Monroe City Democrat., January 18, 1918, Image 3

About Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919

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SALE
Now In Progress!
$12.50
850
5.00
3.50
2.50
50c
$1.00
Gossards
Gossards
Gossards
Gossards
Gossards
Brassiers, 3 for
Brassicrs, 3' for
$8 50
6.50
3.50
2.50
2.00
$1.00
2.50
Brassiers Selling Regularly at $3.50 to
$5.00 Now $1.50.
A Graduate Corsetiers Service to
Select and Fit Your Gossard.
McCarty
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Monroe City, Missouri
Good Roads Department
Io view of the fact that County
Courts in Missouri convene the week
beginning Mondav, February 4, and
all highway engineers and road
overseers are called upon to make
settlement during the week, this
will interfere seriously with the at
tendance of the announced "Road
Week" to be held in St. Louis in con
junction with the convention of
American Road Builders The State
Highway Board is anxious to have
all County Judges, County Highway
Engineers, and Road Overseers in
Missouri come together for a-geoeral
interchange of ideas in regard to
road building, and it is now proposed
to hold the principal "Read Week"
discussions in Kansas City, in con
junction with the annual meeting of
jhe Highway Engineers' Associatiob,
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. wnwu win ue iieiu reuruary a uuu
28. and March 1 Moving pictures
of the Ccnvict Road camps operated
. under the direction of the State
f Highway Department will be shown
both at St. Louis and Kansas City.
.This arrangement by the State
Highway Board should enable
practically every road enthusiast in
the state to witness the pictures and
; . hear the discussions. ,
J. P. Davis, assistant State High
way Engineer, who is also secretary
of the Highway Engineer's Associ-
; ation of Missouri, has announced
'"' , the annual meeting of the associa
' tio to be held at the Muehlbach
' Hotel, Kansas City. Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday, February 27th
- and 28th, and March 1st. M. S
V Murray of Sikeston, president of the
organization, and Secretary Davis
bnferred at the Statler Hotel in St
. Louis this week and completed ar
. raugements for the session, Illustrat
. ed lectures will ' be given and a
; special effort will be made to have
all County Judges attend this con
vention. Callaway County is maintaining
an easy lead in the progressive
movement for better roads by ask
ing for the establishment of two
"honor road camps." County High
way Engineer Divers has com
municated with the State Prison
Board asking for the use of 70 men
to be used in constructing the
National Old Trails Road in Calla
way county. There is also a move
ment under way to form a special
road district covering the Capital
Highway from Bloom field to Jeffer
son City. It is planned to improve
this Springfield Hannibal road from
the state capital to the Audrain
county line.
Death of J. W. Hutcheson.
John Walter Hutcheson passed
away at his home in this city on
Jun. 11, 1918. after a short illness
from labor pneumonia. Funeral
service at the house was conducted
by Rev. J. C. Cook of the First Bap
tist Church, after which the re
mains were laid to rest in St. Jude's
cemetery.'
Mr. Hutcheson was born in Ken
tucky, Jan. 5, 1844. Most of bis
boyhood was spent in Illinois.
Many years ago he located in Sa
line County, Mo, where be engaged
in farming at which he was quite
successful. For the past ten or
twelve years he had spent a retired
life in this city.
He is survived by his wife and
two daughters. The daughters are
Mrs. Hattie Esboro, of Mendon, III,
and Mrs. H. C. Barnard, of St. Louis.
Mr Hutcheson was an upright citi
zen and his friends were only lim
ited by his acquaintance. Peace to
bis ashes.
Missouri's 1917 Record.
The 1917 annual report of Secre
tary Jewell Mayes of the Missouri
State Board of Agriculture shows
the following record of war crops:
In 1916. there were planted in
Missouri (in eleven standard crops
which were measured in bushels).
10,342.389 acres and on that area
grew 187,314,063 bushels
( The eleven crops here referred
to are corn, wheat, oats, rye, buck
wheat, barley, flax and sorghum
seeT timothy and clover seed, and
potatoes)
Io 1917, surveying these same
eleven crops, the area is found to
be 11,200,457 acres and on these
acres grew 351.101.067 bushels.
In 1917, the first year of the war.
under war-time stress and activity,
the gain in acreage of those eleven
standard crops was 8 per cent. The
gain or increase in total number of
bushels of those eleven crops was
87 per cent Compared to 1916,
our 1917 valuation of these crops
showed an increase of 142 per cent. 1
Measured by dollars, the 1917
grand total of Missouri's garden,
orchard and field crops is $546,529,
13600 The 1916 total of crops
was $231,888,951 OO-our 1917
valuation showing increase of 135
per cent over 19161
Tuesday morning about 11 o'clock
Burlington train No 3 killed a
horse and a mule at the Tuley
crossing about one and a half miles
east of town. The mule was hurl
ed to the side of the track but the
horse was caught under the cars in
some manner and dropped on the
track just as the train was approach
ing Main Street. The horses' body
was mashed almost into a pulp and
required rather close inspection to
distinguish the species. The ani
mals were the property Ed.. Walker,
and we understand had been sold
to other patties and were on the
way to be delivered . to the purchaser.
Germany Must Be Taught.
The German negotiations with the
Lenine Trotzky socialist government
of Russia last month further il
lustrated this amazing paradox of
inevitable German failure through
the doorway of seeming success
Russia for the moment was pros
trate, helpless giant. German greed
began at ouct to over reach itself in
ks eagerness to despoil the giant
I while he lay broken and bound.
Vast territorial demands were made
by Germany, and commercial ad
vantages for a long time to come
were to be solemnly guaranteed
The Russian Socialists had begun
by claiming the doctrine of "no an
nexations, no indemnities." If Ger
many had now accepted this doc
trine in pretended good faith, in
accordance with the Reichstag
resolution of last summer, she would
at once have withdrawn all ber
soldiers from Russian soil as a peace
preliminary, and would have pro
cetded to make generous proposals
that would have captivated the
simple Russian heart, impressed the
peace advocates of all other
countries, upset the political balance
in Italy, and weakened the morals
of France. But Germany could not
avoid revealing her true nature ana
character in a moment when an op
ponent was at a disadvantage. Her
proposals included vast Russian an
nexations that further exhibited to
the world her unshaken adherence
to the doctrine that there is no law
but might. Her terms gave fresh
proof that Germany does not bold
it inccumbent upon any nation to
adjust its own ambitions to what
is right and just for one's neighbors.
These German proposals to Russia
of last month were the denial of all
international morality. They served
notice upon the world of hat-it
must expect from Cerman victory
in other directions. And seemingly
no large element of public opinion
in Germany has fairly grasped the
idea ihafit is precisely such at
titudes that have led the world to
the conclusion that Germany must
be defeated It must be a humili
ated and repentant German people
that can be allowed to begin over
again, and to resume their places in
a friendly world The ntw inter
national society that is to set about
the upbuilding of a fine civilization
must rest upon corner-stones of
justice and liberty, as well as upon
those of science and social order.
Only a reformed German can be admitted.
Rev. W P Wynn of Hannibal,
spent Monday afternoon with Rev
H C. Bolen.
Protect The Cow.
An appeal to protect the cow has
been issued by the Missouri Division
of the Uniied States Food Adminis
tration "The American mlich
cow," says the appeul, "u probably
doing more to heii v'i the war
than any other animal. She is the
Snmmie's best friend because she
is furnishing meat for him to eat,
leather to make his shoes, besides
milk, butter, cheesp, glue, bone,
buttons and fertilizer. Milk is her
chief stock in trade
"The American cow should have
special care these cold days, includ
ing good feed and a warm barn to
live in. Help her to produce more
and permit nothing that she pro
duces to be wasted. Skimmed
milk is usually so abundant on the
farm that its value in the diet is
often overlooked. Quart for quart,
it contains a little more protein and
a little more milk sugar than whole
milk, but much less fat Because
of the lack of fat, it cannot be used
in place of whole milk for children.
It is, however, a most valuable ad
junct to the diet on meatless days
and the cheapest protein food on
the farmers' table.
How To Start It.
"How to start a Ford" or words
to that effect, is the title of a little
epistle printed by Editor Peery of
the Albany Ledger, who evidently
owns a Ford which no doubt balks
or does something equally disgrace
ful every once in a while. At any
rate, Editor Peery tells how to
start one. after this lucid fnshion:
"That's easy. You just repeat
the name of prophe.s in Arabic,
put a gum drop in the cylinder, roll
np your sleeves, connect t ie bat
teries with the fillidgs in your teeth
or your watch c-ise, rip off your
belt and necktie, yell the word
Sherman used as a synonym for
war in the gasoline tank, breathe
hard against the caburetur so as to
warm the frost off ir, being careful
not to let your whiskers get tangled
tio io 'ht flywheel, and then twist
the crank around several hundred
revolutions. If the engine back
fires and kicks you in'o the mud,
knocking out a hanuf 1 of teeth, the
machine is rtadv to go That's a
sure siuu the motor has started."
Card of Thanks.
We wish to express our sincere
appreciation and thanks to our
friends and neighbors for their
kindness and sympathy through
the sickness and death of our be
loved wife and mother. God's
blessings rest upon you
J W. Strean and Family.
Satisfied
Customers
iHE man who lets us make his clothing
once Is sure to come back to us the
next time he needs anything in our
line. Our long experience in cutting and fit
ting enables us to turn out every job abso
lutely correct in every detail. We know how
to build clothos on correct lines so as to in
sure perfect fit and hold their shape.
Cleaning, Pressing and
Repairing.
L. L. LANE
TAILOR