The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, October 4, 1917, Page 2

To get Groceries now by freight or express than it has been for “sev. ~eral weeks past. And from now on we hope to be able to furnish you with anything you may need in Groceries. And anything you buy of us you can rely..on its being of the highest quality and the lowest possible price. You can get 1 Can Corn 1 Can Hominy ; Ib. Best Crispy Crackers ..1 1 Pkg. Macaroni 1 Pkg. Spaghetti , 1 Can Good Table Peaches. 20c i doz. Qt. Mason Jars .....Goc “1 Can Pink Beans ..... I can Peas 1 Large Can Oysters 1 Qt. Jar Olives 1 Bottle Stuffed Olives 1 Ib. Good Coffee 1 Doz, 1-2 gal.. Mason Jars.7oc = SES Eee See They have the best O. V. Bananas, Oranges, Lemons, Grapes, Tomatoes, Mango Peppers, Apples, Peanut Butter, Crackers, Cookies, Preserves, Jams A T: GOSNELL’S GROCERY PHONE 77 North New Home. Charley Simmons filled silos for Walter Strein and Claud Berry last week. A big rain visited our vicinity the middle of last week. Schuyler Ehart and Miss ~Minnie Gaston were united in marriage by Rev. Keele at the home of the bride’s mother in Butler Sept. 26th, at 2 o'clock. Mrs. Charley Garwood and little sons of Cedar county visited from Friday until Monday with her aunt, Mrs. J. L. Strein and family. She was accompanied by her mother-in- law. They will visit relatives in the Wirginia neighborhood the rest of the week. Milt Reeves and Linley Ehart at- tended the fair at Sedalia Wednes- day and Thursday. Miss Edith Enos of near Adrian visited part of last week with Mrs. Milt Reeves. Miss May Pickett was on the sick list last week. There was a large crowd attended the pound and pie supper at Frank Miller's Saturday night. Homer Linendoll and wife spent Sunday at Charley Frank’s. Brick McCaughey and family visit- éd at the home of Jim Morris Sun- day. Willie Simpson and wife and Al- bert Linendoll spent Sunday at Mr. Nightwine’s near Virginia. Milt Reeves and wife visited with her parents, Mr. and, Mrs. Stanfill, north of Virginia, Sunday. Mr. Keeton has a one horse cane mill for sale. Frank Miller and family, Jack Skaggs and family, Henry Ehart and wife, John L. Jones and family spent Sunday at John Phelps. Lee Cumpton and family spent Sunday afternoon Mr. Arm- strong’s. $ Miss Mary and Immogene Howard visited with Miss Linnie and Thelma! Craven Sunday. Ralph Cumming Claud Berry. Miss Nellie Baugher and Miss Ina Gehr and Mr. Garber attended the party at Frank Miller's Saturday at is working for night. Miss Nellie Skaggs visited Sunday | with Miss Grace and Sina Berry. _ “Charley Simpson and _ Herschell Howard attended Sunday. school: at New_Hope and Cornland Sunday. Mr. Chandler treated Miss Ethel Herrell and pupils of Lost Corner on __7 large watermelons Monday. Henry. Ehart hauled coal from old Shobetown Monday. ‘mond Mabry, Country Happenings. Dr. Fletcher and family and Cleve Lawson and mother spent Sunday with A. L. Gilmore and family. W. G. Cumpton and wife spent Friday with their daughter, Mrs. Clara Batchelor. Mrs. Bruce Odneal and little soa, Wilbur, spent a few days last week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs, J. 5. Harvey. Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Keen, Ray- and Misses Celia Mabry and Lelia Ritchey motored to Sedalia Tuesday to the State Fair. Cleve Hunter assisted Will Gragg with cutting corn last week. + Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Prior and daughters, Cora, Anna and: Marie, and Mr. and Mrs. Merl Sargent were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Sargent and datfghter, Thelma, Sunuday. Mrs. Will Silvers and two chil- dren visited Mrs. Will Jones last week, Mrs. Claud Quick and children spent Saturday night with her moth- er, Mrs, Randall. Mrs. Josephine Stephenson spent a few days last week with Mrs. Bruce Odneal. i Jeff Snodgrass spent Friday night with his son, Coleman Snodgrass, and family. Miss Nena Batchelor spent last Monday night with her grandmoth- er, Mrs. W. G. Cumpton. Mr. and Mrs. Fayette Keen, Mrs. E, J. Keen, Mrs. Earl Gabriel and Mr. Dean Gabriel went to the State Fair last Tuesday. Mr. Catron and wife entertained relatives from Ballard and Mr. and Mrs. Will Jones Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Westbrook are re- joicing. over the arrival of a new baby. Bruce Odneal spent Sunday at J. E,. Harvey's. Mr. and Mrs. John McCook spent Wednesday with Mrs. E. J. Keer. Mr. and Mrs. Archie Odneal and little son, Mrs. Dee Vanhoy and Mrs, Will Odneal left {Friday for Arkansas in the former's car to visit relatives. Claud Quick and Tom Frost cut corn for Merl Sargent last week. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Cumpton spent Miss Pearl Jones spent Saturday evening, with her aunt, Mrs. Clay Cumpton, DAISY. ' Card of Thanks. W.-M. Hardinger and family wish to express their thanks to the neigh- Thursday with Mrs. Clara Batchelor. | ' ~ ‘Mt. Caranel, Nowe. Ernest Jarvis, : of Kans cantg down Saturday: fora i neighborhood, Miss Mable Scllers, who hi visiting relatives here: f month, left’ Tuesday. for | near Mountain Air, New 2 W. G.. Selon rides’ in a new. Hnow-adays._-- Perry Burk and: Sint Cox» from Thursday till Saturday 'dalia taking in the State Fair. Mrs. W. .Y. Osborne, . 0! is spending several days with daughter, Audry, and Mr. an Clarence Fleming spent Si with Clyde Welliver and family of Butler. i ee Lloyd Burk of College Stat Texas, arrived Sunday for— 2 days stay with his parents, Mr. ; Mrs. Monroe Burk and family @ other relatives here. Ed Corlett and family and C. Porter and family spent Sunday with J. W. Eggleson’ and wife’ cH Butler, J. W. Eggleson and sons of Butler came out to their farm Monday and pulled their crop of beans, Mrs, Edwin Allison and, daughter, Cleeta Maud, spent last week visit- ing relatives in Kansas City. P, H, Osborne and family and Mrs. W. Y. Osborne of Butler, spent Sun- day with Mr, and Mrs. Logan Cope, near New Home. Don't forget there will be Sunuday school at Mt. Carmel next Sunday at 10 o'clock. Everybody cordialiy invited to come and help us in this good work. Mrs. M. C. Wilcox and two sons, Clyde and Hadley, of Butler, spent Monday night with her niece, Mrs, W. E. Osborne and family. Mr. and Mrs, N. A. Barr and grandson, Derrvel, spent Sunday with Arthur Burton and family south of Butler. Mr.-and Mrs. Chess Howell and Miss Myrtle Fleming of , Nevada, spent a part of last week at the home of Joe Fleming and family, — Mrs, “Lewis McElroy of Pryor, Okla: came Monday for a few days stay with relatives here. Her moth- er and brother were with her. UNCLE HENRY. Amoret Items, N. M. Nestlerode took dinner at Sam Grimsley’s Saturday. + Sam Grimsley has a fine patch of carie which he is making into sor- ghum, Edward Kirk spent the latter part)” of the week with his grandmother, Mrs. Hicklin. Hugh Nestlerode quit clerking. is Carl Hall’s store Saturday. + Sam Grimsley went to Kansas City Sunday for his wife who has been operated on for a tuumor in the stomach. 4 Miss Nelle Cramer spent Sunday with Miss Gladys Durnford. Mrs. levy Mears is on the sick list now, « Miss Althea and Mildred Simpson spent Sunday with Miss _ Bessie Braden, Mr. Dwight and Harold Bitner are visiting in Amoret now. Mrs. Dick Kirk and Marie Hicklin went to Kansas City Sunday for a visit with their sister, Bertha. Mr. and Mrs, Charley Weller spent Sunday at -Worland. Mrs. Claude Dale has been on the sick list. Mrs. Waring, of Amoret, is on the sick list, SUNSHINE and ROSEBUD. A Farewell Party. Mr. and Mrs. Merton Shillinger of Spruce vicinity gave a farewell party Thursday, Sept. 27, in honor of his}, brother, Archie, who is drafted and will leave the third of next month for Ft. Riley, Kansas. A very enjoyable evening was spent playing games, telling-fertunes. and many other amusements. b At a late hour the pardners were, drawn for supper, which consisted of | | pie, cookies, candies -and water= melons. Those present were: Pleas Evans and son, Virgil; Mr. a1 Mrs. Jas.: Evans and children; Me. Mrs, Milt Reeves spent Reape dee bors and friends who so kindly a3-lsng Mrs. John Jackson; Mr. Wan Mr, Keeton’s, COR. sisted during the sickness and death ‘of his father. and Mrs. Margaret Shillinger; Pierce and son, Da and Mrs. Humphrey , Mihead of cattle paying for the ‘lty: for many years. He | married —Adtian Journal, While unhitching for — dinner, Tuesday, Jerry Kerns, residing 6 miles southeast of Hume was. kicked by a horse, breaking both—-benes of his right lég, fourm inches below the knee. -At this time it is thought h: The Forest ;Park Lumber Company of this city will be under new man- agement after October 20. Mr. C. Herrman, who has been manager 0 the Logan-Moore Co., yards at this place for the past sevetal years, is the purchaser.Appleton City Jour- nal. Friends in this city received a let- ter from Mrs. Duke G. Divine the latter part of the week in which she said that her husband, Lieutenant D. G. Divine, of the U. S. Army Medi- cal Corps, had sailed for France on the 15th of September and is un- doubtedly-safe in port by this time — Appleton City Journal. | J. H. Walker, representing the Ap- pleton City Oil Co., came in Tuesday night from Elk Gity, Kans., where he | has been for the past week overseeing drilling for oil on the company’s land near that ‘city. He reports that good oil sand was struck at a depth of 770 feet, as reported last week, but they went on down to a depth of 1370 feet and struck four different veins of good pay sand in that distance——Ap- pleton City Journal, Ed Bailey, the senior member of the firm Bailey & Son of this place has been spending considerable time away from here this month and Sun- day when called to account for the same gave a friend of his the follow- ing facts and figures: During the month of September he’ bought and sold in Kansas and Missouri 1,209 satne $78,272.00. Not such a bad month's work for one buyer—Amsterdam En- terprise. Cal Biser, Hume's first citizen, died at his home on east . Hume street, shortly ‘after 3 o’clock, Sunday after- noon. Death came suddenly. He had been in poor health for some time, but was able to be up and around the house. “After eating his Sunday dinner, he asked for the daily newspaper, and sat down in the’ par- ‘lor to read. A few minutes later when his wife and daughter came in he passed away. He died of chronic nephitis—Hume Telephone. Farm Loans. If you desire freedom from the bur- dens of everlasting debt, ’it will pay you to let us show you a plan where- by it can be done. It means low cost, with the most liberal pre-pay- ment privileges. No renewals, with the attending cost, that come pet odically, and some times raise in rates. It costs nothing to investi- e, your own interest should pt you do the best that you can. We invite a full investigavon: ¢ Cantcrburys, 6-H i butler, Mo. 8ON ASHAMED Mr, and Mrs.7 may lose his leg.—Hume Telephone. |} i ‘i 5 ‘ Many-other varieties of Can Goods in order to make OF LA FOLLETTE | Clean Easy Soap. oom fot our future can goods that will arrive about Oct. 1.:° You will not have another opportunity ‘like this in a vente Adrian Everything Guaranteed. Garage We have recently bought out the Adrian Garage and invite all our patrons when up that way to stop and see us at the J. A. Berkebile old stand, one block east and % block south from the Mo. Pacific Depot. Great Scarcity in Ford Cars This year the entire output of the Ford plant will be sold out by Feb. or March 1. Put in your order now for Spring delivery if you want a Ford. FORD SERVICE STATION AT ADRIAN AND BUTLER, MO. leet d Ream | The Onty Iidepondént Grocery, Bakery and Hardware Store BUTLER, MO. * Phones, 144 and 49. West Side square LIGHT PLANT I8 SEIZED Military Authorities Get Electricity For Camp Sherman. Camp Sherman, Chillicothe, O. Sept. 27.—Military authorities have seized the electric light plant sup- plying Chillicothe and Camp Sher- man and the military cantonment here, Fred Bursch, camp electrician, has been placed in charge of the elec- trical supply source, The seizure followed an order frorm Chillicothe city authorities to cut or the electric light current. to Camp Sherman in order that Chillicothe street lights might! be furnished. Does It Pay. Does special training in Agricul- ture pay? Two! instances will an- swer the question, Two brothers of Lees Summit, Mo., who attended the Short. Course at the University of Missouri College of Agriculture in 1910-11 went home and began breed- ing purebred. Poland’ China hogs, Butler Garage a5 Nace! nee 198 At the first annual sale the average price which they received was: the fourth highest in Poland China sales in the whole United States. Jn. 1915-16 they received the highest average price brought by Poland Chinas in Missouri. ; Fifteen years ago a Missouri boy went home from the Short Course and rented three acres of neglected orchard from his father. He pruned and sprayed the trees according to the methods he learned, and worked for neighbors when he was not needed at home. A few years later - he bought 40 acres of land and plant- ed 1§ acres in orchard. His — trees have borne five crops which have given him a net profit of $467 an acre after deducting .fair wages for himself his team and other operat- ing expenses. He now owns a 420- acre farm valued at nearly $60,000. This year he is planting x” acres mote orchard: - Again; does an education pay?—- Ex,