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ORR RR eeermaa Re BeeeeeseO = Live Forever? It’s Easy. S Cut This Out Guaranty. This is to Certify that ® has purchased one dollar pack- age of our catarrh remedy on our personal guarantee that his money will be refunded if he is not satisfied with results, That is as fair and square as you can ask for, DON’T HAVE CATARRH when you can get a deal like this. Bring this to CLAY'S Prescription Druggist. * What you tay We Stand dy. My Phone No, 4 bee ete} New York, Nov—Man ought to live forever if the proper “spirit life” 18 cultivated, according to Charles Brodie Patterson, who has made a special study of longevity This rather startiing statement he made at the Waldorf-Astoria last MAYOR JOHNSON IS “BROKE” All His Fortune is Gone, Says the Cleveland Man. | Cleveland, O., Nov.—Mayor Tom | |L, Johuson, for years reputed to be j | a milifonaire several times over, an- To Reverse License Plan. It the subject of personal liberty | enters into the iiquor traffic at alla new phase of 1t has been eprang by |. rasic primary for United States sen. & wife lot 1 blk 2 Schwenck’s add to Washington man. The basis of hie| theory ta that selling liquor is mer: | chandising, eames eelilngany other! 144710 Stone’s plurality 14,802 |56 blk 143 Town Cos 3rd add to commodity, from strychnine to cof fee. He argues that there is no rea Stone Talks of Primary. Jefferson City, Nov.—The tabula- tion of the vote cast in the Demo ator in the recent election shows the, following:. Stone, 159,512; Folk, | After the officie! result of the sen- night at 8 meeting of the Medieo- | vounced that his fortune had been Legal soclety. Authenticated case* jogs. He sald that he would be com- of extreme long life he pointed out to | pelled to give up his home on Euclid support his theory, adding that with] | oone ana algo to dispose of his proper care even the longest spans motor cars. of life as now meastred might be {n-| atorial primary was opened, Senator json to charge @ man license to sell) Wittiam J. Stone was asked if he had dynamite provided the purchaser | «no ything to say regarding the situ- | | hus a permit to buy. ation. He replied: The Washington man’s plan to abolish all saloon licenses, permit- | Angell lot 12 blk 15 west side add to “There ts ttle to be said. The re- | Butler $37.50. creased twenty or thirty years or even indefinitely. Another speaker sald he knew of & man in England who lived to the ripe old age of 130 years and that those who wished might do the same. Alcoholle stimulants, declared an osher speaker, cut short many a life that would otherwise be long. Try Kodol to-day on our guar- antee. Take tt for a little while, as that is all you will need to take. Kodol digests whas you eat and makes the stomach sweet. It ts sold by C. W. Hess. The Town Clock Club has some thing like $800 in {ts treasury to- ward the ratsing of the fund to pur- He added that s large part of hie! \fortune had been spent {n an effort} to save the properties left by she late | Albert Johnson, his brother. | “My efforts to krep up my dead brother's estate for his widow and children have cost me a great deal of | money. 1 don’t eare to say how much just now,” said the mayor. | Is is eaid that Mayor Johnson lost} approximately $400,000 this year in | connection with his tutereats at Lor. | ratn, O. | The Deposttors’ Savings and Trust | company, cf which Mayor Johnson was president, passed {nto the hands of two local banking concerns last | Ucense todo so, and it should bea ting any man desiring to do so to sell liquor. Ifa man wants to drink he should be compelled to take out a misdemeanor for ‘any .person to eell to aman who does not have euch 4 Neense, Such Heense should be tssu- ed by county and city, a reasonable fee being about $5 @ year for county | lcenses and from $1 to $3 a year for elty. This would bring in a larger | revenue than under the present leense system, and would put the | burden where ft belongs. “Bach license thus tssued should! ppemo law,” 1a an old maxtm, the| 16 17-18 19 20 blk 25 Amores $—. have attached thereto a photograph of sult of the primary speaks for itself. | The primary was held in pursuance of law, and everyone connected with | it was morally and personally pledg- ed to abide in good faith by the re- sult. It 1s inconceivable that any | candidate on any ticket would desire | to set aside the expressed popular will and even still more {nconcelv- Real Estate Transfers. WARRANTY DEEDS. Everett Drysdale to G. W. Walton Butler $1,150 Olive Venters to Carrie Long lots Rich Hill $375. A RColes to Nora Logue 80 4 see 14 Grand River $4000. Laura J Cowleset al to Etta E Adath Seelinger to J W Anderag 40 a sec 3 Rockville $1300. Minnie Ellen Blevins to JS Wood fin 40 a see 3 Walnus $1200. Joseph Coop vo Samuel Deaver & wife 80 a sec 20 Mound $3500. E P Hawkins to James Rush lots 10-11-12 blk 6 Amsterdam $600. J W Anderson to W E Heyle 408 sec 3 Rockville $600. Samuel Deaver to Duvall-Percival Trust Co 40 a eee 20 Mound $1200, Samuel Deaver to Duvall-Perctval Truat Co 80 a sec 20 Mound $2400. able, if thas be possible, that any legislator, being himself a lawmaker, would set the example of law viola- sion. “‘Vox popull suprema lex est,” |The volce of the people ts the su- }eubstance of which tsembodied tn RJ McGaugh to G A Jones lots CF Pharis toJ F Geiger & wite lots 12 13-14 bik 14 west side addto | Monday. A few days prior to the 0" 4s Person tking it ous, 60 there our motto. ‘That is not only true In 5B SF POS | Home Seekers Excursion. chase the clock for the court house fo pointsin Alabama, Arizona, tower, The county court will, after Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, the ladies get all of the donations Kansas, Kentucky, Loutstana,Mext collected wntch have been promised, co, Missisatppl, Montana, Nebraska probably finish out the amount nee- Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, v Oregon, Soath Dakota, Tennessee, PS8ary to buy the timepiece. The of: Texas, Utah, Virginfa, Washington, ficers of the club are now correspond. Wisconsin, Wyoming. On all fires {ng with a number of manufacturers; and third Tuesdays ofeach month of clocks, After the purchase of the| ub rage of one und one halt fare plue couy and isa installation the club S2.00 ' days vro date of sale bh. C. Vaxpervoorr, for round trip, Twenty-one will turn {ts attention to other pub- lic improvements —Caes Co, Dem, PEOPLE’S BANK Just What its Start right by ¢ this bank, experienced and con Name Indicates. »pening an account with It is clean, strong and managed by servative men, men who have been tried for years in positions of honor and trust. With it are connected many of our best home people which as we all well know is the best index to the strength and permanen- cy of any institution, You are offered absolute safety for your deposits and the deserving borrower is accommodated. It makes no dif ference if your business is small it will be appreciated and given care- ful attention by the People's Bank, Butler, Mo. bank transfer, the Muntelpal Trac- | tion company, of which Mayor John. son was treasurer and chief promot- | er, went Into the hands of a recelver | in the federal court, Asked if he really would have to |give up his home as a result of his financial troubles, Mr. Johnson sald: “Yes, I'm going to move. I can’t afford to keep up the big house on Euclid avenue now. As soon as I can find & smaller house that we like to nde on the street cara, too The motor cars will have to go with the rest,” Referring to his efforts to obtain three-cent fares, Mr. Johnson said: “T have never made a single penny out of the street railways since I be- came mayor, Nobody else has work- ed so hard as |, and I haven't drawn a cent ‘of pay from the Municipal! Traction company as treasurer. I don’t purpose to ask a cent for my work tn helping the recetvers. “Inever have spent money In poli- tics. In no campaign have I ever pald more than my assessments, $600 on the $6,000 salary of mayor.” $100 Reward, $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is atleast one dreaded disease that science has uld be no using of the Icense ex-! figsour!, but is ts true in all the| Butler $1,550. cept by this man, It should also} sgates, In this country the people| Walter Natus to Geo Beashore 60 contain a provision that a convie:| pelteve, and adhere to the doctrine |® sec 28 Pleasant Gap $3,000, ston for drunkenness at any time thas the popular will, lawfully ex | would be punished by a revocation | pressed, is supreme, and that the| | of the Heense for a perlod of 1X! public weltare requires obedience to monthe ora year. This appears to | i, Seven Years of Proof. “T have had seven years of proof that Dr. King’s New Discovery fs ©) we are going to take It, Lam going) me to be the logical solution of the) liquor question in districts where saloons are not barre. by local op- | tlon.” | How is Your Digestion. Mrs. Mary Dowling of No, 228 Sth Ave., San Francisco, recommends a remedy for stomach trouble. She says: “Gratitude for the wonder/ul effect of Electric Bitters tn a case of acute indigestion, prompts this tes- timonial. Iam fully convinced that! for stomach and Ifver troubles Elec tric Litters is the best remedy on the market today.” This great tonfe) and alterative medicine {invigorates the system, purities the blood and is especially helpful in all forms of fe-| maly weakness. 50c¢c at Frank T. Clay’s drug store. ; | Received too late for last week, The exploston of Excelsior powder | | house near Kansas City Thureday | ;morning was distinctly heard in | Ballard and vicinity. It was thought} | at first to have been the nolse from | | @ distant earthquake, Several ladies from this neighbor. | best medicine to take for coughs an colds and for every diseased condl- 4 tion of throat, chest or lungs,” says } |W. V. Henry, of Panama, Mo. The | world has had thirty-eight years of “The result speaks for itself, and carries with it {ts own popular man- date,” Watched Fifteen Years. proot that Dr. King’s New Discovei j!s vhe best remedy for coughs an For fifteen years I have watched | colds, la grippe, asthma, hay fever, | the working of Bucklen’s Arnica) bronchitis, hemorrhage of the lungs, Salve; and it has never failed to cure | and the early stages of consumption. any sore, boll, uleer or burn to which | Its timely use always prevent the de- is was applied. It has saved us many | velopment of pneumonia. Sold under | a doctor bill,” A. F. Hardy, of East | guarantee at Frank T. Clay’s drug Wilton, Maine. 25¢ at Frank T.! store. 50e and $1.00. Trial bottle Clay's drug store. | tree. THE MISSOURI STATE BANK BUTLER, MO. Capital, Surplus and Profits $70,500.00 After twenty-eight years of faithful service as a bank we ask a continuance of the patronage heretofore enjoyed, promising absolute safety for your deposits and accommodation that any goes bank could offer. Always has money to oan, DIRECTORS: Dr. T. C, Boulware, Wm, M, Hardinger, Wm, B. Tyler, R, B, Campbell, C, H, Dutcher, Frank M, Voris, John Deerwester, A. B. Owen, J.B. Walton. been able to cure in all ite stages, | 100d attended the Chrysanthemum and that {s Catarrah. Hall’s Catarrh | show in Butler the last of lust week. Cure {s the only positive cure now, Corn husking has been the order of known to the medical fraternity. | gh, hi | Catarrh being a constitutional dis- | {e oo ere. Knanoet cesee the yield Wm. K, Walton, OTHER STOCKKOLDERS: Wiley Adams, Lula Brown, H, B. Chelf, Dr. J. M. Christy, John M. Courtney Frank Deerwester, D,. A. DeArmond, John Deerwester, Dr. J. Everingham, Wm, M. Hardinger, Sam Levy, Mary B, Miller, A, A. Miller, John T. Piggot, J. K. Rosier, Come and Get Acquainted with Us. J, R. JENKINS, President, C. A. LANE, Vice-President. WESLEY DENTON, Cashier. —— _ ee = Walton Trust Co’ r” Butler, Missouri $55,000.00 $72,000.00. Capital, Surplus Fund and Profits Always has cash on hand ready to loan on Farms !n Bates, Vernon, Barton, Cedar, Dade and Polk counties, Missouri, on five or seven years time at low rates of inter- eat with liberal terms of payment. We have a complete set of title Abstract Books that we keep up with the records dally. Will furnirh certified Abstracte of Title to any tract of land or town lot in Bates county. Fees reasonable, Will isaue certificates of Time Deposits payable In elx or twelve months time} bearing Interest, for any idle money you may have on hand, PP PPP PLA RL ALPS LLL IATA AN | 009000009000 299000009009 000 000 000 | Cc. BE. ROBBINS, THE SUCCESSFUL AUCTIONEER. Sales made anywhere. Live stock and farm sales a specialty. Am better prepared than ever to make your sale. Having mi 110 successful sales the past season, amounting $145,048 67 worth of property. Ama member of the International and vice-president ment. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surface of the system, thereby destroying the _ foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up theconstitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in {ts curative posse that they offer One Hundred ollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list of testimontals. Address: F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, 0. Sold by Druggists, 75c Take Hall’s Family Pills tor con- stipation. No More Drinking on Trains. Topeka, Nov.—One object Repre- sentative Alec C. Mitchell of Lawrence has in the coming legislature this winter fs to secure the enactment of alaw prohibiting the drinking of Hquor on railway trains. Inasmuch as Mitchell will likely be the floor leader of the house, legislation back- ed by him stands a good show of passage. “Conductors on trains out of Kan- sas City with whom I have talked,” sald he, “are very much in favor of a law agalnes drinking on trains. They say that drinking on trains is often the cause of loud and boisterous _| language, sometimes amounting to @ disturbance of the peace of thepas- sengers but the conductors are pow- erless to prevent {¥.””. Wheat Harvest Over. Before you plant another crop pay a visit to Texas and the South West Cheap lands and many opportunities open there for the farmer. Excur- sions Firstand Third Tuesdays of each month. Liberal stop over in either direction with 25 days limit ind very low rates. E. C. VanpDERVoorT, Agent. Will Greea Shoes be Worn? with leaders of the ticket.—Post. estate at a low rate of interest with privilege to pay atany time. From the Shoe and Leather Report. : English Spavin Liniment ABSTRACTS. We havea complete set of abs- Tauners of green calfskin report that manufacturers of men’s and ease, requires & constitutional treat. | | Hag tr | Mee. Day and daughter Ione vislt- ed relatives and friends near Clinton | the first of the week. | Brush Poindexter and family spent Sunday with relatives east of town. | Grant Holliman is {n Saline coun-| | ty, Mo., we suppose to hunt a loca- = ( | Prof. J. W. Harrison was circula-| | ting a petition in our school district, | asking the legislature for state wide | school supervision. BELLE, Mind Your Business. If you don’t nobody will. It{s | your business to keep out ofall the} trouble you can and you can and will keep out of liver and bowel) | trouble if you take Dr. King’s New| Life Pills, They keep billousness, malaria and jaundice out of your system. 25c at Krank T. Clay’s drug store, J. W. Reisner, John Steele, John E, Shutt, Kate A. Tucker, Wm. W. Trigg, C. R. Turner, Dr. W, E. Tucker, Max Weiner, Dr. N.L. Whipple, H. C. Wyatt, W.C. Walden, Edith Walton, Susie Williams and James M, White, | | Under State Supervision and often Examined by State Bank Exanitner. WE WANT YOUR PATRONAGE. FARMERS BANK OF BATES COUNTY. -..8 50,000, 00 - 25,000.00 We are protected against robbery by insurance and our LARGE | Vernon County’s Candidate a SAFE, guaranteed by the manufacturer to be Burglar roof. Story Can't be Beaten. In the metropolitan papers appear rmectabaeel daily stories of candidates who were E. A. BENNETT, Cuark Wix, J.J. McKer, | elected without spending a cent. The greater number of them belong to minority parties and did not get of- fice. Vernon county, as usual in events extraordinary, again can carry off the banner. Judge W. F. Gordon was re-elected public administrator of the county on the Democratic ticket and his ex- pense affidavit ‘on file with Recorder Davis shows his election did not cost him a penny. Judge Gordon not only did not spend a cent to secure his office but spent no time campaigning. His popularity carried him through and more than that he ran right along Homer Dvva.t, F. N. DRENNAN, Frank Houtianp, J. W. Cuoare, 0. A. Heuer, W. F. Duvatn, WE WANT YOUR BUSINESS, E. A. BENNETT, Pres. W. F. DUVALL, Cashier, J. J. McKEE, Vice-Pres. HOMER DUVALL, Aset. Cashier. DUVALL-PERCIVAL TRUST 00. CASH CAPITAL, $50,000. Farmers Bank Butlding, Butler, Missourl. FARM LOANS. We have money to loan on real tract bookr and will furnish abstracts to any Real Estate in removes Hard, Soft or Calloused Bates County and examine and perfect titles to same. ot the Mo. State Auctioneers 46-tf high clase up-to-date service. Send for free circular and how to ar- range for and advertise @ public sale. Call on or address me at Amoret, Mo. Phong No. 36. Wire me at my expense. C. E. ROBBINS. Association. Reasonable terme for women’s fine shoes are making sam-| Lumps and Blemishes from horses; ples of’ that stock to be hurried to| also Blood Spavins, Curbe, Splints, their salesmen. New York city buy-| Sweeney, Ring Bone, Stifes, Sprains, ere are sald to look very favorable | Swollen Throate, Coughs, etc. Save upon green shoes, owing to the pre-| $50 by use of one bottle. A wonder- -|dlction that’ green will be widely |tul Blemish Cure. Sold by Frank T. ta a he ‘ é INVESTMENTS W. F. DUVALL, President. ARTHUR DUVALL, Treasurer, ™ ST Ae. Ses 5 o. We will loan your idle money for you, securing you reasonable interest On good secur- ity. We pay interest on time deposits. J. B. DUVALL, Vice-Pres. W. D. YATES, Title Examiner, $I q