The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, January 5, 1911, Page 3

Consolidated Statement of the Financial Condition of the Missouri State Bank and Walton Trust Company OF BUTLER, MISSOURI At the close of business on November 10, 1910, as reported officially to the Bank Commissioner of Missouri. i 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. .$212,711.81 . 337,078.49 928.82 12,128.74 37,303.36 4,000.00 152,796.86 $756,948.08 . LIABILITIES Capital Stock paid up................ AS rbCeq anne rinone aon ooo $110,000.00 Surplus Fund and Profits (earned). ... 105,897.12 Deposits. . 511,050.96 Bills Payable... 30,000.00 a Pita ss $756,948.08 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 every accommodation to customers that is in harmony with good banking rules. , * THE WALTON TRUST COMPANY always has money to loan on farms in Bates, Vernon, Barton, Cedar, Dade and Polk counties in Missouri, also in Oklahoma ai Abstract of Title to all lands and town lots in Bates coun! PAYS INTEREST ON nish abstracts, fees reasonable. IME DEPOSI for sale—A SAFE INVESTMENT FOR IDLE FUNDS. t lowest interest rates. that are kept oy Has a complete with the records daily. Fur- Always has Farm Mortgages SS ST MORE OR LESS FUNNY ‘The Pig is Mightier than the Pen.”’ With the above as a topic, Howard Raun, of the Manchester Press, deliv- ered an addrees before the Upper Iowa Editorial Association recently isn’t called upon to paint the virtues of a prominent citizen who earned his money by collecting notes with draw shave and who would have an attack of heart failure if suddenly separated | from:two bits of real money. “The farmer canstand on the street corner and roar about smallpox in ¢q man falling on a tin roof, and if he | to the other office. If he works until he is bowed over like a fat man with cramps people say he is too stingy to |hire help. .If he contributes $2.00to the W. C. T. U. and wears a boiled i shirt on Sunday, the banks call in his | notes with anoiselike a wooden-legg- which entitles him to a place among | town until his whiskers curl up like refuses to dig up for. the Woman’s: the rest of the humorists whose pic- tures are to adorn the walls of the Hall of Fame. Comparing the farmer with the newspaper man Mr. Raun said: , “7 am here to say that theman who owns eighty acres of Iowa land.and who has brains enough to till it makes the lot of country newspaper men look like the last sad remnants of a Dutch lunch. The farmer has the best of it all around. He is as inde- pendent as the American Express Company. He doesn’t have to write a soulful obituary over the remains of some peak-headed bloke who caved his wife’s ribs in witha grub stake and kept on display an exhibit of cut plug profanity that would make the efforts of a steamboat mate sound like | a meeting of Epworth League. He doesn’t have to go into raptures over the beauty of an open-faced bride with a cast of countenance that would blow out the gas, and he can say what he dum pleases about a candidate for congress, something no newspaper ever dared todo unless he had just lost the postoffice. The farmer isn’t required(to lie until his back teeth fall out, about the sterling manhood of a groom with ears like a cauliflower plant, and the brain power of a shoat. He doesn’t have to run a piano con- test for the most beautiful young lady in the community, make everybody sore about the winner, and then print a seventy-five-cent half tone of the beauty that looks like a tintype of grandma at the age of thirteen. There is nothing in the farmer’s cur- —-pieulum that obliges him paint the lo- cal soprano asa heaven sent song- ster, when in fact she has a voice that would make a guinea hen weep. He Would a STRONG, NEW, CLEAN and - GROWING BANK appeal to you? A bank that has seventeen directors, successful farmers and/business men; a bank that does not loan its funds to its officers or employees; gives you absolute safety for can meet the demands of the deserving borrower; a bank where the welcome a, man, the poor it is held in the strict- a bank that your funds, jand as welcom¢ as the rusted to What do You Think SHOULD BE CONSIDERED IN OPENING A Bank Account a lean man with the wind colic, and if e newspaper man runs a three-line em to the same effect his advertis- rs will land on him and make him man in the face and tell him to go| resemble a crushed fruitsalad. Ifthe; where there isno premium on coal printer opens his headabout the pres- ence of slot machines, penny ante and holes-in-the-wall, every candidate he| supports at the primary election will have about as much show of nomina- tion as a one-legged man in a hurdle race. The farmer can sit on his front porch and lambast the board of sup- visors from supper to breackfast, and if the newspaper man jars a board off the fence in that direction his appeal for the county printing will be about as effective as a live broil with tobas- co sauce. “The farmer can express his opin- ion of the new Methodist preacher in afirm and loud voice, on the four corners, and if the printer venturesto express the view that the preacher ought to be chasing a currycomb over a milk cow instead of filling a large room with thin ozone and mis- information, he will lose subscribers so fast that he won’t have the circula- tion of a cold-storage egg. The far- mer doesn’t have to impress a chaste kiss on the moist nose of his foreman in order to keep him from getting drunk on press day, neither does he have to get somebody to goon his note when the ‘devil’ carelessly feeds a pair of pipe tongs through thecylin- der press or the rats chew the lining off a new set of rollers. There is no law which compeis him to fill four columns of space with aclogged think- tank and a stickful of brain-food. “If the editor takes two days off in fishing in succession, his patrons call him a loafer and take their job work and everything -{ count. | Relief Corps supper he is branded as ,amiser and avoided as if he had the jhives. The farmer can look every | slack, and if the printer informs a man who tries to beat him out of four year’s subscription that he issocrook- ed that he couldn’t goto sleep ina | roundhouse he is liable to be reduced |to the consistency of acornstarch pud- ding. “In view of these facts, why is the profession overcrowded? There are several reasons. One is that man is a vain bird and is never happier than when he is yapping in linotype slugs. Many a man would rather dispense fourteen columns of crooked rhetoric and reformed: spelling once a week and live on ossified liver and iced tea, than shave the warts off a calf’s head and hold a pail for a sucking calf, even though he can fill up on green corn and side pork until he wheezes like an accordion with theasthma. There are others, iucluding a fair sprinkling of jack-leg lawyers and ham-strung school teachers, who have imbibed the notion that the editor’s life is soft- er than the head of a two-ply sport. These rush in with a $90 outfit and a wind pressure that would blister the lining of a steel range and filla long felt want with the grace and abandon of a hare-lipped hired girl at a beauty show. Nothing ever drives these startlings out of the profession except sudden death or the sheriff. Then |there are those misguided ambitious | politicians who believe that the easiest way to clasp a fat office to your bos- om is to become the editor of a news- paper. These usually fade away like a goat on astring bean diet, carrying through life a look of hopeless sorrow and remorse that would wring the tears from a porcelain egg. “Tf the newspaper man knew the joys and independence of the farmer's life, he would kick himself up toa peak un- til he looked like a rat-tailed file for continuing to make himself the door community. Gentle communion with the kine is far better than animated converse with an irate subscriber with fists like a premium ham and the disposition of a hyena. Letus re- form, brethren, and get close to na- ture’s heart with a three-tined pitch- fork anda self-feeding manure spread- er. We will live longer, or at any rate it will seem longer, as the mar- ried man said, and if the worstcomes to the worst, we can live on rutabag- as and rock salt, which we have no doubt, is an improvement over ‘pur S/customary diet. Then ‘Back to the} Soil’ will be the pass-word and ‘Soh Boss’ the grand hailing sign of dis-| tress. z ae Combination Life Scholarship in Central Business College of City, Mo., for sale at a su dis- E. D. 4 4t s-: Rich Hill, Mo., R@ 59. mat of the stiff-necked and ungodly | Bitters, in curing me of both a severe | BATES COUNTY SCHOOLS AND TEACHERS By Supt P.M. Alliron. We have not visited any schools notes will not be so long. Secretary Wilson has at last report- ed in part on the Farmers’ Institute Meetings, and they will be-held as follows: Amsterdam January 16 and 17; Hume 17 and 18; Rich Hill 18 and 19; Adrian 19 and 20; Butler 20 and 21. Mr. Jordan will be at each place the first day, and the other speakers ‘are to be supplied yet. We are ask- | ing for a Good Roads man, a man on Tiling and one on Live Stock. Miss | Bailey has promised to talk on Home Economics. Now these meetingsare | |this week and as a result the school UR WISH IS that 1911 may have ever had. And if you desire it to be )/ !for the benefit of any one who may care to attend, and it is hoped that the | |farmers will take an active interest | ;and attend each and every session. | | Teachers and pupils have very gen- | ‘erally taken vacation, and I feel quite | sure this is best and now that we be- | ‘gin again with renewed energies it is |hoped that the work is going to be | | more intense than ever; that teachers | | will begin to think about how they are going to leave their school for! next year. This has always been a great problem in our schools, and {many teachers in taking hold of a school for the first time find fault with the condition the former teacher left the school in. Now to be sure | parents and pupils have quite a work along this particular line and that is onthe attendance. Pupils who are out of school much of the time, can’t ‘expect to finish the work as well as {those who are in school every day. happiest year you X e, ra be the brightest and Nd a prosperous year We'll see (SPILIAGAGSALEAGAGAIIADA A 8 Pp give us your trade. _perity is yours. J. E. Williams CTA ePSASASASASASASASATSAS NY : S N N : ; a that pros- a . \/ Some Contributed Recipes. Commoner. 'The weather has been exceedingly | favorable during the months that jhave passed, and whenever this ' changes there will need to be a great- | er effort on the part of teacher, pupils }and parents to hold up this part ofthe | work and especially on the part of parents. I have knowrrchildren who were kept away froin school on ac- | count of weather conditions and be | out and exposed more than if they | had attended school. It is true that the health of children should be care- fully guarded but usually they are | | better off at school than many think. Miss Mary Davis, of Papinville school, reports the following pupils as having spelled all the words in the | two weeks spelling contest: Ruby |Hirni, Elliot Phelps, Edith Phelps, Shockey. Miss Anna Smiser, of Patty school, reports Ruth Jones, Calvin Strange, Nina French, Winnie LaFollet and Ralph Oummins. This school has gone to work, and they are not going to miss any during the next quarter. Miss Ella McCune, of Pleasant Val- ley in Elkhart tawnship, had only five absent marks during the last two |months and not any during the last month. This school does fine on all work as well as this. Miss Ida Dillon, of Wemot in Shaw- nee township, reports no tardies for the quarter just ended. They have had several absent, but this is due to sickness in the district, one pupil having died of diphtheria. | Miss Elsie Sullins, of Liberty school in Deer Creek township, reports three tardies for the last quarter and a good attendance. Miss Laura Bolin, of Miller school in Mt. Pleasant township, reports $22 as the proceeds of a pie supper which they are using to equp their school. | Ruth Vandruff tias not been absentor | tardy a day this year. This is one of our very best schools, and Miss Bolin |is doing fine work for them. Solves a Deep Mystery. “J want to thank you from the bot- tom of my heart,” wrote C. B. Rader, of Lewisburg, W. Va., “for the won- | derful double benefit I got from Elec- | case of stomach trouble and of rheu- matism, from which I had been an almost helpless sufferer forten years. It suited my case as though made just for me.”’ For dyspepsia, indigestion, jaundice and to rid the system of kid- ney poisons that cause rheumatism, Electric Bitters has no equal. Try them. Every bottle is guaranteed to satisfy. Only 50c at F. T. Clay’s. Ella Burch, Irvin Coyle and John} Fresh oysters: should be washed and drained well by putting into a colander, then laid out on a soft, dry cloth for the absorption of whatever moisture remains; then have in the «| skillet deep boiling fat, and roll the oysters, one at a time in properly salted and peppered corn meal; drop ‘each into the fat, let plump up and cook fora very few minutes, lift out and lay on a platter, serving at once. If oysters are cooked too long, they are spoiled and indigestible. Another way to cook oysters is to saute them—prepare as above, roll, in meal or cracker crumbs and egg, lay them on a well buttered griddle and brown on both sides. Serve at | once. ‘may be dipped in a batter made of one egg, salt and pepper to taste, and finely rolled cracker crumbs, and fried in deep fat by spoonfuls. Fried Oysters—Half a pint of nice ‘oysters; two eggs, half a pint of milk, If the oysters are small, they. ‘sufficient flour to make batter, salt and pepper to taste. Barely scald the oysters in their own liquor, lift and lay them on a cloth to drain thoroughly. Break the eggs into a basin, mix the flour with them, add the milk gradually with seasoning, and put the oysters in the batter. Have deep fat in the skillet, and drop into this the the oysters, one at a time, and when done—which will re- quire but a very little cooking, lift each one with a sharp-pointed skewer and lay on a napkin, serving at once. Spiced Beef—Cook slowly a piece of lean beef until all bones will drop out, and have the water well boiled down. Remove all bits of bone, re- | place in sufficient liquor to cover it, add salt, pepper, allspice, cloves, cin- namon, each a scant half teaspoonful. Let lie in this until thoroughly fla- vored, then press the meat in a crock or large bowl, pouring the small ‘amount of liquor over the meat to form a jelly, after weighting the meat down just sufficient to hold it to- gether. This is fine for lunch. 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