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get the candy. proposition; the Candy is yours without REMEMBER THE D E have bought the largest shipment of Candy ever received by any firm in Butler, and on December 24th, we are going to give each person who | calls at our store a sack of Candy ABSOLUTELY FREE. | All you have to do is to call at the store and you will | No string of any kind is tied to this December 24, 1912 ECKLE & NICKELL | The Grocers paying a cent. | ATE TEN MORE DAYS TO SECURE A HOOSIER Kitchen Cabinet ON THE GUAR ISTIEST MAN Income Exceeds $30,000,000 | ‘ and Is Growing Rapidly. i Ty OATUSD Rebuke for Treasurer—Emperor An- | Bay CALKS gry at Baron Menchikoff z for His “Undignified Comparisons.” UNTRY INSTITUTIONS SURPLUS TO NEW YORK. e in ¢ d, le het with the imp gs before the senate. nit 7 SEND Walter Mumm, a Wine Merchant, | Dangerciis'y Wounded, ars ae CAUSED A SENSATION IN PARIS 3hois Were Fired in Height of Quarrel) in the Apartments of An American Woman Wio-Later Left for London, Paris, Dec, 14.—A sensation was ecauscd bere when it became known} that Walter) Mumin, a well k sportsman and member of a promi- connected with the wine | trade, been shot Thursday and seriously wounded by an an woman, The bullet, it xd M. Mumm’s chest ed a lung. | No arrest has been | e has even been preferred} inst anyone for the shooting. It is nlerstood that the Mumim family de- sired to keep the fact of the shooting from becoming known, but the public) prosecutor bas begun an investigation | nent mil and pene | made and no ; of jhe affair on an allegation by M. | Mumm that oh assailant a woman of ial | vealthy Americar ence, The woman, it is under-; on in its v M. Mumm lant, who it unde , took a sumptuou » Rue des Belles Feu tpartinent in the She and, provided soon began introductions ' tertain extensive Among her frequent visitors, according to ver, Was Walter Mumm, t,”’ says the Petit P. ien, Mumm was calling on the ng up be good | “while M. | woman ¢ hiween hi , Who, sud-j} deply 4 control of herself, | ized dfired-vice tte bullets ng him in the e trium | FOR That’s what every oneis thinking about at this time, and if you will call and see us we can show you Just what you want and at such a low price you can't help but buy. Here are a few articles that would make a nice Christmas Present. Saar gs Eats 6 Carving Sets Razors Table Knives Pocket Knives Tea and Table Spoons Safety Razors Air Rifles. tts Easy Payment Plan 10 Big Cupboard Easy To Peach 1 Hour Bin Fitts From Top > Mt Rotting Pin’ Rack 2 Removable Glass Front 12 Crystal Glass Spice Jars 3 Sanitary, Detachable __ Flour Sifter — Fills From Top Feeds From Bottom 4 Dial Faced ‘Want List & Tea, Coffee 5 Salt Crystal Glass Jai 1t Suuyar Seocss 15 Aluminum Stiding TableWont Bust -Wont Warp 6 Cutting Board 7 Stiding Shelf | am i7 Linen ad Draver 12,000 Cubic Inches 18 Meta? Bread 6 Cake Bax- Mouse Proof: Lust Proof “The Famous Hoosier Saves Miles of Steps” 9 Sanitary Pan Racks A full line of these Cabinets on display in our Furniture Room. Come in and let us show you the Cabinet and explain plan of sale. GENCH BROS. Butler, Mo. *Phone 31 A Wealth of Xmas Gift Selections in Jewelry at JETER’S ESTABLISHED 1673 ONLY VERY FEW DAYS LEFT TO DO YOUR SHOPPING Whether for man or woman, our Jewelry Displays comprise unsurpassed varieties in which simplicity, grace, refinement, elegance and low prices combine to make this— Butler’s Most Popular Jewelry Store . "sue" NB, JETER "i" St, Petersburg frequent and large the nations of the earth, Igmperor Nicholas, according to a statement presented to his majesty by the impe- | y., | vial treasurer general, is the richest | ,,. /man in the world. The statement is | couched in fanciful language, but the facts which it recites are said by St. Petersburg bankers to be beyond dis- pute. “Your majes' koff, “need have no f While Russia {s a} + borrower among ts Has the ton, mail Baron Menchi. ur of ever com (with Baron Rothschild. Or, if you prefer, you can take over the Krupps although I would not recommend the | investment.” The czar is very angry with Baron Menchikoff and his playful ways, and i" : + a ncerest on rebuked him soundly for indulging in init none ‘such undignified comparisons.” Jy Sherrie Af Vey rh amd The ezar's civil list amounts to! nearly two millions sterling, ineliding | the amounts paid to the grand duk and of this sum more than a million |~ is available for his own private pur poses. Then he owns lands in Russia in Europe which cover an area equal | to that of the whole of Nevada, of which the revenues reach the vast | - sum of $20,000,000 a year, of which | $5,000,000 is paid to the nd ducal families. The ezar’s lan in Siberia eae bring him in another $ 0,000, al though they are at present largely un- developed. Altogether, including in terest on savings, the czar's income 1,000,000, and Ne sets aside arge sum fo eh of his four da (ters, so that if any one of the r princes contracts a marriage in ‘quarter he will do extremely from a worldiy point of w-—tho of course, the exact dispe ezar’s huze fortune himsolf and hi VACCINATION MAKES DISEASE London Authority Tells Doctors Virus Produces Scarlet Fever and Measles. nd it woul vurait of G re es York, ent-elect that well the Pr | Philadelphia.—Dr, C les Creigh | ton of London, formerly professor of medicine in Edinburgh, startled the Pennsylvania Vaccination board, in| ‘ BA es at |__. Prair | session here, x ith the opinion that BUTTER | vaccination was to blame for the gggs—h | spread of many epidemics. POTAT “You will find,” said Dr. Creighton, spread to a great extent since small- | pox has been on the wane. I do not believe that vaccination is necessary | SHEEP—Lambs to submit some of his proofs, and he will be requested to appear before the board at another hearing next Interest Rat Money Trust Witness. { William Lawick. He aped, The tot Taft to the Supreme Ber Dec, 1A: orthern .. ST. Louis. “that measles and scarlet fever have |CATTLE—Steers . Texas steers . | HOGS—Butchers . Efiect of Keeping Up at Home, Says Deco ls iy town om y high rate wits UC ing b wogers of }be the result of fixing. Werest on mone 1 the | ing to suffer the stings of poverty. | ©, diailt asin jee ot | Financially you are solvency itself. | would keep Vee aa With one hand you could buy out the | it) COUN nie American multimillionaires, Rocketel- | : ler and Morgan, and still have suffi- aati ara cient in the offer to talk business | nil , y Cou dof to maintair st stock exe me this vould not be sent to the country pro be forced io reduce Wheaton, K 320,000, cover do crly The fact intends Wilson court yaen become ger id the idea originat feni’s speech at the Lotus Club several weeks ago, TRE GENERAL MARKETS, 16, 1912, iii 00 a4 7 50 unless an epidemic of smallpox is 87 @ 91% prevalent. To vaccinate every child 43 @ 43% before he goes to school is a crime, =4u a | and should be stopped. 2 @ 3 “The virus that is used is certainly 23 { open to question. Children never be- CHICAGO. fore had the measles or the scarlet Se ae eee Med > | fever as they do today, and why? Sim-} = 3 ply because the contamination of their |SGGS Bul of sales.... 7 20 os | blood with the serum of the calf has | WHEAT. . @ 8 j rendered them susceptible to these |CORN—No. 2 ‘ 50 diseases which they used to be able hae ty to throw off. Now they are weakened jegcs .. 22 by inoculation with vaccine virus.” CHICKENS .. ll Many medical men who heard him | were astounded, and they questioned | SATTLE~ Steers sreseeee & 30 @10 00 the eminent British authority. Tee oper etn sales. 71 commission has asked Dr. Creighton |* tants. : hanks, in| | ) fright: | juences of her act, | sent for a doctor | ened at the cor } the woman hasti ind M The | morn: | General De 1 Missing From ifonument | e Good. | Attorney Money Funds Be Ma 14.-—-Attorme) vd | York | Nee luccs nody has mide mbers of the New fon to mak in its 8741644, In ¢ itLo Albany, | General Cy upon the 1 Monmtener im ail amount | sent to them t that unless with he wilt take estored to the state treasury, | 1 ad s Conmur roner, is comy lie req iction to have the; Mr. C nody said he was compelled to tuke this ause of the| failure of Gen Sicklos to keep repe the state as chairman of the commis $s to reimb | unaccounted for | sion. f for moneys A Police Chief Didn't Murder. i Wahoo, Neb., Dec. 14.—After delib- | e thirty minutes, the jury in the} j trial of Chief of Police John Bri of |: h Omaha, chi with the r of Roy Bhint turned a ve of not guilty. Blunt hom office , and in the b fol- | meeting | 1 Was hilles lowed their Manacle Trick Chic. Ty Dec: ith. Ged Nearly Fatal of the Oak Park Y. M. C. A. handeuff Wis ever extricate | put | d into | he prom- | At the] pulled | that no | from {himself. He in a box. The }a tank of water from which 1 to emer¢ jend of a |}up and Mas was lowe in 50 sec nute the box wes uncoCnSs ious Leaped 15 Stories to Death. | St. Louis, Dec. 14.—Mrs, € Schu- | }mann, 29 -years old, jumped to her} | death from the fifteenth story of the | new Bank of Commerce Building and | jlanded on the sky t in the court; lover the fourth ft She had been | under treatment for a nervous} disease. Charlie Ross’s Mother Dead. Hl Philadelphia, Dec. 14—Mrs. Sarah | Anne Ros the mother of Charlie | Ross, who was kidnapped thirty-eight years ago, died at her home here, 78 years old. She was the widow of | Christian K. Ross. Four Hanged on One. Gallows. Salem, Ore., Dec. 14.—Frank Gar-/} rison and Noble Faulder, condemned | {murdcrers, were hanged in the peni- \tentiary here. Half an hour later H. | |E. Roberts and H. Michael Morgan | were hanged. | a OPENED eet Fell From a Bridge to Death. Hannibal, Mo., Dec. 16.—The body | lof John C. Priest of Shelbyville, Mo., | public administrator of Shelby county, | Was found under the Burlington Rail- road bridge here. His death was the result of a fall from the bridge, ac | cording to indications. | Repeating Rifles Shot Guns Hunting Coats Gun Cases Percolators Baking Dishes Aluminum Ware Rayo Lamps Oil Heaters Round Qak Heaters Malleable Steel Ranges Superior Cook Stoves Wilson Heaters Coaster Wagons Express Wagons Coaster Sleds Haviland China Versailles China China Plates Salad Dishes Bread Plates Christmas Decorations Buggies Wagons Harness Ete. And don’t forget that we have a full line of Christmas Candies, Nuts, Oranges, Bananas, Grapes, Etc. and want your busi- ness and will make prices to get it. Bennett- Wheeler MERCANTILE CO. Telephone 82 eae