The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, April 5, 1917, Page 6

ORDER OF PUBLICATION, State of Missouri, County of Bates. fs, In the Circuit Court, May Term, 1917. In vacation, March 15th, 1917, Mike Kern, Plaintiff. * against { Harriet O'Riley and the unknown con- sorts, heirs, devisees, donees, alien-| ves, immediate, mesne or remote, vol- Se ce acne eT —untary—or . Harriet, ©'Riley if she is deceased ; and of John Linch, deceased, — and Loring I. Stone, deceased, Defend- ants, Now at this day comes the plaintift herein by his attorneys and files his petition under oath, alleging, among other things, that the defendant. Har- riet O'Riley, if living, is non-resi- dent of the State of Missouri, and further alleging, that he verily be- lieves there persons interested in the subject matter of this suit whose names he can not insert in his petition because the same are to him unknown, that such unknown persons derive their interests in the subject matter thereof, as the consorts, heirs, devi- sees, do alienees, immediate, | mesne or remote, voluntary or involun- z tary grante of Harriet O'Riley, if she is deceased, who owned sald land by entry from the United States Gov- ernment, as-shown by the plat of original entries on file in the office of the Kecorder of Deeds in and_ for Bates County, und by deed | of conveyance in the office aforesaid in page 316, and did not convey the me unless in and by the name of Harr plaintiff avers is ‘one and the same Harriet O'Riley; and of John Ce: at « in the year 1857, purporting to convey to him said land, w veyance is of record in aforesaid, in Book E, a interest he did not ¢ time; and of Loring E, Stone, deceased, who had a Tax Deed to said real es- tate or some purt thereof, which is of record in the office aforesaid in Book Y, at page 301, and the interest, if! any, acquired by said Loring E, Stone, he did not convey to any one in his; lifetime, also, alleging in the petition that the interests of said unknown de- fendants can not be more specifically set forth or described in his petition, rept that the same seems to be ad- verse and prejudicial to the title and claim of plaintiff in and to the real estate, in his petition and hereinafter described, which rcal estate is the sub- ject matter of the action by plaintiff. Whereupon, it is ordered by the clerk of this court in vacation, that the de- fendants be notified by publication, that plaintiff has commenced a suit against them in this court, the object and general nature of which Is to try, ascertain and determine the respective rights and. interests of the plaintiff and defendants in and to the following real estate, to-wit: The North half of Lots Two and Three (except. two acres off the east s of said Lot two) all in the Northwest quarter of en, Township Thirty-e Rang Twenty-nine, in County, Missouri, ta adjudge and define such interests, und divest the defendants and each and all of them of any and all interest, or apparent interest they may have in and to said‘ real estate and vest the} same in plaintiff, and unless the de-j fendants appear at this court at the next term thereof, to be begun and held at the court house, in the City of Butler, in said county, on the Fourth Monday of May, 1917, and then and there answer or plead to the petition Bates in said cause the same will be taken as confessed and judgment entered ac- cordingly. It ‘is further ordered, that a copy hereof be published according to law in The Vutler Weekly Times, a news- paper published in Bates County, Mis- souri. H. O, MAXEY, Clerk of the Circuit Court, A truce copy from the record. Witness my hand and the (Seal) this 15th real estate or some part thereof which is of record in the office aforesaid in Book Y at page 301, and the interest, if ‘any, acquired by said Loring B. Stone, he did not convey to anyone in his life time, also alleging in the petition, that the interests of said unknown de- | fendants can not be more specifically lset forth or described in his petition, }except that such interests seem to adverse and prejudicial to the title and —plaintitt in fe reat -elaim—of—p! in estate, in his petition and. hereinafter | described, which real estate is the sub- ject matter of the action by plaintifr. Whereupon it is ordered. by the clerk of this court in vacation, that the de- fendants be notified by publication, that plaintiff has commenced an action against them in this court, the object | nal. and general nature of which is to try, ascertain and determine the respective | rights and interests of the plaintiff and defendants in and to the follow- ing ren! estate, to-wit: The North half, and the Hast half of the South half of Lot One, and the East two acres of the North half of Lot Two, all in the North- west quarter of Section Seven, Township Thirty-eight, of Range ‘Twenty-nine, in Bates County, Mis- sourt, Ge to adjudge and define such interests, and divest the defendants and each and all of them of any and all such in- terest, or apparent interest they may have in and to said real estate and vest the same in plaintiff, and unless the defendants appear at this court at the next term thereof, to be begun and held at the court house in the City of | hs ; were called and revived her. She} Butler, in said county, on the Fourth Monday of May, 1917, and then and there answer or plead to the petition in said cause, the same wil s confessed and judgment entered accordingly, It is further ordered that a copy here- of be published according to law in The Butler Weekly Times, a news- paper published in Bates County, Mis- | sourt, H. O, MAXEY, Circuit Clerk. A true copy from the record, Witness my hand, and the (Seal) seal of said court, this 16th day of March, 1917, | H, O, MAXEY, One 4t Cireuit Clerk. | JOANNA MAXEY, D. C. NOTICE. Notice is hereby given, that letters of Administration upon the estate of Catherine Sellers, deceased, have been granted to the undersigned by the Pro- | bate Court of Bates County, Missouri, hearing date the 10th day of March, 1917, All persons having claims against said estate are required to exhibit them te the undersigned for allowance within six months after the date of said letters, or they may be precluded from any benefit of such estate; and | if such claims be not exhibited within one year from the date of the last in- sertion of this publication, they shall be forever barred, Date of last insertion, April 5th, 1917. J. M. CLARK, Administrator, Judge Blair’s Father Dies. 31L— Springfield, Mo., March Funeral services for Dr. Samuel T. Blair, father of Judge James T. Blair of the Missouri Supreme Court, were held here this after- noon, Dr. Blair died at his home Friday morning from a complica- tion of diseases, He was 79 years old. Judge Blair was summoned here from Jefferson City a week ago, owing to his father’s condi- tion. seal of said court, day of March, 1917, H. 0, MAXEY, Circuit Clerk, tY. D.C. JOANNA MAX Bhat ORDER OF PUBLICATION, State of Missouri, ).. County of Bates, ¢ 55 In the Circuit Court, February Term, 1917, In Vacation March 12, 1917, Opal Shinn, Plaintiff. vs. Arthur Shinn, Defendant. Now at this day comes the plaintiff herein, and files her petition under oath alleging, among other things that defendant Arthur Shinn is a non-resi- dent of the State of Missouri, Whereupon, it is ordered by the Court that said defendant be notified by publication that plaintiff has com- menced a suit against him in this Court, the object and general nature of which is to be div vd from the de- fendant on the grounds of desertion ind abandonment for more than one whole year prier to the date of the filing of her petition. , And that unless the said Arthur Shinn be and appear at this court, at the next term thereof, to be begun and holden the Court House in the City of But in snid county, on the fourth Monday of May, 1917, and on or before the first day of said Term, answer or plead to the petition in said cause, the same will be tuken as confessed and judginent will be rendered. accordingly. And it is further ordered that a copy hereof be published, according to law, in The Butler Weekly Times, a news- paper published in said County of Bates, for four weeks successively, published at. least once a week, the last insertion to be at t thirty days be- fore the first day of said next May Term of this Court H. O. MAXEY, Circuit Clerk. A true copy from the Record, Witness my hand, and seal of the Cireuit Court of Bates seynts this 13th day of March, 1917, H, O. MAXEY, Circuit Clerk. (Sealy ORDER OF PUBLICATION. State of Missouri, County of Bates. (ss. In the Circuit Court, May Term, 1917. In Vacation March 15th, 1917, August Fischer, Plaintiff. against Harriet O'Riley and sorts, heirs, devise all ees, immediate, mesne or remote, vol- untary or involuntary tees of Harriet O'Riley, if she deceased and of John Linch, deceased, and Loring E. Stone, deceased, Defend- ants, Now at this day comes the intift herein, by his attorneys, and files his petition under oath, alleging, among other things, that the defendant Ril if living, is_@ non-resi- in‘ ion, caused by the resignation of ty, Missouri. been a member of order 58 years. - | filled at the meeting by the unan- Dr, Blair was a veteran gf the! Confederate Army and took part in many important engagements in the West. He practiced medi- cine at Loudon, Tenn., till 1881, when he moved to De Kalb Coun- In connection with his practice there he was a pro- fessor in the Northwestern Medi- cal College at St. Joseph, Mo. He retired in 1904 when he moved to Springfield. by the He had Masonie Dr. Blair is survived widow and four children. the ORDERS SECOND READY FOR FEDERAL SERVICE Regimental Officers Receive In- structions to Recruit Com- panies to Full Peace Quota. | Joplin, Mo., April 3.—Orders have been issued by Col. W. A. Raupp, commanding the Second infantry, i Guard, for the immediate recruit- Missouri National ing. of the various units to a full peace footing of eighty-three men, in preparation for a call into the federal service, which is ex- peeted to come the later part of this week. If the call comes, the companies will be recruited to a war strength of 150 men each. Company. commanders _ also have been given instructions re-' garding the drafting system, in vase that extremity is necessary to fill the militia. If drafting is ordered, any membeys of unor- ganized militia, men from 19 to 45 years of age, can be taken. There will be no volunteer regi ments as used in the Spanish- American war as the new military regulations eliminate such forces. A vacancy in the Third battal- Major.Smith of Webb City ,was imous election of Captain Trow- bridge of Company A, Carthage, to the command. Strawberry growers of Ken- 1 be taken | i | lin near Mound City, Saturday, | SHORT STORIES |Of Local Interest—Clipped ffom ; Our Exchanges. ke The Farmers Lumber Co, is building a large cement tile fac- tory building which will add very materially to their convenience for handling their business. The work is under the supervision of A. Deffenbaugh.—Adrian Jour-; J. W. Stilwell has begun work | on three store rooms to replace the building destroyed by fire last Thanksgiving. Work will be ‘pushed as rapidly as possible and leattle offered to highest bidders | the building will be ready for oc- cupaney early in the season.— Adrian Journal. | Mrs. Mary Walter became sud-' idenly and critically ill last Mon.’ ;day evening at the home of her! ‘brother, A. J. Smith. Physicians was taken to the home of her daughter, Mrs. J. R. Hull, and scems in a fair way for recovery. | —Adrian Journal. Amsterdam will have a person-| al interest in the boys who arc} serving our Uncle Sammie, as/ Clark Hall, who has been attend- ing medical school at Columbia, has enlisted in the Red Cross. And | George Vail, one of our enterpris- to Kansas City to enlist.—Am- | sterdam Enterprise. H. J. Chapman has accepted a position with the Prudential In- surance Co., of Kansas City and will leave Friday to enter upon his new duties. Harve is an ex- cellent young man and has a wide | circle of friends here who will re- | gret his departure- Mrs. Chap- | man and son will not go for some | time.-—Adrian Journal. A fifty-barrel oil well brought | only brings the oil field nearer | Hume. Isn’t it about time to en- courage the development of .this field by giving someone a chance to do it? ‘All it will require is the leasing of land to those who have the funds and will spend it) in putting down deep holes.— Hume Telephone. | Here is a problem for you to figure on: A farmer owned al pig and wanted to weigh it. Tha, man weighed 135 pounds and his wife 100. They put a _ board across the féace so that when they sat upon the ends it exactly bal- anced. Then they changed places, the wife taking the pig in her lap, just balancing the board again. What was the weight of the pig?—Hume Telephone, At the time of the physical tests at Camp Clark we heard one mother say that she didn’t raise her boy to be a soldier and she hoped he would fall down on the physical examination, and anoth- er mother say that she didn’t raise her boy to fall down on a : ‘ . Jati “ood and \ing young business men went up| charge of the National Foo physical examination. Which mother do you suppose is the proudest of her boy today? And which boy do you suppose is proudest of his mother —Eldo- rade News. __Dr. R. R. Shafer who, with on a motor trip to Texas, met with a painful accident at Inde- pendence, Kas. Thursday. and _re- turned to his home here Friday night. Dr. Shafer and a cousin had started for a motor car drive over the city, the cousin driving, when the steering gear broke and the car turned over, Dr. Shafer being caught beneath the car. It was found that the Doctor had suffered a painful injury of the left leg, but no bones were brok- en. He was met at the train here Friday evening by Joe Anderson and taken to his home in a car. Charley Perry continued his trip to Texas.—Rich Hill Review. Annual Meeting of the Ladies Cemetery Association. The annual meeting of the Ladies Cemetery Association will be held Saturday, April 7th, at 3 p. m., at the Ohio street M. E. church. All interested are urged to attend and bring their dues for 1917. Mrs. J. T. Hull, Pres., -Mrs.. E. G.' Zey, Sec’y. Charley Perry, started Tuesday |’ Many Butler People Have Kid- Capt. C. Lyle Malone, late -of Jompany C, Sixth Regiment; Mis- souri National Guard of Sikeston, Mo., is reorganizing his old com- pany to resporid. to_his country’s call. He-expeets to have 150 men signed up for the service within the next week. f Twenty-one head of Shorthorn at the annual*sele of the South- west Missouri’ Shorthorn Breed- ers’ Association at Aurora brought an average of $265 a hend. The highest price paid was for a bull owned by J. W. and W. S. Colley of LaRussell, which hrought $500. ‘the scalp of a full grown wolf, whieh was killed a few days ago by B. T. Carver, inside the limits of Kansas City, was taken Satur- day to the county clerk’s office in Independence. He claimed the hounty of $3, of which one-half is paid by the county and the other half by the state. He said he killed the wolf near the Missouri River in the East Bottoms. Frederick H. Fricke, state food and drug commissioner, has ten- dered his resignation to Gov. Gardner, He retires to take Drug Information Bureau, with i headquarters in the La Salle } | Building in St. Lonis. Fricke has served four years as food and ||: drug commissioner of Missouri ]]; under Gov. Major and has been an active collaborator with the United States Department of Ag- |]; riculture. His term expired in|], January. . The St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad is confronted by a ser- ious water shortage on its lines in|]; Missouri and Oklahoma and aj]; large number of cities have noti- fied the general officers at Springfield that they cannot long- er supply water. Two hundred thousand gallons a day are being hauled twenty miles to Sapulpa, Ok. Lebanon, Mo., is also out of water. The water on every di- vision of the road is 100 per cent below the usual quality required for boiler uses. A sermon, preached last Sun- day night by Dr. C. B. Miller, pastor of the First Baptist church at Springfield in which he said that any person who challenged the present international situa- tion was a ‘‘low-down black- guard and a dirty coward,’’ has brought him many letters of erit- icism, he said-today. Many of the signatures, he said, smacked of Teutonic origin. ‘‘I reiterate REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. 234 and 228 part blocks 13, 24, 110, 111, $1000.00. part block 10 Christian and, Con- dees addition Butler $500.00. . acres section 16 Deepwater $500. lots 19 and 21 block 27 Rockville $1.00. lots 1 to 0 block 234 Foster $50. block 228 Foster $40.00. 4, 5, 6, block 126 3 addition Rich CONDENSED OFFICIAL STATEMENT OF THE ARMERS BANK _ Of Bates County Butler, Mo. At Close of Business, March 5, 1817. -RESOURCES Loans and Discounts F .. «$446,447.16 Over Drafts................++ : 2,017.19 Real Estate (Banking House)... 15,600,00 Other Real Estate....... 6,763.40 Furniture and Fixture ‘ 2,000.00 Cash and Exchange..... . 192,674.91 $666,402.66 LIABILITIES Capital Stock.......... eave nna aie Prins .$ 50,000.00 urplus Fund..... Mga e sieve 50,000.00 ndivided Profits 11,700.04 Deposits... aes tecsecessecees 554,701.72 $666,402.66 The above statement is correct. HOMER DUVALL, Cashier “ DUVALL-PERGIVAL TRUST CO. CAPITAL and SURPLUS, $250,000 FARMERS BANK BUILDING, BUTLER, MO. We have money to loan on real estate at a low rate of interest with privilege to pay at any time. i FARM LOANS We have a complete set of Abstract Books and will ABSTRACTS 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 INVESTMENTS you reasonable interest on good security. We pay interest on time deposits. J. 8. DUVALL, Vice-President, W. D. Yates, Title Examiner. W. F. DUVALL, President, Arthur Duvall, Treasurer. Butler $500.00. : C. Ii. Robinson to Ella Page lot 7 part lot 8 block 8 Rich Hill $1.00. J. R. Mooney to C. O. Bailey et al 27 acres section 25 Mt. Pleas- ant $1200.00. A. Romey to Peter Young et al lot 5 block 104 Rich Hill $1.00. Ira L. Bitner to Jacob Bitner 93 acres section 27 and 34 Homer $1674.00. J. F. Craven to Roy Wilcox part block 57 Butler, $350.00. Mary L. Jenkins to C. E. Red- field lots 17 and 18 Huston’s 1st addition Adrian $755.00. J. W. Payton to W. R. Payton lot 19 block 26 Amoret $1.00. G. W. Troupe to M. BE. Jones J. L. Bell to Fred Belt—blocks 230 and 235 Foster Nellie Bolen to Stella M. Lovell Wm. Odneal to W: A. Odneal 9}- Mand Vantine to J. T. Cofer Susan M. Shofner to J. L. Bell EK. L. Hamilton to N. A. Bell R.. M. Cox to W. L. Cox lots 3, now what I said then,’’ said Dr.| Hill $300.00. tee Rial Sean Waa : Miller, ‘‘and anyone who doesn’t| C. O. White to E. W. DeForest ob al 22 Mt.” Pleasant like it can easily learn my ad- lots 3, 4, 5, block 16 Merwin | cae dress. “My only regret is that} $1500.00. ies si Homes for: Minssarians: some of my critics were ignorant enough to mail their letters with- out postage and I had to pay it myself.’’ The Black Tom explosion July 30 was due to a fire started by persons: ‘‘ who desired __the _.de- struction of war material to such an extent as to be indifferent to the attendant loss of innocent life and property.’’ This is the re- port of Colonel B. W. Dunn of the federal board which has. been in- vestigating the explosion. DON’T MISTAKE THE CAUSE ney Trouble and Do Not Know It. Do you have backache? Are you tired and warn out? Feel dizzy, nervous and de- pressed? Are the kidney-secretions irreg- wlar? ‘Higly colored; contain sedi- ment | Likely your kidneys are at fault. ae Weak kidneys give warning of Heed the warning; don’t delay Use a tested kidney remedy. - Read this Butler testimony. W. H. Holloway, 213 8. Broad- Butler, says: ‘‘I have used tract section 23 Mt. $1200.00. lots 14 and 15 and 16 block 24 Amoret $600.00. lot 6 block 10 Williams addition Thos, J. Smith to Do you want a home in Missou- ri? You can help yourself to se- eure one by writing the Home- stead Loan and Land League, 306 Massachusetts Bldg., Kansas City, Mo., for free particulars as to their. co-operative plan. No investment Pleasant H. M. Hewitt to I. B. LaFever J.B. Small to Ella A. Sims part ; Business Associates Undue formality has no part in the relationship which i exists between People’s Bank and its patrons. Cooperation is the spirit of our service. Our Officers are always glad to extend their best advice in all business and financial problems and the facilities of this Institution, including the use of our director's room, are at the disposal of patrons and of the public. Please feel free to call upon us whenever we can serve you. ~ PEOPLES BANK “The Bank on tae Always Bank”