Gasconade County Republican from Owensville, Missouri • Page 1

GASCONADE COUNTY REPUBLICAN Volume 24, Number 36. OWENSVILLE, MISSOURI, FRIDAY, JULY 29, 1927. $1.50 per year in Advance. THIS WEEK HOW MUCH MONEY? ELIZABETH AND ESSEX. MAN'S A POOR FISH.

CANCER AND THE 3RD EYE. -By Arthur Brisbane. If you have $81.16 in wour pocket you have twice as much cash as the average. The Treasury tells us that money circulating July 1 amounted to "only" four billion eight hundred and thirty-four millions, one hundred millions less than last year, $40.58 for each inhabitant. The real wealth is credit.

Four men in the United States, Rockefeller, Ford, Andrew Mellon and George F. Baker, could, with ease borrow more money than all the cash that is in circulation. Long ago Queen Elizabeth gave ring, her face engraved upon stone set in it, to her lover, the Earl of Essex. No matter what he did, he would be forgiven if he returned that ring. Accused of saying that Queen Elizabeth's mind was as crooked a8 her body, which was probably true, she was a great queen and a hard woman, he failed to return the ring and his head was chopped off.

The Countess of Nottingham dying, confessed that she failed to deliver to the Queen the ring that Essex gave her. Elizabeth, in despair, spent her time sitting on the floor weeping, and died at the end of twenty days. That's the story. Now the ring is sold at auction for $2,700. It has dropped in value.

Elizabeth would have given 1,000,000 pounds for it. Bobby Jones, golf wizard from Atlanta, defending his open golf champion title, made the first round of eighteen holes in 68 strokes, five under "par." The secret in golf is control head and nerves. In the air, flying, or on the grass, playing golf young Americans seem able to that. A well-meaning politician gests a law admitting children all baseball parks for twenty-five cents per child. A better law would supply city baseball parks In which children could play baseball.

That is what they need, not the right to sit on a bench, paying twenty-five cents to watch somebody else play. If young and old men of this generation played MORE, and watched less, it would be better for them. British scientists use moving pictures in war against cancer. camera records cancer growths, slowly, for two days. Then the Alm is speeded up, nine hundred and sixty times, and scientists cancer cells actually growing.

That's important. Man can outrun a horse in time. An Irishman, afterward elected Mayor of Long Island City, more than 600 miles in six days. But, in water, man is literally poor fish," a most inferior Ash. Edward Keating finished last week over a 24-mile fresh water course in 18 hours 4 47 minutes.

In that time a shark could swim half way across the Atlantic. Miss Constance Talmadge, excellent moving picture actress, questing a divorce, says of husband: "He is the nicest man, but I am out of love." "Out of love" is modern, of our day. Strict logic might firm the view if you marry when "in love" you should marry when "out of love." There are other considerations however, that still influence many. Otto Koennecke, German prepares for his trip from Berlin to San Francisco, with interesting care. Every part of his motor being X-rayed yesterday in search of defects in the metal.

Old tues show goddesses with BARN DESTROYED The barn on the farm owned by John Wright, 2 miles east of Red Bird, was destroyed by fire on the night of July 21st. Mr. Wright and wife were in their residence when the electric bolt struck the barn about 8:00 in the evening. They soon realized the structure was on fire and would soon be destroyed. Mr.

Wright rushed to the building and opened a door which made it possible for two of his horses to escape and go into a pasture near his home. He ran to his car and succeeded in saving it. By that time the roof of the building was wrapped in flames and he saw the peril was too great to attempt to save any more property. He lost 7 tons of hay, 25 bushels of oats, 3 sets of harness, one wagon, one hay frame and 8 collars for horses as well as two spring seats. He carried insurance in the Mutual Benefit Aid Association of Owensville for $600.00.

Mr. Wright will no doubt arrange for two buildings to be constructed this fall. He prefers two small barns to one large structure like the one recently consumed by the fire. (A horse and a mule were also burned in the barn.) HIRAM COULTER DIES IN DETROIT, MICHIGAN The many friends of the family in Owensville were grieved to learn Saturday, July 26. of the death that day of Mr.

Hiram Coulter, which occurred at his home in Detroit, Michigan. Mr. Coulter suffered a paralytic stroke about a year ago and had been in very poor health ever since. Hiram Franklin Coulter was born in the northern part of Gasconade County August 10, 1853. Here he grew to manhood and was married at Barren Fork in 1871 to Miss Sallie Hensley.

To this union four children were born, one of whom preceded him in death. Those surviving are John Benton Coulter of Owensville; Mrs. Mattie Burkhoelter of Dunwick, and Mrs. Mollie Darrow of Hutchinson, Kansas. His Arst wife died some years ago and he was again married about 1890 to Miss Necie Butler.

To this union ten children were born, six of whom with Mrs. Coulter survive him. They are Mrs. Naomi Thurman of Centerview. Mrs.

Ulah Eckert, Elmer, Harley, Cecil and Stanley, all of Detroit, Michigan. Besides his wife and children he leaves a step-son, Oscar Coulter, of Kansas City, fourteen grandchildren, two brothers- Sam Coulter and George Coulter of Stony Hill, two sisters, Mrs. Lelia Jacobs of Stillwater, Oklahoma; and Mrs. Emma Jacobs, of Stony Hill, besides 3 large number of other relatives and friends. Mr.

Coulter with his family moved to Owensville in 1900 and lived here until 1920 since which time they have made their home in Detroit, Michigan. Funeral services were conducted and he was laid to rest in Detroit. Michigan. MILLER -EADS Mr. Jack Miller.

who formerly worked here for Dewitt Terrill, and Miss Lydia Eads, who was, employed in the Owensville Bakery, were married Tuesday, July 26. at Linn. Mr. Miller comes from about Linn while his bride's people live near Hope. -Mr.

and Mrs. Wm. Weeke and daughter, Miss Clara, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Weeke, Mr.

and Mrs. Gus. Rettke and Louis Rettke of Washington, Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Brune and Mrs.

Henrietta Budke of near New Haven and J. W. Hartke were guests of Mr. and Mrs. August Hallemann Sunday.

Mrs. Budke is Mr. Hallemann's mother. ---Ernst Mayfield and family arrived Wednesday by auto from Bakersfield, California, for a visit with Mrs. Mayfield'e sister, Mrs.

Wm. Sneed, and family. eyes, one in the forehead. Science has given to men a real third eye, the X-Ray, that looks through solid metal, and we hardly it. BURGLAR SHOT AT BLAND Considerable excitement was aroused in Bland early Monday morning when word got about that a burglar had been shot after he had forced his way into the building where R.

H. Cobb conducts a pool hall and restaurant. Mr. Cobb's place of business is in the old office building of the E. C.

Robinson Lumber Co. The pool hall is in the large room and the restaurant in a smaller side room. Twice before the place has been robbed SO a few weeks ago Mr. Cobb hired Floyd Williams to sleep in it. This fact was not generally known.

About 3:00 a. m. Monday morning, Mr. Williams, who was asleep in the side room, was awakened by the entrance of a burglar who had forced the front door in the pool hall with a screwdriver and pair of pliers. Mr.

Williams, armed with a double barrel shot gun called to him to "stick 'em up," and when the burglar hesitated, discharged his gun. The burglar made his getaway and Mr. Williams went to arouse Deputy Sheriff Fent Hohenstreet who found his man at Mr. Wm. Pointer's where he had either gone by himself or been assisted and who had appealed to Mr.

Pointer for help. Mr. Pointer took him in and sent for Dr. C. A.

Bunge who pronounced his wounds serious and after being arrested he was taken to Hermann where after examination he was taken to a hospital in Jefferson City by Deputy Sheriff Hohenstreet. The man was identified as J. A. Jackson, better known in and about Bland a8 "Toothless Jack." because of his appearance. He was armed when he entered Mr.

Cobb's place, as a 44-calibre single action pistol was found cocked on the floor of the pool hall. The discharge from the shotgut hit him in the left side and arm, some of the shot in his thigh and some near his stomach. At last report he was still in a serious condition, his arm had been amputated, but the chances for his recovery are favorable. Jackson says his former home was at Senath, Missouri. He came to Bland as one of the gravel haulers on the highway several months ago.

Lately he has lived in a house which he had leased from Mrs. Elsie Barnhart near Cleavesville. We are informed that he admitted uSing this place to sell home brew. For several weeks a number of robberies have taken place in and near Bland. We are informed that Jackson has confessed to taking part in some of them SO it would seem that his arrest has partly cleared up this trouble.

On the strength of some of his admissions Prosecuting Attorney Graf and Sheriff Aug. Eberlin of Hermann came to Bland Monday afternoon and went out to Mrs. Barnhart's to search the premises but sO far we are unable to learn just what evidence they got. They put under arrest, however, Harry Wood, who hails from Alton, Illinois, and who was working at Mrs. for his board.

Wood denied all knowledge of the robberies. We have since learned that another arrest or two has been made and interesting developments are promised. HERMANN BOY TO GO TO BOYS' STATE FAIR SCHOOL The right to represent Gasconade County at the fifth annual Boys' State Fair School has been won by Edmund Bohl, Hermann, according to an announcement by W. G. Dillon, Jefferson City, Superintendent of the Boys' State Fair School.

By making the highest grade in the competitive examination given by the county superintendent, young Bohl gets to go to the fair, which is being held this year August 20-27. To be a candidate for the honor the boy must live in the country, be enrolled in the elementary grades, or, a member of a boys' farm club. At the close of school, the representatives from the 114 counties in the State will write an essay on "What the School Meant to Me," or, "What Interested Me Most at the Boys' State Fair School." Writers of the ten best essays will be given a return trip to the fair next year. MORE JUSTICE METED OUT Justice of the Peace Court was in session again here Tuesday hearing a case in which an interplea was filed to stop proceedings in an attachment suit. Henry Moeller who has a house in the Hambro Addition.

had started an attachneut suit against M. H. Elton on account of rent due him and had attached $140 which he alleged was due Elton from H. W. Morre for putting a metal roof on the Citizen's Hall of Drake.

Chas. Cassell of Vandalia, recently of Owensville, who had been associated with Elton in the tinning business in Owensville since last March, was the interpleader and claimed a partnership with Elton, therefore a half interest in the $140. Jos. T. Tate was attorney for Mr.

Moeller while R. Martin Barrow of Vandalia represented Mr. Cassell. The merits of the case were heard and determined by a jury consisting of B. F.

Murphy, Chas. Kurrelmeyer, Gus. H. Opitz, Walter McCan. Cyrill Jonas and Henry Korff.

The plaintiff maintained that a partnership existed between Cassell and Elton while the defendant contended that such partnership no longer existed if ever there was such. Several witnesses were heard and the jury brought in a verdict for the interpleader for $70. Elton did not appear. The money at issue remains tied up because Mr. Morre contends the job of putting on the roof is not completed in a workmanlike manner and he refuses to pay anybody until it is made satisfactory.

FRANK KOSARK'S BARN DESTROYED BY FIRE The large barn of Frank Kosark of Route 3 was entirely destroyed by fire Wednesday evening. The family saw the barn all ablaze and succeeded in getting the horses out but everything else was lost. Mr. Kosark had just filled the loft with hay and it is likely the fire started from the heat generated by the hay. There was more than 22 loads of hay in the barn.

Mr. Kosark also lost some new roofing he had just bought to cover his granary. Mr. Kosark lost a barn by a windstorm a few months ago and had just completed a new The barn that burned was another one, older but larger. LOCAL ITEMS -The Presbyterian Sunday School enjoyed an outing on the Bourbois near Tea yesterday.

-Clifton Warren and family drove out from St. Louis Sunday to visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Warren. Clifton returned Thursday leaving his family for a longer visit.

-Rev. J. S. Arvin conducted the funeral July 22nd at Useful Missouri, of Millicent Nadine Rice, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Alonzo Rice, who died at Wellsville July 21st at the age of 1 year, 8 months and 4 days. The little one leaves her parents, three sister and two brothers to mourn. -A large crowd attended the picnic given by the Owensville Band Saturday. The crowd did not come till night but seemed to enjoy the Ferris Wheel, the dance with the music by Shell's Orchestra from Jefferson City, the Band music and the numerous attractions of the many concessions. The Band boys ask us to thank the public for the liberal support and all those who contributed their splendid work and co cooperation as well as the good ladies who so kindly gave pies for the lunch atand.

-The St. Louis Tigers (colored baseball team) of St. Louis before a large crowd Sunday humbled the local team by score of 12 to 5. The game for the first six innings was close and very interesting but in the seventh Owensville blew up and never lit till the end of the game. Virgil Angell broke bia thumb, we think by colliding with a dark kinky skull, but it might have been hit by a ball thrown to second base where he was playing.

He pluckily kept on playing and no one knew he was hurt till the game was over. RETHEMEYER-CARWILE Mr. Harry W. Rethemeyer and Miss Thelma May Carwile were united in marriage Tuesday afternoon, July 26, at the home of Rev. and Mrs.

J. S. Arvin. Rev. Arvin performing the marriage ceremony at 4:00 o'clock in the afternoon.

Following the ceremony a reception was held at the home of the bride's parents at which only the near relaArvin were present. Later in the evening a number of their friends gave them a charivari. Mr. Rethemeyer is a son of Mr. and Mrs.

Theo. Rethemeyer of Route 1. He formerly lived at Owensville but at present is employed in the Shoe factory at Hermann. His bride is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Walter Carwile of Owensville. She has grown to womanhood in our midst, is a modest. unassuming young lady and an active worker in the Baptist Church Young People's circles. Both have many friends who extend to them congratulations and best wishes for happiness and prosperity during their journey through life. Mr.

and Mrs. Rethemeyer will make their home at Hermann. C. E. VAUGHAN HONORED AT CAPE GIRARDEAU Sixteen out of 402 members of upper classes at the Cape Girardeau State Teachers' College summer term have been chosen for membership in Kappa Delta Pi, the institution's honor educational nity, owing to their brilliant ranking in scholarship, in the teaching profession, and in leadership.

The sixteen were chosen after rigid examination of the records of every member of the upper classes. Mr. C. E. Vaughan, superintendent of the Owensville schools, was of the number.

Acceptance of these students to Kappa Delta Pi indicates that they are not only the honor scholarship students of the summer term, that they have been doing constructive school work of the highest type. Many of them have built up small schools into well organized, efficient systems. Initiation of a student into Kappa Delta Pi is the highest honor that can come to him while attending the summer term. A record of developing a oneteacher, third class high school into the leading school of his county has been established by Mr. Vaughall.

He is widely known in the county, having taught here for a long period. Besides being the originator of community library service, he has served on the county textbook commission, and has taught in a night school in his community. His college activities membership in the Webster Literary Society, and he has been chairman of his county group two years. We are indeed pleased that Mr. Vaughan is the recipient of this scholastic honor.

-The Republican is glad to note that our old friend Fred H. Kriete of Gerald has been appointed by Governor Baker to fill the unexpired term of Henry M. Griefield as County Treasurer of Franklin County. Mr. Griefeld died suddenly last week.

ASK ME ANOTHER Clover and Prosperity Question Can You Answer these? 1. Which is better for sweetening sour soil; burned lime, hydrated lime or pulverized limestone? 2. Based on present prices of timothy hay what is a ton of alfalfa hay worth to a dairyman? 3. Which will give the greatest increase in corn yield, ten tone of manure per acre, plowing under a good crop of red clover or plowing under a crop of sweet clover? Get the correct answers on Clover and Prosperity Day, Railroad Park, Owensville, Thursday, September 8. WE'LL TELL THE WORLD- Often we hear some one say, "there's too much education these days, I don't believe in it." We agree, not that there is too much, but that lots of it is going to waste.

There can be no such thing as too much education. Anyone who ceases to learn during his life time has died from the neck up. Men have told us they don't believe in boys going to High School, at least not country boys, because it takes too many of them off the farm. After they leave High School they want white collar jobs instead of blue overall jobs. Well, God bless you, don't you want your boy to have an easier life, a more pleasant life, a more profitable life than you have had yourself? If you don't, you are a curious specimen of intelligent humanity.

If your son has the Intelligence and the ability to make more money at something else than you have made on the farm would you wreck his life by keeping him ignorant in order that he will stay behind the plow? Being satisfled with your job is the greatest thing In life. And if an educated man can't be satisfled with farming, then there is something wrong with farming, not with education, and farming will never come back into its own until educated men want to farm. You may as well look the situation squarely in the face. It's the plodding, the uncertainty and the unproftableness of farming that drives the boys away from the farm and more poorly educated boys leave the farm than educated ones. All this goes for the girls too.

The more you know -that is, the better your mind is developed--the more you will get out of life and add to the world's riches, no matter what your VOCaBut all knowledge and mind development 18 not acquired in schools. J. ract, schools hare many sins to answer for, especially sine of omission. Schools are too prone to inculate only what is in the text books. In many things they are not practical and these faults must and will in time be remedied.

There should be more teaching of how and why to live, more inculation of true citizenship. more training in thrift and in the Anancial matters likely to be experienced by the ordinary mortal, and more instruction in how and what literature to read. These things perhaps can not be put in text books or taught from text books but happy indeed is the school that secures teachers capable of imparting this knowledge. Many people think a teacher is good because that teacher has drilled everything in the text book into the pupil's head. Maybe so, but has he taught him how to work, how to play, how to care for his health, how to treat his neighbor? Has he impressed on him the meaning and importance of citizenship? Has he inculated in him the principles of justice, the nobleness of truth and the sacredness of honesty? Has he implanted in him the true desire to seek knowledge and truth? Some of these things should be taught in the home, but as largely they are not, then it behooves us to see that our teachers are better prepared along these lines, and they will be better prepared whenever the time comes that we cease employing boys and girls as teachers who are using the sacred profession of teaching as a stepping stone or stop gap for something else.

We Americans boast of our public schools and smugly give the lives of our children in their formative period into the hands of young men and women with certificates to teach but with no more abiilty to teach or real desire to teach than a pig has regard for Sunday. We are getting nowadays so we require specialists for High School and higher education but still leave the grades, the most important part of school life, to mere tyros. In that way we have an enormous waste of what we are pleased to call education and it our public school system is a failure in the light of the enormous amount of money spent, that is the outstanding reason. -Miss Boesch of St. Louis is spending the week here with her brother, Andrew Boesch, and fam-.