The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, March 23, 1911, Page 4

‘We illustrate here a few of the beautiful New Coats and Suits. The garments themselves look very much better and we want you to come and see them. They are all sold at popular prices. Coats from $10 to $20. Suits $12.50 to $25. Dresses $3 to $17.50. Skirts $3.98 to $15, and we fit each garment free in our own dress-making department. Visit our Shoe Department And see the new Spring styles in ‘‘Walker’s Specials” for ladies and misses. ‘‘Buster Browns” for boys and girls. All first-class goods at popular prices. More New Rugs, Carpets, Mattings, Curtains, Linoleum in our carpet department. Lowest We are selling lots of those 18c soft-finish ginghams for 12%c. prices and best styles guaranteed. pay you big to come and see them. THE QUAL ITY STORE If you haven’t purchased yet it will “Packards” for men. Lots of Remnants of Tabie Linen, Denims, Ginghams, Crash, Percales, etc., on sale at prices to make them sell quickly. Walker-McKibben’s. | With 20,000 American troops mo-| FOUND OIL BEARING ROCK. ;government must convince the jury} Uncle Mun and Dot. Women Stripped for Customs The Butler Weekly Times’ Pr pecihl aidan eoaiinaaia ed , Printed on Thursday of each week at Nattzger, with his Knowledge Of The achievements of ‘Uncle Mun bilized at the Mexican border, prepa- | affairs of the world, couldn’t help’ pave long inspired the amazement of rations being made for naval manouv- | Inspection. J. D. ALLEN, Proprietor ROBT, D, ALLEN, Editor and Manager Traces of Oil Found Digging Well on Arthur Duvall Place. A dark gray. rock formation, ap- ers in southern waters, and companies ; ofinational guards allover the country preparingto go to the front, the eyes | Entered at the Post Office of Butler, Mo., as, Of the American people are turned to second-class mail matter. parently saturated with crude‘oil, has ithe Mexican uprising. What it all, been found at adepth of 50 feet on the means we shall no doubt learn in good ; time; but when the real reason is dis- ‘closed, we doubt very much if it will iprove to be that the regulars and -guardsmen were sent to the Mexican frontier, armed with rifles and ball cartridges, merely for the purpose of drilling. PRICE, $1.00 PER YEAR DEMOCRAT TICKET. For County Saperintendent of Schools P.M, ALLISON STRIPPING WOMEN TO “PROTECT | Arthur Duvall form three miles north \of this city. Wm. Henry who is | digging a well on this farm, discov- ered the oily rock. Although he has been engaged in digging wells in 'this vicinity for some years, he says | that this is the first time he has found ‘a formation similar to this. The INFANT INDUSTRIES.”’ A sad commentory upon the depths “to which American Chivalry has been allowed to sink in the mad scramble for the almighty dollar was in the form of Associated Press dispatches {well has now reached a depth of Booker T. Washington, the well| | known negro educator was assaulted and soundly trounced in a respectable |New York apartment house by the; |husband of a woman who alleges | Booker T. had insulted her. Booker week, it was stated that the wife and daugh- ter of a prominent gentleman, of Sa- vannah, Georgia, had been stripped and searched by custom officials in New York, because it was suspected | that they were in possession of arti- cles upon which the tariff had not been paid. § Truly we are a nation of gold wor- shipers. First, we enact tariff laws in order that our trusts, which are grinding life and ambition out of the consumer, may wax fat, and then in fear that some article may come into this coun- try without a tribute to the money- god paid therdon, we strip and search defenseless women. Regardless of the rights and wrongs of the tariff; regardless of whether it protects American capital or Ameri- can labor, or both; regardless of all |dore Roosevelt as president, delight- | ed to honor by entertaining as an equal. | On Tuesday, March 28 elections for | township officers will be held all over ithe county. Exceptionally strong} tickets have been nominated by the Democrats every where, and all Dem- ocrats in every township should loy- ally turn out and work for the ticket. | DEMOCRAT TICKET. ! Mt. Pleasant Township—Election Tues- day, March 28. Trustee—Geo. Henry. Collector—Louis Radford. nearly 55 feet and the oil signs are growing stronger. Mr. Duvall says itis his intention to have the digging continue to a depth of 60 feet and then put a drill to work. in this vicinity there is hardly room for doubt, and in all probability it is simply a question of going deep }enough. Oil and gas in considera- ble quantities have been found south |’ and west of the county, and indica- tions would point that Bates county is well within the oil and gas belt. “It’s My Greed for Money!” Wichita, Kas.—‘‘I have been a fool. | My greed for money did it.’’ Those were the words of L. S. Naftzger, millionaire Wichita banker, after he was arrestdd, according to the testimony of J. A. Elvin, post- office inspector. having the guilty knowledge, especial- | ly because there were scores and! hundreds of stampbooks, special de-- livery stamps and collect postage; | stamps in the four lots sold him and; found in his possession. | Convict Bill is Signed. Jefferson City, Mo., March 20.— Governor Hadley signed the anti- convict labor bill, which provides for the gradual abolition of the existing system in the prison of permitting the convicts to work at contract prices for private manufacturers. Beginning a year from April 300 of the convicts will be put. to work manufacturing articles to be used only in State institutions. An addi- the younger readers of the Sunday St. Louis Republic. One week, threatened by hostile Indians while skating. Mun saves himself and Dot by circling about | until a big disk is cut in the ice and the Indians fall to an unwelcome bath |and even a more fearful fate. On ‘another week, his slaughter of the furious and famishing bear with an \icicle projectile so moves the beholder 'to admiration that curiosity as to why he permitted himself to be ‘caught in |such a predicament with a gun but ‘without ammunition is subordinated. |On another week, he helps out the ‘occupants of a stalled automobile by | burning rubber smoke rings and put- | ting them on the wheels for the facile :and_inexpensive extinction of tire- tional 300 will be farmed out to vari- Each year an equal number withdrawn from the contract factories until the entire system has been elim- inated. A delegation of representatives of organized labor, composed of John T. Smith, business agent, of the Indus- trial Council of Kansas City; W. J. Morgan of the Engineers’ Union of Kansas City; Peter Beisel of the St. Louis Trades and Labor Councll; J. T. Fitzpatrick, chairman of the Legis- lative Committee of the Missouri Federation of Labor, and Representa- tive Charles W. Fear, conferred with Governor Hadley before he signed the bill. The government has practically) Warden Henry Andrae of the Peni- closed its case against Naftzger on the | tentiary also attended the conference. charge of disposing of stolen postage | ali agreed as to the feasibility of the stamps. One or two witnesses are plan. The labor leaders asked for the pen | troubles. Few Missourians have failed, of course, to notice the striking resm- blance bétween this resourceful figure ‘of the colored supplement and the Honorable H. S. Hadley. The pose he assumes after his sucessive triumphs as he inquires of Dot. “Now what do you think of your Uncle Mun?’ is especially Hadley- esque. With Missouri in the wonder- jing Dot role, that’s Uncle Mun Had- jley’s one best stunt. He is uncle to ‘all of us, grown-ups as well as the youngsters, Why be so ill-natured to assert.that the dangers from which he saves us are mostly imaginary and that the mechanics of his amazing Aren’t the rescue stunts. always New York.—The wife and daugh- ter of Joseph Hull of Savannah, Ga., one of the wealthiest and most in- fluedtial men in the South, were re- quired to disrobe in their stateroom aboard the steamship Lusitania while a woman customs inspector, acting on a mysterious tip, subsequently found to be false, made a search for a diamond necklace thought to have been purchased abroad. The search proving futile, Mrs. Hull and Miss Hull were allowed to proceed to their hotel, where another daughter, Miss Nina Hull, convales- cing from an attack of typhoid fever, had preceded them without having been subjected to search. The necklace rumor dismissed, customs inspectors scrutinized the 5 and, charging under- valuation of articles by Mrs. Hull and the daughter, Eliza, seized the articles: in question. The mother and daughter had acted in good faith, but their explanations were not considered satisfactory to Collector Loeb, and the articles were seized, They consist entirely of wearing apparel, and will be held until “the home value,”’ that is, the foreign cost, plus duty, is paid. The Ozark County Times advises that the Bible contains 3,566,480 let- ters; 810,697 words; 31,175 verses; 1,189 chapters and 66 books. The longest chapter is‘the One Hundred and Nineteenth Psalm; the shortest and middle chapter is the One Hun- dred and'Seventh Psalm. The mid- Eighteenth Psalm. The of ene pale ar os benny five ed Redistricting Bill Passes. which the Governor signed the ~ a club of State-wide ” ory name is in the eighth chapter ‘ m, = scope ih, nation should not for oné day permit| The House passed the senatorial re- they said, |to-be formed, we are told, to “boost to survive an institution which allows | districting bill, jointly prepared by