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a ae a it Te He - The Butler Weekly Times Printed on Thursday of each week. J.D. ALLE’ Edftor and Prop Entered at the postoffice of Butler, Mo., a8 second—lass mail matter. The editor of Tae Ties visited SO Francois county last week and found the sentiment there among Demo- crate strongly for W.S. Cowherd for Governor. Everywhere his sterling worth and splendid abilities are rec- ognized. He will come nearer unit- ing the Democratic party {nto one strong, Invincible body shan any mau fn Missouri, and under his lead- ership there need be no fear for te old time Democratic majorities, and then some Many wild rumors were atlont on the streets of Rich Hill Wednesday morning concerning the reeent blow- fog op of the Farmers & Mechanics - bank vauits, and some of the ecbos found thelr way to Butler, Inquiry over the phoue elicited the facts that). 46 done at home. An examina-/Good Four Years. the rumors princtpally had their origin in that many detectives had gathered and Shertff Beard happened down. Sherfff Beard informed us that his business {2 Rich Hill at that time had no connectlon with the bank robbery. The new law requiring a vote on United States Senator at the general election, ellminates the neceasity of pledging the candidate for Repre- sentative on that question. If a candidate fs honest and highminded, willing to ablde by the instructions of the voters of his party expressed at the polls, 1s makes no difference to either candidate or his friends who his personal preference is We have an idea that efther candidate would prefer his personal friends In the leg- islature, but that feature should and will be largely ellminated from coun- ty contests Prosecuting Attorney of Johnson county, Ewing Cockrell, has request- ed Clreult Judge N. M. Bradley to | Educational Notes. | By Sapt. AL, Ives | Our subject this week is “irregular jatsendance.” The following statis- ~ | tics of last vear show some interesting | tacts: Number of children of school | age enumerated in she county, 8158; r enrolled in all the schools, 1304; average daily attendance, 4888. In other words, 95 per cent of the children of school age were en- rolled in the schools. The average ally attendance was only 69 per cent of the enumeration and 63 per cent of the enrollment. Or, agatn, only 60 children were tn school when 100 should have been present, or 3 ont of 5, but little more than balf. Now, this ts greats educational waste, Theschvols are ntainutalned at public expense for all the children. There is no good reason why a far lurger per cent should not be to reg- ular attendance at school, The trouble Is, 00 many of our people do not make seuding thelr cu.cren so school a business. Luey send them to school when therefs no work tion of the teachers’ dally registers shows that most of the absence is The Value of Education. | From the Philadelphia Public Ledger. shady lane one day in the early sum- mer when he met a tall, handsome youth | This youth had just been gradud ted. He was very poor and very in- telligent. Ino all his courses he had! taken honors, and in athletics also ha! been his. . “Well. Allen,” said thé president, “through at last, eh?”’ “Yes, sir,’ sald the young man, smiling and blushiog. “And now what are you guns do?” “I hardly know yet, sir. had two ocifers.” “Two? Wonderful!” “Yes, sir. One ts from a acientitic society offering me a secretaryship at $5 a week and the other {fs from a baseball magnate offering a five years’ contract at $5,000 a season.” I have “Dry” Vote Holds St, Louis Republic, In an opinfon handed down by caused by @ few familles in the dis- Judge Bland, of she St. Louls Court trict. A large per cent of the children | Appeals, {t1s held that the result attend school fatrly well These are the conditions. What) she status of the county for four ure the causes? Commerctalism, A race for the dollar, Some of us have not time to send our children to school, the Importance of education. We! ty she Court of Appeals trom Scot- become diseattstied with the school, ligng connty under the title of State or fall out with the teacher, and shen | as re] Frank C. Hooyer against Wal- our children stay at home. But] sors Hickman et al. [a October, | most of the absence from achool fs} 1905, Scotland county voted out the | caused by work at home, aside from sickness, this 1s about the only cause of absence. It {sno un- common thing for the teacher to say: ' “The large boys are out to-day at| work," or, “Mary stays at home one day each week to help wash.” I grant that this work must be done, But, since some families keep their children {n school regularly, perhaps all could do so, and yet the work at home not be neglected. How may these causes be removed e | The president of one of the minor | jcolleges was sauntering down a! i ‘\ $1.75 Blankets—heavy, large—T willed Below manufacturers price—for $1.00. Walker-McKibben’s Beautiful grades in Persian Lawns on sale at 12%c yard up. Thousands of yards of Laces and Embroideries on sale 5c yard up. calla spectal grand jury’ to invest!-|@nd the conditions be improved? gute tax dodging {n that county. In| Well, the solution Iles largely in the his letter Mr. Cockrell charges the|teacher. Of course the community October grand jury with dereliction| must change tts attitude towards of duty, and cites cases wherein{that| the school. Our people must belleve grand jury refused to {ndict, which he|{n education and want the best that afterwards successfully prosecutedon|can be obtained. Then with real direct information before the court, | Manly men and womanly women fn He closes his letter thus: %“This{s|all our schools, these hindrances not only a question of morality, but} Would vanish and the thing would of common honesty and fafrness,|be done. A good earnest teacher in Shall everybody pay his fair share or| community can do wonders 1n one shall the honess man pay all the}/short year. The superintendent has taxesand let the dishonest tax-dodg. | seen several instances in the county ers pay none?”’ in the last two yeurs. Give us people who believe in edu- cation and who really want {t, and men and women who really want to teach school, and the matter of Irre- gular attendance will cease to be a problem. Road Meeting. There is to be @ general meeting of all of the road overseers of Bates county at Butler in the Cireult Court room on Tuesday, March 3, 1908, This is to be the first annual meeting of road overseeers under the new law, and it ls to be hoped that every over- seer of the county will be present at this meeting. The law makes it a duty of each overseer to attend. The Honorable Curtis Hill, StateSHigh-|tagious. The Warrensburg fair {s way Engineer, will be present jand| certain to quit, and now the Pleas- will explain the operation of the new | ant Hill papers say the Harrisonville law and {ts application to the mak- | fatr {s talking the same thing. ing and maintaining better froads.| Fairs are a good thing for any 1s would be well for Townsh!p Boards | community, but {¢ has long been a and all others that are interested in| subject of doubt whether they are of the good roads movement to attend. | sufficient value to justify the worry, TheCounty Highway Engineer js pre- | work and expense necessary to main- paring a map of all of the rural| tain them. routes of Bates county, also a map| In these latter days most people showing the road districts of the|gotothe fairs to see the people whom county and will be able to see at| they confidently expect to find there. & glance who {s responsible for every | With the average fair visitor, the ex- mile of road in the county. He is}hibition is second to seeing friends also arranging @ system of reports|/and acquaintances. The question that will be of great service} to the | then arlees—cannot a public meeting overseers of the several districts. | place be arranged annually without The Township Boards should pay|so much machinery and expenses as each overseer for his time in attend.|fafre entail. Would not an annual ing this meeting for that time will be| picnic of a day or two answer the spent in the interest of his district. | same purposes as a fair? Would Loan Mules. Fruit Prospects Good. The man who got on the trainat} L. A. Goodman, secretary of the Lee's Summit, bound for Pleasant|state horticultural society, told a Hill, says the Journal-Democrat,had|Kaneas City reporter on Sunday just settled back in his seat when the| that the outlook for frult this sea- man who had boarded the train at/son was unusually good. He sald: Independence, approached. “In spite of the very warm winter “Hello Bill,” be said, “loan me ten| which we have been having the buds dollars.” haveewollen only a little, not enough “Ten dollars, nothing. Why man|to allow a sudden drop in tempera. T ain’s een ten dollars for a month, | ture to rain the crops. The berries but I'll loan you ten mules. How| promise to be plentiful this season will that do?” and have been least affected by the - Which goes to show that when one changeable weather. The cold spell medium of exchange 1s abrreviated | which strack this section of the coun- by unforseen circumstances, the re-| try a few daysago was not sufficient- Fair Quitting is Contagious. Journal-Democrat, Since President Steele issued his card advocating suspension of the Holden fair, the fever is proving con- to expatiate on his reform ideas. So he sought subjects at the county jail in she afternoon and found four of| Of Interest to Democratic the boarders playing ay abominable game ofeuchre. Sath says it was so Newspaper Publishers. bad that he belfeved that he could] We see !t announced in the public have beaten efther orall of them.| prints that ‘Governor Folk intends He thinks a good instructor on the|to manage his own campaign for U. national game could bring about|S. Senator along the lines he follow- great reform at the jail. edin 1904 while a candidate for Gov- The county sheriffs and county |°2°r-” treasurers in Missourl will hold for] This will be an {tem of supreme in- four years hereafter. Which makes terest to the country press through- both of these offices more destrable|°U* the State. That campaign, it than heretofore, when a contest had | ¥!!! be remembered, was an all for to be made every two years. From Folk and a Folk for himeelf contest. present indications there will be a Is will also be remembered that the fair crop of candidates for both of- Governor dominated the manage- fices In thls county before the Au-| ™entof the party that year and that. gust primartes. County candidates | !*® energies were entirely expended fn have only to file their intentions to| Securing his election except what run with the county clerk in order to | ¥88 spared for the defeat of his run- get thelr names on the officlal bal- ning mate, Sam B. Cook. The de- lots. All district and state cand!-|feat of Mr. Cook was an expensive have-to_gos-up-petitione and piece of business to the Democratic file with the secretary of state, papers of Missourl. In 1907 there was pald five thousand, twenty-two The Kentucky General Assembly | dollars and five cents ($5,022.05) tor appears to be In @ hopeless deadlock | the publication of the constitutional on the election of a senator. After a amendments, (see session acts 1907, month’s balloting, with the session page 24) and in the year 1908, ac. about half gone, there is no material cording to the same -measurement change from the first ballot, when |shere will be pald tor publishing con- Gov. Beckham recelved 66 votes, Ex-| sti¢uttonal amendments about ten Gov. Bradley, Republican, 64 with thousand and two hundred ($10,- seven scattering democratic votes. 200.00) dollars, making tn all the Beckham was nominated at theDem-| sum of approximately fifteen thous- ocratic primaries. Impartant legte-| and, ¢wo hundred ($15,200.00) dol- lation is thus tied up, while both lara, that, through the Governor’ sidesare playing politics. Itisclaim- 1904 activities will have been turned ed by those in position to know, that} over to the Republican prees of Mie- Beckham will not be elected, but {6 18) gouri, A tidy eum for which nodoubt the destre of the seven bolters torefer| oy, Republican brethern areextreme- 1 back to the people. ly grateful to the Governor. It oper- W.-W.Ross,—-who—wascalled- to} ates like the transference of funds be- Adrian on Saturday to inspect the} tween rival banke, it causes one to school building and ascertain the] grow and the other to diminish. In costs of repairs, reports that the} 1904 the Post-Dispatch, which was walls of the building were not dam | advocating the election of Joseph W. aged, and that repairs can easily be| Folk and was, at the same time in- made. The joists of the lower floors} dulging in the most scurrilous at- were not in the wall, but rested on| tacks upon his running mate, Sam the foundation and the explosion|B. Cook was sent out by the Folk blew them out without damaging | committee ag a campaign document. the walls. Temporary repairs were|In view of these facte the rank and made so that school opened up Mon- | file of the Democratic party are not day morning. Stoves will be used in| prepared to look with favor upon the different roome until a new heat-| another campaign conducted along er can be installed. the aes of those of 1904. eae ae Manes The Post-Dispatch is again advo- Notice to Tax Payers. | ating Folk whilp at the jeame time I will not accept any taxes after | it is attacking Bryan as venomously in 1904? The Post-Dispatch is as much the organ of the predatory wealth as the New York Sun and te by intelligent people so recognized. Who that paper Indorses is not a matter of much consequence, but whether Joseph W. Folk endorses the Post-Dispatch {s a matter of su- preme interest to the Democratic voters of this State, and they want to know. Democrats do not object to the Governor's candidacy, but they will not stand for another per- sonal campaign on his part at the expense of the’party and in which he is assisted by plutocratic cossacks — WEEKLY INDEPENDENT, Potosi, Mo, January 30, 1908. A State Primary Calendar. Secretary of State Swanger has prepared a calendar for the benefit of candidates and others concerning the dates for filiyg various papers under the state primary election law, asfol- lowe: March 1—Secretary of state to fur- nish forms. March 5—Secretary of state to in- dicate. offices for which candidates are to be selected. May 15—County clerks to publish this notice for six weeks. June 4—Candidates shall have no- tified proper authority of candidacy June 9—Secretary of state to cer- tify candidates to county clerks for publication. July 14—County clerks to furnish chairman and candidates sample bal- lote. e" ~ July 24—County clerke to correct errors, publish and distribute bel- lots. August 4—Primary day. Legal holiday. August 5—Judges and clerks to furnish returns to county chairman and candidates. August 7—Returns to be canvass- ed. County committees to meet and organize. August 11—Congressional commit- tees to meet and select statecommit- teomen. ofa county local option election fixes 8 he S rin . Shoes years, and that no section of the g county may hold an election toeffect 4 ™ {a change. Others do not appreciate The case in question was brought are ere \3 And they are more attrgctive than ever. The styles are snappier than usual, The variety is greater. In the finer goods a.good many tans will be Indeed, | worn and you will find them here. Splendid values in ladies oxfords and high eecyjsaloons, At thas time Memphis,’ % cuts in Kid and Patent Leather at $2.50, $2.75, $3.00, $3.50. They are Scotland county, was a clty of less . than 2,30, no¥ hang dhe gh to § WALKER’S SPECIALS 4 separate election. la 1906a census ‘ ‘ . ‘ showed that the clty had a popula. | and we guarantee each pair to give satisfaction. tion of 2,540, and an election called In Men's Fine Shoes we show the best In November, 1907, favored the}$ $3.50 shoe in the market “The Fellowcraft,” and at Heonstng—of—saloons,Hooyer-ob-/-$4-00 the celebrated “Ralston Health.” If you are tained a license from the city, mi not already using them, try a pair. the county court denied his applica- : A tion, A writ of mandamus was ask- In School shoes, heavy or medium weight, ed to compel the county court to! We sell the kind that hold their own and at the very | grant the license, | lowest prices for good goods. Come and see us. Col. Seth Cope who is serving his i We want your trade. country on the petit jury, felt some- : what nggrleved when he ustended WALKER - McKIBBENS. Sunday School on Sunday morning ; and was not given an opportunity | 50000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 0000000 Whipped by “Night Riders.” Eddyville, Ky., Feb. 16.—Thre« hundred “‘nightriders” visited Eddy- ville at 1 o’clock this morning and whipped four white men and six ne- groes. The white men whipped are: Police Judge C. W. Rucker; Lesel Woods, ex-city marshal; Press Fra- lick, who occasionally acted as deputy clty marshal, and a saloon porter named Robertson. The connection between the whip- ping and the tobacco trouble in Western Kentucky ts not apparent and noone has been able to_ offer any explanation. None of the vic- tims was known to beelther active or influential in opposftion to the farmers’ pooling movement. No at- tempt was made at destroying stor- ed tobacco. Last Call For Taxes. Texes due the clty of Butler must be pald ut once at the city collectors office in Smiths Book & Stationery / Store 3per cent penalty will be added March first and 1 per centa month additional thereafter. “Do it now.” 17-16 FOR SALE! The fine young American Coach Stallion Cap. 1905, winner of first premium in class as a 2-year-old, and as a 3-year-old at Bates Coun- ty’s Fair in 1906 and 1907, now coming four years old. A typical Coach Colt in -style, color an action, about 16-hands high and 1350 pounds weight, solid bay in color with black points. Also One Jack coming 5 years old, One Jack coming 3 years old, One Jack coming 2 years old, All three sired by old Monster. And 2 spanof mules com- September 9—All party commit-|ing 2 years old, 3 of them tees meet at Jefferson City, organize| Mare myles, one span large and formulate a platform. September 10—Platform to be an- sources available to the nervy Mis-jly severe to destroy the trait buds.| Feb. the 29th. Do you want them|as it did Sam B. Cook. Does the nounced not later than 6 p m. _ sourlan as a substitute are more/It served more to check the flow of, than one fo number, ap.” to go delinquent? It ts upto you. |Governar intend to use it asa cam- Y. 0, Comes, Col. ' palgn document this year as it was October 8—Secretary of state to| 17 Route 6, certify candidates. enough to work this spring. J. H. ALLISON, ‘tt 8 miles southwest of Butler, Mo, — po