The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, October 26, 1911, Page 4

ee solid colors. TAN SS 7 SS More New Shoes and mises. Packards for men. Buster Brown for boys and girls. Budd’s for babies. We do not attempt to sell anything but good shoes and at popular prices and you will find it pays to buy the good kinds. mon brands, being priced are made just as good. HERE ARE SOME THE QUALITY STORE SPECIALS Standard L L Unbleached Muslin for........... One lot 12%c Bleached Muslin for One lot 10c Bleached Muslin..................... 25 Skirts, assorted, to close, worth up to $10.00 for WALKER-McKIBBEN’S Never before have we been able to offer New, Stytish Suits almost at the beginning of the season at such low prices. Our fortunate purchase of beautiful suits at a fine discount from one of the largest manufacturers made it possible to offer to you at a great saving in price. You will find in this lot a fine selection of choice, stylish mixtures, which are all the rage now, in tans and grays, also We are selling them at $19.50, $17.50, $15, $12.50, $10. The Suits we offer at $19.50 are the high grade $25 Suits. By all means take advantage of this sale and secure a choice suit. We show over 200 styles of Novelty Coats for ladies and misses, without question the greatest stock of good coats in Bates county priced from $7.50 to $25.00. Childrens coats from $1.48 to $10.00. a Our showing of fancy coats at $12.50 and $15.00 is especially strong. . Coracul Coats from the best makers $10.00 to $20.00. d New models in skirts in blacks, blues, fancies from $5.00 to $15.00. This season’s styles in furs from $2.48 to $25.00. Remember, we only have one price—this fully protects you. This week we have been filling up our stock of Shoes This is Munsing Underwear Time with the very newest things in Walker’s Specials for ladiss All kinds for Men, Women, Children It is a common saying by those who use Munsing Underwear, “Well, these suits have lasted me two years (and sometimes three) aand I will not buy any other kind.” although they are so good they are no higher in price than the com- from 50c up. You will never know what underwear satisfaction is unless you use Munsing. We are exclu- sive agents. Do not accept the “just as good kind” because none We sell more every year and The Butler Weekly Times “mies thant renara to the sal: A RESPONSIBLE POSITION. lw ASHINGTON LETTER. ‘ | standing of said enemies, have been October 23, 1911. , ___Printedon Thursday of each week replaced by ladylike young gentlemen | Editor Times, a J. D. ALLEN, Proprietor |clad in dainty, white uniforms, danc-; Butler, Mo. |Special Washington Correspond- J ROBT, D, ALLEN, Editor and Manager | ing pumps, and the latest London so- | My dear Sir: Kntered at the Post (tive of Butler, Mo. as Clety simper. The cutlass of old) For the very kind and generous ent of The Times. second-class mail matter. seems to have been replaced by the defense of myself in a recent editor-| py ciyae u. Tavenner. PRICE, $1.00 PER YEAR __—- | dress sword, the naked blades of | ja) in your r Idesire to expre: bind vee ee _..... | Which would blush with shame were “5 phy my Bye aa a, aye ic Tariff isn’t the only thing the Re- they used for any more serious pur-| so far as I have seen, the only article | PUblicans are afraid of in the coming TROUBLE AHEAD FOR SOCIAL | pose than in assisting in the forma-|in a Democratic paper that referred|C@™paign. There is another item EXAMINING BOARD. | tion of a fancy figure at a ‘‘German.”’ unfavorably to my appointment as that is giving them worry. They are t Again the nation has been saved About the only fights with which the | state capitol commissioner. wondering how they can answer the and again by our navy, but in a man-| Middies are allowed to familiarize Now, as ever before, the Democrat- charges of corruption, incompetency, i ner so different from that in which | themselves with are ‘‘tea fights’’ and ic press and the Republican press also, and maladministration that have been | the saving operations were per-|the only engagements which are al- has been most kind and generous to brought out and proven by the vari- formed in the past that we, out here} lowed to take place are thosegwith me. The appointment as state capi- | US Democratic investigating commit- Ngee in the uncivilized Mississippi Valley, | society belles, and then only when tol commissioner came to me without | tees can hardly recognize the handiwork | the young lady is questian is an heir- any solicitation on my part and Republican leaders realize that this of the gallant old navy of history. | ess if the Middie happens not to have against my protest and I féel even problem is going to present excep- And this time saved, not from soja private income, which is usually now that I made a mistake in accept- tional difficulties by reason of the commonplace a danger as that of a/ the case. ing the position as I enter upon its|f#ct that when the Democrats started foreign foe or an invading enemy,| The writer knows of a young mid- duties and begin to realize how oner-| ‘© investigate those same Republicans : but from an insidious monster which | shipman, coming from hardy Ken- ous and responsible its duties will be. shouted in derision, declaring there 4 § struck at the bulwark of our present'tucky mountaineer stock, who re- However, I am going to do my best) W25 nothing to investigate; that un- q A imperialistic government, our much- | ceived his early training solely from and with the kind approval of such der Republican rule the affairs of the i worshipped ‘‘400."" The powers that|his parents in a cabin back in the| friends as yourself Iam greatly en-|@0vernment had been conducted jn be have in a recent edict decreed in|hills of Kentycky. At his moth- couraged to go forward and endeavor the only. perfect manner, and that the effect that hereafter women at./er’s knee he learned the lessons of | t) perform a service that will be sat-| WH0le purpose of the Democrats was | tending the social affairs at the Unit-| right and wrong from the old family isfactory to the state. to make political thunder. ed States Naval Academy will be re-| Bible, and out on the rocky hills, his Sincerely your friend, But that there was really need of quired to submit proof of their social | old daddy taught him that a bullet E. W. Stephens, |80me investigating in and around standing to a committee created for | will go where the gun is aimed, and hogy was simply peor that purpose. Those unfortunate! we cannot but speculate upon the] {tis reported that Rich Hill hunters before the inquiries into the re- “plebian’” women who have the “‘hon- | probable happenings should the “‘So-| have been doing a little fudging on|Stlts of Republican rule had fairly ~or” tobe the mothers or sisters or |cial Board’’ ever attempt to rule out]| the game law and have been shooting | Started, and despite all the rev- cle Sam’s baby tars will probably be |all just plain folks. Someone's sensi-| snortmanslike, and unlawful and the AE emy, but unless their names appear! probable that the social board, if : ee in the nation’s social ‘Blue Book’’| composed of men, would be -called| Grant Gander, in company with his | ly scratched the surface. of who's who in America, they will/upon to decide the question with| uncle, D. H. Gander, of Luray, Va.,| The Moss committee brought to not be permitted to attend, no, not| pistols and coffee. Fortunately | was in the city Wednesday morning|light the shameful manner in which even to take the tiniest peek into the|there are many young men in the|and favored us with a most pleasant | the plotters in the pure food bureau i t enough to ‘regard the common par-| spending a week here -visiting rela-|made a farce of the law designed to selves in brass buttons and fine silks. /ents from which they sprung as of| tives and old friends, was formerly a| Dtotect the public from the greed of "Tis good to ponder upon the soften-| more importance than so-called s0-|citizen of this county and taught | Utiscrupulous food dopers. . nivance of a Republican administra- tion, ostensibly to prevent a panic, but actually to stifle its main compet- itor. It was further brought out that men were acting as counsel for the \steel trust while receiving money from the government as “‘trust bust- ers.”’ The probe of the state department revealed that money was expended for one thing, and charged to anoth- er, while the committee on expendi- tures in the navy department discov- ered that more than three million dollars’ worth of supplies were taken from the Washington navy yard with- out an accounting, and that the book- keeping system in use there is abso- lutely- ridiculous: These are but a few of the many illustrations that could be given to show the value of honest investiga- tions. _ gacred confines of the ball room|academy who are yet uncivilized|call. Mr. D. H..Gander, who is|stripped Dr. Wiley of all power, and| ‘ affect which the years have had| ciety, and it will be interesting to| school in Pleasant Gap tow thir-| “The Stanley committee learned that| V ing igs he ip township our young note the effcts of some of the rulings ty-eight years He left here in, the steel trust for years paid tremen- ia the “softening” so apparent as i of the social board. ik rtarang and this 'dous profits on a capitalizetion repre-| iff Wickersham Again. “I am surprised,” says Attorney- General Wickersham, ‘‘that the busi- ness men of this country have not taken more advantage of that section of the law which permits the collec- tion of three-fold damages when they have been injured by a trust. That] eigners for $29.04. The unprotected section is a powerful lever, and | foreigner thus receives an advantage would make those who are progr pol $3.93 over the protected American organized have more respect for the law.” . even the boyhood sweethearts of Un-| his good old parents who are after|quails recently. Such action is un.|¢latoins of extravagance and mal-| Likewise, the people are surprised | ton Me permitted to read in the public prints tive feelings would be hurt by the| parties so doing'should be forced to|light, many of the investigaing| general, does not take advantage @ of the brilliant social life at the Acad-| young Kentuckian, and it’s highly! live up to the law. committees are just getting ready |the la h ro down and run over. The judge \ asked Wood how many automobiles. he owned. “TI don’t know,’’ Wood replied. : | “How many chauffeurs do you em- § ploy?”’ asked the judge. F “I never tried to keep track of them,”’ said the wool magnate. Imagine a man so rich that he can’t keep track of the number of automo- biles he owns! Then reflect on how many of the working men who are forced to purchiase Mr. Wood’s high- ly protected products are unable to | keép track of the number of woolen } suits they or their children own. } Protection Helps Foreigners. The Stanley steel investigating committee has made public the ex- port prices of steel trust products. This is a very important piece of | news, inasmuch as it shows great difference in prices in favor of for- eigners, and therefore, probably wilt result in a reduction, if not the re-. moval, of the tariff on steel. - A The figures show that the trust charges American consumers $32.97 per gross ton for steel plates, while supplying the identical article to for-