The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, October 11, 1917, Page 3

The most sensationational bargains ever olfered to the buy- ing public. FRIDAY and SATURDAY. Extraordinary bar- gains created from our sensational bargain giving event dur- ing the last week’s selling.- "Every dollar's worth of mer- chandise must be sold by Saturday night at 10 o'clock. COME EARLY AND STAY LATE To stay away would be like throwing dollars to the four winds. Bargain Packages for Saturday Only. We guarantee 25c worth of merchandise in each package. Are You Lucky? ATT 2bel2bel2bel2bel2bel2bel25elzbel2bel2 We Guarantee One Package to Contain $5.00 Worth of Merchandise 5 Pkgs. Tinware at. Post Cards at Tobacco at............. 25c Soap at...,...... Groceries at..... Poultry tonic at.. Rat Corn at.... Fruit at.... Dry Goods at Baby Shoes at.. 5 Pkgs. Caps at........... Hats at........ Belts at]. & Yaces at... Hardware at Threads at Needles al Silks at.. ‘Anaaanagaaga Candy at.......... Utensils at.............25¢ Come and Get Yours. ...... 25C per pkg. AAMAaAaanaaaan Tecl2bcl2bel2bclebel2bel2e oo NS or Cid TS ov e S) or >) mS on fal rN) on eo nN) or Jl ~S on fd] nN on Li) rbeldbeldbclebele belebele bela bole belzbclzbclzbclzbclebclebo|zbclebclze That’s Where Theré are All Going SOLDIERS DRILLED DAY AND NIGHT Sixteen Week's Course of Training Which Includes Trench Raiding And Other Operations. Washington, Oct. 5.—Training work mapped out by the war depart- ment for national guard and nation- al army divisions before they will be regarded as ready for duty abroad 1s * based on a sixteen week’s course of the most intensive kind of work in the open, varied by lectures by Amer- ican and allied officers who are ex- + perts in modern warfare. To insure uniformity of training throughout the entire army, divisional commanders have been urged to see that the sche- dules announced today are followed closely. Great stress is laid upon the ne- cessity for night training. Trench raiding, scouting, trench building and operations of all kinds which may be called for in actual combat will be duplicated at the camps through the night hours. To give the men some respite, their Wednes- day and Saturday. afternoons will be kept free except in the case of back- ward individuals or units. "Target practice runs through the entire course, and schedules call for forty hours’ training each week. A striking feature of the program is that practically the entire sixteen weeks will be devoted to training in- W. T. Cochran The Virginia Store Virginia, Mo. dividuals, platoons and companies. Brigade, divisional and even regi- mental exercises are reserved for a later period, with some minor excep- tions, during the last weeks. Since the platoon, commanded by a_ lieu- tenant, is the actual fighting unit in trench battles, the new regulations fix upon the lieutenants of each company the responsibility for train- ing of less than company units so that they may get in close touch with their men and set up an understand- ing of each other that will be invalu- able when they finally “go over the top.” Rigid requirement is made that of- ficers be present with their com- mands at drills and clocklike regular- ity in carrying out training sche- dules is insisted upon. 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 renewa!s, with the attending cost, that come peri- odically, and some times raise in rates. It costs nothing to investi- gate, your own interest should prompt you do the best that you can. We invite a full investigation. 2 Canterburys, 36-tf Butler, Mo. For Merchan- dise at Sacrifice Prices Former Butler Woman Killed in Auto Accident. Odessa, Mo., Oct. 5.—Mrs. Mary G. Dawson, 64 years old, wife of Dr. B. E, Dawson of tor East Thirtieth Street, Kanszs City, Mo., formerly pastor of the Christian church at Odessa, was killed instantly when the Dawson motor car overturned be- tween Odessa and Oak Grove today. Doctor Dawson and Mrs, Dawson had been visiting their daughter, Mrs. W. S. Felts, in Odessa, and were re- turning to their home in Kansas Ctiy with their two grand children when one of the rear wheels collapsed. Doctor Dawson was pinned under the car and’ slightly bruised. No one else was injured. Funeral services will be at Odessa Sunday afternoon. Dr. Dawson was for several years pastor of the Christiatr church in this city where he has many friends who will sympathize with him in his be- reavement. The “conscientious objectors” will now have to find a new dodge. It has been proposed that the govern- ment draft those who belong to the society that does not believe in war, which they call murder, and take them to France, where they will be used as grave diggers, as their only objection’ to war seems to be thet they object to killing anybody. E. D. FRAZIER’S Big Type Poland-Chinas mA Public Auction FRIDAY, OCT. 19, 1917 HEAD 25 Boars; 25 Open Gilts—Immune* Sale at Farm, & miles east of Drexel, 6% miles west of Archie, mile south and mile-east of Main City Sale will be held in sale pavilion, rain or shine, commencing at 1 o’clock WRITE OR eave FOR CATALOGUE. vunen it POnSETE G 1o NEGROES FOUND GUILTY IN RIOT CASE Fourteen Years’ Sentence Given Each Man Convicted in Killing of Policeman Coppedge. Fourteen years in the State Peni- tentiary. was the sentence meted out at 2:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon to 10 negroes found guilty by a jury in the Circuit Court of Belleville, Ills. of the murder of Police Sergt. Sam- uel Coppedge at Tenth and Bond avenues, East St. Louis, on the night of July 1, 1917. Three other negroes who were tried on the same charge were ac- quitted. The negroes found guilty of mur- der were: Fayette Parker, Othaniel Peoples, George Roberts, Horace Thomas, Marshall Alexander, Dee Smothermann, Albert Hughes, Bud Townsend, Will Palmer and Charles Foster. Those acquitted were: Thomas Tackett, Guy Moore and Leslie Fowler. With the closing of the trial for the murder of Coppedge, which pre- cipitated one of the most serious race riots in the country’s history, there ended one of the most unusual mur- der trials ever heard in the United States, according to attorneys. C. W. Middlekauf, special representative of Attorney General E. J. Brundage, told the jury it was the largest num- ber of men on trial at once charged with murder in the history of Illinois jurisprudence. In another respect the case was un- precedented, as it was the first time, he said, that an Attorney General of Illinois had seen fit to send a special man from Springfield to assist the regular county officials. The Haymarket riot cases of Chi- cago, the nearest parallel to the pres- ent case, had eight men on trial at one time. It was on the court ruling in the Haymarket case that much of the law applicable to the East St. Louis case rested, Plans to Relieve Shortage of Gold in’ South America. Washington, D. C., Oct. relieve embarrassment caused by the gold embargo to American business concerns having agencies in South and Central America, the Federal Re- serve Board has opened negotiations with the Governments of those coun- tries. To transfer funds to South Ameri- ca American firms now are paying more than jo per cent above the nor- mal rate of exchange. The federal Reserve Board has proposed that American firms shall deposit money with certain banks in the United States to the credit of the South or Central American Governments in Which business is to be done. That the Government in turn is to issue its own notes to the resident agents of the American firm seeking to transmit the money. Bug-Drawing Lights to Cut Cost of Keeping Fish. Topeka, Kas., Oct. 8.—Here’s the latest in food conservation in .Kan- sas: Electric lights are to be in- stalled at the State fish hatchery to attract bugs at night, which are to be made use of as food for the fish. Under a plan worked out by W. G. Tegemier, State Fish and Game Warden, the electric lights will be in- stalled at the hatchery at once. The plan, worked out by Mr. Tegemier while he was on the Northern lakes this summer, is expected to yield suf- ficient food for the fish to more than pay for the installation of the lights. While at the lakes, Tegemier no- ticed lights suspended here and there over the water for the convenience of the fishermen and boatmen. Al- ways, he found, there were fish un- der the lights waiting for the bugs attracted by the illumination, Mexico to Buy Million Bushels of Corn in U. S. A telegram was received yesterday by the Foreign Trade Bureau, Cham- ber of Commerce, from a correspond- ent in Mexico City, advising that the Mexican Government is anxious to buy 1,000,000 bushels of corn_in the United States. J. A. Troy, secretary of the For- eign Trade Bureau, immediately con- ferred with members of the chants’ Exchange relative to corn ex- perts, and later answered the tele- gram, asking for more detailed in- formation as to quality desired and time of delivery.—Republic. U. S. Patrol Fires on Italian Submarine. Washington, D. C., Oct. 8—Vice Admiral Sims cabled the Navy De- partment today that an American patrol vessel, on duty at night in the war zone, had fired on an_ Italian submarine, which failed to answer recognition signals, killing one offi- cer and one enlisted man. Secretary Daniels at once sent a message to the Italian Ministry of Marine expressing the deepest regret over the unfortunate occurrence and tendering his and the American Navy’s ‘sympathy for the loss of life. Edsel Ford, son of Henry Ford, was deftied exemption from selective service by the district appeal board Saturday. Fotd’s claim was based on industrial grounds. * It said he was in- dispensable to miairitenance of the Ford’ Métor~ Company. Ford was ~~ about a ‘year ago and hasa cl 8.—To| Mer- ! MISSOURI NOTES. Sixteen red-headed soldiers were visible at the windows of one passen- ger coach as a troop train pulled into Mexico one day last week. “They're from Auburn, N. Y.” it was explained. The sale of the 5,500 acres of Ozark Jand with springs, caverns and marvelous sceneries known as Haha- tonka park, is being closed by the Snyder estate to a wealthy New Yorker, who states that he plans ‘t for a private park. The election held in Ripley coun- ty last week to vote upon the author- ization of $200,000 road improvement bonds’ resulted in the defeat of the proposition, It is likely that another election will be called to vote on the proposition again within jo days. Edgar. C. Johnson sold twenty-five tons of alfalfa hay this week for $24.50 a ton, delivered on the car at Burlington Junction, The sale was made to'a dairyman at Bedford, Ed’s alfalfa has brought over $100 an acre this year.—Burlington Junction Post. Woodson brothers of Steinmetz, Howard county, expect to make 3,000 gallons of sorghum molasses this fall, which will be canned in tin pails. The pulp from the cane will . be canned” in silos for feed for cattle. It is thought the molasses will atl for $1 per gallon. Three-fourths of a million cases of canned tomatoes is the estimated output of canneries in the Missouri Ozarks for 1917 where many growers will gather more than ten tons of the fruit to the acre. The largest tomato field reported in the Ozark district is near Seymour, where there is one patch of 120 acres. - Mrs. Bettie Oliver Woodson, di- voreed wife of Archelaus M. Wood- son, formerly Chief Justice and at present a Judge of the Missouri Su- preme Court, died Saturday at St. Joseph Hospital in Kansas City, fol- lowing an operation a week agvu. Judge Woodson was at her bedside when she passed away. ' “She said that she was tickled to death because 1 was drafted; that now she would get rid of me,” said Clark B. Howell in giving Judge Drain his reasons for a divorce from his wife, Mary Howell, in the Macon Circuit Court. The Judge gave Howell a decree for a divorce and awarded him the custody of his chil- dren. Judge James Cowgill, chairman of the state democratic committee, has announced that he will resign withia the next few weeks. He has been ap- pointed a member of the election commission of Kansas City and says that he does not believe that a man should hold a position on a_ state political committee tion commissioner at the same time. Marvin M. Breuer, secretary of the Missouri State Board of Agriculture, drafted for army service, does not lack assistance nor influence in his appeal for exemption but the District Board has refused to make any con- cessions. Breuer seeks exemption on industrial grounds. The District Board holds that if Breuer is valuable in his line in peace he will be more valuable in war. Two sensational murder trials are up before this term of Circuit Court in Butler county. The case of the State against Mrs. Edna Thomason, charged with the murder of her hus- band, Miles Thomason, in August, 1916, and the case of the-State against Cal Haynes, accused of the murder of his brother-in-law, Isaac Watson cf Keener, last June, are attracting much attention, SST In a letter to Jewell Mays, seer‘: tary of the Missouri board of agricul- ture, Federal Food Director Hoover says that Missouri farmers may sell wheat for seed for any price they can get for it regardless of the price fixed by the government.. Seed wheat may also be sold by elevators at not to exceed 15 per cent increase over the government price of $2 per bushel in Kansas City. Expects U. S. Red Cross to Aid China Flood Sufferers. Washington, D. C., Oct. 8.—Never in the history of China has floods worked such devastation and cost so many lives as has resulted from the present inundation, according to ad- vices” received today. at the Chinese Legation. So great is the distress among the people’ of the flooded districts that the Chinese officials have been called upon to contribute to per cent of their salaries for relief work. ‘ Some action by the American Red Cross is expected soon. Topeka, Kas., Oct. 8—A heavy killing frost, the first of the season and a week earlier ‘than usual, was general over the State last night, éx- cept in the southeast part, where: it was light to heavy, it was announced today. The chief daniage will be to tht gtain sorghums. There wis little — to corn,-as most of it has and be an elec-]er GREECE SOON TO HURL ARMY AGAINST HUNS Fighting Force is Being Equipped Rapidly With Aid of Entente. Washington, Oct. 8 —Greece is nearly ready to put a large and ef- fective army in the field to co-oper- ate with the allies, according. to dis- patches from the Athens foreign of- fice to the Greek legation here. Lack of equipment is being reme- died rapidly with the allies’ aid. Minister Roussos today gave the following summary of the situation in his country as described in the le- gation’s dispatch: “The situation in Greece is becom- ing more satisfactory every day. The people are thoroughly confident of the efficiency of their government and they are willing to allow the present ministry to continue in the work of reorganization of the re- sources of the country so that Greece may throw her full strength into the war, ‘ .“There is now no _ pro-German party in Greece. Ini fact, such a party never existed save in the person of King Constantine, aided by certain members of his court. But he knew the real feelings uf the Greek people, who were attached by tradition and sympathy with the western powers of Europe, and he never dared to open- ly expound his pro-German convic- tions, He did his best, on the con- trary, to conceal’ them, speaking al- ways about his friendship for the allies, and trying to convey the im- pression that his attitude was that of benevolent neutrality. “The Greek people had a real af- fection for ‘their king and had con- fidence in his word, which accounts for the fact that his pseudo-policy had many supporters, “Fi@ally certain acts of the king's entourage created a suspicion in the minds of the people and they backed Mr. Venizelos in his Saloniki move- , ment, which brought Greece frankly and loyally into the war. Today the real state of affairs as regards the court has becn :exposed. The abdi- cation of King Constantine without bloodshed or an uprising of the peo- ple indicates the absence of any or- ganized pro-German feeling, al- though certain of the political op- ponents of Venizelos are using the argument that there are still Ger- man propagandists in the country. “King Alexander is in perfect ac- cord with his people and with the government, and his good faith is unquestionend. Greece will now use every effort aid the common cause.” to A Family Reunion. It was a happy family reunion that was held at the home of Mr, and Mrs. J. C. Vantrees, on-South Dela- ware street Sunday, October 7, Har- ry Vantrees and wife, Clyde Vantrees wife, and little son, and Ray Van- trees, of Kansas City, and Mrs. Luth- Angel, of Tarkio, children of Mr. and Mrs. Vantrees were present as was Mrs. W. S. Vantrees and son, Gaylord, and daughter, Miss Gladys, Mr. and Mrs. C. Nantrces and Mr, and Mrs. Artie Fox. Harry Vantrees was Aare last Wednesday and brought his bride to Butler to meet his parents and rela- tives. Ray, the youngest son, ex- pects to leave this week for Camp Funston, where he will join the na- tional army, and the occasion was somewhat in the nature of a farewell to him. Dr. Allen Receives Orders. Dr. Harry Allen, wife and_ little son arrived here Sunday from Mays- burg, Mrs. Allen and baby remaining with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. £. Hoover, and Dr. Allen returning to Maysburg to make final arrange- ments to enter the U. S. army. Dr. Allen is a son of Dr, and Mrs. W, H. Aiién of this city and was recentty commissioned as a lieutenant in the Medical corps. He yseceived a tele- graphic order Saturday evening from Surgeon-General Gorgas, at Wash- ington, to await orders from the adjutant general for active service, which means that he will go to France. Dr. Allen has had army ex- perience, serving five years in the Philippines and his friends anticipate his early promotion, for he has a splendid army record.—Rich Hill Re- view. Did Somebody Steal Light? The prison board that has been spending some time investigating al- leged irregularities at the Missouri penitentiary, turned up a new one last week. Evidence has been found that some one tapped the electric light wire leading from the penitentiary to some of the other state buildings and stole somé of the state’s juice. Mem- bers of the board said that _ they would demand pay for the current used, provided they can prove just who was the beneficiary. The railroads of the couritry have moved to date 720,000 soldiers from their homes to army training camps or embarkation points, according to an announcement issued by the Rail- roads’ War Board. The announce- . |ment was made just as the third in- ‘crement of the National Draft Army forces were to start for the 16 can- tonments. The number of men handled in these various troop-move- ments made it the largest task ever undertaken by the railroads‘ of the country in the transportation of sol-