The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, February 10, 1916, Page 3

lof the Jefferson highway betwees foplin ahd Kansas City, accordin ud to an interview in Saturday’s Jop- lin Globe with John M. vice president of the Jefferson ’ [Highway Association, who. re- | DIRECT FROM TEXAS We suggest that'orders be placed now, ‘as they are going fast. We are taking orders and holding the ~ seed. ‘until the season opens for * We have never had the opportunity of -. ‘securing this class of seed at such a * reasonable price. Call and see them—get our prices and place your orders early. é Cannon Elevator Co. Phome$$ BUTLER, MO. A fine Bates County Farm at - AUCTION 3 miles west of Butler, Mo., and 2 miles west and 1 mile south of Passaic, on . y SATURDAY, FEB., 19, 1916 MY FINE FARM OF 120 ACRES Lime stone soil; some creek bottom extra good, nearly all till- able; new. seven room house; two barns one new; two hen houses and plenty of outbuildings. All kinds of fruits and berries: well at the house; ring on the place; X mile to school, on Saat hay, Ri under vat carry tea 800 to 33,000 at 6%. ili give possession at once. given in full on day of sale. - Also all the Live Stock and Equipment 22—HEAD OF LIVE STOCK-22 6 Head of Hogs A quantity of Farm Mi etc. 20 Cords of 4-ft wood 8 Cords of Stove wood many other things too numer- ‘at 10 o'clock a. m. us te mention. LUNCH ON GROUND - ©, E. WISE, Owner - Col. C. E. Robbins, Auctioneer. M, C. Wilcox, Clerk. m Terms | © Head of Horses lead o! Cattle cy | New. Undertaking : Parlors Opened sear aoey + I have opened my new undertak- ing parlors in the building formerly occupied by Elmier Dixon, on the west side of the square, in Butler. © I handle a complete line of caskets . and funeral robes in all designs. J. C. NAFUS, : PHONE 239. 0 tarned Friday morning from a meeting of directors and officials of.the organization that was held in Kansas City Thursday. Ap- proximately 300 road enthusiasts from. every state on the route also were present, One of the routes will be through western Missouri and the other is through eastern Kansas. ‘Reports that the final routing of the highway will be announced in September are incorrect,’’ said Mr. Malang. ‘‘The directors at New Orleans entertained that plan, but it was decided yesterday, to have the two routes. — ‘(Hard surface roads alone will be considered. No dirt roads will be given a moment’s consideration by the officials.’’ "My. Malang believes that ‘the Joplin-Kansas City road will be the first to be completed, although many other communities along the route are actively engaged in road building. ‘‘We already have a good part of the road built, both in Kansas and in Missouri, and I believe that the road enthusiasts in each state will not allow interest in the vari- ous localities to die down.’’ : The ways and means commit- tee, to be appointed by President B.:T. Meredith of Des Moines, Ia., will raise a promotion - fund of $16,000 he declared. This money will be used to keep a road expert Jl in the field, visiting various local- ities and helping the road boosters in every way possible, and in pay- ing other expenses that will arise in connection with his work. The $16,000 fund ig expected to last about sixteen months. . “The larger cities I. believe, should raise this fund,’’? Mr. Ma- lang said, ‘‘as they are the ones most vitally interested in the building of the highway.’’ MAY TOUR SOUTH AND WEST Only the Foreign Situation Can ‘ ‘Interfere—Middle Western Trip Success. © Washington, Feb. 4.—President Wilson returned today from his speaking trip for preparedness so well pleased with. its results that he probably will make another soon, unless some feature of the foreign situation prevents his ab- sence from the capital. Tf he goeShe will visit the south and possibly some far western states. Mr. Wilson is cotivinced that the middle western trip was a sue: cess, He found at the White house telegrams and letters from the section he traversed telling him so, and,senators and repre- sentatives received many similar messages. The president has been invited to visit many states in the south, northwest and far west. His ad- viser have told him there was need in the south particularly for a special effort in favor of his pre- parednes program. The president will not lose the advantage gained by. his middle western trip, it was indicated to- day, but_wwill press’ for quick ac- tion by congress on the army and navy bills. He expects to hold a series of conferences with sena- tors:and. representatives during the next week. Oty Taras dn Preachers: - Corpus Christi; Tex. m and B, H. WILSON | Th is bal « century since the white and black, are still angrily ussing the issues. The other day, in Philadelphia, an aged ne- @ro shot an aged negro friend and then committed siicide. They had quarreled about the war. “Here I am,” one ‘said, ‘‘on this cold day without anywhere to go, without money and without friends. That is what the war did for me. If it hadn’t been for the war, I'd have a home somewhere down South.” 3 “Don’t talk that way, Andy,’”’ the other negro said, ‘You know T won't stand it.” “You're no better than the rest.” was the retort. ‘‘You’re one of those who drove the colored folks away from the pedple they liked. Um a rebel, that’s what I am, and PN be a rebel till I die.”’ A_ revolver ‘cracked and_ tlie speaker fell. ‘That's the end of that rebel,”’ the man with the gun said. The revolver cracked again, and that time the man with the gun had put a bullet through his own heart. It was more than an ordinary brawl It was a striking exhibit of the undying quality . of senti- ment which has once been red- dened with blood. How long does anybody suppose the passions of the present war will last? Jap Ship is Sunk With Loss of 160 Shanghai, Feb, 4.—The Japan- ese steamer Daijin Maru, 1,576 tons, collided with the British steamer Linan Wednesday night and sank shortly aterward with a loss of 160 lives, according to mar- itime advices received here today. The Linan’ was badly damaged and had to put into Hong Kong, 150 miles away. The reports state that the Daijin Maru was rammed by the Linan and sank in seven minutes, the erew being unable to launch more than two lifeboats, The Linan’s bow is said to have been smashed below the water line and the vessel narrowly es- eaped sinking. Boats put off from the British ship to pick up survivers from the Daijin Maru, but only a few were found. The Daijin Maru was built in 1900 and was registered at Osaka. The Linan is owned by the China Navigation company. London is its home port, Bates County Boy in Haiti In an official bulletin issued by Headquarters, United States Mar- ine Corps, Washington, appears the name of George C. Brooks, of Rich Hil, this county, as having qualified as a sharpshooter in that niost interesting branch of the Government service, George. who is a son of Mrs. Sasan A. Brooks, of Rich Hill, en- listed in the United States Marine Corps at its Kansas City recruit- ing station on May 11, 1915, and is now serving with the expedi- tionary foree of marines landed in Haiti for the protection of Amer- ican interests in that war-torn lit- tle isle. Considering the fact that Brooks is scarcely more than a re- cruit, his performance in gunnery is considered by Marine Corps of- figiala as little short of marvelous, and they expect jhim to break many marksmanship records be- fore his enlistment expires. Easter Late This Year. Bester comes later this year than it has since 1905. April 23 is the date of the end of Lent. Easter Sunday was the same date im 1905, says an exchange. East- come as late as April ir, but-men, }-~ ELECTRIC THEA E TR Wednesday, Feb. 16th, ’16 10 and 20 cents A TOWN PAID ITS BILLS New Jersey Coal Dealer's Adver- tisement Reformed a Com- munity. A New Jersey dealer in coal and lumber recently startled his vil- lage and country neighbors: and customers by bold use of printers’ ink, In the local weekly, on the first page, in large type, he made known the amount of indebtedness which his firm was carrying in an effort to meet the trading de- mands of customers:and at the same time not ruffle their feelings or challenge their ethics of trade. Accompanying the quite explicit statistics of debt was a statement intimating that the dealer thought he’ was not getting quite the “square deal’’ from people who were presuming on his leniency and who were assuming that he had unlimited credit and social good will. : As soon as the issue of honor and fair play became a community one, the bills began to be paid. When A realized that B and C and D, and indeed M, not to mention T, had all agreed with him in pre- suming that X, the dealer, could and would ‘‘carry the account a little longer without inconven- ience,’? why A saw what he, in combination with the others, had really been doing. If he did not pay immediately he at least named a time when he would pay. He admitted his care- lessness and thoughtlessness and his indifference to the rights of the middleman. He conceded the power of the press to do what dunning letters had not done. In short, he learned a lesson, as did his neighbors. And so, while the $67,653 debt account diminished, the community good will account grew. Town life was toned up by} clean-cut*handling of one phase of trade ethics. It became an issue of when as well .as how debts should be incurred and paid. As to which set of residents in this New Jersey town was more in- terested in the incident, those who owed for'their coal and lumber or those who did not, we will not speculate, lacking knowledge. But this can be said without much lik- lihood of contradiction, that the group that habitually pays its bills promptly was;not sorry to have the issue arise in just the form it has come up. The honest, thrifty, considerate, cash paying, debt dis- liking consumer too often pays his own bills and, indirectly, those of his negligent neighbor as well. He pays for what he gets and also for what the man gets whose accounts finally have to be ‘‘charged off.”” - The extent to which this unfair condition of affairs exists in rural and suburban communities of the country is not always realized by the urban dweller and merchant. The city man does mofé merchan- dizing on a cash basis. The city merchant can be more independ- end and rigorous in collections be- cause not so restricted in range of prospective customers as the vil- lage and town merchant, It is for the smaller communities, then, that this Metuchen, N. J., experi- ment will prove most instructive. It shows the suasion of. esndor, journalistically mediated, is a first rate debt collecting method. —Chrisitan Science Monitor. For Sale. A good heavy draft sound. Cineh pullers. gain if sold at once. Phone 331. C. C. Catterlin, 16-tf Agent Standard Oil Co. team, A bar- For sale—Eighty acres of land 5 miles southwest of Butler on Butler and Rich Hill road. For particulars write J. A. Carpenter, Brewster, Kans., R. 1. 4-tf wonderfully good and you say, Make something “This is mine,”—you call it That is exactly our case. by your name. We have madea tire so fine, sosturdy, soresponsible named it ‘ 4 that we want it Co.). asours. So we Usco Because we have put our name on this tire—beca its sucoéss was a matter of business pride, of business honour—we good *—and it has. to see that it “made ’. Think of it—a really wonderful new anti-skid tire priced at only a little more than plain treads. New Prices of ‘Usco’ Tread Tires 3 inchzSinch, $1040 -30 inch x 3.1-2 inch, 13.40 32 inch = 3 1-2 inch, 15.40 34 inch 36 inch ‘37 inch adinch, $22.40 @ 41.2 inch, 31.55 = Sinch, 37.30 ©