The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, April 6, 1916, Page 2

Car Load Pure, Clean Now is vour chance to get Sugar for your sum- mer use before it .gets higher. predict $10.00 Sugar for t Another Carload of SEED POTATOES Ohios, atiGe Oe and Kings -& Carl ARISTOS FLOUR Best on Earth | MISSOURI NOTES | Garden City was: visited by a ‘destructive fire. Tuesday of last j week, Vive business houses be- jing consumed, of finding sufficient cell room. The new cell building ‘represents the last word in modern prison construction, both as to sanitary conditions and other features. Three men are peelened to each ecll. 01 Wholesale houses his summer. oad of GROCERIES Large No. 3 Can Sliced Pineapple, Regular 35c at....15c No, 2 Can Peas, extra,...+ ...8 for 25c No. 3 Can Peaches, Peeled Sumer iaiatac eet, 10c No. 3 Can Tomatoes......10c No. 3 Can Kraut, 3 for.... 25c No. 3 Can Sweet Potatoes 10c \ No. 3 Can Apricots, 2 for.25c No. 3 Can Hominy, 3 for.25c Package Raisins..... 3 for 25c CriISCO maa dncmsadionmtal Dried Logan berries, fine for pies,.......... 15c pkg. 1 gallon syrup, dark ...... 35c 1 gallon White Syrup.....40c Can Pumpkin........ 3 for 25c 7 bars Rub-No-More Soap.25c 7bars * ‘ °* Pow: | CRIPSFiv es snadiiniaens 25c ! Loose-Wile BY BOX 7c POUND Chick eee for Your idol SCREEN WIRE, all sizes. Let us figure on s abel mall FORD AUTOMOBILES | Let us have your name on our mailing list for - Ford Times, a very interesting paper, published in Detroit. Call and get one and we will mail you one. Norfleet The Only Independent Grocery Phones, 144 and 49. Garage 35 West Side Square s Crackers ehiehene 2 1-2c Pound or let us have your name d Ream , Bakery and tHtardware store BUTLER, MO. STATE ASSESSMENT 1 3-4 BILLION. in Missouri Raised 45 Million in a Year. Jefferson City, April 1.—The state board of equalization eom- pleted the assessment of real es tate and personal property today for the present year’s tax The total stands at $1,704,265. se over 1915 of s. The, heaviest ssment of neeaciel t. Louis. It amounts and will mostly ihe efit the banks. There was a decrease in’ Jackson County of $107,084 in personal property, and a deerease in personal prop- erty in Buchanan County of $385,- 890, Real estate values in all the large cities were not disturbed. The board found bank stock as- sessed at various figures and sought to strike an average. The real estate of St. Louis will stand at $516,500,340, and of Jackson County at $162,274,720, the fig- ures returned by the assessors. Personal property of the state is valued as follows: HORsGS) ..< Sasna wens $ 32,184,084 Mules 14,541,454 Jacks and jennets ... 708,038 Cattle 28,574,019 Sheep 785,466 Hogs 6,236,217 All other live stock. . 174,631 Money, notes and Values bonds ............ 116,506,830 Corporate companies — 14,908,706 1: cn Ona 70,761 938 All other personal : property ......... 369 Concerning the — assessment, Governor Major gave out the fol- lowing statement : “Tt is the unanimous judgment of the state board of equaliza- tion that the real estate in the state at large is assessed as high in proportion to value as the real] estate in the city of St. Louis. It is also the unanimous judgment of each member of the board that the real estate in the state at large has increased at as great a ‘received through Judge W. W. percentage in the last ten years , as has the real estate in the city of St. Louis.” Five Governors for Major. Jefferson City, Mo., April 1. fhe committee in charge of the wmpaign of Goy, Major for the vice presidential nomination has | Graves, its chairman, assurances | of support from five of the Demo- | cratic Governors of Western and} Southern States. These’ Governors are Henderson of Alabama, James FE. Ferguson of Texas, Feriss of Michigan, Moses Alexander of Idaho and George W. Hays of Ar- kansas, | The committee is also in re- ceipt of information from former Gov. George W. Hodges of Kan- sas that he will support the Mis- | souri Governor, Charles DEATH OF W. B. WAYTTS A Prominent Citizen and Busi- ness Man of Hume. W. B. Waytts, a prominent real | estate dealer of Hume died sud- denly at his home Friday morn-} ing between 4 and 5 o’clock of al hemorrhage of the bowels. © Mr. ! Waytts in his usual good! health and was’ out Thursday in the country writing insurance, and was feeling well, apparently, when he went to bed. His sud- den death came as a great shock to his family and_ friends. | He was a member of the firm of } Waytts & Beadles, Real Estate & ; Insurance, and was also president | of the Commercial Bank, and a! member of the K. P. Lodge. Mr.) Waytts was about 60 years of age and was very active in the affairs of his home town, Hume, where he had lived a good many years. He leaves a wife and two chil- dren, Miss Lena and Carl .Waytts, besides a host of friends to mourn his untimely death. Funeral ar- rangements had not been made at this time.—Rich Hill Review. j {souri some trouble, day j his /nomination for Governor at. the State primary in August. THe is (the third to file on the Republican ‘noon, on motion of Senator Stone, | confirmed the nomination of Bay- ‘less Steele for Postmaster at Kan- | sas City, thus terminating a pat- jronage row that has jover two years. \ frequenting places having bar li- | eenses, {places and women were found in Chief Justice A, M. Woodson of |the Missouri Supreme Court, files jthe announcement of his eandida- | for re-election at Jefferson | Ppae es The case of Dr. | With murdering ‘Swope in Kansas -City several Years ago, has again been \con- | tinued. Hyde, charged Major Jr., . son/ ‘of | Elliott W. “heat his way" to} i Gov, Major, St. Louis from Columbia, in order 'to qua as a member of’ the {Quo Vadis Society in the univer- sity. caeeae i Mr and Mrs, Frank Smiley of Omaha were robhed of $950 on a Frisco passenger train between! Memphis, Tenn. and Springfield Friday night. They chad the Inoney seereted in their berth, The colored brothers are eaus- | hing the republican leaders in Mis- , They are de- manding that four members of (their race be sent to the national ‘convention as alternate: s, and they won't be put off with anything j less. ~ Because of inereased business, A. IL. Rogers, president of the ‘Southwest Missouri Eleetrie @o., of Joplin, Saturday, announced a 10 per cent increase in wages of employes, including — motormen and conductors, Nearly 300 mo- tormen are affected and the in- crease will amount to $2000 month. Col. Charles D. Morris, edjtor of the St. Joseph Gazette Thurs- filed official declaration of randidaey for the Repubdliean ticket, Judge Henry Lamm = and John E, Swanger, both of Sedalia having preceded him. ! The Aero Club of Armerica has hannounced that because of the plaw whieh prevents the United States government from accept- ing gifts it had offered to sell to the government for $1 each, the two high powered aeroplanes it recently proffered for use in Mexico, The offer to sell the machines af this price has been forwarded to Secretary of War | Baker, Birdseye 13 L ewis, wealthy | New York aviator and poloist, | who left San Diego Thursday inj an aeroplane with the announced | intention of flying to. New York | City, got 125 miles on his way | hefore inisfortune overtook him. i Word received here today said he | had lost his way and in volplaning to earth landed in an irrigation (ditch at Beaumont, thirty miles | north of San Bernardino. Josiah Collins of Barnd HH} Mo.. | claims to be the oldest horseshoer | in Missouri, if not in the United | States. He passed his ninctieth | birthday a few days ago, and to keep a vow he went to the shop | and celebrated by shoeing the, first horse brought in. Collins} has been a great hunter and fish- erman all his life and still takes out his hunter’s license every} year, . The Senate laté Thursday after- extended Senator Reed is known to have indorsed Steele and agreed with Senator Stone that the nomination should be confirmed without committee reference. Uniformed — policemen — were kept busy in St. Louis Friday night taking a census of women There are 2,000 such 150 of them. The policemen in hourly visits, made notations on the number of women unescorted those accompanied by men, those who were eating and those who were not. Transfer of 390 convicts into the completed wing of the big new cell building in the Peniten- tiary at Jefferson City has relived to some extent the congestion in the other cell buildings. “For months Warden McClung has been confronted with the problem millionaire | a gasoline engine jaway”’ of the engine. The in- jment of this striking Richmond ' southwest of this city. ysweetest old }part of the state for Elmer Richmond, aged 30 years, was killed at the home of Geo., Davis in Vernon county Thursday of last week as the re- sult of an unusual accident. Young Richmond “was assisting in the threshing of.some kaffir corn, of something p.. furnishing the motive The governor belt broke, ‘“punning like 30h. power, this resulting in the creased speed burst one of the cylinders on the seeder, a frag- ‘on the left side, breaking a rib, ' which punctured the lung, death resulting in a few hours. Death of Aged Citizen. | Henry Frederick Bern, one of | Hudson township’s highly _ es-| teemed German citizens, died at the home of his son, II, A. Bern, IKriday morning, March 24th at the ripe old ee of 92 years, 3 months and 27 days. Death was due principally to old age. Mr. Bern was born at. Tevel, Germany, December 7, 1833. THe was married to Mary Myers in 1851. Five years later they“came ‘to. America and settled at Alton- burg, Perry county, Mo. Three sons and two daughters were born to Mr. and Mrs, Bern. All have now passed on to the other world except one son, I. A., with whom the subject of this sketeh had made: his home for several years, | The family moved to Prairie City in ISGS and in’1892. moved to] what is now the Bern homestend | Mr. Bern was a devout member of the German Lutheran church. The fimeral service was held from that chureh Sunday morn- ing, being conducted by the pas- tor, Rey. Zschoche. Interment was made in the city cemetery.— Appleton \ City Journal. Grandma Hill Dead. Mrs. Sue Hill, aged 87 years, weed at her home in Elsemore, Kas., Monday noon, Her daugh- ter, Mrs, C. E. Horton and grand daughters, Mrs. Lillie Youkey, Mrs. Bird McConnell and Grace Holland, all of this place, were present at her bedside when death came, The funeral was conduet- ed from the hoine, Tuésday, and burial was made beside the grave of her husband in the cemetery at Pleasanton, Wednesday. Grand- ma Till was one of the finest, ladies we — ever knew, and her death will be mourned by the many Hume peo- ple who knew her in life-—Border Tele ‘phone. Death th of J.S8. Harger. don’t pay for 3 or 4 men to come to the house and take orders but simply Phone 77—no cost attached to that and there you can get the best of every- thing in the Grocery line. That's the place where you get 34; Ibs. Beans for.........25¢ 3 Cans Corn for........... 25c 4 Ibs. Good Rice for..... .25c¢ 3 Cans Baked Beans for..25c 4 lbs, Good Dr. Peaches .. 25c 3 Cans Blackberries for. ..25c 7 Ibs. Hominy Flakes for. 25c 3 Cans Apples for.. .25c 8 Ibs. Pearled Hominy for 25c 3 Cans Pumpkin for .25c¢ 10 Ibs. Little Chick Feed.25c 3 Cans Hominy for . .25c¢ 3 pkgs. Spaghetti for...... 25c 3 Cans:Kraut for.... . 25¢ 8 Bars*Rub-No-More Soap for...-.......------ .. 250 You can get bulk Peanut Butter, Sweet Pickles, Sour Pickles, Ripe Olives, Asparagus Tips, Olives, Olive Oil, Underwood’s Deviled Ham, Horse Rad- ish, Salad Dressing, A quart of Peanuts and a big | bundle of Stick Candy all for 15c. Apound of the Best Coffee ever sold and a Handsome Dish all for 30c. The place where they pay you the highest CASH price for your Eggs; where they take your der over the phone and save you money on your Groceries. Everything fresh and clean at GOSNELL’S GROCERY PHONE 7 Be Careful-in Selecting Your FIELD SEEDS We do not claim to handle the cheaper seeds. Weare interested in. the producer raising the best and most marketable crops possible: Weare in the market at all times . for Good Seeds and Grain. We have of hand, at this time, some Choice Timothy Seed; Red, Mammoth, Al- syke and Alfalfa Clover Seeds Also a limited amount of Johnson's Yellow Dent Seed Corn Cannon Elevator BUTLER, MO. Phone 32 J. oS. Harger, a. prominent res- ident of Hume, died suddenly Wednesday of apoplexy, says the tich Till Review. He had been a resident of this about 49 ars and had been a resident of Hume about four years. He is survived by a wife and jone son and five daughters. INSPECTION BUREAU ORGANIZED Men in the Field to See That ‘Rite Grade’’ Shingles are Properly Made and Inspected. Seattle, Wash. Mareh 25,— 8. P. Johns, formerly manager of the Commercial Shingle Com- pany, Bellingham, Wash., has finished his work of organizing the inspection bureau to handle the inspection of the ‘‘Rite Grade’’ shingles and the men are in the ield. It is planned to make two inspections at each mill every week. The inspectors’ in- Structions are very complete. Shingles are to be inspected both before and after drying. A com- plete record is to be kept of each bundle inspected and the nnum- ber of shingles that were thrown out on account of being helow grade. Also a complete record will be kept of the work of each- shingle sawyer and packer. The new inspectors are: J. E. Faulk- ner, J. H. Busing, Newall Wright and Millard Harrison, and others will be added as it becomes neees- sary. No inspector will remain in any one territory’ but will be changed about continually and every effort will be made to keep ‘‘Rite Grade’’ shingles of absolutely uniform grade no mat- ter from which mill they are shipped.—Logan-Moore Lbr. Co., local agents for Right Grade shingles. LISTEN We are in the Real Real Estate Business And can serve you better than any- body. We have some GOOD Land at mod- ; erate prices for sale like rent: One twelfth down, balance in fifteen annual payments WITHOUT INTER- EST. : i CHANCE FOR RENTERS to geta home. For particulars see us. x CANTERBURY & CANTERBURY FARMERS BANK BLDG. BUTLER, MISSOURI (U. S. Government License 32) Vaccinate Your Hogs FRANK E, WALKER Rep. Standard Serum Co: Tel. 564 Butler 306 w. Mill References furnished on request. e Ask for booklet at Peoples Bank.