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Why do you put up with such a You don’t have to if you furnish your house with a Cole’s Original nuisance? Hot Blast You build only one fire each winter. It is never out from fall till spring. You get up before. stoves, hard coal or wood, Come in and see this great fi keeper and fuel saver. and dress in. rooms warmed with fuel put in the night This is not possible with other Burns anything—soft: coal, re a id imi- Meese sek “Cole’s Hot Blast makes your coal . |, eat. pile last.” Gench Bros. ~ Hardware, Furniture and Implements \ _i* BUTLER, MISSOURI for Cole's on f feed door. PLAIN QUESTIONS | TO BUTLER PEOPLE Evéry Butler Reader will Admit the Soundness of the Logic. Would Butler people recom. mend Doan’s Kidney Pills as they do if the medicine were not re- liable? Would they confirm their} statements after years have elapsed if their experiences did not show the remedy to be deserv- ing of it? Statements like the fol- lowing must carry conviction to the mind of every reader. J. GC. Reavis, 319 S. High St., Butler, says: ‘*1] was subject: to rheumatic twinges, so acute that [ could not sleep well. T also had trouble from the kidney secretions and my sight) was affected, Doan’s Kidney Pills, procured at Wlay’s Drug Store, helped me so much from the first that 1 con- tinued using them until I was well,’” Keeps Doan’s on Hand. Over five years: later, | Mr. Reavis said: ‘St still recommend Doan’s Kidney Pills as a reliable kidney and bladder medicine, 1 always keep them on hand in case of need.” Price 50¢ at all dealers, Don’t simply ask for a kidney remedy— vet Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same that Mr. Reavis has twiee publie- lv recommended. Foster-Milburn | (0,, Props. Buffalo, N.Y. 2-2t | +. his friends as usual, but com- County Treasurer of Johnson County Dies Suddenly. | William E. Seamands, treasur- ev of Johnson County, died at his home in Warrensburg Wednesday night at 12:00, says the Warrens- Woman School Teacher Killed in Kansas. Dodge City, Kas., Oct. 238— After an all-night search -the body of Miss Nellie Byers, a schodl teacher, was found hidden under a pile of leaves and weeds near here today. She had been attacked, her clothing torn off and she was choked to death. Miss Byers, wlio was 24+. years old, and .a daughter of ong of the oldest families in this country, left her school at the usual hour yester- day afternoon to walk to her boarding-house. Her — non-ap- pearance started a search in which scores of citizens took part. : Warnings have been sent out to all the surrounding country by telegraph and telephone and: farmers in the county, which is sparsely populated, are — organiz- ing to find the murderer, — Rail- roads have been asked to séarch trains from the vieinity of the crime, Bloodhounds have been dispatched from here. “las @ result of which it is he a have lost their lives and-a num- .| is announced. Man Also # Victim in Pitts- - Pittsburg, Oct, 25.—Eleven o.,/ girls and one man are known to vice Commission announces , on Saturday, Nov. 27, an exa nation will be held at. Butler,: ed to make certification to fill-a ber of. other employes of the Un- contemplated vacancy in the: po- ion Paper Box Company are miss- ition--of-fourth-class— ater ing, as- _a_fire which | at Worland and other vacandies this afternoon destroyed the eom- as they may occur at that e pany’s factory on the North Side. unless it shall be decided in the Some of the bodies recovered interest of the service to fill’ the were so badly burned as to make vacancy by reinstatement. The | identification difficult. : compensation of the — postmaster The fire started in a feed store at this office was $336 for the “nd spread to the factory. Fire- last fiseal year. ; ,men searching the ruins of the 3- ‘Age limit, 21 years and over on Story building recovered the bod- the date of the examination, with | 1¢s, and, re-enforced by the entire the exception that in a State eity department, continued , their where women are declared -by ‘earch ‘ iy dense smoke. statute to be of full age for all teen By pape tipenidr hes roe ne at on the dete af the tle second floor of thé building examination will be admitted, **W the flames shooting up the el- Applicants must reside within ‘vvr‘snd gave the alarm, He'no- the territory supplied by the post tied a number of girls from the office for which the examination ioe factory leaning out of an up- a a er ver window. One after another _The examination is open to all he lowered them to the ground un- citizens of the United States who til eight were safe can comply with the require- pather Sharp of St. Peter’s ments. | . Church, one of the first on the Application forms and full in-' wene granted conditional absolu- formation concerning the re- tion to the more seriously injured quirements of the examination virls as fast as they were taken can be secured from the postmas- {o the ambulances. — ter at Worland or from the Unit- Henry T. Schafer, manager of ed States Civil Service Commis- jhe hox factory, said that twen- sion, Washington, D. C. ty-six girls and six men were at Applications should be~proper-<iork when the fire. broke out, ly executed and filed with the The hodies recovered were so Commission at Washington at badly burned as to be unrecogniz- ey HOW CAN A CAREFUL MAN ALLOW HIN- SELF To DRIFT INTO DEBT? DEBT IS AS DANGEROUS AS A DISEASE. IT 15 A DIS- EASE. : j A FLY ON A PIECE OF FLY PAPER SOME- TIMES FREES HIMSELF WHEN HE I.5 ONLY ONTHEEDGE.. | ae : BUT ‘‘DEDT’’ 15S A MONSTER THAT .IS HARD To GET FREE FROM. . IT 15 SO EASY To ‘‘CHARGEIT’’. DON’T Do IT; PUT A LITTLE MONEY -IN THE BANK least seven.days before the date able. INSTEAD ¥ of the examination, otherwise’ it Cpe et may be impracticable to examine Y ihe BepHennti i Oklahomans to Hold Wheat BANK WITH US j United |States Commission. Civil Serviee ‘Tulsa, Ok., Oct. 25.—Forty per vent of the 1915 wheat erop in the Arkansas Valley is. still in Missouri State Bank | ’), on ore an ne he put onto ue “THE OLD RELIABLE.” : } Inarket before ecember, accord- % . Mrs. George Knowles, of near ing to grain buyers, who say the \ Austin, met with a severe acci-' farmers are confident of prices = dent last Friday evening in whieh Jater that will duplicate those she had her right leg torn off be- paid for the 1914 crop. . low the knee says the Cass Coun- It is said that Oklahoma has ty News. Mrs. Knowles, in com- not more than half the wheat pany with Miss Stout, a neigh- crop credited to the State by the bor girl, had started. to go to the Government and that less than home of Alonzo Thomas to set 20,000,000 bushels of marketable up with a sick child and taking wheat has been saved. Virtual- Agee a short cut over_an old ‘trail the ly every farm in this section is : arm fe] n road led them to where they had now equipped with storage room|{® a ase Fad 8 to ford a creek and when part) for grain. sgh Wat boll way across, fearing to go further! The acreage sown to wheat in they started to turn around and/every county in the Arkansas go back and the rig upset, throw-| Valley will be from a third to alk ing Mrs. Knowles out, and in| half less than a year ago, as far- |, some manner she got her right|mers believe Oklahoma is in for leg caught in the wheel breaking |8 cyele of good corn years. the leg below the knee and be-| -- fore she could get untangled the} leg was torn off. | Dr. Crawford and Dr, Adair, of Adrian who were at the Thom-| New Orleans, Oct, 20.—New Or- as home, dressed the injury. leans bankers announced today Tt was a most deplorable acci-|that as a result of the recognition dent and neither of the ladies|of the Carranza government in Terrible Accident. We are in a position to make farm loans at a low rate of interest on either 5, 7 or 10 years time, with privilege of making partial payments on interest paying dates. All pay- ments of principal and interest pay- able at our office. We make ab- stracts to all real estate in Bates Ard Now Mexico Wants to Borrow. Miss Byer’s father once was a member of the Kansas House of Representatives — from Grant County. He resigned — several years ago. G. B. Hickman Dead. - G. B. Hiekman formerly a were able to tell just how it hap-| Mexied, they closed contracts to- pened other than the report given day to lend 10 million dollars in above, gold to the Mexiean administra- tion. It also was announced 'titat Prominent Missourian Dead. ~|#Tr8ngements had been made to handle the entire Mexican sisal Montgomery City, Mo. Oct./crop through New Orleans; that 25.—-Col. Warner Lewis, 82 years| the sisal operators of Yucatan and old, widely known Missourian | Campeche were to erect a million county at reasonable rates. The Walton Trust Co. BUTLER, MISSOURI prominent citizen of this city, i died at his home in Miami county | Kansas Friday morning, Oct. 22. Mr. Hickman was a native of New Jersey and came. to Bates County nearly 50 years ago. He was for many years engaged in the furniture and undertaking burg Star-Journal. Mr. Seamands was stricken with qaralysis about one o’clock Mon- day morning. His entire left side owas affected and he never recov- ered consciousness during the two and one half days before his spirit teok its final flight. He was at chureh last Sunday and greeted plained of not feeling well. He had been working hard in the business in this city. .He always was active in civie affairs serv- ing one term as mayor of Butler. He was one of the earliest mem- bers of the state board of em- balmers being president of that body. He is survived by a widow, two sons, Win Hickman and De- Witt Hickman of Miami county, Kansas, and Mrs: Durrell of Lees Summit. . was brought to But- afternoon and tak-|: and father of R. E. Lewis, Judge | dollar manufacturing _ plai for of the United States District |the purpese of handling their raw Court at Denver, Col., also for- | product, and that Mexican eapital- mer candidate for Governor of ists were to establish a new trans- Missouri, died unexpectedly here | portation line operating six steam- today at his home from heart dis-|‘ships between New Orleans and ease, _ Mexican gulf ports. : rte his wife and the follow- —_————- ing children: R. E., of ET Reno, |4¢ ‘ Ok., Mrs. Jessie Gillibuen of |196 Bushels of Gorn to the Acre. Phoenix, Ariz., and Mrs. R, E.| The bronze medal offered by the Sams of Kansas City. Panama-Pacific International. Ex- Current Loans $8,000,000.00. Col. Lewis was the only sur- ion for the largest yield of seas stk os = vivor of a company of 17 soldiers | corn to the acre has Sore avueean Hadn't you better atan eens : all massacred by thé Osage In-|to Leander Young, of Ilinois, who IMPROVED EASY IRON \ dians in 1863 near where Cof-}grew 196 bushels. Under the rule t EASY family, sma in- s feyville, Kas:, now stands. Many| governing this contest, the corn of his. 16. comrades *ha® their | was planted in rows three feet six heads cut off by the Indians and |inches apart,- with an: eighteen: ei were piled up on the [fi strip left outaide ofthe u ste oY oe ta He,