The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, May 25, 1916, Page 5

ceipts during the current Perfe We also have a large stock of Ovens, Wicks, etc. Lawn Mowers and Refriger- . ators Right now is the time to buy a Lawn Mower to cut your grass and we have the kind you want. In Refrigerators we have the largest and best selected stock ever shown in Bates inty and can make you a way down price. If needing one comé in and talk it over. : ; Field and Poultry Fence We handle the American and Electric weld line of woven wire fencing and can fix you up on most anything you need as we have @ large stock and can make you prices way below the market. We, have most everything from 20 to 60 inches in height. a also have a large stock of poultry netting, Lawn Fence, Barb and Smooth Wire, Gates, Wire Cloth, Screen Doors, etc. . Hardware and Groceries We have the largest and best selected stock of Hardware, Groceries, Flour, Feed, Seeds, ete., in Bates County and will make prices to get your business. Come in and we will show you we have the right prices as well as the goods. BENNETT-WHEELER MERC. CO. Telephone £2 Butler, Mo. A Fine Lime Stone Grass Cattle | stone grass, good sod. If sold in Ranch Sale 20 days $20 per acre will buy-it. cash balance time -and terms to suit: We can suit a man for any kind and sized farm or ranch. Ask for W. A. Nelson & Son, Fall River, Kansas. ls Your Car Noisy? If your engine is noisy, 600 acres in Greenwood county, Kemeas. Good fencing, ranch: improvements, lots of fine living water. About 100 acres in} tultivation, balance all fine lime | ise 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 .expert _ workmen employed. }) dition Butler $150.00. PSB. Dr. W. H. Gibbons, a prominent 4 : ician and business man, died aoe it his home in Clinton Monday of officials last week, “ee The Lockwood- Luminary has from | found a use for Sears & Roebuck eatalogues..They cut them up and use the pages to wrap their paper for the mail. year ending June 80, will be 90 million dollars to 100 million dollars more than estimated when Congress convened. th REASON Jose Buenrostro and Melquaides For twelve years La Plata has Chapa, Mexicans, convicted of the had but one negro resident and murder of A. L, Austin and his] With the death there of Ellen Un- aon, Charles, in the Mexican bor-|@erwood, cook at the Cottage ho- der raids, last fall. were hanged] tel, the town is lily white. Friday at Brownsville, Tex., in the Cameron County jail. Again Linn county-comes to the a eee SENS front with a big record, Listen! Friends of Gen. Leonard A.|John W. Sayers of Linneus the Wood, it is said, are planning to other day marketed three hens present his name to the Republi- which weighed 24 1-2 pounds and can national convention as a com-| brought the sum of $3.43, nearly promise candidate for president. $1.15 cach.—St, Joseph Observer. They believe that if there is a pro- longed deadlock in the balloting he may have a chance to win. With the largest crop of straw- berries in the history of Southwest Missouri, the growers are now confronted with a shortage of pickers. In former years many went from Joplin to the strawber- ry fields, but this year owing to the high prices paid for all kinds of labor it is hard to get pickers from the towns. William J. Bryan, jr., of Tucson, Ariz., was appointed: by Governor Hunt last week to represent Ari- zona at the coming convention of the League to Enforce Peace at Washington, May 27-28. Bryan is assistant United States attorney he Arizona district. Se a pete ee & ‘ Probably the largest rock ever Canuto Reyes, the Villa leader,{used in any building ex¢epting has surrendered unconditionally |Solwmon's temple has been placed to the de facto government, ac-jin the new state capitol _ building cording to a message received by|at Jefferson City. This single General Trevino, commanding the} Stone is 12 feet long, 7 1-2 feet Carranza forces of Southern Mex-| Wide and four feet thick. It’s ico, from his subordinate, Gen.| Weight is sixty-eight thousand Fortunato Maycotte, at Pedricena,} two hundred and fifty pounds.— Henry County Democrat. George B. Cox, politician and —_—_———- theatrical manager, died at his} uyton & Harrington have just home in Cincinnati, Ohio, Satur-]constructed at Lathrop a very day. Mr. Cox was stricken with large reservoir which will give paralysis February 29, from which them abundant water for the use he never recovered, although|of the thousands of horses and death is said to have been from| mules which they handle for the pneumonia, which developed in British government, The lake sur- the last few days. face when filled will ,contain 98 —————_ acres of water and will be 2 1-2 Paul H. Haffer, a young man of | miles around.—St. Joseph - Ob- Tacoma, Wash., who wrote letters , server. to the newspapers now and then, -_ was sentenced to serve four! Uncle Sam may be a little slow, months ii the county jail for libel-|says the Higginsville Advance, but ing the memory of George Wash- ; his bookkeepers are always on the ington. The court explained that| job. M. C. James, who retired as the sentence was intended to cever| postmaster at Higginsville .some the cost of the action. Haffer was} sixteen months ago, received the convicted several weeks ago by aj other day a warrant from the jury in superior court. His attor-| treasury department reimbursing ney gave notice of appeal. him seventy-nine cents which had Sone aR ae been overcharged in Mr. James’ The American record for a long | final audit. distance aeroplane flight was (aa broken Saturday by Victor Carl-; D. D. Moss, of near Columbia, strom. He carried a message from | owns Sitting Bull’s peace pipe, the Newport News, Va., to Sheeps-| red catlanité pipe ‘used by the head Bay, 400 miles, in four hours Sioux Indian chief who headed and one minute. Carlstrom was the Sioux nation in 1876 when accompanied on the flight by | Custer and his men were massa- Captain Ralph Taylor of the coast cred by the Sioux at the Little Big artillery, Connecticut guard, who! ![orn says the Columbia Tribune. weighs 200 pounds. A similar! When the treaty of peace was flight was made by Stephenson | made with the Indians the pipe McGordon. He arrived one hour used to celebrate the termination after Carlstrom. Both - aviators| of the treaty and its ratification, used Curtiss biplanes of different | was the Sitting Bull pipe. types. | > | A Japanese cook at St. Joseph j has set a new pace in the matter REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS (of rapid-fire matrimony. His wife jdied the other day, and a few Paul I. Rogers ta. Jesse L. Por-| hours later he obtained a marriage ty a wes section 33 W est! license and married his sister-in- G. W. Boyer et al to F. M law. The next day he and _ his Campbell 205 Meher ecuan'S Weat| Uwe meeended the funeral of the Point $10,675.00. | bereaved bridegroom’s wife and CA Hidargou to Blaker pom the bride’s sister. Truly, Ameri- has Co., lot 1 block 14 A terdam | “228 ean learn much from the $150 mf . | Orient. Some of it, however, J ' would have to season a long time : $6 _| before being accepted as the right *\ thing to do at the right time— Vv | Shelbina Torchlight. .00. R. Brock to Mayme Hartwell 160 acres section 24 Elkhart 800.00. George Thomas et al to B. Thomas 112 acres section 4 New| Home $1.00. | Congressman Dickinson Files Dec- laration. an Dickinson has | fia his declaration as a candi- Side ad-! date to succeed himself, and so Te far we have not heard of any op- W. W. Cannon | position. It is just as well for 12 West | Diskinson would have a walk over fo® another term, and it would be De-|a Brave man who would face the et al lot 6 block 12 West i t majority given him ly election in the hottest kind of He has made good and et is satisfied.—Johnson District is proud of HOW IS YOUR STOCK OF CAN FRUIT? You had better look it up. Come to town or Phone your order, for the following bar-- gains will not last long. Can Salmon, good quality...... No. 3 Can Apples.. a5 “34 . oe 2 “2 “2 “3 “3 Cherries, white, reg. 35c, only. ‘+ 3 Baked Beans.............. 5 oe 2 ts ** 2 Pineapple, regular 2Sc, only... «* 3 Can Sweet Potatoes “3 ‘ Tomatoes ** 3 Table Peaches. peeled.. “3 Fancy ss in syrup, regular ‘* 3 Pears, only «* 3 Kraut 5c ...8 for 25c 3 ' 25e 3 “ 25c . 1 Galion Colored Syrup, extra good quality.......... 1 “ White Syrup, extra good quality.......... Salt or Loose-Wiles Crackers °°" 7¢ Ib FANCY COOKIES Regular 20c Ib. : ONLY 10c Ib. We carry the largest stock of AUTOMOBILE TIRES between Kansas City and Joplin by § box Let us have your order for a FORD CAR The only car manufactured that the sun never sets on. We have afew yet and will be glad to mark “She and hold for you until you are ready to take it. Norfleet é Ream The Only Independent Grocery, Bakery and Hardware Store Phones, 144 and 49. Garage 35 BUTLER, MO. West Side Square [Germans Raid English Coast Again. London, May 20.—Three Ger- east Four Years Against Forty. The Hon. Leslie M. Shaw, a leading Republican’ and former secretary of -the United States man seaplanes raided the treasury, virtually admits, ina re- coast of Kent early today. cent interview published in the In-, Of the three casualties one was dianapolis News, that the Demo- a soldier who waskilled. cratic party has done more of a One of the raiders was shot constructive nature in its four ‘down off the Belgian coast while years of control than his own par- returning to the German base. ty did in forty years. Here is! Announcement of the raid was what he says: made by the war office this after- “T have no hesitancy in admit- | noon. ‘ ting grave doubts whether the Re- A number of bombs publican party can, even if it dropped by the raiders. should. try, and also whether it. In addition to the soldier killed ought to try to defeat the party!a woman and a seaman were in- now in power upon an issue of ex-} jured. coriation because it has failed to; As soon as the raiders appeared accomplish in four years what we fire was opened against them by failed to do in forty. If we have high angle guns, and British aero- a small and inadequate army and planes went aloft to give battle. navy, the Republican party is 80) When the German machines took per cent responsible for its ineffi-| flight they were pursued across ciency, for the Republican party | the North sea by British air men. has been in power 80 per cent of the last century. If our coast de- fenses are silly, I submit it does! Bergues have been -attacked by not lie in the mouth of the Repub-/ German aeroplanes. At Dunkirk were Paris, May 20.—Dunkirk and lican party to say much about it. | one woman was killed and 27 per- Let the next administration be a/sons were wounded. At Bergues, business administration, and while | southeast of Dunkirk, five persons preparing for peace let it also do} were killed and 11 injured. } what we all agree should be done | Lieutenant Navarre, the daring —prepare for eventualities that | young aViator of the French air may ensue.’’—Henry County | corps, has shot down another ad- Democrat. - | Versary near Chattancourt. A Six O'clock Dinner. Don’t Drench Horses. Monday being the birthday of Use Farris Colic Remedy. Simp-| Chris Black and his sister, Mrs. drop it on the -horse’s tongue|Joe C. Hupp, Mrs. Black pre- with the medicine dropper that is} pared a six o’clock dinner in hon- furnished with every 50 ct bottle. | or of the anniversary. Cures fifty nine times out of sixty,| Those present were Mr. and and the women can give it when| Mrs. J. ©. Hupp, Miss Ethel Coon- you aré away. Money back if it} rod of Urich, Mo., Lloyd Gaines, fails, ce tha pr Black and Bruce — . j \ les Pharmacy, |- was a jolly party e 29-1MOKM Hees’ Old Stand. was-unanimous that Mrs. : was the very best cook in .