The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, June 18, 1914, Page 1

- and takes effect July 1. a by a veté of 50 ‘to. 24. . front Washington late in July. VOL. XXXVI. , Sta te ety, Istop; = Tiga} o - aj So Cis ly Gimmes, BUTLER, MISSOURI, THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1914. NUMBER 35 General News of the Week The Illinois woman’s suffrage act was declared constitutional by the ..~ State Supreme Court Saturday. Two men held up the cashier of the State Bank of Osage City, Oklahoma, last week, securing $1500. One of the men was captured. Secretary Daniels’ order abolishing the wine mess on American ships is in the hands of the Public Printer. It was promulgated some time ago The order will be issued to the service ina few days. - An initiative petition containing 112,101 names, ealling for the sub- mission to the voters of Washington at the November election of a state- __ wide prohibition law, was filed with the secretary of state June 16 by offi- cers of the state anti-saloon league. Under the law, 32,000 signatures would have been sufficient. Suit was filed by the federal gov- ernment in the United States District Court at Los Angeles to recover oil lands valued at more than 50 million dollars‘in-Kern County, .California, from the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, the Standard Oil Company and fifty other corporations and in- dividuals. The land area involved is 107,799 acres. The famous ‘Forbidden City’ of Pekin, China, has been thrown open - to visitors at 25 cents a head, the pro- ceeds to be devoted to the national defense fund. The ‘‘Forbidden City”’ is the central part of Pekin, in which are situated the royal palaces -and temples. Itis walled and formerly has been kept secluded. The Senate last week adopted the Simmons-Norris amendment .qualify- ing the-canal tolls exem: “Hepeal The’ amend- se provides that the passage of the I bill shall not be construed or held asa waiver or relinquishment of any rights the United States may have under the Hay=Pauncefote treaty with Great Britain. : With President Wilson insisting upon the enactment of the full_pro- gram of anti-trust legislation at the present session and the fall campaigns calling lustily for active work, Demo- cratic leaders in the Senate recently began preparations to put through the ,trust legislation and get away So far as work in the Senate committees handling anti-trust measures is con- cerned, there has been some spirit.of collaboration between the Democrats and Republicans. It this spirit is shown on the floor, adjournment at the end of six weeks is not impossi- ble. ‘Justice. Lamar and Frederick W. Lehmann, the American delegates to the mediation conference, after con- ferring for two hoursin Buffalo June 16, with Rafael Zubaran and Luis Ca- brera, personal representatives of General Carranza, failed to find a way to bring the constitutionalists in har- follow a break between Carranza and Villa. Should heir forces clash, a which in all probability would aréuse again the demand for armed inter- vention by the United: States. The mediators hold to the opinion that they have accomplished something in that war between the United States and the Huerta Government was hult- ed by mediation. They point to the fact that cordial feeling hasdeveloped between the American and Huerta delegates. Gen. Huerta’s withdrawal from the presidency is expected soon the outcome of mediaiion. It is be-| lieved that there will be an election in July, at which a successor to Gen. Huerta will be chosen in the Federal territory, but it. is considered prob- able that influential classes in Mexico City will persuade him to fill the: post of Minister of Foreign Affairs, now vacant, with an able and conservative individual who could succeed to the presidency and make an effort to reconcile the warring elements. If the mediation conference adjourns it will in all probability acknowledge its failure to bring the rival elements together for a solution of the internal problem, but at the same time will probably announce the solution of Mexico's international conflict. ‘Mulberry and Western Bates. Messrs Clif Anderson and Claude Morwood drove over to Mound City, Kan,, in the latter’s car Tuesday. Wr. and Mrs. Louie F. Curtis went 'down-to Hume, Wednesday evening for a short visit with relatives. Mrs. Lizzie Braden visited at the John H. Braden home in thse ‘Thursday. : gages The Mulberry Hay Seed Band teen) been engaged to furpish the music at the celebration at Mapleton, Kansas, July 4th. MacBraden took the writer a flying tripto Amsterdam in his car Thurs- day. guests at Tom Schmehl’s Sunday. John H. Nutt and family will be readers of The Times. Mr. Nutt and family moved here from South-west- ern, Nebraska this spring and are more than~pledsed with their new home. David R. Braden who has been a student-at Park College the past year came home Friday for a short visit before going to Beloit, Kansas, to spend his vacation as rustler in the fields of Golden grain. Charles E. Booi was a caller at Ramblers Sunday, Master Charles and Carrol Smalley spent Sunday with Master James F. condition of anarchy might ensue, asa matter of course, regardless of}; use are too wide for the present style of summer dresses. Mrs. Cusick and~ Miss missionary meeting at the home of Mrs. E. N. Chastain in Butler, Friday afternoon. A concrete bridge is in process of construction at the foot of Chapel hill. We have enjoyed some ibis. q rains recently. Misses Marie and Letha Morris spent the week end with Miss Mildred Silvers, J. L. Fisher and family visited ‘in Passaic, Sunday. Mrs. Edwin Allison has recovered from her recent attack of poison caused by poison vine. Mr. and Mrs. K. M. Couch and small children were guests at the home of Charley McGuire and family Friday and Friday night. The home of P. A. Wright and family was a scene of gay festivity, Sunday. Twenty guests enjoyed the day with them. The dinner was a progressive affair according to the re- ports of some of the fortunate ones present. MIAMI. Virginia-Grand View Pick-Ups. Cutting wheat and talking about the chinch bugs are the orders of the the day. Mr. McFerrin at Butler, spent a few days last week with his son, Bert and family. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Hardinger are the proud parents of a big eleven pound girl born Monday, June 15. Mr:<and Mrs. Henry. Boyles and family spent a few days last week with Mr. Boyles’ parents of near But- | odist Church of Virginia Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Leiner were the} Porter. e Miss Grace Mabe is slowly recover- ing from an attack of typhoid fever. Harve and Anna Lamar were. visit- or at the Ed Booi home Sunday. The rush of wheat harvesting is on in full blast. i Robert Amos, Clarance Nichols, Cecil and Harry Porter attended church in Amoret Sunday night. Those who were in the buggy at the Lattending school at St. Louis, came in 8| home folks, accompanied by a friend. :|sick for some time, is better at this writing. 'tinental InsuranceCo., carry the risk. __ RAMBLER. Call us by phone and we. will do the | rest. sheep Peeegy et ond ler. Mrs. Wm. Ayres is visiting at the} home of her aunt, Mrs. Whinery of Amoret. Little Albert Boyles, who has the whooping cough, is improving. Several from Butler attended the Children’s Day exercises at the Meth- Mr. and Mrs. H. Engelhardt, Mr. and Mrs. M. Burke, and Mr. and Mrs. Darnes spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Paddock. Last Sunday was Children’s Day at the Methodist church of Virginia. A large crowd was in attendance and a good program was rendered. We have been having fine rains the past few-days. Mrs. E. T. Burge visited Mrs. W. P. Ayres Sunday. . Tuesday afternoon of last week while on the way to Virginia the horse which was being driven by Miss Elsie Engelhardt became fright- ened at an auto.. The horse turned and started to run upsetting the bug- gy and throwing the occupants out. time, were Misses Ida Engelhardt, Ola Ayres, Evelyn’ and Mildred Gale. Little Mildred was injured quite ser- iously, but is getting along nicely at present. The others were slightly bruised. Lawrence Wheeler, who has been Saturday to spend the summer with Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Peters and lit- tle son, Miss Burkhart and Miss Liz- ; Maggie} | McCann of Viriginia, attended the * ON THE WING. Clifford Anderson of, Amsterdam, ute 2 signs for the Times. He is @oing a good business with his breed- g stock he has 3 good horses and 2 jacks. _ F. C. Depeny pulled hiabinder into | fine patch of wheat of 35 acres. It be to fertileize. Charley Painter is still bedfast but is able to work at the jewelry trade. Say, good people patronize him, he is good, cheap and needy. . Grandma Painter is mending slow- It is possible that she may walk gain. She thinks ‘she will walk all Missouri News in Brief Bertha sinalivasd: 17-year-old | daughter of N. B. Smallwood, resid-| ing near Monroe City, was trampled to death by a horse June 16. Shehad harnessed the horse when it became frightened and knocked her down: William R. Hindman, 82 years old, who died in Sedalia June 15, lad never sworn an oath, never tasted intoxicating liquor, never chewed or smoked tobacco and never had been sick until three days before his death. Thomas Young confessed to killing Arthur Johnson at Hannibal last Sat- , Billey Westover had three binders ¢ work in his } section of wheat: fooks promising. Anderson Zinn is visiting his uncle Geo. Zinn. Cliff. Anderson wants to trade 2 jacks for a piece of land or town property after August 1st. Rev. Ed. Wright is preaching in Merwin this week. Ed is a good one and he reminds us of his father, uncle Joe, and all knew he was a preacher from a way back. M. P. Peterson.and E. Lihn Sun- dayed with Mr. Duncan and- family. Hedger & Dawson are on the river bottom working in the hay'press busi- ness. Hay is light this year. ‘Uncle Geo Zinn informs us he has a cousin come to see him: from Gas- conade, county that he has not seen for 29 years, Anderson Zinn. Uncle Nute Raybourn is improving nicely. A. Zinn-and Geo. Zinn visited Uncle Nute last Monday. Frank Porter is no better. Dr. Chastain reports Myrtle Garrin guite sick. Ed Barns completed cutting wheat for Billey Westoner last Tuesday. The bridge 3 miles north of Virginia and } mile west is now completed and passible. John Messicks who lives southeast of here was seen in Elkhart township in his automobile. Emry Porter was seen all trigged up Sunday and headed north. There is surely something in the wind. Mr. Moore of K. C. is visiting his son near Amsterdam. G. Moore visited his sister, Mrs. Albert Zinn, Monday. J. Coop says:he has seen the best wheat and oats between the Iowa line and as far south asthe Vernon county of Missouri as far as he went south. He says the corn is not so promising. Ed Hix has an an engine connected with the binder that runs the ma- chinery. Born to Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Rousch- era fine dishwasher, recently. All parties doing well. Mr. Rousher and family Sundayed with Tom Schinchls. Any one wating thorough-bred S. line, he boosts the western counties F urday night. Young was arrested following the shooting. He said he and Johnson quarreled over $2.85, | which the latter owed him. He. will be charged with murder ih the first’ degree. The | State I Board of Law Examiners | Monday commenced the examination | of a class of 204 graduates of law clude its work under a week or 10 days. This is the largest class that! was ever before the board. Of the students 83 are from St. Louis and 55 from Kansas City. Indications are for a reduction in the number of Republican members in the next Missguri State Senate. That party had a representation of 9 out of 34in the upper body of the Forty-seventh General Assembly. This year'the seventeen even num- bered districts elect, and the pros- pects are that after the November election there will not be more than four and possibly, five, at the outside Republicans in the Senate. Attorney General Barker has re- the maximum freight-rate law:and 2- cent passenger, rate-law litigation for ' the court costs in the suits. Under the judgment of the Supreme Court | of the United States, the burden of; the court costs was laid upon the rail- | roads. The amount refunded is for the actual expenditure of the State. average about $1, 000 for each railroad Predictions that the’ next national | political campaign will be fought out on a “‘wet’’ and ‘‘dry’’ issue and that , the year 1920 will see a nominee of {| the Prohibition. party: elected presi- dent were made by H. P. Faris of} Clinton, treasurer of the National Prohibition Committee, in welcoming | delegates to the National Conference | f the Prohibition party. Mr. Faris! eclared it was almost hopeless to ex- pect to get prohibition through the | present plan of an amendment to the, Federal Constitution. The Jefferson City bridge across the Missouri River wasdamaged Mon- day by fire to the extent of $5000, and traffic delayed until noon, as the re- sult of a gasoline explosion. The steamer Chester signalled for the C. White Leghorn roosters see J. Cy, Ruscher. operating the gasoline engine, a lan-' tern was upset and the gasoline be-! schools, and will not be able to con-. ceived checks from eleven of the twelve railroad companys involved in ; The total is about $12,000, making the | draw to be opened at 4a. m., and in} sterdam has White Pekin eggs for | gine house caught fire, and the flames sale. 5 . Say boys did you ever notice that | WS difficult for the firemen to work. the the best crop here of late has been| The bridge was not injured to any| killed, or a failure about 400 times | Considerable extent. = after it was planted but the boys that |- Ninety- three new banks and four- zie Engelhardt of Kansas City, are visiting at the H. Engelhardt home. Mrs. Claude Barnett, wha has been out victory. Hurrah for the Missouri | ganized in this staté since February a blister on his heal he just:pays no|became head of the state banking promptly stirred ~ground. good to me. wheat looks fine and oats fair will be trust companies of the state: were ready to reap soon as the wheat is never in better financial condition. "hee o Geo. Walters living. just acrogs. the Kansas line bought a new 8 ‘binder wiih a $150 engine at- stick to their business always come|feen trust companies have been or- boy because he is a sticker. If he has| 15, 1913, the date when J. T. Mitchell | mind to it. department. The new banks and e green bugs did no serious|trust companies have an aggregate in this part of the county. We| capital of $1,600,000. During this hada season of dry weather just fit| Period the capital of previously or- for killing weeds, and the boys very | ganized banks and trust companies It looks | increased $2,400,000 and the certified surplus $700,000, Bank Commission- Wheat harvest is now. on and the| et Mitchell says that the banks and Mrs. Frank Depeny of route 1 Am- | came ignited. The floor and the en-) worked under the bridge, where it) | Elkhart The drouth is broken at last and we had one of the old clod soakers and a gulley washer. The farmers have a big smile all over their faces. All kinds of crops are looking well except | meadows and pastures. The worms ruined some of the meadows. The first Sunday night in June was children’s day at passaic, and the little ones had a good program and some of the larger ones helped them out. There was quite a gooa crowd attended and some good talks were _ made by some of the members and the preacher. Charley Clark, living west of Amsterdam, reports the chinch bugs are going for his corn. We hear it reported that the chinch | bugs seem to have a mortgage on Mr. Whitehead’s corn. They must be foreclosing it from the way they are | working on it. The writer and wife took dinner at Mrs. Fred Armentrout’s in Amster- dam last Saturday. ’ Clem Custer and wife visited at John Stephens’ last Saturday. Mrs. George Fulkerson returned to the. county seat last Saturday and -the Colonel is keeping bach again. Anderson Zinn of Redbird, Mo., is here visiting with friends and old neighbors. It has been some years since he left here. He says that there have been a great many changes in that time. The school board of one Star have employed Mr. Gwinn to teach their school this year. Emmet Crumley’s horse got scared ata car Sunday and scratched him up considerably. The writer and wife visited at Tom Rayborn’s one day last week. His | father is quite’ poorly this’ summer. W. H. Rexroad and family called atthe writer's last Sunday evening. | They took us a ride in their car which | we enjoyed very much. Mrs. Gus Bruner is visiting at John Barton down by Lamar this week. Boyd Kershner will have for the ~ wheat fields in Kansas this week. G. W. Armentrout and wife called ;at Tom Rayborn’s one evening last | week. | Col. Fulkerson and wife called at | the writer’ sone evening last week, | but we couldn't agree on some of the | | candidates. | Estes Smith of Mingo, candidate | for Judge North District was out in this part last week looking after his interests. | Wick Ray, candidate for Recorder, | was seen in these parts last week. | W. G. Dillon was in the west part | of the county last week looking .after | his interests for County Clerk. The army worms cleaned — the | writer’s and Will Stephens’ meadows. | The next day after the rain we heard quite a racket down in our po- tato patch. Come to investigate the case it was the little potatoes telling | the big ones to lay over. We attended meeting last Sunday ‘at Concard. There wasn’t avery big . | crowd out. JOHNNY. Notice to Landowners of Drain- age District No. 1. Where it is necessary -for the land- owners to cut through the waste dump + food the pom di d pe pur- pose of rainage such drainage shall be carried through the bank in tile or other covered conveyor and the outlet shall be carried covered, to the bottom of the ditch. Inno case will an opening be allowed otherwise They have plenty of money on hand to move crops and meet all business There were today 1,260 except such ope as carry the water of a stream which is not prac- tical to carry througt a conveyor. By order of Board of Supervisors. . F. Kern, 33-4t Sec’y and Treas. Notice. We have ‘arranged to care for the