The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, June 16, 1910, Page 3

i Snow Steel Lawn Swing The illustration above will of the construction of the Snow Galvanized Steel ive a good idea Lawn Swing. It is made of the best grade of angle and channel steel, thoroughly galvanized after all cutting and punching is done, and with ordinary use will last a lifetime. The seats are three feet wide and will accommodate four adults or six children comfortably. They are at- tached to heavy channel steel hangers, eight feet long, which are fitted at the top with a roller- bearing, making it perfectly noisless and the lightest running swing on the market. The awn- ing is made of the best canvas. Always clean and will not injure the clothing. Furnishes amusment for the children and a resevoir af comfort for the old folks. Kept in motion by a gentle pressure of the feet on the platform. Can be furnished with or without awning. Always shipped WITHOUT awning unless otherwise specified. Occupies space on the ground six by eight feet; height eight feet six inches; weight, packed for shipment, one hundred ninety-five pounds. Price $12 and $13.50 We have sold fifty-seven of these swings and not a dissatisfied customer. During June deliv- ered and set up in your yard if you live within any reasonable distance of Butler. Don’t forget that we are giving away $75 worth of furniture this month. A. H. Culver Furniture Co. Headquarters for Good Furniture. Motor | Car ry Rase With Fast | Train. From the New York American, ~ Special School Election. BATES COUNTY SCHOOLS Notice is hereby given that on Tuesday, June 21st, 1910, an election | To win a wager of $500 made with Will be held by the qualified voters in ' that pr, McAllister and Miss Marie | majority in the House of Representa- A. L. Erlanger, Frederick Thompson will drive a racing automobile from Jersey City to Atlantic City in an at- tempt to beat the time of a special Butler School District, in Bates coun- ty, State of Missouri, at which elec- tion a proposition will be submtted | to voters of said district to purchase | a site, to-wit: That part of block 15, | AND TEACHERS. | By County Superintendent P. M. Allison. Miss Natalie Maddy, in sending in her terffi report, reported the follow- ing pupils as having spelled all the words in the spelling contest: Ruby |Blackmon, Gladys Blackmon and | Finis Erwin. Miss Maddy was teach- ‘erat Dixie school in East Boone | township. The convention at Jefferson City was a complete success in every par- ticular. One hundred one of the superintendents were present and | those not present were either in sum- ;mer school or sick. The superinten- |dents were unanimous in the belief |that Mr. Gass made this convention a | {complete success and unanimously |voted him their thanks and good |.will. Gov. Hadley delivered the address of welcome in which he gave expres- | ! sion to some very positive opinions | | which he holds in regard to educa- tion. He is a strong | ter school houses and better teachers | but is just as much in favor of better | wages for teachers. He expressed | | himself as believing that he has not signed a more important measure | during his administration as gover-| ‘nor than the law which provides for county supervision, lone of the great problems of today is | "€ss of rates must be the | to educate the grown up people to a | realization of the importance of the | €0!Venience of the public.” | schools and school work, that in the schools citizenship should be stressed more than in the past, thinks this is one of the great mis- | sions of the school. Among some of the things he brought out was that Missouri ranks fifth in number of | children, seventh in current taxes ‘for school purposes, second in public ‘school funds and twenty-first in / WAYeS: paid teac hers. | Among those who delivered. ad- | dresses none were so popular as Dr. | Jordan, of Columbia, and no subject | as that of agriculture. | The Doctor delivered four addresses | Harriman contributed $260,000 to the so popular |and many were anxious that he should | speak again. | Dr. Charters of Columbia, who talked ;on the teaching of language. | Weare pleased to say that both the very bill Congress is about to | these gentlemen will be with us dur-| place upon the statute books was ciation this | originally drawn in New York and ing the Teachers’ As: | year and deliver lectures to the teach- | Submitted to the railroad interests Many of the teachers had ex- | fore being introduced in Congres | pressed a wish that Dr. Charters be | is not so strange that physical valua- It will no doubt be of inter-| tion amendments received their death ‘ers. secured. | est to many of our teachers to know Todd, of Warrensburg, will be with us again this fall. The Frisco Corn contest has been and will be | placed at Butler this year advooate of bet| ed by Roosevelt time and again. This He believes that |! «tl! calculation as to the reasonable- in fact, he| Vision and rate_ regulation of }ommended the taking of Next to Dr. Jordan was! of the railroads, Vital Washington News. By Clyde H Tevenner: Washington, June 13.—Indications are that Congress will pass, over the protest of the Democrats and Pro- Binders and Mowers. We are agents for the McCormick and Milwaukee ine indera vers. T A Palng s a ne gressives, a railroad regulation bill line of Binder reMowers, 7 able Rake _ Hu ny Rakes, that will not provide for a physical Ete., which are the two best lines of Harvesting Ma- valualion of railroads. chines made, and our prices are right f needing The millionaire colony of the Sen-/{~ anything in this line, dou’t fail to see us. The Mil- ate, some of the members of which own stock in railroads, fought des- perately to kill every physical valua- tion amendment proposed. waukee is the lightest binder made and that is what you will need, if thes: rains continue We also handle the Standard Mowers and the Dain Drag Rakes We also have a good stock of and Standa:d MeCor- mick Binder Twine and want to sell you. Cultivators. The interstate Commerce commis- sion, partisan Republican in make- up, has recommended physical valua- tion year after year. The commission, in its last:annual report, somewhat Sise! hopelessly, says: ‘The commission We still have a good stock of Busy Bee, New has, in previous reports, expressed Departure, Jno, Deere and Jenny Lind Cultivators. and it will pay you to throw away your old one, if it is wern out and buy one that will We also have a good stock of Cultivators Wagons and Buggies. the opinion that it would be wise for Congress to make provision for a physical valuation of railroad proper- ties, and desires to re-affirm in this report its confidence in the wisdom ‘of such a measure.” knock out the weeds, Disk and Two Row & Physical valuation was recommend- of ut least one Roosevelt policy that Don’t forget that we handle the best makes of r. Taft has deserted cold-bloodedly. Ww . rae | ; ‘ rt agons made, and our prices are r » ha The President has raised neither Sabla ur prices are right, We handle the Peter Schuttler, ing Davenport. In Buggies we have the Velie, Morris, Woodhull and Enger. Have just unloaded a car load of Velies, and they are beauties, Don’t fail to see us, if needing any kind of a vehicle, as we the goods, Groceries and Hardware. We have the stock Butler and our prices as low as the lowest. Bain, Mitchell and Roller 3ear- } Voice nor pen on behalf of physical valuation, Yet the Supreme Court, in the Ne- braska rate case, held that ‘the basis r value of the property being used for the As the interstate commerce commission does not know the value of a single rail- road, it must fix reasonable rates by | sheer guesswork, have the prices as well as of Groceries in We always best selected President's Bill Is Not) Progressive. As progressive legislation, a rail- keep a good stock o° Bran, Shorts, Corn Chop, road regulation bill without a_ provi- ee Ae . ‘ A {sion for physical valuation, is a farce. Tankage, Oil Meal, Corn, Baled Hay, Ete., and our stock of Hardware is the largest. in Don't fail to see our stock of Stoves, Perfection Oil Stoves, Bates county. Refrigerators, The national Democratic platform of 1908 declared for “efficient super- rail- | und to that end strongly ree- a physical Gasoline Ice Cream-Freezers, Hog and Field Fencing. We handle the American and Electric Weld Field Fence, and if needing anything in this line it pays you to see us. We also have a full line of Ste-] Gates and Want your and will make prices to get it. Dou't forget that we buy all. kinds of country produce roads” valuation. But when it is considered that Republican campaign fund on behalf that probably num- erous other railroad magnates ad- vanced equally large sums, and that basitiess and will pay the highest market prices in cash or trade for same. Lhanking you for past trade and soliciting a continuance of same and assuring vou that we will Yours truly, Phone 82 be- make prices to get it we are 'stabs even after passed by a goodly SERRE ee Ree! train of the Pennsylvania Railroad scheduled to make the trip in two hours and fifty minutes. The train will leave Jersey City at 10a.m., but Mr. Thompson will leave | at 7 o’clock—a handicap of three) hours being adjudged necessary to allow for the time he expects to lose while being arrested and bailed out. Meyer Livingston, of Klaw & Erlan- ger’s office, will accompany Thomp- son in the dual capacity of timer and custodian of the cash to be used as bail funds. Butler, in Montgomery’s second addition to known as the Aaron Ha property, for the purpose of erecting | thereon a High School Building, fur- nishing and equipping the same asa ‘modern high school for the use of the | district; and for the purpose of aut orizing the issuing of bonds of the | ‘said district in the sum of thirty-five | if the weather is against them. ‘thousand dollars ($35,000) from which eral have enrolled and more are go-, to raise money to purchase said site ing to do so in the near future. Dr. and erect said building, furnish and | Jordan expressed himself as being equip the same; said bonds to run for Very anxious to get down to Bates a period of twenty (20) years, but re- | county again and is very anxious that rt the Association. held on October 27th, the first day of 100. Agricultural College at Columbi h- | Worth $100. The Boys’ contest is doing a Each tives. Oh, American people, you must be more vigilant than you are if of a patriotic people! you would continue to deserve the name Bennett-Wheeler Merc. Co. Wind Wrecked Prison. of the United States, who advises that thpre be no congressional in- A twisting wind struck Jefferson This is a-prize that is worth trying for and is open to anyone between the ages of 16 and The prize is a scholarship in the ht Sey- | Clares the ultimate vestigation of the sugar trust because , City last Wednesday and wrecked to. the five of the buildings at the state peni- tentiary. No one gerously injured. Who Mr. Taft’s Visitors Are. Republican senators who most fre-) + quently visit the White House are: Aldrich of Rhode Island, acknowl-, — g,, edged congressional representative ne of Wall street. wunity’” Selah! - : ; was killed or dan- Ballinger Still Revengeful. . : : In a freakish way retary of the Interior Ballinger harwind au Re i" : ‘: Pa a , , the wind swept in from the river, un- indefinitely suspended’? H. Ty) 0 0e 4) ceo ; Ae ; ” |roofed “E”’ Hall, one of the new cell , Jones, special agent of the land of- husidinds j at Lodge of Massachussetts, who de- | ¢; ; ‘ p ._ buildings in which there were 800 ’ fice, who was associated with Louis | , A consumer to bealp . : ; convicts and six or eight guards. R. Glavis in the Alaskan coal claims. yay. saves i : : ~ Further on within the walled inclos- , ang who corroborated Glavis’ testi- |). gue ; : chairman of ure it twisted the roofs and fire walls * mony before the Ballinger investigat- | aa f New ii j the eb ri from two other large buildings, in- is Ing committe Jones ts the eleventh $ soaqee . : cluding “A’’ Hall. One of the build- man B: has removed. sie career r ings wrecked was used for a kitchen, dining hall, chapel and library. An- myth. Depew of New York, the board of directors of the York Central: and Hudson River rail- road, and a director of 62 other trans- portation and franchise corporations. This Republican Is Suspicious. In the debate on the President's deemable at the pleasure of the said ' the boys should do their best. district after five (5) years. Said special election will be held in \trict, in the city of Butler, Missouri. ‘education of Butler school district, | this 27th day of May, 1910. td. ~ W.0. ATKESON, Secretary of the Board. FRANK ALLEN, | President of the Board. | Hookworm is Easily Cured. St. Louis, June 13.—In the present dearth of labor in the South, Dr. C. W. Stiles, of the United States Public Health and Marine Hospital, told the ee to the convention of the OF COURSE YOU WANT Done by the order of the board of | |one has the same weather conditions ‘to contend with and one has as good the basement room at the northeast | an opportunity as another on this ac- ‘corner of the court house in said dis- | | count. | I have: been requested to give, | proval of rural schools. before the school will be considered for approval. eight months in length. county. must be at least forty dollars per month, (4) The board must have complied American Medical Association the} with the library law, section 8166 R. economic value of the results to be S. said, is unsanitary conditions and the | must be satisfactory. ~ n| f e| (9) The school buildings, grounds | Taft, the President's brother, were }jand outbuildings must be edequate, | Saemesty members of the law firm of | mea again, the things necessary for ap- 1 shall only | give the nine points that must be met | (1) The term must be at least 2) The teacher must hold a cer- tificate higher than a third grade, (3) The salary paid the teacher, Stephenson of Wisconsin and Gug- who are fre- quently referred to as having bought genheim of Colorado, their way into the Senate. other was a factory building occupied railroad regulation bill, Senator Dol- liver of lowa, Republican, said! ‘The | whole atmosphere of our present day | legislative life is saturated by the sus- Here are the Republican Senators | picion that even the English language with whom the President does not requires watching.” Wisconsin, : Dolliver and | Tariff Reductions Assure Lower Prices. Cummins of Iowa and Bristow of | * | | Kansas. \confer: LaFollette of Clapp of Minnesota, Rainey Has Right After All. “Attorney General former sugar trust attorney,” proper, after all. When Representative Henry T. Rainey of Illinois made the above reference to Wickersham some time ‘ago the latter professed to have been greatly outraged, and had a Wickersham, is quite What did he mean?, Whatever may be the principal cause of the increased cost of living, | and most people believe it is exces-| e protection), economists are prac- | ically agreed that the most practical | | way to lower the cost of living is to reduce the tariff on the necessaries of life. Homes. by the Star Clothing Company. The electric light wires and the penitentiary light plant were put out of commission for two or three hours. Only one man, a convict, was injured and that only slightly. The wind came about 7:30 last Wednesday night. The convicts had just been brought in from supper and | locked in their cells when the roar of | the storm was heard. It swept down j the river with the sound of rushing water. Accompanying the wind was \a heavy downpour of rain, a veritable * | deluge, that converted the streets of the c city into creeks and rivers. 15 Orphans ‘En Route to Missouri! The convicts beat the walls of the ; cells and some of them prayed aloud land shrieked. The guards who walk jin which he indignantly denied the (5) The State Course of oe or letter read on the floor of Congress} York, June 13.—Another/| the long halls did what they could to batch of little travelers left for Mis-/uiet them. It was several minutes souri. They are wards of the Chil-| after the storm passed before quiet drens’ Aid Society, en route to Cen-| Was restored. tralia, where they will meet foster! Fire broke out in ‘the Sullivan Sad- parents, who are to rear them as{dle Tree Factory and was burning members of their families. There | fiercely before it was discovered. were eight boys and seven girls, aged | This was extinguished without seri- from 10 to 15 years. ous damage to the buildings or to Sullivan's stock. It was necessary to bring out .a large force of convicts under heavy guard to fight the flames. There are about 2,250 persons in accusation. By cross- examining Representative ‘who was That Wickersham and Henry Ww. Notice. fotice is hereby given, that letters testa- paca ence the ao ria of Ao gree Donnobue, to the under- & Cadwallader, and Mr. i ‘Wakes ‘rev dows and pee SS —— ae cal ulnge, oe ed his share of the f — net eaid estate | constructed of heavy stone ong i ae ot ag wii date ota date of waldo other haar of beck The Soynn] oo: cupy another building entrance ‘Wickersham, former sugar trast aaa tothe prison stockade. This isa new ,” is, therefore, sngeee aneticn sey wil be buiit in the Dockery admin- for the Aierny: Coen: uae istration and was not damaged.