The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, March 7, 1907, Page 2

COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT. The main fight the Republican- Press is making, and in fact about the only one it cou!d make ou Super- intendent Ives la, that he was defeat ed at the polls before, and therefore the people do not want him. Ac- cording to that paper ifa man aspires | to office, and is defeated, be need never hr ps to be succeaeful. A lurge percent of our county officers in the past quarter of a century have had to make the second and sometimes the third race for the nomiuativn, | and when elected would make most popular and efficient officers. Mr | Bryan has been defeated twice, butis stronger to-day than ever and bis party will force a third nomination upon him. Judge Woodson and Rube Oglesby were both defeated tn the landelide in the state in 1904, were re-nominated and elected in 1906, We can hardly believe that the Republican. ?rees and the Repubiican party would care to open up thecam- palgn of two years ayo, when they tried the novel experiment of ranning a woman and appealed to sentiment and chivalry of the voters lnstead of the good of the schools. The history of that case fs too fresh in the minds of the voters of Bates county to need reviewing. We do not believe that even the Republican: Press would have been 8o extravagant in its endorse- ments if is had known that Its candi- date was not running under her right- ful name and therefore under false pretenses. Prof. Ives was nominated by his party, purely upon the splendid rec- ord he made In the two years he has had charge of that office. He has displayed marked executive ability in organizing and systematizing the country schools of Bates county. In this work he manifested wonderful energy and did a prodigious amount of work in visiting every school in the county at least once, besides holding his county and township in. atitutes and keeping {n touch with all the teachers and school boards, besides keeping up the routine of hia ottice work. Prof. Ives {s @ practical school man, and devotes his whole time and energies to bringing the schools of the county up to the hiyh- est cfticiency. It would be acalumity to the schools to defeat him this me, No one can tell by reading ©. A. Chambers’ card whether he is running “on the Union labor, prohibition, socialist or republican ticket. This might have been an oversight, but it looks more like a studied ¢ffort to decetve. It {s barley possible that he is ashamed of his connection with | the Republican party that has hon- ored him with the nomination forsu- perintendent of county schools. “THE NEW SPRING G It’s time now to-take thought for epring needs. Time to acquaint yourself with the new styles, the new fabrics and designs, Our assortments are now in readiness to enlighten you on the various points. It’s a showing that surpasses anything we have ever at- tempted in the way of quantities, qualities, varieties—and economies. We want you to find it a satisfactory showing, and have done everything in our power to make it such. We've labored long and untiring for this result, and now ask you to come and give your criticism and jadgment. It’s a showing worth a special visit——so come expecting to find a most liberal display. Would it be con- venient to come t»-morrow? HOW TO CHOOSE GOOD GLOVES. How many times have you purchased a new pair of Gloves —only to find a week later that your investment was disappoint- ing. The glove problem is a puzzling one—and can best be solved in one way. Here’s our advice. Buy of a store you can trust! We place our glove buy- ing in the hands of an expert— we reduce the liability of glove *‘disappointment”’ to minimum, by satisfying ourselves before we try to satisfy you. BARGAINS IN GOOD MUSLIN UNDERWEAR. Muslin Underwear is never cheap at any price if the gar- ments are skimed or poorly made, therefore the muslinwear values we offer are extraordi- nary values in every sense of the word for the quality, sizes, finish and trimming in perfect. Come examine and compare, you won’t buy unless the goods back up every statement made here. We believe a host of our friends will buy liberally of this offering— for we never gave quite such values, and we are positive no other store in town has anything approaching them. Price 19¢ up. SOME STOCKING TALK. Not only for women—but boys and little girls, Not ‘shelf worn’? Hosiery, either— that’s the most dangerous kind of hosiery you can buy—or a store can sell, ‘*Why isn’t it shelf worn?’’ Just because we don’t buy in the old-fashioned way—enongh for a stateful of people all at once, Our comes as we need it—it’s all contracted for at once, so that we get the finest qualities for the lowest prices. Just The Dress Goods and Silks Women Are Lockiog for And when you come and find some charming fabrics that you want, price them, you'll not find prices prohibitary. Bless you you—No! Even though you find no dress fabrics elsewhere more worthy, more fashionably correct, more expressive of the seasons every delineation of weave, coloring and pattern, our prices are the lowest you will encounter. A few wearisome shopping tours will prove it. THE FIRST OF THE WHITE FABRICS. Fashions in fabrics may come and go but white is always in style. This season bids fair to againsez the Summer Girl wear- ing white more frequently than ever. We have prepared liberally, As this business grows, so each department grows and the white fabrics bought for this season and first shown, are the best from a quality and style stand- point that we have ever offered you. ADAVANCED SHOWING OF NEW SPRING WASH GOODS. This season we have gone away beyond our showing of Wash Fabrics of a year ago— and that’s saying a great deal. But we go upon the principle that a thing is never so well done that it cannot be improved upon. The result shows that our efforts have been unusually successful. Here you’ll find an assortment of fascinating materials that is almost bewildering in its beauty and comprehensiveness. NEW AND PROPER BELTS. A pretty belt—correctly shap- ed and well adjusted addscharm to the general appearance of a handsomely gowned woman. While it is only a small part of her toilette, nevertheless it plays a very important part. A belt- ill-shaped and careless!y worn may mar the pleasing expree- sion and a stylish well made belt gives the finishing touch toa prett: toilette. We have a large collection of belts, the newest, ‘just the correct things to wear’’ now. Come and inspect them, they are worth much more than the prices at which we rell them. Walker-McKibben Merc. Co. | “Coun Roads. ly NEW SPRING JACKETS EGGS TAKEN SAME'AS CASH. NEW READY MADE SKIRTS (By a Bates County Farmer.) No subject outside of the growing of crops and live stock, by which we make our dally bread, can be of greater interest to us us farmers than the condition of our roads. It 1s unnecessary to discuss the dis- advantage of bad ones, for we all know about that. It 1s also unneces- sary to say that our bad roads may de made good by a sufficient amount of work on them at the right time and in the right manner. Very few are willing to put in any considerable amount of work without pay, and the money always gives out tuo soon. We all agree that we need more money for road purposes, and our legislature agrees with us, butas they fail to agree on a plan to get it, we are not benefitted. I predict that when we get more money, we will pay the greater part of it ourselves dn increased taxes. May it not be true that a grest part of our trouble comes from nct making 6 better use of what we have? Ithink 80. We have again adopted township organization, and I sup- pose will go on in the same old way. The Township Board will divide the township into four or more districts and have an overseer in each, who will generally be the poorest man for the purpose in it, because you can rarely get a good one to take the of- fice, The overseer will work out the revenue of the district, and will do well if he succeeds in getting 50 per centin actual value on the roads. He will do thie once a year, not at the best time usually, but when he can get us farmers out. When the money is all gone, he quits, of course, and it is nobody’s business to do anything more till “next year. In the meantime a bunch of hay has fallen into a ditch, or some brush bas got in, or some one has made @ crossing to get intoa field and left it. The water, for lack of @ very little work at the right time, leaves the ditch, and either crosses the road, making a mudhole, or follows a rut, making a wash that takes dollars to repair. Again, a rain makes the ground soft, and the road is punched full of holes by horses’ feet, and {t fs rutted by wheels. Another rain comes and fills every hole, and every rut with water, y which can get away only by soaking into the road, making {t softer. Had the road been smoothed with a drag the water would have runoff. You all know what the result is when ev- erybody uses a road, and nobody cares for it. What Iam trying to show fs that the plan fs bad, very bad, and could hardly be worse, in that we do not get value recelved for our money, and what we do get 1s practically wasted for want of care. It fs easy to find fault with exist- ing conditions but not so easy to better them. However, I have a plan that looke good to me, but as this article is long enough, will give it next week. (Continued in our next issue ) The new primary election law makes all nominations of all political par- ties occur on the same day in August. All applications for places on the ticket must be filed with the county clerk sixty daye before the date of theprimary. United Statessenators are to be nominated at the general election in November.—Osceola Dem- ocrat. Representatives Biggs of St. Louis {ntrodoced @ concurrent resolution lin the House Thursday calling for | the cs assembly to adjourn \ot tbe March 12 at | bar tl regular seventy days. resolution was laid over. County Court Proceedings. County Court met Monday in regular session and transacted the following business. The road commissioners of Sum- mit township presented their state- ment of settlement with the court and it was examined and approved and warrants were ordered fasued for their services. E B. Borron, bridge commission- er, was ordered to complete the cul- vers between section 26 and 35 in Deer Creek township as per order of Sept. 4 1906, using such plans and matertal as he thinks best for the in- tereste of the county. The court also ordered that the swamp land patents be issued to D. B. Kern, by means of con- m. Carter to 1509 lot 5, section 86, town- ship 39 and range 31. $50 was appropriated to Mingo township for grading to bridge across Cove creek between sections 25 and 26 and it was ordered that the warrant be drawn in their favor for that amount. A dram shop license was issued to A. C. Teft at Rich Hill. W. H Harrison was adjudged in- sane and ordered sent to the asylum at Nevada as a county patient. Ordered that a patent be issued to the estate of J. M. Laughlin, Warrante {issued in payment of bills for current expenses. Peter Meade, of Holt county, 106 years old and able bodied, is sald to bethe oldest man in missouri. This country was 28 years old when he was born in Virginia. He cast his first vote atthe age of 25 for Andrew Jackson, He voted soon- er but “times were hara” in those days and young Peter Meade dodg- ed his poll tax.—Ex. — Mules Bring Big Prices. Warrensburg Star. The Missouri mule is more in de- mand than ever before. Never before did he command so big a price. A car load shipped from Warrensburg to St. Louis afew days ago broke the record at $250 8 head, or $500 a pair. At the very time these mules were being purchased in St. Louisa man was therefrom Alaska to buy three car loads of mules which will cost him $500 each, or $1,000 a pair = he gets them to their destina- lon. The Warrensburg mules for which $250 per head was paid in St. Louis were probably eent to the cotten or sugar cane fields of the South and will coat the planter not less than $300 each or $008 patr. E would like for you to try trading at our store for a while for we are postive our goods and service will please you. CLAY'S PRESCRIPTION DRUGGIST. What you buy we stand by. CAR OF SEED} POTATOES! Also table Potatoes. Don’t buy now we will save you money; we look for them in a few days. We get our seed potatoes right from the sand lands in Minnesota and they will be the best stock money can buy. We have garden eeed in any quantity. Come and get a Seed Catalogue Free. BOTTOM ONION SETS 4 Quarts For 25¢. Our Seed Potatoes will be here in about ten days or two weeks. Wait and get the best at right prices there is plenty of time yet. Call and see us we will save you money. Yours for business, Norfleet & Ream, -"{evmet a Side Square, Butler, Mo, { Phone 144, oa « 2 2 © - & ‘ ¢