The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, May 6, 1915, Page 8

FORMER BATES COUNTIAN DEAD IN DOUBLE TRAGEDY , Remains of Bichard P. Harper Interred “at Adrian. Richard P. Harper, formerly a resi_ _ Gent of Bates county, who -probably ina fit of temporary insanity shot John T. Kavanaugh, street car motor- man and a follow employee in Colo- rado Springs and then fired two charges into his own body, Wednes- day evening, April 28, at 3:35:0’clock, died eighteen hours later without having made a statement. Richard P, Harper, who was-about ~ 40 years of age, was born in Henry county and came with his parents to Bates county at an early age, locat-| ing in Grand River township where | ;a number plate, only to be picked up he grew to young manhood. He was united in marriage to Miss} May McDaniel and located in Mound township where for sevoral years he | , if jto furnish his customer a number | lose enough to the grounds for the engaged in the live stock business. About four years ago he removed, with his wife to Colorado Springs ' where he has since resided. At the time of his death Mr. Harper |dealer shall upoft application ‘of the was employed as motorman on a/ i | porary use one of the dealers number The remains were brought to | plates, which plate the customer may | Adrian and funeral services were con- | ducted at the M. E. Church by Rev. | W. S. Courtney under the direction | plication for owner’s number plate,’’ | street car. of the Masons. Interment was made | "GUN CLUB AT NYHART ~ “deal” Club Organized With Large Auto Dealers Must Furnish Tags for Temporary Use. ~~ Many new owners of automobiles would save themselves trouble, ar-| - : oss rest, conviction, fines and penalties| Nyhart, the Mecca of Bates county if they knew the law and insisted on{SPortsmen, has organized! a gun club their legal rights when they buy their|@0d many of the most enthusiastic new car. “If the purchaser of a car|/@uaners of the county are enrolled will demand of the dealer from whom | "pon its membership records. . he buys one of the dealer's number| | The regular club shoot is held. bi- plates to cover the operation of the | Weekly on Saturday, but almoat, any car till the buyer gets it home, or un-|#fternoon upon approaching « the til he can make application for and | @Tounds one may hear the crack of receive owner's number plate, he|Smokeless powder and see a clay will be in no danger of arrest, Some Pigeon smashed to fragments as some dealers in the large cities tell their gunner limbers up ‘his shootin’ eye customers they may drive their car|i anticipation of the regular match. home without a number plate. Pur-| _ The club is named the “‘Ideal”’ and chasers that don’t know the law| Tightly for conditions for trap shoot- compels the dealer to furnish a plate | piclage heap ys A ton bai for temporary use, go forth without | pi anesgass pha abet. 4 beautiful, open, level meadow in front. The line of fire is away. from the public road and no residences are by some constable or sheriff. Pur- chasers should insist on their legal rights, and wherever a dealer refuses shooting to become annoying. “An abundance of clay pigeons are always kept on hand and members of the club are furnished their ammunition at cost by Nyhart’s leading merchant, Mel Campbell. Several Butler gunners have gone to Nyhart with blood in their eyes and visions of a big score but it is notice- able that upon their return home they have a hunted look, and none so far have’shown their score cards in pub- plate, the. customer is justified in promptly refusing to buy the car. Section four of the law says: ‘The buyer furnish his customer for tem-| be allowed to use for fifteen days, provided he shall have mailed his ap- The foregoing paragraph when ELKS TO HAVE BIG TIME Sixth Reanion of Missouri Association |f to be Held at Sedalia _ June 2-3-4, The Missouri’ State Elks’ Assgcia- tion will hold their Sixth Re-union at Sedalia June-2, 3 and 4 and the Bills and their ladies are looking forward to a big time. _ All entertainments will be free to Elks and their ladies. These will in- clude the circus, the dance, horse! and automobile races, shows and the use of the Country Club golf links. All Elks must register at headquar- ters and should secure for their ladies Elks ladies cards which may be obtained from their local secretary. vaudeville County Court | County Court met in regular ses- sion Monday, May 3, with Judges Campbell, Smith and Lowder present. and County Clerk Frank Holland and Sheriff Harve Johnson in attendance. . The following proceedings were had: County Highway engineer ordered to make estimate for a bridge over Miami Creek between Sections 32 and 33 Elkhart. f Marsh Phelps ordered taken to State Hospital No. 3 at Nevada as a county patient. County Highway Engineer ordered |read and acted upon by prospective | esis Arik AE i . | rregularities In ; automobile buyers will save not only | Two Charge I | great annoyance buy many thousands | Walnut Township Election. jof dollars in fines and penalties’ at Crescent Hill cemetery. lic, tion is taken against accidents. Not to be out done by the Moby throughout the state each year. | Haute election frauds and the threat- | Sule apg ctte aan ened scandal in Kansas City, Kas., Gov. Major Phones 2400 Foster, Mo., in Walnut township, is! the late township election. Governor Major in San Francisco and | Two communications have been Senator William J. Stone, Judge R.| The officers are: President, J. A. received by the county court making | F. Walker of the Supreme Court and | Patterson; Sec’y and Treasurer, A. various allegations against the man-' Acting Gov- William R. Painter in ner of election of one of the newly Jefferson City took place yesterday, The next regular shoot will be held elected township officials, one ofthe} It was at the close of ‘Missouri. communications asking for his re-|Day’’ at the Panama-Pacific Exposi- moval and the appointment of anoth- | tion, and the Governor told of the un-; Kronprinz Wilhelm is Interned. Washington, April 26.—Announce- This is the record for long-distance | ment from Newport News late today whom these attacks were directed | telephoning in Jefferson ity. ‘he / that the commander of the big Ger- was not mentioned in either .com- route of the connection covered be-|man sea raider Kronprinz Wilhelm | tween 2,400 and 2,500 miles of wire. | had given notice he would intern. for he war without awaiting the expira- ion of the time allowed him by the United States government to make his ship seaworthy was received with turns talking. They declared it had!surprise and relief by government been a great day for Missouri at the| officials. The raider’s action relieves the navy department of the necessity of keeping watch over the _Wilhelm jand an eye on the cordon of allied Something new. Eureka ensilage | ships off the Virginia capes to assure the maintenance of American neu- trality during the remainder of the time the cruiser had been allowed to make repairs. It is understood that several days of that period still er man. | qualified success of the occasion. | The name of. the official against} munication. The county court of course is not! ‘The Governor, Col. W. A. Dallmey- empowered to take any action in the | er, John McNatt, John Cunningham, matter. | Norman Vaughan and other members Along the Miami. of the Missouri Commission took A. H. Harp and family were guests at the home of Wm. Jacksonand fam- ily, Sunday. ; Miss Vivian Wolf entertained Miss Marguerite Wright Sunday. J. L. Fisher and family visited Will Stults and family at: Passaic Sunday | afternoon. | Miss Winnie Priestly will teach the exposition. Attention—Mr. Silo Owner corn makes a wonderful growth of | fodder, stands up well, ears heavily, | under favorable conditions produces | two to four ears to the stalk, has a " ‘ i record of over 70 tons of green stover Tygard school again. Miss Priestly | trom one square acre. Have a limit-| has earned a fine reputation as teach- ed amount of choice seed shelled er. Parents and pupils are delighted land graded, price $2’bu. See sample | to'know she is going to return. lat Bennett-Wheeler Merc. Co. | Almost everyone in our neighbor-| Phone or write hood attended and enjoyed the carni- Oscar Harris, | val last week. The small boys are |27-2t * Amoret, Mo. making life miserable for all the ani. Cemetery iation Benefit mals, trying to train them, while some Miss Francis Catron will present released from the trap. M. Campbell. Saturday afternoon, May 8th. remained. of hostile warships off the capes. The club is governed by rigid rules while at the traps and every precau- | The club has had to face but one | difficulty since its organization, that Miles to Jefferson City. | of preventing Doc Patterson and Bert breaking into the lime light with! Jefferson City, May 4.—A long dis-| Warner from slipping up to the charges of from irregularities, up, in tance telephone conversation between | ‘‘blind’’ and potting the pigeon before It was suggested here tonight that Captain Thierfelder’s announcement | was made after he had received in- | Struction from the German govern- ment through the embassy here not to attempt a dash through the line The Wilhelm, which arrived at to cause to be constructed a good and substantial re-enforced bridge accord- ing to plans‘and specifications across creek between sections 16 and 17 Summit township provided alf haul- ing be done by petitioners. County. Highway Engineer ordered to view site and make estimate for a bridge between sections 16 and 21 Spruce township. Ordered by the court that-a deed be made to Vernon county to all that part of the southwest 4 lying south of the Osage River, section 32, township 38, range 29, lying south of the Osage river. Ordered by the court that a deed be made to Martin Rapp for the north 4 of the southeast 3 section 9, town- ship 38, range 29 toclear title to same. Land having been sold in January 1855. , The court proceeded to open bids follows: Missouri State Bank 2} per cent. Peoples Bank 28*per cent. Farmers Bank of Bates County 2% per cent. County Highway Engineer ordered to construct over a branch of Deer Creek at center of section 18 Grand struction of same and citizens do all hauling free of cost. Sues to Annul Marriage Edgar F. Hirni, as guardian of the person and estate of Henry C. Smith, has begun an action in the circuit court to set aside the recent marriage of Smith to Mrs. Theresa A. Hammit. He states that at the time the mar- riage was contracted Smith had been. declared of unsound mind and was in- capable of contracting a marriage: for county deposits which were as| River township a bridge, provided locality is the same corn’ that pro- the township pay $100 toward con- | duces the largest yield of ears in that of the older ones are trying fancy stunts with the automobiles. This results from attending the different Boys Struck to Play Ball Wilkes-Barre, Pa., May 1.—Twelve hundred men and boys were thrown out of work at the Maxwell colliery of the Lehigh & Wilkes-Barre Coal Company at Ashley, near here, today when a hundred doorboys and patch- ers decided to strike; to play baseball | this afternoon. The action was taken when Burgess J. K. E. Fenner of the borough notified the boys that Sun- day baseball would be prohibited in the future. The boys replied that they will keep the colliery idle every Saturday to play ball if the order is the'play, ‘The Man From Home,” for the benefit of the Cemetery Asso- __ fourteen__merchantme ciation, at the Ohio Street. M. E. per rciorens a Church, on Friday night, May 7. Every one is interested in this Asso- ‘ciation. Plan to attend and help the cause. Miss Catron has few super- iors as a reader, and her entertain- ments are always most delightful af- | fairs. ; | lem. Don't take any chances with bad eggs. You can have an egg tester sent to yonr home post pre- paid for.50c. It does the work. 27-2t* Newport News on April 11 after an eight month’s cruise, during which will be interned at the Norfolk nav: yard and her officers and men. will be allowed the freedom of the cities about Hampton Roads, under the same rules made for the crew of the interned Prinz Eitel Friedrich. Baptist Church. Bible School at 9:30. Preaching at 11a.m. Sunday, May 9th will be Mother’s Day in our church. The morning service will be in honor of the pa- tient, loving mothers. The mothers and every lady of the chureh are ex- pected to be present. Every man and boy of the church will unite in the “honor day'’ designated by the civilized nations of the earth. Moth- Scientific solution of the egg prob- Levy Novelty Ca, 231 W 135 St. New York City. find a warm welcome. At the time Mrs. Smith was employed: as.a-nurse, he alleges, his penchant to marry and agreed not to talk matrimony to him, butregard- less of this promise, and in. order to: gain possession of his property, she: induced him to marry her. She was,. the petition further states, conducting a beauty parlor in Kansas City at the time of her engagement as a nurse and has neither love or affection for her husband. Mr: Smith’s property,. it is alleged, amounts to $25,000: in. real and $20,000 in personal.—St. | Skait be nnetat yon? Clair County Democrat. __ Mr. Smith and Mrs. Hammett were: married at the Henry hotel in: this city Monday, April 20. F Mother's Day, Second . "We makea Chili and S Catterlin Building What Corn to Plant for Silage In a recent letter to the College of Agriculture a Missouri farmer had this to say: “Last summer I built two concrete silos. I will fill them for the first time this fall. Are there any other crops besides corn that can be used ‘successfully as silage? If I use corn! what kind ‘should I plant and how; should it be planted?” In answering this question W. M. Regan of the Dairy Department says: “Many crops are used as silage with varying success in different localities:| For Missouri conditions, however, corn is the only crop that can be gen- erally recomménded.. Corn grows well in all parts of thestate and yields more food material per acre than any other crop. It is more easily harvest- | ed and put into the silo than any of the hay crops. With the harvesting ma- chinery that we have at the present jtime the hay crops are much more difficult to handle after being cut. | Furthermore corn makes an excellent! quality of silage. The legumes such as clover, alfalfa and cowpeas are liable to rot unless great care is taken j to pack the silage firmly and force the air out. Cowpeas are often planted | with the corn. A mixture of the two |makes excellent silage but the diffi- culty of harvesting makes the system) unpractical, . The best corn for the silo in any locality. The corn that produces the immense yields of fodder are the late maturing southern varieties. These in Missouri must necessarily be har-| vested at an immature state. .On most Missouri farms such corn as!| Reid’s Yellow Dent or Boone County | White, make excellent silage corn. | This corn should be planted in exact-! ly the same manner as it would be planted to get the largest yield of grain.” . For Sale:—One acetylene lighting | plant and fixtures for 9 room house, demonstrate. Ata bargain if taken | rat once, Clyde Rook. 24-tf/ Notice. Notice is hereby given that letters of adminis- tration the estate of F. P. Porter, by the Probate Court of Bates Gant Gee soar, bearing date the Int day of May, i All persons Savine ems against sald estate wit required to e: it them to the undersigned ers who will may come. If a stran-|°The Loyal Sons Bible Class. will ger or visitor, in our midst, you will observe ‘‘Mother’s Day’’ May 9; 1916,. i ‘and meals at all hours’ Everything new andclean. Alldishes— prepared ‘under sanitary methods ere zhi! for thin elx ate sid\enan oaeragr teeing et specialty of | hort Orders Mrs. Nettie Alsbach West Side of the Square Butler, Missouri_ Make 500 Convicts Idle Jefferson City, April 27.—For the first time in more than thirty years today between five hundred and six hundred able bodied convicts in the penitentiary are in idleness. The re: sult was brought about by the Star Clothing Company withdrawing from the prison. It employed approxi- mately one thousand convicts a day, although of late it had not been em- ploying so many. Part of these men have been taken over by the Ober- man Clothing Company, S The state is losing both ways. It loses the labor of these men, which, were they employed by the contract- ors, would bring in 75 cents each a day, and, in addition, it costs the state approximately fifty-one cents a day to keep a convict. The board of prison inspectors is rushing arrangements to start the manufacture of overalls, underwear, . shoes and such clothing as can be jutilized by the various county and These insti: city charity institutions. tutions contain about twenty thousand inmates, and it will require about forty thousand pairs of shoes a year to sup- ply them. There is a law: which’ re- quires these institutions to buy from the state. . Burglars Caughi : Deputy Sheriff Lee Stith and Con- stable James Hall of Deer Creek township Friday arrested two young men near Adrien who were offering pocket knives fer sale for 25 cents that were worth from- $2 to $2.50: Upon being searched they were found to have in their possession nearly 100 pocket knives, two or. three flash lights, two watches, two: razors and a quantity of smoking to- bacco, all of which was identified as the property of the Bennett-Wheeler Mercantile Co., and which was stolen from their store by burglars the prée- vious Tuesday night. They were taken to Adrian and held until the next train when they were Ice and Frost in California. Los Angles, May 1.—May Day dawned in many sections surround- ing this city today with ice on the ground. It was the coldest day in May recorded in thirty-four years and only once before has the minimum ing material at a price