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Dist. Atten. State Pu, ‘0. 82.18 42 6.29 ancial transactions, it is a reputation builder - i Be. a0 ss) 7286 BR ORISA) TREO GOR it signifies systematic management of busi- 2 gs Se 8 SS 88]. vowarp rownswip No. el id 3 9.8 & 3086 890} 191 vA i § s S;a good sound ban ng onnec — = — Hunt sin eis ze B08 70 ion and a good standing inthe community. Wer ye woe | ae ibe 5 ie CTY Our officers will be glad.to discuss these features with SPRUCE TOWNSHIP NO. 2. SUG So COALS aA aea rece’ you, - wack Py 31577399 RMS LB] y . % 0878 SORT GRAND TOTAL, : 1 2 251 22a 2 St $9 | Dist. \tten, State Pu, Co, Twp. PEOPLES B ANK 50 m5 RS SB RG 68 | TH8A1T $1421.32 6908 $4970.16 $2657.74 22 1 : ‘ 52 3400 BM M sas 13.80 Bate vunty apportionment of Pub- “ 7 ” if art %) =, ‘The Bank on which you can always bank.’” cL KT under mareliecnoul Bintan sid : DEEPWATER TOWNSHIP NO. 3 A800 53 225 GML TCA \ items ere reemacuncesrd 54 1068 38.16 SSO ‘ 65 24S : 56 39047326 SLD 81 302 TTT AS MSS DUVALL-PERCIVAL TRUST C8 ae STE ao = , a 134 2 SI TS HUDSON TOWNSHIP NO. 4 CAPITAL and SURPLUS, $250,000 ts go Sa 8 RK 1s ‘Total. FARMERS BANK BUILDING, BUTLER, MO. 18 86 se 5 SS 3 Under High School State Ald Law: : 3 ec 3 k\moret .. A . We have money to loan on real estate at al te ie Se be n Bt #81] Reh 1 9 Farm Loans y to loan on estate at a low rai 106 248 A} AL RTL ge of interest with privilege to pay at any time. 106 220 70.03 WS MIG «6B aioe : : 107 129 RS RB BW a} be bstra i : G5 —s Appropriation of Public Fund: Abstracts We have a complete set of Al ct Books and will fur- FE RS EN EN ROOT under teural State Ald bawo gs We will loan your | Investments interest on time deposits. * W. F. DUVALL, President, Arthur Duvall, Treasurer. Building Business Prestige | A checking account with the Peoples Bank is more than an agent of convenience in-fin- nish abstracts to any real estate in Bat and examine/and perfect titles to mie, i se di reasonable interest on Err Seer ry st 12 Ri idle money for you, securing you good security. We pay J. B. DUVALL, Vice-President, W. D. Yates, Title Examiner. SEE THE Clothe PROFESSIONAL CARDS DR. J. T. HULL °C Dentist é | 37 Entrance same that leads to Fox’s| AY MINGO TOWNSHIP No. 1. ROCKVILLE TOWNSHIP NO, 5, Apportionment of State, County | | WALNUT TOWNSHIP NO. 2, 91 3798 79.04 32 15.84 2.77 and T School Moneys |= wi oe te if for the Year 1916, Ho 0h BN Be A 26.81] County 7.61) Township .. 4 4382 4. ockv'l 21375 IRN 25757 WAI SUMMIT TOW dL PRAIRIE TOWNSHIP NSHIP NO, & 104.32 15.71] Court of Bites County, hereby certify 10.62} the above to be a correct statement of 5.93] County of Bates. 4 Sepreps - The Gas Flame tells why Coles Hot Blast mehes your Coot pile Lest. High School State Ald Law State ... Grand Total...........+ $23 Missouri, § og % nd, Clerk of the: County 94] I, Frank Hol srtionment of the State, County ownship School Money for the year 1916. Witness my hand and the seal 7 (seil) of said Court at Butler, Mis- 53 souri, this 20th day of Septem- it ber;, 1916, 5 FRANK HOLLAND, 3 County Clerk, 1 ee A LYNCHING IN KANSAS 50 Mob Takes Bert Dudley, a Con- fessed Murderer, From. the Jail at Olathe and Save $25.00 this Winter from your former coal bills by heating your home with the valuable gas half of your fuel wasted by all other stoves. This valuable half of your coal saved and completely turned into heat only by a Cole’s Original Hot Blast We guarantee every Cole’s Original Hot Blast —to save }4 the fuel over any bottom draft stove. = —to use Jess hard coal than any Base burner with same sized firepot. —to remain air tight as long as used. Burns any fuel— Hard Coal, Soft Coal or Wood Thevaluable gas half of your fuelis allheld in the stove by Cole's Patented air tight construction. Not a particle of the gas is allowed to escape up the chimney. Itisthencompletely burned and utilized for heating by Cole's Fuel Saving Hot Blast Draft. Beware of imitation Hot Blast Stoves which soon open up at the many joints allowing the gus to escape unused Avoid imitations — Look for ‘‘Cole’s” on feed door Gench Bros. Hardware, Stoves, Implements, Furniture BUTLER, MO. and 9 block 87 Ist_addition to REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS 5 trait anemia Studio. | 79 i : . North side square Butler, Missouri | a oe Sty — i ; | 26 son county mob took it upon itself BF ETER, a shortly after midnight this morn- - . Attorney atLaw Notary Public | « ing to avenge the murder of Mr. | For practical cleaning and pressing. We posi- tively clean everything but a guilty conscience. Hats Cleaned and Blocked All werk guaranteed and prices reasonable. Coods Called for and Delivered. CROUCH BROS. No. 7 S. Main St. Phone 171. Butler, Mo. Sheriff’s Sale in Partition. Angeline Brown, Plaintiff. vs. Daisy L. Fancelor, Martha Gibbs, Thomas Judson, Charlotte Wal- ters, Lafayette Gillaspie, Joel|® Capital $50,000.00 LONE OAK Gillaspie, U. S. G. Gillaspie, P , go eG Milt Hodge and The Walton|™ Surplus - $50,000.00 9) » 4396 Trust Company, Defendants. foal ; tit 398 In the Cireuit Court of Bates|j™ Undivided Profits $5,000.00 133 2 " County, Missouri. 5 ra A | oa By -virtue and authority of a) > ; OSAGE TOWNSHIP No. 1 decree and order of sale made by] We offer the best of f{iHum.siti wit as we the said Court, in the above en- ; 17 3466 7850 AT RRS titled cause, and of a certified) service in every 128 2 813 HIN | 67 1822 MT ORS S19 vopy thereof, dated Aug. 15th, 1916, I will on Friday, Oct. 6th, 1916, between the hours of nine o’clock in the forenoon and five} o’clock in the afternoon of that, day at the east front door of the jj Court House, in the City of Butler, |§ in Bates County, Missouri, sell at} public vendue to the highest bid-| der, the following described real | estate, viz: A part or portion of the east half of the west half of frac- tional section number four _ (4), township forty-two (42), Range thirty-one (31), begin- ning at the southeast corner of the west half of said frac- tional section thence running north with the east line of the said fractional half section ‘118 78-100 rods to the north line of Bates county, thence west with said county line fif-' ty-seven rods, thence sout 118 78-100 rods to the south line of said fractional half section, thence east with the said fractional half section line fifty-seven (57) _Tods to the place of beginning, con- taining 42 2523-8000 acres more or less; in Bates coun- ty, Missouri; subject to two trust $2000.00 and one for $80.00. on Terms of sale as follows, viz:\««Gommenced feedi «my Cash in hand. 48-4t ° HARVEJOHNSON, - deeds one for | East Side Square Phone 186 | and Mors. Henry Muller, who were BUTLER, MISSOURI | T, J. HALSEY, M.D.0.0. |: Throat Specialist BUTLER, MO Office on South Side Square Phone No. 45 | FARMERS BANK a Eye, Ear, Noseand | and the fitting of Glasses | ah 3 19 1693 Adrian of Bates County teat 61 2491 . | Butler 106455 “4 1877 ud i) 3417° 16 4226 7 192 15681 29 DEER CR killed on the farm near Stilwell, this county, the night of August 20, : Bert Dudley, an ex-convict, who was convicted Tuesday of murder in the first degree for killing and Mrs, Muller, was taken by ty or more armed men from the county jail about 1:30 0’clock this morning, placed in a motor car with a rope around his neck and started out of town at a hot pace accompanied by the mob, Less than thirty minutes later the mob had taken Dudley to the Frisco depot, near the edge of 15361 367.43 176 MT. PLEASANT TOWNSE 181 © 39.00 pS AIP NO. town, where they proceeded to hang him to a telephone pole. Dudley killed Henry Muller, an aged German farmer, and his wife, near Stilwell, -Kas., seventeen yniles southeast of here, Sunday morning, August 20, Dudley was an ex-convict. The double mur- der was discovered a few days lat- er when Sheriff E.G. Carroll Si went to Stilwell to arrest Dudley | wheat from Muller. After kill- ing the aged couple and_ hiding department We solicit accounts of any size OSAGE-HOWARD TOWNSHIP } Sprague #87 18.9 121 48. QU 2380 129 3391 10 2721 13579 SINST SS NEW HOME TOW their bodies in an old cellar near an abandoned house a quarter of }a mile away, Dudley hired a boy to help him with the farm work, Dudley was raised in Cass | County, this state and has several lrelatives living there now. OF LOCAL INTEREST | Some People We Know, and We We Pay Interest on Savings ff! 3; Bee a Will Profit by Hearing B! 98 2961 «43.0518 About Them. : - ui Q 113 297 6.08 Ss ° i—- eae eee This is purely a local event, Accuses Packing Companies. Me IAM IM IRS Tt took place in Butler. e - | CHARLOTTE TOWNSHIP NO. 18. , Not in some faraway place. New York, Sept. 23.—Joseph 62 Ps oS SS f You are asked to investigate it. ,Harrigan, Commissioner of | § fe ae. a ee Asked to believe a citizen’s | Weights and Measures, announced | 69 ae 88 UNE > word; 4 5. 8. i ‘. w 3 | e.2 ’ {today his inspectors had obtained | 7 19% «MM 1 836 <| Toconfirm a_ citizen’s state- jevidence of 12 violations of the} a a en x we 3 nent. {net weight meat law against Ar-| i : _<! Any article that is endorsed at imour & Co., Swift & Co. the 2026 400.75 TIER, S* home ; i |Cudahy Packing Company, the | ELKHART TOWNSHIP NO. 19. ! Is more worthy of confidence |Nelson-Morris Company, and | sy me Sa 3 8 USS) Than one you know nothing ! Wilson & Co. The law prohibits, 39 MIG TRIZMA MG Ah jee Pp | 40 Pe ie et ;the sale of wrapped meats unless | 4 68; 98 I. sss 61s! Endorsed by unknown people. a2 em 2@ aie 132) Ww, Wade =| Wm. Stuffings, prop. of black- wrapper. re The Commissioner said he will) | appear personally before Chief) 7 | Magistrate McAdoo to ask for! 45 |summonses against the Eastern! 13 ‘agents of the packing companies! j the true weight is marked on the! # | ; named. \ { Marketing Hogs Beats burying them. Steve Hoov- ‘er, Mt. Pleasant, Towa, writes, herd} ,, of about 100 hogs B. A..Thomas’} a: Hog Powder over two months ago.| * and off feed. 18ST 36. WE. ISM 3 32.06 aun EAST BOONE TOWNSHIP No. %. y Bey = 2 =a ZY auite a while since T have needed 1987 ey 2 aS yor used Doan’s Kidney Pills. They rit a ce ‘ut my kidneys in good condi- Ge aE tion when I had backache, sore- jnes# and lameness and my kid- He ne ae ao ae 2. | Neys acted too often. They are a ~win at £38 S2 2 , Well known medicine and I al- 205° “4108 19 «i363 2es, WAYS advise anyone having kid- st a SRS 1S WES? EOINT TOWNSHIP NO. 22°, | simply ask for a kidney remedy— ona charge of stealing a load of|¢ a Rich Hill $1,000.00, A.M. Long to Joseph Peterman Hiram Vail to B. G. Davis part 80 acres section 10 Osage ..6400, lot 4 block 63 Rich Hill $1.00. TW. Hiekman to J. V. Putoft) Hiram Vail to B. G, Davis part vart lot 20) block 6 Ja@hnstown | lots 6 and 5 block 63 Rich Hill 51.00. $1,500.00, S. Tf. Bothwell D. Yiokaris ta I. Golmis tract ‘elds lot 4 block sections 8 and 9 West Point. $1.00. .00. Margaret) Scott to Josephine R. A. Hallenbeck to T. W Cox et al tract section 5 West ter lots 5 and 6 block Atkeson 2nd) Point. $1.00. addition to Butler $1,000.00, J.P. Stanley. to W. N, Wileox Millie M. Rockville to ay 33 I Fos- Nona Coberly to W. F. Wolfe part lot 1 block 1 Thompson’s ad- 80 a section 1) Deer Creek dition to Butler $750.00, $6,000.00. J. W. Rogers to Serepta Stand- ish lots B, C, F and G block 8 Ex- Standish addition Thine $100.00, J. WH. Bratton to FL FL Dalton! 108 acres section $1 Mound $1.00. FP. F. Dalton to J. H. Bratton 80 aeres section 31 Deer Creek $1.00, J.T. Jennings to J. E, Nlotz- bach 40 acres section 17 Walnut $1500.00. J. 10. Bratton to J, W. Harrison 2 acres section 14 Mt. Pleasant £1.00. J. H. Bratton to L. ©) Redford SO acres section 31 Deer Creek Orders Paper Pulp Company Indicted. - Appleton, Wis., Sept. 28. lowing charges that the Inter Pulp and Paper Company we ploying minors in its mill or count of the strike here, the W consin Industrial Commission to- day ordered’ District. Aftornéy Cutlin to. bring action against the company five counts. The cases will be heard in Cireuit Court, the minimum fine being $5 znd the maximum 600° for ¢ - Dayis to Hiram Vailiots count. on smith & wagon shop, 801 W. Ohio |St. Butler, says: ‘‘It has been ney trouble to use them.’’ Price 50c at all dealers. Don’t SO a 1480 cet Doan’s Kidney Pills—the ‘S| same that Mr. Stuffings had. Fos- 1 aS 34 | ter-Milburn Co., Props., Buffalo, Sheriff of Bates County-| Fifty were sick ; Nearby herds had cholera. I did|,, HOMER TOWNSHIP No = || N.Y. 50-2 No, indeed, a giggling girl and | not lose one—they are well andj amoret 1538 GSE 18 pene az! a cackling hen are not akin. The | growing fast.’ = ims BS £8) __ It is quite possible to bring joy is of practical value in this C. C. Bhodes Pharmacy, = ea Sn & 82 42 into the lives of your friends by ; 48-1m 0. K. M. Butler, Mo, | ait SSE 38 | keeping away from them. MiSSOURI ‘PAGIFICG “Pleasant Way to Pleasant Places” See our agent. Ask for bookfet on the White River Country—set all perticulars—whatever Here’s a Vacation Tip In the White River Country of Southwestern Missouri and Northern Arkansas, you'll get more of what you want in the way of a real vacation than anywhere you can go—even though you traveled three times the distance and it cost you ten times the price. Only a short ride away—easy to reach. Hotels, boarding-houses and camps everywhere—comfortable and inexpensive. : informetion you from L..R..TWYMAN, Agent Butler, Mo.