The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, January 18, 1917, Page 2

i (Savona! ensessccsosssccccosssssocsososssosocecesees { peoosvovsssstetetesssssassessosetesEettet oes Did you ever at- . tend — one of ‘Dame Nature’s’ concerts? Lf not you have — cer- tainly missed a rare, free treat. Go some morning in May to the deep woods when the sun is glint- ing through the budding branches of the trees, when the ‘‘ Johnny Jumpers’? and the yellow ‘‘cow- slip’? come peeping from _ their winter's bed of moss and leaves, find a secluded place, the world _ forgetting and by the world for- got and just listen. I once attend- ed one of these concerts and ean only faintly describe it.. Nor do Lreeall the names of all the musi- cians, ‘Jim Crow’? was leader and played a slide trombone, I think. Anyway, he slid down out of the air, alighted on a dead tree and ‘‘cawed"’ the band to order. There were Prof, Yellow Hammer, Mr. Bob-o-link, Mr. and Mrs. Brown Thrush, Mr. Blue Jay, Mr. Cock Robin, Mr. Red Tan- aged and some others. Mr. Yel- low Hammer was ‘‘drummer,’’ he drummed on a hollow log. Mr. Kob-o-link played a piccolo and the way he could run the seale was beautiful. Red Tanaged was the flutist—and all the rest were in’ perfect harmony and such music, I] have heard Sousa, Gill- more, Pryor, Danz and many fam- ous bands but they pale into in- good old times. of the past here in_Peaceful Val- ley. Corn sold for 15¢ per bush- el, hogs $2.50 per ewt., flour was so cheap that biscuits didn’t taste good and we eat ‘‘corn pone’’ be- cause we liked it. Folks were so ‘honest’? they wouldn’t steal anything (which they couldn’t lift). We always left the ‘‘smoke house’’ open (when there was nothing_in it) and felt perfectly safe. O, yes, times have changed. For the better? I don’t think so. Me for the haleyon days of the past where we were all so happy though so poor. I tried to buy a dog a few days ago and the whole blamed office forve gave me the ha ha. I of- fered one simoleon for him and do you know I can’t ‘‘figger’’ out why they laughed. | Whether’ it was because I was fool enough to offer so much or whether I didn’t have sense enough to bid what the “animule’’ was ‘‘wuth."’ dunno. Were you ever hot you haven’t missed anything (much worth while). To be home-| sick you must go away from: home, Same as sea sickness, you | must go to sea, Me? O, yes, I} have ‘‘went’’ away from home. Onee I went west, out to the far; places; out among the everlasting | hills, eentipedes, herned itoads, and gila monsters. Out where every prospect is guaranteed to please and where the ‘‘seenery’’| _ The roseate days| GRIPPE MORE DANGEROUS +Ravenel of the school of medicine | meningitis ale | symptoms. surance ; hhomenicle? If of grippe the digestive tract is the of this is apportioned to the sev- chief location. Free Text Books. A. C. Moreland, Co. Supt. On page 134 of the 1913 Mis- souri School Law is found the Orr Free Text Book Law which is an act to provide free text books in all of the elementary schools in the state. The question of free text books may be submitted at an annual or a special school meeting. Fifteen days notice must be given. A ma- THAN ORDINARY COLDS May Be Followed by Other Dis- eases—Germ Produces Nerv- ousness. Grippe is a different and more dangerous disease than the ordi- nary cold, according to Dr. M. P. lof the University of Missouri. It has become a fashion, however, to ‘eall all severe colds, grippe. The} 8Y vel ‘ordinary cold is an infleiamation jority vote of the qualified voters lof the mucous membrane of the] Voting is necessary to decide the upper respiratory tract. The question of providing free text |proper name for grippe is influ- books. : lenza. It is caused by a specific} This law provides that school igerm whieh, to a greater or less| districts which furnish the nee- extent, invades the body. It a a school books for the ele- variably produces a nervous con- {mentary grades shall be entitled dition and often times intense de-|to a certain part of the Foreign pression, symptoms which are not Insurance Tax moneys. The For- seen in the ordinary eold. eign Life and Fire Insurance com- irippe is a dangerous disease. panies doing business in Missouri j It may he followed by pneumonia, | pay as a tax to the state two per or severe intestinal|cent of all premiums collected on Indeed, in’one form| insurance policies. One per eent This is knownas|eral counties. The number of abdominal or intestinal grippe. children enumerated in each Grippe is particularly danger-| county being the basis for deter- ous for those suffering from|mining the amount of money each |chronic diseases, particularly con. | county shall receive. The amount sumption, After a long absenee| of money apportioned to Bates from America, an intensely severe ; county this year was $290.41 or epidemic reached this country in 4208 per pupil enumerated. A889, There was a large number} Only one district. in Bates coun- of deaths, and a number of cases|ty got free text book money; this in which the depression and de-javas Rich Hill which received lirium reached insanity, There | #317.338. The remainder of the is supposed to take the place of | were many cases..of tubereulosis | 2901.41 is turned into the gen- If you want to save money on Groceries just Phone K 77 where you can get 5 tbs Hominy Flakes for..25c 3 tbs Green Dried Peas...25c 3 cans Hominy...... ..25c 3 cans Gooseberries .25c 3 cans Blackberries. 3 cans Pumpkin..... -25c 1 f) Good Coffee....... 3 cans Good Sweet Cider.25c 6 bars Crystal White Soap 25c 3 cans Pears...............25¢ *3 cans Baking Powder....25c 6 bars Rub-No-More Soap .25c 4 tbs Good Rice for........25¢ 5 ibs Cracked Hominy....25c¢ 3 Bars Good Toilet Soap..25c . .25¢ 2 cans Good Peaches... 3 Large Pkgs. Soda....... 6 Pkgs. Rub-No-More..... Regular 30c Peaches now.. Regular 25c Peaches now... Regular 20c Peaches now .... Regular 15c Peachés now .. 1 Gallon Can Red Pitted Cherries for 85c =AT= -GOSNELL’S GROCERY | Phone 77 books are necessary if we expect} PRAISES NATIONAL GUARD to have free schools. — r The State Superintendent re-|Seeretary of War Baker Writes cently secured reports from 385 General Clark a Letter Ex- school districts which are using pressing Appreciation, free text books, and of the 385 reporting 375 reported in favor of In view. of the fact that some of pork and beans But | following this epidemic. These ‘ idn't belong and says 1) ; found T didn't belong and says 1) oacos were unquestionably people al revenue fund of the county. After free text books are voted, free books and 10 opposed them. The above clerks reported the fol- the officials of the regular army have recently. spoken ‘disparag- succeed, to myself says I, as follows: \ O, my soul why did [ wander) to these hills so far away, where | significance when compared — to nafure’s band of feathered song- sters. J can't deseribe it. Go|*?. LECTIN e Eade EGRET | some day in spring and hear it, |5!% dS ae Hf sau a F S For! forget it not I beg you. Like all fe timee UNOS A Cey or | Missouri | am = Jonging with a the beautiful things of nature it is free, Less superstition in the world to day than 100 years ago? No-—|#nd these ate quiescent: perhaps, but here just sometime, And the steps [ll soon the same. the fives one youll’ taking for my old Missouri meet if he is superstitions Ana he |lome, will make folks think the: will tell you no, and in that very /earth is quaking for LI sure be instant’ he will commit the same! BOUE, offense for which an old timer} ‘i named | + Ue longing near sublime and you can] bet TH leave some “foot prints ‘darned old hills “voin’ *Apnanias’’ got his. | a Open an umbrella in the house} “bad luek.”’ Put on your left — rhoe first, ‘had luck.’’ Sneeze) Kerens Estate Over Six Million— before breakfast, get out on the Paid Taxes on $12,900. left side of bed, spill the salt, all}. . 4 bad Iuck signs and whether we}, The late Richard C. admit it to others or not ‘we be-|former Ambassador to ‘ Superstition? Well, | Whose, personal property was list- ed Friday by the St. Louis Union Trust Company in the Probate 5,703.07, paid taxes lieve it.” yes, A man in Texas went hunting, | * bak was|Court at $6 S, jspreads it from one to another. the school board must supply the tubercle germ and were resisting |‘irst four grades” the first year; it. The attack of grippe so low-|the fifth and second grades the ered their vital power that the|second year; and the seventh and tubercle gern again beeame ac-|cighth grades © the third year. ive, t That is, the board must supply all The first symptoms.*of grippe|of the grades the first years, If are usually those of an acute cold, |it does not it forfeits its right to chilliness, — sneezing, digeharge any of the money apportioned for from the nostrils and a eough.| free text books.” The school board The germ is thrown out partien-| must also eertify to the county larly in fhe material whieh is|clerk that they are supplying the coughed up. [t is fortunately a | grades with books. The county delicate germ, and ean not sur-{clerk will then apportion — the vive exposure for any length of} proper amount to each district time, voting free text books. The grippé germ is spread; Free text books have proven to chiefly by sneezing, coughing, or|be very successful where — they direct contaet of any sort. The|have been tried. Thirteen states use of the same handkerchief by|have voted free text books. The » mumber of persons readily [best example of free text books is the city of St. Louis which sup- ; There is no speeific treatment] plies books, pencils, tablets, ink, for grippe. Patent , mediciges|and ete. for 28e per pupil This ishould be avoided, It is a disease] includes the high school pupils of iwhieh requires the services of a} St. Louis. The average price per Jskilled physician and the utmost] pupil where free text books are who had been infected with the was bitten by a spider and : 7 immediately dead. Now if per-| for the year of 1916° on 412,900} air, used is 500e, This makes it much sons persist in going hunting worth of personal property and | Ene cheaper for the distriet to own the “Santidote’? for| Was assessed $50,000 poisonous , insects and — snake} personal property for 1917, with a {loubling penalty, making $100,- bites? That's all. : 3 T see where a man cured him}? at the rate of $2.35 per $100, 10 taxes to be paid on his self of the drink habit of 35 years) 0" } ; hy a very simple recipe. Pshaw, Laas for 1917, mi heard of a man 85 years old who}, Among the personal effects are anit the habit of eating without sted: Lae d any sort of a recipe, He just A piece of Trish turf, no value; died." ja was eagle from the wedding Anyone who can fill a long felt j ike of Mrs. (itoven Cleveland, nO want is or should be considered aj Y#lnes eight figures made of re benefactor. But the chap who called ““greenbacks ae can create said “long felt want’? bills issued at the time of the Civ and then proceeds to fill it has a W ar), no value: a cane made head for business and is hound to|frem part of the tree from which John Brown was hanged, valued at $1, and a piece of the elm tree without taking an I notice quite a list of things; “the allies are expeeted to ask in their peace terms.’’ They don't took command of the army, say what they expect to get. But valued at $10 : Ml bet To ocan guess. It’s al Col, Nerens willed his estate to his two sons and two daughters. If vou have started the new) The bequests to the sons were left year with ‘The Butler Weekly! in. trust. The will provides that Times’? you have not only sub-| Vincent Kerens, one of the sons seribed for the best country: paper [Must remain sober for fiye year but you have laid yourself liable | before he can have control of his to have more sunshine in your{ stare of the estate. The ouine homes than ever before, That is|*" is Richard Kereys, Jr. The if you read “Sunbeams,”* danghters are Mrs. G. Hamilton course vou will. |Colket of Merion, Pa., New York City will build a 50,000. tabernacle..for the noted “hallyhooer’’ Billy Sunday to ea-| vort around in and afford cheap FRANCE OWES ON OLD WAR: “darned good liekin’.”* and of tand. “amusement. Far be it from mej -———— . to discourage any good move- Some Villages Have Not Paid ment. But is it a good move-| German Requisition of ment? T[ don’t think so. . If the 1870. - 2 people of the towns and cities who pay such princely sums to! Paris, Jan, 13,—Discussion of those ‘‘barn stormers’’ would pay|the proposition for the integral their home preachers better sal-|reparation of all war damages in aries and give them their moral|France has developed the fact support as well, more and lasting|that some French cities and_vil- good would result. We can hear|lages have not yet finished pay- better fermons every Sunday in| ing obligations incurred in order our home churches than Bill Sun-|to satisfy requisitions by the Ger- day or any other would-be-evang-|man armies in 1870. elist ever preached or ever will] Two villages.of the old depart- preach. Quite so. - + |ment of the Haute’ Marne, four Ever stop to think what trifling] villages of the Aisne, one of the things cause death? Now, I|Haute Saone, two of the Somme heard .of .a man who almost lost|and cight in Meurthe and Moselle his life from a bull rush. The bull] still owe a portion of the money made a rush and the nearest tree|horrowed to pay the contributions was about 100 yards away. levied upon them, while the city No use a-tall of repining be-jof Amiens, fined $200,000 during cause you have bills you can’t|the short occupation of 1914, has pay. Don’t make folks hate you|not vet finished paying the mill- by whining, just try being ‘‘Sun-|ion dollars the,Germans levied on ny”’ each day. the town in 1870. It still. owes I have been ‘‘thinkin’’ of the] $600,000. worth of; funder which George -Washingtom! }2 YO, K. M. and Mrs. | 'Madeline Kerens Kenna of Eng-! text books and have the children ruse then. . Free text books offer better in- Milk in Winter. » Why do your cows give less pik in winter than they do in} <tynetion beeause all the pupils isummer/ Just because nature; have the books to begin with at tives not supply them with grass-lthe same time. It is very diffi- es and green food. But we have | cult for all of the pupils to be sup- come to the assistance of Dame] plied with books at the same time Nature with B.A, Thomas’ Stock} where parents live in the country ‘Remedy which contains the very} heeanse parents: are often unwill- ‘ingredients that the green feeding to quit their work and make supplies in season, only, of course, | 4 trip to town to get books. ja a more highly concentrated They are more sanitary than Horm, We guarantee that this} srivate ownership because all jvemedy will make your cows give} 4ooks may be fumigated, and in jmore milk, and better milk, with} ease any of them are badly con- | the same. feed. raminated, the hoard of directors j C. CL Rhodes Pharmacy, may order them destroyed and Butler, Mo.| supply new ones. This ean not se ve done very well under private iItalian Battle Ship Sunk by Mine. | ’“2ership. \ ; F Some parents are unable to sup- | Rome; via Paris, Jan, 13.—Offi-| ply text books for their children, icial announcement concerning the} put at the same time, they are ‘loss of the Italian battle ship Re-] unwilling to do so in order that a Margherita is that the vessel] board may purehase them for was lost Jan. 11 because of strik-| the children, The 1915 School ‘ing a submerged mine. Law provides for purchase of text Two hundred and seventy of|books by the school board for ‘the ships crew were saved, 675] poor children, but a great many ‘being lost. children are not itt school because The Regina Margherita was] they haven't text books. The par- completed in May, 1904, and was]ents may be too poor or they may a vessel of 13,427 tons, 426 feet} be too ignerant themselves to re- long and had a draft of 27 feet.] alize the\desirahility of education (She carried four 12-inch, four 8-| for their offspring. No matter ‘inch, twelve 6-inch guns, twenty | what the reason may be the chil- Maxims and 4 torpedo tubes. dren are not responsible for it, The Regina Margherita was a]and should not be deprived of an sister ship of the Beneditto Brin,| education beeause of such condi- whieh was badly damaged by an] tions. {explosion on board in 1915, in] Then books are necessary for which a large nuurber of her crew, | educational work. A man may including Rear Admiral de Cer-|edueate himself without a teach- win, was killed. er or a school house but he can not Pe eee do so without books. Possibly Peace Means Idle Millions, the printing press has been the 3 greatest factor in educating peo- London, Jan, 13.—It is estimat-| ple. A supply of desirable read- jed that between 6 and 8 millions] ing material has caused the build- of persons now employed by the] ing of free libraries. government, representing half the] Some argue that they pay taxes wage-earning population of the] for the support of the government United Kingdom, will have to be]and not to supply books for jeo- discharged at the end of the war,| ple who are unable to buy them. according to the report of the] This is no argument as it is the committee on labor problems af-] business of the government to ed- ter the war. All these workers} ucate and this can not be done will not be discharged simultane-| without books. If this be true ously, but it is probable that}why should ‘the peaple build within two months after peace|school houses and hire teachers has been declared, some 2 or 3} for those who are able to hire million workers will be turned] private teachers and to build pri- off. vate school houses. Free text lowing reasons for the use of free|ingly of the National Guard, th- text books: | following letter from Seeretary o/ 1. One hundred forty-two dis-| War Newton D. Baker to Genera: triets reported in favor of free|Harvey C. Clark of Nevada ani books because it has proven of an|published in the Nevada Herald advantage to poor parents. jexpressing his appreciation _o! 2. Forty-three distriets report-|the services rendered by the Na od a better attendance since the! tional Guard will be of interest: adoption of free books. | “Et wish to thank you and th 3. Nineteen distriets reported | officers and men of your organ: that the pupils take better care! zation who went to the border i response to the call of the presi valuable — services of the books. s 4. leven districts favor free, dent, for the hooks beeause it gives equal) which you have rendered th rights to all children, i country. When the Nationa: SS (Guard was called into the servic Germans Make a Rubbe Substitute. Stoekholm, Jan. 13.-—According | to reports reaching here, German) of the federal government, th lives of men, women and childrer along the frontier were in grav danger, owing to the formidabl experimenters have suceeeded in| bandit raids from the Mexicai making a synthetic rubber, from side of the boundary, It is no’ they. imported | to much to say that had thes pitch. of which ‘ i great quantities. from Sweden. | raids continued, there was danger Similar experiments have been | of international war. From th: conducted by various Swedish , tine of the arrival of the unity scientists. but thus far without of the National Guard on the bor- sueces Many of them are. still! der, the raids ceased, and the.ter of the opinion, however, that the; $0" between the two countries be- idea is feasible, and are not dis-| 84" to relax. It is the hope anc posed to doubt that the Germans belief of the government that th have succeeded, although they | Presence of the units of the Na- incline to believe that the discor-| tional Guard, together with the cry cannot yet be of great prac- Units of the Regular Army, on the tical signifieanee, ‘border and in Mexico, and the Pata ig os presence in mobilization camps of WOULD STOP BOOZE SHIP-\the National Guard in readiness MENTS for such service, has made pos poses sible a peaceful solution of a dif- Senator Thompson of Kansas In- ficult and threatening problem. troduces a ‘‘Bone Dry’’ ‘Very respectfully, Law. : “NEWTON D. BAKER, *“‘Seeretary of War.’ Washington, Jan. 13.-—Nenator Thompson of Kansas has _ intro- duced a bill in the Senate forbid- ding the shipment of intoxicants for any purpose into ‘‘dry” . states. This measure goes a step The two story dwelling on th farther than the Webb-Kenyon, Perry Davis farm, one mile north Law, just upheld in the supreme; west of Hume, this county, wa- vourt, which prohibits the ship- destroyed by fire at 5 o'clock ment of liquor into a ‘‘dry’’ state| Thursday afternoon. The hous: for unlawful purposes. The} was oecupied by Mrs. Davis, and Thompson measure would stop all, son who, it is stated had been ir shipments. : ‘Hume on business and returning Senator Curtis has introduced | home started a fire in the kiteh- a bill providing that no govern-!cu stove. Later the roof was dis- ment authorization for the sale of} covered to be on fire. Phone calls intoxicants shall be issued to any | were sent to Hume for help, but wholesale or retail liquor dealer|the house was soon swept away until he shall have advertised his|hy the fire. Mrs. Davis sueceed- intent to sell liquor ina newspap-' ed in-getting out only a few arti- er of general circulation in that }¢lesof “housetiotd “gonis. itis vommunity. The advertisement | understood Mrs. Davis had ov must state the place of business | insurance. of the applicant, his name and ad-} The property was owned by J. dress and the date and place his! W. Jamison of this city, and th: application will be presented.|{loss is estimated at about $3500. The bill is calculated to put anoth-| ith $2500 insurance.-—-Rieh Hil! er obstacle in the way of bootleg-| Review. ee. L sriaeg the measure was taken from the judiciary commit- 1 tee and sent to me committee on - For Rent. finance, and that committee is not} 80 acres meadow land ‘for rea‘ in the habit of favoring measures|in Summit township. that tend to cut down revenue, as! Inquire G. S. 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