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Diseas.s ot Women and Children a Specialty | Office Phone 20 PROFESSIONAL CARDS THE FARMERS BANK OF BATES COUNTY . Butler, Mo. At the close of Business March 4, 1915. ‘Resources Loaris and discounts. $359,052. 49 Over Dratts...... an 3,532.05 Real Estate: Aber ins. House) Cash and Exchange., 130; 913.56 : $511,098.10 Liabilities Capital Stock.. $ 50,000.00 Surplus Fund.. 50,000.00 Undivided Profits..... 1,363.75 Deposits ...........'... 409,734.35 $511,098.10 The above statement is correct, HOMER DUVALL, Cashier. DR. J. M. CHRISTY / MISSOURI \ / PACIFIC BUTLER - MISSOURI House Phone 10, IRON DR. J. T. HULL : Dentist MOUNTAIN ws Entrance same that leads to Stew: North side square Butler, Misoun ‘Missouri Pacific Time Table Phone No. 312 NORTH. rs =| No, 206 Kansas City Accommodation 7:10a, m T. c. ‘BOULWARE | No, 208 St. Loute & K. C, Mail & Kx 11:408 m. | No 210 St. Louis Limited... 9:10 p.m, * Office North Side Square Butler, | ard’s Studio. DR. H. M. CANNON | DENTIST | Butler, Missouri East Side of the Square BUTLER STATION CORRECTED DEC 30, 1914 Physician & Surgeon TRAINS WEST AND SOUTH, Mo, Diseases of women and chil | yo, 201 st. Lonls-Joplin Mall & Kx 3:05 a, m, | dren.a-specialty. -- AED No, 907°K. O, & Joplin Mail & Kx... 1:10 p m. pa | No. 205 Nevada Accommodation...... 7:48 p. m, B, F. JETER, . INTERSTATE. Attorney at Law = Notary Public ask East Side Square Phone 186 | i BUTLER, MISSOURI ie bags crrer eer ibaa SALI, peste | No 688 Madieon ‘Accommodation.. be Office 301 Office over Peoples Bonk OR. ROBERT E. CRABTREE i General Practice EAST BOUND ARRIVALS. Diseases of Children. | No. 637 Butler Accommodation. TELEPHONES ! No. 693 Butler Local Freight Residence 541+ Office in Gench Bldg. | gera on Interstate Division. traine carry passengers. T. J, HALSEY, M. D. 0. 0, 1:30 p. m 1:15 8. m. . $200 p.m, Freight trains Nos. 643 and 694 carry passen- No other freight | AN freight for forwarding must be at depot | potlater than eleven o’clock a, m. or be held BD of cept lg | for following day’s forwarding. Freight for roat Specialist interstate Division must be delivered before and the Atting of Glasses | five o’clock p. m, No freight billed for thie BUTLER, MO | train in morning. L. R. Twyman, Phone No. 45 | Agent. ~ FURTHER GAINS Three Lines of Trenches Cap- tured by French Troops North of Arras. BRITISH RETAKE ~A VILLAGE Official Report from Paris. Claime Fresh Progress in Champagne— Italy May Get in Soon—The Cruiser Dresden Sunk, Paris, March 16.—The following com- munication was issued by the French war office tonight: “The day has been marked by num- erous actions favorable for us, GERMAN SHIP ENDS CRUISE OF 30,000 MILES. Sank an American Ship. United States to Protest. | ‘Newport News, Va., March 10,— | The German auxillery cruiser Prinz) Eitel Friedrich, after a commerce: | destroying cruise over the Pacific| and Atlantic oceans, which included | the sinking of an American sailing | ship in the south Atlantic January 28, | last, came into port today and. an-' for supplies and repairs. More Than 500 Persons on Board. The cruiser’ has on board more than 500-persons, 342 of the crews, and passengers of destroyed vessels | pe addieon to her own crew of aboue The list-of ships sunk by the man ship is as follows. British sail ship Invercoe; February 12; crew, 23. sunk | “In the region of Lombaertzyde our artillery very effectively bombarded the enemy’s .works. The Germans at- tempted to recapture a small fort which we took from them through the night of March 11-12, They were re- pulsed, leaving about fifty dead on the ground. Our losses were insignificant. British Took a Village. army, which a German attack yester- day had compelled to fall back beyond St. Eloi, recaptured that village and almost all of the neighboring trenches, in spite of several counter attacks. “To the north of Arras, a very bril- liant attack by our infantry enabled us to capture by a single effort three lines of trenches on the spur of Notre Dame de Lorette, and-to reach the edge of the plateau. We captured one hun- dred prisoners, including several offi- cers and some non-commissioned offi- cers, destroyed two machine guns and blew up an ammunition store. Allies Gain in Champagne. “In the valley of the Aisne near Vassens, northwest of Nouvron, two German companies were caught by our fire and suffered Very heavy losses. “In Champagne we made fresh prog- ress, We gained ground in the woods northeast of Souain and to the north- west .of Perthes. We repulsed two counter attacks in front of Bridge No. 196, northeast of Ie Mesnil, and ex- tended our position in that section. We took prisoners and captured a trench mortar.” Italy Is Closer to War. Rome, March 16.—The Italian min- ister of posts and telegraphs today is- sued orders suspending the exchange of telegraphic money orders with Aus: tria-Hungary. Orders also were is- sued suppressing the traveling post- offices on trains bound for the Aus- trian frontier. According to a dis- patch from Vienna to the Messaggero, Emperor Francis Joseph today had an extended conyersation with Gen. Rit- ter von Krobatin, the Austro-Hungar- ian minister of war, on the subject of the defense of the dual monarchy on the Italian frontier. British Sank the Dresden. London, March 16.—The British ad- miralty announced tonight the Ger- man cruiser Dresden had) been sunk near Juan Fernandez Island. The crew Was saved, Fifteen badly wounded Germans are being landed at Valpar- aiso. There were no British casualties and no damage to the ships. “German Attacks Repulsed. Paris, March 15.—The following ofti- cial statement wa office last night: “The British air squadron’ has etfec- tively bombarded Westende. “The success gainied by the British “To the south of Ypres the British |’ ssued by the war ; ‘Farm Loans IUVALL-PERCIVAL. THUS TRUST a0, CAPITAL and SURPLUS, $125,000 FARMERS BANK BUILDING, BUTLER, MO. We have money to loan on real estate at a low rate | of interest with privilege to pay at any time. We have.a complete set of Abstract Books and will fur- | Abstracts nish a to any real estate in Bates county and | examine and perfect titles to same. We will loan your idle money for you, securing you Investments reasonable interest on good security. We pay interest on time deposits. ' W. F. DUVALL, President, Arthur Duvall, Treasurer. _ J. B. DUVALL, Vice-President, W. D. Yates, Title Examiner. An Addition tothe Papls Bank Family The Denton-Coleman Loan & Title Co. has been organized to take care of our friends and customers. who want to borrow money on their farms at a low rate of of interest, want abstracts made or seek a good safe investment for their surplus funds. It is composed of good square business men. Don't fail to see this company before you renew your farm. loan, have an ab- ~~stract made or invest your funds. It can always meet such wants to your advantege, - PEOPLES BANK, Seen eee FeH-Con Always Boek armies at Neuve Chappelle proves to have been absolutely complete. They advanced on a front of about three kilometers (about two miles) with a depth of from 1,200 to 1,500 meters, capturing successively three lines of }z trenches and a fortified work to the south of Neuve Chappelle. Counter at- tacks delivered by the Germans with great violence were repulsed. “In Champagne we have consolidat- ed our new front by advances at dif- ferent points and have-firmly estab- lished ourselves on the lines of crests captured from the enemy. 3 “On the heights of the Meuse, at Les Eparges the Germans attempted an at- tack which was immediately stopped by our fire. The same thing happened at Le Chamois, north of Badonviller.” Slavs Repulse Teutons. Petrograd, March 15.—The official statement from general. headquarters issued last night follows: “Between the Niemen and Vistula rivers there has been fighting only in the valleys of the Omulew and Orzyo and in the direction of Przasnycz, along a total front of sixty versts (about sixty miles). The enemy’s at- tempts to advance have been repulsed. March 13 our troops opened a coun- ter attack and seized sevetal villages. “In other regions on the right bank of the Bobr and Narew rivers and on the left bank of the Vistula only ar- Wm. A Shelton, a Windsor merchant British steamship Mary Ada Short; crew, 28; sunk February 18. French steamship Floride; crew, i passengers, 86; sunk February British steamship Willerby; crew, 27; sunk February 20. Russian sailing ship Isabel Browne; | crew, 13; sunk January 27. French sailing ship Pierre Loti; | crew, 24; sunk January 27. American sailing ship William P. | Frye; H. H. Kiehne, master; crew, | 31. owner, Arthur Sewall & Co., of| Bath, Me.; sunk January 28, Cargo | of wheat from Seattle, Wash., to} Queenstown, England, for orders, | declared to be contraband by Ger-! man cruiser. French sailing shig Jacobsen; crew 23; sunk January 18. Newport News, Va. , March 14. French as well as British warships are cruising outside the Virginia’ capes waiting to destroy the German comnegpee raider Prinz Eitel Fried- rich if she should attempt to make for the high seas again. { There are said to be four of them two British and two French, and | they have come to stay until the Eitel Friedrich reappears or interns for the war at-this port. Washington, D. C.; March 15,— The United States will senda pro- test to Germany not later than to- morrow, on the sinking of the Amer- ican sailing vessel William. P. Frye, | by the German converted cruiser, | Prinz Eitel Friedrich, unless in the, meantime a communication on the subject is received from Germany. | This was learned today from an, official. | Girl Got “Jim Crow” Damages. | Wichita, Kas., March 6.—Miss Eni- | ma Wathrous, a former clerk in the} cigar stand at the Hamilton Hotel in Wichita, has settled out of courta’ suit she instituted against the Chica- jgo, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad |Company for damages for being com- pelled to ridge ina ‘jim crow”’ car in | }Oklahoma. The suit was brought for $25,000 and the plalntiff is said to ‘have received $1,000. Shelton Marshal. President Wilson has appointed as United States Marshal for this dis. trict. Mr. Shelton is vouched for b: Congressman C. C. Dickinson, and; this will be accepted as satisfactory | to the Democrats of the State. It is | stated that both Senators Stone and Reed are satisfied with the appoint- | ment. Sheriff’s Sale. By virtue avd authority of a transcript ee cution issned from the office of the Clerk of the | Circuit Court of Bat-s eee Mo., returnable | atthe Mav term, 1915, of said Court and to me | directed in favor of Duke Woods and Co. a against W.H. Moles. 1 have levied upon and seized all the right, title. interest and cla'm of | the eaid W_H. Moles of, in and to the following | described Real Katate, to-wit: The south twenty-four (24) acree of the north-west querter of the north- | west quarter of section (11) ani the i north twenty-five (25) acrea ofthe south- weet quarter, of the nofth west quarter of section (11) and also all that part of the ‘north-east quarter of section ten (10) whish lies east of the public and north of Kik Fork Creek Said tract containing seven and on+- fourth acres more or less. all said land being situated in ak forty-one (41) of range thirty (30) in Bates cuuaty, Missouri. H And I will, ie Saturday, the hoo day of March 4D the hours of nine afternoon of that day, at Door in the clty of Butler, County of Bai @foresaid, sell the same or so much thereof may be en ‘at Pablic Vendue, to the | highest bidder for cash in hand, to satisfy said | execution and costs. tillery engagenients have occurred.” 20-ta - Sheriff of Be Uy ad Reta Zinc Plant Workers Strike. Collinsville, Ok., March 15.—Five trundred men employed on the fur-| 5S YOUNG_ naces and yards of the Bartlesville Zinc Company here went on a strike this morning. They ask an increase of 50 cents a day wages. Kit Carson’s Pal ls Dead. South Windsor, Conn., March 15.— Leonidas D. Chandler, probably the “gigs s HALL JACKS FOR SALE From coming 3 to 5 yearseld. From 141-2 to 15 bande high standard measare from 58 to 63 inches, Jack measure. If looking fer @ good, young Jack, look this way. - *Mett 1 milesouth jatler; Mo. N onrouves, They are trying it, they are using it, they say it is good, VERY good. The name of iit is and you get a-ice piece of Queensware with each package. And if it was not the BEST coffee ever sold in. Butler at 30c per pound you couldn't find it at GOSNELL’S GROCERY That is where you get 5 quarts good Cranberries for....................25¢ 1 quart fresh Roasted Peanuts for.......... 1 Jitney 25 good Oranges for..................0.000e isa eee 4 large Grape Fruit...... ce ear rs Ds Peco 25c Say have you ever tried those large cans of hand packed Tomatoes that they give away. 3 cans Salmon for........ Pers vice Mad eR . .25c 4 pounds good Ricefor... Have sold just 600 pounds of EVER GOOD COFFEE in 30 days and still more to follow. Try a package and get a piece of good Queensware with it, and if it is not as good as any coffee that you ever bought for 30c per pound all you have to do is ‘phone 77 and get your money back or call at Try it once and you'll get it again. Ever Good 204 it is only 30c per lb. GOSNELL’S GROCERY Mr, Hunting Grub Brub | . Detekative Made an arrest. ‘‘What is your name?” the judge asked the prisoner. ‘‘Pid, your honor," replied he. ‘Your full name?"’ persisted thejudge. ‘‘Just the same your honor full or sober,’ replied Pid. ‘‘Tell me,’’ quoth the judge, ‘‘all of your name!’’ ‘‘Mr. Stewart Pid but they call me Stew:Pidfor short,’’ ‘‘Do you work,"’ asked the judge. ‘‘Not if I can get any- thing else to do,’’ replied Pid. ‘if 1] release you will you brace up and be a man?”’ asked the judge. ‘‘I'd hate to” replied Pid. ‘‘And why?"’ asked the judge. **Because,’’ replied Stew Pid, ‘‘men are what women marry, they drink and smoke and swear, but don’t go to church, Perhaps if they wore bonnets they would. They are more logical than women and also more zoological. Both men and women sprung from monkeys but the women sprung further than the men. I'd like to go back to my old job.’’ ‘‘What was your old job?’’ asked the judge. ‘Picking flowers off of Century plants.’’ replied Pid. ‘‘What else can you do? asked the judge. ‘‘I can do the heavy sitting around,”’ replied Pid ‘‘and besides I am a detekative."’ **What can you detect?’ sneered Hunting Grub. ‘‘I can dtétect,’’ replied Stew Pid ‘‘that if Stearns Paint had been used on these houses, we see all over town, they wouldn't be scaleing off and if everybody knew what a good stock of WALL PAPER they had at No. 13 they would at least see it before they buy.’’ And Grub realized there was at least one other great detekative and formed the partnership of Grub & Pid Detekatives. United Drug Company. Phone 15—East Side Square—Butler, Mo. Free Your Hogs of Lice Elood- suckinglice on yourhogsmean poor, lean, restiess, unhealthy hogs. Save teed, keep your hogs healthy and fat and get them to market quic by keeping them free from lice with the Hog-Joy Oiling Machine. wonderful machine makes the hogs rid themselves of lice. They rub, rub, rubl , Give Your Hogs a Chance! rive when their strength, vitality and fat are bei: Don't raise runts! Raise hogs that pay a g the Hog-Joy S: amp and beily—somethi rhtpost, Every rt new oilcovered surface. Hox-Jo liog-Joy Maciine means sure death to vermin, which is a strong Cholera preventive. HOG SOY SYSTEM: The Hog-Joy Machine is simple and staunch. There are no small valves. springs or parts to rust, clog up with mud and sti here's nothing to get outof order. Every sis ep Mak is guaranteed for fiv py Oil is harmless to everythi ut lice and Cholera germs. cities 5 vermin and improves the skin and hair. Both machine and oil work equally well winter and summer. The outfit works automatically—requires no attention. The hogs do the work. ‘Takes the place of the dangerous, troublesome and costly dipping vat. Special Introductory Price! : As exclusive dealers for this locality we are making a special introductory price ahfosker a Hog-Joy Machine and 10-galion can of Hog-Joy Oil. The Hog-Joy System is best hog insurance y .u can buy. Thousands in successful use. Call and see us today. Logan-Moore Lumber Co. "Phone No. 18. Butler, Mo. sucked rs. It kills lice and ra) ‘i im iy es - a : : 4 ead it a 4 BP, i ihe & ¥