The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, January 8, 1914, Page 3

“ There are ni pera ~a good Col Cor. Robbins, IN ARGENBRIGHT’S FEED YARD BUTLER, MISSOURI. Wednesday, January 14, 194 Of all Kinds. Auctioneer. » A LOT OF GOOD > Farm Horses and Mules A Lot of Cattle Some Stock Hogs Some Hedge Posts Sale Every Two Weeks Big Jack Sale in March. Ped Let.us know what you have to sell. Chas. H. Argenbright, Manager. M. C. Wilcox, Clerk. Here’s the best-made .22 rifle in the world! It’s a take-down, cohvenient to carry and clean. t Its Ivory Bead and Rocky Mountain .22. Has lever action—like a big working parts cannot wear out. sights are the best set ever furnished on any game rifle; has solid top and side ejection Beautiful case-hardene $14.50; octagon, $16.00. more about all Learn Marlin aepsenert: Send 3 stamps postage for the 128-page Marlin catalog. ™ Marlin Model 1897 or. safet; finish and superb build an: @ Model 1892, similar, but not take-down, prices, $12.15 up. sil ye Rifle Shoots all .22 short, .22 long ani long-rifle cartridges; cellent for rabbits, squ rels, hawks, crows, | The tool steel and rapid accurate firing. balance. Price, round barrel, re, uns Co, 42 Willow St., New Haven, Conn. shells! Your empty fired shells are the expensivi reload your si ie asd es factory ammunition. easy to reload! Merely de “cap i and re-cap ‘shell, insert powder, crimp shell You reload 100 .32-40 S. Rx cartridges (buying bullets) on to bullet. hour at total expense 77c.; casting bullets yourself, cartridges cost $2.52. Free—Ideal Hand Book tells all about reloadir rifle, pistol_and shotgun ammunition; 160 ‘The- Marlin Firearms Co., 42 Will free for 3 stamps postage. They’re as strong and good as new, and it's 88c.; new fs fase of valuable information; low St., New Haven, Conn. From Oklahoma. Optima, Okla., Jan. 2, 1914. "Editor Times, Butler, Mo. Dear Sir:—You will remember we left Butler on the 27th of October. I went on crutches. .I had been in bed with rheumatism for six_weeks. We went to Kansas City and.took the Rock Island train for Optima, Okla-| homa, about 400 miles south west of Kansas City, where we have been visiting my wife’s folks ever since. Iam much better, have gained 74 pounds since. here. I am taking 2 kinds of medicine three times a day. The weather has been fine. We have had three small snows but they soon}, went off. We had about 34 or 4 inches of rain. It was dry here as it was in Bates County. They raised some maze and kaffir corn. There is a wild grass that grows along the Beever river thatthey use for hay. _: They cut it twice a year. It makes ~. 14 to 14 tons at a cutting. This land is very valvable and the land on the flats is worth from $600 to $3000 a Wheat looks: fine. There are very few cattle in this country, about three bunches of 100 head ih each bunch and several small bunches. Most everyone has a cow or: two. MARK JACKSON DAY M’CLUNG REQUESTS State Chairman Calls on All Dem- ocrats to Honor Memory of Patron Saint. Jefferson City, Mo., Jan. 4.—Chair- man D. C. McClung of the Democratic ‘State Committee has issued a call to Missouri Democrats to celebrate Jack- son Day Thursday. In acircular letter .sent out today Mr. McClung reviews the life and achievements of ‘‘Old Hickory” and suggests that meetings of Democrats should be held in, every precinct in Missouri next Thursday in honor of one of the patron saints of the party. The State Chairman says: . “As chairman of the State Demo- cratic Committee I have reviewed briefly the life of one of the patron saints of Democracy. May we not become rebaptised in his imperishable principles of courage, honesty and devotion to the right. “Thereby ask and request every chairman of each county committee place in his ctty, county or precinct on his birthday, January 8,, and do honor to his memory as a man, sol- dier,-statesman, President and Demo- SS: Buy now and Warden McClung over terms, renewed his contract for ‘convict la- contracts "yesterday at seventy-five centsaday. The new contracts all expire December 31, 1915, when the legislature may have evolved some other scheme for working the pris- oners. The old contracts expired De- cember 31, 1913. The total number of men contracted for is about 1,700. Of these Houchin employs approxi- mately nine hundred. E - For. Sale. out. G.-O HIDDEN DANGERS. Nature Gives Timely Warnings That No Butler Citizen Can Afford to Ignore. DANGER SIGNAL NO. 1 comes fromthekidney secretions. They will warn you when the kidneys are weak. Well kidneys excrete a clear, amber - !fluld. Disordered kidneys send outa thin, pale and foamy, or a thick, , red, ill-smelling urine, full of sediment and irregular of passage. DANGER SIGNAL NO. 2 comes from the back. © Back pains, dull and heavy, or sharp and acute, suggest weak kidneys and in that case warn you of the danger of dropsy, gravel and Bright’s disease. Doan’s Kidney Pills are endorsed by thousands. Here’s Butler proof: Mrs. B. F. Johnson, 200 S. Main St., Butler, Mo., says: “I suffered intensely: from kidney trouble. My back ached so badly that I often thought I could not endure the misery any longer. Finally, I used a box of Doan’s Kidney Pills, procured at Clay’s Drug Store, and they cured me.”’ For sale by all dealers. “Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn“Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. - Remember the name—Doan’s—and take no other.—adv. 12-2t New Convict Labor Contract — Jefferson City, Jan. 2.—James Houchin, after a lengthy wrangle with the board of prison inspectors bor tonight for a term of two years from January 1, 1914, at seventy- five centsa day minimum fixed by law. The other contractors signed their SD piace ta Teed O! Wiki eco Butler, FARM FURROWS. Farmer and Stockman. burned for fuel this winter. dition will never again exist. Tohim who's content to stand still the world seems to be moving entirely too fast for safety. A friend of mine says the. cheapest and best way of digging the hole for a large and substantial post is with a half stick of dynamite. He bores with a two-inch auger to the depth wanted, sets the dynamite off and: two or three minutes’ cutting the cor- ners with a tile spade completes the! job. The hay baler puts hay in shape for storing i in small space, hence a small barn may be utilized for the storage of much hay. Inasmuch as. baling costs very little more than stacking, and there is no loss by spoiling in the stack, it is a matter of economy in all ways to bale. _ Be sure you are right, then don’t ie too intolerably headstrong about it. A lumber yard near here is putting in a full stock of stave lumber for the building of next year’s silos. The staves come already milled, and will be sold very little above the. price of common dimension stuff of like ma- terial. Isee no reason why silos should not be bought in this way, and at a great reduction, considering what some have cost in the past. There is talk of cutting out the free seed graft. The secretary of agri- culture favors doing away with it. 1 have long wondered why the prac- tice has been kept alive, but, of course, the mistaken notion of con- gréssmen that it isa boost for them has kept it up. reasonable to distribute free fence staples as free mustard seeds labeled as turnip. The: recipient would at least know what he was getting. Winter gives the farmers a chance to rest up a little and prepare for greater achievements next season. Think for yourself; don’t be a scrap heap for other men’s cast-offnotions. Ere this has been read Santa Claus will have made his rounds. I hope alittle boys and girls will have_been4 visited. I can still ‘remember when the visit of-Santa was. the event of my life. Hanging up the stocking is the best way of getting into com- munication with the gray-whiskered old gentleman, according to the re- membrance of my boyhood days. Be cheerful; you can’t improve any situation by being otherwise. The perfect weather we have had up to the present time makes such easy work of the chores that it is hardly enough to keep one’s appetite in working order. This, however, is not intended as a.complaint against the weather man. As far as our ap- petite is concerned we are willing to worry along “without much change in temperature.’ Rabbits will gird young apple trees | even when there is no snow on the ground. The only safe way is to _|wrap the trees with something to keep the little nibbléfs away and al- so discourage them by having a shot- gun handy. Some advise feeding the rabbits on carn to keep them from the trees. Others advise feeding the family on rabbits. I suppose we may choose between the two: Great is blue grass, except in mid- summer. Where possible to have both, therideal arrangements prairie grass pasture to last through July and August, the seed months of blue grass. He whois fortunate enough to have both is indeed prepared for a long pasture season. It isa mistate to sell ‘“‘short’’ on corn even when the price is as high! as it is now. Keep éhough to feed the hogs-until the new crop is ripe. It may help ward off sonie of the hog troubles that usually appear when we begin feeding new corn. How has the old year used you? Well, probably as well as you have| used it. ‘To fear that you are foolish is sort of foolish; but it is better than to be cocksure that you are wise. ‘People don’t wear paths to the tombstone to learn the worth of the The hog will keep his sleeping house clean and dry if itis possible for him to.do so, but his table man- ners are not so good. Even the ce- T do not believe much corn will be| When ; it was selling for from 12 to 14 cents’ a bushel and coal was $8.00 a ton, it! was the cheapest fuel of the two, and | I burned-some of it then. A like ad It would be just as it | be forced upon them. Nothing at all | D? PRICES Baking Powder . Received the highest award at Chicago World’s Fair | SS in riches will never gain it without al The willow is a quick-growing tree changed mind? \and will grow on what is usually call- How is the seed\corn drying out? ed waste land. Willow fence. posts Perhaps the mice are getting at it. So will last along time if treated with muich depends on our ‘corn that it|creosote. By the time the willows will not do to pick the seed and leave | that are planted next spring are large it until planting time without looking | ‘enough for posts, the creosote treat- it over occasionally to see that every-| ment will be common. Waste land is thing is all-right.. ‘not waste land if willows are growing jon.it. If some men -with whom we are; . acquainted came to know how pleas-, A cross old woman is about the ant it is to smile, they’d certainly |Crossest thing there is; except, per- swear off being soglum. | | haps, a cross.old man; but a cross any- Do you ever stop and wonder what! | body is a nuisance bad which there is has become of the old-fashioned, kind OSD ' aan hearted man who used to haul a load; ‘Increasing the weight limit on par- of wood and a sack -of. flour around | Ce! post packages to fifty pounds adds to the poor widow now and then? | Many, things to the cheap mailable Maybe he has become acounty suiper- | lass. Now, rural carriers must be visor and has had her sent. to the | Prepared to carry almost any kind of |a load, it is now possible for some | practical joker to play it on a friendly | carrier by mailing a customer a ton | of-flour, in fifty-pound sacks. I no- tice the carriers in parts of the coun- | try are already objecting to the extra ‘load, without an increase in pay. Somebody has said that a horse has |the instinct of a gentleman. If. that | be so, how irksome indeed must be | the lives.of some of them, when you | consider the sort of masters they are poor farm. Wouldn’t it be great if some one} would invent an irrefragible New! Year’s resolution. I'm a great believer in the plan of} being hrought up as a member of} a large family. If there is any better | agency for taking the conceit and) selfishness out of you than four or) five big brothers I haven’t run across . The treatment is sometimes he-| intl but it does the work in most | lled t te with cases, Therefore, boys, appreciate | COmPelled to associate with. your big, awkward brothers even if; At Columbia ‘January 12-16 they do boot you around some. Thirteen Missouri Associations will Old Bill Williams says that he hates! hold their conventions this ypar at the old seed catalogs like poison; be-! Columbia during Farmers Week Jan- cause, just as soon as they begin to) y, ary 12-16. Lectures and demon- arrive along about this time of the’! strations will be given by men of year, his wife starts in to plan .a lot prominence. All the organizations of spading for hirn to do in the spring! have special programs arranged. so that more than half of the whole; The Missouri Women FarmersClub him.—He-swearsan organization open to women who that he has a big notion to notify the) manage farms, will meet January 14, various seed firms to take her name 15, 16. This is one of a very few off their mailing lists or he will@sue| such organizations in the country. them for damages to his peace of A large number of women farm mane mind. jagers of Missouri are expected to at- A nincompoop classes all the world | ‘tend, with himself. | The Missouri Farmers Exchange Those who gettheir‘ ‘gardentruck!! will meet January 16. The purpose by the can-opener route do not know| of this organization is to bring the the pleasure and profit of a home, buyer and seller together. Anything garden. The things for the table that that the members have for-sale may come in tin cans help pad the store |>® listed with, the secretary, J. R. billand do not seam to fit in the | Hall of Columbia, and he attempts earmenialbulvot farer \to finda buyer. Ii the sale is made, i a < the article is shipped direct from sell- It.requires so much effort for ‘some; ar fe buyer the money belay handled men to get out bed in the morning; y ad fe through the office of the secretary. that they seem to be entirely exhaust- | 5 edallithemeetolthe day. | The business of the company during ‘the last year has been confined most- The stalwart young woman whbd \ly to the sale of seed corn, pure bred wentinto the cornfield “and demon- | jive stock and farm grains and forage. strated’ her ability to shuck from! Tho eighty to 100 bushels of corn.a day,-| meet: did more to prove her right to the} January 13, 1:30 p. m.-~Missouri ballot than if she had smashed a win-| Draft Horse Breeders Association. dow, demolished a mail box, or help-; January 13,3 p.m.—Missouri Sheep ed‘to mob a minister of the govern-| | Breeders Association. P; ment. | JAnuary 13, 14, 15, 16, 3p.m.— Some men have a way of standing | | Rural Life Conference. against every good thing that comes! January 13, 14, 15, 46,°3 p. m.— along. All their advantages have to| Missouri State Board of Horticulture. January 14, 15, 3 p. m.—Missouri ever looks good to them as it ap- | Corn Growers Association. proaches. They just have to be bowl-| January 14, 15, 16, 3 p. m.—Mis- ed over as progress moves along. | souri Cattle, Swine‘and Sheep Feed-- But just as soorras society can begin | ers Association. to reap the fruits of an advanced} January 14, 3 p. m. —Missouri Dur- movement, they are up again, and | 0c Jersey Association. ready to get hold of as much more | January 14, 15, 16, 1:30 p. m— than their just share of them as they | Missouri Women Farmers Club. possibly can cabbage. A hog never; January 15, 1:30 p. m.—Missouri looks up much, but it has great facili- | Saddle Horse Breeders Association. ~ ty in getting its snout into the trough.| January 15, 3. p.- m.—Missouri More corn has been sold here this | | Farm Management ‘Association. : fall than for some time, but none has | January 15, 16, 3 p. m.—Missouri been shipped out. It seems that the | State Dairy Association. feeders are willing to féed high-priced | January 16, 3 p. m.—Missouri As- corn to high-priced feeders. Here is | S°ciation of County Fairs. i s hoping that they win. January 16, 3 p. m.--The Missouri The man who leads a creditable Katine secon ne: life never finds much difficulty in ob- The State Board of Horticulture taining all the credit he wach will discuss the co-operative market- & ing of fruit-at all meetings. All the profits cannot be shown on ——_—_—— the ledger. It is a good thing to live, Congressman Dickinson at Home and to support a good home, and to'| Congressman Clement C. Dickin- nurture and bring up children, and to|son arrived home Monday morning belong to the ‘social scheme; and to/ to spend a week with his family. He count for. something in the neighbor- | had not intended to come, but Satur- hood. Enlarging the bank deposit is| day morning could no longer resist following associations — will ment feeding floor must be cleaned qQuite— often if it is to be fit for the 40 acres of ‘shock oom, can 7 SPMvoratic hog of, today to eat his Bs 9k SOS OAS as ae by no means the best thing you can/the desire to spend a few days im do. It isa wonderfully fine thing to| good old Missouri.~ Accordingly he tits ining tise rand cicareu up iis USSR SU: tic ’ just put three bri er nai at woes 4 e