The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, February 15, 1917, Page 2

| SUNBEAMS| One time a trav- eling man came Sestsrrt sesesceses: poeessrey into my _ place, shook hands and said, I’m ‘‘Eng- land’’ from so and so, an@ T re- plied, I’m Campbell from ‘‘Ire- land,’’ Scotland and Wales and by the same token I belong here. What brand of disetomfort might ye be looking for. He seemed startled and says I fear you don’t grasp the situation, ‘‘Mebbe’’ | don’t says I, but 1 am ready to do so. Trot her out, Treland and England are ‘mixin’? — things beyant the pond and (as there's only the two of us) lets just have “wan"" nice little ‘‘shindy’’ and settle the war in Europe. Then he explained, he wasn't **Eng- land’’ not at all. His ‘‘name”’ was England and he was selling -seales, He was a nice fellow but was ‘‘named wrong’’ and thus passed i situation which might have resulted disastrously for England or Ireland or both. “Quien sabe.” [ don't go around the country seeking words of praise but as I -said once before ‘*kind words of appreciation are- worth more to us here and now than flowers at the funeral.’’ Kind words are coming daily and I find it hard to give up Sunny Jim’s work. <A young minister -‘‘whom I esteem highly’’ told me how much he geys out of it. Says he gets thoughts that help him in his ork. How many more feel the same way I may never know, but [ do know that this man reads and is ‘‘satisfied’’ and ‘if no one else cares for the work Tam many times repaid. A man has recently made the discovery that mother ‘‘Eve’s” girdle or skirt was neither one nor the other but) was a pair of ‘*breeches.”* he has an old Bible that says so. Now do you know [ think it was. some job. Fig leaves are “‘awfully small”’ but, never mind, Foolish questions? — Well yes} You ean get run down by an “auto” or run over by a freight train and some ‘‘idiot’’ will rush up and say Q, are you hurt? 1 fell off a house once, struek on my head (that’s why IT am a flat head} and as T lay there feeling like every bone in my body was “off on a vaeation’’ a party ran to me and said, O, my man, are your hurt? and I says, says I, No, no, I’m not hurt, don’t worry, | pray, | just thought I'd try com- ing down ‘once’ this way. I work by the (job) in short, to be fine, | was trying to save a few minutes of time. 1 s ‘not again” not ever my friend, till “Gabriel's horn toots’* and time comes to an end, Not’ even to save a few minutes of time will I go cavorting along the ‘incline. Moral :---Don't ask foolish ques- tions. | Mr. Win. Sprouls of Bowler. | Montana, ‘‘renews = for — the Times."" Now the only thing I ean't understand about this deal is, how can anyone who lives in a country whose principle produc- tions are (cactus, sage brush and sage hens, ‘‘scenery”’ ete.,) afford to pay for a paper, for you know Montana, Montana is a country where not many of. the people have to labor for a price, where the ‘‘tumber jacks’? make lumber and a ‘‘livin’’ costs like thunder and folks use ‘‘mountain — seen- ery”’ for ive. Hello Bill. There is a bill being framed in the legislature of a western state to permit women to use ‘‘scanty”’ bathing suits and to wear ‘‘dia- phancous’’ skitts “and show their unadorned forms Of Don’t Patch Them GET MORE MILEAGE BY HAVING THEM VULCANIZED We have just installed a most complete and up-to-date vulcan- izing equipment and are pre- pared to take care of all kinds of work on all sizes of tires. We cap save you money on your tire bills - A telat will convince you Harp & Lucas 7 CUSS, even toy Rolling Stones. Dovie Simms, who has been real sick is improving slowly, Rev. Braeme and wife of Liber- ty, Mo., stopped over Sunday with Henry Moles and wife. Miss Pearl Walburn has been visiting in this vicinity for sever- | al days. | We are sorry to hea? of the death#f Mrs. Clarence Greer, who recently moved to Arizona, The weather is fine the last) few days for the industrious far- mers who are -busy..getting their summer’s wood, so as to be ready avhen farming time comes, | Grip seems to be the order of the day, as it seems nearly: every | one has it. ly Mr. and Mrs. Ben Harrison and | family of Maysburg were to visit Mrs. Harrison’s parents, Mr. and | Mrs. Ewing, who are both quite; sick with grip. Ufa Durbin has been out of school the last two weeks on ac- count of the pink eye and grip. The Moore boys are busy saw-| ing wood on the Rich farm. | Jeff Taylor and Bert White- head and wives made a flying trip to Butler last Saturday in Jeff's auto. they care to. If this bill becomes a law I predict a mighty ‘‘exo- dus’’ of easteyn men to a western state where it ‘‘don’t snow’’— Yessir, I shore do. As I grow older I like to revert to the past and live again the old days. Yes, I like to look back and think of what might have been but is not. I am thinking of our last camp and hunting trip. Of the wonderful hills, vales and streams, of the boys, of the long weary hikes, of the roaring camp fires, long years ago it was, but fresh in memory still. Just beyond the hill crest down along the river, coming next No- vember, will be just thirty years. O, we were a happy bunch camp- ing out together, climbing o’er the rocks and hills to shoot the’ wary deer, Seems we didn't think just then that we again would never meet around the camp fire along the dear old stream, Time brings changes suddenly our fondest hopes to sever. Now we linger in the shadows where the sunlight used to gleam. First impressions are“ not al- ways eorrect or to be relied on. You meet a person and at. first glance you say, I don’t Le him. Asked why and you simply ean’t a ry | define your aversion, But if you|. Louis Young, ae oe a will eultivate an acquaintance cinenilars ae Le whe an i with him, get under the oe ae aha + to make thelr fu- it were, you will discover a wealth : Eieaeqinem Shae of kindness and good nature of Alva Randall ue makes - his | whieh you didn’t dream, Don’t regular calls over at Mr. Fenton s) he hasty for underneath the }on Sunday evening: | roughest exterior often heats a Mrs. J. Satterlee made a flying | lenntomenidl trip to Adrian last Saturday. | T always feel hopeful for the J. ne Pipes ane i ee | chap who wears out his shoe soles last Satur day: eH at Mr. Blan- trying to get work. (For at least kenship’'s pei tong, ne| he tries.) Also for the fellow} Mr. Pearlic Buckles and_ wife who has a pateh on the ‘‘knees’”” oe with home folks last Sun- of his pants. for he is a hustler |C4Y- : | und wie be a pious sort of a Mr. Ross seems to be quite a But for the man whose wood sawer, it keeps him busy to, ‘posterior’? extremities is em- supply the demand. : blazoned by a patch as big as a Mrs. H. Harrison left Adrian dish pan there is no hope. He is To the Public:— er, signed by them, and m Location We will be surance an lad to give Address Number Guessed Address..... eramene Henne $10.00 IN GOLD FREE Have the coupon below filled out by some property own- of grains of corn contained in one peck (14 Ibs.) of yellow Dent seed corn, same on display in window of Dr.. Rhoades. Drug Store, Butler, Mo. For the nearest correct guess we will give $10.00 in gold; for second nearest, 2 bushels of yellow Dent seed corn; third nearest, 1 bushel; fourth near- est % bushel; fifth nearest, the peck on display. son within Bates County is eligible. COUPON - If so, state kind of property fy possible improvements you mig in order to reduce insurance rates. Do you desire this information?. Give name of property OWNER Give name of Contestant ..................0 0 cece e eens 4 ake YOUR guéss at the number Any per- you information on your in- make ————E 1917. All questions in co! be entitled to guess. last Wednesday for Kansas City, | a sooner.” What do. T- mean, | Where she will join her husband. | this, that he would sooner than do] They intend to make that their; anything «se. (Beware of a{ future home, , i saOaIE). John Johnson of near Culver. “The wind bloweth where “it{Hauled wood from Ben Ross listeth and ye hear the sound {Place a couple of days last week. | thereof, but ye cannot tell whence Julien and Os Snow _are the it cometh nor wither it goeth,’’]¢hampion hay haulers of the day. | Yos, I guess that’s no dream, also and of a truth T don’t think any- body cares a darn where ‘it goes nor how long it stays—at least such keen winds as have blown through our whiskers for the last one day. i Be i Double Branch Pick-Ups. i Almost spring aveather again! this morning. , A few more day like this and the farmers will b sowing oats and their wives mak week, Here's the balance of the —re- portorial staff (by name) of The Times. Be sure to meet them, ak sears - a ‘ ing garden and setting hens. they are good folks to know. ‘A Mra. S. I. Stare is slowly im-| hhor.”” do you know what a proving from pneumonia. ghhor means to yout | Wel" yp ng Mrs. Geo. Jobe, Mr. Laie forte Shane ae ae and Mrs. Job Utley and Mr. and | elle” ane riseilla, he Sta : s y from North New Home, *John- be adh BSc ; Bunda oft 1 a i ith wee Sunday school at Double { ht hoe De ST Branch every Sunday morning at} fe TAU 10:30, Everyone invited. i L. : ’ 2 The friends and neighbors of : Sis wane Fe Mr. Joe Gander gathered in Thursday evening, February 8, Many Were Frozen in North. St. Paul, Minn, Feb. 10-- Twenty-three persons have frozen and gave him a little surprise, it being his birthday, After a boun- tiful supper and an evening of games all departed at a late hour to death and thirty-six persons] Wishing Mr. Gander many more have been maimed for life by | birthdays. freezing thus far in this reeord-} Several young people spent Sunday with Mrs. H. G. Requa. Mr. and Mrs. James who have been visiting the past week with Mrs..Cora Bentley returned to their home in Kansas City Mon- day. The W. C. T. U. will meet with Mrs. Allie Hall Thurusday of this week. - r Mrs. Allison took dinner with Mrs. Geo, Jobe Saturday. There will be a program and a talk by Willie Griffin, the County Sunday School Superintendent, ‘Sunday; Fée.'18. “Conte Rev. Hood filled his appoint- ment at Double Branch Sunday and Sunday night to a well filled house. The W. C. T. U. served lunch at R. L. Scifer’s sale. Mrs. W. S. Nafus and. family will start to Arcadia, Kansas, Wednesday to join her husband at that place. Mr. E. A. Gough delivered corn to A. W. Padley Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Willie Griffin spent Sunday with I. W. Hart and family. Quite a few attended church at Double Branch Sunday from Or- chard Grove. Delbert Requa and Geo. Jobe are making some new fence. GYP. breaking cold) weather, figures compiled tonight showed. The territory includes Northern Wis- consin, Minnesota, the Dakotas and Canada. In this territory more than three thousand of the 11,158 miles of railroad normally operated is completely tied up by snowdrifts. Towns inbabited by an aggregate of more than ten thousand south of the international line have learned of the trying internation- al situation only through rumors filtering into” them © over “shaky telephone or telegraph lines. APPAM CREW TO PHILADEL- PHIA Germans on Interned Liner Will be Kept in Navy Yard There Newport News, Virgina, Feb 9 —Under guard, supplied by the immigration authorities, Lieut, Hans Berg, commander, and the members of the German prize crew which brought the British liner Appam into-this-port, after her capture by the German raid- er, Mowoe, a year ago, left Phil- adelphia, where they will be plac- ed in detention under the care of the commandant of the navy yard there. The Appam pd ~~ peed their home with their brothers on the interned German. auxili- Kaffir Corn for Bale. ary cruisers Prinz Kitel Fried-| Black Hulled White Kaffir rich and Kron Prinz Wilhelm.|Corn, $2.25- per bushel. They will not be considered pris-| cleaned 1916 crop, well maturéd. sem it is said, but merely intern- as 3 ‘W. Chestnut, : : 174 ‘ Of Local Interest—Clipped from They only upset three times in{/the Vernon County Fair Associa-/ jtion was held at Nevada last week} country on the account of my ‘and August 28. SHORT. STORIES é | February 4, say the Adrian Jour- nal. The remains were brought ‘fo Adrian for burial. Public Sale. to Our Exchanges. A meeting of the directors of Having decided 99 , 29, 30 and 31 was! health, I will sell at public auc- ixed-as the dates of the next fair. | tion at my place, 2 miles south of We Tab iaantoaiieraaiian boss | Spruce, on what is known as the {old Wigger farm, .on TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1917 the following deseribed property : 14 Head of Live Stock. 2 Head of Horses—Black mare coming 5 years old, good gentle who was arrested last week for sulting his wife, was arrainged efore Justice T. J. Farrel’s court, aturday, and pleaded guilty to the eharge and was fined $10 and vosts, amounting to $33.48.— SONY 3 Uume Telephone. family horse; blaek filly coming 2 years old. Dr. BE. Q. McHenry, who. has 7 Head of Cattle-White face been making’ his home with his cow coming 6 years old, with calf sister, Mrs, Lavina Culbertson, by side, must be seen to be appre- west of Hume, died suddenly of | ciated; white face cow 8 years paralysis, February 2. The body, | old, fresh February 27; red cow 6 vars old, fresh last April ; Motely accompanied by his son, Robert | faee cow coming + years old, fresh MeHenry, was shipped to Pitts. burg, Penn., for burial—Hume ‘in summer; 2 coming 38-year-old Telephone. : cows giving milk, fresh in sum- mer; coming 38-year-old cow, fresh | One day last week John Dyke- | hivcpntiary, man, who lives northeast of Am- e seer oret, gathered up twenty five Be ok neat Avante let «, thout 60 pounds, hens, whieh had out lived their; y,.. ., : | Farming — Implements--Farm usefulness as egg producers, and! es P ;wagon; John Deere plow, 16-inch, good as new; Em- who paid him the neat little sum Lene Pact aii, berries of $25.44, over a dollar a Head, | ennows denis ne ou and they were not faney stock |), farue ens poten iene Comte thar ccAmoret Lenane. le harness; saddle; some wire; 2 istacks fine hay. brought them to“town where he delivered them to Carl F. Hall, About 11 o’clock Saturday, Fruit Trees—37 apples. night fire was discovered at the peaches, 2 years old. Darby Fruit Farm in one of the! il barrel, _ galvanized _ tank, large water tanks. The tank new cream separator. was on the top of a twenty foot; Terms to be announced on day seaffold which was enclosed and i of sale. had a stove on the inside heated; Lunch on grounds. Sale to he- by gas to prevent the freezing of | sin at 10 o’clock. the water pipes, and it is supposed | CLAUDE E. QUICK, that.the fire was caused -by-an-in-/Col..Harry. Raybourn;--Gol-~ doe creased pressure of gas, causing; Callahan, Auctioneers. the stove to get too hot.—Amoret | 18-1t Joe Miller, Clerk. Leader. A bunch of hoboes butchered a/ 150-lb hog at the Southern stock | yards, Friday night, and feasted on the meat. The -hog belonged to George French, who, when he missed jt from the yards the next day, was ohly able. to find the head and skin. The knights of the road made way with the car- cass. The same night George Biggs had a pair of overshoes stol- en from his front porch, but re- covered them—Hume Telephone. Spencer Mahan died at his home in Greencastle, Indiana, Thursday, February 1, aged 60 years and 6 days, says the Adrian Journal. Mr. Mahan was an early settler in Bates county, locating: and improving the Inman farm’ just. west of Adrian, later he was engaged in the grocery -businéess for six years in Adrian. . Mrs. Margaret Newlon, a :form-d er resident of Adrian, died at the] e of her son, Joseph. , A isfactory servic for yo ur wants in e We Cut out, have filled out and return on or before March 9th, Awards will be made on March 10th, 1917, and winners published the following week. CHOATE &» FULBRIGHT, Insurance The Efficiency Agency, BUTLER, MO. leave’ the} breaking; 14} want your account this year. upon must be fully answered to ,near Madison, Kansas, Sunday | CAN'T USE OLD POLICIES NOW | Washington and Jefferson Didn't Have Our Problems, W. H. | Taft Says. Philadelphia, Feb. 7.—The pol- icy of Washington and Jefferson with reference to entangling alli- ances and the theory America has, j been favored by fortune with a splendid isolation were declared ito be inapplicable utterly to pres- ‘ent conditions hy former Presi- ‘dent William H. Taft at a dinner here last night under the auspices jof the League to Enforce Peace. ‘In the light of the present na- tional crisis,’”? said Mr. Taft, ‘prepare to disregard. the: warn- ngs given hy Washington and Jefferson against. entangling alli- jances. When this advice was giv- ‘en this Nation numbered only 4 million persons and was four or 'Tive, times farther removed from i Europe than now, in point of \time required for transportation - “Since then the United States | has become a world power. Neith- jer Washington nor Jefferson ever jdreamed of our Japanese ‘ques- tion, ow Philippine problem or those raised by the Panama Can- al. At that time there was no Monroe Doctrine to: preserve and defend.” | { ! For Sale. laving installed a motor truck for the delivery of oil and gaso- line, | am now offering for sale ‘my draft team at a bargain. They are sound, fat and cinch pullers. . 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.” C. C. Catterlin, 14-tf Phone 331 Standard Oil Co. { _————— EE — —— ——————— FTER thirty-six years of faithful, sat- e to Our Many patrons we-are better prepared than ever-to care very line of banking. State Bank