The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, February 1, 1917, Page 5

“you get busy. “to have been played between the ‘After I _’ The Daylight Store nventory Sale - hiss Dresses and Waists, all bought while much cheaper than the present - market. 9c to $1.98 LADIES AND MEN’S SHOES Now being sold in city stores at $6.00 to $8.00 are still on sale in this store at $3.50 to $5 bie will save you money if you will give us the opportunity 0 do so. AMERICAN CLOTHING HOUSE The Good Clothes Store Now is the time to have your harness oiled at WeMott & Ma- jors. 15-2 Lee Shelton, of Foster, was a business visitor to the county seat Tuesday. Have your harness oiled and re- | paired before the rush at WeMott & Majors. James White and Edgar F. Herni, of Appleton City,’ were Butler visitors Saturday. ‘Mrs. Edna Smith, of Rich Hill, spent a few days in this city last week visiting friends and rela-! tives. Circuit Clerk H, O. Maxey de- livered an address to the pupils) of the Freeman High School :Fri- | day night. Mrs. Ina Tiffany, who has been visiting at the home of Mr..and Mrs. Ed Culver, returned to her home in Kansas City Saturday. Mrs. Lete Sackett arrived in the city Saturday from Kansas City, heing called here by the illness of her mother, Mrs. W. W. Ross. Dr. E.G. Zey:and Dr. T., F.} Lockwood attended a banquet in’ Kansas City Saturday night giv- en by the Kansas City Medical So- wiety. Cal Fisk, a former Butler busi- ness man, but now of Eldorado, Kansas, was called to this éity Friday by the death of his broth- er, T, L. Fisk. It is only 30 days before you be- gin farming. Take your harness to WeMott & Majors’ and have them repaired and oiled “ee 5-2t The basket ball game that was Butler and Pleasant Hill teams last Friday night was postponed | until a later date. i H. H. Council is installing @ new boiler in his laundry this: week, The old boiler besides be- ing too small was worn out-and the increased business demanded a_new one. The Parish Players will be the | next number at the Opera House and will appear tonight, Febru- ary Ist. Program 8:15 prompt. Prices, adults 50e, students 25e, in balcony. Get seats at —Wel- ton’s. | | i { H i 15-2t | Frank Yarrick and Miss Sarah iM. Earnest, both of Rich Hill, were united in marriage Tuesday afternoon at the M. FE. church, South, parsonage. Rev. KE. K.! | Wolfe officiating. | ' Mr. Joe M. Nolan, a_ noted jbreeder and importer of draft! ‘horses and Col. H: M,. Justice, both of Paola, Kansas, visited at ithe home of Col. C. E. Robbins; i Monday. ; L.A. Wheatley, who held a sale (recently, was in town the other day and ordered the address on his paper changed to Parma, Idaho, where he expects to make ‘his future home. He reports ev- erything as selling well at his sale. Major A. V. Adams, of the ad-! jutant general’s department and Captain Raymond Sheldon, of the! United States army, were in town! Monday inspecting Company B.! This is Major -Adam’s old home and he spent a good part of the day shaking hands with old friends, The Butler members of the En-| campment, I. O. O. F., have re-; ceived an invitation to visit the Adrian lodge next Friday night! and see that lodge exemplify the different degrees of the order. It} is expected that several of the} boys will take advantage of the invitation. ' Judge J. W. McFadden, tiny has for many years conducted the general store at Virginia, has sold ; out to Mr. Wade Cochran, — of: Shelbina, Missouri, who took charge Friday evening. Mr.! Cochran is a clever gentleman and | will keep the store at Virginia up| to the high mark set by Judge Me-| Fadden. Among the new readers of The} Times this week is W. A. Carpen- | ter. on route six. Mr. Carpenter! ist ve sates county, | Miss Mabel Rockhold Sunday in Kansas City friends. spent visiting Ofred Jackson came down from Kansas City and spent Sunday with home folks. Miss Nixie McCleese spent Sun- iday in Rich Hill with her friend, Mrs. Lethia Delarneter. W. E. Welton, the east side jeweler, was a business visitor to Kansas City Tuesday. At a recent meeting of the Rich Hill city conneil a ten years tele- phone franchise was granted to F. M. Campbell. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Morris were called to Urich last week by the death of Mr. Morris’ grand- mother, Mrs. Mary E. Moberly. J. M. Kash of Deepwater town- ship returned home Monday from a week’s visit with his brother, J. E. Kash, at El Dorado Springs. Mr. and Mrs, J. F.. Isley mio- tored up from Rich ‘Hill Sung and spent the day with thefr daughter, Mrs, Otis Baker, and Mr. Baker. The building occupied by the postoffice and drug store at Metz was damaged about $500 by fire Sunday morning, says the Rich Hill Review. Mrs. O. P. Wilson who has been visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Walker, returned the last of the week to her home ix Harwood, Missouri. Miss Mary J. Vancleve, + years of age, died Sunday morn- ing, January 28, at the home of her sister, Mrs. Edward White, one mile east of Rich Hill, says 2 2 ithe Review. * Mrs. Reub Marshall made a brief visit to old friends in this city Friday. She was em route from Kansas City to Joplin. and having moved here from Kansas | City a short time ago, and want-| ing to start right he and Mrs. | Carpenter called at this office Fri-; day and subseribed for the best: paper in the county. i Wendell Atkeson left Sunday for Columbia, where he has ac- cepted a position as private sec-| retary to Dean Jones, of the arts ; and science department of the | University. His duties will al- | low-him-some.time which he will! devote to a University He expeets to take a course in the School of Journalism. Gardner i Governor last week | appoint nd | 1. Ransom police commissioners ; of Kansas City, with orders to! take the police force out of poli-| ties and clean up the city. business will not be entirely new to: him. Mr. and Mrs. A. ©. Coberly have returned from a business i Merke - ire eens Sitver Stare * rabee fiaees.': Velo. . ..- Derandy | Poot cod Peasant . + Willess. ¢ Zempa @vertare . Rereld E Teresdere’s Ease ties the edition and © Conse Sa and ose | SMITHS’ and pleasure trip to Kansas City, Mo. days at the paint and varnish fae- tories studying the making andj fice Saturday was Mr. P. I. Tur- Logan-Moore | ner, who recently moved to Bates Mr. Cober-; county from Modesto, and purchased the Jerry Callahan} the mill, farm, south of town. iness so as to be able to assist his} wanted to keep abreast of the) take the plac: customers in the selecting of the | times in Bates county, so of course} Mr. McClure. he subscribed for The Times. We] miller of wide experience and will} Ft. Scott and Delaware streets. welcome Mr. Turner and his esti- mable family to the Kingdom of applying of the paints and varnishes. | ly has devoted a great deal of | time and study to the paint busgi-! most economical and yet the most harmonious color schemes and ef- fects in paints, stains, and var- nishes, . | jdam, left the last of the week for jTowa, where she will visit rela- tives, ler about ten days ago to start to Jowa, and was stopped here by! daughter, Miss Mr: Coberly tells us that; the news of the death of ‘while in the city he spent several | cousin, Mrs. Oles Stofer. stopped off for a visit to old time friends. Mrs. Ray Priestly, who has heen visiting in this city, at the home of Mr. Priestly’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Priestly, left the last of the week for her home, in Pleasanton, Kansas. B. K. Yager, of Kingfisher, Ok-/ lahoma, last week purchased the W. F. MeKibben farm west of this! city. The Bowman real estate course, | Company male the trate. Mr.-M«- conten; Kibben and his family | plate locating in Amsterdam. Hayden Ray returned the last ed John Halpin and John lof the week from Kansas City where he underwent an operation for the removal of a cataract from one of his eyes. He is get-} Mr. | ting along as well as could be ex-j they could pick them out. Halpin, who is a big contractor, pected and will probably regain was for six years chief of detect-|the use of the eye. | lives of that city, so that police! ates: Daisy Clark, of Amster- Mrs. Clark-came to -But- her} Among the visitors at this of-! | Mlinois, | Mr. Turner | ‘for several ye Renew your subscription for the Kansas City Post with Chris Black, Agent. Terms: 45e per month; 6 months $2.50; one year $4.50. 16-2t The Bates County Medical So- ciety held its first meeting of the year 1917 in this city last week. The subject for discussion was \*‘Rheumatism.’’ There was some fine talks on the treatment of this disease by the different mem- bers of the association. | Miss Mary Braden, who is a teacher in the Kensington public school in Kansas City, visited at the home of her parents, Mr. and | Mrs. Robert Braden Saturday and with her sister, Miss Helen, who left Monday for Warrensburg, where she has accepted a position jas private seeretary to Dean Phillips of the Warrensburg State Normal School. Prof. Charles A. Burke, Cass county’s popular, efficient and ac- commodating superintendent of public schools, has been confined to his home and bed, East Me- chanic Street, this city, since last Saturday, suffering with pneu- monia in a serious form, says the Cass County Demoerat. Prof. Burke was formerly superintend- ent of the Butler public schools. | | | | Relatives in this city received a telegram Monday announcing the death of Mrs. Otis Berryhill, that day at her home at Cushing, FOklahoma, Mrs. Frank and Mrs. Tom Vance and their mother, ‘Mrs. T. J. Berryhill, left on Tues- ‘day's train for Topeka, where the funeral service will take place. Mrs. Berryhill has visited in this city where she has many friends. The Double Branch W. C. T. U. have up a lively contest. They are making a red and white quilt and the member securing the most names at 10¢ a name to place on ladies are doing some hustling fo: ithe prize is something any of The money goes into the local treasury. later. Ist. b> Gaae| One of the jolliest affairs of the season took place Friday even- ing at the hall of the Knights and Ladies of Security, side. It was the Knights Ladies annual.masquerade and dance. There were about one; hundred maskers on the floor and | they were garbed in all sorts of | strangs and unique costumes and | it was a very hard matter to tell who any of them might be, and some very amusing mistakes were made by those who thought that W. McClure, who has been} rs miller at the} Butler Roller Mills, will leave the} last of the week for Lebanon, ! Kansas, where he has accepted a/ position as head miller in a large flouring mill. Mrs. McClure and i 1 | whieh occurred at one o’clock on! uilt. The ee re r| British Cruiser is Sunk. them would be proud to possess. ayxilliary erniser Laurentic of x l 14,992 tons gross, has been sunk We will report more hy a submarine or asa result of The contest closes March! on the south + and ; ‘and a large crowd of buyers are seriously sick at his home on South Broadway, has been stead- ily improving for several days and is now able to be up and around the house, which will be good news to his many friends. Miss Frances Catron, the charming little lady, arrived from Butler Friday and is rehearsing the cast in: Scenes in a Union Depot, to be put on at the audi- torium Saturday night for the benefit of the Christian church which needs a little more money to finish paying for the needed improvements recently — made therein.—Merwin Sun. D. K. Walker of the Walker- MeKibben Mercantile Company, attended a meeting of the associa- tion of United Mercantile Stores, of which the Walker-MeKibben Co. a member, in Kansas City last week. This is an organiza- tion of the leading mercantile firms of the country whieh is in effect a buyer’s association, the organization contracting for great quantities of merchandise for the benefit of its members, purechas- ing ‘in much greater quantities than any mail order house, and thereby enabling its members to secure their merchandise at. less prices than these concerns can possibly buy. Pleasant Gap and Lone Oak Road Boosters. The Pleasant Gap and Lone Oak Road Boosters are not only boosters, but they are workers as well. Last week they put in three days cutting down the grade on the Hart hill and taking out rock, They cut the grade down about six feet and got out an immense amount of rock, On Tuesday} the regular road working day, 40 men with 26 teams hauled the rock to places along the road. The boys say: that they will keep lit up until they have a rock road clear aeross the bottom, Next Tuesday, February 6, and every other Tuesday they will put in the day on the road. | List of Letters. Remaining uncalled for .in the ;post office at Butler, Mo., for the week ending January 23, 1917: C. P. Catron, Hon, D, W. Hill, Mr. C. EF. Lafever, C. D, Lynn, C. P, Melton, Herman Neighmor, Mr. Alva Rolland, Mrs. Laura Sheddrick, Laura Sheets. ‘ These letters will be sent to the dead letter office February 6, 11917 if not delivered before. In calling for the above, please say i‘ Advertised’? giving date of list. J. FE. Williams, Postmaster. Card of Thanks, We wish to thank, through the columns of this paper, our neigh- bors and friends who were so kind during the illness and death of our beloved) mother. Also the Royal Neighbors of Butler lodge for the beautiful flowers., Mrs. L. D. Stoner, Mrs. Thos. Dunlap, ¢ Henry Sellers, Sylvester Sellers, Rufus Sellers, i i | i} London, Jan. 28.—-The British striking a mine, according to an official statement issued tonight hy the British admiralty. Twelve ‘officers and 109 men were saved. | é The admiralty statement adds that the vessel went down off the Iyish coast last Thursday. Big Hog Sale. Next Wednesday W. H. .Char- ters will hold his big bred sow sale at his fine farm just north- west of the city limits. The sale has been extensively advertised 1 expected-to be on hand, as the Charters hogs have the reputation of being as good as grow. Co Hedge Posts for Sale. Fight foot ¢orner posts from] six to ten inches in diameter at W. H. Holloway, who has been | Treturn trip here, having Phillip Heckadon Dead. Phillip Heekadon,-one of Bates county2s inost highly esteemed citizens, died at his home on West’ PinevStrect, Monday afternoon, after a two days illness of pneu- monia. Mr. Heckadon was born in Cayuga, Woldimand county, Can- ada, March 15, 1836. He came to the United States in 1857 and set- tled in Kansas. At the outhreak of the Civil War he enlisted in a Kansas regiment and served four years. Soon after the close of the war he came to Missouri and lo- cated on a farm a short distance ia, north of Virgir where he lived until a few years ago wheu he moved to this city. Ife was of a genial, sunny tem- perament, always ready with & smile to meet what the world had in store for him. He was a good neighbor, a kind and indulgent father and leaves a host of friends to mourn the passing of a good man, In 1858 he was united in mar- riage to Miss Margaret MeDonald of Paola, Kansas. To this union were born ten children, eight of whom survive. They are: Mrs. Wm. Bones, Colgate, Oklahoma; John Teekadon, Rich Will, Fred and Will Heckadon, Mound City, Kansas: Jewel Weekadon, Poster, Missouri: Mrs. C.J. Browning, Charles Heckadon and Mrs. Peart Clark, of this city. Funeral se , conducted by Rey, George Scrogys, of the Pres- byterian chureh, were held at the home Wednesday afternoon and interment made in Oak Hill ceme- ery, Sister of J. M. Green Dies in Tilinois. Mrs. Susan Billingsly, who for the past several years had been making her home with her sister, Miss Pattie Green, in this city, died early Monday morning, Mrs Bil. y, whose maiden name was Susan Green, was born in Clark county, Kentueky, Feb- ruary 15, 1847. She grew to womanhood in Missouri and unit- ed with the Baptist church at the age of 18 years. On Mareh 11, 1890, she was married to the Rev. J. M. Billingsley, who died Mareh 21, 1912. Since the death of her husband she had made her home with her sister in this eity. The members of her family who survive her are one brother: and four sisters: J. M. Green, of Butler, Mo.;) Mrs. Bliza Little page, of Hatfield, Ask.: Mrs. Mary Kirks, of Middleton, Mo.; Mrs. Mittic Matthis, of Adrian, Mo.; and Miss Pattie Green, of this city.-—Cass County — (Ils.) Republican. May Have Sunk Deutschland. New London, Conn., Jan, 27. A rumor was in circulation here tonight that the German mer chant submarine Deutsehland, or a similar vessel of some other name, had been sunk by a Brit- ish cruiser, The story was that the submersible was sunk either on her way to Bremen or on her The Detitsch- land was reported from Berlin as arrived safely back in Bremen oncher last trip from this country and the first posstbility of her destruction was regarded as eliminated. There was no con- firmation as to the seeond, The rumor cane from a sourec- that was declared to have proven reliable in the past. Another Consolidated School District. Saturday morning County Sup- erintendent of Sehools Moreland received aopetition fronmthe -pat- rons of the Montrose and Mt. Leonard schools, east of Hume, asking that a consolidated school iet be formed of those dis- triects. He immediately went to Hume and investigated the peti- tion and before noon he was ready to plat the proposed district which he did and ordered an elec- tion to be held Tuesday, Febru- ary 13, when the patrons of the proposed district will decide by their yotes whether or not they want, a consolidated sehool. twenty-five, fifty, seventy-five eents and one dollar each, Sec- Tenevieve, will visit for a short time with rela-! Itives in St. Joseph and Chillicothe | 16- before joining Mr. McClure. Mr. | MeClure has sold his home on; Mechanic street to A. H. Black. Cannon Brothers, proprietors of | have secured J. Cranke, of Lancaster, Missouri, to made vacant by! Mr. Cranke is a} keep the grade of flour - turned! out by the mill up to the high | standard that it has established. | ond grade fence posts at ten cents | pach. i 2t ad. H. Allison. - Two miles west and one mile south of Butler, Phone 7 on 28. Christian Science Services and Sunday school will be held each Sunday in the chureh, corner of Subject, ‘‘Love.’’ All are cordially invited to at- tend. Two New Merchant Submarines to U.S. New York, Jan. 29. —Passen- gers arriving here from Germany on the Norwegian steamer Ber- gensfjord declared today that two new merchant submarines, the Koenigsberg and the Hamburg, will start for the United States on Wednesday. The undersea boats will start their maiden trips from Bremerhaven, with New London as their goal. Both vessels, it was stated, will carry valuable car- goes of dyes and drugs.