The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, September 28, 1916, Page 3

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Come and see the many other exclusive features that make Cole’s High Oven Range the most. ee: ths most soon and the greatest time and promptly at 9 a. m. stove Sale In order t Tah Pan Model GENCH BROS Hardware, Stoves, Implements and Furniture =~ i October 4th and Sth|_ BUTLER, MISSOURI GENERAL NOTES. woman at Durham, Ga., hanged by a mob Friday. negro is-stid to have confessed. 108 Angeles, a hat you may Amsterdam Street Fair Boosters in Town. New Way to Hunt Ducks. | Puerto Plata, Santa Domingo, Five cars loaded with a band | Sept. 20—Crude oil that had been and boosters for the Amsterdam | thrown overboard by Uncle Sam’s street fair, which is being held | warships to quell the raging wat- ‘Wednesday and Thursday of this | week, arrived in Butler about one and; o'clock Friday. afternoon stayed in town about an hour ad vertising the fair. number of Amsterdam ited the business part of town dis- | tributing literature. left Amsterdam early in the morn ing and-visited Merwin, Drexel, Adrian, Passaic, Butler. to Lacygne, Kansas, and Burdette. : While the band was giving a concert on the northwest corner of the square a business | men, led by Frank Pattee, editor | of the, Amsterdam Enterprise, vis- | The party From there they went to Amoret, then ers which destroyed the U.S. S. Memphis during the recent storm stuck to the wings of sea gulls and -|other water fowl taking refuge in the bays along the coast, and |rendered them helpless and un- jable to fly for several days. Members of the United States Marine Corps, on expeditionary | > | duty at this place, captured hun- -i dreds of the birds with their |naked hands. ae -| The oil-begrimed fowl wan. dered up and down the beach, ery- ing pitifully, while the Marines stood guard to see that boys did) not harm them. Just Cam _ were ever made. You can get ee 1 doz. cans good Kraut.$1.00 1 doz. good Hominy. . .$1.00 1 doz, Baken Beans. . . .$1.20 1 doz. Oysters.......... 90c 1 doz. good Peas...... Large loaf Salt Rising Flour, namely the Pure one first premium at the Bates less price than you are paying this and a quart of peanuts for ‘PHONE 77 . The Golden Mist Silver Belle Choc-o-la and Colonial Fruit. These are the cakes that Campbell bakes. The finest cakes that Gosnells Grocery, the place where you can get 1 doz. cans good Peaches in syrup ........ a 1 doz. Red Pitted Cherries Heavy Syrup ....... oe eees $210 1 gallon can Red Pitted Cherries for .................-.90€ And the best Bread ever baked'for..............5¢ per loaf Large Graham Bread Maid 0’. Wheat .................-10¢ Gosnell’s Grocery 6 to Town them for ten cents each at 1 doz. Spaghetti 1 doz. Macaroni. 12 lbs. Good Rice. 11 Ibs. Lima Beans ‘ 1 doz. good Corn...... only 100 and the famous that took two sweepstakes and County Fair in 1916 and at a for poor flour. by pia a a jitney at MEDICAL SOCIETY MEETING Members of the Tri-County Medi- cal Association Entertained by the Local Doctors. One of the largest gatherings of physicians ever held in this part of the country was in Butler last Thursday, when the Butler doc- tors were ‘the hosts o the Tri- County Medical Association. . The society, which was recently or- ganized at Nevada, is composed of physicians of Bates,-Vernon and Henry counties and this was their first meeting since the organiza- tion, The next meeting will be held at Clinton, at a date to be announced later. The Bates county physicians present were: Drs. C.J. Allen, Rich Hill; W. H. Allen, jr., Mays burg }-V. J. Cumpton, Plei Gap; C. A.. Lusk, Virginia: F. Robinson, Adrian; H. A. Rhoades Foster; L. N. Whipple, Kansas City; J. H. Williams, Hume: T. C. Boulware, E. N. Chastain, T. W. Foster, T. F. Lockwood, J. 3S. Newlon and E. G. Zey, Butler. The physicians from outside the county were: Drs. T. MeLeMore, G. C. Wilson, T. B. M. Craig, J. F. Robinson, W. P. Bradley and J. T.. Hornback, of Nevada: J. Al- them, Metz; W. Cline, Appleton City; G. W. Berry and M. Miller, of Montrose; R. D. Haire, N. I. Stebbins and F. M. Douglass, Clinton; J. R. Hampton, Shawnee Mound; C. W. Head and R. J. Jennings, of Windsor; R. J. Smith, Johnson City; J. Frank- lin Welch, Salisbury; E. J. Good- win, St. Louis; Franklin E. Mur- phy and W. J. Frick, Kansas City. ° The meeting, which was presid- ed over by Dr. C. J. Allen, of Rich Hill, president of the Bates County Medical Society, was held in the circuit court room in the afternoon. Dr. J. Franklin Welch, presi- dent of the State Medical Society, delivered a very interesting ad- dress on ‘‘Hygene and Sanita- tion,’’ laying special stress on the need for better medical inspection of our public schools. Dr. E. J. Goodwin, of St. Louis, secretary of the State Medical So- ciety and editor of the State Med- ical Journal read a paper on the importance of the country socie- ties. Dr. W. A. Frick, of Kansas City, read a paper on appendicitis, which opened up a discussion in which nearly every physician | the | minister to the ills of mankind. present took part. * Dr. E. made a talk on diabetis which was followed by a general discussion. One or two interesting ‘cases were brought before the society and diseussed by the members. At the conclusion of the meet- ing the physicians adjourned to ‘the Elks hall where a banquet was served. Dr. Lockwood, in his usual happy manner, presided as toast master and several of the doctors showed that they could make a good speech as. well as The women were represented by Mrs. R. D. Haire of Clinton, who responded to the toast ‘‘The Doe- tor’s Wife.’? She said that the part played by the doctor’s wife was often overlooked and told how necessary she was to his suc-} cess in his profession. Passaic Sunday School Associa- tion Elects Officers. The Passaic Sunday School As- sociation elected the following of- ficers Sunday, at a meeting at the Passaic church: President, A. C. Rosier; vice president, Allen Zwahltn; secretary and treasurer, Mrs. Helen Wilcox; elementary See enone, Mrs. Fulk; or- ganized classes, Miss Mae Gregg; home department, Mrs. Brown; missionary department, Mrs. Green; temperance department, Mrs. Fritz Miers; teacher train- inng department, Charles Zwah- len; Allen Zwahlen and Rev. Enos were elected as delegates to the State Sunday School conven- tion. DOG SAVES ITS MISTRESS. Mrs, Frank Cravens Awakened by Barking of Pet Finds House in Flames. About 12:30 o’clock Monday morning Mrs. Frank Cravens, who lives on East Dakota street, was awakened by the barking of her pet dog ‘‘Babe,’’ which was in the room with her, and found that the house was on fire. In the ab- sence of Mr. Cravens, who left Friday for Rockville, Mrs. West was. staying with Mrs. Cravens, and the ladies had a narrow es- eape from being badly burned, as it was Mrs. West was slightly burned on one arm. The ladies are firmly convinced that they would have been burned to death had Ay not been for the barking of log. Franklin, of Kansas City, | | Sohn H. Etter Dead. Relatives in this city Saturday received a telegram announcing the death of John H. Etter, which took place that morning at the home. of his son, Claud Etter, at Norman, Oklahoma. Mr. and Mrs. Etter left Butler Thursday morn- ing for Norman .expecting to spend a month visiting their son. Friday night about eleven o’elock he was attacked by acute gastritis, which caused his death the next forenoon, The remains’ were brought to Butler Sunday and g , k funeral services, conducted by Rev. E. K. Wolfe, were held Mon- day afternoon at the M. E. church, South, and interment made in Oak Hill cemetery. Mr. Etter was born April 1848, in Saline county, this state, and reagived his education in the publie s¢hools and the Kirksville State Normal, of which institution he-was a graduate. _ When a young-man he went west where he spent some years and on his re- turn to Missouri be settled in this county, where, April 1, 1878, he was united in marriage to Miss Lou Ann Crabtree, who, with his scn, Claud, of Norman, Oklahoma, survive hip, During the first ad- ministration of President Cleve- land he was appointed postmaster of Archie and served in that ca- pacity four years. Tn 1908 he was cleeted surveyor of Bates county and made a faithful and efficient official. He was a man of- deep religious convictions and he often said that some of the happiest hours of his life were spent in the service of his church, the M. E. Chureh, South, of which he had been a member for the last forty years, and where he will be greatly missed, especially in the Sunday school. A greater part of the last forty years he taught school in Bates and Cass counties and there are many men and women in those counties who will be deeply grieved to learn of the death of their old teacher and friend. 2] Barber Shop Changes Hands. K. W. Chaney, who came here some time ago from Mulberry, Kansas, and purchased the barber shop on the south side of the square, jin the Ray building, from Floyd Gibson, Monday sold it to R. A. Harp. John Freeman will have charge of the shop for Mr. Harp. ish army. Henry White, a negro, accused of having attacked a young white was The Miss Gertrude Aimes Lincoln of _of Abraham Lincoln; was married at Eastbourne, England, Friday to Lieut. Arthur Haines of the Brit- at Omaha, Neb., October made for the trip, but it schedules so that he can speeches in one. or more cities. Alexander H. Phillips, of Els- worth, N. Y., celebrated his nine- tieth birthday by seeing a motion picture, using a telephone and rid- ing in an automobile for the first time. This was the first time the monogenarian has been more than 1,000 feet from his son’s home in 17 years. Work will be commenced next week on the monument in memory of the victims of the United States battle ship Maine, blown up in Havana harbor in February, 1898. The monument will be erected ina small park opposite the Santa Clara battery, near the wall of the Malecon. While being rushed-in an ‘auto- mobile to a Tulsa, Okla., hospital to receive medical attention for in- juries: he had received on an oil lease four miles north of Tulsa, H. G. Lytle, 48 years old, living at Ramona, Ok., was killed when the machine upset in the business see- tion after striking a pile of sand. present season approximately 1,- have been destroyed ation by the inspeet- after exa ors of the department. tion of the eggs grew out of a eru- sade by the department storage eggs, W, Bert Brown of Kansas City and “William E, Reddin of Mil- waukee, two of the 33 men found guilty at Indianapolis in 1912 of conspiracy to transport explosives illegally, were released from the Federal prison at Leavenworth Saturday on expiration of their sentences, The men were received. there January 1, 1913, Both re- turned to their homes. Mrs. Pearl Shepard, mother of Vinley J. Shepard, who married Helen Gould, died’ at «the New Haven hospital Friday. She was 86 years old and had been at the hospital nine years. Despite the fact she was blind, Mrs, Shepard was of a most cheerful disposition and her optimistic advice to other patients won the title of ‘“Sun- 21,| light of the hospital and angel of the wards.”’ Jack Elder, 14 years old, while derrick near Ringling, Okla., Sat- urday, struek a match to light a cigarette. When > the smoke eleared away it was found Elder had been killed, his companion fa- tally injured, and the two men who had been working on top of the derrick were dangling in mid- air on a guy wire. The derri¢k was destroyed, but the workmen were rescued. Both were serious- ly injured. Madam Volonsky, a Russian princess, 22 years old, whose hus- hand, father and brother were killed early in the war, cut her hair, adopted men’s clothing, en- listed as a private and fought on the southern front for several” months. Her sex being discovered she was sent to Kieff to be dis- charged, but she eluded — her guards and returned to the fight- ing line. Now she has just been discovered wounded in a Khar- doff hospital. Attention Soldiers Widows! The Ashbrook bill approved September 8th,.1916, provides @ pension of $20.00-pey month to soldiers widows who have reached 70 years of age. Under that age $12.00 per month. Any widow who married a soldier prior to June 27, 1905, will be entitled to a pension under this act. I have all necessary blanks. 19-2t, B. F. Jeter, East Side Square. To insure a welcome, take your bank account along with you. ' President Wilson has accepted- an invitation to deliver an address 5. Com- plete arrangements ‘have not been is ex- pected that he will arrange his make other higures im te Orrice 0 Ine Texas Pure Food and Drug De- partment show ‘that during the Destrue-, against - watching two men repair an oil ~