The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, December 14, 1916, Page 6

| Christmas Is Nearly Here Which should remind you that right now is the time and right here the place to select your Christmas presents, as we have a large line to sélect from, and if you purchase from us you will get something useful as well as ornamental. We think a nice Round Oak Range or Heater, a Superior Cook Stove, or a Wil- son Heater would make a nice present for your wife, or we can fix you up with a Perfection Oil Heater, a nice set of Carvers, a set of Rogers silver Knives and Forks, Spoons, etc. We also have a large line of Aluminum, Nickle Plated and Enameled Ware, Savory Roasters, Butcher Knives, etc. And don’t forget that if you need a Shot Gun, Rifle, Loaded Shells, Razor, Pock- et Knife, Flash Light, etc., for the boy, that we have what you want and our prices are right. Candy, Oranges, Nuts We have a largé stock of Christmas Candies, Oranges, Nuts, etc., and want to sell you what you need in this line. We will make special prices to churches, schools and Sunday Schools. Stoves and Ranges We have a good stock of Stoves and Ranges and want to reduce our stock before inventory January 1st, and if you need anything in this line it will certainly pay you to see us as most of these Stoves were brought before the recent advance, and we-are selling some of them way down. Buggies and Wagons We just unloaded a car of the celebrated Peter Schuttler Wagons and have the best line of Spring Wagons, Buggies and Surries in Bates County, and our prices are low considering the market and another advance goes on of about 10 per cent Janu- “ary Ist. If you need anything in this line it will pay you to get busy right now. Our prices on Farm Implements, Field Fenc- ing, Harness, etc., are less ‘han the ruling prices and an ad- vance is to go on inside of 30 days. ; Hardware and Groceries We have the largest and best selected stock of Hardware and Groceries in Bates County, and service that will merit same. and our prices are always Ty and give you prices We buy all kinds of country aw produce and pay the highest market price in cash or trade. Come in and see if we can’t convince you this is the right place to trade. Bennett-Wheeler Merc. Co. TELEPHONE 82 P. S.—We still have a good stock of Queensware, Fancy Plates, etc., that we are selling way down. PUBLISHERS SEEK FEDERAL RELIEF | Missouri Newspaper Owners Ask Congress to Probe Paper Cost. to! Columbia, Mo., Dee. 9.—-Rather | than be forced out of business by | the tremendous rise in the cost of | publishing, an organization of weekly and small city daily news- | papers in Missouri and several | other states is preparing to ap-} peal to the government for relief. | The action in Missouri probab- | ly wil! be taken through the Mis- | souri Association of Afternoon; Newspapers, an organization of the leading small city daily news- papers of the state. This organization includes the Independence Examiner, Mar- shall Democrat, Mexico Ledger, Fulton Gazette, Kirksville Ex- press, Sedalia Democrat, Spring- field Leader, Hannibal Courier- Post, Maryville Tribune, Nevada News, Cape Girardeau Republi- can, Joplin News-Herald and the Daily Missourian. of Columbia. The Herald-Statesman of Col- umbia and other weekly papers are planning to join the dailies in the appeal for government relief. | Lyman Laney Dead. Wm. Laney, living a few miles west of this city, received a tele- gram one day last week stating that his son, Lyman Laney, was dead. The sad news came as a terrible shook to the aged parents, and other relatives and friends iere at the old home. Lyman was # young man who was reared in this community, industrious and exemplary in every way and his triends were legion. He had been living with his family for a number of years at Watertown, S. D., where he was a_ prominent member of the Masonic lodge, un- der whose auspices he was prob- ably buried Sunday. The father and mother left im- mediately for that place upon re- ceipt of the message and have not _ yet returned, consequently no particulars regarding [yman’s death can be given at this time. If he had been sick for any length of time the parents were - not - made-aware of it—Appieton City. Journal. . ? aed ; mer, Weltmer-Baldwin Tracy C. Weltmer, vice presi- dent and business manager of the | Weltmer Institute and youngest son of Prof. S. A Welt- founder of the Institute, was married to Miss Stella Bald- win, daughter of Senator and Mrs John Baldwin, at the Bald- win home near Appleton City Wednesday afternoon, Only a few relatives were present and the happy young couple took the train a short time after they were married for a tour of a month in Florida and Cuba. They passed thru’ Nevada on the evening Katy Limited and at Fort Scott transfered to the Frisco for the sunny south. ; The groom is one of Nevada’s keenest young business men and very popular among his set. The bride formerly lived here and is a half sister of Miss Mary Chambers, former matron at the asylum. She was educated at Cottey College and is ‘a charming young lady. When Mr. and Mrs. Weltmer return to Nevada they will live at the Weltmer home on South (Cedar — street—Nevada Herald. Must Pay for Newspapers That a newspaper that is left and read at a man’s home must be paid for and that the fact that the newspaper was not or- dered does not constitute a valid defense was held in a jury in the cireuit court last week when a judgment for $30.30 was returned in favor of A. T. Ankrom against W. E. West, Plaintiff sued for a subscription to the St. Louis Republic from July, 1910, until September 1914, at the rate of 65 cents a month. According to the testimony at the trial, ‘West had subscribed for a certain period when the Republic was” conducting some sort of a contest. West subcrib- through Miss Tina Houston who was one of the contestants. When his subscription expired he con- tinued to receive it’ and read MISSOURI NOTES. The Urich Herald says that the high price of brooms is probably the result of so much straw wast- ed in taking straw votes. Paul Hamilton, .of . Harrison- i ville, Mo., was last week elected captain of the 1917 Tiger football ieain of the University of Missou- Gov. Major has appointed Col. John, I. Lumpkin police eommis- sioner of Kansas City, vice Col. Fred A. Lamb, The latter asked to be relieved from duty some three weeks ago, A farmer:came to town the oth- er day to buy a Ford, but after due consideration he concluded to jadd a couple of dollars to his {fund and buy a sack of flour in- stead.—Hopkins Journal. Warren 8. Salmon, 32.years old, son of Major Harvey W .Salmon of Clinton, Mo., died at 2 p. m., Wednesday as the result of an attack of pneumonia at bis home: 4354 A Forest Park boulevard, St. Louis. A farmer in Benton county publishes a notice in his loeal paper forbidding hunting on his iand and gives as his reason that some careless hunters had shot his trees. The trees should have got- ten out of the way. j A marriage lieense was issued | at Montgomery City Saturday to Michael Rinkle, 73 years old, and ; Elizabeth Vonvain, 19 years old. near Middletown, Mo., by W. Halley. hon Rey, J. A jury in Greene County last ; week sentenced a man to the pen- | meant 20 years. They provided that the governor could not pa- role him ina few years, Of course | their action was unconstitutional | but they meant well. | | President Wilson is seriously} considering making a trip west next spring. When invited last | week by Speaker Clark to speak | hefore the school of journalism of | the University of - Missouri in| May, the president said that if} possible, he would like to visit} the west after congress adjourned | in March, and that if he did so le would accept the invitation. Last week a Jefferson City | paper boasted that there was not | an inmate in the Cole county jail, | and laid considerable stress on what a law abiding community | Jefferson City was. This week | the Cole county court ordered the | county clerk to advertise for bids | for a new jail to cost. $35,000. The Democrat-Tribune says that | the new structure will be modern in every detail and will be a, source of joy to the inmates. An enterprising undertaking firm in Kansas City has’ added a erematorium columbarium _ to their establishment. The crema- torium is equipped with retorts heated with oil in which the body can be quickly reduced to ashes. In the columbarium there are place for several hundfed urns in which the ashes of the deceased will be kept. The place is elaborately furnished in white and red. It cost about $17,000. Rey. Dr. James W. Lee, chap-. lain of Barnes Hospital, has at! last discovered a happy man. The; man is 126 years old, and with his 90-year ole son, is in the poor} house. The old man says, ‘‘Ti have turned over the conduct of | my life to the Lord, and he is run-| ning my life for me.’’ We admire the sentiment, but object to the} shifting of the burden. The Lord always turns out a better product with some assistance from the product. —- Warrensburg _ Star-! Journal. The residence of the late Sen- ator Cockrell of Missouri is to be! sold. Walter L. Lampkin of Kan- sas City, secretary to Mr. Cock- rell when he was in the Senate and now executor of the estate, is in Washington to find a buyer for the place. - The roomy old brick structure with its big fire- places and air of hospitality was built twenty years ago by Sen- ator Cockrell. During his terms in the Senate it was seldom it did not contain some Missouri guest. The house is at 1518 R Street, N.) the newspaper, though it had] W. | mot been ordered longer than the time stated in’ ‘the “subscription given ‘to Miss -Huston.—Mexico Tntelligencer. z: Jordon Elliott, 84 years old, died last Friday at his home near Huntsville, after having spent They were to be married at their | ‘clear and strangers seldom esti- \tried kidney | Kidney Pills. Hosts of people tes- | most of his life hoarding gold for | his expensive funeral. During | his life time he and his sister, Miss Retty, 89 years old, clothed their | bodies in coarse homespun cloth, ‘lived in a small cabin, and ate jonly a small part o£ what the | farm produced in order that they ‘night hoard gold, He left his ‘sister $100,000, He was buried in most expensive clothing and his ‘eoffin was the best money could jbuy. We trust he enjoyed the oceasion, For many years one of the problems that eountry newspap- ers had to deal with was what to do with the subscriber that did not pay up promptly. At last the Hl Dorado Springs News has hit upon a plant that has all the ear iitks of a winner, Tt announces that if.the married man that was seo flirting with the young wo-, mon in the part at place did not call at onee and pay up his sub-| xeription, that the editor would he-compelled to tell >the man’s vife about it. The El Dorado} Springs married men must be} pretty frisky. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS Elizabeth M. Oliver to BE. I ‘Snider 40 acres seetion 25 West | Point $2,400.00. | W. A. Leavitt to W. W, Leavitt | 148 acres section 5 Lone Oak $2,- 650,00. John Williams to Sylvester | Stevenson 159 aeres sections 2 and 11 West Boone $10,270.00. | Geo, Webster to Ethel A. Rapp | tract section 14 Rockville $1,500. | Mattie B. Wirt to J. BE. Klotz-! k, lot 6. block 10, Williams | to Rich Hill $400, | M. EK. Ditzler to Dirigo Realty | Co., 766 ‘aeres, section 6, Walnut *1.00. Mary Baugh to R. F. Davis, 40) al ua, In 1920— Plans for Big Cel- 100 years. old, as a state, within é the next ‘res section 24, Pleasant Gap jmp. PSE ARAREST A VE MSE CRED Don’t Put Off Caring For That Cough. § If you do, serious complications“azé apt to arise and the result will moan a great deal of expense and incon- venience. The sensible treatment is i Denker White Pine and Spruce Balin _a combination cf healing ingredients recognized by the medical profession as the best for the treatment of coughs. 5 Penslar White Pine and Spruce Balsam acts promptly and assures a permanent relicf, while most cough syrups merely quict the cough. . Penslar White Pine and Spruce Balsam is sold in two sizes, either plain or mentholated, and only at Penslar Stores. : J. A. TRIMBLE, Druggist Fraternal Inn Building BUTLER, MO. MISSOURI 100 YEARS OLD | Monroe August 10, 1821. | But the committee, on the au- ‘thority of so thoro a_ historical Student as Walter B. Stevens of | St. Louis, believes the date iwhich should be celebrated is heeome| jity, 19, 1820. --Warrensburg Star—Journal. Some Grafters. ebration of State’s Centennial Missouri is going: to years. | dates | four or five are so many rival Ik. E, Riehardson to Lydia Funk } lots 1 and 2, bloek 8, Huns addi- tion to Butler $1,000.00. Margaret Curtis to W. 8. Kel $825.00. Smith Center Man at 104, Still, Smith Center, Kas. Dee! 9.— John Munsinger, a widely known citizen of this county, will cele- brate his one hundred and fourth birthday anniversary at the home of his son, Jay Munsinger, in Elk county, tomorrow. The mind of the aged man is mate his age to be over 80, His} appetite is good and he ean eat} the usual foods with the relish of a youngster. His ‘long journey/| through life has been marked by temperate, regular habits and an entire lack of worrying. As to health, Munsinger has no more ills than the ordinary man of 50. Great Japanese Soldier Dead. Tokio, Dec. 11.~Marshal Mar- quis Oyama is dead. His death was due to a severe cold which he contracted while. watehing the army maneuvers. Marquis Oyama was one of Japan’s greatest soldiers. Qual- ified military critics have com- pared him to Moltke and even to Napoleon. His most brilliant achievement was while he was in command of the Japanese forces in Manchura during the war with Russia. y MYSTERIOUS PAINS. AND ACHES - Make Life Hard to Bear for Many Butler Women. Too many women mistake their pains and aches for troubles pe- culiar to the sex. ‘More ofter: dis- ordered kidneys ahe. causing the aching back, dizzy ‘spells, head- aches and irregular urination. Kidney weakness becomes dan- gerous if neglected. Use a time- remédy—Doan’s tify to their merit. Read a Butler case : Mrs. Chas. Miller, W. Pine St., Butler, says: ‘‘I had a steady, wearing backache and was weak and run down. My kidneys acted much too often, especially . at night and the secretions were scanty and scalding. I also had nervous headaches. Doan’s Kid- ney. Pills, which I ‘ht at the United Drug Co., gdve me relief from the start and I was soon feeling strong and well.”’ __ simply ‘or a-kidney remedy— N.Y. 8-2t 0 T jone can almost take | but the date which has practically ‘fixed on for the purpose -of, a i | centennial celebration 20 aeres section 8, Elkhart |}. 1820 This will | centennial in 1920. 7 the orgin of statehood, that, ‘ celebration: plans met in Kansas Has Relish for. Foods. atte Mea! to make plans for the 1920 is considered a good one for a celebration, as it will be election year. year of the celebration in Boston and other New !of the three hundreth anniversa- |ry of the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers at Plymouth. : were to follow the Washington, it would hold its celebration a year later. The admission of Missouri to the Union was declared by President BATES and Whatever clse may be said of the South Americans they cannot be said to be pikers. About ten years ago they started to bmild a capitol building in Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentine Republic. The building was planned to cost $2,640,000. but up to date $14,295,696 has beem spent and the end is not yet. The building is a small edition of the capitol at Washington and *® called the ‘‘Palace of Gold,’’ be- cause it cost so much, his pick; | is bring July the The committee in charge of the 1920 celebration. The year Furthermore it will be the Missouri Guards on Hike. Laredo, Tex., Dee. 11.—The Second and Fourth Missouri ia- fantries, accompanied by Battery E, Third U. S. artillery, and the Second Florida infantry, today ,departed for a four days’ hike down the Rio Grande. A sham battle will feature the maneuvers. England .places committee records at have to If the. Missouri _.To the Subscribers of the Bates and Henry Co. Telephone Co, 7 JOHNSTOWN, MISSOURI Notice is hereby given that the rental per month for the reg- ular service of the Bates and Henry County Telephone Company, located at Johnstown, Mo., will, after January 1st, 1917, be $1.25 per month. The penalty of 15c per month as shown now will be cancelled. i Telephone rentals will be payable quarterly. HENRY COUNTY TELEHONE CO. F. M. CAMPBELL, Manager CONDENSED STATEMENT MISSOURI STATE BANK BUTLER, MISSOURI 3 Money Loaned.............. oc ceeeeceec ces . $352,721.31 it Overdrafts....... a 746.81 Real Estate (Including Bank Buildin 20,605.10 Furniture and Fixtures............. 3,000.00