The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, December 7, 1916, Page 2

SHORT STORIES Of Local Interest—Clipped From Our Exchanges. Amoret has a jeweler with the! appropriate name of Gold. Fire of unknown origin caused | $30,000 damage to four buildings on the town square at Neosho Sat- wee morning. _ J, Ridgeway, a prominent cit- | + izen of the Appleton City neigh- horhood died at his home nears that city Saturday of last week. A Urich man took a week to decide whether to buy a Thanks- wiving turkey or to buy a Ford. We finally decided that he could afford neither, : Dairy cattle are in’ great de- mand along the border, Nine vat- tle sold at FOB. Poote’s sale, Mon- day. brought an average of over $75 per head. One.cow was bid inat $3. — Thime Telephone. The Amsterdam Produce C6, of Amsterdam shipped out, 4,72) pounds of dressed turkeys one day last week. There were 428 says the head in the shipment Several | Amsterdam Enterpri : turkey dinners in that shipment. The Whinery Millinery Co..-of Amoret, wil) open their doors for | pusiness Saturday, Dee, 9. They are now unpacking and arrang- ing their goods on their shelves as fast as they arrive, says the Am- oret Leader. | Miss Faye Miller, who a few weeks ago went to New Orleans'! to attend the musical department of -Tonlane returned | home last Thursday, being unable Raneleg and in that way jerked |his hahd into the machine, but that is the theory. His hand was ‘torn off at the wrist and’the arm ‘hones so badly cut that amputa- tion had_to be made a couple of ‘inches above the wrist.—Amster- ‘dam Enterprise. Death of Wm. ‘Sutherland. Wm. Sutherland was born Dec. 1829, in Shropshire, Scotland, here he grew to manhood and where in 1856 he was married to Miss Ann Sutherland. To this union were born seven children, three of whom died in infaney. in November, 1874, the family came to this country and settled on a farm in Bates County, Mo. As the years passed by the chil-| dren w up and married and a how s ago Mr. and Mrs, Suth- fand sold their farm and a cozy ittle home wae built for them on the- farm of their son, ere they prepared to spend the evening of life in comfort, but ere ong their hépes were shattered, their plans broken, Death came and called the wife and mother, and since then deceased has made vis home with his son, Robert Sutherland and family. The last four years of his-life were spent! in the home of these devoted ehil- jdren and grandchildren where he | is tenderly eared for, Day by day he grew weaker and for the past se ral months had been fail- ‘ng rapidly. About four weeks :go he fell and dislocated his hip ine since that time his suffering ‘had been intense, yet he bore it patiently and on November 29th he passed away to be with the companion whose loss he had nev- er ceased to mourn, Robert, and | |. DISASTROUS FIRE AT ADRIAN | Millers Shoe Store and the J. J. Brown Restaurant De. stroyed by Fire Fri- day Morning. Loss about $9,000. morning about 12:30 Friday ‘| o’elock fire was discovered in the rear of the Miller store, on the south side of Main street in Adrian, ~The alarm was given and the citizens had a hard time to-keep the fire from burning the entire block. The fire totally de- stroyed the shoe store and the J. J. Brown restaurant and did about $400 damage to the Sani | Wa Is drug store, whieh adjoins iit on the west. The Miller stock was - insured 62,000, and the loss will be restaurant which will | for # jabout. $2,600, The was insured for $750, not cover the loss. | The buildings, which are a to tal loss, were insured for $2,200, which will not cover the loss, as there is nothing left standing ex- cept a-portion of the briek walls. | Saturday night a barn in. the southeast part of the city was dis- covered to be on fire, but the fire was extinguished before much ‘damage had been done. Lift Ban on Cattle. Kansas City, Dee, 2.—With the receipt today from Washington of shipments on live stock from the Kansas City stock yards, local shipping conditions have begun to reassume their normal aspect. after a cessation of the last ten days, due to an infection believed fora time to be the foot and mouth disease, With its diagno- | isis as stomatitis, a comparatively wild malady, cattle now are being an order lifting. the embargo on! Some Tomatoes. Eleven fully matured tomatoes and as many potatoes growing on u single plant in the vegetable gardens of the ” Pennsylvania State college, marks the advent of the newest freak plants in the vegetable world. . The experi- ment was conceived and carried to completion by C. E. Myers, pro- fessor of experimental vegetable growing at the college. <A potato was planted and on the stalk pro- duced there was grafted a young tomato shoot.. Tomato blossoms appeared and these developed in- to normal tomatoes. Underground at the same time, the potatoes | erew and throve. Unless someone can disprove it Wooster, Ohio, ean claim the larg- cst tomatoes grown this year. A few days ago Frank Shafer of ‘ that town brought to a gro- some produce, among which were five tomatoes, the total) weight heing 12 pounds, or an average of two pounds and six ounces each, One of the tomatoes alone weighed three pounds and one ounce. The two largest of the tomatoes measured 16 inches in circumference the longest way round, The variety is a smooth, red tomato. This is the second year Mr. Shafer claims the larg- est tomato. All Democrats. ‘Crandma’” Marseilles, who lives at Hannibal and is over 90 years of age participated in the jollification parade there last week to celebrate the victory of Woodrow Wilson. Mrs. Marseilles lalso participated in a parade to eee the election of Martin Van Buren the eighth president of 0 YOU. REALIZE ‘That Christmas is Very Near? > And that you are throwing money away by paying a groceryman to come to your house and take or- ders when all you need do is PHONE 77 and get 20 Ibs Hominy Flakes $1.00 10 Ibs Good Dried 16 Ibs Good Rice for....$1.00 20 Ibs Cracked Hominy 1.00 Peaches............. $1.00 2 Ibe Beans............. 1,00 1 gal can Pitted Cherries -90c 1 gal. can Apricots........ 45c 1 doz. cans Good 1 doz cans Good Apri- Peaches.........,... $1.40 cots...... sense eeeees $1.80 12 cans Oysters...... .. $1.10 1 lb Peanut Candy ........ 15c 1 lb Ribbon Mixed Candy 15c Regular 25c Chocolates...20c Regular 30c Chocolates. ..25c 1 Box Regular 50c Whipped Cream Chocolates While They Last Only 35c 1 Box Regular 40c Chocolates Only 25c Always,Héadquarters for Christmas Candies Fruits and Vegetables : Everything ‘nice, fresh and clean. You can also get a quart of Fresh Roasted Peanuts” for 1 Jitney at GOSNELL’S GROCERY Phone 77 i | newspapers of the state in connec- TUBERCULOSIS ON THE Se Ye rns ani Greer Os ORS AOU eo to endure the dani weather at! In early youth Mr. Sutherland | this season of the year Urieh pascut with the Presbyterian | Heth - shureh in Scotland” wnd lived and caro ‘ “ile in that faith. 3 mAb alien Conmiy s Suuqust Sate Deceased leaves four children, nual corn show and seed Corn i, sons and two daughters and a auction held Saturday, one bushel Haniben! ob. erandelildnent. to} of Boone County White corns town his death, The surviving ron hy Men NID of Mi- children ave, Angus Sutherland, | ami, brought $100. Three hun- of Skiatook, Okla., Mrs, Agnes dred and SEV ORLY five bushels Guy) of Dallas county, Mo., Mrs sold averaged $5 a bushel. MeDaniel of Oklahoma, CoH. Bryant and son, Edwin, returned home Friday from Miles City. Mont.. making the trip in their Mord car and came through They had been out in nice shape. in the Ohio vieinity and: were on their way back to Butler, where they are making their home. —Ap- pleton City Journal. With the: issne of Nov, 30, the Adrian Journal passed the twen- Jour. ty venth milestone, nal is one of the best country weeklys in this section of the state and it is to be hoped that it will continue to prosper for anoth- er twenty-seven years, and then some, Kimberlin, the Cass who is now chief office of William States M George 1 county boy deputy ino the A. Shelton, United shal, at Kansas City, was married Thursday, November 30, 1916, to Mes. Bertha Barger Angle, the widow of the late Dr. Jolin Will- iam Angle, says the Cass county Democrat. eae The machinery for the new cheese factory at Adrian has ar- rived and is being placed in po- sition ready for business, accord- ing to the Journal, Mr. Murray expeets to have everything ready | to open the factory the early part: of December, The building and | machinery are new and the plant will be thoroughly-equipped — for business. There have been several thou- sand dollars worth of —peeans shipped from this city the past few weeks and they are bringing an exceptional price, We per pound, One day the past week there were over $1,000.00 worth Gf peeans on the truck at the de- _ pot for shipment and the truck was not overloaded at that.— Schell City News. Early Tuesday morning of last week robbers entered the Amos Hall store at Amsterdam and stole over ninety pairs of men’s shoes says the Enterprise. Over ninety | pairs of men’s shoes were taken from their boxes and put. into) feed sacks and the empty “boxes | carefully replaced on the shelves. There was only one $2.50 and a) couple of $3.00 pairs of shoes. tak- | en, all the rest were $3.50 to $5.00, | though mostly $4.00 shoes were chosen in a nice assortment of sizes. George Attwood, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Attwood of near ® Jingo, had the misfortune to lose ‘hig hand in a shredder Saturday forenoon. He was feeding the » machine at the time of the acci- dent. He does not know whether. he got his hand a little too close or whether his clothes became en- Betsy and Robert Sutherland of Alo. Spruce, Funeral services were held at | the Union church Wednesday af- fernoon at 2:30 ed by Rey. vl the remains were by the side of the companion who preegded him, A Friend Death of “Mrs, Mrs. Clark, aged 65 home of her Miller, on| fmaline J. years, died at the daughter, Mis, Elmer North Mechanic street, Wednes- day evening of last week. Mrs, | Clark had not been very well for several days: but her condition Was not considered serious and Wednesday evening Mr and Mrs.) Miller went up town to get her | some medigine and on their re- turn found her dead upon floor, Her death was caused by | pneumonia, Emaline Jane Antrim was born in Antrim, Ohio. where in her nineteenth year she united with thy Presbyteri wn earnest christian life, In 1879 she was united in marriage to ; Prank Clark at Columbis; Ohio. The year and located ona farm in the western part of this county, where three scars later Mr. Clark passed away. In 1896) Mrs. Clark and her daughter moved to this city, where they have since resided, Funeral services, conducted by Rey. Scroggs, of the Presbyterian ehureh, were held Sunday after- noon and the remains laid to rest in Oak Hill cemetery. Missouri 13—Kansas 0. Missouri: Univ ever Kansas Un versity in the an- nual Thanksgiving day football! Kansas. The cendition game at Lawrence, ground was in fine {whieh favored Missouri’s light, ifast team. The Kansans out- jweighed Missouri 20 pounds per ‘man~but had little opportunity to use their ‘beef’? as the boys from Missouri were like the elusive \flea. When a man from Kansas ‘fell on one of them he was not ithere, but generally was speeding |towards his opponent’s goal with ithe ball snugly tueked under his arm. | A Card of Thanks. Through the columns of your | paper we wish to extend to our neighbors and friends our heart- felt thanks for their kindly and lovingly assistance in the sickness and death of our father and grandfather. Mr. and Mrs. Robt. Sutherland and children. ‘o'clock, conduct: | Burkholder of Spruce, | laid to rest} Emaline J. Clark. | the} 1 ehureh and lived | moved to Missouri the same | y walked all! Tallowed to be shipped from the] ivards, after they have been thor- cughly disinfected. Animals showing the mouth les- ions of stomatitis are being kept here until cured. First shipments }to Kansas points left today. The stoek yards are being dis- nfeeted to its furthermost pen ind sty, and, although shipping lis expected to be in full swing by Monday, every precaution is he- ‘ine made against the spread of stomatitis, J. B. Lyons Dead. iar citizen of home of his B. Lyons, an old | suis city, died at the bson, Lester Lyons, on Thompson street, in this city, Sunday, De- comber 2, 1916. ' Mr. Lyons was born in Nash- a Hlinois, in 1841 and came to Bages county in E889, where he re- jinained until about five years avo when he ‘went to W arrensburg }where he lived until a short time fago when he returned to this city Ho make his home with his son, Lester, i He is survived by three sons, | William Lyons, of St. Louis: Ly- finan Lyons, . Kansas © and | Lester Lyons, of this city and one | daughter, Mrs, Ollie Sproul, of | Richfield, Mlinois. Funeral services, conducted by Rev. Ko .K. Wolfe, of the M. E. Fehureh, South, were held at the home of his son, Lester, Monday forenoon and interment made in Oak Tall cemetery Mention Heney for Cabinet. Los Angeles, Dee. 2.—In the in- vitation received by Franeis J. Heney to be the dinner guest De- | eomber 7 of President Wilson at the White House there is substan- tial basis for the report fhat the widely known Californian is to hecome a member of the Cabinet. | When the news of the invitation ‘beeame current among Democrat- ic leaders here today it did not } occasion surprise, it has been {felt strongly ever since Novem- ber 8 that Mr. Heney’s efforts to re-elect. the President would be rewarded substantially. At the dinner, at which also will be present Vanee MeCor- mick, chairman of the Democratic national committee, Mr. Heney will meet several party leaders. Didn't Like Soldiering. Joplin, Mo., Dee. 1.—Earl_ F. Raymond, mess sergeant, of Com- pany G, Seeond regiment Mis- souri Infantry, who was home on a furlough, committed suicide by drinking poison in this city Thursday rather than return to his regiment on the border. Ray- mond was home on a furlough at the expiration of which he applied for an extension, which was not granted. For Sale. Single Comb Rhode Red cockerels. oe. 3: B. Boulware. the United States— Gnidia is a Democrat and has raised a large family of Democrats. Twen- ty-six of her sons and grandsons und great-grandsons voted for Wilsou and Marshall in the recent clection, and most of these partic- ipated in the parade in, whieh Grandma Marseilles rode in a taxi furnished by the jubilant Demo- crats, W. M. Marseilles of this city is a grandson of this grand old Democratic lady but was not able \to be in Hannibal for the parade. -Henry County Democrat. Crisis Chrentening in ‘Aosie: Be- cause of Food Famine. — Stoekhohn, Dee, 2.—The Sven- ska Dagbladet prints an article from an eyewitness that the food situation in Russia has become ex- tremely critical. Frequent clash- es-are occurring in the suburbs of Petrograd between civilians and Cossacks. Strikes are breaking out, ul- though the strikers are invariably sent to the front. The condition of unrest is spreading to the rural districts. The eyewitness predicts “inter-J eSting developments in the near future, for despite all denials the fact remains that Russian condi- sions are rapidly approaching a Miss Stella Baldwin Married. The marriage of Miss Stella, Ruth Baldwin, daughter of Sen- stor and Mrs. Baldwin, of Apple- ton City and Tracy Carlton Welt- mer, youngest son of Prof. and Mrs. 8. A. Weltmer, of this city, will be solemnized Wednesday. December 6, at 5:30 p. m., at the home of the bride’s parents, three miles west of Appleton City, says Monday's Nevada Post. Only. members of: the two families will be present. The young — people will leave immediately for a month’s stay in Florida and Cuba. Upon their return they will be at home at 507 South Cedar street. Three Die in Motor Race. Uniontown, Pa., Dee. 2.—Frank Galvin, driver; Gaston Weigle, his mechanician, and Hughey Hughes a spectator, were killed when Gal- vin’s motor car which “he was driving in the races at the new speedway here today, crashed in- to the press stand. Seven-persons | are reported injured. Hughey Hughes previously had run through the guard rail on the sixtieth lap, had retired from the race and was watching the re- maining racers when’ he was killed. Notice. After this date all notices _ of pie suppers, box suppers, church and school . entertainments | Cross Christmas seals. The growth of interest in th- fight in the state, he said is tre- :mendous. In the per capita popw- In 1915 there were 465 fewer! lation sale of seals in 1914 Mis- deaths from tuberculosis in the|souri ranked twentieth in the rol State than in 1911, This is a di-|of states, in 1915 she took the minution in the death rate from | rank of ten, in 1916, he said, she tuberculosis in Missouri of twoj will give Rhode Island, Conneeti- and a half per cent a year. The} cut and New York state, the lead- saving to thie stute in 1915 in dol-| ers, a hard run for first honor. four) The seal for this year comes iu ;green and red and is very orna- ‘mental and full of Christmas cheer, The printed matter to be ! supplied to school children and (other distribution, is more attraeg- tive than ever, Seals will be sold hy inail as well as by school chil- dren, but the schools will be giv- fen full credit for the sales by imail, Work of the Anti Tuberculosis | Society Shows Good Results in Missouri. has Notice. ® We, the undersigned, forbid AMERICAH ‘RED CROSS (4 “any hunting or tresspassing 0% ARAR ANAAASG (our farms: million dollars and in the four! J. C. Berr W, S. Chandler years, over ning mituon dollars.!Jno. MeWissick, S. V. Bhart? Dr. Miller, secretary of the Mis-) Milo Hill, N. Be Berry, souri Society for the control of} Henry Herman, J. A. Rains, tuberculosis, attributes the saving | 1A. O. Calvert, W. J. Strein, of lives and wealth to the spread-| A, W. Shay, Mrs, Weddle, Merry Cina ing of information pertaining to|Dr. J.T. Hull W. H. Simpson, tuberculosis by the schools and) (, G, Weiss, Geo. Lee, 73% CONDENSED STATEMENT OF MISSOURI STATE BANK BUTLER, MISSOURI AT CLOSE OF BUSINESS, NOVEMBER 17, 1916 RESOURCES MIGHEY LOMNEO iii ca csii cela secav eee eases cases cen’ $352,721.31 Overdratts..... CMA sebe eben Telegu ieee ekse ay : 746.81 Real Estate (Including Bank Building 20,505.10 Furniture and Fixtures............... 3,000.00 Cash and Due from Banks $156,066.16 $533,039.38 $ 55,000.00 38,384.46 . $439,654.92 $533,039.38 A Luxurious Combination Those Davenports of ours are unique in this respect: In the day time they are a magnificent piece of furni- ture suitable for any room; at night they can be opened up, affording perfect sleep- ing accommodations. just the same as a bed. Our | prices are remarkably low. We can save you money _ on any article you may need in the Furniture line.