The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, April 15, 1915, Page 3

Tarai Houses Were Deere and Others Damaged by the High Wind at Seymour. Newly Elected President of St, is Under a Cloud. ‘A rain, wind and electrical storm )Which swept through Missouri be- tween St, Louis and Springfield the other night caused damage to life, Property, telephone and telegraphic ,| communication. oma JAY TO INVESTIGATE wrest ter tornado in Seymour, about thirty miles Southeast of Springfield, Several Mrs. Anna Wienheimer Alleges Deeds ‘Bold to Her by A. H. Frederick houses were destroyed, others were Are Worthless. —— Have you your Garden Seed, Onion Sets and Seed Potatoes—if not this is the only ~ place in town| where you can get. any thing you want. uproofed and two persons were: in- jured dangerously by falling timbers. At 11 o'clock the town was isolated, as all wires leading thereto were down. At Springfield trees were strewn about the streets by the wind rand some damage was done to frame dwellings. After midnight communication was Te-established with Seymour and it was learned that at least twenty per- sons had been- injured in the storm. The two most dangerously hurt were ‘children upon whom their home col- lapsed. The confusion in the city was inten- + Rumors which had been current in St. Louis since before the recent alder- Manic eleetion concerning A. H. Fred- | erick, who was elected president of the board of aldermen, were partly en ; " substantiated when Mrs. Anna Wein- 4 4 5 a ‘ sees heimer, a widow, appeared at the of- 7 : fice of the recorder\of deeds in the Butler, Missouri City Hall and ascertained that two deeds of trust aggregating $7,500, which had been sold to her by .Fred- Seed Potatoes, Garden Seed, Flower Seed, Cane Seed, Millet Seed, Cowpeas, Clover, ‘Red Mammoth Clover, Alfalfa, Sweet Clover, Blue Grass, White Clover. Look this list over and if you need any of the above we will save you money. Hi) — erick, had been released and were sified when the electric light plant i worthless, Was damaged and the city thrown into : ; | Mrs. Weinheimer’s suspicions had| @arkness, Among the buildings demol- a 1 ‘ i vi | : become aroused by published reporte|i#hed was the Seymtour,flour mill, It 00S8- | es fac ers h hox tH lh a a , that Frederick had resigned, together eats the damage will exceed . j 8 with inferences that certain business Dds) i transactions in which he was in- Good Salmion..............6..ssseeeeeecensceneseeeeeneees 3 tor 25c AUSPICES volved were being made the subject Stork Beat the Train. - Can Sweet Potatoes........... ...2 for 25¢ of an investigation. © The stork ran-a race with a St. Gallon Red Pitted Cherries 90c. ‘i 2 for $1.70 Frederick, who was elected head of Louis bound Missouri Pacific passen- Black Raspberries gallon...................... ger train the other night and the stork won, The race began at New Haven, Mo., where Mrs. George Hill, with a basket of fruit in one hand and her 2-year-old son in the other, board- ed the train, A few minutes later she became ill and fellow passengers ran from car to car calling for a doctor. In the diner Dr. G. E. Scrutchfield, superintendent of a state hospital at Farmington, was at dinner, He im- mediately ordered the engineer to put on all possible speed and then rushed i Pale to thé aid of Mrs. Hill, Between Val- y . ley Park and Kirkwood, local suburbs, nays SMALL VOTE WAS CAST the child was born. A “baby shower” naa was held instanter. Traveling sales* This Year's Municipal Electione}men and women passengers contrib- Excited But Little Interest—St. uted the necessary clothing for the Louis Goes Republican. infant, and when the train reached St. Louis thirty minutes later, mother and “Many Missouri cities and towns child were doing well. | elected municipal officers the other ; day. Little interest was manifested Opens Up Old Dispute. in the election and only a small vote Attorneys for Mrs. Clarfsse Harrison wae polled 3 of New York have filed a petition for ‘In St, Louis the entire Republican | 42™ses in the federal court at Kan- ticket of. twenty-eight aldermen,” led | 52° OY, asking that she be paid $13.- | by A. H. Frederick for chairman of|*!":7? and interest on ‘bonds pur- the board, was elected by a plurality chased by her husband in 1864 of the | estimated at 25,000, Tebo & Neosho Railway Company. | fhe: Democrats had. a complete tick- The bonds were issued by St. Clair et in the field, waged a strenuous county, Missouri, and later guaranteed cauibalzn and tad expected at least an\|.0% the Miseourt state legislature: Cor- equal division of the offices, | Francis | "lius C. Peery. John F. Mastries and M, Curlee, Democratic candidate’ for | Millard McKinley, Judges of St. president of the aldermanic board, Clair county court, have been named who was defeated, also was an unsuc- |!" the petition. The filing of the pe- cessful candidate for member of the | tition opens again the fight which the national house of representatives at | PeoPle of St. Clair county have fought the last election. for forty years to avoid payment for This election was the first under |? railroad which was never built. In the new St. Louis charter, which abol- that time county judges have gone ished the two-chamber legislature and to jail, have hidden in the forests and eentralized executive and legislative | ‘ills, and in other ways avoided the officers of the law. Butler Concert Band Location—Court House Square 16—Cars of Amusement Devices—16 A CLEAN SANE CARNIVAL Carry Us Alll............:.cs0see00-00++s Ferris Wheel Shows............... ... Riding Devices Evans American Military Concert Band Can Peeled Peaches galion Heinz Baked Beans -10c size 3 for 25c Heinz Baked Beans. .15c size 2 for 25c GONON ADDICR CANS oi5o iii ies isn cess c5c4 e000 sseeeesainnanceses slece 25c Crushed Shell for chickens 55c per hundred. the board of aldermen under the re- cently created new city charter, is president of the A. H. Frederick Real Estate Company, ex-president of the St. Louis Board of Assessors and one of the church workers of the city. In addition to the charges concern- ing the worthless deeds of trust, Cir- cuit Attorney Harvey announced the grand jury will begin“an immediate investigation of two other realty trans- actions in which: Frederick is alleged to be involved. One Car Load of FORDS and Another Car Load coming next week. NOTE:—Confetti, Rubber Return Balls, Wife Beaters, Horns, Whips and other implements of war will not be. sold or allowed to be used during the week. John and Mary at Last Have an Understand- Haiatel Yours, Norfleet é Ream The Only Independent Grocery, Bakery and Hardware Store. Phones, 144 and 49. Garage 35 West Side Square BUTLER, MO. Mary—‘‘John do you know that almost everybody is doing it?’’ John—‘‘Well it does looks as if they wuz Mary.’’ Mary—‘‘Lets us do it this month, John.”’ John—‘'Do what, Mary.’’ Mary—‘‘Why, just like the others are, ‘phone 77 and get a pack- age of that Ever-Good Coffee for 30 cents and ahandsome Dish with every package and lots of other good things they sell so cheap down there.’ John—‘‘Well you know I’ve been telling you that we couldn't afford to have the groceryman to hire some one tocome to municipal authority. The election of Ee es i . | “Swi i ” the house and take your orders. You could have. easily the entire Republican ticket was a Former Postmaster Dies. , Ereerberian Chavet } meee te Swine bied iuhioid saved enough this winter to have bought that new Easter surprise even to Republican leaders.| Judge George P. Huckeby, a Civil! Bible School 9:45. | Jefferson City, April 8.—No chau- + Bonnet you wanted so bad.”” eatin tk ane ae eaere om War veteran, died at his home in Rich) Pyblic Worship 11:00. tauqua lecteres for Senator William 2 Mary—“‘Yes but John, they didn’t tell me that it was costing us eandidaice nee he ae 9 sae tas HaEe uate ate Carew Young People’s Talk “A Story and | J. Stone this season. The senator is anything for them to call for our grocery orders. though at that hour only 375 of the| fice of DOntNNaLa vik he had neta | Its Moral.”” |here looking for a suitable residence John—‘‘No and they didn’t tell you that wish would sell you— 474 precincts had been heard from.| for eight years. He was born in In-| Sermon: “The Disciples of Jesus | for the spring, summer and fall. He 4 largé Grape Fruit for... a is on These precincts gave Frederick 46,000 | diana in 1841. Doing Greater Things than His Mas- | ¢xPects to remain in the state and vis- and Curlee 27,000. § quarts Cranberries for 5 quarts Fresh Roasted Peanuts for ter.) A congregational meeting will HA Say of The aie ae Tee Plattsburg Gets a High School. 1 held at the close of this service to | Sible and hold consultations with his 3 large cans Tomatoes for.. Bakersfield Editor Dies. A proposition to issue $30,000 bonds * 3 cans good Kraut for..... Jesse Waccies oe of tis Blade | for a city high school carried at Platts- arrange for the Supply of the Pulpit old friends, While in years gone ‘by ij 3 cans good Pumpkin for. a Bakersfield, is dead of pneumonia, | bUre by @ vote of 359 to 27. for next year. A full attendance of the senator has visited every one of ae mon_for.. : sioneereditor_of that.sec- me Te ~ | the congregation is required. | the 114 county seats, yet it was always Sweet Springs Banker Dead. either as candi d t waca<——— S.cane good gee vadel tion, Before the war he was editor! John 1. Goggia, a farmer and stock-| Junior C. E. 3:00. Senior C. E. | esi MGA Ee OF 8 POUT Gay epean of the, Informer at Salem, Mo. He was| man of Saline county, and president | 7:00, Public Worship 8:00. Address a printer on the Kansas City Times|op the Chemical bank at Sweet “What Am I Thinking About God? when Doctor Mumford was editor. In Springs, is dead after an illness of Inithare a God? Is He! a Personal recent years he lived at Bakersfield. | three weeks. jeeavasisd senator says that he will put in much ; God or an Emination?” A talk for o¢ the summer and early fall “visiting -__ Soy Mas Baseball Park. Eminent Pythian, Dead. thinkers. ‘around among the boys.” Hi Rodgérs Gardner, 13 years old, son} Dr, W. E. Webb, 60 years old, is} Midweek service Wednesday even- |}, d ree ath dy le’ says of Russell E. Gardner, a St. Louis mil-| dead “at his home in Macon. He long |;,, e does not intend to make speeches, Monaire manufacturer, will have a|had been a widely known physician . bod ially invited | but to have talks with friends of many ball park all his own. this summer. | of Macon county. He was particular- verybody cornially invited. ear’s standing and find out how they -- His father has leased a large lot in/iy prominent as a member of the C. H. Ticknor, Minister. have fared, the fashionable residence district and | Knights of Pythias, having held the Horse Shoeing ordered it fitted’as a baseball park for | position of grand chancellor of the We Want Your Trade 3 cans good Hominy fos. And 5 good ‘Oranges fon 1 jitney that’s the way they sell them at Gosnell’s Grocery ‘Phone 77. Mary—‘‘Oh I see now.” Not being a candidate himself, and this being an off political year, the tlie exclusive use of his son and the |-state, commander of the uniform rank Playmates the latter may choose. and brigadier general. Rodgers is now attending schoél at Salisbury, Conn. He has written his . Fancy Missour! Horses Sold. father of Hits intention to organize a} The tenth annual horse sale of the team ‘as soon as he _returns from | Missouri Special Sales Company was echool. held recently at Mexico. More than : two hundred horses were sold, Pres- ley W. Ray of Bowling Green, Ky., pri: vately bought from E. D. Moore of Co- lumbia, the sensational show mare, Lee Chief, for $2,500. Farmer Mexico Mayor Dead. Et! Dock Graham, former mayér, ick. Library Site in Excelsior. | se SLineary, commaias of Uantietor Call and see us and bring your McMillan Wer FS ‘Howelt County. Library * shoeing and forging W.-C: McMiliaa ting been elected ean gi county. schoo!’ superintendent of How. Interfering and Other Hoof _ Defects Corrected We have had twenty-five years experience and are located at the old _— 212 North Main. “The Brick shop BUTLER, Mo.