The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, February 29, 1912, Page 4

Sterling Muslin Underwear on Sale DURING MARCHE Sterling brand Muslin Underwear is the best line in the market today. We have sold them for years with an increasing trade, and find they give the utmost satisfaction. still more business. SKIRTS at 48, 98c, $1.19, 1.39, 1.48,1.98, 2.19, 2.98, 3.19 GOWNS at 48, 69, 79, 93, 98c, $1.05, 1.10, 1.48, 1.79, 2.19 DRAWERS at 23, 27, 35, 43, 48, 78, 89c, $1.05, 1.10 CORSET COVERS at 27, 35, 45, 48, 73, 89, 98c CHILDREN’S DRAWERS, 6, 8, 10, 12 years, at 10c We are now showing the New Spring Models in ‘“Warner’s Redfern Whalebone Corsets” and “Warner’s Rust Proof Corsets”? $1.00 up Now is the time to buy, before making up Spring Dresses WALKER-McKIBBEN’S, THE QUALITY STORE During March we will offer this splendid line at reduced prices so that early buyers can save money and we can do This Style No. 641 Price $1.50 The Butler Weekly Times Printed on Thursday of each week J. D. ALLEN, Proprietor ROBT, D, ALLESTRuitor and Manager Entered at the Post (ftice of Butler, Mo., as second-class mail matter. PRICE, $1.00 PER YEAR ANNOUNCEMENTS We are authorized to make the following an- nouncement subject 'o the Democratic primary of Bates County, August 19.2: REPRESENTATIVE 1. B BASKERVILLE Of Deepwater Township J WALLIS LEWIS Of West Point Towrship JUDGE SOUTHERN DISTRICT. J.W DARBY Of Walnut Townrhip per cent. December, 1910, of no less than 7.83 industries the English worker re-, This is the system by which Post- ness which they help to form is sure ceives higher wages than the Ger-, master General Hitchcock put the to affect you in all your other activi- Bank clearings last week were bet- mans and works fewer hours. ter than a year ago. And this is not all: The cost of postotfice on a ‘‘paying basis,’’ ac- cording to charges made by W. D. ties. When your bank account is once Foreign trade in January was very living is much higher in protected Brown, formerly a government audi- started, it pays to know to a dollar large. of any preceeding January except in Jand. | SO. 1908, and the imports were larger rent a German pays $1.47. Where a ; failed to reply. The exports exceeded those Germany than in unprotected Eng- | tr whose expose of the situation is how much it amounts to. t Where a Briton pays $1.20 in 80 Obviously true Mr. Hitchcock has’ know just how far you can go in your ,expenditures without running into, You then Public Sale. I will sell at public sale at my farm five miles southwest of Butler, on Friday, March 1, 1912 the following described property: 6 Head of Horses.—Consisting of 2 good mares, one is a Redwood out of a Gold Dust mare, a good driver; 2 than for any preceeding month with Briton (unprotected) spends $1.20 on| Mr. Brown shows that the alleged |debt. The best plan, of course, is to yearling colts, one of which is a food and fuel a German (protected) | balance of $219,118.12 announced at keep your account so large all the a single exception. Financial arrangements have re- spends $1.41. cently been made by several railroads The American workingman is being the close of the last fiscal year to the, time that there will be no danger of | standard bred trotting filly by Scyth- ‘ian out of Spitfire out of Dilla Grat- credit of the postoffice department in its being wiped out. But if this is | ton; 1 two-year-old colt; 1 suckling | reality does not exist at all, but in-' impossible, the next best thing is to| for raising $90,000,000 to be used in outrageously tariff-taxed on eyery- | "4! | . take care that it does not get past the | extentions and improvements. The thing he eats, weat's or uses on the | Stead there is really a deficit of $7,000, Erie railroad, for instance, plans to’ theory he is being ‘‘protected, ” when | : eaten er atl expend $10,000,000 in the next ten’ asa matter of fact the only thing that BANKING DEPARTMENT years for completing the double- is being protected by the tariff is the| _._ tracking of its main line between New ' monopolies of the tariff trusts on the | | The Atchison is necessaries of life. York and Chicago. raising $50,000,000 for new work and equipment, and other companies are PROHIBITS OVERDRAFTs. {Local Institutions Will Comply With zero mark. Thegbove article is prompted by a letter received by the undersigned banks from the State Banking De- partment, notifying them that the colt. 2 brood sows and 8 shoats about 150 Ibs. ao : Farm Implements—Wagon; buggy ,and pole; cornplanter; cultivator; sulky plow; walking plow. Some | household goods. About 12 or 15 | tons of timothy and clover hay. 4 or |5 hundred bushels of corn. | Terms—$10 and under cash. On weet courts have held it illegal for the sumsover$10, credit of 10months time LaFollette Not Ditched. | banks to allow customers to overdraw | will be given on bankable note bear- There has been in existence a gen-/ Since it is our business to be of their accounts. 19-1t. ing 6 per cent. interest. 2 per cent State Regulations. _preparing_to—put—smaller_amounts eral conspiracy all over the east{value to this neighborhood and to’ ~ Mo. State Bank, | unt for cash. FRANK FIX Rockville Township JUDGE NORTHERN DISTRICT. We F, WOLFE Deer Creek Townsbip. T. L HARPER Mt. Pleasant Township SHERIFF J W. BAKER Of Osage Township. TREASURER. 4 Cc, F. PERRY Of Osage Township, ROBERT L, BRADEN | atta PEO erent seeking to make the people believe All this does not look as if business that Senator LaFollette is out of the is standing still simply because the race for the nomination for presi- House of Representatives is Demo- dent, The conspiracy was pretty cratic, nor that business fears the | largely successful, because many election of a Democratic president. people believe LaFollette has quit. The pre-election threat, made to in- Senator LaFollette is not that kind, timidate voters, that the stagnation of however. He will go down fighting, bnsiness would follow immediately jg necessary, but he will not run up upon the election of a Democratic the white flag. House, has not been fulfilled. The following extracts of a tele- Some of the illegal trusts which ‘gram sent by Senator LaFollette per- have been throttling competition and sonally to North Dakota Republicans’ bank account is low will write a check | boosting the prices of the things: shows where the Wisconsin senator the people must have in order to live, | stands. on the subject of “laying are perhaps not particularly enamored : down:’’ | with Democratic procedure, but legiti- imate business understands thorough- ‘ly that it has nothing to fear from! ; Democratic ascendency, and wel- WASHINGTON LETTER. |°™es it Protection vs. Tariff For Revenue. CHARLES M, BARKLEY Osage Township ‘ anes ; Workmen in Germany are “pro-/ Special Washington Correspond- tected by a tariff wall like our own| ent of The Times. Payne-Aldrich tariff wall. In Eng-| ‘land the workers are not so “‘pro-; ,as a candidate is false, and the state- ments regarding my health are gross “The report that I have withdrawn misrepresentations. They are a part of the pressure brought to bear to force me from the contest, which I willingly undertook at a time when no one else could be induced to make the fight. “T want delegates who are ready to | every one in it that wants to make | | use of our services, we are glad to} extend every courtesy to our patrons that we can. Itis a pleasure to ac-: | commodate those who need help, and, { |in the long run, it helps us to do so, | so long as we do not have to go out- side the limits of good banking. There is one kind of accommodation, | however, which we do not believe our patrons ought to ask us to grant. | Once in a while a depositor whose | on the bank for more money than he} has in it. He may not know that the | check is too large, or he may intend to deposit more money before the check is presented, and then fail to do | so. But whether he acts through carelessness or not, it puts the bank in an unpleasant position. The bank does not like to refuse to pay a small “overdraft” as this is called, but it is decidedly not good business to do so and may cause a loss, even if the de- positor has the best intentions in the world. Sale to commence Peoples Bank, m. Farmers Bank. at 10 o’clock a. FRANK TYLER. | c E. Robbins, Auctioneer, By Civde H. Tavenner. | 4 er * A Washington, Feb. 26.—The amount. tected. | win, or lose if need be, in the interest of business being done by the rail-| According to Aldrich, Smoot, Gug- roads, steel mills, manufactories and | genheim et al., the German workers banks of the country at the present ought tohave more ideal conditions ‘ofa great cause. Let me through you assure the voters of North Da- kota that I shall as always keep faith And so we should like to ask all oar customers to keep the amount of their bank accounts in mind, and not to write any check for a sum larger WE SELL THE Plow Time Oliver, Emerson, Goodenough ;and Best Ever Sulkeys - time is considerably in advance of | that of a year ago. i The gross earnings of the railroads! for the first week of February were) 9.81 per cent better than a year ago. For the fourth week of January the' reports from forty-four roads indicate than the Britons. But let us see how much benefit the German really gets | from protection: Bricklayers in free-trade England | receive $9.72 per week and are re- quired to work but 5212 hours. ; in “protected’’ Germany with them, and shall remain a candi- ; ; . *j than their balance. We will be glad date steadfast to the end. to balance pass books every month, + Juggling the Figures. so that everyone can tell just how Here is business secret: If you are }much he has at any time. Overdrafts running your concern at a big loss, | are only an indication of a loose way but wish to make the figures show a/ of handling business affairs, and the big surplus, simply put off paying | good business man: sel or never and Gangs A full line of IMPLEMENTS A full line of HARDWARE A full line of FURNITURE of 12.27 receive $7.50 per week and are re- ig oy \airell Sa-work 10 heare'a seek. | ‘This is not an isolated case. In all| heavy bills until after the reports of the receipts and expenditures are|even more toyour int made up for the year. allows himself to them. It is than ours to avoid them, as the habit of careless- CALC‘AND FIGURE WITH.US. yn “3