The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, July 19, 1917, Page 4

Butler Weekly ‘Times Printed on Thursday of each week. ROBT. D. ALLEN, Editer and Mer. Entered at the Post Office of Bat- -» Bargain Sales In Our July | ‘war, Mo, PRICE, $1.00 PER VEAR Thursday, July roth, 1917. second-class mail matter. aaa SS JOIN THE RED CROSS. There is a service for world war into which we have tered for the sake of humanity and Democracy. LITRE REET men to carry a gun into the trenches in Europe, nor will it fall to the lot of many of our women to minister to the wounded, We cannot all enlist as soldiers or as nurses, but we all can enroll our- selves in an army which has done and is today doing more for humanity 9 than any other organization extant,— t The American Red Cross, f Every enrollment in the Red Cross is a contribution toward saving the q dife of one of our own boys who may -) be wounded on the battle fields of Europe or nursing back to health some poor starved mother or baby of Belgium, France or Poland: every man and women in America in the great en- It will not be the privilege ofall Can you Tet your Db nto ‘ ee Se ny ABD! Two hundred blueprints: of the the European trenches in this mod- ern crusade for humanity without be- coming a member of this organiza- Pei) tion of mercy whose principal aim is e 3 to guard him, and to nurse him? Will you let your neighbor’s boy go out and face the shells, the gas and the flame to fight for you and ‘ not at least contribute to the organi- i zation which will nurse him back to health if wounded? Do your bit and do it now. the Red Cross. Join SERVICE. A special edition of The Times Monday morning carried to our read- ers in Bates county a complete list { of those registered in each township, together gvith cach man’s serial num- ber to the end that any registration number might be found at a glance. To place this information in the hands of our readers in a special edi- tion required an immense amount of labor and'a great deal of expense, but aH it has always been the policy of The iG Times‘to serve its readers. in all A *hings to the utmost of its capacity and may we be pardoned if we call ‘ttention that the capacity of The Times mechanical department is ex- celled by few country plants. Hundreds of young men, in all sec- tions. of the country, who were famil- iar with the service The Times stands ready always to render to- the Public called by telephone and in person to obtain their serial numbers and in fact telephone calls were so inces- * sant that it was necessary to detail one man to be constantly at ‘the phone both Friday and Saturday. While we have never made it a Practice to pat ourselves upon the back, we feel that in this instance we may be excused for tossing in our own direction a modest boquet. GENERAL NOTES. Three persons were injured, one woman probably fatally, in a severe windstorm’ which struck Kirkwood, : Kansas, Friday. \ “Sammies” is a new word. It was coined by the French as the most expressive word to describe the sol- diers from the United States. - King George and Queen Mary have returned to England after a visit with the British armies in France, it was announced. It was the queen’s first journey to the to the battle front. The Olympia, Admiral Dewey’ flagship in the battle of Manila Bay, which recently _ went ashore off 4 binge A cam tae ache enced 125 Children’s Gingham Dresses Regularly priced at $1 and $1.25 on Sale at 75c Ladies Silk Dresses on Sale at Half Price Ladies $8.50 and $7.50 Palm Beach Suits on Sale at $3.98 Choice Lot Ladies White Wash Skirts ‘on Sale at $1.98 SO pairs Men's Packard Oxfords This Spring Styles on Sale at $3.50 100 pairs Quaker Craft Curtains Bargains on Sale at Half Price Trunks - at 10 per cent discount Special values in Room Rugs " Walker-McKibben’s The Quality Store To be held in the Court House at Butler, \ Saturday, July 28, 47 ARRANGE NOW SO YOU CAN COME. ' . Ford motor factory, found in the room of Oscar Bittman, led to his arrest Saturday afternoon under sus- picion of being a German spy. He is held for federal authorities. Every form of liquor transporta- tion into dry territoty is forbidden whether: on the person, by common carrier, by private conveyance or in baggage, according to instructions sent to United States attorneys throughout the country by the De- partment of Justice. The Echo de Belge is quoted in a Central News Dispatch from Am- sterdam to the effect that fifty-eight persons were condemned to death at Antwerp and fifteen of them were shot July 5. Among them, the news- paper says, were three sisters who were accused of smuggling letters, A mill in Lawton, Okla., is grind-, ing wheat and selling it to farmers for live stock feed, because it is cheaper than. corn, Other mills are said to be doing it. Farmers are holding wheat to feed cattle unless wheat goes up, or feed becomes cheaper. Practically no wheat is coming to market. Word from France that tobacco is the thing of all others most prized by men in the trenches caused Rep- resentative Gould of New York to introduce a bill providing for a pound of either chewing or smoking tobacco monthly with the rations of every soldier, sailor and marine. The famous Danbury hatters’ case in which D., E. Loewe and company won a judgement of $256,000 against striking union hatters, was settled out of court today. The judgment was to have been executed next Monday by ‘selling the homes of the hatters in Danbury, Bethel and Nor- walk. The settlement terms were not made public. Mrs. Amy E. Archer-Gilligan was sentenced to be hanged November 6, after she had been found guilty of murder in the first degree in the Superior Court at Hartford, Conn., Friday. She was convicted of the murder by poison of. Franklin R. Andrews May 30, 1914. Andrews was an) inmate of her home for elderly people at Windsor. The British battleship Vanguard blew up/and sank on July 9, says an official statement by the. British ad- miralty.; An internal explosion while the ship at anchor caused the dis- aster. three men of those. Fen DISASTROUS FIRE! Newlon Garage Destroyed. Build- ings in Seese Block Badly Damaged. Newlon Bros’. Garage, on South} Main street in this city was complete- ly destroyed by fire Thursday even- ing. The Seese block at the south- east corner of the square was badly damaged and the home of Lon. Ray was destroyed by the oil and gasoline fed flames which spread with incred- ible rapidity. The fire, which originated in the tear end of the garage, was discov- ered at about 6:30 o’clock while the workmen were at supper and in only. a few minutes the entire interior was in flames. The alarm was immedi- ately turned in and the fire: depart- ment responded at once; but the <n- tense heat and the dense black smoke which filled the building made en- trance impossible. Reaching the elevator in the center of the building, the flames spread to the McFarland & Sons buggy display room on the second floor and in a few moments broke through the roof. The fire department worked _heroical- ly to check the flames, but the water pressure was deplorably weak and ia spite of their utmost efforts the flames were communicated to the Seese block across the alley to the north and the residence of Lon Ray on the south. The roof and interior of the buildings of the Seese block were badly damaged and it was only with the greatest difficulty that their destruction was averted. The resi- dence of Mr. Ray was practically des stroyed and a barn at the rear was burned to the ground. Seven automobiles~were destroyed in the Tire, four of which were owned by the Newlon brothers. The cars of Jos. A, Flammang, Hayden Ray. and Frank Eggleson were destroyed, A touring car belonging to Paul and Julius Levy and a Ford pioseryg the Newlon boys were saved. motorcycles, belonging to Lyle Ar-. genbright and Weltmer Jenkins were} destroyed. Newlon Bros’. loss is cartied, the policy having expired only a few days.ago, The garage building was owned by. McFarland and Sons and their loss on the building and stock of carried on the second floor is esti- timated at $5,000. No insurance was}, intense and the. paint on nearby | buildings was badly blistered. TO FORM A STATE GUARD Missouri Will Need Militia Afte: August 5. : Jefferson City, July 16—A tem- porary militia will be organized in Missouri under the direction of the state council of defense, for the pro- tection of the state after the nation- al guard now organized enters the federal service, August 5, it was an- nounced -here today. Organization will begin immediately, but officers will not be sworn in nor commis- sions issued by the governor until August 5. The temporary guardsmen will be used to handle any situation, that may afise in Missouri, such as now exists in the lead Delt surrounding Flat River. Information relative to the organ- ization may be obtained, it was said, from Secretary W. F. Saunders, of the state council of defense, St. Louis, or from James H. McCord, adjutant general. 7 ———_}— + Excellent Service. The excellence of the telephone. service in Bates county was thor- oughly demonstrated Friday and: Sat- urday when innumerable. telephone calls went over’the wires from ev- ery ‘section of the county to the coun- ly. seat regarding the new serial num- bers given those on the draft regis- tration lists. Manager. Campbell of Hthe Butler-Rich’ Hill Telephone Ex- change, realizing the urgent desire of ‘his patrons to obtain the new numbers exerted every resource at the command of his plant to accom- modate the large number -of calls passing through the exchange hefe. ‘The’ management and the operators at evety station in the county spared no’pains in obtaining and holding connections for their patrons on calls of this character, with the result that the entire volume of unusual business ‘|have more than 150,000 men. ASSIGNS QUOTAS FOR DRAFT Missouri Must Furnish 18,660 Men and: Kansas 6,439. Washington, July 13.—The toll of manhood that each state must furnish to America’s citizen army was an- nounced by the War Department to- | day. The figures are based upon a first draft of 687,000 men. In assigning the quota of each state the War De- partment used the federal census population estimates. New York leads all others with 69,- 241. Oregon is asked to yield the least, 717. Missouri will furnish 18,- 660 men and Kansas 66,439. Many of the Western states’ quotas are unusually low because the regis- tration was only 50 to 80 per cent of the first estimates of the census bu- reau. Other states in the Middle West—Ohio, Wisconsin, Ilinois—ran over the estimates by 10. to 20 per cent.. Hawaii has already furnisheg its full quota to the national guard and regular army. The quotas were sent to the gov- ernors of each state and ‘territory and the commissioners of the District of Columbia, who were directed to apportion the quotas through the dis- trict exemption boards, Allowance is made for men in each state in the na- tional guard and recruits in the reg- ular army since April 1. The credits were subtracted from the gross quota, In this way states that have answered the President's call for vol- unteers will carry a lighter burden than the other states. i Missouri's net quota of men will be 18,660. . The total strength of the national guard April 1, 1917, was 164,292, and 183,719 men were enlisted between April 1 and June 30, The total of re- cruits for. thé regular army between April 1 and June 30 was 117,974, or a grand total Of 465,085 men. :* This means that, according to the estimates of the government officials, the. United States now has enrolled or under arms approximately 600,000 men inthe regular army and national guard. The navy and marine corps REGISTRATION FOR WOMEN Saturday, July 28, to Be Observed Throughout the Country. Saturday, July 28 the women-of the United States will be asked to regis- ter, and to state what part they are ene to take in the great war prob- lem, Mrs. Wm. E. Walton has been ap- pointed. local chairman for this work in Butler and she has appointed the following ladies to aseist her: Vice chairman, Mrs, Sam W. Davis; re- cording secretary, Mrs. J. F. Smith; registration secretary, Mrs. W. D. Stanley; treasurer, Mrs. J.'T. Hull. The purpose of registration day is that the women all over the country may. mobilize seriously, efficiently and unanimously, if possible, so that each one may play her part in the war as she is best fitted, just as the men are doing. 4 The Council of National Defense was created by an act of Congress and consists of the Secretaries of War, Navy, Interior, Agriculture and Commerce and Labor. The Woman’s Committee is headed by Dr. Anna Howard Shaw. Headquarters for women are in St. Louis. The object of the plan proposed is to co-ordinate women’s organizations and their working forces in order to enlist at once the greatest possible number in the service which the na- tional crisis demands. The Women’s Committee ‘of the Council of National Defense desire to conserve every- thing in the way of work and organ- ization and advises centralization in the interest of higher efficiency. Blanks will be furnished to every wo- man who registers, that she may show where she stands and what shi is willing to do. 7 List. of Letters ing uncalled for in the post Butler, Mo., forthe. week