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HERE’S AN EXAMPLE of what plant foods can do for farmers. The picture on the right shows plant development and potato yield (55.8 Ibs.) of a small patch, treated with = POTASH” On the left;a patch of same size (yield 21 Ibs.) planted at same time, in same soil, but untreated. These pictures are taken from an experiment sta- tion bulletin, compiled in Our Free Book, “Profitable Farming” which gives authentic and authoritative accounts of experiments and actual results of practical and scientific farming, It is invaluable to the firmer who is anxious to improve his products and who is work- ing for a wider, margin of profits. Send for it to-day. GERMAN KALI WORKS New York, 93 Nassau St., or Chicago, Monadnock Building | Birthday Notice In Rhyme. By our local writer. ‘ Mr. Miller was surprised Saturday Alexandria, La., April 8.—L. C’| oye, March 30, by anumber of friends Drew, a white man, aged about 48 | ang relatives, who celebrated his years, was shot and killed by his eightleth birthday. An enjoyable wite at Water Valley. The woman | time was reported. used 4 rifle and two shots took effect | iy nonok OF MR MILLER'S BIRTHDAY. in Drew’s back. The cause of the tragedy has not been learned. Woman Kills Husband; Holds Sheriff at Bay. There fs @ place in Foster town : Famed far and near for its renown. After committing the deed, Mrs. | «qs known by all its people well, Drew, who was accompanied by an-| 4, only and always, “Quality Hill; other woman, stood guard over the And at the top of this hill of fame body of the dead man and held Sher-| Live friends of ours—you know the iff L N. Carpenter and four deputtes name. at bay for over twenty hours. The} py, Mr, and Mrs. Miller, please, woman fired many shots at the of-| and friends thep’ll gladly you selze ficers, shooting at them every time} 4, opportunity to call, one would show himself. She finally | when o'er your steps that way shall ve ted her supply ofammunition fall. ‘late hour last night and the! po, they always seem to us to be eriff and deputies succeeded in| Right tond of merry company. erreating the two women end get Long years we've known and loved ting possesston of the body. shorn: wall - And when the friends came by to tell Trainmen Held For a Wreck. | or Mr. Miller's birthday near Colton, Cal., April 8.—Coroner And ask us all to gather here VanWle swore out warrants for the | T° celebrate the nner time » arrest of the employees of theSouth- | Ve sald, 2 Now he must have ern Pacific who were heled reaponei- thyme. —_ , ble for the wreck March 28, in which | So = we sat and thought rea twenty-five peraons were killed and ard, ona injured, The charge is man- And longed for aid from some old slaughter without malice. bard. The following are the men against For who could tell in such a space whom warrants were issued: L. R, | The happy things tn bis life-race. Alvord, foreman of the switching | He came here in an early day , crew; J.G. Crusemeyer, awitchmen; | A0d worked and planned to clear , he way. Clarence Warmington, engineer. The ‘ %» complaints specitically charge them For those who bye and bye would come ith ing the death of H. F. pe Peg »- recinncr ed who was | And choose this country for a home. among he killed. : The way sometimes seemed hard and rough A “Jack the Ripper” or some sort With cares and trials and troubles of afellow gotin among Lee Me- enough Mannus’ fine hogs night before last To overwhelm a heart less brave, d ri one of them open with | But on he went, and gave pe = of a pron A. ven Unt> the world his manhood’s best. Lee raises fine stock hogs, and ssys | He did bis work with greatest zest, the one killed was worth $30. Of For what cared he for toll and pain! course, he doesn’t know who did {t, His life was all before him then. or what motive he could have had|4nd when the trouble came, and in view.—Review. strife He went to Texas with his wife. T. C, BOULWARE, They waited there and longed for home, ° Physician and Surgeon. Office | Then back they came no more to roam. Side Square, Butler, Mo. of women and children fe For of all the country far and near iy. None seemed to them to be so dear. The years have come and gone since then And wrought changes wgain and again. DR- J. M. CHRISTY; Disceses of women and Children » Spesialty Office The Over Butler Cash Depart- | But you and I are spared to meet ment Store, Butler, Mo, Oar friend and on his birthday greet Omiee Telephone 20. House Telephonel0. | And with him all good cheer to-day And on through all his pilgrim way Oh may this be a happy night. A night of friendsand loveand light, { } A mile-stone in Iife’s journey passed DR. E. N. CHASTAIN. 3 | That shall in memory yore let a Buruer, - many years, a8 ~ Sue wa birthdays to ourfriend. Omice over Bennett-Wheeler Mer. Co. Residence High Street. Offices Phone 213, Residence Phone 195. And all now say who’ve gathered here, Year.” Mr. BalLey. Neosho, Mo., Girl Shot at Door of Church. f DR. H. M. CANNON, i Dentist, BUTLER, - MISSOURI. ‘WILL BE IN EVERY FRIDAY, d to do all kinds of den- tal work. +) B. F. JETER, eney at Law and Justice, sOtMee over H. H. Nichols, ; quar Butler, Mo, “We wish him joy through all the leaving the M E. Church alter prayer meeting, they were met at thecharch aweotheart of k opeot the girls. Hed ded anin-| DEIGHAM. A fine black jack, | THAW)IIS SANE. | From the Enterprise. Decision Reached by the Thaw "@!n storm that visited this section the house of A. H. Hall was struck Lunacy Commission. by ghtning and considerable dam agewasdone. It struck onthesouth New York, April_—Harry K. Thaw | side of the house tearing the weather was pronounc-d sane und able to | boarding off and the plastering off of direct his counsel in the course of his |8°veral rooms. Numerous window trial by the unanimous report of the Thaw lunacy commission. lights were broken. Mrs. Hall and littledaughter, who were onthefront The decision came aftera tense wait of many hours, during which | Tuesday morning during the light| Amsterdam;News. porch, were shocked but not serious- Justice Fitzgerald went over the ly. Mr. Hall carried insurance. Rev. A. H. Lewis killed a mad dog from the porch of the Thomas Lewis findings of shecommission in private. — wu deg Bae pees Thaw was notin the court room school, and when {t came to the Lowls at the time, but his beautiful young} home, i wens in and took up a posi- wife, Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, was there, | tion by —_ well Ri. ed oe son, Prank, Was ayin, Oo e yar beaming through happy mare 8S at the time The pronabte seneen her husband’s lawyers. She and all given thas the dog did not attack of her friends confidently believe any of the children is that is was too Thaw’s acquittal fs now but a short | far gone, its tongue being awollen so way off badly {¢ could not close {te mouth. The announcement of the conclu Pha weg soon an old settler a on the part of District Attorney | was one of the best known and best Jerome to prevent 6 resumption of the trial, Jerome was blocked at every hand by Justice Fitzwerald, who denied motion after motion and finally granted an adjournment until Monday, iu order that the dis liked men of our community. He was 8 jovial old gentleman, always trict attorney may carry the find- {ngs of the commission tu the appel- bad a good word for everybody and late division. was ® ian of eterling integrity. He was every-ready to help a friend and forrivean enemy. We join the many frlends of the? family in extending sympathy. The Price of Health, “The price of health in a malarious district is juet 25 cents; the cost of a box of Dr. King’s New Lite Pills,” writes Ella Slayton, of Noland, Ark. New Life “lls cleanse gently and im- part new life and vigor to thesystem, Satiefaction guaranteed at F, lays, druggist. Receiver Expensive. Judge Philips, of the Kaneas City federal court, has dismissed thecases of long standing against James C, t Thompson, former cashier of the may still win in the battle against] wrecked First National Bank, of lung and throat troubles with New|Sedalla. It had a capital of $100,- Discovery, the real cure. Guaranteed | 000, and was put in charge of the by F. T. Clay, druggtst. 50cand|tederal court. Stockholders were $1.00. Trial bottle free. assessed in full under the double lia- bility law. Aftera long and expen sive litt 2 its fo oe ~ “ ” hands of a receiver appointed by the Ho overplayed his band U_ 8. treasury department, depos! This is the inscription on @ grave- | tors only recelved fitteen cents on the stone in an Arkansas cemetery, and| dollar! Thelong andexpenstve man- {¢ recalls a poker game {n which the — of the wind up of its affairs late Charles Folk once played. with {ts apparent mismanagement Folk was @ remarkable man and consumed the bank of {ts assets and the amounts collected from thestock- participated n games of varlous|holders Much of the banks assets sorts during his eventtul career. He|had been dissipated in Kansas City did the playing, the other fellow gen- | and California realty, and the receiv erally was @ spectator, er pald out $80,000 that should have gone to the depositors to pay off Several months ago he entered a mortgages on California realty and sitting with several men from the| afterwards sold the same property Indian Territory. ‘They played well, | for $6,000. So the writer of this was were as novices with Folk. He kept _ bya shy to oa well inform ed attorney of Sedulia. on winning hand alter hand until So it is, those who wind the affairs finally one of his opponents grew} of broken banks often are as much suspicious and, following a show of lacking in looking after the interests four kings, demanded a count of the| of depositors as those under whose cards. _ |Management the assets of banks are Unfortunately for Folk, 1s showed HEASyened Aa) re unton vr nene fifty-four cards. There was some gunplay and Folk was buried soon after.—Philadelphia North American. “Pneumonia's Deadly Work had so seriously affected my right lung”’ writes Mrs. Fannie Counor, of Rural Route 1. Georgetown, Tenn., “shat 1 coughed continuously night and day and the neighbors predic tlon—consumption—seemed inevit- able, until my husband brought home a bottle of Dr. King’s New Discovery, which {n my case proved to be the only real cough cure and restorer of weak, sore lungs.” When all other remedies utterly fall, you Gunplay Wins Poker Game. Bitten by a Spider. Through blood poisoning “aused by @ spider bite, John Washington, of Bosqueville, Tex., would have lost his leg, which became a mass of run ning sores, had he not been persuad- ed to try Bucklen’s Arnica Salve. He writ-s: “The first application relieved, and four boxes healed al! the sores.” Heals every sore. 25c. at Clay’s drug store. Crushed By Falling Slate. Geo. Hartsock, a coal miner, was severely crushed while at work in the Reece mine, south of town. Vr. Hartsock was engaged in mining Among the things not to be for- gotten !n ordering seeds, one that we conelder of much importance {a sweet corn. Few farmers have large enough quantity or great enough variety of roasting ears. We would suggest the following list: Forearly, Peep of Day; for second early, Early Minnesota, followed by Country Gen- tleman, and then two plantings of Everygreen at intervals of about two weeks. These will provide roasting | down a shot, when a large chunk of ears for the season and co-n to dry | slate, waging several hundred orcan for winter use.—Farmer and | pounds fell from the roof, and would Stockman. have crushed his Iife out had {t not been for the fact that & number of large lumps of coal were lying about him, which caught the elate. Hartsock, the miner injured by a fall ofelate in the Keece mine last Fri- day, 1s reported to be in & very sert- ous condition. His injuries were much more serious than at first thought.—Rich Hill Review. Harssock {is a son of former Sheriff Hartsock and step brother of ex- clrcutt clerk Chas. M. Barkley. CASTORIA For Infants and Children, The Kind You Have Always Bought at my barn, 8 miles due east of But- A Bank Cashier to Prison. Cincinnati, April 8 —Bartholomew Cavagna, ex-teller in the First Na tions! bank in this clty, was indicte by the federal grand jury for the emd bezslement of $20,500, and was im- mediately arraigned. He pleaded- guilty and was given 4 six yeara sen- tence in the Ohio penitentiary. Only three minutes were taken from the mealy noee, sired by Elams, 15 hands and 2 inches high. Will be 3 years With least labor and trouble it makes hot-breads, biscuit and cake of finest flavor, tizing, light, sweet, appe- digestible and wholesome. Greatest Aid to Cookery High Priced Sox of Candy, Likes Him Better ‘rhe Oak Grove Bann eewrek Tt has tas covered by the Las mentioned an account of w tecord tia D vit while the aver- breaking price for a box of eaady. | ie te eee wwe” and se ay ahus- Two weeks ago a ple aortal was held fabs who knocks the coal ons off : agai ww sofe and loaves them on the at Stony Point sebuol house, south. floor, and who likes to go Into the west of Oik Grove, the objet of the} parlor with his dirty shors on and soclal being to raise sutli tent funds | Smoke, right down in’ the secret to buy blinds for the school house depths of her heart, she likea him a Whovutee anid 1 better than if he were trim and tidy. © ples sold for 8 tote | She gete so much pure, unalloyed and to break the monotony | joy out of fussing at him, about hts of the entertainment 1t was supgest- ed that a emall box of candy be giv en to the most popular young lady present, the popularity of her to be determined by # yote at a certain amounta vote, The contest drag ged at first, but flaally two young | farmers, patrons of the school and admirers of the girls, got Interested and began to bld in @ lively manner, From five cents a vote shey increas- ed the price to a quarter, and then a dollara vote, They ran out of ready cash and resorted to their check books, and the rivalry became ao ex- citing that the teacher stopped is, declaring ita tie. The two farmers had spent $145.10 to split a box of candy for thelr respective choices, The money from the evening’s enter- tainment was sutticient to buy blinds to wrap 4 double layer around the school house, Sour Stomach No appetite, loss of strength, nervous> ness, headache, constipation, bad breath, general debility, sour risings, and catarrh of the stomach are all due to indigestion, Kodol relieves indigestion. This new discov- ery represents the natural juices of diges- tion as they exist in a healthy stomach, combined with the greatest known tonio and reconstructive properties. Kodol for dyspepsia does not only releve indigestion and dyspepsia, but this famous remedy helps all stomach troubles by cleansing, purifying, sweetening and strengthening S. Ball, of Ravenswood, W, Va., says-— me and we are now using it in Bottles only. Relieves indigestion, sour stomach, belching of gas, etc. Prepared by E. 0. DeWITT & CO., OHIOAGO, Clay’s drug sture north side square. peroreroeme~ jnveKEve PILE, OINIMENI CURES NOTHING BUT PUES. A SURE and CERTAIN CURE known for 18 vaare ne the BEST REMEDY for PILES. the mucous membranes lining the stomach, | Mr. S. S. be | was troubled with sour stomach for twenty years, | Kodol milk awfnl ways, Kodol isa thorough stomach rellef, Is digests what you ent and gives the stomach rest and assists in re. storing {6 to its normal activity and usefulness, Kodol fs eold on a guar. antee rellef planby Clay's drug store, Albert Edrington Married. Mingo Cor, Urich Herald, Albert Edrington of Butler, and Mise Luella Sims near Mayesburg, drove to the home of Rev. J. 8, Smith at Dayton Wednesday, March 20th, where they were united in mar- nage. The young couple are highly esteemed in this community and have a host of friends who wish them a pleasant journey through lite. They went to house keeping immediately at the old Edrington home near Ballard. The Missour! Pacific Time Table at Butler Station, CORRECTED TIME TABLE, SOUTH BOUND, fo. 209 ropita & Southwest mall & Ex :22 8 No 207K.C & Joplin mail & Express 12:35 40, 205 K.C_& Joplin mail & Express 10:25 Mo, 291 Local freight 15 NORTH ROUND, No, 206 Kansas City and St. Louisa Ex, 5:42 No. 204 Kansue City mail and Exprese 1:40 No, 210 Kansas City limited mail 10:25 LOCAL FREIGHT No, 202 Local Freignt 10: Mo, 252 Kansas City stock 8 INTERSTATE DIVISION, WEST'ROUND, Mo. 241 Local freight and Pas mixed EAST ROUND, Mo. 242 Local freight and Par mixed ar5:00 pm. E. C, Vanpervort, Agent P Pp Ly 8:008 m TAKE NOTICE | Don’t send you our old store Sewing Machine or Furniture to Sears & Roback to trade for new ones, for they will take nothing butcash, but you can bring them te B. F. RICHARDS’ ‘South Square Side, Butler, Mo, He will take them and treat you Beecives di ith with sound J, B. Jenkins, A.B, 0 . N. L, Whipple 0, H. Ri fmt” ‘au. E, WauTon, President. LIABILITIES, Wm, KE. Walton, . Dateher,’ Wm, B Tyler, W: /ENKING, Dr. T. C. Boutwanre, Vice-Pres. Wesixy Danton, Ase't Cashier = Sa a! ; Corsiy Gararp, Clerk and PaameeeenceneennnenEereeSTS MISSOURI STATE BANK BUTLER, MISSOURI. Establlehed 1880. Statement of condition on March 4th, 1907, RESOUKCES. paved eon, (pe money loaned). Stocks and bonds, futaiture and Cash on hand and in other banks subject to check... - 0215,963.16 8,000. €415,229.06 ganized under Missour! often examined by State Bank Examin g adr veer hiafis nad ALWAYS HAS MONEY TO LOANS jepoat experit offer customers ABSO- TUREWEVEET erie apes, lary Sesminadab ats creat —DIRECTORS:— B. P. Powell John Deerwester, C,R. Radford Dr. J.M. yr ¥ wuss WE WANT YOUR BUSINESS, J.B. I Caskier: