The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, January 16, 1913, Page 3

-former estimate. - Winter come at or near the shortest wean they could skin a skunk without com- Wane: aad BGakiian, ing in contact with any of the odor, The only good -abbit is’a dead ral ; but I never knew it to happen. I once a ne. Only, ZO0d Fel ead’ raD- | heard a man brag on having skinned bit, especially where there is an or- a skunk a short time before, doing it eda i A ig edo se a if with the odor left out, but he carried or amees wit also Suiter 1 the |the scent with him all right, and it snow piles up so that he can work lasted for a long while, too among the branches. ee The farmer who has never used a/ The pons appear to be filling up 2 : | with retired farmers, men who have! fanning mill should get one as na passed the middle age of life and who as possible so as to get well acquaint- are able to take life easier. I am not ed with it before the busy season {sure whether this is a good thing for | comes. Those who have er clean- | the man or not, but it invaribly is for| cal their secd grata hg ‘ 4 his wife. A man may often keep on prised if they saw all vi ou fi Bee farming when age begins to tell on they have scattered over their fields. him by hiting much‘of his work done| Treating seed grain for smut is still | but it is now practically impossible to | regarded as book farming by some, | hire help in the house, so the aged | but this is a mistake. _It is as practi-! wife must keép on drudging if ‘the | cal and necessary as the use of the) old man” keeps on farming. fanning mill and the farmer who ex- | Anything but a bunglesome mitten pects to ride in his own automobile, |) wear when choring. I stick to which means everyone, must see that | cotton gloves as long as the weather’ his seed grain goes through both | wit) permit at all, then shift to cotton operations. mittens, which are a shade warmer Those who have nothing much to/ than the gloves of the same material, worry about and are not satisfied un-| but the heaviest cotton mittens are less they are worrying about some-|not always enough, and when it is thing are taking on their woe-begone | necessary to put on heavy mittens it looks and saying that our ice crop|seems to me that the chores last a will be a total failure this winter. |fourth longer just because of those Here is hoping that the weather man | bunglesome mittens. , keeps them on the anxious seat for, ‘The block and tackle wire stretcher some time. beats any other kind I ever tried. It Now is a good time to overhaul the | is quick to put on a wire and quick to work harness and put in rivets and /take off, and the leverage obtained is stitches where they do the most good. | sufficient to make any wire ‘‘sing.”’ A stitch in time will save nine, is a Seema true saying, and with this work a The Family Medicine Chest stitch at this time will save a whole} In case of accidents or sickness, lot of time at a time when time is/time is oftenof the utmost importance. A simple remedy applied at the mo- ment may prevent a long illness. The medicine chest or closet, therefore, | should have a place in every house- hold. It must be placed out of the} way of children, locked, and used for no other purpose. Do not put too, many things in it nor allow old medi- | cine bottles to accumulate, or you will; be confused, says a trained nurse in Farm and Home. Never get a medicine in the dar Always examine the label and meas- ure the dose. For the latter purpose a measuring glass marked teaspoon on one side and tablespoon on the other will be found useful and more FARM FURROWS. scarce. In gathering pointers on the silo question it might be well as a starter to get a squint at the cream checks of those in your neighborhood’ who are feeding silage to their. cows. If, they look good to you it would be in order to visit their farms and see how the stock looks and size up the work of feeding and storing. It is unnec- essary for those who build silos in the future to ‘‘go it blind’ unless they choose to do so. The work of laying the so-called rubber roofing is not finished until after all the laps have been cemented after the nails are driven. If this is ‘ neglected the heads of the nails will Het Ae than ans Gekieag which soon rust anda storm will be liable wksen STAND) Oiehistye Waten to start some trouble that will put can be added directly to the medicine Sine troubles iene thevehelh fora and given to the patient without using i another glass. wae In bottles carefully labeled have sysup ipecac, paregoric, 4 | Experience has taught me that} ootor oil, nothing lighter than three-ply roofing | ..sence peppermint, turpentine, witch should be used for the roof of any hazel, aromatic spirits ammonia in building, also that the boards under | jja.5-stoppered bottle, sweet spirits the roofing should be either flooring of niter in glass-stoppered bottle, or shiplap carefully laid. whisky, pint bottle containing equal - Afarm is usually known by the/ parts of linseed oil and limewater quality of farming done upon it. I) (carron oil), bicarbonate soda, boracic know of a great many good farms} acid, epsom salts, compound licorice that are known as poor farms because | powder, can of mustard, zinc oxide the quality of the farming done there- | ointment, package of absorbant cotton, on is poor. package absorbant gauze, roll of old For want of a good culvert, several | linen and of flannel, some two-inch| rods of road is often converted into| muslin bandages, each fastened, ‘with | a mudhole and remains a mudhole| pin; adhesive plaster, pair sissors, or- until the sun and wind dry it up. It} dinary pins and safety pins and a few is poor policy to do a good piece of | large needlesalready threaded. road grading, then spoil it all by ne- Real Estate Transfers. glecting the culverts. i There is not nearly the scramble to; Louisa Hyde to Geo W Hyde lots 2 and 3 blk 5 W Side add Butler $100. sell corn there was a few weeks ago. i In some localities, where feeders are| Geo S Jenkins to Wm Yeatts pt blk 2 Warners add Butler $1100. numerous, the scramble is quite the shale other way, and there is a decided up-| © E Morgan to BF Guinrich tract turn in the price of corn. The man| Sec 13 Charlotte $1800. ey who was going to have corn sell for| JD Angel to B F Guinrich 32 1-2) a quarter before spring has another | Sec 13 Charlotte $1800. guess coming, and he may have to David McComb to Lizzie McComb just about double the amount of his| tract secs 4 and 5 Osage $3500. AE Caldwell to Stevie Long 80 a ; en Mingo $6000. The latest hails from an Illinois | S°¢ oe) Ri , corn breeder, who thinks he has in-| , on brane S Jenkins 40 a sec creased the yield of his corn by al- s w Heal ti c Cc State Bank ways selecting seed from stalks hav- Peehee won obs see . . lots 7 and 8 blk 60 Rich Hill $1. ing two ears. Now, so he claims, he Jobe D toJ C La lot 4 has a corn that invariably grows two baie thal ne Bid Wes Ie blk 34 Rich Hill $500. ears, and oftentimes three. His ad John T Harper to Eliza E ee further plans are to still increase the stone 12 a sec 2 Walnut $1. yield by selecting hereafter from A CC Allman to W J Neal 80a sec 34| stalks bearing three nested ___ | Walnut $4300. | It has been my experience that itis} F Richards to J E Smith lot 1 blk | better to raise one good ear of corn | 1 Scotts add Butler $500. on a stalk than two nubbins, and only F F Jones to J C Blocher 120 sec when all conditions are exactly ideal | 34 East Boone $1. do the two ears to the stalk amount} John Jennings to N W Biallfinch to more than nubbins. For this rea-| lots 4 and 5 blk 3 Ist add R Hill $500. son I very much doubt if the yield of} _L R Eakin to Jessie Axtell 320 a grain to the acre can be increased ~ t New Home $1. ithe ship struck, should it be possible to produce a sO) W W Thompso corn always bearing two ears to the 00 a Seo oH and 2 24 mt Pleasant stalk. ME Hutton Mt wie Martin 11 ¥ a ; a sec 8 Osage $1! The old saying has it that when the! 4 ¢ Wannicke to RE Smith 12 12 days begin to lengthen the cold be-|a sec 14 West Boone $350. gins to strengthen. Will those now! J C Callahan to W T York pt bik 6 attending school and well up in geo-| Johnstown $50 graphy tell why this is the case? Why|_ _W J Nichols to F R Mills 69 a sec should not the weather become |? Shawnee $375. ose! or Cf can: John G Reed to L J Morehouse bik warmer as soon as the hours of sun- 10 Foster $1. Ay 1 Rieneg igeeroutt light. become more, and the dead of Jennie Sage day of the year? Naud Braden to. Reed lots 7 & Ihave héard many a person ma S Foam Os LINER STRIKES ON ATLANTIC REEF Passengers of Steamer Uranium Re- moved to Shore in Lifeboats. CAPTAIN AND CREW STAY ON SHIP Vessel Struck Rocks Headon During a Fog—Surf Boats Were Uscd | in Transferring the- \ Passengers. Halifax, N. S., Jan. 13.—The steam. | er Uranium, of the Uranium Steam ship Company, bound from Rotterdam for Halifax and New York, stranded on a reef during thick weather nea! the Chebucto headlight station, nine | miles below Halif t 11 o'clock in the morning, and held fast in} the grip of the rochy shcre. Her 880 | pa engers, 100 in the cabin and the! rest in the steerage, were taken off the steamer in the afternoon. by the government steamer Lady Laurier and a small fleet of harbor craft and| were safely landed in Halifax. Although surf boats had to be used in transferring the hundreds of pas- sengers to the rescue boats, the work was safely accomplished and not a life was losi. Captain | i | { | Eustace and his crew re- mained aboard ship, which is hanging by her bow cn the reef. The captain hopes to the steamer off at low water late at night. The escape of a vessel from such a predicament gen- lly is made at high water, but the captain thinks the weight of the af-/ cerpart of the Vranium steamer will gradually | drag the free as the tide} gees down There among the rm, espe ongers, when | officers and | restoring | Chebucto, | telephone ccmmunication | sent immediate news the steamer’s plight to the port au- thorities who dispatched the Lady Laurier, the steamer Bridgewater engi everal tugs to the scene, The rescue boats arrived at 2 o'clock p. m., and the transfer of the Uranium's pa ngers was begun at once. Three surf boats from the life- saving station and the life boats of the Uranium were used, The Lady Lanrier took women and children first, and then the men were transferred to the Bridgewater A heavy southwest wind was blow- ing when the vranium ran ashore, and the steamer was therefore fortu- nately protected by Chebucto Head. If the wind veers to the opposite di- site direction the steamer will be ex- pesed to the sweep of the Atlantic and put in peril. The stevr struck head-on when the tide war halt high, and late in the afternoon her bow was six feet out of the water, while there was sever! fathems of water under her amidships and seventeen fathoms at the stern, The plates at the bow are ripped open and No. | hold was flooded. but the succeeded in alm, The lightkeeper at sailors soon who has with Halif A PRISON CAR USED IN ESCAPE Three Joliet Convicts Stole Automo- bile and Got Away—Making Their Way Toward Gary, Ind. Joliet, T., Jan, 18.—The three con- viets who stole a motor car in the prison yard and escaped from the state penitentiary here abandoned their car at Sherburnville, Ml, at 8 o'clock at night and started for Gary, Ind., on foot, according to a messige received. Deputy Sheriff Riley ot Kankakee county telephoned Warden Murphy of Joliet penitentiary that ‘he men had been seen by a farmer who directed them to Gary. Riley reported that the farmer was hailed by the men, who were standing by the car which had broken down. The farmer did not observe the priscn uniforms, owing to the darkness, The men asked him various questions abcut the road and finally started toward Gary. The car is positively identified as that of Prison Account ant Loomis by its number, 1306. ICE CAUSED OKLAHOMA WRECK When Frisco Trains Collided at Mil- fay Twenty-Eight Persons Were Injured Milfay, Ok., Jan. 13.—Twenty-eig persons were injured, none seriousiy when two St. Louis & San Fra co passenger trains collided head-on. The trains were northbound No. 408 and southbound No. 707. The acciden was caused by the inability of the porter of the northbound train to throw a switch, which was held fast by the ice on the track. The engineer on the southbound train saw the green light on the switch and sup- posed the track was clear. Fire Loss of $2,000,000. Calgary, Alberta, Jan. 13.—The packing plant of P. Burns & Company was destroyed by fire here. The loss, including meat in cold storage, prob- ably will be in excess of $2,000,000. On account of the low water pressure, the fire department was unable to do effective work and at a late hour the fire was stili raging. Long Price, one of Charters’ big herd boars, a noted hog from the Lonergan herd. Was sired by Big Tom, the Nebraska state fair winner. NAY PROBE THO FEDERAL JUDGES Congress to Inquire Into Actions of Pollock and Van Valkenburgh, KANSAS CITY SENDS IN PETITION Document Presented to Congress by Representative Borland of Jackson County, Mo.—Referred to Ju- diciary Committee. Jan 11.—An sation of the conduct ef t Judges, Judge Van Valkenb district of Missouri, and e John C. Polloek of the district of as, Was asked for in petitions from the common council of Kansas City, Mo., presented to the house by Represent e Borland of Missouri. The re: tions, framed by cial committee of the as City council, charge that Judge Pollock and Judge Van Valkenbu appointed re ceivers for the Ka s Natural Gas Company and the Kansas City Gae Company, which, it is alleged, are controlled by the United Gas Im provement Compa ef Philadetphia who were “frien to the interests design and purpose” of those two com panies. A further charge agains! Judge Pollock is that he issued an or der to the receivers, directing them to charge an increased price for gas delivered to the Kansas City Gas Com pany, he petitions were referred to the judiciary committee of the house Representative Borland said he would} ask the committee to consider the} complaints immediately, and to grant a hearing to the Ka s City author | wd Washingt western Sin a spe Kans, Che resolutions char that the a tion and conduct of the jidg an, unta and unwarranted exercise of! judicial power and destructive of the| fundamental rights of the people. I: is further charged that Judge Pollock is depriving the people of Kansas City! of light and fuel and that he is being | “aided and abetted” in his purpose by! Judge Van Valkenburgh, The Kansas Natural Gas Company is a pipe line company and furnishes natural gas from K and Okla homa to the Kansas City Gas Com pany, which distributes it ‘o the con: saumes for 27 cents per 1,900 cubic feet. Both companies are alleged to be, owned and controlled by the United Gas Improvement Company of Phila delphia, which is also said to control the Welsbach Street Lighting Com- pany of America, upon whose appli: | cation the appointment of receivers | was made by Judge Van Valkenburgh The Kansas Natural Gas Company j{ claimed that the natural gas of Okla-| homa and Kansas is becoming ex-| hausted and that a higher price should be charged. The resolution of the’ Kansas City council, offered by Rep- resentative Borland, declares that tes | timony taken in a judicial proceeding| demorstrated that an adequate sup-! ply of natural gas was still acces-} sible. | On October 9, 1912, according to the resolution, the Kansas Natural) Gas Company applied to and secured from Judge Pollock the appointment of three receivers, “who were and are | friendly” to the interests involved. The resolution claims that the appli- cation was made to force the con- sumers to pay a much greater price | for their gas, and that the design and/| purpose of the receivership was so: plain’ and manifest that Judge Pol-! lock could not possibly have been ig-| norant thereof. | On December 30, 1912, Judge Pol- | lock made an order directing the re-| ceivers of the Kansas Natural Gas) Company to refuse to sell gas to the! Kansas City Gas Company unless they } received at least 31 cents per 1,000 | cubic feet. The resolution sets forth that the appcintment of receivers was made without notifying counsel for Kansas City, Mo.,or Kansas City, Kas. | Judge Lindsey that they are apart] jter h RRA TE Fa RRR IT Cc. E. ROBBINS The Leading Aucti of the Southwest 140 sales last ing a total of $364,288.00. Why ex- periment with men who know noth- ing of the business when you can employ a man in whose hands your life’s earnings are safe? Sales made anywhere. PHONE BUTLER, MISSOURI oneer season, aggregat- NO. 11 ‘SUNDAY SCHOOL GIRLS ROB In Two Months a Denver Band Stole} More Than $1,000 Worth of | Jewelry. Denver, Jan. 11.—Four Sunday | school gir ranging in ages from $| to 10 yea confessed to Juvenile of a band of girls who have been rob: bing fashionable homes in Denver in the last 'wo months. More than $1,000 worth of jewelry, it is-estimated by the officers, has been olen by the children. When arrested | by a juvenile court officer one girl, who s she is the leader, had in her possession a promissory note for $200 | and a $20 bill. The girls were con- fined in the Home of the Good Shep- herd in Denver, Used His Coffin as a Couch. Frazee, Minn., Jan. 11.—Aunton “el- ler, years old, who died recently, was buried in the coffin he made fil. teen years ago and had been for a couch. Geller had been living alone here for thirty years. 2 Mother Died at Children’s Bedside. Jet, Ok. Jan. 13—Mrs. W. W, Moore, wife of the Methodist minis- re, died suddenly after putting her children to bed aiid kissing them gcod night. Surely Lovely. Miss Quizz—Heve you Charley's new car? Mrs. Malaprop-—-Yes; it was lovely. There was some osculation, but it Aidn’t bother me a bit —Brooklyn Life, ridden in Killed in a Chicago Elevator. Chicazo. Jan, 14.—A fashionably ressed woman fell four stories, to her death in the elevator shatt of a de partment tore. Up to a late hour at aizht sie had not been identified, Timely Topics A light, sharp hatchet is the best tool for cutting cabbage. Lime should be applied after plow- ing, t is bound to work down. Give the lawn a dressing of well- rotted stable manure before theground freezes up and let it stay on all winter. Never allow weeds to grow around currant bushes. Mulch them heavi- ly and do not use a spade to fork up | the ground. If it pays to shelter stock it will pay to shelter implements. It pays to take care of valuable — property, whether it be stock, tools or crops. Since we began leaving our apples out in a cool building as long as we could before storing them in the cel- lar, they have kept a good deal better. Fill up those vacant spaces in the orchard with some good fruit trees. You wouldn't think of allowing that much ground to stand idle in the fields. The man who ite up an honest pack of first-class fruit in uniform, well- made packages need never fear that the money spent for attractive labels will be wasted. For two seasons past our turnip sowing proved to be kale, resulting in loss of crop. With small trouble seeds can be saved from almost all vegetables. By being careful to col- lect from best specimens they will give better results than to purchase from dealers who sell seeds as fresh which have been in stock for two or three seasons and give trouble and disappointment to the buyer.—A. C. McPherson in Farm and Home. co & a 3 2 < i “i ” i rs ba hag Seehd ast Re: ay ds