The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, January 21, 1909, Page 6

- ladder, buying his cows ar Low Prices not the Only inducement E advertise for sale only such goods as we can guarantee to comply with all pure food laws, and we want to say right here that you’ good and fresh—and note the price: 4 cans of corn 3 cans of tomatoes 3 cans of pumpkin.... 3 cans of boiled cabbage.. 3 cans of lye hominy.... 2 pound cans salmon 2 pound cans oysters, 3 pounds dried peaches,.... 3 pounds dried apples.. 5 pounds prunes...... 3 pounds raisins...... 2 pounds imported figs. We are making a all our Queensware and Chinaware. Come in and get our prices. J. E. Williams. DAIRY GUMPTION, te WIll Help a Man Over the Hard Places, “Gumption” {s an old-fashioned Yankee word and signifies the ability te shape one’s own fortune, work up out of difficulties, overcome discour agements, eto. Last week our New York correspondent, H. H. Lyon, spoke of the almost helpless state the milk farmers of that state find themselves fm before the “double twist” the milk dealers in New York city have put on them. Why cannot the farmers at every milk-shipping station co-operate with each other to put up a creamery and handle their mQ@k that way? asks the Hoard's Dairyman. We sometimes think that the milk-shipping business haa the worst effect on the enterprise | and ability of the farmer of anything that could happen to him. Certain it fg that it makes very much less of a, farmer of him. He does no* raise young cattle and begs like the creamery farmer. He loses all ambition to be what he should be, » wise breeder and developer of dairy cattle He drifts down to the final landing place at the foot of the crowding year and custly fi ed into them for ling them for beef ems to be nothing about the Onstness as‘at present organized and ondneted that will tend to the making of a lJarger-minded and better farmer And then, as if to cap the climax, he is at the merey o} lot of dealer 21 f aim who know him, if he 1 he helplessly ae on. His farm suffers tant drain { nilk ship: ing to the extent of at st five to wen dollars per cow of valuable fer: fing material in the milk, most of which would be saved to the soil if ‘ousumed on 11 3f course w 2 milk must vw produced f it it does seem as if the wilk farm ais w class were lacking in the ordinary “gump- tien” -of mankind to submit as they | de to imposition, and miake no com- Mned effort to help themselves. EMPLOY THE BEST EXPERTS. For the Revision of the Statutes Former Work Unsatisfactory. Jefferson City, Jan. 18.—Senator Fred Hudson has been looking into the revision of the statutes ten years ago. He finds that the commission left by she legislature at that time to complete the codification, indexing wad annotating worked for thirteen monthe after the adjournment andit cost thestate something like $30,000 | to pay the salaries of the members ot thecommission. That the work was not satistac- tory is indicated by the fact that the annotations of the statutes-are re- garded by the legal fraternity as worthless, and that a licensed pilot and engineer fs required to find any- ‘thing through the indices. Senator Hudson will propose, when “the esvision 1s taken up, that the ~state employ the best. experte in the law publishing business, in the coun- “Sry to do the work. ‘ ll find our groceries pre-inventory cut in ba: There was preaching at the church last Sunday night by Rey, Sutor. We hear that the Presbyterians freexpecting preaching next Sun- day. The pie supper last Saturday was ‘well attended. The proceeds were $15.10. The entertainment was glv- {en by the Lone Oak Band. We hear there will be a pie supper at Star next Saturday night. Mies Myrtle Thornas, of the Double | Branch nelghborhood, spent last Saturday night and Sunday at the George Thomas home. Miss Loy Ballfinch and Laverne Lyle also ‘epent Sunday there. Jack Carpenter and family have re- | turned from a visit !n Oklahoma. Mr. and Mrs. Hatry Graham epent Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Walker. Mr. and Mrs, Ed. Hall and Mr. and Mre. Robert Lyle spent Sunday with 8 wor. . Sleep-wagons BE. E. Eckles, Quite & number from this vicinity delivered hogs in Butler last Mon- day. There were sleds and sleighs of all descriptions to be seen in andaround | Peru last week, all the way from the _ tongueless water sleds to Dell Requa’s cutter. Dell will have to stay at! home now, but when {t snows again —look out girls, Frank Blankenbaker returned last Saturday from a visit with his broth- er in Kansas. Pussy WitLow. Mt. Vernon News. Marriep:—At the home of * bride’s parents, P. E. Wintrey, of Kansas City, and Miss Emma E Rsaybourn, of Amsterdam, Mo., S. S. Fox, Esq., officlating. There was quite a blizzard passed over this community the first of the! week, Rabbit hunting seems to be the: | order of the day. | John Ford has just returned from | | & week’s visit near Appleton City. Ms. Vernon {s enjoying one of the | best literartes, 1s has had for several | |yeare. The debate last Wednesday | |night on the tariff question was good. The affirmative side was rep- resented by Geo. Christopher, Geo. |Thompson, Leroy Park, Col. J. N. | Sharp and J. F. Eye; the negative by |W. J. Park, Wick Ray, Isaac Lock- ridge, Geo. Pablmann and Lee Browning. Judges decided in favor | of the negative. John Dugan has sold his farm. Don’t know just where he will locate During the debate at Mt. Vernon | last Wednesday night, W. H. Hart, acting as chairman, had to use the | big stick to preventariot. X Ballard Notes. The recent cold weather and snow has made skating and sleighing pop- ular sports. * Mrs. M.8. Keirsey have returned from ‘@ visit with relatives in Polk county. | Wm. Hawthorn of Hastings, Ne- braska, visited at the hore of his aunt Mrs. Robineon. Mre, Amanda Mosher who has been vielting her daughter in’ Kansas City for some time, is home again. 'C. A. Teeter made a business trip to Butler the last of last week. a5, BY GEO. V. HOBART, (“HUGH M’'HUGH.”) Dear Bunch: I’m headed for home, but the hurdles are holding me back. I met a whole flock of “the boys” in Rochester yesterday morning, and since most of ‘em were making @ flying leap for New York, you can be lieve me it was a swift squad of sports that climbed into one of Mr. Pullman's | and permitted them- selves to be yanked over the rails, A bunch of brisk ones—believe me! | There was Charlie Hammond, lead- ing mah with the “Kitty, the Kash Girl” Company; David Torrence, first | heavy with the melodrama entitled “The Haunted Automobile; or, Who! Stole the Muffler?” Frank Westerton, | first low sad with the “Crazy-Quilt Burlesquers;" Emmett Corrigan, who! is lecturing through the provinces on! “How to Play Bridge Without Impair- ing the Tonsils;" Malcolm William, | the handsomest leading man in the show-business — when completely ; Shaved; William Burress, the Bath- Robe King; Charlie Abbott, who sells that fine Monticello honey-dew, and Arthur Shaw, Shaw travels for a clothing house in Cincinnati, and they call him Slim They Call Him Slim. because he's getting so fat that every time he turns around he meets him- self coming back. | He's all to the good—that boy is! And such a cut-up! Slim knows more “look-out!—| there's-a-lady-over-there!” stories than | any other drummer in the business, Hien there was Nick Dalrymplé.and Tod Gilpin—two live ones with a full) set of sparks flying. | Mck goes after the orders for a hardware house in Columbus, and he knows everybody in the world—bar| one family living in Yonkers, Nick has only one trouble, he will paddle after the ponies. | Whenever he makes a town where there’s a poolroom his expense-account gets fat and beefy, and Nick begins to| worry for fear he may win:something. He won $12 in Cleveland once, and | he spent $218 at a boozeologist’s that night getting statistics on how it hap- pened. Tod Gilpin cuts ice for a match-fae- | tory in Newark, and he’s the life of a small party. | Tod’s main hold ts to creep into the “reading-room” of a Rube hotel after the chores are done of an evening and, throw salve at the come-ons. * | Tod tells them that their town fs! the brightest spot on the map, and! they warm up ‘o him and want to buy him sarsaparilla and root beer. Then when he gets them stuck on! themselves he sells them matches. | “Pipe the gang to quarters and all) rubber!” said Slim, about half an hour! after the train pulled out. In the seat ahead of us a somewhat demure-looking Proposition in rain-! bow rags had been sampling the scen-| ery ever since we started. | We had all given her the glad! glance, but she was very much Cold| Storage, so we passed it up. | As Slim spoke, the Proposition was | Joined by a young chap with a loose face, who had been out in the smok- ing-room working faithfully on one of | those pajama panatella cigars bite you on the finger if you show the least sign of fear. Just then the train stopped for a few minutes, and we were put wise to the fact that it was an incurable case of bride and groom. “Oh! Boozey is back to his Birdie!” said the brand-new wife. “Did Boozey like his smoky woky?” Boozey opened a bunch of grins and sat down, while wifey patted his cheek and cooed: > “Is ums glad to get back to ums ‘Ittle wifey-pifey?” z Dave Torrence and Charlie Ham- mond began to scream inwardly, with Slim chuckling like a pet porpoise. “Sweetie mustn't be angry with Petie, but Sweetie is sitting on Petie’s ‘ittle handt” said the bride, where upon Malcolm Williams exploded, and Slim began to grab for his breath. A Dutch brewer and his wife sat right ahead of Boozey and Birdie, and every once in awhile the old hop- puncher would turn around and beam benignly over the gold rims at the bride. “Boozey must snuggy-wuggy up closer to his Coozie and skeeze her ‘itty arm —No, no, not her waist! you naughty! naughty!” The brewer was. back at the bride with another gold-rimmed _ goo-goo, when his wife got nervous and cut in: | about the goode they sold, that | ON THE DRUMMERS HE MET Westerton was almost out; Burress was under the at sparring for wind; Slim was giving an imitation of a coal- barge In a heavy sea, and the rest of the passengers were in various stages from hiccoughs to convulsions. “Is Boozey comfy wif his ‘itty weeny teeny Birdie?” chirped the bride. “Boozey is so happy wif his tzzy- wizzy!" gurgled the husband; “how's my ‘ittle girley wirly?” “Oh! she’s such a happy-wappy ‘ittle fing!" giggled the dotty dame, pinch- ing her piggie’s ear, whereupon the brewer tried to hand the bride another gasoline gaze, but the old lady caught him with the goods. % “Is id to my face you go behind my back to make googley-googley eyes ad somevun—yes?” she growled, and in a minute the brewer's brow was busy with the window pane. “Sweetie looks at Petie and Sweetie sees that Petie’s p'etty face is getting sunburned, so it is!" cuckooed Mrs. Daffy; “and Sweetie has a dood mind to tiss him, too!” They opened a newspaper, crawled under cover, and began to bite each other on the chin. “Go as far as you like!” said Slim, then he went down and out. The man who helped to make Wee- hawken famous had his head out the window watching for an ice-wagon, and Mrs. Brew was industriously muttering “Du bist ein Narr! Du bist ein Narr!" Just then the train pulled out and saved our lives Dave, Frank, Bil, Slim, Charlie, Malcolm, and I rushed feverishly up to the other end of the car to cool off, and there we landed “on the outskirts of a bunch of drummers, who were fanning each other with fairy-tales “T'll back three of the lads in that collection to dream longer than any other drummers on the track. It's a pipe that they can sell bills to each other all day and never wake up. A guy named Mutt Dawson holding forth. He’s a most reckless spendthrift with his words, and the meanest man to the English language I ever Mstened to, Mutt was telling them about hypno tizing a John Wanamaker merchant prince in Pikesville, Ind. to the ex- tent of $200 for opemwork socks, farm- er's size, and then a chap named Jack Dean sent his balloon up by telling us how he sold the Siegel-Coopers, of Bugsport, Ia., $300 worth of Panama “hats for horses. The Hot Air association was in full session when Buck Jones caromed “How's My ‘ittle Girly Wirly?” over from the other end of the car and weighed-in with us, Buck is a sweller, He thinks he strikes 12 on all occa sions, but his clock is all to the pazaz. Buck isn't a drummer—nay! nay! take back your gold! He'll look you straight in the eye and tell you he’s a traveling salesman ——nix on the drummer! I think Buck sells canned waists for the Shine Brothers. And now, Bunch, here is where I affix one of Uncle Sam's promises-to carry to this document and drop it in the little green box. The Same Ever, J. A. (Copyright, 1908, by G. W. Dillingham Co.) shirt. Hair end Heredity. Gertrude and Charles Davenport, connected with the Carnegie institu: tion’s station at Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y., writing in the American Nat- uralist of the results of their observa- tions on the “Heredity of Hair Form in-Man,” say it is now possible to pre- dict from the hair of parents the form of their children’s. hair, whether straight, wavy, curly or frizsy.-They find that the following rules are al- most invariable: “Two blue-eyed, straight-haired parents will have only blue-eyed, straight-haired children. Two wavy-haired parents may have straight, wavy or curly-haired chil- dren, but the chances of curly hair are slight. Two curly-haired parents, may have children with either straight, wavy or curly hair, and the propor- tion of curly-haired offspring will prob- ably be large.” ~ Will Require Much Wheat. i See our display of Monarch can goods. The highest grade of can goods on the market to-day. Raisins—new—good quality, 4 Ihs:..........8 Dry peaches, fine qual- ity, 3 ths for Flake hominy, 7 tb: Pearl hominy, 7 tts Good rice at, Ib Best navy beans at, !b.... 5c Red kidney beans, fb...... Pink or chille beans at, tbh. 5c ' Chille peppers at, tb i Best dry apples, 3 ths 3-t hand packed toma- toes at, 3 for. ........00e 25e Bear brand syrup, gal.....50¢ 3 bbls fine country sor- ghum at, gal.............50¢ Ginger snaps, 2 !bs for,...15¢ 2 ths oysters at Lard cans, 6 gal.—new....30¢ «. Bgal. "400 10 gal “ ..50e No, 1 galvanized tubs..... 50c No. 2 id No. 3 ! YOURS FOR BUSINESS, Norfleet & Rea Independent Grocers, Phone 144, BUTLER, MO. = MISSOURI'S LARGEST . LAND SALE. — Deed Filed at Greenville Trans- fers a Hundred Thousand Acres of Timber and Mineral. Greenville, Mo., Jan. 18.—The deed of whatis probably the largest trans. fer of land ever recorded in South- east Missourl has been filed in the County Recorder’s office here. The deed was made by the Holla: | day Klotz Land and Lumber Com pany to the Wayne Iron and Lum ber Company and calls for 100,000 acres of land in Wayne county ata consideration of $400,000. This marke the passing of the old | Holladay Klotz Land and Lumber Company at one time the largest. lumber company operating in Mia- sourl, : Pe The company was organized in 1895 by Hiram M. Holladay, an illiterate who only a tew years prev- fous to the Organization of his com: pany drove mules for a living. He organized the lumber company with a pald-up capital of $600,000 and built the Willlameville, Greenville & St. Loute Ratlway, twenty mileslong, aleo capitalized at $600,000. The Wayne Iron and LumberCom- pany got a charter in this state last week with @ capital of $2,500,- 000, tully paid up. The new compa- ny will develop the mineral resources ot Wayne and adjoining counties and will begin work on the extension f 3 of the Williamsville, Greenville & St. Louls Ratlway Big Discount | ON Rugs, Carpets, Lace Curtains and Portiers We are going to quit handling ALL the above mentioned articles, and are selling them at cost. It is a golden opportunity to purchase your spring stock at the lowest bane : price similar goods were ever offered by any store in Butler. We have sold in the past quite a good many. Come Early and Get First Choice All These Goods: will be Sold for Cash Only. . HL CULVER FURNITURE ¢ Headquarters for Good Furniture, ’ \ 'd ae a ed | ‘ (>4