The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, March 8, 1917, Page 5

‘LADIES--- _ ) Who appreciate the dainty nice things, that are new and up-to-date yet not expensive, will be pleased with our showing of _ SPRING UNDERMUSLINS and SILK UNDERWEAR, SILK HOSIERY, Ete. We also have a heavy stock of Staple Dry Goods bought at old ‘Leslie Duvall was a Kansas City | Visitor Saturday. >” i i Bert Cline, a prominent attor- | i : ney of Appleton City,,was a busi} _ ness visitor to Butler Monday, i Lem Swartz, who was called tof Indiana last week by the"death of zi) : his mother, has returned home. M. J. Gordinier, proprietor of the White House barber shop, is confined to bis home with a bad case of La Grippe. isses Mabel Watson and Gol- ster, of Rich Hill, spent in this city as the guests s Watson’s sister, Mrs Os- borne Leedy and Mr. Leedy. New Men's a Mrs. Claud Major returned Fri- day of last week from. Kansas City where she had been for sev- eral days with Mr. Major’s moth- er, Mrs. E. K. Major, who was ill. New Thomps (. Hugo Smith, who has been mak- ing an extended visit with his parents, My, and Mrs. I. M. Smith, in the Spruee neighborhood, left Monday for his home at Aldexson, Alberta, Canada. Mrs..Phil Deitz, of Mannington, West Virginia, is a guest at the new John B. Stetson Hats New Emery Shirts nd Boy's Caps New Neckwear New Boy’s Suits — on Bros. Shoes Are shown now in our Men's Clothing Department for the New Season Sam’L Levy Merce. Co. Good Clothes for Men and Women prices and WILL SAVE YOU MONEY. % American Clothing House ! Mrs. C. Casper, of Independ-; «len Logan, manager of the ence, is the guest of her sister,| ogan-Moore lumber yard at El Mrs. H. M. Cannon. Mrs. C. A. Bolin returned Mon- visitor to Butler Monday fore- day from a ‘several days visit | "0" with friends at Joplin. | > J. B, Walton, of the r : ; ‘ Trust Company and the Missouri ‘ i e - = . reat Col. C. E. Robbins, the auction-| (44, hank, was a business visi- Walton | | IL. G. Cook, of the American Clothing House, returned the Dorado Springs, was a business’ first of the week form the Chicago] j3,¢)o.. \fo Fand St. Louis markets, where ‘he ‘has been buying his spring and summer stocks. Il. G. Spraker has sold the Gem | moving picture.show in Rieh Hill home ot Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Day. Mrs. Deitz willbe remembered as Miss Cora Beatty, who lived in this city several years ago. lor Sale—16-months old Red Polled male for sale. This is a fine animal, deep cherry’ red in color and will be sold at a reason- able figure. Phone or write -C. A. Lusk, R. F. Dp. No. 5. MeMott & Major have installed in the harness shop on the south side a new Campbell. Harness Stitching Machine. This machine is the last word in harness ma- Former County Treasurer 8, L. Coleman, of Spruce, was a Butler visitor one day the-first of the week Mrs. M.S. Clay is spending a few days in. Nevada visiting at the home of her brother, D. T. Me- Guire. S.C. R I. Red eggs for bateh- ing, $1.00 for 15. Mrs. J. I". Nicolay, 508 N. High St. T. A. Black, of the Black & Arnold company, went up to Kan; sas City to visit his daughter, | * torney of Nevada, was a business eer, was down to Rich Hill Thurs-) 4. to Kansas City one day last/ty ME. Berry, who will take day and conducted a big sale. _ week. charge next week. Mr. Spraker Mr. and’ Mrs. Richard .Keele; J, A. Argenbright left the last | has purchased a carnival com- spent Sunday in Rich Hill as the} of the week for southeast Bates,; pany with which he will travel guests of relatives of Mrs. Keele. | where he is spending a few days/|the eoming season. : visiting his sister, Mrs. J. E.! Took. B. F. Johnsgn came down form! ¥ Kansas _City Friday night and : ‘died at her home a few miles spent a few days with home folks.) Everett Zwahlen and two small) south of Rich Hill, Friday evening Wm. Alsbach, of Kansas City, | al ie a sn ee City fter a three months illness of Nagai Sinday in| Ut Sens, GWwahheny wio: 1s a Pa. | tuberctlosis menmegitis, She had spent Saturday and Sunday 10 j¢iont at the Wesleyian hospital in| oon nesid Pipacontl t this city with his brother, George: ii o4 city ; rcen a resident of the south par REN ‘of the county for over twenty Alsbach. | M. T. January, a prominent at-; Erby Hamilton and aa Bt fe families’! Mrs, Carroll Day and little | Dunsworth with their daughter, Dorothy, who have been visitor to Butler one day the Tact left the last of the week for Wyo-' i jing, where they will make their! visiting at the home of her par- ‘ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Arm- of the week. in i 5 future home. . Ed Moore, one of Pleasant Gap | strong, and the parents of Mr. Day, Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Day, re- township’s most prominent dem-) ee C. Coberly, manager of the, | loc ; ; turned to their home at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, the last of the ocrats, was:a pleasant caller at} °° Logan-Moore Iumber | week. Mrs. Ada Ray, aged 54 years, + ote 1 yard, left Tuesday morning on a! rai enne Bensey: week’s trip to TC un OoL pene Mrs. Chas. Grube was called to} of the company. Carrollton, Hlinois, last week by | : the serious illness of her sister, | who lives at that place. Mrs. Mose Morris and Mrs, Dol- ‘lie Cutmyer, of Kansas City, ar-| rived here Sunday evening, being | alled by the serious illness of | their father, Mr. Levy Covey. The: many friends of Mr. Covey will be | glad to know that he is steadily | Miss Ruby [lenderson, who is attending Huffs Business college ‘in Kansas City, spent a few days Wm. Wells came down from in this city last week with her} Kansas City the last of the week father, Eli Henderson. to spend a few days with his’ mother, Mrs, Mary Wells. Prof. J. O. Henderson, superin- tendent of the Butler public! improving and will soon be out} 0. K. Davis, of Independence, | schools, spent last week in Kan- | again. spent a-couple of days the last of | sas City attending the convention ‘ : P P: | *, Prof. and) Mrs, Coonrod, of the week visiting friends and of the National Educational asso- ransacting business in this city. | ciation. y t ig y : on their way home from attend- | The Rich Hill Enterprise com-* Mrs, J. M. Smith, Mrs’ R, M. ing the meeting’ of the National | plains that that town is suffering | Talbert, Mrs. Margret Mayfield,’ Educational association at Kans:s from an overplus of Weary! Mrs. C. C. Oliver and Miss Letha | City last week and spent a_ few Willies, and suggests that a rock | Baird attended the funeral of Mrs. | days with old friends. Professor pile might have a salutary effect! II. J. Kuehne at Nevada, Thurs- | Coonrod was formerly principal ; on all concerned. | day. afternoon. of the Butler High School. Carterville, stopped off in Butler LOMOCO ~ HOUSE. PAINT lenjoved the esteem of his neigh- chinery and will sew leather that is us thin as paper or as thick as} the heaviest sole leather. It is the only machine of its kind be-' county Demoeratie tween Joplin and Kausas City, | from Spruce township, was a | Suaday morning union Sanday oe eats Yao the first of the School services Seer alge | week, and of course found time to School services, participated MM! qroy into The Times office for a by the Sunday Schools of the two 5 ‘i ‘pleasant visit. Methodist, the Baptist and p g Mrs. J. C. Hupp, Tuesday. A. B, Edrington, member of the the: Presbyterian churches were held | County — Superintendent of at the Ohio St. M. EB. chureh. Dr.| Schools A. C. Moreland held the ij Arnold, the evangelist, conducted! regular March teachers examina- the services and made a talk on! tion at the. High School building ““Mraps.’’ He used all sorts of) Friday and Saturday of last week, traps to illustrate the traps set by, There were only teachers pres- Satan for the unwary, ‘ent to take the examination, the rae ‘ ‘smallest number since Mr. More- é The Times good friend J. HB. jjand has been county superintend- Sacre, of ¢ harlotte township, WAS) ont of schools. in the city Tuesday, on business before the county court and made) We are running a this office an appreciated — call. Charlie Chaplin picture. and five Mr. Sacre is one of the solid men} peels of good pictures besides ev- of his community and one whose ory Priday night. Owing to the democracy is never questioned.! high price of the Chaplin pictures He has lived in’ Charlotte town- ship for 47 years, where he has! cents for this night only. Seven reel matinee every Saturday for only five cents. 21-1t Fisk’s Opera House. bors to a marked degree, One day last week as Emerson Campbell, son of F, M. Campbell, Araunntite forme the Amanat of the, Butler and Rich Hill Tele-| FeAdur aiiteon poollaniendecal! phone Exchange, was doing some) 7 — iyastan Porter, of the west Bree Shares eng neg rs pi td part of the county, has been re-_ DIEEY OT Ree a Oe I tained as one of the auctioneers | that se was het aed a eae the Albechar Farm Holstein | a ie a Hi E fee Aas ie cattle sale whih will be held at} of this week he was fd#ken 0) 1) dependence, Kansas, on March! Kansas City where the piece was removed and if no complications | set-in he will recover the use of | the eye. 9, They have about 200 Holseins | for sale and only the best auetion- eers are employed. The Butler lodge of Odd Fel-; lows at their regular meeting | Monday night entertained visitors Rey. C. Hs Eyman, another But-: ler boy that has made good, sends} us his remittance to have his dates! y i pushed yon and in his letter | ‘tom Rich Hill and Spruce lodges, | Rf The PLE: i fy 1S says that he cannot do without The delegations from these lodges | and! brought candidates with them to; The Times and to be sure Mes 1 ; ti keep it coming. Rey. Eyman, | be initiated and a bill aga Ing | he who is a graduate of the Butler | ™ectme was held. Butler public schools, has been in the lodge is enjoying a good, healthy | ministery for several years and isi growth and has candidates to in- at present doing some work at the | ate at nearly every meeting. ist Seminary ochester, : % bog gael at Rochest A delegation of the local lodge | cid ieliaas of Odd Fellows motored down to | READY MIXED---GUARANTEED Paint should be judged by the service it renders. And can you think of anything that will render you more-service than something that will protect your Home and your buildings? - Every gallon of Lomoco Paint will measure up to this service if you will apply it. ~ Lemoco Paint-can be easily applied by anyone, no experience necessary. It is a long wearing paint which produces a very elastic High Gloss surface. If you will examine the Boards on your buildings you will find they have been cracked in many. places, caused by the long dry weather of last year and this winter, and when the spring rains com- mence the water will find lodgement-in these cracks and will cause the boards to commence to rot. -: Right now while the lumber is still dry, aad before the spring rains set in is the time to paint your buildings with Lomoco paint. d : : ~. Lomoco Paint will fill up thuse cracks, and will form a substantial protective armor on the outside of the boards and will protect them from the driving penetrating rain that will rot-them, and summer - and Oklahoma. Bates county was visited Friday ; Rich Hill Friday night to help the! night by a snow storm which was} Rich Till brothers put on some; a great help to the wheat crop! work. The boys report a pleasant | which many farmers had about/trip and big eats after the work | concluded would be a failure onj was finished. The trip home was account. of the cold, dry ‘winter.|not quite so enjoyable as they While there was not enough mois-| faced a driving snow storm all ture to be of much help for stock | the way and had to drive with| Water, it will be of great value to/their wind shields down as the} tlie‘crops. Press dispatches indi-! drivers could not see through the | cate that the snow was general all | snow that packed on the glass. over the state, as well as Kansas: E. Burnett was arrested in Rich } ; ‘Hill Friday of last week for being | At the last meeting of the But-| drunk on the streets, and when committee | we are compelled to charge ten! U. Ayres was up from Rich Hill on a business — mission Wednesday morning. | J. B. Willard, J. F. Ludwiek and C, A, Chambers motored over to Montrose.Tuesday afternoon to attend the funeral of C. C. Clizer, which was held at one o’clock, J, R. McLachlan, of Kahoka, issouri, Grand Leeturer of the Missouri Lodge of Masons, held a ‘school of instruction in the But- ller lodge rooms Wednesday and | Thursday. and Susie (Harper, who spent a few days the ‘last of the week with home folks, have returned to their studies at the Warrensburg State Normal school, ) Miss Anna Silvers The many friends of John C. Hayes, who’ is seriously siek at his home in Kansas City, will be glad to learn that for the past two ov three days there has been con- siderable improvement in his eon dition, - While at work on the roof of the smelter at Rieh Hill Tuesday morning, John Gordon, fearing that he would be swept off by the high wind, jumped to the ground two-reel | and sustained a broken ankle, says the Review, We are in receipt of a letter from Ove Harris, a forimer Bates county boy, but now of Geronimo, ) Oklahoma, in which he sends best regards to his old friends in Bates county, Since going to Oklahoma he has prospered and been elect ed one or two good county offices, James (Leonard) Walker, of near Butler, was arrested in Ne- vada some time ago charged with stealing a purse from Miss Jen- nie Morey, says the Nevada Post. He was seytenced to a year in the reform school and a special ses- sion of the Vernon county court. granted him a parole, J. W. Cole was in this city one iday last week and made this of- fice am appreciated call, Mr, Cole informs us that he has bought the store at Ballard from take Ked- eigh and has taken — possessioa. Storekeeping is not new to Mr Cole, he having several years ago conducted a grocery store on the north side ef the square, We did not learn what Mr. Wedeigh in tended to do, This office is in the the 1916 Year Book of 1 ri State Board of Agric o is well gotten up and filled with good things and after perusing it one is more firmly convinced than ever before that MMissourr is about the only state worth while to live in. It is profusely illustrated with pictures of the record breaking crops, fine cattle and some of the ‘scenic pictures from the southern part of the . state compare very fiverably with the boasted mountain sen- ery of the western states The high wind Monday fore- noon blew over the big 70 foot ' gun that cracks them. sures our customers good fresh paint. We guarantee Lomoco paint to wear. Lomoco paint is not expensive. One Gallon will cover 300 square feet two coats. We have a complete line of Paints, Flat Inte:ior Wall Paint, Floor Paint, Varnish Stains, Hard Oil, Ciear Floor Varnish, Roof Paint, Barn Paint, in tact a complete stock of Paint. | Lomoco Paint is manufactured for us and we ship it direct from the factory to our yards, this in- ler Commercial Club the commit- | searched it was found that he was smoke stack on the Rich Hill light tee on municipal affairs was in-'a believer in preparedness and | and water plant. In its fall the strneted to investigate the plan of! was **packing’’ a bigogun, and) huge stack tore away the cupola placing lights and standards at the charge was changed from’ on top of the building and dis- each corner of the square for the! drunkenness to the more serious | connected the steam connections guidance of drivers. G. P. Wyatt, offense, that of carrying conceal-| from the engine room, says the chairman: of the committee, has’ ced weapons and he was brought/ Review. -In its fall the stack placed a temporary marker at the} to Butler and placed in the coun-; broke into three pieces, one of northwest corner of the square ty jail. Burnett was at one time) which struck-the electric light and is observing its effect on the a resident of Butler but has not! pole at the corner of the building traffic and if it is found that it is; lived here for several years, but) on which the electric light wires of any benefit ornamental lights; he expects to make his home here| which supplied the city were on eonerete bases will be placed | for a few months, or until he lays) strung, -cutting off the current | | seh of the busy corners. ‘out his fine. from the city for several hours.—