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a on mo _—A oe ‘Your Profit From $1,100 A Week HE makers of Clothcraft Clothes spend $1,100 a week for inspection alone. They do this to insure you of clothes without flaw or defect. =~‘ Yet they are not satisfied. They continu- ally strive to improve. Before your suit left the factory it had to pass rigid exam- inations by nincty-five inspectors. This is ome striking feature of Clothcraft scien- tifte tailoring. You can be sure that Clotheraft Clothes are of pure wool! and have lasting style. Clothcraft Clothes are the only guaranteed all-wool clothes selling at $10 to $25. CLOTHCRAFT All-Wool Clothes $10 to$25 The suit you have been waiting for is waiting for you. American Clothing House One Price Clothiers Orchard Grove. Too late for last week's leeue, Mr, and Mrs. W. D. Rogers, of Jet- ferson City, departed for their home, after a visit with Mr. R.’s mother and A. E. Moore and family. The most common topic of con- versation these days is the state of the weather and figuring the proba- ble loss from damage to fruit and other crops from the late cold spell. during the winter. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Thomas are the proud parents of a fine baby boy. Quite a pleasant surprise was af- forded Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Moore Sunday, it being the anniversary of Mrs. Moore's birth. The neighbors began to arrive: at their home about ten o'clock, with well-filled baskets of the good things for the inner man. All came prepared to have a good sovial time, in which their expecta- tions were fully realized. At high noon the company repaired to the dining room, where they proceeded S Rey. Shelton, of Adrian, preached 3] at Orchard Grove Friday and Satur- : day nights. He was recently mar- q ried. His wife was with him. They : Tooked happy. May peace, joy and ‘i happiness attend them, is the wish of Se ees OME LS ocean ae la arm alee = your correspondent. Miss Allie Dudley were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Lafe Cassity. Walter brought them out to church Sunday, and sister, Lou, Lawrence Edens is going to raise (cain) cane at J. A. Steel's. We sup- pose he thinks of getting sweet on the girls. The Butler, Peru and Pleasant Gap Telephone Company have completed the line to Pleasant Gap. They have now ten lines out of Butler south and east, making a complete circuit around through Lone Oak, Peru, Double Branches, Pleasant Gap and thence north to the township line and which the table was well loaded. Mrs. Moore, assisted by Mrs. Jessie Brooks and Misses Ada and Dollie Rains, igll noted for their capacity to entertain|, made it pleasant for the s. Those present were: Jessie Brooks and family, J. A. Steele and family, Misses Dollie and Ada Rains, G. W. Raius, John Woodfin and wife, Mrs. Ava Brown, Alex Moore, Mrs. J.J. Allen, Asby Allen and Clyde Ellington, Miss Irene Ellington and Mrs. Luey The afternoon Was spent in sovial chats, interspers- ed with vocal and instrumental music. After which the guests departed for their homes, wishing the hostess many returs. FLAG, John Yoss Stricken, Rogers. VITAL WASHINGTON N YOUR CHICKENS IN MAY. Ernest Kellerstrass Gives Some 7yyenner, “Writer and Thinker,” Pointers on What to De tives U The This Month. Gives Us the Facts as They | K.C. Star. Really Exist. What you ought to do for the best 85 Tavenn-r. |Kansas City. Mr. Kellerstrass be- lieves in a monthiy routine to be | followed in all similar cases. “There is only one way to feed | poultry if you would make a success of the business; feed them with the right kind of feed from ‘hatch to th hatchet.’ much is heard everywhere save in “Nothing but lice will cause the ald Washington. hen to leave her eggs when she has —_ Here are more illustrations of a Re- settled down. publican “business” administration: “Setting hens are lice breeders. Marble baths for senators! This is one reason why the incubator Autos to carry them 100 rods be- is to be preferred for hatching chick- tween their offices and Capitol! ens. Touring cars for the President, “The chickens are free from lice Vice-President and “Uncle Joe.” to begin with, and it is not such a White House receptions which difficult matter to keep the lice in “rival the glory of Napoleon's court,” subjection. at one of which, according to the “A good many coops of poultry go Washington Post, ‘‘a dazzling ravine to market ina crate that weighs as of gold blazed before the vision.” much again as the birds. Express Another group of ‘“‘cut-to-the- costs just as much on the coops as on guick’’ economies includes: the birds. More than $2,500 for appolinaris “Whitewash the chicken coops water for the senators. and disinfect the hen houses; disin-' Hundreds of thousands of dollars fect at least once a week and con- to keep the senators in vaseline, cas- tinue through the hot months to tor oil, olive oil, come. costly perfumes, glycerine, “Stop the red mites before they mot, hair brushes, clothes | get started—prevention is better than hes, traveling expenses in attend- cure. ing funerals, etc., ete. “Outdoor brooders must be kept Then we come to this item which under a shed or some kind ‘of sun stands by itself: protection to maintain the even hover The addition in the last eight years temperature desired. In teaching of 99,225 federal officeholders to the | young chickens to run in and out of payrolls of the republic, at an in-| outdoor brooders regularly,use sod or crease of expense to the people of a pile of dirt for them to run up and more than seventy million dollars. down on. Also when building their item helps to explain why it is first yards make them A shape, with costing the Taft administration more the apex in the end at the opening of twice as much to run the gov- ty-six days of April! \ deficit of more than nineteen | A deficit of $190,057,887.86 since June 30, 1907! tonk, EWS. linterest of your chickens this month; Washington, April 30.—A deficit of | |is told here by Ernest Kellerstrass ef four million dollars for the first twen- | jon dollars so far this fiscal year! | These are features of Taft “cut-to- | e-quick”’ economy, about which so | brome quinine, hair | * Butler, The Walton Trust Company Missouri CRs cncdesssansace Has complete Abstract records daily. Frank Allen Wm. W. Trigg John Deerwester Frank M. Voris Max W Surplus Fund and Und. Loans money on Farms at low interest rates. in Bates county, which we keep up with the Furnish reliable abstracts on short notice. Pays interest on Time Deposits. Always has good securities for sale. | DIRECTORS John E. T. C. Boulware A. B. Owen Are: +. 4++.855:000.00 Profits....$87,000.00 | of title to all real estate Shutt Cc. A. Allen i W. E. Walton C. H. Dutcher | J. B. Walton einer to prevent the Rhode Island boas { from changing his mind after the fall elections are over. On April 25, 1910, Vice-President Sherman made a speech at St. Louis | in which he intimated that the new tariff law was bringing in so much money that it might possibly be neces- | sary to revise the Payne-Aldrich tariff law upward. On that day, according to the report of the United States, the | expenses of the government exceed- ed the receipts from all sources by $1,274,553.23! Half an hour is all che time re- uired to dye an article with UTNAM FADELESS DYES. An } one can do it, ag simp! 7 then the chickens will ernment than it did Cleveland. have no corner to bunch up in during the bright sunshiny days, and their education takes much less of the: at- tendant’s time. “Tf you are through hatching, break up your pens and market the old cocks, all but the very choice ones that you are expecting to use another year, They are a nuisance with their quarrelsome habits, and are a con- tinual bill of expense. “Be liberal with your estimate and have enough chickens and to spare. If you have 25 per cent to spare when filling your laying houses they will always find a ready sale, and this gives you an opportunity to cull closely and preserve only the best for yourself. How does this riotous extravagance effect the treasury? is asked. These res tell us: ¢ June 30, 1907, the total bal- in the general fund has dropped » $270,061,445.47 to $82,003,-| 597.61. With an average daily de- | ficit eating its way into this remain- | ing eighty-two million dollars, butia ) short time can elapse ‘before the gov- ernment will have to sell more bonds to secure more money to meet more extravagances. issues are national debts. age citizen? This is how: The per capita appropriation by Congress jumped from $6 in 1890 to Outstanding bond | How does all this concern the aver- | is all that a necessary, The Woodmen Goat. Nobody will ever be able any more to ‘‘get the goat’? of the Modern Woodmen of America. The high! council of the Woodmen, represent: | ing some 7,000 members in Minne- | apolis, and more than a million the, country over, in executive session have evolved a plan that will put the | organization’s goat absolutely out of | reach. The reason that nobody will | | be able to get the Woodmen’s goat | from now on is that the Woodmen | |are not going to have any goat. The | goat anywhere around in initiation halls henceforth will be such -goat or | goats as are got from the initiate or| running west te beginning. We ae . Rockville Booster. learn the main lines and branch lines John Yoss, one of the pioneer and | “Try marketing your birds alive. We don’t know of a more nerve- $12.40 in 1909. Since the govern- | ment raises the bulk of its revenue at initiates. The Woodmen do not say | the custom houses and internal re-| that their fraternal degree initiation | aggregate 150 miles controlled by this system. Pretty good showing and a great convenience. Leo Morilla is’ visiting her cousin, Vera Ellington, in Lone Oak. Charles Morilla is visiting his son, ¢ E. E. Morilla, he having been through Colorado and Texas on a business trip highly respected citizens of Prairie City vicinity, was stricken with pa- ralysis while at the dinner table Wed-| nes Vv. sustained a broken leg some ) and it was his first time at table since the injury. His condi- tion is considered grave. WHAT IS THE TROTH ‘OU hear some folks say, “IT can't afford to build or repair my buildings because Lum- ber and Shingles are too high.” Let us Tell You Something . Lumber and shingles are cheaper right here in Butler now than they were four years ago. How to prove this assertion: Come to our yard and let us figure your house, barn, or any “other bill you are thinking of buying in our line and we will show you our books and the prices building material was selling at four years ago, and we will prove to you that we are selling them cheaper now than at that time. WHAT WE SELL: Lumber, Shingles, . Galvanized : Iron Roofing, Rubber Roofing, Lime, Sand, Gravel, etc. Cement, Plaster, Windows, Doors, Glass, Sewall’s Pure Liquid Paint, Lead, Oil, Land Tile, Sewer Pipe, We have all this material right here in But- ler, Mo. We are always giad to show it to you, __ And remember. d you‘pay no freight after-you-buy— the material, and if it is not perfectly satisfactory - . racking job than picking a lot of broilers without tearing the skins. Many times you can get as much for | them alive as youtan get for them . dressed, The labor saved isa big There isno use of your correspond- | item. ent reporting further on the proposed | “Broilers are going down in price vestigation of the sugar underweigh- and the market is calling fora larger ™ frauds, or the alleged illegal sale bird, two and one-half to three Of rich Philippine sugar lands to the pounds each this month. sugar trust. The trust has shown it- “March hatched chickens should self powerful enough to prevent a now be leaving the brooders, and if Probe by Congress. Just how it was they have been properly hardened, 0! to protect itself from an investi-| will take quite airy roosting coops. gtion the writer does not pretend to! “Be careful of them on cool nights Know. All that is known is that nine | when first put out; see that they do Tesolutions providing for a probe of | not pile up and smother one another. , this thieving trust have been intro- “Don’t let the rats get a foothold, duced in this Congress, and everyone | “January and February chickens them has been chloroformed. The venue offices, you, Mr. Reader, are paying for Republican extravagances | in increased prices. have grass runs and feed before them tormey for the sugar trust, and Attor- during the balance of their lives.” €y-General Wickersham was for- at Da mer a law partner of this brother. “Good Painters use Mound City The attorney general says the sugar Co.'s ‘Horse Shoe” Brand House trust should not be investigated, and ag exclusively. W. H. eq © the President pocbatingee ae ne : “We expect that the customs re- : ceipts will fall off from now on,” said $3.50 Recipe Cures Weak a nigh official of the treasury to the 5 wrtter. ‘The recent increase in the Kidneys, Free. customs receipts was largely if not wholly due to the interruption of business while the tariff bill was in Relieves Urinary and Kidney the making. Importers held their Troubles, Backache Strain- esse because of uncertainity of ing, Swelling, Ete. | what the new rates would be. As : , {soon as the tariff bill was passed, | these delayed orders were sent abroad Stops Pain in the Bladder, Kidneys | and the increases in the customs re- and Back. ceipts 5 ata past couple of months Wouldn’tit be nice within & week or sotobe- | are temporary, and do not by fr io se Fabing, oF ts LS cnt pang any means indicate that the new law De; ti is to be a much better revenue pro- the stitehen and deck; the frei ‘muscle sit tized oS ducer than the old one.” cyelida-or ankles; ald intended for early market should brother of President Taft was the at- | has been reconstructed into a picnic | |for the candidates, They guard their | ‘language, but a district deputy, talk- |ing about the new ritual that has just | been adopted, let it be understood |that the one-time strenuous goat of | the Woodmen has been taken to the country and farmed out.—Ex. Why Salves Fail to Cure — Scientists are now agreed that the | /eczema germs are lodged not in the | ‘outer skin or epidermis, but in the jinner skin. Hence, a penetrating | liquid is required, not an outward | salve that clogs the pores. We recommend to all eczema pa-| tients the standard prescription Oil of | Wintergreen as compounded in liquid form known as D. D. D. Prescription. Atrial bottle of this D. D. D. Pres- cription, at only 25 cents, will instant- ly relieve the itch, We have sold and recommended this remedy for years, and know of worderful cures from its use. We recommend it to our patrons. F. T. Clay, Butler, Mo. Hints to Home Makers. A good way to use strawberries whéh they first come and are expen- sive, and perhaps a little hard, is to! make them into a sauce to be eaten on boiled rice. Make a hard sauce out of one part of butter and three of powdered sugar. Add two parts of crushed berries. 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