The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, October 25, 1917, Page 1

\N ele | t NUMBEF 2 VOL. XXXX. BUTLER, M!SSGURI, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1917. = stated that the council had under con-| Liberty Bonds Received. } U. S. TRANSPORT DOWN whether it was a day | and did not the necessary machinery ‘at its own COMMERCIAL CLUB MEETING expense. There is always a big de-| sideration the matter of extending the j 7 lesa : se or night attack. An accurate list of mand for cheese and the proposition] sewer system of the city and wanted rhe Missouri State Bank has re) Antilles, Homeward Bound From|the missing cannot be issued until looked so good that the Club gave it| the opinion of the Club as to the de- | ceived from the Federal Reserve! France, Struck Amidships by General Pershing reports the names Much Business Transacted at Meet- } ing at The Inn. The Butler Commercial Club met at The Inn on Monday: evening for the regular semi-monthly meeting, with 45 members present, and trans- acted considerable business of im- portance to the Club as well as to the community at large. A letter from Harold S. Butter- heim, director of the national cam- paign for the War Camp Community Recreation Fund, was.read, and on motion the president was instructed to appoint a committe of three to It} Bank its allotment of 3 1-2 per cent | Liberty Loan Bonds issued under date of June 15, 1917. P| The fonds received are in denom- inations of $50.00, $100.00 and $500.00. They are handsomely engraved, and to each bond is attached sixty cou- pons for semi-annual interest. The Bank purchased Bonds far in excess of the amount subscribed for by its patrons in order to have them to sell to those who might later de- cide to buy. Every loyal American should buy Liberty Bonds to the ex- tent of his ability, and thus help our government finance its part of the German Torpedo, Sank in I of the army men on the vessel and Five Minutes. the list of the merchant crew. Secretary Daniels authorized following announcement; “The department is in receipt of a communication from Vice Admiral sims. which states that the steamship Antilles, an army transport, was tor- pedoed on October 17 while return- ing to this country from a foreign service, This vessel was under con- voy of American patrol vessles at the time. “The torpedo which struck the An- tilles was not seen, nor was the sub- marine which fired it. The torpedo sirability of such improvement. was unanimously voted that the im- provement is sorely needed and should be made as soon as possible. The improvement would be at the cost of property owners. After the payment of a number of small bills the Club adjourned. immediate and hearty endorsement. To aid in the work the committee on agriculture was increased to six mem- bers. C.-H. Letton’ of the Home Produce Company gave figures in re- gard to the price of cream and milk for the past year, and showed the profit of delivering milk to a cheese factory over making it into butter. Several members of the Club spoke on the subject, and all endorsed the project and agreed t oassist it in ev- ery way possible. Mr. Letton stated that it was possible to install the ma- chinery and get to work early in the’ the Washington, Oct. 19—The Ameri- can army transport Antilles, home- ward bound under convoy, was tor- pedoed and sunk by a German sub- marine in the war zone Wednesday. About seventy men are missing and probably lost. All the army and navy officers aboard and the ship’s master were among the 167 survivors. The miss- ing are members of the crew, three civilian engineers, some enlisted men ;of the navy, and seventeen of thirty- INJURED IN A RUNAWAY Clabe Stuckey Badly Hurt Trying to Stop a Runaway Team. Monday about noon C. Stuckey d the ship sank within five covering and report take up the matter and organize/coming year. drove his team up in front of the of- Bieal word war Kchresmeal eramirercrnina: aHamermronl (a teams for the soliciting of funds for! A, H, Culver, the retiring secre-' fice of the Wells Fargo Express com- The Liberty Loan is a thing of in-|V@fious reasons, Neither the sub- hit abreast of the engine room bulk- the activity. The quota assigned toltary, submitted a el y |. $a 4 pany, in the Opera House block and terest to every citizen of the United | Marine nor the torpedo were seen One hundred sixty- minutes. | Butler for this fund is $320, and inj three years of his incumbency of the! got out of the wagon and went into and the transport, hit scaarely amid- States, and the Missouri State Bank} | view of the fact that Butler has fur-| office, which was referred to the atd- the Office, leaving his team_ un- aeee ships, sank’ in five minutes. seven persons out of about 237 on H e company to the army, | enteritis an) invitation! to) every man) HSER re - cea. the firet in| board the Antilles were saved. - nished a whole company Y, iting committee. hitched, They became frightened at oan andvenildiin: thisecounty. to This tragedy of the sea, the first in CSTE GeUEaT oS ae ERTS TTS call ut the bank and see some of the which an American ship engaged in war duty has been lost, is the first onds whether or not. they wish to < i ’ buy. a1t{Of its magnitude to bring home to 'the people of the United States the as well as a large number of boys to the navy and other branches of the national service, it was thought that we should experience little trouble in raising our quota. A, H. Culver suggested that there: something and started to run, Mr. are.more than fifty men in Butler! Stuckey ran out of the express of- who should be members of the Com-, fice and tried to head them off, Just mercial Club, and he was instructed | as the team reached the corner he “All the naval officers and officers of the army, who were on board the ship at the time, were saved, as were the officers of the ship, with the ex- succeeded in getting in front of them {rigors of the war in which they have W. H. “Coin” Harvey, president of to devise ways and means for induc- A F Some Pumpkins. ing them to send in -their applica- when they shied and slipped on the | engaged against Germany. It carries ception of the following: Walker, third engineer officer; Boyle, junior the Ozarks Trail Association, noti-| tions, }pavement, one of the horses falling} -B. 1’. Powell, the up-to-date farmer|the largest casualty list of the war f ‘ h r fied the Club that he would be in But-| Jesse 1, Smith, cashier of the Mis-|on him and’ badly crushing him. of Summit, has on exhibition at the! of American lives, and marks the|¢"#ineer officer, and O'Rourke, jun- ler on Friday evening, November 2,} sourj State Bank, stated that a mect-| Besides several bad bruises he stf-|,Peoples Bank in this city three of|first success of German submarine |!" cngimeer officer. and asked that some one familiar with the road and rod conditions in He] about the finest pumpkins that have| attacks on American transports, been shown in Butler for some time. } fered a badly fractured jaw bone. ing of Bates county bankers was held jwas taken to the apartments of Mr. Monday afternoon to plan for a drive That the loss of life was not great- Officials are confident that those who survived owe their lives to the Bates county meet him at Spruce or] for the sale of Liberty Bonds. Each/and Mrs. Chas. Fisk in the Opera! They are big luscious looking vege-jcr is due to the safeguards with careful attention given by the Navy some other point east of Butler on}bank appointed three men to push| House block, a physician summoned} tables and wotid supply the “fillin” | which the navy has surrounded the Department to the eqnippins of the afternoon of that day. The mat-| the sale of the bonds, which must!and his hurts bound up. Later in| for many a pie. With the pumpkins| transport service and the quick res- transports with life-boats and life ter was referred to W. F. Duvall,|close this week. Mr. Smith urged/the day he was taken to. his home,} Mr. lowell has on exhibition a large/ cue work of the convoying ships. ralts: chairman of the good roads commit- will Secretary Daniels announced ter tonight in a statement ba that is something out of the} It is a yellow | disi every member of the Club who had/ where, at last reports, he was getting | squa-h, the sed It is a fixed rule that enough boats and rafts shall be carried to afford a tee. Mr. Harvey and others not already done so to buy a bondjalong very well, and barring unex-| ordinary. pinkish ? make a tour over parts of Southeast before Saturday night. pected complications will soon be out} color and Mr. Powell says that it is|upon a brief dispatch from Vice-Ad- place for every man aboard, even Kansas and Southwest’ Missouri the again. of a very fine flavor. few detaifs|tMough the ship keel over and put latter part of October and the first of November and will ‘reach Butler on ‘Friday afternoon, November 2. An invitation was extended to Hon, Sam A. Clark of Carrollton, Missouri, Western representative of -the Na- tional Industrial Conservation Move- ment, to be the guest of the Club at the annual banquet to be held on the second Tuesday evening in January, 1918. E, B. Silvers from the city council {miral Sims, which gave | | SAM’L LEVY MERCANTILE COMPANY’S half her boats out of commission, A majority of the officers, who would comment, thought the trans- port and her convoying patrols had run dir y over a lurking submarine which them coming, calculated the distance and launched her deadly torpedo without ever showing more than her periscope. They regard ‘t as probable that the U-boat com- mander picked his place, lay in wait Several communications, from the a below the surface until his, miecro- Clover Button Company of Musca- : phones told him the patrols had * passed and the transport was upon ae tine, Jowa, were’ read and ordered , placed on file, and the proposition of the company for the estublishment ’of a factory in Butler was discussed’at some length. The proposition of the company was referred to the com- mittee on manufactures, with in- structions to correspond with the button company at once. The question of arranging for the entertainment of former President W. H. Taft on the occasion of his visit to this city gn October 5, was discussed and a committee consisting committee saw fit. “In almost every dunce wig of this store are things for cold weather, and everything here is Good, and priced savingly. It will pay you well to do your trad- ing in this big store. eo himg.then shot his periscope above the water only long enough to sight und fire before he ducked back to safety. Any attempt to locate the submar- ine probably was made impossible by the necessity of rescuing the — sur- vivors, The vessel must have been virtually torn in half by the explos- ion to have gone down in the time she did. Springfield, Mo, Oct. 19.-—J. W. October and sot his preparatory cof Dr. T. W. Arnold, Major F. H. COTTON BLANKETS, EXTRA LARGE AND 1 75 KUPPENHEIMER ALL WOOL SUITS FOR MEN, ALL |/Ilont, one of the sailors reported lost Crowell and A, H. Culver were ap- GOOD WEIGHT, PRICED SPECIAL ........ . LATEST MAKES AND $20, $27. 50 Be Tai tea Taetee anitiiets pos fo a He pele MATERIALS................ Tmil@OcEE GL M@URtAIH Grove, Mos ainment a! recep! ion ¢ 4 WOMEN’S SWEATERS, ALL WOOL Aeeneces any sort of an entertainment that the AS SG RO HIET el ae $3.50, 7.50 © sryYLeptus 17 00 Me leniigiedeae Indianapolis dat The committee having - in charge the matter of the county band contest on the afternoon of Monday, Novem- ber. 5, reported progress, with five bands already entered. Money enough to pay all prizes and all ex- penses had been collected Several letters from Congressman PLAID WOOLNAP BLANKETS, SOFT AND + WARM, WITHOUT BEING ‘HEAVY Teneiane $3.50 2.48 ALL WOOL TRENCH AND REGULAR MADE OVERCOATS...........00. cece eee nes LAKESIDE EXTRA GRADE COTTON BLANKETS, 70x80, GREY, TAN AND WHITE.. BOYS’ KNICKERBOCKER BUTTS cis cr mimes an nene hat 4. 00, 8. 00 training at the Great ing Station. Only a week ago Hunt wrote his father a long letter in which he de- seribed his trips to and from lrance on an American transport. When told tonight that his son was among the missing, Mr. Hunt took the news Lakes Train- ; C. C. Dickinson, concerning the pro- p BOYS’ OVERCOATS, TRENCH AND HALF : : tests of the Club in regard to the in- OUTING PETTICOATS, REGULAR AND ” 35c¢ BELT, CONVERTIBLE COLLAR............ $4, $10 cll F : ferior quality of material going into OUT SIZE 9 , _ “if my son had to die, 1 am glad the new postoffice building were read CHILDREN’S OVERCOATS, ania $6 50 ares ale serving his country, ee ores pes Noa ee A a OUTING GOWNS, PLAIN WHITE AND $1 25 (LU ETERS TA SST ELSES aces sortie ’ r Young Hunt $21 years of age ickinson stated that he had file ie _Wwas 21 : ‘ peat FANCY, EXTRA HEAVY GRADE............. e MEN’S HEAVY FLEECED | . Prairie City, the olde: protests of the Club with the Super- vising Architect of the Treasury at Washington City. WNIQONSUITS iirc certs eee eee le neni Hh 1.25 WOMEN’S UNION SUITS, ATHENA MADE Must be Prepared for Disaster. Ww ashin®on, Oct. 20.—Naval offi- Fred I. Glenn of the North Side GUARANTEED NOT TO SHRINK.... SUPERIOR, FINE RIBBED, HEAVY cial sounded warnings today that Variety Store, W. H: Charters of ‘ : UNIONSUITS, BLEACHED AND UNBLEACHED.. 1.50 lithe American people must be pre- W. C. vared for the announcement of dis Sree ek esintendent of the con.||. MISSES UNION SUITS, ALL SIZES, 8 5 l CORDUROY PANTS, JACK RABBIT BRAND, REGULAR CUT) 8! for the announcement of is: struction of the new postoffice build- RECOMMENDED FOR WEAR AND FIT Cc, AND PEG, DARK AND 2 50 A. reve) atany time. Many times troop ships ing, were elected members of the MIB EA Dias a fis ciaiiscaseseeeaeesit e 9 e thave been ai ked. In) most in- Club. 'D KN: ‘APS, . stances, however, no announcement E. B. Silvers made a statement to Monee: Wak oer p Pigg Aiheael 50¢ 75¢ BOYS’ FINE RIBBED AND HEAVY FLEECED 75 l has been made. the Club in regard to the status of 9 NIONSUITS, ECRU AND GREY.......... ‘ Cc, $ | ‘Transports carrying troops to -the case pending againt the Missouri . | France and returning to this country Pacific Railway Company before the CRIB BLANKETS, WHITE, BLUE | BOYS’ CAPS, WORSTED 50 have seen torpedoes go dangerously State Board of Public Utilities for a AND PINK FANCY.............0ccceeeee eves es eaneanee ae BND CASHMERE 56.030. 0secisscseccssscccsecovcese Cc close to their bows, but the one sent change in time of trains, a rehearing of which is to be held at Jefferson City October 26. He said that he had no personal interest in the matter, but was willing to go to Jefferson City and attend the hearing if it was the desire of the Club. On motion he was instructed to appear before the Board. Major F. H. Crowell, representing the Home Produce Company, stated that it was the desire of his company to ‘establish a cheese factory in But- ler if they could secure the mioral sup- port of the Club. They did not ask a bonus of any kind, but did want all the help the Club could give them. He stated that there are only four cheese factories in the entire state of Missouri and that two of them are focated Bates county. ne is at in the state, Our Ladies’ Ready-to-Wear Department - OFFERS YOU Latest { Newest. {| Lowest Styles | Materials | Prices Ladies’ Suits ranging in price from $15 to $35.. Ladies’ and Misses’ Coats ranging in price from $5 to $50. Greatest Selection amuel Levy Mercantile Co. AW So At at the Antilles was the first to strike. Usually the submarine was not seen, although the convoying vessels al- ways made «the most thorough search. Every precaution is being taken to safeguard the troop carrying vessels, but they are constantly in danger and the destruction of onue of them any- way would not greatly surprise naval authorities. American Aviator Brings Down His 13th Enemy Plane. Paris, Oct. 18.—Lieut. Raoul Luf- bury of Wallingford, Conn., member of the Franco-American Flying Corps, who has scored many vic- tories, and recently was cited in French Army orders as an “incom- parable pilot,” is said by The Herald to have brought down his thirteenth enemy machine. Eleven German airplanes were shot down by the French yesterday or driven to earth in the German lines in.a damaged condition, the War Office reports. Nancy was again attacked, this time by .a squadron of 30 ‘German machines.