The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, September 21, 1916, Page 3

ig Ra Fisk Opera House 4 Prices. D. W. Griffith’s World’s Mightiest Spectacle! See Whole Pages torn from History andRe- enacted Before Your Eyes in the Most Gi- -gantic Dramatic Nar- rative the World has Ever Known. 18,000 People 3,000 Horses ~ Cost $500,000.00 Required Eight Months to Produce NIGHTS 75c, $1.00 MATINEE 50c, 75c Nights, Wednesday and Thursday MATINEE THURSDAY NO _ | Seats on Sale at HIGHER | Fisk’s Shoe Store | nratinee - 215) SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF TWENTY-FIVE PIECES Sept. 27-28 Niehts at 8:15 | 2 The most stupendous Dramatic Spectacle the Brain of Man Has Yet Visioned or Revealed Mighty Beyond Words, Petersburg at the Height of Battle; Gen. Robt. E. Lee in Action; Burning of Atlanta, Death of Ab- raham Lincoln, Rise. of the Ku Klux Klan. MISSOURI NOTES. Bruce Kremre, chief of the speakers’ bureau at-western dem- ocratic headquarters, announced Saturday that Newton D. Baker, secretary of war, will speak in Missouri October 25 and 26. Edward Spencer, 30 years old, of ‘‘Hell’s Half-Acre,’’ known as the feud district of Callaway County, was shot: from ambush Saturday and wounded so serious- ly doctors sdy he will die. Spen- cer’s father was killed accidental- ly two weeks ago. It begins to look as though some one really was trying to burn the! i last week. Missouri penitentiary. The fourth fire in the last eight weeks was discovered in that institution Sat- urday. This time it was the paint shop and only a small amount of damage was done. : A figure of Ceres, of heroic di- mensions, will adorn the dome of the new Missouri Statehouse, it was decided Friday by \Capitol Building Commissioners.. The fig- ure will be 10 feet high and cast in bronze. It will stand 296 feet above the ground. < The value of the Missouri hen was clearly shown when S. L. Bryant of Windham, 0O., traded a thoroughbred registered Holstein bull, 2 months old, for a setting of eggs of the Rhode Island red stock of D. E. Hall of California, Mo. Mr. Hall received a premium on the bull at the Moniteau County Fair and he values the animal at. ¢100. The Ohioan has raised 11 chickens from the setting of Mis- souri eggs. Both men are pleased with the exchange. Missouri has the biggest hen’s nest; her- poultry products ex- ceed annually in value the com- bined annual output of gold and silver of California, Colorado and Arizona and is greater than one- half the annual production of gold in the United States. Mr. and Mrs. David Erwin cele- brated their fiftieth wedding an- niversary at Urich Thursday of Mr. Erwin is 80 years old and Mrs, Erwin 73. They were | married near Wooster, O., and moved to Henry County, Missouri, taking up a farm, about five miles from Urich. Farmer Fergusoii, proprietor of | a Crawfish farm at Hahatonka in| Camden county, shot and killed his wife and John Smithmier, a Frisco brakeman, at noon Satur- day. Mrs. Ferguson had made her home in Springfield since last spring, her -husband joining her last Monday. Smithmier’s wife died a week ago. _J. P. Seowden has probably one of the oldest automobiles in the county that has seen continuous service. It is a two-cylinder Buick and was purchased nine Don 't Forget the | | month. HATH years ago. He paid $1,250 for it. The left front tube and tire has never had a puncture and the air} Williams is 150,294, against 74,- 859 received by -his competitor, Judge Glendy B. Arnold of St. has never been entirely out of it; Louis. His majority is 75,435. since he first got it. He has his third set of tires on the rear wheels. We don’t believe this record can be beat anywhere.— Parnell Sentinel. Because the watermelon of Southeast Missouri increased 50 per cent this summer, the Fris- | co was compelled to provide many more freight cars than last sea-| son. Up to September 1 the com-; pany had handled 2,808. carloads | of melons and the crop movement | was about over. During the same | period last year the road handled 1,933 earloads. Bob Simpson, of Bosworth, Mo.,| captain of the Missouri University | football team, established a new} amateur record for the 120 yard hurdle race at the National Ama- teur athletic meet at Newark, New Jersey, the first of this He covered the distance over the hurdles in 14 3-5 seconds, thereby clipping. 1-5 of a seeond off of the record. Diseovery in the office ‘of the. Secretary of State of an error’ in the primary returns from Barry County increases the majority of Judge Fred Williams, the ‘Demo- cratic noniinee for Divisior No. 2 of the Supreme Court, an even. 1,000. With this correction the total vote received by Judge a | Obregon, Minister of War, John Davis and wife, Sarah, were paroled from: the peniten- tiary Friday by Gov. Major. They were from Stone county and | served about a year of a two year erop | sentence for assault, They left six small ehildren to be cared for by neighbors when they were taken {o the penitentiary. Their appli- ation for parole was signed by lost of the prominent men of Stone county. The days of the circuit rider and the Sundays when young men put on their best suits of home- spun and the girls carried their shoes under their arms until in sight of the ‘‘meetin’ house,”’ were recalled by a recent ‘TTome- coming Day’’ of the Blackwater Methodist Church, South, in John- | son county. The congregation be- gan in 1822 with twenty-one mem- | Grandchildren of the origi- among. those eat fried ham.— hers. nal founders were who were present to chicken and old country St. Joseph Observer, Walnut shingles, were found .in tearing down a large brick house built in Platte county seventy-one years ago. Under a staircase were several pairs of old fashioned shoes with very high heels. Elderly residents of the neighborhood recall that it was a great place for parties and _ dances in the days hefore the Civil war. The site is being cleared for /a@ modern 10-room_ residence.—St. | Joseph Observer. Villa Loses 600'in Battle at Chihuahua. Mexico City; Sept. 17—Gen. an- nounced that 1,000 followers of Francisco Villa, who attacked the town of Chihuahua Friday night, were routed early Saturday morn- ing, with a loss of 600 men killed and many captured. : After the battle Gen. Trevino’s troops were able to take part in the regular Independence Day parade at 11 o’clock Saturday morning. During the fighting, Gen. Trevino was slightly wound- ed in the shoulder. united in tl se vice, the Revs. M. Trader and Ira SHORT STORIES Of Local Interest—Clipped From | Faurot officiating. There were Our Exchanges. hie converts for the Christian church and 16 for the M. E. Ground has been broken for the | church baptized—Amoret Leader. new brick building for the elec-/ tric light company in Urieh, says the Herald. The Amsterdam Produce Richard, the twleve year old son vof Mr.jand Mrs, R. A. Batchelor _ jot near this city, received a severe Co.\injury Saturday night by being shipped out over a ton and a half cut in the face by a wire. Te was of poultry last Saturday.—Am-,at the home of his aunt in’ the sterdam Enterprise. }Ohio viginity and while playi ‘ran into a tightly drawn Wire, cut- ting an ugly wound in his lower The Adrian Gun Club has re- ceived the rifles and a large num- | ‘homemade, | her of cartridges from the gov: ernment and the boys are now ready for practiee.—Adrian Jour- nal. ‘ | Stanley Morwood, who recently ! completed his course at the Chilli- cothe Business College, has been placed in a_ position with the Strean Investment °Co., in Kansas City.—Amsterdam Enterprise. Mrs. Laura Woods died at her da; Aug. 26, says the Adrian Jour- nal. Mrs. Woods, who was Miss Laura Wilcox, was born in Deer Creek township Oct. 12, 1888. Elder W. S. Hood closed a ser- lies of revival meetings at Orehard Grove chureh in’ Pleasant Gap township, last week which result- ed in thirty-four conversions, all heads of families except four and all adults but one.—Adrian Jour- nal. W. L. Johnson, who has been operating the bakery for the past year, sold that business last week to F.C. Spawn. Mr. Johnson and family moved their household ef- fects Monday to-Caldwell, Kans., where they will reside—Amoret Leader. Mrs. A. J. Barnes suffered quite a painful accident last Fri- home in Cedar Falls, Wis., Sun- | lip and breaking off two of his lower front teeth —Appleton City Journal. : Three stores were broken into and robbed Saturday night of eash and goods to the value of $315. )Thurman’s meat market. Hamil- jton’s stere and Biggs’ Pharmacy {were entered by robbers. At Thurman's the thieves secured about $15 in cash, and at Hamil- ton’s jewelry store to the amount of S256 was taken, while Biggs’ Pharmacy reports about $50 worth of jewelry stolen. The burglars made good their Hume | Telephone escape, Clark Smith carries the honors , ras we have learned for hav- ing marketed the most valuable load of wheat) brought to the Rockville market in many years. He brought in a lead in an ordi- nary double bex wagon and when he reeeived his cheek it was for $90.95. In looking over his ree- ,ords, Mr. Trail said he believed this load was the most valuable brought to his elevator. The wheat tested 60 1-2 pounds. Can jany one beat — it —Rockville Booster. so | A-stoek buyer known as ‘‘Hog”’ | Bradley was found in the north | part of Urich Saturday night in an unconscious condition with a large day when sweeping the upstairs | gash in his scalp. There are only rooms of her.home. She had tak- | suspicions as to who attacked him. en off her shoes to rest her feet.| He was taken to the hotel where and a pin, which was sticking in| his wound was dressed ‘ by Dr. the carpet, entered the ball of her| Smith. It was necessary to take foot its full length. The pin was| seven stitches in the cut. Bradley a rusty one, and it was feared has a wife and several children at blood poison might set in—Am-} Adrian where he lived before com- oret Leader. ling to Urich. He has lived in Sunday afternoon about 600|Urich about two years—Henry people witnessed the ordinance of | County Democrat. baptism administered to 84 con-| ———— verts of the DeLaye Pfaffenberger; The fellow who brags most is revival. The Methodist and Chris-| the one who ‘‘almost succeeds.’’