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Missouri State. - Fair--Sedalia September 23-30, 1916 _ The program for this year’s meeting of the Missouri State Fair is remarkably attractive and a big attendance is antici- pated. Agricultural, Live Stock and Industrial exhibits on a larger scale than ever before. Many amusement features daily. Ample accommodation for all. Come. Horse Show Three Nights Auto and Aviation Day, Sept. 30 Fair Opens Sept. 23---Closes Sept. 30 » Excellent Service via the - Missouri Pacific Call or phone for any information SS FORD A WILSON CONVERT | In fact, the present trip of mine is | _ the 1 | —— ipurely a private one and mostly Automobile Manufacturer Says for recreation. , | had hoped to i 7 z f y' < oY President’s Foreign Polic: ! avoid any newspaper publicity. I y newspaper publi Saved Country. ldo not desire to talk politics. : { Every neighbor you meet will] ? : ate mone administration of President Wil- manufacturer and | humanitarian se ay and a life hay i yublican, stated son, feel just as these people do h ne Asan ‘ean ie oe ae Pat ih about what he has done and re- ere a) i sane Sue i keonly the is ores nitral- bors were for President Wilson as ut . dae Hi Hoe eA ie EO i because they constantly see, so uy polity GUNN g oe ys much wood in the things he is do- a ia lie itl mes ulue 0 Is country af peace, UREN ai aa eh ti keeping t] Ape UN ON I aor s of his opponents Sere published im the str = politica Sulletin and attracted wide atten- . ete i Bulletin and attract dwide atten- jy ccaise of President Wilson’s de- tion. i . : vee ‘ eae temnination not to measure swords In part, it is as follows: Be-| + . ‘ ‘ 5 with poor, deluded Mexico have causg of the many good things ajoady ended in distinct failure,” President, Wilson has done, I think |” ey BOS: Lamia ; he shouldbe commended and hear- Don't toss a nickel into the col- tily appreciated. T don’t want to lection “box and then expect St. draw a parallel between the pro-) Peter to pass you through — the fessions and the aims of the re-| pearly gates. Peter is no cheap publican and democratic parties. , guy. if Q _ If it loses compression and power, ls Your Gar If your engine is noisy, If it fouls the spark plugs, Then the cylinders need reboring and the pistons refitting. This may be done at small expense and your old engine made to run as noiselessly and powerfully as when new. We ate fully equipped for regrading cylin- | ders and refitting pistons. Only expert workmen employed. Henry’s Garage North Main St. Butler, Mo. To the Farmers and GENERAL NOTES. APIARY DISPLAY TO BE ad MISSOURI FAIR FEATURE A government statistician found that about 1,500 persons are| All Stages of Bee Industry Will struck by lightning in the United Be Shown at Sedalia. States every year, of whom about ath pee 500 are killed. Beekeeping is becoming a prof- itable sideline for the Missouri returng|farmer and many are going ex- tensively into bee culture and finding that when the bees are kept right and given the same at- tention that is given to other branches of farm industry that they pay very well. Missouri has plenty of flowers from which the Brig, Gen, Basil Wilson Duke, | bees can gather sweetness, and Confederate veteran, died in New honey always finds a ready mar- York Saturday, General Duke ket. ; Ais was 76 years old. He was born], Those who are interested in this in’ Kentueky and was widely industry should not miss the known as a lawyer in Louisville apiary display at the Missouri and was the autho of many books| State Fair at Sedalia, Sept. 23- on the Civil War, 30, All stages of bee culture will ; = be shown, from the wild bees in The headsman’s ax was used in| their’, native state to those bees Berlin Saturday in putting to that are raised for profit on the death Johanna Ullman, one of two Missouri farm. participants in a murder there last | . One of the interesting features March. Her woman accomplice in | this department at the fair this the crime, in which a girl friend} year will be a ‘‘bee tree,’? which of the two was choked, robbed and is a hollow trunk of a tree that a cut up, is awaiting beheading. colony of wild bees ednfiscated for See their store house. Jacob 8. Coxey of Massillion,} This display will be transport- O., who led Coxey’s Army’? of un- ed from Independence, Mo., where employed on a long march to it was discovered by a farmer, and Washington twenty years ' ago, will be placed in a glass case filed papers with the Ohio seere- through which the visitors can taiby of statesFviday as an inde-} see these busy little creatures as pendent candidate for United | they are in their natural environ- States senator. Coxey is the only | ment. ‘ i independent candidate tor office Tn the display of domesticated on fhe Ohio ticket. bees, there will be a number of aes glass hives where the bees can be observed as they work on various models? There will also be a num- ber of exhibits showing the kinds of honey that are secured from various Missouri flowers. Tn this regard it might be said that by feeding the bees on cer- wers, a__variety Practically complete from Friday’s election assure the adoption of prohibition and wo- man suffrage in British Columbia, The Liberals won an overwhelm- ing victory and will control the next legislature, 330 to .14. ————— Lady Eglantine, the wonder of ithe poultry world and the pride of the Eglantine famns af Queens- horo, Md., is dead. Lady Eglan- tine for many years has been the most famous hen in the world, Her supremacy goes back to the "We extend to the © TEACHERSJAND PUPILS of our schools a most cordial invitation to make good use of the many accommodations of this bank. 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- 1 -real_estate in Bates fime That sie i etd pellet year. sily won every prize for which she has competed at poultry shows. of colored honey ean be obtained. Realizing this, a clever beekeeper has made a county map of Mis- souri showing all of the 114 coun- ties in different colors of honey. Modeling in wax will also be a feature in this department. Busts of the two presidential can-| didates, Woodrow Wilson and Charles Evan Hughes, will be there, modeled in wax. Kansas lost 192,386 hogs from cholera in-the year ending Mareh 1. 1916, according to a report is- sued from the office of the secre- tary of the state board of agricul- ture. This is the first time in the history of the state that definite information of this nature has been available. The number of hogs that died of all diseases in} Andrew J. Sellers, an old resi- the year was 228,423, dent of Bates county, died at his oe f home, near Nyhart, Thursday of Judge Thomas F, Scully of the | }3rieht’s disease. : Cook county, Tlinois, — county) ‘The deceased was horn in Polk court decided that voters need] ounty, Illinois, November 14, not give their ages when register-| 1335 and has been a_ resident of ing. Earlier in the day the judge |jhis county for about. thirty-five ruled that women need not give] years, He is survived by a widow their ages, women haviag filed a]and five children, Henry Sellers protest against the procedure.|jnd.Mrs. Thomas Dunlap, of Ny- iter that decision the question as] }art, R. M. Sellers, Mountainair, applicable to men voters was for-| New’ Mexico, Sylvester ., Sellers, mally presented to Judge Scully.| Rogewell, New Mexico, and Mrs. . Rie a ee Anna Richardson, Oakland, Cali- The Ford motor company has] fornia. Besides the wife and chil- announced that the annual bonus, | jren he leaves two sisters, Mrs. usually made at Christmas, will he | \fattie Von Engle of Kansas City, distributed at once. .Eight hun-|\Jo, and Mrs. Mollie Blondell of dred and fifty thousand: dollars Los Angeles, Cal. Mr. Sellers will go to employes as a reward|.ame to Missouri in the fall of for their services. Approximately | 1884 and settled on a farm in 1,800 foremen, superintendents | Rates county where with the ex- and heads of departments, 100: in ception of five years he made his the office and 250i the branches, | ome: He was-a good neighbor will share in the bonus. The mel-! ind a true friend in time of need, on is $125,000 greater than last} » firm believer in a supreme being NERY and spent his last hours in com- a me munion with his Lord. Thus Three arined men who entered again the ranks of our older set- “he saloon of Joseph F. Schart in| Jers have been invaded and the Chicago fled when an intoxicated spirit of an esteemed citizen, hus- man who had been asleep at” a/j,and, father and brother has gone table awakened and reached for} som among us. his hip pocket. The latter drew} neral services were conduct- forth a whiskey bottle. One of ed at the home Friday by Rev. the would-be robbers fired one| Lewis Keele and interment made shot at the man with the bottle as|jn Oak Hill cemetery. the three hastily made their way , to a motor car outside. They : 5 ks me probably knew that a bottle of Price of ay Pr 15. All Records Andrew Jackson Sellers Dead. : -‘Stockmen The business of every man, whether he be a. banker or a day laborer, is to render service; and he who, by reason of special fitness and experience can render superior service, is the one who, in - striving for success, usually succeeds—he wins be- cause he deserves to. win. ‘ ‘ Our reason for this little preamble is to call rf attention to our special fitness to carry on our meee to-wit: that of the practice of Veterinary e. . We have had twelve years of successful practice. Two ban ble Rare ord ed Veterinary hospital in Kansas City. We A washes of sueaicine und feel qualitied to scleatitically uencaily . as r to the ills af your live stock. Neo experimenting at whiskey was about as dangerous as a gun. All high price records for hogs According to a wireless message | urday morning, when a car load from the British cruiser Lancas-| of porkers at the stock yards sold ter to the French cruiser Conde, | for $11.15 a hundred. The prev- the German merchant submarine] ious high price was a few weeks Bremen was caught in a net in the| ago, when hogs brought $11.10 English channel in August. The| shortly before the threatened rail- two warships were near Panama|road strike: The high price this when the message was sent. Ger-| morning was said to be due to the man agents say ‘‘another submar-| scarcity of hogs on the market. ine’’ is en route to America and|Only about 5,000 head were avail- insist that the reported sinking of | able. 3 the Bremen is a hoax. They claim ; - A Vivid Contrast— the Bremen will yet reach an «ee , drenching ‘m an new ” = - FF way of pi the Henry County watermelon rais-| medicine on the back the ers might try the stunt of raising | horse’s tongue by means ‘of a med- seedless watermelons next year.| icine dropper which tomes packed is not an e in Kansas City were broken Sat-|, ™ county at reasonable rates. The Walton Trust Co. BUTLER, MISSOURI Current Loans $8,000,000.00 (U. S. Government License 32), - 'Vaccinate Your Hogs Rep. Standard Serum Co. Tel. 564 Butler 306 W. Mill References furnished on request.. Ask for booklet at Peoples Bank. Bad Accounts aé Notes Collected by an entirely new system. No charge if no collection. All business handled by bonded attorneys. Particu- lars free. Address 4 Commercial Reliance Ass’n, P. O. Box 438, Kansas City, Missouri. , 14 | x20 Oval and Convex Glass complete ready to hang. - FRANK E. WALKER |.