The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, June 9, 1910, Page 3

Farmers Bank Surplus Fund has Reached One Hali its Capital Stock CAPITAL STOCK........ $50,000.00 SURPLUS FUND.......... $25,000.00 ESIDES paying its regular dividends, the Farmers Bank has continued to set aside a portion of its yearly earnings to a surplus fund and at present the surplus fund is equal to one half of its capital stock, or $25,000.00, A bank, in order to de in a first class condition, must make money, and the banking institution that is making money is con- tinually becoming stronger and of greater value to its customers. WE WANT YOUR BUSINESS E. A. BENNETT, President W. F. DUVALL, Vice-President HOMER DUVALL, Cashier H. H. LISLE, Asst. Cashier Requested Recipes. The Commoner, Strawberry Shortcake—Beat one tablespoonful of butter with a cupful of sugar until creamy; then add three well beaten eggs and half a cupful of milk or water. Sift together two and one-half cups of flour and two tea- spoonfuls of baking powder; stir the flour into the other ingredients and beat to-asmooth batter. “Bake ina quicw oven in two layers, buttering the first on top before laying the other on, so they will separate smoothly. When done and cool enough, sepa- rate the layers and spread each with boiled icing; cover the icing thickly | with whole ripe strawberries, pres- /sing them down into the icing, and sprinkle the berries with powdered sugar; eat the cake cold. Or, the layers may be baked in separate tins, and two cakes made if desired* Butter Beans and New Potatoes— Just before the potatoes are done, remove from the stove and let cool. Cut one pint of butter beans into small pieces after cooking. When the po- tatoes are cold cut into dice, and ar- range potatotes and butter beans in layers in a deep dish, sprinkling each layer with butter and pepper and salt to taste. Pour over this one cupful of cream and cover the top with rolled cracker; cover the dish, setintheoven and let get hot through, remove the cover and lotbrownalittle, then serve DUVALL-PERCIVAL TRUST CO. CASH CAPITAL, $50,000. © FARMERS BANK BUILDING, BUTLER, Mo, Farm Loans We have money to loan on real es at a low rate of interest with privilege to pay at e. "4 Abstracts We have a complete set of Abstract Books and will fur-_ nish abstracts to any real estate in Rates county and examine and perfect titles to same. Investments We will loan your idle money for reasonable interest on good s interest on time deposits. securing you vy. We pay W. F. DUVALL, President, Arthur Duvall, Treasurer. J. B. DUVALL, Vice-President, W. D. Yates, Title Examiner. IT IS NO SECRET! It is plain to be seen why the PEOPLES BANK CONTINUES TO GROW 1st—Its officers are men who have been tried J long in positions of trust. They have prov- . en themselves to be conservative and economical. 2nd—It has a board of directors composed of : seventeen successful farmers and business hot. & men, Beets—Wash carefully, and leave “a 3rd—It prohibits the loaning of its funds to its | about an inch of the leaf stalks on the ) q officers and employees. root, not breaking the small roots 4th—It has for the convenience of its friends : and patrons a daily live stock market re- ow port. a 5th—It gives to its patrons without cost the ta protection afforded by one of the latest _ burglar proof safes. 6th—It always has ample funds to loan to de- serving borrowers., oa 7th—It is (in fact) ‘‘A Bank on which you can Always Bank.”’ while washing. Cook by rapid boil- ing until tender (or they may be baked). When done, drop while still | hot into a pan of cold water and re- | move the skin by rubbing, at once. Slice, dress with butter, pepper and | salt and serve hot; or put a little sug- ar and vinegar with the dressing and pour over them hot, and serve. | Marvelous Discoveries mark the wonderful progress of the }age. Air flights on heavy machines, | telegrams without wires, terrible war | inventions to kill men, and that won- jder of wonders—Dr. King’s New | Discovery—to save life when threat- ened by coughs, colds, lagrippe, asth- ma, croup, bronchitis, hemmorhages, jhay fever and whooping cough or lung trouble: For all bronchal trou- bles it has no equal. It relieves in- stantly. Its the surest cure. James M. Black of Asheville, N. C., R. R. No. 4, writes it cured him of an ob- stinate cough after all other remedies failed. 50c. and $1. 00. A trial bot- tle free, Guaranteed by F. T. Clay. Percheron Stallions, Mares, & Fillies ; All registered stock a i : For Sale ; invite inspection of this stock, as it will com- | pare with any of the kind in + the United States. All of my horses are bred from import- ed stock and are top notchers. If you buy from home parties you always have a recourse if it is not as represented. Farm three miles notheast er of Butler. Telephone 4 on 128. The Motherly Brood Sow. Serenity, undisturbed by fretful restlessness, are characteristics of a good brood sow. Any breeder of ex- perience will know just what is meant when it is said that a sow is ‘‘mother- \ly,”’ but the exact meaning is diffi- cult to set down in words. This ma- = bearing on success with a litter, and ternal manifestation has an important “Just what father will say | have no idea.” hegan Doris, swinging a pink- checkeg sun-bonnet over the porch railing “But it was his letter that Teally started me. So he is partly to blame if be doesn't quite approve. And he does want me to stay outdoors “Everybody finds me out here, and 1 don't pretend to apologize for envel- oping aprons and garden tools I've BUTTONS —Something About the Industry. | The pearl button industry of Mis- souri during 1909 experienced its most prosperous year since the first factory began operating here, the value of the output exceeding that for 1907, the previous record year, by 56 per cent, and that for 1908 by 136 per cent, according to advance information from the 1910 Red Book | dragged up enough porch furniture so | of the bureau of labor statistics, made that | can entertain people and now | don't interrupt things to dress. Out here ginghams do very nicely.” “It is a charming porch,” remarked Louise, with a slight shiver, as she carefully rolled off her delicate gloves and lifted her fawn-gray skirts slight- ly, “But the yard—isn’t it a bit dirty, even for ginghams?" “Now, for goodness’ sake, don’t be snobbish,” pleaded Doris. “It’s love- ly, And weren't you the very person who advised me to give up the winter term at school and come home, where 1 could get well making flower gar- dens? That was the very day father came for me with the news that this house in the suburbs was ours. | came on to find snow everywhere and ho possible chance to do anything but plan. Just when things began to get sunny father was called away on this tiresome business trip. Through my conscientious efforts mother’s life was made a nightmare until she got father to send a long list of instructions and plans for the garden, “I started that very day in earnest. Father wrote: ‘Have the garden spaded and arranged according to these plans, and when | come Doris can do all the planting under my instructions.’ can see his smile as he wrote that. What will he say to this, | wonder? “You see, | had already made plans of my own He had sent for lots of horticulturists’ magazines and in one of them | found a glorious plan for a formal garden—just the size of ours. Of course father wasn't spe- cially interested in the flower side-ot it at all. He is so crazy over sweet corn and summer squashes that he can't think of other things. When he told me how much of the ground could be mine | kept the plan to my- self, for there seemed such oceans of time to discuss it. After he went south i talked it over with mother, and she wrote him about some of my plans. That was why he sent his, So we started in, making every -now and then a few changes that didn't really matter. “Mother . protested for a time, but she hasn't said a word for a week— not since I started to dig the pool for my irises and goldfish. Yes, that's it. In the center will be a bank of gravel but there will be a mud bottom for the long roots. And I had pipes laid, so there will be a continual flow of water across the pool, Of course there is the water tax to think of, as mother says, but maybe we can get a special raie, since we want to use so much water. Most things are cheaper at wholesale, you know. : “Along the sunny fence I've planted hollyhocks and cosmos and coreopsis, because they ‘make amicable com- rades when shoulder to shoulder,’ as my book says. Father's corn was to have been there, but it can go some- where else just as well, and think of the difference in the looks—and on the most prominent side of the yard, too! “The beds all circle about the iris poo! and the paths are to be of grass, with a four-foot border with sweet alyssum, pansies and foliage plants, just like the parks. And there are my poppy beds—‘nymphs even in the heart of flowerdom,’ my book calls them, “That pillar? Oh, that is my sun- dial. Isn’t it sweet? I had to have one, for this article says: ‘About the sundial clusters all the romance of the ages. It is enveloped in an atmo- sphere of poetry.’ “Mother and I had our most serious discussion over that bed on the north side of the yard. I have to wait for father before I shall know about my summer house. There I shall serve tea, with rambler roses and clematis and wisteria climbing all about! Fa- ther had selected that side for his asparagus beds and they were already started, so I yielded to mother in that. | love asparagus, don’t you? And if | must do without the summer house I'll have the vines over the porch, as mother. suggested. “Other vegetables? Well, yes, fa- ther wants them, and | am worried public today by Commissioner J. C. A. Hiller. Five pearl button factories, four of which are in Lewis county and the other in Pike county, report an out- put amounting to 149,815,728 buttons and blanks, valued at $267,794 for the twelve months in question. Thous- ands of rough and ugly mussel shells were consumed in turning out this vast array of smooth, shining round pearl buttons of sizes varying in di- ameter ofa quarter of an inch to those measuring an inch and a half across and which are used chiefly for ornamental purposes, to lend a finish- ing touch to female wearing apparel. The blanks are the plain round discs which are cut from the rough shells, and need finishing touches in the way of the last polish and the four holes for the thread before they be- come buttons and have the lustre and name of pearl. One Missouri factory shipped its output as far east-as Germany and England, which fact speaks highly for the Missouri pearl button, as further east there are many such fac- tories, past which our product had to be sent before it reached these foreign countries. In addition nearly every state in the union used our output in-1909 and-during the early part of this year. In former years a goodly portion of the shells used by the Missouri fac- tories, came from the bed of the Mis- sissippi river north of the mouth of the Missouri, but now the state must depend upon the mussel diggers of the Wabash, Black, White, Cumber- land, Tennessee, the Illinois and other streams for their supply. Shells are still obtained from the up- per Mississippi, but not in quantities like in former years. Occasionally shipments are received from fisher- men, who operate in smaller streams in the interior of Missouri. In later years the price per ton of shells has steadily increased in value. Of course, all these streams belong to the Mississippi, as tributaries, and therefore all shells from them are credited by Uncle Sam as the output of the Mississippi valley region. For 1908 the crop, according to the feder- al authorities, amounted to 76,265, 700 pounds of shells, worth $386,120. But of course all these shells did not come into Missouri. The 1909 figures have not been compiled as yet, but will probably be as great both in quantity and value. Valuable Pearls Found. At the most'the life of a mussel digger is a monotonous and hard one, exposed as heis, toall grades of weather, and being obliged constant- ly to toil in and above water, but occasionally there comes a gleam of sunshine in shape ofa pearl, which when placed in the hands of a jewel- er, brings a sum of money, depend- ing on the size, shape and color of the find. It is estimated by the fed- eral authorities that the pearls and slugs found in the 38,637 tons of mussels placed on the market by the “diggers” of the Mississippi river and its tributaries were. worth $299,- 800 to the finders. This sum when added to the worth of the shells gives a total value of $685,920 for the mus- sel fishermen for one'year of work. It must, however, be remembered that the pearls and slugs brought much more to the jewelers, who buy gives the first value of pearls and slugs for 1906 at $381,000 and for 1907, $264,500. In color the fresh water pearls are white, cream, pink, purple, blue and rarely, black. The shapes are irregu- lar, being either button, round, oval, | years time and is then dropped from pas at | the shells. Mi i Sold in Euro po ne rie Northern Missouri are thousands | of pearls of varying sizes and ages. If this is true then in the mud of the Mississippi river in front A fortune is in store for anyone de- vising a way of recovering them. The pearl button industry of Mis- souri will last as long as mussel shells can be readily obtained. The federal authorities are now wrest- ling with the problem of artificial propagation, and laws are needed to protect the mussel clams. The fac- tories in which the blanks and the buttons are made are all well built, generally of brick and are full of in- tricate and fast running machinery. The workers are skillful and well paid, their occupations being far from monotonous, owing to the active lives they lead and the interesting and many stages each shell passes through before it finally appears asa string of lustrous buttons of varying sizes, ready to be sorted and stitched on the cards for the market. In the five factories which report- ed for 1909 to Labor Commissioner Hiller, there were employed 268 male workers and 102 females, who, in that year, drew $109,189 in wages for an average of 300 days. For raw ma- terial and supplies the disbursements were $109,667. The invested capital was $145,008, of which $40,908 was in machinery. For rent, taxes and insurance the amount paid out was $2,809. Other Statistical Facts. All of the above will forma chap- ter in the 1910 Red Book of the bureau of labor statistics. The fol- lowing table, prepared by Supervis- ing Statistician A. T. Edmonston, shows the value of the pearl button production of Missouri by years since 1904, and give the amount paid out in wages for each year: Value of Paid Out Year. Production. in Wages. 1904....... $136,883 $ 49,419 es 133,484 66, 184 1906....... 156,508 64,658 | A 171,341 73,189 1908....... 113,469 | 53,730 TES Ssisiavs 267,794 109, 189 In six years the pearl button fac- tories of Missouri have turned out buttons to the value of $979,474, and at the same time paid out for salaries and wages $416,369. And yet the in- dustry is only one of Missouri’s inany side-lines. The mussel itself is now being used as food for hogs. The flesh is cooked to preserve it and then fed in a mixed state. The por- tion of the shell which remains after all useful parts have been cut into button blanks, has many uses, such as lime feed for chickens. The lime can be converted into cement. Various kinds of pretty ornaments are made by one of the factories out of the shells, and at times campaign emblems have been made from them. A Woman’s Great Idea is how to make herself attractive. But, without health, it is hard for her to be lovely in face, form or temper. A weak, sickly woman will be ner- vous and irritable. Constipation and Kidney poisons show in pimples, blotehes, skin eruptions and a wretch- ed‘complexion. But Electric Bitters always prove a godsend to women who want health, beauty and friends. They regulate Stomach, Liver and Kidneys, purify the blood; give strong nerves, bright eyes, pure breath, smooth, velvety skin, lovely complex- ion,good health. Try them 50c. at F: T. Clay’s. 4 Iron Sulphur For Killing Weeds. An Iowa correspondent writes; “What are the proportions of iron sulphate and water to kill weeds by sprinkling?”” Two pounds of iron sulphate toa gallon of water is the right propor- tion to kill most weeds. Grasses and with a shiny surface are very affected by iron sulphate spray. It is this fact that gives the spray its value. Grain fields badly infested with mustard and horse be sprayed at the rate of fifty-two the gallons to the acre, weeds killed, and the grain not damaged. In the Dakotas, where grown a orci: