The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, February 10, 1916, Page 4

The Butler Weekly Times Printed on Thursdsy of ‘each week. to make his race. concede that i has area up a pretty strong platform on which He is for pro- gress, for economy, for good MOBT, D. ALLEN, Editer an@ Mar.| roads and for better rural schools, | Any governor of this or any other | state might well spend: all his ef- ______ farts during his entire. term_of-o Entered at the Post Office of But- fice‘along these four lines, ‘‘Pro. gress’’ is a bit indefinite, - $e ‘course, but’in his printed platform |Mr. Roach makes it — definite. fer, Mo., as second-class mail matter, | Economy i is more highly necessary PRICE, $1.00 PER YEAR AN ECONOMICAL NECESSITY. jright now ,than ever before, de- {spite the - fine business condition {of the country and of the state. ischools should be promoted with | The good housewives in the vi-|both an eye on economy and on cinity of Butler who are not read-| progress. ing a county seat paper, and un-/| vinee the voters of the state that fortunately there are some homes jhe ¢ ini Bates county where this is) on his outlined platform he will be} second state. reception of - the true, missed many exceptionally ® formidable figure inthe eyes of} White house social season tonight fine bargains offered by about | the other good-democrats who are] with justices of the supreme court If Mr. Roach can con- an and does stand squarely twenty-five of Butler’s leading after the same honor he covets. merchants on last Saturday and/ Monday, who held ‘‘Dollar Sales” on these days. Butler was a verit- able feast of bargains, practically all lines of business participating | in the business stimulating event and bills of merchandise worth; from two to ten dollars were sold for one dollar. number of ladies suits and coats, some valued as high as twenty-| five dollars. The reading public took advantage of this opportunity to save, and the| stores participating in the dol-|There are four good newspapers lar sale were crowded with buy-| ers eager to purchase at fraction the usual price. But there were a few families’ within the Butler territory who, unfortunately not county paper, knew nothing of the unusual opportunities offered and consequently could not take ad- vantage of them, and it is safe to say that probably every hold which failed to take advant- age of the offerings made, lost from one to five times the price of some weekly paper for a year, on . the purchase price of articles of everyday use. There is no substitute for the weekly paper in an agricultural community. Aside from its news columns and its moral and eduea- taking any, Leading dry | issue of the 3rd to the value to the goods firms sold at this price a | | taxpayers of the-county of a coun- newspaper | paper? | but a!cratic and two republican. house- | | ship. tional influence, the weekly paper, is an absolute economical sity in the home. It is as neces- neces- sary to the household as is the) daily market report on grain and | Study and one upon which he is live stock. . Not a week passes but, Well qualified to speak. its readers are given through its! T. L, Beach read an appro- adv ertising columns the opportun. | |priate article from an eastern ity of saving from a few cents to! trade journal, and urged the mem- many dollars‘on the purchase of! | bers to get together and showed It is the/ What could be done toward get- only practical medium through | ting people to spend their money ‘at home by advertising. household necessities. which the merchant can reach the public with quotations-of prices, | Good Roads, a subject to and the judicious buyer, the one | who secures the most for the least money, is the buyer who keeps in | elose touch with the advertised prices of the articles which he or! she may need or desire to chase. The home paper is not a luxury. | - It is an economical investment. No! of mules to Mr. Argenbright for a household can afford to be with-!team of horses one day last week. out it. AN “INFANT” INDUSTRY. The most brazen threat made} against the United. States __Gov-| ernment in recent years was made Tuesday in the Senate Naval Com- mittee, when the committee was informed that should a_ govern- ment armor plate plant be estab- lished, private armor manufactur- ing eoncerns would increase the price to the government $200 per ton, or nearly one-half more than the Price. the government is now paying. The present price is now vase 00 per ton. The man who communicated this threat to the committee was; mone other than Boise Penrose, pur- | ‘ ' | Ike Kelly. Lewis Moore, the versatile edit- or of the Hume Telephone, who has probably done more than any one to put Hume on the map and has gained statewide recognition as a progressive country editor |with ideas, calls attention in his ty, seat paper. Mr. Moore says: **Do you take your county seat You should in order to keep up on the news of the court house and the eounty in general. published at Butler—two demo- Hand us a dollar and take your choice; We will send it in for you. You ought to take one county seat paper.”’ Commercial Club Meeting. The meeting of the Butler Com- mercial Club Tuesday night was one of the most interesting ever held by the club. C. C. Rhoades, successor to C. W. Hess, was elected to member- President DeArmond stated the object of the meeting and said one way to better trade conditions in Butler was to adopt a better cred. it sysfem. Secretary Culver then — ad- dressed the club on the subject of which he has devoted a great deal of A general discussion followed in which every member present took part. Every member present pledged himself to try and bring another member to the next open session, North New Home. Tom Chandler traded his span Bill Dark is chopping wood for Homer Linendoll and son, Al- | bert, hauled coal from Butler last Tuesday. Jack Skaggs ‘sold one of his horses while in Butler Saturday. Mr. Gish and famjly, Jack | Skaggs and family spent Sunday sas City Post. at Brick McGaughey’s. Homer Linendoll and wife were the guests of Lewis McKibben and wife Monday. Meritt and Orval Pickett hauled from Fred Ahlfield’s last Friday. Cliff Ehart and wife and little daughter, Edith and Milt Reeves and wife visited at Mr. Keeton’s Sunday. Mason Darns and wife are the Senator from Pennsylvania, and|proud parents of a fine boy. one of the national leaders of the atandpat faction of the G. O. P., Ed Enyard of Amsterdam vis- ited at Ike Kelley’s from Friday and it is indeed fitting that a man | until Sunda >. of the stamp of Penrose should be Earnest Wainwright i is baling the bearer of a message of this sort | hay for Mason Darnes. from the steel aaite steel industries which are writing. interest. These} Mr. Gaston is not 80 well at thi: 7S. x a Soh. Tudge: tame ‘Leeds 1 can Gubernatorial: St. Louis, Feb. 5.—Hi ory former judge of the state court, is the leading cai governor, in a-poll be St. Louis Globe-Den A ass of seventy-two of the 114 counties of the state haa been made to date. In twenty-seven of these Lamm is reported to. be the favorite. John E. Swanger ’ was the choice in eighteen, B..B. &. Me- Jimsey in three, Henry W. Kiel in two, John C, McKinley in, three, ———| And good roads and better rurat| Hugh McIndoe in one and Charles D. Morris in four. Hold Senate Reception, Washington, Feb. 4. —The presi- dent and Mrs. Wilson held the and other members of the federal judiciary ‘as guests of honor. Members of the cabinet stood in the blue room with, the president during the reception, and their wives assisted Mrs. Wilson. Nearly 2,000 persons, including besides members of the judiciary, many other high government offi- cials, were present. , 1400 German Troops Interned by Spaniards. ’ Madrid, Feb. 6.—Nine hundred Germans and 14,000 of their Col- onial troops from the German col- ony of Kamerun have crossed the border into Spanish Guinea, ac- cording to an official announee- ment made here today. The troops have been disarmed and in- terned. The Government is tak- ing measures for their sustenance. This is taken here to indicate that the Franco-British campaign in the Kamerun is nearing eon- clusion. f Swarens-Casebolt. Saturday morning E. H. Case- bolt and Miss Goldie Swarens, two popular young people of Fos- ter, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. J. V. Bell, boarded the Interstate and went to Mound City, Kas., where they were united in mar- riage, says the Rich Hill Review. For Sale or Trade One upright piano, in good con- dition, cost $350. 00, will sell for $100.00. PS McFarland & Sons. Governor Major 6f Missouri a4- dressed Democratic editors. of In- diana at their annual convention in Indianapolis Friday. He — in- dorsed. President Wilson and his policies, For getting cold feet, Herbert Mitchell, Bismark hotel, 912 Oak street, Kansas City, won $1 ‘one day last week. Mitchell, on a‘ bet, ran from the hotel to Eleventh street and return, with bare feet. Subscribe ‘for the Kansas City Post. 100 days one dollar. “ Geo. Kersey, Agt., 1t * Butler, Mo. Henry Jost, mayor of - Kansas City, Thursday night of last week announced —his—-candidacy for another term. You get all the news in the Kan- 100 days, $1.00. it * Geo. Kersey, Agt. LODGE DIRECTORY. Kaights of Prt! 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