The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, September 14, 1916, Page 2

GENERAL NOTES. It is reported in the German merchant submarine merchantman, Bremen, may be expected at an American port within ten days, probably at New London, Conn. _ One hundred and forty million barrels of gasoline were marketed during the first half of 1916, mak- ing a new record, according to John D.: Northrop of the United States geological survey. 7 Lee Rankin, superintendent of the Florence Mine of the Yough- iogheny Coal Company of Mar- tins Ferry, 0., was held up by two auto bandits Saturday, robbed of $12,000 and shot and kiled. The end of the infantile paraly- sis scourge in New York is at hand, it was said by Dr. Charles E. Banks, senior surgeon in charge of the United States Publie Ser- vice eampaign against the disease, President Wilson arrived at the summer capital, Shadow Lawn, N. J., Saturday, after an uneventful trip by motor from Atlantic City. A small crowd greeted him on his arrival. The President plans to spend most of his time there yntil the election. The Rey. Charles F, Aked, who resigned the pastorate of the First Congregational Chureh Francisco, Cal., to accept an ap- pointment as delegate with the Ford peace party, has been re- fused reinstatement by his former congregation. Warren C. Brown, an Augusta, Kansas, banker, has sold for a million dollars the oil leases of three ‘80. acre tracts of land west of Augusta. The Monarch Oil - Company of Pennsylvania bought the leases. This is their first pur- chase in the Butler county field. | All National Guard will be re- turned to their mobilization camps | in various states by October 1. This information was given @ut by a high official in Washington last week. The government proposes to release the men from the fed- | eral service soon after they reach their mobilization eamps. Official figures on Yukon’s ter- ritory’s first vote on prohibition give the wets a majority of only three votes for the entire terri- tory it was announced recently The contest was to abolish the li- ~ eensed hotel, the only form of sa- loon now allowed in the territory. The mining districts, almost with- out exception, voted for prohibi- tion. The Senate Thursday afternoon adopted a resolution directing the federal trade commission to in- vestigate the soaring increase in the price of print paper. The fact that the government printing of- | fice has only enough paper for sixty days’ use, instead of six ‘months, as is usually the case, was one of the factors in the immed- iate adoption of the measure. Henry Ford, peace advocate, filed suit Thursday against the Chicago Tribune for $1,000,000, charging malicious libel. The suit was filed in the federal court and the specific charge is based on an editorial June 23 in the Tribune, | attacking Ford’s attitude in re- gard to his émployes becoming members of the National Guard and was headed, ‘‘Ford and An- | archy.’’ The odds quoted in Wall street election betting in New York Sat- urday were 10 to 9 on Hughes to heat Wilson. A month ago and before Hughes went on his west- ern trip, the odds were 2 to 1 and 9 to 5 on the Republican can- | didate. There is plenty of Wilson money in the market, but it is be- ing held off for 1 to 2. William Bow, of London, a ship builder, has forwarded a check for $2,500 to Lieut. William Robinson, who brought down one of the Zeppelins which attempted to raid London Saturday night, Mr. Bow offered that sum to the first aviator to bring down a Ger- .man airship on British soil. Sev- eral other awards, amounting al- ‘together to $3,000, have been of- fered. ; Ensign Fitzhugh Green of the United States Navy, who repre- this country on the Mc- expedition, returned to the ‘ited States from Denmark. He panied MeMillan ‘across the of San, he saw. snow “capped mountains, No land was seen by Green. Mir- London that|ages he did see and believes that is what Peary saw. fhe merchant submarine Brem- en passed the British channel pa- trol and was due to arrive’ in | American-waters-ten days ago. Its failure to put in an appearance practically convinces. naval ex- perts that the boat has been lost at sea. The. boat was later in.its schedule than the captain of the Deutschland predicted while he was in the United States and this is accounted for on the ground that the submersible was obliged ta make several attempts to elude the British patrol. But it is known definitely that the Bremen did, get past the patrol. | A Wishy-Washy Platform. | The nomination of Hiram John- son as the republican candidate for United States senator in Cal- ifornia over a Los Angeles repub- !lican who had the backing of the Hughes. followers for the place jemphasizes the fact that the pro- | gressives are still a pretty com- pact organization, tending to maintain their independence of ithe old-line republicans. Further | proof along this line is offered by an editorial in the Wednesday morning Wichita’ Eagle, Victor {Murdock’s paper. . In part. it treads: Tt is merely stating the obvious to say that Mr. Hughes has dis- {appointed the hopes of progres- |sives. They had hoped that, re- ‘ceiving his nomination without any strings, and with his splendid record as governor of New York behind him, he would conduct a campaign in vigorous espousal of Americanism and of progressive ‘principles. But he has done no such thing. Though criticising Mr, Wilson's | foreign policy, Mr. Hughes has of- i fered no alternative policy. He appears: to have refrained studi- ously from taking a position that | would antagonize any of Mr, Wil- ‘son's enemies—thongh those ene- {mies range from pro-Germans to |pro-allies. Outside of woman suf- ‘frage he has made no vigorous ‘avowal of any of the great pro- ‘gressive social reforms. In Cali- | fornia, where the republican party \is rent on just this issue, he shrank \from meeting Governor ~ Johnson and the champions of the progres- siveism for which he is-supposed : | to stand, giving himself over, on the other hand, to the guidance of | the old reactionary _ republican | maehine. F ; | Colonel Roosevelt’ guaranteed iMr. Hughes. He did so, wndoubt- ‘edly, in good faith. So, however, did he guarantee Mr. Taft. Pro- gressives know that Mr. Roose- velt’s enthusiasm often betrays him. They would like to take his advice and vote for Mr. Hughes They cannot do so, however, with- out a better guarantee of the lat- ter’s progressiveism than the re- publican platform and = Mr. Hughes’ speeches. It is possible that Colonel Roosevelt will be able to throw into the campaign the enthusiasm and the soul and the devotion to principle that thus far it sadly ‘Tacks. Unless he can do so, and tie Mr. Hughes firmly to such a program, progressives will find it increasingly difficult to accept Mr. Hughes and the decid- |edly wishy-washy platform he has thus far put forward. | Such a statement as this from such a progressive leader as Vic- |tor Murdock means something— |a something that republicans will ‘be reluctant to admit. | ‘THAT KNIFE-LIKE PAIN Is Only One of Nature’s Warnings | of Weak or Disordered Kidneys. | Have you a lame back, aching | day and night? Do you feel sharp |pains after stooping? Are the kidneys sore? Is their action ir- jregular? Use Doan’s Kidney | Pills—the medicine recommended | by so many Butler people. Read this case: Mrs. Philip Heckadon, 627 W. | Pine St., Butler, says: ‘‘I had spells~of awful backache and a jdull, steady pain across my kid- neys. When I leaned over a sharp, cutting pain caught me and on straightening up I often be- came dizzy. I felt tired all the time and couldn’t rest well at night, The action of my kidneys was too frequent. Doan’s Kidney Pills rid mie of these disorders and have kept me in fine shape.’’ _ Price Boe ig ig Pew Don’t P| for a kidney remedy— MISSOURI NOTES. Ds areas : Not a single marriage, but five suits filed for divorce is the Harri- son county record last week. Checks were received by State Treasurer Deal Friday from the various-State-depositaries for—in-|— terest on the State’s daily bal- ances for August. The total was $18,542.16. Watermelon honors are claimed | by East Prairie, which, with ‘the season half over, has. shipped 170 carloads. It is expected 1-2 mill- ion melons will be loaded there be- fore the season ends, J. O. Rankin, for the last year agricultural editor of the College of Agriculture of the University of Missouri has resigned to accept a professorship in agriculture at Ames Agricultural College, Ames, la. i Senator Stone, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, was host to the committee and a num- ber of prominent Senators at a “‘yeed bird’? luncheon given in the committee-room of the Senate Thursday. ' tov. Major has announeed the | following appointments: A, A. | Coult of St. Louis and J. A. Max- well of Fayette, Howard County, to be members of the State Poul- try Board for three years, from August 16, 1916, They are re- appointments. A petition containing the names of 500 Moberly citizens, sent .ty Attorney General] Barker, request- ing his presence there during the session of the next Grand Jury, re- | sulted in L. B. Ewing of the Attor- ney General's offiee being sent to Moberly. . Charges that the local officers have not been doing their duty and that vice flourishes, have been made by a secret or- ganization known as the ‘‘ White Circle,’ The body of Elias L. Kazee, twice prosecuting attorney for Barton county, was found early Wednesday afternoon of last week on the porch of a vacant brick house at Lamar. He had commit- ted suicide by shooting himself in the head with a revolver. He evi- dently had been dead sevevs} hours. Ill health is beliéved to have been the cause of his sui- cide, according to friends. Mr, Kazee was convalescing from an attack of typhoid fever. James K. Merrifield, who died | Perrin had been a member of the in St. Louis last week, had been a| Christian years. tucky and came to Missouri in 1851. For many years he was en- gaged in farming in this county, conductor on the Missouri Paci- fic nearly fifty years. In 1875 he was on the Lexington Branch. As the train was nearing Houston- ia a tornado came up. Merrifield saw the storm approaching and warned the passengers, They left. the train. A few minutes later the train was blown from the track and several coaches demol- ished. Merrifield was carried by the wind some distance, but es- eaped injury. He was given the name of ‘‘Tornado Jim.’’ H For a second time within one week Wesley Oliphant, a Henry County convict serving a two years’ sentence for burglary,’ has escaped. September 1 he man- aged to get eight miles west of Jefferson City before the prison bloodhounds forced him up a tree. Wesley was put to work on the quarry rock pile breaking cotton- rock and his leg limit was handi- capped by a ball and chain. Thursday morning he took the ball, chain and hammer he was using along with him. The blood- hounds were put on his trail but, soon lost it. A Advance information from the bureau of labor statistics is to the effect that fifty-four boot and shoe factories of Missouri, chief- ly located in St. Louis, in the fis- eal year which closed June 30, 1916, turned out boots and shoes and similar products valued at $55,148,100, breaking all pre- vious records. Missouri’s boot and shoe factories in the fiscal year gave employment to 15,477 workers, drawing $7,279,650 in salaries and wages. Nearly half of the boot and shoe workers were women and girls, and they earned from $6 to $18 a week. From $5 to $9 a week was paid boys and $12 to $50 a week to men. One of the largest funerals ever held in Platte County was that at Point Saturday of Will- fr frenkiin Poin He died Fri- : : guaranteed stay-tight construction in connection with our Hot Blast Clay for President. of the founders of the Missouri| Christian College and contrbiuted | liberally to its support. died some years ago. Stone received a draft for $18.41 from the cashier of the Bank of ing the draft the banker said that the money was sent by a customer’ of the bank as a sort of sonscienge fund and was to be applied to the state and county tax fund. The man who sent the money had been recently converted at a big revi- val meeting in Amoret and it is| supposed that the money was for taxes that had in some way been overlooked by.the officers. It would be a good thing to have more such revivals if men are so thoroughly converted that they will, pay up their back taxes. the ripening of the pears and they can be had in any quantity at the Virginia pear orchard at Virginia. Nétice the 2 Stovesin}, The Outside powerful Radicting Body. The Inside durable . Cast-iran Heater. Two Stoves for the Price of One We offer you only reliable goods made by reliable manufacturers. Honest prices and honest values is our motto. 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