The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, May 3, 1917, Page 8

‘Senate and. House Appoint’ Mem- bers of Joint Committee. tol Consider Measure. Washington, D. C., May 1— posedly had grown out of jeal- ousy engendered learned that’ another man been attentive to the girl. Th chauffeur—a quarter’ blood ° In home. 3 Governor Gardner —has—reap when McCoy |i had | dian—was a boarder at the girl’s —The. Senate this afternoon, after adding a few minor amendments, sent the draft bill to conference Senator Chamberlain of Oregon, chairman of the Senate Committee on Mili- itary Affairs; Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska and Senator Warren of Wyoming were-named manag- Senate. Shortly afterwards the House ap- pointed Chairman Dent of its committee, Representatives Fields and Kahn as its managers. The conference by a unanimous vote.- ers on the part of the joint: committee of will hold its first meeting tomor- row and it is hoped that an agrec- ment will be reached without de- lay. After disposing of the draft bill, the Senate. passed two other war measures. The first was an administration ill, permitting the Allies to recruit forces from their nationals in the United States. On this measure there was little discussion and no di- vision. The other bill was that of Senator Smith of South Caro- Jina, chairman of the Committee on Agriculture, urging the Presi- dent to spend $10,000,000 in pro- curing nitrates from Chile to be sold at cost to American farmers. The bill passed by a vote of 52 to 8. An amendment proposed by Senator Jones of Washington, empowering the Secretary of War to close disorderly houses within 10 miles of a military post or camp, was adopted without op- position and without discussion. Mr. Gronna of North Dakota of- fered-an- amendment prohibiting the manufacture of alcoholic bev- erages from grain during the war but this amendment was tabled without a roll call. An amendment proposed by Chairman Chamberlain extending the terms of the bill for the **present emergency,’’ instead of for the duration of the war, was ‘rejected, Massachu- Cham- Senator Weeks of setts persuaded Senator herlain to accept an pointed the state board of geolo- gy, each to serve fora ter of four years from May 22, 191% H. H. Buehler was re-elected state geologist. The salary of this of- fice is $3,000 a year.. Under the law the governor is chairman: of the board. Elias S. Gatch of St. Louis. is vice-president, and Maj. 'Clark Crayeroft of Joplin is sec- retary. The other members are: Phillip N. Moore of St. Louis and Edward M. Shepard of Spring: field. N In a fire Monday morning, saig to have started from a_ bolt - of lightning and. which completely destroyed the W. A. Hoffgarth general store, residence and the Post Office at Ben Davis, Mo., Mrs. Hoffarth’s aged father, G. W. Polk, was burned to death while other members of the fam- ily, all of whom lived above the store, had a narrow escape from cremation. The Hoffgarth store was one of the oldest and largest establishments in that section of the country. Committees of coal miners and operators met in Kansas City Monday to consider the increased wage demands made by the men employed throughout the States of Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas and parts of Oklahoma. The ne- gotiations were a continuance of those begun last week, the an- amendment |” authorizing the President to. ac-| fi nounced object of which were to obtain advances over the present wage contract because of necessi- ty arising from increased living costs. No announcement was made as to when the conference might end. | Allen-Smith, Mr, Vivian Allen and Miss Cordia Smith were united in mar- riage in Harrisonville, Missouri, Monday afternoon, They — were accompanied by Mr, A. lL. Tracy and-the bride’s sister, Miss Glova Smith: Mr. Allen is a prominent young ‘armer of Weldon, Ia., and his vept a company from the Ancient] bride is a charming young lady and Honorable Artillery of Bos-| of this vicinity. ton, which would, at its own ex-/t pense join a ‘similar from the Honorable Artillery | fi company | near They left on he evening. train for their home Weldon, Iowa. May their uture life be a long and happy | Company of London, and go to]one is the wish of all who know the front. Mr. Weeks said that|t these were the oldest military or- ganizations in the world, the London company being 317 years old, while its offspring, the Bos- ton unit, was 269 vears old. i t hem. Some Liars. The: worst liar is the man who when dunned for a year’s sub- scription, says he only received wo or three copies of the: paper . illustrated. have decided ~ Every ©: have one in yo Event. Sale Starts Wednesday Morning: May 9th At 9 o’Clock: SEE BIG WINDOW DISPLAY—BE HERE ON TIME. i 200 Will Not Last Very Long. Be one ol the Early: Birds, Ee ene weareure you OB Cents Wir vegyer tye Powe : a : This is Purely an Advertising Sale ss, ie oe Our Name in your Home is Our Profit, The Biggest Household Bargain Ever Oftered. Only One Sold to Each Customer. - NoPhone — On Sale in Our Rug and Curtain Department No Mai as _Where you will alsd find on Sale ~ ee C.0.D. Fifty Pairs Quaker Lace Curtains for This Day Only at “Only 98ec Pair. .. _ WALKER-McK IBBEN 'S The Ousthy Store GUATEMALA BREAKS GERMAN RELATIONS} —e Which of These. Are You? : Farmer, Jim sells his 7 pigs. Fair Mount News.. Had a nice rain, but very cold. Had a frost last night but‘ it Speculative wheat prices with- ered away. Saturday on’ the re- He eeipt of announcement: that the British ‘government. had acquired ident didn’t hurt anything. Suppose we will have summer now. Amos Rapp visited with his cousin, Johnnie Rapp, Sunday af- ternoon. Some of, the neighbors were shopping in- Schell City. Satur-, day. Hilda Rapp called on her cous- in, Lydia Rapp, Thursday after- noon. Lena - Fleischer, Josephine Bracher, Clara “Lindenman and Hilda Rapp spent Sunday ‘after- noon with Nora Rapp. Tired of Teuton Plotting, Not , Only in Their Country,. but jin All of Central America, Minis- ter Mendez Declares, Washington, April 28.—Guata- mala has broken: off diplomatic relations with Germany; handed to the German minister his pass- ports, and cancelled the evequa-| turs of German consuls here. . Minister Mendez issued a state- ment: tonight saying the Guata- mala government’s decision . to break relations Was - taken ‘‘on aécount of the plots of the Ger- buys his meat from the loeal gro- eer ahd pays the profits of the local livestock dealer, the com- mission. man, the packer, the wholesaler, the: transportation company, and .the local grocer. He also-pays for the shrinkage oc- casioned by shipping his animals to market, Farmer John kills daa cures his owh meat.and pockets the profits, Dr. P. F. Trowbridge, professor | of Agricultural Chemistry inthe University of Missouri College of. Agriculture, gives the following sufficient supplies for the pres- ent, including: most of the 33,- 000,000 bushels‘at Winnipeg. Be- fore prices. collapsed, a bushel of wheat iy Chitago for immediate anded $3.14, a fig- delivery eo! ure far in excess of anything at- tained even on a paper money basis during the” Aaareient civil ‘war. - the University of Missouri, ‘since MISSOURI NOTES. Th more daylight plan will be adopted in Joplin the night of Sunday, May 13, for a trial of two weeks, with a view of keep- ing it in effect. throughout the summer. Three carloads of fed lambs in Kansas City sold Monday at $16.90 a hundred pounds, forty cents. above the former. record priee made, last week and about $5 above the record price in any previous year. Both: killers and salesmen ‘believe the supply of fed sheep has falien far short of actual needs for the first, time in _many_years. Five ‘hundred and forty-one students have been excused from war was declared,'to go into the army or work on farms. About 10-women students have been ex- _eused. Use of a 90-aére farm has age for a municipal garden: “been. donated the city of Colum-). during the year and refuses to pay.—Clarksville Gazette. Next, if not above this one, is the liar who takes the paper sev- en or cight years, and when final- ly cornered for settlement, says he never ordered it at all.—Pike County Post. But the worst liar of all. is th man who takes the paper several years, then moves away without paying or saying anything about it and he says he’s an honest man. —Ellendale Advance. Brethern, you are all short ‘of the truth. The biggest liar in the lot is the editor who published the obituary of these liars and says that they have gone to heay- en.—Plymouth Independence: ee ee Radishes ae Prices. heen visiting with her parents, formula . for ‘John Yoss_ helped Albert Fischer build a-hen house several days last week. Jolin: Marquardt and family entertained at dinnér Sunday Nick and Martin Rapp and their families, Theo -and John Mar. mans against the safety and. the} *‘ dry-curing ,, ca sik } independence not only of Guata-|: ms | but of the whole. Central erica, and through solidarity with the principles of the rights bal ate rad pepper, 1-2 found | of peoples, the freedom of the}: thoroughly. "Each “piece of and seas and universal justice.”? meat shonld be rubbed with fine quardt and their wives. “‘Guatamala,” which. has al- clean salt and allowed to stand: Mrs. Frank Brauner, who has! Ways been a sincere and - loyal from 6 | ah ) friend of the United: States,” they statement continued, ; Bony pleasure and pride in findin, ip Self identified, with. th 'Gotlob Holliger and family, re- turned to her home in Pittsburg, Kansas, Saturday. _ PRISCILLA. TREASURY BALANCE The State Has on Hand Over}? Seven Million Dollars. bay Jefferson City, Mo, May 1—l9 py There was a balance’in the State f treasury_-at- the close ‘of~ busine: last evening” of $7,432,037.92. Theta} receipts for the month were $2,- 459,935.01 mee the disbursements