The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, October 5, 1916, Page 3

‘Democratic ON THE WING. (Too late for last week.) Two of Uncle Geo. Zinn’s brothers: of Kansas are here on a visit. The three boys are all that is left of the Zinn family. Merrit is 73 years old, George. 70, and Johnny 67. Merritt came over Elkhart. Well, here we go to see what there is going on in the communi- ty. The street fair was pulled off on time and there was the biggest crowd in Amsterdam that had ev- er turned out. Every body got a full supply of dust as the wind Peru Items. Rev. Johnson, of Archie, made a fine falk at Peru- Friday night in favor of national constitutional prohibition. : Mrs. Visa Gough, who has been visiting at Imes, Kansas, with her sister, Mrs. George Daniels, has MISSOURI NOTES. The corner stone of Nevada’s new public library was laid with appropriate ceremonies one day jlast week. | Dr. J. A. Powers, county physi- SPEAKING DATES W. B. DAWSON and REV. A. L, LINDSAY ADRIAN Tuesday, October 10, 1916 HOWELL H. HECK and H. O. MAXEY AMSTERDAM Thursday, October 12, 1916 JUDGE CARL J. HENRY AND JUDGE NICK M. BRADLEY HUME With his brother, John, to the home of Geo. Zinn 10 days ago and since that time they have been making good use of the auto, visiting and taking in the country. They went fishing three after- noons and had good luck. Uncle George has 31 grand children and 2 great grandchildren. 17 of them were here and took dinner with him Sunday, Sept. 16th. Mrs. Ena Zinn and six girls, wife of J. P. Zinn, of Oklahoma, has been on a two weeks visit here. The three boys remained in Okla- homa with their father. Perry Main of Bartlesville, Ok- lahoma, has been up to see his aged mother, who lives with her daughter, Mrs. S. Harbaugh. - Frank Lewellen has his paper changed from Butler, Route 1 to Amsterdam, Route 2. He has rented his father’s farm, also P. C. Burns’ for the year 1917. Unele Joe Lewellen will soon move to Kansas at Marrian, and in Marrian county. Uncle Joe will have a sale in October. He has some good stuff to offer for sale. Ike Dawson’s molasses patch looks fine. Ike thinks by Wednes- day of next week he will have his molasses factory in operation on the old Peter Crooks farm. Brownsville, Texas, September 20, 1916. Dear Friend N. M. N.:— I got one of your Bates County Times today and was glad to hear from my home town. I read the news with great joy. I was very busy when Harold K. Halden came to my quarters and asked if I was|s bowed all day. Watt Dawson and John Stone of Butler-were at the Amsterdam street fair shaking hands with their many friends. There was a good lot of the re- publican candidates at the street fair. We saw Judge Denton there. He was having a good chat with the boys. Viele Jake Masterson and Miss Cordia Bruner made a flying trip to the city of Adrian last Satur- day. Aunt Lizzie Kershner loaded her car last Friday and pulled out for Louisburg, Kansas. Uncle Jake Masterson and the seribe pulled out for the old Set- tlers picnic last Wednesday. L.. K. Boehm and wife of Drex- el took in two days at the Ams- terdam street fair last week. Merrit Zinn and wife of west- ern Kansas are here on a_ visit. They called on Mrs, 8. 'T. Brown last Sunday morning. They used to'live in Bates county and have many friends in this part. ‘lack Mangold, who has been out in Western Kansas came in to take in the street. fair‘and to visit old friends, “Mrs. Tom Bruner and Uncle Jake Masterson went to the Dar- .| by farm last Friday to get apples, Mrs. Ruth Smith and husband of Drexel took in the big fair at Sedalia last week. : : Clem Custer is reported to be on the rvad to recovery, He has had quite a bad spell. Carl Blake and wife of West- ern Kansas came in to be at the fair and to visit old friends, Saturday, October 14, 1916 We extend to the TEACHERS AND 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” Heals rapidly. A sore never mat- f ters where this remedy is used. Are troublesome to cure. Get a) We sell it on the money back plan. i bottle of Farris’ Healing Remedy C. C. Rhodes Pharmacy, | —costs 50c—make it at home.|58-1m 0. K. M. Butler, Mo. 14x20 OVAL FRAMES Oval and Convex Glass complete ready to hang $1.50, $2.00, $2.50 . Barb Wire Cuts and Wounds & busy and gave me the paper. I got busy looking the familiar old paper over. Harold is in the same company as I am and lived in Bates county near Adrian and Mrs. Dillon forwarded the paper to him and several others. I spent much time in reading them. I like the border patrol fine. This is a level country and very rich soil but not enough rainfall to bea successful farming country and the Rio Grande affords plenty of mosquitoes. to keep the soldiers busy without fighting Mexicans. There has been no signs of an outbreak since we came here. The boys are getting plenty of drill, about four hours per day is all and the rest of the time is their own to go to town if they wish or pitch horse shoes, play ball or anything for amusement. We get plenty to eat of good, substantial food, and pie once in a_ while. The water is not very good here as it comes out of the Rio Grande and is very warm. The weather is not cold here. <A soldier could go without a shirt if he would be per- mitted to and be comfortable. At night it is not hot as the sea breeze keeps the temperature about the same. Speaking of Brownsville, it is not a very large town and popu- lated mostly with Mexicans and now and then a ranger gets lost and comes to town to find out where he is. The mesquite brush is so thick on the ground here that a horse can’t hardly get through it. We have a large Y. M. C. A. building here in camp and it is kept busy most of the time be- tween Reville and Retreat and we hold a Christian League there on Sunday evenings and all come that wish to. We have large tents to sleep in which makes it very com- fortable for the soldiers and we also have cots issued by the gov- ernment one for every man. 1 will close for this time. From Seargent Roy L. Dawson. 2 N. M.N. All for Wilson. Squire Cortett township and his son took in the fair at Amsterdam and we are under obligations to him for a fine spin in his big car. You bet it is a goer. The writer took dinner at the home of Tom Bruner last Sunday. Charley Misner is very poorly at present with blood poisoning. The Elkhart store is about to change hands on the 15th of this month. A man by the name of French will pull the strings, it is reported. Mrs. Reeves is reported on the sick list. She has a bad cold and a sore throat. Peter Denning of Charlotte township took in the street fair at Amsterdam. He reports that the fair was all right. | Miss Nellie Bruner spent. last Saturday night with Miss Ethel Goode, before she goes to Harri- sonville. ° Mr. John Halfert and family spent last Sunday at the home of Mr. Sunquist. Mr. Ed Bailey and sons attend- ed Sunday school last Sunday at Mount. Vernon church. R. L. Seott and family spent last Sunday at the home-of-G-W. Armentrout. 2 Thurman Armentrout -of Ari- zona is visiting at his brother’s, G. W. Armentrout. What has become of Rambler? Where, oh where is On the Wing. Miss Nellie Brimer and her best fellow went to preaching last Sunday night. JOHNNY. Coal Selling at $50 a Ton in Italy and May Go Higher. Rome, Italy, Sept. 30.—The high cost of living, and particular- ly the price of coal, is becoming a subject of grave concern in Italy as another war winter approaches. Due to continued excessive freight rates by sea, many staple food ar- ticles are dearer in Italy than either France or England. _De- spite a special treaty with Eng- jland for cheaper freight rates to of Chartotte| returned. Mrs. Daniels also came and is under the care of Dr. Dela- meter of Rich Ifill. She has un- dergone an operation. Miss Susie Harper spent Satur- day and Sunday with home folks. Mr. and Mrs. Will Griffin and Mr. and Mrs. Ira Hart and chil- dren spent Sunday with Mr, Ross Williams and family. Miss. Margie Blankenbaker spent Sunday with Misses Fern aud Vivian Thomas. The township Sunday School ‘Convention will be held at Peru Oct. 8 at 2 p.m. Rev. W. L. Requa of Oronogo, preached two excellent sermons at Peru Sunday, Sunday night the house was full and overflowing. His old friends and neighbors were glad to welcome him back home again. After a few days visit with relatives and friends he will return to his Oronogo. Miss Margaret Thomas was sur- prised last Sunday when a num- ber of her friends’ came’ in spend the afternoon with her, it being her fifteenth birthday. of Mrs. Charlie Daniels last Thursday. It was decided at that time to send their president, Mrs. Lizzie Blankenbaker to Moberly to the state convention. poisoned face from eating paws. paw- MINNEITAHA. Mt. Carmel] News. Roy Burk and Bird Barr left “Wednesday of last week for Mon- tana to work this fall. Layne Cox spent last week vist iting her sister, Mrs. Taylor, at Adrian. Misses Grace and Tille Osborne of Butler spent Saturday night W. E. and P. H. Osborne. Lloyd Burk of College Station, Texas, spent Saturday night and Sunday with his parents, Mr.-and Mrs. Monroe Burk. On Saturday afternoon, Sept. 30, Mrs. P. H. Osborne’ gave a miscellaneous shower for her sis- ter-in-law, Miss Grace Osborne. The following friends were pres- ent: Misses Lois Clark, Maud Burk and Tillie Osborne, Lee Ison, Mrs. W. E. Osborne, Mrs. Lee M. Hardinger, Mrs, Lar- ris Wheatley and children, } Edwin Allison and son, Mrs, M. Hardinger and daughter, } Arthur spent a very pleasant afternoon after which light refreshments were served, The house was dec- orated beautifully. — Miss received many beautiful and use- ful presents. Willie Englehardt, Perry Burk and Jim Cox attended the State Fair at Sedalia last week. Mr. and Mrs, Orland Eggleson ef Johnstown spent Sunday with her sister, Mrs. W. E. Osborne and family. A. L. Porter delivered fat hogs in Butler Monday. W. M. and Lee M. Hardinger each hauled a load of coal from northwest of Virginia Monday, W. E. Osborne hauled eoal from Foster Tuesday. : UNCLE HENRY. Missouri Made Beverages Worth $38,600,000 in Year. Jefferson City, Mo., Sept. 28.— A Bureau of Labor Statistics bul letin given ont today by Commi sioner John T. Fitzpatrick states George Daniels, of Lone Oak,/ be obtained by the loaning of was in the city one day the last of ships, sugar is selling at 20 cents tthe week and in conversation with |a pound and can be bought only The Times man said that he re-'in small quantities for household cently returnend from a tour consumption from day to day. through the northwest part of the Coffee sells at 50 to70 cents a United States and that he .took pound, according to grade. occasion to talk to all the railroad Though Italy is a heavy producer men that he came in contact with | of wines, a table wine that once and asked them who they favored | sold at 6 cents a quart now sells for president this year. Mr. Dan- for 14 cents, and is inferior to iels says that without a single ex- the old 6-cent grade. Beer is sold ception they told him that they at 14 cents a quart, milk at 10 were for Wilson, because hé had | cents. Good butter is 55 cents a proven himself the friend of the | pound. laboring man, caused a Federali Coal that before the war sold eight hour law for railroad men to | at $10 a ton now sells at $50 and be enacted, 5 the country out/the price may go higher as win- of war with Mexico and at peacc/ter- comes. Last winter it was with the world generally. That | $30 to $40 a ton. Italy hopes to the country was in a prosperous| import 75,000 tons from England At CULVER’S (U.S. Government License 32) Vaccinate Your. Hogs FRANK E. WALKER Tel. 564 Butler 306 w. Mill : References furnished on request. condition and it did not look like| and 250,000 tons from the United policy to make a change so they States for industrial uses this winter. Ask for boo Peoples Bank. ssnedat $8 : would stay with Wi that during the fiseal year which ended June 30, 1916, beer, whisky, cordial and similar beverages were manufactured and liquors distilled and rectified in Missouri to the value of $38,600,000. The total of beer and similar malt preparations alone was $32,912,- 000, made chiefly in St. Louis, Kansas City, St. Joseph, and also by breweries in Washington, Jef- ferson City, Westen, Cape Girar- deau, St. Charles, Joplin, Spring- field, Hannibal. and Appleton. The rectifying of liquors, which was chiefly done in Kansas City and St. Louis, added $5,000,000 to the worth of the liquor industry of Missouri. Eleven distillers of whisky and brandy turned out such beverages to the value of $482,000. The man- ufacturing of wine with Hermann as the cénter of it, added another $200,000 to the figures already given, including wine manufac- tured on the outskirts of St. Louis Kansas City and other cities of the state. * home in The W. C. T. U. met at the home | Little Elmer Eckles has had a. and Sunday with their brothers, | Westover and son, All! Crave | | ported a case of infantile paraly- |sis at Bowen, a mining town {northwest of Windsor, just across {the Johnson county line. | eee A bootlegger was fined $500 and sentenced to six months in the county jail at Nevada the other {day. <A few sentences of that sort ‘ought to have a tendency to make | bootlegging unpopular in Vernon county. Nancy ‘Bundon, probably the ;oldest colored -woman, died at jher home in Jefferson City Sun- jday after an illness of several ;months. She elaimed to be 140 years old, and was a familiar fig- ure on the streets. She and her | daughter, Mrs. Amanda Butler, | worked for some of the best and |oldest families in that city. The republican state committee imet in St. Louis last week and | chose I, N. Evrard, of Marshall, ‘as republican nominee for State Superintendent of Schools, The {recent death of Howard Gass ;eaused a vacaney, which Gov. | Major filled by the appointment |of U, W. Lampkin, of Henry coun- The. term will expire Jan, 1, | i ty. 1919. The money appropriated by the county court for work on the St. Clair county court. house being nearly exhausted and the building not completed, the St. Clair ecoun- ‘ty Democrat suggests that some monied man of the county go ‘down in his pocket and dig up Lenough to finish the job-and some {time the county will reimburse ‘ him—perhaps. Don’t crowd boys. The other Sunday as Justice of the Peace Halstead, of Howell county, was fixing up his Ford to | take a ride a meddlesome hen flew in the car, upsetting a ean oef*gas- joline that the Judge was using to jelean an inner tube that he was \vuleanizing. The gasoline caught fire from the vuleanizer and the car and garage was entirely burned. That’s what he got for working Sunday. Twenty survivors of Quantrell’s guerilla band held a reunion at jlast week, With the exception of | probably six or eight others, they are the sole survivors of the fam- ous border gang. In the last year ven of their number, including Cole Younger and Frank James, }have died. Two others, George C. 'Parr and John Workman, both of Independence, are seriously ill. The Warrensburg Star-Jour- jnal relates how a young John- son county couple started for | Warrensburg in-an automobile, a | Ford, with the intention of getting married. When a few miles out of town as they were driving slow- ‘ly along the country roads, the jear, a Ford, without the least j warning, turned. completely up- side down, The young couple /erawled out from under and found another vehicle and proceeded to> Warrensburg. After all, the old family horse, that ean be driven with one hand, is the best, under ‘certain cireumstances. Many, many years ago it was discovered that a ball on top of fa tombstone in a cemetery some- where in New Hampshire, without lany apparent re revolved ghtly. “‘Spooks’’ and all sorts explanations were given until {some wi | planation, }pansion and contraction of one | side of the ball caused by the heat jand cold caused it to move slight- ly. Later the same thing was no- ticed in other cemeteries and at | last we have one right here in Mis- souri. Reéently a marble ball on top of a tombstone in the ceme- tery at Harrisonville was found to have moved slightly since the tombstone was set up. Trial of Woman Slayer Set. Maryville, Mo., Sept. 30.—Mrs. Q. A. Gilmore, charged with mur- der in the first degree, was ar- raigned before Judge W. C. Elli- son in the circuit court today and entered a plea of not guilty. Her trial was set for the December term of court. . Mrs. Gilmore shot and killed Mrs. Ella Shipps in a railroad sta- tion here August 16, last. She has been in jail ever since-and no ap- plication for release on bond was made today. hap hit on the real ex- | Wallace’s Grove near Kansas City - Mrs. | : IIe said that the ex-.