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aR ed th es il rll Here’s a Vacation Tip’ In the White River Country of Southwestern Missouri and. Northern Arkansas, you'll get more of what you want in the way of a real vacation than anywhere you can go—even though you traveled three times the distance and it cost you ten times the price. Only a short ride away~—easy_te reach. Hotels, boarding-houses “and camps everywhere—comfortable and inexpensive. MISSOURI ‘PACIFIC “Pleasant Way to Pleasant Places” See our agent. Ask for booklet on the White River Country—ret all particulars—whatever information you need from L. R. TWYMAN, Agent Butler, Mo. MISSOURI ls Your Car Nois If your engine is noisy, If it loses compression and power, If it fouls the spark plugs, Then the cylinders need reboring and the pistons refitting. This may be doneat 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. Henry’s Garage North Main St. Butler, Mo. \ tJemon-juice._Put_the water_and sugar to boil in a granite sauce- pan, add the ginger broken up in ;small pieces and boil for fifteen jminutes. Remove from-the fire, add the fruit juice, strain, cool and serve in glasses, to each of which has been added a table- spoonful of crushed ice. A deli- cious drink on a hot day. Ginger-Punch. If you are looking for a cool- ing drink these hot days try the following, from the Philadelphia | Record. It sure listens good. One quart of cold water, one cup of sugar, one-quarter pound of Canton ginger, one-half cup of orange juice and one-half cup of THERE-I8 A GROCERY STORE ON THE EAST SIDE OF NORTH MAIN STREET AND YOU OAN GET WE CARRY EVERYTHING IN THE GROCERY LIE, erst ancdh tebagiebarcate hs = of ‘labout one ‘HOW MEXICO IS ARMED In June About 85,000 Men Were ’ Under Arms and Ready for By the mosf accurate military there about . eighty-five thousand Mexicans under arms and ready for field service. As to the kind of arms they bore, Mex- ivo has for many years been a walking. arsenal of second hand arms from gaspipe and fowling pieces to Springfields, including a great many much eoveted Win- chesters and what is left of the information obtainable, were in une fifty thousand Mausers that were sold by Japan to Huerta. ~ Between 20 and 30 per cent of Mexiean troops were They had at least one field guns, all the mounted. hundred and fifty Schneider-Canets and St. Chau- monts, with Mondragon breech mechanisms, nearly all of them 75s and as good or . better than anything we conld bring against them. Fer this excellent French artillery, however, they had only hundred and _ fifty rounds per gun of ammunition. They had plenty of machine guns four or five hundred at least, and possibly as many as a thousand. But unquestionably more am- munition was stored in Mexico than we had any idea of. To be- gin with, ‘in the six months 4m- mediately preceeding the breaking out of open hostilities at the end .|of June, there had been compara- tively little fighting in “Mexico. Such amniunition as they had on hand was heing treasured up and fresh supplies were constantly coming in. An effective embargo was not established on the border until some time in April. Until that time consignments were regularly going into North- ern-Mexieo by all the main lines of railroad. Moreover, every Ward liner was bringing ammuni- tion into Vera Cruz, not to speak of shipments which cannot be so aceurately verified, through oth- er ports. These cargoes were generally invoiced to Cuba— World's Work. A Farewell Social. A social evening was spent by the people of the Methodist Church Tuesday evening, in which the E, M. Campbell family were the guests of - honor, A short program was rendered in whieh Henry Allen Hale, Miss Ashley and Miss Clarissa rendered pleasing Rey. Hale then spoke of the regret felt by the church on losing the family from the eommunity, after which refresh- ments were served, and an enjoy- able time was spent. The above clipping from a Yates Center, Kansas, paper re- fers to the family of Mr. F. M. Campbell who recently moved to this city, and now lives in the Crowell place on High street, which Mr. Campbell’ purchased. Ruth Stephenson numbers. They are a welcome addition to the church and social life of But- ler. Founder Never Results When Farris’ Colie Remedy is used for_it does not contain opi- ates which constipate, but is lax- ative in its action. It is dropped on the horse’s tongue—cures hy absorption. We sell it on the money back plan, C. C. Rhodes Pharmacy, 43-Im 0. K. M. Butler, Mo. NOT DUE TO SEX ALONE Butler Women Have Learned the Cause of Many Mysterious Pains and Aches. Many women have come to know that sex isn’t the reason for all backaches, dizzy headaches and urinary disorders. Men have these troubles, too, and often they come from kidney weakness. To live simply, eat sparingly, take better care of one’s self and to use Doan’s Kidney Pills, is bound to help bad kidneys get better. recommended by Butler people. Read this case: Butler, says: ‘‘I had a_ dull, heavy poe across my back. anything, went ba it. y health neh jt My healt me to toni trouble.’” = There is no other remedy s0 well-|: “Susan Cowley, W. Ohio St., ‘When iba b dosd or down lifting tired, worn-out and © nervous.| Doan’s Kidney Pills relieved this] 8 MISSOURI NOTES. ——- Down at Osceola the wood haulers have raised the price of cord wood and the St. Clair Coun- ty Deniocrat suggests*that Con- gress investigate the matter. Johnson county is a dry coun- ty, but there ‘are no prohibition- ists there—at any rate there were no prohibitionist votes cast in that county at the recent primary. Bonds for $300,000 to extend the permanent highway~ system of Cole County carried at the special election, returns from all precinets showing two-thirds ma- jority. Three convicts employed at McClung Park at Jefferson City, escaped one day last week and prison officers with a pack of blood hounds are: scouring the| country in pursuit. At the primary- election last week a man named Runner re-} ceived the Democratic nomination for sheriff over in Henry county. He sure ought to be a good man | to chase law violators after he is) clected next fall, | Ewing Cockrell, son of the late | Senator F. M, Cockrell was nami-| nated .for cireuit judge on the} Democratic ticket last week in the | district composed of Cass, John- | son and Lafayette. Charley Ful-| kerson was his only opponent. | The working of the county | prisoners on the roads in John- son county turned out to be a sue- cess. Part of the bunch escaped | from their guard last week ang | if they will only stay ‘gone’ the} county figures that it will be! ahead. | | The gentle art of bootlegging® got a jolt in Dade county when) W. T. Meyers, a druggist, was | fined $8,000 and sentenced to eight years in jail, while his| partner, O. Morgan, drew $4,000 | fine and four years in jail, for} ilegal liquoring. | Perhaps the highest price paid | for a single mule by any stock | buyer was that paid by Rogers and Son of Springfield to Frank Fessler Wednesday of this week. | The mule was a.five year old, weighing 1460 pounds for which | Mr. Fessler received the neat sum | of $260. | Last winter when the mercury | was hovering around zero, the | Montrose Recorder started an agi-| tation in that town for an ice | plant. It didn’t get the plant,| but thinks the present spell of | weather will. so impress the need | of one on the people of that town} that they will have one before | next year. ‘ The graduating exercises of the | Warrensburg Normal. summer school took place at the Auditor- ium Saturday morning, when 334 young men and women were giv- en diplomas. The senior oration was delivered by Mrs. Kathryn) Sombart of Boonville on ‘‘Evi- dences of Solid Progress.’”’ Dr. W. C. Morris of the Normal faculty} made the class address. During the year ending Jpne| 30,-1916, the College of Agricul- ture issued more than 10,000,000 pages of printed matter. In ad- ditions to this, press bulletins have been sent to the country papers of Missouri and the farm papers of the United States. To this may be added the four-year regular course and the two-year winter course announcements. That there would not be a child of school age in Carroll county in thirty years was the predcition made last summer by the Carroll- ton _Republican-Record, which now cites that this year’s school census shows a falling off, there being 254 fewer children of school: age in Carroll county this year than last. For fifteen years the decrease has averaged 150.a, ‘$ee the Bates Co, Fair Catalog es TOR OUR Ee Special Premiums THEN GET READY FOR - The Big Fair Missouri State Bank “THE OLD RELIABLE” Low Rates on Farm Loans We are 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 (U. S. Government License 32) ¥ Vaccinate Your Hogs FRANK E. WALKER Rep. Standard Serum Co. el. S64 Butler 306 W. Mill References furnished on request. Ask for booklet at Peoples Bank. Bad Accounts and Notes Collected by an entirely new system. No charge if no collection. All business handled by bonded attorneys. Particu- lars free. Address Commercial Reliance Ass'n, P. O. Box 438, Kansas City, Missouri. 14x: OVAL FRAMES Oval and Convex. Glass complete Te to ee