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everal objects I have mention its convenience. That it means to stir Aan hope that it will be your pleasure ; up enemies against us at our very Road District Notice. warfare against mankind. to deal with them as having been | doors the intercepted note to the Ger- Notice: is heraby. ei Th * Germany Against All. framed after very careful thought by |man minister at the City~of Mexico Notice 1s hereby given: hat “It is aewar against all nation the branch of thg.svuvernment upon | is eloquent evidence. a petition signed by Milo E. Hill, americanicanl Nave. beoni: sul which the responsibility of condtict-| “We are accepting this challenge of J. W. Priteh: A W.S : amenonn iver taken in ways whith ing the wur and safeguarding the Na: | hostile purpose. because we know that |": '"- ritchard, A. WW. Shay, et i€ haw ativred us very, deeply to learn Hou will most directly fall. in such a government, following such |}, has been filed with the Clerk of, out the ships and people of other “While we do these things, these | methods, we can never have a friend; Pha Mowneht i neutral and friendly AGE have been deeply —momentous_things,—lel_us he -that_in the presence of its orga- {Of the Tow! ship Board of one sunk and overwhelmed in the watera|\cr’ “ica? and wake very clear to all | nized power, always lying in wait to!Qak ‘Township, Bates County, in the same way. There has been no the world, what our motives and our accomplish we know not what pur- Mis : cosy f j discrimination ‘The challenge is to obiccts are. My own tho t has not | pose, there can be no assured security | -' issourl, praying tor the organ- all mankini “Bach natica muet ae. geen driven from itg, habitual and HOt mal course by the unhappy events o' clde for itself how it will meet it. the last two meuths, and 1 do not be- not Pi rine warfare against commerce is & PRESIDENT ASKS CONGRESS TD i CF for the democratic governments of the | jzatic 1 of a Road District to be world. ' “We are now about to accept the known as the Cornland Lone Oak Chiet Executive of the United {" TIME TABLE States Urges Americans to thisat be inde “Gans moder oe eve that the thought of the Naton | gauge of battle with this natural foe | Township Road District No. 1 of Take Up Arms Against counsel and a temperateness of judg: |", been alte red or clouded by ten. |to Hberty aud shall, if necessary, | |, ' ; ; 4 Butler Station p 9 thent befitting our character and our|,. have vctly the same things in) spend the whole force of the Nation | Bates County, Missouri, _ with the Germans. motives as a Nation, We must put | y tO’ Wad ty mind wi to check and nullify its pretentions | |gundaries described as follows: CORRECTED MAY 7, 1916 excited feeling away i the Senate the 22d of Jan-| and its power. We are glad, now that ‘ fi NORTH “Our motive will not be revenge or me that I had in mind | we see the facts with no-veil of false} (omimencing at the Northwest ; 2 pretense about them, to fight thus for | corner of Lone Oak Township, be- Ne. 206 K. (. Pagr.... +++ 8:15 @, MD. | ge the victorious assertion of the physi- . : | 4 oe" “SOUTH } vindication of right, of human right, | ont. ihe piinetiles of peacc German Hees prouteds tor’ the | tion Six (6) in said Lone Oak k bp 4 patty pacesdper es S ston. ch we are only a single cham) jie iy the Mte of th rights of nations great and small and Township, said ‘Township being | No. 905 Nevada Pasvenger.... 8:00 p.m. | Kaiser's Course Denounced in Address| ‘‘When | addressed the Congress on peninet selfish and_autocratic (owe: the privilege of man everywhere to) Thirty-nine (39) of Range Thir- 4 % 2 the 26th of February last, 1 thought and to set up against the Teally frre | choose their way of life and of obe-} ty one (31), in Bates County, | INTERSTATE to Senate and House as Challenge [that it would suffice to assert our | °"\ Scl! zoverned peopins ethos cr a isleate, Missouri; thence running South CARRIE) 5 to All Mankind—Urges Uni- neutral rights with arms, our right |#j))) it Comcert Se eee ee iliscUb: Mo: Selfish iE hen: al he yest line of Se i No. Butler Passenger :25 a. m. to use the seaé against unlawful in- as will henceforth insure the ov-] along the west line o: ection ; if pau ag 5 The world must be made safe for) si. (§) and along the West line " f these prisciples. terference ,our right to keep our peo- ae RES ARLIIACOR ple safe against unlawful violence. pe ips aed aU sae inet it now AP word is invulved and the freedom fe, ‘ of its peop! and the menace io that “Because submarines are, in effect, a crag nse ae ' ij 0 2 . : 5 Py Calawi When -dsed ag the, Geman peace and Jentan tek ip. the WUE we deaite ne condusst: ne dem ine ige: West line of Section Seven (7) submarines have been used against}; ,,, va iieed foree “ai 148 Blair no material compensation for the sac- | intersects said River; thence in a merchant shipping, it is impossible to} 414.1)... wholly by their wiil, not iy | Tifice we shall freely make. We are | Southeasterly direction, contin- defend ships against their attacks a8], Wij;-of-their people. We linve | but one of the champions of the rights | ying along the h bank of the the law of nationa he ed that oftheir people. : uing along the north bank of the ons hag assum seen the list of neutrality i such [Of mankind, We shall be satisfied | yr. ijn. g x Riv h | merchantmen would defend them- : when those rights have been as secure | * Tarias des Cygnes aVVee. through selves against privateers or cruisers, ax the faith and the freedom of the|Sections Seven (7), Bighteen Bee Gee giving. chase upoa age nations can make them. (18), Seventeen (17), Nineteen . is common p! “Just because we fight without ran- | (19) renty (20). 4 "7 oe such circumstances, grim necessity, comand’ eithout selfish oblactay geeks (19 > pV OR (20), and Twenty indeed, to endeavor to destroy them ing nothing for ourselves but what we | Oe (21), to where the north before they have shown their own in- shall wish to share as free peoples,|bank.of the Marias des Cygnes tention. we shall, I feel confident, conduct | River intersects the Miami Creck 638 No. 64 Local Freight.... versal Service. WEST \ eee (Leave. “No, 63 Madison mihi _ Washington.—President Wilson has No. 637 Madison Passenger urged Congress, assembled in joint All freight for forwardin: e : at depot not later than 10:0 o'clock session, to declare a state of war exist- am, or will be held for following | ing between the United States and jay's forwarding. Frefght for Inter- ‘ -gtate Division must delivered be- | Germany. pan fore Bollea Poa Ngatretene piiea! In a dispassionate, but unmeasured Madison and local freights carry pas-| denunciation of the course of the im- MOR BOTE. L R. TWYMAN, Agent. | Perial German government, which he e characterized as a challenge to all mankind, the President declared that PROFESSIONAL CARDS neutrality no longer was feasible or | desirable whore the peace of the democracy. Its peace must be landed} °°’. a a . upon the trusted foundations of politi-|0f Section Seven (7) to a point cal liberty. on the North bank of the Marias “We have no selfish ends to serve. | (jes Cygnes River where said o circumstances, Nations As Individuals. “We are al the beginning of the rm which same spons obs ndards of condu for wrongue umong nations and ta ts that are observe world was involved. “Théy must be dealt with upon | err our operations as belligerents without ‘ . DR. J. si cla The President said war with Ger-|sight, if dealt with at all di individual citizens of asta ae uel vaee Sbeerve. with | eu the Southeast corner of Lot ; __.__ Dentist .|imany would involve practically co-|, "ne German) government dented io tT vo quarrel with ihe Ger: | Mrowd pinctiiousness the princihies Six (6) in Section Twenty-one Entrance ‘same that leads to Fox's arerativneWithithesgovernments How the right of neutrals to use arins at| HG na aun th the Ger} of right and of fair play we profess|(21); thence North along the : all within the areas of the sea which |™n peuple. We have no iceting tO) 1 be fighting for. west bank of the Miami Creek Studio. North Side Square Butler, Missouri it has prescribed, even in the defense wards them but one of sy:mpethy and “ i ; ‘ fi A of rights which no modern publicist | friendship. It was not upen their im- sateen ete Once: through — Sections | Twenty-one has ever before questioned «heir right | Pulse that their governint acted i) ernment of Germany because they (21), Twenty-two (22) and Six- to defend. roverning this war, It was not with | nave not made war upon us or chal-|teen (16) and Fifteen (15), to a at war with Germany, including lib- eral financial credits. 4 j He urged the raising of half million B. F. JETER men, chosen on the principle of uni- i “The intimation is conveyed that their previous knowledge or approval, ; a x ° : Hentitny. eer aie Attorney at Law Notary Public | versal liability to service. the armed guards which we haye | it was a war determined upon as wars jeuged ae een eon ae point where the M aun C res k ape East Side Square Phone 186 The President made it clear that no| Placed on our merchant ships will | used to be determined on in the old,| inent has, indeed, avowed its unquali- fersects the west line of Seetion BUTLER, MISSOURI action was being taken against the|e treated as heyond the pale of law |/uihapy dase when peoples were n0-| feq indarsement and acceptance of [Fifteen (15): thenee North and $ 5 a and subject,to le dealt with as pirates | Where consulted by their rulers andthe reckless and lawless submarine| West along the Miami Creek ._| Austrian government and other na- ‘i vere pr ked i raged i e would be. : wars were provoked and waged in the | warfare adopted now without disguise | through Section Sixteen (16) and Armed neutrality is ineffectual | inte est ot dynasties or of litle groups. by: imperial government, and St has | « We ak! / } enough at best; in such circumstances of ambitious men who were = accus- therefore not been possible for ‘this Section Nine (9), te a point and in the face of such pretensions [tomed to use their fellow men as} government to receive Count Tarnow: | Where the Miami Creck intersects T. ‘J HALSEY, M. D. O. D. tions allied with Germany. President aed : Wilson spoke as follows: Bye, Ear, Nose and Thront Specialist F THE ADDRESS IN FULL, it is worse than ineffectual; {t {is| Pans and tools. ; ski, the ambassador recently accredit-|the West line of the Kast half of and the fittihg of ‘Gentlemen of the Congress: Ihave]likely once to produce what it was| Self government nations do not] 64 to this government by the imperial he Southeast ter f Secti ; glasses, ; called the Congress into extraordinary | meant to prevent; it is practically cer- | fill their neighbor states with spies OF | and yoyat government of Austria-Hun- ay WB). ey {au N a ae ie 4 igen Oo); rence North to e tain to draw us into the war without |set the course of intrigue to bring} ,..7.. 5 either the rights or the effectiveness about some critical posture of affairs La ae eet Taattare en Southeast corner of the West half of abelliserente.. * yh EVADE TEES ee cll aaa citizens of the United States on the]of the Northeast quarter of Sec- Will Fight for Right. > 2 tae seas, and I take the liberty, for the tion Bight (3); thence North to “There is one choice we cannot |“esigns can be successfully worked | posent at least, of postponing a de- : 5 . only under cover and where no one} cision of our relations with Vienna. the Southwest corner of the East " BUTLER, MO. session because there are serious, very Office South Side Square Phone 15| Serious, choices of policy to be made, and made immediately, which it was neither right nor constitutionally per- missible that I should ase:me the re- PROGRAM. sponsibility of making. make, that we are incapable of mak- eae A, , “On the’3rd of February last 1 of-|ing: We will not choose the path of |has the right to ask questions. We enter this war only where we are|lialf of the Southeast quarter of i : ficially laid before you the extraordi- Sa ae at] AEs the most sacred Bi i stg eke clearly forced into it because there] Section Five (5); thence West GRANDVIEW SCHOOL HOUSE} nary announcement of the imperial}! ghts of our Nation and our people. be fro, waneration fe pederatibavona oy other means of defending our! ...fourth (1-4 mile to the to be ignored or violated. The wrongs German government that on and after Southeast corner of the South- APRIL 13, 1917. - | the first day of February it was its | against which we now array ourselves be worked out and kept from the light | “1¢ will be all the easier for us to ; “ ; it purpose to put aside all restraints of | are not common wrongs; they cut to ool a) ule Pena eas fr | conduct ourselves as belligerents in a) west quarter of Section Five (5); the very roots of human life. ehind the carefully guarded confi-| yizgn spirit of right and fairness be! thence North ‘one-fourth (1-4) “The Ideal School Director” law or of humanity and use its sub- marines to sink every vessel that sought to approach either the ports of : * ‘ . ' 5 yiae Great Britain and Ireland or the west- A Brief History of Grand View ern coast of Europe or any of the School”... Judge Harper} ports. controlled by the enemies of Ri x = Germany within the Mediterranean. Value ot the sAppraved Rural ‘That had seemed to be the object School Prof. A.C. Morelanl| of the German submarine warfare earlier in the war, but since April of “With a profound gense of the sol-|dences of a narrow privileged class. | cauge we act without animus, not in| |; FAT anaes outs emn and ever tragical character of | They are happily impossible where | enmity towards a people or with the mile to the Northeast corner of che step | am. taking and of the grave public opinion commands and insists | Gesire to bring any injury or disadvan- the Southeast quarter of the responsibilities which it involves, but | Upon full information concerning all | tage apon them, but only in armed op-|Southwest quarter of Section unbesitating obedience to what. || the nations’ affairs. j position to an irresponsible govern-| pve (5); thence West one-half deem my constitutional duty, I ad-| “A steadfast concert for peace can) ment which has thrown aside all con-| /4 9) 114; ie Mast Iemeatd vise that the Congress declare the | never be maintained except by a part-| siderations of humanity and of right 1-2) mile to t le est line o Sul recent course of the imperial German Beene oe Senee rae Laat ty and is running amuck. ion Five (5); thence North government to be in fact nothing less | #utocratic government cou e trust- - alone the West line of said Sec- tha ‘ ed to keep faith within it or observe To Punish Disloyalty. Ree ek ‘ ikan war against the government and d keep J y tion Five (5) to the Southwest T. S. Grimstey “What a Good School Should be Jast year the imperial government had A F @ a ‘ ae = people of the United States; its covenants, It must be a league of “We are, let me say again, the sin- “ From the Farmer's View- momen tat: Ten aien ou commana. Naat it formally accept the status honor, a partnership of opinion. In-j| cere friends of the German people, and | corner of Lot Seven (7) of the ae point T. S, Harper |e Mis aromise thea give con Saati of belligerent which has thus been |trigue would eat its vitals away; the | shall desire nothing so much as the} Northwest quarter of Section Ad 8 promise then given to us that plottings of inner circles, who could | early establishment of intimate rela-|}s\4 (5): thence East one-half hrust upon it and that it take imme- diate steps not only to put the coun- try in a more thorough state of de- fense, but also to exert all its power and employ all its resources to bring plan what they would and render ac-| tions of mutual advantage between us o , ‘ : : count to no one, would be a corrup-|--however hard ft may be for them, (1-2) mile to the Southeast cor- tion seated at its very heart. Only | for the time being, to believe that this| ner of Lot Seven (7) of said 4 free peoples can hold their purpose | is spoken from our hearts. We pave| Northwest quarter of Section the government of the German empire | and their honor steady to a common | borne with their present government |y5, (5). thenee North one- to terms and end the war. end and prefer the interests of man-| through all these bitter months be-| . ‘ ws) . = " “What this will involve is clear. it | Kind to any narrow interest of their | cause of that friendship—-exercising a fourth (1-4) mile to the South- will involve the utmost practicable} OW. patience and forbearance which would] west corner of Lot Eight (8) of .o-operation in counsel and action “Does not every American feel that | otherwise have been impossible. theNortheast quarter of Section vith the governments now at war with | assurance has been added to our hope “We shall, happily, still have an op- Hive (5): thence Ba st onotoudth ‘ermany, and, as incident to that, the |for the future peace of the world by| portunity to prove that friendship ind IVe (9) 3 thence has oe ixiension to these governments of the | the wonderful and heartening things | our daily attitude and actions towards (1-4) mile to the center of Lot ‘ost liberal financial credits, in order |that have been happening within the | the millions of men and women of} Eight (8) of seid Northeast quar- hat our resources may. so far as pos- last few weeks in Russia? German birth and native sympathy paar rg st ‘ees lai hence e iy. 80 lar as | ‘ ter of Section Five (5); thence ible, be added to theirs. “Russia was known by those who | who: live amongst us and share our North lie North dino of anid “It will involve the o: ganization and | knew it best to have been always in| life, and we shall be proud to prove it Sony TOR UL) On Uae a e BHC mobilization of all the material re- | fact democratic at heart, in all the | towards all who are in fact loyal to| Section Five (5); thence West 4 sources of the country to supply the | Vital habits of her thought, in all the | their neighbors and to the government] along the North line of said Sec- q vaterials of war and serve the inci- |imtimate relationships of her people | in the hour of test. They are; most Of! tions Five (5) and Six (6), be- ; ental needs of the Nation in the most | that spoke their natural instinct, their | them, as true and loyal Americans as| . . 1 T SABI li ua t “ the . i{bundant and yet the most economical | habitual attitude towards life. if they had never known any other| ue the Fownship ine to! ne nd efficient way possible. Prussians Never Our Friends. fealty or allegiance. They will be} Northwest corner of said Section 4 “It will involve the immediate iui! | The autocracy that crowned the | Prompt to stand with us in rebuking| Six (6), being the Northwest 4 1uipment of. the navy in all respects. | summit of her political structure, long and restraining the few who may be! .oiner of the Township and the ui particularly in supplying it wit) |ag it had stood and terrible as was of a different mind and purpose. ieeaeor hapinnine che best means of dealing with thw|the reality of its power, was-not in|, “If there should be disloyaity, it will PHICES OD DURIRDIIEs. j Basket dinner rounds. carrying relief to the sorely be-} nemy’s submarines. ~|fact Russian in origin, character or | be dealt with with a firm hand of stern) All owners of land in said pro- ree ne Saar a reaved and stricken people of Bel-| “It will inyolve the immediate addi- | purpose, and now it has been shaken | TePTession: but, if it lifts its head at} i aigtriet: are hereby noti- Everyone interested in better | S!um, though the latter were provided | ion to the armed forces of the Unite! {off and the great, generous Russian | 2). it will lift it only here and there Dee eer a pay acai ‘ tes with safe conduct through the pre-| states already provided for by : | people have been added in all their | 8"! without countenance except from| fied of the presentation of said schools cordially invited. weribed areas by the German govern. |-n case of war at least one-half million | native majesty and might to the forces | ® lawless and malignant few. passenger, boats should not be sunk, and that due warning would be given to all other vessels which its subma- rines might seek to destroy when no resistance was offered or escape at- tempted, and care taken that their crews were given at least a fair chance to save their lives in their open boats. “The precautions taken were mea- ger gad hap-hazard enough as was proved in distressing instance after ipstance in the progress of the cruel and unmanly business, but a certain degree of restraint was observed. “The new policy has swept every restriction aside. Vessels of every kind whatever their flag, their charac- ter, their cargo, their destination, their errand, have been ruthlessly sent to the bottom without warning and with- out thought of help or mercy for “ those on board, the vessels of friend- Address. Rev. R. M. Talbert)jy neutrals along with those of bel- >| ligerents. “Even hospital ships and _ ships Recitation Tommy Grimsley “The School as a Social Center” W. F. Englehardt “Parent-Teachers Meetings” Mrs. J. G. Cuzick “Value of a School Library”... : Earl Mullins Recitation coouueeeHarvey Ayres MUSIC. eee Dorothy Harper “Improvement of School Grounds and Buildings”.......J. R. Williams “What the Eighth Grade Grad- uate Can Reasonably be Ex- pected to Know”......E. T. Burge Farewell. our friend is that from the very out-|_ “It is a fearful thing to lead this ; k : set of the present war it has ritted er Lapeer Saat atewetee au office of the Township Clerk in i e most terr $ Ha nny ; Gar unsuspecting communition Wet | all ware, civilization iteeit seoming| Lone Oak Township,” Bates spies and set criminal intrigues every- ee De ee a ene County. Missouri, and that those ” re pl 4 is a vi ‘ ‘Z AeA IEE ald eat shall fight for the things which we| Who may desire to oppose the for- out, our industries and our commerce. |have always carried nearest’ our) mation of such road district: must “Indeed, it is now evident that these hearts—for democracy, for the right os spies were here even before the war | °f those who submit to authority to] appear on the first day of such began; and it is unhappily not a mat- have a voice in their own govern-| regular meeting of the Township ter of conjecture but a fact proved in ments, for the rights and liberties ve 2 A Z our courts of justice that the intrigues of small nations, for a universal do- Board and file their written re- which have more than once come per- Para by, tens peaiada} monstranee thereto. 8 " * rs . a haltaicieiog sere athar Gitte safety to all nations and make the This 28th day of March, 1917. country have been carried on at the se ae Oa ik Woes ak J. A. MARSTELLER,. tigat ask we can ¢ ’ . " font ie astanley piv he our fortunes, everything that we are| Clerk of the Lone Oak Town- cial agents of the imperial govern- | ®Nd everything that we have with the) sip Board, Bates County, Mis- ment accredited to the government of | Pride of those who know that the day : ee ae the United States. has come when America has been priv- | S0Ur!. . 24-3t “Bven in checking these things and ileged to spend her blood and her eens ere trying to extirpate_them we have ee ok re Se tae we eae This is what happened to A. Oe oe ve os Sane cham bet which she has treasured. ~ | Meyer, waiter at the Winter Gar- ceheoe their source lay, not in any | “God helping her, she can do no/den in Chicago Saturday, when hostile ‘feeling or purpose of the Ger- | ther.” he made an uncomplimentary re-- mark to a patron because he wore Such a Change. ; : . an American flag in the lapel of Old Neighbor—Going to New Zea-|ni, coat. He was taken to. the land with your husband are you. My/ e471 building, compelled to sit 2? That’: of those countries pre mee. pave dey when we have|<d look at the flag for an hour night and night when we have day.“/and then lectured. Then the Mrs. Youngbrid-—“Yes; 1 suppose 1| Winter Garden management fi shall find it- awfully strange at first.” | him. 3 : which will now be necessary entirely an money borrowed. To Help Allies. “It is our duty, 1 most respectfully irge, to protect our people so far as Hats Cleaned and Blocked _ Goods Called for and Delivered, ANOS PEE i 3 No. 78. Main St. _~_ Butler, Mé. less lack of compassions or principle. |.horization of subsequent addition:l “One of the things that has served dressing you. There are, it may be, meeting of said Township Board, practices of civilized nations. granting of adequate credits by the pressing. We positively clean ‘accomplished that could be accom- mau government has swept aside un-| 1. produced by vast loans. is employing them without throwing little as possible in our own prepai2- “1 am not now thinking of the loss|Germany with the materials which “1 was for a little while unable to] increments in equal forces so soon us |to convince us that the Prussian au- | any months of fiery trial and sacri-| which will begin on Wednesday, “International law had its origin sovernment, sustained, I hope, so far the free highways of the world. te most unwise to base the credits everything but a guilty con- plished, but always with a clear view der the pleas of retaliation and neces) “..1) carrying out the measures vy reasonable. to the winds all scruples of humanity tion and in the equipment of our own of property involved. immense and|:ney can obtain onty from us or by ment itself, and were distinguished | men, who shoul, in my opinion, be |that are fighting for freedom in the | , “It is a distressing and: oppressive| Petition, and that the same will believe that such things would in fact} ey may be needed and can be |tocracy was not and could never be fice abead of us. the 18th day of April, 1917, at the in the attempt to set up some law 18 they can equitably be sustained, by “By painful stage after stage has science. at least, what the heart and con- . , we may against the very serious hard- sity, and because it had se weapons | ....ic4 these things are to be accom- ior of respect for. the understandings | iiiteary forces with the duty—for it serious as that is, but only of the /5ur assistance. They are in the field by unmistaxable marks of identity, | <osen upon the principle of universal | world, for justice and for peace. Here duty, gentlemen, of the Congress,| he heard at the next regular have been sunk with the same reck- Wility to service, and also the au-|jg a fit partner for a league of honor! which I have performed in thus ad- SEE THE be done by any government that had | ©"lled in training. e hitherto subscribed to the humane “It will involve also, of course, the | he present generation, by well con- which would be respected and ob- ceived taxation, I say sustained 30+ tea : that law been built up with meager For practical cleaning and Savegh seetlts, Indeed, after all was science of mankind, demanded. . ships and evils which will be likely to “This minimum of right the Ger-| arise out of the inflation which’ wouid. which it could use at sea except these, . 5 . plished, we should keep constantly in All work guaranteed and prices which it is impossible to employ as {t| 11541 the wisdom of " interte Hing. al “B] that were supposed to underile the in- 3 will be a very practical duty—of su”- tercourse of the world. @ plying the nations already at war with bapek ey j<¢estruction of | 4nd we should help them in every ; way to be effective there. F '“f shall take the Hberty of suzee | tion, through thé several executive Uc- pore of the government for ti sideration of your committees. : accomplishment c*