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_____posed_of lodges from Butler, | ¢ ROYAL NEIGHBORS “CONVENTION Eleventh District Convention of The Order Held in This City Friday. The Eleventh of the Royal } Missouri District ‘ighbors, com- Hume, Foster, Nevada, Amster- dam, Elkhart, Prairie City, Burdette, Adrian and Rich Hill, held their annual convention in this city last Friday. : Supreme Manager Anna“. Sheppard, of Chillicothe,. was present and held a school of in- struction. The Hume lodge de- gree staff exemplified the initia- tory degree on five candidates. About 100 visitors were present and a very interesting and_in- ‘structive meeting was held. The local lodge served a big supper for the visitors who were loud in their praises of the hospitality of the Butler ladies. The following officers for the ensuing year were elected: Mrs. L. Palmer, of Adrian, president; Mrs. Carl Stonebraker, Rich Hill, vice president; Mrs, Kate Biggs, Hume, secretary and- treasurer. The convention will be held at Hume next year. Barb Wire Cuts and Wounds Are troublesome to cure. Get a bottle of Farris’ Healing Remedy —costs 50e—make it at . home. Heals rapidly. A sore never mat- ters where this remedy is used. ‘We sell it on the money back plan. C. C. Rhodes Pharmacy, The Troops on the Border. “Charges that the troops on the Mexican border are mistreat- ed or starved are groundless.’’ Thus emphatically stated Cap- tain W. A. Rosenfield of Rock Island, Illitiois, now at home on a at Aged Farmer Badly Injured. WHY IT SUCCEEDS L. R. Nichols, # pioneer citizen Because Its For One Thing Only, of East Boone township, had a]’ very exciting and disastrous ex- and av a Appre- : perience Tuesday which resulted in a broken leg. Mr. Nichols rode _ Nothing can be good for every- a horse to the pasture to drive a thing. Hello! Central! Please give me Joe Coop. It’s300n 33. Hello! That you John? Yes, this has sure been a real thirty-day furlough from the camp | bull to the house. The bull be-} Doing one thing well brings sville, Texas. eame angry and lunged _at_ the | snecess and I have been scouring ~ Captain Rosenfield is one of the Illinois, but does not stand for the Republican ‘‘dope’’ about the Na- tional Guard. He continued his statement as follows: ‘There is nothing to the charges that the troops have been mis- treated or starved. ‘They receive regular army rations—nothing more, They should have expected nothing more. But there. were kicks and plenty of them. “Protests came from the sol- diers who in their lives back home were used to anything. They are the fellows who kicked. The soldiers who were accustomed to the better mode of living regis- tered no protests with the rations before them. They accepted the food, knowing army life does not provide the best of everything. They were satisfied.”’ Green Feed in Winter. Why don’t your hens lay when the chemical ingredients that the season. B. A. Thomas’ Poultry Remedy supplies these very in- gredients only in a more concen- trated form. We sell it and guar- antee you to get eggs. C. C. Rhodes Pharmacy, 58-1m O. K. M. Butler, Mo. 58-1m 0. K, M. Butler, Mo. WHY D Do you know that you may have - Astigmatism, Presyopia, Hypermetropia or Myopia ‘Better let me examine your eyes and fit you with glasses EYES EXAMINED FREE, before it is too late. Beach’s Jewelry Store Jeweler and Optometrist South Side Square O YOU leading Republican chieftains of | horse knocking it (the horse) down and Mr. Nichols’ right leg was caught under the animal as it fell and the bones of the ‘ankle were mashed into pieces. This happened about 2 o'clock in the afternoon and Mr. Nichols laid in the pasture until nearly 6 o’clock when relief came. He screamed loudly but was not heard by any- one until late in the evening when Mr. Stone, a neighbor, heard his call for help and went to his re- Doan’s Kidney Pills are for one thing only. For weak or neys. - Here is Butler prove their worth, J. K, Hulse, West Ave. & Ohio St. Butler, says: ‘I had a steady ache in my back and lame- ness which made any lifting al- most impossible. Every time I bent over, sharp twinges caught me and my kidneys acted irreg- disordered kid- evidence to low shears all day. It always takes us about three days to get the rust scoured. off the shears and then after the plows have stood out in the field all win- ter there is always some bolts to put in, and this year we hadito put a new tongue in the Sulkey plow and the handles in the walking plows have weath- er cracked so bad this last winter that I guess I will have to buy a new pair for Tom’s plow. Hello! Hello! That you John? Yes these women just commenced talking after supper. I don’t see why they can’t use the phone during the day and let a fellow have a chance to talk after sup- eggs are high? They do not get! grasses and green feed supply in! lief. Dr. Robinson, accompanied by Dr.-Huffman, drove out and gave the necessary surgical treat- ment. Mr. Nichols is over 75 years old and some months ago was kicked by a mule and seriously injured. His age and this injury following so closely the other one, causes his many friends much concern about his condition.—Adrian Journal. ularly at times. Doan’s Kidney Pits gave me complete relief from these symptoms.”’ Price 50c, at all dealers. Don’t simply ask for a kidney remedy— get Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same that Mr. Hulse had. Foster- Milburn Co., Props., Buffalo, N. Y. i 2-2t High School Notes. C. C. McGennes an Active Democrat. School Carnival is progressing nicely. Each one knows just what he is to do and is working willingly. The Carnival is to be In speaking of polities the oth- er day, Mr. C. C. MeGennis told us that this was the stat oe given Saturday night, Oct. 28. secutive campaign that he had}... your pennies and come to taken part in. We feel that this is quite a record as anyone who knows Mr. McGennis knows that when he’ says ‘‘active’’ it means that he is out. on the firing line doing work for the. party. All these years he has been in the Democratic fold and this year he thinks it looks as favorable or even more so for a sweeping Democratie victory than it has ever been. .The speeches he has see the biggest monkey show, best motion pictures and funniest play ever given in Butler. These | are only a few of the numerous startling attractions of the even- ing so do not fail to attend. 1 Mr. Gorrell, our principal, was called to Mullinville, Kansas, last week on account of his sister’s death, Mv. Henderson addressed the " « BUTLER, MO. APPLES Car load of Good Apples for Sale by th On Missouri Pacific Track at Butler depot Friday, Saturday and Mon- day, Oct. 27, @ ' Several thousand acres @iake offer for it. Come an MONTANA LAND fa ‘in exchange for land and property here. _ ‘The owner of the Montana @ext week to pass on property submitted and to JAMES HARRISON _ e Bushel Jas. A. DeArmond, of Butler and | roads. json Highway between Rich Hill reached this part of the country last Thursday temperature dropped to about 2! above zero and a light snow fell. formed. There was some but not enough to make any stock water in the streams, moisture will be of immense help to wheat growers. was general in the states between the Rocky mountanis and Mississippi river. one of your horses takes the colic your wife can treat him if she has school Thursday mornin on heard would make a set of books| oop sg a ae ue eA iS ‘ as large as a lawyer's library if] of thought that niost of us hard- compiled and the trips he has tak- ly ever think about. If we en attending meetings of differ- ent kinds would make a very agreeable honeymoon for any bride. It is these old wheel horses of the Democratic party that make it one that it is good for a young fellow to tie up with. —Rich Hill Enterprise. Good Road Meeting at Cornland. That the good road spirit has taken a strong hold on the peo- ple of Bates county was shown at the Good Roads Meeting held at Cornland last Friday night. The meeting was well attended would only practice more what Mr. Henderson said, this would be a better country. Butler won the boys game with Amoret Friday night. Our girls were not so successful as the boys. Senior Notes, The class of ’17 will soon be sporting class pins and rings, as the order was sent in last week. Junior Notes. A few days ago the Juniors enjoyed very much a letter writ- ten to us by Mrs. Hill, our: for- mer section room teacher who is teaching this year at Columbia, and everybody was — enthusiastic Missouri. - ; eS about good roads. C, A. Allen We elected Norma Keirsey — to A. H. Culver, Miles 8. Horn and|"epresent our class in the Queen of the Carnival. Mayor Williamson and H. P. — Robinson of Rich Mill made ad- Traveling Man Held Up. dresses calling attention to the ‘ p benefits to be derived from good|. Monday night as C; F, Howell, ; a traveling cigar salesman, who lives at Nevada, was walking up town from the 10:25 train he took the short cut through the grounds of the West school and as he was passing some trees two negroes stepped out of the shad- ows and stuck a revolver in his face and ordered him to hold up his hands. He promptly complied and while one of the negroes held the gun the other searched him and took what money he had, about six or seven dollars. They then told him to ‘‘beat it’’. He came up town and notified Mar- shal Bullock, but so far no trace of the hold ups have been found. It was decided that the Jeffer- and Butler be placed in good con- dition as soon as possible. The road is to be dragged, the cor- ners to be rounded, the weeds and grass along the roadside to be re- moved and the road to be put in good shape generally. The First Snow of the Season. - The first of touch winter night when the Ice one-eighth of an inch was rain, Sheriff's Sale in Partition. John Nightwine, Albinus Night- wine, W. A. Nightwine, Oliver Nightwine, Seth Nightwine, Frank M. Gardner, Allie Tullis, Roberta Shelton, and Jennie Kalkofen, Plaintiffs. vs. Welden D. Yates, Administrator of the Estate of James Cough- lin, deceased, Defendants. In the Circuit Court of Bates but the The storm the Your Wife Can Use It. ‘If you are away from home and 28 and 30 of Montana:land will be land will be at my office id see me immediately. Farris’ Colic Remedy in the house. It is easy to use. Just drop it on the horse’s tongue and in thirty minutes he is relieved. Get it to- day. You may need it tomorrow. 58-1m 0. K. M. day night between the Butler High school teams and the teams from Amoret resulted in an even break. winning their game by a score of County, Missouri. By virtue and authority of a decree and order of sale made by the said Court, in the above en- titled cause, and of a certified copy thereof, datéd October 19th, 1916, I will on Monday, the 20th day of November, 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 Court House, in| the City of Butler in Bates Coun- ty, Missouri, sell at public vendue to the highest bidder, the follow- ing described real estate, viz: The north east quarter of the south east quarter of sec- 13, To’ -83'in Bates C. C. Rhodes Pharmacy, Butler, Mo. Basket Ball. The basket ball games Fri- The Butler boys The preparation for the High per. bout three days to get those plows ready. tt . We could have built a good Im- that’s the truth. Yes, as I was saying, it takes me and the boys Yes, plement Shed last fall and it would not have taken much more time than it takes us in the spring when Work is crowding, to get the plows scoured. Why sure, the expenses we pay out for repairs would soon pay for the shed and besides when the first day that would lo for plowing we could go right at it, we would not have to waste two or three good days getting ready, and then after we start something that is about rusted or rotted into most always breaks and we have to go to town for re- pairs and most always they have to send for them and that puts one plow out of business for two or three days more. Yes, next fall we are sure going to build an Implement Shed on this farm; we can build one for $25.00 or $30 and it will last for years. A customer of | Logan-Moore Lbr. | Co. BUTLER, MO. Postmaster — Williams Presents Lodge With Picture. At the regular meeting of But- ler Camp No. 2458 Modern Wood- men of America Postmaster J. E. Williams presented the camp with an excellent framed picture of the late head clerk, Charles W. Hawes, who died last August. Mr. Williams is one of the most enthusiastic Woodmen in the lo- cal lodge. “Another Campaign Iitusion Busted. General Pershing professes to have found no evidences to indi- cate that Villa and his band are anywhere near the American bor- der, thus destroying another cam- paign illusion. Doubtless it would delight the ~ Republican campaigners some if Villa would somehow get where he could kill a few Americans—St. Louis Times. We Think we Will Purchase a Flying Machine to Keep Above the Prices Everything is soaring But we will not need the her and higher every day. hine long for as it happened we have bought several grocery stocks, before the advance. Something like 3 Car Loads of Can Goods If it were possible to load and ship it in car lots. As soon as our futures arrive we will make prices and if you will watch the market and our adds you can save money. This is no idle talk. If all the people had taken our ad- vice two weeks ago and bought they would have saved thou- we always do. g 2% segs HL | 8s iH Ha i Restasusees i iii i F i i sands of dollars, and still prices of today will look cheaper a little later on. If you wish to give us your order now we will make prices and deliver goods on arrival. That is the way We buy our goods in the spring for fall de- livery. A partial list of our purchases: E f i of Fancy Can Goods. F SS E’ord Automobile As you like it we will deliver one this fall or take your or- der and it next spring. Den’'t wait until just ready to run it out but buy it now Sa we will have kt mene for you