The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, July 22, 1915, Page 1

Prices On Summer GOODS is the Biggest Bargain Event of the Season. It Will Pay You to Investigate and See How You Can Save Money. $7.50 Ladies Wash Dresses are now. ...$3.75 40c Fancy Voile sells now at........25¢ yard 25c Tissue Sells now at ...se- L2¥%e yard 12¥c Fancy Crepe sells now at.....7¥c yard’ 15c Lace Cloth sells now at..... ...84%3c yard 15c Embroidery sells now at.........9¢ yard 25c Boys’ separate Underwear sell now at......... -....0005 _ GENERAL NOTES. A Chicago packers’. delega- tion consulted Secretary Lans- ing last week relative to an ef- fort to obtain from England set- tlement for 30 cargoes of meat seized. by the British in transit to neutral ports. . Lansing un- dertook to do his best. | On August 15,. Coor’s Brew- ery, a $1,000,000 plant at Golden, Colo., will discontinue the manu- facture of beer, and devote its entire force to making malted milk. The same number of em- ployes will be kept on duty, in the milk industry. ? Frank Vogelpohl, an aged far- mer committed suicide by hang- ing on his farm near Waterloo; Ills., Friday. He was 71 years old. Three weeks ago hail ruin- ed a wheat field that promi to thrash 3,000 bushels and. last year his crops suffered from the drouth. © The size limit for packages by parcel post is increased from 72 by 84 inches in length and girth combined. The principal effect is to bring the commercial erate within the regulations. Herein- after the sender of a package may obtain a receipt for it on payment of 1 cent. : Twenty-three lepers at Culion, Phillippine Islands, have been discharged as cured as the result of treatment with chaulmooga oil developed by Dr. Mercado, a Filipino physician. Eighty cas- es were treated and Dr. Mereado says he thinks he is justified in regarding the oil as a specific. A new slide has occurred on the east side of the Panam: can- al at the Gillard cut and threat- warships having on board the Annapolis cadets. Rapid dredg- ing is going-on and every possi- ble effort being made to permit the passage of deep draft .ves- sels. ; Mrs. George J. Gould was haled into a police station and her chauffer, Frederick Palmer, was arrested for speeding a tour- ing car in North Bergen, N. J.. Saturday, after a half mile cha: by Motoreyele Policeman Frost. The policeman charged their ma- chine was making fifty mles an hour. Matthew MeNulty, the origin- al ‘‘Village blacksmith of Lafay- ette, Ind.,”’ has retired with a D 2? 5 ee ( BO e nN no Senne $2.50 Brocaded Silk Waists sell now at $1.50 $1.50 Voile Waists sell now at............98¢ $25 Kuppenheimer Suits sell now at..$17.50 $15 All Wool Suits (this year's styles) sell mow at........2.......5..-.--$11.00 Extra quality 36-inch Taffeta Silk sells MOW at.. 2.2... cece e cece eee ee BBC All Fancy Parasols. ..33¥% off regular price All Men’s Sailors Ate... sees A price 25c Men's Wash Ties sell now at ..15¢ ‘ortune of $40,000, after sixty years devoted to that business. He estimates that he has shod half a million animals. He was the ‘‘official horse shoer’’ for the Wabash and Erie canal . in the early days. The British governmeut’s sys- tem of insurance against attacks by aircraft has been annoarced in parliament It goes inte cf- fect next week. The rates on private dwellings are: Against attack by aircraft, 2 sbillings. Against aircraft and. btombard- ment, 3 shillings. A shilling is about 25, cents. A small army of clerks and atenographers employed by the Dw Pont Powder ‘company of Wilmington, Del., and by other Wilmington firms are about to reafize- dreams of riches becaus: the Du Pont common stock has jumped from its par vale of $100.a sahre to nearly $700. War orders are responsible. | J. P. Morgan, who. was shot twice some time ago in an at- BUTLER, MISSCURI, THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1915. ens. to delay-the, passage of the fact that 5000 persons are killed each’ year while trespassing on railroad tracks. "Trespassing, it ‘is pointed out, results’ in greater loss of life on American rail- roads than all other causes com- bined. The United States exported in the first ten months of the fiscal year °1915 . approximately 638,- 080 miles of barbed wire, a quantity sufficient to go around the world twenty-five and one- half times.: This output weighed 834,595 pounds and was val- d at $5,297,898, a 50 per cent increase over 1914. The wire was sold for war purposes. Montgomery-Curtis. Mr. Harry L. Curtis and Miss Ada Montgomery were married at Montrose Farm, the home of .the bride’s mother, Mrs._R. E. Montgomery, at high noon Wednesday, Rev. . Ed ' I. Hunt, of the M. E. Chureh South officiating. Only relatives were present to witness the ceremony. After a luncheon the happy couple departed on the Kansas City Southern for Excelsior Springs, Mo., to spend their honeymoon. They. are expected to return Sunday, when they will reside_at the Dr. Botts home on Kast Hume street, Dr. and Mrs. Botts will depart next Thursday for the west to spend the sum- mer, Mr. Curtis, who is cashier of the Hume State Bank, has. been identified with the commercial and financial interests of~ Hume for a number of years, and oe- cupies a prominent place in our community. The bride, during her residence with us, has made many friends, and is a young lady of many excellent attain- ments. All join in wishing them # long life, and much happiness and prosperity.—Border —_‘Tele- phone. : The Times extends to the happy pair the heartiest congrat- ulations. Fund for Roads. Jefferson City, July 19.— The state will distribute $190,000 for road improvements this year among the’ various counties, which file plans and requisitions, it. is stated in a bulletin jist is- sued by State Highway Com- missioner Frank“ W. Buffum. Attention™is_callgd in the bulle- tin to the fact-tHat unless requi- sitions are sent in by Aug. 1 the county will lose its share of the State road fund. Two other bulletins just is- sued from the Highway Com- missioner’s office relate to road dragging and to suggestions for various plans of improving the State’s roads. The former ‘bulle- tin recommends that dragging on the various roads leading from county seats be done as nearly as possible on the same day. The other bulletin is ad- dressed to all of the commercial clubs of the State and calls at- tention to various plans of road improvement. Roach Invitations Issued. Jefferson City, Mo., July 19.— Invitations have been issued by Secretary and Mrs. Cornelius Roach for the wedding of their daughter, Miss Pauline, to Tom B. Ellis of Ft. Wayne, Ind. It will take place at 8:30 p. m. on August 3, at the family residence in East Miller street. ‘Written invitations are being sent to the relatives and immed- iate friends of the two families, but it is to be a wedding. < Miss Pauline will be the first tempt on- his life. by Erich Muenter, known -as Frank Holt, was ‘‘feeling fine and dandy” Monday it was said at his office in New York. All apprehension to Morgan’s recovery had banished, it was said. © n lephone. touch ofthe ‘‘13 reasons’’ to wed, “Tom” Ellis is a Jefferson City boy, an honor graduate of the engineering. department of the University of Missouri, and has been years. in Indiana for several] NUMBER 40. MISSOURI NOTES. James A. Houchin has formal- ly announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for governor. in 1916. He was a candidate in 1912. Houchin for- merly was the largest ~employer of convict labor in the state. The first of the 1915 crop of cantaloupes of Mississippi Coun- ty were placed on the market at Charleston, Friday. The-melons are large and of an-~ unusually good flavor, equaling any shipped here from the South. The watermelon crop will begin moving about July 30. ‘August H. Kuhs was ousted as a member of the St. Louis board of education Thursday and was ordered by the circuit court to pay back to the board $11,500 profit he was alleged to have made illegally. in the sale of a school site to the beard, of whieh he’ was a member. Geo. H. Courtney, 37 years old, a well-to-do farmer living near Keytesville, committed sui- cide Sunday by hanging himself with an iron trace chain. —Re- cently the district school house had been ordered built on a cor- ner of his land. He objected to this, it is said, brooding over the matter until his mind beeame un- settled. The worst and ..most destruct- ive fire in the history of Stock- ton and the seeond fire within two vears, which totals a loss of over $20,000 occurred — early Monday morning when the two- story business block in the southwest corner of the ‘square was destroyed by fire. The fire was confined to one block but that was the finest in town. The Supreme Court in bane, adjourned last. week until court in course, which will be October 12, Divisions Nos. 1 and 2 have not finally adjourned for the term, but both wll do so in a few days. The work of the year just closing has been heavy, and the court has made more real prog- ress in the way of reducing the docket than has been accom. plished in many years. Congressman W. 8. Cowherd, | who died recently in California, left an estate of $185,000, which | was placed in the hands of the Probate Court Friday. Cowherd left no will and for that reason one-half-of his estate will go to the widow, Mrs. Jessie K. Cow- GERMANS GAIN IN RUSSIA. Fifty-Nine ‘Turkish Vessels Sunk by Russian Torpedo Boat Destroyers. London, July 20.—The ingly: irresistible march of the Austro-German armies is win- ning for them town after town in Russian Poland and in other territory through which stretch- es the thousand-mile battle front in the east. From the shores of the Gulf of Riga in the north part to that part of southern Poland into which they drove the Russians from Gallicia, the Austro-Ger- map armies still ‘are surging forth and if Warsaw can be de- nied them it will be almost a miracle, seem- London, July 20 (9:01 p, m.). —A fleet of fifty-nine Turkish sailing vessels, laden with war materials for the Turkish army of the Caucasus,- has been de- stroyed by Russian torpedo boat destroyers, according to a _ dis- patch from Sebastopol to Reut- er’s Telegram Company. The sailing vessels were on a voyage to Trebason, a seaport of Asiatie Turkey on the Black sea. Artillery engagements alone characterize the warfare on the western line for the moment. The occupation of 150 yards of German trenches east of Ypres after the explosion of the Brit- ish mine is reported by Field Marshal John French, Berlin ad- mits the explosion of the mine, but asserts that the British in- fantry attack following it was put down and that the British were able to occupy “only the crater made by the explosion. Progress for the Italians on the Plateau of Carso, is claimed by Rome. From the Austrian point of view the campaign along the Austro-Italian frontier is © pro- ceeding satisfactorily. and the re- port issued by the Austrian war office declares that heavy fight- ing in the Kreuzeberg distriet resulted in some 6,000 Italian casualties, the dead numbering 2.000, with a total Austrian loss of forty-two. Twenty One Deaths Caused by Heat. Cleveland, Ohio, July 17;—The death of three men and six ba- bies was the toll of the heat wave in this city Thursday and herd, and the—other—tertt tt divided between two __ sisters, Miss Sallie Cowherd of City and Mrs. Fannie Graves of Lees Summit. RL. Witherspoon of Brown- ing, eight miles from Clinton, comitted suicide Thursday. He wandered into a field near his home, placed a stick of dynamite S} death | Friday, According to figures compiled by the police _ and realth officials Pitsburg, Pa. July 17.—One resulted from the heat wave which prevailed —through- out this district the last twenty- four hours. New York, July 17.—New York and the entire east is in the grip of a heat wave. Five per- sons died here. today as the re- sult of the intense heat. on the ground, lighted it and laid his head upon it. He had been ill and was in a private san- itarium at Kansas City, but was dismissed_as cured. He was 50 years old and married. For a number of years he conducted a hardware store at Brownington. Harrisonville Defeats Butler. The Butler and Harrisonville base ball teams played a good game grounds Sunday afternoon, Har- risonville winning by a score of 7 to 3. Butler tried out a new pitcher, W. Wright, who outside of the first two innings pitched good ball. home team was erratic at times and they had an off day at bat. are a fast lot of players and play elean base ball. of ball on the Butler The fielding of the the The Harrisonville bunch P.M. Allison Ml. Porter M. Allison, Bates Coun- ‘se efficient Philadelphia, July 18.—Five deaths were reported here today as due to the heat and a sixth man committed suicide while temporarily insane from oppres- sive weather conditions. |The maximum temperature for the day was 90 at 3_0’clock. This was three degrees less than the maximum of yesterday, - when the majority of those: who died today were overcome. Falls Down 16-Inch Pipe. Tulsa, Ok., July 17.—Otis Bur- roughs, a tool dresser, while working at an oil well in the Cushing field late yesterday, lost his balance and fell down into the 16-inch casting. The well was 720 feet deep at the time, and was filled up to about 150 feet of the top wth water. About 100 feet down Burrough became _| wedged in the casing. While he directed rescuers, with his head down, the drillers lowered a cable. Burroughs deputy county/ managed to hold the cable while is confined to his home on/he was pulled out an inch at a West ‘Ohio Street: Mr. Allison is}time. He apparently suffered no | ing from a severe attack] injuries stomach trouble. His many] t 4 ; hope for his rapid re-/dent of its kind ever recorded in the Oklahoma oil fields. ‘ was at work again ay. .This is the first acci-