The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, January 20, 1916, Page 5

ft Black & Arnold Clothing Co, Sheriff Johnson was a Rich Hill visitor Saturday. Frank Ream made a business trip to Hume Tuesday. Frank Mathers of Adrian was a Butler visitor Tuesday. Cut prices on overcoats, money at Black & Arnold. W. B. Dawson was a business vistor to Hume Tuesday. Save Warm gloves, caps, overshoes, felts, right now, Black & Arnold. 8 c Born to Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Keirsey on Pleasant street a fine girl. Suit cases. and trunks, Black & | Arnold. : B.'F. Richards is visiting his brother, W. W. Michaeds in Tul- ga, Okla. “ County Treasurer John Stone visited friends in Adrian the last of the week. Will Ayres, of Livingston, , Mont., is in the city visiting, rela- tives and friends. © PD SEPUT ONY to make room for the most. WE SHOE THE FAMILY: WITH SOLID LEATHER | American Clothing House: Leaders for 30 years., Mrs. John Stangle, of Rich Hill, visited relatives in Butler the lat. ter part of the week. Miss Bessie Jackson, who has been visiting friends in Kansas City returned Friday. Attorney H. E, Sheppard of Rich Hill was a county seat vis- itor the first of the week, Miss Eleanor Lynch left Mon- day for Chicago where she will visit her brother, Walter. Mrs. H. P. James, of Rich Hill, arrived in the city Tuesday to vis- it her sister, Mrs. H. G. Cook. Miss Agnes Watson, of Rich Hill, spent Sunday in this ‘city visiting her sister, Mrs. Osborne Leedy. Come in and save yourself mon- ey while the sale lasts, Black & Arnold. John Coleman of the Denton- Coleman Loan and Title Company made. a business trip to Rockville Monday. Harry Harris, a prominent druggist of Rich Hill, was:a busi- ness visitor to the county ‘seat Too Late t To buy yous SUIT or OVERCOAT, its a big saving to you | Fisher, has returned to his home Wednesday. ~~ Arthur Morgan, who has been visiting his sister, Mrs. Lewis in Kansas City. J. K. Norfleet who had an ab- cess removed from one of his eyes about three weeks ago is still con- fined to his home. The manv friends of Judge G.| C. Miller will be glad to learn that he is recqvering from an at- tack of pneumonia. Alle Baldwin, of Pleasanton, Kas.. wes in the city one day the first of the week visiting his sis- ter, Mrs. Hal Travis. | where they exnect to remain for Statistics issued ,by the State | Mining Bureau show that the val- jue of Missouri lead and zinc out- put in 1915 was greater than Cali- fornia’s gold output. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Rook and little son have returned to their home in Kansas City after vis'ting their parents, Mr. and Mrs, John Rook and Charles Maddox in this city. Bernie Bohlken, a prominent farmer of Western Bates was a| county .seat visitor Friday and made this office a pleasant call| and had the dates set ahead on his paper. : Mr. and Mrs. Welton Allen left Monday for Los Angeles, Cal., | some time for ahe benefit of Mr. ' Allen’a.bealth, which has not been | the best for some time, ‘ Mrs. Luther Angel and two lit-| tle daughters, Thelma and Doro- thy, have returned to their home in Tarkio, Mo., after a pleasant visit to Mrs. Angels parents, Mr. | and Mrs. J. C. Vantrees. Mrs, W. G. Shaffer of Ft. Smith, Ark., arived in this ctiy the first of the week being called here-by the serious illness of her little niece, Dorothy Arnold, who is suffering from pneumonia. The young people have got out their skates and are taking ad- vantage of the good skating since the cold spell set in. Christvs lake is covered each evening with merry crowds of youngsters. More than $1,000,000 was re- alized at an auction of furs in St. | Wisconsin fine but that the win- | dition very serious. visiting in Kansas City. cy souri this week on a business trip..| Mr, and Mrs. J. R. Douglass are | Progressive Convention in C. 8. Ewin is in sotthwest Mis- Chicago June 11, Chicago, Jan. 11.—The Pro- gressive party will hold its na- convention We are Clearing c our Shelves a FALL and WINTER “DRESS GOODS at Great Reductions in Prices Up-to-Date Spring Stock WE ARE ALSO CUTTING Nitens Suits and Over: coats TO CLOSE OUT ALL HEAVY WEIGHT GARMENTS. i Keep coming in as we need business in January same as oth- er months, Black & Arnold. Mrs. E. K. Wolfe and daugh- ters, Katherine and Dixie, left Tuesday for Kansas City to at- tend the wedding of Mrs. Wolfe’s brother, W. C. Tunstall, to Miss Vivian Cutler, which occurred Wednesday evening, January’ 19. H. H. Wells returned Saturday from Kansas City where he , has been with his wife, who under- went a surgical operation. in a j hospital in that city. He reports ihis wife as getting along nicely and hopes to be home in another week, T. C. Robinson returned Satur- day from Wisconsin,-where he had been since last April engaged in making maps. He says he likes ters are a little too severe for him, so he will spend the rest of the winter in good old Missouri. The standpat hoses of the Re- publican party in Missouri are not conceding a crumb to the pro- gressive, and do not propose to leave anything to the ‘people. They propose to run party affairs or b-u-r-s-t—bust—the whole she- bang, and ‘‘bust”’ it will be. The many friends of John Deer- wester will regret to learn that he is seriously ill with the grip at his home in Shawnee township. He recently recovered from an at- tack of pneumonia which left him very weak which together with his advanced age makes his con- Mrs. George W. Arnold, 65 Louis last week. Te, prices for skins ranged from ten cents for a perwitsky skin, whatever that is, un to $2,350 for a pair of white fox skins. «{teemed resident of Bates county, years old, died at her home in Sprague, Saturday evening, Jan. 15, 1916, at 11:40 o’clock, after a lingering illness of dropsy. Mrs. Arnold was an old and highly es- J. Q. Nafus the west side under- taker. was a visitor to Rich Hill Tuesday. Winfield Steele came down from Adrian Wednesday to visit relatives and old friends, Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Patrick of Joplin, are in the city visiting at the home of Mrs. Patrick’s sister, Mrs. Dennis Thralls, Joe, one of the fire department horses, who has been off du'y for over three weeks with distemper, is back on the job again. Jos. H. Smith of Pleasanton, Kas., came over the first of the week and is visiting at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Smith, Dr. R. E. Walsh, of Frederick- town, who some time ago pur-, chased the dental practice of Dr. H. M. Cannon, has closed up his shop and gone to Farmington. George Newberry, a former ,| well known citizen of this city, but now connected with a manu- facturing company in Chicago, was in the city Tuesday visiting relatives and meeting old friends. He was on his way to Joplin ‘on a business trip and stopped off here for a short visit. Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Davis are visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Boag, east of town. Mr. and Mrs. Davis are former residents of the west part of this county but for some time have been living in North Dakota and are now on their way to a new home in southern Kansas. James Williams and Earl Ear- ‘som have accepted positions with the Walton Trust Company. The steadily increasing business -of this institution made an increase in the office force necessary. Both of these young men are steady and industrious and will make good in their new positions. Monday afternoon and night the Electric Theatre will present that greatest of all western dramas, Fatherhood, in five big acts. The scene is laid in the ranch country of Arizona, It is a thrilling, gripping play filled with Indians, cowboys and China- men and depicts ranch life in the far west as it really is. It you miss this one you will be sorry. Sam Cumberledge, of Musko- gee, Okla., was transacting busi- ness in this city Monday. Many years ago Mr. Cumberlege was a traveling salesman and Butler was one of the towns he ‘made’. ago and it is needless to say that he finds many improvements have taken place since he used to visit the town in the 80s, The banquet given by the Twenty-eigth Ward Democratic Club of St. Louis on the evening —A-ma*—who-rut-a—fire- at the EXTREME LOW PRICES we we are making on Men’s, Boys’ and anton, Kas., visiting at the home of her brother, J. H. Smith. of near Montrose was in Butler on Wednesday looking after busi- ness matters and made us a cmos ant call. Hill was damaged about $1000 by fire Tuesday night of last week.- The origin of the fire is unknown. ing the last week have upset train schedules. Most trains from the north have been from one to six hours late. Deputy Sheriff Bert Eggleson was in Foster Tuesday serving summons for the February term of the Circuit Court. - A few boys overcoats to: close out, Black & Arnold. Miss Myrtle Smith spent a few days the last of the week in Pleas- Our good friend Homer Clark 1 The Christman saloon at Rich of Rich Hill, -who was sentenced | to four years in the reform school at the May term of been revoked and he. was taken to the reform school Tuesday to be- bill in the collection plate in an Akron, Ohio, church recently, is warning. Mrs. Jas. A: DeAmond and children, who have been visiting Mrs. DeArmond’s parents near Liberty returned home Friday of last week. They were accompan- ied by Miss Anna Bell, Mis. De- Armond’s sister. The parole of Edward Benham court, has | } _ The cold weather and sleet dur- Engineer Joseph | left Tuesday night for Tils., where he will attend gin serving his sentence. he’s running for senator, dent, delegate-at-large, or trotting along after an old- bull moose. He has the front of an lelephant, but his hindparts are ~ Harvey Welch, of Lees Sum.| those of ‘a moose or moosette. mitt, arrived in the city the last of the week, being called here by the illness of his mother, Mrs. J. W. Ennis. Highway - Flammang rensburg were damaged by fire Monday night of last week. The restaurant of Neb Shobe was slightly damaged. Mrs. Shobe and baby, who were asleep in a room over the restaurant had & narow escape front being suffo- eated. by smoke. was held t the E. 48 Smiser home Hadley doesn’t know whether Presi- just t Several business houses in War A reunion of the Smiser faniil¥ id. fam ly, © y Toon and a eee being held hy the notice until his} Saturday afternoon a man canity ean be investigated. But-|named Carr was taken before ler church goers should take|Squire R. S. Catron on infornia- torney fined $60 on dling represented a stove company of St. Louis that had sold stoves di- réct to the buyer. attorney, W. an appeal to the Cireuit Court. d entered her aj having resided here for the past 35 years.—Rich Hill Review. tion filed by Prosecuting At- D. CC. Chastain and eharge of ped- without a license. He Thorugh his they were all as full of ‘ party spirit as they otherwise got to be during the banquet. publican hopes of carryiny Mis- souri in this good year 1916 have gone a-glimmering. Republicans wants Judge Lamm as a cess in every respect. A splendid erowd of city and country - big “—D’’ Democrats was there, and nen’’ in Re- The Koeln faction of St. Louis candidate for Governor. O, Jackson, he filed Will Adamson of three miles} Jefferson City, northwest of Montrose had the|and Charley Morris, of St. Joseph misfortane’ to lose 8 fine steers as the result of a peculiar acci-|thinks he looks like a Governor. dent Friday night. were sleeping around a stack about 15 sometime during the night the/on a division of the spoils. stack fell over onto them, were dead when found Saturday | sidered, morning and the eighth died Mon- |‘ day morning. The top of the/they?_ stack was covered with wet snow | - which had frozen until it was vir- feet ually a huge cake of ice. ~ I Elmer Dixon has filed a_peti- This is the sec- The Kiel wing is for MeJimsey. Beauty Parlor Thomas, mayor of Seven | Republican will not add to the burdens of the people. tion in the office of Circuit Clerk|itarism and endanger the liber- Maxey asking a decree of divorce|ties of the masses. from his wife, Addie Dixon. He]can people must choose between asks for the custody of the three|this program and the extreme minor children. ond appearance of the Dixons in} Roosevelt, they will accept the {the divorce court. At the Febru- ary term, 1914, he was granted a/ Roosevelt program pro} divorce but a reconciliation was/ destroy individual liberty, subor- had and the decree was set aside|dinate everything to militarism the same term. Mrs. Dixon has|and mobilize all the resources of and the/the country for war preparedness. has been set for trial at the/The army and navy would be ab- ary term of the Circuit/solute and arbitrary power in|did it and is coming out-with fly- A ape” of -tem-/ would be.a gentle summer zephyr |ing colors, notwi 2 eal Fumo ap on ar with militaristic former by a large majority. The is for himself, The masses aren’t con- They are. to be like ‘dumb driven cattle.’ But will His last visit here was 16 years |- dune tin Chi- cago, concurrently with the na- _ tional convention of the Republi- can party, in the hope that both may agree on the safe candidate for president. This action was decided upon today by the nation- al committee of the Progressive party. Forty-seven of the forty- eight states were represented at the meeting. A message was read from Colo- nel Theodore Roosevelt urging the necessity for adequate pre- paredness. - Hadley Il, Goes Back to New “Mexico Ranch. Kansas City, Mo. Jan. 17.— Herbert S. Hadley, candidate for the Republican nomination for United States Senator, left here today for his 50-acre ranch near Roswell, N. M., for his health. Mrs. Hadley accomnanied him. Hadley left on advice ‘of his physicians. If he makes an im- mediate improvement, he will be . back to Kansas City in April. If his condition does not become more satisfactory, he may with- draw from the race for senator- ship. W. A. Baker Honored. W. A. Baker of Pleasant Gap township was honored last week by the Poland China Record As- sociation at the meeting of that body at Marysville, Mo., where Mr. Baker was elected a member of the Board of Directors of the Association for a term of three years. Mr. Baker has attained a wide reputation as one among the foremost of the breeders of Po- land China hogs, and his reeogni- tion by the Association is well merited. National Pay ‘Up Week. February 21 to 26, 1916, has been set:aside all over the country as pay up week. Why not put it into practice in Bates county? The: matter of paying your debts is largely a thing we put.off sometimes unnecessarily. Every man who bas money due him needs it, whether merchant, doctor or farmer. Why not do it? What do you say? Drank Four Qu«rts of Whisky. Pittsburg, Pa., Jan. 17—Fol- lowing a wager as to which could drink the most whisky, Joseph Onders, 25 years old, is dead and his’ companion, John Kusius, 94, is believed to he dying.’ Onders had a score of four quarts to his credit when he erllansed, Kucins went down for the count after swallowing three quarts. The contest lasted seven hours. Taft says the Republican party will not surrender to the bull moose holters of four years ago; that the prodigal ddietie ed "es to—retutnavithoat—tie— tative that the fatted calf shall be killed, the royal rohes vlaced upon their lank forms, and all the best about the family homestead made to serve them, will be for- given and, of course, allowed to vote the ticket. Those who wish to come hack to the ranch and run it, will find a gun in their face and a surprising amount of preparedness for a scrap. _ What has become of the Roose- velt demand for the initiative, referendum and recall, and the reeall of judicial decisions? If T. . R. bluffs the Republican conven- tion into nominating him Presi- dent, will he ram all the fads he The animals |The bosses in all these factions| brainstormed for in 1912 down straw]are holding frequent conferences|the throats of our Republican high and] trying to fix up a slate and agree|friends who so roundly de- nounced them during that cam- paign? The outcome of the Chi- cago convention next June: will reveal who was sincere four years -The Wilson program of pre- paredness is a modest one and € It will not result in mil- If the Ameri- one advocated by|i to this cyclonic ing critics and falsifiers. - -|ago—Roosevelt or the Republican party. The State Treasurer has paid every warrant against the state the minute it was presented at the Treasury Department. Not -a single warrant went to protest. On January first there was ap- proximately four million dollars in the-treasury, and one hundred and eighty thousand dollars in the general revenue. There was no> deficit as predicted by the G-D and P-D, and there will be none, © This fine condition of state af- fairs didn’t just happen. . There has been good management: seme- where. The Major administration the. toon: