The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, April 20, 1916, Page 6

Bad Accounts «i Notes Collected by an entirely new system. No charge if no collection. All business Did Dale Jones Belong to This Gang? |\Some Figures on the Wheat and . “t- Louis, April 12.—St. Louis i ‘detectives are positive tonight (la ba dad the Two ithat it was the Lewis gang that | murdered W. F, Koger, a Kansas | Because the Eastern - press has | City police officer, when he, with with’ few. excepttons failed to do | several detectives, attempted in | 2 | November, 1913, to capture | MISSOURI AND KANSAS» | COMPARED. handled by bonded attorneys. Particu- lars free. Address Commercial Reliance Ass'n, P. O. Box 438, - Kansas City, Missouri. Dr. R. R. Gloyd, Veterinarian Will open an office in Butler Monday, April 17,1916 and will be prepared to answer calls by any one needing the services of a first class veterinarian. GARRETT’S BARN 4b p A Fine Record. Roller Skates and Bicycles May.|, Am Beauty, ba , ae Disappear From Market. |heifer which was awarded fir ‘place in the two-year-old heifer Searcity in commodities corresponding raises in pri national Exposition, has complet- due to the European war, are ap-| ed a year's authenticated record pearing every day, says the Kan-) of 10,239 pounds of milk, and sas City Times. The latest man-/ 586.8 pounds of fat. ifestations : | This record was started at one Roller skates have advanced | year and eleven months of age, Yroin $1.25 to $2 a pair; bicycles} and during the tenth month of the have advanced 15 per cent; waste i test, she was shipped from Oregon paper 300 per cent; shoes various- | to San Francisco, to the live stock ly from 10 to 30 per cent; sole| show at the exposition. leather 66 2-3 per cent; shoe laces| Her record of 690.4 pounds of from 100 to 600 per cent; overalls |85 per cent butter places her third nearly 100 per cent; street cars,|in Class I (cows under two years) 20 per cent; steel billets from 100! and gives her the distincition of to 150 per cent. being the highest yearling pro- These changes of prices have| ducer of butter fat in the state of taken place in the last four} Oregon. months. Charles J. Schmelzer,| - president of the Schmelzer Arms | Company, says that the next four! Gan you find a county town months will see not only a great-| anywhere in the middle west that rance in price, but possibly | does not contain a number of re- disappearance of some com-| tired farmers? says an exchange. modities from the market. This} Some towns seem to-be half pop- will apply to roller. skates and) ulated with them. Look over hbicyeles, Orders for bicycles are] those towns and see how many re- already being returned by~ half tired grocers, blacksmiths, plumb- dozen of the larger factories.| ory or even doctors or lawyers Both steel and labor are being di-| you find. Is there any othe verted into the manufacture of! trade or profession that produces eT cit hay so large @ proportion of men who 1 Kansas City ailways | peti hile thoy. ane stillan @ the steel and copper used in cach | capital to insure them comfort- of the cars now being manufae-|able maintenance for the rest of tured than for those made in 1915./ their days and a nice nest egg for A clothing merchant said fhat| their descendants? by fall the scarcity of dyes might make it impossible for manufac- turers to guarantee ithe stability! 4. horse that refrains from eat- of woolen fabrics. | The advance Jing is using the horse sense meth: in kid shoes is due to the fact | od of curing itself of some intes- that the skins come from F PANCE| tinal trouble. Nature sometimes and are searcely obtainable. They fails,-s0 take no chances but go are dyed with a German product, to the aideok nature usesoonnes algo. not obtainable, you see something wrong with Stir together one pint of sifted|edy. If it does not respont at flour and one heaping tablespoon- | once, this. medicine costs you noth- ful of sugar, and mix to a smooth | ing eee a > as sure with cows paste with cold water. Then add{or sheep. e give your money \oiling water until of the right | back. consistency. Cook three minutes. | 25 0. K, M. 1m This paste will always stick. ————— : TO ENJOIN BOOZE DELIVERY Harrison County Finds Way to Stop Imposition on Dry Territory, ~ The following from the Beth- “WAR PRICES’ ABOUND Now| Farmers Recéive Reward. Horse Sense. C. C. Rhodes. FARMERS BANK of Bates County control the bootlegger in Harrison county: : ‘Prosecuting Attorney Gilbert Barlow on Tuesday filed with Circuit Clerk Bolar application for injunctions prohibiting the railroad and express companies from delivering _ intoxicating liquors (beer.or whiskey) inside Harrison county. There is no doubt but that Judge G. W. Wan- amaker will grant the injunctions and they will be made operative at once, and the sheriff instruct- ed to serve notices. “‘Good work is being done in neighboring counties along this line and Harrison don’t want to fall behind. This will put a stop to so much booflegging now go- ing on in Bethany, as anyone re- ceiving beer or whisky will have to make a sworn statement that it is ae family use po te this good work by our officers be the beginning of a thorough cleaning up of these hell holes in Bethany.’’ Capital $50,000.00 Earned Surplus $50,000.00 At this time of the year when you are busy ‘at home, write us your meeds. We can give you complete service and | class at the Panama-Pacifie Inter- | any, Mo., Clipper, shows how they | Higures are submitted by the Mis- | band of motor car bandits that \souri Agricultural Bureau. ‘ |was robbing Missouri Pacifie During the 10-year period,|trains a short distance out of 1905-’14, the Missouri corn yield | Kansas City. Ora, Frank and lamounted to 2,039,168,000 bush, Roy J. Lewis are under arrest ‘els; the Kansas yield to 1,456,418,- here charged with the murder of '000 bushels, or 582,750,000 bush- | John F. MeKenna, motorcycle pa- lels less than Missouri: Total trolman, last Friday, Roy Lewis | Missouri corn acreage for the 10- has made a_ confession alleging lyear period was 72,617,000; Kan- that Ora and Frank Lewis did the \sas acreage, 74,351,000, or 1,734,- | actual killing. : a | 000 acres more than Missouri. It was on a dark night in- No- Kansas, with an acreage, for the vember, 1918, in a lonely spot omen period, more than a_ mil- Near the Missouri Paci : tracks, llion and a half greater than that @ short way out of Kansas City, planted to corn in Missouri fell that Koger was killed in a run- lshort-more thas a half billion ning fight with motor bandits, | bushels. ‘who leaped over a cliff and dis- | But isn’t Kansas a wheat won- @ppeared. der? Yes, during the 10-year | jee ee ee Louis ie \period referred to Kansas grew September, detectives pee wheat; | Lewis gang has been making out- | | 852,382,000 bushels of 4 { S cing | | Missouri 309,802,000 bushels, or. side trips, stealing everyting from 542,580,000 bushels less than Kan- copper to whiskey, It was their ‘sas. But note the difference in, habit to go down into the mining | Aapaape and keep: in rind the district around Minden and Fon- leorn comparisons, tenac, where a number of foreign- | Instead of the largest yield! rs are employed, steal quantities coming from the fewest number | 0! Whiskey and dispose of it to ‘of acres, as was the case with ha nee eee San al corn, the Kansas wheat acreage | here is a reward of $50 sti \for.the decade was 59,824,000; /lenging over Ora Lewis, offered lMigeouri wheat acreage i 21.804... | bY the authorities in Carthage (000. or 38,020,000 less than Kan-| because of Lewis's escape from sae mes! | the pest house there in November | In order to grow slightly more | 1914, He was charged with steal- than a half billion bushels more’ '"% @ mien of mote COS 1 of wheat than was grown in Mis- | Lee Lewis was arrested severa souri, Kansas, during the decade, Y°@?S 4&8, charged With robbing seeded thirty-eight million more?! P@wn shop in Tulsa, Okla. He AUTOR engaged in a running fight with Darin this 10-year’ . period officers before he was captured. (1905-714) the combined corn and i Hs pee ge alae wheat production of Missouri wag 70POn In EMt8, charged with 2.348.970,000 bushels; the com. Stealing a motor car from his em- bined vorn and wheat production illest soak Hh ea a - ‘of Kansas 2,308,800,008 bushels, The gang often employed the ‘or 40,170,000 bushels less than | boldest means in getting away He ee ikem” “| with their loot. On one occasion 7 i ; : recently they stole ninety-six | The Missouri acreage of both oly ns foi a fe ht ‘wheat and corn for, the 10-year (°." peitien : 8 . zg train, The whiskey was car- | period Was 94,421,000; Ka ried to the foreign settlements jacreage, 134,175,000, or 39,754,- Fare NUR EREL TCH G 1 |000 acres more than Missouri, he ad. See eee ee een eer ane | During the 10-year period, | 5° |then, Missouri, with forty million | \fewer acres in corn and wheat! |grew forty million more bushels: |than were grown in Kansas. Missouri Grain Inspection De- | For the 10-year period, 1880- | partment of the State Warehouse | 1889, Missouri averaged 27.4) Comtnission, there is considerable | bushels of corn per acre; Kansas] grain in the elevators of the state. |38.6 bushels. For the period, There was in store in the public | 1890-1899, Missouri averaged 27.4/ elevators and warehouses at Kan- jbushels per acre; Kansas, 21.3) sas City, Mo., on January 1, 1916, (bushels; for the lastecensus per-;a total of 5,654,493 bushels of |don, 1900-1909, Missouri averaged | different kinds of grain, consist- | 28.6 bushels per acre; Kansas, 22.4) ing of 3,791,059 bushels of wheat; (bushels. The Missouri acre in-| 1,186,166 bushels of corn; 92,160 ‘crease in corn for the decade! bushels of kaffir corn; 21,682 | 1900-1909 over the decade 1880. | bushels of milo ma 568 bush- | 1889 was 1.2 bushels. The Kansas/els of feterita; 474,361 bushels of | decrease in- acre yield of corn dor| oats; 11,135 bushels of rye ; 73,102 |the corresponding periods was| bushels of barley and 1,213 bush- 116.2 bushels. els of speltz. The amount of all In 1915 eight Missouri counties| kinds of grain in store at the pub- |grew as much corn as was grown|lie elevators and warehouses in |in eighteen states of the Union.|Kansas City, Mo., on January 1, |One Missouri county alone grew} 1915, was 5,741,936 bushels, 87,- jas much corn as was grown in|443. more than on January 1, | Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, | 1916. Massachusetts, Rhode Island,| At St. Louis, Mo., there was in Connecticut, Montana, Wyoming;|store in the public elevators and Grain in Elevators. According to the report of the m SS yA tay died xan DLASLLLL? | X 3 s Debt is a hard master. The way riot to have a debt you cannot pay is not to make it. . The “careful” man never makes a debt, unless by doing so he could safely see a bigger “income” - than “out-go.” This is how he grows a fortune. _ Are you not going to put your money in our bank and also grow a fortune? BANK WITH US. Missouri State Bank _ “THE OLD RELIABLE.” New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Ne-|Warehouses on January 1, 1916, a vada, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, total of (3,020,422 bushels of dif- or California. Comparing the|ferent kinds of grain as follows: 1915 corn yield of the eight Mis-| Wheat, 2,183,3328 bushels; corn, souri counties referred to with|/2°9,495 bushels; kaffir corn, 63,- the total yield of some of the lead-| 140 bushels; milo. maize, 47,235 ing Corn Belt states, we find that | bushels; rye, 7,151 bushels feteri- it was more than one-sixth that of |t@, 2,643 bushels; oats, 402,181 Indiana; more than one-fifth that | bushels; barley, 55,244 bushels. of Texas, Kansas or Ohio; more The amount of all kinds of grain than one-fourth that of Oklaho-|i@ store in the public elevators ma; almost one-third that of Ken-| 824 warehouses in St? Louis on tueky, and more than twice that|J@nuary 1, 1915, was 3,120,751 of Arkansas. Of the forty-cight bushels ; 100,329 bushels. more states in the Union, only two— than on the first day of this year. Illinois and Towa—excel Missouri| At St. Joseph there was in jin total corn production. store in the two public elevators in that city on January 1, 1916, ‘ a total of 252,029 bushels of dif- SOOTHING OILS FOR ‘COLIC ferent kinds of grain as follows: DISTEMPER Wheat, 106,459 bushels; corn, Dr. Gatchell the Prominent Veter. | 143.289 bushels; oats, 2,281 bush- inarian of the West, Advo. | °!®- cates This Treatment. A vegetable novelty brought Dr. Gatchell says, strong prep-|from China and now under experi- arations should be avoided as they|ment is a radish with a root as tend to aggrivate the highly in-|large as a child’s head. This is flamed mucous membranes, which|somewhat coarser and inferior are very sensitive to violent meas-|in flavor to the small radish, ures. To combat these deadly |though the Chinese cook it much foes, you must strike the disease |like turnips and also pickle it in germs from the right angle, which |strips in brine for use as a relish. must be done with soothing oils] Former Gov. A. M. Dockery, and germicides. A preparation|now third assistant postmaster- containing this oil treatment may|general at Washington, wears be had, which is put up for public| boots all the year ‘round. - He use under the name of G & G.|wore them when he served in con- Your local druggist is authorized | gress, kept them on when he was to give you absolutely free, one| governor, and someone has been 50c¢ bottle of Dr. Gatchell’s Lini-| unkind enough to say he does not ment, with one purchase of G &|take them off when he goes to @ Colic and Distemper Remedy.|bed. As a true Westerner, doubt- Sold by Rhodes Pharmacy, Butler, |less he expects to die with his Mo. 27-1¢ | boots on.—St. Joseph Observer. Low Rates on Farm Loans Weare in a position to make farm loans at a low rate of interest on either 5, 7 or 10 years time, with privilege of making partial payments on interest paying dates. All pay- ments of principal and interest pay- able at our office. We make ab- stracts to all real estate in Bates county at reasonable rates. The Walton Trust Co. BUTLER, MISSOURI. Current Loans $8,000,000.00 - a What do You Say? Hadn't you better get an IMPROVED EASY IRON and be one of the EASY family, small in- ,vestment, big income, the EASY is the only way to iron. What these People say the rest of the family will stand by. Have used the IRON about 2 months and like it fne—MABLE DICKISON, Spruce, Missouri. oa My Gasoline Iron, I bought of Mr. > Smith is entirely srtisfactory, aad quite a labor saver.—MES. WILL EADS, B. ui att Feteotademadatteaect |" vecanay ay eater ; reeks, ean y say that my Self Heat- and have not found fault in any Wer Iron me peered iow ona he MRS. 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