The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, October 19, 1916, Page 6

MISSISSIPPI. Proposed Amendments to the Constitution of Missouri ing Gum Tree Under Cotton WHEN CAMELS RAN WILD IN| Bates County Teachers Meeting, Geologists Find Ancestor of Chew- Thursday, Friday and Saturday of last week Butler entertained the school teachers of Bates coun- ty who were in the city attending the regular fall teachers meeting, About 200 were here and it would WinsT CONSTITUTIONAL AMEND- re MENT. Fields. Joint and concurrent resolution xub- | - mitting to the qualified voters of the state! ‘The geology of mountain re- 4 Shiintine lactent copceruleg. pensions” to gions is generally more an i She Seserving Bitail, to master than that of plains, be- : Be it resolved by the Senate, the House of ’ ii Representatives concurring therein: cause the rocks have -been more ‘That at the general election to be held on Tveaiay following the first Monday in November, 19) the qualified voters of Missouri, for adop- tion or rejection, the following constitu- tional amendme: to-wit: ‘That section 47 of article IV of the Con- atitutlen be a ad by addin the following words: “Provided further, that nothivg in thie Constitution contained ‘shall be constrned as prohibiting the gen- eral assembly from granting, or authoriz- serving biind, as may be provided an regulated by law.” the deposits were formed. A pe- »oroken and tilted about, but the , there shall be submitted | geology of certain parts of Mis- sissippi is almost as difficult as that of a mountainous region, be- thereto | cause certain widely distributed formations bear few definite iden- tification marks, particularly re- ing the granting of, pensions to the OF mains and impressions of plants and animals that lived at the time Are You the v¢ Nard to > ambitious and wide-awake body of men and women, Bates county should be proud of its school teachers for they are second to none. They are deeply interested in their profession and are always trying to learn something that will add to their value to the the: schools of Bates county. Bs Prof. W. C. Morris, head of the physies department of the War- rensburg State Normal, delivered Are you anxious to identify yourself with one of the big- gest, livest and most profitable industries in the world? Are. you willing to work hard, providing your efforts yield a greater returri? Are you eager to establish yourself in a sound, money-making business? Are you thinking about a business that you can build up, that growing and SECOND CONST: {TIONAL AMEND- Proposed by Initiative Petition. To empower the Legislature of Missour! te create, by especial law, a State Land Bank with power to loan moncy secured by deed of trust on agricultural lands and to issue bonds, and suthorizing the appropriation of One Million Dollars ($1,- 000,000.00) out ef the State Treas f that purpone, and bonds of said bank from taxi Dy and validating any legislation heretofore enacted for such purposes, MISSOURI STATE LAND BANK AMEND- MENT TO THE CONSTITUTION, Proposed by legal voters by Initiative Petitions under the Initiative and Kefor- endum Provisions of the Constitution, eobeuariag the General Assembly to en- act a special law creating a corporation to be known as the Missouri State Land Bank, with powers to mobilize and liquidize farm guliar sandstone, which geologists have called the. Catahoula _sand- stone, has been studied with care »y G, C. Matson and-E, W. Berry, of the United States Geological Survey, Department of the Inter- ior, who have been able to identify ind follow the sandstone by means of the remains of plants. Among the plants found were pines, ferns, leaves of date palms, tropical myrtles, figs, and a tree closely related to the present-day Mexi- gan and Central American sapota, from which most of the material credits, to appropriate stute moneys as a loan tn ald thereof, and exempting from state, county and municipal taxes all of the assets of said bank, also debenture bonds issued by it, and providing for the validating of any law enacted by the Gen- eral Assembly in accordance herewith Be it enacted by the people of the Missouri that the Constitution be so amended @s te provide as follows: lion 1. The General Assembly is here- by empowered to enact a special law to create a corporation to be known as the| Missourl State Land Bank, with power-to make loans on notes secured by deed trust or mortgages upon agricultural lands, and to issue debenture bonds sane the game with all suitable and incidental 2 5 Powers. And to enact other special laws at the same session or at other sessions of for chewing gum is obtained. These fossil plants show that at the time the sandstone was formed —perhaps five million years ago— the climate of this region was tropical, and bones of camels found by other geologists and the ¢| similarity of the sand composing the sandstone to certain tropical desert ,sands have a similar im- plication. Agricultural department of the same school. of the State mothers Congress made an interesting .address on “Closer Relations Between the Parent and the School.’” Thursday night the teachers were the guests of the Peoples Bank at a Lyceum party at the opera house, where: they were en- tertained by the Harmony Glee club, the first number of the win- ter lecture course. : Friday night the Walton Trust Company, the Missouri State Bank, the Farmers Bank and the Davall-Pereival Trust Compary entertained the teachers at the basket ball-game between Butler and Rieh Hill. «Aged Man Dies in a Movers Wagon at Rich Hill. - several very fine lectures as did Prof. Harry Phillips, head of the Mrs. Finn, of Nevada, president will provide you with a real income, and that you can hand down to your son? ‘ ‘ Have you a good reputation, a business training, selling ability, acquaintances and some capital? If you can qualify, we want you. And we can submit a proposi- 5 tion that you will like. The possibilities are ‘unlimited for a live, hustling business man, - We are at the present time without representation in this locality. ‘We must have a dealer at once. The demand for Maxwell Cars is insistent and we must make arrangements to satisfy it. The Maxwell Company is one of the three largest automobile concerns in the world, The Maxwell Car is famous for its dura- bility, economy, comfort and good looks. It is without question the World’s Greatest Motor Car Value, ; If you are interested (and if you are the kind of a man we want, you will be ) write, wire or telephone at once to : Maxwell Motor Sales Corporation Touring Car the jactaral a eany, to amend and fees = ee prove the said act, or to supply ‘omissions . rors ‘or defects. therein, Hicks, Weather Seer, Dead. he General Assembly is here- rized and empowered to enact a Ws approprinting as a loan out of St. Louis, Oct. 12—The Rev. Irl the moneys of the State Tre th Pee a ie zs sum of one million dolints asa working | &» Hicks, nationally, known Thomas Meelinger, about 64 years old, died in a covered wag- on in the western limits of the city about 9 o'clock Friday night, of perionitis. The old man was 7 oe F.O. B. Detroit apital fur sald corporation. weather prophet, died tonight at a ert Sore entra —AaREMTOTy Tet “y Wells hai hereby authorized and empowered to en- his home in Wellston, a suburb of ‘act a law or laws exempting from state, vi county and municipal taxes the assets of He was sald Missouri State Tank and all de- denture bonds issu t * Seetlon 4.0 An by the ¢ ly in accordance with the pr: of Sections 1, 2-and 3 hereof shalt be deemed valld from and after the adoption hereof. THIRD CQNSTITUTIONAL AMEND- MENT, St. Louis, of pneumonia, 71 years old. Doctor Hicks ' obtained the name of the ‘‘world’s best weath- er prophet’? hy his remarkable predictions, in many of which he outguessed local weather bureaus on large storms. It was said, un- doubtedly rightfully, that no eir- cus made up a schedule without first consulting Doctor Hicks as to the ‘weather. Many times circuses i have cancelled dates and gone Seoiareeste eens Mu) sround cities where Doctor Hieks amendment to the Constitution| predicted a big storm would oe- the ‘State ut Micon the Jee] cur on the night the show was to he held. etofore enacted Proposed by Initiative Petition. Prohititing after July first, 1917, the manufacture of, the introduction Into, and the « » exchanging, bartering, sel oning of ein the wine for sacra- Q ing a penalty for the violation the: and repealing ail 1 or rejection at the regular gen: Id on the seventh day ‘ i i 1016, biting the! Doctor Hicks was born in Bris- uted ne ent ite tol, Tenn., December 18, 1844. He ma Haug in the! was ordained a minister of the | enalty or] Methodist Episcopal Church, ; al eng tarts! South, in 1871, He immediately pal Laws in conflict therewith, ras se. : is, wher Be it enacted bs the people of the State of| WAS Sent to St. Louis, where he Missouri: ape eee j had lived since. He leaves a s 5 om and after J = : f i . no intoxtenting lquor rales widow and four children, pt wine for sacramental purposes, shall nufactured in or introduced into the rl under any pretense, ‘hinges, giver, intoxicating’ liquor the State of Mupts, to introduce tee| lady living with her two daugh-|! url, intoxicating Haquor| ters, Lillie ¢ a, i ° t Wine as iforeagitivos| ters, Lillie and Lolla, in the north | ¢ Hume Woman Drowned in Well: barters, or dis; of any ‘kind to M bon convietion shall be Wednesday morning at 10 0’clock mew corehe Sith ibenejand was drowned in five feet of county jail ‘uot 1 twel ths, or by both ‘| 2 or by both such! Her daughters missed her a few | ¢ Yonstitution, and] yj »s nafter she we i ut thunietpalities there: minutes nafter she went out on]1 nillcting with the provisions of thie! the back porch.. After a search section, are hereby repealed. . ; she.was discovered in the well. Help was summoned and the body taken out quickly. The opening through which STATE OF MISSOURI, at Department of State. } } I, Cornelius Ro , Secretary of Stat . of the State of Missouri, hereby ene tinet. that the foregoing is a full, true and com- Fesotutiog of the Rote cranth aemearrent | 3, of the yeh ‘As- . q nembly cf the State of Missouri of the tee The news of her death has col posed amendment to the Constitution of}a shadow of gloom over the en- the State of Mixsouri; also, of the twa tire @ it di eciall: amendments to the Constitudton proposed ire community, and ‘is especially lon, to be subr 5; " it i the qualified voters of the State of Missousl sad when it is remembered that at the geueral election to be held on Tues-| her aged husband, James S. Har- ba the seventh day of November, 1916, a7 a ees ‘ in testimony 1 hereunto, set] Ger, Without a moment’s’ warning, a a tl Done at office te (4| dropped dead of apoplexy on the {ity of Jefferson, this Sth day of Septem-|29th day of last March.—Hume ber, A. D. 1016. « 1Beal] Telephone. > ‘ L- Boston Americans Win the SECRETARY OF STATE World’s Championship. The Boston “American league U. 8. Game Warden Jailed. base ball team won the base ball St. Louis, Oct. 21—John M.|championship of the world when Thompson, migratory-game ward-|they defeated the Brooklyn team en inspector for the federal gov-| of the National league in the fifth ernment, is under sentence of thir-]game of the series at Boston ty days inf’jail and to pay a fine|Thuraday. The total attendance of $2,000 on a charge of padding] for the five games was 163,359. an expense account. He pleaded| Total gate receipts $385,590.50. guilty in the federal district court Each player on the winning team at Cape Girardeau, Mo. will receive as his share $3,910.26, District Judge Dyer said that| whether he played in the series or the plea of Thompson’s mother] not. Members of the losing team pa ge from a penitentiary | receive $2,834.82. ° As each of these sentence. ' players draw down from $2,000 to 5 $6,000 per year in addition to this Your Wife Can Use It. sum they ought to be able to en- 3 dure the h. ¢.1. t others who generously eontribut- ed, and turned it over to the fam- ily for their needs, Sam Jamison purchased a cloak for the woman and clothing for the child who is only about 2 1-2 years old.—Rich Hill Review. tober grand jury of Macon coun- Mrs. Margaret Harger, an aged] ty is making a Ity of a] part of Hume, fell into the cistern | torious sold liquor openly to boys, was fhan six months not| water. caught on 21 indictments and giv- Years in the county said he understood: the practice fense, give him a stay to get out she fell was about 12x18 inches. | of the county and dismiss as to the others. Water Getting Low at the Water has so reduced the supply of water in the Miami river, where the city gets its water, that last week it was thought best to stop street sprinkling in order to save as much as possible. water famine and if a rain does not come soon the condition will he serious. perintendent Fisher put a force of men to work digging ditches to the water: holes in the river above the pumping station. sumers are urged to be as econom- ical with the water as possible. home east of this city Tuesday, October 10. : in Audrain county, where in 1875 she was united in} “Why don’t your hens marriage with John T. Turpin.|eggs are high? They do not They moved to this county last|the chemical ingredients that January, since which ‘time they gratees and s " have been living on a farm east of : i accompanied Dy a son with a wife and little child, and investigation proved a sad case of destitution. The story as related to Mayor Williamson and the city physigian was to the effect that they came here from Joplin and had been traveling for the old man’s health, and had started to Kansas City where they hoped to place the old man in a hospital. When given medical attention it was found HOW TO PRUNE SHADE TREES The Proper Method of Cutting. Back Soft Maples in Order they had no money but the city to bic ape __ and phyiscian furnished it. a Bret Saturday morning Mayor Wil- Ops: liamson collected”a neat sum of ‘ "A very timely circular is now money from business men and available upon application to the| Missouri College of Agriculture, | Columbia, Missouri. This circular, No. 81, is entitled Pruning Shade Trees. Briefly, the circular states that | to properly care for and preserve the beauty and symmetry of our ornamental shade trees it is nec- essary to understand what species may be ‘‘topped’’, and the method by which this should be accomplished. The most beneficial Mr. and Mrs. Hard on Bootleggers. Macon, Mo. Oct. 14.—The Oc- ; inf cleanup on the! trees are those which are pre- rootleggers infesting the mining] pyed in their natural form. To ramps and small towns. One no- s additional encourage strength and quantity of foliage, one must study the natural external struc- ttire of such specimens, and then apply the proper methods of pruning to obtain natural growth. Two distinct type-structures oc- curring in-tree growth are—-dis- cussed with illustration, showing the undesirability of ‘‘cutting- back,” or as it is more commonly | | called, “‘‘topping,” of the Ameri- can elm and similar trees, and of the proper way in which to ‘‘head up’’ the soft maple. As the fall and winter seasons 4are particularly suitable times in which to conduct this work, the circular is one that may well be in the hands of those who are in- terested in preservation of lawn and street shade trees—H. F. Major, Missouri Agricultural Ex- periment Station. : Barn and Silo Near Hume De- troyed by Fire. Fire at 5 o’clock Monday morn- ing destroyed a large barn and contents and a silo on the farm of Mrs. Ella M. Davis one mile west of Hume, this county, causing a} loss of about $2,000. The origin of |} the fire is unknown. When the} fire was: discovered it was raging in the hay loft, and the structure was quickly burtied, tlie silo, also, being consumed by the flames.—| Rich Hill Review. Green Feed in Winter. dealer in contraband, ‘Pegleg’’ Baxter, a negro, who on the limit—a $1,000 fine on each ndictment—and a sentenee of 21 astonished, Pegleg was He Life was ex-| would be to fine him for one of- Works Station. The long continued dry weather It looks as hough Butler is facing a genuine Friday morning Su- The con- Mrs. John Turpin. Mrs. John T. Turpin died at her Miss Winnie Mundey was born this state, One Chassis Why do you put up with such a nuisance? You don’t have to if you furnish your house with a Hot Blast You build only one fire each winter. It is never out from fall till spring. You get up and dress in rooms warmed with fuel put in the night before. ‘Thisis not possible with other stoves. Burns anything—soft coal, hard coal or wood, Come in and see this great fire keeper and fuel saver. “Cole’s Hot Blast makes your coal pile last.” * Gench Bros. Hardware, Stoves, Implements, Furniture BUTLER, MO. We extend tothe TEACHERS AND PUPILS of our schools a most cordial invitation to make good use of the many accommodations of this bank.