The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, October 28, 1915, Page 3

Negotiations looking to the es- ‘dtablishment of new Russian cred- {its are under way in New York. +The amount, it was said, might be as large as_ 50_million_dollars. ° The Luxemburg authorities have decided to follow the Ger- the uneertainty of slide” condi al Goethals says that it is stil can happen at any time. the eanal zone, refuses to commit himself to any definate date for reopening the canal, in view of|- tions in the Gaillard cut. Gener- o-early to_make predictions-be-|—Lewis-Buailey, whe reeently-eut- cause a large movement of earth|his hand got blood poison and be- SHORT STORIES: at r Of ‘Local Interest—Clipped from “Our Exchanges. 1 ing in a critical condition was tak- 3ix30 - 12.20 - 41x34 - 27.30 4x34-2035 . 41x36 - 28.70 ' §x37-33.90 — ae Production has. overcome the, former high price. You can now urchase Fisk Non-Skids at as ow A Price as many plain tread tires. Fisk Tires For Sale By Local Agent HENRY’S GARAGE BUTLER, MISSOURI Fisk Non-Skid tires have an ad- vantage over plain tread. They - combine safety with dependa- bility and are supplemented by Fisk Organized Service. lA True Story of A Pig that Came to Town. : Mr. John Leonard of Butler, Mo., was the owner of a measly runty, mangy, lousy, white pig. This pig weighed about 25 pounds i when he was about three months jold, and he did not look like he | would ever weigh any more. Mr, Leonard took the best care of him fed him on milk, shorts, ground corn. But Mr. Pig would not grow. But one day about a week ago, Mr. Leonard thovght of a plan to and to get his hair to lay down smooth, which had been sticking up. like a poreupine quills. So Come in and let us show you the architect’s one ‘dark night he loaded him in * eure his pig of the lice and mange} man and Belgian examples and have ordered coinage of 200,000 franes in five and ten-centime picces of zing, Permission for 5000 Carranza troops to journey through Ameri- can territory from Laredo, Tex., to Douglas, Ariz., where they will re-enter Mexico has been granted by the United States Government, according to reports. No troops have begun to move. The Blount Plow Company, manufacturers of Evansville, Ind., refused an offer to make $78,750,- 000 worth of shrapnel shells for the Allies. The offer called for 5,000,000 shells at $15.75 each and it would have meant a profit of $16,000,000 for the plow company. The Telegraaf calls attention to attempts which are being made to obtain in Holland subscriptions to the new Austrian war loan. The circulars are being distributed calling attention to the fact that Tfollanders can subscribe at 62 1-2 to a loan bearing 5 1-2 per cent interest, or a yield of more than 8 3-4 per cent. ~ Prince Leopold of Coburg, a nephew of King Ferdinand of Bulgaria, was burned with acid and wounded with a revolver by a woman friend, the daughter of a Viennese police capitan, accord- ing to a dispatch from Vienna. It is stated that the woman com- mitted suicide by shooting, The Prince is likely to lose his sight. With the installation of Mrs. G, Odenheime of Maryland as presi« dent general, the work of the cou- vention of the United Daughters of the Confederacy in: session at San Francisco was completed and niuany of the delegates left Satur- day for Los Angeles and San ‘Die- go on their way home. The con- vention of the organization in 1916 will be held in Dallas, Tex. Culver Military Academy of South Bend, Ind., lost its Black Horse Troop early Monday, the sixty-five horses being burned to detailed working pl nd estimates, and learn how, whea using durable, dependable,” Southern -Yellow Pine “The Wood of Service” his, wagon and took him to Butler, | Mo., and sure enough, just as he) expected, the Hog-Joy Oiler was | out in front of the Logan-Moore Iumber Yard, so without saying a word about it, he made a pen out of four of the No-Sag gates that Mr. Coberly had neglected to the pig inside of the pen with the | Hog-Joy Oiler. when Mr. Coberly arrived hid thie ope ices, But you must act quickly—the condi- NOW is the time to bulld! Bring the wife with you—she'll tell you this is just the theme she has been hoping and working for. Logan-Moore Lumber Co. | Moore Lumber Yard to see him. Said_‘‘When I_brought that getting slick and lays smooth. He has gained five pounds. report to the editor each week just how much Mr. Pig has; hogs. Mr. City bought p ( Moore br. Co. la [ the other day he ordered another one, and | a third one. i you white wi put in the yard that night, put of the late Rear Admiral A. E. K. Next morning sumed the duties of social secre- he tary to Mrs. Galt, ; found a most contented, happy,/ spondence and social duties have oily pig asking for his breakfast.| greatly increased. — } Mr. Leonard was in town last Hagner having resigned as White Saturday, and of course wanted House social secretary to marry, to know how the pig was getting Miss Benham is believed to be in along, and went to the Logan- line for her post. Hie to town he was alive with lice Process of organization along the but I can’t find one on him now, Niagara frontier. It will be com- and the sore ‘places behind his Posed of 1,200 American citizens. ears are healing up. His hair is ‘ost of whom are in business in down the Dominion. This is a result of r a petition to the Canadian War The Hog-Joy Oil and Pepartment Saturday. American Grow Fast did it.’ Mr. Coberly | °fficers will constitute the medi- says he will make the little old “al corps to accompany the Yan- runty white pig weigh 200 pounds kee fighters to the European bat- in four months. He is going to ‘lefields. gained. We are betting. Mr. Cob-|‘igned in the Westchester Coun- erly the smokes that Mr. Pig will! 'Y, Ny Y.; Surrogate ’s Court giv- weigh light at the end of the four |i0€ custody to Finley J. Shepard, months, but he is game. The Log- | of *‘John Doe No. 104,’’ alias an-Moore Lbr. Co. have sold over | Austin McCleary, a 4-year-old fifty of the Hog Oilers in Bates | tegealiog gree ceed a ~ sane County, and th . - will | of ‘St. Patrieck’s Cathedral, New i 3 y ring Bo Mil York, September, 17, 1914. The | hoy has been in St. Christopher’s Home, Dobbs Ferry, since Octo- her 9, 1914. in Butler Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Roose- velt, jr., at their home in New | York City. The child is a grand- json of Col. Theodore Roosevelt, and will be named Cornelius Van Roosevelt. City | dore prize | June 14, 1914. Mra. death when crossed wires in the barn started a fire whieh de- stroyed the building. The troop will be replaced. Culver has been noted for its fine troop of trained horses. Miss Edith Benham, daughter Benham, U.S. N., Monday as- whose corre- Miss Isabelle _An_ American regiment is _ in q Adoption papers have been A son was born Saturday to Schaick Roosevelt, after his|] And other light wood , | gteat-grandfather. He is the : third child of Mr, and Mrs.|[ working machinery eir first boy, Theo- Noose tele Tl, was born Miss El leanor B. carrier, has lost a faithful horse. more than twelve year’s -work in the rural mail this time ‘it has traveled years old. close of the civil war, in 1865, the animal was a three-year-old jum- per on a Texas race track. ers. After unloading on Canadian troops. Atlantie service drawn for the war is not known, The brought 204 passengers, thirty were in the will he Orduna of whom first cabin. Talk Across the Ocean Observers listening at the Biffel tower in Paris have heard speech sent out by the engineers of the American Telephone and Tele- graph Company from apparatus developed by that company and the Western Electric Compan: and installed: at’ Arlington, Va. The equipment used was that em- ployed a few weeks ago in talking by wireless to San Francisco and Honolulu. The anienna, employed at Arlington was that of the Unit- ed States navy department, which was placed at the disposal of the American Telephone and Tele- graph companies" engineers throngh the courtesy of the de- partment. i At the time of the announce- ment of the successful wireless tel- ephony trom Arlington to Mare Island, Panama, San Diego’ and Honolulu on September 29, the chief engineer, John F, Carty, of the American Telephone and Tele- graph Company, made the an- nouncement that the achievement then accomplished, demonstrated the possibility. of transatlantic wireless telephony from Washing- ton or New York to London, Paris, and other European capitals. Taggart Case is Dropped Indianapolis, Oct. 19.—Thomas Taggart, Democratic national committeeman, will not have to stand frial on the charge of con- spiring to corrupt the 1914 elec- tions of Marion vounty. The ease against him was dis- missed today in the criminal court on the motion of the state for the reason that conelusive evidence evidence against Taggart is lack- ing, said Prosecutor Rueker. The cases of the more than one hundred other men who were in- dicted with Taggart and Mayor Joseph E. Bell were put over to December 1. Mayor Bell was ac- quitted by a jury last Wednesday after a trial lasting more than five weeks. Horse Dies Aged 53 Years Brownstown, Ind., Oct. 25.—C. J. Reynolds of Medora, a mail It -died-standing on its feet. after service, During 103,333 niles and hauled 596,000 pieces of Reynolds says at the en to a hospital in Kansas City last — The Cunard liner Orduna ar-| week. He is reported to be recov- rived from Liverpool with 1 1-4} erin million dollars in gold, consigned from British te American bank- here the Orduna will go to Halifax to take |! ¢#" re The troops will be sent to England. eth- : er the ane. Mi cis Ps sa pounds, Kahn Bros. being the pur- of the best vessels in the Trans- with- remainder of the] stalled at the g.—Drexel Star. ’ J. M. Martin,.who lives just ov- er in the Kingdom of Bates, ap- s to be the champion cabbage raiser, Last week he sold twelve heads with a total weight of 97 chasers.—Urich Herald. The big oil engine has been in- light plant. -- The switchboard and wiring has also been completed at the plant. A concrete floor was put in Monday and the woodwork has been paint- ed and the generator will be in- stalled within a few days.—Drex- el Star, Mrs. Clark Berry of_ this city captured the first prize at the State Fair at Sedalia this year for the best exhibition of needle work. This is the second time in sueces- sion that Mrs. Berry has been awarded this honor, having secur- ing the same prize last year, and she is to be congratulated upon having gained such a signal and well. merited recognition.—ElDo- rado Springs Sun. A. J. McRoberts of Adrian at- tended the Central Protective As- sociation Grand Lodge meeting at Atchison, Kansas, last week as del- egate from Adrian lodge. W. G. Dillon went as a delegate from the Butler lodge.—Adrian Journal. Fred Thornhill sold a draft horse’to Hulen last Friday for #200. The, horse was five years: old and weighed 1650 pounds.— Adrian Journal. * Mr, Ceran Ellis Itiuine, Missouri, and Miss Ella Klaine Waymire, of Pleasanton, Kansas, were married at Kansas City, April 17, 1915. This news may seem belated to our readers hut it is news nevertheless. Not Jeven their most intimate friends knew of their wedding until last Thursday, when they received an announcement through the mail with the above statement.—Bor- der Telephone, Thomas, of Henry HL. Long died at his home northwest of town Tuesday even- ing, October 19th, at 8:30 0’cloek. Mr. Long had been in poor health for some time but had not been confined to his hed for a great while. He was the father of a large family of children and was one of the early settlers in this neighborhood having lived on the saine farm for over 30 years. THis farm is one of the best improved farms in the country.—Drexel Star. A party was in town the first of the week visiting just for ‘‘old times sake.’’ They were Mrs. W. C. Shaw of Steamboat Springs, Colo. Hér husband was postmast- er of Rockville 30 years ago and they lived _w Ceph Robinson now lives. Mrs. G. W. Burford of Enid, Okla. Her husband was a lawyer in this city and organized the Bank of Rockville about 1890, mal: ; They came here in 1878. J, W. The horse, according to the| Hoyt of Enid, Okla. He is a son owner, was about _ fifty-three] f Judge Albert Hoyt who was one of the first St. Glair County Jig Sav Circular Saw FOR SALE Two Young Men Badly Hurt in judges to be imprisoned on ae- count of the bond business. Then . there was George Evardde Buford the gentleman who called and put us next tothe whole story, a young banker of Enid.—Rockville Booster. a Fight. A man named Lew Dunhan, a farmhand, went to the home of a man named north, of Urich one night last week and raised a disturbance, according to the Henry County Democrat and as Mr. Smith was seriously ill a telephone message was sent to a neighbor and Frank Page, a young farmer responded and succeeded in getting Dun- lam away from the Smith home. Page says Dunham assaulted him and in self defense he drew a re- volver which Dunham grabbed, causing it to be discharged the Sipe bei eee in the hip. le then é gun away from Page and beat him over the head Smith, who lives with it until he was un-