The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald., October 17, 1918, Page 4, Image 4

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THE WEEKLY TRIBUNE AND CAPE COtJNTT HEftALn, OCT6BER 17, 1S18.
HENRY KUSS IS
LABELEDSLAC5ER
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The Clean Plate
THE
BYHISNEJGHBORS
Committee Of Farmers Wait
LITTLE RIVER
On Him And Ask Him To
Buy Liberty Bonds
HE ORDERS MEW TO
GET OUT OF YABD
Dralral
MlHQQ00Wr
Pkllnd
SYSTEM
. .OF. .
Levees PSfieSae
Neighbors Will Not Associate
With Him Hereafter-He Will
Be Boycotted
. was almost wholly constructed with
ELECTRICALLY OPERATED
MACHINES
THE WORK WAS DONE QUICKER AND CON
SIDERABLY CHEAPER THAN IT COULD HAVE
BEEN WITH ANY OTHER POWER
ova
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Is saving fuel for the nation
Is saving money for its users
Is helping freight congestion
MISSOURI PUBLIC
UTILITIESijCO.
SOUTHEAST MISSOURI
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WAR REDUCED LAW
SUITS, SAYS CLERK
Jefferson City. Srom what attor
neys say, the practice of law was
never at such a low ebb sincc years
before the Civil War.
At the opening session of the fall
term of the Supreme Court only three
lawyers were present.
"Almost 60 per cent of the cases in
the two divisions are continued as
len, clerk of the court, "Many arc
dismissed. Usually a continuance by
consent means that a compromise is
under way:
The war has undoubtedly called a
great many Missouri lawyers into the
service. Graduates of law schools
last spring are in the government
service almost to a man, and a great
many of the old lawyers have given
their services to the draft boards.
A great many lawyers are seeking
appointment as deputy judge advo
cates under Provost Marshal Crowder
in Washington.
they arc reached," said Jacob A. Al
Thcre little new litigation. Nev
er before were there so many com
promises in appea'ed cases, and never
so many cases dismissed on stipulations.
Since the government assumed con
trol of the railroads and the tele
graph and telephone companies the
policy has been adopted by Director
General McAdoo and those under him
to avoid all new litigation and com
promise o'd suits wherever possible.
Nearly all the suits againt rail
roads are founded on claims for dam
ages. In the past these afforded a
most prolific field of operation for
lawyers, who invariably took their
fees out of such judgments as they
could obtain. This practice has come
to an end.
William Misenh&mer and Char'-es
Herman of Allenville were m the
city on business yesterday.
Political Advertisement
Political Advertisement
VOTE FOR
GISONEY HOUCK,
Candidate for
Representative to the
LEGISLATIVE.
His platform is: "Those who get the benefits
from the drainage work should bear the bur
den. The Little River Corporation should pay
for the bridges over the Diversion Channel
where it crosses the public roads. But it does
not. If elected, I will endeavor to have a law
passed to put this cost of several hundred
thousand dollars on the Little River Corpora
tion and relieve the people."
He will appreciate your support
Henry Kuss, the well-known far
mer, living on the Bloo infield Road
about two mi'es from Cape Girardeau,
was waited on by a committee of two
dozen farmers Sunday night, and
when he refused to Imy liberty bonds,
they informed him that he would be
boy-cot ted by his neighbors.
The delegation, which was haaded
by Thomas H. Lewis, reached the
Kuss home about S o'clock in the ev
ening. Mr. Lewis and John Job
knocked at the front door and a
young man opened the door and in
vited them in. 'I'm afraid there
are more men here than you have
room for," remarked Mr. Lewis. ,'W
are here to see Mr. Kuss."
. Mr. Kuss then came to the door,
and when he Was invited to step out
side, he refused. Mrs. Kuss stepped
out on the front porch and demanded
to know the reasons for the tmex-
i
pected visit. When she was inform
ed, Mr. Lewis said Mrs. Kuss berated
them.
The ppmmittee was not there to be
driven away. They invited Mr. Kuss
to subscribe for Fourth Liberty Loan
bonds, and he refused. He told
them he would decide how many
bonds he would buy and from whom:
be would purchase, and that if he
chose not to buy at all, that was his
personal business, and he wouldn't
tolerate any interference with his
persona rights.
The charge was then made by one
of the visitors that he was a rich
man and that he had only invested
$50 in Liberty bonds, and that pur
issue. He then invited them to
leave his piace and never return, and
that he would do aa he pleased about
buying bonds.
The quarrel between Kuss and
John Schwab became so heated, Mr.
Lewis said, that it was feared for a
time trouble might result. The far
mers informed Kuss and his wife
that they did not visit his home for
the purpose of punishing him, but
merely to ask him to buy bonSs.
When he refused absolutely, the
farmers announced they would not
associate with him again, that he was
unpatriotic and that people who did
visit him wou'd be looked upon as
stackers. Hereafter, the farmers in
ihat neighborhood will refuse to
help him in harvest season, and will
not permit him to use any of their
machinery.
The farmers were from the Camp
ster School District, and spent yes
terday selling the quota of bonds al
lotted to that school district. Henry
Keller, the well-known farmer, who
was a member of the committee
sometime ago loaned Kuss his hay
bailer. He announced h weould get
possession of it and that Kuss never
could borrow any machinery from
him tgain. Threshing outfits will be
notified that "if they thnv.h grain at
the Kuss farm, they cannotdo busi-
fhess with any other farmers living
in the Campster school district. A
committee of farmers were also sel
ected to keep a record of persons who
visit at the Kuss home. These visi
tors will be looked upon as slackers
and treated as such.
Among those who waited on Kuss
Sunday night, were: Richard Spald
ing, Joe Job, Arthur Job, John
Schwab, "George Schwab, Herman
Schabbing, John Schonhoff, Eobert
Keller, Henry Keller, Barney Koeh
feld and Thomas H. Lewis.
These farmers had attended a bond
issue meeting at the Campster school
house during the afternoon, where
Hon. Louis Houck made an address,
urging the men to subscribe their
quota to. the Fourth Liberty Bond
campaign. ;The district was asked
to buy $16,000 in bonds. On the two
volunteer days, $10,000 of this amount
was subscribed. After Mr. Houck's
speech the farmers subscribed $6,600
more, putting the district over the
top. -It was stated yesterday that
the total sum of $16,000 was subscrib
ed by thirty-eight farmers.
elves to be one-hundred per cent
American. Almost every man in the
delegation which waited on Kuss
were German Americans, but their
conduct show them to be all wool and
a yard wide when it comes to Ameri
canism. . This is the first time thaC a demon
stration of this character has been
reported in this county. Kuss is
considered ono of the wealthiest far
mers in the county, and he has one
son in the war. Sirs. Kuss was called
before the United States Grand Jury
'zst spring on a charge of having said
that she could keep her son out of
the army, provided she was willing to
pay the price. She denied making
the statement, but was severely re
primanded by members of the Grand
Jury, it was stated.
NO TREATY NEEDED.
If a more comprehensive alliance
is desirable between the people of
Great Britain and the United States,
the surest foundation for its perma
nence! has already been ?aid through
the processes of 100 years. Farsee
ing statesmen and thinkers in both
countries hail a more intimate com
pact. But it is doubtful if even they
realize the extent wc have already
traveled in making this an accom
plished fact.
One may find in England large cen
ters of people of Irish descent whose
loyalty to the empire is beyond
doubt. We have the same class of
conservative Irish people of Irish
descent here. The very ra"igiou3
movements which have gathered most
force in one country have made the
greatest headway in the other. The
restless epirit of popular progress ir
each country has so constantly re
acted on the other as to blend our sentiments-
and aims in- one common
mass.
American labor and capital and
British labor and capital reach under
standing in similar way at nearly ev
ery point of contact. England bjas
has given us some of our best finan
ciers, and the best of our mer
chants and engineers have been loan
ed or given away in return. These
are of course but the effects of one
common civilization, the furthest civ
ilization the western civilization
which has always maintained eco
nomic and political independence of
Middle Europe and moral freedom
from its essentially despotic discipline.
OTECE'
The Cape City Meat Market, the
home of the best meats, has begun its
daily delivery service. Deliveries from
7 a.m. to 12 m. and 1 p.m. to 6 p.m.
We carry the best meat and sausage
on the market. Give us a trial and be
convinced. We get fresh eggs every
day. Dressed or live poultry is always
ready to be delivered to your home.
Send your order early for Dressed
Poultry.
t
Gape City Meat Market
JOHN L. MILLER, Proprietor
1 16 Independence Street
i .-:'. ..-
'PHONE 494
a'
. While this-district is made up al
most eiasivefy cf -farmers of Ger-
jnan descent, they have proved them
err-