The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, January 8, 1914, Page 2

¥ The Butler Weekly Times Printed on Thursday of each week Capital Misses Owl Sleeper Jefferson City, Mo., Jan. 4.-—The 'souri Pacific fast mail affects Jeffer- | son City materially, as this was one of he Post Office of Butler, Mo., as. +H fy hlimattar . ‘the favorite trains for those whose “RowT, D, ALLEN, Editor and Manager Bater eecond-ci: a day. ee aealts Se ae _--.| This was especially true of lawyers 3 who came here frequently from St. STATE PEC UETRATION é | Louis and other points in the eastern In state affairs, we have a native | section to attend the Supreme Court. born Missouri Democrat as gover-| Jefferson City hotel men are notdis- nor—Elliott W. Major, KEY A oe | pleased with the new arrangement, as in her domain and loves er rocks and | it means alonger sojourn of transients eet Sabi ee He oe ki in the city ie consequently more rev- tried and tested by the people and enue to the hotels. never found wanting. ,His greatest; For twenty-five years the fast-mail duty and desire is to serve his state sleeper has been a feature of the Mis- and his people. T _ iby et aga _souri Pacific service. On several oc- convention promised and pledged: _casions since the establishment of the ae eaten in racing shi it the sleeper has page taken bl e surplus now in the treasury, not-! but there’'was so fiuch clamor eac' withstanding the false and farcial cries | time that it was speedily restored to of deposed Republicans, bespeak the | the service. wise and efficient management by; This morning the train was a solid |taking off of the sleeper on the Mis-] ‘ business called them to the capital for | Elkhart Well, the writer failed to shaw up CAPITOL BUILDERS MAY QUARRY STONE -Seeks Suitable Quality in Ste. Genevieve County. Jefferson City, Mo., Jan. 4.—It. is possible that the John Gill and Sons Construction Company of Cleveland, | week at Mrs. Spillman’s. contractors for the new MissouriState| We gota letter from J. E, Dubes House, may solve the prohtem of get- | ast week stating that he had traded ting suitable stone for the construc-! his property in in Springfield for a tion of that building by quarrying. | farm. He says he didn’t like city life. K. F, Gill, managing director ‘of; Jim Turner has traded his farm the company, has spent the last two/torthe Masterson store in Amster- weeks prospecting the limestone lain: fields in Ste. Genevieve county. For- ty of his employees are stripping a great ledge in that county to get out specimens of the stone to present to the Capitol Building Commission. ‘ After a trip of inspection to all Mis- and a cow struck us’ urder the left jeye with her horn and cut quite a gash. Mrs. Reeves spent one day last | The dance at John. Daniels’ last | Friday night was all o. k., and they i report a grand time. It is reported that Uncle Joe Clapp ‘js on the’sick list. Taxes are now due and my office i i i . | quick action and ‘last week. We were all knocked out ee “<i a ona Here FOO. | Sue Gill & Sons Construction Company | last week by falling off of the wagon, | 3-tf |. L. Barker, Township Collector. | 9-4t Pork Chops, tb........2.5...05. Ham Pork Steak, ib.. Plain Pork Steak, tb.. Side Pork, tb Sausage, 2 ibs. ment One Man’s Money is as Good Here as Another’s We will have for New Year 40 gallons of Oysters and 25 bunches of Celery. per centan privileges. duce the kind of stone called for in the specifications for the new Capi- souri limestone quarries which pro- | Newt Crumley had bad luck at the | Daniels’. dance when his mare got ‘loose with the buggy and by the time Lamb Chops, b.. Lamb Stew, ib Democratic officers and Democrgtic legislature. 2. Good ~roads—and never has there been such a real building of ; Missouri roads as ‘now. Governor Major inaugurated two good roads days, and as a result more than $2,- 000,000 was spent on Missouri roads. The example was fitting, and now the “Major idea’ is being pursued in many American states. Nor is this all. national government for the use of mail and post roads and be it remem- bered that our governor was the first executive of a state to be called before congressional good roads committees for national aid. 3. Aid to schools. This has been done and now every high school can receive aid in having a preparatory teachers’ department which will man- ifestly aid the rural districts. 4. Home rule for large cities—and this has been performed as nearly as it was possible for the legislature to determine just what the large cities desired. 5 5. Commission form of govern- ment for cities which has been made possible. 6. The utility commission which has the power to fix rates of all pub- Governor Major will not cease’ until each state receives aid from the | | mail train, the crew finding scant ac- ‘commodation in the rear end of one of the steel mail cars. Engineers who handle the fast mail are offering no objections to the elim- jination of the Pullman car from the itrrin, THey say it will make it much | easier for them to keepup theschedule time, which is very fast. Notice to the Rural Route Patrons. - At a meeting of the rural carriers | of Bates County on Thanksgiving day, jone of the resolutions passed was: | That we have printed in all country , papers the orders of the fourth assist- ant post-master general regarding the |penny nuisance, If all of the patrons | will follow this order, you will make your carrier happy. Do not think ‘your box is the only one upon the ;route, but there are about one, han- dred others who.are doing the same. 'If you want to see your carrier smile, ; just stamp all your Iétters. Office of the Fourth Ass’t. P. M. Gen. Washington, D. C., Nov. 5, 1913. Postmasters at all rural delivery | offices and rural carriers are directed to bring to the attention of patrons _that it is the desire of the department ‘that all first class mail matter deposit- ‘ed in rural mail boxes shall be tol, Mr. Gill began his prospecting | she got through it was quite a wreck. in Ste. Genevieve. | Deacon Fritts and wife spent last It is said that he has options on | Sunday at Judge Hegers. one seta ie oe ee ae he | The neighbors came in one day last y ated i Pi week and killed our hogs for us; proval of the commission, his Com: \Tockridge, George Lockridge and pany, either will do the quarrying or wives, and C. B. Henderson and his finance another company to open UD ' two boys and Ollie Fritts. ‘They did the quarry on a scale that will insure | the job up in shortorder for which we pi owe rae Sal ‘ bt tO! feel thankful as we wasn’t able to do obviate any delay in cons ion. ie F The Ste. Genevieve limestone is ot ede amines aicl of pronounced of very fine quality and, he, is said to be entirely free from sutures | / mill one day last week. “ , ” ‘ We don’t or ‘‘crows’ feet,’’ and the strata is Of | think hhaGheldid itoniaunmanel sufficient width to admit of quarry-; ing in any dimension desired. | The young folks had a watch party There is no clause inthe lawagainst.2t Elkhart. They watched the old the contractor doing his-own quarry- | ¥e@ out and the new year in and re- ing, the only requirement in connec- | Port a cus ume. tion with the stone being that it must; W. F. Stephens and wife had quite be a Missouri productand be approv-'4 swell dinner on Christmas day. Their children were all there and ed by the commission. Lack of capital, it is said, has been , they report a good time. Col. Fulker- | son was there and he reports that he abarto the development and ex-; ploitation of the Ste. Genevieve quar- | had one of the best times that he has ‘had since he was a boy. ries up to this-time. In round figures it is said that the} There was a wedding at John Cox’s quarries at Carthage want .$660,000/on Christmas day. His daughter for supplying the estimated 350,000 \ Laura and Mr..Mackmeans were mar- cubic feet of stone that will. be--re-!ried. We wish the young couple the quired by the building, and the Cass: | best of luck and much joy. - ville gray limestone quarries in Bar- | The writer and wife Mrs. Spillman ry County want $550,000. ‘and daughter all took dinner at W. Mr. Gill is expected to report on) 1, Keeton last Sunday. Choice Round Beef Steak, tb. Second Round, jb.............. Loin Steak, tb.... Plain Steak, tb Plate Boil, tb.. a First-class, big juicy Oysters, per qt............ Buy Where Your Money Buys.as Much as Any Man’s Seese’s Independent Meat Market, Phone 167 his wife’s finger off in the saugage|™ lic utilities and the promise has been | stamped before being so deposited. _ kept and the commission is always at | When this is not. practicable, coins work. —ileft_ inboxes 7. Efficiency and economy in our! stamps in coin holding receptacles eleemosynary institutions and thishas and not inclosed in envelopes, been wholly performed notwithstand-| wrapped in paper or leéft loose in ing the malicious falsehoods of some; boxes. Postmasters and carriers his selection of the stone to the com-| What has become of our scribe The Wallon Trust Ce. Capital Surplus Fund & Undivided Profits $105,500.00. Wm. E. Walton, President Frank Allen, Secretary Always has Money to Loan on Farms in South- OF BUTLER, MISSOURI: oo. + $250,000.00 J.B, Walton, Vice-President Wm. J. Nix, Asst-Sec. C. A. Allen, Treasurer ™ mission January 12. _west Missouri and Southeastern Kansas int =e from Cornland. number of subcontracts for various Myrtle Spillman and her best fellow’ parts of the work ‘will be taken up | took in the literary at the Crooks for approval. ; school house last Friday night. a Sec el iene There will be a pie supper at the Real Estate Transfers. | Crook’s school house on Jan. ‘16th. on Long Time and at Low Rates of Interest. « * ~Ow-n_and keep up with the county record, a complete —~ of our sensational papers. Much remains to be done, but as God gives our party the power to see the right, we can rest assured the un- | | should give this notice as much pub- ‘licity as possible without incurring ‘any expense to the department. James I. Blakslee. Amos Lafever to Geo W Dixon pt blk 9 Concklins & Wells add Butler 1 { John L McGee to Rose A Harvey | _ | bring your pocketbooks. |Girls bring the pies and you boys J. D. Clements has got back to Abstract of Title to all Lands and Town Lots in Bates County, showing the title from the date of Purchase from the United) States down -to the Present time. . finished work will continue in its) Jt will bea great help to the car- hands,_until every promise made and | ,jers if the patrons will only follow pledge given is wholly and nobly per-} formed. With these performed our future is bright for the people in our} | this order. Yours for better service, E. W. Smiser, Sec’y. state and nation will be the recipients | . of good; and then it may well be re- marked of our Democratic officials, “Well done, thou good and faithful servants.”’ % Baskerville Announces ForSenate Lucien Baskerville, representative from Bates county, yesterday filed his declaration to run for the state senate on the Democratic ticket in his district. He-will oppose Senator Baldwin whose time expires .next year. Mr. Baskerville resides only three miles from Senator Baldwin and he is making on active campaign. He made a good representative and hasa strong following at home.—} Capitol City News. Horse Masters Electricity _ | Sedalia, Mo., Jan. 5.--John W. ‘Baldwin, member of the Board of ; Managers of the Missouri Training | School for Boys at Boonville, has at | his.home in Sedalia an educated driv- jing horse that Friday night untied its halter, turned on an electric light in the stable, made its way to the gran- ary and ate its fill of alfalfa meal with- out any ill effect. = | Mr. Baldwin vouches for the story. | HE zo0 use PUTNAM FADE- L DYES and are not.satis- fied, we will refund your money pil ae you free enough dye to make your'd: satish 4 Monrog Drve Co., Quincy, BRING I kK an It is illegal for us FEBRUARY Ist. We are Paying the Top Market:so Get Them in_at_Once N YOUR 4 to buy Furs after od ; Missouri. He lives four miles south ‘of Lamar. « 6o9| Charley Misner had a sick horse last Sunday as a result too muc 4300 | fodder. : We hear it reported that Roy Thornbrough is going to move on 3750 | the Fulkerson farm this spring. | We havn’t heard from Ben Coats 8000 ' this week, but we heard that he took i dinner at Tom Hackett’s on Christ- mas day and we wouldn’t be sur- eM prised to hear that Ben was sick. 6003! A, Westover shipped in another | car of corn last week. W. H. Keeton visited at his moth- er’s one day last week. JOHNNY. tract secs 24 & 25 Rockville ... Dora E Thomas to-1 E Beard 14 a sec 31 Deepwater...... ..... HA Kinney to CL Racey 120a sec 1 West Point.... *e A P Genevay to W A Se 80 a sec 4 Lone Oak J C Endicott to WS Oates 100 a sec 26 Elkhart AS Quinn to R W Neff tract sec 4 Mound John C Lane to R F Lisle 192 a secs 22, 27 Mt Pleasant........ W A McKelvey to H P Lentz 120 a sec 6, 1 Shawnee and Mound. Oscar Nafus to Ludwig Finklong 75 a sec 11 Pleasant Gap Ludwig Finklang to G W Wolfe tract sec 11 Pleasant Gap...... 55 | D C McBride to H G Blake lots 1 | 4800 2 blk 15 Amsterdam. . 2000] Nee = A T Wade to J H Epperson tract | In and und Sprague. sec 20 West Point ............. 650| Everyone was well pleased with J W Hughes to AJ Walter 40a sec 23 Mound DB Reist to A B Miller lot 1 pt ‘lot 2 blk 1 Hustons 2d ad Adrian A B Miller to D B Reist 145 a sc 34 Grand River................ ‘the sermon from the new pastor at the Christian church. 7000 | Miss Aleta Bush gave a party for jher friends last week. All that were | present had an enjoyable time. Mr. Hutchison and family visited 2600 10150 Ruth Sims to H-R Price 40 a sec 21 Rockville... +++ 150/at Mr. Bradley’s Sunday. 7H sa ed A number from Sprague attended ewe. ont 15 | the show at Metz last week T H Tillson to H B Rees. 40 a sec ~ aa hat tala elias Pr ae aed ma ptannenae 100] The Hoover gifls-of Rich Hill visik ed the past week at Mr. Gentzlers. Miss Ruby Crissinan entertained a number of her friends New - Year's A L White to H V McCarty blx 31 Sperrys ad Rich Hill ....... 1 Arzelia Turley toJ D Rhea pt-blk 35 Rich Hill ................665 75 | eve. 00 Mullies to W S Collins 40a es sec 17 Walnut................. 1600 Olie Pryor visited Revel Floyd-Sun- H R Price to J S Patterson 13a day. sec 21 Rockville............... 300] Miss Bettie Hutchison and Tom Jennie S Patterson to H R Price . und 14 int 40 a sec 2} Rockville NL Whipple to Mary E Wilson etal 326 a sec 1, 11, 12 Pleasant Jinkens are visiting in North Mis- souri. = Mrs. Theodor Floyd entertained the Needle Club New Year’s eve. 300 seessgssessctssespastes 11400 Will be held at the ‘court house in the Probate Court room every Sun-| _ ; day morning at 11 o'clock. All are "i cordially invited. Subject January 11, 1914. “Sacrament.” bea ae are? — Money, Money, Money. We Furnish Reliable Abstracts Pays Interest .on Time ‘Deposits For Six or Twelve Months cis Frank Allen C. A, Allen John Deerwester Fees Reasonable" DIRECTORS C. H. Dutcher A. B. Owen John E, Shutt Wm. W. Trigg J. B. Walton Wm. E. Walton C. E. ROBBINS PHONE NO. 11 —~— J.A. Beard _Cut out a part of your ex; 2 an extortionate pri gees auctioneer with the ability an: your property for the high dollar. er and figure on a sale propositi MY MOTTO: ‘A square deal to b es _ Call.on or Phone me for Dates. "paneeet sa nantes Auctioneer C. E. Robbins, the leading auc- tioneer_of the Southwest. Sold . over $500,000 worth of stuff last season. Selling every day, post- ed on values and_ knows how to sell for the high dollar. Why do business with inexperienced men who make only one or two sales a month as aside issue when you can have the services of an expert at areasonable price. Call -- BUTLER, MO, Auctioneer : Don’t pay ou can employ an experience to sell fs t's get togeth- hen you Phone 7 on line:7 Spruce. -