HJCR1917A_09.jpg HJCR1917A_10.jpg HJCR1917A_11.jpg HJCR1917A_12.jpg Volunteer Transcription - part 1 Linda in MO Jefferson County Record, Hillsboro, MO January 18, 1917 Vol. XIII. No. 4 [page 1, column 1] ~ County Court Pays Monthly Accounts ~ Machinery Being Purchased and Other Preparations are Being Made to Carry on road Work. Court orders personal property valuations of Sarah DOWNING, De Soto corrected to $60 of 1916 taxes. On petition of George F. REED court orders valuation of lots 16-17, J. W. FLETCHER’s first addition to De Soto in block 4, corrected to $200.00 and on lots 1, 2, and 6, and part of lot 5 of FLETCHER’s second addition to $600.00 On petition of Mrs. J. W. NECK, court orders valuation on lots 17 and 18, block 1, FLETCHER’s second addition De Soto, to $300.00. Account of G. W. GASCHE against State of Missouri in sum of $26.33 approved. On petition of Victoria MAHEW court orders valuation on lot 16 GAMEL’s addition to Festus corrected [sic] to $250.00. All taxes due and on 4a, part lot 3, sur. 416 to $400.00 Personal property tax A. E. ROUGGLY corrected to $100 for 1916. On petition of Lizzie RYLE court orders valuation on lots 5 and 6, LaRose subdivision Festus, block 1 corrected to $250 for 1916. John CARREY granted permission to sreet [sic] telephone poles on De Soto and Carey road. Abstract of fees earned by circuit clerks office for December, 1916. Also treasurers receipts for amount collected filed and approved. Charles THOMASY granted renewal of dramshop licenses at Crystal City. ~ Accounts Allowed ~ J. J. HOEKEN, postage stamps for O?. Supt............12.00 Jefferson Dem., stat. ...........25.00 Crawford Lumber Co., bridge lumber, Dr. HULL ...........12.75 Graham Paper Co., stat ...........24.32 New Era Pub. Co. stat ...........129.25 W. I. WILSON, account of Ditmer road...........210.91 D. W. CONELLY, imp. Pine ???? road ...........865.90 Lon WIBBLE, imp. Hillsboro-Victoria road ...........344.35 Peter GLATT, imp. Le May Ferry road ...........404.61 MILLER-BOREHERDING, repairs for Silica bridge ...........2600.00 E. WILSON, baord [sic] of Eugene WILSON, $4.00 road work ?6.00 ...........7.00 John HUBELI, concrete culvert work ...........4.50 A. F. SLAWSON, tiling ........... 11.23 HAMEL Hdw. Co., road tools ...........27.95 Geo. VIVRETTE, repairs Fromet and De Soto road ...........45.10 ?ao. GENZLING, imp. LeMay Ferrry road 436.05 H. D. GRIFFITH, half of salary for ???onry and incidentals ...........68.19 ?. E. HUSKEY, imp. Ware and De Soto road ...........2.00 Leslie ADANMS , help. Engineer ...........1.80 ?. M. AGNEW, salary for half of January ........... 24.75 ?. W. M. BOONE, 1/2 January ...........24.75 ?. L. CLERC, helping engineer ...........17.50 Miller and BORCHERDING, road machinery ...........86.13 Miller and BORCHERDING, bridge steel ...........96.00 Frank HUSCKEY, imp. Hillsboro and Cedar Hill road ........... 142.70 Max G. HACKE, road machinery ...........384.88 W. E. VIVRETTE, imp. De Soto and Frumet road ...........83.26 Henry HURTGEN, rep. road mach. ...........8.37 ?. S. Aloe Co., Engineer’s sup. ........... 5.02 ?. C. BAGE, imp. Victoria and Hematite road ........... 295.73 ?. F. SLAWSON, road tools ...........23.73 ? E. CANEPA, road tools ...........73.42 ?ng. HEILIGTAG, road tools ...........19.39 ? P. WILLIAMS, Pine Ford rd. ...........55.20 ?. C. FAVES, acct. 1917 as ???ment ........... 700.00 ?. H. HOPSON, lumber and ce ??ment ...........217.51 ?. E. AGERS, imp. Vineland and Blackwell road ...........258.28 ?y HURTGEN, rep. toilet system ...........21.50 ?. W. Elem Light Co.., bal ...........174.94 Supplemental settlement of F. J. ?dams, county treasurer of warrants ??nd-scrip omitted at settlement of Jan.?? filed and approved and accounts ???dered credited as follows. ?arrants redeemed ........... 1.50 ?enographers Surip? ........... 120.32 ?ital Statistics ........... 137.00 ?nquest ...........80.00 ?itness Fees ...........19.00 ?chool district orders redeem ........... 38.70 ----------------- Total ...........$417.32? ? Petition of Peter HUSKEY for Coun- ? pension enjected. ? Court appoints John VINYARD, ? [page 1, column 2] ~ De Soto Items ~ Mr. and Mrs. Samuel McMULLIN of South second had a weekend visit from their two daughters, Mrs. SHANNON of St. Louis and Mrs. TOOLOOSE of Plattin. Mr. and Mrs. Bert OGLE of Hematite attaded [sic] the R. P. dance here Thursday night. Henry T. REPPY of Detroit is here for a two weeks’ vacation with his parents, Judge S. A. REPPY and wife. Mrs. HILL of Poplar Bluff is here the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. MEYERS on Boyd Street. John H. HOPSON has built an addition to his residence in the south end of town. Mrs. W. G. H. WHITE enjoyed a visit from her sister from Sedalia last week. A large number of young folks were enjoying skating this week. Miss Nellie MITCHIM has opened up a public stenographic office at the Press office in our city. Charles ASHCRAFT and bride are visiting his parents at their home on the farm near town. Miss Gladys SERRIS of St. Louis spent Sunday with her grandmother, Mrs. John DUFFY. Interesting prayer meetings are being hld [sic] at the Frst [sic] M. E. Church Wednesday nights. Lunch will be served at the Shoe Factory from this week on, beginning Monday. The eatables will be sent from St. Louis each morning and a hearty meal may be partaken of at noon for the small sum of ten cats. A rest room and other luxuries are being added for those employed at the factory. J. W. AUTRY had business at St. Louis Thursday of last week. Mrs. Lee McKAY’s brother arrived from Iowa Sunday for a visit. Mrs. Sarah MEYERS is confined to her room on account of a misplaced knee cap. The accident occurred last Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Wonan FARRIS were the guests of his mother, Mrs. Ella FARRIS. Mrs. Harry ROSENBERG entertained the missionary society of the M. E. Church, South last week. The new officers were installed at this meeting. Refreshments were served by the hostess who was assisted by Mrs. Charles MANESS. Mrs. Alice CRAWFORD spent Sunday at Silica. Mr. and Mrs. G. K. STEWART departed for Lawrence. Kansas to attend the “Chimes of Normandy” is which their daughter, Miss Leah has the leading part. Dave GOFF was at Bonne Terre last week on business. Mr. and Mrs. Amos COLEMAN, Sr. spent last week in St. Louis with relatives. Mrs. G. R. RATHBURN who has been critically is improving slowly. Judge Dan ROUGGLY and wife were in Bonne Terre Sunday visiting relatives. Lee GOFF and wife of Bonne Terre were visiting Charles POOL and wife Sunday. The Grand Lecturer from St. Louis was here Wednesday and Thursday of last week. The new officers of the Blue Lodge A. F. and A. M. were installed and the new W. M. Dr. G. A. AUERSWALD surprised the members by serving a splended banquet. Every thing was ideal and the doctor who was very happy made a splended host. Toasts and speeches were the closing features of this memorable evening. Mrs. WOODS entertained the Afternoon Club of which she is a member last Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Hattie ALLEN leaves Wednesday for Evansville, Ind. to visit her niece, Mrs. Albert EVANS for a week. The High School basket ball teams went to Festus Friday and Festus teams won the game. Mrs. KENT entertained the Dorcas Society Thursday afternoon of last week. __________________________________ SANTCHI and R. K. VanCLEVE to appraise tubercular cattle of E. J. KRAUS at Horine. Engineer ordered to condemn certain earth, stone, etc. belonging to Mrs. Catherine YAEGER for road material to be used on Hillsboro and Morse Mill road and Maple Ave. in Hillsboro. Treasurer ordered to mark paid, late county revenues all witness, criminal costs, and inquest fees paid to treasury prior to January 1st, 1917, and to transfer all moneys to said fee funds in excess of $1110.14 to County revenue and to consolidate all of said funds. Court adjourned until Monday, February 9, 1917. R. R. BYRD, Presiding? J. [page 1, column 3/4] ~ Contract System At Pen Must Go ~ Missouri Preson Reform League States Some Plain Facts About Present System at State Penitentiary. Your Prison A Veritable Slave Pen. As a resident of the State of Missouri you should be interested in knowing some of the facts about the Missouri State Penitentiary. It is by far the largest prison in the United States. It has at this writing over 2,700 prisoners. It has been for years a political football. It has the name of being the poorest managed prison in the United States. It has for years exploited the prisoners to the extent of amassing a half dozen colosal for tunes for private contractors. And Why? Because you, dear reader, have not taken sufficient interest in that which belongs to and is supported by you as a citizen of the state. Therefore the prison reform league of Kansas City, Mo., asks a few moments of your time while it explains how, through you, it expects to blot out this miserable stain which has so long blighted the name of our fair state. The Prisoners as Bad Off as in a Russian Mine Having committed a crime against society he is sent to the Missouri State Penitentiary for a certain length of time. Upon his arrival there his labor is sold to a private contractor for seventy-five cents a day. He is put to work running a sewing machine manufacturing working men’s clothes. He has a certain task to perform each day or suffer dire penalties. He is not allowed to talk to the prisoner next to him. He is guarded every moment of the day by a high-priced civil guard, who is politically appointed, and is there because of his politics rather than his ability. Words cannot express the inhuman treatment accorded the prisoners by these politically appointed guards. The prisoner has become a slave to do their bidding at all times. He is no longer a prisoner of the State; he has been sold to the contractor as a chattel, in order that a few may amass fortunes at your expense. the Contractor, a Profit Grabber, makes a contract with the State to use a thousand men to manufacture garments. The State furnishes to the contractor for 75 cents a day; services of the prisoners, besides Free Rent. Free Heat. Free Power. Free Guards. The prison contractor kills outside competition, and undermines a living wage for factory girls, no outside employer being able to compete with prison contract produced goods. The Poor Overworked Factory Girl. She is up against it, isn’t she? She is trying to make and honest living. Her employer can’t pay her better wages. Why? Because you, Mr. Citizen, allow your Senators and Representatives to go to Jefferson City and do not protest to them the injustice of the system. She has to compete with a man who is sold into slavery. That is why the working girl cannot make both ends meet. Prisoners are turning out at this writing approximately two thousand dozen overalls and shirts per day. Kansas City, St. Joseph and St. Louis are the big producers of overalls and workmen’s shirts in the state and yet Missouri State Penitentiary is turning out more goods than the combined plants of any of these cities. Free Labor suffers woefully, and will continue to suffer as long as you, Mr. Citizen, do not raise your voice in protest. The State Legislature of 1915 passed laws that put an end, on and after January 1st, 1917, to prison contract labor. The contractor, the warden, the governor and the politicians conspire to defy you, Mrs. Citizen. They care not for your laws - they are today running the contract plants the same as before the law became effective. Jefferson City and its citizens want the contracts renewed. They care not for the prisoners. What they want is the spoils, and they have elected from their district the man whom they believe capable of manipulating the proposition in such a way that the contract system will be renewed. The Solution The prisoners can build rock roads. They can raise their own food on a supervised farm, rented until they can afford to own one. They can grub the land in Southwest Missouri. They can quarry the rock in Southwest Missouri. The prisoners can make clothing for all state institutions. They can make desks and chairs for the State and for public schools and th [sic] state. The prisoners can enjoy good health whereas under the present conditions here are hundreds who have tubercular trouble. They can be taught trades, such as carpentry work, masonry, road building, farming, etc., so that when they are returned to society they will be fitted to become men instead of outcasts. As Good Citizens of this state it is your duty to get down to work and help abolish that which every living penologist has condemned as inhumane and which is responsible for nine-tenths of the trouble met with in any penitentiary. Kansas prisons do not compete with free labor nor do sixteen other state prisons. Then why should Missouri. The Present Legislature should provide for: An advisory Board of Control or Pardon Board. A Parole System Establishment of an Indeterminate Sentence System. Abolishment of contract Labor System. Establishment of Penal farms. Incarceration of women prisoners in the house of correction, instead of in the penitentiary. Revision of the criminal laws of the State. Proper care of the criminal insane. Establishment of tuberculosis hospitals for criminals. No Financial Loss Do not fear that the prison may become an expense to the state. Where ever the private contract system has been abolished it has resulted in a monetary benefit to the State itself. Your Part Will you not help us by telling your frindes [sic] what we are trying to do? By writing your State Senators and Representatives protesting the renewal of the contract system? By do doing you will help to take the Missouri State Penitentiary out of politics and it will soon be on a self sustaining basis. The Prison Reform League of Kansas City, Mo. Mrs. Henry N. ESS, President Mrs. C. Charles CLARK, Corresponding Secretary ~ Falls Off Table Breaks Neck ~ George HERZOG, who formerly resided near Maxville, fell from a table, on which he was sitting, in Wm. LUDEMAN’s saloon at Imperial or West Kimmswick on last Monday and broke his neck. Mr. HERZOG was not under the influence of liquor at the time of the fall which resulted in his instant death but must have been tired and fell asleep with the tragic result noted. He was divorced from his wife who lives on the farm formerly owned by him near Maxville. He was twice married to and twice divorced by Mrs. HERZOG. ~ Arthur BOOTHE ~ Arthur BOOTHE, a former resident of this county died suddenly in Ste. Genevive County were he resided. Heart-failure is ????ed to be the cause?. ~ Judge Edward T. EVERSOLE ~ We have failed heretofore to note the death of Judge Edward T EVERSOLE of Potosi, which occurred in Oklahoma where he had gone on business. Judge EVERSOLE was a man of fine character, a good lawyer and one of the foremost citizens of Washington County. He died suddenly and a brother of his died on the same day in St. Louis. ~ Weather Forecast ~ Forecast for the week beginning Sunday, January 14, 1917. - For the Plains States and Upper Mississippi Valley: The first part of the week will be fair and cold. The cold will moderate and the weather will become unsettled, probably with snow Wednesday and Thursday, followed by fair ????? end of the week.