The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, May 6, 1915, Page 1

BUTLER, MISSOURI, THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1915. On the Wing. Miseouri-isms Cyrus Nestlerode has sweet potato| In ‘Missouri, Illustrated” J. Kelly _ | Wright of the State Board of Agricul- ‘VOL. XXXVI. NUMBER 29 “‘Bikhart =| ‘Virginia-Grand View Pickups. Well, we failed to show’ up last] A ‘heavy rain fell one night. last week as news was scates. week, also a big hail which beat the| plants for sale at 25c per 100. great for those that hang on the trees|Summary of the Hog Cholera and those that hang on the gates. Work in Bates County Mit lead: p lissouri leads all other states in When the anti-hog BGA cae. the production of barytes, producing Elias Fix took in. the Adria last Saturday. __ the home of Ed Miller in Amsterdam sone 5 day last week. “Col ‘Nauled corn.to. Am- dette one-day last Week... W. A. Crumley and wife returned trom Kansas City last week. He has been under the care of a doctor for ‘the last three months. John ‘Stephens has. got’ that new smoke house finished. It is a dandy. The hail storm last week damaged the gardens quite badly in some places. By the time this goes to press it is reported there will be another wed- ding in Elkhart. Boys get your bells ready. Lige Spillman, wife and daughter called at his mother’s last Sunday. John Fritts is reported on the sick list. Clarence Spillman took in the sights at the county seat last Saturday. y Lige Spillman and his oldest daugh- ter was trading in Elkhart last Sat- urday. We would like to know what has become of Rambler. It may be that he is so busy hopping clods that he hasn’t time to give us the news of that part of the county. G. W. Armentrout and family, Tom Bruner, wife and daughter, Aunt Mag Scott and Miss Euphie Scott all spent last Sunday at the home of E. Heavilin. Last Friday was the fast day of school at Concord and the patrons sprung a surprise on Miss Inez Beck by coming in with ice cream and cake. They report a jolly oo song! About 60: al Ss fishing last Sunday. ‘They report a dry haul. There will be preaching at Concord next Saturday dnd Sunday. Have you seen the posts Uncle Bob Marshall set along the road west of Elkhart? They are dandys. Mrs. E. Heavilin has bought a new coal oil stove. I think that I can go fishing now as I won’t have to cut stove wood all the time. The Mulberry school board have done a good job as they employed Miss Inez Beck ts teach their school this fall and winter. } JOHNNY. East Lone Oak. The farmers are very busy at pres- ent. Most of them are planting corn. A few of them have finished. Mrs. Geo. Latham and son Fred, daughter Lucille, and Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Slyter and daughters, Frances , and Junabel visited at the home of Harry Latham. : Rev. Spencer filled his regular ap- pointment at Peru last Sunday morn- ing, after which the following infants “received the ordinance of baptism: Eula Vivian Evilsizer, Charles Albert Latham, Wesley Ison Gough: and El- vin LaVerne Thomas. The Lone Oak Women's Christian Temperance Union will meet at the home of Mrs. W. C. MoGianis: next Thursday at 2 o'clock. Z ~ Mrs. Ella Thomas and family eile ly moved to Butler. They are living hist outside the so inggen in the Char- sights in gardensand crops down considerably. N. M. Gregory gave an ice cream Several from this vicinity’ attended | dinner Sunday to a large crowd. The writer and wife took dinner at | the Brundage shows {n Butler. Satur §. B. Beckett has taken the con- day evening of last week. .. Mr. and Mrs. Fred since | eft Thursday: of last week for their’ home in Pratt, Kansas. Doc Harper is the proud owner hs a new buggy. Warren Ayres came home Wednes- day of last week to see his son Har- vey, who has been quitesick. He re- turned to Jefferson City Monday. Mr. and Mrs. S. Nightwine and daughter Rosa, Mr. and Mrs. Powell Engelhardt and children, Mr. and Mrs, Ernest Nightwine, Mr. and Mrs. Willie Simpson, William and Oliver Nightwine spent Sunday-with Mr. and Mrs. Jess Fleming. There was a large crowd in attend- ance at the Mother’s Day exercises at the Christian Church at Virginia Sun- day. Miss Margie Greenup of Butler spent Saturday and Sunday wlth home folks. Mr. and Mrs. B. E. Parker, of Ad- rian, spent Saturday night with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Cuzick. Mr. Haggard’s hen-house burned down Sunday night. Miss Olive Judy’s school at Crooks was out Friday. The Virginia Christian Endeavor will meet at the home of Mrs. J. G. Cuzick Friday night. Mrs. A. J. Sellers, of Nyhart, is quite sick at this writing. Mrs. J. T. Harper and daughter Mary spent Sudday with Mrs. L. L. Judy and family. 2 ,| tract to build J. W. McFadden’s ae near’ Virginia. Virgil Jenkins, the Virginia black- smith, will soon install a wood work~ ing machine in his ahop. The play at Virginia Friday night was a good one and all who attended were more than pleased. W. N. Westover has his big barh almost completed. Geo. Roback,,..who was. recently pronounced insane and taken to Nevada, is better and will likely be sent home soon. Uncle Tom Hockett has a chicken with four feet. Geo. Butler and: wife visited their sauaetes Mrs. J. E. Hedger, Sun- ry. Arthur Westover is putting out 100 acres of kaffir corn. Ben Canterbury and son of Butler were in this vicinity Monday looking after their insurance business. Coleman Snodgrass wants to buy a second hand mail box. The Olive Branch school closed last Friday with Miss Olive Judy teacher: D. A. Denton has his new house complet Tinker Hedger has moved into the uae recently vacated by Mr. Den- on. Henry Oldham and wife visited his brother, Grant Oldham and family, Sunday afternoon. Charley Dickerson of near Foster visited his sisters, Mrs. Rosie Duncan and Mrs. M. E. Bolling, the first of i the week. : N. M. N. great assortment. -and young men. will be found in this grand collection. of Clothes. If $15.00 is your limit, you should by all means step in and look over our) All wool, all fabrics, all colors, including blue serges for men ‘Every new model ture has coined the following ‘Mis- souri-isms’’: Missouri has the largest peony farm inthe world. America’s greatest humorist was a Missourian. (Mark Twain.) America’s-greatest: children’s poet was a Missourian. (Eugene Field.) Missouri has more miles of navi- gable rivers than any other state. . Missouri has the biggest scientifi- ; cally managed. apple orchard, in the Union. Missouri is the ace producer of lime west of the Mississippi river. For citizenship, hospitality, noble men, good and beautiful women, Mis- souri is unsurpassed. The first United States Secretary of Agriculture was a Missourian. (Nor- man J. Colman.) * Native Missourians are stronger and taller than the native citizens of any other state. The greatest statesman west of the Mississippi river was a Missourian. (Thomas H; Benton.) é In the Missouri Ozarks, ‘‘a greater Switzerland,’’ can be found some of the most beautiful scenery in the world. Missouri has the largest lettuce farm west of the Mississippi river and the second largest in the world. Missouri has the largest stalagmite in the world. (Yellow onyx.) It is $0 feet high and 24 feet in circum- ference. Missouri has the largest spring in the world, it flows at the rate of 500,000,000 galloris every twenty- four hours. Missouri isa great strawberry state; we grow enough strawberries to make every shortcake in the United States longer. Missouri is a great peach state—| ‘THE HOUSE OF KUPPENHEIMER -|sissippi river was a Missourian. . |ward Bates, a member of Lincoln’s 65 per cent of.the total output of the United States. Missouri has the world’s biggest apple orchard, the oldest and largest nursery, and more apple trees than any other state in the Union. The first member of a president’s cabinet to come from west of the Mis- (Ed- first cabinet.) Missouri has the largest lead and zinc mines in the world, producing more lead and zinc than all of the other lead and zine producing states combined. Only one state in the Union pro- duces more cotton to the acre than does Missouri. With the exception of the Sea Island variety of cotton Missouri grows the finest quality of cotton fiber in the world. Missouri has the greatest hay mark- et in the United States, and grows more hay than all the south central states. Missouri’s hay crop is worth more than that of Kansas, including all of her alfalfa. Missouri is a great watermelon state; 114 carloads of watermelons were shipped out of Scott county, Missouri, in one day. One man in Scott county has shipped an average of 1,000 carloads of melons to market each year for the last twenty-five years, Sunday School Convention Summit Township Sunday School Convention will be held at Elizabeth Chapel Sunday, May 9, 1915, begin- ning at 2p. m. Everyone interested in Sunday School work cordially in- paign was started in Bates county a few months ago, cholera was pre- valent over nearly the entire county. % The situation looks very good at present, as there are very few cases .| of cholera in the county. It will require a concerted effort of all hog raisers to prevent another serious outbreak of thé disease the coming season. There are several reasons for the wide spread of hog cholera in the county the past season, viz: that some parties did not prop- erly dispose of the hogs they lost, others failed to confine their sick hogs, or disinfect their premises and some used the simultaneously or (double) treatment of vaccination, thus starting cholera in communities where there was no disease. There are only two sources of cholera—the sick hog and the dead hog, and by giving the proper attention to the handling of these, the disease could be controlled and eventually eradi- cated. To eradicate cholera it requires both co-operation and sanitation.’ In order to get co-operation, it was nec- essary to form organizations through- out the county. Since the campaign. started there has .been twenty-six anti-hog cholera clubs organized in the county with a membership of eight hundred and ten farmers. Meetings have been held where clubs were organized discussing hog- cholera and its control and at most places a second meeting was held and better methods of feeding and the growing of forage crops were dis- cussed. During this work I vacci- nated twenty-nine hundred hogs on vited and earnestly requested to be present. H. A. Wayland, Township Pres. What’s Your Price for A SUIT? . A great many men are limited in the price they can af- ford to pay for a Suit COPYRIGHT 1918 one hundred four farms and sanita- tion was particularly emphasized where vaccination was done. There has been several car loads of lime used in the county for disinfecting purposes. Arrangements were made with some firm in nearly every trad- ing point to handle reliable remedies to rid hogs of parasites. The farmers are co-operating very readily with the work and it has only been necessary to, use drastic meas- ures in two cases during this time for violating the law as well, as good principles of sanitation in not dispos- ing of cholera hogs. In one case the party was fined ten dollars and costs, which amounted to $79.55, besides his attorney’s fee. Since that time another party near Rich Hill was fined $10.00 and costs, which amount- ed to $19.00. It should not be neces- sary to have to use these draftlc measures in eradicating hog cholera, but there is one occasionally wh will not be convinced any other way, Had this campaign been put on a year ago and Bates county organized as it is today, the loss from cholera would have been very small as com- pared to what it was. Over in Johnson county where we organized against cholera the loss for three*years previous to the year that the county was organized amounted to. $38.92 per farm per year, or a to- tal loss of $97,613.00. . This loss oc- curred on 836 farms out of the 9685 farms in that county. Since the cani+ paign the loss has been reduced to $6.25 per farm per year. The coun- ties joining Johnson County on the north and on the west suffered the heaviest losses from cholera they ever had. The fact that Johnson county was well organized and had a county agent, Mr. C. M. Long, who led the fight against the disease re- sulted in saving of thousands of dol- lars to the farmers in that county during the past season. This, how- ever, was only one of the many lines of work he is carrying on. . Since there is very little cholera in No One Could Give You More, or We Would "Sole Agents for the House of Kuppenheimer Clothes the county at present the extension department feel that they have done about all they can do in this county for the present and will not leave me here much longer. In case any_one wants my services, or should know of any matter that I might attend to before leaving the county, it would = be appreciated if he would call me at ba CAN ALWAYS. DO BETTER oF -. Buy your stock of work shirts of us S6c Black & Amold.