The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, May 20, 1909, Page 4

' ieotlve by the courts, That and a ». Rowever, as the following number of OPPORTUNITY 500 yards extra fine grade wide embroideries, regular prices 45c, 35c, 25c, sale price.......... ...11%¢ § it l E b id i 500 yards extra good all linen Torchon laces, lil § all Mm 0l bries regular price PUMA aces sec iceeseese ...5¢ . . 1000 yards embroideries and insertions, would be Skirts and Laces a bargain at 5c yard, our sale price...........+..-. .. 4c c Assorted lot of fine val laces, regular prices 12 1-2¢ to 20c, sale price........ Perr eanc cana reer 9% Curtain Goods 200 yards fine quality white India Linon, regular price 25c, sale price..... tea newaee aah esantes 19c Lawns and 150 yards sheer Persian Lawn, . regular price 17 1-2c, sale price............45 An | 4.1" Batistes Choice stock of fine sheer batiste, regular Lace price 160, sale price........cecceee see ee ses eeenns (2%c Curtains Assorted lot worsted dress goods, regular price 85c and $1, sale price..........cecceeeeeeeeees ...-50¢ Dress Goods Assorted lot worsted dress goods, regular price ® Oc yard, ale price.........ecseeeseeeeeee se eeeees 29¢ and Silks Fine black taffeta silk, usual price $1, : sale price........05 eet eee Oe oie .... 15¢ Fine soft finish linen waisting, usual price 50c, sale price...... Teer re PRR TSAR CRS Ras .... 95 Two-yard-wide union table linen, regular H GBS GRIGG) MAIO OPINO veils cde Wis ccentaeaneen teens 45c Linens Choice lot all linen napkins, good at $1.25 Shoes GGNGD, WHO OMOR sss isc rch ceav tian se cad ee clsens 98c Two-yard-wide all linen bleached table linen, 75e grade, sale price..... te en Cea xan 55c SALE BEGINS SATURDAY, MAY 22, and is for the purpose of increasing our sales and at the same time give you an opportunity to buy season- able goods at a saving in price. It will pay you to look at these offerings. For we never offer any goods at a cut price unless it really is a cut price Ladies genuine tailor made suits, special values at........-. jasameakers $12.50, $10, $9 black voile skirts on sale at Assorted lot $10 black skirts on sale at........-.+. ae Assorted lot of $7.50 black skirts on sale at........ 65c madras curtain goods on sale at..... Perera et --48¢ 50c madras curtain goods on sale at........++++eesee0 ee BOC 35c madras curtain goods on sale at.......... ca edeeee tee Best yard wide silkolines on sale at..... ovebesegeoercee he Choice etyles in $1.25 lace curtains for............45. .$ .98 Fine designs in $3.00 lace curtains for, pair........... .$2.19 Fine designs in $4.00 lace curtains for, pair............ $2.89 Assorted lot shirt waists for ............. Too One lot $1.75 fringed quilts on sale at.......... wooo ee $1.39 One lot $1.25 plain quilts on sale at...... ac ineN aN CLUNG One lot heatherbloom skirts on sale at.......... 60006. $445 Assorted lot petticoats $1.25 to $1.50 values for.......... 95¢ Sample line stamped linens, Splendid assortment of men’s $3 50 oxfords and MNCON ON MAGE es inn iiss ce redianesdouss vee $2.50 Misses’ assorted shoes and oxfords $1 25 to $2 GTAMED ON EAE Obici cces cer ceceeceees Faience 98c Ladies’ $1.50 oxfords on sale at...........005 Mey aie cae $l Boys’ $1.50 to $2 shoes assorted lot for.............00. $l SPECIAL VALUES IN SUI? CASES for.......... 98c $1.50 Silk Gloves at half price, 75c. All best Calicoes on sale 4c yard. Muslin Underwear atGREAT REDUCTIONS. Yard wide full standard Muslin 5c yard. : COME AND SEE US---WE WANT YOUR TRADE. FINANCIAL STATEMENT, The Butler Weekly Times Printed on Thursday of each week, Jes pe : INE ana Bros, fire biishe ’ {led state Keon ee ' D, ALLEN, Editor and Prop. ty court published th rps data «be Goseniotie ebetemanvonate ouse May 21 1909. Program ‘eure ix ee PNP iA Geis ie Pa j ment of the receipts and expences ot history of home rule legislation is on Begins at 8:15. # esond-class mall matter. | Bates county for the year endingj@par with the position of the Re! Invocation, Rev. C. V. Criss. EXIT 45TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY. | shows a cash balance in the treasury The Forty fitth General Assembly {Of $15,003 30 on April 30th and has gone the way of all its predeces- | Warrants outstanding $27,941 27, ore, good and bad, and is numbered | OF an actual debt against thecounty with the hasbeens. There are not|0D that date of $9,937 97. Itehows cmuany wet eyes {n the state over the|delinques taxes due $3,904 G4, the death of this one, although 1t was major portion of which will be col- not much worse than the others, |!ected. It can therefore be seen that simply because {tcouldn’t have been. | Bates county fs not in anything like There were some good strong men {n | 8° bada condition as some would both branches, but they were in a make {t appear. This financlal etate- hopeless minority. It 8 not expect- | ment prepared by County Clerk ed that a legielature will accomplish | Weeks 1s unquestionably the most much when ths two branches are|laborate and comprehensive of any divided in political faith, but no |&#atement ever prepared of thefinan- fault should be found with a legisla |°28 Of Bates county. It shows from ture for nos burdening the Statute what source every cent was received booke with useless laws. This as-|@0d to whom and for what purpose sembly did a good thing when {¢ re- {¢ was pald out, the exact condition lieved the statute from a lot of laws|°! each fund on April 30th and the that have been found bad and de-|@mount of warrants outstanding. I¢ also shows the exact condition of the school funds, the drainage and all other trust funds. Any taxpayer can by studying this statement tell the exact condition of Bates county finances as @ whole or any particu- lar fund or trust fund that he may be specially interested in, and it should be filed away and preserved for future use. Mr. Weeks is certainly to be con- gratulated and commended upon the preparation of this statement, “He says that twenty-five amend-|(Cora Price, Pansy Pharis. Senate. The facte are thatSenators | {or Gems—Bertha Seelinger. Mayer, of St. Joseph, and Krone, of] Oration, Waste Lands of St. Louls, agreed on every amend-| icg—Guy Silvera. the Senate except three, and all of | Gratl—Frances Campbell. ence Committee, except the one mak- ing the law effective now Instead of 1910. Denton. “The commnittee adjourned to give time to consider this amendment and there the conference ended. The Governor then got busy. Alarmed at the offer of the Democratic mem-| McCann. bers to give home rule to St. Louie and Kaneas City, he suddenly finds that Kansas City has a Democratic mayor and directs that the bill be | amended so as ‘to apply only to St. Louis, “The Republican members of the Assembly took their orders and kill- ed the bill. The Democrats offered togive St. Louis and Kansas City home role with the power of removal of the executive heads of the police department vested in the Governor and to make the law effective at once. The Republicans, by strict orders from the Governor demanded —Orus Vivion. tlons—Everett Deweese. Harry Vantrees. Drop of Water—Ercel Yates. due respect for the expenditure of the geoples money {s all that should be asked of them. They were not content with that, Mabel Odneal. ressive— Walter Catterlin. Essay, 30—Mary Criss, enactments show: Moe thousand one hundred and -atxty-nine bills were introduced in the House during the 132 days of the session; 533 reached engross- ment and 311 were passed and have been sent to the Governor for his ap- aproval. The Senate witnessed the introduc- rédon of 802 bills, 692 of which were vemgrossed and 253 passed by thetwo ‘houses, a total of 464 new lawa, less the few the Governor has vetoed or may veto within the next thirty days. The people will be called on to vote on nine proposed amendments to the Constitution at the next general “élection, four of which originated in the House and five in the Senate. They include a $5,000,000 bond Aseue for a new State Capitol build- jimg, pendloning of public school ‘geachers and policemen of St. Louis,| saged- +0 -Cowherd’e defeat. The "Maneae City and St. Joseph; the! true Democrat despiees a bolter, a : of St Loule to revise ite City | kicker and quitter, A man whoaske| ‘cal “on polly red a tbe a. cal ae favors and high honors of his party creasing the length of she regalar| must come with clean hands into the sessions from seventy to uincty days. Democratic temple. C. Boulware. Announcement of Honors. ing labor and a keen insight into the} “The Governor has talked county finances. the floor of the Senate, an unexpected. Ed. Crabb was Col. Dave Ball, while at the state|00w, that not a the prominent farmers and capitol last week during the closing retell ge session of the legislature, announced | png on the simple order as it his candidacy for the Democratic | from the Governor. struck a more responsive chord with the Democrats of Missouri, if Col. Ball had accepted defeat gracefally and assisted in Mr. Cowherd’s elec- tion, instead of lending himeelf to the Hadley crowd and materially ——————~ | April 30sh 1909, The statement) publican members of the Senate dur-| Soxtette, Over the Hills and Far {og its discusston—amusing, really! Away—Nina Deffenbaugh, Johnny pathetic. Lotspelch, Laura Walton, Inez Sells, ments were put on the bill in the) Egsay, Mines Are Open, Go Dig ment when the bill was considered in Essay, The Legend of the Holy these were agreed to by the Confer-| Oration, The Power of Suggestion Vocal Solo, Spring {s Herc—Meda Essay, Footprinte—Ina Smith. Oration, Farm Life and Its Promo- Essay, Uncrowned Queens—Pearl Oration, The Curse of the Poppy— Essay, The Autobiography of a Piano Solo, Titanla—Jennie Owen. Oration, Greatnese—Albert Allen. Essay, The Incoming Millions— Oration, Progressive or Retrog- Presentation of Diplomas—Dr. T. thatthe law be made effective July1,|_The news came to Butler late which shows thought and painstak- 1910, or else apply only to St. Lovie, Tuesday evening of the death of Mberal-| Edward Crabb, at his homenear Rich ly about there being three branches| Hill. He had been quite eick-for of our government, but I cl on|some bev and his death was not stockmen and influential citizens of that sec- came | the sixties following the war and taken ® prominent part in the devel- nomination for governor in 1912.| ‘The position of the Democratic opment of the county resources. He This announcement would have|@embers of the Senate fs that Mr. only loyal Democrat and alw: Walker-McKibben’s Hadley Kills Home Rule Bills. Commencement Program of But- We this week by order of the conn (By George W. Humphrey, President ProTem | ler High School, at Opera Assessors Meeting. Old Game Law Holds On. A meeting of the township asees-| sors of Bates county was held in the | Mexico, Mo., May 18 —Tho report elreulé court room on last Saturday, | has been widely circulated over thi About two thirds of the townships} ‘ were represeated. Prof. H O. Maxey, | RVers EcerE ly PUBS Menew ganielo was elected chairman, P. G. Buckles| WOuld go into effect upon the ad secretary. Afcera thorough discus-|journ sion, the moticn was adoptad to ae- |! ms 6 Mean. Tn 0 sess all real estate and pergonal | Conversation over the long distance property at 40 per cent of {ts cash | telephone, Governor Hadley told _ <n — notes and bonds |Cectl M. Baskett, editor of the Intel. thelr Value. A'motlon prevaieg to net el ong pines, pes rent meet again the 3rd Saturday In May would not be effective until ninety and urge all assessors in the county | days after the legislature adjourned, to attend. | August 15. These Are For You. The best is none too good for your table, so we keep the BEST for you. Let us tell you about it. We will sell you: Amer- 4 pounds dried apple for........... ..25¢ 3 pounds large raisins for.......... .25c 3 pounds seedless raisins for ............25c Package raisins and currents, 2 for......15c 10 bars nugget soap for...................25¢ 6 bars old country soap...................25€ 6 bars cream laundry for........ 3 packages post toasties for..... oes 3 packages E. C. cornflake for............25¢ 2 packages shredded wheat biscuits....25c rhe 2 packages grape nuts....................25C Fall salmon.......................10¢ per can Small wash board for the little folk only 15c each. 8 pounds cracked honey for..............15¢ It will soon be fruit jar§ season. Remem- ber we will sell you all sizes at most rea- sonable price. ' Come in and see us about ice cream freezers. Bring us your Produce—highest-market price—for all you have. Truly yours, - J. E. WILLIAMS, -