The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, August 19, 1909, Page 4

BATES GETS A PLUM. The Butler Weekly Times Printed on Thursday of each week John T. Harper Appointed State Game Warden Deputy. On last Tuesday John T. Harper, asin 4 — son of Presiding Judge R. F. Harper, PIV received a commission as Deputy SOLDIERS TO’ FLY. State Game Warden, from Game __ Warden Jesse A. Tolerton. The - i National Guards to Have | P°Sition carries with it the perquisite Missouri Nationa | of the three dollars per diem and all Aero Detachment. | expenses while on duty. Mr. Harper J. D. ALLEN, Editor and Proprietor Entered at the Post Office of Butler, Mo., as second-class mail matter well known as an honorable gentle- |man, with plenty of nerve to back up and enforce all of the stringent Jefferson City, Aug. 16.—The Mis-| mandates of this new game law. He Lieutenant Burg, Comqany A, Signal Corps, to Enlist the Men. souri National Guard will be the first | is broad and liberal in his views and | military organization of the kind in| not disposed to quibble over small the United States to have an aero de-| details, but it is his intention, as stat- tachment. issued by Adj. Gen. Frank M. Rum-| that the laws are enforced in this, the | bolt to-day, directs Commanding Gen- | 6th Congressional District, to which eral Harvey C. Clark of the Missouri | he is accredited. He insists that every | National Guard to organize forthwith hunter must a have license, and that | an aero detachment to be a part of | no game must be killed nor fish taken | Co. A, signal corps, St. Louis. Para-| out of season, or in disregard of the | graph two of the order reads: law's provisions. To this end he is “He (Gen. Clark) will authorize | calling upon all the prosecuting at- First Lieut. Chester E. Burg, Co. A, | torneys, sheriffs and other peace of- signal corps, to accept fifteen men ficers in his district to assist him. who have expressed a desire to enlist) Of the big basket full of nice, jucy, for this purpose.” jlucious plums the Governor had at is a strong, active young Republican, | General Order No. 19,| ed toa Times representative, to see | Get the Boys and Girls Ready for School Several days ago Adj. Gen, Rum- bolt received a letter from S. Louis) Von Publ of St. Louis, suggesting, such an organization as a modern} attachment to the National Guard of Missouri, He is a member of the St. | Louis Aero Club, In answer to this | Gen. Rumbold replied that such an! organization would have to become a| part of the signal corps, be subject to drill regulations, and as the na- | tional guard is an adjunct of the Unit-! ed States army in case of war, the his disposal, we had almost despaired of Bates getting a wee, tiny taste, but it has come at last and worthily be- stowed. We congratulate our young friend on his preferment. STATE WILL PAY IN CASS. Pleasant Hill to Get $8,500 from | the State Treasury to Pay for a Rock Road. If reports be true, Pleasant Hill | aero detachment would become a ‘ | part of the signal corps service. He | has found a way to geta slice of the | intimated that if arrangements could —— “at toad fund. The follow- be made for procuring a suitable air sine —— is from Pleasant Hill: | craft and the enlistment of enough | - A etter to A. R. Wherritt of | men, that the rest would be easy sail- this city to-day Attorney General Ma- ing. jor announces that the claim of the| It is the understanding here that all | Comittee having in charge the af-| these arrangements will quickly be | firs of the Pleasant Hill north tok | made, and the aero detachmentorgan- |'84 district for $8,500 from the ized within the next few days, State as an aid in the construction of Headquarters will be established in |# Tad from Pleasant Hill to the Jack- St. Louis. | son county line, had been allowed Massachusetts is moving in the di.) and would be paid at once. rection of an aero detachment for its) The 4-mile north rock road out of We have made special preparation for them. See last weeks “Times” showing the nu- merous lines and qualities we sell. Walker-McKibben’s Prosecuting Attorney Dawson and Sheriff Bullock were called to Amoret on Wednesday on a case that promis- ed some salacious evidence. We are |not in possessien of the facts as we go to press to give a notice. Prof. Stephen E, Smith was in But- ler Saturday, on his way home in Mingo, from Warrensburg, where he put in his vacation at the Summer Normal. county delegation made a decided hit. This county, next to Johnson, had the largest number of teachers in attendance. He has accepted the principalship of the Merwin schools for next year. Clark Wix received word on Wed- nesday, that Wilbur Pharis, the 12- year old son of Mr. and Mrs. George Pharis, was struck by a street car in ; . - this city was built last year at a cost national guard, but Missouri is the y " : : iy | Of about $20,000. When it was seen first state in the U to organize | ° ) een ae yen a emer that no money from the state aid fund would be available at that time -busi- one. EDITOR HANGED IN EFFIGY Doctor Oakford of Deerfield, Ks., Angered his Readers by Rad- | ness men of this place advanced $8,500, which was the amount due the Pleasant Hill road. Since that time there has been vigorous action in order to secure recognition and ical Writings. Lakin, Kan., Aug. 17.—Dr. C. D. Oakford,. editor of the Deerfield reimbursement from the state. The item of $8,500 was passed in the re- cent general appropriations bill, but News, was hanged in effigy by the residents of that city Sunday night. | Dr. Oakford in an article which | caused this act, appealed to the peo-| ple of the United States to enter their | protest against President Taft's shak- ing hands with ‘‘the Bloody Butcher Diaz of Mexico,’’ and said that if Taft | Governor Hadley vetoed it because of a shortage in the state funds. Since that time the treasury has gain- eda surplus and the claim will be paid this week.” WON’T NAME ASSAILANT ; rag persisted the people ought to “‘im-) Pittsburg, Kas., Girl, Shot in peach the knave.’’ He also said the | ‘ x Back, is Dying. Government stole the lands from the | Indians and he raked the Christians,| Pittsburg, Kas., Aug. _18.—Declar-| whom he termed hypocrites. Like- | ing that she knows the identity of at wise he paid his respects to Ralph | least one of her assailants but refus- Faxon and Senator Long in about a) ing to give his name, Miss Lena Bar- a three-column article. |ney, who, while walking with her The little city was badly excited | fiance, Peter Weisberger, near here anda large number stopped their last night, was assaulted by three subscriptions and took their adver-!men, who forced Weisberger to run, tisements out of Doctor Oakfords pa- | lingers between life and death ata Seattle the other day, his collar bone being broken and he was otherwise bruised and injured. He is now ina hospital in that city. It will be re- membered that Mr. and Mrs. Pharis and son left here several months ago in a wagon to drive through to Seattle. Prof. Smith said the Bates | Mayor Joe Groves, of Sprague, stated toa Review reporter that he | season, and the birds were so tame jhe could smite ’em withaclub. He | says he will prosecute the first man| | who shoots at those birds, as he ex- . | pects togo into the quail industry | later on and wants to save these. Joe jis not a first class shot, and last sea- | Son his friends got him inveigled in- |toan occasional hunt on his place, |and after giving Joe the first chance, | shot all the birds from under his gun, | | The Higginsville Jeffersonian credits Nic Hug, the local busman, with having written the following af- | ter riding Carrie Nation up from the |depot: ‘I’ve carried lots of passen- gers and not miscarried none, but I jhate to carry Carrie when Carrie carries on." All Carrie did, it seems, was to graba cigar out of a passen- ger’s mouth and call him a dirty | should know better than to smoke in | Mrs. Nation’s presence. About Our Court House, T. M. Cole, southeast of town, | drew up in front of the J.-D. office | Monday morning with a load of wood | and motioned for our snake editor to come out. On top of the load Mr. Cole had a timber rattler which meas- ured three and one-half feet long and big around as a buggy tongue. That was some snake. Cole states that in less than two years he has killed about 50 such snakes on his farm.— Journal-Democrat. J. B. Rice was a pleasant caller while in the city Tuesday. He has recently visited Oklahoma, and went! to Springfield, Ills., over the C. & A. | and through all the country he travel- | ed he said they are needing rain. In, Logan county, Illinois, he said they won’t make more than a half crop. | Down about Vinita the crops are | burnt up. Mr. Rice said he never saw any corn better than in Bates, and no place he had rather live. per. | The docfor for the first time since | his advent at Deerfield was unable to talk Socialism Monday morning, | when he saw his form hung in the} streets. ‘The Decks Cleared for Action. The tariff is behind us. In many respects it is imperfect, but the agita- tion is out of the way and the Amer- ican people will now adjust them- selves to conditions as they exist. i That we are entering upon a per- jod of vast business expansion seems to be beyond question. Consider for a moment the fundamental -condi- ~ tions in the fundamental business— that of agriculture. Unless present hospital here. She was shot in the back while fleeing from her assailants, and hos- pital physicians say that should she survive she will be paralyzed for life. Meanwhile the sheriff and his dep- uties are using every effort to discov- erthe identitity of the assailants. They are belived to be foreigners working in coal mines near Pittsburg. Miss Barneys home is at Chicopee, Kas., a mining town. — Brother Her First Patient. Doctor Stella Fairchild, af Defiance, Mo., who was graduated recenlly L. M. Deffenbaugh is having erect- eda patent silo, 14x30 feet, with a capacity of 100 tons, on his place ad- joining Butler on the south east. It is made in the shape of an immense barrel, held together with hoops, with a continuous door from top to bottom. The corn is putin witha silo filler, a machine like an old cut- ting box, that cuts the stalks and ears up, the whole is then tramped down to a solid mass. It makes great cow- feed. The city school board on last Mon- day evening finally adopted the Went- At a recent meeting of neighbor farmers in a certain township the question of ordering the election and {building the new court house for | Bates county came up and so many ‘and varied were the recollections \that finally the whole matter was | agreed to be submitted to The Times | (as mooted questions should always | be) and an emissary was sent to elicit | the information. Here it is in a nut shell: The county court, composed of Sam West, Presiding Judge; Associ- ate Judges L. D. Wimsatt-and J. J.| March, on January I7th 1901, order- ed an election for February 23, 1901, to vote an indebtedness of $40,000 for the purpose of building a new court house for Bates county, same to be paid for by a 15 cent levy on the $100 valuation, torun for three years. | The election resulted; for 3005, against |1471. The contract for building was |} let to Bartlett & Kling, Galesburg, Ills., for $47,800, that being the low- est and best bid. George E. McDon- ald the architect for the building, was appointed Superintendent of construc- tion, Afterwards a difference arose between him and the court and Mr. LaCaff, of Nevada was appointed. The building was completed about June 1, 1902. New Missouri Interurban, Jefferson City, Mo., Aug. 17.—A certificate of incorporrtion was issu- ed by Secretary of State Roach to the from a St. Louis medical college, | worth-Smith Arithmetic. While this|Kansas City, Harlem & St. Joseph treated her first patient, when‘ her| is a very good book, much better than | Railroad Company. brother, “Bruce Fluesmeier, was the one now in use, among educators The capital stock of the company is crop conditions materially change it! brought home with broken leg, says} it is not considered the best text book $530,000, 5 per cent of which has been is quite probable that the total value of agricultural products for 1909 will the Republic. Fluesmeier, who is a rural route aggregate $8,300,000,000 or in the carrier, was driving with Roy Fulk-|in their determination to have this | Purpose of i of $500,000,000 more} erson when his horse became fright-| book or for the common schools. However, three of the members seemed “‘sot”’ paid up. The company is organized for the was raising a few flocks of quails this | puppy. Of course, any gentleman |: } Fall Rugs, Lace Curtains, Linoleums, Window Shades, Portiers, Couch Covers, Curtain Nets, Curtain Swisses, ARE HERE. Choicest stock in Bates county and prices guaranteed the lowest for first class goods. Walker-McKibben’s CREO Remsen one, Stone Urges Harmony. Surprise Party. Excelsior Springs, Mo., Aug. 16— About 71 of his old friends and | Senator Stone, who is resting at Ex- neighbors gave J. H. Allison, Jr., a celsior Springs, when asked to-day | joc pleasant surprise on Saturday | what he thought of the movement for < a State-wide meeting of Democrats | evening, Aug. 14. He is at home for said: a short visit from’ Ames, Ia., where “T cannot imagine a sensible ground | he holds a government pssition in the | of opposition to such a meeting, but : Horticultural College at that place. Ican see numerous reasons why it The following are the names of those might result in good to the party. present: F. J. Berryhill and wife, “Tam always in favor of Demo- Lewis McKibben and wife, P. A. crats getting together, and I have no Wright and wife, Wm. Eggleson and patience with that pessimistic and dis- | wife, Wm. Hardinger and wife, Her- turbing spirit which scents danger to} man Hill and wife, Lon Edwares and the party whenever Democrats. meet wife, Elmer Rowdin and wife, West- and counsel together. ley Howe and wife, Bird Barr and “When loyal party men meet to-' wife, Mrs. Anna Lyle Hill, Mrs. James |gether, each desirous, according to| Allen, Mrs. Clarence Porter, Mrs. his own view and his own plan of | Otis Berryhill,- Mrs. Jillette, Mr. promoting the party welfare, they| Hogue, Henry Eiler, Misses Cloe and usually find that the other fellow is a | Iva Berryhill, Florence snd Emmie better fellow than they thought, and | Howe, Alice and Ethel Sutton, Grace that the supposed differences between , Wilson, Nellie Simpson, Clara Chand- them are more imaginary thanreal. | Jea, Inez Sells, Belle and Edna Burk, “Tf the meeting is held I would be | Helen Sillette, Annie Duncan, Lutie glad to attend, if my fall engage- | Leanord, Carrie Wright, Alma Eiler, ments will permit me to do so.” |Zyx Harper, Lucile, Augusta, Mar- aot ee | garette and Aleen Shimpestle; Messrs. . | Albert Dunwell, Gore Sees Democrat Victory. |Orland, Bert and Frank Eggleson, Springfield, Ill., Aug. 17.—That the | Loyd, Roy and Perry Burk, Lee, people of the United States are get-| Elmer and Arthur Hardinger, Melvin, ting back to sanity and will electeith-|Carl and Otis Berryhill, Walter era Democrat ora progressive Re-| Wright, Ben and Harry Eiler, Clinton publican as the next President of this | Jillette, Gentry Howe, Howard Leon- country, is the opinion of Senator ard rnd Oscar Craven. They came Thomas Gore, of Oklahoma, who/ with well filled baskets and freezers, made a short stay’ in Springfield to-|and Mr. and Mrs. Allison wish John day. | would ‘come home after’ A Guest. Senna inee John McKissick, \ oNemmamemnndins oan | WE WILL HOLD A Special Sale on Couches during the remainder of this month. We haye a fine line of Couches which will be sold at 20 Per Cent Discount. ~ Se If you need a Couch you can save from $2,00 to $5.00 on the price.