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Have you been here? If hol you are simp ping not but every iteer in ope big sa is oe so ee Bie ee sh . yourse Mesa yey Cal wait. You all need summer dress goods, embroideries, shoe e ; at these knocked down values. ‘The whole stock at L LESS AN WHOLESALE PR close. WAKE UP! Most magnificent bargains ever ay in Bates County. Values Unsurpasses! Prices Knocked to Smithereens!! | Ladies House Dresses This is-a snap. Ladies house and princess ready-to-wear dressés going for almost a song One lot serviceable dresses, regular $1.25 values, closing out at, each One lot ladies dresses, cheap at $2.98 to close at, each........ Bits a eutse Ra seor kas alge $1.48. One lot ladies house dresses, regular $4.98 values, while they last, each One lot very handsome embroideried - princess dresses, regular $8.98, now LOT | 15c Bleached, 36x17 - TURKISH TOWELS WHILE THEY LAST, EACH LOT 35c Opaque, Oil, WINDOW SHADES WHILEE THEY LAST, EACH 17¢ Childrens Dresses Percales, Gingham and Lawn Dresses to close out at about Half Price One lot percale and flanelette dresses 25c values to close, each One lot percale and gingham dresses 39c regular, to close, each One lot childrens dresses, regular 75c grade, to close, each. One lot childrens dresses, regular $1.25 values, to close, each A big lot wool dress goods 50c values, per yard Black taffeta silk, yard wide dollar values, per yard India linons, 7 per yard. 7 spools best machine thread for $3.50 counterpanes sale price each... WONDERFUL REDUCTIONS ON With each $5.00 purchase of Dry Goods you can buy 20 lhs Granulated Sugar $1 Bargains in GROCERIES Double fold cotton suitings yard wide, 25c values, yard........ssscssesseseeeeeee Apron check ginghams regular 7c, sale price yard One lot embroidered wash belts, pearl buckles worth 25c now.... Muslin Underwear, Table Linen, Towels and Bed Spreads A Bonanza Sale for the People! KEEP A COMING! IT SAVES YOU MONEY !! Hill’s Cash Store Shoes, one lot fuise $2.00 1-2c grade, Shoes, one lot lauies $3.00 and $3.50 values, per pair........+...-stvecsereeseenes Shoes, one lot men’s $2.25 work shoes, per pair.. - Misses white canvas slippers, $1.00 and $1.25 values, per pair. BUTLER, MISSOURI and $2. 5 values, Per Pair........scsecseeseteeeeesseees One lot ladies dress skirts $5.00 values, to close at. each. Shirt waists, tailored and fine lawn waists, regular $1.25, each Ladies 12 1-2c gauze vests while they last each. Skirt wide embroidery $1.25 values, per yard.......-csseseseereeeee aisecseiceen .B5¢ We pay 1¢ per dozen above market price for EGGS BRING YOUR PRODUCE We save you 50 per‘cent on MILLINERY if BATES ‘COUNTY SCHOOLS ~ | enumeration lists and estimates in the, AND TEACHERS | next 15 days and it is hoped that they | will be very careful about getting this | | right as it is of great importance. The So many inquiries are coming in reverse side of the estimate has a concerning the new law on apportion- ' sample estimate that is correct and is ment of public school funds that I| yiven as a sample to guide clerks in have decided to give the interpretation | making out theirs. These should be of the State Superintendent on this in by not later than May 15th as that which is as follows: is the last day they can legally be! This law takes effect September 1, filed. Some may have to be returned | 1911. It apportions $50.00 for each for correction and should this be true! teacher employed. Provided, that in they would necessarily be’late. any district in which the average daily ~ Smoky Row school in Mingo town- attendance is less than 15 pupils oniy | ship is going to build a new concrete $25.00 is apportioned and for every | school house, the first of the kind in| . teacher whose salary is $1000.00 or|the county. They have needed one| more per year $100.00 is apportioned. | for several years and I am pleased to) This takes about one-half of the state | know they are going to build a good} school fund. The remainder of the| /one. | fund is apportioned on the total num-| eat in we same ee are | By Supt P. M. Allison. * Orchards Escape Frost. | * Kern Boomed for Taft’s Job. Columbia, Mo., May 2.—‘“Practical-| Indianapolis, Ind., April 30.—The ly no damage was done to fruit of boom of United States Senator John any kind by the low temperature of | W. Kern for the Democratic nomina-| last night,’’ said Prof J. phe of ee at depart: tion for President is the most notable ment of the university. ‘In low| | development in the political arena of} places some especially tender plants Indiana. For the last two years |may have been nipped, but none of Governor Marshall, a close friend of} the fruit was injured.” | Mr. Kern, has been regarded as the The frost last night did not damage | candidate of the Indiana Democrats any fruit of the horticultural grounds, | for the presidency. ‘ \ according to Professor W. L. Howard. It is also noted that the boom for) Fires were lit in the strawberry beds, | Kern was started just after Governor but Mr. Howard said they probably | Marshall had issued a requisition for were not necessary. | John J. McNamara of the Interna- The coldest temperature was 33 de- | tignal Association of Bridge and | grees above zero at 5 o’clock this | Structural Iron Workers. morning. Burners were placed in; The boom had its birth at the Deni- readiness in the fruit orchards, and son Hotel at a meeting attended by) would have been used _had_the tem-|M. M. Mahoney, C. R. Cameron and| Ogelsby Seeks Re-Election. Jefferson City, Mo., April 30.— Chairman Rube Ogelsby of the Board of Railroad and Warehouse Commis- sioners expects to be a candidate to succeed himself at the Democratic lane next year. “Tf the people of the State, especi- ally the Democrats, think I will \strengthen the Democratic ticket I will be a candidate. Of course, I would like to succeed myself, ‘but I \am also interested in the welfare of the ticket. “T have always tried to be as fair to the railroads as I have been to the people. I have not done any ‘grand standing’ nor tried to do something out of the ordinary to cause comment. ‘I think Ihave been of service to Transfiguration of the Hog. Intelligence used in his breeding and care has raised the hog from the plane of the veriest savage, unsought except when hunted like any other wild beast, to that of a benefactor, contributing a wide variety of meats, among them thé most toothsome known -to the epicure, and other products essential to the best tables, to commerce and fo the trades. The hog’s disposition has yielded to the influence ofgood breeding and changed from*that of the ‘outlaw, ready’ for conflict with man or beast, t6 the peaceable temperament belonging with propriety to the barnyard resi- \dent. His conformation has been molded by skillful methods from bony, angular uncouthness into.a structure |of massive width, depth and thick- De endance for this year would have been about | ill tuild 4 a "age vuoture: They | $.011 for each days’ attendance. In| voted several times last year on this | general, a district can determine ap-} but were defeated each time on ac- proximately what it will get under | count of some misunderstanding as to| this law by counting $50.00 for each ; | what was best to do. teacher employed and $.011 for each; Mt. Vernon in Elkhart has ordered | _ day’s attendance by all pupils of the | a new slate blackboard and will have | district. \it ready for next year. perature fallen below 30. ‘other ‘Indianapolis Democrats. One | T. C. Wilson, secretary of the of the men behind the boom says it is State Board of Agriculture, said: ‘a real thing. He ‘insists the Kern “Ido not believe there has been | boostersare not “knocking” Marshall any serious damage. I have received | or any other Democrat, but they are no reports from over the State, but I/ for Kern first, last and all the’ time.: see no indications of damage here.”’| This,man also. says an orginization In Southwest Missouri, in theOzark | for Kern will be formed in every Mountains, clouds protected many county in the Strte and that a fight Some things that this New Law will | accomplish: 1, It will encourage longer terms of village and country schools. 2. It wil increase the attendance in all schools. 3. It will encourage the employ- ers. 4. It will reward local effort. 5. It will meet local needs. » 6 It will remove the gross in- % It will prevent fraud by basing County Graduation exercises will] ‘Nearly two. months have elapsed The patrons of the Tygard district have organized ‘a very interesting | Sunday school, which continues to grow in interest and attendance. The day school closed Friday, April 7th, | with a big basket dinner and program ‘ in the afternoon, ment of the proper number of teach- | Mf. L. W. Keele reports those who spelled all the words during the last month: as fol- lows: Opal Clossen, -“Eain, George Hoyle, Wayne W: and Joho Funk. will be made for the Indiana delega- tion. Other Democrats, in coinmencing sections. At Springfield, Mo., the lowest temperature was 33 dbgrees above zero. In other districts of the the people, and if I am re-elected will continue along the same line. There is no doubt that ‘some of the railroads would like to get rid of me, and there are some politicians who have no love forme. I don’t believe this of- fice should be used for either.” Mr. Ogelgby has been a member of the railroad board for nearly six years and the records show he has been the most active commissioner. He moved his residence to Jefferson Henry the War Department to meet emer- ; Meinen, Vivian Wolf, DeArmond | gency in case war should be declared “greene! the present | Funk, Katie Meinen, Jessie Herring|and the troops would have to enter | for: Ozarks in Missouri and Northern Ar- kansas there were freezing tempera- tures. Army Unprepared for War. Galveston, Tex., May 1.—Army of- ficers admit the unpreparedness of the field on a war footing. mobilize on the case, say the Governor's action ! City so as to keep in“touch ‘with the thak in the McNamara case has. put him | work of the department and devotes hess, affording a marvelous yield of pork and lard. Incidentally, by do- mestication and generations of breed- him for early maturity and quick fattening, the length of his intestines has been increased, it is claimed by. scientists, more than 130 per cent.— From Coburn’s “Swine in America.’’. ;On a Bug’s Eye View of the English Sparrow: A family of bugs were preparing to ea raid on some fruit trees, when one of thé younger bugs happened to out-of the running for President, re- | all of ad time to his official duties. __jnotice a parcel of English sparrows gardless of whether the Governor ee was Tight legally in his action. They | Pattening Cattle on Bluegrass say the Democrats will be afraid of| - Pasture. the burden he would have to carry Cattle fattened on bluegrass pasture all'over the eae. as. candidate | will make double the gain on the for. President. same grain for the first three months of the pasture season as compared - | with the late months of the feeding chattering around in the immediate vicinity of the tree. Then‘one of the young bugs turned in alarm to its mother and said: ‘Mother, we had better hike out from bere or those — us.” ‘kept right on heading for the tree, as. she calmly answered: som, thee eee eee © on a ee May 20th, | since orders -were. issued to f i at 2:00 o'clock in the after-|an army division of troops in Texas. | side treck down Mt will will extend school interest|noon. Mr. Green of the State Super-| There now are only a little more than the entire year hated of over intendent’s. office will deliver the | 13,000. men, when there should tbe includes several hun- saw, tpt Laseie kia on wee bug or a oigghan! ‘McNeal in Ruralist,.