The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, January 18, 1917, Page 5

}- | | The Daylight Store : A Bargain In Suits *. Coats While they last you may have them at One-Half Price for Cash i 4 y, i We also offer Men’s Suits and Overcoats | AT GREAT REDUCTIONS American Clothing House 1 : The Good Clothes Store ; ' Mr .and Mrs. J. A. Trimble spent a few days the first of the week in Kansas City visiting rel- atives and taking in the sights. Tom Cannon and Andy two prominent Maysburg neighborhood ~~ were county seat visitors Wednesday. Mrs, Elmer Fuller, of Spokane, Washington, will arrive in Butler today for an extended visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs, W. H. Holloway and brother, H. H. Hol- loway and family. Monday morning when — the folks in Butler and vicinity woke up and looked out of the windows they found that the ground was covered by about three or four inches of snow that had fallen during the night. Since that time the temperature has been hover- ing just above the zero. mark and the snow is staying with us. Mound Branch is frozen over with good smooth ice and the young folks are having a lot of fun skat- ing. Judge and Mrs. A. B. Owen returnéd Monday from Kansas City where they had been visiting Mr. and Mrs. 0. K- Davis. They spent Sunday at the MeCune home for incorrigible boys as the, guest of the superintendent, J, M. Taylor, who was at one principal of the Butler schools. “Of cou “Hip Hip, Hoora) tion Hall and like ”* at Conven- others from Butler that saw it pronounce it, the best ever. Doll, | served. farmers of the} time | public, they took in: U. will meet ‘| The W. C. | Wendell Atkeson left the ast the home of Mrs. C. ©. Woods on| of the week for Columbia, where i West Ohio street on Friday, Jan-| he-will attend school. luary 19, at 8 o'clock p.m. Hoff- A aN eee 5 |man memorial day will be ob.) Mrs. Fanny Poplin of Buf- : ifalo, New York, is a guest at the i Fhome of her brother, A. ©. More- | lM. Thorp, formerly of” the} kind. { igeneral delivery department of | the Kansas City postoffice, who vwas transferred to route six out fof the Butler office, has rented (the residence on Ohio street for- merly occupied by Glenn Tag-} j gard, } Mr. and Mrs, A. ©. Coberly will ileave the last of the week for [Kansas City on a business and i pleasure trip. Renew your subscription for | the Kansas City Post with Chris The Times good friend R. val Black, Agent. Terms: 45¢ per iMeKown, of Milliken, Colorado, | month; 6 months $2.50; one year | writes us-that-he is doing well in #450, | that country and that it looks as! yj, A, Cobb returned Monday , jthough crops would be good this from an extended trip through | jyear as snow, which is a requisite) New Mexico and Colorado. Mr.| for good crops in that ya 'was plentiful this wing The Sunshine Band, the young | ladies class of the Ohio street M.| (BE. Chureh, have been working | are " a $ reek rehears. oj . . . 4 a ah ee EL Hes ba bavi os eee will produce at the ehureh Thurs- | CECH OE TAS REBCE: day night. Miss Francis Catron} 4 large number of Butler folks | is the coach, and that insures the! went up to Kansas City last week {success of the entertainment. jto attend ‘Hip, Hip Hooray,”’ at! Phil-| the Convention Hall, and they all rt that it is the greatest ever. | Rey. Barkley Meador, traveling | representative of Christian Evan- | gelist, of St. Louis, spent Sunday | | You read and enjoyed BK. lips Oppenheim’s excellent story, | "°P° “Under Suspicion’? when it ranin| (ay. kj Peel eae the Saturday Evening Post some | 5 wae av oe ener time ago. It has been dramatized | NOUNS SAIS SE UVa TRE ODE iia Aide vcuecall es tak les lonhuanidle ‘ployed by Harley Smith to run) mMicntie Bek Monday Ateenool [the motor bus between the depot | Ps ee enemies caine ae the. kraternsl Inn, Mr. and night. It is a R d Feather !Smith will devote all of his time} whieh insures it being a good hortiieliatel | show. It is a detective story, ful] of life and action from first to] Relatives in this city received) last. la telegram Monday announcing jthe serious ilIness of Mrs, George The Motor and Speed Regulator To insure perfect evenness of tone, it is important that the motor of a Talking Machine be regular and positive in its action. It should run at exactly the same speed when tightly wound as when almost run down, and its speed shguld, at all times, be uniform. 1 The ‘Artophone motor is built-hy the most experience and expert mechanics, to mect the special It is so well constructed cleaned oceasionally, it will last indefinitely, Machines at very much higher prices have no better mo- tor, and few have as good as that found in the Artophone. The speed regulator is so sealed that by simply turning a con- veniently located indicator, any desired speed may easily be this machine. maintained. _ Let Us Demonstrate. WALKER-McKIBBEN’S The Quality Store. Logan, at her home at Cain Hlinois. s. M. C. Arnold, be ‘mother, and W. 8. Arnold, her |brother, left Monday night for Cairo. Mrs. Logan will be remem. hered by her Butler friends as | Miss Maggie Arnold. j colored, Squire Ehner Hawkins, tried before a jury in Catron’s court Monday chareed | | with stealing a mule hide. About| ltwo weeks ago a yearling mile | ‘helonging to John Wix fell ii a i well on the Lane place, southwest lof town and was drowned. \Mr.| i Wix hauled the mule from the iwell and the next day: went out] ‘to remove the hide, but found} that some one had beater hin to| vit, and Hawkins was suspected jand arrested, but stieceeded in jconvineing the jury that he was linnocent, so they turned him loose. sented Hawkins and Pro: Attorney Dawson the st euting From Mr. Ernest Lihn of the firm of Peterson, & Lihn of near | Amsterdam we learn of the won- derful record by a Holstein cow. legis Fayne Johama, owned by Oliver Cabana, Jr. Elma Center, N. Y., is the — first ed cow in the world to make 50 at pounds of butter in a week, Sh ealved in December, 1916, at 8 years, 2 months, 17 days and gave in 7 consecutive days 0.8 pounds of milk containing fat to make 50.68 pounds 80 per cent butter. She was fed 30. pounds grain, 40, pounds. silage. 100 pounds beets, 32 pounds bect pulp and 12 pounds alfalfa hay every 24 hours. It takes feed and breeding to make butter and milk. requirements that, if oiled and j (day visiting jhome near Pratt, Nansi Major, the enterprising Resrys eA Sansas City ‘Tues-| a jmen, went to Kansas ie ity ‘Tues: Prance day to take in the big implement! Christmas vacation. { Toronto, Kan Roy Long left the last of the week for eastern Oklahoma on a business trip. Mrs. Mary Atherton and daugh- ter, Vessie, have returned from a six weeks visit to Miami, Okla. | 240 acre farm for rent for cash, Mrs.‘ Dora Harshaw, 13-2t* Butler, Mo. Coleman. Wood left Saturday for Casper, Wyoming, where he has a good position with the Standard Oil Company. . Mayor Heinlein, of the Bennett- Wheeler Mercantile Company, is attending the Implement Men’s Convention in Kansas City. Mr, and Mrs. Orville Stansbur- ry and son, David, of Okmulgee, Oklahoma, ,arrived in this . city last week on a visit to relatives. E. D. Young came in Saturday night from La Plata, where he is cngaged in the elothing business, {o spend a few days with. home folks. i : ‘ I will give $2.50 per bushel. for timothy seed, mixed with . Red Top or clover. Ki. E. Laughlin, 13-2t# Foster, Mo. Bruce Steele, of Lamar, Colo- rado, was called to this city the last of the week by the serious ill- ness of his father, Judge FF. M. Steele. Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Radford, who have been visiting relatives near Spruce, returned to their home at Loveland, Colorado, the latter part of the week, Mrs. Nuel Mills, who has been spending the last week or two in this city with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W.S. Arnold, returmed to her home in Kansas City Sun- day. Dan Thomas, of St. Louis, was eadled to this city Tuesday morn- ing by the serious illness of his mother, Mrs. Sarah Thomas, who is suffering from an peumonia, On the account of her! advanced age there.is but little hope for, her recovery, Mr. and Mrs. O. K. Davis. and daughter, Miss Irene, motored puntrys | Cobb reports. times as being good | down from Independence Thurs: yi qaatiy ay tin the west. | ast week and spent the friends, home Friday. Judge and Mrs, A. I= Owen accompanied them home fora few days visit. day, of Sunday while attending a meet- ing of the Loyal Sons Bible class, leetwood Thomas: was stricken with an attack of heart failure. He was taken to his home on South Main street, where Dr, R. E. Crabtree soon pronounced hin out of immediate danger. Mrs. Fred) Novotney, who has heen visiting at the home of her parents, Mr. and) Mrs. Herman Englehardt, in the west part. of the county, was called to her last serious week by the news of the iIness of her sister-in-law. A.W. WeMott and Claude harness us show at Con- and harness mak new in the harness line WeMott & Major want to know about. it. R. W. Lowrey, of Lincoln, Ne- braska, was called to this city by the serious illness of his aunt, Mrs. S. M. Lowrey, who is very ill with pneumonia at her home) in the north part of this city. Mr. Lowrey was at one time a citizen of this county, being a son of Jo- seph B. Lowrey, of Foster, Dr. M. 1 Hurley, who has been doing work in Bates and Cass counties for the Agricultural Ex- tension of the Agricultural Col- lege, was in the city Tuesday and in talking over the hog cholera situation said that he had been all Aen, Ivers penres . Silvers & Silvers repre’ over Bates county. and did not find a single case of cholera. Radford and Thomas, the hors buyers, will leave Thursday for . where they will spend several days buying horses ona big war contract. Both mem- bers of this firm have been in the horse business for many years and they know a good horse when they see it, and they pay the top| prices. Clay Mauck, an enterprising young farmer of Hudson town- ship was in the city one day the first of the we id dropped in- to The Times office and ordered the paper sent to his father, Ju- jus Mauck. The Maucks are straight republicans and mighty fine men, but they wanted all the news, so of course they subseribed for The Times. attack of |2 returning |, Mrs, J. A. Ellis, of McComb, Illinois, is in the city visiting her sister, Mrs. 8. M. Lowrey, of | North Main street. fs Hay for Sale—Choice barn tim- othy hay, baled, in ton or car lots, 13-2t Baker Bros. Tel. Spruee. Butler, Mo, Route 8. Mrs. William: Hubbard is. very sick at her home in’ the north part of town. Mrs. Nellie Allen, a professional nurse from Kan- sas City, is taking care of her. Lost — Pocketbook, somewhere hetween Butler and Virginia. Contained two good rings, one band, one set ring, and watch fob. Jas. Vickers, Amsterdam, Route 2.! 14.1t* Mr, and Mrs. Glenn Haggard and little son left the last of the week for Kansas City, where they will make’their future home, Mr. Haggard was a rural carrier out of the Butler postoffice and trans- ferred to a place in’ the Kansas | City office. ; The many friends of Judge F. M. Steele will regret to learn that seriously ill at his home on Pine street. The Judge has for a long time © been afflicted with cancer and of late his condi- tion has grown mueh worse, His three sons, Bruce of Lamar, Colo- rado, Earl, of Piedmont, Okla- homa, and Emmet, of Parker, | Kansas, were called to this city the last. of the week, Senator Baldwin writes The Times from Jefferson City, that owing to the large number of bills being introduced at this session the business is rather slow in get- ting under way. This district is fortunate in being represented in the state senate by a man of the! calibre of Senator Baldwin, He is on the job every minute wateh- ing the interests of his constitu- ents, John B. Davis, aged 56 died at his home in this city at g Friday morning, from the vesulis of injuries received in fina ‘ident at the Eureka min- ing plant ‘Tuesday morning. M 'Davis had dived here for a num-! her of years, Was an industrious | and highly respected citizen, and | Veloek He was a mem- Pythias Ivo and friends, ver oof the Knights of lodge— Rich Hill) Review ; The Bates County Press Asso- | ciation wil! hold its next meeting at Adrian Friday afternoon and night. February 26, At the after-} noon meeting there will be shop | talks by the various members and | at night it is planned’ to have a i n jannnal foo. | HOUSE COMMITTEE TO SCAN CLOSELY DEFICIENCY ITEMS’ - Practice of Spending Money Not Appropriated. Jefferson City, Mo. Jan. 16.-- The Appropriation Committee of the House will make a thorough inquiry of the deficiency accounts all of the State. institutions. According to Goy. Frederick D. Gardner this sum totals about $1,- $00,000. At a conference of the Appro- priation Committee a subcommit- tee, composed of Rich C, Correll, Randolph county; A. D. Bowman, Seott, and J. A. Bradley of Pem- liscot, were selected to make this investigation. The Legislature at each siore makes appropriation for a bian- nual period, Tf the funds in the State institutions are incurred and deficiency bills are presented at the next General’ Assembly to pay this indebtednes It is hinted that the [Louse may pass drastie rules this winter, which will prevent a reoccurrence of the introduction of deficiency necounts, A sweeping order may be sent broadcast that the State will re- fuse to pay any accounts unless authorized and within the appro- priation of any and each State in- stitution, Few important bills were intre- duced this morning in the House. mn was brief pending the ion of the House and Senate this afternoon when the gubernatorial controversy was de- bated. Warry B. Hawes present cdoone of his good 1 bills, which? repeals various sections of the statute in order to comply with the general good roads bill previously introduced in the House, Representative Chancellor sent nv omeasure to the reading clerk, Mmaking it possible for the author ities to make a search for liquor which might be shipped into dry territory. The third bill thus texthook commiission was read, Representative olsen favors licensing laundry agents, and pre a shock to the fami-| sented a bill requiring the laun dry representatives to pay a stall The Senate for the first time since the heginning of the present session, wot to work today. Five proposed constitutional amend ments were introduced and TS bills ranging from providing: bounties tor killing hawks and owls to home rule for St. Louis in police and excise departments and Dean Williams, of the School of Journalism, at Columbia, — pres-| ent and deliver an address in one | of the churches of Adrian” to! j Which the publie will be invited. Vernon Nash, who was gradu: } ated from the Sehool of Journal | ism of the University of Missouri | in 1914 and is now attending Ox-| ford University as a Rhodes | scholar, will reeeive a commis- sion as a driver of an American Red Cross motor ambulance in during his six weeks | Before go-| ing to Oxford he was news editor | ivention Hall. Hf there is anything! yp the Maryville (Mo.) Democrat: | ih Forun. exchanges this Arkanusaw | Among our reek owe find the 'Thomas Cat, published at Hot, Springs and edited by 41. Davis | Orear. Orear, who wasat one time | resident of Bates county and worked on most of the papers in| Butler, gets out a paper with a puneh and he seems to have the: courage of his convictions, hop. (Ditte-onte-every thing that does. not suit him. He is reported te jhave made a fortune in the years jthat he has heen running the Thomas Cat. A plan has long been iway to build a first-class road he- | i tween iw Butler "and Ft. Scott. by | , of Foster and Hume. There | three routes each asking to he | lehosen as the official route be-} tween Butler and Foster, the Mar-! vel bridge route, the [sland bridge | route and the Haymaker briggge | route. ust fall there was a big meeting at Foster and at that! meeting a committee was select-| ed to pick out the route. So far) the committee have made no re- | port. Saturday Wiley Wood and EL. Thomas were~ in town boosting for the Haymaker ridge route. Both these gentlemen are hustlers and if their route is not chosen it will not be for the lack of hard work on their part. The Haymaker route was the old mail route between Foster and Butlen previous to the building of the Madison branch of the Missouri Pacifie railroad. under! the calling of a constitutional eon vention, Contrary to announcement, President Pro Tem. Morton did. not have the list of standing core initlees ready, ‘They will he an houneed tomorrow, Senator Carter offered two eimendinents, one | submitting State-wide prohibition at the gen- jeral election in TOTS and the other providing for a levy of 10 cents on the $1000 valuation for read purposes, The datter provides for an exemption from the proposed tax of all money loaned oa farm lands A per cent and les In introducing the prohibition resolution Senator Carter said that it was the intention of the advocates of prohibition in Mis- souri to submit if at the 191s elec. tion through the initiative and referendum in the event of its Saihire to pass the Assembly. Nenator Cook's proposed amendment is designed to relieve the general revenue fund of the fate of the sappert of the pub lic schools and at the same time provide tiore money cael Vea Tor distribution among the schools. It provides for a 10-cent levy for school purposes, which would give the schools approximately 000,000 more than under the nt system, Senator Mitchell's amendment would permit school distriets by a majority vote to levy a maximum tax of the $100 of a ed valua school purposes the same as_in- vorporated cities, towns and vil- la pr proposed amendment of Senator Harris empowers county courts when authorized by the voters of road distr special or oth- to levy 75 vents on the 8100 for road purposes: The Senate bills covered a very wide range of subjects. The see- ond bill that came in. was pre- sented by Senator Baldwin and provides for a closed season of five years for quail. Bill No. 1 also by Senator Baldwin and provides for the establishment of the Torrens system of land title records in this State. — far intro-" fdueed in this session fo create a rural,