The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, June 7, 1917, Page 3

’ The Sign of iH . Mulberry and Western Bates. - William Scybert and Lloyd Hazen went up to Kansas City Friday and enlisted in the United States service. Miss Doris: Fail of Butler is visit- ing her sister, Mrs. Claude Morwood, Leo Welley drove over to the East Mt. Zion neighborhood across the state line and visited with old neighbors and friends Sunday. Rev. Bob Lacy of Merwin preached at the Mulberry school house Sun- day afternoon and evening. The Mulberry Farmers Co-operat- ive Club had a special business meet- ing Saturday night. The committee on Fourtlr of July celebration made a report of the work done in the past week. Old Mulberry will have a big Fair Mount News. C. M. Rapp had some dental work done between trains at Appleton City Friday. Mrs. Lester Preston and. little daughter, Alice, visited Sunday: with . her parents, Gotlob Holliger, and. family. : Quite a few from this vicinity at- tended Mission festival at Appleton City Sunday. Martin Rapp’s children spent Sun- day with Nick Rapp’s children. Clara Lindenman called on her friend, Rosie Rapp, Sunday. Grandma Rapp from Appleton City came down Sunday and stayed till Monday with her son, Frank. She was accompanied back by her grand- daughter, Rosie, who will stay with her, * Johnnie Marquardt and family and | Grandma Fischer took dinner Sun- lay with Joe Fleischer and family. day July 4, 1917. Make your plans to be there. The Amsterdam concert band will furnish the music, Ball game between Amoret and Afiister- Perfect Service : St Look at it—remem- ber it—for wherever you see it displayed by a tire dealer you will know —that there you can obtain tire service, —that merely selling you a tire is not the end, —tire service which will give you one hundred and one courtesies, lit- i : | i in touch with a merry-go-round. There are sixteen prizes awarded for the day. The place of celebrating will be on John Dykman’s farm. Keep a look out for the program. The marketing committee has made arrangements to buy this season’s supply of twine at- a big saving. There is some talk of putting up a farmers elevator, store and a cheese factory and it begins to look like the farmers are going to throw off the yoke that has kept them down for so long. Col. Harlan Porter the hustling auctioneer has interested one of the leading breeders of Holstein cattle enough that there will be a sale of 50 head of registered and high grades of the great black and white dairy cattle brought to Amoret and sold at public auction. This party is one of ot : | dam. The committee is trying to get dl Rev. Heinke and family and Mrs. Schellman made a business trip to Appleton City Friday. * Miss Marie. Schoeck spent several days last week with Nora Rapp. Joe Fleischer and family called at the home of John Yoss Sunday night. A few of the young folks spent a very enjoyable evening at the Will- iam Bolte home Sunday night. Theodore Marquardt and Miss Marie Schoeck visited friends and relatives at Clinton from Saturday until Monday. The school picnic at the reform church was held last Friday. All who were there spent a very pleasant ay. Mr. C. C. Peeler died Monday at his home after a long and serious ill- ness. He leaves a wife and five chil- dren to mourn his death. PRISCILLA. tle and big, which will keep dowa your tire costs. _ Dealers displaying this sign are the best dealers; —they carry a complete line of United States Tires, —the ‘Nobby’, the ‘Chain’, the ‘Royal Cord’, the ‘Usco’, the ‘Plain’, —a tire for every need of price and use. the owners of “Ornsby Jane King,” a son of the great White Heifer, the cow with a seven day milk record of 879.6 pounds, butter 7 days 46.33 pounds. There will be cows ‘in this Kathleen Wayland spent Wednes- ~ sale bred to the son of the World| day of last week with Ruth Jones. Champion cow. Those interested in] Mr. and Mrs. Jake Baum took Sun- the better dairy cattle will find some-| day dinner with Geo, Hertz and fam- thing of the real goods at this. sale|ily. and an advertisement will appear in| Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Hunt were vis- The Times. itors of Wick Ray and wife last Mr. Allie Rogers, Claude Mor-| week. Wood and wife, Mrs. Ella Morwood;} Lela and Ashby Wayland left Fri- and Doris Fail were guests at the|day for Kansas City to visit with rel- David L. Clark home Sunday. atives. Ashby returned Monday. Mr, and Mrs. Andy Street from| cla will remain a few days. Sallie across the border line spent Sunday |and Elmer Kinney accompanied them. at the parental R. L. Nichols home.| Helen Clark spent Saturday night Sunday was Chidren’s Day at the] in Butler, rae Dis Herrell Happenings. wD A Ww i ta. $e H i i WWW" HH {| 2 % tl Too roo | —Deal with these Sales and Service Depots —depend on their judgment—and you will have supreme tire service. Mulberry church and an interesting and appreciative audience. came in Friday for a short visit at Ed Booi on the Highland Park farms. Mr. and Mrs, T. C. Jones and son, program was listened to by a large| Harry, and Mr. Wick Ray motored to Johnstown Sunday to visit with Charles E. Booi of Danforth, Ill.,] Roy Jones and family. Ivan Doubenmeir came down from the home of hisi sons, Luke C., and| Independence, Mo., Monday to spend a few weeks with old friends. A few of our young people at- George Rogers is getting ready to| tended the Children’s Day exercises build a new house. at Black Sunday evening. The voters of El Dorado district] Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Hertz spent are going to vote $2000 to build a| Saturday evening with Joe Clark new school house, Hurrah for Hot}and family, : Water. Ruth Jones visited Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Leiner, Mr. and| Kathleen Wayland. Mrs. Tom C. Schmehl were guests] Sunday school was started at Her- of G. B. Bohlken and family Sun-|rell school house Sunday Tt will United States lives Are Good Tires Lg gate « ae A Tire for Every Need of Price and Use ‘Nobby’ ‘Chain’ ‘Royal Cord’ ‘Usco’ ‘Plain’ ANAM United States TUBES and TIRE ACCESSORIES Have day. . begin at 10 o'clock. Come and help Ez Ali the Galea walG Veer monenn’ ‘ake Master Lawrence Dykman is on the| the good work along. 2A sick list. Vera Benedict called on Esther nt i Eli Brayton from across the border Hertz Monday afternoon. line was a caller at ye pencil push-| The Y. P. B. was held at Mr. er’s Monday. Blankenbaker’s near Peru Saturday RAMBLER, |evening. A few from this vicinity were present. Virginia. Mrs. Francisco spent Monday at- The Children’s Day exercises at the ee caer uae Wee in Christian church Sunday morning} putter, ; were good. The subject of foreign WILLIE. missions was vividly brought out. James Pahlman, of Kansas City, visited Sunday at the home of his Peru Items. parents, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Pahlman. 4 Miss Elsie Englehardt visited with We need sunshine and more sun- Miss Martha Park Sunday. shine. ; Rev. Pfost filled his appointment Tf many farmers are drafted into an the Christian church Sunday-eve-}5ofvice what will become of the ning. crops, which are needing much at- Mrs. Martha Zinn, who suffered a tention and will until fall? stroke of paralysis some time ago, Old Glory floated at Pert all day was able to he out and attend church | Tuesday while the men came to reg- Sunday. te A Children’s Day program will be given at the Methodist church Sun- day morning at 11:00. Sunday school at. the regular hour, 10:00. Miss Elsie Park, who has _ been teaching in Sedalia, returned home Saturday to spend the summer va- cation. League services last Sunday nigh were conducted by Holly Pahiman, City. They never even asked our|the topic being, “Bible Study Hab- consent. Anyway, we all extendJits.” These services are held every congratulations and welcome Mrs.| Sunday evenirig at the M. E. church Norton to our neighborhood. and are invariably interesting. Come work on his bran. f Potatoes are not out of reach now.| out and be with us next Sunday. . The Lone Oak Y. P. B. will have We are getting them out of the] Miss Flossie Robbins visited in|? Program and ice cream supper on ground. Butler a few days last week. ov June 19th. Everybody in- Phillip Neu and family spent Sun-] Misses Norma Werner, Bessie | V#*¢¢- act day in Butler. Walker and Ola Ayers spent Sun- BILLIE AND SUSIE. The wind did considerable damage] day with Miss Ruth Orear. last Wednesday at the Holland home.| Among those who — = It uprooted a large tree and tore up memorial services in Butler Sunday par: ‘ other loose things, while at Mr.|afternoon were Mr. and Mrs. H. omer a ee a in Howard's it tore a ew hen house to| Englehardt and Mr. and Mrs. J. W. ending June § 1017: sd pieces, The path was very narrow| McFadden. ‘ J Fullerson, Glen Harned, John but of a cyclone nature. Miss Rachel Park fell one day last} yy.i4 ey, Clarence Seeley ‘Laces Today, June sth, every mother’s} week and seriously injured her knee. Stockton, R. L. Trimble, Miss Fran- son who is of the desired age must| She has been confined to the house mek Babcock (2) Mrs. Ella Me- register and that means heart mai for a few days but expects to be out Carthy, Mrs. Joe Majors. e Miss Eulalia Sturgeon returned] soon again. % e ss two to five years. To be convinced, som a two weeks’ visit at Kansas} It seems that we have been having] 4 Lee go ig oath ge = ck & Sons . ‘ . lead letter office June 19, 1917, if no try one this time, Bla tf City and Harrisonville. plenty of rain of late, although the} setivered before. In calling for the Clothing Co. ? 25-tt | Several of the young folks attend-|river is not yet out of its banks. above, please say “Advertised,” giv- éd the reception given for the newly-] Misses Ola Ayres and Norma Wer- ing date of list. _| weds at Frank Allen’s Tuesday night.| ner spent Monday at the Dr. Lock- J. E, Williams, Postmaster. a wes. busy day. on B, Soar wood home ee eee * farm. Six teams were plow-| Remember the ren’s Day ex- ‘corn, The farmers are just about] ercises at the M. E. church next Country Hams Wanted. oe y.as anything you could imag- ay and be there. .All are cordial-| Wanted—A limited number of ; : ©. |at this office. nt ee sii 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. Americans who have been crossing into Mexico ostensibly to mine or prospect for oil, but actually, in the belief of government officials, to evade the selective draft, are meeting with little encouragement, according to information received from the in- terior of Mexico. Neither American nor European employers are giving the newscom- ers consideration except in extreni- ity. Preference in employment is be- ing given to refugees of honest con- victions temporarily interned abroad, reports received here say. spent one afternoon last week with Mrs, Norris and daughter, Mrs. Mitchel. Miss Florence Stagner is spending a few days with home folks at Rich Hill and her sister, Gladys, is visiting at John Golladay’s. Miss Hattie Gray, who has_ been visiting at the Newlon. home, is spending a few days at Rich Hill. She will return for a longer stay. There will be an ice cream supper at Black school house Saturday night, June oth. Frank Norton and Miss Cora Al- len stole a march on their friends and got married Saturday in Kansas TO START roo WOODEN SHIPS Generali Goethals Orders Timbers From Southern Pine Association. Washington, June 2—Lumber for 100 wooden ships has been ordered by Major General Goethals, general manager of ‘the Emergency Fleet Corporation, from the Southern Pine associations, it was announced today. The price is $35 a thousand feet in the mill. Completion of the project will require 140 million dollars. “The contracts for these ships have fot yet been let, but in the regular course of business they should be awarded within sixty days,” General Goethals said. “As soon as the con- tracts have been let notification’as to the ‘point where the ships will be built will be forwarded so that the mills may begin on the timbers. “It is expected that orders for these sets will begin the early part of June and probably. will be entirely placed within sixty days.” To Observe Memorial Sunday. Blue Flag Lodge No. 190, Knights Masonic Celebration. The bi-centennial celebration of . the formation of the first Masonic ie Grand Lodge, to be held in the court house lawn Monday, June 25th, promises. to be a big event. The Lodges all over the country, we are informed, are ready and anxious to ‘come. Butler is anxious to have ‘them come and will do all she can to entertain... The program was pub- lished in all the county—papers last week, and it is a good one. Some suggestions: — - Bring your.dinner and enough fo: some one who may come from out- side. the state or county, and who can’t bring dinner. - Add drinking “ cups (tin will do), spoons, etc. Large tables will be erected on the court house fawn and be in: charge of a, competént committee who will see to, the placing and: serving of the food. ; reeset bi Masons bting your aprons, ‘so if weather. permits, we can ~ around the square. - Of course it is understood that this celebration is for Masons and their : wives, so bring your wife, if you have no wife you had better get one. ‘ All lodges are requested to invite The Y. P. B’s and W. C. T. U. held a patriotic meeting at Perw Tuesday night. F. L. Blankenbaker has purchased a new Ford. - E. S. Requa delivered hogs at But- ler Monday morning. Miss Lucile Latham of Rich Hill | Visited last Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Harry Latham. Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Lyle visited at Mr. and Mrs. Ed Hall’s last Sunday. Grover McCoy has completed the Let Big Contract for Shoes. Washington, June 1.—Contracts for 3,450,000 pair of shoes for the army and navy were awarded today through the national defense council. Delivery is to be completed within eight months and the average price per pair will be $4.85. The contracts, awarded to competitive bids, were distributed among twenty-seven firms. The army will get 2,600,000 pairs of of Pythias, and Bates Lodge No. 180,/the shoes and the navy 850,000. The I. O. O. F,, have arranged for a joint | contracts represent the largest shoe observation-of- Memoriat-exercises on| purchase ever made by the govern- their absent members. Sunday, June 10, 1917. The lodges| ment, their total value reaching near- Remember the date, Mofiday June} wil} meet at their halls at 2:00 p. nf.,|ly 17 million dollars. asth, 1917 and come. Make it @ . home ; Bs List of Letters A High Art Suit will wear from