The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, September 27, 1917, Page 2

fesvencroctesccshisticssscsccssestristtieesett povoccoseteessss fess 5 sso eal sscssspesssoccogsooeesesseeeseee: piocsscocosssesettessesssese seco siis set . Dear Readers :—- Test you forget My face so plain eI arcane ee sere T SUNBEA ‘AMS | 4—eonte—te—see—you. asked me to write some poetry ap-j propriate for his best gal. I asked him to describe the dame so that I might make the verses fit her. He said he didn’t know much about her. The only description he could give me of her- was that she was exceed— ingly long for her weight and that he was considerable “sot” on acquir- ter, Ermine, in Butler. Mable Dale Harris Anna Myrtle Doll Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. Dale visited Mr. amp . Hendrickson and © family Sunday. *Mrs. Montia Simpson: spént a once again » With nothing said Which I regret I'm with you yet—l’m with you yet. Now aren't you mighty glad to see me? | just laid off last week to show the editor I could stop if I wanted to do so, Oh, yes, the whole push (down to the devil) were sore. You see they have lots of space in The Times and as I didn't give ‘em notice they had to hustle some to get stuff to fill my column. Cool weather is comin’ on and I will be a busy feller so I rather think I'll only. come to you two timés a month, If this ar- rangement is satisfactory to yeu, please stand up. Thank, you—that will do. Looks like you only want me every two weeks. But ‘twas ever thus, etc. In the trenches should’ you toil Do your bit. If at home you till the soil Do your bit. If they call for you to go To a foreign, distant land, If they stand you in a row With a gas bomb in each hand Do your bit—d—n it yes. your bit. If the devil should lose his caudle appendage, where could he get aa- other? This question was placed in the question box for me. Why he would go to a saloon, of course. But you ask why to a saloon? <And I re- ply because that is where bad spirits. are retailed. Mary had a little lamb. Its fleece was white as snow. And everywhere that Mary went, the lamb was sure to go. Do Now that's ‘stale. Here's some- thing different: Mary sat upon a pin. It caused no perturbation. While some of her was genuine, the most was imitation. 3 Always use a little soap in the water when you wash your feet (if you ever do). It helps some and then it may be good for what ails you. Never eat pie with a spoon nor ‘soup with a fork. You simply muss things up and then it’s not good form. Tooth picks should never be used in public. To use them so makes you a low-brow. In asking the father of your girl for her hand (in marriage) dlways present your front. Never by any chance turn your back, Something might | happen, “A Kansas man took a drop too much a few days ago and it killed him, No. no, it wasn't a drop of booze. He took a drop of four stories. The Duke of York removed the cork and tilted up the flagon. The label read !x—Blankety—blank- - Bzt—3x—xxx—and now he’s on the wagon, ‘ The melancholy days are here— » Well, what of that— The roth of old November's near And quails are fat. They say Butler ‘is goin’ to have a circus. Also it was narrated around that we were to have a carnival. Yes. Don't build any hopes on being en- tertained in this progressive burg (except at the movies) until after the city council and the Commercial Club have investigated. A farmer owned a swarm of bees and they to save their lives, always followed the tarinetDerauee he had the hives, - Once a feller come to me. and ELECTRIC THEATRE SSS PROGRAMM After 3 months of sticktoitive- ness I am‘now able to give the people of Butler and vicinity the productions of three of the best and largest companies making features in the world. MONDAY AND . THURSDAY Pathe Gold Rooster Plays TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY Metro Plays, ‘Featuring Popular : Plays and Players. - FRIDAY AND SATURDAY Blue Bird Photo Plays + Acknowledged as well as recog- nized the most perfect plays pro- ing her. So I wrote this: Thou art the idol of my _ heart. My very life you seem. I think of thee all day—all night. ‘Tis but of | thee I dream. I_care not what thy past has been. I’d wed thee right or wrong. I need but little here below— but want that little long. I don't} know how much this helped but I} told him if this didn’t fetch her to let | her go and look for a short one. | I notice that the modern Eve in an encounter with a bear feigned death in order to escape being hugged by said beaf, I just wonder if she would | have played at bein’ dead if it had happened to be a man instead of a! atives. : _ Claud Clark poor old bear- Though Sunny Jim Is tall and thin; He's always feelin’ sunny. And that is why (This on the sly) He writes for fun—not money. Country Happenings. | Mr, and Mrs. G. W. Keen and chil- dren spent Sunday with Ples Evans and family. i Mrs. J. Jast week with her Bernice Dickison. Will Foster and family visited Sun- day at the WiH Wigger home. Everett Sutherland purchased a/ horse of Jim Nichols last week, Mrs. Rilla Radford and children of Butler visited from Friday to. Sun- day with her sister, Mrs. A. T, Keen. | Mrs. Rich is staying with Mrs. Dee | Vanhoy. Mr. and Mrs. daughters and Mr. Sargent and daughter, Thelma, called | at the Geo. Wi igger home Suunday afternoon, Elmer Keen has Geen working for Dee Lutsenhizer the past week. Mrs. Humphrey Dickison is quite poorly at this writing. Will Shillinger is doing some car- penter work for Frank Kretsinger. Several from this vicinity attended the Pleasant Gap Fair. last week. They all report a nice time, — Geo. Keen and son, Cecil, were it Appleton City Saturday. daughter, Mrs, John McCook and Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Welliver and| three children spent Sunday with Mrs, Welliver’s parents, Mr, and Mrs, J. E. Harvey. Mrs, Dan Bowman and sons, Ray- mond and Frankie, visited last week in Urich with friends, | Wilber and Dewitt Snodgrass spent | a few* days last week with their grandparents, Mr. and .Mrs. Dee, Vanhoy. ; Leonard Hays and _ family Sunday with Lewis Varns and wife. Misses Nina Keen and Thelma Sargent were shopping in Spruce} Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Lawson and little son, Cleve, and Will Lawson, Mr, and Mrs. A. L. Gilmore and Children, | Mrs. Lawson and Ruby and Chester Nichols motored to Clinton Sunday and spent the day with Mr. and Mrs. spent | ! Erie Nichols. Mr. and Mrs. Ervie Barnett called on Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Keen Sunday | evening. C. C. Wilson delivered hogs market Monday. DAISY, to Spruce Pick Ups. | Mrs. Tal. Raybourn called on Mrs. Lee Reese Monday afternoon. Mrs. Mattie Hill and daughter, Mrs. Jim Jones, spent Monday with | Mrs. George Vanhoy. Mrs, Laura Rich and Mrs. Frank} Rich called on Mrs. Lee Reese Tues- day afternoon. Se Mrs. Mattie Hill and daughter, Mrs. Jim Jones spent Tuesday with Mrs. Louis Hill. | Mrs. Lee Reese called on Mrs./ George Vanhoy Friday afternoon. Miss Gladys Barnes called on Miss Christie Sargent Saturday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Mert Anderson from near Ballard spent Sunday with M-. and Mrs. Frank Rich. Mr. and Mrs. George Vanhoy and son, John, and, Mr. and Mrs. 1. H. Dickison spent Sunday with Mr. anJ Mrs.“Del. Lutsenhizer. Mr. George Borland and family and Mr. J. A: ‘Borland and Fey apent Suunday with Mr. and Mrs. R. . Barnes. ae Louis Hill and. wife spent Sun- day with his mother, Mrs, Mattie Hill. Mr. and Mrs, Lee Reese called on Mr. and Mrs. Frank Rich Suunday evening: Christie Sargent called © oa Miss Gladys Barnes Sunuday after- noon. Mr. John Cumpton. spent eae with her son snd dau, Mrs. Orville C * : Mrs. Paul from eae visiting her sister, Mrs: Frank Rich, Mr. Herbert Sargent with his parents, Mr. and ‘called on Mrs. L, A. daughter Saturday afternoon. on jday afternoon. and quality of instruction, ter received just how | versity and Normal | a Mrs, White's parents and her daugh- visited with few days last week at El Dorado Sbrings Walter Divide a ‘hard-shelled Cole, who has been weeks with her sistersin aM Crist. T. C. Tyre and Bro. Jowe Tyre came Monday to. visit the former's daughters, Mrs. Montia Simpson and Mrs. Sterling Harness. Mrs. Walter Cole returned home Thursday -after spending several | weeks at El Dorado Springs. Leta and Roy Hendrickson spent Sunday at. Mr. Will Douglas’- Mgs. Ica. Hibbs came Sunday for an extended visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Clark and other rel- visited home folks Sunday afternoon. Levaud Harness, Ruby Grossheart and Maurie Staton visited home folks from Friday * evening, returning 10 Butler Sunday evening. Mr, and Mrs. Reed and children visited in Urich Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Coonrod visited at Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert's Sunday. : A NEIGHBOR Brackney Items. We had some real cool weather the latter part of last week. Mrs. Marie Latham, of Illinois, is k, Harvey spent a few days| visiting with friends and relatives at the present writing. , Mr. J: L. Ghere has been attending | the state fair at Sedalia, Mrs. Belt and daughter, Florence, Deems and Mr. Samuel Mellon returned home |Sunday morning -after a few weeks visit in Kansas. Elmer and Ernest Deems_ spent Sunday with L. A. Deems and family. A number from this community at- and Mrs. G, W./tended the fair at Pleasant Gap. A good display of corn encouraged us of a fair corn crop. A-number—of-the- drafted men left Friday night for Ft. Riley, Kansas. Mary Deems and Fern Miller spent Sunday with the latter's sister, Mrs. Robert Evans. Mr. Howe is real poorly at this | writing. Mr. and Mrs, A .G. Deems called Mr. and Mrs. Jno, Travers Sun- Several visited the soldier boys a: Camp Clark, Nevada, Sunday. Bertha Padgett spent Sunuday | with Mrs, Otis Andrews, JACK and JILL. What is the Condition of the Rurzl Schools, During the last session of the Mis- souri General Assembly a suggestion was made that a survey of the coun- | try schools of Missouri be undertak- en. |crete statement. from reliable sources as to the physical conditjon of the] country schools, jand support, the preparation of the The purpose was to have a con- their organization teachers in them, and the character The mat- favorable consideration from those to whom it was propose‘. After the session adjourned, Gover- \nor Gardner wrote to State Superin- tendent of Schools Lamkin, suggest- ing that all the educational interes:s in the state cooperate in making such a study and investigation, and -sug- gesting further that it would be well for the people of Missouri .to know efficient their country school system is. In accordance with this plan, the Missouri State Teachers’ Association]; Northwestern |appointed a committee to The Mr. A..G. Capps as secretary. Schools, Col- leges of the Missouri College Union ijhave undertaken the work, not. wit! of finding out any one. partic | thing. It is ap investigation by Mi with the idea of making the good better, and ‘of improving conditions where they should be improved. The cooperation of commercial o¢- ganizations, women’s clubs, the news- papers, the church and all interested in the public schools Me state is Capps, Columbia, the secretary el ve com- mittee, or the@State Superintenden:,| Fitts, the assistant attorney general, Uel W. Lamkin, Jefferson City, will|in charge of the government's inves: be glad to give any information con- tigation of the; Industrial Workers | ; ¢ of the World, at-a Jaibepe , the Four’ Minute Men; ~ yd ; clared that the thas a come ee 4 TO “PURNISH an CORN AT} drastic: deali aiming to ernment in‘the conduct of ‘the war, desired. .. Either.: Mr. cerning the matter. first undertaking for the sale. to farmers, as pro’ ded int ALaw;' Secretary twenty: § corn in ‘Northern anid Nog ‘Tesss for esle-to farmers ia there ‘several Mrs. 8 oO 0 Bushels : FARMERS FEED WHEAT TO|: Cereal is Found’ Cheaper Oklahoma City, Wheat is being fed to hogs and other live stock as a substitute for corn in| J. many counties of Northeastern Okla- homa. little additional wheat will be market- ed from these counties at the price fixed by the Food Administration, Bee ot 40; part lots 39 and 41 Gilhams cording to the State Board of Agri- culture, The action of the farmers is due to the scarcity of corn and farmer feels placed an arbitrary price upon ttiis product at a time when the law of supply and demand is in his favor, without at prices of other articles for his con- sumption, the statement says. have county reporting a 3 per cent crop,” charge of this work. They elected] iy. statement Bee del ; “With corn worth $2.25 a bushel Association, together with the State].1q wheat bringing ee $1.80 to 'Superintendent of Schools, the Uni- $1.93 at the elevator, the farmers are using wheat for fattening hogs. Ny “Little wheat will be and pnblic school people generals’! ine price is raised, county agents re- ort. the idea of proving any pet theory or the price of carn: sourians of our own school system pe fee af “el % pA: the war, feels he is being deprived of a righteous profit, while others are allowed to éxact ‘war profits’ with- |. {out governmental interference.” ‘said, saatiag. to be uplifted in the common Washington, Sept: 20—Inaugurat-| defense must not. be ing ‘the. Department - of Acie uplifted at all.” squash into quarters, re- move the seeds and soft’ inner: section,: then -steam in the shell until it can be pierced with a fork,. Remove fromthe fire, and cutin sugarand butter totaste. Place in the oven and let itbrown lightly. Serve hot from the shell.’ This will ap- peal to your family as a pleasant change from the ordinary way of serving squash. There are things that will make your home so much ‘more pleasant this-'winter. Built-in» Furniture, :Coto- nades,’ Built-in Sideboards and Kitchen Cabinets—all going to make your sis ode more pleasant and make the work easier. If you are thinking.of remodeling the old Home You Should Have Our Free Book of Plans The many suggestions on its pages will help you You have thought and talked of building, And Now, When so little will buy so much, WHY NOT BUILD? ‘of Corn. Will Buy the Material fora FIVE Room HOUSE Just think it will only take thirty acres of ordinary corn to buy the material to byild a clailiilciato home. Ver vee _Lumber is not High, That Tells the Reason Why. But to get the full value of every dollar you put into your home, to get all the comfort there is in a modern, convenient house you should have the best help, the best material and the best plans. > Our Plan Book of Better Bullt Home will help you, Our Free Plans and mpectications willleave nothing out that should go in. Our Lomoco Mill Work, Our Service, Our thoroughly seasoned and carefully manufactured ma- terial will give you the best of sco We Cus teady to serve you—We ask to help you. LOGAN- MOORE LBR. COMPANY Phone 18 Butler, Missouri REAL ESTATE ‘TRANSFERS — Hume: Lucy E. Hammond to A. M, Ear- som 70 acres section 20 Pleasant Gap lot. 20 Little's, addition to $550.00. HOGS; RAP U. S. PRICE J. iR. Hales to M. L. Smith lots 7, Feed for 8 and 9 block 90 Rich Hill $40.00. Live Stock Than Corn $4,725.09. E, T. Barnes to J. J. Lackey lot 12 Rudolph Steiner to Gred Drains 40 acres section 14 Rockville $2,800.00, Hiram Vail to B.-.G. Davis part lots § and 6 block 63 Rich Hill $1.00. Y. Beatty to J. W. Stayton 160 acres section 20 Mingo $8,800.00. L..M. Shipp to J. J. Ashbaum 52 acres section 23 East Boone $2,400.00, Lucy M. Idlett to Emma Brundidge block 77 Rich Hill $3,000.00, HV. Geiger to B. F. Metz lots 13, 14 and 1§ block 68 Rich Hill $500.00. Julia A. D. Cotton to E. H. Sum- mres 40 acres section 22 Osage $2, 000.00. P. E, Askew to R. w. Askew 40 acres section go Deer Creek $1.00. Wallace Ferrell to B. F. Metz lots 3, 4, 5 and 6 block 94 Ist addition to | Rich Hill $75.00. at $2.25. Ok., Sept., 20.— Pending governmental action addition to Adrian $1,000. H, A, Clark to B. F. Siville 80 acres section. 27 New “Home $3,200.00. Emma J. Witt to W. S. Walker lots 11 and 12 block 28 Rockville $80.00. W. P. Montgomery to H. L. Div- ille’ 297 acres sections 6 and 1 New Home and Charlotte $10.00. M. W. Smith to Wm. Guide 75 acres section 28 Deer Creek $6,000.00. O. C. Lawson to G. D. Gerdes 563 | I-4 acres section 5 Pleasant Gap $3,600.00. , Ed L. Hunt to C. P. Hawkins: part the has that Government Specialists in Western wheat dis- tricts estimate that 20 million bush- els of wheat and proportionate quan- tities of other cereals are wasted an- nually in harvesting and threshing. ~ The Department of Agriculture, in a statement ?ssuéd, urges farmers to give special attention to the adjust- ment of threshing machines: and to make certain that none of the grain is lost with the straw and chaff, the the same time fixing “Very little corn has been raised Oklahoma, one a Without Heat. Cornell: Wood-Board for the : sold until The Government has not fixe: “According to these’ reports the | For the walls and ceilings in room in the cae for farm bl Must Stamp Out Disloyalty. Washington, Sept. 24.—William. C., ere i ab or Vidanet the ‘on time has come,” Vien every arm that i not allowed to be of] Somewhat of apa SE Somer