The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, May 11, 1916, Page 4

The Butler Weokly Priated on Thursday of each Batered at the Post Office of But- ler, Mo., as second-class mail matter. PRICE, $1.00 PER YEAR ANNOUNCEMENTS - We are authorized to make the fol- lowing announcements, subject to the Democratic _ primary of Cor to be held Tuesday, August 1, 191 tes 1 County Treasurer JOHN H. STONE W. B WELCH Summit Township J. 8. TAYLOR = Shawnee Township Sheritt J. W. BAKER Osage Township H. D, CHAMBERS East Boone Township Judge County Court Nerth District A. B. THURMAN Mingo Township Judge County Court Seuth District W. H. LOWDE: New Home Township CAresit Judge, °%h Judicial District C. A. CALVIRD Clinton, Mo, HENRY F. POAGE Clinton, Mo, Prosecuting Attorney ‘D. C, CHASTAIN WATT DAWSON HOWELL H. HECK Osage Township Representative in the State Legislature. JABS. N. SHARP Mound Township JOBEPH B. MARCH 8. C. WILLIAMBON Oeage Township CLARKSON TELLS HOW TO ‘Times unty, 6. . ship tax 10 cts, township road and | bridge levied as levied and certi- fied in by the several clerks of | the township boards, Mt. Pleasant R. R. tax 50 ects, school taxes as voted, levied and certified by the several clerks of the township 4 BUILD ROADS. boards. All of said levies to be : on the $100 valuation. Method for 365 Day Construction) Gointy +evenue apportioned Explained by Jefferson | fo, the coming year as follows: Highway . Contingent fund: 20 per cent; sal- J. D. Clarkson, manager of the} ary fund 20 per cent; pauper fund Mr. Clarkson, who is Jefferson Highway, who is mak-|25 per cent; bridge fund 20 per ing a tour over the route of the|cent; election and jury fund 15 Highway was in Butler Tuesday | Per cent. afternoon and addressed an audi- Tees. ence of the members of the Com-|H. 0. Maxey Circuit Clerk, ap- mercial Club on the subject of| proved. economical permanent road con- struction. ' Statement of fees presented by authorized line W. H. Charters Jr. to connect to electric light an en-|running to county infirmary on thusiast on the matter of good| Payment of $15.00 provided said roads has made an exhaustive | Connection does not interfere with scientific study of the subject and| Service to county infirmary. has evolved a system for road con- ee! struction which has been pro-|dered to survey road petitioned nounced both successful and eeon-| for by Eugene Bradley et al and omical. County Highway Engineer or- road petitioned for by H. H. Mr. Clarkson’s plan is to first] Vergason et al and report at reg- The in sma - properly made should constitute the ditches and drains for excavated | Ship. the remove from the road bed all veg- ular meeting in August, etation and excavate the width|, poe of the proposed road to the depth |ounty physician for a term of of approximately one foot. depth of the excavation . d with the kind and condition of make estimate for the repair of soil. The surface remaining after| ridge over Panther Creek be- the excavation is then tamped|tween sections 10 and 15 Rock- down to the depth of approxi- ville township and for repair of mately twelve inches and a liberal approach ‘of bridge over’ Due coating of oil is then sprayed up- on the surface. earth is then replaced quantities and rolled repeatedly. Where the earth is properly tamped and rolled, the ‘cavated will be insufficient to a Dr. R. Ez Crabtree appointed The | one year. varies Highway Engineer ordered to Branch in section 36 Spruce town- County Clerk Frank Holland presents his Financial Statement of Bates County for the fiscal 1 earth ex-| Year ending April 30, 1916, which 1] is by the court approved. ‘The Battle Ory of Peace. Broken Lot Ladies Suits, carried,... Room Rugs at Old Prices A Beautiful Line o All Coats and Suits on Sale at greatly reduced prices May We are offering these special inducements this month to \ create extra business Fine Bleached Muslin.................:.. 8c Good Apron Checked Ginghams::::- ...7¥%e Standard Unbleached Muslin............. 6¥c 12%c Unbleached Crash.......... as eal .-10c $1.00 Extra Wide Auto Coat Linen.......48c Lot $1.25 Shirt Waists.................... 7&c Ladies Silk Hose..:...°-*'*'.......... ....29¢ Special Values in Middys......:..... ..$1.00 Scalloped and Cut Corner Quilts........$1.75 NOW is the NOW ON THE MUNSING UN COMMERCIAL CLUB MEETS Board of Directors Hear Interest-| ing Talk by W. B. Scruggs. W. B. Scruggs of Harrisonville, who was in Butler Tuesday at- tended the meeting of the board of Directors of the Commercial Club Tuesday evening and at the re- quest of the chairman'made a most interesting talk on the subject of good roads. Mr. Scruggs, who is one of the directors of the Missouri Jefferson Highway Association and one of the leading figures in Cass coun- ty’s financia] affairs is an ardent good roads enthusiast and a most interesting speaker. Besides giving the Directors much valuable information re- garding the Jefferson Highway, he discussed local road construc- tion problems from various angles. ‘ Mr. Scruggs stated that the people of Cass county are en- thusiastic upon the road question and are planning to construct 4 system of 250 miles of rock roads throughout the county which will place a hard surface road within 2 miles of 85 per cent of the homes in the county at a cost of about one’ million dollars. The Club took up with S. Wol- stencroft the matter of subscrip- tions to the Jefferson Declaration’ Publication of the Financial Statement awarded to the Bates County Democrat and the Butler the official publication of the Jefferson Highway and agreed to subscribe for 100 copies. The rev- enues from the publication will be devoted to the highway. $15.00 was appropriated toward. the construction of the bridge near the north east corner of Mt. Pleasant township ‘annd. $10.00 was appropriated toward the con+ struction of the bridge near the J. G. Carroll farm, Boys Extra Good $3.50 and $3.00 . folio fee Og ven sean 1 Socnunoeen ee -$2.50 | Special Value Ladies Pumps.......... ...3,00 $2.00 Quality Wide Black Taffeta Silk. ..1.69 Palm Beach Skirts...... EGG ee Hees ..3,50 Lot $1.00 Sateen Petticaats........ ...... 69c 65c Mercerized Table Linen.............. 50c 44 inch Curtain Net...... Ste eas hase Mincatae elec 19c Choice lot $1.50 and $1.25 Curtains wet e ee cee e ete ene oeee time to buy f Colored and White Wash Goods DISPLAY DERWEAR STORE - Walker-McKibben’s. Howell H. Heck. Howell H. Heck, of Rich Hill, | who this week announces his can- didacy for the Democratic nomi- nation for Prosesuting Attorney, is a capable lawyer of unques- tioned ability. He is a graduate of the Missouri University School of Law and since his entrance into the practice in the-county has fig- ured in many important cases, Mr. Heck is the son of Joseph Heck, a well known citizen of Rich Hill, who for many years‘has been en- gaged in the manufacture of cigars and who has been a lifelong Democrat. Mr. Heck made . the race for posecut- ing attorney in 1914 and when defeated for the nomination — af- ter a clean, hard fought cam- paign, accepted his defeat grace- fully and enthusiastically support- ed and made a strong fight for the 'ticket nominated. -If nominated Mr. Heck will be elected, Jas. A. Houchin Here. Jas. A. Houchin of ‘Jefferson City, who is a candidate for the Democratic gubernatorial nomina- tion was in Butler Wednesday af- ternoon and addressed an audi- ence of voters here, outlining the policies upon which he is making the race. Mr. Houchin expressed himself as standing for a business admin- istration for Missouri, advance- ment and improvement in the ru- ral schools, advocates issuing ten million dollars of funds for the construction of permanent roads, and pledged himself as against nepotism. He ‘stated that the the last legislature is unconstitu- tional. “he Child Struck by Automobile, 2 and Ww. W. MORE OF THOSE INE. Walkers Special Pumps - Just received Come in and see them Special Values at $3 dnd $3.50 Other prices $2.50 to $4.00 Varese anion .62% each THE QUALITY STORE ANOTHER BIG LINER SUNK White Star Liner Cymric Tor- pedoed, No Americans on Board. Star liner Cymric, was torpedoed by a German submarine off the Trish coast Monday, and sank this morning. All those on board were saved except five who were killed by the explosion of the tor- pedo. . The Cymric was torpedoed at 4 p.m. Monday afternoon while 138 miles from Fastinet Light. It is said no warning was given. The torpedo hit the engine room. The Cymric, which was under orders from the British admiralty and carried a cargo of war sup- plies estimated to be worth nearly $1,000,000, was supposed to . be under convoy of a warship be- cause of the importance and value of her cargo. There were no American citi- zens on board. The ship carried a crew of 110 men and, in addi- tion, five English seamen from another ship who were returning from New York because of sick- ness. The freighter evidently. re- mained afloat about 10 or 12 hours after the explosion had oc- curred, which would have given time for escape from the sinking vessel. : Citizen-Teachers Elect Officers. An enthusiastic meeting of the Butler Citizen-Teachers Associa- tion was held in the auditorium of ing. After a short program the following officers were elected: ‘President, Dr. T. W. Arnold; 1st vice president, Mra. C. C. Woods; 2nd: vice-president, Mrs. Mra. Alonzo Ray; Treasurer, John London, May 9.—The White Packards New Oxfords FOR MEN $3.50, $4, $4.50 Black—Tan They certainly are fine We have a big stock of . . Childrens Shoes KEWPIES GODMANS BUDDS : When you want good shoes We want your trade WALKER-McKIBBEN’S “The Quality Store’’ Sunday Was the First Anniver- sary of Lusitania Disaster. A year ago on May 7, 1915, oc- curred the most tragic act of the European war—the giant Cunard liner Lusitania was sunk without warning by the German submar- ine U-29 as she was steaming past the Head of Kinsale, off the Irish coast, on her way from New York to Liverpool. In all, 1,216 per- sons, including 107 American cit- izens and 150 small babies and children, were drowned. The sur- vivors totaled 764, of whom about eighty were Americans, Among the well-known Ameri- cans who perished were Charles Frohman, Alfred Gwynne Van- derbilt, Lindon Bates, jr. Justus H. Forman, Elbert Hubbard and his wife, Captain J. B. Miller, Herbert S. Stone, Dr. F. S. Pear- son, Charles Kline and Lathrop Withington. ~ Mutual Insurance Company Officials Meet: The Bates County Mutual Fire and Lightning Insurance Com- pany held their regular quarterly meeting in this city Saturday. The following gentlemen were present: President, I. M. Brown, Appleton City; ~ @ Hirshi, Gardner land bank bill passed by ‘the High’ School Thursday even-| Sam St The company is in a flourishing paid ints which are award- ith to the school and condition, always paid. its lara of insurance in Bates County.