The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, November 30, 1911, Page 12

Over One Hundred Thousand Dollars in the Surplus Fund | The Walton Trust Co., of Butler, Mo., now has $100,902.87 in the surplus fund, made from net earnings over and above dividends paid. This makes the Walton Trust Company the STRONGEST financial institution in southwest Missouri. Will issue Time Deposit Certificates payable in six or twelve months, bearing five per cent interest, for any idle money you have. Loans money on farms on LONG TIME AT LOW INTER- EST RATES. We own and keep up with the records a complete Abstract of Title to all land and town lots in Bates county. Always have Safe Farm Mortgages on hand For Sale. Hundreds of investors have been buying our mortgages contin- uously for forty years WITHOUT LOSING A DOLLAR OF PRINCIPAL OR INTEREST or paying anything for expenses. DIRECTORS Frank Allen C. A. Allen Dr. T. C. Boulware John Deerwester C. H. Dutcher A. B. Owen John E. Shutt W. W. Trigg Frank M. Voris Max Weiner J. B. Walton Wm. E. Walton Walton Trust Co. REXALL Remedies Be ge Are far ahead of any line of remedies we have sold One for Each Ailment and the Formula of same ~The Rexall Drug Store WANTS YOUR PRESCRIPTIONS You always get the MOST of the BEST for the LEAST money and alwayssecure - prescriptions containing fresh pure drugs You select your physician with great care. Do you use the same caution in selecting the druggist to fill your physician’s pre- scriptions? C. W. Hess WINTER The Rexall Drug Store, Butler, Mo yall MISSOURI PACIFIC \ down endgate, which he can. easily Farmer and Stockman. make himself if he doesn’t wish to go Oil the machinery when putting it! t0 the expenpe of buying. away, and thus prevent the ravages} Perhaps there is no part of the av- of rust for over half of the year. erage farm that receives as little at- Fighting fire with fire never ex- tention as the orchard and the garden. tinguishes it, does it? Neither will The work of caping fer ieee 16 nie: a whiplash ever take the fear, or even ly left to the women folks or left un- fi : til other work is not pressing. This a part of it, out of a frightened horse. is not as it should be. Fruit and gar- The poultryman who tries torun|den truck furnish a. good share of the poultry business without a snug, | what most of us are working for. well-lighted scratching shed, may be likened unto a sea captain attempting | who live in the cities enjoy life more to sail a vessel without a rudder. than we do on the farm, but it is a If the boys and girls are compelled | good thing for our country that so to lug their bovks to and from school | many of us can’t see things that way. without any bag or book strap in|In making a comparison, however, which to carry them, you can’t rea-|it is well not to compare the life of sonably blame the children if the|the independently rich in the city with books soon become soiled, damaged, | those who are fighting a heavy mort- and even ruined. gage on their farm. If the farmer would do more} There seems to be an unusual num- “grading’’ both as to size and fitness, | ber of renters looking for farms this in the hog lot before beginning to| fall. Aside from the usual number feed for the market, he would feed|there are quite a number of those less, have more uniform herds, and | who went into the wheat-raising coun- realize more clear profits from his|try a few years ago who have re- sales of swine. turned to get asecond start. Usually Whether you are planning to keep |'t is this second start that shows the the boys out of school every few days kind of grit a person has in his make- to help you with some job of work |"P: about the farm, .or whether youare| 1 can remember when duck hunting making all preparations for them to | was dearer to me than anything else. attend every day of school, will very | Though I had nothing but an old largely decide the interest and prog- | musket or ‘‘Zulu,’’ I could get more ress they make in the schoolroom | ducks when a kid than I could get this winter. now with the best six shooter made. A neighbor asked me recently if 1|A boy has the patience, for one thing, knew where he could get a good | ‘0 crawl upon a flock of ducks, and hired man. “I’m getting pretty tired | he also has no better sense than to of cheap men,”’ said he, ‘‘and now I} crawl for forty rods through mud and want a man with brains instead of re- | Slush, if necessary, in order to make enforced concrete in his head.”” a successful sneak on aflock. Ihave var . done that very trick myself in my Ten't it@bout tate for many Of WE i isccldave; but] wouldn't do dt to stop selling our stock to the pack- for f f being laid ith ers, paying the transportation charg- DOR ree Cee ee UP FARM FURROWS. It may be possible that the people| . NO MINIMUM ON > CHECKING ACCOUNTS We invite both large and small checking accounts, placing no mini- mum on the amount that may be de- posited. The directors and officers of this bank know from long experi- ence that many of the accounts which are opened with moderate sums grow to substantial proportion, some of the largest accounts in the bank having been started with small deposits. Courteous service is uniformly ex- tended to all patrons of this bank. Our Service Means Profit to You SAFETY es to and from market on the meats mheumatism| fora weeks we buy back from them, and throw- Saved Many From Death. ingin a good, stiff commission for| w. L, Mock, of Mock, Ark., be- for these same packers handling our |lieves he has saved many lives in his products? We can check this drain |25 years of pcre in the drug on our profits simply by feeding, business, hat Ialways like to butchering and curing our own meats a mat, ea ticity or ee —and we can do it as well as the sore lungs, hard colds, hoarseness, as the packers. olanbety gouge la Sher id asthma or other bronchial affection, Turn the boys loose on the spar-| for 1 feel sure that a number of my rows—if there are any boys and any | neighbors are alive and well today sparrows.. Here in this country | because they took my advice to use there are plenty of sparrows onev-|it. I honestly believe it’s the best ery farm, if there are no boys, and ae, a ne tak none Plenty if there are. A little shooting | Get a trial bottle free or regular 50c will drive the sparrows away from | or $1.00 bottle. Guaranteed by F. the buildings, even if the marksman-| T. Clay. ship is poor. They are a nuisancetin | Status of Tar Party Prosecution every building on the farm, from the to Date. hog house to the barn. : When doctors disagree the patient} =-G- Clark, mill owner, pleaded doesn’t know where he is “at,’’|@uilty; one year in jail. Likewise when two good stock feed-| J4Y Fitzwater, _ miller, ers disagree on the value of any |@uilty; one year in jail. ; grain or feed, the seeker after infor-| Watson Scranton, mill employe, mation knows no more than he did, | Pleaded guilty; one year in jail. I lately had occasion to quiz a coup- Edward _Canless Ricrod, barber, le of feeders on the value of kaffir pleaded guilty; one year in jail. : corn. One thought it great stuff, es- Sherill Clark, merchant, convicted; pecially for horses, while the other |O€ Year in jail. : pronounced it worth less than half} A-N- Simons, miller; acquitted. that of common corn, Both have fed| John wise farmer, convicted; it for a number of years, yet their | M€ year in jail. opinion of it differs by at least 50 per| Harry Armstrong, laborer, pleaded cent. guilty, fined $1. A Fenton Hall, carpenter, pleaded pleaded In judging an investment the first question a business man asks, “Is it safe?’ The same judgment should be used in selecting your bank. Thirty-one years of successful bank- ing is the record of the MISSOURI STATE BANK. You are invited to open an account in this bank which is conducted on sound principle of safety first and profit second. “The Old Reliable” OUVALL-PERCIVAL TRUST CO. CASH CAPITAL, $50,000. FARMERS BANK BUILDING, BUTLER, MO. IRON MOUNTAIN RATES ON SALE DAILY | Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Cuba, Georgia, New Mexico, Texas, Florida, ‘a Louisiana, Mexico, South Carolina, etc. Poe eos REESE Homeseekers rates on Ist and 3d Tuesdays of every month to many points. Ask our agent or write Frank P. Prosser, Dist. Pass, Agt., Joplin, Mo E. C. Vandervoort, Agt., Butler, Mo TFOURiSTS guilty; fined $1. Alfa Lindermuth, laborer, pleaded guilty; fined $1. Benjamin Painter, bank employe, pleaded guilty; fined $1. Roscoe Anderson, farmer, pleaded guilty; fined. Those awaiting trial: Chester Anderson, farmer. Delbert Kingsparger, laborer. James Booze, stationary engineer. By This Sion t you are getting the light will kill the germ of alfalfa seed. |He says he once had two sackfuls in his granary for several weeks, one of the sacks where sunlight struck it through the window. The seed from this sack, so he tells me, showed less || than 30 per cent of a stand, while the other seed grew perfectly. He be- lieves the sunlight coming in through the window and being intensifed somewhat by the glass killed the germ of much of the seed. Who knows anything more about this? Husking corn on a damp, foggy day is not work that will inspire the “‘back to the farm” feeling, especial- ly when huge portions of the “farm” stick to your feet and the wheels of the wagon. It is a pretty safe bet that no husking records are broken when the fields are muddy. ood Fate ne Twelve to fifteen . average-sized has sto od bundles are enough for a shock|./ the test for where corn has been planted thickly | 1 yard to make fine fodder. If the. corn is few thirty- to stay in shocks until fed they can be ve years an re- mains the Standard tonic-food-medicine, ee : : by the medical profes- ’ a Seott’s S| Emulsion. é made larger after the corn is cured. Our young winter is already cutting capers that makes an evergreen wind- break seem like one of the best things on the farm. .. If it were possible to sell windbreaks real estate at a low rate pay at any time. We have money to loan on Far m Loans of interest with privilege to Y We have a complete set of Abstract Books and will fur- Abstracts nish abstracts to any real estate in Bates county and examine and perfect titles to same. We will loan your idle money for you, securing you Investments reasonable int i t ood 7 interest on time deposits. eon a Pre: W. F. DUVALL, President, Arthur Duvall, Treasurer. J. B. DUVALL, Vice-President, W. D. Yates, Title Examiner. PROFESSIONAL CARDS OR. J. M. CHRISTY Diseas.s ot Women and Children a Specialty * BUTLER. - MISSOURI Office Phone 20 OR. J. T. HULL Dentist - Entrance same that leads to Stéw- 's North side square Butler, Missouri OR. H. @. CANNON DENTIST. . - House Phone 10 You Need Not Pay ‘Cash for a _ VICTOR - TALKING | ~T. ©. BOULWARE Paden Serge