The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, February 13, 1908, Page 2

The Butler Weekly Times Printed on Thursday of each week. ; | J.DALLEN, Edftor and Prop. | Entered at the postoiice of Butler, @ ecoud-class mail matter. MORts ABOUT COUNTY FINANCES. The Bates County Record takes us to task about our editorial advice to! the county court to meet the coun- ty's obligations as they arise and in she same breath denles that it means that Bates county should repudiate any of tts debts. The {nsistance of paying the latest warrants as they 0.98 ofthem. The teachers generally are Educational Notes. By Supt. A. L. Ives. ie Ia visiting the schools of the coun-| ty, the county superintendent has; # found good work being done in moat tg organizing the schools upon the plan outlined for the county. Only afew seem not to know how tv follow the outline course of study, nor to have any definite plan of thelr own. In general the schools are more thor- oughly organized and more and bet- ter work is being done than ever be- fore. But while most of the schools are | doing good work, -many-of-them-ex- are issued and the others as the rev- enue will permis, keeplag up the tn terest, is a distinesion in fact without @reail difference. A strict construe- tion of the statutes to which atten. tloa fy called would mean a repudia- | tion of warrants already drawa- ,, When all the taxes sre paid in the! Spring, but litele debt is left, but the revenue being exhausted the county | cours must issue warrants to meet che current expenses unell the next: year’s taxes are collected. The stas-' ute referred to was evidently drawn for the purpose of preventing county | courts from ruoning the counties! hopelessly in debs. But in cases Ike | Bates county, where the assessed val: | cellent work, there is stillsome poor work tv some of oursehools. Ladeed, | some defects fn our achoul work reach practically all the schools, To me the four greatest hindrances to the best progress are: 1. Untrain- d tonchers; 2. Irregular attendance; % Lack of {nterest by the people; 4. Short and irregular terms. “\e> all speak of these tn the order uawed, The following statistics show some Interesting facts about the teaching force in the county this year: Num- ber of teachers employed, 195; num- ber having expertence, 155; number | having no experience, 40; per cent of experienced teachers, 75; per cent of ; number THE NEW Dress Goods ARE HERE Beautiful soft finish Panamas, French Serges, Voiles, Batistes, Taffetas, Etc. The prevaling shades are Blue, Brown, Gray--The qualities are up to the standard maintained by this house. The all wool cloths ranging from 50c yard up. We also show a choice line of extra good black goods. When you buy black you should buy first class, and we carry that kind at popular prices. Come and see them, we will take pleas- ure in showing them to you. Weare also displaying the new ginghams and wash goods-~so you can be making them up ready for spring. Fine Embroideries and Laces on Sale. 35c wide Corset Cover Embroidery, sale_price........... 25c Extra fine lot matched sets in Embroidery, regular price 25c to 50c, sale price................005 19c, 25c, 29c, 35c. Splendid Hamburg Embroideries and insertions, regular price 7'; to 121;c, on sale at............... 5c, 7c and 8c Dainty fine Valincines laces and insertions worth 10c at 5c inexperlenced teachers, ues arenot keps up with theadvance- | omployed in cities and towns, 62; ment of real values and the revenues | number employed in the country, | derived are not sutticlent to meet the | 133; per cent of expertenced teachers expenses of she county, honestly and | veonomically administered, such a: law will hardly apply. One remedy and only one remains and that fs for he assessors all over the county to. ratse assessments fn conformity to {n- + creased Valuations, When a farm ts} worth $50 per acre, and the assessor | agree to assess at 40 per cent of the! real value, the assessment should be! placed at $20 per acre, instead of! $10. Theabstract of Bates county's | assessment, prepared by County} Clerk Weeks and published tn ‘Tae! Times of Jan’y 306h, 1908, shows the | average assessment to be $10.84 per} acre, If township assessors refuse $0 jo this, the county court has the! remedy in {ts hands as a board of | equalization, and it may become necessary for the judges to exerctse | this power-to keep themselves out of | jall under this new law enforcement construction. ——— N. J. Winters, @ prominent Demo- erat of Milad, Sullivan county has a@nnounced as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Ratlroad and Warehouse commissioner. Mr. Winters was a candidate for this of- fice in 1904 and was defeated by Rube Oglesby by only a few votes. Our Subscribers. Tur Times takes pride in the large number of {ts friends who are putting themselves on she right side of our Sooke {n conformity to Uncle Sam’s mandates. We have not found it necessary so far to send out state- ments and are satisfied, at the rate they are coming 10, the number will be small. Those paying since last week are: J.H. Bowden, ElDorado Springs; CU. G. Porter, Lawton, Okla ; Rev. J. A. Smith, Dayton, Mo; W.A. | Cofer, Wellington, Kan; Mrs. J. M. Wells, Nevada, Mo; C,A. Coulter, Hunnewell, Kan; Wm. Vogt, Olpe, Kean.; Chas. Harvey, Garfield, Wash ; D. L, Scrivner, Bryant, Mo.; Sarah | J. Park, Salem, Mo; Wiley E. Wells, Parsons, Kan.; Abe Shetrone, Scam- | mon, Kan.; ‘T. L) Beach Buckner, Mo. In the county: J. E Hook, J. W.| Eygleson,S. P. Evans, 0. M. Burk- hart, De ©. Mize, A. McCracken, Geo. {noticeable fuct, also, that: the cities fn cittes and towns, 100; per cent of! experienced teachers In the country, ; 58; per cent of Inexpertenced teachers | {n the country, 42 | Of the 155 teachers who have had no previous experience, many have taught only one year; but few have taught five years or more. . Taking! the county as & whole, one teacherin four has had no experience or profes- sional training. More than two- thirds of the teaching force is em- ployed in the rural districts; yet only 5S per cent of this number have had any experience {n teaching. It isa and townsemploy only trained teach- COME AND SECURE YOUR SHARE OF THE BARGAINS. Walker-Mckibben’s Eggs and checks taken same as cash. PASO I9ODOCOOGIO DO 900000099005 0.000 S888 90.0900 99:1 9000-0 900009005000 90009-00000000000 Shoes Which Give Satisiaction. We have enlarged our Shoe Department and are carrying shoes which give satisfaction. Come and try them, we stand back of every pair. The New Spring Styles are Coming in Now. Special values in Ladies’ Fine Shoes $2.50, $3.00, $3.50. ' Full line of Budd’s Baby and Children’s shoes. STONE DEPEORES ACRIMONY IN STATE. Deprecates Personalities in Contests For All Offices in Missouri. Washington, Feb. 9.—Senator Stone deprecates personalities and factional acrimony {!n contests for Senator, Governor or other "State ottices, In discussing Missour! cam. | paign matters to-night, Senator Stone said: SICVOCCOESTC LC COOCE jers. Too many of oir schools are tn jand all of these are in the country.) which come to me, I notice that ; “In looking over the country Dem the hands of inexperienced persons, | ocratic papers of Missour!, many of We do not mean by this that so|some of them now and then indulge many of the country teachers are —— retlons van or lees — 7s “ with personal bitterness. regret | fallures and that all the town teach- this, not because 1 am so often the ers are successful {n thelr work. subject of these reflections, but be- | Qovoeovcocvesee sous s u: Extra strong School Shoes, Men’s heavy work shoes. Mens Fellow Craft shoes...... PECL VNU N GeS $3.50 Mens Ralston Healthshoes................... 4.00 WALKER - McKIBBENS. ' CIT0 2008000000000000000000-000000000000000 00 029000080000000000000080000000000008 Neither are we disposed to find fault with our soung—teachers,_Some-of them are doing good work; but asa body they cannot be expected to do as good work as older and more ma- ture persons. The time has passed when anybody can teach school. Most school boards are demanding teachers of successful expertence or those who have had spectal training for the work. The State has estab- lished five Normal Schools for the training of teachers. But the rural districts cannot hope for much help yetfrom this source, since most of the graduates from these schools are taken up the citles and towns. May we not ask for some help from our own High Schools? They fur- nish about 75 per cent of the begin- ning ‘teachers each year. These schools are in charge of superintend- ents and principals of wide expe- rience, who arecapable of{nstructing she prospective teachers among their students how to teach. And {sit not possible that this work may do as much real good as so much Latin, C. Pahiman, Lewis McElroy, Mrs. Dora Harrison, C. J. Pahlmon, G. B. Trigonometry, Mythology, etc.? Bohlken, G _H. Nuckols, BE. F. Burke, | Again, fs 16 not time our High School B.G. Cozad, C. H. McGuire, J. W. | courses were planned to suit the Burge, H.M. Hudson, John. Hayes, | needs of the communities in which Dr. J. T. Hull, Mrs. F. L. Frost, Ed. Crabb, Sam’l Spears, J. B. Hunt. Suit on Bond Involves $50,000. The case of Nellie Welch and Daisy Stanley, administratrix of the Ryan estate, against J. R. Morrison and others, occupled more than a week of the court’s time. Is is a suit of the edministratrix againes J. K. Mor- rison, J.C. Clark wad F. J. Tygard, ha executors under the will of J.J. Byan, and their bondsmen, I. N. Mains and J. P. Edwards The ac- tion contains thirty-four counts, in- volving something like fifty thous- and dollars. The claims for defense set up by the Maine estate is that the bond was altered after Mr. Maing had attached his signature. Mr. Edwards, for his defense, denied that he the bond and claims his name was forged to that instrament. The attorneys have strenuously con- tested every step, and it looks like one of those cases that finally finds Ite way to they are located, rather than to suit the notions of some one connected with the Stase University? We need more trained teachers— men and women who know child life as well as books, and how to develop character and to train children in right habits of living. Death of Or. 0. F. Renick. Dr. O. F. Rentck, aged 82 years, 5 months and 24 days, died with a complication of troubles relative to old age and la grippe, at his home on South Main street, Wednesday morning, February 12, 1908. The funeral will be held this after- noon from the Presbyterian church. Dr. 0. F. Rentck was born in Lafay- ette county, Missourl, between Lex- fi mand Wi in, A i$ 18th, 1 Bu lee cause they are calculated to havea ~ bad _party effect, -—_____—____, si The first shipment of the cate any man or policy {¢ pleases, but ft ought to be done as to excite as little personal or fractional ac rimony as possible. I hope my friends Has arrived and are now on display at our among the editors will be always fair, store. and as temperate as possible in what they have to say of any Democratic candidate for any office, and that they will not permit the frenzied, ‘mad-bull’ policy of any paper fn city or country to provoke them into angry retorts of a personal charact- er against any candidate. “The proper thing for all of us to do isto beats down factionalism as far as possible and organize the par ty for victory in November. Of course falsehoods should be exposed and unfair attacks answered, but all this can be more effectively done {f answered with dignity. Let those who wish to employ the language of slums and indulge in scurrility do so, busl hope thas my friends in and out of the newspaper profession will uniformly proceed upon a higher plane.” In making his campaign, Senator Stone lets {t be known that he will discuss all subjects of politics, both. State and national. He will defend hig vote on all propositions in the Senate, and invites attack upon any | matter of national legislation. | Mrs. Rebecca P. Argenbright.. Mrs. Rebecca P. Argenbright died | at herhome on West Ohio strees| Thuraday morning at 4:00 o’clock after ‘an {Illness of several weeks. Funeral services were held at the M. E. church South on Friday after- noon, Rev. 0. E. Vivion officlating. Rebecca P. Harrison was born in ’ Tennessee, November 23, 1841. At the of three years she moved with family to Missourt where You'll say as we do that She ‘wn ied, Ta Te They are the best yet. in Morgan county. They came to \ poy hw Ly An unbeatable combina. tion of Style and Quality. Her husband and two of the eight children who blessed their union have receeded her, Bertha B. (Mrs. Robt ardin) and Anna L, She leaves six children living to mourn their loss, Albert, Jno. A., J E., C. H., Daisy M. (Mrs. Geiger,) and Lena P. (Mrs. J. E. Hook ) Mrs, Argent ht was a member of the Sou! odiss church. She : lived a consistent christian life and died in the faith, eee sescze| Hiram Nichols Shoe Company, | | sere “Watch for the Buzz-Saw.” 1et payment. You should see them. of r af. G. Kenpany. 603 Merchante-Laclede ar aeH