The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, December 31, 1914, Page 4

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We offer a choice | ot of LADIES DRESS SHOES-— sizes 2; to 41; in Patent leather, Kid and Gun Metal $3.50 Grades for $2 50 Boys and Girls Whit Leather Guaranteed Hose 15c 2for - - 2 oc Special lot all Linen Unbleached crash Special lot Fast Color Shirtings Special lot Outing Flannel Dark Colors Special lots Table Linen on sale at An Eagle sta p with each 10c Purchase Big Lot “Wool Dress Goods Regular prices 60c to $1.00 One Hundred and Thirty Petticoats made out of Ialian cloth, double stitched, welt seams, deep accordian plainted ruffles, fast colors. Choice of the following colors, black, Navy blue, Kings | blue, Copahagan blue, brown, Kelley green. Each skirt insured for three months wear or a new one in its place a regular $1.50 Petticoats for oply $1. All kinds of Remnants, Table Linen, Wool Goods, Percales, Prints, etc Hundreds of Bargains all over the Store as we want to convert these goods into CASH before invoicing COME AND SEE---WE WILL SAVE YOU MONEY : ° - Walk The Butler Weekly Times Printed on Thuraday of each week 40KT, D, ALLEN, Kattor and Manager ~ntered at the Post Office of Butler, Mo., as ee uo1-class mail matter. PRICE, $1.00 PER YEAR FAIR INDEBTEDNESS SHOULD BE PAID. The Bates-County Fair Association is facing an indebtedness of $1600, which must be met at once, and for that reason a meeting of the stock- holders has been called for the pur- pose of acting upon a proposition to assess each stockholder in the sum of 5,00 each for the purpose of liquid- The meeting will ‘be ‘held in’ the ‘and is optimistic enough to express | ~ | the belief that it would pass the legis- ; The Boonville’ Advertiser speaks right out in meeting fora Jim Crow} lature by practically unanimous vote. | We have our doubts of it.. Some-. how, members of the legislature mani- fest a singular cowardice in dealing, with this question. Without regard to party, they will profess to look with favor upon such legislation un- til the-time comes to give it the in- dorsement of their votes, and then they hedge. If the time ever comes when a Jim Crow measure can come up on a constitutional amendment ballot that is not loaded down with fool measures, we believe it would pass byan overwhelming non-parti- san vote.—Clinton Democrat. Venezula has proposed formally to all the neutral Governments of Eu- Americas, that a conference be held “asa Christmas: pres- clean field for Hon. James P. Boyd of Monroe county. Democratic Central Committee Meeting. The Bates County Democratic Cen- tral Committee will meet at the Court House in Butler, Missouri, January ‘7th, 1915, at‘2o’clock p.m. It is very essential that all members of the committee attend this meeting fo the purpose of providing the means of nominating a Democrat candidate for the office of Superintendent of Schools for Bates County, and such other business as may properly com before said Committee. 2 C..A. LUSK, Chairman. - As To Kansas. What’s the matter with Kansas? |_must shoulder the musket and march CONGRESS DECREES DOL\ARS.IN- DULGING IN LUXURIES MUST FIRST SALUTE THE FLAG. War Revenue Tax of $105,C00,000 Levied—Beer Sears Grunt of Burden. Congress has levied a war tax of $105,000,000 to offset a similar amount of loss on import revenue due to the European disturbances and of this amount beer is the heaviest contributor, having been assessed ap- proximately $50,000,000; a stamp tax on negotiable instruments, it is estimated. will yield $31,000,000; a tax on the and a tax on tobacco, perfumes, thea- ter tickets, etc., makes the remainder. Congress has decreed that “the brewer, the banker and the investor 4 \ capital stock of banks of $4,300,000 to the front; that milady who would add to her beauty must first tip Uncle The value of the taxable property in| sam, and a dollar that-seeks pleasure rope and Asia, as well as the two| the state for 1914 shows a decrease| must first salute the flag; that: Pleas- of $5,625,864 from the valuation of to put any state in the nine hole. Joseph Observer. ‘ ure and Profit—the twin heroes of er-McKibben’s The Quality Store '50 cents yard \ Absolutely the best their graves when they die hut vorv | little has been sald of the dollar that~ | bears the burdens of wer Honor to the Dollar that Bears the | Burdens of. War. | All honor-to the dollar that an swers the call to arms and, when | the battle is over. bandages the wounds of stricken soldiers lays a | wreathupon ‘the graves of fallen | heroes and cares for the widows and orphans All honor to the industries that bend their backs under the .burdens of war; lift the weight from the shoul- -ders of the poor and build a bulwark | around the nation’s credit. All honor to those who contribute to the necessities and administer to the comforts of the boys ‘who are marching; cool the fever of afflicted soldiers and kneel with the cross. be- side dying heroes. - & dollar may fight its competitor in business, industries may struggle for supremacy in trade and. occupations may view each other with envy or suspicion; but when the bugle calls they bury strife and rally around the flag, companions and friends, mess mates and chums, all fighting for one flag, one cause and one country. The luxuries in life have always been the great burden-bearets in gov- ernment’ We will mention a few of te) them giving the annual ¢ontributions ©} to the nation's treasury: Liquor, $260,- “000.000; tobacco, $103.000,000; sugar, / $54,000,000; ailks, $15,600,000; dia- monds, $3,837,000; millinery, $2,479,- came as a complete surprise to the British public, as there had deen vir- tually no intimation that any friction had arisen between the two Govern- ments, : : month. Consequently the British people. gard this as one of the most impor- tant occurrences of the whole war: Nothing of its Aind since President produced such a sensation. The first impression of the public |is that the note may create friction. ;and, perhaps, some unfriendly feel- ing, although the newspapers point out that it specifically states that $1.00 | The placards posted by the evening papers were given over exclusively to the American note, and the papers. gave it the largest headlines they. have given any news during the last ° Cleveland’s Venezuelan message has. = since Wendel