The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, September 2, 1915, Page 2

SHORT STORIES Of Local Interest—Clipped from Our- Exchanges. Died at the home of her par- ents, R. ©. Taylor and_ wife, northwest of town, Sunday morning, at 6 o’clock a. m., little Beth Taylor, aged three years.— old gentleman was taken sick Thursday morning and the. serv- ices of Dr. J. U. quired. Mr. Graves felt much -|better Friday but abandoned the contemplated trip’ to Jefferson City and returned to the home of his daughter at Main City. esha County Democrat. Mrs. Bathene Welker of Johns- Scott were re-|- The German : government censoring” women’s dress; . warning has been issued, ed mainly against wide F-4, submerged outside the Hon- harbor since March 26 “Amoret Leader. State Senator John Baldwin of Appleton City, was — shaking hands with friends in this vicin- ity, last Friday. He departed for his home Saturday.—El Dorado Springs Sun. Mrs. Zetta Tiffany, ot Kansas .City, has been visiting the fam- ily of James Harvey and other friends and relatives out west of town during the past several days.—Appleton City Journal. A man went into the postoffice in Merwin the other day and asked for a money order. ‘‘For how much?’’ asked the post- guess.’’ The postmaster grinned and made it out for $3.20.—Am- sterdam Local. J. D. Hayden of Cowgill, Mis- souri, has purchased the Oldham Bros.-farm north of Virginia. The deal was made through Bowman & Company who have offices here and also at Butler.— Amoret Leader. Mr. and Mrs: John Lowder and children are visiting his father, Judge W. H. Lowder, of Route 6, while Mrs. Lowder is in South- east Missouri, where she was called recently by the illness of her brother.—Rich Hill, Enter- prise. : Mr. and Mrs. John Kisppinger and Mrs. Heyle and the twins ar- rived home Sunday frum their trip to . the, exposition, Mrs, Heyles most bxciting experience was probably a trip in a real air- ship which she took with an aer- onaut who is a relative of hers. —Rockvile Booster. ¢ Mr. Homer Tuttle and Miss , Ella Delora Stilwell of Adrian were united in marriage Monday afternoon at the Hundley Meth- odist church in St. Joseph, Rev. J. T. Nash, officiating, says the Adrian Journal. <A_ relative o¢ the bridegroom was the only -companion of the couple. Rey. H. J. Crockett came in from Topeka Friday evening. He started on the trip over a week ago but found the roads in such bad condition that he quit his car at Edgerton, Kansas, and made a business trip into Okla- homa before coming the rest of the way.—Amoret Leader. Prof. (. M. Leedy will return to Granby next week -where he 3 will superintend the Granby public schools again this com- ing school year. Prof. Leedy, who is one of our best educators, has‘ filled his position very suc- : - cessfully for £wo years and is popular with both patrons and pupils.—Rich Hill Western En- terprise. i Mrs, Sam Lawrenee had the misfortune to cut hey left hand so. severely Sunday that it was found necessary to call a doctor to sew up and drcss the’ injury. Mrs. Lawrence was cleaning a pan with a knife and in some way ¢he knife slipped and in- flicted a deep gash in the inner part of the left hand, which re- quired several stitches to sew up. —Adrian Journal. The Girls’ Agricultural Club of Hudson held their August meeting at the home of their leader, Mrs. Cora A. Chapin. Af. ter the reading of the minutes, the roll was called and each oné gave their poultry experiences. These girls plan to take some of their chickens to the Hudson pic- nic, as Mr. Geo. Sargent has of- fered the club a’ prize--- Apple- ton City Jourhal. Leland Tables and wife ‘wrat to ‘Kansas City Wednesday morning to consult a spevinliat about Leland’s eyes. Last Sun; day one of his cyes begun to hurt and grew worse so rapi ily that it was thought best to consult a specialist at once. Mr. Tatler is the gentleman who was 80 budly stung by bees recently, an ac- count of which was published in The Journal last week: It is town, Bates county, arrived Sat- urday for a visit at the home of her daughter, Mrs. J. L. Allison of this city. Mrs. Walker ‘is 97 years old, she was bérn and raised in Missouri., She remem- bers distinetly the Mormon war of 1832 and with her family was driven from home by the Mor- mon forces. Her maiden name was MeAfee. She has been a res- ident of Bates county for 49 years, living all that time in the sane, house that is now her resi- dence 15 miles east of Butler.— El Dorado News. Big Guns at Target. Practice. New York, Aug. 26.—Scream of shells and the roar of cannon rolled over thé water of Long Tsland sound today. The long mute 12-inch mortors at- Fort Totten, which guards the north- ern entrance to New York har- bor, found tomgue and sent eigh- teen 700-pound projectiles climb- ing three miles at a moving speck of a target, 13,000 yards off shore. Condition of actual warfare were duplicated, so far as pos- sible. In a little observatory on Sands Point, six miles away, an officer sighted the mortars by telephone, computing by mathe- matical formula the range, the angle of fire and all the other in- tricate factors to be considered. The artillerymen working in the gun pit in blue overalls, spat- tered with grease, saw nothing of the target, but followed the commands of this officer, relayed to them by the battery eommand- er, a few feet away in the pit. Instead of a hostile fleet upon whose decks the gunners would endeavor to drop the big pro- jectiles in actual warfare, ‘they fired at a triangular sail on a bobbing float at the end of a 500 yard hawser let out by a tug. With searchlights playing on the tiny float, the firing was re- peated tonight. How many hits were scored will, not. be an- nounced, it was said, for several days. Germary Changes Stand on Lusitania Sinking. Washington, Aug. 28,—As part of the advices Ambasador Gerard at Berlin has forwarded to the State Department is the infor- mation that Germany will reverse her stand in the Lusitania case it became known here today. Rep- aration will be offered together with assurance that lives of |‘ Americans at sea will he safe- guarded in the course of the ne- gotiations whieh may be said to be under way. There has been no response to the last American note on this subject, and it is known that the United States would not listen to reparation proposals with the sit- uation ‘created by the sinking of the Arabic still pending. With the attack on the Arabic disavowed, however;— -and—guaran en against a repetition a Gibhin communication explaining that the Lusitania was torpedoed as a reprisal against Great Britain un- der a misapprehension that she wasVarmed, and that killing of Americans was regretted and not intended, and offering repara- tion, probably would pave the way for ick aie: closing the in- cident, The Canal Took in $5,216,149 Washington, Aug. 27.—The Suez Canal passed three and two- fifths as. many ships. as used the Panama last year arid the receiv- er’s tolls were four and. five- eighths times the receipts of the Panama canal for the first year’s operation of the ‘latter. ° The Panama Canal was placed in commercial bse eae yes busi- 15, 1914, ness sloced rie ee of 651610, Leen Ast rom tonage of 456 er eee oh ee vrretng te ine i was refloated Sunday and towed to the quarantine in’ Honolulu Bay. hie : i id Police Judge of Muskogee Fri- day fined Mandy Simon, a Creek | Indian, $1,000,000 and sentenced her to the city jail for 99 years, Mandy, the court said, was a sad reprobate and was in the police court every week. Miss Helen Grace, an aeronaut, was killed at Stanton, .Mich., Thursday while making a baloon ascension: In the presence _ of hundreds of spectators she slipped from her trapeze dropped about 90 feet, landing | on a coal shed. The German Bundesrath has passed a law providing for the coinage of iron 5-pfennig pieces (one and one-fourth cents). The demand for 5 pfennig pieces is great, especially because quanti- ties are in circulation in the hos- tile territory occupied by Ger- many. Although Charles White, 63 years old, owned United States Bonds and real ‘estate amounting to more than ‘$50,000 he died iast week in the North Hudson hospi- tal, Weehawken, N. Y., chiefly from lack of,nourishment. For years he had..lived in hall bed- rooms, A shipment said to consisit of $19,000,000 gold and $25,000,000 in bonds from London to New York passed through Vanceboro, Me., Friday by special train. It is the second large shipment of gold and securieies this month between England and the Unit- ed States. By a vote of 52 to 42 the lower house of the Alabama Legisla- ture Thursday declined to per- mit the people of the state to vote at the next general election on an amendment. providing equal suffrage... The bill re-, quired a three-fifths majority for its passage. Crashing through a_ weak- ened bridge, a northbound San- ta Fe train; headed for Pres- eott, was wrecked Friday at Date Creek, Ariz. Four are re- ported dead and 12 injured. $1 ’ | because of the waste of or The United States submarine and Next Tuesday is the opening day of the Big Bates County Fair Begin now to arrange to attend every day Good Races Every Day Lots of horses from all parts of the country will be at this meeting . A good exhibit from all parts of the county is promised. Come out and see what the other fellow is doing. Fine free attractions have been engaged to furnish amusement - for all. The Celebrated Butler Band Under the leadership of Chas. Fisk will furnish the finést of music each day, which will be interspersed with fine vocal selections by seme of our noted vocalists. ‘The county trot, for county horses only, will be held on Friday. If you have. a stepper bring him in as only county owned horses are eligible. Every Body Come to the Fair and Have a Gaod Time ‘ C. E. ROBBINS, Secretary. THAD. S. HARPER, President. GENERAL'S FAMILY BURNS. Mrs. John J. Pershing and Three Children Die ir, Home. San Francisco, Aug. 27.—Mrs. Helen Pershing, wife of Brig. Gen. J. J. Pershing, and three of her children were burned to Are You Going The wreck resulted from weak- .ening of a itrestle following a cloudburst, which swelled the creek waters enormously. Five men are under arrest at Hallettsville, Tex., in connection with the ‘investigation into the lynching of John Slovak at O. Kunetka, Joseph Mikesh, Frank Chromeak. Slovak, who had been arrested charged with beating his wife and child, was taken from jail and beaten and shot to death. Shriner last week. They are J.}. To Play fisces Out? The game 2 of freezeout ie being played with a great deal of dissatisfied players every winter. The peo- ple that play some of the important cards are right here in Bates County—you will find them in houses. that have just been weather-boarded, boxed or maybe they have the lath on, but they are cold and death this morning at their home at the Presidio. Mrs. Walter O. Boswell, a rel- ative,and her two children, es- eaped as did Warren Pershing, 5. years old, and three servants. The dead children are Helen, 8 years old; Ann, 7 years old, and Mary Margaret, 6 years old. Like other Presidio buildings the house was old, and of: wood and it required little time to de- stroy it. “In the corner of the house most burned the rescuers found Mrs. Pershing dead on the floor with there is a draught through every crack. The doctors smile in anticipation of a good fat doctor bill from a family living in such houses. The coal man orders a few extra tons of coal every time he sees a house that is not going to be John D. Long, former Secre- tary of the Navy and former governor of Massachusetts, died at his home in Hingham, Mass., Saturday. John D. Long was ap-| pointed Secretary of the Navy in March, 1897, and had charge of that branch of the national de- fense. throughout the conflict with Spain, Theodore Roosevelt having been one of his subordi- nates, 5 Years For Whipping W Hartford, Ky., Aug. 28.—Eph Risinger today faces a longer term in -prison than he expected, following his confession and con viction as a member of the ne sum hunters” and aa a _partici- oval in the whipping of euben | loward' and his: wife. ‘ “Five. years for you; you whipped a wi h her arms across one of the girls who was on the bed, as if she had tried to rescue the child. On another bed was another child; the third lay on the floor. The bodies of all were considerably burned. The fire was believed to have been caused by a night lamp. A burst of flame from the roof of the general’s big 2-story frame house, which stands on the par- ade ground, directly in front of the headquarters’ Hegpelss was = first intimation of the trous ble. | Mrs. Pershing. was the daugh- ter of Senator. Warren.of Wyom- ing and she was married to Gen- eral Pershing: in Washington in 1905. He is now in command in El-Paso. © Gen. John Pershing. was born Mis. erent appointed . to: ‘Wi ‘ ia money: ie knows it. will take- the extra coal to keep them from ‘being froze out. “Why do you live in ¢old: houses, exposing . 2 your family the to winter blast, giving your money to the doctor and coal man, and you uncomfortable When You can Pasir Your House 13¢ will buy the lath, plaster sand 10° plaster © one square yard—just think the ordinary 14x14- foot room can be plastered for only $0.00. ; - You.can't nied to be wi ta