The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, December 21, 1916, Page 8

i GARDNER WANTS A TAX COMMISSION. He Calls a Meeting of the State Officers Elect and Discusses Tax Measures Last week Col. Gardner, gover- nor elect, called a meeting of the state officers and legislators t meet in St. Louis and to discuss ; the tax measures to be brought]are rejoicing over the arrival of before the next lesislature. Col. Gardner said the conference to act as a revenu commision ~ and prepare mmendations to the legislature o: means of raising new revenue fo! the state. reco-} well again and Mr. In and Around Maysburg. Sunday. Mr. Russel Focht Macie Hughes. were united marriage at Clinton Friday. Arthur Simpson visited at 0} uncle’s, Lue Ewing, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. a 11-pound boy that arrived he desired | their house one day last week. Mrs. Gilbert has not been Gilbert down with the lagrippe. Leslie Edrington is visiting e f rr As tenatives suggestions to the} Gilbert, at present. commission of means the revenue, the suggested : governor Increase of collateral inheri-| She is getting along very well. tance tax. - Mr. Sam Farmer and wife to Direct inheritanee tax of 3] dinner at Tan White’s Sunday. per cent. Tax on capital and surplus on the corporations. State income tax; . Mortgage recording tax. Secured debt tax. Tax. on soft drinks. Tax on motion picture shows, pool rooms and theaters, MKeonrtolnece: Miss Bertha Scott expects to}000 guardsmen in the border ser-| hart $1,000.00. down by the Kansas ‘City Court Increased tax on oil wells. | visit a few days with her ‘aunt,| vice. General Funston said there! Harriet Nichols to Isaac Fow- of Atpents Monday ad ote aus Tax on output of mines. Mrs. Farmer. was no significance in the order, ler 50 acres section 7 Shawnee | taining ; Superintendent of General state poll tax. Mr. Lee Martin has returned] the war department having an-, 41,200.00. iSchoolseMonelaidi an anecrporat: Increase of state saloon tax, home from Dakota. nounced a policy several months; J. H. Beaman to L, A. Beaman in Bates County district fate These recommendations, the] - Mrs. Dodia Patt’s mother is|ago of sending troops home 88) et al 37 acres section 26 Spruce ae Hate A ‘Bates souks aT governor elect said would, if} quite sick at this writing. they could be spared. According | $100.00. ey faa ’ adopted, raise at least $5.725.000. “Tam not commited to any or all of these recommendations,’ he said. ‘Tf you ean find better means of raising revenue turn down all of my recommendations Peru Items. an resent your own, but we], ; p A lie i ats feaniisee Tat The revival at Peru will con- ! Bernioneclolmeninorae wine lunes until Christmas if not long- idee! } : (OMB 4 nually, of raising elect | morning Mrs. Dale fell last breaking a rib a wrenching her back quite bad Miss Mamie Gilliland and married at 6 o’clock evening. There is to be preaching ne Sunday at the Christian chur by Rey. Lueus. There will be preaching at t Baptist church by Rev. Cheek. Snow, Sunday. - A NEIGHBOR. Mrs. Godwin went to Butler Thursday and returned home and Miss Fayette Snow brother, Albert, and sister, Mrs. Monday Mr. Calvird of near Clinton, were Sunday Mrs. Dora Mills and daughter, Bernice, visited her mother, Mrs. COMPANY B TO RETURN HOME SOON The Second Regiment Included Among the Troops Ordered Home From the in Bocie. | $675.00. his The Second regiment of Mis-|no price given. — souri, composed of companies re-;| W. J: Montgomery to B. cruited in near-by. towns, is in-| Davis 160 acres section 22 Osa; at} cluded in the national guard or-/ $12,000.00. ganizations aggregating 16,000; Walnut Creek Coal Co., to so| troops today designated by Gen- | I’. is}eral Frederick Funston to leave; Walnut $1825.00. border service and return to their | his out of federal segvice. to Butler $750.00, J. S. Pierce to C. J. Major lo 2 and 5 Block 1 Montgomery’s : addition to Butler $1,600:00. day that it would be January 5 nd}or 7 before all units in the last} ly.| group had started from the bor- der. 2 ok} The homeward movement of a] ried out in three groups to facil-' dition Butler $500.00. itate use of rolling stock. Cars, $1.00. } 4 iments included in the first group C. B, Henderson to Newt. Spil xt/and the movements-from various: ch] border points will begin in’a few! man 40 acres section 31 Elkhart 1,800.00. C._B. Henderson to Sarah days. he} Release of the troops included in the order will leave about 75,- to General Funston, in making up | the list of troops to go horffe he! 1 block 5 Burdette $200.00, considered the length of time or-| ganizations had been kept on the|cy 48 acres sections 11 border. | Shawnee $1,600.00. and REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS | ‘‘KANSAS TULL Wm. Livengood to Chas, Chick 40 acres section 20 Osage $2,360. |Senator Reed Says State Has Carrie B. Green to J. D.-Stew- More Boosers Than Any“ ;art tract section 22 Mt. Pleasant . | John F, Wade ‘to H. M. Herold Tt) San Antonio, Tex., Dec. 18.—/ jr. 36 1-2 acres section 22 Walnut ‘i i Wade 36 1-2 acres section 22 | P: respective states to be mustered 108 acres section 19 Elkhart $1. Jesse E. Smith to J. S. Pierce General Funston estimated to-| lot block 24 West Side Addition S. J. Drummond to Carrie B. these organizations will be car-, Green lot 5 block 8 Stephens ad- B. Arie Realty company to B. are now being assembled for reg-| Aric 224 acres section 4 Walnut Inez Groves to C. A. Burris lots Millia A. Kline to G. W. Cath- Or DRUNKARDS” .. Other.in Union. | ee sas ‘‘actually prohibited.” g.| Senator Reed of Missouri, re- lying to Senator Thompson, said that although Kansas had prohi- J. C. Turner to F. M. Adkins | bition and Missouri was ee an probably more prevalent in the drunkenness was as much prohibition state. ever there was a_ place regulating it was in Kansas, Bourbon,” its Among the decisions dated school. district. g| Cass county. into Bates county and Washington, Dec. 19.—Senator ompsoit of Kansas, urging pro- ress of the District of Columbia G, | Prohibition Bill in the Senate to- ,|day, declared prohibition in Kan- “There are more drunkards to} ts | the square inch in Kansas,’’ de- 3d | clared Senator Reed;- ‘‘than in any other state of the Union. If in the world where the people needed To my mind a most fearful combina- tion is a Kansan and a quart of | Court of Appeals Sustains Super- Ej intendent Moreland. Spillman 20 aeres section 31 Elk- | Handed Some time} ago a consolidated school district was formed in the south part of They, reached over took in System, Declaring It Ex. | . travagant. Washington, Dee, 18,Miajor General Scott, chief of staff ..of the army, today told the senate military committee that ‘‘the time has come when this country, unless it intends to avoid war ‘at any cost,’ must resort to univer- sal liability to-military service,’’ He recommended adolition of the volunteer system. He called it extravagant and un- scientific. He said universal liable and economical. . “I would be democratic,’’ he | said, ‘‘because the burden of na- tional defense would fall equally upon all citizens. It would make it impossible for any man or group of men to trade upon the nation’s necessities in time .of war. The system would be re- liable because it would produce each year the number of men necessary to be trained. It.would be ‘economical because it would be based upon recognition by the people of the duty of the individ- ual to render personal service.”’ For war with a first class pow- ier, the general staff had previous- ly estimated that 500,000. fully | equipped men should. be ready’ at the outbreak and that 500,000 more should be available in 90 days. The general said these numbers should be tripled. ‘ “Tt should be pointed out that our northern neighbor is in alli- ance with a powerful Oriental BIG ARMY ONLY WAY TO AVOID WAR” Chief of Staff Flays Volunteer strongly the: training would be democratic, re... Pierce City, as commander. The Second regiment is made | 0 eee ines haa iehbitora aces up of the following companies, | Packers Pay State $62,500 and)! 0CY 2ad a right ‘to do under cer- | with Col. William A, Raupp of _ Promise to be Good. school district number six, which | nation—another island empire— ¢ a) and for the same reason, when tain conditions, but the Bates} acting in alliance with a power ‘county folks did not want to £0} which has control of the sea, has ° | Band-—Bolivar. Jefferson City, Mo., Dee. 16.— |to Cass county so they petitioned | ability to send its army of © 2}- ‘Chandan’ Nassomitame none Mets Wesnell Hilliard spent) \__Carthage. rhe fines of . the five packing | Superintendent Moreland to form | 225,000 men to any part of the Wa Gihtnn edie madiaq teadeye acai) bey TEL, 186 4 B—Butler. coapanies have been paid into ja consolidated district in Bates | world without danger of invas- ae HLCP LOSE A ee eee jy| Mr. and Mrs. Fred Gaaninan State Treasury. The amount,/ county taking in district number] ion,” said the general, ey vere BU alee NJand-family and Miss Gertie Cox] yy —Weat_ Plains £2,500, was’ today turned into|six, which he proceeded to do., Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, com- bees , il se ae f th 2 ees of Mount Zion spent Sunday at} __pioree City. | the State Treasury hy —J_—D./'fhe-Cass-connty consolidated dis-|mander of the department of the sa Se ee Sai ihe home -of- Mr, and- Mrs Ross =a _. Allen, clerk of the Supreme trict filed injunction proceedings | Kast, and’ former chief of staff, reyenne, until something had to be done. Who Supplies Villa? Williams. Mr. Jess Wallace: from Nebraska last week. returned Mr. and Mrs. Carl McCoy and G—Joplin. H—Sarecoxie, I—Wehb City. K—Springfield. ‘forwarded by Frank Hagerman | for the companies. Court, to whom the checks were lof Kansas City, general counsel against him to restrain him from ni taking distriet number six from the Cass county district and put- ting it in the Bates county dis- Hazel MeCoy spent Thursday] ],_Jofferson City. This money goes into the bans) tore. The cireuit court upheld Representative Kalin of Gali SO Se Naess tee te M—Aurora. a aaa Bae Rant we pation of Superintendent fornia appears to be of an ine} Miss Fern Harper spent Satur- Hserae ae ee 4 Y oe 4 Moreland and the Cass county quiring turn of mind. He desires; day and Sunday with home. folks. Municipal Christmas Tree. time of general depletion of that! folks appealed to the Kansas City eX: munitions importations into Mexico, and al- to know the character and tent of the arms and so what goods, wares and mer- chandise confiscated or stolen by the armed forees of Mexico have been imported into this country. There are many people besides the gentleman from California who would like to know more about that subject. We know that at the time the Pershing ex- pedition came to a halt Villa was fleeing with a handful of raga- muffins who were helieved to have scattered into the moun- tains, Six months later Villa appears with a force sufficiently well armed to drive the Caranza forces out of Chihuahua and keep them out long enough to secure an abundant store of loot and booty. Where did Villa get the arms and the money which he must haveJsecured in order to resume hostilities? Tf he has anything for Siile as the result of his last raid, where is his market? } Representative Kahn ealls for] ¢ a congressional investigation of | ¢ this matter. The result of an in- vestigation might prove interest- ing to the general public and ex- tremely embarassing to those un- known individuals who are trad- ing with | Villa and his cut- throats. Let's have itt—St. Louis Republic. ] 1 oe rue \ Butler Chickens Win at Joplin. The chiekens of J. W. Poffen-Th harger, of this city, toek two prizes at the poultry show of the; a Mineral Belt) Poultry and Pet]u Stock Associition which was held at Joplin last week. tn theta Barred Rocks, Pullet “Bred, cock- J were in Appleton City on ness between trains Friday. Joe wives dined Sunday Mr. BE. S, Requa delivered hog: to Butler Monday. Mrs. James Nuckols have the measles. If this weather continues as a and next Sunday night. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Latham anc children spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs, F. Ui, Blankenbaker, other relatives, attended the pie supper MINNEHAHA. Fair Mount News. Mrs. Harry Fleischer has been on the sick list the past week. Nick Rapp and Andy Harriman busi- Fairmount school will have a vie supper and entertainment Fri- lay, the 22nd. Everybody invit- ad, Grandma Hintz, who has been iving with her daughter, Mrs. Bracher, the past three nonths, went to live with her daughter, Mrs. John -Marquardt, Wednesday. Fred Vogt, Jr., and wife dined Sunday with his parents, Fred Togt and family. Fred Vogt, Jr, Frank Rapp, ohn Marquardt-and John Seider utchered hogs the past week. Mr. and Mrs. Bolte were trans- eting business in Rich Hill Sat- rday. Mr. and Mrs. Durst and Theo nd-John Marquardt and — their with Rev. son this writing it looks as though old Santa will have good sleighing Mr. and Mrs. Dorsey of Okla- homa are visiting Mrs. Dorsey’s sister, Mrs. Maggie Thomas and Several fr his neighborhood Sasi tenet ony Hn eardialitosal es churches at the Christian church :| $12,500 into the State Treasury Double Braneh last Friday night. ' i fund. At the last meeting of the But-} ler Ministerial Alliance the mat- ter of having a municipal Christ- 5 mittee, consisting of one member] jt ynder the terms of the agree- of each chureh was appointed to] ment through which the fines have charge of the placing of the! were reduced from $125,000 to j{tree. A large tree has been S¢-} $62,500 by the Supreme Court, cured and will be placed in the; must be borne by them. ‘}court house yard. Each night! ‘This lifts the judgment of oust- hy electric lights. !as they conduct themselves ac- On Monday night the following} cording to the provisions of the musical program will be rendered | antitrust statutes of the State. hy the singers of the various} The companies that each pay Music—Orchestra. Chorus— Hark, Angels Sing.’’ Anthem—' Unto .us a ‘ hare Armour’s, Swift, Morris, the. Herald/Hammond and the St. Louis | Dressed Beef and Provision Com- Child is| pany. married in a different county Born.”” : ooo from the one where they had pro- Vocal Solo—Miss Goldie New-! yy, g, Buys Aviation Field. cured the license, so the young some. | ‘ couple with the minister boarded ‘Chorus—"Holy Night, Silent] Washington, D. C., Dee? 16.—/the train and when the train Night.”’ The War Department has pur-| pulled into Drexel the minister Anthem-—Holy Night Di-| chased about 1,700 aeres of land} performed the ceremony. Rev. vine.” on, Lower Chesapeake Bay near! Reynolds returned to his home Fort Monroe for use as an avia- tion experimental and_ proving jground for the army. The price Anyone wishing to make dona-| Was $290,000, appropriated by tions to the relief committee are Congress at the last session, for requested to bring their dona-| this purpose. War Department tions to the church that night, or officials estimate $1,500,000 will to notify some member of the} be asked of Congres for build- committee. ings and equipments. The tract is between Back River and Hampton, Va., is flat Dead. }and possessed all the esac ‘ : + ww ars ties, army aviation officers be- St. Louis, Dee. 16.—W. C. Nix-/jieve, that are necessary for a on, president of the St. Louis | ti-st-class proving ground. - & San Francisco railroad, is dead | The station probably will be at his home here. _ . ‘named ‘‘Langley Field’’ in hon- Mr. Nixon was 58 years old. op of Prof. Langley, the first of- He came to.the Friseo several | fiial of the United ‘States Gov- years ago from the Santa Fe and | ernment to make experimental was vice president of the old’ fights with heavier-than-air ma- Frisco organization. During the chines. receivership of the Frisco, Nixon EEE Fo was chief operating’ receiver.: He | Wilson Married One Year. Voeal Trio—Mrs. G. P. Wyatt, Mrs. Fred Williams and Miss Edna Clark. W. C. Nixon, Frisco President, is There is no way here of esti- mating the amount of costs that the packing companies will have t {nas tree was taken up and a com-|to meet in the litigation; All of until Christmas it will be lighted’ oy against the companies so long | court of appeals which sustained the action of the lower court. Silvers & Dawson of this city rep- resented Mr. Moreland. Married on Train. recently when the afternoon pas- senger train came in. The Rev. byterian chureh of Richards, mar- ried a couple, one party being from Richards and one’ from Hume, Thinking to keep it quiet they had secured their license in Harrisonville but when they went to get married they found by the license they could not be and the happy young couple went on to Kansas City. Both trains being in at the same time we failed to lear nthe names of the newlyweds.—Drexel Star. - 100TH ANNIVERSARY The Remarkable Record of ‘a Unique Institution. As the result of a nation-wide campaign, the American Sunday | School Union which is now pre- paring to hold its centennial cel-| ehration, has established over one hundred and_ twenty thousand Sunday schools with half a mil- lion teachers and more than five i An odd incident occurred here Banke, of the Adrian hood were united Wednesday forenoon by Rev. | said the national guard is a ‘‘com- | plete and terrific failure.’’ This |country needs a ‘‘real army’’ of ; 4,000,000, he said, | Av fight to- curtail continued preparedness expenditures to |save the federal government from |financial embarassment, began i breaking out today. It was con- |dueted by a powerful group of | Democrats in congress, headed by | Majority Leader Kitchin of the | house. | Obstacles in the Way of Peace. Copenhagen, Dec. 18,—Even jshould the German. peace _pro- | posals lead eventually to a peace Mr. Reynolds, pastor of the Pres- jcouerence at the Hague, which now seems to be a very remote possibility, diplomats see stum- bling blocks which would prove gigantic obstacles in the way of an agreement. Briefly, these are: -Germany’s desire to have Great Britain relinquish her sea supremacy. England ’s:proposal to curb the | military strength of Germany. ~ France’s aim to acquire Alsace and Lorraine from Germany. Guarantees for commercial equality. Indemnities. Division of Balkan territory. and the recognition of Poland as a separate kingdom by the allies. A dispatch from Berlin quotes ~ the Frankfurter Zeitung as say- ing that an agreement as to the possible, in view of the stag-. impossible, in view of the stag- gering loss of life and suffering entailed by the war. But when it came to work out the definite terms of this agreement the con- ferees would find their real dif- ficulties. é Demott-Banke. Fred H. Demott and Miss Grace neighbor- in marriage million scholars. The Society is also preparing to carry on its work of rural child development on an even broader H cre) class he won the frst pre-| Heinke and family. H mium over a large field, and in Miss Anna Vogt has been stay- the Barred Rock cockerels, he] ing with her sister-in-law, Mrs. | also won a premium, Len Vogt, the last week. It is quite an honor. t» win at| Mrs. Len Vogt was taken to St. the Joplin show, as there are en-| Joe Sunday by Dr. W. B. Rey- tries from all over the state and] nolds to be operated on for ap- some of them as fine as can be|pendicitis. Her many friends 5 iound anywhere. wish her a speedy recovery. i —_——_—___ PRISCILLA. i i Rebekahs Elect Officers. ee err ae y é : Col. Butler’s Widow Dies. Carnation Rebekah Lodge No. 230 1. 0. O. F., held their annual} St. Louis, Dec. 18:—Mrs. Ellen election Thursday night. The fol-| Butler, widow of Colonel Edward lowing officers were elected: Butler, for years the democratic Noble Grand, Mrs. Nellie Bolin. | leader of St. Louis, died at a local Vice Grand, Mrs. Emma Allen.| hospital today. She was 70 years Secretary, Miss Nina Culver. | old. 4 Treasurer, Mrs. Anna Osborne..| Mrs. Butler was the principal Two new members were initiat-/heir to Colonel Butler’s $4,000,- ed into the order. A dainty lunch|000 estate, and she married Ed- was served and a general good| ward Butler when he.was a black- time was had. amith fifty-six years ago. was born in Earlville, Ill, and, vas educated in the Illinois pub- lic schools. His first job was painting chairs at 25 cents a day. He Yose by slow stages till 1906 Frisco. Bert F. Wackerman. Butler, Mo., Chas. M. Brayton... .Amsterdam, j Nettie M. Bell..... Merwin, Mo.! letters, telegrams and cables were received at the executive Antha_G. Crockett...Adrian, Mo. sion during the dsy. Homer C. Linard...Butler, Mo., Fred H. DeMott....Adrian, Mo.,/ dent and Mrs. Wilson today ob- their marriage with the utmost when he was employed by the! ynostentation. they -golfed together and in the afternoon the president kept a few appointments at the White | Honse s could not a post- = ed. Tonight Mr. rs. Hazel L. Arendt. ...Altona, Mo. | Writeon will attend the theater. Washington, Dec. -18.—Presi- served the first anniversary of In the morning Hundreds of congratulatory ie a meet the George Scroggs, at his home on South drove to Butler in a car but they said it was entirely too cold for Delaware street. They Seale, in an effort to constantly # honeymoon in an automobile, growing demands| so they left the car ere and took Mr, and Mra. J. F. Cravens left] j from many ‘parts of the country. An intensely interesting series of pamphlets has been issued, de- seribing-the various phases of the orgartization’s work and re- lating some of the amazing ex- periences of its field. workers. These pamphlets may be secured upon request without cost. ~ dent, Alexander Henry, the . So- ciety has numbered among its of- ficers and committee members lays the Golden Eggs? hema 8 Poultry Remedy. will . : tion and eggs. We guarantee this and re- the train for Independence, Kan- sas, where they will visit at the home of the parents of Mr. De- mott. Money in Eggs. — Eggs are not bankable but the money from their sale is. This money is yours for, th q Beginning with its first presi-| H : pag low do you treat the hen that B. A. try in good condi- the yield in Grace Banke........ Adrian,. Mo. | pyursday morning for: ‘Ocean| ita os 7 hoe your money if’ not. satis. John R. Stevens..Auburn, Neb.,| Park; California, where they will|1816 Chestnut Street, “Cc ‘ Clemy Duggan. ...Bates County. re home, - .. ‘| phiia, Pa. ee : 10.1 OK ee Bis