The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, October 4, 1917, Page 5

The Butler Weekly 1 Tines| @rinted on ‘Thursday of each week.| ROBT. Pp. Al Office of But- mail matter. Thursday, October 4th, 1917. ———— The London Gazette announces the appointment of Kermit Roosevelt to the temporary honorary captaincy while specially employed from Aug- ust 21 last, ee nd All records for long distance wire- less communication were shattered Saturday when radio communication was opened between Hawaii and the Atlantic coast. The senate Saturday afternoon Editor and Mar. || passed the Weeks bill, giving the war and navy department additional pow- er in suppressing vice in the vicinity of training camps, forts and navy yards, Two German airplanes, which took part in Friday hight’s raid over the southeast coast of England were brought down, it is announced. offi- cially. No casualties were caused by the raid. | New York Dealers predict the wooden shoe cra for the United States is about due. They say that the high heels of the present fashion will be retained and that there will be a mode for every type. The price for Liberty Bonds. con- tinued to move upward Saturday in New York. At the outset of the trad- ing on the stock exchange a lot of $4,000 sold at 100.30; a new record, six points above Friday's high. te ey, ‘ A snowstorm, which has raged at Brighton, 20 miles from Salt Lake * City has left. snow several inches deep. This is the first snow of the season and the mountains surround- ing Salt Lake City are covered. Discovery of new evidence will cause a postponement of two weeks, of the trial of one hundred and fifty- six colored soldiers who are charged with participation in the recent race riots at Houston in which cighteen persons were killed. Flour dropped forty cents a barrel in Chicago Saturday to $11.40, but retail prices will not be affected until the grocess dispose of their present stocks. This is the first change ia the price of family brand flour since the government fixed wheat prices. A prediction that Mexico would fol- flow Argentina, Peru, Uruguay and Paraguay by breaking off relations with Germany was made at El Paso last week by an American who has ~ farge interests in Mexico, but who declined to permit his name to be used. Believed to have been bewildered by the sudden appearance of an elec- tric headlight from out of the mist and fog Thurusday night four soldiers of the U. S. Infantry stationed at Ft: Sheridan, are dead. The men ‘were struck by an electric train at Lerner Silk Waists.... It will pay Splendid Collect Values. Styles are here. A We New Fall Styles Fern Cotton Waists. ...... Fernmore Cotton Waists...:.. Paul Jones Middys. Bradley Sweaters.......... $3.50'to $6.00 $1.25, $1.50 . $1.50 up ‘ Walker's Special. Shoes.. $5 to $8. 50 English Walking abaaia .$4.50 to $5 .$1,00 Kewpie Twins Shoes. ......$2.50 to'$5 MUNSING UNION SUITS Ladies $1.25 up Mens $1.25 up Childrens 75c up Wayne Knit and Topsy Hose. .20c up Corticelli Silks and Satins $1.50 to $2.50 yard Walker-McKibben’s Warnérs Rust Proof Corsets $1.00 to $7.50 Warranted Clyne refused to disclose the source, but said that, with the arrests of J. W. W. leaders. a “great deal of un- American propaganda” has,. been stopped. Dr. Johnathan Leigh, who cele- brated his one-hundredth birthday, Wednesday, at Hiawatha, Kas., has lived to see the United States parti- | cipate in four wars. Several hundred persons called in person or sent greetings to Dr. Leigh, among them) ‘ being a telegram from Governor Arthur Capper. Fred Nicholson, a farmer, and Wil- liam Fortner, his father-in-law, of near Independence, Kas., were shct and killed by an unindientified man Thursday. The man also attacked Mrs. Nicholson and ‘left her in an open field, Regaining consciousness early that morning she gave’ the alarm of the attack. The machine gun company of an Illinois regiment which - passed through Clinton last Friday had for a mascot a young bear cub brought from Northern Wisconsin, it having been bought by a public subscription of the citizens of Aurora, and pr2- sented to the company. The cub was about the size of a dog, and would search the soldiers’. pockets, try to open their closed hands and stand on his hind legs to beg for lumps of ’* MISSOURI NOTES. ’ With only half a crop in signt; George Hackley of Waverly has sold the yield of his 4o-acre apple-orchara on the trees for $7,500. The State Prison Board, have se- Jected Porter Gilvin, former-.deputy warden of the state penitentiary as Warden of that institution. A Cass Counuty church will hold a Rat Pie supper in the near future, according to the Cass County Dem- ocrat, That is. one way to swat th H.C. L. Dr. James C. Welch, 55 years olf; tendered his resignation as prison physician Friday to the State Prison}, Board, following . sensational charges that He had received $100 from a wo- man, who was seeking a parole for her convict husband. : Poa litre rae Leo Best, a former resident — oi Stotesbury, was — killed) _ recently somewhere in England while fight: The ‘news i ing: with the -Allies. his death reached relaatives at Stotes. bury this week. Leo enlisted bugler in a Canadian Feuiment, si the Metz Times, ~ pbibleninitis tren Py The corner stone of a* new court: house for Pike county’ ‘was’ laid at, Bowling Green one day ‘las' THE QUALITY STORE New, Lot Yarns, Minews ‘Brand, Khaki-and Grey. for Soldiers wear. ‘i AL, fancy. colors; for. sweaters, etc. regular mayoralty election will held, ERED EN aE EI Lieutenant General Berthold Von Deimling, former military command- er at Zabern, Alsace, will. be pen- sioned, according to the Berlin Mili- tary Wochenblatt, which adds it. 1s beli¢ved he will be. made: responsible for the failure of the’ German troop» | before’ Verdun, where:in 1916 he com- manded the Fifteenth German rary Corps. Doubt us to whether there would bE a. postponement of the trials ‘of he seven persons charged with the : ‘kidnapping of Baby Lloyd Keet and the attempted abduction of C, A. be] | Kansas troops, BERRY TO HOLD CONFERENCZ[{ ON JOINING GUARD Fort Sill Commander Asks A, t ; Generals of Missouri and oe ‘ sas for Aid. Washington, D.,C., Oct. 2—Gov. Gardner was notified by Secretary of War Baker today that Gen. acting commandant of the . division which embraces the Missouri and had. summoned tu Fort Sill, Ok., the Adjutant Generals of the two states for a conference in regard to the army. reorganization or- der. Clements, a Springfield jeweler, last |')' Spring, was removed when Prosecut- Lor Paul O’Day and:attorneys for: the defendants reached -an agreement ithat::no_ further delay will be .asked J wbet: the case is called at: Marshfield, Announcement was made Friday by tate prison board that October + ir R. Gilvin, who has been depu- penitentiary for a will. Be made warden it The office of dep-} jew will es abolis camp. Gardner was hopeful that the confer- ence would result in keeping the Mis- souri Guard intact.and would obviate the necessity -of . consolidating any Missouri ‘troops. with those of Kan n- sas, Having. abandoned hope last night| F, that any | change in the reorganization sthe. Governor hopeful: that way.’ prevent the ‘dism Regiment, Berry; |” Holland and Sheriff Baker in attend- ance. Township collectors-as follows pre- sented: their’ bonds which were ex- amined and ‘approved: F. H. Stevener, Prairie. *Geo, Summers, Walnut; Carl W. Welliver, Charlotte. C.:P- Harrison, Grand River. Harry Pratt, Hudson.” Frank Powell, Summit. D. F. Porter, Howard. W. O. Snodgrass, Deepwater. Court called to Rich Hill in the matter of Hezekiah Oakes, insane. Adjudged insane and ordered sent tc state.hospital No, 3 at Nevada, Superintendent of .State Hospitad No.3 requested. to parole: Mrs, Harry K. West from institution... © , J. H. Braden. et al presented & pe- tition signed by 12, or: more eal. es- tate owners, which read .in. court and after due “consideration, it was decided by ‘the court’ that: a ‘change in the Amsterdam ‘and Amoret road was ‘a public ‘nécessity,. The Highway Engineer was pric pt and tequest- ed to view and’mark and make ‘an es- cost Of making the Highland Park. ager Five blind men returning home from” a {birthday ‘party ‘edrly Friday ‘were struck by a street car at Mil- waukee, Wis. two of them being _ killed instantly and a third seriously injured, The dead: _ Patrick. Mosh- Trade Commission will para ir aeln and. George-Ott. Ogden Haley Sot Sates oat tl Sn anes eo oie “I the cost is istrs- a bution. As soon as its report bas| tne tie mfomede ts by. Crowder, ton wil aibonce a view fot }was Motor, Car : view as to 6 Katherin Stinson c. an The building is to cost one hundred thousahd dollars. It ‘will’ be the} fourth courthouse Pike. county raed? Measures of co-operation to reduce ¢rected on the same sauare: the price of bread will be recom- third was burned. : mended by the food administration within a short time to bakers, retail- Saturd: the bi tt ers and consumers. The peaerst ia eareey ae be Hope Sater the seven years’ history of | Misaouri State... Fair, * were, @ jam. of cars. and. people a