The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, December 21, 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 select 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, Buteher 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 large 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 ist, 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 1st. 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 than 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 our prices are always right. We want your trade-and—will try-and give you prices and service that wit! merit same. We buy all kinds of country 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. Go. TELEPHONE 82 P. 8.—We still have a good stock of Queensware, Fancy Plates, etc., that we are selling way down. CONDENSED STATEMENT MISSOURI STATE BANK | BUTLER, MISSOURI AT CLOSE OF BUSINESS, NOVEMBER 17, 1916 : RESOURCES MONG VALOR OG fii .tiic Lote ae He OES aidan; $352,721.31 Overdratts ae 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 LIABILITIES Capital Stock.................. Renan tier vi veracente se $ 55,000.00 Surplus and Undivided Profits .. --» 38,384.46 NBM OONED Cio iiece ci Sahin cece sis Loved Cossaincutesdeveyeagiees $439,654.92 $533,039.38 “The Old Reliable” con DEN SED OFFICIAL STATEMENT f THE WALTON TRUST CO. : BUTLER, MISSOURI At Close of Business November 17th, 1916 RESOURCES MOnOy 1Oaned: 5.6: sy ee ervey sos ease ens $615,585.41 NOV ADM eK reha OUST 5 nee tetas aia tered ak wd 3 2,341.75 Real Estate (Including Office Building)... «+. 47,154.87 Cash and Due from Banks ...................... 137,616.18 $802,698.21 Capital Stock $250,000.00 Surplus and Undivided Profits ... 181,482.00 POM a oS ac dsl cece cas. ... 368,874.46 Set aside for Taxes .......... a Eee sais we SUS Na 2,341.75 $802,698.21 Forty years successful business without loss to investors. FARM MORTGAGES NOW IN FORCE ON OUR BOOKS $10,000,000.00 SHORT STORIES Of Local Interest—Clipped From ~ Our Exchanges. The Amsterdam Enterprise is another paper that put out a big Christmas edition. It is an eight page paper with colored cover and reflects great eredit on the editors. Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Hook are rejcicing over the arrival of a iitite daughter at their home on ‘Naesday, Dee. 12. The little one is named Ruth VY La Mae.—Roek ville Booster. Mrs. Geo, Long marketed a 35 pound turkey at Hume, Thurs- day, for which she reecived $7.00, which is the highest priced tur- key of the year. She sold 17 turkeys for $49.60.—Border Tele- phone. Wm. Thompson raised a span of 2-year-old Mules and sold them to Oren Thompson for $480, the highest priced young mules that have changed hands in Hume for some time, They weighed 2,660 pounds , and brought over 14 cents per pound.—IIume Tele- phone. A. N. Huntsman and family have left us and will make their home in Sedalia. Mr. Huntsman will continue with the » railroad company. Their home address is $18 East 5th street. Angus has the best wishes of many friends here,--Rockville Booster. Mr, and Mrs. J. J. Emery and son Roy spent Sunday night with Mr. and Mrs. J. T. McCall and family. They took the early train Monday for Harrison, County, this State, where Mr. and Mrs, Emery will spend the winter, their som going on to. Dubois, Idaho. where he has a hoinestead.—Amoret Leader. | —A--3--Spetr-tas-solt his” Tease | and furniture of the Hotel Speir to W. T. Young. who took charge of the business last Saturday morning, left. Tuesday morning for Butler where they expect to reside, al- though he has not decided what business he will Urich Herald, The Montrose Recorder. issued | edition. Tt contained well edited and printed. A number of animals have been reported killed and injured this season at the hands of careless hunters, the latest coming to our notice was a good cow owned by J. A. Benson, just east of town, which .was killed last week. We do not wonder that so many peo- ple are. posting their farms against hunters when so many of them are so reckless as to kill stock.— Appleton City Journal. the railroad compromise was a indicates that the sentiment in Pullman of near Altona, Mo., a! did young farmer and County Demoerat. Two Nevada Men Land Plums. plums at Jefferson City. John aide on the staff inauguration January 8. Nevada Post says his duties will tian the governor’s guests. I will be at the following towns to buy any number.of Horses, Mares and Mules. q Buy Horses and Mares from 5 to 12 years old, from 15.1 to 16 hands high, from 1,100 to 1,800 pounds. Will also buy full-made Driving Horses and Mares, 5 to+12 years old, from 14.3 to 15.2 hands high, from 1,000 to 1,100 pounds, Don’t fail to show me your good Draft Horses and Chunks, as I buy them as good as grow and pay the highest cash price’ Will ‘buy any kind of a useful Mule AND _ Mules from 14 to 16 hands high. Horses, Mares I will make you from $5 to $20 per head on your Horses and Mules, as we hold the largest Horse and Mule contract in the United States. I buy more Horses direct from farmers than anyone in the State. WILL BE AT Nevada, Mo., Tuesday, December 26 All Day at Allen's Feed Yard Butler, Mo., Wednesday, December 27 All Day at Guyton’s Bus Barn Garden City, Mo., Thursday’ December 28 Forenoon at Oglesby’s Livery Barn Urich, Mo.; Thursday, December 28 Afternoon at Livery Barn Harrisonville, Mo., Saturday, December 30 . All Day at Kohler's Bus Barn = a PP. i — — - JLEN - KANSAS CITY HORSE MARKET Mr. Speit and family] BORDER ARMY | WILL TEST | trailers carrying a 100,000-pound TRACTOR LIKE THE i load, over a- rough and roadless | BRITISH TANK ‘country, If this claim is made good an engage in.—-!| Giant Machine Guaranteed to; order will be placed for 50 or Haul as Heavy a Load as more tractors and trailer outfits lof the same type for border use. Company of 33 Trucks. It is stated that in event it should a great big souvenir a ie ee potiath Oem : ae become necessary to send the pages and colored cover, with a} portation department of the army nd AR ane NM picture on the front page of} will be inaugurated when ‘‘Trae- Santa Claus about to descend-in-|tor Company No. 1’’ as it is to to chimney. The Be men] he officially designated, is organ- of Montrose show that they know] ized upon the arrival of the out- % i i 2x good thing when they see it! fit ak Maran Tex., direct as Mine Explosion Kills Twenty. by patronizing it freely. It is|the factory at Peoria, Ill. ' The suceess of the so-called| miners were kiHed-and ten in- “‘tanks’’ upon the firing line in|jured in an explosion in Mayer Europe caused Col. Harry L,/mine No; 9, a mile and a half Rogers, Chief Quartermaster of northeast of Stone City, Chero- the Southern Department, with/kee county, Kansas, yesterday af- headquarters here, to decide that|ternoon. All of the injured prob- this new method of transporta-|ably will reeover. tion would be admirably suited | for the Big Bend region of the| explosion is believed to have been upper Rio Grande border, where|the cause of the disaster, but there is such an absence of roads|state mine experts have been un- that motor track find much dif-|able to fix the exact cause. ficulty in delivering supplies to} _ a] the more remote military camps, | life yesterday was the largest in The special election held in St.|80 to 100 miles from the nearest | the history of Kansas coal min- Clair County Tuesday to vote on| railroad. Col. Rogers obtained the con-| Forty men were killed in 1888 in very quiet affair generally and|sent of the War Department forjan explosion in Cherokee and resulted in an overwhelming de-| the purehase of a tractor of the} Pittsburg mine No. 2, near Fron- feat of the measure. In Appleton| same type as that which the Brit-| fenac, Crawford county, Kansas. township there were 356 votes|ish eonverted into ‘‘tanks’’ and| ~The explosion east and every one of them was] to have four trailers provided as| 12:15 o’elock yesterday after- against the compromise, which} part of the new equipment. The tractor ordered by Gol..| the last of the dead and injured this part of the county is unani-| Rogers is of the caterpillar type,|had been removed. mous against a compromise—Ap-|and trailers also are equipped | dred persons, many of them rel- pleton City Journal. with ie y ‘| tractor is of 75-horsepower, and'|sweethearts, daughters and sons i Get uo ne a 3 Le is said to be capable of hauling|—were crowded” fe erehin eat at 4 MS ae the four trucks loaded to their| month of the shaft. Some women sip, returned home last) fullest capacity, or more than wept as the lifeless forms were week from his Montana ranch. | 4 ver. eld Last Saimitig ie said dumee ee the rough-/| lifted from the shaft, and others companies would be of almost in- estimable service in ‘transporting supplies. Joplin, Dee, 14—Twenty coal A combination gas and powder ing, mine officials said last night. occurred at noon and it was 6 o’clock before Two hun- treads. Thejatives of the eaterpillar miners—wives, shrieked and attempted to throw classy 18 months old registered cee a ves AOE ciawlt ls ea peso Shorthorn bull. Mr. App has a more cargo than the total cargo noted herd of Shorthorns, con- capacity of one train of 33 motor sisting of 45 cows and a number} trucks. Another big saving is of-bulls. Mr. Pulliam is a splen- in the number of men required ‘to h Y showed operate the tractor outfit. A good judgment in choosing a crew of only three men is re- bull from the App herd.—Cass quired—an engineer, an _assist- ant engineer, and a helper— | while not less than 33 men are re- quired to operate a motor-truck Two Nevada men have landed | tram The fuel used is distillate which LL, Sullivan, secretary of state el-| costs in wholesale quantities, ac- ect, has appointed Ed Gehrean to] cording to Government contract, the position of assistant corpora-|( cents per gallon. tion attorney at a salry of $2,500.} Col. Rogers and army men gen- Mr. Sullivan has also appointed| erally are much interested in the L. M. Wilson to the position of] experiment about to be made. It cheif clerk of supplies ‘in his of-| is conceded that the physical dif- fice at a salary of $2,200 a year.| ficulties in the Big Bend country FE. B. Todd has been appointed an| are much greater of Governor] part of the war zone of Gardner and will be present at the| where the ‘‘tanks’’ were it The| into J It is eiaimed by the manufac- be to look handsome, attend the} turers that the new tractor can|}. _ . rk chief executive and help enter-| travel at an average speed of 3/]. ius $1.25 per month. in any With one exception, the loss of around the}. Eight-Hour Men Faster. | New York, Dee. 17.,—Experi- ; ments. with the cight-hour day in the Cleveland yard of the Nickel Plate railroad increased individ- ual efficiency of the switchmen jmore than 10 per cent, according to James D.. Monahan, general yardmaster, testifying late today the controversy between — the switchmen’s union anr_ thirteen’ | rainlroads, ; The witness asserted, however, \that ‘‘the speeding up’’ of. the men during the trial was due largely to their eagerness to have an eight-hour day adopted per- manently-and hé doubted if they would have kept up the pace af- ter the eight-hour day had been granted. The eight-hour plan en- tailed additional cost, he said. The hearing will be continued. Doubter of Jonah to Trial. Washburn, Con., Dec. 16.—Un- less. he should produce someone in court to prove that Adam did_not eat an apple and that a whale did not swallow Jonah, Michael Mock- us was expected to have a bad. time of it to-day. Mockus, a Lithunian minister, faced trial before a jury on the charge of blasphemy, under a Conneticut law passed 274 years ago. It forbidg the calling into question "’any portion of the Holy Writ.’’ Mockus called the apple and whale story into ques- tion. The case was first heard im September, when the jury diss- greed. To-day Theodore Schroe- der of New York, president of the Free Speech League, was to act as his counsel. - To the Subscribers of the Bates and Henry Co. Telephone Co..| 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 ist, 1017, be The penalty of 15c per month as shown now will be cancelled. Telephone rentals will be payable quarterly. : BATES and HENRY COUNTY TELEHONE CO. before the arbitration board in .