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lst Premiym Piano. 2d Premium Piano. 3rd. Premium pene: a i BEAUTIFUL Pianos ALL MAY ENTER AND. COMPETE FOR A PIANO AFTER THE FOLLOWING ORDER The Award of Each Piano to be Left to 3 Judges. Read Carefully One member of family not owning a Piano sending us the best compo- Rules Governing the Competition sition on “How to Buy a Piano,” oe time, for cash, - on monthly install. -ments. Also, why all grades of Pianos should not be sold by or through all local licensed merchants and save the enormous selling expense incured when instruments are sold otherwise. The above ‘subjects only are to be used trom which your composition must be written. To the party sending in the best composition on the subjects named, to be decided by three disinterested judges composed of citizens of Butler, Missouri and vicinity, said {udges will award such party one of our Beautiful New up-to-date $350 Pianos on pay- ment of $50 net to us. To the party Seriding in the second best composition, to be decided by the same judges, they will award to such party, a Beau- tiful up-to-date $350 Piano on payment to us of $100 net. 5 To the party sending in the third best composition on the the same subjects. award such party one of our Beautiful up-to-date $350 Piano on payment to us of $125 net. All letters containing composttions on the above named subjects only, must be mailed in time so as to reach | our office in ~ Butler, Mo, not latter than nine o'clock p. m. December 22d, 1914. Our office and stock room will be in the J. M.CATTERLIN, build- ing west side of the square, each of the Premium Pianos, together with a car load of other fine Pianos can be seen there any time after December 12th. Address all letters to “MERCHANT PIANO ASSOCIATION” : ; : R. M. Sutherlin, General Pro’p. i : BUTLER, MISSOURI. To be decided by the same judges, they will _ HIGH SCHOOL NOTES. , | Many visitors were in Chapel Thurs: day. Among them were Miss Smith’s | mother and sister, Mrs. Wesley Black, | Miss Margarette Snider, Miss’ Lorena Allen and Miss Nannie Barnett. Miss Ethel Smith and Mrs. Black furnished | the music, Miss Smith witha vocal solo and Mrs. Black with a piano solo. Both were greatly enjoyed. Rev. Hanby spoke to the students ‘from Cor, 1:20, | After the announcemenjg a yell meet- ;ing was*held preparatory ta the Rich Hill game Friday night, The girls lost | this time but the bays won. ~ Senior Notes, | basket ball teams played the first game jof the boys’ series. for the Welton Lov- jing Cup. At the end of the last half | the score stood 20-80 in favor of the |Seniors. The game was interesting | missed it_certainly are losers. The | Seniors have started off right and if) | spirit-and enthusiasm is any prophet the Seniors will soon be possessors of Mr. Welton’s beautiful trophy. Instead of writing Senior notes this time last week, the Senior editor was | reposing in ‘‘restless ecstacy’’ proverbial shelf. veigle any fellow Senior into writing note failed. Therefore, there were no! Senior notes. The Seniors were honored not long ago by a party given them by the Sophmores at the home of Jaunita Hol- | \loway. The decorations were especial- ly beautiful. The hall -was decorated by crepe paper hangings in the Senior eolors, blue and white. From the hall, we passed into a room glittering with the purple and gold of the Sophmores, Then into the good old red and black of the High School. Many interesting games were played at “‘court’’ and some rather startling discove | Additional Poultry Awsrds. | In addition to the regular premiums 5 \ as {printed last week, the following | White Rock eggs given by Mrs. | “Special Premiums”’ were. awarded: | | Jennie Waldron. | Best pen in the show exhibited by | |a resident of Bates county. i ens’ Department follow: 1st, Miss Elva Church Butler, Mo. , Barred Plymouth Rocks. | 2nd, J, Gasaway, Hume, Mo. 'Cockerel, 1st, Best cock in the show, a Barred | Amsterdam, Plymouth Rock owned by Mrs. Clif-| 2nd, Fred Niggley, Altona. ford Wear-of Rich Hill, Mo. ~ 8rd, Howard Martz, Butler. - Best hen in the show, also best! Pullet, ist, Leona Moles, Butler. cockerel in the show were White| 2nd, Albert Armentrout. Plymouth Rocks owned by Miss} 3rd, Howard Martz; Butler. oe cha eee ahh Buff Plymouth Rocks. est pullet in the show, a White Wyandotte owned by H. M. Fillmore cele ee CE aoanns MG) Pullet, 1st, Mabel Southerland. Best shaped male Plymouth Rock, White Plymouth Rocks. J. W. Poffenbarger, Butler. ¥ 2 Best shaped male Wyandotte, G. T. Walton, Butler, Mo. Best shaped. male Rhode Island |Red, J. Gasaway, Hume, Mo. Best shaped male Orpington, Miss Daisy Stanley, Butler. Best shaped male in Mediterrian class, W. A. Cherry, Adrian, Mo. Best shaped male in Asiatic class, W. A. Cherry, Adrian, Mo. Best display Barred Plymouth Rocks; 1st, W..H. Holloway, Butler. 2nd, A.-S. Milhorn, Butler. Best display of White Plynouth Rocks Ist, Miss Elva Church, Butler. 2nd, Miss Mattie Heathman, Rine- hart, Mo. | Best display Buff Plymouth Rocks: W. Z. Griffin, Butler. Bet Wena sad Partridge Plymouth jis. J. H. Baker, Butler. Best display White Wyandottes: 1st, G. T. Walton, Butler. 2nd, H. M. Fillmore, Joplin, Mo. | Best display Silver Wyandottes: 1st, Mrs. W. H. Padley, Butler. 2nd, Mrs. Robt. Sturgeon, Butler. Best display S. C. R. I. Reds: 1st, J. Gasaway, Hume, . C! 2nd, L. C. Culbertson, Butler. re : Best display Rose Comb R. I. Reds: Ist, Mrs. Edson Snyder, Butler. 2nd, Mrs: A.-R. Guyton, Butler. - Best display Buff Orpingtons: 1st, Mrs. Alice McFadden, Butler. inde Gee Adrian. 5c Are You Losing MONEY We are selling shin- 5 gles cheaper right now ‘ than we have been able - to sell them in years. But they are going up. THEY ADVANCE 5c PER THOUSAND on the WHOLESALE MARKET this WEEK.% If your barn, house or out buildings need covering right now is A LIABILITY . the time to buy your roofing. IT NEEDS SHINGLES. We have a car load of Thick Heavy Full 16 in. Long, thoroughly seasoned, Red Cedar Shingles, bought at the !ow price, and we are going to con- tinue to sell Shingles at our present low prices at least until this car is sold. ‘But we are selling them and if your roof needs repairing before next “spring rains” you should take our advise and buy now. You can’t go wrong when you can buy these Extra Clear Shingles at our low price, Tell us the size of your roof and we -can tell you how many shingles you will need to cover it. Come and inspect our shingles, or phone us your order. We guarantee the shingles to be the best manufactured. - LOGAN-MOORE LUMBER co. PHONE i te.. MISSOURI 2nd, Evelyn Gale, Butler. e 3rd, Evelyn Gale. Pullet, 1st, Mildred Black, Adrian. 2nd, Curtis Thornhill. 3rd, Evelyn Gale. Partridge Plymouth Rocks. — Cockerel, 1st, Buel Beard, Butler. Pullet, ist, Buel Beaad. White Wyandotte. ee oret. 2nd, Winifred Smith, Butler. Pullet, 1st, Winifred Smith. 2nd, Ellen Crawford, Amoret. 8rd, Glada Showalter, Adrian. Single Comb Rhode Island Reds. oret. 2nd, Gladys Brown, Passaic. 8rd, Helen Odneal, Spruce. Pullet, 1st, Helen Odneal. 2nd, Gladys Brown. — 8rd, Etta Francis, Amoret. Buff Orpingtons. Cockerel, 1st, Lola Simpson, Butler. 2nd, Lucile, Otto, Adrian. 3rd, Lucile Otto. Pullet, 1st, Lucile Otto. cs + 2nd, Lureen Wolfe, Adrian. 8rd, Lureen Wolfe. “3 White Orpingtons. - Ist, Bessie Richardson, Cockerel, - Adrian. Pnilet, ist, Bessie Richardson. 8. C. White Leghorn. . Cockerel, 1st, Zera Baker, Butler. 2nd, Forrest, Rosier, Butler. “| Pullet, 1st, Zera Baker, 2nd, Forrest Rosier. _ 8. C. Buff Leghorn. _|Cockerel, ist, Ruby Church, Butler. e personal so Se ae raising the most chickens, having ‘raised fifteen from the setting of The regular awards in the Child- Albert Armontrout, | Mabel Southerland, | Cockerel, 1st,Curtis Thornhill, Adrian | Cockerel, 1st, Ellen Crawford, Aid Cockerel, 1st, Isreal McChesna, Am- | in one at a time before a most solemn judge and jury. After being forced to kneel down and with hand on the Bible solemnly swear or affirm to tell the we were demanded to ‘‘say whom do you love.’’ Last Monday the Freshrian Senior! [and exciting throughout and those who | on the | All attempts to in-| 's were made. We were brought truth, and nothing but the truth, we | Instead of merely repeat- | ing the words some confessed many \ puddle of water on the table. things. One Sophmoré on being rath- er strenuously teased by the ‘‘solemn jury’ said, ‘‘I don’t either love him and I wouldn’t tell if I did.” 3 The two course luncheon was delicious and surely proved that some of the Sophmores have talent in the domestic line. At a late hour the guests depar- ed each declaring it a most enjoyable event, In the Senior English class;, one day this week a discussion of heaven came wp. Many rather heterogenous ideas were presented. Miss Fenton’s idea of heaven according to Ivan Deffen- baugh js rather amasing and certainly original. | The editor cold make a beautiful story” out of it, if it wern’t for fears ot a cut English grade, The observation class has finished’ reading, and will statt on a series of physiology and spelling obgervatioris : Junior Notes. The Juniors are deep in the study of Stevenson’s ‘Travels with a Donkey.’’ We don’t mind the story so much but the thought that we have to remember the exact course of his travels well | enough to make an outline of it drives us to distraction. And then to bur- den our minds we have to hand in a re- port on Eliot’s ‘‘Silas Marner’? before long. There is anew topic to the re- port this year, which is a paragraph on “style.’?’ Now a good many of us don’t know whether that means ‘‘Men’s style’’ or ‘‘Ladies’ style,’’ or what, most of us think it means what? The music classes are doing’ nicely now. Added to the'study of voice cul- ture and harmony we are taking up the i lives of great compdsers. We have al- ready handed in papers on Beethoven, the great German composer. The mu- sic class expects to render a Beethoven program a week from Thursday. The chemistry class is getting more and more learned every day. A lady whose name we do not ‘know or care to know inspected.our laboratory last week, and made some very uncompli- mentary remarks, to the effect that we were exceedingly careless housekeep- ers. Many and terrible were the ex- plosions in the laboratory Monday, but ‘at least we have learned one thing, “Never lay a hot test tube down in a We all have to admit that the old “Prosperi- | ty Auto” hasbeen pull- ing pretty heavy of late But Now Old Santa has put his shoulder to the wheel and his Christmas Sto ck « Williams’ “will testify that the gre all we need now is for atest.era of prosperity that this county has ever known is HERE— you to come and see. Everything to eat, better, fresher, cleaner and cheaper. Broken Taffy Peanut Brittle | Ribbon Mixtire | : Cream Bon-bons | | Chocolates and Raisins | Currants Citron Orange Peel | Lemon Peel Spices and And Santa Sends a for you to Inspect our Stock. Yours . J. E. WILLIAMS. OUR LINE OF Christmas Candy is Complete Cream Fudge Marshmallows Caramels Jelly Beans in fact every- I thing in Sweets and for Fruit Cakes : Shelled Nuts 7 Fresh Fruits Oranges Bananas Grapes and Rosy Cheeked Apples Special Invitation