The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, October 19, 1916, Page 2

Ras os GENERAL NOTES. Marshall TH. Willis, “8% years old, of Harrison, Ark., has heen a | eaGsed te gas-producing bacilli. |: | Collections of gas under the skin ‘and in the tissue, where it spreads ‘rapidly, literally melt away the ‘flesh and bring most startling and Carnahan, years bld, and has taken his bride to his country home, He is a wealthy farmer. Four people were killed, two of , them burned to death, when a New York Central train crashed through an auttomobile causing | the gas tank to explode, near Col- umbus, O., Saturday night. The following official announce- | ment was made at Petrograd | Thursday; “'In Dobrudja an en- emy air squadron droppe d bombs on Constanza, the principal Rou- manian Black Sea port, and also , poisoned sweats and garlic infeet- ed with cholera bacilli’ Rights of Christian 1 Sei entists to treat persons afflicted with dis- ease without obtaining a license dicated’ yield of corn was for but} to practice medicine were clearly, set forth as a principle of state law by the New York court of ap: peals last week, The ruling is’ considered important and far, reaching. Former King Otto. of Bavaria, who had been insane for many years, has died suddenly aceord- ing to a Copenhagen dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph Com- pany, quoting a Berlin official aii- nouncement, The mad King died at Fuerstenried Castel, near Mun- ich, where he had been confined since | Mis. Sallie Schulz has just cele- brated her one hundred and fi Nortl Tserious complications, | Cabot. i | Missouri Crop Report. ‘stimates on the Missouri corn ‘yield for 1916 call for 146,000,000 bushels, according to the crop re- port issued. today by W. L, Nelson, assistant seeretary of the State Board of Agriculture. is as follow: CORN—Official crop reporters | of the State Board of Agriculture | place the condition of Missouri corn af 64.0 and estimate that 88 per cent of the erop is now safe from killing frost. This is a more optimistic report. than was made on September 1 when the condi-| tion of comm was given as from frost. At that time the in-| 135,000,000 bushels, but it also stated that with a seasonable Sep- tember and a late frost, later fig- | ures would show a material in-| crease over the preliminary esti-/ mate—an increase now placed at 11,000,000 bushels. These figures, | though, are not final, as no<corn | of consequence has yet — been cribbed. Condition of corn, by division ‘sections, — show: } t, 67; Southwest, .48; Southeast, 69. The low condition | in the Southwest section is due | to the severity of th® long-contin- Tied drouth, whieh, with varying | degrees of intensity, still contin- ues throughout much of the state. The preliminary estimate as to vield per acre for the present crop calls for 20.2 bushels, as compared crop says—Dr-} The r epor t | 534, with grave fears of heavy damage | *795. birthday at her home in Hicks- vite She oe tt Bronx and acted as godmother at the christening of her youngest descendent. She has five generi tions of descendents, totalin including 5 children, 22 0 erand- children, 41 great-grandchildren, and 9 grea ndehildren, 4. F. Kerwin is suing a shoe merehaut at Superior, Wis., for $10,000. He says he boughta pair of shoes with the understanding that they had full sewed soles, but it turned out that they were nailed. and infection set in, already been in the Supreme Court on demurrer and sent back for re- trial. Every family in Pukwana, 8. D., exeept five owns a motor car, One of the five is against cars on prin- ciple, another, a wealthy landown- er, says he cannot afford to drive one and the other three confe that since all their friends drive cars they feel tf inetmbent on themselves to represent that class whieh is always under social obli- gation, Reuter’s Amsterdam — corre- spondent quotes. their Tageblatt correspondent to the effect that examination of the military class-7 es of 1870 to 1875 (nen between the ages of 58 and 63) will take place this month in the province of Arandenburg, in which Berlin is situated, The dispatch says the order refers to all those who-pre- viously have been declared unfit for military service. ; A woman has been commis- sioned by the government of Wur- temburg as second in command of | Con- , a small gunboat on Lake stance, which is employed — in guard duty at Friedrichaven, where the Zeppelin works are lo- cated. She has been given the | rank and uniform of a lieutenant. , Women employed on south Ger- | nan railw recording to a new] order, must wear uniforms, con- sisting in part of loose POURCES)| and gaiters, Frank Scott and wife of Ken-| sett, Ark., have been married ten years. Nineteen boys have been born to them. Six died at birth. Of the thirteen living there are three sets of triplets.and two sets of twins. The parents have been partial to the letter ‘‘A’’ of the alphabet in naming them. Ash- bell, Archer and Austin are 4 1-2 years old. Arthur and Arnold, 3 1-2 years old; Albion and Adolph, 18 months, and Abel and Abner, 6 months.—Ex. A report was made _ public Thursday from Hugh Cabot, who was in charge of the Harvard sur- gical unit in France, shows that of 8,000 men treated in the hospi- tal-unit in France, only 19 died. According to his report all shell wounds are infected, as are the greater part of the bullet wounds, The most dangerous of these in- fections is the gas gangrene, witha prchnrimarry estimate at bushels for ast year’s crop, the final figures for which were 30.5 bushels. In Bates, Barton, Vern- onand a few other Southwest counties the yield of corn is very Jow and may not exceed one barrel 5 bushels—per acre, On_ the other hand, Holt, Atchison, Buch- aman and other counties in the, Northwest. section will harvest from 30 to 40 bushels per acre, Quality of corn, for the state, is U8, but varies greatly in different | sections. A number of corre-| His foot was serathced | spondents report™the quality het-| provided in the will of The case has tery than is general with a light | U. Jones, a Boone county philan- yield. About one-half of the crop is now in shock or silo and more would have been but for the great | diffieulty farmers have experi-| enced in securing help, The labor | proble m has been a serious one |! and in some neighborhoods it has been almost impossible to get). corn cut and silos filled. Corn in shock’ has. cured in excellent shape. Frost the last week — in September caused only slight loss. The opening price on new corn, varies from 60 vents to $1.00, with 76 cents as the average price, Taking the state as a whole, there will be no surplus for sale. Resolutions. Butler, Missouri, Oct. 14, 1916. The Bates County Teachers’ As- ‘sociation Assembled. Resolved, that since the people of Butter have at this Association | extended more and finer courte: | sies to the teaching body of Bates | County, than we have ever befc enjoyed, we extend through this! medium our sincere appreciation of the .uniform and — universa thoughtfulness for our comfort, | entertainment and welfare, on the | part of the citizens and business men of Butler, And especially do We appreciate | the courtesy of the Peoples Bank | for the Lyceum Party given by it | ito the teachers; the remembrance by . the Duvall- Percival — Trust Company, Farmers Bank, The! ‘Walton Trust Company and the | Missouri State Bank for the bas-; ket hall tickets; to Mr. Parrish i for tickets to his picture show. Resolved, that we extend our sincere thanks to Prof. H. A. Phillips and Dr. W. C. Morris of the Warrensburg State Normal School for their splendid lectures and most helpful inspiration, and assure them and the school of our vices. Pearle V. Kemper; J.S. Wolf, F. L. Latham, 0. C. Lynch, Committee. | . Card of Thanks. We take this method of thank- ing our.friends and neighbors for their. kindnesses during the illness and the death ‘of our beloved motherg Mrs. Elnora Bracken. . Mrs. Henry Ehart, Mrs. Jay Bright, Mrs. May Hough, | Warrensburg. i which weighs i 035 pounds, is 41| 1! largest hog in the state. sincere appreciation of their ser- Model 85-4 f.0.b. Toledo ‘You Ought to Own This Car Its possession will enrich your life and the lives of every member of your family. The freedom and wider range cf activity made possible by such a car are worth many times its price. The price is by far the lowest at which so big and fine end comfortable a car ever sold. Big—the wheelbase is 112 inches. CLINKENBEARD & ISLEY \ BUTLER,{MO., Phones 229, 516 The Willys-Overland Company, Toledo, Ohio “(Made in U. S. A.” Model 85-4 f.0.b. Toledo Fine—it’s a beautifully finished, luxurious.car. Comfortable—it has cantilever springs and 4-inch tires. Model 85-6, 35-40 horsepower six cylinder ~ motor, 116-inch wheelbase—$925. Come in today—we can’t get them as fast as wesell them—so order yours right away. RICH HILL, MO., Phone 157 MISSOURI NOTES. A hitch rack is to be erected around the court house square at The county court will pay one hundred dollars and ‘the city the rest. A public pasture for the cows at | Hallsville, Missouri, his home} town, 13 miles from Columbia, is| Aquila | , Who died Friday. He years old. {thropi was 8! Dr. Ayres, a young physician | who was practicing with Dr. Hol-| liday of Tarkio, made a mistake | in pr eparing capsules last’ Friday | morning which he took with fatal | results. He aimed to get t aconite, | but got aconita instead. Edwin Hausam of Leeton, who | is making a collection of hirds, | has caught one for which he can find no name, It is deseribed as being much larger than a pigeon, bluish in color, with a bill-some- what like a duck’s bill and toes three inches long. Its feet are not webbed. A Beone County hog, ** Won- der”? owned by A. 0. Boyd, and! inches high, 84 inches around the heart, and is valued at $1,000. |The hog is two years old and is one of the bighoned Poland China type. Mr. Boyd says it is the Propped up in ded in a sitting posture, John Schultz, 92 years ‘old, ended his life Thursday after- noon at 5:30 o’elock by firing a bullet from a eap and ball pistol {into his forehéad at the home of his daughter, Mrs. W. J. Blair, 851 | Hast Wooters Street, Springfield. iDeath was probably instantan- , cous, For the second time within six | | weeks, Urban Schell, a Jefferson |City cafe proprietor, Thursday | antomobile trip. night fired a revolver at Emil Meyer, alleging that he had brok- en up his home. Meyer was shot in the neck. About four weeks ago Schell intercepted Meyer on the street with his wife, and shot at him twice. years were leaders in social comes extinct. Oscar MeDan in the first’ degree by the grand Mrs. R. H. True, the last of the] family and measures seven feet Baird family, founders of the] from tip to tip. Baird College in Clinton years} brown color with a light breast ago, died at her home in Newton] and head and Howard: says that it county, last week... With the pass-|is an expert fisher, diving—into ing of Mrs, True the well known] the lake and always coming up family of Baird, who for so many] with a good sized fish. educational life in Clinton, be-| pamicn for Head of State Schools. , Prosecuting at-|ty, was nominated for torney of Buchanan county, who| superintendent of public schools was last week indicted for murder| Monday by the democratic state vacancy jury for the murder of his wife,| caused by the death of State _ Mrs. George Bracken-|has been pores from jail erintendent Howard A. condipeag 450,000 bail, Special Prosecutor | Bart M, Lockwood, who has con-; ducted the case, ‘strongly opposed the acceptance of the bail. The balloon Dayton, with War- ren Rasor, pilot, which left Mus- kogee, Okla., Saturday afternoon | in a distance race with five other balloons, landed in an open field four miles from Odessa Sunday af- ternoon at 1:15, The journey was | made at a height of 14,000 feet. | A rough landing was made but neither pilot nor balloon were in- ! jured, . a | L The Appleton City Journal had! a whole lot of trouble last week. | io The Linotype operator took an!@ IIe had a yn with a motorcycle and got} hack home a day late. By that | time the Linotype had a spell’? on and would not work properly. Such is life around a country newspaper office. Marriage has not only failure for an Adair County coup- ; le. It has been a failure twice. ears of wedded life they were divorced in 1914 and lived} apart for a couple of years. In May, 1916, they were ‘remarried, but danestic infelicities soon were | revived and a second divorce case i for them is awaiting entry on the | circuit court docket. pS ees | Blakemore Godwin, formerly of} Clinton, has been made curatér of | the Museum of Art at Toledo, ; Ohio, says the Henry County! Democrat. The Toledo Museum is one of the young and small/hand at all times at the Gutridge| with shady lawn. museums of the country, its build-|¢oal bank, two miles It | Spruce. H. H. MeLlendon. 51-4t* | 52-2t* ings being just five years old. is however perhaps the most pro- gressive institution of its kind, to judge from Dr. Lyman Abbot ’s| article about it in the Outlook | early in the summer, It is an in-} stitution with a great future be-| fore it. : | Killed 9 Strange Bird. =; For several days a strange look- ing bird of gigantic proportions has been noticed around the lake onthe Hill place southeast of town and Monday Howard Cooper took his shotgun and after consid- erable trouble finally succeeded in getting close enough to bring it down. It is of the hawk or eagle It is of a dark U. Lamkin, of Henry coun- state committee to fill a col-} j been alm InOurNew Home We have moved into our new quarters on North Main street, two doors north of our old location. We have the most convenient building we have ever done business in, and would like for our friends to pay us a visit, and see how nicely we are prepared to care for your wants. Our line of Picture Frames and Moulding, Serving Tables and Trays and a lot of other novelties are larger than ever before. We can frame your pictures as they should be framed. We can repair your Furniture in a first class manner; We have a lot of improved machinery, so weare able and are making anything in the way of Furniture you may need for the home, store or office. Our stock of Undertaking Goods is up-to-date and carries with it the Culver service. We have about 100 Unframed Pictures Which we will give to the Wom- . en from the Country if you will pay us a visit. We want you to come in and see our really pretty store. Yours respectfully, A. H. Culver Furniture Co. Hi Coal for Sale. For Sale—Good 16 room hotel, Good coal in any quantity on|also 7 room house, in good repair Will trade fox east of| farm. A. L. Freeman. Why Worry? |. About Advancing Prices @ WHEN YOU CAN GET 11 Ibs. Lima Beans for $1.00 1 doz. cans Good Peas.$1.10 16 Ibs. Good Rice for.. 1.00 1 doz, cans Good Oys- - 10 Ibs. Beans for... 1.00 ters for............-. 1.00 1 doz. cans Tomatoes.. 1.20 1 doz, cans Baked Beans 1.10 .. 1 doz. cans Good Corn 1.20 1 doz. cans Good Kraut 1.20 1 doz. cans Blackberries 1.10 2 Ibs. Good Prunes for....25c 1 doz. cans Good Hominy 1.00 1 doz. cans Good Goose- 2 Ibs. Dried Peaches for..25c_ Say, have you tried the Dried Logan Berries? The best Pie Timber that ever grew. You can make 3 good pies for 15c. And get a quart of Fresh Roasted Peanuts for one jitney at Gosnell’s Grocery