The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, February 1, 1917, Page 6

THE Surplus Fund OF A BANK $50,000.00 $50,000.00 Capital Surplus Undivided Profits $10,000.00 is money set aside by the bank as it is earned, and stands as SECURITY for the bank’s Depositors. The Farmers Bank has the LARGEST EARNED SURPLUS FUND of any bank in Bates County. We invite accounts of any size and offer the best of service. Farmers Bank of Bates County Butler, Mo. ROVER OFF FOR NEW RAID | would enable any one of them, by fit Ge ea, issuing an order today, to destroy Depredations in Other Waters are Washington or any other of our Expected Soon. |great coastal cities from the air Buenos Ayres, Jan, 29.-—The|in a single night two weeks from German raider apparently has dis-|now. We have neither airplanes, appeared just as mysteriously eae dirigibles, no aviators nor t arrived in the South Atlantic. | antiaircraft guns, nor any other its next appearance, in some far | means of preventing such destruc- distant part of the world, herald-j tion.” d by another ‘tdriye’’ on allied) Gen. Miles once said that a for- shipping, was today predicted as/ eign nation would not have much the next word to be heard from. trouble in landing a large force in the rover. Rio de Janeiro report- the United States, but they would. d several vessels, whith might have an awful time getting them he the raider and consorts; sight-, out again, except those that they dion the North Brazil Coast but! took out in boxes after peace had heen declared. That is about there was no,tangible evidence | that any of these were actually) what: would happen to the men raiders. : who tried to drop bombs on Rumors the British — eruiser Washington. It is a safe bet that United States brains would de- vise some means to bring down the foreign air ship. (Hasgow had sunk the raider were diseredited entirely today. Ef- forts to trace the souree of these rumors were fruitless, but it Was certain that it had not been based on any definite information. In the meantime,-the newspaper standard today published an un- She Succeeded in Getting What She Wanted. A short time*ago a woman was ‘onfirmed rumor a submarine, sent to prison in New York for presumably a German, — had; breaking a state and Federal law. stopped the Spanish — steamer, She was evidently a follower of Emmatine Pankhurst and other short haired English sutfragettes, for no sooner was she locked up than she followed their example and deelared a hunger strike, but it worked a little different in New York than it did in London. _{n London when the authorities thought that the woman was in danger from her fast they turned them loose and made martyrs of them. In New York they foreed a tube down the lawbreakers NESS : ithroat and poured stimulants into “At the present time,’ he said,! her stomach to keep her alive. “four foreign Powers, probably | Still the woman got a lot of free six, have the men, the machines; advertising which was the main and theexpert knowledge that} thing she’ was after. Reina Victoria Eugenia last night! at the mouth of the River Plata. According to this report the} steamer’s papers were examined | nd it was finally permitted to mroceed. Could Destroy Washington? A prominent naval officer in ris testimony before a senate com- mittee Jast week had the follow! ng to say about our unprepared: ‘Jeustoms of the Chinese is that of in Mobilizing Guard on Border General O’Ryan Saye—Reg- ulars ‘‘Prejudiced.’’ Washington, Jan. 18.—Blame for delay in mobilizing the nation- al guard for border service was placed squarely on the War De- partment today by Maj. Gen. John i. O’Ryan, commander of the New York division of the militia forces, in testifying before the Senate subeommittee on univer- sal service. Adjt. Gen. Louis W. Stotesbury of New York and Capt. James T. Burns of the Third Tllinois Infantry joined-in defend- ing the guard. All three officers agreed in fav- oring universal service legislation although they had differing ideas of how it should be applied. Gen- eral O’Ryan outlined a plan under which boys would be required in their nineteenth year to elect the course of service they preferred, whether in. the regular army, na- tional guard or in some civil ca- pacity. Generals O’Ryan and_ Stotes- bury declared the report on the national guard mobilization pre- pared by the militia bureau_was unfair to the state service. They disclaimed any thought that army officials had issued it for the pur- pose of discrediting and breaking down the guard, General O’Ryan saying the action was due to ‘conservative prejudice and ig- norance of real conditions.’’ “The national guard was treat- ed by the War Department as a volunteer foree, not under the scheme contemplated in the Na- tional Defense Avt,’’ said General Stotesbury. Both generals said the greatest difficulty was the fact that under departmental — regulations — the equipment to be provided by the government was not on hand in ‘the mustering places. Marines Good Shots. tions that since the days of -fron- | tier life have passed, Americans are no longer entitled to their for- iner fame as riflemen are com- pletely refuted by statistics, say officers of the U. §S. Marines. These officers recently compiled data showing that splendid shoot- ing qualities are still characteris- tie of American troops. More than seventy-three per eent of the 6141 members of the United States Marine Corps who fited during 1916, on the fourteen Marine Corps rifle ranges, are qualified skilled riflemen, accord- ing to the table just compiled. Of these sea-soldiers, 921, or fifteen per cent, are expert riflemen; 1044, or seventeen per cent, are sharpshooters; and 2518, or for- ty-one per cent, are marksmen. It is doubtful if Leatherstock- ing himself could outshoot’ them, say the Marines. A Strange Chinese Custom. Among the many extraordinary SCTE vat At =| On ‘ Xi Sha ce tis apie L i My GANS eo m Here’s a Vacation Tip In the White River Country of Southwestern Missouri and Northern Arkansas, you'll get more of what you pes the way of a real vacation than anywhere you can go—even though you traveled three times the distance and it cost you ten times the price. Only a short ride away—easy to reach. Hotels, boarding-houses and camps everywhere—comfortable and inexpensive. MISSOURI ‘PAGIFIG “Pleasant Way to Pleasant Places” fore Aig iti owe cca} = HE L. R. TWYMAN, Agent Butler,-Mo. {in foretelling the future. banding years together in groups of twelve: called ~‘‘cycles,””—and naming each year of the series after some animal. Thus, the first year of a new cycle is the year of the rat, the second the year of the ox, the third the year of the tiger. Every Chinesé born in the year of the rat belongs to the Order of the Rat, and so on, says London Tit-Bits. The ani- mal class of every Chinese man and woman is thus reeorded, and is held to be of great importance Washington, Jan. 23.—Deelara-}! PUT BLAME ON WAR OFFICE} REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. U. 8. Alone Responsible for Delay Edgar Sims to Oscar Sims lots 24 and 28 Concklin’s addition to Passaic $250.00, Wm. Schmidt to Elta Caldwell 206 acres section 12 West, Boone $1.00. : Ida M. Twombly to G. W. ‘Wells 80 acres section 17 Mingo $4,000.00. J. N. MeDavitt to W. T. Joyce 80 aeres section 28 Hudson $4,- 400.00. ‘ W. C. Haggard to D. L. Hag- vard undivided 1-6 interest lots 137 and 138 Adrian $285.00. Fordyce B. Logan to Carline Franz 195 aeres sections 17, 18 and 19 Osage $1.00. Lafe’ Baldwin to T. Mullies 80 acres section 6 Walnut $3,600.00, W. E. Laughlin et al to J. W. Ilamilton 78. acres section 17 Charlotte $5,335.00. lL, lL. Comer to Wm. Nordica part block 8 Merwin $1.00, Fred Williams to L. C. Comer lot 1 block 8 Merwin $1.00. » acres section 7 Howard $1:00. James Bridewell to M. H. Thom- as 10 acres section 13 Walnut $650.00. J. O. Botts’ to Luey C Sweger 2 acres section 7 Howard $1.00. Samuel Miller to Alma O. Mil- ler et al lot 2 block 201; block 205 5th addition; lot 6 block 62 Rich Hill $1,500.00, R. G, Tucker to J. B. Jacobs SO. acres section 30 and 31 West Boone $5,200.00. 1 Why Your Taxes are High. The St. Louis Times, in com- menting on the taxes paid by the late Richard Kerens, of St. Louis, \.20 possessed 6 million dollars woth of property and paid taxes on 312,000, says: Vere we have a concrete ex- anple of why this rich” city is poor. Colonel Kerens was pro- tected by the laws of the city and state; he lived in security in a home which had the benefits of ‘ine surrounding streets, illumi- ation and other civie improve- miei ts and conveniences, but he id not pay his share of the taxes Levessary to maintain these sur- roundings. Nathan Swiger to J. O. Botts]. The late Colonel Kerens thought enough of his country to wish to represent it in the Sen- ate. He was active in polities, Ife was a gencrous giver to char- ity, but when it came to the pay- incnt of his just taxes, he was not a good citizen. C. P. A. Notice. The undersigned members of Passaie Lodge No, 8, C. P. A. for- bid hunting or trespassing on their farms: J. i. Gragg, C. A, Zwahlen, Chas. Zwahlen, Fritz Mier, W. H. Hart, V. J. Hye, W. J. Park, T. J. Smith, W. FE. Simes, Archie Gragg, If. W. Jenkins, Chas. Fenton, S. W. Fulk. 14-3 Raider’s Victims Worth $15,000,000. New York, Jan. 18.—Vessels valued at between $10,000,000 and $15,000,000 have been destroyed by the German raider or raiders in the latest onslaught against al- lied shipping, steamship brokers here estimate today. Cargo losses have been approx- imated at between $5,000,000 and $10,000,000, which is low because LONDON FOOD UP 84 PER CENT Twenty Leading Articles Have Increased in Price Since War. London, Jan. 27.—The level of retail food prices has advanced 84 per cent since the war began on twenty leading articles of daily use, according to the board of trade returns just issued. As compared with prices in Decem- ber, 1915, they showed an average advance of 29 per cent. The price of meat increased: during the year by about 20 to 25 per cent. Po- tatoes were considerably more than double the price of a year earlier.. Granulated sugar, eggs and cheese were dearer by 40 per eent, 35 per cent and 30 per cent, respectively. For flour, bread milk, butter, bacon and fish, in- creases ranging from 19 to 27 per cent were recorded. The price of oleomargarine advanced during the year by 14 per cent. Tea alone, among the articles included in the returns, remained practically un- A several of th essels were sailing }} in ballast, bringing the total mon- etary loss to approximately $25,- 000,000. zi Four hundred persons are re- liably reported to have lost their lives. The death list probably is much larger. For Sale. Having installed a motor truck for the delivery of oil and gaso- line, I am now offering for sale my draft team at a bargain. They are sound, fat and cinch pulters. A first class draft or farm team. Also set of extra good work harness and one set surry harness. They will be sold at a bargain if sold at once. 14-tf C. C. Catterlin, Standard Oil Co. Phone 331 Discovered. ‘“Who gave the bride away?!’ asked Mrs. Jones of her daughter;' who had just returned from: the wedding. -‘Her little brother,’’ replied the daughter; ‘‘he stood up in the a of the ceremony ? got him at lest!’ ”” e Planning for Next Year In making financial plans for 1917, do not overlook the ad- vantages of a Checking Account with the Peoples Bank. By recording income and expenditures in a check-book, waste is checked, careless spending discouraged and there is a greater likelihood of the year’s earnings showing a satisfactory profit in the shape of a substantial bank balance. We welcome individual Checking Accounts. PEOPLES BANK “The Bank on Which You Can Always Bank" I will be at the following towns to buy any number of Horses, Mares and Mules. 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 te 15.2 hands high, from 1,000to 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 ause- ful Mule from 4 to 10 years old. 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., Monday, February 5, 1917 ALL DAY AT ALLEN’S FEED YARD Butler, Mo., Tuesday, February 6, 1917 ALL DAY AT GARRETT'S FEED AND LIVERY BARN (The Old Guyton Bus.Barn) Adrian, Mo., Wednesday, February 7, 1917 ‘ALL DAY AT WHITNEY'S LIVERY BARN P. J. HULEN Kansas City Horse Market PUBLIC SALE I will sell at Public Auction at the John Julien place, % mile south and 1% miles east of Amsterdam Friday, February 9, °17 Commencing at 10 o'clock 200 Acres of Land, consisting of 60 acres in cultivation and the balance in grass'and pasture. Well improved and well fenced. 2 big barns, a four roomed house and plenty of out-buildings. Terms on land to be announced at time of sale. 3 Head of Horses 3 Bay mare 7 years old, weight 1100; yearling filly; sucking colt, 9 Head of Cattle 9 Cow 4 years old, calf by side; cow 3 years old, calf by side; cow 6 years old, be fresh in spring; cow ld, 4 spring; 3 yearling steers. mee oe About SO Hens, Leghoras and Plymouth Recks Corn, Oats and Hay "| 180 bushels of corn; 150 bushels of oats, wil 3 tone of timothy hay, about 4 tons of it baled. oe en ae One Buick Roadster in Good Running Order - more ieplemonte and Machinery Deering binder; Black Hawk corn 4 rods H meee Eines eae aera: Rewraget po Pagel yo] 5 disc vator; New rture ator: walking plow; 3-section harrow. rosa) ee fe Some Household Goods and other things too numerous to mention Lunch Served by Ladies of Mt. Vernon Church ‘ .TERMS:—A credit of 9 months will be given on bankable notes , Baartng 2% interest trom date, ca all stims over $10. 2 Reg] | Re propes 1 inde cSee eects = man over Bt