The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, September 14, 1916, Page 5

§, Americ mae "THE DAYLIGHT STORE "MAN HATTAN SHIRTS | i GENTLEMEN Your Stetson Fall Style Hat is fers —~$3.50 to $5.00 ; Mallory Hats Direct from the manufactures— no middle mans profit........ Walk-Over Shoes - $3.50 to $5.00 | = Hart, Schaffner é» Marx Suits for Men j Sunshine Suits for Women Every well known line of value is usually fourld at this store anClothing House “‘The Good Clothes Store”’ $3.00 to $3.50 Steteon hats, Black & ‘Arnold. _ This is a day of work, but many a cuss doesn’t know it is today. Dr. J. A. Patterson of Nyhart ‘was a county seat visitor Monday. T. L. Fisk made a trip to the St. Louis markets the last of the week. ‘ Keep coming in, Black & Arn- old. Ed Proctor, of Nevada, was in the city visiting relatives Monday - afternoon. Miss Bessie. Jackson returned Friday from a visit with friends in Nevada. Judgé and Mrs. J. J. March, of Nevada, spent Sunday in this city with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Kerrens spent Sunday_in Rich Hill visit- ing relatives. B. B. Canterbury returned Tues- day from a trip through the west- “ern part of Kansas. Best work shirts. 50e, W yale: McKibben. Judge J. A. Silvers was'a basi- ness visitor to Rich Hilt one ‘day the last of the week. Mr. and Mrei H. O. Bottoms,-of Kansas City, spent last week in this city visiting relatives. Family jars may come and fam- ily jars may go, but new jars keep on jarring us forever. C. O. Sharp and Press Price left the first of the week on a motor trip through Kansas. Douglas Shoes, Black & Arnold. Several from Butler and vicini- ty left Saturday for Warrensburg to attend the state normal school. Mrs. Clark Travis, of Pleasan- ton, Kansas, was in this city visit- ing relatives the last of the week. Bradley sweaters $1.00 up, Walker-McKibben. Rich Wells, of Carthage, was in the city Thursday of last week visiting his mother, Mrs. Mary Wells. Rich Wells came up from Car- thage one day the last of the week to visit his mother, Mrs. Mary Wells. Wallace Moore came down from Kansas City last week and is help- ing out at the Logan-Moore Lum- ber yard. Black & Arnold Clothing Co. Phil Klein, a’ prominent mer- chant of Appleton City, was in the city one day last week taking in the fair. _ Mrs. J. R. Doviglass, of Kansas City, is a guest at the home of her sister, Mrs. J. F. Ludwick, and Mr. Ludwick. . Mr. and Mrs. H. P. James came up from Rich Hill Thursday and visited at the home of ‘Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Cook. - « Batting for comforts 10ce up, Walker-McKibben. _ Mrs. Wm. Fritz and baby, of Rich Hill, was in the city visiting relatives "and taking in the fair one day last week. J. C. Hayes was down from Kansas City the last of the week Se attending to business matters and 4 meeting old friends, of whom no ee man who ever lived in Butler-had i more. - ‘| where they were called two weeks C. D. Wort, formerly of this county, but now of Braddyville, lowa, spent last week visiting old friends at Foster. Mrs, J..C. Hupp left Sunday for Kansas City, where she will join her husband, who is employed in the Bernheimer store. Mrs. DeWitt McDaniel returned Saturday from Webb City, where she had spent the greater part of the week visiting relatives. High Art suits, Black & Arnold. L. C. Miller, of Kansas City, spent from Wednesday until Sat- urday in this city with his _par- ents, Judge and Mrs. G. C. Mill- er. , Paul R. Preston came down from Kansas City Saturday to, join Mrs. Preston, who is visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Culver. Wm. E. Walton, who has been spending several months in Colo- rado Springs and Denver, Colo- rado, returned home the last of the week. , Mr. and Mrs. W. A. McConhell and daughter, Miss Coryl, of Clin- ton, visited Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Ludwick the.latter part of the week. Mr. and Mrs. Frank McElroy and two sons of Farwell, Texas, who have been visiting relatives near Butler have returned to their home. Bargain in Aprons 59c, Walker- McKibben. Mrs. Fred Nation and two little daughters of Willow Springs are visiting in this city at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Kerrens. Next Sunday the Harrisonville hall team will be the attraction on the home grounds. Harrisonville has a fast team and a good game is looked for. W. B. Welch, who was so badly hurt in an ensilage cutter about two weeks ago is getting along nicely and attended the fair one day last week. Volney McFadden, a prominent Kansas City attorney, spent last week visiting his parents, Judge and Mrs. J. W. McFadden, at Vir- ginia, and attending the fair. 24,000,000 feet of lumber “has been purchased by the United States government in the last four months for building dwellings for its employees at the Panama canal. Big stock window shades 35c'up, Walker-McKibben. , Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Trimble mo- | tored over to Foster Sunday morn- ing and spent the day visiting at the home of Mr. Trimble’s sis- ter, Mrs. W. N. Mills and Mr. Mills. Mr. and Mrs. J.C. Clark and Mrs. O. L. Cannon returned -the first of the week from Otterville, ago by the illness of Mrs. T. B. Clark, a sister of Mrs. Cannon and Mrs. Clark. Mrs. T. B. Clark died Sunday, September 3. Minerals that carry radium are fairly easy to determine. One of them, pitehblende, as generally found, is a black mineral about as heavy as ordinary iron, but much softer. The principal radium mineral, carnotite, has a bright, erally powdery. J. 8. Brown and Mr. Thos. ‘K. Stout drove to Bartles- ville, Oklahoma, Sunday. in Mr. Brown’s car, making the 200 mile trip in 13 hours. ° Ft. Séott, 48-1t* be satisfied with any old pany, the cost is the same, get the best. i surance see us, or phone 137 and ; we will see you. Lloyd Rosier, who is employed by the Mosher-Roe Loan & Title company, of Kansas City, visited his parents, Mr.-and Mrs... Rosier, a few days the first of the week. J. M. Mr. and Mrs. Omar Brown, Mrs. and Mrs. B. F. Jeter, who was recently appointed justice of the peace in place of W. F. ; signed, has fitted up an office on the east side of the square and is ready for business in his line, Hemstreet, re- |. fina Gench and James Floyd Holloway, of Kansas City, is spending the week in this city with his parents, Mr. Mrs. J. W. Holloway, ~ Lawrence G, Spence, of Hume, land Miss Goldie May Wagner of Worland, were united in marriage by Justice of the Peace B. F. Jeter Tuesday. Prosecuting attorney D.C. Chastain and Judge Carl Henry spent Tuesday in Joplin attending the opening of the Democratic campaign in Missouri, Misses Helen Adair, Helen ‘Cook, Anna Belle Thompson, Sel- Williams and Clarence Atkeson are among those Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Forbes and ¥rom Butler who will attend the | two charming daughters, Dorothy and Charlene, who have been vis- iting Mrs. Forbes’ parents, Judge and Mrs. W. T. Cole, turned to their home in Kansas City. have re- Quaker lace enrtains, $1.25 up, Walker-McKibben. Frank Tuttle, son of Mr. Return or notify, Roy Middleton, Mrs. J. M. Christy - left Satur Gilkerson. Special room rugs, Axminster, $20.00, Walker-McKibben. The Democratic committeemen of Osage township have recently completed a poll of that township says the Rich Hill find that the Democratic voters outnumber the voters of all the other parties combined. Review, and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Lester and small son came down\from Kansas City the last of the week and took in the fair and stayed over Sun- day to attend the celebration of the golden wedding anniversary of Mrs. Lester’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Jenkins. In any line of insurance don't com. Before renewing your in- 48-4 Choate & ‘Fullbright. Mrs, W. S. Vantrees has as her son, Burris and Mens E..& W. shirts $1.00 and $1.50, Walker-MeKibben. Forest Kerrens, manager of the Star Theatre, has installed a new electric orthestra piano, which is some musical instrument. a complete six piece orchestra, drums, horns and all the rest of it. Mr. Kerrens is a thoroughly up to date picture show man and al- ways on the look out for some- canary-yellow color, and is gen- [aoe new for the pleasure of his/ers. Don’t forget Peg patrons. It is day for Chicago, where’ she _ will, spend. several weeks visiting her; Wata, Oklahoma, and Mr. Emmett daughter, Mrs. G. G. Christy Gilkerson, Who has been |4 * | visiting here returned home with! her, guests her brother, Thomas Petti- | bon, and Mrs. Pettibon and Woodrow Wilson Pettibon, her sisters, Mrs. Newt. Mrs. A. G. McCollough and Mr. McCollough, all of Deerfield, Mis- souri. and’ Mrs. Ellis Tuttle, left Monday for Kansas, where he will reenter the Collegiate Institute. Frank is a first class printer and will have charge of the college paper. Lost—On the road three or four, miles north of Butler Saturday morning, a gentleman’s gray coat, size. 38, Born & Co. name qn the inside pocket. State University the coming ses- sion. We have purchased the Barnett stock of harness, saddles, ete., and added it to our already large line, which gives us one of the largest stocks in this part of the country, Call and look over our pstock, WeMott & Major. & The Amsterdam street fair will be held Wednesday and Thursday, September 27 and 28, and judging from the premium list they are ‘going to have a hummer. They ‘are-a live bunch over in that part of the county and they are offer- ing some very liberal premiums. Misses Alta Robinson, Opal Brookhart and Ada May Elder of | Harrisonville spent Saturday and Urich, Mo. ‘Sunday in the city as the guests ‘of Dr. and Mrs. J. W. Choate. Sunday Miss McCracken of No- Elder of Harrisonville, joined the party. Clyde T. Moore, of Hume, one of the musicians with the Craw- ford Brothers show that was here last week, and Miss Margaret | Collier, of Foster, were united in marriage at the parsonage of the M. E. church, South, Saturday, September 9, Rev. E. K. Wolfe of- ficiating. - Fred Gilbert, formerly a well known contractor of this city, but now of Vinita, Oklahoma, arrived Tuesday to spend a few days with his son, Grover Gilbert, and to meet old friends. Mr. Gilbert in- forms us that he has quit the con- tracting business and gone to farming. Charley Nachbar, a prominent young farmer of route five, was in the city Saturday and enrolled as a new reader of The Times. He said that he wanted a paper that printed all the news and his friends had advised him to take The Times and he believed their advice was good. Friends in this city have re- ceived the announcement of the marriage of Miss Minnie Radford of Loveland, Colorado, to Mr. Le- roy C. Ferry, of Omaha, Nebras- ka. Miss Radford is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Radford of Loveland, and a granddaughter of D. L. Radford of Spruce. Another of those big Red Feather features will be shown at the Electric Theatre next Mon- day, afternoon and night. _ It is entitled the Iron Hand and it is a big powerful story of American politics, with an intensely inter- esting love story running through ‘it. Hobart Bosworth is in the leading part supported by a strong company of capable play- 70 the sated every Thursday. and | “Miss Anna Belle and David Thompson went to Nevada Satur- day where they attended a party and visited their father, Captajn{ J. E. Thompson, who is on duty at Camp_Clark... Miss Thompson will leave the last of the week for Columbia, where she will en- ter the state University. Rey. E. K. Wolfe, of the M. E. Church, South, left Tuesday for Kansas City to attend the annual conference of the M. E. Church, South, which is in session” in that city. During his year of ser- vice in this city Rev. Wolfe has made many friends, who hope for his return for another year, R. L. Clark and family left the last of the week for Wyoning where they expect to make their future home. Mr. Clark went through with a car load of cattle and household goods, Mrs. Clark and the younger chjldren went by passenger train and two of the older boys are making the trip in a Ford ear. This office was favored Thurs: | day of last week by a eall from Judge W. H. Lowder and two grandsons, Glenn and Willie. boys had come up from Rich Hill to take in the fair which was rained out that day so they did the next best thing and dropped into this office to see a modern newspaper’ plant in operation Fleetwood Thomas, janitor at) the court house, in addition to be- ing a good janitor is also some- what of a horticulturist. At his place on South Main street he has some of as fine grapes as one would wish to Fleetwood said that as soon as the dry weath- er set in he commenced to irri- gate and that he has been repaid by a fine crop. See. At the recent revival, meeting in Amoret, conducted by Evange- list DeLaye, there were 300 con- versions, and the Leader says that while Amoret was one of the best little burgs in the country before thé meeting it should be better than ever now. About $600 was collected for the evangelist and his singer and there is no doubt but that it was worth the money. Maj. Gen. Thomas C. Love, commanding the Missouri division United Confederate Veterans, has announced the appointment of his staff for the annual state reunion at Independence, October 5. and 6. Col. W. P. Sevier, of Butler, was appointed assistant transportation. Col. Sevier held this office last year and his reap- pointment i is a well deserved hon- or. For some time Norfleet & Ream, the west side grocers, have had on exhibition in one of their win- dows a large sack of <Aristos flour and every purchaser of a sack of flour of that brand was entitled to a guess on the weight of the flour in the big sack, the one coming closest getting -it. The sack of flour weighed 294 1-2 pounds and the closest guess was that. of Perry Bourquin, who guessed 295. Several guessed 296. and some as-high as 400, Friends in. this city have re- ceived the announcement of the engagement of Mrs. Evelyn Bry- ant, of Nevada, to Vieter A. Weems, of Joplin. The date of the wedding has been set for Mon- day, October 23rd and will be sol- emnized at the hotel Mublebach at Kansas City. Mrs. Bryant is the widow of the lat® Edward Bryant, for many years a conduct- or on the Inter-State railroad and has many friends in this vity, where she formerly resided. L. B. Starke, a former Butler boy, but now a prominent lawyer | of St. Louis, was in the city Fri- day shaking hands with old friends. Mr. Starke is another Bates county boy that has made good. He was deputy circuit clerk of Bates county when J. C. Hayes was clerk and left that po- sition to become secretary to Con- gressman DeArmond, later going to St. Louis where he engaged in the practice of law at) which he has been very suceessful. This was his first visit to Butler in about eight years. Cornelius Vanderbilt was some- what peeved recently when a The | chief of]. Doubtless every woman of legal age should be allowed to vote, but if some women’s opinion of others are correct the question is open to doubt, Two hundred ‘and twenty-one firms are holding nearly 5 million cases of eggs—about 143: million dozen—in cold storage, according to the latest report to the Depart- ment of Agriculture. Great as the figures may seem the official re- ports show them 10 per cent less than a month ago. Accompanied ‘by several auto- mobile loads of rooters the Butler hase hall team went over to Pleas- anton Sunday expecting to wipe jthe Pleasanton” team completely {off the map, but in some way their foot slipped ahd they were re- |turned a loser by a score of 4 to )3. Hupp pite shed a good game for | Butler, but the Pleasanton pitcher so pitched a good game and had 1 little the hestof the Inck, But- Hee has now lost two games to Pleasanton, they have the best team and will try them again in the near future on the home grounds. W, R? Kelly, of Kingfisher, Ok- lahoma, who has been -visiting rel- ke in the east part of the coun- . left Wednesday for Mound 1c ‘ity, Kansas, to attend a reunion jof his old regiment, the 6th Kan- jsas Cavalry. Mr. Kelly is a pio- jneer resident of. Bates county, Heaving here in 1858 for Kansas. In.1883 he was elected sheriff of Wilson county, Kansas, ind so well did he discharge the duties of the office that he was elected for a second term. He went from Kansas to Oklahoma where he served two terms as sheriff of Kingfisher county and was after- ward postmaster of Kingfisher, Sunday was the 79th birthday of Mrs. M. C. Arnold and in the afternoon about forty of her friends called on her at the home of her daughter, Mrs. J. E. Smith, and offered their congratulations. Grandma Arnold, as she is affee- tionately known, is one of Butler’s best loved women, She is every- body's friend. The poor, the sick or the forsaken gq to her for sym- pathy and they never go in vain, she is always ready to help to the extent of her strength and means. Hers is ‘the practical kind of re- ligion that believes in helping less fortunate brothers without: first asking what is the cause of his misfortune, One of those mistakes whieh seem to be unavoidable crept into the columns of The Times last week. In the account of the res- ignation of Justice of the Peace W. F. Hemstreet the reporter got his wires crossed:and said that the Squire was ‘going to Cali- fornia for his health, which had not been of the best for some time.’” All of which is a serious mistake, as Squire Hemstreet is one of the hest preserved young men of 83 years to be found any- where and has worked hard for many years and is going to take a well deserved rest. He and Mrs. Hemstreet expect to leave about the first of the month for Corona, California,’ where they will spend some time with Mr, Heimstreet’s son, Frank. Froni there they will go to Seattle, Washington, for a stay with Mrs. Hemstreet’s daughter, Mrs. Mary A. Martin, They expect to be gone about a year, ;Women Asked to Help in Road Work. Jefferson City, Mo., Governor Major today i jannual ‘good roads days” proc- Hlamation, October 4 and 5 are selected for united effort to im- jprove the public highways of the state. The governor declares those two days holidays and requests’ the suspension of all business, so far as practicable, so that every able bodied man may do road work. Women are asked to. do. their share by preparing dinners for the workers. Missouri, the has carried the gospel roads farther than state. This is the annual proclamation. Sept. 11.— sued his governor of any says, good other governor’s fourth It is esti- prominent London newspaper by mated $2,000,000 worth of work mistake printed his picture stead of that of Capt. Max Valen- tier, who commanded the submar- ine boat that torpedoed the Lusi- tania. Under the picture was in- scribed, ‘‘No murderer’s face ever | getting sacks as well as the pro-. in- | Was done a year ago. Notice to Farmers. Owing to the impossibility ef seen in the docks was more typical | hibitive price the elevators and than this. He looks capable of so} mill will not be able to furnish dastardly a deed.*’ Vanderbilt's | sacks for handling brother, Alfred, was one of the most prominent victims of the dis- aster. Butler Roller Mills, Peoples Elevator Co. tt Cannon Elevater. but still think that - Sede