The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, March 15, 1917, Page 7

_THE Capital Surp $50,000.00 lus $50,000.00 | Undivided Profits $10,000.00 SHORT STORIES Of Local Interest—Clipped from Our Exchanges. ‘ T. E. Britt,who has lived for many years on a farm near Rock- ville has rented his farm and mov- to Appleten-City-says-th ri | Surplus Fund | OF A BANK 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. pleton City Journal. Hazel, the § months old. child of Mr. and Mrs. Robert. Duke, died at the family home, two miles west of Adrian, Tuesday morning, March 6, of pneumonia Adrian Journal. John Spence, a highly respect- ed citizen of Schell City died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. E. Il. Jackson, at El Dorado Springs last week after a short illness, He was 78 years-of age and had lived in Schell City about six years. The Merwin Sun has the follow- ing to say about news handed in late. We do not care to publish a birth after the chid is weaned, a marriage after the honeymoon ig overor the death of a man after his widow is married again. A mass meeting was held in Ap- pleton City last week to discuss plans for drilling a deep well near DUVALL-PERCIYAL TRUST CO. CAPITAL and SURPLUS, $250,000 FARMERS BANK BUILDING, BUTLER, MO. ABSTRACTS INVESTMENTS interest on time deposits. W. F. DUVALL, President, Arthur Duvall, Treasurer. . We have money to loan on real estate at a low rate of interest with privilege to pay at any time. We have a complete set of Abstract Books and will furnish abstracts to any real estate in Bates County and examine and perfect titles to same. We will loan your idle money for you, securing you reasonable interest on good security. We pay J. B. DUVALL, Vice-President, W. D. Yates, Title Examiner. U.-S. in Possession of German Secret Code Berlin, via Sayville wireless, March 9. —-The American Secret Service is in possession of the spe- cial code used by the German For- eign Office. ‘ This was the only inference left by. Dr. Alfred Zimmermann, Sec- retary of State of Foreign Affairs, in his defense before the Reich- stag’s budget committee yester- day of the ‘‘Kaiser-Mikado-Car- ranza plot.’’ “How the Americans came in possession of the text which went to Ameriea in special secret code we:do not know,’’ he told the com- mittee. Previously Dr. Zimmer- mann had stated that ‘‘the treachery’’—and it must have been a treachery—evidently was committed on American _ terri- tory.” Dr, Zimmermann sticks to his orignal plea that the plot was a “natural and justified precau- tion.”’ Its discovery is, indeed, a misfortune,’’ the doctor said in his speech to the Reichstag com- mittee, San Franciseo, March 7.—Con- firmation of the report of the landing at Mazatlan, Mexico, re- cently of 400 Japanese men and ammunition and arms manufactures, was con- firmed yesterday with the arrival of the Pacific Jose by H. li. Chiostry, an arch- itect of Gaudalajara. ; ‘According to Chiostry, the Jap- anese munition plant at Gaudalajara. Other passengers on the boat verified the account and report- ed that it was a common expres- sion that every cartridge and gun turned out was destined for use against America. women, But as 400 Japanese Ammunition Mak- ers Land in Mexico all expert Mail liner, were to establish an PROGRES INSURING expenditure below income. home and personal affairs. Successful business administration depends upon keeping Economical home management and individual advance- ment are based upon the same principle. A Checking Account aids financial progress in business, The Peopies Bank invites the Checking Accounts of firms, corporations, housewives and individuals. PEOPLES BANK “Fhe Bank on Which You Can Always Bank" Deuton-Coleman Loan and Title Co, ‘FOR AL FARM LOANS and ABSTRACTS _BUTLER, Mo. a sort of after thought he added: ‘I am sorry that thru its publication in Amer- ica it became known in Japan.”’ The upshot of the meeting was the committee, with the exception of two Socialists, gave the Foreign Seeretary a clean bill of health. San am- the light plant to secure a sup- ply of water, They have been compelled to haul water for some time to run the plant. Mrs. Anna Leeper of Pleasant Gap has in operation a 1200 egg in- cubator, says the Hume Telephone. It is divided in four sections so that 300 chicks come off at one time, That is some old hen. It is enough to diseourage all hens and make them refuse to lay. Mr. W. L. Briscoe, of Foster, and Miss Hilma Fortsch, of East Boone township, drove to Adrian Saturday of last week and were fever.— John L. 8. Flock Dead. Relatives near this city reeeived word Thursday of the death of John L, 8, Flock, which occurred the night before at Barnard, Mis- souri. : evening and was found dead in his bed the next morning. Ife was born in Roxberry, Franklin county, Pennsylvania, February 4, 1861, April 27, 1898, he wis married to Mrs. Anna Sel- devs. Several years ago he was converted and united with the Baptist church at Gravity, Towa, and has lived an carnest christian life, Besides his wife he is survived by four step children, Mrs. Phillip Pry, cf near this ciy? Mrs, Elmer Brown, of Gravity, lowa; Mrs. W. E. Higginbotham, Holyoke, Colo- rado, and Theodore Selders, who is at home with his mother. The remains were brought to this city and Sunday afternoon funeral services, conducted by Rey, Alexander, of the Baptist church, were held at the Persby- terian church, after which the body was laid to rest in Oak Hill cemetery, The services at the grave being conducted by the lo- ¢al Modern Woodmen of America lodge. Bates County Loses One of Its Oldest Citizens. Ben Melton, of the Round ‘Prair- ie neighborhood, was in the city Monday and was a business caller at this office. He informs us that he has sold his farm and will in a few days leave Bates county for Meridian, Tdaho, where he expects to live in the future- i With the departure of Mr. Mel- ton Bates county loses one of its oldest citizens, Te was born 73 ney, pastor of the Methodist church officiated says the Adrian Journal. Reist and Walton sold two hogs last week that weighed 1410 Ibs. and brought on the Kansas City market $174.10, This is an unusual weight record, ‘also above the ordinary cash record. , One of the animals was not so fat and could easily have been made to weigh 200 pounds more than he did.— Adrian Journal. When the start was made to cross the river the water in the ditch was turned into the river, which reduced the depth to such an ex- tent that the boat could not float. They have dammed the river just below the crossing point, but the water is so low that it will take perhaps a week to catch enough water to enable the boat to get out of the hole-—Urich Herald. Here is a sure ‘nough honest- to-goodness bean story. When our friend, W. H. Johnston, of the Sprague Fruit Farm went into a grocery store early last spring and purehased a bushel of navy beans, paying six cents a pound for them, the wags that infest the regulation small town, treated it as a joke, and wanted to know if he was go- ing-to-tive-on-bean-soup. But he didn’t eat the beans; he planted them and sold the crop (about 17 bushel) to the town fellers at $5.00 per bushel. This was sort of ‘‘rub- hing it in’? on the jokers. What! -—Hume Telephone. Merwin is to have a new saw- mill and an elavator before many weeks, says the Merwin Sun. The building, a large steel structure, will be erected on the east side of the raidroad track along the spur to be laid just south of the R.- Jd. Hurley lumber yard, and work will commence on the same as soon as winter is over. The men_of the enterprise are H. B. B, Owen and George Groves. Mr. Groves moved here form Drexel two week ago and bought half in- terest in the mill becoming effec- tive March Ist, and now the two gentlemen are going to give the farmers what they need and what they have long wished for, and it will be a big lift to the town. too. Whatever else may be said about Villa, one thing is certain. you can never guess what he will do next. A week ago the papers had him going to Japan to secure aid for his cause, next he sent word that he was coming over to the United States and wipe a few towns off the map. Then it was reported that owing to the wounds he received sofe time last year that he had quit revoluting ‘and was going to retire by the to all the papers came the report E ret south with the avowed pinerried:—Rev—Dr—-W 8. Court aap The dredge boat ditch is tem- porairly ‘‘hug up’? in the mud. time that that had gotten around |: quire 19-tf ago ahout—seven—anites south of Schell City, in what. is now Vernon county, but was at that time a part of Bates county, and has been a continuous resi- dent of the county -ever since, One day last week the old friends and neighbors had a gath- ering at the home of one of their number at which Mr. Melton and his good wife were the guests of honor, They were the recipients of many presents from their old friends and neighbors who parted with them with deep regret, but wished them health and prosper- ity in their new home in the far west. George Haun Dead. On Monday last Geo. Haun was taken to Kansas City by Dr. Corn for a consultation with special- ists. After consultation with the specialist it was decided that Mr. Haun was suffering from eancer of the liver and that his case was hopeless, so he was brought back to Amoret Monday evening, and about noon Tuesday he “passed away. z Mr. Haun was born near Dar- lington, Ind., Sept. 16, 1856, and was united in marriage to Mary Jamison March 10, 1887. He leaves a wife, one brother and many friends to mourn his loss. The funeral was conducted by Rev. C. A. Pollock at 3 o’clock Wednesday afternoon at the Pres- byterian church of which Mr. Haun was a member and _ inter- ment made in Jackson cemetery.— Amoret Leader. Harmony Farm Club Meeting. At the regular meeting of Har- mony Farm Club, Wednesday, March 21st, the following pro- gram will be rendered: Diseussion—* Why Should : the Farmers Organize ?’? W. W. Per- ry, A. D. Health, J. A. Herman and B. A; Biggerstaff. Question—-Open to every one. Music. Address—Commercial Law and Bookkeeping, Wesley Denton, Cashier of the: Peoples Bank. Ladies especially invited. W. W. Perry, President. Charlotte Township Democratic Primary. The Democrats of Charlotte township will hold a primary at MecFadden’s hall in Virginia, on Tuesday, March 20, from 2 o’clock to 6:30 o'clock p. m., for the pur- pose of nominating a Democratic township ticket. : C. A. Lusk, Committeeman. - - For Rent. About. 10 acres, fenced hog tight. Nearly .new house, hen house, smoke house, barn and MISSOURI NOTES. Lieut. Baron yon Riehtofen, of | the German aviation corps, won } his twenty-fifth air fight with an cluding rural telephone operators and small town clerks in the bill. A munber of ‘this year’s gradu- ates of the University. of Missouri enemy aviator, it was officially | have made application for exami- Mr. Flock had retired * in his announced ‘in a statement on aer- usual_good—health__Wednesday [i#! activities, — The Ash Grove Commonwealth remembers when it took two bush- els of corn to pay for that paper one year, Now the Common- wealth offers a life subscription for a bushel! of potatoes, Down at Lamar the other day a fire was prevented by the prompt use of a few gallons of milk and a sack or two of flour, The the- ory was all right but it developed that the property saved was not worth the milk and flour used to put out the fire. bragging about one of their sub- seribers who recently had his dates set five years in advance, If print paper gets much higher the Journal might not be so proud. However, most newspapers are willing to take the chance. About 20 years ago George M. Nedlow built a fine theatre in Pleasant Till. For some time the building has not been a paying a satisfactory return on the in- vestment and last week it was sold to the Methodist ehureh and will be converted into an up to date church building. The Osages, the organization of political writers covering the Mis- osuri Legislature, gave their bien- nial dinner Saturday night. Gov- ernor Gardner, Lieutenant Gover- nor Crossley and the offieers of the house and senate were guests. The program consisted of skits on cipally his difficulties with job hunters. Mrs. Mary Alice Kresier was re- leased Saturday under a bond of $25,000 after she had been in the county jail at Kansas City since last Saturday, when she was ar- rested and charged with first-de- gree murder after her husband, Edward Kreiser, church ‘organist and composer, had been shot and killed in their home. She went. immediately to her home. live stock, a market report from the National Stock Yards, under date of January 23, 1889, is inter- esting. The top price on cattle 3.50 for 37 native steers av- eraging 1,143 pounds. Ten native cows sold) at $2 per hundred- weight. Bulk of hogs went at $4.75 and sheep at $3 to $4 per hundred.- Joe Observer. Judge KE. E, Porterfield, in the Criminal Court at Kansas City Saturday set April 9 as the date for a new trial of Dr. B. Clark Hyde on the charge of having murdered Col. Thomas H. Swope. Although Judge Porterfield _an- nounced (early in. January he would dismiss the ease because the State had asked so many contin- nanees, he objected today to such action and set the new trial date. Word from Speaker Champ Clark Saturday says President Wilson has signed the special bill giving Tyler Parker, the oldest printer in Missouri, if not the United States, a pension of $380 a month. The news found Parker on his back in bed. He had until recently been setting type in the old) way for, nearly sixty-four years. He Werked with Mark Twain at Hannibal, Mo., before the Civil War. Mrs. Agnes Hill, wife of Presi- dent of A. Ross Hill, died Friday afternoon at the president’s home on the University Campus at Co- lumbia. Mrs. Hill has been in ill health for more than a year and a half, but in recent. months she had felt much improved. Yester- day, however, her condition be- came worse. Pneumonia, the re- sult of operations she had under- gone during her long illness, is given as the immediate cause of death. The Appleton City Journal is| the-Gardner_administration, prin- In view of the present prices for nation for commissions as second lieutenants in the .regular army of War providing for the granting of such commissions to ten honor graduates of the 1917 class and ten of the 1916 class of each insti- tution listed with the War Depart- ment as ai ‘distinguished eol- Seven alumnae of the uni- versity have secured these eom- missions in the last few months. Since the provision holds good wn- til 1921, the undergraduates will have an ineentive to qualify for these positions, lege,” } | : U. S. Ambassador to Japan Dies Washington, March George W, Guthrie, American am- bassador to Japan since 1913, died suddenly of apoplexy at Tokio. The affairs of the embassy were. taken over by Post: Wheeler, the first secretary, who will aet as tcharge until a new ambassador is j tamed, ‘ | Mr. Guthrie a Pittsburg luw- yer, prominent in national deme- cnatic polities for many years, was ainong the first diplomatic repre- senatives appointed by President Wilson. Tle sailed for Japan in July, 1913, and has been at his post constantly since, exeept for a short visit to the United States in . 1915. He acted for his gover- ment in several important diplo- matic exchanges with Japan, in- eluding the California anti-alien controversy. Mr, Guthrie was 68 vears old. The department cabled a mes- sage of condolence to Mrs, Gutlirie who is understood to be with her Provision in the | department }regulations for bringing home the thodies of the diplomatic officiers who die at their post will be ex- ereised in -the case unless Mrs. Guthrie arranges otherwise or de- cides to accept the-expected ten- der of a Japanese warship. Herr Fokker, the builder of one of the most successful flying ma- chines used in the German and Austrian armies, prediets an era of acrial passenger traffie after the war. Speed, he says, is hound to make aircraft a popular ve- hiele of travel, but only for great distances, for which reason the in- ventor predicts the successful op- eration of aircraft on routes be- tween Europe and the United States, which will run in competi- tion with transatlantic — liners. Herr Fokker believes the first at- tempt to fly from Europe will be made after the war, and asserts the route’ can be traveled in two di at the outside, He is of the opinion that all teehnical handi- caps will be easily overcome, REVIVAL CLOSED tl One of the Most Successful Meet- ings Ever Held in This City . Closed Sunday Night. H Sunday night marked the clos+ ing of one of the best revivals ever held in this city. The meeting, which was held in the Ohio street M. E. church, was actively parti- cipated in by the M. EB. chureh, South the Ohio street. M. E. church and the — Presbyterian churches and on Sunday nights the Christian and Baptist churches met with them. : The meetings were conducted by Dr. Frank Arnold, of Kansas City assisted by’. B. Grambling, a sing Dr. Arnold is a seholar- Jy christian gentleman and did aot” appeal to the emotions, as many evangelists do, but preached good straight religion, that made his hearers think. At nearly every service he preached to an atten- tive audience that taxed. the ca- pacity of the large church where the meetings were held, and there is no doubt but that the communi- ty is much better for his efforts and that every chureh in the eity will be revived and = given) new life. One of the pleasing features of the meeting was the music, which ! was in charge of Mr. Grambling, a An overwhelming defeat of the] finished musician, and a most ex- law to provide an eight hour day for women in_all lines of work re- sulted in the house of represen- atives last week. It is probable ef- forts for the passage a similar bill in the senate will be aband- oned. The state law at present has a nine hour law for women with a few occupations excluded. general farm improvements. An|The new bill sought to limit the ideal place to raise chickens or|working hours of the women in t he had an army of 300 andjhogs and keep a few cows. In-|gainful occupations to 48 hours J. W. Eggleson, jand 8 hours a day. The small Tel 569, Butler, Mo.|town represenatives objected to in- cellent soloist. He had charge of a large choir, made up of the fin- est singers in town, helped out by a good orchestra. Collections were taken up at the Sunday morning and evening ser- vices and a creditable sum was raised and turned over to Dr. Arnold. Dr. Arnold left Monday morn- ing for his home in Kansas City . where he will rest for a week and then start a meeting at the'Third Presbyterian church in that city. A