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_ VOL, XXxvi. _ Of good things to eat, . eye removed in order to save the ¢_ Hayes at Merwin. * « Up, we are glad to say. a Beekly Ti State Histor nh Historica; Soci. BUTLER, MISSOURI, THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1915. nae Merwin Items. Mrs. Clyde Patterson spent Sunday with Mrs. J. H. Hayes. _ Mrs, J--H. Hayes has been on the sick list thepast week but, is better/a at the present writing. Tom Corbin and Frank Kinser |‘ spent.Monday evening at the J. H. |W’ es home. « Unele John Alexander, as he was Keytey known, died at his home on the Manly Green farm at 4:30 Sun- day morning, after an illness of sev-| vi eral weeks. The doctor said death was due to. heart failure as he passed | Frida away suddenly. He was laid to rest Monday, March 22, in West Point cemetery. He will be sadly missed 7, he was a favorite among his many riends. The Woodman supper at Chapel Hall was reported a success. Plenty food music and J. a good time in genera W. D. Corbin of Kansas City at- tended Uncle John Alexander’s funeral. D. M. Corbin contemplates going to Kansas City to have an affected A other. It will be remembered that while foreman on an oil lease at leodesha, Kan., in some way he re-/| w' ceived an injury to his eye, causing the loss of this member. The spe- cialist now thinks the only way to save the other eye is to remove the | affected one. We hope the operation’ may prove a success. | As roads are almost impassable, | news in this neighborhood is very scarce. ; : Opal Hayes returned Wednesday after a long visit with Grandmother jat Mrs. Bert Owen returned Friday _from West Line where she had been |, « called to nurse her aged mother, She reports her mother able to sit W. D. Corbin shipped several . cars of horses to Kansas i) last week on their road to war. le has many hundred head feeding on his raach yet to be disposod of for the same purpose. He also received several | to cars of mules from Arizona to feed; for that purpose. ot R. Bohiken’s Monday. Riekus and Jo! hat helped them enjoy the evening R., Geo: George Crace-Linerts were and W. R. Bohlken made a business trip to Butler Saturday. sons were visitors at the Bernie Bohlken home Sunday. - evening. é Rambler has the swell head at this |of mules at the Argenbright sale last Saturday. and Mrs. Holl Harper spent ‘Sunday Harper of Butler. township gave a splendid report of the state Sunday school convention which was held at Springfield, ‘Mo., last November, at Peru last Sunday. Sunday at the home of Ernest Gough and wife. Mulberry and Western Bates, few days at the home ol her. father, Mr. and Mra. A, J. Meints visited | Men tome Of I Dorado Springs, We hear that J.’ F. Kern has rented his ranch toa man by the name of Silvers of east of Pleasant Gap. Ernest Gough is the prot B- Mr. and Mrs. H. K. Dykman gave birthday papper for their sons, nie, Tuesday. Those ere John Dykman and family, W: e and Bert Bohlken and eints, U. G. Behrnes is on the sick list. Mrs. Joe Whinery and children iisited Mrs. Geo. Butlér Friday. Ray Glover purchased a fine horse y. = pee He purchased the sows f . S. Ison some time ago. mit township spent Sunday with their sister, Mrs. John W. Thomas. Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Eckles enter- Steve Thomas AO aay last Sunday. Brune Meints and family and . Miss SSY WILLOW. ests at the A. Meints home Wednesday. H. K. Clause and John Dykman North New Home. Mell Campbell ate dinner with home folks last Wednesday. Bud Perry is doing some carpenter work for W. Y. Osborne at Butler. Jack Skaggs is having his house replastered. Mr. Gish is doing the Mr. and Mrs. Frank—Bohlken and George B. Bohlken and J. H. Leiner were callers at the writer’s| Work. Tuesday. : Frank Miller is helping Claude Berry bale hay for Mr. Darnes. Mrs. Henry Medley is visiting with Mrs. Lon Smith and family. Several of Orvall Pickett’s neigh- bers helped him gather corn Monday. Mrs. Ben Pickett has returned home Messrs. Ed Meints and Cecil Porter tended church in Amoret Sunday riting caused by the mumps. Dr. J. C. Sageser was a county. seat visitor Monday. from Kansas City. “RAMBLER. ae os and family visited at yur aaa ee on Smith’s Sunday. | East Lone Oak. School will begin at Lost Corner} E. S. Requa purchased a fine team | Next Monday. urday. Milt Reeves and wife, Mrs. Keeton and son Warnie visited-at- Clif-Eharts L. | Sunday. Brick McCoy attended the town- ship convention at Virginia Saturday. Homer Linendoll made a business trip to Butler Saturday. - Jim Bradley is on the sick list. GOR. Mr. and Mrs. Kirby Harper and Mr. the home of Mr. and Mrs. T. Mrs. F. E. Wisherd of Shawnee H. H. Evilsizer and family. spent ore ig four niles afloat a "i utler, 4 mile north o! lack schoo! F. L. Blankenbaker delivered corn hole: will rent for cash or bankable Rich Hill last Monday. note., Will give possession at once. Mrs. F. L. Blankenbaker and little|N. M. Nestlerode, Route 5, ped | daughter, Margie, are visiting for a|Mo. Phone Virginia. sor of 11 thoroughbred Polan: ina’ tained George Thomas and family and; ‘John Phelps butchered a hog Sat-| the week at father-in-law. ie he up his hog wi dandy lots. The neighbors Guire hill. jr will be in good shape. Olive Judy is teather. before Easter Sunday. cordially invited. along nicely. < week. father. Miss Mary Harper. | of the mumps. Steele. work with teams on the On the Wing. W. P. Fritts is in Arkansas looking for a location for his saw set. Tinker Hedger spent the first of urdette visiting his Elmer Hendrix bought some fine Chester White pigs from Wesley Ray- | pour. ‘He sold a fat hog to the Charlie and Will Turpin of Sum-| butcher Tuesday. n helped E. Hendrix put d They made some T. They took out thestur and graded the hill down .some. ™ donated five days . Me- imps lew more such donations and that hil Our school at Crooks commenced | ‘Monday after nearly a week’s vaca-| tion on account of the mumps. The Ladies Aid will have a supper at the Methodist church Friday night | Everybody John Hedger and family are getting -Douglas Browning moved in Ar- thur Browning’s house one day last Mrs. Cyrus Hedger is visiting her} Monday. M. N. Virginia-Grand View Pick-Ups , Miss Una Judy spent Saturday and | Sunday with homefolks. } Miss Ola Ayres-spent-Sunday with! Miss Mayme Sacre visited Grand View school one day last week. Mrs.L. L. Judy, daughter, Olive, | and son, Robert, are having a seige | Ell Burke and daughter, Mrs. Rosa i Steele, were Butler visitors Monday. | policies of President Wilson in “‘this| at Boswell, Ok. H. H. C Miss Belle Steele came Wednesday of last week to attend the sickness and funeral of her brother, Hubert She left for her home Manhattan, Kans., Tuesday. Elias Hoagland and wife, who have | Miss | | been visiting at the home of his! mother, Mrs. L. S. Paddock, started | for their home in western Kansas’ Monday. Louis Burge is on the sick list. World Launched. Newport News, Va., March 18,— | When the new superdreadnaught ie of tonsilitis, Is Improving | into historic Hampton Roads she took Mr. and Mrs, S, Nightwine and her place inthe lead as the largest daughter, ‘Rosa, and Mr. and Mrs. [ Dakar afloat. Powell Englehardt and children spent | ristened by Miss Elizabeth Kolb of Germantown, Pa., as Secreta: Rhine’ Mr. and Mrs. Ernest niela gavea signal, the hull slid 4 \into the James river and the result- __ Card of Thanks ,, |ant swell tossed the German cruiser We wish to thank our many kind/ Prinz Eitel Friedrich, less than a friends and neighbors for the kind-| hundred yards away. ness rendered us during the sickness; Commander Thierichens, com- and death of our beloved husband and | mander of the sea raiders, sat with rbrother. Also for the beautiful flow- | the official‘party on the platform and ersfrom the W. C. T. U. and friends. | mingled with American naval officers Mrs, Rosa Steele and son, Elvis. | throughout the ceremony. Miss Belle Steele, |. In size and gun power the Penn- Mr. Harve Steele. | yen is greater than the Queen eS 0. lizabeth of the British. navy, which z See led the recent terrific assault of the Green-View Twinklings. | Allies on the forts of the Dardanelles. Miss Georgia Moore, who has-been; ‘While the Britisher carries larger visiting with Miss Clara’ Staker the|@U%S, her main battery is only two- past week returned to her home in| thirds the size of that of the Penn- Pleasanton Monday. sylvania in number and the Ameri- OumiikGenibneriwho has obeenlcre battleship is 3,600 tons greater in ene i r size. spending the past week with home | The main batte: f- i 4 ry of- the Pennsyl- folks, returned to northern Missouri vania will consist.of 12 14-inch 3 | > F . |caliber. rifles, set in. four turrets, | There will be a pie supper in con-| three guns to a turret, the plan of > Miss Helen Oldham visited Miss/| nection with an entertainment given | big gun arrangement adopted in the Emma Pahlman Saturday. at the Green View school house Sat- | sister ships which preceded her, the urday night, March 27th. The string | Nevada and Oklahoma. | band of Foster will furnish the music — Her tonnage measurement is 31;- for the evening. 000, against 27,500 for the Nevada Misses Martha Eck, Clara Staker and Oklahoma and the Queen Eliza- and Georgia Moore visited the Green | beth. View school Friday. Miss Pearl Kieth of Butler has been visiting relatives in this vicinity the past week. . BLUE BELL. Wilson Cotton to Charity Washington, D. C., March 17. | President Wilson today sold a bale of E = | cotton ad Hagll the proceeds to char- : ity in jahoma. ‘ Support Wilson, Taft Urges _ During the ‘“‘buy-a-bale-of-cotton” |- Chapel Hill, N. 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