The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, January 20, 1916, Page 3

_ Depends on PERFECT RATIONS WE CAREY IN STOOK THE FAMOUS TIGER BRAND SPECIAL FEED FOR DAIRY COWS, _ BEEF CATTLE, YOUNG. PIGS, FATTENING HOGS, DRIVING HORSES AND WORK HOR. SES. ALSO OIL MEAL, ALFALFA, MOLASSES FEED, BRAN, SHORTS, OHOPS, TANKAGE, ETO. - Let us Figure on Your Requirements - us We Uan Save You Money. BUTLER, MO. Cannon Elevator Co. A Few Payments Each Week Keeps up the Payments in our LANDIS CHRISTMAS SAVINGS CLUB . It has proved to be the easiest and surest way to save money for the Holidays. The Dimes, Nickels and Pennies you allow to slip through your fingers, will soon accumulate into a generous sum if you become a member of one or more classes. A couple of weeks before Christmas you will get a check for all you have paid in, plus interest at. 3%. Your check will reach you just.when it will be thor- oughly appreciated. The money will buy presents and help out with other expenses that always have to be . met at a time when there is much tc buy and pay for. MANY are.already enrolled. MORE are coming every day. Let us have the ca-operation. of yourself and friends. ‘PEOPLES BANK, The ‘Bank on Which You Can Always Bank | PUBLIC SALE We will sell at Public Auction at the Fred ___ Ahlfield farm, 3% miles west and 1%-miles south of Butler and one mile east of Enter- prise school house, on | Friday, The following property: 11 Head of Horses and Mules 11 Head o! 12 aa of January 2lst, 1916 small rifle and when near the same spot the wolves again ap- peared. He fired and killed one The Clinton Eye is responsible for the story that it was so cold ‘in Henry county last week that the hens laid frozen eggs. The Montrose Recorder says that the roads are so bad in Hen- ry county that several rural mail earriers on routes out, of Urich were forced to make ther trips on foot one.day last. week. . The Henry County Poultry As- sociation has abandoned its plan to hold a poultry show in Clinton this month, on account of start- ing too late to properly advertise it and inability to get. State aid.— Clinton Democrat. | ‘Since our last issue the Armour branch house at Clinton has re- vised its rabbit directory and now reports the handling of 70,000 rabbits during holiday week, in- stead of 50,000 as reported by us last week.—Urich Herald. During the cloudy weather last week the Appleton City mayor ordered the Municipal light plant to turn on the day current. The consumers found it so handy that now it will be hard tp make them do without it all the time. Last week, Elmer Braden sold a half interest of his Blacksmith Shop to Mr. H, M. Fields, of But- ler, who took possession the first of the week. Mr. Fields comes to Amoret, an experienced hand at the business, having owned a blacksmith shop in Butler for a number of years.—Amoret Lead- er. Lewis Moore has been conduct- ing a voting contest to determine the ten best Hume boosters. The contest has ended and the Tele- phone publishes the following list as nine of the ten: John B. Bry- ant, M. L. Beadles, W. W. Hof- sess, Elmer Martin, J. C. Biggs, Chas. Coleman, Ray McConnell, Dr. A. L. Billings, W. H. Schoe- ber. At'the meeting of. the State Board of Agriculture at Colum- bia last week the sixteen mem- bers, all newly appointed by the Governor, drew lots to deter- mine who would take the respec- tive terms of. one, two, three and four years. M. V. Thralls, of Urich, was one of the four-who drew a three years term.—Urich Herald. Mrs. Jane Barton, mother of W. C. and L. Barton, of near Adrian, died at the home of her daughter near Adrian, Sunday morning at 8:00 o’clock, at the age of 76 years, 2 months and 18 days. She leaves five children to mourn‘her loss. The funeral was held at the home of her son, L. G. Barton, at 3 o’clock Tuesday af- ternoon, ‘burial at Newton Burial Park.—Adrian Journal. ~ An unusual theft is reported from Barton county where ‘the largest cedar tree in the Shady Glen ‘cemetery was cut down and removed during the night of De- cember 28rd, presumably for use as a Christmas tree... Two of Shel- don’s churchés had considerable difficulty in locating a Christmas tree last year, but as yet no one has.accused either of stealing their tree from a cemetery.— Shéldon Enterprise. John Yoss died at his home in Prairie City, about six o’clock in the morning, Monday, January 10th. He was 75 years, 9 months and.18 days old and his death was the brush.- He brought the dead animal to Warrensburg and se- cuted a bounty on its scalp. The farmers along his route have also raised quite a substantial purse for him as the wolves had been committing depredations on the farmers hen roosts. Three Die on U, 8. Submarine New York, Jan. 15.—Two. were killed outright and eleven, men were injured when an explosion partly wrecked the United States submarine E-2 at .the Brooklyn Navy Yard this afternoon. John Shulz, a civilian employee who was injured in the explosion on the E-2, died at the yard dis- pensary, making a total of three dead. . All of the injured men ‘taken out were black with smoke and grime. and at first it was impossi- ble. to tell whether they were bad- ly injured or only suffering from slight burns. Several officers who were lowered into the craft before the fumes wére cleared out were pulled out after becoming unconscious. _ The B-2 was at the navy yard having installed the new batteries which Thomas A. Edison has de- veloped for the United States navy. She was the first submer- sible fo be so equipped. The explosion occurred while the ‘batteries were being re- charged, according to a statement | made at the naval hospital by one! of the injured men. It was; caused by hydrogen gas, he said. Mexican War Has Cost Quarter | : Billion. | Washington, Jan. 15.—The_to- tal cost in money—not lives—in Mexico is estimated at $262,030. 000, made up as follows: | Claims against the Mexican government filed with the state department to cover property loss of Americans in Mexico and in- demnities for death and personal ; injury of Americans during the revolutionary period, $250,000,- 000. . Total cost of sending and main- taining army at Vera Cruz and | _ ber of Foreigners Arri Last Year. iad on the Mexican border, $6,000,- 000. Extra cost of outfitting ships; extra cost, provisions and other expenses above annual navy maintenance incident to sending fleet going to Vera Cruz and re- turning dead Americans for bur-| ial, $5,000,000. | Cost of maintaining marines at) Vera Cruz and outfitting trans- ports,. $1,000.00, Salaries and expenses of John Lind, Paul Fuller, William Pay- ard Hale and other persona] rep- resentatives of President Wilson in Mexico, $30,000 Invitation to T. R. is Recalled. New Haven, Conn., Jan. 15.— After having once extended an in- vitation to. Theodore Roosevelt to be the principal speaker at its an- nual banquet here January 29 the McKinley association of Con- necticut has informed him it was impossible for them to come to an agreement on the question. ‘Word has been sent to Oyster- Bay recalling the invitation. The McKinley association is composed of 600 Progressives and Republicans. A sub-committee decided on the invitation and a delegate was sent to Oyster Bay. Mr. Roosevelt accepted, but later the Republicans objected and in On|the interest of peace, the invita- tion was recalled. Ohiliiren Killed by Air Bomb Cologne, Jan. 15 (via London). Ten children who were playing in ALIEN IMMIGRATION IN STATE DECREASES Var Responsible for Small tum- b's _ Jefferson City, Mo., Jan. 15, With a falling off in 1915 of im- migration from Europe into Missouri of 60 per cent, due to the European war, it will prove interesting information to the people of Missouri what the oceu- pation of aliens who ‘settled in Missouri during that year, were. A bureau of labor statistics bulletin, completed today, an- nounces that of 2,743 aliens who came to. Missouri, 68 followed professional work, 401 were arti- sans, 1,178 are classed as miscel- laneous. and 1,101 were dependent women and children, There were 282 servants, about evenly divided between sexes. Those who preferred farm work to any other kind of toil num- bered 167. Among others classed as following ‘‘miscellaneous’’ oc- cupations were four agents, one teamster, four fishermen, two ho- tel keepers. two manufacturers, forty-five merchants and dealers and seventy-one of different vo- cations than those already enu- merated. While farmers and farm work- ers are considered to be the most desirable of all immigrants, those classed as skilled workers are highly weleome. With the state already full of clerks and ac- eountants sixty-two of the 1915 immigrants stated this was their oceupation. Those engaged in professional work are classified as follows: Clergymen, 14; architect, 1; edit- er, 1; electrical engineers, 2; civil engineers, 4; lawyers, 4; scientists, 4; musicians, 6; govern- iment officials, 3; physicians, 4; teachers, 12; and eight others not regularly listed. It is not known where in the state these professionals are locat- ed, but it is thought cities claimed most of them. Bank of Rockville. To the Bank of Rockville is due much’ credit for the promi- nent part it has taken in the de- velopment of Rockville and the territory — surrounding. This worthy institution was estab- lished in 1890, The charter for 50 years has reached the half-way station and if the past twenty- five years is a fair criterion, we bespeak for The Bank of Rock- ville a high degree of prosperity as it continues on its ourney. With L. Hagnauer, president; J.. E. Hook, Vice-President and W. E. Heyle Cashier, this bank is in the hands of men well up in the banking business and in whom the utmost confidence may safe- ly be placed. Mr. Heyle came to Rockville from Appleton City, and has been cashier of this bank 25 years and under his able man- agement the institution has pros- pered until it is recognized as a one of the safest banks —in—-the state. ~ Since its» organization The Bank of Rockville has paid its shareholders 355 per cent in divi- dends amounting to $35,500 and has placed in the surplus fund 100 per cent or $10,000 and has in the undivided profits 100 per cent or $10,000, making in all a total net earning of 555 per cent or $55,500.—Rockville Booster. Fire Prevention. The Missouri Fire Prevention association, an organization whose object is to reduce the fire loss of life and property in this state, is making ar effort to edu- cate and secure the cooperation of the school pupils in fire preven- tion, and with that end in view offers to school pupils of Missouri two cash prizes, Ist, $25; and 2nd, $10, for the best essays on ‘‘Fire Prevention.’’ The cesays must not exceed one thousand words in the highest averages of the fleet’s for in the orn Rapes karen day in connection ¥ to the Senate of the an- Spruce. Spruce is coming to the front. eral merchandise atore in the future, W. Ira Eads and John ‘|Mulkey Jhajl_ their sale Tuesday preparatory~to going into the mercantile business at Spruce. As competition is the spice of life we may expect some keen compe- tition, also good prices as both Mr. Eads and Mr. Mulkey are wide awake, enterprising. young men, and will cause the other merchants to do a little hustling. Luck to you boys. Here’s hoping you a prosperous year in your work, Capt. J. B. Newberry is much better. Mrs. Jas. Hill, who quite sick is improving. The many friends of Miss Eula Winegarden surprised her on her birthday, Saturday night and a delightful time was the verdict of every one present. Light refresh- ments were served after which, with many wishes for many more happy birthdays they took their leave. There are numerous skating parties being held. these days. Miss Jessie Stevens fell on the ice and dislocated her elbow last week. : Miss Anna Winegarden has been among those who have the grip the past week. For the second time Dr. Hill of Kansas City was called to oper. ate on Miss Myrtle Cook. O. J. Rradford of Deepwater spent several days in Spruce look- ing after business interests. has been In and Around Maysburg. More snow, sleet and rain. Rey. Thomas filled his appoint- ment at the Baptist church Satur- day evening, Sunday and Sunday evening. 2 We understand Mr. Sam Stat- ons has traded for a store at Arch- ie and expects to take charge soon. We are sorry to lost Mr. Statons from our midst, but hope our loss will be Archie’s gain. Mrs. Farmer and Godwin were unable to attend church Sunday morning. j Orvid Jacobs while skating at school Wednesday fell and broke his arm just above the wrist. Dr. Smith was called and set the bone Thursfay. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bowler moved over near Urich Friday. Tan White, Arch Anderson and two of Mr. Coonses boys helped Mr. Gilbert haul hogs to Urich Saturday. ~ Mr. and Mrs. Reed and children visited at Mr.“ Harne Harness’s Sunday afternoon. Mr. Sterling Harness visited at Mr. Heart’s Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Heart are im- proving but are not able to get out. ‘ Miss Yada Snow is quite _poor- 'y- » A NEIGHBOR. Bell System Earned $24,000,000 in 1915. The gross. earnings of the American Telephone and Tele- graph Company (The Bell Sys- tem) were about $240,000,000 last year, a gain of about $14,000,000 as compared with $225,952,123 in 1914. An official statement to stockholders was made public to- day. The increase in gross earnings, it is announced, was below the normal increase of recent years, although there was an abnormal gain in the long distance business in certain sections. The company spent $31,000,000 last year for plant additions. Death of James C. Lane. Mr. James C. Lane died at his home on West Olive Street at 1:30 Friday afternoon, Jan. 14, 1916, aged 84 years. Mr. Lane was a retired farmer and had lived ix Bates County 47 years. He leaves to mourn his loss, his widow and four sons. Dr. G. G. Lane, of this city, Samuel F. Lane of Washing- ton, John ©. Lane of Arkansas and Clifford J. Lane, of near Rich Hill—Rich Hill Western Enterprise. Death of Dr. Stanley D. Jewell ' Priends in this city have re- eeived the announcement of the death of Rev: Stanley D. Jewell,