The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, April 12, 1917, Page 4

‘ moBT, D. ALLEN, ler, Mo., as second-class mail matter. pee ad eS UR a ae SSL, PRICE, $1.00 PER YEAR The United States is at war with the Imperial Government of Germany. This was proclaimed to the waiting world Friday afternoon when President Wilson formally issued his proclamation following the passage of a resolution by both the Senate and the House. The first act was the seizure of ninety-one interned German ves- sels. . With the issuance of this proc- Jamation all issues of pacificism and arbitration are obliterated. There remains but one course to true and loyal American citizens. To support the president and the | nation by word and thought and deed. This is the saered duty of Americans. “Our Country! “May She al- ways be right. But ‘right or wrong, por Country.”’ BASELESS RUMORS. The imaginative party with the long tongue and the flexible times, and especially is he _perni- ciously and viciously active in times like these. For the past week these scandal mongers have | been busy with their lies and not a day has passed but the county seat has been flooded with rumors of German flags flying from resi-, denees and public buildings — in every section of the county where citizens of German extraction are | known to reside. The ‘Times has taken great pains to investigate many of these rumors and has in every instance found the'story to be false in every particular and! without even the merit of a ves- tige of foundation. There are no doubt many Germans in Ameri- ea whose sympathies are with Ger- | many and who in thought, act and! deed are disloyal to the land of their adoption, and these Ger- mans should be promptly sup-| pressed and treated as traitors, but if there are any of that sort in} Bates county neither the county! authorities nor The. Times have; been able to locate them. The} citizen of foreign extraction who! is loyal to the country is entitled | to the confidence and respect of | his. neighbors and he should not | be subjected to suspicion and! scorn to gratify the lust for sen-| sation of some jingoistic liar. Be-; fore the war is‘over we will find! we. have enough traitors in our midst without going to the troub- _ le,of conjuring them up out of the depths of our imagination. } { PONTO. i Ponto, our faithful old friend and hunting companion has gore over the long trail that knows no g. Unaware of an ap-\ proaching motor car, the old fel- cross. the The Butler Weekly. Times ee Entered at the Post Office of But-./j housekeepers from one of the country to . the will consider home’ fp ings. a he was the inseparable companion ‘his little mistress. Ponto will be |sadly missed. | | Those *‘fearles ; bloodshed and contlict who have spent the last four years in vocif- erous criticism of the President {conquest into Mexico seem i have vanished from the face of the earth since the declaration of war on Germany. not to be found within gunshot: jof the recruiting offices and the | thinking people who did not seek /war but who now stand ready to j sacrifice all and go to any length for the honor of the nation and for humanity are enjoying ‘of statecraft. t i Petit Jury. Mingo—W. J. Middleton. Grand River—H. A, Harrison. | Deer Creek—R. D. Reeder. East Boone—G, T. Lacy. West Boone—R. C. Ashbaugh. West Point—J. W. Lewis. Elkhart—Ike Lockridge. Mound—J. G. Ragan. Shawnee—W,. W. Wackerman. Spruce—-Ben Ireland. Deepwater—Lucien ville. Summit—B. L. Williams. Mt. Pleasant—Joe Meyer. Charlotte—C. W. Woody. Homer—Nelson Aljlman. Walnut—O. D. Jennings. New Home—W. B. Berry. Lone Oak—-Sam Hedger. ~ { Pleasant Gap—I. F. Ellington. Hudson—Charles Hunt. Roekville—W. H. Bolte. Prairie—George Sunderwirth. Osage—William Mudd. Howard—J. Gordan. J. E. Owen Dead. s J. E. Owen, aged 57 years de- parted this life at the hqme of his daughter, Mrs. Ina MeClay, at Al- tona, Mo., Saturday evening, April 7, 1917. _Mr. Owen suf- fered a stroke of paralysis about two months ago from which he never recovered.. ‘ : J. E. Owen was a‘ native of Bates county. He was born in| ture Grand River township. and. was there reared to--young manhood. He was educated in the - public schools of Bates county and en- ,of,his master and the loyal, fear-| ‘less, self constituted guardian of advocates of for not sending a great army of! to! At least they are} al imagination we have with us at all! welcome relief from their brand | Basker- | We will co-operate them by showing the selections of lace for the dow by ‘the pair or by # yard—by presenting the lat- est ideas in over-draperi portieres, ete. i The materials come from the greatest mills in the country, especially designed for bed-room, living-room,, dining-room, in fact for * beautifying every part of. the home. Quaker Lace $1.00 to $6.00 pair. Quaker Craft Lace, 25e to iz $1.25 yard. - Sunfast Draperies 65¢ up. Curtain Serim 10c up. Curtains, ) Walker-McKibben's The Quality Store. GENERAL NOTES Paducah, Ky., plans to furnish |the U.S. Navy with a gunboat. | One thousand Commaneche In- 'dians have offered their services to President Wilson. i The port of New York will hereafter be closed at 6 p. m. ev- ery night to all ships passing in lor out, it has been announceéd at the customs house. ; A bill authorizing the Secretary jof War to issue available rifles. and ammunition to home guards jin al! States and territories, has been introduced in the Senate by Mr. Lodge. The St. Louis and San Francis- 'co Railroad have put the United |States flag on switch and road i engines, The orders are that it! "BLACK KID and PATENT LEATHER Some Styies at $2.50 and up to $5.00 pair "Ladies White Reign Skin Boots _ eae at $5.00 -Kewpie Twins Shoes Low or High Cut. Gun Metal or Patent $2.50 to, $4.00 The best quality and best made man and child shoe ‘manufactured. They Are So Comfortable A Warner’s Rust-Proof is shaped with such scientific skill that it distributes and moulds the flesh naturally, and with perfect comfort,.into a charming contour. ~ ' After wearing a new Warner you will agree that the ease with which the reshaping of your figure is accom- plished is a revelation in corsetry. z We really long to select a model for your figure and to skilfully fit it in order that we may hear you say, “Oh, I did not know I had such : a good figure!” _ $1.00 up—warranted every way Good Reliable Goods at the Right Prices Extra Heavy Union Linen Crash Fast Color Zephyr Ginghams 15c yd. 12%c yd. 10-yd. Bolts English Long Cloth 36-inch Fast Color Percales $1.50 bolt 15c yd. Bleached Muslins, extra good 12%c and 15c White India Linen 15, 18, 20c -Devonshire Cloth 32 inches wide - stripes and solid colors 25c yd. f {be kept on the engines from sun-| jup to sun-down, aay Grady Colston, 16 years old, was shot and seriously wounded jby 2 14-year-old boy companion fat Blanco, Okla., last week as a j result of a dispute over the posses- jsion of a marble, | Formal notice has been pub-+ jlished through sthe Hutchinson, | | newspapers that Howard S. Lewis, the name of his dog ‘‘Kaisr’’ to *Dennis.”’ ‘‘T was afraid some- jone might shoot him,’’ Lewis ex- | plained. i The Panama Canal terminal i parts of Christobal and Balboa will be closed to navigation be- |} tween sunset and sunrise, and lights will be extinguished. Ship- ping is warned that it is unsafe to approach nearer than two miles from the ports by day or night. Because Springfield was shift- ed into the ‘‘dry’’ column at the election held Tuesday,-some mem- bers of the General Assembly do not believe that it is a proper city to have the Illinois 5 the .State-House. Whether the State House shall be removed to Chicago or Peoria, will have to be decided by bills, which’have made their appearance in the legisla- | gaged in farming and stock rais-| has | WALKER-McKIBBENS the quaity store. ‘an attorney, has changed |S | Sweden through the efforts ‘of State Fair or| ~ Men’s Indigo Blue Overalls $1.25 _ Boys’ Indigo Blue Overalls 75c, 85c Men’s Work Shoes $3.00 and $3.50 Wide Fancy Hair Ribbons all silk, 25 and 35c Ladies Home Journal Patterns 15c—none higher, none better . Fern Waists from New York every week...... $1.00 Fernmore Waists from New York every week $2.00 EXPLOSION IN MUNITIONS PLANT Miss Vcra Ellington enter- tamed Misses Marie Wolf, Kath- Hn Wayland, Ruth Jones, Edna Chester, Pa., April. 10—One| Wedergday nig : hundred and twelve persons, most| Misses. Goldie, . ie and. of them women and_ girls, aro} Blanch Blankenship and’ ‘Messrs. | known to have lost. their Ray Blankenship and pes spent Saturday night j Wayland home. pera Mrs. Will Sunday evneing with T. A herd ofwine American buffa- loes, obtained from Hagenbeck in’ Hamborg, -has just been taken to 112 Killed. 121 Injured. Mostly din s | Prof. C. V. Hartman of the ethno- jraphic department of the Royal um...-They are to be released on one of the larger islands in the Stockholm Archipelago. It is in- tended later to attempt hybridiza- tion with native cattle. These are the first bison ever seen in Swed- 121 were injured by a ‘series terrific explosions today’ in the shrapnel building of the Eddy- ‘stone Ammunition Corporation. at Eddystone, one~ mile from ‘this satedaily Ws of ue yeaa’ were ° Bre ‘mo? hurt and it is feared the)’ Mr, and Mrs:‘ Morris Benedict Foal death 150, | have the scarlet fever, while’ others il be} A few of: the young: péople et-< a ~ | tended a at ~ Ronald Wal- ~ gl or. Reged Revi — ved evening, ) which! > Mr, an ‘Wick’ Ray spent roximately.80,000| Sunday afternoon, with eae almost be and oe of the regular army for the year, was. reported to the | #