The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, April 1, 1915, Page 3

—French-anilitary_authorities. at 60,000. zette, died suddenly the other night _ the: source of the Ondava river at . Nijini Potianska, twelve miles north: |; ST. LOUIS BANKS LOSE CASE Federal Court of Appeals: Upholds De- * cision Regarding the Payment of Corporation Tax. The United States circuit court of appeals at St. Louis upheld the -de- cision of the lower court whereby money paid by national ‘| state taxes is assessable under the federal corporation excise tax. The decision affects all national ‘banks in Missouri and is believed by some lo- cal bankers to affect national banks throughout the country. The decision waé rendered in the ease of the National Bank of Com- merce of St. Louis vs. E. B, Allan, former interna] revenue collector for eastérn Missouri, for the recovery of about $5,000 paid as a federal excise ‘tax. This was a test case arranged by the St. Louis Clearing House As- ‘ Tee sociation. ‘Petrograd ,March 30.—The following | The federal corporation excise’ law rofficial statement from general head-| creates a tax of 1 per cent on all net ‘quarters was issued tonight: income exceeding $5,000 annually. “On the front west of the Niemen} The National Bank of Commerce ‘we have everywhere stopped the Ger-| claimed that approximately $500,000, ‘mans’ counter offensive. A battalion| which it had paid as state taxes dur- ‘of the Twenty-first German corps, | ing 1909, 1910 and 1911, should not ‘which was advancing Sunday over the | have been assessed under the federal Ace of Lake Dusia, with the object of | excise tax law. igetting in our rear, was-attacked with The Wecision declared that this ‘the bayonet near tlie village of Zebr-| amount originally represented part of ziski and annihilated. the bank’s net income and therefore “The enemy's siege batteries at Os- | Should be taxed. wowetz have almost ceased fire. Fight- dng continues between the Skwa and Orzyo rivers. In an extremely desper- ‘ate battle for the village of Wahl, we captured nine machine guns. “In the Carpathians, between Mor- A Battalion Annihilated While _ Attempting to Get in Rear of Russians, te STILL FIGHTING FOR PASSES Czar's Soldiers Claim Possession of Western Outlets into Hungary, -But Austrians Continue to Hold Eastern Approaches. A case that has been pending in the circuit court at St. Louis for twenty-six years was advanced a step toward settlement the other day when the report of a referee, who was tak- ‘litze and Bartfeld, the Austrians Satur- | ing testimony was filed. The case is day made persistent but fruitless at- | # Suit for $180,000 against the partner- stacks near the villages of Gladycheff | 8hip firm of Sarpy Berthold and Cur- ‘and Reghetow. In the direction of | tis M. Jennings, and was brought by Balligrod, on the left bank of the Up- | the executrix of the estate of Henry per San, in the sector. of Radzieiouw, | O'Hara, who was a member of the Polianka, Zavoy and Javorjitz, we have | Partnership firm and at its dissolu- made progress and have taken more| tion brought suit for an accounting.. than six hundred prisoners and four The referee recommends disallowance machine guns. Near Koziouwka Satur- of the claim against the partnership ‘day we repulsed new German attacks.” | 0d recommends also a judgment of Battling for Carpathians. $4,500 against the O’Hara estate. London, March 30.—The battles for tthe Carpathian passes are proceeding ‘with ever -increasing violence, The Russians are in complete possession of tthe western passes and are advancing into Hungary, bu the, eastern passes sremained in the hands of the Germanic .allies, who, however, are being strongy ly pressed by their reinforced adver- ssaries, In the west the mine warfare con- ‘tinues, without any important changes dn the position of the two armiés. Ittalian Troops to Border. Geneva, March 30.—Italian military theadquarters, it is reported here, has ordered several regiments stationed near the Swiss frontier, with bases at ‘Como, Varez and Brescia, to move to- ‘ward the Tyrolese frontier where Aus- Rock Road in Saline County. A meeting was held at the Prairie Lawn school house ‘south of Marshall to make a definite move -concerning the construction of a rock road from the Marshall special road district to the Pettis county line on the Sedalia- Marshall road, ten miles. A meeting for the same purpose was held at the Elgin school house. Everything points to success in this venture. This is the first move made in Sa- line county to build rock roads, Names Delegates to Press Congress. H. S. Sturgis, president of the Mis- souri Press Association, has appoint- ed Fred Naeter, Republican, Cape Girardeau; H. F. Stapel, Mail, Rock- port; Ovid Bell, Gazette, Fulton; P. ‘trian, bay y;@oncentrating |. ys Pe a on, News-Herald, Joplin; Omar dn the last fortnight. DG » Sebi aA Await Godd Weather. ray, Leader, Sturgeon, delegates * London, March 29.—In the West the| to the International Press Congress in ‘commaanders are waiting for better | St- Francis county, July 5 to 10. conditions before making any effort on is a large scale, although the French here and there are attempting to cap- ture positions which would give them an advantage when the general offen- sive is decided upon, Their more-re- cent efforts have been directed against .the heights of the Meuse, to the east and south of Verdun, in which both ‘they and the Germans claim to have made gains. The object of these oper- ations is to compel the Germans to evacuate St. Mihiel, where their line weaches ‘the River Meuse, cauging a ‘considerable bending of the French ‘front. ¥ Held on Killing Charge. Fred D. Wilkins, charged with the murder of Colonel Alten‘ M. Walker, former mayor of Louisiana, and mem- ber of Governor Major's staff, was bound over to the circuit court for trial by Justice of the Peace W.. J. Hufty of Bowling Green, before whom he was given a preliminary hearing. His bond was fixed at $6,000. Arrest Negro As Axman. Loving Mitchell, a negro, was arrest- ed at St. Louis on a warrant charg- ing him with the murder of W. E. Dawson, a sexton, his wife, and their Germans Lose ‘Heavily. : , daughter, Georgia, 13 years old, at aie vou Incusany Gottann aca tare Monmouth, IIl., the night of Septem- ‘been taken from the trenches won by the Frepch during twenty: days of | PF 30. 1911 fighting in’ the Champagne country. ‘The German losses in killed, prisoners |_ and wounded are estimated by the Newspaper Founder Dies, James Irvin Nichols, 82 years old, one of the founders of the Fulton Ga- ‘The’ German, wastage, they say, has re the Masonic home in St. Louis, S. ‘beén two to-one compared with French A. Nichols, a Fulton druggist, is a losses, because the Germans would try brother to regain lost ground by counter at- : ‘tacks repeated again and again, with Dr. J. G. French Dead, obstinate courage. Jt was in these Dr. John G. French of St. Louis, a counter assaults [area by relative- former student, in the University of ly: inadequate artillery and what the| srissouri and many ‘years a resident French officers assert was inadequate| or Columbia, is dead at. Parker Me- morale, against the allied troops, that | orial hospital in Columbia, He went so many German soldiers ‘have fallen.| +, tne hospital about two weeks ago. The graves in which they are buried| Doctor French was 65 years old, He by fifties and by hundreds are thick !1, survived by his wife. upon a narrow- front’ of some fifteen miles. Killed in a Motor Smash. Russians TN Carpathians. The firat fatal motor accident in The Russians mb eacte their | segalia occurred when John Shafer, front well throug! , Carpathian head of the Shafer Transfer and Stor- mountains, toward the plains of = age Company, was crushed to death. Shafer occupied a 7-passenger car with feld, capturing im Austrian. position Fred Ross. At a jog in the street he |lost control of his machine, whick By taking the Austrian positions at | feraahed into a telegraph pole. Ross of Bartfeld, the Russians gaia ‘tie roatis leading direct to poatliward'to Svidnik and |_ _ Doniphan theft st Richmond, Seed ene Passed the | Morton: bill, appropriating- $10,000 for “| a monument to be erected to the of the late General A. W. at. Richmond, - This wih third monument. erected banks for}. Simpson, near Spruce, Wednesday | ceived $3113.46 state aid last year Trust Bi FE @ M, oa Percival eae ‘Butler. —Compiled and published by the Bates County Record March 27.. BATES COUNTY SCHOOLS CO M IN G 7 AND TEACHERS By Supt P.M. Allison Rural graduation will be held April Butler, ae 15 and 16 at the following school The Eminent Physician on Chronic} houses: Smoky Row, Altona, Cres- Diseases Will Visit Our City cent Hill, Liberty (No. 16), Green Thuraday, April 8th, 1915 ‘hoe hata aati ple Grove, Edgéwood, Amsterdam, une hipat ae. te Leta. Willow Branch, Concord, Mt. Vernon, i Dillon, Passaic, Little Deer Creek, Dr. Potterf, president of the staff/Griggs, Harmony, Shelton, Fair of the Boston Electro Medical Insti-| View (No: 25), Enterprise (No. 50), tute, is making a tour of the state. Oak Grove, Cherry Grove, Redmond, He will give consultation, examina- |} Summit Center,, County Superin- tion, and all the medicines necessary | tendent’s office, Grand View, Plain FREE. All parties taking advantage! View, Mulberry, Amoret, El Dorado, of this offer are requested to state to Foster, Red Top, Mt. Zion, Inde- their friends the result of the treat-|pendence, Virginia (No. 97), Hill ment. Side, Star, Peru, Brackney, Pleasant Treats DEAFNESS by an entirely}Gap, Happy Hill, Reynard, Brush new process. ‘College, Rich Valley, Rockville, Treats all curable cases of catarrh, | Prairie City, Papinville, North Muddy, throat and lung disease, eye and ear, | Fair View (No, 128), Sprague, Mont- stomach, liver and kidneys, gravel, | yomery, Mont Rose, Hume. theumatism, paralysis, neuralgia,! Other places may be arranged for nervous and heart disease, epilepsy, |if the demand is sufficient. - The Bright’s disease, diseases of the blad-| schools that are-on the approved list der, blood, skin, goiter, stammering, | wil! be’ granted diplomas without ex- and asthma. : amination if recommended by the _Piles and rupture, without deten-|teacher, provided the school was tion from business. x = approved on or before April first. If you are improving under your) The following schools are on the ap- family physician do not take up our proved list; Hackler, McKinley, valuable time. The rich andthe poor Crawford, Mingo, Olive, Johnstwon, are treated alike. Idlers and curiosi-| 14 Walnut, Pleasant Ridge, Hudson, ty seekers will please stay away. Our| Green Ridge, Black, Fair View (No. time is valuable. 32), Silver Dale and Nyhart. Remember, NOT A PENNY will The, rural schools of the county be charged for the medicine required | iast year received $1220 state aid and to all those taking treatment this trip. should have received double this Office hour, 1 p.m. amount. The requirements for this Positively married ladies must be are that-the assessed valuation should accompanied by their husbands. Re-| be $50,000 or less and that the levy member the date,- Thursday, April|@5 cents on the $100 valuation for 8th, from 1p. m. to 6 p. m. at the/ school purposes. It does not require Fraternal Inn, Butler, Missouri.—adv. | 9 notice to make this increase in levy 24-1t at the annual meeting so there is Dickinson-Simpson. nothing to prevent the voting but “Married, at tle residente “of the enough votes ora majority of those «da? present and voting. bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jas. R. | The high schiools‘of the county re- evening, March 24, Miss Olive Simp- son and Mr. E. W. Dickinson. It was a quiet home wedding, only the relatives of the contracting parties being present. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. I. A. Gaither | Charlotte, N. C., March 24.—Mrs. of the Presbyterian church of Spruce. | Mary Anna Jackson, widow of Gen. A reception was held at the resi-/ (Stonewall) Jackson, died at her! dence of the groom’s father, Humph- | home here this morning. rey Dickinson on Thursday evening: | “Her marriage took place in July, | The bride is the charming and ac-/1g47, Jackson then was major, complished daughter of Mr. and Mrs. serving as instructor in the Virginia Jamés R. Simpson and has a host of} ititary Inititute at Lexington. She friendsand wellwishers. The groom | became a close student of military is a prosperous farmer in eastern tactics and always took an aggressive Bates and is a gentleman of the high! interest in the fortunes of the Con- est standing. federate armies, After her husband The Times joins their many friends | gied of wounds in 1863 she wrote a in wishing the happy couple-a long! yolume of memoirs of his career. life full of happiness and prosperity.; “Gen. and Mrs. Jackson had two - A Kansas Farm Caved In. - | children, both daughters. One died i in infancy and the other married _ Pittsburg, Kas., March. 27.—A/ william E. Christian. At Mrs. jury in the district court has decided | Christian’s death in 1889 she left that holes in the farm of Daniel Ran |g daughter, who became the wife of have not damaged the farm to the/E.R. Preston, a Charlotte attorney, extent of four thousand dollars. Ran ‘and a son, Thomas Jackson Christian or bes ae ee Pittsburg | who is now a Lieutenant in the Unit- | and Mining pany because! eq States ‘ in th the bottom dropped out of his farm|tugenes en? atone’ im the near here in several places. He al- leged that the company. had not left enough props in a mine under his farm. The jury allowed Ran six hundred dollars. The suit \is the and the rural schools should be up with them. Some one else gets this money and we lose. Gen. Jackson’s Widow Dies. | Philippines, “Mrs. Jackson’s last days were ‘Spent at the old: Jackson homestead ‘in this city. She had been ill for many months and suffered a relapse first one to go to trial of veral that —— have been fled. * Safe Blowers Get $40,000. are ti a Heavy B 1 ' Chicago, March 27.—Eight masked safe blowers early today ‘jimmied”’ Berlin, March 27.—How to take their way into the mail order office "_-Diseounts| drafts |fur, & fix. SEESE’S MEAT MARKET OFFICIAL CONDENSED STATEMENT a of the Banks. and Trust Companies of Bates County at the Close of . Business Merch 4,.1915. er- (Realestate| Capital [Surplus ealest a ea P& Profits Kk $ 8,582 0518 16,600 00I$ 60,000 00/8-51, 868 70 380 22)" 23,505 10 56,000 00) 38,989 44) 127, 2,361 93) 27,777 41] 250,000 00] 129,286 51) 120,984 56) 4,565 27| 10,000 00| 25,000 00| 45,671 48] 60,246 88 846 46| "000 00 50,000 09] 90,712 27| 75,188 81 8,818 82| 9,710 00| 25,000 00] ~25,561 45! 79,274 49 2,120 16| 11,546 50/ 35,000 00| 10,471 00| 55,321 47 1,520 83) 2,300 00! 10,000 00] 19,110 21) 58,688 a2 “410 10] 7,800 00} 28,000 00| 5,728 95) 16,752 12 1,477 78] 4,853 00} 10,000 00| 5,257 03) 18,597 04 956 29} 1,200 00] 10,000.00} 6,914 46) 25,234 62 788 46) 6,271 37| 25,000 00 1,749 78) 26,295 35 680 44) 4,365 00} 10,000 00} 3,414 59) 25,882 06, 1 312 45) 2,000 00] 15,000.00] 5,179 53| 10,001 83, 57,989 66!/14 181.03] 8,706 85] 10,00000/ 698 82) 9,994 48, 45,517 00/15) 110 68} 1,884 60] 10,000.00] 2,288 72/ 7,514 41) 32,546 101116 396 96|_" 3,844 40] _10,000 00|_1,569 16] _9,801 96) _30,280 641117 135, 864 13|$625,000 00] 2, Is what we all want to see.. We have every ' thing you want for your spring work Red River Early Ohio Seed Potatoes Bliss Early Triumphs Seed Potatoes Early Red Rose Seed Potatoes Northern King Seed Potatoes Everything in Garden Seeds, package and bulk 10¢ each 3 for 10c Big Fat Mackerel Lake White Fish WHILE OUR PRESENT STOCK LASTS ..3 for 25c 3 for 25c 3 for 25c 3 for 25c 3 for 25c 3 for 25c 3 for 25c 3 for 25c Large No. 3 Tomatoes.. Large No. 3 Pumpkin.. Large No. 3 Hominy Large No. 3 Kraut...... Large No. 3 Pie Peaches. Large No. 3 Can Beets. Large No. 3 Apples.. Large No. 3 Baked Bean Large size Nector Syrup 1 gallon. .35c Large size Pallice Syrup 1 gallon.................. eee re cee eee 40c No. 2 can Corn extra pack..... 3 for 25c No. 2 can Beans extra pack. 3 for 25c No. 2 can Peas extra pack : 3for25c f No. 2 can Kidney. Beans extra pack.. 3 for 25c No. 2 can Oysters extra pack.. 2 for 25c No. 1 can Oysters extra pack... pean aoe ane ..2 for 15c Home Folks Corn BIGKOR ers vents soca vesicsie sis viiennsnuen 3 for 25c Crushed Shell for Chickens 55c per hundred ‘Just received a large stock of Automobile Tires and Tubes. All sizes in-Goodrich and Fisk’s Tires. Yours, The Only Independent'Grocery, Bakery and Hardware Store. Phones, 144 and 49. Garage 35 BUTLER, MO. West Side Square Will Sell the best grades of Sugar Cured Skinned Ham at 17c Lardat - 12Yec We only handle the best grade of Sausage, Frankfort’s, Bologna, Boiled Ham, Minced Ham and the very best Bacon. We kill our own cattle and hogs—the best we can buy. So there is no reason why we should not have your trade. i Seese’ 8 Meat Market — : "Phone No. 167. "South-east corner square. : Butler, Mo