The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, October 22, 1914, Page 12

General News of the Week Committee has named _ Prof... C, Justice McReynolds, the new As- sociate Justice of the Supreme Court, . Was assigned by Chief Justice White tothe Seventh Circuit Court, com- “prising Illinois, Indian and Wiscon- sin. A local firm of Reading, Pa., re- ceived a contract from the English Government for 50,000 stretchers to be used in carrying wounded from the field. They are to be furnished at - the rate of 1,000 a week. A dispatch to the Havas Agency from Rome says: ‘‘Cases of cholera are multiplying rapidly in Galicia, Transylvania, North and East Hun- gary. The fear is expressed that the disease will prove a serious menace to military operations.” A shlpment of 200 bales of cotton from a Conway buyer to a manufac- turing firm at Yokohama, Japan, was sent from a Conway compress. The shipment is the first of its kind on record in Arkansas. With European markets closed, much Southern cot- ton is finding its way to Japan. Advicgs received at El Paso, Tex., by Carranza officers state that Gen. Villa has confiscated property belong- ing to German citizens in the State of Durango, worth $1,000,000. ‘Villa also is reported to have ordered the confiscation of all large estates within his territory, whether owned by for- leans, In addition to other require- ments they must be dark in color, no gray horses to be considered. Applying his own ‘‘first aid’? when bitten by a Venomous copperhead at McCall’s Ferry, Pa., Paul A. Reichle, a State College student, residing in York, probably saved hislife. Reichle sat on a board under which the snake lay in hiding, and it crawled out-and struck him on‘the left hand. Quick- ly slicing open the wound, he sucked out as much of the poison as possible, then applied a tourniquet to stop cir- culation of the blood. Search re- vealed ‘the- snake which had _ bitten dine and another, both of which were illed, Winemakers of Missouri, Ohio and other Middle-Western States won a big victory during the war tax bill discussion when they induced the California winemakers to agree to a uniform tax without discrimination of any kind. The agreement, according to Ottmar G. Stark of St. Louis, means seven to ten millions’ addition- jal revenue for theGovernment. Sen- | ator Stone of Missouri is credited with | having been instrumental in bringing about peace between the wine men jafter a sectional war of twenty-four | years. | Contract for the construction of the new American Red Cross building, | to be a memorial to the women of the Fred Mager’ of Amoret visited: his. brother Sunday. — eet The Progressive Congressional Robbins of Sedalia as the. for Congress in the Seventh \ Missouri * PI Central Business College. _|ted two-weeks ago and says he is whic Galas anne on neeat ‘satisfied that it was the thing to do. at Carrollton will get a farm’ ad- < 3 visor is certain now, as ‘the $3,000 cok wanna a Pee ade necessary to pay the expert's salary | coeds amounted to $54 which will retired president of the Chamber of G rea Commerce, on the night of his: re-' rant Garner is remodeling his H : < | house on his east farm. tirement gave a banquet and through , ? ; an appeal to business firms'and indi-| Burr Medley who has been sick for viduals obtained sufficient pledges to | Some time is slowly improving. raise the fund. - | Herman Mager has 30 acres of While trying to build a fire in-e timber that he wants cleared and will coal range this morning, Mrs. Maude | pti “ timber bil clearing so he can. Trapp, wife of E. C. Trapp ‘of War-| Plow the ground. _ rensburg, mistook the gasoline can| A good saw set can be had on the for the coal oil and poured the fluid|Mike Maloney farm by Butler & on fire. The explosion wrecked the | Marges. ; kitchen and Mrs. Trapp suffered; W. N. Weston wants to buy a sec- burns from which she died. Her|ond hand saw mill outfit; Amster- husband also was dangerously burn-| dam route 2, ed trying to save her. » + |. Mrs, J. G. Cusick gave her Sunday Preparations are being made at | School class a nut picking on the Macon for experimenting with slate | Pecan branch Saturday of last week. asa material for permanent road- | Charley McGuire called on Herman ways. Much slate is taken from the ' Mager Sunday afternoon. mines there and wasted. A mining} George Crook is building another man has suggested to the Good Roads | room to his house. Club that this material, if crushed! Charley Bolling took sick on the and rolled well, would make as good streets of Butler the other day and a roadway as rock. Slate of /fell unconscious. The doctor said it charatter only exists in certain local- | was caused by the use of tobacco. Hee i omar a | Its Charley Pointer of Amsterdam It is persistently rumored that that wants to buy.an invalid chair. H. I. Mager says he has only lost oe . Wilson Heater for wood and - Round Oak for coal aus about that new Stove or Ra this winter and we have the We handle the Malleable | hiet Steel Ranges, the Superior Cook Stoves, the . the celebrated And a better one was never made. For hard coal we have the Art Garland and Round Oak. If needing a stovedon't fail to see our stock, as we have the best and most complete hi -in Bates County and our prices are right. : Wagons, Scoop Boards, etc, We handle the Peter Schuttler and Mitch- elgners ON NAUVES, | Civil War, was let by Secretary Gar- Althongh Majority Leader Under- | rison to the the Boyle-Robertson Con- wood has agreed that members of the struction Company of Washington. House might return to their districts| The structure will be of Vermont for a few days’ campaigning, proyid-' white marble, this having been chosen ing they would pledge themselves to’ over protests of advocates ef Tennes- return early next week in order to see marble, who carried their case to maintain a quorum when the revised the President. Of the $700,000 fnnd war tax bill comes back from the Sen- for the building and site, Congress ate, most of the Missouri members appropriated $300,000, and many have decided to stay on the job until large sums were contributed by pri- adjournment. |vate individuals. The building will Fey hein ak bans ‘ be within a stone’s throw of the Sarajevo, Bosnia, is virtually in a White House. state of siege during the trial of Gav-| baie eee rio Prinzip’s twenty-one alleged ac-| Mrs. George Ellery, wife of a trap- complices in the assassination of} Per whose cabin is near Unionville, Archduke Ferdinand of Austria. Dis-| Nev., saved her own life and that of patches received here by way of tbe | her 3-year-old child by killing a big frontier say terror reigns everywhere | mountain lioness with a blow from a The police have taken rifle after the animal, wounded, had in Sarajevo. Ellery trapped three extraordinary precautions and- the | charged her. John E. Swanger of St. Louis, for-| Mrs. Georgia Cope of near New mer Secretary of State, and the news- Home is the mother of a boy. ° paper syndicate of which E. E. Mc- | Grant Oldham and family , spent Jimsey of the Springfield, Mo., Re- last Sunday with Ralph Hughs. publican, is a member, has purchased Mrs. R. D. White of Butler route 1 sell to you if needing ai ell Farm Wagons and the Grain King and Cooper Scoop Boards and want a chance ‘to nything in this line, as the above makes are the best on the market. We also have a large stock of Iron Wheel The Sedalia Morning Daily and P Weekly Capital. Itis said the new has returned home from a 60 day. vis- owners will take charge November ‘t with relatives near Decatur Illinois. Ist. J. S. Breunerman, publisher of | Her father is 89 years old. The Capital, will neither confirm nor John Hedger and wife spent last deny the sale. : | Thursday with W. H. Durst, it being a The monotony of camp: routine. on his 65th birthday. ; : a Missouri River island below Kansas __ At the Amsterdam Street Fair Ma- City was broken one morning early ‘ian Hedger won the prize for fastest in September by Ralph Rafiner, 14/0? foot and Ralph Hughes won the years old, youngest member of the fat man’s race. Jim Norman got the party, which included his parents | Prize for best driver through the and several friends. Ralph was tak- Stakes, and Kenneth McClure took ing his daily early morning swim. boys race. ‘ While floating on his back something; Uncle Tom Hocket took first prize nibbled at‘his toe. Ralph scrambled |in Amoret on the largest spumpkin around in the water and grasped at/and first on the three heaviest pump- Farm Trucks, extra Wagon Beds, Tip Top Boxes etc. . Groceries and Hardware : We-have the best selected stock of Gro- ceries and Hardware in Bates County and will make prices to get your business if given a chance. We thank you for your patronage and de- sire a continuance ofsame.. Telephone 82 BENNETT-WHEELER MERC, CO, P.S. If you have any Pecans, we.want th Is kind of country proshice vot may hi Cay oe te ieee whole garrison is being kept in read- iness for any emergency. The purchase of 20,000 horses for the use of the French Government, is the mission of Capt. de Balezeaud of the French Army, a passenger on the steamship La Touraine, which has arrived from Havre. The horses are to be delivered December 1, and \lion cubs. He believes they were the | lioness’ litter and that she trailed him |to his cabin. Mrs. Ellery saw the | lioness watching the cabin and called the baby, playing outside. Then she | reached for a rifle. She tuok one shot at the lioness, but only wounded ‘it. The animal then rushed at the |woman. Mrs. Ellery ‘stepped back |to give her a clear swing with the rifle and brought the butt down on _{admitted by the highest authorities to | time and a good treat. the disturber of his peace. It was -a| kins. j catfish three feet long. After a} Jim Norman and Miss Alma Zinn struggle Ralph landed the fish with ;surprised their many friends by go- his hands. ing to Butler and getting married Michael Angelo McGinnis, mathe- | Saturday. matician, whose ability gained him| Monday night the neighbor boys international fame, died at a hospital | Surprised Mr. and Mrs. Norman with in Kansas City, Oct. 15. McGinnis, a double charivari. They had a good Orval Pickett and wife and his mother, Mrs. Ben-\Pickett, visited relatives at Amsterdam last week. Mrs. Linendoll visited with Mrs. McCormack one day last week. . Dr. Lusk was called to see Mr. ave and will ‘ou the high market price for same in cash or trade. re is sine John Weddte and children at Butler Saturday. Mrs. Lon Smith: called on Mrs. Bert Galvin Monday afternoon, Meritt Pickett hauled cane to the mill at Phelps Monday. North New Home. COR. will probably be shipped via New Or- the head of the lioness, killing it. Missouri News in Brief Fifteen hundred horses, purchased | Canada for exportation to England. on orders from the British Govern-| ¢ w. Gross, an implement and ment, have been shipped out- of;harness dealer of Palmyra, fileda Springfield this-week, the last ship-' petition in bankruptcy in the United fi ment Keine made today. The-animals| States Court in Hannibal. He attri- are sent to Chicago, then shipped to butes the failure to the drouth. GET READY for THE INDOOR MONTHS SSS THEN ANSWER 1—I can paint up my house, barns. and fences with S, W.-P. and protect them from the’ ravages of the winter storms. i 2—I can varniéh the furniture and woodwork, and paint the inside walls with S. W. FLAT TONE and make them cheerful and sani- " tary for the months I spend indoors. 3—I can put glass in the broken windows. Glass is much cheaper than coal ior doctor bills, 4—I can get the chicken, hog and cattle sheds save will pay for themselves many times over. er Ask Yourself How Can I . Get 5—I can hang CAN’T-SAG GATES where the. a chafe in the snow for strayed stock. be a genius at solving numerical and Dug Browning and wife and Don literal equations, spent. the last two|Richard visited Cyrus Hedger and months of his life asa.charity patient. | family a few days last week. When publishing a newspaper in Frank Lewellen, wife son and Newton county, McGinnis wrote a daughter were east of Butler Sun- book on algebra. The book was/ gq, published in this country and in Lon- don and attracted the attention of educators all over the world. Roy Crume and Jerry Bates, negroes. to visit her sister Mrs. Annie Makin raises sd eae bs, in Nebraska. She expects to be gone In a fight at Elsberry, Mo., between | about two weeks. lay. Mrs. T: J. Hockett left Saturday Grant Oldham and wife were in Crume cut off Bates’ left arm, just Amsterdam Monday. below the elbow, with a corn knife and cut a gash in Bates’ head, after which Bates used his other free hand and, getting hold of the corn knife, jerked it through Crume’s hand, al- ginia-Monday. Mrs. Geo. Zinn was trading in Vir- Mrs. Helen Oldham and sister Na- dine visited their grandmother, Mrs. most severing his fingers, and. then | Estelle Nestlerode.. gashed him on the forehead. Bates’ Mrs. Hedger visited Mrs. Zinn arm was amputated just above the Monday. i : elbow by local hysicians, as h elbow was pattie by is the . blow. The trouble started when Crumes|corn at present. returned home unexpected and found Bates in the house with his wife. W. McFadden. Four hundred delegates are attend- | ® ing the annual convention of the Mis- souri-lowa division of the Anti-Horse eee Association in|) ‘welcome were fan Wat WB ows ville Mo., president of the division, W. Fear of Joplin gon convention, Will Durst is working in his kaffi Dug Browning, is working for J. N. M,N. “Ohio Street M. E. Church. Smitherman Thursday, but he is able to be up again: Henry Herman went to Kansas City Monday with a car of hogs, which was shipped from Nyhart. Homer Linendoll. and wife spent Sunday at George Frank’s. Brick McCoy and family visited Sunday at the home of of Jim Morris. Bert Warner and wife are the proud- parents of a fine girl. Orval Pickett lost a horse while visiting at-Amsterdam: —It-fell-dead* on the street. 3 Almost every one in this neighbor: hood attended the funeral of Mrs. Anti-Hog Cholera Clubs Organize Anti-Hog Cholera Clubs were or- ganized in the six townships adjacent to Adrian, Saturday at a meeting of stockmen who were called together for the purpose of organization,’ As the name implies, these clubs are or- ganized for-the purpose of taking every means for the elimination of the disease of hog cholera. : County Farm Advisor C. M; Long of Johnson county was present and valuable suggestions for the organi+ zation and the carrying on. of .the work planned. faddressed the meeting, making many