind. Naturally, the medical pro fession is not able to recognize the propaganda." Mrs. Byrne smiled when told of Commissioner of Correction Lewis' statement that he would force her to eat if she attempted a hunger strike. "They tried that on the other Bide, and public opinion was dead set against it. I am sure It will be here," the prisoner added. The commissioner said he would regard a hunger strike by Mrs. Byrne as an attempt to commit suicide, and would resort to forcible feeding if it became necessary to save her life. SCHOOL HEAD DEFENDS FRATERNITIES IN COLLEGE President Hill of Missouri State Uni versity Tells Committees Mem bers Rank High in Classes. Jeffenjon City, Mo., Jan. 24. Presi dent A. Ross Hill of the Missouri state university defended college fra ternities before the appropriation committees of the senate and house when he presented the university budget. Members of the committee had received letters from a student, expelled a year ago, saying the fra ternities controlled the faculty and urging they be abolished. President Hill, who is not a mem ber of any college fraternity, said ex perience convinced him fraternities are a good thing and in scholarship their members at the state university ranked higher than the student aver age. The budget presented by President Hill carries a total of $1.340,SC2 fjr the biennial period. The legislative visiting committee recommended $1. 064,500. SEA BATHS IN A GLASS POOL Plan Is Announced as a Feature $500,000 Club on an Island Off Rye, N. Y. of New York, Jan. 24. Plans are an nounced for an all-year clubhouse to cost $500,000, on a 65-acre tract on Manursing island, in the sound, otf Rye, N. Y. Sea water drawn through pipes reaching three miles out into the sound into a glass swimming pool will be kept at the exact temperature of the ocean at Palm Beach. Fla. The project is being promoted by the Miantonohoh club, whose mem bers include Wofthington White house, Percy A. Rockefeller, Edwin Gould, P. Chauncey Anderson, Wil lam H. Browning, Edgar L. Marston. Marselis C. Parsons, Waldrin Wil liams and Robert B. Van Cortlandt. 4-TOED HORSE PICTURE FOUND Drawn on Reed Paper'.and Uncovered in New Mexico With Other Indian Relies. Tucson, Ariz., Jan. 24. Relics of huge settlements of a prehistoric race of highly civilized Indians who built great dams and irrigated desert land in the southwestern corner of New Mexico were found by Ranger Don S. Sullivan of the Peloncillo and Animas district of the Chiricahua forest Pic ture writing showing the dinoceras and the four-toed horse was found written on a paper made of reeds and on walls of caves. Ranger Sullivan said he believed the settlements were the original dwellings of the Aztec tribe. WOULD PROHIBIT SUNDAY BALL GAMES AND MOVIES Bill Is Introduced in Missouri Legis lature to Put Stop to All Amuse ments on the Sabbath Day. Jefferson City, Mo., Jan. 24. Rep resentative Houston of Chariton coun ty introduced a bill prohibiting Sun day baseball games. Sunday motion picture shows and all forms of amuse ment on Sunday. Houston's bill provides a fine of $500 and six months' imprisonment for violation. 1200,000 Ptree In Reading, Pa. Reading, Pa., Jan. 24. Two flrea of unknown origin swept through the tmslnees section of Reading, damag fox property tXQJOQO tall Jarta two firemen. - . iJf CONSIDERS DEBATE E ADDRESS CUMMINS SAYS SPEECH WAS MOST IMPORTANT EVER MADE BY PRESIDENT. HOPES FOR AN EARLY VOTE Senator Declares It Is Due to Coun try That Time Should Be Set Aside to Fully Discus Issues Involved. Washington, Jan. 24. Opening de bate on his resolution for a week's discussion in the senate of President Wilson's peace address, Senator Cum mins said tb president's suggestions were the most important ever ciade by a chief executive of tne United States, and, right or wrong, the sen ate owed It to the country to set aside time for a full discussion of tbe is sues involved. When Cummins called up bis reso lution Senator Brandegee of Connect! cut insisted upon a quorum, saying "this matter touches on the most 1m portant question that has ever been before the United States senate When a call brought the required number for a quorum Senator Cum mins resumed. "I have no disposition to speak at length on this question," Senator Cummins said. "I hope Bincerely that we may be able to reach a vote on it before the morning hour comes to a close. It will be observed that ths resolution does not invite, nor even properly permit, a discussion at this time of the soundness or unsound ness of the purposes announced in the president's address. I will do all I can to hold the debate to the point at issue. What is it? It is this Ought the senate, on some day in the rear future, do the country the jus tice of Informing the people and ad vising the president of our views con cerning a policy of the most vital 1m pcrtanc to which he has told us he is about to commit his government? "For the proper discussion It mat ters not whether the president is right or wrong. In either case his communicafjon is the most important ever made by a chief executive of the United States. He so regards it. The whole country so looks upon it, and foreign nations so accept it. ' He has come to the senate frankly &nd boldly, and, I assume, with all sincerity, saying he owed it to us to disclose 10 us the purpose In k!s mind. Why did he owe it to us to disclose without reserve the thought and purposes in bis mind?" Senator Cummins said the presl dt-nt himself had answered that ques tion when he referred to the senate as "council associated with me" in international affairs. "Are we to sit dumb under this sp pal?" asked the Iowa senator. "Tbe time to vot, ft is true, has not arrived, but is th council to re main silent while public opinion is forming and public judgment is be ing entered. , I have no authority to speak for the president, but I am bound to be lieve those who oppose this resolution are not his true friends. It must be he desires and expects the freest and fullest debate on the tremendous i?: sue he has raised. What value are we as council If we lock our lips and allow him to go his way? I do not know whether any senator here in tends to vote in opposition to this resolution T hope there is not. But if there be anyone who does I ask him to reflect a moment, for It seems to me opposition means a doubt re specting either the sincerity or cour age of th president." KILLED IN JOYRIDING WITH YOUNG BRIDE OF ANOTHER Chicago Wife, 16, and Chauffeur Hurt Touring Road houses When Auto Hits Pole. Chicago, Jan. 24. Spencer G. Koen eke, 30 years old, formerly of St. Louis, is dead and Mrs. Elsie Shields, 18, a bride of a few weeks, and Wil liam Hannett, 28, chauffeur, are in the county hospital as the aftermath of an early morning Joy ride. The girl is reported to be dying. Han nett's injuries are serious. Returning from a tour of road houses, the car collided with a tele phone pole. Koeneke and the girl were hurled free, but Hannett was pinned under the steering gear. Koeneke was employed as a repro ducing man for the Electrical Steel Co. and had been in Chicago only a abort time. He had told the taxi driver he was J. M. Oimstead. 54 MEN ON LOSTSHIPS LANDEO German Commerce Raider Had 400 Prisoners at the Time of Their Transfer. Rio Janeiro, Jan. 24. Twenty-nine members of the crew of the Asnleres and 25 members of the crew of the Nantes, victims of the German com merce raider, have been landed at Bnhia by the British steamer Ceara. They report that there were 400 pris oners on board the German cruiser at QM-tLme they were transferred to the Cesjs Tte A2ieres vu funic on SOUTH SIDE HOME BURNS TO GROUND Ed. Hutch's Family Have Nar row Escape Neighbors Care For Them. Ed Hutch and his family had a nar row escape from death last midnight when his home on the Sprigg street road, in Smelterville, was destroyed by fire, believed to have originated in the kitchen. The occupants could barely save their clothing before leav ing the burning building. Another family, living on the sec ond floor, was also endangered by the flames. They also had to leave the house in such a hurry that they could hardly clothe themselves. They were cared for by neighbors. The Cape Girardeau fire engine was called out, but could not get into ac tion owing to the lack of water. When the engine reached the scene, the house had almost burned to the ground. The house was a two-story frame structure. It was the property of James Carater, who lives in Smelter ville. When the fire was discovered it had gained such headway that it was im possible to save any of the household effects. Hutch aroused the family up stairs and all got out in safety. An estimate of th? damage coi:M not be given. It was said by neigh bors last night that both families l.vt everything. It could not be learned whether the house and the contents were insured, but it is said that Hutch had suffered a total loss. The reflection of the fire could he seen plainly in the business district of the city. Many believed the fire was in Haarig. The call for the loca1 fire department was sent in from Gro.-s & Ruh's saloon in Haarig. The fire department made a record run to the scene, arriving a few minutes aft: r the call had been received. Plug Tobacco Is Going To Go Up The Dealers Say War Will Affect Prices of Chewing as Well as Cigars and Cigarettes New Boost Due Soon. It is going t cost more to smoke and chew in the future, according to a report that reached Cape Girardeau yesterday. The tobacco prices have been boost ed by the manufacturers, and the re tailers are going to do "likewise. Chew ing tobacco, cigar and cigarettes are going skyward. All five-cent sigars have been increased from $1 to $2.50 per thousand and some of the higher grades of cigars have been raised from $2 to $5 per thousand. The price cf chewing tobacco has been increased as much as 3 cents a pound. Some varieties of smoking to bacco have been raised and others will be increased in the near future. The retail prices for tobacco, however, have not been incrpasc-d, but local dealers expect to do so in a few weeks. Pipes hc also been increased. It is said that the meerschaum pipes are so scarce that one now is worth as much as two were before the European war began. DEALS WIN THREE STRAIGHT GAMES FROM THE C.U'AHAS The Ideals won three straight games from the Capahas on the Broadway bowling alleys last night. Every one of the Capahas fell below the 500- mark in the match, while three of their opponents passed this mark. The highest score was rolled by Joo Sandman who totaled 525 pins in ti three games. Fred Wood was second with 512 and A. Vogel held third place with three less. Wood was the only bowler of the two teams to pass 200 in one game. He made 214 in the third game. The game scheduled for Friday be tween the Wonders and the Wizards will be played off tonight owing to the "tacky" party to be given - Friday night at the Elks' Hall. Last night's score was: Ideals. Sandman 191 17(5 21-? ir,; A. Vogel 161 154 152 142 Fred Wood 156 Pott 170 W. Gockel 14.1 172 820 778 P0-; Capahas. Morgan 169 135 157 Hohler 180 133 16f Eumont 157 147 10.1 Wittmor 156 160 166 Meystedt 130 130 153 792 704 833