The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, April 5, 1917, Page 3

SPRING TIM Roofed with Shingles. The roof was good for ‘thirty years, You have the same opportunity today your father had. It’s up to you to use good judgment and roof your home with < the Roof of Satisfaction made of our . Clear Thick Red Cedar Shingles These shingles are very carefully manufactured from clear live timber. They are selected by our buyer because of their Perfec- tion, their durability. They are full 16 inches long and extra thick. They are-shingles that we are proud to put the LOMOCO Stamp of QUALITY and SERVICE on. Our advice is: Buy your roofing material this spring before further advances in price. If your roof is leaking, it means damaged walls and will cause your sheeting to rot. Our Lomoco Rubber Roofing, Lomoco Extra Clear Shingles and Lomoco Iron Roofing will protect your buildings. LOGAN-MOORE LUMBER Co. The home of Lomoco Paints, Roofing and Building Material BUTLER, MO. ROOFING TIME The .Old Homestead that stood just off the road in the old Walnut Grove, was built of Lumber and it never gave father any trouble because he used the best o¢ judgment and covered his home with the Roof SATISFACTORY Shingles. PHONE 18 | day with Mildred and Mary Louise White. : Mrs. Sterling Harness daughter were shopping in Aaron Saturday. Mrs. Tan White. visited Mrs. Dale and Mrs. Stroble Friday. Mrs. Doda Patt helped © clean house at her mother’s Monday. In and Around Maysburg. Tan White invited in some of his neighbors last Monday and. had a barn shingling. The first day of April proved to be an April fool day in truth as people had thought spring had come and old April fooled them a trip by being a winter day. Mrs. Gertia Harness visited There was quite a number, of| Mrs. Reed Monday. people from Maysburg attended; Mr. and Mrs. Riley Gilbert the funeral of Dow Morland at| went to Butler Friday. Urich Friday. Dow had been in| Mr. Albert Edrington and bad health a number of years but] brother, Leslie, went to Butler his death came quite suddenly| Saturday. and was unexpected by his! | Prayer meeting at the Baptist friends. . \ehureh every Wednesday night. Rev. D. L. Johnson filled his| Choir practice at the Christian appointment at Cove Creek Chris- chureh every Friday night, ex- tian church Sunday. vept the week before the first Mrs. Clyde Owens and _ little|Sunday and then on Thursday night. Mr. Will Hoover visited at Mr. Joe Jacob’s Sunday. uaughter, Eunice Elizabeth, are visiting in Urich. Grandma Stroble, we are glad to say has got able to be taken| Mrs. Tan White is sick with home. She had been staying all| sore throat. winter with her daughter, Mrs.| Mr. and Mrs. Simpson went to|, Hagen. Urich Friday. Mr. James McCleney and Mr. Sterling Harness each shingled part of their houses Monday. They were damaged by the cy- clone. A NEIGHBOR. Mrs. Geisleman is some better and is now able to be up part of the time. Mrs. Dale is improving a little all the time. Miss Bernice McCoy spent Sun- EVERYTHING = FOR EVERYBODY = Groceries, Hardware, Automobiles, Tires, Accessories, Oils, Greases, Threshing Machines. Grocery Department No. 2 Milk Hominy....... Large Post Toasties, will be higher for a time at 2 for 25c Large Kellog Corn Flakes, will be higher fora ime, at 2 for 25c Quart Jar Bismarck Applebutter No. 3 Can Sweet Potatoes 15c No. 2 Can Peas, good No. 3 Can Pumpkin uality..... No.3 ce AG Pe: regular 25c Hardware Hoes, Rakes, Gatden Plows, Forks, Shovels, Spades, Drain Cleaners, Tile Spades, Ax Handles, Maul Handles, Fork Handles, Rake Handies, Hoe Handles, Pick Handies, Shovel Handles, Spade Handles, Adz Handles, Hammer Handles. Hatchet Handles, many other things too numerous to mention. You Should Buy Before Fly Time “Screen Wire, Screen Doors, Screen Springs, Screen Hinges, Window Screen Catches, Locks and Hinges. Sugar _ Now is your time to buy Sugar. Every prediction js it will be higher. Public Garage The Home of the Universal Car—*The Ford” We have sold since the first day of last September 243 Ford Cars. Seven more to sell in Bates County to complete our contract. Automobile Tires United States, Goodrich, sine deen Firestone and Pennsy!- vania tire tubes of all makes and . _TIRES WILL BE HIGH- Bu: or you will pay more. WE TREAT you right on * e hang one or two on your car and they are our tires un- til you have to use it. No money invested until you have to use it. x i \ and i { i Oak Grove Items. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Rector and Mr, and Mrs. Will Wigger called at the Geo. Wigger home Tuesday night. Mrs. F. A. Kretzinger «alled on Mrs. I. M. Kretzinger Tuesday af- ternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Lon Foster were Appleton City visitors Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Wilson called at the Mrs. Clara Batchelor home Tuesday evening. A. L. Gilmore was a Montrose visitor Wednesday. Nora Foster spent Tuesday night at the Lon Foster home. Mrs. Sarah Quick and son, Geo. called at the F. A. Kretzinger home Tuesday night. W. G. Cumpton spent Wednes- day at the Mrs, Clara Batchelor home. Mrs. Jake Frey was the guest of Mrs. Marsh Brown Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Clara Batchelor called on Mrs. D. W. Bowman Thursday afternoon. Geo. Barnett of Nebraska visit- ed at the Tion Foster home last week. (. G. Moore spent Tuesday night at the Mrs. Clara Batchelor home. Mrs. F. A. Kretzinger and Mrs. Will Jones were Montrose visitors Wednesday. Marsh Brown spent Wednesday at the Geo. Pharis home. Mrs. Geo. Reese and children of Rich Hill visited at the Lon Fos- ter home last week. Lola Kretzinger spent Friday night with Maude Kretzinger. Mrs. C. W. Hedrick of Kansas City is visiting at the Ww. G. Cumpton home. Mrs. Clara Batchelor and daugiiter, Nena, and C. G. Moore spent Sunday at the W. G. Cump- ton home. Connie and Harvey ealled on their aunt, Mrs. Rector Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Jake Frey are visiting relatives at Rich Hill. C. G. Moore spent Friday night at the Geo. Sargent home. Mrs. Geo. Sargent was the guest of Mrs. Leonard Hayes Thursday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Bernice Dickisou called at the James Harvey home Thursday evening. Maude Kretzinger spent Sat- urday with Pearl Jones. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Evans and children spent Saturday night and Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Angus Huntsman. Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Keen visited Sunday with Mrs. Keen’s sister, Mrs. Rilla Radford and children. Chas. Kretzinger and Reuben Shillinger were Appleton City visitors Saturday. Harve Cummins of Colorado is visiting at the James Evans home. Mr. and Mrs. James Harvey and daughter, Velma, entertained the following Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. Bernice Dickeson and little son, Walter Lee, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Welliver and children, Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Odneal, Mr. and Mrs. Everette Harvey and chil- dren and Mr. M. H. Sargent. "Mrs. Marsh Brown called at the Rev. Berkholder home Tuesday afternoon. Archie, Everette and Otho ealled at the F. A. Kretziuger home Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mra. Saturday at the Clay Cumpton Chitwood Cc. W. Will Jones spent | daughter, | Welliver and children| cepted Genday with Mr. and Mrs.|trebled. ‘ F. A. Kretzinger was an Apple-' ton City visitor Monday. Geo. Frey called at the Sargent home Friday night. The Oak Grove Improvement Club met March 31 with a large crowd present. A short but in- teresting program was rendered. Geo. | The question, Resolved, That. the U. S. should not enter into the European war’’ was thoroughly debated by the following. Those who argued for the affirmitive side of the question were C. G. Moore and Clark Wix. Ben Wix and Wm, Holstein argued for the negative side of the question. The judges A. T. Keen, Merl Sar- gent and Geo. Frey decided in fdvor of the affirmative side. They adjourned to meet April 14. (Too late for last week.) West- visitors Clarence Butler Mr. and Mrs. brook were Wednesday. Mr, and Mrs. Will Jones and children spent last week at Rich Hill visiting Mrs. Jones’ parents, Mr. and Mrs. Silvers. Mrs. C. W. Rector called on Mrs. G. W. Sargent Tuesday at- ternoon. C. G. night at home. .. Mr, and Mrs. S. L. Keen called at the Geo. Keen home Tuesday evening. Mrs. Mert Shillinger spent Tuesday with Mrs. F. A. Kretz- inger. Mr. and Mrs. Everette Harvey and children, Chas. Moore, Merl Sargent “and Thelma Sargent called at the James Harvey home Tuesday evening. Jno. Kretzinger speut Monday night at the F. A. Kretzinger home: Mrs. Clara Batchelor calléd on Mrs. D. M. Bowman Tuesday af- ternoon. Clarence Westbrook spent Tues- day at the Will Davis home. Merl Sargent called on Young Tuesday morning. Will Foster spent Tuesday at the Will Wigger home. W. G. Cumpton spent Wednes- day at the Mrs. Clara Batchelor home. “Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Keen and Mr, and Mrs. Earnest Gabriel were Butler visitors Tuesday. CG. G. Moore spent Thursday night at the C. C. Wilson home. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Keen spent Wednesday at the Mrs. E. J. Keen home. : Icie Wigger was the guest of spent Tuesday Harvey Moore the Everette Roy Maude Kretzinger Wednesday night. Lillie and Delbert Wigger spent Wednesday night at the Wm. Foster home. Mrs. Clara Batchelor spent Thursday with Mrs. Chas. Wilson. T. H. Cumpton, Mrs. Clara Batchelor and Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Bowman were Appleton City visitors Friday. Newton Davis was the guest of Will Davis and family last week. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Raybourn called at the J. B. Newberry home Wednesday afternoon. “Mrs. Henry Beerman called on Mrs. F. A. Kretzinger Monday af- ternoon. Eunice Frey spent Wednesday night with Mr. and Mrs. Ray Lawson. Mrs. Will Jones and Mrs. Frank Kretzinger were the guests of Mrs. Jno. Jackson Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. C. W. Rector called at the J. T. Chitwood home Thursday af- ternoon. Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Cumpton spent Saturday at the Mrs. Clara Batchelor home. Mr: and Mrs. D. W. Bowman, Mr. and Mrs. Will Wigger and children and Geo. Wigger and family called at the Chas. Wigger home Sunday afternoon. Thelma Sargent called at the C. W. Rector home Sunday after- noon. . Mr. and Mrs. I. M. Kretzinger were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Kretzinger Sunday after- noon. "i Mr. and Mrs. Lon Foster and children spent Sunday with Mrs. Foster’s mother, Mrs. Sarah Quick. Archie Evans spent Saturday. at the Ples Evans home. Mrs. Will Jones and daughter, Pearl, called at the F. A. Kretz- inger home Saturday afternoon. Francis and Viola Evans spent Saturday night with Lola Evans. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Norvell and daughter, Ruth, and Maude Kretzinger called at the Frank Gutterman home Sunday after- noon. : Connie Chitwood spent Sunday with Pearl Jones. s Bernice Dickerson. Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Keen spent Sunday at the Jno. MeCook home. ; * PANSY. Rolling Stones. The rain last Saturday night made the little oats and gardens look fine. Everybody’s busy and news is scarce. ’ Leona Moles helped Alice Moles paper one day last week. Howard Claunch has the mumps. Walter Taylor, wite and baby visited with Grandpa apd Grand- ma Taylor of Altona, . R. C. Buckles and wife and Jeff Taylor and wife made a trip to Kansas City in their Ford last Saturday. Jason Deardorff sold a mule to Chas. Argenbright for $260 last Thursday and bought a span of young mules of Mr. Hawkins, west of Adrian. : Henry Banke is real poorly at this writing. Geo. Moles sold a span of young mules to the Adrian mule buyer last week. Mr. Morrison and wife and Mary Morrison made an overland trip to Butler last Friday. Mrs. Geo. Moles and Mrs. R. C. Buekles were in Adrian shopping one day last week. Grandma Wains¢ott and Dovie Simms are still on the sick list. Mr. Ewing, who has been sick is still poorly. : (Too late for last week.) Weather fine, but items are scarce. We had quite a hail and wind storm last Thursday night, they say it did quite a bit of damage in and around Ballard. Ben Finley is working for Mr. Helt, near Culver. Some of the farmers are going to plant corn this week, but we think they had better wait until winter is over. Byron Pipes, who has been working in the oil works in Okla- homa had the misfortune to get his foot smashed and is now at home. Alvis Moles and family spent Sunday at John Moles. Mrs. Watson is staying down at Butler at this writing. Mr, and Mrs. Whitehead visited at Walter Taylor’s last Sunday. Henry Burke is seriously sick at this writing. Earl Thomas has moved on Jim Harrison’s farm which was vacat- ed by Walter Harrison. Mrs. Whitehead and Mrs. Moles rmade a flying trip to Adrian last Tuesday. Goldie Whitehead spent Satur- day night with her grandparents near Adrian. Peru Items. Another good rain Saturday night and Sunday. Wonder why Gilbert Blanken- baker is looking so sad. ; A number of young people went to the home of Miss Ethyl Miller last Sunday evening. Rev. Harold Hilliard preached a short sermon for her, the first she had heard since she was confined to her bed, more than nine ent of public schools that each school should float a flag on April 2nd, came too late to Lone Oak township. Each school in the township own a__ beautiful flag which the W. C. T. U. gave them and most of them are on poles in the yard. The Y. P. B. met at the home of Miss Cecil Steffen last Saturday night. All present report a fine time. Mr. Elmer and Miss Mae Me- Ginnis and Miss Mildred Hamp- ton visited Gilbert and Fae Blankenbaker last Sunday. Mrs. Kate Daniels called on Miss Ethyl] Miller last Friday. The neighbors and friends of Mr. and Mrs. Rome Daniels gave them a surprise in their new home. BILLIE AND SUSIE. The Navy Has 62,667 Men. Washington, March 31.—A to- tal of 4,474 men had been recruit- ed for the navy in March and the net gain for the month was 3,628, against 2,086 last month. The strength of the navy today is 62,- 667 men. The first three days active re- eruiting after President Wilson’s authorization to bring the navy ‘Mr, and Mrs. J. E. Harvey and up to the full war strength of 87; Velma, and Mr. 000 men, the daily number of ac-|: applicants was —_{up_in_bed years go. The order of state superintend- last Saturday night, as they will soon leave to make their home in Montana. We are sorry to lose them from this community and wish them success Chapel Chatter. The many friends of Grand- {mother Dubsodn are glad to hear she is improving and able to sit some. : Mrs. Sallie Bearmon, who has been taking care of Grandmother Dobson has returned to her home in Spruce vicinity. Mrs. Beamon was a good nurse and a_ loving companion. Miss Carlie Howard returned home Tuesday from a_ several days visit at her brother’s, How- ard, of. Athol. 2 Mrs. Anna Haynes and daugh- ter, Jewell, spent last Sunday with Misses Myrtle and Lola Keeble. : Herman Seelinger called at Lo- cal Bowers Wednesday. Dick and Buford Keeble hauled hay from Charley Miller’s Mon- day. Mrs. Grimes visited at A. J. Shelton’s last Monday, afternoon. Mrs. Bettie Turpin has com- menced working at Mr. Prewitt’s Kandy Kitchen in Butler. Fritz Ours goes all by his lone- some these days. If anyone wants to know why, just ask Miss Maggie Hermann. Mrs. Anna Haynes Butler Monday with Mrs. Bettie Turpin. Mr. Albert Ford has returned to his home in Kansas after a visit here with his brother, Amos Ford. Mr. Clyde Welliver’s house was totally destroyed by fire Thurs- day night about 8 -0’clock. Most of the furniture was saved. G. L. Herrell, the insurance agent of Adrian was a business caller at Mr. Fred Kersey’s Fri- day. : | Mr.and Mrs Clyde Welliver and ‘whildren are staying at Mr, Will |Smith’s since their home burned. Charley Mattox spent Saturday \night with Ruford Keeble. Georgie and Jennie Herman visited Saturday night at their Grandmother Herman’s. Messers Ollie Herman and Roy Stover were Adrian visitors Sat- urday evening. Mr. Charley, Mattox and Miss Cecil Wright called at R. B. Kee- ble’s Sunday evening. = Mr. Local Bowers made a flying trip to Kansas City Monday. Miss Cecil Wright spent Mon- day night with Mrs. Local Bow- ers. 2 This neighborhood was visited with a god shower Sunday. CHATTERRBOX. i Fair Mount News. This vicinity was visited with a nice rain Saturday night and (Sunday, which was weleomed by visited in her sister, everybody. | Wilda and Nora Rapp spent lone day last week with their }eousin, Lydia Rapp. ' Clarence Bearse took Sunday ‘dinner with Henry Fleischer and family. Tlenry Rapp, Areosa Bohm, |Katie Bracher, Mata Fleischer and Lucy Schenker were con- firmed Sunday at the German Lutheran church in Prairie City, Mo. Mrs. John Yoss and son, Rein- hold, were in Appleton City Mon- day to have some dental work done. Mrs. Joe Bracher spent Sunday and Sunday night with her sister, Mrs. John Marquardt to be at the bedside of her mother, Mrs. Hintz, who has been quite sick of late. Mrs. Nick and Frank Rapp called on Mrs. C. M. Rapp and Mrs. James Lash last Wednesday. Elsie Rapp, who has been real sick with pluersy pneumonia is better at this writing. Mrs. Frank Rapp did some sew- ing for Clara Tindenman Tues- day. Fritz Holleger and Martin Bohm left Tuesday for Nebraska where they intend to work this summer. . Mrs. Nick and Frank Rapp spent Saturday afternoon with Mrs. John Marquardt. John Schenker, from here, and Willie Troike of Walnut, Kansas, formerly of this vicinity, left last week for Dakota, where they will work. Looks like everybody is leaving this country. Hurrah, for Mis- souri. PRISCILLA. The demand for onions for planting by the gardeners of Thomasville, Ga., is said to be larger than ever known there be- fore, and every man is bragging about how finely his are growing.