The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, December 1, 1910, Page 5

[TREES SOFTEN SEVERE WINDS | Evergreens Planted on West Side of Yards and Buildings Break Force of Wintry Blasts. A double row of evergreens as a i windbreak is of equal value for pro [tection with a board fence of the same} | height. The general method of res | years. jing evergreens around feed yards, — | houses, gardens and small fruit or- | There are thousands ot WHEN THE GROUND BURNS Exciting Race With Winter Won by Red Cross. Consolidated Statement of the Financial Condition of the Missouri State Bank and Walton Trust Company OF BUTLER, MISSOURI Scott's Emulsion | is the original—has been the standard for thirty-five | | Building ‘*Bees’’ Break Records---New At the close of business on November 10, 1910, as Bank Commissioner of Missouri. RESOURCES Loans and Personal Security Farm Mortgage Loans Over Drafts Stocks and Bonds. Banking House and Lot. Furniture and Fixtures and Bates County Abstract Books Cash on Hands and in Banks TOTAL LIABILITIES Capital Stock paid up........... ccc ee cece ener ee ee eee ee ee nens Surplus Fund and Profits (earned). Deposits. Bills Payable TOTAL every accommodation to customers that is in harmony with good bankin, Cedar, Dade and Polk counties in Missouri, also in Oklahoma at lowes’ Abstract of Title to all lands and town lots in Bates coun’ nish abstracts, fees reasonable. PAYS INTEREST ON for sale—A SAFE INVESTMENT FOR IDLE FUNDS. IME DEPOS THE MISSOURI STATE BANK receives deposits, loans money and does a general banking busi- ness. The patronage of the public is solicited, promising absolute safety for your deposits and granting THE WALTON TRUST COMPANY always has money to loan on farms in Bates, Vernon, Barton, that are kept u ITS, reported officially to the $212,711.81 337,078.49 928.82 12,128.74 37,303.36 4,000.00 152,796.86 $756,948.08 | | | $110,000.00 aaaan 105,897.12 . $11,050.96 -<.__ 30,000.00 $756,948.08 g rules. | t interest rates. Hasacomplete || with the records daily. Fur- Always has Farm Mortgages == POUNDS CANDIES Good, mixed candy at Broken taffy Taffy bar candy Good assorted flavor stick candy Pure sugar stick candy 10c; 3 Ibs. 25¢ 10c; 3 lbs. 25 15c; 2 lbs. 25c Christmas Boxes for Churches and Schools Special Prices to Teachers . AND Sunday School Committees Mail orders filled at same price as if you were here to select. Write us for prices and assortment list. | All kinds of fancy candy 15c; 2 lbs. 25c; 10 lbs. $1 ? A list of our varities will appear in next week’s issue. We have the largest stock of candy ever ship- ped to Bates county—10,000 lbs. YOURS, Norfleet é Ream Phone 144 TheOnly Independent Grocery and Nardware Store. btn BUTLER. MO. West Side Square A wagon costs too much and is expected to run too Jong for you to stick ot few dollars. on the price, We Offer You THE MILBURN WAGON The Wagon of Quality It costs a few dollars more than others but it is worth more ‘f qrecy bit walle and eoting thom cn a mera” McFARLAND & SONS Yowll want a Milburn now or * Gfter awhile, Come in and get some pointers. Fruit Cakes. Many people like to make up fruit) | cake to last the winter through. The | following recipes will all keep well, | jand it is none to early to make up cake for Christmas and New Years. 5 President's Fruit Cake. One cup butter and two of sugar, | | beat together until creamy, add five beaten eggs, one cup molasses, one ' tablespoon cinnamon, teaspoonful | ‘cloves and one of nutmeg and one |and one-half pounds raisins seeded, | one and one-half pounds washed cur- ; rants, and. one-fourth pound citron, \finely shredded. Mix citron and fruit with five cups of pastry flour, and add to other ingredients, stirring thoroughly. This makes four loaves. line four deep tins with buttered pa- per, pour in the batter and bake | slowly for two hours, or a little long- \er if necessary. Remove from tins, leave on the paper and when cold, put in a stone jar and cover closely. Should not be cut for six weeks and | will keep for one year. This requires | neither soda, baking powder or milk. Excelsior Fruit Cake. Two pounds raisins, seeded and | chopped; two pounds currants, wash- ed and dried; half pound citron, slic- |ed very thin; 12 eggs beaten light; | one pound each of butter and brown sugar, beaten to a cream; one pound flour; one cup molasses, into which |Stir level teaspoonful soda, one cup | fruit jam. Teaspoonful each all-spice, cloves, mace and tableSpoonful cin- namon. Mix fruit with flour and stir |all well together. Baked in three or | four paper lined tins for about two | hours in moderate oven. Just before putting in stone jar pour half cup ‘grape juice over each cake.—By |Mrs. W. H. T. Raised Fruit Cake. | One cup bread sponge, one cup sugar, one cup molasses, one cup butter and lard mixed, three eggs, half teaspoonful each cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg, one cup each raisins, currants gad citron. Tea- spoonfuksoda stirred in the molasses. Seed, chop and flour the fruit, mix all ingredients and add flour to make thicker than ordinary cake. Fill pans half full, let rise and bake one hour.—By Mary C. Wedding Cake. One pound brown sugar, one pound butter, one and one-half) pounds of flour, 12 eggs, one pound, currants, dredged in flour, two pounds seeded raisins, half pound | pound citron sliced thin, half pound figs chopped, same of dates, one pound almonds blanched andchopped, one glass jelly, one cup jam, cup pre- served cherries if you have them, wine glass grape juice, teaspoonful extract cinnamon, two teaspoonful | grated nutmeg. Beat whites of eggs | separately. Mix rest of ingredients | well and fold in whites of eggs last. Bake in three loaves for four hours in slow oven. Will keep a year and is very rich. Do not slam the oven door when baking or dance on the floor.—Ruralist. é Brighten up your home by ing yoar curtains, ru; * Xe. with Purkaw EADS. No trouble to use, | chards is to plant the trees in double or triple rows, so that.there will be no space between the trees for the | wind to find its way through. | When planted on the west side of the yards or buildings they soften the | Scotch Pine Grove. rigors of winter and add many dol- lars worth of value to the appearance of the farm, A large number have been unsuc- cessful in growing these trees, but | with proper care and the right meth- ods of starting the young trees It Is quite easy to start an evergreen tree. The only condition of succes Is that their roots must be kept moist. Foreign varieties, when imported, are not so sure to thrive and do as well as the native trees. When trees of small size are started they should of drought, and shaded with brush or cornstalks a few inches high--above the tops of the plants—-covering the surface with leaves or straw or old hay-—also a cov ering of the tops of the young plants in winter will insure their wintering in good condition When they are firmly established ‘with new and fibrous roots they are ready to be set out for good, and It will be found best to set In rows about six feet apart and from three to four feet in the row and give good care and cultivation as would be given a garden for two or three years until the trees, shade the ground. | In all cases cultivate well the fore part of the season and keep down the weeds and grass. By close planting an upright growth is procured, and | as the trees become too thick they | may be thinned out and the best ones left until they have obtained their growth. | Nut trees are also worthy the at- tention of all farmers and in many! cases they will be found profitable to| the grower and easy to get started | Black walnut, chestnut, hickory, and butternut trees are propagated by gathering the nuts in the fall before they have become dry and mixing them with a layer of dirt of a depth so that they will not freeze, and plant ing in April in nicely prepared ground as deep as the diameter of the nut, either where they are to grow or in| a row in the garden—-in the latter case they should be taken up the first winter and buried beyond the power of the frost. If one-half of the tap roots are pruned befeze setting the young trees, the lateral roots wili put forth a more vigorous growth and the trees are more sure to make a good, healthy growth. It is to be hope® that trees of this kind will receive more atention in the future than they have in the past, as there are few farms that do not have fence rows or waste lands that} could be made useful by planting to some variety of nut bearing trees. | | tations which |F. D. No. 8 | so-called “just as good” Emulsions, but they are not—they are simply imi- are never 'as good as the original. They are like thin milk SCOTT'S is thick like a heavy cream. If you want it thin, do it yourself— with water — Sut dont buy it thin. POR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS Send 10c., name of paper and this ad. for our beautiful Savings Bank and Child's Ske teh Book, Each bank contains a Good Luck Penny, SCOTT & BOWNE, 409 Pearl St., New York Johannas & Sons Sell Implement Business. The big implement house of N. |be set tn small beds convenient for Johannas & Sons, with branches at | watering In case Nevada and Sedalia, has been sold to Hust & Brundage of San Antonio, Texas. The building was disposed of some time ago to Texas parties, but the stock was reserved at that time. Now, by this latest deal the entire stock is sold also. The stock embraces a very large line of wagons, buggies, farm imple- ments, garden tools, shelf and heavy hardware, guns, ammunition and an indescribable lot of other goods be- longing to a large and general hard- ware and implement store. The deal was closed last Tuesday and Mr. Harry Gray of Fayette, Mo., is in charge and will conduct the busi- ness for the new firm, whom we wish the greatest of success, as we do all other Rich Hill firms.—Rich Hill Review. Saved From Awful Death. How an appalling calamity in his family was prevented is told ty A.D. McDonald, of Fayetteville, N. C., R. “My sister had con- sumption,” he writes, ‘‘she was very thin and pale, had no appetite and seemed to grow weaker every day, as all remedies failed, till Dr. King's New Discovery was tried, and so completely cured her, that she has not been troubled with a cough since. Its the best medicine I ever saw or heard of.’ For coughs, colds, la- grippe, asthma, croup, hemorrhage, all tronshial troubles, it has no equal, 50c, $1.00. Trial bottle free. anteed by F. T. Clay. Guar- Home-Cured Ham is Topic. Columbia, Mo., Nov. 27.—A clarion call for home-cured hams and the re- generation of the farm smokehouse is being prepared by the State Board of | Agriculture, to be issued within a few days, in the heart of ‘‘hog-killing season,’’ in the form of a bulletin on a j “Butchering Hogs on the Farm.” The world can never have too many | apples | Soil for peach growing should be| a good warm, sandy loam type. Whexever you find cross branches | rubbing each other cut one of them) owt Careful selection is more than half the battle in the keeping’ of fruit over winter See that the ladders are safe before | using them. Unsafe rounds may mean | broken legs. The main reason why fruit does not | keep well is because wormy and rot- ten fruit is stored with it. The high-headed tree {s easier cul-| tivated, but the low-headed tree! makes the fruit picking easter. | The ground dries out more quickly | under a high-headed tree and more | fruit is blown off by the wind | The jar of springless wagons, or of | the sleds used in some localities, has caused more damage to fruit than growers realize No matter how still the day, better take down your ladders at night. The wind may come up before morning and spoil a good ladder in no time Flowers should have a friable, very fertile soll in which to grow. They often make a brave display in rather poor soll but they appreciate good care. Plenty of stable manure cultivation and judicious pruning will, almost without exception, bring back to bear. ing an old orchard that seems to be beyond hope. Some of the late blooming plants, such as asters and nasturtiums, may be lifted and potted before frost and kept alive and blooming indoors for “averal weeks. | ties. W. L. Nelson, assistsnt secretary of the board, said: “Many a farmer ships his hogs and ; | then buys the meat he uses at home. This is wasteful, and every farm should be its own packing plant, with asmokehouse and butchering facili- The bulletin to be sent out will tell how to kill hogs in the best man- ner, how to cut up the meat so as to get the most attractive looking pieces and how to cure hams at home.” There will be 5,000 copies of the bulletin mailed out to Missouri farm- ers and to the regular correspondents of the State Board of Agriculture. To Sell. I have recently purchased from the heirs of the late William Decker their fine farm of 160 acres, two miles north of Butler and two miles south of Passaic. I bought this farm be cause of its many desirable features, and at a low price. The land is good and lays just as | you would have it—neither too flat nor rough 40 acres blue grass pas- ture. Improvements are good. House with eight rooms, with cellar under kitchen. Barn 40x40; feeder and crib 40x36; other necessary outbuildings, windmill, two wells, cistern. Beau- tiful lawn with plenty shade. Some fruit. Eighty rods to school. .. I want to sell this farm at once. If you want a home on the prettiest farm you can buy in Bates county, see me first. | JESSE E. SMITH, 5-2t Butler, Mo. Houses go up Like Magic. One of the strangest facts observed in the forest fires which occassional- ly sweep over the woods of Northern Michigan and Minnesota is the burn- ing of the ground. Falling leaves, bark and twig and dying plant life gradually accumulate in the forest. The rains and dense shade keep the mass damp. Mosses grow on the sur- face of the decaying vegetation. The half-rotted stuff settles down and hardens. Trees spring up and their roots take hold in the peaty substance. Then comes a season of drouth, and the dampness slowly evaporates. A hunter woodman or farmer builds a fire, or a railway engine drops a spark. The dry surface of the ground is ignited and a slow can- cer of fire eats deep among the roots of the trees, smoldering for weeks or months, Then one day a strong wind springs up. The trees, under- mined by the fire, topple over, their roots throwing out showers of sparks and burning masses of tinder-like material. Flames burst out in every direction, and, like a flash, a forest fire is in full sweep. The forest fire which occured in Northern Minnesota a few weeks ago, broke out in many places at once, because many of these smould- ering fires were simply waiting the gale which sprang up on October 7th. In this fire about 1,600 square miles lof country were burned. The thriv- ing villages of Beaudette, with a pop- }ulation of 1,200, and Spooner, with | 850, were swept out of existence in jan hour. Hundreds of ‘‘homestead- ers," carving their farms out of the forests, lost their homes and saved their lives by lowerin themselves in- to wells. or plunging into streams or ponds. Thirty lives were lost, and 3000 persons were left homeless, with food, live stock, farm crops and machinery all gone. When the agents of the American Red Cross reached the burned dis- trict they realized that winter was at hand and that their greatest task was the swift construction of a large num- ber of shelters. It was a big job, and it had to be done quickly. Here is the manner in which the Red Cross met the emergency: Two simple designs for houses were prepared, of one and two rooms respectively. These required only a few standard sizes of lumber, and tar paper took the place of shingles and ‘plaster. Lumber was rushed in from Canada, the Secretary of the Treas- ury at Washington having waived the custom duty on supplies required by the Red Cross. A half dozen car- penters were hurried to the scene. Then “‘building bees’’ were organ- ized, with one carpenter in command of each. A half dozen neighbors with saw and hammer, would help Ole Olson build his house. Then all including Olson, would move along and build Hans Hanson’s house, and soon. The speed with which these | houses were erected, where several “bees’’ were “humming” at. the same time was startling. While this going on the Red Cross was hurry- ing into the fire district from Duluth and St. Paul and Minneapols big or- ders of doors, windows, stoves, bed- ding, chairs, kitchen utensils and pro- visions. As rapidly as the little houses were ready they were furnish- ed and stocked up with food and the families moved in. It was a despeaate race with winter and the Red Cross won. While the | race was at its swiftest there was not ja busier spot between the oceans \than this black and desolate stretch country along the northermost rim of Minnesota. Much remains to be done, but nobody is going to freeze or starve. The generous people of Minnesota |sent in supplies by the carload, and, what is more, the sent $75,000 in hard cash to the Red Cross for the help of the hardy and brave people who are starting all over again with characteristic American pluck. q or A man is going about the streets of Daytona, Fla., says the Messenger of that place, claiming to be John the Baptist. He has light hair, chin whiskers, and looks like a steamboat deck hand. We desire to warn those of our readers who may be inclined to trust him that he is not what he pur- ports to be. We have taken great pains to look the matter up, and find, as a result of our research, that John the Baptist is dead.