The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, September 27, 1917, Page 6

Revanitt . MISSOURI NOTES. Roy Winfrey, a farmer of Buck- ner, Mo.,, is raising a 25-acte field of corn from which he expects to derive jas much profit from the cobs as]. from the grain, It is the variety from which cob pipes are made, “The he mean an_has sho pi Appleton City. When a citizen of that town went to the cemetery last week to attend to a rose bush that he had placed at the head of his’. daughter’s grave, he found some flower lover had dug it up. Why It Costs Less to Have’ These Tires On Your Car 3 What may result in another Mis: Ysouri draft fraud was made public Thursday by Matt W. Hall, chairman of the Western District Exemption Board, in ordering an investigation x pore . Bae Note eee om Because of their supreme mileage-giving qualities, For United States Tires are the standards of low mileage cost. That is why their sales continue to forge ahead year by year, month by month. ‘ Mrs. Peter K. Brown, living about eight miles’ southeast of town, sent in two wagons loaded with chickens Tuesday for which she received $200, Then in the evening she came to town with three dozen chickens, for which she received $20. A very good work in chickens,—Skidmore Missouri State Fair Sedalia, Scptember 22 to 29 : UNCLE SAM’S GREAT ALLY— ve) THE MID-WE.7 5 GREATEST EXPOSITION Si = That is why users of United States Tires last year are still users of United States Tires this year. . That is why, sooner or later, you, too, will be a user of United States Tires. . y Ask the nearest United States Tite dealer which one of the five is suited to your needs of price and use: : United States Tires Are Good Tires A Tire for Every ‘Need of Price and Use ‘Royal Cord’ ‘Nobby’ ‘Chain’ ‘Usco’ ‘Plain’ Columbia received its last express shipment of liquor or beer Friday when the Wells Fargo Express Com- pany decided to close all such ship-|, ments, The M. K. & T. R. R. is now the only means by which liquor may reach Columbia, and over. this road only by freight. The victory for Columbia's “dry” workers comes only: after years of effort. Every Patriotic Phase F eatured — War °‘ Visualized—Patriotism Promoted A GREAT INSPIRATIONAL ‘AND EDUCATIONAL FAIR — Best Amusement and Entertainment Acts of America Offered Daily Aviation, Automobile-and Horse Racing, Great Livestock Show, Huge Farm Imple- ment Displays. The best that Missouri’s War Crop has developed will be seen at Missouri's Great State Fair. An Autum- nal Animation. September 22 to 29. 3ecause of the need of Russian- speaking men in the-army and the opportunity in commercial fields af- ter the war, the Kansas City Poly- technic Institute has started a class in the language. It is probably the first class of its kind in the Middle West, and only one of the few in the nation, It is to be in charge of a native Russian instructor, United States TUBES and TIRE ACCESSO- RIES Have All the Sterling Worth and Wear that Make United States Tirca Supreme Also tires for motor trucks, motor cycles, bicycles, and aeroplanes Another calf suit is starting on its way down Missouri history and now is pending in the Greene county cir- cuit court. The suit originated ia Howell county, where a Willow Springs hardware concern attached the calf for debt. After the: attach- er a A ETD 28 CENTS A DAY FEEDS |Germany's Diplomatic Intrigue— SOLDIER and Blunders. A complete stock of UNITED STATES. TIRES carried by Norfleet €> Ream ounce; cinnamon, .o14 ounce; Good Meals for Like Amount, but Supplies Are Bought by the Ton. Uncle Sam has_ written ‘ generous menus for his fighting men on land and on sea and if the regulations which he has prescribed are followed his soldiers and sailors need never go hungry. He provides approxi- mately 28 cents a day to buy food for each one of his soldiers, and a like allowahce is made for his sailors, says Popular Science Monthly. To the housekeeper who has to contend with war-time prices of food- stuffs this sum seems entirely inade- quate, but it must be remembered that Uncle Sam buys his. supplies in ton lots and not by the pound. The fixed allowance or portion of |~ food furnished a soldier or sailor each day is called a ration. It consists of specified components or substitutive articles. There may be an over-issie | of any ration component, provided there is an under-issue of equal value of other components; but the total cost of a man’s rations at the end cf 2 month must not exceed the average of the daily allowances for that period. In garrison or permanent camp, a soldier's allowance of food consists of the following components andj quantities, or specified quantities of substitutes: Beef, 20 ounces; flour, 13 ounces; baking powder, .08 ounce; beans, 2.4 ounces; potatoes, 20 ounces; prunes, 1.28 ounce; coffee, | 1.12 ounce; sugar, 3.2 ounces; evap- orated milk, 5 ounces; vinegar, .16 gill; salt, .64 ounce; black pepper, .24 lard, .64 ounce; butter, .5-ounce; sirup, :32 gill; and flavoring extract, .o14 ounce. A number of substitutive articles are provided for each of the ration components. For instance, instead of the 20 ounces of beef, a like quantity of mutton may be supplied, or—12 ounces of bacan, 16 ounces of canned “meat, 14 ounces of dried fish or other meat substitutes. Instead of the bean component, 1.16 ounce of either rice or hominy may be supplied. Prescribed ‘quantities of dried ap- Germany, through the then Foreign Secretary Zimmermann, plotted to align Mexico and Japan in war against the United States. | so She sought to influence the Con- jgress of the United States against j war by expending a sum up to $50,000. \ Beth | She used the Swedish Minister at {Buenos Aires as a means of com- municating Count Luxburg’s insolent advice that all vessels be “spurios versenkt.” seb She used the Swedish diplomat, Cronholm, at Mexico City, as, her ac- tive messenger, and, according to 4 letter in American possession, also as a direct spy. HK She plotted through her ally, Aus- tria, for destruction of munition plants in the United States. eK She tried to stir up a revolution in the Philippines by promising the Fiii- pinos white women in return for an uprising. Pleasant Gap Fair a Success. The .third annual meeting of the Pleasant Gap Fair which was held Wednesday and Thursday of last week was an unqualified success. There were over 1000 entries, consist- ing of live stock and agricultural products, culinary and needle work that would take first rank in any company. The biggest crowd was on hand Thursday, it being estimated that there were more than 1,500 people on the grounds from Butler, Rich Hill, Rockville, Prairie City, Apple- ton City, Papinsville and Pleasant Gap and the surrounding country and they all were having the time of their lives. The Pleasant Gap township fair was started three years ago and each year it has been better than the year before. Some of those years, owing to the dry seasons, the displays in some of the classes have not been so large as they might have been, but ples or peaches or of jam and pre- serves may be substituted for the prunes. The reserve ration is less varied. * INDICT-NINE IN COAL SCANDAL Special Grand Jury Reports in the Jefferson City Investigatjon. Jefferson City, Sept. 20—The spe- ciab grand. jury here returned nine in- dictment this afternoon as the result of an investigation into the state coal scandal, The names have not been made public, as none of the accused has been arrested. the farmers of that section of the country are not quitters and ‘they kept boosting and this year with the good crops that Bates county is being blessed with, they had a fair that was the equal of any that has been held in the county. Bates County Boy Makes Good. Early in January last Stanley Mor- wood went to Washington, D. C., to accept a clerical position in the Navy Department and readers of the Lead- er will né doubt remember_a brief complimentary that. was printed ia our columns pn the eve of his depart- ure. The fact that the. young man has. “made good” at the capital’ of the nation*is evidenced: by his rapid: ment was run, a St. Louis man, other than the defendant, claimed the cait. That was three years ago and the case is still in court. In the recent departure for Utah on a mission for the Modern Wood- man of J. E. Swanger of the Sedalia Capital, Missouri will lose one of her best known residents, for it is given out that after his present mis- sion is ended he will make his home in New Mexico. Mr. Swanger was formerly secretary of state, later bank examiner, and prominent in Re- publican politics.—St. Joseph | Ob- server, Although curtailed temporarily by turning over $3,700 to the general revenue fund, the State Department of Hotel Inspection will be able to make the required inspection of all hotels in the State, said Gov. Gari- ner Friday, after he had received let+| ters from traveling men regarding a report that no more hotel inspections would be made. He declared that Col, J. H. Ditkbrader, Chief Hotel Inspector, reported the new law governing the hotels was working out all right, and that it would be satisfactory. In a list of twenty-three paroles is- sued by the state prison board Fri- day to convicts who will be released September 25 aré two convicts serv- ing ninety-nine years for murder and one serving a life sentence. In each instance the convict murdered a wo- man. These men are Monroe Bet- terton, 70 years old, convicted in Lawrence County in March, 1907; Charles Elchiner of St. Louis, con- victed in April, 1908, of shooting ani killing his wife, and Robert Alexan- der, a negro,’ convicted in Macon county September, 1907, of killing 4 negro woman, Woodmen Have a Big Time. Thursday. night was Big Night with Butler Lodge 2458 M. W. A. A social, with refreshments, had been anriounced for that night and the hal] was crowded to capacity, for when the Woodmen start out to have a time they have a big one. J. K. Martin, district’ deputy, of Rich Hill, was present and assisted in conferring the degrees on one can- didate, and made a very interesting address on woodcraft. Among the visitors was Fleming Leslie, of Hume, who left Friday for Camp Funston, where he entered the National army. He was given the honors of the order and bade God- speed on his journey. .The patriotic assessment for the purpose of paying the death claims of killed in France was unanimously carried. ANOTHER GERMAN DIPLOMATIC BLUNDER Bernsdorf Asked for $50,000 to be Used in Influencing the Ameri- can Congress. _ Washington, Sept. 21—The Ameri- can government’s publicity spotlight revealing German intrigue in neutral lands turned today upon the expendi- ture of money by the Berlin foreign office in an effort to influence con- gress on the eve of the ruthless sub- marine campaign which drove the United States to war. Secretary of State Lansing made public, without comment, the text of a message sent by Count Von Bern- storff to Berlin last January, asking authority to use $50,000 to influence congress through an organization, which, the foreign office was remind- ed, had performed similar service be- fore, To supplement this move Von Bernstorff suggested an official dec- laration in favor of Ireland for its effect here. The organization to be employed was not named in the message and Mr. Lansing did not discuss its iden- tity. It was freely suggested among other officials, however, that it was one of the various societies which flooded members of the house and senate with peace messages when President Wilson was asking that a state of war be recognized. Man Takes His Own Gun to Camp Funston. : Camp Funston, Kan., Sept. 21.—A Polk county, Missouri, farmer had ‘heard that the government was short of guns. So when he stepped from a train at Camp Funston today he car- ried on his shoulder a double-ba:- reled shotgun, with his clothing in a bandanna handkerchief suspended from it. said: “I saw in the papers they didn’t have guns enough for us here, so I brought, mine.” Another in the same contingent brought a pumpkin because he. said he wanted pumpkin pie and he hadn't had .any when he left home. A dele- gation frdm a Nebraska county brought seven hounds with which they said they were going to chase Kansas jack rabbits.” Another brotight a washboard because “some- | body told him soldiers washed. their || To queries from officers he, Seattle Tieup Delays Ships. Seattle, Sept. 21.—As a direct effect of the strike of the ship carpenters against the use of lumber manufac- tured in 10-hour mills, approximately one thousand men working in Seattle shipyards were laid off yesterday and’ today. i The general strike committee said that its reports from the metal trades were to the effect that work in the three big shipyards signed pledges to use 8-hour lumber would practically cease with the be- ° a 4 WW Dp WWW ldo '42 ginning of next week and that by. the end of next week more than fifteen thousand metal trades unionists would be idle as a result. ‘Xmas Bells Will be Peace Bells.’ Copenhagen,’ Sept. 22,—“The Christmas bells will be peace bells,” predicted Herr Leub, president of the reichstag, in an interview. He said Germany’s reply to the pope would provid a basis for peace since it would be in harmony with the reich- stag bloc’s recent resolution, that had not Zio LALLA TT ITD TE A Webster defines profit as follows: *t Accession of good; valuable results; useful consequences; benefit.” energy. : that ‘saving on an outlay of only $2 a We kndw of ne more profitable method of investing $2 a week. own clothes.” Colored Quota of Draft Out Oct. 3 Washington, Sept. 22—The first | increment of colored drafted men will RVQQY