The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, March 15, 1917, Page 8

i Mulberry sid Western Bates. Claude Morwood and Dr. J. C. Sageser made a business trip to | Butler Thursday. ¢ Mrs. John H. Nutt and. son, | Freddie, visited with her daugh- |ter, Mes. A. G. Payne several i days last week before leaving for ‘her new home at Salmon, Dent Corn Contest Closes CHOATE & FULLBRIGHT ANNOUNCE WINNERS OF GUESS- ING CONTEST. : ners: First prize, Clabe Jundy ; prize, Mayme Hartwell; Fourth p George Nafus. The judges of the contest made the following announcement: ined the guesses made on the corn guessing contest and in accordance with the instructions printed on the coupons award Ist prize, $10 in gold, Clabe Jundy, 20,244. , 2nd prize, 2 bu. of seed corn, R. E. Mooney, 20,500. 3rd prize. 1 bu. of seed corn. Mayme Hartwell, 20,160. , 1-2 bu. of seed corn, W. D. Adams, 20,597, ‘, peck on display, George Nafus, 20,675. 4th priz Sth pri We find the following number to be the one on counters” sworn statement, Signed 2 Winners will call ot our offic and receive the prizes. We, the undersigned, hereby certify that we have exam- Second prize, R: E. Mooney; Third]; rize, W. D. Adams; Fifth prize, J (CHOATE & FULLBRIGHT) the prizes as follows: contained number 20,354. John S. Krinn, Paul Shelton. W. E. Black. Bank State ‘over the Misouri CHOATE & FULLBRIGHT, Insurance. No. D, OFFICIAL SPATEMENT OF THE FINANCIAL CONDITION of the BAN OF ROCKVILLE 1,998.00 merce) 31 $10,000.00 19,000.00 ee 13,711.21 bankers ; 6,069,000 subject 131,550.95 0 Sof deposit Bills payable and rey Other liabilities, as ‘follows. Tota State of We, J. id bank, each mily swear that the above true te the best of our nd belief, LOOK, P HEYLE, ¢ “J and sworn to before me, ay of March. A. D.. nineteen and seventeen. dent, shier. id noetaria DAVITT, ary Public REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. ALR. Lee to T. TE Vanee part block 18 Couch’s addition to But- der $1,000.00, L. EE Batehelor to M. T. Rud- dick fots 1 and 2 block 42 Rich Hill $1.00. Jay W. Kleenor to Floyd Totten lots 7 and S block S Merwin $4,- 000.00. : P. FE. Warner to Andrew Rood 40 acres section 28 Homer $1.00, J.T. Belk to J. W. Frankenfield lots T, 2, 3, 4 and 5 Foster $400.00. J. T. Burk ct al to Charlotte Ducat lots 9 and 10 block 12 Ist addition to Rich Hill $50.00. {Don’t Patch Them GET MORE MILEAGE BY HAVING THEM VULCANIZED We have just instalied 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 cam save you money on your tire bills A trial will cenviace you Harp & Lucas * day to spend a week with their) r uinele, » Huffinen on Thursday, Ya nine pound boy. home near Virginia Sunday. Mt. Carmel News. Mrs. Francis Hines and _ sister, Mahle, of near Foster, eame Sun- rerett Drysdale and wife. Be AWE, leson of Butler spent] county, ion Mrs. J. H. Porter Wednesday. | guests at the Vane Walker home. | holding protracted meetings at the —+We met Col. C. F. Beard of Par- Oak Grove Items. ing. Will Jones were Appleton visitors Tuesday. day at the Claud Quick home. ES Tog Chitwood called at the Geo. Sargent home Monday even- Mrs. F. A. Kretsinger and Mrs. City Harry Ruddell spent Wednes- Public ale |. is- Mrs. J f ‘Leiner was a caller Mrs. Dan Garren and daughters, Goldie and Nellie, and her mother Mrs. Noah, left the last part of the week for Clinton to visit rel- atives. Mrs. Claude Morwood visited frém Thursday until Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Fail, of Butler. Claude drove in his car Saturday night. Maude and Irene Ewbank were Rey. Garret of Paola has been Mulberry school house. Ye pencil pusher and son, Har- ry, returned home Saturday af- ternoon from Independence, Kan- sas, where Rambler was one of the auctioneers in Robinson-Shultz sale of Holstein Fresian cattle, 100 head of pure bred, 40 head of high grades. The top cow sold for. $700, while the top bull *‘calf”’ brought #510. Grade cows sold up to $182.50, No. 1 in the cata-| log was purchased by a farmer that has spent 45 years in Bates county, S. R. MeCaun, Rich Hill. sons, who was as glad to see us as he possibly could be. Cecil Phibbs spent several days last week with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Phibbs. Richard Masterson has been on and Mrs. Thos. | March Sth, | Born to Mr. Mr. Charley Wolfe, who has} spending the past — two inonths with his sister, Mrs. Lee M. Hardinger, returned to _ his been Dick Cox, who_has been visit- ing his parents, Mr. ‘and Mrs. E. W. Cox, since. Christinas, left last week for South Dakota. Mrs. Roy Burk is spending sev- eral days at the home of her hus- band’s parents, Mr. and Mrs, Mon- _roe Burk. Mr. Dunlap'’s folks, who have had the measles are all up again. Most all of the sick folks in our part of the country are up and around again, ; The rain, the rain, the beautiful rain. At last we’ve got it and ‘some have already began to holler cnough. We Americans are great people, Always wanting some- thine we haven’t got and when we vet it, then we are not satisfied. Read Sunny Jiin’s ‘*Sunbeams”’ and take his advice and ‘‘cheer un.” Tle says. ‘there is nothing | being cheerful,”’ and T guess is right. I’ve tried it both; ways. Miss Josephine Leonard was af-| thieted with w# bad sore throat Sunday. ; UNCLE HENRY. Herrell Happenings Oats are about all sown and garden made It’s beginning to look like spring again. Mr. and Mrs. Jess Brooks and} two children, Mr. and Mrs. Walter! \ Taylor and baby, and Messrs El- mer Kinney and Ralph Culver | spent Sunday atthe home of H. A. Vayland. Mr. and Mrs. Joe “Clark and children and Mr. and Mrs, Jake Baum were Sunday afternoon callers of Geo. Hertz and family. Mrs. Gough of Peru spent Sat-| -urday night and Sunday at the U.} Y So fson home. Mr. and Mrs. Jess Vickers are ‘the proud parents of a baby boy | born last Wednesday. : Mr. H, A. Wayland spent Mon- day arid Tuesday at the bedside |of Mr. Bud Henry, who passed away Tuesday evening. i Mr. and Mrs. Andy Cummins spent Sunday with Mrs. Cummins mother, Mrs. Harpert. Harold Hertz is suffering with tonsilitis. . ; 5 Miss Ruth Wayland stayed with | Mrs. Wick Ray Thursday evening, Mr. Ray being called away by the death of his niece, Mrs. Winsett. T. C. Jones is able to be up and around now. Mrs. Jones is still confined to her bed. Z Mr. John Walker is planting several acres of potatoes this year. Possibly: the price will be low enough to reach next year. ~ Nina French stayed with Mr. Enis’ Saturday afternoon. There was a dance given at the place which Mr. Pittman has just |néar Cornland after a six months}! ee ee i, lay off, a few days last week with his; the sick list several days last | daughter, Mrs. C. G. Porter andj week. | ‘amily. RAMBLER. slight stroke of paralysis. | j four kids. On the Wing. — rf rank Zinn of Minden, Mo. was up to see his step mother, Aunt Martha Zinn, who had a C. C. Hedger has moved to Fos- ter. He has the Times changed from Butler to Foster. Uncle Geo. Hughes has 40 acres for rent, well improved, some fall plowing done, 1-4 mile north of| Plain View school house. We attended Geo. Thompson's sale last Monday and think every- thing sold well. Sheep brought $24.25; cow with calf by side $59 and everything else accord- ingly. : Geo. Crooks lost a rain coat on his road to Butler last Saturday. Stockinen while you are looking at good horses and jacks just take uf ? 7 o iting relatives at Fort Scott, the past week, returned home Tues- day. C. W. Rector called at the Geo. | Sargent home Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. A. T. Keen called on Mrs. E. Barnett Wednesday afternoon. C. B. Lawson and Otho West called at the J. M. Evans home| Wednesday evening. | Geo. Frey ealled at the J. T.| Chitwood home Wednesday even- ing. Mesdames James Harvey and! Everett Harvey spent Thursday | with Mrs. Bruce Odneal. Mrs. J. M. Chitwood and Mrs. | Jake Frey called on Mrs. Marsh | Brown Thursday afternoon. Iva Wigger spent Thursday night at the Geo. Wigger home. Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Cumpton ; spent Thursday at the Mrs. Clara | Batchelor home. i Mrs. J. T. Chitwood called on! her sister, Mrs. C. W. Reetor | Thursday. | Mrs. G. W. Keen called at the Mrs. E, J. Keen home Thursday afternoon. Harry -Raybourne and Will Wigger called at the Geo. Sar- gent home Wednesday evening. Mrs. Dan Boyman called on Mrs. Clara Batchelor Tuesday af- ternoon, Martha Morgan visited the Oak Grove school Wednesday. ~ Mrs. T. TI. Cumpton spent Thursday night at the Mrs. Clara Batchelor home. Mr. and Mrs, 8. L. Keen and Mrs. FE. J. Keen called at the G. Ing A. T.. Gilmore sawed wood for PLA. retzinger one day last Misses Martha Morgan and) Pearl Jones and Mr. Reuben Shil- linger called at the F. A. Kretz- inger home Monday evening. Mr. and Mrs, W. G. Cumpton: spent Sunday at the Mrs. Clara Batchelor home. | Mr. and Mrs. Will Davis spent | Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Henry | Peerman. | Mr. and Mrs. Dee Vanhoy called | at the J. B. Newberry home Sun- day afternoon. Evans. a squint at Els Eggleson’s on route 6, Butler, Mo. , T went to E. E. Eggleson’s to get the job of printing bills this spring for his stock, but he in- formed me that he had had them already made and had some of them’ up. Win. McClure resigned his job as pool clerk for Ben Johnson in Kansas City and came home. to farm. Will is a worker. © He farms in the spring, tends separat- or in threshing season and shucks his corn and in the winter clerks ina pool room, The bridge across the dredge ditch just south of Nyhart will be ready for travel the 10th of May. Mr. J. W. Lingenfelter rented . Morrison farm south of for 1917. — Roof Sellers has done well since he went to Mexico. When he got there he had two mules, a dog and Now he owns 400 acres of Mexieo land, 50 head of cattle and hogfts enough to run the farm und has an auto to ride in while his horses rests. He is now out of debt. Mr. J. M.. Miller was..ont .the first of the week looking for a farm to rent this year.” Andrew Dunlap is over the measles. The balance of the fam- ily are to have them yet. John Ehart spent Sunday at the home of Fred Medley in the sec- tion house at Nyhart. Bob Sproul sawed for John Ehart the first of the week. Geo. Thompson’s sale Monday. went off fine. Everything sold like hot cakes, even if was a cold, damp day. ‘ It is rumored tat Miss Florence Caney, te Enterprise school mis- tress, and Mr. Tom Chandler were married in Butler Saturday. It seems like nearly all the girls that teach at Enterprise school get a good man before their term is out. Attorney McFadden of Kansas City was down getting depositions | Sp: for the damage suit on the Duvall ranch to come off in May at Ne- vada, Mo. Both dredge boats are at work Harry Chitwod and mother, wood, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Harvey and daughter, Velma, Chas. Pheasant and C. W. Rector called at the Geo, Sargent home Sunday afternoon. Will Foster and family spent Sunday at the Will Wigger home. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Lawson spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Bowman. Connie Chitwood spent Satur- day with her aunt, Mrs. CC. W. Rector. ¢ Mr. and Mrs. Ben Norvell and with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gutter- man, James Lawson home Sunday. Mrs. Geo, Wigger ealled om her sister, Mrs. Chas. Wigger, evening last week. ' ; C. G. Moore called at the Geo. Sargent home Saturday afternoon. ; With Edd Hall. Mr. and Mrs. Everette Harvey and children spent Sunday at the Jno. Wise home. | Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Cumpton | spent Thursday at the Mrs. Clara | Batchelor home. “Meri Sargent purchased © hay from Leonard Hayes one day last week. ° PANSY. —<_—_—______. . State Highway Commission. Jefferson City, March 10.— Governor Gardner tonight named the four.members of the staté highway commission,: which was created by the Hawes Good Roads Bill. The commission is biparti- san and the annual compensation of the commissioners $1,000 a year and traveling expenses. The Democratic members are: C. O. Raine of Canton, president of the Missouri State Grange and chairman of the good roads com- mission of the National Grange of merica, and E. L. Sanford of imembers are: A. E. McKibben of Clayton, Mo., a newspaper. man, d roads George | | | if i Keen home Wednesdas—evenf— Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Evans spent! Monday evening and night. Sunday with Mr. and Mrs, P. F. eryone will surely be wearing that | happy stnile of contentment. Connie, Marie, and Harvey Chit-| jjc¢, have the scarlet fever, but_is_bet- ' ter at this writing, Butler in the near future.. Mr.at 10-30 and Endeavor in even- Wix and family will move to the ing. Come and bring some one place vacated by Mr. Earsom. | with you. ; Mr. Wix has bought the place. GYP. his health. Cora Bentley and Grandma Nafus spent Sunday with Henry Walters daughter, Ruth, spent Sunday ° children, of Nevada, visited a few Mrs. I. N. Lawson called at the |‘ neighborhood on Sunday evenings, one | Anyone wanting to know why ask ; Edna Dillon. On account of ill health, I have decided to dispose of some of my live stock at public sale at my farm 1 mile east, 1 mile north of Worland, and 6 miles northwest of Foster, Mo., 6 miles southeast of Amoret, Mo., Tuesday, March 20, ’17 The following property: 120 HEAD LIVE STOCK 15 Head Horses and Mules Coming 5-year-old horse mule, weight 1250; span coming 3-year-old mules, 1 mare and 1 horse; 7 coming 3-year-old mare mules; span black per- cheron mares 4-and-5-years old, weight 1300; black mare 9 years old with foal; span horses, 4 and 6, weight 1400.. , oe 75 Head Cattle 25 cows; 21 heifers*S bulls, 1 a two-year-old; 2 yearling bulls and 2 bull calves; 24 head of calves. 30 Head of Hogs 6 brood sows; 1 male; 23 shoats, weight 80 to 100 pounds. ‘Farm Implements and Household Goods 2 sets work harness; incubator; sanitary carpet sweeper; 2 rocking chairs; oak bed stead. TERMS:— Al! sums of $10 and under cash. On sums over this amount a credit of 8 months time will be given on bankable note drawing 8% interest from date. 2% discount for cash. C. H. CLOUSE Cols. C, E. Robbins, L. A. Poteet, Auctioneers Double Branch Pick-Ups. iand Sunday with Job Utley. ay looked for rain eame|.. lr. Ferrell and wife, Herbert That long looked for rain He Zequa and family Sundayed with , | Johnnie Ferrell. The Misses Mamie Culver, An- _ ‘ ., (nie, Walter and Ethel Spain were Mrs. W. A. Baker is on the sick guests of Cleo and Fern Miller | Sunday. Rev. Hood filled his regular ‘ap- pointment at Double Branches Sunday and Sunday night. Sun- day school every Sunday morning ° Buford Padley is reported to { Mr. A. M. Earsom will inove to We hear Mr. Wix will travel for Public Sale. Having sokd my lease and am leaving the state, I will sell at public auction’ at the Allman Daniel farm, 3 1-2 miles-south of | Butler on | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 1917 30 head of live stock, horses, cat- tle, hogs and sheep. All kinds of farm machinery. See large bills for terms. spent’ Sunday ; ROME DANIELS. 'C. E. Robbins, Auctioneer, M. C. Wilcox, Clerk. FALSE ALARM The Report started by some one that I was out of business in Butler is a Mistake. 1 am still at my Old Stand on North Main Street Mrs. R. lu. Seifers and family, ind family, Mr. Jeff Morgan's daughter and | lays last week with him. d We see Julian Gough in’ this Elijah Walters Mable Padley spent Saturday | 22-1t BRING IN YOUR _ Produce of All Kinds » Such as Poultry, Eggs. Cream Iron, C , ~ Rags, Hides, Etc. _ And get the Highest Market Price We have installed a Steam Cream Tester to Cream 4 to Clean your Cans making ttiem cereants come a