The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, January 27, 1916, Page 5

‘American Clothing House WE ARE ALSO. UTTING WE. SHOR THE, FAMILY) anrett SOLID:LEATHER © Leaders for 30 yeate. Mens ‘Suite awa Over: coats. TO. CLOSE OUT ALL HEAVY WEIGHT GARMENTS. i Black &: Arnold Clgthing Co. Drop head sewing machines at Murray’s this week only $2.50. Corduroys and duck “eoats’ to close out, Black & Arnold. Mrs. Wesley Black assisted in'a concert given by Rudolph King in Kansas City Friday of last week. Mrs. H. G. Cook visited rela- tives and friends in Rich Hill ave first of the week.: A few more overcoats and mackinaws to close out, Black & Arnold. Major Sam Walls of Adrian was a Butler visitor’ Monday atter- noon.,’’ Sheriff’ Johnson made 4. busi- ness trip to Amsterdam and Rich | Hill Friday. ; Winfield Steele of Adrian spent e few days the last of the week | visiting Yelatives in this city.- ' For sale—Bighty acres of land 5 miles southwest of Butler on Butler and. Rich Hill road: . For articulars write J. A. Carpenter, rewster, Kans, R.1, 4ti Advantage Of the extreme low- pri ces we are manne on Men's, Boys’ and Chiro’ §- urday. Joe Meyer. hospital convalescing from a se- metropolitan class. They have dis- roanged eT cnt appar | received at the postoffice in one truck, — ‘ called’ to this city by the illness and. death Of her niother, Mrs. F. ‘C. Smith, has returned | to home in Horton; Kas. es Misses Bessie Jackson and| Aileene Beauchamp spent Satur- day in Kansas City. ~ Come in and get the benefit of the ‘prices we are making, Black & Arnold. ‘We will buy or trade for your old furniture, C. A. Murray, South Side Furniture Store. Why. do without a sewing ma- chine when you can buy. a good one for $2.50 at Murray’s. C. R. Long ¢ame in from Tulsa, Okla., Saturday for a short visit with home folks. Mr. and Mrs"'R. J. Smith made a combined business and pleasure trip to Kansas City the last of the week, + Muviand Mrs: J. T. Mellteoy loft the last of the week for Neosho, | Mo., where they visited with their son, | George, McElroy ‘and family. NUE, Young of La Plata, Mo.,| arrived in the city Saturday and spent Sunday with his parents, | Mr. and Mrs. 8. R. Young. Petitions for nomination. fur the \ presidency of the United States have been filed in behalf of Hen- ry Ford in Michigan. . Did you think it was cold last week? Richardson, Alaska, re- ported 80 degrees below zero Sat- Mrs. Len Barber, who under- went an operation in Kansas City about three weeks ‘ago, returned home Friday. Squire D. A. Bean of the west part of the county, who has been} seriously sick with puPnoNsss is reported better. Mrs. Simon Meyer of Omaha, Neb., was in the city last week, the guest of her brother-in-law, | Mrs. H. H. Wells Wtaradd ‘Sun- day from Kansas City where she had been for several weeks in a vere surgical operation. Warrensburg is -getting in the . Mrs.) John’ Yaple, who‘ ‘was her “B, Baskerville, a ‘ prominent | young farmer and stockraiser, af} x, Deepwater township was a busi- _ visitor. Wednesday, The were so muddy he walked | ae and same the reat i low grade of our high-grade. and get good.resn fully guaranteed. 1 Judge C. A. Denton left Mon- day for Lexington, Mo., on a busi- ness trip. Joe Cox, mechanie at the Nor- fleet & Ream garage, spent Sun- day in Carthage visiting friends. Peoples Bank was a business vis- itor to Kansas City one day the first of the week, * . You have always wanted to see that great actor, Wilton Lackaye. matinee and night at the Electric | Theatre. ‘President Arthur Bonner of Morrisville College was represent- ing the school and visiting Rev. E. K. Wolfe on Tuesday. Grover Argenbright was:a busi- ness visitor to Cass county the lat- ter part of the week. He returned Saturday afternoon and reports the roads almost impassible. The Border Telephone says the taxpayers of that town have paid | out enough in increased insurance rates in the last 30 years to put in'an up to date water works plant, Singer, New Home, Goodrich, and many other makes of good sewing machines only $2.50. Needles and repairs, C. A. Mur- ray, South Side Furniture Store. January and February are usu- ally dull business months. Yow can make these our best ones if you will do all your trading with us, Black & Arnold. Dr. and Mrs. J. W. Choate and son, Leslie, attended the funeral of Mrs. Choate’s father, Judge John L. Jackson, which took place in Harrisonville Saturday. Next Monday the Electric Theatre will present that fore- most American actor, Wilton Lackaye in a big five act produe- tion entitled, ‘‘The Man of Shame.’’ The mail order houses believe in advertising. More than seven larg¢ sacks filled with catalogs, addressed to the patrons of the rural routes out of Butler, were day recently. If your bread is. dark and sog- gy, it is hecause: you are using a flour, Try a sack of ‘ .;, Cannon. Efevator. ; The ‘Butler ‘Reds Basket Ball team went.up to, Garden ( ‘ity; Club”’ in Butler. ‘Thursday of last. week.and p! the'team at that city. The score}but we are wondering i was Butler 39, Garden City { ._| Courtney of Adrian was, referee a ship who was:in Nevada Sa‘urdaj peed mu says the ety t feet of the Ken railroad track, Wesley Denton, cashier of the | County Engineer Joseph Flam- mang returned Saturday from Cairo, Ills., where he attended a meeting of the National Drainage Congress. He reports a very in- teresting meeting with about 400 engineers present. Why that strange, pleased smile everybody is wearing? Just thinking of the fun we are all go- ing to have paying up our bills during National -Pay-Up Week, February 21-26.—‘‘Passing Pros. You can see him next Monday, Pperity Around,’’ as it were. Rev. R. M. Talbert of the Chris- tian church who is in the Wesley hospital at Kansas City, where he underwent a surgical operation for an affection of the throat writes that he expects to be home the latter part of the week and will occupy his pulpit Sunday. February 21-26 will . probably. live long in the history of this community. That’s the week, you know, when we are all going to pay up so the other fellow can pay up, too. Thousands of dol- lars will-be paid on old. accounts, old notes, ete., locally. Henry Ford says he will go to Europe again if someone will con- vince him that he could do auy good there. He could have saved himself a lot of trouble and ex- pense by waiting for some one to convince him that he could do some good before he went the first time. KF. J. Johnson, the deputy Unit- ed States marshal, who had charge jof the self confessed German spy, I. T. T. Lincoln, when he eseaned from custody in New York last week has been dismissed from the service by direction of Attorney General Gregory. C. W. Hess last week sold his drug store on the north side to C. C. Rhodes of Kansas City. Both Mr, and Mrs. 0. K. Davis of In- dependence, Mo.,are in the city visiting old frietids. William E, Walton left Monday for Excelsior Springs, where _he expects to remain for a few days. Sheriff. P. A: Dickerson of Lyons, Rice County, Kansas, was a business visitor to Butter one day last week. Mrs. J.C. Vantrees was taken to Kansas City Sunday, where she entered a hospital for the purpose of undergoing a surgical opera- tion. The friends of A.J. Smith: of Adrian are enthusiastically urg- ing his selection as a delegate to the Republican National Conyen- tion from the Sixth District, ‘You pay me, I’ll pay you,’ will be the greeting between our good citizens every day during the week of February 21-26, That is National Pay- Up Week when everybody is going to pay every- body else. - Norfleet & Ream last week pur- chased the Lewis Radford build= ing on Ohio street they are now occupying with a garage. The new owners contemplate extensive improvements to the building as soon as the weather will permit. Invitations to the wedding of Miss Gretchen Sibyl Bacon and Mr. Warren Potter Allen at Me- Allister, Oklahoma, Wednesday evening February 9th, 1916, have been received by friends and rel- atives in Bates county. Miss Ba- con is the niece of Mr. and Mrs. WP. Freeman of McAllister. Mr. Allen is the son of Dr, E. N. Allen, formerly of Bates county. Forty of the merchants and pro- fessional men of Butler will not only observe pay up week Feb.:21- 26, but will try and induce ,»very- body else as far as they, are able to do the same thing. This idea is national in its scope and has} been tried out successfully in many places. It is an all get to- gether idea and pay as far as we can what we owe or make some| satisfactory disposition of our| debts. Let everybody do their} best to make a go of this import- | ant matter. Neb Shobe, a former’ Butler} boy, is surely having a run of| tough luck .in Warrensburg. } About a week ago his restaurant was damaged by smoke and water | when a building adjoining} burned. Thursday night the stove pipe in a room above his restau-; rant fell down and set fire to the} building. Fortunately Mr. Shobe| had not gone to bed and he suc- ceeded in getting help and put-; ting the fire out before much dam- age was done. ’ Rivers on Rampage. As a result of the heavy rain the last of the week, both the Marais des Cygnes and the Miami rivers went out of their banks. The Marais des Cygnes still cov- | ers the bottoms as we go to press, but the Miami has gotten back in-| Mr. and Mrs. Rhodes are regis- tered pharmacists and have been for some years in charge of a drug store in Kansas City. Mr. Rhodes contemplates remodeling the store and adding new fixtures. Notwithstanding the almost im- ‘ing was held ‘in Schell Tony Sat- urday, January. 22, for the pur- ‘pose of organizing a cooperative drainage district under the new- lsouri, for the reclamation: of the passable condition of the reads a large number of rural school teachers were in town Saturday attending the class he- ing conducted by. Prof. C. A. Phillips of .the Extension depart- “Red Star Flour’|ment of the Warrensburg State Its. Every sack} Normal. 4t | course are allowed credit on a reg- ular course ‘at the State Norimal. All teachers taking this There is a ‘‘Stitch and Chatter | The name. well layed explains the purpose of the club, if they don’t advocate that ‘‘a stitch in time ; saves nine’’—while they ‘chatter all the time.’’ M. A.Earl of Harrison town-|have plenty of clubs like that in ‘Clinton, but, however, they go un- der a better disguised name.— Now, we revised drainage laws of Mis- bottoms. of the 0 her banks except at_the mouttr) of the stream where it is backed | up. by the Marais des Cygnes. The drainage ditches art carry: | ing a great volume of water and| are expected to carry off the sur- | plus water of the bottoms within the next two or three days. M. E. Church, South. ®. | E. K. Wolfe, Pastor. | Strangers and friends weleome: to all our services.” Our purpose is, Two Injured by Falls on Ioe While walking from the post office to his home a block away, Mr, Pierce Hackett slipped and falling heavily to the ground; broke one of the ribs in his nson—and Mr. Gray assisted the injured man in getting to his home where he received a doctor's attention. Mr. Hackett says his:side is very sore and paipful buthe hopes to .be able to be out ina short time. —~ Grandpa Penny met with a very painful accident on last Fri- day by falling and breaking his hip. Mr. Penny had just stepped outside the door when he sipped and fell. He was picked up ky members of the family and Dr. Smith was called and the old gen- tleman was soon made as comfort- »}able as possible. At this writing Mr. Penny is getting along nicely and his many friends hope to see him out soon again.—Amoret Leader. Charles H. Phelps to Wed Carthage, ~ Mo., Charles H. Phelps of Carthage, brother of Col. W. H. Phelps, State Senator of this district, will be married Wednesday to Miss Lola H Smith, daughter of a Bap- tist minister at Garden City, Mo. The wedding is to be at the home of J. L. Smith, a brother of Miss Smith, in Kansas City. The cere- mony will be performed by Miss Smith’s father, Rev. Mr Phelps isin the loan and real estate busingss ,with offices in Carthage. Miss Smith, who is a charming young lady, is a niece of T. J. Smith of this city and has fre- quently visited here. First National: Bank of Adrian Elects Officers. The directors of the First Na- tional Bank met Friday and elect- ed the officers of the bank for the eurrent year. The following per- sons were elected: J.C. Smith, president; 8S. L. Bates, vice presi- dent; L. R. Allen, cashier; Frank Mathers, assistant cashier. They added $1500 to the sur- plus fund of the bank.—Adrian Jan. 25.— | Journal. List of Letters ‘Remaining unealled for at the Post Office at Butler, Mo., for the week ending Jan, 25th, 1916: Webber Hollis, D. C. Moore, Miss Estelle Floyd, Miss Effie Garrison, Mrs. Mary Kite. ha These letters will be sent to th dead letter office 1916 if not delivered before. [calling for the above, please say Advertised’’ giving date of list. J. E. Williams, Postmaster. February 8th, Christian Church, The regular services will be held at the Christian chureh next Sunday. The pastor will be at home and will conduct worship at 11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. The Bible school and Endeavor societic! et at the usual hours. All the church members are re- quested to attend the various ser- vices Sunday and all visitors will be heartily welcomed. Attends a Meeting of the Farm Mortgage Association of America. J. B. Walton, vice president of the Missouri State Bank and The Walton Trust Company left Mon- day for Chicago where he attend- to make the truth interesting and jed a meeting of the board of gov- to offer some incentive to higher life. R. M. Talbert, Minister. thejernors, of which he is a member, : of the Mortgage Bank Association of Ameriéa. | WATCH Next Week's Papers. For Advertisements of the Merchant's J. A. Smith. | In,