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ihe Coe ASS WISE is i re ie See oe SEY Ree FEE eS A BIG STOCK OF | TO TALK FOR DICKINSON. | Itineraries of Leading Democrats in Sixth Arranged. Clinton, Mo., Jan.—Chairman Pey- |ton A. Parks of the Democratic Con- jgressional Committee of the Sixth | District, who is looking after the cam- |paign of former Senator C. C. Dick- inson, the Demacratic nominee for | Congress, has completed the itinera- | ries of leading Democrats in Dickin- | son's behalf. | The special election to choose a | successor to the late David A. DeAr- }mond will be held February 1,°and Mr. Parks is impressing upon all Fence, Nails, Barb Wire, Tools = and everything you need to do your spring fencing and repairing. PRICES THE LOWEST Old Trusty Incubators li you are going to buy an incubator, don’t fail to see the Old Trusty. It is recognized as the best on the market. Ask your neighbors about it. Our prices are the same as at the factory. COME AND SEE THEM Adrian Journal Notes. t the raffl tl ad seen prominent church W cer buying chances, L. R. Ray, of Shawnee township, ind Miss Lora Gilham were united in marriage at the home of the bride’s parents, in this city, Monday night, January 10, 1910, Rey, Chatten offici- ating. The contracting parties are numbered among the most popular young people of this community. The Farmers Lumber Company is making extensive improvements in the buildings at the yard. The sheds are being raised and a roof put over the east driveway. The change is so great that the place hardly looks nat- ural. Witmore and Six take pride in maintaining the reputation of Mis- souri by “Showing”’ their visitors. Incendiary at a County Home. Sedalia, Mo., Jan.—It was learned that an attempt was made last Thurs- day night to burn the Pettis County Home, a 3-story building two miles north of Sedalia. The home is occu- pied by seventy-five persons includ- Ing the superintendent and attend- ants. Late last Thursday night Mrs. H. C. Hatton, the superintendent, was awakened by blaze in the rear of the building. Several attendants were summoned and fought the flames an hour before they extinguished them. The police were notified and Thurs- day night three armed officers are Gench Bros. Can't Be a Repub- lican Much Longer. ent Mo., Jan.--To The I { your paper on the on public questions nthe people in general. It thought and sentiment ind—the kind that bene- ic. It does not wait to see what the popular sentiment is and | then get in and ride. I have not been reading your paper long and am pleasantly surprised to find a good | paper that is not politically hide- | bound. IT have been a Republican all | of my voting years, but don’t think I | can stand it much longer. If I can’t! be an insurgent Republican, I guess I must be a Democrat hereafter. We have plenty of people at Washington to look after “money and the inter- ests’’ already. We need a few more there to look after the people’s inter- ests. Sometimes people or papers like to know how their ideas are re- ceived, This is intended to indorse the policy of your paper.—G. E. Thweatt. Robbers Made a “Big Haul.” Scranton, Pa., Jan. 23.—There was | consternation at the Scranton Poultry | Show when it was discovered that an egg laid by the $12,000 prize win- | ning Orpington hen, Lady Washing- ton, had been stolen from the coop in which she is kept. It had been laid only a short time before. F. O. Megargee, owner of the hen, has offered a large reward for the re- turn of the egg, and the police are searching for the thief. A special policeman guards the hen. It is believed several persons were concerned in the plot to steal the egg and that they crowded around the fits the pr | through coop so the man who took it could awaiting a return of the incendiary. not be seen by the watchman. 2 Neate con ec From Arctic to Tropics uum in Ten Minutes No oil heater has a higher efficiency or greater heating power than the Democrats in the district the necessity of getting out a full party vote in or- der to convince not only the State but the country at large that the district is as strongly Democratic as ever. “The stay-at-home vote is the only obstacle in the way of Senator Dickin- son’s election by a large majority,’ said Mr. Parks. ‘The Republicans, figuring on our overconfidence, are organizing in all sections of the dis- trict in the hope of catching us nap- ping. “Every Democratic voter should go to the polls February 1. No man should remain at home believing that his vote is not needed. Negligence of this kind has cost able Democrats their seats in Congress in previous elections in Missouri. “We do not intend that this shal! happen, however, in the district Mr. DeArmond represented so well fo nineteen years Former Governors Francis, Folk ; and Dockery, former Congressmen . Cowherd and Joseph J. Rus- sell, James A, Reed and James Sud- dath, who was the strongest oppo- nent of Senator Dickinson for the nomination, have all agreed to make speeches in the district. Why Not Higher Up? Four employes of the sugar trust have been sent to jail. The sentence of each of these men was for one year. The sugar scandals showed that frauds on a large scale had been carried on to the great financial ad- vantage of the sugar trust. Surely the employes who helped to carry out these frauds did not devise the W. the already rich men who grew richer these bad practices had sometehing to do with the frauds; yet they are to escape while four em- ployes go to prison. | It was so in the insurance frauds. The investigation of those frauds | brought fame to Lawyer Hughes and | made him governor of New York. Although enormous frauds were un- covered the rich and influential in- surance magnates went scot free | while an obscure clerk received a, prison sentence. Will the American people ever | have such an administration of pub-; ile affairs that they will not be treat- | ed to a lot of buncombe as an excuse | for the non-enforcement of criminal | law? Does it not seem reasonable to be- lieve that they will never have such an enforcement of the law so long as they surrender the reins of govern- ment to a political party that is finan- ced by the monopolists?—Commoner. Thrown From Buggy. Mrs. D. D. Peeler, of Round Prairie, spent Sunday night at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. H. Davidson in the city in order to be able to take the Katy Flyer Monday morning for the bedside of her sister, Mrs. Sam Peel- er, near Passaic in Bates county, who is suffering from a broken shoulder bone, and it was feared that she was ina serious condition. Mrs. Peeler PERFECTION Oil Heater (Equipped with Smokeless Device)’ With it you can go from the cold of the Arctic to the warmth of the Tropics in 10 minutes. The new Automatic Smokeless Device prevents smoking. There is no possible question about it. ~ This means greater heat-power, a more rapid diffusion of heat and a sure conversion of al) the heat-energy in the oil. In a cold room, light the heater and in 10 minutes you'll have a glowing heat that carries full content. Turn the wick up as high as it will go—no smoke—no odor, In everything that appeals to the provident and the fastidious, the Perfection Oil Heater, with its new automatic smokeless device, de cisively leads. Finished in Nickel or Japan in various styles. E Dealer Everywh If Not At Yours, Write for Descriptive Circular seid ot the Nearest Agency of the s STANDARD OIL CCMPANY (Incorperated) A sustained her injuries from being thrown from a buggy by a frightened horse. Her husband, if we mistake not, was in Appleton City at the time of the accident and Mrs. Peeler being at home alone hitched a horse toa buggy, got in the vehicle and started todrive to a neighbor’s, when the animal hecame frightened and un- manageable, during which the lady was thrown from the buggy and re- mained on the ground unconscious, or ina condition that she could not get to the house to summon assist- ance for some hours. Mr. and Mrs. Peeler are well-known in this locality and many friends here will join in the hope that her recovery may soon fol- low.—Appleton City Journal. Notice. Notice is hereby given that a special meeting plans for robbery from pure anxiety | gefe to see their employers flourish. Surely | \charge and report results. SIGNALS OF DISTRESS Butler People Should Know How to Read and Heed Them. Sick kidneys give many signals of distress. ; The secretions are dark, contain a sediment. : Passages are frequent, scanty, pain- ful. Backache is constant day and night. Headaches:and dizzy spells are fre- quent. The weakened kidneys need quick help. Don't delay! remedy. Doan's Kidney Pills cure sick kid- neys, backache and urinary disorders. Butler evidence proves this state- ment. Mrs. B. F. Johnson, St. Butler, Mo., sa § Pills, procured at nk Clay’s Drug Store, have been used in our family with good results. Ido not hesitate Use a special kidney to recommend this remedy to anyone | sulfering from trouble caused by dis- | ordered kidneys. For si ll dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name—Doan's—and take no other, Mule Team a “Deadly Weapon.” | Y | Wichita police were notified. The BATES CO. GIRL’S CAREER. | Former Bates Co. Girl Has Had Varied Career--Now Under Arrest. The Topeka State Capital in a re- cent issue has this to say about a for- | | mer Bates county girl: | “Miss Eula Wilson, 18 years old, |the Wichita girl, who, two years ago, was supposed to have died and myste- |riously returned to life, is under ar- jrest at Augusta, Kan., where she eloped Thursday night with her | sweetheart, Joseph Moyle. It is said | the two appeared in Augusta Thurs- jday night, where they represented |themselves to be married. Their ac- aroused suspicion and the girl’s father instructed the marshal at | Augusta to arrest and hold the pair. “Eula Wilson has had as varied a career as did ever any Kansas girl. | On June 8, 1907, during a fit of seri- jous illness she lapsed into uncon- sciousness and was pronounced dead. |Next day while funeral preparations | were being made she suddenly arous- ed and from that day to this has not suffered one day. Her case was the San Diego, Cal., Jan, 24.—A judge | subject of comment the world oyer. held that a team of Missouri mules | Upon regaining consciousness she nay be considered a deadly weapon | he reason that ‘‘the vicious high | kicking animals led toward a suppos- | ed enemy, may do bodily harm with | The decision was | rendered in the preliminary hearing of Cleve Walsh, arrested on a charge | issault with intent to commit mur- der by shooting E. W. Zilba. Wi said he had a quarrel with Zilba, who isa teamster. Among the various weapons used to settle the score as stated to-day were whips, shovels, pitchforks, shotguns, revolvers and last but not least a team of mules. After the fight Zilba, driving a team of mules, met Walsh, who swore Zilba drove the animals straight into him. As the long eared Missouri products were about to raise their hind legs to kick him Walsh sidestep- ped and drew a revolver and_ shot at Zilba. The judge said no jury in Cali- fornia would convict a man who was nding himself against the attack | of vicious mules and ordered the de- | fendant discharged. hind heels.”’ self defense and sh pleaded If you use PUTNAM FADE- LESS DYES and are not satis- fied, we will refund your money or give you free enough dye to make your dyeing eet Monroe Drue Co., Quincy, Ill, Testing Seed Corn For Germi-| nation. The Agricultural Experiment Sta- told of how she died, described her reception in heaven and her ascent to the pearly gates. She described the interior of that unkown abode and said she talked with God and many friends and relatives who had preced- ed her to life that she might preach. She preached in all the Wichita churches and even went outside the city. She came under the influence of a woman preacher, Another time an effort was made to kidnap her by persons who would exhibit the won- der who had been to heaven. She was finally sent to the Girls’ Indus- {trial Home at Beloit to protect her, | She returned home a year ago and has led a quiet life. The girl’s fath- er, Bailey Wilson, left for Augusta to-night and the runaway pair will be returned here to-morrow.” The Wilson family up to five or six years ago resided on the Frank Akins farm, better known as the Breachear ranche, and will be remembered by | many of our people, especially in the’ country northwest of town, and the above will be of more or less interest | to our readers generally.—Review. ) Real Estate Transfers. Warranty Deeds. G G Davidson to Pearce Hackett lots 15, 16, 17 and 18 blk 19 Amoret $125. | Wm H Noah to A J Noah 60a sec | Black & Arnold Clothing Co. DC Jagers toH C T McCall 160 a sec 7 Elkhart $5200. EL Reinig to H C T McCall 200a sec 22 and 23 West Point twp $3400. W A Downy to J W Payton lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 26, 27 & 28 blk 25 Amo- ret $1400, Frededick Vogler to Carl Vogler 40 a sec 16 Deer Creek $1. JW Payton to WA Downy 98a sec 27 Homer twp $500, William Foster to James E Cameron 36 a sec 26 Deepwater $1400. Robert L Scifers to William S Na- fus 40a see 21 Pleasant Gap $1200, William Mawson to Bird Hutchins 20 a sec 9 Deer Creek $900. JE Cameron to W F Gragg 36a sec 26 Deepwater $1000. Robert L Scifers to Walter Nafus 40 a sec 9 Deer Creek $900, Christian Henri to Robert L Scifers 80 a sec 21 Pleasant Gap $2000. Christian Herni to Calvin Beshore 80 a sec 21 Pleasant Gap $2000. SEED CORN.—Boone Co. white grown from pure bred seed; choice seed that will grow. Address, A. S. Millhorn, Butler, Mo. 12-tf Flowers On Lee’s Statue. Washington, Jan.—In an unprece- dented manner was the memory of | General Robert E. Lee honored at the capitol Wednesday, despite the oppo- sition which developed in the senate against any action of the United States government looking toward honoring the distinguished confeder- ate general. Congressmen passing through stat- 15 Homer twp $2200. juary hall saw the extraordinary ad- Overton Morris to Richard Medley dition to the Lee statue of a huge 167 a sec 5 Lone Oak twp $5,010. | bouquet of flowers. Statesmen com- O D Reavis to E Hall pt sec 23 City mented upon it, but those who had tion of the University of Missouri is cooperating with the United States Department of Agriculture, Washing- ton, D. C. in conducting a Seed Test- ing Laboratory for the benefit of Mis- souri farmers. Attention is called at this time to the great importance of testing seed corn for germination. The wet fall and the hard winter has rendered a great deal of seed corn unfit for planting. The Experiment Station will gladly test samples of seed sent in free of In send- ing these samples take ten kernels from each of fifty ears, wrap ina small package and mail to the Seed Testing Laboratory, Columbia, Mis- souri. The package should bear the name and address of the sender in order that a report may be returned. M. F. Miller. BIG STOCK SALE. Cattle, Horses, Hogs and Feed to be Sold Feb. 11 at Morgan Fickes Farm. Snodgrass & Hazen, who have been farming and stock raising on a large seale for several years, have sold the farm and will have a big closing out sale at what is known as the Morgan Fickes place, two miles east of Trad- ing Post and three miles west of Amoret, Mo., on Friday, Feb. 11th, beginning at 10a. m. They will sell six head of splendid horses, 28 head of thoroughbred Galloway cattle, sev- eral good milk cows, some good hogs, 1,200 bushels of corn, 15 tons of timothy hay, a lot splendid farm implements (most yet new) and some fine chickens. It will be one of the largest sales of this section in many of the stockholders of the Charlotte Telephone | Years and the sto¢k is all first-class, Company, which will be held at McFadden’s Hall in the village of Virginis, Charlotte well bred and well kept and desir- ‘Towneh'p, ome County, Missouri, at ten o’clock in Jorenoon on Friday, the Ist foecsane the’ apleal stock of anid Com ear es increace the ca, 8 the sum of Four Thousand Dollars 000.) PETER DENNING, jent. T. GILBERT, Secretary, 4d able. Don’t forget the time and place. Two auctioneers. Lunch served on the grounds. of Butler $750. |expected to hear criticisms on the Reece Geer to Lee M Sims 80 a sec | Part of senators who opposed in the 19 Mt Pleasant twp $6600. | upper house the reception of the Jno F McKissick toS W Barr 70 a | Statue were disappointed. sec 2 New Home $3,225. | Attaches of the capitol declared the L J Scott to Howard Scott 80 a sec | Placing of the flowers ona statue in 17 Homer twp $1. | the hall of fame in honor of the birth- day of the man thus commemorated | marked a precedent. 44 except east 74 ft, also blk 12 Mout, | gomery’s dd Butler $2500. | Isabella Ruber & husband to H W, S W Barr to John F McKissiek blk Ihave a number of inquiries for Tucker lot 1, blk 1 also lots 79, 80, oa Syeves wk a 81 & 82 in the town of Worland $400. | 28tf Butler, Mo. REL LLL SSL SLL EL SEP ESEELEEEH Fa man can write a bet- ter book, preach a bet- ter sermon or make a bet- ter basket than his neigh- bor, though he build his - house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.— Emerson A beaten path leads to the A. H. CULVER FURNITURE COMPANY ’S store, whose latest purchase is CHASE LEATHER for Upholstering We carry it 36 and 52 inches wide, in two colors, at 90c and $1.10 per yard Karpen says that to be as good as leather ‘‘it must look like leather, feel like leather, smell dike leather, wear like leath- er.” This is the kind of Chase leather we sell. A. H. CULVER Furniture Company Headquarters for Good Furniture LLLLLLLLS LLL LL LLLP LLL LLL LL Ll PLL lly SSESSESSSESSSESESSESSSESS . 2 SEEESEEEEEESEESEESSESESSSESESESESESESS ~ \