The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, October 11, 1917, Page 6

| |New War Tax.Levies as Made by|' Senate and House. Washington, Oct. 6—The war rev- KAISER'S FOURTH ARMY Man Power of Germany Now is Near ave SHATTERED a its Dregs, About 6,800,000. . Second Issue Now Being Sold. Can} vv. ine French Armies in the LIBERTY BONDS The Walton Trust Company | OF BUTLER . A ‘ , it nihilates Whole A ; ba ‘ment la Leecelt Field, Sept. 28—Germany today has Aeig's bi pe ~~ “i enue bill, as finally agreed on by the ee 6,800,000 ‘men as the “human mater- “Troops. house and’ senate conferees provides: for the raising of approximately $2,- 606,320,000, as follows: 0 | $ 84 The second issue of Liberty Loan|ial” with which to enforce her de- Bonds will be of two kinds, regis-| mand for “a place in the sun.” © tered and coupon. This is the “man power” that re- The registered bonds will be regis-|mains out of a total of 14,000,007 it y e its tered at the Treasury in the names of|men who have figured on the German| Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria, | Distilled spirits . _ their owners and will be of the de-| military lists and passed through the} has been almost completely shattered Rectified spirits .., «nominations of $50, $100, $500, $1,000,|hands of Germany’s military arbiters. |by the savage British thrusts in the] Fermented liquor: $5,000, $10,000 and $100,000. Checks| Of the 6,800,000 approximately 5,-| battle of Flanders. Wines, ete.'...8.. 2.4.5 for the interest on these bonds will] 500,000 are actually at.the front an‘}| Whole army corps weré’ practically | Soft drinks, sirups, etc...” annihilated by: the great. drive of|Cigars .. London, Oct. 6.—The fourth Ge man army, composed of the kaiser's} Income tax ..... crack regiments and commanded by | Excess profit: vice, is splendid endorsement of the agreeable and satisfactory rela- 14,000,009: tions maintained with patrons. 10,000,000, : e we be mailed from the Treasury to the| 600,000 more are in reserve, The re- the of | Ci ‘ “e owner s each semi-annual-interest | maining 700,000 constitute one of the] Thursday when Field Marshal Haig] Cigarettes + 20,000,000 : : i date. greatest tragedies of the war. They, digred oe a the ate of the ‘ee aie + 25,080,000 Let your money earn while you ~We pay interest at the- The coupon bonds will be payable}are the boy soldiers of the classes of} salient until it now bites. six miles) Snutt ...; : 1,500,000 of cent per annum on Time cits. ‘ to bearer and will have coupons at-|1919 and 1920. They constitute the| deep into the German front. : Cigarette papers te 200,000 rare cr abet FS Deposit i 5 ' tached for the interest. They will be/only resource of “human materiaf’; German counter attacks have failed| Freight transportation . 77,500,009 , B 2 wee ‘ i to shake the British grip on the Pass-| Express and parcel post. chandacle ridge and the number of] Passenger transportation German prisoners has been increased] Pipe lines ........ to about 5,000, ‘} Seats and berths. Gigantic armies were engaged in| Telegraph and telephon this: great life and death struggle in| messages ............. Belgium. It is estimated that Field| Insurance policies (new) 5,000,000 Marshal Haig must have used close| Automobiles (sale of).. 40,000,000 to a quarter:of a million men when] Musical instruments his troops. drove forward on Thurs-| (sale of) ...........6. 4,300,009 day, and thousands of big guns were| Motion picture films..... 3,000,000 in action. oe Jewelry (sale by manu- upon which Germany has to draw. They must fill up losses in the Ger- man army which with no major al- lied offensives in’ progress normally total from 70,000 to 80,000 monthly. To date, however, the German Gen- cral Staff has not yet succeeded in imposing on the German people its right to seize these youths before they are 18. Therefore this last drop of poten- tial German manhood’ cannot pa in denominations of $50, $100, $500, $1,00, $5,000, and $10,000, The cou- pons cam be cashed like a Govern- ment check at any bank, ra The coupon bonds of this loan will i have only four coupons attached, rep- hy iesenting the semi-annual interest tg jor two years, Between November 15, (gly, and May 15, 1920, the hold- ers of coupon bonds must exchange their bonds for néw bonds having full sets of coupons. These temporary WE INVITE YOUR PATRONAGE Capital and Surplus over - - $400,000.00 front which means ih: possession of} Admissions the German U-boat b:ses on the Bel-|}Club dues ... 50,000,000 can be purchased by filling out an ap-|the United Press to-day to detail this ne eee 1,200,000 plication blank made on the form|history of Germany's mobilization prescribed by the Secretary of the | efforts. Treasury, which can be obtained] Before the war the German army from anj*@gsnk or Liberty Loan com- contained 51 divisions of 870,000 men. ‘| mittee, and sending it or having it] Mobilization at the declaration of i sent tu the: Treasury of whe United] war of all who had previous military States or any Federal Reserve Bank] training brought the total of 4,500,000. bonds are issued because the work of|into the army except in small lots, as| German reserves and reinforce-| facturer) .... 4§00p00 |i T wei: ke tn ene hee ; Le Ve | engraving so many bonds with so|the boys attain the age of 18. ments have been hurried to the front,| Sporting goods . ve 1,200,000 r 5 large a number of coupons attached! The figures cited herewith are bas-|and it was reported from Amsterdam| Pleasure boats .. On §00,000,| || DUVALL-PERGIVAL TRUST C0 I can not be completed within a rea-|ed upon the highest and most accu-|today that the kaiser would go to the| Perfumes and cosmetics. 1,900,000 ; e ~~ sonable time for delivery. rate sources of information. From] Belgian front to inspire his men to},Proprietary medicines .. 3,000,000 | |; > Bonds of the Second Liberty Loan|this same source it is possible -for!imore desperate defense of the battle|Cameras ..... ? Ris 750,000 | |; CAPITAL and SURPLUS, $250,000 1 - FARMERS BANK BUILDING, BUTLER, MO. gian coast. -|Schedule A, including | uy) i ; The German losses were treménd-| playing cards .. ++ 30,000,000 | | ARM ¢ have money to loan on real estate at a low rate ous, especially around. Poelcapelle| War estate tax. ++ | §,000,000 | F LOANS of interest with privilege to pay at any time. and Joist farm, where ‘the fighting} Virgin Island products.. 20,000 | |! : was heaviest. On the bodies of dead| Firs: class mail matter. 60,000,000 | ABSTRACTS PIL wig aa po pls ocdar ily German officers were found orders to | Second class acl matter 14,000,000 and examine and perfect titles to same. 3 4 or branch accompanied by the pay-| But these were. insufficient. The} hold these positions or die trying. i ment of 2 per cent of the amount oi| Ersatz reserve, 800,000 strong, was| At Joist farm the Germans held on, Total ............$2,606,320,000 | || = We will loan your idle money for you, gecuring bonds applied for. mobilized of men whose physical|although the British swept by them . Hl INVESTMENTS you reasonable interest on good security. We pay | A purchaser may pay im full for his| condition was a trifle under normal]on both sides, Vicious fighting is H A interest on time deposits. at } bonds at the time of making his ap-|army standard. Then the class of]also in progress for the possession 9£ istory of Khaki. | 4 ¥ plication or, if he so prefers, he can] 1914 was called out—450,000 men,| Poelcapelle, which lies on the Wes:-| \hat is the origin of khaki? To|]/ WV. F. DUVALL, President, J. B. DUVALL, Vice-President, ern slope of Passchandaele ridge,| whom are we indebted for it? about two miles east of Langemarck.| J+ was first adopted in British In- A detailed official report states| dia in 1848, by Sir Harry Burnett |!— = aEEaEEEEEEEEEEieenieee a eee pete icapuirea iy the Lumsden, who had been asked to = rive—Broodseinde, eutal, oorc- ip i in- enhoeck, Polderhoek, | Molenares- Plicencatacd pa oon ar dn CONGRESS SPENT §17,000,000,000 aes ee, a eee i on the northwestern frontier, of Special Session, in Addition, Author- M ndia, The cloth used was a light izes Contracts for Nearly before the whole remainder of the/ cotton drill, as suited the climate of $2 000, 1 ridge must automatically crumble be-| Hindustan, and took its name from isa armérs all fore the British drive. They are! native term, “khaki,” which means| Washington, D. C., Oct. 5.—Since 5 Zennebeke, Gheluvelt and part 2flin the Urdu language “duty,” being|Congress convened in its extraordi- f ne Polygon wood. Haig will resume his] derived from “khaki” or dust. Thus|nary war session last April and up to BUTLER, MO. offensive shortly in order to place! the term applied to the color of the| today it has placed at the disposal of |] himself in complete possession of all} cloth rather than -to the materiai,|the administration 17 billions of dol- sl: the dominating heights before the} Though the dictionary tells us it is|lars and has authorized contracts for —- weather compels both sides to go in-| ,onounced kaykee by the native, the| almost two and a half billions’ more. ‘o winter quarters. English have given it to us as khar-| Most of the money was for war Capital $50,000-00 of the installment} who became 20 years old in that 2 per cent on applica-| year. . tion, 18 per ‘cent on November 15,] The 1915 call for the first line of 1917, go per cent on December 15,] the landstram yielded 1,100,000 men; i917, and the remaining go per cent] the 1915 class another 450,000; a on January 15, 1918. special call in September for the re- Although so far as the Government}mainder of the, landstrum, — 130,000, | is concerned the purchase price for}and an advance call for the 1916 bonds must be paid as above, nearly | class, 450,000. Still more men were : every bank in the country will make} wanted; therefore Germany combed : arrangements by which Liberty Loan|out 300,000. more by stringent exami- i Bonds can be paid on an installment|nation of those previously exempted. plan providing for weekly or monthly| In 1916 the 1917 class was called payments, and a great many employ-|out carly—4s50,000 boys 18 and 19 ers will make the same arrangements | years old. for their employees, p Another combing’ process added Payment can be made to the Treas-| 300,000 more, and finally in Novem- ury Department or to any one of the|ber the 1918 class was called out— take advant plan and pi Arthur Duvall, Treasurer. W. D. Yates, Title Examiner. Federal Reserve Banks, but pur-|another 450,000. kee, and this is the correct pronun-| Purposes, including seven billions for t chasers are urged to make their pay-| In 1917 the demand for human ma- ciation.“ g loans to the Allies, Surplus.... 50,000.00 ‘’ ments to the banks or other agencies |terial was still more pressing. An- Busy at Camp Doniphan. Having been approved, the use off The appropriation _ committees,|} _ 1 wae . " with whom they placed their sub-]other squeezing process found 150,000 tee i the cloth spread from the. guides to| through their chairmen, Senator Mar- Undv. Prof. 10,000.00 , scriptions, more men, draining the empire of| According to letters received from] thers inthe Indian army; and it was|tit and Representative Fitzgerald, pe Aust ied we) are CUR at! wort in the Sepoy mutiny of 1857 by| prepared the figures made public to- mo any biae- at at camped oe eth the English troops. - In the Boer war| day, coupling them with the declara- : ll al c © NOt) 1899-1902, khaki .was adopted as the| tion that Congress had done its work Pes ne ver ate ae Gah sritish service uniform and so worn| iti furnishing money for war very ef- MONEY is STORED ENERGY C Hees by all English and colonial troops in| fectively. ; ns nae me Pete st speenaed eh Airica. But as.cotton was not warra| Fitzgerald announced that he could : Wh ate Oy ee Wy & oy enough for the African highlanders,|ot estimate the appropriations of \ Ss : Patch eines So that one) uniforms of the same kind were made| the next session of Congress for has to cat dirt half the time, it is 80] ,¢ serge and the term khaki thus in-| war expenditures until the various|{ Come in and get a Savings Bank It is hoped that on or about Oc-]every man who by any stretch of tober 10, 1917, a supply of these new] medical inspection could be regarded bonds ready for immediate delivery | as fit for military service. There re- to subscribers in amounts not in ex-|mained no other source except the cess of $1,000 to any one subscriber] boys taken as soon as they were 18. will be in the hands of the several Not before 1918 can the German Federal Reserve Banks, to be deliv-| staff begin incorporating the 1021 ered to subscribers who pay in full.| class—and then only as fast as they Plans are also being perfected where: | become 18. At least 500,000 fit men saath scis> Shtivince iedarnicnouinesnicn by banks all over the country can|are needed far indispensible i and’ hot that it is smothering ‘ ni | : a § sible indus- ering. |. é nmen lepartm: bs i obtain these bonds for prompt deliv-] trial and civil service behind the lines,| The ground is just.as soft as the lime- pres Ve it ey ra sto thelr etthoates Apecogetien SEE eee +4 Kies auierHibere for amounts not] The utterly unfit total 2,800,000, cate ee i Ailes Souny and it al-/ tne climate of. Cuba and the Philip-| “It will depend,” he said, “to a i ieee aiff eer ‘ a ook a pile driver to drive tent) ines —Ex, e very considerable extent upon the — fet i difterences between the . ; number of men in the military forces vonds of the iirst issue and the bonds| GERMANY'S PRESENT MAN | The camp, which comprises 62,000 ey of the United States, It would bed See of the second issue of the Liberty POWER. acres, is in the shape of. a big horse- - beta rash man who would undertake at We pay Interest on nes Loan are (1) they run for only 25| Soldiers at the front or in shoe, with a fine rock road, twenty| If you desire freedom from the bur- this time to forecast whether it would Deposits. " years instead of 30, and may be re-| cantonments ...............5)$00,000 miles long, around the edge. The} dens of everlasting debt, it will pay|be necessary to call an additional Missouri troops are camped near a} you to let.us show you a plan where-| al bie. DOps n 3 . ,000 OF 1,000,000 2,000,000 big hill, which is called’ a mountain] by it can be-done. It means low penne the RuEaeE Shea ae in that country, and on the opposite | cost, with the most liberal tre-pay-|ready called will be sufficient.” 3 side of the hill is stationed the ar-| ment’ privileges. No renewals, with |: : Schoolboard Tells Girls How to | . LIST MISSOURIAN’S WAR Dress. deemed by the Government in to] Soldiers at depots constitut- years after date instead of 15; (2)] ing the reserve............. they bear 4 per cent interest instead | Classes of 1919 and 1920, of 3 1-2 per cent; (3) they are liable| still unincorporated........ to surtaxes and excess-profits . and tillery, which uses the hill as a back|the attending .cost, that come peri+ war-profits taxes (except as to the Totalvicaeiiataeas 6800,000| StOP for target practice. Every} odically, arid some times raise in DEEDS interest on $5,000 in the hands of any ees ns branch of army service is represent-| rates. It costs nothing to investi- F holder); (4) allotment may be made .ed at Camp Doniphan and one can|gate;. your own ‘inter:st - should] We notice in the Neosho papers| @ geate Committee on Historieat to the extent of half of the over-sub- HOW GERMANY HAS LOST. |look up any time and see a big bal-| prompt you do the best that you can.| that a' resolution has been adopted by Service Named. scription; and (5) the installment MAN POWER. . |loon sailing over or a flying machine| We invite a full investigation, the board of education at -that place plan of payment is slightly different. cutting circles through the clouds. alas Canterburys, |which’ requires the school girls to| Jefferson City, Oct. 3—The state ; castialities The men are being. drilled ia alb kinds | 36-tf Butler, Mo.| wear during school hours, woolen or| council of defense today appointed + Wounded ander Sectaehec of modern warfare and are frequent- 3 —_——_——_- .[eotton: skists, with cotton or lineti| the following committee on “histori- j but not yet capable of ly called out in the night to. repel Chile Also Ousts Von Luxburg. blouses or middies, cotton or lisie| cal, ‘service:” Jonas Viles of the Fs L | M k t . her . fan attack of ithe Huns, They gO ie . hose, and: low heeled shoes. The res-| state university, chairman; E. C. Mc- \< 0ca arke) uotations fe stttesscsssss++ 300,009! cver the top,” repel the “invadess,’| Buenos Aires, Oct. 6—Count voin]olution was passed with a. view of|Luse of the Warrensburg Normal, E. of 5 aerman reservists in foreign and then go back to bed to catch a| |_uxburg, formér German charge d’af-| reducing the high cost of living and|C.. Griffith of William Jéwell Col- countries (50,000 in the little.sleep for the: next. day’s hard| {aires to Argentina, who was given| preventing. many worthy girls from|lege and R. J. Kerner, secretary of 2 Losses in the army through - Unnited States alone).......200,000] drilling. But them seem: to like the|his passports for sending unneutral|being deprived of the advantages of|the state universi SOFT WHEAT FLOUR cetnens physically incapa- work and all are enjoying good: health | messages through the Swedish ‘lega-| public schools on account of inability} This jomeiine. will record all Royaliper Cwtssainn. «$6.00 | |: Sy oP atk La Nseiee and. able to eat three big meals. per| ‘ion, has been declared persona non|to’ dress in costly attire.. This is one| deeds of note performed by any Mis- ies aac Gan. 5 ne in indispensible day.” Co. B is.to be made a part of }gtata to Chile by the Chilean gov-|of the most sensible nevements we|sourians in the present war. No mat- : : industri€s 61... 2.1.0.5... a machine gun company and it is un-| ernment. Bra have heard* of lately amd a great/ter whether the Missouri soldier is a ose per Cwt.. ? : derstood that Captain Caruthers will| The Germati diplomat today is on|many other districts might better the| commanding general or a private, if War Flour ... Total .....0.sccceeeee ee ce 7,100,003/be transferred to the depot brigade,|# tug en route to Colonia, Uruguay, | conditions o€ their schoels by 'follow-|he performs some noteworthy ser- where he wilt-be used in drilling a re-| having been escorted to the delta-oZ/ing Neosho's - example:—Wheaton | vic serve army, a duty which his long|the Parasga by representatives of the | Journa| ; service in the National Guard. and. the| Chilean government. | ¢ in the war the committee wiil Graham Flour per Sack e due notice thereof. All flour 20c per Cwt. less in 500 ||AN EASY WAY TO REDUCE pound lots either one brand o= FLESH regular army make him peculiarly| “It is presumed that the German assorted in one delivery or on : qualified. According to the present| will embark: for Europe at Monte- : deposit. Drink Hot Water and Take Tassco.| plans Col. Raupp will command. a de-| video. pot regiment. : . r It is riot known how long the boys| y. s. PATROL SHIP FOUNDERED A stay at that camp, but they hope ; pe: that they will get-out early in the| Detsils Lacking of Incideit Which spring, as they are all anxious totry| - Occurred 4 European’; ' Waters. conclusions with the Boches. and show them just what kind of a fight-} >= : e ing man ‘the United States can pro-| .Washington, Oct. 6—An American duce. . patrol ship. foundered: in European waters on the morning of. October 4 ‘ while on duty. The Navy Depart- you are down to the number of Buy Bond to Help Win. ment has no information of the cause pounds you wish to weigh. Todo ‘ofthe loss of the ship ‘and has or|i° much flesh is undesirable, as most in| dered ‘an investigation. - wae quite stout people will readily admit, and it detracts from one’s good ap-| you to pour out your money not at| of the: inciden 1 was ‘reparted pearance; ‘makes one ‘clumsy and|the feet of the God of War, but into S borane Suber belay short of breath. = A a q j There isn’t any reason why anyone should be 60 stout, when there's this Haven't you ‘often wished for a medicine td reduce your flesh? PURIFIED CORN MEAL Something that’ does not require diet- ing or calisthenics? Well, right here Small Sacks .... you have it in 5-grain tassco tablets, Large Sacks: ...: which you may secure at your druz- gist’s. They are pleasant to take, perfectly harmless and cause no_re- strictions of habit or eating ,and re- duce the flesh, little by little, until Fowler Serum