The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, May 31, 1917, Page 7

aw R \" SSAA = ti rat SAS SS SS SS SSS een a ’ WO te \ UTES I oreo I Wn THE DRAFT FOR 9,918,300. Single Men Who Are Eligible Num- ber 5,372,400, It Is Estimated. Washington, May 26.—By a cen- sus bureau estimate today, classify- ing the men within the military draft age limit, the number of single men is placed at 5,372,400, and the num- 2 ber of married at 4,545,900, a total of 9,918,300. The estimate. was prepared--on a _ basis of a normal ‘increase in popula- tion since thé 1910 ‘census and on the assumption that the ratio :between martied and single men is the same as at that time: . The classification and ‘chief occupations are given as follows: i Agriculture, forestry and animal husbandry, Manufacturing:and mechanical in- Né gainful occupations, 500,500. Transportation, 967,000. » Trade, 14045000.) 2 good use you tan put a Meco engine to until Look For T — Service Sigh _ Tire dealers display- ing this sign carry a complete line of United al ‘States Tires. —the ‘Nobby’, the ‘Chain’, the ‘Royal Cord’, the ‘Usco’, the ‘Plain’, —a tire for every need of price and use. ‘This sign also means to you fire service , . —that the dealer can supply you every sort of tire service from test- ing yours wheel alignment and put- ting on’your tires to a complete line of the best tire accessories in the world. Dealers who display this sign are the best dealers in their respective communities. ~ Deal with them—depend on their judgment—and _you will have su- preme tire service. IS. : 7 eee ul “ jeon was served. | lee $16 and |day morning and wa Mulberry and Western Bates. Peters-Weimers wedding—At 11 We will again assume the respon- o’cldck Wednesday morning, May 23,| sibility of reporting the news from at the German Lutheran church a| our vicinity for a while. very pretty wedding took place when}| The following teachers have been the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M.]employed for the coming school Weimers, Miss Margaret M., was|year: Miss Margie Greenup at given in marriage to Mr. Otto M.| Plain View; Miss Carrie Harper at Peters of Linn, Washiagton county,| Mulberry; Miss Martha Park at Bel- Kansas. The ceremony was solemn-|mont; and Miss Myrtle McCann at ized by Rev. A, E. Whermeister in | Virginia.” the “presence of about - forty-five] Rev. Wright came up Saturday to friends and relatives and was most]preach at the M. E. church, but no impressive. Immediately following | services were held in Virginia at all the ceremony the company drove to| Sunday on account of the storm, the Weimers home in West Point] Miss Margie Greenup left Monday township, where an elaborate lunch-| for Warrensburg, where she will at- We can firmly|tend summer school at the Normal. vouch to the high quality of the|Her brother, Edward, accompanied cake as ye pencil manipulator was|her. for a few days stay there. remembered by a very liberal plate-}| Mrs. Oscar Coon, who has been ful of the same. The best wishes fol-|sick for some time at the home of low this young couple to their new}her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. W. home on a farm belonging to the| Bland, is improving. groom in the Sunflower state. They| Mrs. Mary V. Morrison is visiting received many useful and valuable} at the home of her daughter, Mrs. presents. The guests were: Mr,|\Varren &yres and family. Peters and son, Clarence, of Linn] Miss Ada Lingenfelter visited a Kansas; Amos, and John Kaufmann|few days last week with relatives in and their families; G. B. Bohlken,| Foster. sons, W. H., and G. H., and daugh-| Mr. and Mrs, J. W. Greenup and ter, Sena; J. H. Leiner; Tom C. and] Miss Ola Ayr pent Monday at the Geo. Schmehl and their wives; Ekke | home of Dr. T. I, Lockwood, in But- Taute; D. Dirks; August Drecker; A. | ler. Otto, and their families; John Taute,} Mrs. R. F. Harper, who has been sons, Rudolph and Brunke. on the sick list for some time, is im- Ye pencil pusher was a caller at| Proving. J. H, Leiner'’s Wednesday and while] Miss Flossie there Mrs, Leiner informed us that] Week end with she had some four hundred young} Butler. chicks and from January 5, 1917, to] Miss Helen Park, who has been May 5, had sold $178 worth of eggs‘ teaching, returned home Satur- from her flock of 150 Barred Ply-| a3 mouth Rocks. She sold a dozen hens| Mrs. Mary Morrison visited at the not long ago in Amoret that brought | home of her brother, W. A. McElroy, only at the market price.|in Butler, Monday, She got her start of this fine flock] We realize’ that our items are few of poultry ten years ago. Another |in number this week, but hope our proof that good stock pays the best.| readers will excuse our efforts this Messrs. Will H., Geo. H., and]|time, considering that everybody is Sena Bohlken drove over to La{very busy at this season of the year Cygne in their new car Thursday] and then there is not much news to morning and visited the Tom N,| report. Besides, we suspect we are Marshall poultry farm and brought|tahter ‘rusty in the art of news re- home a basket of eggs for. hatching | porting s we have not tried our purposes. hand at this since last summer, the Wednesday, May 23, was a busy | regular writer having been at school day for weddings, only seven “7” tak-| during the winter. ing place in this part of Bates coun- Miss Margie Greenup and Norma ty. Werner visited one day last week at Andy Street, another Sunflower} the Dr. Lockwood home, in Butler. boy, came over to Missouri Wednes- oO. iven a bride in the person of Miss Stella A. Nichols, the popular Mulberry school teacher. The best wishes go with these good young couple to their jhome across the border line. The Mulberry Co-operative Farm- ers Club met at the school house Sat- urday night and had a very interest- Virginia. Robbins spent the Miss Ila Scribner in Citizens Shoot Down 3 Bandits. Tuskahoma, Okla, May 2: bank robber is dead and two others are wounded as a result of a battle here yesterday when merchants and citizens shot down the trio after they had robbed the First State bank, Several thousand dollars were re- United States Tires Are Good Tires A Tire for Every Need of Price and Use ‘Nobby’ ‘Chain’ ‘Royal Cord’ ‘Usco’ ‘Plain’ United States TUBES and TIRE ACCESSORIES Have All the Sterling Worth and Wear that Make United States Tires Supreme Public service, 144,000. Domestic and _ personal 441,000. ‘ Professional service, 335,000. _ Clerical occupations, 374,000. Extraction of minerals, 364,000. Some few classifications are included in the figures. service, not ‘Dead Man’ Back, Wife Repays the Insurance. New York, May 26—Two months after his “funeral” Charles H. Hunt paid his wife.a visit. She identified as her husband a man who had fal- len dead and had buried him. She collected the insurance, “Why, I thought you were dead and buried,” she stammered. “That report,” he replied, quoting Mark Twain, “was greatly exagger- ated.” Today the coroner will exhume the body of the unknown. The “widow” paid pack the insurance money. x oH | FARRIS INDICTED IN “POLICE SLUSH FUND” CONSPIRACY Asserts He Discussed Bill. Only in General Way With Legislators and Will Prove Falsity of Charge. St. Louis, Mo., May 24.—Frank H. Farris of Rolla, democratic floor leader in the Missouri house of rep- resentatives, and Ray Cummins, sec- retary of the St. Louis Police. Relief Association, were indicted by a grand jury today for conspiracy in connec- tion with the so-called police slush fund in St. Louis. The indications follow that of James J. Mackay, also of Rolla, who is alleged to have been the: “go-be- tween” for the politicians, who are said to havé demanded $40,000 for se- curing passage of the. bill increasing salaries of policemen and the official: of the Police Relief Association. Other indictments «are expectcd. | se United States Tires are carried by the following Sales and Service Depots—who can tell you which of the five types of United States Tires exactly suits your needs: NORFLEET & REAM. " AN ber ever having discussed it with Cummins. In fact, I don’t remember ing literary program after which it covered, was decided to celebrate the Fourth of July. A committee of farmers was appointed to make the neces- sary arrangements for the same. Claude Morwood is chairman, W. FE. Caldwell, E. FE. Booi and Frank Hennon and with a quartet of hust- Jers like these men we can expect a good time. Keep your eyes on Rambler's notes for the program. The farmers are all requested to meet at the Mulberry school house night, June 2. A_ special meeting of the Farmers A. H. Palmer, cashier, had received telephone warning that the robber gang was en route to Tuskahoma and he distributed weapons to the busi- ness men of the town, The robbers were not molested when they ar- rived, They pointed revolvers at the bank's employes and were leaving with their loot when the merchants bevan firing from behind doors. Several windows were shot out by the return fire of the bandits before they were wounded and captured, TO MOVE STATE OFFICES isses Mary and Jessie Allen afternoon for their new home at Elsie, Neb. ‘ Ye pencil pusher is busy ing a spell of the rheumat right arm so if Bob's devil has a hard time on this batch just kindly overlook the scratching. RAMBLER. They Will Move Into New Capitol Next Month. entertain- Foti ah: Arrangements are under way for the State offices in the temporary capitol to move into the new build- ing the latter part of next month, Twenty feet must be torn away from the temporary building to make room for completing the work on the new building, and this must be done be- Mr. Ray Powell and wife visited fore leveling off the park has been Moai Powells watenta: Mt. and Mek completed. A part of | the office : ) parents, an Rr yeeivctere aieomtate Riley Gilbert, Saturday night, Sunday | [00™ Of thersccretary Of otateh Auditor and 20 feet from the Hall of In and Around Maysburg. having met Cummins as I meet so many people.” : Japs Acquiring Big Gold Supply Washington, May 25.—Evidence that Japan is making a concerted ef- fort to accumulate vast quantities of gold is in the hands of treasury de- partment officials today. The Japan- ‘ese government has sent numerous agents to the United States, the treas- ury department has learned, to gath- er up gold cértificates. These have been taken to subtreasuries and the actual metal demanded in exchange. Since January 1 the gold ship- ments -from San Francisco to Japan have aggregated $35,000,000—an un- preceder‘ed amount—unaccounted for by the balance of trade or the nat- ural ‘currericy exchange. The object of the maneuver has Circuit Attorney McDaniel declareu the case would be pressed, “no mat- ter who it hit.” : | Mackay was expected to give fur-| ther testimony today, but he failed} to appear before the-grand jury. It! was said at his home that he was away, but that he would return to- morrow. Farris; over long distance tele- phone from his home in Rolla, denied any knowledge of the slush fund. “There is no truth in the charge, | he said. “I will be in court tomorrow morning. I want the public to be fair to me and suspend judgment un- til I cam prove the falsity of the charge. I knew nothing of the so- lled ‘police salaries two years be- ‘and as I- had supported a bill § salaries: two years ago, tht-hour not been determined by treasury de- partment officials. ‘ Missouri Strawberry Crop Four- Fifths That of 1916. Jefferson City, Mo. May 24.—In- formation furnished by the Missouri railroads to the Bureau of Labor Sta- tistics is to the effect that the State's 191% strawberry crop now being mar-}. keted will total 12,844,000 quarts, as compared to shipments and. sales in 19%6 amounting to 15,300,000 quarts. A similar shortage in the strawber- ry crops exists all over the South, due to the lateness of spring and the peculiar winter conditions of late 1916 ) 1917. The United States class Missouri as one of big strawberry producing Union, giving it and Sunday night. : | the House of Representatives must On account of the rain the chil-| (ome down. For the time being, at drens’ day program at Cove Creek] jeast, the occupants of the old Su- was postponed from Sunday evening preme Court building will not be dis- {to Monday. evening, turbed, but presently this building ; Miss Eunice Henderson expects to] will be wrecked, leave soon for Warrensburg, where Sout Cecil McCoy is seen going west and north on Sunday afternoons of late, rain or shine. Arthur Simpson visited Ross Mc- Coy Sunday. There was a speaking at Hackler school house Saturday evening in re- gard to farmers organizations. A club was organized with 20 members to start with. The M. E. brotherhood of the White Oak church entertained Sat- urday night and took in quite a few more members. John Ingham visited Jim Hargrave Sunday. Mrs. Maggie Hagen visited her mother, Mrs. Stroble, Saturday af- ternoon. ’ Mr. and Mrs, Frank Pott went to Urich Monday to‘help celebrate Mrs. Pott’s mother, Mrs. Haney’s 69th birthday. Roy Middleton ‘spent Saturday night with Charley Clark. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Powell went home Monday morning. On account A + vigil his from a of the rain they made their visit a little longer than they had expect- 8 ako Re ag ed, a Come and See them. Mr. and Mrs. Andy Doll and chil- ; SSS eee PETERSON & LIHN she will attend Normal this summer. eoev.ceer oom Most of the State Institutions have Holsteins; because their milk is best for young and old, sick and well people, and it is cheaper to produce than any oth- er milk. You can get Holstein calves by sending your cows to Korndyke Butter Boy 15th His eamenre 18749 Ibs. milk, 797 Ibs. er in 12 months. His daughters give more milk than their dams tered son of We have ughter of King dren were shopping in Urich Friday. Mr. Reed and family are away on a visit. : Mrs, W.