The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, January 14, 1915, Page 7

“The Daylight Store” The Big Clearance Sale * Still continues at the AMERICAN where no item marked up for sale purposes LADIES’ SUITS AND COATS ! is ever " Former Prices. Not a suit will be carried over by us this season. New Shipment of Aprons. Childrens School Dresses. . We show the new Vesting Top Shoes and Gaiters American Clothing House Leaders for 30 Years | H. A. Morgan left Monday for| Notwithstanding rumors to the Ardmore, Oklahoma, after a several | contrary, Miss Helen Smith of Adrian | weeks’ visit here with friends. will positively appear ‘with the Old . Home Singers at the opera house Bibover ese er at Lavy & next Wednesday evening. 13-1t Harry I. Jackson has purchased | the interest of Mr. Talbot inthe Tal-; You ought to do your interior | bot-Bowman studio in this city. painting now while workmen can be | ; (had. Sewall’s Interior Flat Finish, | Hope muslin 7c, at Levy’s. Mr. and Mrs. Mark Hanson and |anteed by Logan-Moore Lumber Co. Cut prices at Black & Arnold. Judge John Hayes of Kansas City spent Sunday here. | Mrs. C. B. McFarland is the guest of relatives in St. Louis. Major F. H. Crowell is attending Farmers’ week at Columbia, Mo. Billie Welch of Summit township | marketed a car load of hogs Monday. ; | Hard Oil and Floor Varnish is guar- | | Among the “‘boys’’ from Lone Oak township who attended the Commer- cial Club banquet were Will Carroll, | Paul Walton, Boyd Williams, and Joe Ghere. We acknowledge a pleas- ; ant call, Cut prices at Black & Arnold. Butler Assembly No. 262 National Americans have elected the following | officers for the ensuing year: Presi- Alex Cameron is spending several weeks at Excelsior Springs. C. A. Allen has purchased the J. A. Trimble residence property on North | Delaware street. Judge R. B. Campbell was in from Pledsant Gap Wednesday ‘attending to business matters. é J. W. Eggleson has purchased the McFarland &Sons Automobile Agen- | cy and garage business. \ Mr. and Mrs. Frauk Gench are at- tending the Implement Dealers Con- vention in-Kansas City. e Seventy-two head of horses and mules sold at the Argenbright sale last Wednesdav for $9,500. George Rogers and J. W, Rogers, both of Amoret were in Wednesday and made us a most pleasant call. ' Mr, and Mrs, A. S. Milhorn spent the latter part of the week in Harri- Edith Lewis and C. T. Haskett, both of Amoret, were united in mar- riage in this city Friday, Judge C: J. Henry officiating. The Wednesday Coterie met January 6th at the home of Mrs. J. F. Smith on West Ohio street. A serics sguri’s Menof Interest’ were read. The stockholders of the “Missouri State Bank ata meeting held Janua- ry 7th, elected J. M. McGovern, one of Summit township’s prominent farmers, a member of the board of directors of that institution. O. A. Heinlein of the Bennett- Wheeler Mercantile Company is in Kansas City attending the Imple- sonville with relatives and friends. | of most excellent papers on ‘‘Mis-| COMMERCIAL CLUB BAN. - QUET. Federated Clubs of Bates County Feast After Interesting Business Session. Two hundred members of the Fed- ‘erated Commercial Clubs of Bates |county and their guests were ban- queted: by the Butler Commercial Club Tuesday evening, after interest- ‘ing business sessions by the Butler Club and the directors of the Feder- ated Clubs. The banquet was served in the | spacious dining room of the Frater- |nal Inn which was beautifully deco- rated with potted ‘plants, flags and bunting, and the long tables, covered with snow white linen presented a pleasing appearance when the doors of the dining room were thrown | pen. Following is the menu: Consumme -Celery Olives Salad Roast Turkey | Dressing Escalloped Oysters Mashed Potatoes | Peas Lemon Ice Plum Pudding | Mints : Coffee ~ Cigars Every item in the menu was dain- tily prepared and bountifully seryed in courses. At. the conclusion of the supper Presdent Henry Sheppard introduced A. B..Francisco, formerly of this city who is with the Sheldon Institute of Business Efficiency. _Mr. Francisco, taking for his subject ‘‘Efficiency’’ made a strong, forceful talk, replete 3 .,_|Mr. and Mrs. Ira King of Lincoln, | Lloyd Rosier has resigned his po-' dent, George Bailey; Vice president, _Clark Wix of near Appleton City| Nebraska, are guests of J. E. Bart- | sition with Bates County Democrat to | Bessie Holloway; Secretary, G. W. spent the first of the week in Kansas | tett and family. laccept a legislative clerkship at Jef-| Dixon; Chaplain, Julia Gaines: Mar- ee | $15 Men’s suits at $41 at Levy’s. _ ferson City. Miss Rosalie Funk suc- shal, Leslie Lefever; Observer, Ar- menesDesleate: Convention: These | With suggestions for the promotion conventions have been held annually | not only of individual efficiency but for the past twenty-six years and Mr. Hat community efficiency as well. One Heinlein has never failed to attend. [OR camost ay tal eg eons mot Nar e thur Fortner; Sentinel, R. D. Stanley. Roy Norfleet left the first of the | week for an extended visit in Okla- homa. George J. Moore was down from Adrian Tuesday mingling -with friends. Cut prices at Black & Arnold. Wiley Woods of Foster was in Butler Tuesday looking after business | | matters. Boy’s $5 overcoats $3.50, at Levy’s. i Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Thomas are _Rejoicing over the birth of a. fine ae Sunday. 98c Outing gowns 75c., heis! s. Miss Kate Tucker has accepted | position with the Coleman Trust Co., of this city. Linen torchon lace 4c yd., Levy’s. Mr. and Mrs, Sam Walls of Adrian | spent Sunday here with Mr. and Mrs. Chas. McFarland. $1.58 Misses shoes 98c at Levy’s. © Judge J. W. Darby of Foster was, a business visitor to the county seat | the first of the month. Oak and Hard Maple Flooring can’t | be beat forappearance and durability. Logan-Moore Lumber Co. Boy’s suits 2 off, at Levy’s. Mrs. Gertrude McClelland left Sun- day for Jefferson City to assume her duties as legislative clerk. Oak and Hard Maple Flooring can’t be beat for appearance and durability. Logan- oore Lumber Co. _ Cut prices at Black & Arnold. Attorney Howell H.. Heck, of Rich Hill, spent Tuesday in Butler and ; favored. us with a brief call. $1.50 Blankets $1.15 at.Levy’s. | 1-4. Off on Suits Suits........$15.0 Suits........$18 £0. Stare and. little son lave re: |ceeds Mr. Rosier as reporter for th turned to their home in Trinidad, ean: Colo., after a visit here at the home| Cut prices at Black & Arnold. of Sam Starr. : Julian Weeks, formerly of Butler, Cut prices at Black & Arnold. who spent the past few days with his Col. and Mrs. H. G. Tilton of Iowa, eee, and sister in this city, left on | who have been visiting at the noel ee 8 Frisco for Calhoun, Ark, | where he goes to accepta position pts het ata Robbins, re: _with the Central Coal & Coke Com- | pany. —Rich Hill Review. | ‘ ’ 4 | January Sale’at Levy's. Edson Snyder, who exhibited his Miss Hazel. DeJarnett arrived Sat- | | Rhode Island Red chickens at the! urday afternoon from Omaha, Neb., 'Cass county poultry show at Harri- ona visitto Mr. and Mrs. J. F. De-| sonville last week, won Ist and 3d on | Jarnette, of the country southwest.— | cock, 2d and 3d on hen, 3d on cock- | Review. lerel, Ist on pullet, Ist on pen and Bert Claunch, who was operated | several special premiums. jon'for appendicitis in Kansas City! (Cut prices at Black & Arnold. several days ago, was sufficiently ; T 4 'wenty head of spring gilts which fees MIN ALS HAS EH, |W. A. Baker and Sons are planning le to put into their annual spring sale |. Fritz Krieger of the Krieger- the last of February now average 275 |Klump Ice and Beer Co., of Rich pounds. These gilts are of March Hill, was in Butler Tuesday looking |and April farrow. The hog breeder \after business matters and made usa who beats Baker & Son will have’ to pleasant call. go some. ' Cut prices at Black & A¥nold. Charles Falor, of Bates County, | Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Gragg of Kan Mo., wants it understood there was | ‘ ; no crop failure last year in his neigh- \sas City, who spent the holidays here \borhood. “We raised fully an aver- ‘age corn crop, while small grain also turned out well,’’ Mr. Falor said ‘‘We ‘have far more corn than stock to feed jwith homefolks, were in the latter part of last week and made The, | Times a pleasant call. | Miss Louise Allison ‘has accepted a it to right now. | position as bookkeeper with the Wal- gram. ton Loan Co., of Hobart, Oklahoma. ' Cut prices at Black & ‘Arnold. etaa iat caw date for stapatt) “Judge Estes Smith of Mingo town- , ' ship, Bates county, was in the city We are in receipt of an . invitation | ' Sunday afternoon enroute to Butle?. to attend the celebratiun of the For- | Judge Smith was chosen at the late ty-seventh anniversary of Bates Lodge | election as the member of the North No. 1801. 0. O. F. A banquet will! Disfrict of the Bates county court. |be served the members and their | He is the father ot Prof. S. 2. Smith, | guests and talks will be made by |principal of the Harrisonville high well known speakers. i ' school.—Harrisonville Democrat. eyers Big Sale 1-4. Off on Overcoats $7.50 Boys’ Suits $5 65 6.00 Boys’ Suits $4.50 5.00 Boys’ Suits $3./5 4.00 Boys’ Suits $300 3.50 Boys’ Suits $265 3.00 Boys’ Suits $2.25 20.00 Overcoats $15 00 Se co Greccoaiest ig 50 **-Drover’s Tele-| At a meeting of the Bates County Medical Association Thursday the following officers were elected: T. C. Boulware, president; E. E. Robin- son, vice-president; C. A. Lusk, sec- rétary and treasurer; Censors, T. W. Foster, V. J. Cumpton and J. H. Fletcher; Delegate to State Associa- tion, C A. Lusk, J. A. Corn of Am-} courteous, has geod financial judg- | ; ment and will, ‘oret was elected to membership. Edward Leslie, 27 years old, a for- mer resident of Rich Hill, was killed i a fall of rock ina mine at Frank- in, Kas., Thursday. Leslie was well res here having at one time | worked in the Atlas mine. He wasa | brother-in-law of Edwin Goodin. He leaves a wife and one child. New- ton Tonlin, another miner known here was also killed by a fall of rock same day.—Rich Hill Review. Cut prices at Black & Arnold. T. G. Hutchinson, of near Sprague this county, received the sad intelli- |gence Friday of the death of his | mother in LaPlata, Missouri,~Jan. 9. |The cause of the death’ is attributed to catarrah of the Jungs. She was 76 years of age, anda highly respected resident of Macon county. She is ‘survived by a: bereaved husband and four children, two sons and two daughters, Thomas J. Hutchinson, of | Sprague, and J. R. Hutchinson of | Hume, Mrs. Jenkins of Macon county, and a married daughter living in | Carroll county.-—Rich Hill Review. Fred Goodin, giving his address as Rich Hill, who was arrested by Mar- shal Braden at the depot Saturday night, was haled into Judge B. F. Je- ter’s court-Monday morning and af- ter having plead guilty to a charge of disturbing the peace was assessed a fine of $5 and the trimmings. Good- in called at the Foster hotel Saturday evening, and after exhibiting an of- | ficer’s badge, claimed to be a private detective from Kansas City and at- tempted to extort money from parties connected with the hotel. His de- mands were_refused and he became profané and ° abusive, whereupon Officer Braden was called and Good- in was thrown into durance vile. Black.& Arnold Clothing Co. The marriage of A. H, Thomas of Columbus and Mrs. Emily Pigg of ‘Butler, Mo., occurred at 8 o’clock Saturday evening at the Kenoly home on South Indiana avenue. Mr. Thom- as is a well known colored citizen of ‘Columbus. He has been in-business in a mine at Corona, Kansas, the! , him many more anniversaries. The meetiny of the stockholders of.) - Wesley E. Black was elected as- sistant cashier of the Missouri State Bank at a meeting of the board of | directors. held Thursday. Mr. Black is a young business man of marked ability and has served in the capacity of book-keeper and later teller for the bank. He is accommodating, | without doubt, rise high in the banking business. { Marvin Austin, who lives near | Sheldon and charged with passing worthless checks on the Amoret bank, was arraigned before Judge B. F. Jeter Tuesday and waived his pre- | liminary examination. His bond was | fixed at $500 but was unable to give | same and was committed to jail to | await the action of the circuit court. | The historical editor of one of ou: | most esteemed exchanges got his; wires crossed Friday.and informed an unsuspecting public that ‘‘One/ hundred years ago today, January | 8, 1915, Stonewall Jackson with his | army of men whipped the British at | New Orleans.’’ We have been un- able to confirm this rumor, and in fact are forced to the conclusion that | it has’ no foundation inasmuch as} the best authorities agree that Thom- | as Jonathan Jackson, known in his-| tory as Stonewall” Jackson was | born January 21, 1824, more than9 years after the battle of New Orleans | was fought and won by Andrew) Jackson. C. C. Duke celebrated his fortieth anniversary as a citizen of Butler last Tuesday. Mr. Duke formerly re: | sided on a farm near Altona. He, came to Butler on January 12th, 1875, | to assume the duties of deputy coun- | ty treasurer under Luther Shobe. Mr. Duke succeeded Mr. Shobe in} the office and held the position for | four years. He afterwards served as assistant cashier of the Butler Na- | tional Bank, now the Missouri State | Bank. In the last half of Cleveland’s | first administration he became _post- master, succeeding the late Col. A. Wade. Mr. Duke has held other city and township offices and is at present City Assessor. We wish | the Batés County “Fair Association, held in the court house last Thursday afternoon was well attended, fifty stockholders being present. The| The proposition to assess each stock- holder $5 for the purpose of paying off the indebtedness of the Associa- Francisco’s talk was upon the rela- tion of the farmer and the business man of the town. M. I. Hurley of the State Agricul- tural College, who is in this county directing the campaign against hog cholera, was then called upon and made an interesting talk. The ladies assisting’ at the banquet were Mesdames Walton, Allen and Culver, and Misses Green, Crews, | Talbott, Brown, Allen and Braden: The Business Session. The Butler Commercial Club held their business meeting in the circuit court rooms at 6:30 o'clock and the | following officers were elected: President—Jas. A, DeArmond. First Vice President—Dr. J..T. Hull Second Vice President—Paul B. Levy. Treasurer O. A. Heinlein. Vice President Co. Federation—C. | J. Henry. Directors—D. K. Walker, H. G. Cook, T. W. Arnold, C. H. Letton, Wesley Denton, Homer Duvall, J. E. Smith. The County Federation convened at the close of the meeting of the Butler Club and elected officers as follows: President—H. E. Sheppard, Rich Hill. Secretary—A. H. Culver, Butler. Treasurer—C. O. White, Mervin. Urges Intensive Farming. Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 12.—Inten- sive farming to meet the demands of the warring nations of Europe for foodstuffs was urged upon members of the Western Retail Implement, Ve- hicle and Hardware Dealers’ Associa- tion, which began a three day con- vention here today, by H. J. Hodge | of Abilene, Kansas, secretary. Three thousand dealers, represent- ing the states of Missouri, Kansas, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Colora- do and New Mexico, arein attendanc >. Playlets largely will take the place of sp2ech2s throughout the meeti ig. Members of the organization today N.| presented ‘Treatment of Traveling |Men,’’ by an anonymous author, which was designed to teach the val- ue of courtesy i in business. John ‘McCann. John McCann, aged 75 years, de- partes this life at his home near Pas- saic Tuesday, January 12, 1915, as the result of acute indigestion. Mr. McCann, who was. a native of Kentucky, came to Bates county at. an early-date and during his lifetime RES Overcoats......$375 -$ 4.00 Boys’ Overcoats......$300 1 $ 3.00 Boys’ Overcoats.. ...$2.25 | ig ' } | ‘Pigg comes from one. i rolgee ery, Carl Decker, E. A. Cherry, J: R. here as a shoe ‘maker for several|tion was presented and carried al- months and has the distinction of be-| most unanimously. A committee to ing the only. colored shoe-maker in| take up the matter with the remain- this part of Kansas. He learned his| der of the stockholders was appoint- trade as a bound boy in New Orleans | ed and given two weeks in which to and went with his master from that|make a rgport. The committee is place to Liverpool, England, in the|composed of the following gentle- Bre where be secre: several years. |men: M. M.-Carroll, Chas. Argen- coming to Columbus he has bright, Dennis Thralls, C. B. McFar- built up ax-extensive. business. Mrs. |land, Will Deweese, R. N. Montgom- —Col- | Baum,_B. P. Powell, Tom Huffman, dd. J. eee ee Cs E. Robbins. © | families. of | cuneangetetinuses i has endeared himself to all with whom he has come in contact. He was a devout member of the Chris- tion Church. A wife and three chil- ~~ dren survive.— Miss Nellie Ayer and Fred,’ ley, both of Rich Hill, were un marriage at the residence: bride’s sister, Mrs. O. L. Me R.| this city, Wednesday ary 6, I915, Rev. R Ww. ciating. —