The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, January 3, 1907, Page 2

rrsten tenn nttereenemsnracestiest rereneoeeee TO LEGALIZE BACK TAXES. A recent order of the county const! authorizing the county assessor to! make @ supplementary wpsesement | and tax book of the back taxes forthe years 1901, 1902, 1903 and | 1904, seems to have been misunder- | stood in some sections of the county | by some people, who got the impres- sion that it required a complete as- sessment of all property in the coun- | ty for those four years, Involving the expenditure of several thousand dol- | lars. It was simply an efiort to! legalize the back taxes for those four years, amounting to hundreds of dollars, The county assessor has completed his work and the total cost to the county was $142.35, and the state pays a similar amount. When Auditor Wilder's attention was called to the matter, he readily consented and sald the state wonld pay {ts half for the work. Now eult can be brought by the state fn the name of the ex-officio county collec- tor and those tax-dodgers compelled to pay their proportion of the cost m “ of government, This {s @ backset | Democrats Made Gains in the for those ultra partisans who were " magnifying the matter in order to Elections of 1906. make political capital, but the truth} Last year was one of great political must prevail, though the heavens / significance. May 21 Lewis Emery fall, Jr, got the nomination for Governor of Pennsylvania from the “Lincoln” Tom Connor, who sank first shaft} Republican party, and it was thought in Jasper county, 1s made rich by/he might be elected by the reform Joplin land. element, but he wasn’t, June 5 Gov- “= ' — Beautiful Cloaks and Furs on Sale At Prices Greatly Reduced in order to clear up stock. We, as you well know, carry the finest and largest cloak stock in this county. The cloak business has been unusually heavy this fall and we still have a few dozen elegant cloaks which we now offer at prices which are a great loss to us in order to clear up the stock. Come and see them. Our business on MUNSING UNDERWEAR is growing larger every season. A lot more in stock so you can be fitted with the best underwear mode at 5Oc up, Walker-McKibben Merc. Co. POLITICAL RETROSPECTION, |r may be able to do muh to remedy this evil by houee to house visits. In this way they will havea chance to use personal tnfluence which is often more potent than ap- peals made at longrange. Teachers who can win the confidence of par- ents and persuade them that the fu- ture welfare of their children will be best promoted by their regular and prompt’ attendance at school, will be powerful factors in the solution of this problem, Se ee ee Pennsylvania girl operates self-|¢ruor Chamberlain, Democrat, was) Constderable interest in school supporting farming estate in India| ¢lected in Oregon. June 12Colonel| matters is being aroused by the for benefit of church, Itallan earns $500,000 to get bride, fulfilling resolve to become | wealthy before marrying. —_—_—_—_—_—SSSaS—"D An apple, eaten every day, will Henry A. Dupont, Republican, was} Teachers’ and Parente’ Institutes chosen to fill the United States sena- | which are being held throughout the torial vacancy from Delaware; this | county, The meetings are generally ended Addicks definitely and finally. | well attended. Consolidation of September 4 Representative Livtie, | schools and transportation of chil- a Democrat, was elected Governor of| dren seems to be the chief topic of make consumer forget ills of the, Atkansas, and on the same day| interest. People are beginning to world, Chicago man declares. EEE Missourian, accused of having club- Fletcher A. Proctor, Republican, was | realize that to maintain a school chosen Governor of Vermont. OD) house in good repair and well sup- the 10th William T, Cobb, Republl-| plied with apparatus and pay the bed his wite to death; is held without! can, was elected Governor of Maine. | teacher $30 or $40 per month to bond for action of Circuit Court. Three noteworthy gubernatorial | teach from 10 to 15 children tsexpen- Representative Crossley will intro-|20minations were made in Sepsem-/atye in the extreme. Not only are duce bill in Missouri House to make| ber, Judge Ben D. Lindsay, the chil: | these achools expensive, but there is carrying deadly weapons a felony. Chairman Knott, of the Missourt Ratlroad Commission, drafts bill to in New York (26th), make decree of board final until court of last resort’ reverses ruling. United States J udge orders Illinois | pendence League iu New York, onthe Central to provide additional coal| Democratic ticket. In October (3d) cars for Missourl and Iilinots Coal| Hoke Smith, Democrat, was elected Company. dren’s Judge (2Ush), in Colorsdy, OD | nearly always a lack of interest and an independent ticket; Charles E. | gehool spirit, Weare beglaning to Hughes, she insurance investigator, | ynderstand that these weak schools on the Republi: | can be consolidated into strong dis- can tickes, wud Willum KR. Hearst] tricts, with agood building centrally 27th), already named, by the Inde-|jocated and competent teachers in charge, for about the same money we are now paying for these inferior schools. Consolidation can only Governor ia Georgia. ‘Yhe election on November 6 result- State Treasurer Gmelich’s annual) ed in the choice of 223 Republican report for Legislature shows that) members of Congress aud 163 Demo- Missouri has surplus in treasury of | orays—a heavy Democratic gatn. 2,308,286 4. Republican Governors were chosen as follows: Califoruia, James H. Gil- President Roosevelé and family | joys; Colorado, Henry A. Buchtel; spent last week at Pine Knot, Vir-!Connecticus, Kollla S. Woodruff; come by majority vote of the people in the districts interested. Several communities are agitating the mat- ter and it seems probable that some of them will take some definite ac tion at the annual school meeting in April. A weak point {n our school system FAVOR A NEW LAW, South of Spruce Items, Christmas holidays ended very gloomy with considerable rain. County Assessors Recommend) The relatives and tr:ends of Mr. Changes in Tax Statutes, WILL ASK LEGISLATURE TO ADOPT THE SUGGESTIONS. Kansas City, Dec. 31.—An amend- ment to the present tax law, pro- viding for the assessment and co!- lection of taxes in the same year was prepared at a joint meeting at the Midland holel of the legislative committee of county assessors and @ committee from the State Bankers’ Association, and will be recommend- ed to the Missour! legislature for passage. Atthe present time assessments are made in June and are not eol- lected until the fall of the following year. This year the assessors made their rounds in June as usual. The money must not bepald to thecoun- ty until some time between October 1, 1907, and January 1, 1908. The desired change is declared by the assessors as necessary to pre- vent the big lovses in tax recelpts occasioned every year by the re- moval of people from county to county or out of the state between the time the assessment and eighteen months later, when the money be- comes collectible. ” Henry Ritchey spent an enjoyable day at hishome Christmas where a bountiful dioner was served. The Christmas trees at both churches {n Spruce were well attend- ed Christmas eve. The box supper at Hudson Friday night was well attended. The pro- ceeds were to go for the benefit of the church, Mieses Roxa and Lena Lawson re- turned home Saturday, Dec, 22nd, from Warrensburg where they are attending school to spend the holl- daye with home folks. Mr. L. A. Jackson, of Johnstown, {s spending a couple of weeks with his children in Kansas City. Mies Stella Ritchey was the guest of the Misses Shillinger Thursday night. Mr. Claude Stephenson, who has been attending college at Quincy, Illinois, has been spending a couple of weeke with home folks, The parents and near relatives of Mr. and Mra. Wm U Shillinger epent @ very enjoyable Christmas day at their home. Mr. L. C. Hunter was the guest of Merton Shillinger Sunday eve. The children and grand children of Mr. and Mrs. Phifer gathered at thelr home on Christmas day and spent avery enjoyable day, which penis made the old folks feel happy. Its L ‘i ; Mr. John Burnett, of Saline cous ts Last Session. Re was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. The last session of the old county oy Ba — ot cours was held last Thursday toclose| Lowery City, are vielting at the up some unfinished business and | home of his brother Jonathan Jack- turn over a clean docket to the new | son. “ederal control aud regulation of cor- . of abouts $5,000,000 annually. ~ vided with ginia. The President put in the time Idaho, Frank R, Gooding; Iowa, Al- hunting turkeys and other game. Congress has set aside $750,000 to enforce the pure food law, and the treasury department estimates that | 2s the various statutory provisions for | perations envolvye and expenditure The government has taken advant- age of the prosperous times to raise box rents. Asthe government has & monoply on postoftice boxes the people will have to pay the price or request the postmaster to hand their mail through the window, —_—_—_—_—o—— “The three negro convicts, who es-| Hampshire, the choice falls to the {s the frequent change of teachers {n the rural schools. There is no more reason for changing a successful teacher ina country school at the end ofeach term than there is for changing the teachcrs of a graded school in a village or city at the close of each term. And yet, this practice {s far more common in the rural schools than itis in the elty schouls. In this county this year 75 percent of the rural teachers changed positions for one reason or bers B. Cummins; Kansas, Edward: W. Hoch; Massachusetts, Curtis Guild Jr.; Michigan, Fred M. War- Nebraska, George L. Sheldon; New York, Coarles E. Hughes; Penn sylvania, Edwin 8. Stuart; South Dakota, Coe I. Crawford; Wisconsin, ames O. Davidson; Wyoming, Bryant B..Brooks. Democratic Gov- ernors were elected as follows: Ala- bama, Braxton B. Comer; Minnesota, John A. Johnson; Nevada, John) another, while only 37 per cent Sparke; North Dakota, John Burke; changed posttions in the villages Rhode Island, Joseph H. Higgins; | and cities. This, it seems to me is a Tennessee, Malcolm R. Patterson; | great educational waste. Certainly Texas, Thomas M. Campbell. No a competent teacher who has become gubernatorlal candidate receiving a — — the —— — : Jew | ments, the temperaments and the majority over all oshers in New) Toon powers of his pupils is able to do better work during the second caped from the penitentiary a few Legislature, which is strongly Repub-| term of echool than a teacher can days ago, have been captured and |lican. returned to prison. The three men were trusties and were employed at| States Senators are to be chosen, One of| Colorado, Delaware, Idaho, Illinois, the negroes had but 14 days more to | lowa, Kansas, Massachusetts, Mich- the power house at night. serve. See Hon. Lawrence M. Griffith, repre- Oregon, Rhode Island, South Dakota, sentative of Bates county willdepart | West Virginia and Wyoming rene for the scene of his labors, Jefferson | Republican logtelasures, Ala jam, City, Friday morning. Mr. Grifith | Arkansas, Georgia, North Carolina, possibly do who must first acquire the states from which United | thls knowledge. A Good Mother Gone. Mrs. Barbara Hixon died at the home of her son-in-law, Judge Jno. A. Silvors, on Saturday, December 29th. Funeral services were con- ducted from the family residence on Sunday afternoon by Rev. Barker, and interment was made in Oak Hill ot igan, Minnesota, Montana, New Hampshire, Nebraska, New Jersey, basselected as hie clerk, Walter Rice, South Carolina, ‘Tennessee and Texas | cemotery. Mrs, Hixon’s home ‘was a young Democrat of Mound town- f Oklahoma an ship, a township not otherwiserepre-| The Democrats 0 eented in party politica.—Rich Hiil | Indian territory elected a heavy ma- Review. ee The Nevada asylum cannot be sused of bashfulness in making | wants known. It will ask the nex’ legislature to appropriate $263,000. Among its wants is $2,500 for a hennery. This item should be strick- n out. Vernon county adjotns St. state until new ne: . Ula and we object on the ground |°" the subject is vu. age “. @hat ft would cause her chickens to get the big head and “ours” might become ‘sulky and refase to produce | By Supt. A. L. Ives. their frats until they had been pro- something “equally as ood.” Bach items as the above conclude that the whole asylum ts elected Democratic legisiptures. aim Cleurtield, Pennsylvania. She was @ native of that state and had spent ¥ " her whole life within ite borders. She jority to the Statehood Convention, underwent a sever surgical operation partially, at least, because of the Re- |) 44... toil, and her daughter, Mrs. ac-|Publican paragraph in tue state-|siivers hastened to her bedelde. te |hood bill’ providing for prohibition | Wien ghe ao far convalesced as to be 4]in the Constitution. New Mexico able to travel, Mre. Silvers brought voted for and Arizona against joint | 1... home with her, arriving in Butler statehood, which defeated the meas |. Noy, 29th. Mrs. Hixon was a ure, and nelther can now become & | woman of high character and chper- tive sl lerisiation t. diay {t-u. She was aconsistens ude » Methodist charch for sixty years. She was she mother of five bo; 2 ord three girls, all of whom lare living, She spent the summer One of the greatest hindrances to | with her daughter five years ago, good echool work inthe rural schools while Judge Silvers was living in Some Educational Notes. to from Sher alae tive prema 008 is she irregular atterdance. It is | Rich Hill. she died a conden Bethe. meckiine say {ne strange land, far ber court, when vhe following proceed- ings were had: Members of road committee allow- ed $200 per day for time actually served. $95.50 road fund appropriated to Mound township to open ditch be tween secs 3 and 4, and $100 to be applicd on culvert between secs 8 and 9. School loan of $300 allowed to N. T. Badgett. Patent ordered issued Andrew Jackson to NE SE sec 20.38-30. $142.35 allowed County Assessor W.M. Hardinger, for assessing for back tax book covering the years 1901, 1902, 1903 and 1904, the state to pay its proper proportion. Road established between Hudson and Pleasant Gap township, as per report and plats on file with county clerk. Road petition for New Home town- ship laid over to Feby term of court. Clerk ordered to release school fund mtg of E D Hogan, it having been paid. Dram shop license granted to Charon & Co., of Foster. Bond of A L Gilmore as county ae- sessor elect approved. Bond of county treasurer to cover Drainage dist No 1 fixed at $39,000. Mrs Martha Sanders ordered sent to asylum No. 3. Foohey & Son ordered to make new bond. , School loan to Géo H Aereford for $450. Gaunt Famine In Russia. New York, Dec. 26.—Millions of people in the famine stricken districts of Russia are living on acorn flour, according to Prince G. Lvoif, who has just returned from a long tour of investigation. _ Each person is allowed only one meal a day of this “hunger bread,” asitis called. The acorn flour is made into a soup or gruel for the Mr. Shade Morris and daughter, Miss Ina, have been visiting relatives in Butler the last few days. BELLE. Hume Happenings. From the Telephene, Wayts & Beadles sold the 80 acre farm of Jas. King, southeast of town, to Geo. Long, of Smithfield, Illinois, for $4,000. Mr. Long te & progres- sive farmer and will be a valuable addition to our community. The matter of the poultry showfor January now rests with the people who are engaged in the industry. So ar only twenty-five have given the enterprise thelr support; took out memberships. Of course, if there is no better interest, the show willhave to be abandoned. Manager Foote, of the Hume Tele- phone System, {s installing a fine new switch board of the latest im- proved design at central. The old board will be taken to Foster, where he is now establishing an exchange. He ts making other needed changes in the system which will add to the service, Double Wedding Celebration. Those who were invited +0 the home of Mr. and Mrs. James Allison, in Summit township on Thursday evening, Dec. 27th to participate in the celebration of the 20th anni- versary of that worthy couple, were permitted to witness the nuptials of Elmer Caldwell and Miss Ethel Fletch- er, Rev. H. W. Hunter officiating. The double celebration was a joyous occasion for neighbors and friends, many invited guests being present from Butler. Mrs, Allison served one of her delicious dinners for which she {s famous. Elmer Caldwell is a prosperous young blacksmith, in business for himeelf, and had pre- pared ahome for his bride. Mise ' Fletcher, whose home is at Burling- ton, Kan., had been staying with her aunt, Mrs, J. J. Richardson. oe af x ’ ry complete line of made of the best Saddles. and Sco - « - © « 2 « © © « 2 oo Oe ee ES So eS OOOO One “22 2 2 And don’t forges that you can Trade your old Harness for New Cr’. ™ EES E WANT to add to our increasing business and todo so we aim to sell the best goods for the least money, and call your attention to our large and Home Made Harness, oak leather tanned. Cow Boy Steel Fork and Kentucky Sole Leather Tree. Ladies astride and side The celebrated Columbia and Sayers vill Vehicles. Lap Robes, Horse Blankets and Stable Sheets. GENUINE RED ROPE AND RUBBER ROOFING. Tents and Tarpaulins for sale or rent. Johnson’s and Mica axle grease.