The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, November 25, 1909, Page 3

ee ae RES cn em en che A RIE Re eT = mee <a NEW SWINDLES . - », IN THE STATE. The Oiled Tongued Grafter Keeps Ahead of the Procession. A number of Missouri towns have been worked by a grafter who falls ona “tlefective” sidewalk and pre- tends to be much injured. He threat- ens a damage suit and some towns : pay him a small sum to avoid litiga- ‘ tion. At Belton a guest at a hotel . caught onto the game and notified the authorities. The injured man was able to walk rapidly out of town in thirty minutes. Many Monroe county schooi dis- tricts are long on maps and short on cash as a result of alleged misrepre- sentations on the part of an agent for a well-known publishing house, This smooth ‘individual, it is charged, would call ona school director and inform him of an elaborate series of maps his house contemplated making, the setto include a. map showing every school district and farm in Monroe county. But these maps would not be published, the agent is alleged to have stated unless 70 per cent of the school directors voted for the company to go ahead. Scores of the directors voted at his solicitation and thought'no more about it until a set of maps and a bill for $42.50 turn- ed up a few weeks later. It then de- veloped that the alleged voting slip was an iron clad and promissory note. Practically the same scheme was worked in Bates couniy the past summer. If.a smoothe spoken stranger strikes you to join a “22 Club,’’ don’t bite. He dropped into Odessa the other day and soon knew all the young men in town by their first names. To them he unfolded his plan for providing for the proverbial “rainy day.” The plan was to or- ganize a ‘22 club’ consisting of twenty-two members, each one. pay- ing him.an entrance fee of $1.00, there being no dues and in case of sickness, the members were to be as- sessed fifty cents per week each, the same to be paidas sick benefits. Twenty-two young men ‘‘fell’”’ for this proposition in the course ofa day, and the smooth spoken gentle- man departed on the evening train twenty-two dollars better off than when he arrived. The boys are now congratulating themselves that the gent didn’t tax them ten dollars apiece. ‘ May Refuse to Serve Negro. Des Moines, Ia., Nov.—The Iowa Supreme Court gave an important decision Wednesday, holding that a private business concern under the Iowa statute may refuse to serve a negro if he wishes. The case came up from Des Moines where Mrs. Susie Brown, a negress, sued the J. H. Bell Coffee Company for $1,000 damages, because she was refused a cup of coffee at a pure food show in'Des Moines a year ago. In the lower court the woman won, but the supreme court reversed the de- cision. LOEB OUSTS SEVENTY- NINE CUSTOMS MEN. “ Sugar Investigation Leads to Wholesale Dismissals of Federal Fmployes. New York, Nov.—Collector of the ° Port. William Loeb Jr. announced the removal from the customs service of seventy-nine employes and attaches of the customs service here. Among those dismissed are James F. Vail, surveyor of the weighing divisions. Secretary MacVeagh, in Washing- in i. | DID NOT BESTRIDE SACRED ELEPHANT. His is a Poor Defense. Hon. Case Broderick, who for eight years represented this congressional district in the lower house of con- gress, has come to the defense of the | Longworth Denies Escapade At- tributed to Wife. Cincinnati, O., Nov. 22.—The state- ment coming from Berlin, and hav- ing as its sponser Fraulin Ann Kroe- bel to the effect that Mrs. Nicholas Longworth when she visited Korea with the party of Americans a few years ago, had made all manner of fun at the local religious customs, was denied here Wednesday evening by her husband, Congressman Long- worth, Congressman Longworth said: “The woman who wrote that Mrs. Longworth rode about the capital of Korea in ‘breeches,’ then jumped astride the sacred elephant of those people, and put a cigar in her mouth after which she asked me to take her picture—the woman who wrote that stuff was either drunk or crazy and I should not be surprised to learn that she was both. Always a Real Lady. “Neither Mrs. Longworth nor my- self can remember any such occur- rence. I know that she was most respectful to the Korean people and carried herself as she always has, as alady in whom refinement is more than a casual thought. “The statement that she refused to thank the emperor of Korea for his Summed up and boiled down his defense amounts to this: The cost of living has not been materially increas- ed and the farmers are prosperous. What, we might ask, was the ob- ject of calling congress together in extra session? If all the result ob- tained is that the cost of living has not been materially increased then the session was certainly a failure, What the people, the consumers, ex- pected was that the cost of living would be somewhat decreased. If all congress accomplished was to slightly increase the cost of living then it was a failure, However, to our mind the impor- tant thing to consider about this law is not whether the cost of living was increased but whether the law is fair. Does it give every man a fair deal? Is there any reason why the shingles that the citizen puts on his roof should be taxed 66 per cent? Is it fair to put hides on the free list and retain a tax on the dressed leather made from the untaxed hide? Is there any good and sufficient reason why cotton goods should be taxed more than they were under the old law? Is there any reason for an increase of tariff on structural iron, K. ©, Stock Local Freight Trains South (No. 200, breemia) 207 a 205. Local Freight 2 Interstate 4 Sees “+ train in morning. MISSOURI PACIFIC IRON UNTAIN Missouri Pacific Time Table BUTLER STATION. Following is corrected time of trains: Trains North i. an ( West, departs vee departs . arrives Freight trains do not carry passengers, All freight for forwarding must be at depot notlater than eleven o’clock a. m. or be held for following days forwarding. Interstate Division must be delivered before five o'clock p. m, No freight billed for thie BE, 0, Vanprrvoort, Agent. The Missouri Pacific have through package car service which delivers merchandise from New York in But- ler on the fifth morning out, fourth morning eanvery and Cleveland, thi Freight for from Cincinnati rd morning from Indianapolis and Chicago, second morning from St. Louis. Will be glad to furnish you routing orders which will insure quick time. Did it Ever Occur to You That you can buy all kinds of building material as cheap in Butler as in chicago or elsewhere after paying freight? That outside merchants are in business to make money as well as the home merchants? That the desire to gain is as great in Chicago as in Bator? That — merchants have no interest in you aside from your money’ That they contribute nothing, not even taxes, towards building up your community? That home lumbermen are not a band of robbers, but your neigh- py ee friends—human beings like yourself—striving to e a living’ Here is Food for Reflection IS IT WORTH ANYTHING TO YOU? To see building material before you buy it. To pay for it only after examining it. To exchange it if you alter your plans. To return anything you may have left over. To spend your money in your own community. If you want good stock: we have it and our prices are right. If you want cheap stock we can get it for you, Come and talk with us. And never buy building material until you have figured with us. Logan-Moore Lumber Co. BUTLER, MISSOURI. Phone No.8 (4-28 —————————— THE WALTON TRUST COMPANY Of Butler, Mo. kindness is false. Both Mrs. Long-| ~ worth and myself have busied our heads to-day in trying to remember what was the ‘sacred elephant,’ but we have failed to find it. If it exists, it must be something very dear to the Korean heart, and as such, neither myself or my wife would do anything to mar its beauty or its sacredness in the minds of the Koreans. Case of Mistaken Identity. that is used by the people generally? Is there any good reason why the people of this blessed country should | be called on to make a donation of 9 million dollars a year to the sugar trust which is made up of a self-con- | fessed band of thieves? Is there any | reason why New England manufac- | turers should be allowed to write a} tariff bill for the rest of the country? | Is there any good reason why tariff | duties should be greater than the dif-| ference of cost of production between this and other countries? The fact that the people are pros- pering under the operation of this law is no argument at all in favor of the law.. The question to be answer- ed is, does it give the consumer a fair “You must remember that we were very busy on that trip and that we) stayed only a short time in any one place. But I have been unable to fix Fraulein Ann Kroebel in my mind and Mrs. Longworth says she has never heard of her, “Ask any member of the party if deal? No'man as yet has had the anything like that happened. There Office Phone 213 Office over A. H. BUTLER Office Phone 20 OR. J. M. NORRIS, Eye, Ear and Throat Specialist Eyes Tested Free and Glasses Prop- Rd Fitted. Office on south side | 49-t over Times Office DR, E. N. CHASTAIN Butler, Mo Office over American Clothing House Residence High Street Res. Phone 195 Capital, Surplus Fund and Undivided Profits $136,000.00 Total Assets $348,000.00 Always has money to loan on farms in Bates, Vernon, Bar- ton, Cedar, Dade and Polk counties in Missouri and in Oklahoma at low interest rates on 5 or 7 years time. Own complete Title Abstract Books to all land and Farm lots in Bates county. Will furnish Abstracts of Title to any lands or Town lots in Bates county. Fees reasonable. away DR. J. M. CHRISTY Diseases ot Women and Children a Specialty . Culver Furn, CO. - _ MISSOURI House Phone 10 Issues Time Deposit Certificates, payable in six or twelve months, bearing 5% interest, for any idle money you may have. Frank Allen, Sec., C. A. Allen, Ass’t Sec. Wm. E. Walton, Pres., Frank M. Voris, Vice-Pres., vide for a repair ship equipped with a complete machine shop for all emer- gency work, or failing to get the re- pair ship, the equivalent in cost of Fitzgerald, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, at Nashville, Tenn., has telegraphed here the following hardihood to answer that question in i the affirmative.—T. A. MeNeal to the | W489 lot of us. and we stuck pretty DR, J. T. HULL ¢ Farmers Mail and Breeze close to one another. Fraulein Kroe- Dentist ‘ poss lire Acree ay bel might have confused us with an- Ent ‘hati lead L ) 4 Meyer Wants Big Repair Ship to’ other party, and if she did I think it | “™™°° oo 8 re Add to Fleets. very unwise of her to say that any of [North side square Butler, Missouri i Washington, Nov.—In raising a|"* acted in that manner." - IT’S WORTH ¥ repli aig A ~ next year one “Courts an Aid to Sin.” DR. H. M. CANNON is , ty Meyer will ask congress t0 PIO") New York, Nov.—Bishop 0. P. DENTIST is Butler, Missouri East Side of the Square Phone No. 312 WHILE es opinion concerning recent divorce agitation: It is a generally accepted truism that the sacredness of the marriage relation measures the civilization of such a craft in torpedo boat destroy- ers, This includes in addition two 26,000-ton Dreadnaughts, which it has-long since been understood the secretary would recommend. The repair boat desired would have a speed equal to the fastest battleship afloat, so that in all cases it could keep with the fleet. This program, it is understood, will practically com- plete the secretary’s recommendation so far as large additions to the naval establishment is concerned. It was desired to make additional recom- mendations, but the president’s ac- tion in cutting down the navy esti- mates in accordance with his plan for economy eliminated all other new work, Money Won’t Buy Great Song. The offer of $1,000 for a song that will make Missouri famous. will not be productive of great results, for really worthy songs are not written in that manner. It was not the thought of money that caused Esther Clark to write the ‘Call of Kansas,’ any country. This is true of all peo- ple everywhere without regard to race, color or previous condition. Judged by this standard, the outlook for our country is not encouraging. The divorce evil is increasing. In the higher walks. of life where there is most money and ought to be most intelligence and superior virtue, the sin and shame of divorce have in- creased alarmigly. The secrecy of the proceedings is a feature that tells its own story. The hidden works of darkness are thus confessed. The remedy is with pub- lic opinion that will express itself in wider laws and a better practice among our clergy and civil officers. Gompers Won’t Lose Pay. Toronto, Ontario, Nov.—The Amer- ican Federation of Labor, in addition to indorsing the attitude taken by President Gompers in the Buck’s for the poem was sent for publication . i" 2Ae veda sshd emg atl 6 -4Rte a pderadergge ror yn get dmaanye > : proceedings, voted to continue the pectation of payment, The song WaS| salaries of Gompers and Secretary written because she felt it and had to| Frank Morrison and to compensate write it, and if she had been offered| Vice President John Mitchell, who ig many thousand dollars to write an-| not salaried officer, during their other poem that would touch the/tormsof imprisonment, in case it is hearts of the people in a like man-| eventually decided they must go to ner, it is probable that she could not] ij for contempt of court. They will have earned the’ money. vere pe be paid at the rate of $5,000 a year. his heart to) "tn a resolution adopted thanking : Toronto for her hospitality was a paragraph declaring that ‘the free- dom of speech, which we have exer-|. been written for money and the wrt-| -seq he res ‘ Mo. T. C. BOULWARE Physician & Surgedn Office North Side Square, Butler, Diseases of women and chil- dren a specialty. To take into consideration the character, in- tegrity and responsibility of the men who stand behind a bank before making your se- lection of one to do business with. The directorate of this bank is made up of men who are individually successful and col- lectively able to safeguard your interests. You Can Keep the Dust out of Your Eyes While shucking corn harrowing or doing other work in the dust - by getting a pair of our Eve Shields They are neat, light and cool. A pair will last a life time. PRICE.....25¢ CLAWY’S NORTH SIDE SQUARE. DIRECTORS. Wm. Seelinger, J. W, Eggieson, B, P. 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