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SHORT STORIES lof bees mistook his house for a | hive and made their home between {the weatherboarding and ceiling. Of Local Interest—Clipped From | John went after them a few days Our Exchanges. ago and got a tub full of honey. His home is located threé-fourths They are still playing: baseball) of a mile from timber, but last over in Henry county. Deepwater and Montrose played the final game of the season Sunday. Leonard Hegnauer, a prominent citizen of Appleton City, died in that city Tuesday of last week as a result of a stroke of paralysis. THe nine-year-old son of W. E. Heyle, banker of Rockville, died | Thursday, Noy. 2, 1916, from an attack of quinzy. The funeral ser- vices were held at Rockville Fri- day.—Rockville Booster, O. L. Wright of Pattonsburg, was in Appleton City last week looking over the city with a view! to putting in an ice plant, says the Journal. Appleton City has need- ed an ive plant for a long time. William A. Vest home of his son, J.P. Vest, in Shawnee township at 2 o'clock this morning. Funeral — services will be heki from the Mt. Olivet} church Friday morning at 1 o’elock, conducted by Rev. J. T. Cowan. of Warrensburg.—Adrian Journal, Grandma Morrison started — to} : climb through the wire fence be-| period § tween her home and the Col. Hil- ton home Monday, forenoon, as died at the: | week three fat squirrels wan- | dered into his yard and climbed a peach tree. John got. his rifle ‘and killed the whole flock. Now the is looking for it to rain pan- | Cakes, - The High Price of Leather. When you purchased your last | pair of shoes or that new harness, you doubtless wondered what caused the prices to be so much higher than you had been in .the habit of paying. There are sever- al reasons but the principal one is the increased exports of leather. The exports of leather of all kinds’ from the United States dur- ing seven months ending July, | 1916, were valued at $80,073,887, against for the same period in 1915 $65,229,116, and against the ‘same period in 1914, $38,668,869. An increase compared with same period in 1914, $36,668,869. The exports of boots and shoes |during the seven months ending | July, 1916, were 20,358,472 pairs {valued at $47,134,810; for the 1915 peried 12,402,727 pairs val- lued at $24,696,795; for the 1914 4 pairs valued at #17, 867,254. The total exports of leather was her usual habit, and tripped | boots and shoes and other leather on a wire falling on her left arm! manufactures during seven and breaking it just above the months ending July, 1916, totaled $795 Model! 85-4 f. 0. b. Toledo about it. for tremendc The wheelbase Luxurious A big roomy car is luxurious—no two ways But extra inches in an automobile cost hun- dreds of dollars—as a rule. It took an investment of millions'in facilities usly increased production— To effect the economies necessary to produce luxurious size at this price. is 112 inches— , Model 85-4 f. 0. b. Toledo Bigness! The seats are comfortable and roomy and there’s plenty of leg room front and back. And your further luxurious comfort is assured by cantilever springs, big four-inch tires and balanced weight—the gasoline tank is at the rear. : Beautifully finished! —every convenience!! Price $795!!! Model 85-6, six cylinder, 35-40 horsepowor, 116-inch wheelbase— $925. CLINKENBEARD & ISLEY BUTLER, MO., Phones 229, 516 RICH HILL, MO., Phone 157 The Willys-Overland Company, Toledo, Ohio Merwin Sun, 1$146,613,815 against for the same period in 1915 $120,727,156 and against the same period in 1914 66,261, The cnormous increase for sev- cn months compared with 2 years wrist. A Ford car is a handy appara-! tus to have about the farm. day two cattle on the John Coon farm in the Underwood neighbor- Sun-/ y. around the animals and tritehed to the Ford, © Throwin’ ‘er in low they were yanked out without a seratch, Hume Telephone. The annual banquet for former Ohioans and near relatives, now living in the Appleton City neigh- borhoads will be held at the Dur- ley Hotel, Friday, November 10th, according to the Appleton City Journal. A most cordial invita- tion is extended to every native Ohioan and near relative to at- tend and participatein the event. met tart percent: Notice. We, the undersigned members of Plainview Lodge No, 80 CP. A., hereby forbid under penalty of prosecution any trespassing on our premises or farms by hunting or other unlawful trespassing. In addition: Plainview Lodge No. 8O will pay $50.00 for arrest and conviction of any person or per- sons stealing or committing other unlawfal acts against the mem- The German submarine U-53, | which ravaged shipping off the} os American coast after paying a| Obligations of foreign govern- visit to Newport, has returned to | ments, bankers and merchants 9 German port, according to Ber-| now held in the United States jin dispatches, There had been | were estimated by the federal re- various rumors that the U-53 had| serve board at — $1,931,000,000. | }eon captured or sunk by British | They are distributed in geograph- \arships. The U-53 appeared at | ical groups. Newport, Oct. 7 and the day fol- | as lowing sank five merchantmen off | | GENERAL NOTES. Ford, Detroit automobile manu-! Edsel Ford, only son of Henry | Nantucket. \ “Made in U.S. A."" Lunch served by ladies of Mt. Carmel Chureh, ED CORLETT. Col. C. E. Robbins, Auctioneer. Public Sale. Having decided to dispose. of my live stock, I will sell at public auction at my farm 6 1-2 miles west of Butler, 3 miles east and 1 mile south of Virginia, or 3 miles north of. Nyhart on THURSDAY, NOV. 16th, 1916, Eggs are not bankable but the At 10 o’clock a. m., the following| money from their sale is. This described property : money is yours for the effort. 60 Head of Live Stock : |How do you treat the hen that Horses and Mules:—1 marejlays the Golden Eggs? 3B. A. mule 7 years old; 1 pair mules}Thomas’ Poultry Remedy wilk Money in Eggs. 8. G. Adams, Clerk. ° a . jbers of the Lodge, their families CG. Freeze, who lives on the) > property. MeGennis ranch east of the yp oRo Banm, Il. Johnson, ~ pounds of old paper to Kansas tity, was here Tuesday with 2500 7 9) Brown, pounds of pecans gathered on this ranch for shipment to the Kansas City market. While here he re- ceived a telegram to the effect that pecans had advanced in price from 8 to d4 eents per pound, Rich Hill Review, Unele Ed Taylor, the liveryman ef this city, was found in a sémi- conscious condition in’ his’ barn here late Wednesday evening with his face and head bruised consid- erably. He is also suffering with one arm, Whether he was kicked by a horse, fell from the barn loft or just how the accident occurred is not knownt--Montrose Record-' Gr, Joe Duvall was caught under a hig roek that fell from the roof in the lead in which he was work- | ing at the Good Brothers’ mine Tuesday afternoon, In. trying-to| get away from the rock as it came | down, he fell in a low place in| the floor and it was to this that he owes his life, for though the rock fell squarely on him this hole | in the floor kept a part of the! weight off of him.—Amsterdam | Enterprise. | Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Reeder, of | Mound township, entertained all of their children and grandehil-! dren at their home last Friday} night. It was the first time they had ever enjoyed this privilege! and the parents were glad of the opportunity of being with their loved ones, Those present were: Ivan Reeder, of Oklahoma — Cit Jos. Reeder and children, of Cas- | per, .\Vyoming; Mrs. Howard | Smith and children and = Carl) Reeder, of Adrian.—Adrian Jour- ; nal. The Ladies Aid Society of the M. E. Church shipped 18,690 City last week for which they, re- | ceived $116.41. They sold to the Kansas City Waste Paper Com- pany, which is a reliable firm to deal with. The only regret ex- pressed by the ladies was that they didn’t have more to sell. The prices paid was 45 cents per 100 pounds for mixed waste pa- per; 50 cents for old newspapers, and $1.15 for magazine book pa- per stock.—Hume Telephone. “Palking about good luck, why, John: Hedden, north of Mets, is it on every side says the \cliff, Raymond, W. Riter, J. W. J. EF. Knight, J. Lawson, W. W. Lollar, D. McDaniel, JF. MeKee, W.C. Powell, roll, BP. Powell, M.A. Carroll, PLR. Powell, CoA, Colson, =, We Stith, M.M. Carroll, TLR. Seelinger, H. Donovan, WW. M. Stetfin, WG. Dillon, B. Smithson, Arthur Duvall, . Roy Stokes, Wesley Denton, (. 2B. Turpin, RL R. Earsom, J. E. Thompson, G Gilbert. W. E. Vansant, J.B. Garrett, Paul Walton, F. Holland, Boyd Williams, Fred Hardin, J.C. Williams, W.G, Harper. A. G, Williams, G. EK, Hertz, W. KE. Welton. 3-4t J. A. Be J. 1 di List of Letters Remaining anealled for in the post office at Butler, Mo., for the week ending Nov. 7, 1916: Dave Atchison, Win. Atchison, Ed Bolinger, A. Brixner, J. M. Booker, Mr. Calvert, Roy Cham- bers, W. M. Demoss, '’. W. Denny, Mr. Deaver, Jef Dunsworth, T. B. Eager, F. B. Grow, Grant Gil- more, A. P. Geneva, W. H> Hamp- ton, W. Hackney, Athol Herrell, E. Hoots, W. E. Hoots, G. G. Hedges, J. N. Kline, A. E. Lyle, J.D. Morris, Chas. Mains, C. Rad- chant, were married at Detroit Thursday night. Prince Mircea of Roumania, who has been suffering from ty phoid fever, dieg Thursday cording to Reuter’s Buehe correspondent, — Prince was the voungest son of King Ferdinand, He was born Dee, 21, LH, Although the Indian birth rate is increasing and the Indian death rate is decreasing in this country, the Indian will be extinet through intermarriage with whites, Dr. L. C. Hall, for 40 years a missionary at Fort Berthold Indian Reserva- tion, in North Dakota, told the American Missionary Association at Minneapolis. A telegraph message said to be to be the longest. telegram ever handled by a telegraph company was sent from Llano Tc where Minnesota guardsmen are encamped, to St. Paul, Minn., last week. The.-message was in regard to the voting of the Ne- braska troops on the border. Dry. Fisher, an American physi- cian of Santa Rosalia, was killed by Villa bandits under Gen, Bau- dellio Uribe, according to a state- ment of Mexican refugee who ar- rived in Chihuahua from = Santa Rosalia. Dr. Fisher.was one of. Riley, Mr. Shealey, J. W. Smith, Z. T. Smith, B. Stamen, John Shu- ey, LL. E. Sackett, R. L. Seamons, Ruchard Yancy, H. Willar, Mr. W. J. West, Mrs. Jay Reed. ‘These letters will be sent to the dead lettér office November 21, 1916, if not delivered before. In calling for the above, please say “Advertised,’’ giving date of list. J. E. Williams, Postmaster. District Pythian Convention. The tenth semi-annual conven- tion of the Eleventh Missouri dis- trict Pythian association which will be held in this city, Thursday November 9, promises to be one of the largest gathering of represen- tative men that has been held in this city for a long time. Some of the most prominent officers of the order will be present and address the convention. The team of the Rich Hill lodge will confer the rank of Page on a class of candi-' the few Americans known to have been in Santa Rosalia at the time the Villa bandits captured the town, Col. Rosario Garcia, Villista leader, and two of his followers were shot at daybreak at Jaurez Saturday. Before facing the fir- ing squad, Garcia made a_ long speech, declaring he was not a Villista but a ‘constitutionalist, and asked whatever government survived to care for his family. One of the bandits was a boy only 17 years old. The completion of negotiations with the Russian government for a 50 million dollar 5-year 5 1-2 per cent loan by a banking syndi- cate headed by the National City Company, which is controlled by the National City Bank, brings the total borrowings here of for- ¥ * = son, millionaire dry goods’ mét- aj Gen, Cadorna’s about 50,000 words long, claimed Grande, | be m ooamtries, with hig exception | worms, America, to more than facturer, and Miss Eleanore Clay,| Additional heights were a niece of the late Joseph L. Hud- stormed by Italian Inounced Saturday. ‘nold an isolated position was car-|mule colts, 3 mares and 3 horse (ried by assault and a battery of | four-inch guns captured. Twen- ty-five thousand Austrian — sol- diers were killed, wounded or captured in the first four days of new sweep on! Trieste. | While city folks shivered and donned their overcoats Friday Mrs. E. M. Dickinson of Brewster, | iNew York, and other residents of | } Putnam county, announced ‘flow- | Jers were blooming outdoors there, Mrs. Dickinson produced straw- | | berries and says she picked them | from her dooryard. James Staf-} troops on|¢coming 5 years old, well broke; 4 [Carso front, it was officially an-|¢oming 4-year-old mules; 4 com- Near Trang-!ing 2-year-old mules; 6 weanling \keep the poultry in good condi- ‘tion and inerease the yield in eggs. We guarantee this and re- ‘fund yocr money if not satisfied. , from 150 to 200 Ibs. smooth C..C. Rhoades Pharmacy, | 3-Im O, K. M. Butler, Mo. mules; 1 horse -eolt; 2 mouth mares bred to jack. ~ Cattle :—1 milch cow, -calf by me side two months old; 12 yearling! p; : a steers; 9 yearling heifers; 4 steer} Big Money in Milk and Butter. calve | Green County, Wisconsin, is 24 Hogs :—8 head of hogs weight, miles square, has 23,000 people, 160 cheese factories, 3 creameries, TERMS :—All sums of $10 and) and 3 condenseries. Last year under cash, over that amount a/the dairy farmers of that county eredit of ten months, will be giv-|--and they are all dairy farmers en, purchaser giving bankable!—sold almost $4,000,000 worth of uote drawing 6 per cent from) their products to the above named date, 2 per cent off for cash on! concerns. Here is a concentration sums over $10. No property re-| of the milk industry in all its moved until terms of sale are com-| phases that can’t be beat any- plied with. where in the United States. ‘ford, of Kent,, asserted he garn-!| ‘ered dandelion blossoms, while | i violets were picked in the yard of | 1B. Kleechammer in Oreton, Ber- | | ries were reported in Dykeman’s. | eres | | \ F.C. Felts to Flora Preston 242 77-190 acres sections 1 and 6 iSpruce and Shawnee $1.00. | | P. 1. Deweese to C. H. Bothwell! ‘lots 5, 6, 7, and 8 block -134 Rich ) Hill $1.00. C. J. Longacre to W.°E. Clark ; \lots + and 5 block 9 South Drexel | | $950400. | J.T. Warren to Louis Phillips} j lots 7 and 8 block 6 South Drex-! el $450.00. | | R. 1 Bailey to C. I. Moore 2} lacres section 8 Osage $1.00. ' CC. W. Wolfe to P. A. Orear tract | section 23 Mt. Pleasant $250.00. | R. L. Scifers to W. Winston 160} acres section 15 Pleasant Gap | $7,000.00. | W. D. Winston to Mary I, Seif- res 160- acres section 15. Pleasant ; Gap $8,000.00. - _J. A. Pettit to Con Workman 80 acres section 11 Elkhart $2,800.00. Abigal Thornbrugh to Andrew ‘Boehn 49 acres section 25° West Boone $2,000.00. : M. F. Journey to W. L. Shelton lots 13, 14 and 15 block 14 Fos- ter $20.00. 5 “Doing the Work. W. T. Nanney, Noel, Mo. writes, ‘‘Your B. A. Thomas’ Hog Powder is doing the work down in this part of the world. It proved to be what we needed to prevent. and eure hog cholera and expel | REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS - __ €..C. Rhoades Butler, Mo. «. } Theyre All you =EverHopedfor in rubber boots. One pair of either the ‘‘Century’’ or the ‘‘Kolrib’’ Beacon Falls Rubber Boots will convince you that you’ve discovered the ideal boot for wet, snowy weather, They are made of choice selected rubber that cannot crack or split out. Reinforced at the critical points where stress and strain attack them, they stand up and wear sur- prisingly long. At hecl, at toe, at ankle, at sides; inside, outside, right side, wrong side you'll finc honest worth worked into the very rubber and linings, Century and Kolrib Rubber Boots have no competitors in quality. Thousands of farmers every- where are activechampions of these two, a elas The eee of these boots is so tough that "s puncture proof. Kather than cture, chi: crac! - Off it rebvunds when it strikes a sharp obstruction, = . be: UPPER or VAMP Hot rubber under powerful p ft is forced into strong duck cloth. From this the vamp fs made. | It's tough. yet conforms to the shape of foot—com’ortable, | sal sae 7. Areas og ae Tae ot ea above Kolrib sole | an ve ical si pure gum boot | which make it “stand up”. por: a! | ANKLE Reinforced at this wenk wit ‘pure gum Strip the ankle doesn't’ break down or crak oo yon veuetoadl in uther makes, It is a pleasure toown a “Century” ora‘*Kolrib”, Your feet get a warm, snug welcome as they slip in. You have Call in when down town and I point outon the actual boot the points that interest you. =s : | $3.00, $3.50, $4.50 HH Watker-McKibben'’s