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If your engine is noisy, If it loses compression and power, If it fouls the spark plugs, Then the cylinders need reboring and the pistons refitting. This may be done at small expense and your old engine made to run as noiselessly and powerfully as when new. We are fully equipped for regrading cylin- ders and refitting pistons. Only exgert workmen employed. Henry's Garage North Main St. Butler, Mo. Dr. H. E. Mulkey Veterinary Surgeon Having made a special study of hog chol- ee era and vaccination with anti-hog cholera serum, I am qualified to give you expert ser- vice in this line. Charges reasonable. This advertisement is not furnished by.a serum company. If you are tinable to get me at office, please call resi- dence phone 268, where you can always get reliable in- formation as to my whereabouts. Butler, Mo. Phones 268 and 3 REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS | Bf, M. Diekeron to P. Te Main j lot 3% part lot 4 block 23 Littles . E. McReynolds to F. J. Me-/ addition to Hume $500.00. ane lots. 2 and 15 Mills’ addition | F. A. Brooks to Peter Nelson to Adrian $1.00. Hots 11 and 12 block 18 Ist addi- A. E. Vance to H. P. dames! tion to Rich Hill $35.00. part block 15 Waltons addition) ~ peser Bubr ay to Levi Collard Rich Hill $350.00. 5 GAcEe 6 Néw Home won i. H.. Waller to U. 0, Deputy [agar pot 6 New Home $2 lots 2 and 3 block 2 Williams ad-| Connie A, Foster to Claude A. dition. to Rich Hill $1,200.00. Walch 4) antes waotion #7 Deep: Henry Wrestler to S. E. Wrest- water $500.00. Jer lots 27 and 28 Worland $1.00.) prank Allen to J. A. Smith 80 KE. F, Salle et al to The U nited | ., ‘res section 330 ie 33200, States of America part lot 2/° wef, shelton to A. H. Lovd lot hlock 4 Butler $2,000.00. \- i block 13 Foster $15.00. + Baptist Charch (Butler) to The | FE. Church South to EB. 8. United States of America part] Fre 4 acres section 4 Hudson block 4+ Butler $1,900.00. isl, 00. E, O. MeMahan et al to F.\" 17 4. Hinds to M. M. Clark 80 Dame block 2 Sperry’s addition | acres section 36 Homer $4,000.00, to Rich Hill $200.00. E. S. Hunt to the M. E. Chureh F. J. McComb to C, A. McComb | south 7-10 acres section 4 Mud- iv lots 5 and 6 Swassings ‘addition | Homer $1.00. - Sunday with his mother, Mrs. Percheron Stallion Mrs. John McCook spent Thurs- lots 4 and 11 block 1 Wyatts ad-| con $1.00, \to Hume $840.00. Imported Pierce Hackett to Mattie Slade Stallion | == | Quick. A. L, Gilmore sawed wood for with her mother, Mrs. E. J. } Keen. 44746 ROULEUR 25190; Mr. and Mrs. JohitWest of But- | ler spent Monday night with his dition to Butler $1.00. E. E. Cannow to Daisy Queen 100 acres sections 15, 22 and 23 Claud Quick and family spent The Fine Imported | | A. McCracken Thursday. brother, Joe West and family. 4 Mrs. Henry Beerman — spent Which I recently pur- | Sunday at the J. B. Newberry chased of Wm. M. Fra- | hiome. zier, of near Adrian, will | Mrs. Jake Frey is’ reported i quite ill at this writing. | Mr. and Mrs. Jim Lawson are jthe proud parents of a fine baby make the season of 1916 at my farm, 6 miles west of Butler and 3 aay. miles east of Virginia. | The Oak Grove Improvement | Club met April 8. A very short program was rendered. The next meeting will be May 6. Mrs. A. LU. Gilmore called on * Joe Fleming “Mrs. Jim Lawson Sunday after- Butler - R&.F. D. No. 6} noon. E PANSY. 25-2tt ' Elkhart. April 10, spring opened up once _ more. We had some winter last week, plenty of ice Saturday morning. We heard some talking of putting up ice in town last Sunday. The freeze was bad on} the garden truck. Ike Dawson has bought another farm, He says he_has seatter. out as there is too many in one house. Rk. L. Scott and wife visited at Aunt Lou Scott’s one day last week, We see in the paper that Miss Inez Beck has the measles yet she visited at Mr. Nutts one day last week, - Tom Bruner sold a fine mare one day last. week for $145, Mrs. Tom Bruner and*daughter helped Mrs. house one day last week. Concord is putting on some style. They raised a fine flag on} the fourth. We would like to know what) has become of the corn that we planted in Mareh. Mrs. Rome Morris and a lady friend of north Missouri spent one day last week at the home of John Barton. G, W, Armentrout and R. L. Scott. cattle one day last week. Jim Fuller took in the sights at Amsterdam one day last week. Mrs. Frank Horn of Amster- dam died list Sunday morning at eight o'clock. She was buried at Mount church. JOHNNY. _ Peru Items. The snow and sudden change in the weather isn’t very good on the garden and corn that has been planted. The Pleasant Valley "school closed: Friday as the district ran short of money. Mrs. Edna Thomas and Miss Nellie Thomas’ visited with Mrs. Visa Eckles Monday. Mrs. Rob Lyle and daughter, and Mrs. Ed Hall. Mrs. Thomas Spencer, who has heen visiting in this neighborhood for the last few weelts > has — re- turned to her home in Butler. Buford Thomas has the measles at this writing. ~- Mr. Otis Andrews who is build- ing an addition to his house has it almost finished, There are several in this neigh- borhood who have the pink eve. At the school election «F. L, Blankenbaker was elected direct- or, EK. C. Harper going out. Mr. and Mrs. Kirb Harper spent Sunday with Mr. J. W. Thomas and family. Mr. T. 1. Booth; while chopping wood Tuesday evening was taken suddenly ill. He was carried to the house and the doctor ealled in, He is much improved now. Mr, KE. E. Eekles and family, and Joe Rog ig a Sunday at the home of Mr, Thomas. Frank Kupel's ae from IIl- inois is visiting here. . Mr, and Mes, Hol Harper spent Sunday with Mr, BE. C. Harper and family. My. L. Hi. Evilsizer died at his home Sunday morning at two o’elock of-heart trouble. He had heen ailing for some time but had never been confined to his bed. Funeral services were held at Peru church Monday evening at two p.m. The sorrowing family has the sympathy of the entire neighborhood. MINNEHAUA. Folk Won’t Run for Governor. D. C., April 6.— Positively and finally, former Goy. Joseph W. Folk today ‘de- clined to yield to the demand of friends that he beeome a candi- date for the Missouri Democratic gubernatorial nomination. ters sent to various Democrats .of the state, who had petitioned him to run, he apprised them of his decision. Convinced after careful con- sideration that no emergeney ex- *requiring his entrance into Washington, the race, Mr. Folk said that while; i sensible of the appeal made to him he had been forced to the conclu- sion that there is no more reason why he should become a ecandi- date now than there was when he originally declined two months [| ago. got to! John Halfert paper | fainily*} spent last Sunday at the home of | Ed Bailey shipped out a car of | Norma, visited Thursday with Mr. | In let-_ - ROACH INTERESTED IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Has Always Given His Time and Talents to the Betterment of Schools. Cornelis Roach, now a candi- date for governor, when a boy, at-| tended a one-room rural school two miles from home, until he had | finished the eighth grade. . He! rode horse-back, morning and ev-! ening, seven miles from his fath-| er’s farm to the county seat to! procure his high school training. | On graduating therefrom, he taught a country school for two! |years, a village school for. two lyears, and then was principal for, Four years of the high school from | I which he graduated, He served for several years as} member of the Board of Educa- {tion at Carthage. While a mem- | ber, largely through his influenee | and the aggressiveness of the) | Carthage Daily Democrat, which | he owned and edited, a hand is- isue of $105,000.00) for the con.) struction of a modern high school, lwas voted in a town of Tess than | |ten thousand people. Out of this high school two of his oldest chil- dren graduated, one never: having | been absent or tardy from the day jshe entered the primary till she jgraduated from the high school. Shortly after his eleetion as Secretary of State, he was made |chairman of a Citizens’ Commit: | tee in Jefferson City, to conduct a campaign for the-issuing of bonds with which to erect a $75,000.00 {high school, that amount being the maximum of the school dis- The writer visited in Amster-|trict’s bond issuing ‘power, A dam last Sunday and went to} proposition for bonds of half this chureh at night. Jamount had twice been defeated, Mrs. Chrisman is reported noi but under the aggressive and better. energetic leadership for better Guss Bruner was trading in, schools the $75,000.00) proposition Amsterdam one day last week, | was carried to success by inore O. TH. Lawrence and wife of} than a five to one vote, Out of Kansiis City is visiting old friends | this high school two of his ehil-! in Amsterdam. ‘dren have raduated, two are jtaking the high school course, one Pwill graduate 1 year and an- other will enter a freshman, His two oldest children have finished courses at the State Uni- versity in’ Columbia, a third is now a junior there, and next v another will enter the Unive If there is aman in Missouri any more thoroughly identified with the public schools than See- retary of State Cornelius Roaeh, ,or who has done any more for sthenr than he, an aecount of his efforts would make interesting reading, an Prof. W. W. Charters, who is dean of the School of Education at the State University, and is the recognized authority. in this State on his specialty, has writ- ten: “My eSpericnee with you (Mr Roach) in the county superin- tendents’ meetings and elsewhere, lias led ine to see that vou have a better hold upon the problems of the schools of Missouri than has any other publie man whom I know. T have stated this fact to school people upon a good many occasions, and [shall do so in the future.” 5 For Your Shelves, Buy table oileloth and) cut. it into the required length for your shelves and wide enough to cover the front edge, where it should be fastened at regular intervals with bn The effeet is consid- tacks. rably neater and the coverir more permanent than when shelf vilcloth or paper is used, SUSPECT YOUR KIDNEYS Too Many Butler People Neglect Early Symptoms of Kidney Trouble. If vour back is lame—if feel dull, tired and worn out If you have hard headachess, backaches and dizzy spells If the kidney secretions are dis- ordered— you Suspect? your — kidneys — and “take a stitch in time 5 Use Doan’s Kidney Pills, the time-tried, home-endorsed kidney remedy It may si ious kidney trouble. Make use of Mrs. Craven's ex- perience, ~ Mrs. J. F. Graven) 407 FE. Da- Kota St. Butler, says; ‘Some years ago T suffered from kidney and bladder complaint. Thad dull, heavy pains across the small fof my back and my head ached. 1 used Dos Kidney Pills, pro- cured at Clay’s Drug Store. and they took effect at once, reliev- ing me.. IT have had no sign of kidney complaint sinee.”’ Price 50¢ at all dealers. Don’t simply ask for a kidney remedy: get Doan’s Kidney [ills—-’he same that Mrs. Craven had. Fo-- |ter-Milburn Co., Props. Br a’ [N.Y re you from some ser- ; Carpenter, A Car Load of ARISTOS FLOUR . Tnis Week - Seed Potatoes Get Your Sugar Now Car Load Pure Cane Sugar No. 2 Can Peas, extra 3 Can Pie Peaches, Peeled 5c No. 3 Can Tomatoes...... 10c 3 Can Kraut, 3 for....25c 3 Can Sweet Potatoes 10c No. 3 Can Apricots, 2 for.25c No. 3 Can Hominy, 3 for.25c Package Raisins..... 3 for 25c No. No. No. CHECOi .35ti455 ae og GROCERIES Large No. 3 Can Sliced aa Regular 35c at. . ..15¢ Can String Beans, 3 for...25c 1 gallon syrup, dark ...... 35c 1 gallon White Syrup..... 40c Can Pumpkin........ 3 for 25c 7 bars Rub-No-More Soap.25c 7bars " * “ Pow: (ORG anu Gnetgnon oH aD 25¢ 7 bars Rub-No-More Soap ORIDS site ieorace 25c 25c, SOc and $1.00 Detroit. Phones, 144 and 49. Garage 35 West Side Square SCREEN WIRE, all sizes. your bill. FORD AUTOMOBILES — Let us have your name on our mailing list for Ford Times, a very interesting paper, published in Call and get one or let us have'your name and we will mail you one. Norfleet é Ream The Only. Independent Grocery, Bakery and Hardware Store aoe a Loose-Wiles Crackers BY BOX 7c POUND CY Chick Feed for your Hie CANE ts @ us 2c Pound te us figure on BUTLER, MO, Mulberry and Western Bates for last week. Maver, Mr. and called up to In- (Too late Mi. and Mrs. D. Mrs. TL. J. Mager were to Kansas City last Monday attend the funeral of Allen hoff. W.C. Carpenter left Friday for Ottawa, Kans., side of Vis brother, who is very Rev, Ezra low. built a Frank CC. Payne has | his piazza on the south front of home. John RL Kno is re-roofing his house and is riding around in a new. Demoerat: o spring wagon,” Messrs. John W. and Reece Barton were trading in Saturday. Tr Homer and. Hazel Me- Guire visited-at the home of their uncle, Spence Adams, in Lone Oak township. The Payton saw millehas moved Miles M. Walker farm from. the to the Morrison ranch. Henry Gordon has commenced the ereetion of his new home on his farm near Amoret, Mrs. Joe B. Albin is reported on the sick list. Dwight Betner is helping Joe Whinery with his farm wor Judge L. 8. Paddock was shak- ing hands with friends in Amoret Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. and son, Walter, lan Porter Sundé Sheriff Geo, ily of Mound City. ed with relatives in urday. Hugh Nestlerode, one of the popular clerks at the Carl F, Hall) store, ed and left for Kansas City Monday. Ile expeets to start in business for himself. Ira Siedlemann of Kansas City down Saturday to. visit his son, G. B. Siedlemann. The Misses Virgil . Payne Carrie Cheshire vis the Al- vert Mor 1d home r Amster- dam Saturday and Sunday. Fred C. Ewbank visited Col, Tar- yidson and fam- Kansas, visit- Amoret Sat- as re came Cecil A. Porter left Monday for) ‘onnington, Wansas. to be at the bed> ~Tex., Butler * and, Albert sGneud who is work- ing near Lisle, spent Saturday and Sunday with friends in’ Am- oret. i Rev AL KE. Wehrmeister, of. C. Rauscher and family were guests at the JH. Leiner home Sunday. RAMBLER. Girl Would ‘be a Soldier. An 18-year-old) girl herself at a national guard — re- cruiting station in San Antonio, recently and asked te be al- lowed to enlist. When told that men only were aecepte dl. she said indignantly : [know Uma woman and you are aman, but [can liek you, just the same.”’ The sergeant in) charge mus- tered his waning courage and told her to callon the adjutant gener. alat the state eapital.—Ex, presented FARMERS BANK of Bates County EEE GO oUCOnbaTGA | Capital - $50,000.00 Earned Surplus $50,000.00 At this time of the year when you are busy at home, write us your needs. We can give you complete service by mail. We Pay Interest on Savings