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tHfe WEEKLY Tfttfit'KB AND ?APfc COUNT t HERALt), Answer Your Telephone Promptly Business And Professional Men Tell Why Drainage Spans Are Needed Cape Loos- ' ing Enormous Amount of Trade. A Courtesy expected by every one is that his telephone call be answered promptly. To allow your telephone bell to ring longer thin necessary, not only keeps the calling party waiting but it results in unsatisfactory service both to you and to him. If the telephone is not answered within a reasonable length of time a "don't answer" report is given by the operator. You expect prompt answers when you call. Do you answer promptly. The reasons for the calling of a , the Cape were annexing all the trade special election to vote ?200,000 of; that was brought to this city before bonds for the construction of perma-! the drainage channels were cut nent badges across the drainage, through the lands south of the city channel on the Rock Levee Road. County Highway Engineer Dennis were discussed from all angles at the mass meeting at the court house yes terday evening, presided over by Mayor H. H. Haas. Cap C52SSCi3 CITIZENSHIP OPEN TO ENEMY ALIENS !t Scivally estimated the costs of the proposed bridges over the diversion channel and the smaller ditch at j $100:C00. In order to get a solid t About 100 men from all over the foundation for the bridges, he said it township attended the meeting, many) would be necessary to dig through being called upon to express their 1 14 feet of gumbo and a strata of views of the proposed bond election, j sar.d the thickness of v hich had not At the close of the meetine- it was i yt uetn ascertained, ihe mn decided to amioint a committor to bridge, he said would measure 190 idive cnarge oi me campaign tnrougn . xeec irom one came oi tne diversion out the township and to arrange for j channel to the other. The remain.! meetings at various places in the ! er 0f the sum raised by the bond is .z, . .wn.-jf iu liiu i EUC couui D3 spent ior tne reecn- voters and taxpayers the necessity of j struction of the roads in the town voting the bonds. 1 ."d Hairy E. Alexander, one of the Citv Commissioner Louis Wittmor leading attorneys of this county, was j suggested that the issuance of the the first speaker. He explained why j bonds and the construction of the he believed the bond issue should car- I permanent crossing ovev the drainage ry in this township. He pointed out ; channels be postponed till after the I A 1 ! - . 1 , , . . I I citizenship These modifications and p'e injury mulcted upon tne business I v.-al v-hen the prices for building ma- i,o.. o the city for ths reason that no ' icr;al had become normal sirain. He i t'JiiviKViicv yi uv i.-iuun nu.v u'ws 1,v l . . , thousands of aliens to the naturaliza- P " 3 ' I that tne c the en- rardeau and tho southern counties, i th ,. ,r,iir,f,- M.nn-,t0 ,v;m, tv,a Ion offices in the cities making it im- since the temporary bridges over the ; aroniont of the Cane Girardeau North possible for the officers in charge to diversion channel and the drainage. 0rn railroad to maintain a connection STODDARD DRAFT RECORDS WIPED OUT BYJFLAMES Fire Believed Incendiary Fol lows Threat Letters To Local Board ADJUTANT-GENERAL JOINS INVESTIGATION GetaHigh-GradeAHtomobfle At Your Own Frice and on Easy Terms We have hth-crade, USED Automobile, taken in exchange for our new ears. You can take ycur pick at a lower "price than you would have to pay for moot rlieap cars at the factory, nad yo'-c car will be shirked to you READY FOR YOUR IMMEDIATE UJE on receipt of the first small payment. A used hifih-prfced car is a better buy at its low market rricc, than a cheap car at the same figure. HERE AE2 SOME CP OUR " FIRST-COME, FIRST-SERVED" BARGAINS Kart!!, 13VT, 4-cyl.. 5-pasa, Eurnrcr. Cj Meteor Roadster. 1316. 4-cyL. electric (tood Lenses, extra tira ad tube, li-hts and starter, .... - Overland, 191C-. 6-cyl., 7-pa3s, cloctria Paice, 1515. 4-cyl 5-pnss, electrie lichts lights and starter, ...... C75.VO and starter, - -- -- -- - $450.00 RAYJES CiXS, rosrtaart. 3, 5, 7-, wrti writer and ssmortscs. S33O40 ts $1,300.00 Put your money jfc?o a powarftrf, amootb-numtng, com-. fortb!e, bJsh-grido, vaotJ cer, rail than m chomp No Clew Found Leading Tolden tity Of Suspects hoCaused The Fire e Girardeau Bell Telephone Co. Dockets Of U.S. Courts Crowd ed During War With Applica tions Of Aliens Naturalization of foreigners, in clulincr su!).icfts of this country's en emy, has teen permitted by the jrov ernnient during the time of war, and a;; a consequence many men, who are of (Icrman birth, are making applica tions for their citizenship papers. In some of the large cities of the country that are inhabited by many! foreigners the naturalization offices have been flooded with applications for citizenship, and as a result the Circuit Courts have been called upon to examine the applicants and issue naturalization papers, where it is found justified. . ii:' ..:on 01 anon enemies .. h;:s been made condi- :. f" reign birth who de iiu: .: ! in the army are .! immediate admission to pass on all cases in due time MILIv IN WINTER. Why do your cows give less milk in winter than they do in summer? Just because nature does not sup- ditches had been washed awav. with Scott and Stoddard and other j 1 constructing permanent image?, 1 adjacent counties in the south. He he said, would be cheaper than build-1 believed a daily train with several mg temporary spans, which were caches could care for all traffic with likely to be washed out bv heavy rain, he said. Figuring the; j- Lcminari chairman of the cost of the temporary bridges at : .onCcial . road commission of Cane Sl.r00 to S2.000. he s.-iir? p.y uicm wiui grasses ana green fi,w w wi, nc saw. tnoug.- township, told of the many plans that food. Cut we have come to the as- ni"e would soon be wasted to pay xvcre laen up fjy the commission b sistauce of Dame Nature with B. A. Thomas' Stock Remedy which con tains the very ingredients that thl Dloomdeld, Mo., June 12. Follow ing up a clew that is believed to lead to the men who are suspected of hav ing set lire to the Steddan County Trust building in this city destroying ail record-; of the selective draft reg istration, Sheriff Oscar O'Neil left the city tonight on a mysterious trip in an elTort to locate two men, who were seen in an automobile near' the building ihorily after the lire was discovered. The authorities would no'i state the purpose of the sheriff's leaving the city nor his destination, but it is believed he went to Advance i:i search of the suspects. The Trust -building, in which were stored all draft records of Stoddard County, both of 1017 and 1918, was destroyed by lire, which was discov ered about l:-"0 o'clock this mornin. The entire building, one of the larg est in Southej'.st Missouri, was burn ed, only the wails remained. rhat the origin of t!i2 fire was in cendiary is indicated by the fact that a strong odor of ccal oil was detect ed by those who reached the building first. The room, in which the records of the diaft were kept was a mass of fla.nes when the fire fighters arrived, lb' is bolkved that the flames origi nated in this room. Other records kept by professional oowr Cr that saay pro wo imrrKsblo. Writo toi!y fcr Oct LATEST LIST and fall details of our Easr Paymrt Dan, cr. if you are c-C to b in town, ccme to our bcautifcl chow rooros and lrt ns demonstrate tba bargains we offer. RFiYEU. MOTOR CAR CO., 2521 Lccust Street, ST. LOUIS, M0, ft - be known until the debris has been moved away. It is believed by the officers of the bank, however, that the vault offered protection against the flames. Anonymous letters received by the local board of Stoddard County, threatening to kill the members of! the board, or to blow up the building j stroyed. A can containing several""" gallons of wood alcohol exploded,--blowing out part of the building. All fixtures in the barbershop of lien Tryor were also burned. This shop., was located directly beneath the room in which the local board bati ks offices. Others who lost their offices anJI in which the records were kept, were contents are: Dr. S. S. Davis, Dr. D. A Sloan and Dr. Taul E. Tribble, all- three dentists, who had their office on the second floor. The offices of ex-Senator Ferris and Attorney II. S. Green and the insurance offires of W. E. Green were a complete loss, as" none of these men had any insurance on their books and office fixtures. According to Trosecuting Attorney George Munger, who, with Sheriff O'Neil, is investigating possible clues that might lead to the arrest of the men suspected of having started (lie fire, an automob'le was seen leaving the city at a high rate of speed .in t a short time before th blaze in the for the construction of a concrete fore it was definitely decided to limit 1 ,7I, vn the'r offices in the trust uhukc wnicn wouiu ue a permanent the issuance of bends to the town structure. Besides, he added, the loss shr instead of including the entire of business which has been estimated COuntv. It was sue-fresied in tho bo- green feed supplies in season only, of at $1,000 a day, would soon exceed1 1C sa;(j Q for orv edy will make your cows give more J thf ioss b.v way of additional tax- J si 00,000 in the township, but in view oursc, in a more highly concentrated f . " resuiunK Irom the wance of ; 0f the fsct that the northern secthm : V u jvir.g .'.-:;a;. LAI form. .We guarantee that this rem- f the township would not be inter- feed, i F. F. BRAUN & BROS, 111 A -a - it . milk, and Letter mlik, with the same T A" , "'i,: "t i !JI ouiuung o. tne onuge, u ,L DeaI sPke of the inconvenience of j .vas decided to inrinso inn sum to traveling to the neighboring counties t ?200.COO in order to tret enough mon joining uape uiranieau county m ; cy to repair the reads in the entire t::e fcouth. since tho drainage bridges ; township. G iia9iS ha1 been destroyed bjf the flood. Fci-- Will r1,ro RIinTrntfrr,M.. nantnE oruiges would eventually ralgia, Headaches, Cramps, Colic hav ,to, bc buiIt' the Faid' an,i t1lore j Rf I Jf niMf fV SHIPS Sprains. Bruises, Cuts, Burns, Old voald llc . 110 wa' to c"vent the DUILiJlltU Uf uliilO Sores. Tetter. n"-Worm.Kc. . -onstrucucn ot tnese permanent! zema, etc. Anljs-pt;c Anodyne, vised internally or externally 25c. building, were also consumed by the flames. Whether any valuable papers of the Stoddard County Trust Co., which occupies the first floor, were burtied is not yet known, and will not received during the last few weeks, but were destroyed with the building. Thus the only clue that could have led to the identity of the writers of these letters was wiped out. The local board members expressed the opinion that the building might have been fired by some one who had no meritorious claim for exemption and hoped to be freed from the draft by destroying the registration rec ords, ignorant of the fact that a triple record Avas kept of the registration cards. According to Sheriff O'Neil the fire started m tne center ot tne room where the board kept When the first man building, it was noticed that a hole of he ,oca' board to show tIie T,:,:n" -had been burned through the second her of men and the names of the reg- ' intrants for this year. Vmle H-He original registration certificates is sued last year were destroyed, the duplicates are in the hands of the dis trict lward and also of the adjutant -general of the State, but no records are left of the last registration, Ju;ie -5. With the original registration cer tificates of last year the questionaires issued by the board on the first regis tration were also destroyed by, the fire. its records. Trust building was discovered. reached the' No records are now in th hands floor and the ceiling of the room oc cupied by the local board was scroched. This would indicate, the sheriff s-iid that the records had been piled up in the middle of the room and saturated with coal oil to be burned. The door leading to the of fice of Dr. J. W. Tribble was found open This door, the sheriff stated, had always been locked. The entire stock in the drug store of J. W. Ferirs, cx-scnator, was de- pans. The sooner the bridges were built, the better it would bo for the business EXCEEDS SINKINGS fr' H-'V ill- l man as well as for the farmers and j U-Boat AtfacksOff The American Coast Speed Up Construction Of Vessels. the property owner. In as much as the funds derived from taxation were 'oo small to defray the expense of erecting permanent bridges across V;n iK'lnnalj .....!.? Krt i. i luiijuti.-,) ii uuiiu inuc woum wi the only practical solution of the problem, said the speakers. Washington, June 13. man submarines began Sir.ee C.er their raids off" the Atlantic coast on May 25, the ! eutnut of the shinvards buildinir ves- Bcnson C. Hardesty, another attor- sels has cxceC(v, the sinking of ney, dwelt on the suggestion made by 'American ships by more than 100,000 some opponents of the bond issue to i thad weight tons. The pijbduction have the State Legislature enact a ' durin" this inten 'ai has bec: 21 vcs" seis, totaling 1.(,04J tons Makes up for what you miss on "Hoover Days A particularly happy thought for the housewife on "Hoover Days" is ij' the all-year -'round soft drink. Tastes so good everybody at table i3 tempted to cat lecs and drink more. A pure drink. Milk cr water may contain bacteria -Bevo cartner. Get it by th2 cacc for the home folks. Mo refreshment mere appropriate and enjoyable at effairs such ai bazaars, pic nics and church scci&blcs. Bevo has been approved ty the Govern ment for cur boys, and is immensely pop ular aboard U. S. men-o'-war and in the military cantonments. Families supplied by grocers, dealers or druggists. Manufactured and bottled exclusively by Anheuser-Busch St Louis Bottling Wcrlir: E:.,.r.r.l"-: ('Aril CIiRARDMAr, I law compelling the drainage company to pay for the construction of the bridges. This would be improbab'e, he said, for the reason that the bur den of financing the construction of the bridges had already been deler- Exclu ?- ing the Vessels salvaged, the sub marines destroyed 10 American ships totaling 26,000 tons. Six ships were completed during the frst week of June. They to taled 24,1"C tens. In the same time letter Insurance of Conserving Character Protection ill Cast The Best Obtainable. $2.00 i'er S1O0O.OO on Accepted Risks Secuie and Sound. mined by law and by the courts and j iheer were 14 launchings, totaling jthat in all probability no Legislature; 75,470 tens. Seven of the ships cculd be found that would change j launched were steel and seven wood, these laws. The Kaltimore Drv Dock and Shin- Clyde A. Vandivort, one of the lead i building Comoanv todav telegraphed ing business men of this city and a j Director General Schwab that a ()4."i0 supporter of the proposed bend issue, i ton steel steamer would be launched told of the development of the lands, j there next Monday in less than 40 once known as the swamps of South- I working days. As the ship is being east Missouri, and from which Cape j built on the longitudinal system, Girardeau would yield an enormous : v.hich requires mere time than the amount of business within the next j transverse system of construction, two or three years, provided proper j the time is considered excellent. connections were established and j Recent acts of Congress, princi maintained with the district that is ! pally the espionage act, have so bur now under the course of develop- j dened the dockets of th federal ment. . courts in all Darts of the conntrv that He said he had spent several weeks j it is almost placed out of question to in Stoddard and Scott Counties and ; hear the naturalization cases and ad- had observed the wonderful progress ; mit any of 'the applicants to citizen- in farming in these twocounties dur-1 ship Since the government has be ing the last three months. In two . gun the prosecution of men charged or three years these two counties, he ' with disloyalty and sedition, th,rt ap said, would offer the business men of I plications for citizenship have been Cape Girardeau a vast source of rev- j postponed, thus increasing the nam- enue for their business. The farmer ber from term to term. and every property owner of the city would benefit as well as'the merchant DpiXG THE WORK. I by the prosperity resulting from the ; increase of business coming from j W. T. Nanney, Noel, Mo., writes: i these two counties. "Your II. A. Thomas' Hog Powder is' Ex-Mayor Will Hirsch called 'the! doing the work down in this part of present bridge situation ridiculous, j the world. It proved to be what wei The business men and property own-j needed to prevent and cure hog chol j ers, he said, could not go to sleep, i era and expell worms.'.' - ' while Cairo and other cities south of --F. F. ERAUN & BK03. 1 I Every Home and Every Business should te protected villi ctd Fire, Lightning, Cyclone and Tornado Insurance. Farm Mutual is good protection and it costs so little that no prop erty owner should be without it. Insure your business, your home, or your automobile with the Farmers Mutual Insurance Companies of Rock Portf Missouri. The Oldest, Largest and Cheapest Mutual in the State. Incorporated in 1869. Growing Crops Insured Against Haii. Do some timely. and sensible conservation. Save from $20.00 to 940.00 on each $1000.00 insurance. R. W. FRISSELL, Agent. a