The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, November 25, 1915, Page 4

And you had better get ready for same by coming in and buying one of the best heating stoves made. We have the Bound Oak for coal and the Wilson Heater for wood, which are the best money will buy. We also have a good assortmen* ‘of coal and wood stoves that we are closing out way down. In Cook stoves we have a full line of the Bridge Beach cast Cook stoves, the Malleable Steel Ranges and the Round Oak Chief that are the best on the market. But if you want something cheaper we have it. Wagons, Farm Trucks, scm Boards, Etc, We handle the Peter Schuttler, The Mitchell an dthe Roller Bearing Davenport-wagons and they are all good ones and our prices are right. In farm trucks we handle the Keller and John Deere. We also have a large line of extra wagon beds and scoop boards and they are extra good ones. Come in-and let us fix you up on what you need. eae CAR CABBAGE Just received a car load of extra fine cabbage and are selling same at $1.50 per hundred pounds. If needing any now is the time to buy. Better get a few hundred pounds and make some kraut, our price is right. We also have a large stock of potatees, apples and onions and our prices are less _ than the market. And don’t forget that we have the largest and best selected stock of hardware and groceries in Bates County. We want your business and will make prices to get it. ; * Bennett-Wheeler Merc. Co. Telephone 82 BUTLER, MO. Births Double Death in Number.| July led for the quarter Jefferson City, Mo., Nov. 20-— Births in Missouri were double | the number of deaths that month. board of health shows. toll was 8,572 and 18,300 births | discase 728; cancer 526; were recorded. Of these born, 9,-/| of the respiratory system 357 were boys girls. The total negroes born was This Manner ‘We desire to call your attention to a few facts. First, Christmas is fast approaching, and it is high time to be thinking about what you will give as a present. Second, perhaps we can help you to decide, by suggesting a few things you can secure from us at a very reasonable price, For instance we will receive this week a large line of the newest things in Picture and Tray Moulding. We also purchased several Serving Trays made up, and we are assured that the business done in trays this Christmas will be much larger than ever. -~ ‘We have :purchased some genuine Oil Paintings, made by that most excellent artist, Mr. Lowe, who was with us two years : jects he is sending are the very best he has ever made. We will make yon any piece of furniture your faney niay ; Pedestals, Smok- deaths, 2,923 being reported for Diseases of the heart and circu- in July, | latory system caused 1,001 deaths, August-and September a report tuerculosis 872, pneumonia 342; by Secretary Adcock of the state | other diseases of the nervous sys- The death | tem 751; nephritis and Bright’s diseases 138; and 8,411 were! typhoid fever 128 and smallpox 2. The suicides totaled 147, homi- - 582, cides 72 and accidents 489. At This Time and in since-and who served our people with first: class Oil Paintings at an exceedingly low price. Mr. Lowe assures us that the sub- oo We will have Carpet Sweepers, Foot -8tools, Pedestals, i - Candle Sticks and many other novelties. agi Egypt, writes to the Herald as follows, re; Egyptian rarme tive methods on land wor “The Egyptian farmer user a plow a stick which -is ti eo with an iron point. The s not turned over, but aaply stirred. His motive power ig ox- en or camels, It is not uncommon to see a man plowing, using’ his cow and camel hitched together. Horses are too valuable for such common work. “The Egyptian never dads upon rain. There. is never any to depend upon. He either irri- gates his land or does his sow- ing immediately after the annual overflow. No drills are used, but the seed is hand sown. ~ ‘He sows in the fall and reaps in the spring. The crops thus grow during the nice, cool win- ter weather. There is no frost in the winter, while in the summer the fields are mostly brown and bare, unless irrigated. The small grain is cut with a small hand sickle or pulled by hard. It is threshed by oxen’ pulling discs over a heap of it piled on the ground. Afterwards it is cleared from the chaff by tossing it in the wind. ‘The hired man on the farm can get from 15 to 20 cents a day provided he boards himself and is willing to take grain for pay. “« As there is in the country on- ly about half an acre of tillable land for each person, the farms are quite small. A man owning ten acres is, a comparatively large farmer. On the other hand, you can not find there any of this cheap $200 land. There it is not uncommon to see land sell for $1.- 000 an acre and more.’ Buttermilk Paint, This formula for buttermilk paint is from the Wallaces Farm- er: “Take one, gallon of butter- milk, three pounds of Portland cement, and sufficient coloring matter to give the desired color. The paint. should be applied soon after it is made, and should: be stirred a great deal while being used. One difficulty is that the cement has a tendency to scttle to the bottom of the bucket un- less it is frequently stirred. The paint requires about six hours for drying, after which it will shed rwater very effectively. Venetian red or almost any color may be used. The paint does not give a very glossy surface, so would not be very good for painting any- thing on which a fine varnish is desired. Buttermilk paint has been found very good for cover- ing injuries on trees after prun- ing, but when used for this pur- pose; the quantity of cement should be increased,’ so as to make the paint, quite. thick.’” This paint is said to be absolute- ly fire proof. in Reed Scores Rate Increase. Kansas City, Mo., Nov. 19.— Two Democratic meetings were held in Jackson county last night Gov. Elliott W. Major was guest of honor at the annual Independ-. ence possum supper. At the Coates House in Kansas City. Senator James A. Reed ‘was the guest of honor of the Young Mens Jefferson Club. The conflict of dates cut down the attendance at both dinners. Gov. Major indorsed President Wilsons defente program and de- leadership, x Senator Reed took up the ) quese ad rates and attacked the Publics Service Commission's et he “Tt’s a solemn thing | to : template,’’. he said, Saat oll eae board overturns a clared he was ready to follow his} Doctor W. W. Hi nan, : fessor of science sa Aunt Oat nt or exrdig ta dents - everyone be { quainted Degas, te } eral games were played a refreshments were served. © able for everyone. days ago. is a student taking the place of a teacher in charge of a study; hall. Student government is a grand success, especially in this partic- ular. Some of the laws made by student senate are: For the first offense of chewing gum any place in the building the offender is to receive a private talk by a member of the student | council. For the second time committing ¢ the same offense, the offender is to remain one-half hour after school. For the third time committing the same offense, the offender is to be placed back on the’ deport- ment list. Hazing and all other forms of initiation of students will not be allowed. The waste basket shall be passed in study hall at the close of each and every period. Everyone shall stand while speaking and not more than-two shall speak at once. No one shall speak longer than three minutes and not more than twiee in one period. : Senior Notes The Senior section room is now beautifully decorated in pennants and house plants and we expect to have, before very long, a Sen- ior pennant in our colors, pink and white. Friday ev’ ening after’ school]. the senior girls had a meeting and elected Anna Belle Thompson captain of the Senior girls basket hall team. The first inter-class game of the year was played Fri- day night. The Senior girls de- feated the Sophomore girls with a score of 35 fo 4. This game was not as easily won as the score might indicate. The Sophs played well and made us work, but, they have not been playing as long as the Seniors. This was the first game the Senior girls have played but it won't be the last. 'We ex- pect to win every game we play and again become the possessors of the beautiful loving eup given to the class champions. Junior Notes. : Oral composition began in Eng- lish this ‘week. Mabel Clarke started one class with an interest- ing talk about Greenland. Others just as interesting about widely varying topics, followed and the results are so pleasing that Miss Fenton feels sure that the Junior class has some. silver-tongued or- ators in it. Grade cards! What a host of sensations they arouse. Some of the sensations are pleasant, and _|some are decidedly otherwise. However,_as-a-class,-we-got_our share of E’s and S’s and some in- dividuals got more than their shares, as, for example, Katie Harp received only E’s. Can you beat it? In some mysterious way. there was an error in last week’s notes. The boy senator was not Clyde Borland, as was stated, but Ralph Harper. .Our dignity will not per- mit the name of a lower classman. :to be substituted for the name of a noble Junior, so bear in mind the correction please. . Sophomore Notes ‘We Sophies feel very important with only a few failures on our cards for last term. Of course we are thinking of E’s and 8’s for ons | ext term. were de- 2 eee Retell carat inst Atthongh is| evening proved to be very énjoy- Each study hall ‘selected a mon- itor and a sub-monitor several These are elected et the first of each term: A monitor Telephone 38 with their grades for the term and if the Freshman class makes as good grades for the next three terms as it has this term there " hg second year Freshies next y the basket ball teams are prac- tising very enthusiastically, each team expecting to win high hon- ors. The girls have an especially strong team. "Some Liar. The following story from the ‘Amsterdam Local shows_ that it does not pay to brag about the ducks that you shot, especially to strangers. ~ The other day a | stranger walk- ing up the railroad track stopped at the big lake south of the city where an Amsterdam fellow was hunting ducks. The stranger asked this fellow (whose name we’ll not mention) if he was hav- ing any luck. ‘‘Not today”’ he re- alied, ‘‘but yesterday I shot 47 ducks. *? “Ah you did, did you?”’ said the stranger. “Well, do you know who I am?’’ “Dm a state deputy game warden and I want you. Come on,’’ ‘Hold ‘on a; minute! You don’t know who-l} am do you?’’ asked the Amster-! dam fellow, a little nervous. ‘‘I’m the biggest liar in Bates county. I ‘CHAS. A. MURRAY South Side Square ef never went hunting before today in my life.’’ Plant Nut Bearing Trees, The ‘most valuable iand: in the world is the Sahara Desert. It is made valuable: by the date trees that cover every spot where enough water can be had to make them grow. This zreat land val- ue comes because 310 has there utilized the productive pewer of the tree, nature’s greatest engine of production. It is really re- markable that we in the United States have used trecs so little to do our work for us. An orchard of ‘ blick walnuts, or shagbark hickories, or native lhazels. or Ohio Valluy pecans, with trees as good as the best wild ones now growing would he very, very valuable. Whey don't we have them? Merely because. we haven’t noticed and haven't thought. It is hig time we caught | up-with the people of the desert. We happen to have a million good Baldwin apple trees, and another million good ‘navel or- ange trees, because somebody took pains to tell about the orgi- nal good wild tree. ‘that startcd the million. By: budding - and grafting, that. one. Baldwin apple tree has become the ‘parent of. bag millions, We know how te proneeee all the -nut. trees, and can turn one good shegberk: or black walnut or pecan or ha-| zel into millions. But where are; The bay age from from cage re tee the suitable parent tree whe og ee year-old mule, Mound Pickups. We have been having some colder weather. Miss Gracie Fulk visited Mrs. Osear Welch Sunday. Misses Mary and Prue Sharp and Alta Brown went ‘to, Apple- ton. City one day last week to vis- it relatives. Mrs. B. E. Lockard was in Pas- saic trading Saturday. Mr. Ned. O’Dea azid gon, John, were Butler visitors Saturday. Mr. Geo. Church is no better at this writing. Misses Lola Coop and Edna Mier attended the teacher’s read- ing circle at the Rush school Sat- I 4 urday. Mr. Webb Shelby is feeding a fine bunch of. cattle. Mrs. Tom Green visited Mrs. D. A. Zwahlen Sunday. Mrs. Geo. Thompson attended Mr. Baird’s sale Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Dayton Rice of Passaic visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Brummett Sunday. Mrs. Hurlston and daughter of ‘Belton, Mo., are visiting her sister Mrs. Webb Shelby. ~ LITTLE IRISH ROSE. \ Missouri’s Best Mule. ~~ _ No better illustration ofthe ihe creasing value of the draft in Missouri is to be obtained than from the fact that for the past three years the champion mule at the Missouri State Fair has been” out of a Percheron mare. Visit- | ors at. the Missouri’ State Fair Hie) this year agreed that the five- Missouri’ Queen, was one of the best grand cham- pion mules ever seen on Missouri . | soil, which undoubtedly is saying | about all there is to be said. The dam of Missouri Queen was a 1,600-pound Percheron mare. Missouri Queen herself, standing 16 1-2 hands high and weighing 1,660 pounds after working all . summer, . presented: about the ‘fin- fest. combination of size and qual- ity that the most: fastidious crit--~ ic of horse flesh or mule flesh could ask for. Midge Marshall, of Randolph county, “Missouri, who owns tlie Missouri Queen, is satisfied that the Percheron mare is the best — mare from which to raise high- priced draft mules, The fact that he has been a consistéent-win- ner with mules of this type gon- firms his opinion. There are still many men who hold the belief that the best mule can be tostne gives the mule of great oe eh i ta ety th en size. an 0 one from draft stock. : of mules