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The Butler Weekly Times Printed on Thuseday of each week. QObT, D. ALLEN, Méiter ond Mar. pS A tas “74ed at the Post Office of But- as class mail mat i PRICE, $1.00 PER YEAR We are authorized to make the fol- Domecratic. primary of Bates Con any, atic primary oj ’ te be held ‘Tuesday, August 1, 191 County Treasurer i , JOHN H. STONE W. B. WELCH Summit Township J. 8, TAYLOR Shawnee Township Sheriff J. W. BAKER Osage Township . _H. D, CHAMBERS East Boone Township Judge County Court - North District A. B, THURMAN Mingo Township J. M, REKDER } Deer Creek Township i| J County Court : bir District | There Will Be Plenty of ‘Bargains in Each Department Colored Wash Goods, White Goods, Ginghams, Percales, Table Linens, Children’s Dresses, Petticoats, Muslin Un- derwear, Shirt Waists. Lace Curtains, Curtain Nets, Rugs; Portiers, Dress Skirts, W.¥, LOwDER Coats, Ladies’ and Men’s Shoes, Men's Shirts, Socks, Etc. New Home Township Gireuit Judge, 29th Judicial Distsict { Cc. A, CALVIRD Clinton, Mo, HENRY F. POAGUE Clinton, Mo, i i Prosecuting Attorney | D. C. CHASTAIN WATT DAWSON | HOWELL H. HECK { Osage Township > Representative in the State Legislature. —_—__—J.A8,N._ SHAR! Mound Township JOSEPH B, MARCH : 8. C. WILLIAMSON ce Osage Township | Exports of ammunition, explos- \ives and firearms for the twenty- ;one months’ period of the Euro- jpean war, August 1, 1914, to April | 30, 1916, have reached the huge to- tal of nearly half a billion dollars. Shipments of these articles are be- ing made at a rapidly increasing rate, nearly half this enormous ‘‘Remember Carrizal,’’ will nev- er be as popular as ‘‘Remember the Maine’’ was in 1898, for the reason that most people are’ un- able to pronounce Garrizal. § / | | total having been exported in the ——— ‘| past four months. Notwithstand- | The Progressives:are consider- | ing current reports to the effect ing as to whether Roosevelt that fewer foreign contracts for should be prosecuted for child | war material are now being placed | abandonment qr patricide. The) than heretofore, it is doubtful if evidence to convict is ample. }the maximum of production has : yet been reached. To the total exports of ammuni- | The fact that democrats have| dubbed. the Hughes and Fairbanks | the period of war cartridges con- | team the ‘‘chin chin”’ ticket is a/ tribute $44,271,750, gunpowder | reminder of the fact that it is a, $127,767,170, other explosives long time since this country has, | $195,649,764, firearms $22,473,934, elected to the presidency a man, 'and unloaded shrapnel and shells with whiskers like Hughes’—Jop- (estimated) — $100,000,000.—Iron lin Globe. Age, = and see us. p______|___Ezports-of-War-Munitions: —{- We want to reduce our regular stock and clean up every odd lot and remnant. We will save you money. Come Walker-McKibben’s = Treasury Report Shows Balance of Over Six Millions. At the opening of business ‘July first there was a‘ the State treasury of $6,054,- 740.16. The balance at the close of business May 31 was 6,150,- 491.52. The receipts for the month of June were $863,743.08 and the disbursements amounted to $959,494.44, ‘ The balance in the revenue fund is $75,118.44. The State school fund has a balance to its credit. of $1,465,308.53. The pen- itentiary shows earnings for the} month of $74,929.96, with dis- balance, There is a falas in the new capitol building iund of $1,703,- |, 049.77, and today $275,000 of the outstanding bonds issued in behalf of the building were called in and cancelled, balance in! The Quality Store J. C. Crosswhite of Rich Hill took dinner Tuesday of last week with W. M. Hardinger and fam- ily. LeEtta Simpson of Butler spent the latter part of the week with her cousins,’ Mrg. W. E. Osborne, and Mrs. Lee M. Hardinger. W. I. Cooper, the MeConnon, man, was in our neighborhood C. G. Porter and family. her cousin, Mrs. P. H. Osborne, and family. ' Miss Josephine Leonard spent | last week with her sister, Mrs, | tion, explosives and firearms for|bursements of a like sum and no | Jas. Park. Mrs. O. W. Walker and last Wednesday for a week’s visit | with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W, | F. McKibben. Mr. Walker came! down Saturday night to visit over | Sunday with relatives here. Friday and spent the night with y Miss Mary Irene Crawford of Columbia, Mo., is visiting with | Sunday school will be held each Sunday in the Probate Court room at the court house. school 10 a. m. Services 11 a, m. tend. sas Harland, of Kansas City, came | { — The good roads funds have a Charley Simpson and Chas. | i ‘ I. 0. O. F. Install Officers. balance of 447,740.77, which | Robertson have been plowing. The German newspapers want} ‘were contributed to from the fol-| corn for C, G. Porter, j ‘ : ‘| XN ave i 3 ' the Germans in Arua a to ie. ee a a butler lowing.sources: — Automobile li-| Several in our vicinity have | strafe’’ Wilson. But Germans censes, $328,426.58 ; sale of option | been using the ‘‘Lord’s Day’’ to vote and how |0f Odd Fellows held their semi- “strafeing?”’ | annual installation of officers at The | their hall m the Fraternal Inn, ‘building. The following officers | were installed: | N. G., C. H. Grube; V. G., J. 8.! Krinn; Con. 1. L. ri ae tl Warden, | Pere : \C. W. Miller; R. G., F. E.| Hats off to the negro as a fight- | Blough; L.'S. N. CG. * : L, Fisher ;| ing machine! In the Spanish war | R. S. S. S., E. W. Smiser; L. S. 8. he saved the Rough Riders at San | \8., D. Morgan; Outside Guardian, | | Juan hill and last week he fought | Ed Richards; Inside Guardian, C. | \ his way out of a Mexican ambush | A. Bolen; Chaplain, J. O. Hender-' against odds of 8 to 1. It is true, | son. . he was practically annihilated,; The installation ceremony was but his heroism is worthy of com-| conducted in a very impressive | parison with the defenders of the ;manner by Lodge Deputy, J. L. Alamo.—St. Clair County Demo- | Brown. erat. in America have no can they do any Only American citizens vote. German press should study up on! American affairs a little.—St. Louis Star. - Le), For Sale Cheap. _ A solid brick, 10 room house with electric lights, s¢wer and all During the heated months of the summer it has been the cus- tom for the churches of this city - to unite and hold union ‘meetings in the Court House yard each Sunday evening. _The custom is I J a to be observed this year and the | opposite the finest resider.ce prep- ‘first meeting was held last Sun. |erty in Warrensburg. Owner has day evening. Rev. Talbert of the | moved to California and the prop- -Christian church, preached a very |erty can be secured very cheap. able sermon and was listened to|Property is clear and can be sold bya large audience who gave him|9n easy terms. Might trade for the closet attention. During the| good farm. early part of the service some con- fusion was caused by motori who did not know the nature of | 38-1t * - the meeting, driving along the ” streets near by with their cut outs large lot on paved street. A few hundred feet from the State Nor- mal School in Warrensburg, Mo., G. E. Guisinger, 4726 Euclid Ave., Kansas City, Mo. 3 houses and lots in Butler, | Mo. and my picture show. Will Cl sell at a <oIe if taken August. 1st, et J. M. Rosier. modern improvements, located on|+ Co. B, Third Regiment, and Anna Davis of Moberly. another couple to be wed. The bride is an actress and is with the Panama Girls. number previvusly reported. creditors and others interested. in ond estate of ee Fulkerson, leceased, that I, rge P. Ful administra stamps, $33,926. 26; general road} fund, $16,310.74; corporation tax, | | $69,077.19.— Jefferson City Dem- | ocrat Tr ibune. | Soldiers Married at Camp ‘Clark. | War brides were numerous in Nevada last night and today, says Saturday’s Nevada Mail, the fol- lowing couples being wed: ernee H. Webster of Joplin, Co. B, 3rd Regiment, and Miss Sere | | Courtney of Kansas - City, the ceremony being performed at! high noon by Rev. Jenkins, chap- lain of the Third Regiment. Emory A. Griswell of Independ- | ence, with Battery C, and Georgia | A. Long were married last night at the Latter Day Saints’ church, Elder W. 8S. McR&e officiating. Judge Moss married the morn- ing George Potter of Boonville, W. R. Hunt of Carthageeand Anna Keuters of St. uis was This is an addition to quite a — Notice of Final Settlement. Notice is hereby given to. all | work in the field. Roy Burk cut oats for Ernest | Jarvis Monday. Ernest has! been helping Roy plow corn. | Miss Edna Fleming’ returned | | home Sunday from Iola, Kansas, where she had been spending the summer, Hardinger and Mr. Hardinger. Mr, and Mrs. W. Y. Osborne jeame out from Butler and spent Osborne and W, E. Osborne. n UNCLE HENRY. roenrerievaren (o> .2 YEN Notice of Final Settlement. Notice is hereby given -to all | ereditors and others interested in |the estate of Joseph Groves, de- ceased, that we, and Geo. D. Groves, executors of said estate, intend to make final settlement thereof, at the next term Of the Bates County Probate Court, in Bates County, State of Missouri, to be held at Butler, Missouri, on the 14th day = of August, ‘1916, ‘ Alonzo Groves, Geo, D. Groves. 38-4t Executors. ‘tor of said es- Defore| tate, intend to miake final settle-| noon of last week in the office ment thereof, at tthe next term of | the recorder of é in Bete County in “Drapery M. A. McElroy spent the Fourth, | with his daughter, Mrs. W. A:} | the Fourth with their sons, P. H.! Alonzo Groves: { | { | To steam velvet, instead of us- ing a flatiron, try your soapstone and see how. much better and smoother the velvet.will be. Christian Science Services and Sunday | ‘The next time your fire has al- most gone out try throwing a lit- tle granulated sugar on it, which will have the same effect as kero- sene, but is nat at all dangerous. Subject, ‘‘Sacrament.’’ All are cordially invited.to at- ow y ai Ml rene i nyt "eee wh> wear Munsing Under wear, become enthusiastic in their praise of its merits. They talk about its - durability, its workmanship, the way it. fits and covers the form, and the splendid . service and satisiaction it it gives at small expense. They> literally convert: their ‘friends into becoming Munsingites: ‘That's why the demand grows and why ‘it is BROOD pation Sete seer stanine Tear A 3