The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, June 29, 1916, Page 2

TWO BAD MEN ARRESTED Men Accused of Highway Rob- bery Arrested by’ Railroad Police and Placed Bates County Jail. L. G. Rinkle, Missouri College of Agriculture. The American farmer who sells cream should insist that the cream- ery grade his cream. ‘This will Thursday of last week two men giving the names of Lonnie Strait and Roy White, were brought to Butler by Special Officer .D. M. Lay, of the Kansas City Southern and Officer S.J. Smith, of the Frisco railroad and placed in the county jail charged with highway robbery and assault with intent to kill. For some time two men armed with revolvers have been holding - up employees of the two railroads and relieving them of any money or valuables that they might have. On Friday, June 16, while Officer Smith was looking for some bums on a Frisco train near Ft. Scott, he was held up by two men who relieved him of a watch, nine dol- lars in money, a 44 calibre revol- ver and some valuable papers. He was compelled by the robbers to ride with them in the car for about thirty miles before he was turned loose. On the following Sunday night on the Kansas City Southern at a point between Hume and Worland they boarded a freight train and held up two brakemen named Williams and Miller. From Will- iams they took a small amount of money and a watch which they re- turned to him. Miller ran and they fired five shots at him, one of them passing through his coat, but fortunately not injuring him. Wednesday Lay and Smith re- ceived information that two men . answering to the. description of the robbers were at the water tank where the Madison branch of-the Missouri' Pacific crosses the Kan- tend to cull out the poor quatity ter grade of butter. Give the creamery a good grade of cream and they make a good grade of butter. Good butter sells for a high price, therefore top prices can be paid for the cream. Bet- ter cream prices stimulate the far- second grade mer in obtaining better dairy cat- tle and increase the desire for a more careful study of economical milk production, The close grading of cream has become ‘absolutely necessary. Within the last few years cream- ery butter of the United States has been meeting with greater compe- tition from foreign butter. But- ter from Siberia, Australia, Den- mark, and South America has come to our shores by the ship- load and sold in- our markets alongside American made butter. It has poured into the United States on both the eastern and western coasts. Imported butter does not reach our markets in as fresh condition as our own butter, consequently the majority of it sells as second grade. In many cases it leaves the point of production as a first class article, but is so long in transit that it deteriorates and arrives as butter. Unfortu- nately the majority of American made butter is also second grade. This is not because it cannot reach the market at once, but because it is made’ from a poor quality of cream, - The American farmer is| not producing as good quality of | creain as his foreign brother, First grade butter is still in big | of cream and make possible a bet- |. on for our friends in the country as well. real Holiday and Get-Together Time. There will be gr kind you like. We hope get to know each other better. > You'll want to hear HON. JOSEPH G. CAMP, “The South’s Most Finished Orator,” on the first night of the. Chautauqua. HON. ALF TAYLOR, Ex-Governor of Tennessee, and brother of “Fiddling Bob,” will speak on the afternoon of the third day, and DR. D. F. FOX, brilliant lecturer, that night. GRANVILLE JONES, most popular of Chau- tauqua lecturers, will be here on the fourth night. But we can’t wait to tell you about the HIA- WATHA INDIANS, who will appear on the sixth day. They are full blooded Ojibways and on the sixth night are going to give the great Hiawatha play. These Indians draw bigger crowds than any other Chautauqua attraction. They give a wonderful entertainment. There’s a world of other good things in Make Arrangements Today Any of the Business Men Will Serve You THIS CHAUTAUQUA is not an exclusive town affair. It was planned and put We all want to make Chautauquse Week a great lectures and entertainments to enjoy at this Chautauqua. The to meet you and all your family here during Chautauqua Week, and We, who are on the Chautauqua Committee, want you to come and have a good time, and then come back again. Let us try to live a little while by the way, and get something besides work out’ of life as we go along. Hitch Up, or Crank Up, and Come OnIn music and entertainment; THE PILGRIM GIRLS AND HANNAH GOVE; THE WEST- MINSTER CONCERT ENTERTAINERS; THE ARCADIAN SYMPHONY SEXTET; THE AL- PINE YODLERS; LULU TYLER GATES; THE MUSICAL ARTS QUARTET; PROF. W. B. PATTY, the scientist—all these will be here— and more. : And here is something especially important. On the afternoon of the sixth day Prof. J. W. Henceroth, agricultural. scientist and soil ex- pert, will give his famous lecture-demonstra- tion: “SCIENCE AND THE SOIL.” This lec- ture will be thoroughly practical. As a pro- gressive farmer or citizen you cannot afford to miss it. Plan to attend every session. And be sure to bring the homefolks and neighbors with you. For Your Season Tickets sas City Southern, and disgiisingT a themselves as n hands went to the tank just as the train on the Kansas City Southern was slowing up for water. On seeing the officers the men started for the train but were forced to halt by the officers who covered them with their guns. When they were searched Strait was carrying the Smith & Wesson revolver taken from Smith the Friday before. White was armed with a 38 calibre Police Colt re- volver. ' It is suspected that they have been robbing harvest hands going to the Kansas wheat harvest for some time. Strait has quite an extensive police record, but so far little has been found out about White's past. Thursday Brakeman Williams and Miller came to Butler -and identified them as the men who held them up. Friday they were taken before Justice of the Peace R. 8. Catron, where they waived preliminary examination and were bound over to the Circuit Court. They have made boasts that they: have friends on the outside who will soon get them out of jail and Sheriff Johnson is taking spe- cial precautions to see that they will be on hand when their cases are called next October. “‘Titanic’’ Wheat. The department has recently been advised by a correspondent in California that a variety of wheat is being advertised under the name ‘‘Titanic’’ The asser- tion is made that it is a new varie- ty of wheat discovered in England about four years ago, and that a small quantity of seed was brought to the United States by one of the survivors of the ill-fat- ed Titanic. The wheat is repre- sented as having extremely high yielding power, the returns reach- ing~as high as 7,000-fold. A photograph sent by this corre- spondent shows a head identical in appearance with the widely ex- ploited ‘‘Alaska’’ wheat. Five - acres of the whest are said to be growing in the skate of Washing- ton and the seed, it is believed, will be offered at high prices after harvest. The department has no further or more definite informa- tion concerning this variety, bat farmers and dealers are cautioned to be on their guard concerning * this new exploitation. f Scrawny Calves. ‘What makes a calf scrawny— off ite feed? not free ? rou will BA, Thom demand inthis country—amd—tret producers of good butter are re-| alizing a nice margin in price over) the producers of second grade but- | ter. Because of foreign compe- tition with our second grade but-| ter the difference in price between first grade and second grade is| wide, Foreign competition has not | materially increased the supply of first grades, while the supply of seconds has been increased tre-| mendously. Because of our poor markets for second-grade butter the farmers in every community should compel the creamery to grade the cream,} and should do all in their power to see that every farmer produces on- ly first grade cream. Then and only then will that creamery be able to pay top prices for cream. “If a Man Die.’’ The flowers of the field rising from countless graves, the unfold- ing. leaves of the forest heralding the approach of summer, the or- chard and the meadows, bursting into bloom, and myriads of winged | minstrels filling the world with melody, are all the evangels of the Lord, demonstrating before our eyes the universal victory of life over death. Look how the rose hears the far away call of the sun, and blushes in the presence of its God. Look how the violet comes forth from its tomb, and opens its glad blue eyes to greet the Spring. Are they not God’s answer to the question, “‘If a man die, shall he live again? If the germs of inani- mate life buried beneath the sod so surely respond to the silent command of summer, who can doubt that man shall spring up out of the unconscious dust to One Clock That was not Set Forward. | Butler Chautauqua, July 26 to 31, 1916 Kansas City, Mo., March 22, 1915 eternal life when God shall call? Can it be that the grass and flow- ers are resurrected from the sod of earth, while man, from whom they were made, must sleep for- ever?—From a speech by the late Senator Bob Taylor of Tennessee. Teachers See New School Methods Under the direction of Prof. J. L. Meriam, superintendent of Uni- versity Schools at Columbia, a course in elementary school obser- vation is being conducted for students of the Summer Session. servation work. Each observer is given an hour each day which means a total of hours every The military authorities in some parts of Germany recently issued an order that all clocks be set ahead one hour. An amusing incident occurred the military orders, who was some- what bewildered by the new order and appeared before the authori- ties to have the order explained to him. “Well, Rasmussen, what is troubling you now?’’ said the of- ficial to the farmer, who stpod before him nervously fingering) his cap. “It’s about the clocks,’’ said Rasmussen. ‘‘I wanted to ask if it is true that we must set the clocks forward an hour.’’ ‘‘Of course,’ replied the of- ficial, ‘‘and the new- order em- braces every clock inthe German Empire. Rasmussen appeared dumfound- ed and wiped his perspiring brow. ‘But that’s an awful problem for me,’’ said the farmer. ‘‘You see, I have a very old clock, which has been in the family since my leave it just as it always was.’’ ‘*You cannot,’’ said the official bluntly. ‘‘No clock is exempt.” “‘Well, of course, as you say, but I don’t know how I’m going to do it.” “Why, don’t be silly. You There are 202 students taking ob-|simply push the hour hand for-|service im. ward one hour. Now go home and don’t forget about it.” - Well, all right, but I’ll have when Rasmus! Rasinussen, a farmer who had al-| ways been punctual in obeying all | grandfather’s time, and I wanted}country. This is the third time to ask your honor if I could not/that Missouri has received ~this day. The day’s entire observa-|to see a mason about it.” The Oid Line Bankers Life Insurance Co., Lincoln, Nebraska t Gentlemen:—Your Mr. Miller handed me to-day a paid-up policy for $1,000.00, and check for $421.56, in full settlement of policy No. 3477, on which I paid the first premium March 21, 1895. This was a20-year return premium policy, and while at times it seemed difficult to secure the money to pay the premiums, | feel very glad now that the Policy was taken out in your Company. The settlement made is satisfactory in every re- spect. - Yours truly, ROY C. SHOEMAKER. M. U. CORPS AGAIN HONORED Military School is for Third Time Praised by the War De- _ partment. It has been announced by. the United States War Department that.the Military School of the University of Missouri at Colum- bia, is again one of the-‘‘ten dis- tinguished institutions” ‘‘of the distinction. The other two times in 1914 and1915. e military rec! tenant Eby was Fel Colonel Gi ion of the The obtained, entitles * Univertit; in the BEN B. CANTERBURY Is the Bates County Agent _If your engine is noisy, If it loses compression and power, Germs—parasites— chitin these not the tions are completed within two hours. The course lasts three weeks. The of the observation demonstrations of zee Aes ip the Uni School, w! ‘*What’s a mason got to do with | to it?”’ Un **Well, you see, the clock is bl will my garden and is imbedded in.a| Roffe, of | cementcolumn. It has not hands;}' it.is what_you calla sun clock or, Law name a second-lieutenant Twenty Payment Life Policy Matured in the OLD LINE BANKERS LIFE INSUR- ANCE COMPANY of Lincoln, Nebraska Name... Residence... ..Roy C: Shoemaker Kansas City, Mo. Amount of policy. -- $1,000.00 Total premfums.................. $554.00 SETTLEMENT i Cash paid Mr. Shoemaker...... $421.56 And paid-up participating policy 1,000.00