The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, February 3, 1910, Page 2

BATES COUNTY SCHOOLS AND TEACHERS. By County Superintendent P. M. Allison. Valley school in Deep Water was visited first this week and was found to be in the best of condition. The pupils are very good workers and take a fairly good interest in their | work. This is Miss Rodgers’ first school and she is putting forth a good effort. Over at Elm Grove they are doing most excellent work under the care of Miss Estella Ritchey. This is one of the small schools in the county and one of the best. The pupils are good workers and are very quiet and order- ly about it. They need some new desk in this building and a few sup- plementary books. Down at Compton they are moving along about as usual with their work. They are going to have Prof. G. A. Theilman and his pupils entertain them on the night of Feb. 4th af 7:00 p.m. This is a very commendable thing to do; it is not only entertaining but is also instructive. Pleasant Ridge is doing fine under the care of Prof. B. F. Wix. This school has just ordered a new diction- ary, aset of maps and $35 worth of library books. The pupils are doing good work and the room is very quiet and orderly, and Mr. Wix is taking up the work in a way that shows he has not forgotten so much as might have been expected. Hudson City is moving very nicely under Miss Nellie Sweger their new teacher. This school has some of as fine workers as there is in the county. We played dare base and black-man at noon and spent a very pleasant | stay with them, The pupils of this | school are very willing workers. All work that has ever been given them has been well done, Miss Rosalie Wix is islactory work for them down at Hazel Bell in Hudson towhship. The doing very sat- pupils of this school attend very reg- | ularly and are doing good work. The patrons of this school take a good in- terest in the work which counts for very much, At the reading circle meeting held at this place Tuesday night quite a number of the patrons attended and took part in the discus- sions and helped to make this one of the most interesting circles held. We are pleased that we have such people in our country, Up at Harmony school in Shawnee township every thing is moving well with Miss Millie Cole asteacher. This school has the largest enrollment of any school in the county, having one teacher. The attendance is very good excepting one or two families, The directors and Mr. J. M. Green are building a new vestuble for the teacher and pupils. While the board appears to be doing a great deal they are really getting Mr. Green to do most of the work having elected him foreman and now he is trying tobreak the record on fast work. Miss Cole is one of our best teachers and finds no difficulty in managing a large school. She will have several pupils take part or all of county graduation. Over at Rocky Point they have a small but interesting school, the pupils are good workers and had several questions to ask which indicates that they think instead of guess. Miss Dixie Sharp is teacher and is satisfy- ingall concerned. This school needs some new desks and the building re- paired. The Cornland school closed the next day after we visited it and we will wait until the spring term to speak of them. Over at Lost Corner they have put SHOES—‘‘DOUGLAS”— SHOES in a new library of about fifty vol- jumes selected from the state list of jbooks. Mrs. Campbell is teacher and has a very interesting class of ninth year pupils. Her work is moving very well and her pupils take a good interest. Down at Nyhart the attendance has run down considerably, but those at- tending are doing fine work. All j thal is necessary to get work here is | to mention the fact that work is ready |for them. They defy any one to find |a problem in the adopted arithmetic jthat they can not solve. They are jconfident on some other subjects. Prof. Crosswhite is teacher and may resign on account of other affairs | claiming his attention. New Home school in New Home | township has a very fine record on }attendance. It Is not uncommon for every pupil enrolled to be present for a week at a time and when there is one absent there is a good reason for it. Miss Sylva Goodrum is teacher and the attendance shows her school is a decided success, They will have some graduates and contestants in the next spelling contest. Hillside school is one of the small schools of the county but one of the best. There were only five present the day the school was visited and the teacher, Miss Nellie March, has a fine opportunity to try the Batavia System which she is doing though not in a formal way. Osage school has a fine record on attendance and the pupiis are very willing workers. The work left for them todo was not put off for any jthing but taken up immediately and | most of it sent in the next day. The Produces Figures to Show Falsity of Statement in Sixth District of Republican Executive That Democrats Left $1,500,000 Deficit. Everton, Mo., Jan.—Former Gov- ernor Folk spoke on behalf of the Democratic congressional nominee Friday afternoon to one of the crowds that ever assembled here, Governor Hadley spoke at Green- field, in this county, Thursday and among other things said he had paid off more than $1,500,000 deficit that he found when he became Governor, He said he found no money in the State Treasury and twenty years of accumulated debts to be paid off, and that he had wiped out all the debts and had a big surplus left over. Governor Folk was asked during his speech if there was any money in the Treasury at the beginning of the Hadley term. He said: “In his speech at Greenfield Thurs- day in which Governor Hadley said he had inherited a Treasury depleted to the extent of $1,500,000 deficit, which he had paid off, he very kind- ly exonerated me and said this deficit had been passed along for more than twenty years from one Democratic Governor to another. “The Governor made a curious mistake. Instead of inheriting $1,500, - 000 deficit, Governor Hadley’s ad- ministration inherited $1,500,000 in money, There was not a single penny of debt that had to be paid out of this surplus except by appropria- tion of the Legislature under Mr. FOLK ANSWERS HADLEY. work is correct and in good form, Hadley and by authority of appro- Prof. A. C. Moreland js teacher and | priations signed by him. The reve- is satisfying all concerned, | hues cannot be anticipated under the Over at Old Rich Hill we are want- jing and needing a new building and! |feel very much in hopes the peope | will not try to have school again in |the present building. | Miss Jessie | j Miller is teacher and expects to enter | Warrensburg Normal when her school closes. She is also anxious to enter| the Rich Hill Reading Circle at its| next meeting. | The Reading Circle in Summit township was a very interesting ses- sion. Prof. S. E. Smith, of Merwin, and Miss Maude Seelinger, of Her- rell, were visitors and assisted in the work for which we thank them and invite them to attend again. - Miss Seelinger is not teaching but has been | one of our best and most progressive teachers, and it is hoped that she will again enter the work. Summit Cir- cle is not the largest one in the coun- ty but is one of the best. Several teachers have asked when the examination for County. Gradua- tion will be held. The second and third Saturdays in April have been selected for this and an examination will be held in each township the requirements being the same as for- merly. The second Spelling Contest will be the 26th of March the second day of the teacher’ examination. The words will be used up to page 113. This promises to bea very interest- ing contest. Public Sale. I will offer at public sale at the Burge farm 1 1-2 miles east of Foster SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1910, the following described property: 6 head of mares, 1 sorrel yearling mare, 1 extra large bay yearling mare, 1 bay two year old filley, broke to work; 1 coming five year old bay mare in foal to Bell’s Percheron Draft horse, well broke, single or double and to ride; 1 span of coming four year old black Percheron mares in foal to Bell’s Percheron Draft horse, well broke, to work or ride. Cattle, 1 two year old roan heifer, 1 three year old milk cow giving milk. Farm implements. 1 old mowing machine, 1.Fuller and Johnson riding’ plow, one 12inch walking 1 double shovel garden plow, 1 wagon, | of thé boy had died law and were not. The Governor has looked through the wrong end of the telescope and} erroneously termed a surplus a-de- ficit. The books of the Treasury De- partment show for themselves and leave no room for dispute on this point. “Do the books show a surplus or a deficit at the beginning of the present administration? That is the question. Here is a letter from the Treasurer's office that talks for itself. Anyone may verify it, and I know it to be ac- curate: “The total amount of money in the State Treasury to the credit of all funds, January 9, 1909, was $1,596, - 161.81; the amount to the credtt of the revenue fund on the same date was $887,622.56. That was the last business day of the administration of record in the Treasurer’s office. No business was transacted on January 11, inauguration day. $100 Reward, $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there ié at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a constiutional treatment. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internal- Big Public Sale. Having decided to leave the state, I will offer at public sale at the J. S. Bell farm, 7 miles northwest of Rich Hill, 3 miles north of Sp: miles southaest of Foster, at 10 o’clock, on muumenay. F y, br ay the following ibed property: . =< a, a head rses. pair 6-year-old horses, wt. about 2800; one pair gray horses, smooth mouth; one bay horse, smooth pele May ere hee gentle mare, 12 years old, ne Bay; bay mare, 12 years old, ae bred to ~~ age bay ear’ mare; yearli orse; bey driving team; @yearala mule; two 2- horses. 11 head cattle. 4 milch cows, all giving milk, 2 of them Jerseys; ‘five eifer calves, two of them Jeaseys 2 two-year-old heifers, part Jersey. 115 and goats. Thirty head of gilts, all bred; eighty head of good shoats; two gvod China boars; three goats, two females and 1 male. Grain, wagons, harness. 1,500 bushels of corn, 125 bushels of cats, Farm wagon, wide-tire feed lower wagon box, buggy, sulky, cart, 2 hay frames, 3 sets work harness, set double b saddle. One 15-horse-power International gasoline engine, 4-row McCormick corn shredder, No. 10 feed grinder, 2-hole corn sheller, ine and shredder good as new, 1 year. Farm Implements, ete. McCormick binder, McCormick corn binder, two sulky. rakes, Gale suredrop corn planter, manure spreader, pair pitless scales (good as new), riding fister. one-horse wheat drill, as new; two-section harrow, riding weeder, tongueless disc harrow, 2 Rock Island 16-inch riding plows, one Morrison 16-inch riding plow, 12-foot seed sow- at a right pric * ® & ® af ® ® H % wu # x ® w ® Ri x H # x H & & wu & 4 hind every & ® at ® & i, ® er, steel roller, Acme harrow, spring- | tooth harrow, 6-foot MeCormic mower, 8-hole Hoe drill, two Pattee 2-row cultivators, Jennie Lind culti-| vator, Busy Bee cultivator, dise culti- vator, New Departure cultivator, walking cultivator, five 16-inch break. ing plows, 2-hole hand corn sheller, 14-inch breaking plow, dipping tank’ two steel water tanks, one of them 12-barrel, the othe: rrel; 1 tank, pump and hose; buck rake, 14-ft lad- der, 16-ft ladder, 20x40 stock cover, grindstone, barre! cart, twelve hog and-four cattle troughs, 40 gallons crude oil, one-half barrel copperas, 30-gallon iron kettle, hoop fish net, a. lot of good hedge posts, some iron pipe, and numerous other articles, Terms of sale: The engine and | shredder will be sold on 12 months’ time, without interest, purchaser giv- | ing approved note. On balance of | sale, $10 and under cash. On sums | exceeding $10, a credit of 12 months’ | time, with 6 per cent interest from | date of sale. Approved security re- | quired. 2-per cent discount for cash. | Lunch served on ground by the ladies of the Sprague M. E. church. J. S. BELL, JR. J. K. Harmon and H. H. McGlothlin, | Auctioneers. | W. W. Cheverton, and Walter Bob- bitt, Clerks, Public Sale. | Having sold my farm, I will sell at | public auction at my residence, 2 1-2 | miles east of Butler on the Summit road, on MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1910, the following described property: 24 Head Horses and Mules 7 four year old horse weighs 1,300; 1 mare, 16 hands high, eight years old; 1 fam- ily broke-horse, nine years old; 1 sor- rel mare, seven years old in foal; 1 dun mare, three years old; 1 twelve ear old mare in Kal by horse; 1 bay orse, three years old; 1 yearli | ly, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, there- by destroying the foundation of the disease, and fiving the patient strength by building up the constitu- tion and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers that they offer One Hundred case that it fails to cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address, F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O., Take Hall’s Family Pills for consti- pation. Found After 30 Years’ Hunt. Johnstown, Pa., Jan.—Thirty years ago Thomas Murphy, 6 years old, was kidnaped in Johnstown by an aunt of the lad and nothing was heard from him since that time until a letter was received by the Police Depar 4] ment which stated is danger- Murphy ously ill at his home at No. 530 Hicks = street, Brooklyn, . The kidnapping of the oy bom ‘was one of the sensations early eighties in Johnstown. ‘The father and John, the ¢ Dollars for any| to mare colt, 2 yearling horse last spring mare colts, 4 three year old mules broke, 4 coming two old mules, 3 jennets, 1 in foal to Morning Star; 1 jack, good breeder. 3 milch cows giving milk. 28 Head of Daroe: Hogs: All eligi- | i | rrow in March and April, 21 shoats, 1 boar. Grain and Feed: About 1,500 bush- els of corn in crib, 300 bushels of | oats, about 10 tons of hay, 1 stack of oats stra’ W. Farm Implements: 2 wagons, bug- gy, poke dan ness, edge drop corn. vators, 2 brent rake, 2 harrows, pend #..-.) ble to register, consisting of six sows | flam Adrian Journal Notes, A baby. was born to Mrs. Harl Johnson last week. Mrs. Johnson is reported to be in a very serious con- dition and itis feared that she may not recover, The interest in the revival meetings at the U. B. church is growing. Rev. Needles isa good preacher and an earnest worker. Asa man he is held in high esteem by the people gener- ally and his influence for good is be- ing felt in the community, Commencing Feb. 15th, proximo, R. F. D. carriers will not be required to collect loose coins from rural mail boxes. Patrons should inclose coins in an envelope, wrap them securely in a piece of paper or deposit them in a coin holding receptacle so they can be easily and quickly taken from the box, and carriers will be required to lift such coins and when accompanied by mail for dispatch, attach the requi- site stamps. While chopping wood with a double bit axe Saturday evening Reed Eakus struck his seven -year old son in the face with one point of :the blade and inflicted an ugly wound. The boy’s nose was split from the point up to the corner of his eye. Mr. Eakus is deaf and the boy came up behind him as he was chopping and the father could neither see nor hear ‘the lad. Dr. Tuttle was called and dressed the wound and the little patient is doing as well as could be expected consid- ering the serious nature of his in- juries. : Sparks from the chimney set fire iee—building at the Hurley Lumber Yard Saturday and but for its timel discovery by a delivery boy woul probably have proven disastrous to the building and stock. A hole several feet square was burned in the roof before the es were surpressed. SECOND WEEK OF OUR ANNUAL CLEARANCE SALE These Prices in Effect SALE PRICE LLL LLL LLL LLL LLP PP VPP POS We handle pie a line of Nevring Machines ” ” ” i MH ” ” ” ” ” In price from $15.00 to $35.00 " 4 ” ” ” ” ” ” ” ” MH ” ” ” We will not take any old machines in trade but will sell you a first class machine e and stand be- one we sell. A. H. CULVER Furniture Company Headquarters for Good Furniture besassseuecssecsssssscccx Calls For Investigation. Washington Post. ‘. It is openly charged that in several cities last week foodstuffs were ship- ped away in order to maintain extor- tionate prices for the supply that re- }mained. Itisa right a man has to | send his merchandise to any market |he shall choose, and to shift it from | market to market, but when he enters ;upon concert with others to lessen |the supply with a view to enchance | the price that is a conspiracy in re- | Straint of trade, and is an offense de- | hounced in the laws of the land. It is the duty of the authorities thoro- ughly to investigate and relentlessly to probe this charge that the Christ- mas market was forestalled—for that is the name of it—in the manner set forth. , Whatever reduces consump- tion tends to suppress. human vener- |gies. In the end it curtails the divi- dends of capital and in the beginning it lessens the employment of labor. |It is the fruitful source of discontent; | discontent is the mother of strikes, |and strikes are the bane of industry. It is notorious that the cost of living in our country exceeds that of any other country. It is not a natural condition, but artificial, manipulated. | For a century living was cheaper in the United States than in any other country. That accounted for our marvelous material development. _If the new condition is to maintain, the country will retrograde as rapidly as it progressed. There is something wrong, and it behooves the elders of the land to discover the cause and re- The food trust is the first malefactor to go after. “Good Painters use Mound City Co.’s “Horse Shoe” Brand House Paint exclusively. W. H. Hupp & Son. 51-52t. 3.25 move it, cutting deep if necessary. _