The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, July 9, 1914, Page 1

7 "VOL. : XXXVI. ‘Missouri News in Brief} Mr. and Mrs. George M. Nutt of Clinton, celebrated the 70th anniver- sary of their marriage Tuesday with their children, grandchildren and relatives. Mr. Nutt is 90 and Mrs. ‘Nutt 89 years old. A. J.. Keys, a retired fanier and capitalist, has awarded the contract ‘for a new opera house in Marshall to cost $17,000, G. H. Kennerly of St. “Louis, is the arehitect and Frank P. McClure of St. Louis, the contractor. Congressman Dorsey W. Shackle- ford, who has been confined to his ‘bed for more than a week as a result of a severe fall from a porch in Cam- _den county, has recovered sufficient- Jy to travel and expects to ‘return to Washington this week. The ‘state regent of the D. A. R. has named Mrs. W. B. Thayer of Kansas City chairman of a committee to get suggestions which will help the artists in making murial deco: tions for the new State Capitol. Itis the idea to ave the paintings depict the historical life and scenes of the state. Porter Gilvin, deputy warden of the Missouri Penitentiary, suffered the breaking of his right arm at the wrist Monday while cranking his au- tomobile. The accident happened as Gilvin was returning from a visit to Mrs. Gilvin in St. Marys Hospital, where she is recovering from an op- eration. Several hundred letters addressed to Springfield banks and other busi- ness firms, many of them containing checks, were stolen from lock-boxes atthe South Side Postal Station at “Paree hundied. charred let- Springfield Saturday and Sunday eniggtete.: ters were found in.an alley near the |} station Monday morning. - Although Fred Berthold, the sup- ‘poor man’’ who died Friday - night at St. John’s Hospital, is known to have had $5,200 on deposit -in a Seattle bank, attempts by Public Ad- ministrator Newell to find relatives or friends of Berthold there have proved futile. Unless relatives claim the estate the money will go to Mis- souri after twenty-one years. Guy E. Coolfsy will resume publi- cation of his New Hornet. He says friends have assured him since his recent truuble he can beat the “‘boy- cott’’ that prévailed against his busi- ness for the part he took in the local option election. Cooksy is eager to keep his five motherless_children in school and will get out an issue of his paper next week. The townsite of Holman-in Web- ster county, comprising twenty-three store buildings and residences, in ‘2,300 acres of land, has been sold to W. W. Helm, a capitalist, by E. N. Ferguson, J. L. Hine, and Holland Ceet, Springfield bankers. Helm paid $40,000 in cash and gave a 640 acre farm near Marshfield, valued at $35,000. * Prof. George W. Melcher, Assist- ant State Superintendent of Public Schools, announced his resignation, effective September 1. On that date lie will become Director of Research Jasper County, outside, of Joplin, Webb City, Carterville and Carthage, voted dry last Tuesday by a majority of about five hundred. A fair vote was polled. The eastern side of the county and Alba, Car] Junction and Avilla went dry.* The campaign has been bitter. Webb. City, Carterville and Carthage recently changed from pak to wet. -Joplin has always ,been wet. Lincoln H. Hyer is dead at his home in Los Angeles, Cal., according to in- formation received at Warrensburg duly 2. Hyer was a civil engineer and connected with many engineer- ing enterprises in Missouri and the West. His health was broken fifteen years ago while surveying the pro- posed route for the Nicaraguan Canal for the Government. He was 50 years old and a native of Ohio. Henry (Stormy) Cross, 60 years old, for five years a familiar figure in - | wheeled chair on the streets of Jop- lin, died last week. Cross was crip- pled waile employed in Kansas City as a switchman by the Frisco railroad and had worked twenty years in the Kansas City railroad yards. A judg- ment for $85, 000 damages had been awarded in the federal court for Cross but is stilk pending on an appeal by the railroad. Still Further Prices are Reduced During Our. ‘Mens, Young leekliy " BUTLER, MISSOURI, THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1914. “At a meeting of the Missouri Com- mission in Jefferson City July 2, the contract for erecting the State b ing on the exposition grounds at Francisco was awarded to the Carthy Construction Company Farmington, the only Missouri bidder, There were nineteen bidders, the oth- er eighteen being California contract- ors. The bids ranged- from $27,000 to $37,000 and the award was at @ figure approximating $32,000, Arch- itect H. H. Hohenschild of Rolla drew the plans for the building. Is there a depression in business? Secretary of State Cornelius. Roach says there is not. His conclusiong are based on the financial receipts of his office for the last six months compared with the same period i® previous years. For the half yeat ending July 1 the receipts from regia- tration of motor vehicles are $201,866; for the corresponding half year of 1913, $144,501, and $96,620 in 1912,. The total receipts are $290,307; for the corresponding six months of 1913, $229,964. In 1912 they were $20,512. A new feature of Missouri’s Good- Roads Days this year will be an invi- tation to the tier of counties in Kan- sas bordering on this state to take part, that the benefits may be mutual. From every quarter of the state there are indications that preparations are well in hand for two good-roads days | and that there will be a vast amount ANN Mens and Chil- drens clothing is being Sacrificed $25.00 Mens Suits................40085 $18.00 _ 20.00 Mens Suits................. 4+. 15.00 15.00 Mens Suits...........: Pion ee iat { 108 | ' 10.00 Mens Suits. .................06 1.00 $7.50 Boys Knee Pants Suits........:. $5.50 5.00 Boys Knee Pants Suits.......... 4.00 3.50 Boys Knee Pants Suits.......... 2.50 2.50 Boys Knee Pants Suits:.... weeee 175 rs 50. Stetson Hats...................... 2.50 1.00 Mens Dress orig wens lot)...... Sie ’. 35c Boys Work Shirts.... ............. Oc $1.50 Mens Umbrellas................... 98c Straw Hats Must be Closed Out Ladies ~ -, 2.00 Mens Straw Hats 1.00 Mens Straw Hats Mens Oxfords are being Reduced $3.00 Mens Straw Hats.......... ee $ 8 pet ee Sn : Oxfords - $2.00 Ladies Oxfords. .......:-.-...--8. ; 3.50 Gun Metal Oxfords............. ue : 3.00 Tan Oxfords............... aa ee 2.60 Tan-Oxfords................006005 1. One lot White Oxtords. . te aE ey - Muslin: Underwear $1.25 Ladies Gowns... Deri cel obec nscass 95 75c Skirts and Corset Covers........,.. 45 35c Corset Covers..........:......... ioe Limes, ~ NUMBER 38 of work done. A majority of the counties have purchased road-build- -|ing machinery since the two good- roads days last year. ‘Like many another negotiation in which the parties seemed hopelessly opposed to each other, the Capitol stone controversy has been settled by compromise. The Burlington lime- stone advocates and the Ste. Gene- vieve stone shouters have agreed that, though they were at swords’ points, the two kinds of building ma- terial which they favored can repose in harmony in the same wall. Tak- ing a retrospective view of the dis- pute, one is inclined to think that its real importance neyer justified the }columns of space devoted to it and the hours of conversation which it consumed. The work will now forward. The Capitol will be built of what is conceded to be the most beau- tiful building stone in Missouri and everyone ought to be pleased. Bubonic plague will not be trans- mitted to St. Louis from New Orleans, according to the consensus of opinion on July 2, at a meeting of State, Gov- ernment and city health officials held at Hotel Jefferson. ‘Two cases, which, it is feared, may be bubonic plague, are now under observation at New Orleans, La.,”” said Dr. G. A. Jordan. “St. Louis, however, is safe, as every precaution will be ex- fercised in New Orleans. to prevent UAL jummer Sale __ -Our stock must be lowered, and all seasonable goods must go, to make this month a record breaker. Every Ready-to-Wear Gar- ment in This cluded in This Sale $6.50 Wash Dresses....... 5.00 Wash Dresses....... 3.00 Wash Dresses....... 2.00 Wash Dresses 1.25 Wash Dresses. 5.00 Linen Dusters....... Ladies Coats and Suits 50 New Dress Skirts are also included sale in this $8.50 Dress Skirts 6.50 Dress Skirts. 5.00 Dress Skirts.. 3.50 Wash Skirts.. 3.00 Wash Skirts Specials in Dry Goods Department . 7%c Apron Check Gingham.......... reat nw 4c ‘15c Curtain Drapery........ 15c Wash Goods............ 25c Crepes and Voiles $1.00 Ratine................. 50c Fancy Ribbon 10c Val Lace: $1.50 Waists.... 65c Wash Goods... 15c White Goods.. $1.50 Umbrellas............ $1.00 Flouncing Embroidery.................... 20c Embroidery............ 0c Silk Gloves............. $1.00 Knit Union Suits..... the spread of the disease. ‘‘In view of the extraordinarily malignant char- acter of the plague, however, it was deemed wise to take every precau- tion, and we met for the purpose of formulating plans which could be put into operation should ‘the necessity arise.’’ . Those attending the meeting were: Drs. G. A. Jordan, J. A. B. Adcock, secretary of the Missouri State Board of Health, artd Dr. J. M. White of the United States Public Health Service. Rev. Dr..W. B. Palmore, for sev- eral years editor and publisher of The e. Louis Christian Advocate, died at the home of his . niece, Mrs. Ww. Bright, in Richmond, Va., July 5. Dr. * Palmore, according -to close friends, has left his fortune, estimat- ed at $50,000, to the Methodist Epis- copal Church, South. His paper will 8° | be continued and its income devoted to the care of the widows and orphans of the church. Saturday Dr. Pal- more; who was a bachelor, was ON THE WING. J. S. Ison and wife and E. C. Ison, wife and children visited S. N. Ion’s Saturday. Walter Jones was on the sick list last week. John: Nightwine and family, Wil- liam and Oliver Nightwine, Lewis Danderline and family, Ed McGuire ate dinner at Ike Dawson’s July 4th. H. T. McGuire and wife visited her daughter, Mrs. John Reedy near Fos- ter, July 4th and 5th. Ike Dawson were county seat visit- ors Thursday. Jim Norman is working in the coal mine at Amsterdam. Grandma Minton hss returned home after a week’s visit in Butler. Julius Heckadon of the New Home mines, was over shaking hands with old jriends. stricken and from the first hours .of his illness no hope’ was entertained for his recovery, according to mes- sages received from Mrs. Bright by Rev. Dr. C. C. Woods, associate ed- baa of The Advocate, and Rev. Dr. James W. Lee, pastor of St. John’s Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Burial was conducted July 6 at the home of Mrs. Bright by Rev. Dr. James Cannon, Jr., who for years was a close friend of Dr. Palmore, particularly in his work for prohibi- tion. The body was taken to Malta Bend, Mo., where Dr. Palmore’s mother is buried. Store is In- Less than Half Price about one o’clock. Roy Dawson who lives in Preston, Iowa, writes his mother and says he likes it fine there. Miss Rena Butler and John E. Hedger were married Friday, and on Saturday night the boys gave them a good charivari. Everything went off nice and John set up the cigars. We wish them well in their early life. Cyrus Nestlerode and family visited at the Lewis Danderline home Sunday. Born to Mrs. M. C. BurnsJune 27, a fine baby girl, of near Johnstown. She is a daughter of Mrs. T. J. Hock- ett, who has been sick some three weeks. Ora Browning and family of Utah, are here visiting relatives and friends. Mrs. Frank Saterlee is reported better. Harlan Porter called me in to see the remains uf his barn which was struck by lightning, but there was nothing left to be seen, except a $200 mare. Mrs. Lincoln Zinn of beni signs for The Times, The Fourth at Amoret was good ‘considering the rainy morning. C..C. Duke of Butler, was among us last week. N. M.N. East Lone Oak. Mrs. Alice Blalock of Hume, Mo., is visiting at the home of H. H. ° Evil- sizer. Miss Alice Wisherd is visiting rel- atives in this vicinity. - Mr. McGinnis of Rich Hill died early last Friday morning and several from this vicinity attended the funer- al Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Knowlton of near Culver visited Mrs. Knowlton’s par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Chaney, over last Sunday. Robert Thomas and Miss May Daniel spent the Fourth at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Laverne Silversnear Virginia. F. L. Blankenbaker has purchased an ice cream freezer and watering tank. Mrs. Ella Thomas and daughter, Ella, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Gough and Mrs. Visa Gough spent last Sun- day at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Requa. Celebration at Peru Fourth of July morning dawned with a cloud upon her brow and tears falling in showers which kept up till The deferred parade which was to have occured at eleven o’clock was given at about two thirty o’clock. The parade con- sisted of Uncle Sam and the Goddess by from Prairie City and addressed of Liberty, the Sunday school wagon, the W. C. T. U. wagon, the M. W. A. wagon, George and Martha Wash- ington. and the Calithumpian band. Some very funny characters were represented. After the parade some — time was spent in merry making, after which the crowd was called in- to the church where Rev. Ticknor gave an excellent address on patriot- A little-later T. W. Silvers came