The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, November 1, 1917, Page 8

TO. RECEIVE MR. TAFT . The Commercial Club Making Ar- “rangements to Entertain the Distinguished Visitor. The reception committee of the Butler Commercial Club, consisting * Summit Happenings. Frank Norton and wifeyspent Sun- day in town. Everett Grant and family Sunday with Mr, Charles Grant. Mr. Herman Seelinger -and Mr. Norton are, the last ones to thresh. spent of John W. Coleman, Walton, Major F. H. Crowell, Mayor O. A. Heinlein, Dr. T. W. Arnold and A. H. Culver, met at the office of-the Denton-Coleman Investment ; Company Tuesday evening and or- | ganized by-the election of John W. | Coleman as chairman and Dr. T. W.} Arnold as secretary. After organization committee the proceeded to arrange a plan for the | reception and ent sinment of Fe mer President William Howard Taft, who will bea guest of the Commer- cial Club on the occasion of his visit to Butler on Monday, November 5. A. H. Culver was chosen as mar- shal of the day, with power to form the parade and fix the places of the} various bands and cars. Mr, Culver then. outlined the pro-| cession about as follows: All the bands to march as one band to the | ee WILLIAM H. TAFT. Mrs, Wm, E-} was called to treat her. Rankins sale came off Mon- Things brought a very good Mulkey Mrs. day. price, The Fry District are building a new school house. | Mrs. Catherine Bartley died at her ‘home Friday morning. She was quite old, A kind and _good lady. | Two daughters are left at home jalone, They have the sympathy of fall the neighbors. The funeral was | | held at thevhome Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell came Sun- | day from Odesga to attend Mrs, John }Rankins sale. Mrs. Mitchell is Mr. | Rankin’ s sister. J. R. Welch and wife have gone to We thought them | house’ keeping in Butler. we were going to have | neighbors. . f | Mr, Nuckles, wife and two children were returning home after spending the day at Grover Carroll's Sunday, | when their.team got frightened and upset the buggy and got’ away and ran over two miles. Ray Sturgeon caught them, Nothing was broken land none of the family hurt to speak of, but they were somewhat fright- ened, Rolin Walbridge has gone to Cha- junte, K ‘ Miss beth Colman spent Sun- | day with Eulalia Sturgeon, John Boulware and wife were Sun- day visitors at Dr. Norris’, Mrs. Wm. Tyler spent for Sunday ‘| night with Mrs, Lacy. Mrs. Rankins has rented a house in town and will move real soon, Mr. Langford. is here and will move to the farm he bought from Mrs. Ran- kins in a few days. He comes from Rogers, Arkansas, Archie Shillinger came in from Camp Funston Saturday for a short stay, Mrs. Edith Reeder of Nebraska, canie Sunday to attend her mother, M Bartley’s funeral. Also a son, George Bartley, and two daughters, came from near Joplin. Summit ‘will organize a society Friday night. 6 Mrs. Dode Holland got stranded on Summit road Tuesday. Dode literary Missouri Pacific station at 12:30! o'clock p, m.,.to meet Mr. Taft. Pro- | cession then to form with the Butler | Concert Band in lead, followed by a car containing Mr. Taft, Mayor Hein-| lein, Dr. J. T. Hull, president of the| Commer Club and John W. Cole-}| man.,. | Then will come cars contain-| ing members of the reception com-| mittee, followed by a number of other cars. After these will alter- nate bands and cars until all are in line. The line of march will be up Ohio street from the station to the northwest corner of, the public square, turning south and around the square. At the Missouri State Bank | corner the car containing Mr, Taft! will stop and allow him to review the) on! | parade,. which will turn’ north Delaware street and disband. After the parade Mr. Taft will take lunch at The Inn with the members | of the reception committee, the pres- ident the Commercial Club and} the editors of Bates county. | At three o'clock Mr. Taft will de-! liver a short address from the band} stand in the northwest corner of the | public square. If the weather is in- clement he will speak from the front steps of The Inn. Mr. Taft is presi- dent of the National Red Cross, and he will probably speak on this sub ject. The county band contest will take Place in the afternoon, beginning at three o'clock. Vive bands have al- ready entered and promises to be ong | of the best musical events ever tak- ing place in the county. Jj. E. Smith Chairman of the Bates County Conservation Enroll- “ment. J. E. Smith, cashier of the Missouri State Bank, last week received a tel-| egram stating that F. B. Mumford, Federal Food Administrator for Mis- souri, had appointed him chairman of the Family Enrollment Campaign for Bates county. The purpose of the enrollment is to Give every food consumer of the United States a chance to help’ win the war by conserving the food of the nation. Each township. in the county has been organized and a committee of ladies appointed, or volunteered, to canvass the homes of the county and ask the housekeepers to sign a pledge that they will do their best to save food’, particularly wheat, meat fats and sugar. The fol- lowing is the pledge: ‘To the United States Food Admini tration: { pledge myself to use the practi- cal means within my power to aid the Food Administration in its ef- fort to conserve the food supplies of the country, and, as evidence of my support, I wish to be enrolled with yourselves as a volunteer member of the Food Administration. Wesley Denton, cashier of the Peoples Bank, was appointed chair- man. of the township committee, and Tuesday afternoon ladies from each of thescity wards and the surrounding territory met in the rooms of the bank and were given necessary blanks and instructed as making the canvass, and it is-expected that before | removed, |vember 2. to the rescue with gasoline, Ray Sturgeon is on the sick came Mrs. list. Mrs. Ray Argenbright looking after the house keeping for Mrs. “AL rt Argenbright while she is in the for treatment. Mr. and Mrs. John Hines enter- tained the young married folks club | Tuesday night. They all have lots of fun and are determined not to get old. Several of the farmers are hauling coal from Rieh Hill. Mrs, Frank Holland has been suf- fering with neuralgia, SUNSHINE. Is i cit Herrell Happenings. It seems as if Thanksgiving time is here, to see the granaries and cel- ars filled with good things to eat for jboth man and beast and also to see our first snow. Mrs. Andy Cummings returned from Kansas Thursday, where she has been visiting for several days. - Moore, wife and two children, Rev. |Sherman and Willina, spent Sunday with T. C. Jones and family. Mr. Earl Alkire left Tuesday for Oklahoma, where he will spend sev- eral days qn a business trip. Mr, and Mrs. Walter Taylor and baby accompanied by Mrs.. Jeff. Tay- }lor and Miss Ruth Wayland, motored to Rich Hill. Thursday, where they had little Herbert Taylor's adenoids The opecration.was a suc- cess and little Herbert is now as well as ever. There will be a box supper at Sum- mit Center school house Friday, No- Everyone invited. The proceeds will go for the benefit of the school. Miss Ida Misner of Greenwood, spent Saturday and Sunday with Ruth and Lela Wayland. Mrs. George Bartley passed peace- fully away at her home three miles east of Butler, Friday, Oct. 26. “Grandma” ‘Bartley, as. she was gen- erally known, had been ailing for several days, but she was not consid- ered dangerously ill. The light simply burned low and went out without a flicker. At the time of her death she was eighty-two (82) years of age. She had been a member of the Baptist church of Butler for a good many years. She saw the old Baptist church in Butler just start up. For the past three years she was nnable to attend church, Dut she always read her Bible, and knew many a passage by heart. No one ever, went to “Grandma” Bartley, sad and discouraged with the ways of life, but what she had some word of cheer and comfort, She was a kind, loving mother and friend. She will be missed in the days that are to come, but she has only. gone on be- fore to join her husband, who died some several years ago. She leaves to mourn her loss eight children, two daughters being at home. The rest of the children having homes of. their own. WILLIE. Fair: Mount News. We are having real winter weather at preseft. Also had a good shower of soem Care Mrs. C. M. Rapp spent iast Thurs- day afternoon with Mrs, Frank Rapp. Miss Katie Schapler and mother visited one day last week with Mrs, Theo Marquardt. ‘ Fred Vogt, jr, made a business. trip to Appleton City one day last week, MISSOURI NOTES. Kansas City relatives have received a letter from Dr. D. C. Divine, lieu- tenant in the army medical corps, saying that he had arrived safely in France. Dr. Divine practiced in Ap- pleton City for séveral_years. Stoves! Stoves! and Amos Rapp spent a very enjoy- able evening Sunday at the Lewis Fleischer home. Mrs. C. M. Rapp and | daughter, Lydia, and son, Amos, and Nora and Hilda Rapp called on Mr. and Mrs, Fred Vogt, j . Wednesday night. Theodore Marquardt is back from various. parts in Kansas, where he has been looking for a place, but as yet he hasn't found anything suitable, John Yoss and family spent Sun- day night with Mrs. Yoss’ sister, Mrs. Joe Fleischer and family. ~ Nick Rapp and family and Grahdma Rapp called at John Seider’s Sunday night. Mrs. F. C. Vogt, jr., spent one day last week with her mother, Mrs, C, M, Rapp. John Marquardt and wife called at the home of Mrs. Marquardt’s sister, Mrs. Joe Bracher, Sunday night to see her mother, Grandma Hintz, who has been quite sick the past week. Mrs. Fred Brauner, from Pittsburg, Kansas, came one day last week to be at the bedside of her mother, Mrs, Gotlob Holliger, who is very poorly with a cancer. Henry Bracher and Fred Hammer, jr, and their families called’ at the Frank Rapp home Sunday night. Theodore Marquardt and wife spent the day Sunday with Mr, and Mrs. Baker near Rich Hill. hhome of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Fleischer, who spent the past week visiting rel- atives in Pittsburg and Walnut, Kan- sas, came home Monday. C. M., Nick and Frank Rapp and their families and F. C. Vogt and wife spent Sunday with Mrs. Kather- ine Rapp in Appleton, , She went home with her son, Nick, and will visit relatives and friends in this vi- cinity for several weeks. PRISCILLA. = Brackney Items. We began to think winter had come Monday morning when we saw it snowing. Mrs. J. C. Deems spent a few Jays the last of the week with her sister, Mrs. Jerry birch, who is on the list. Viola Turpin spent Saturday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. K. Miller! and family. Mr. and Mrs. James Nuchols spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs, Trent, Misses Gladys and * Joyce where and Mary Deems spent Sunday at the home of C. K, Miller. Mr, and: Mrs. L. Turpin and fam- ily, Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Smithson spent Sunday with Mr, and Mrs, L, A. Deems and family. Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Deems, Mr, and Mrs. Clarence Baker, Pearl Birch and mother spent Sunday with Chas. Birch and sister, Miss Jessie. .Mrs. James Nuchols and chilaren spent Saturday afternoon with Mrs, W. H. Ison and daughter. Miss Alice Baker and Mr. Vernie Ghere were quietly married at the Mrs. W. .\. Baker, last Wednesday, Oct. 24, 1917. Their many friends wish them a long and happy life. Mr. and Mrs, Frank bratton, and Mrs. Pearl Thompson and children of Kansas spent a few days last week with Mr. and Mrs. Mt A. Carroll and other relatives, ‘Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Deems_ spent last Wednesday afternoon with Paul Walton and family. Last Sunday evening as Mr. and Mrs. James Nuchols and family were returning home from a _ Sunday’s visit, a team of mules which they were driving became frightened and ran away turning the buggy over and throwing them out. The mules were caught by Ray Sturgeon. They were; lucky cnough to escape injury. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Evans. and family spent Sunday afternoon with| Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Deems and faim- ily. JACK and JILL, Rolling Stones. We have some very cold weather for the time of the year. The farmers are busy’ getting their | Louis, while dining at a down town | shall be the seven to enter the Fed- eral army medical reserves, That j ; 7 ; were putting all their spare time get- ae being the quota from that} ting ready for their annual carnival county. and the freshmen, sophomores and 5 ; juniors were hustling f votes fi Festus J. Wade, President of the HSE ErS. Peetecce (pee ane {clear through them and that if he had Otis Pence is a great bean raiser. He bought a pound of soup beans last spring for 25 cents, planted them and a few days.ago threshed out 120)]> pounds, which at present prices, 15 cents a pound, would bring him $18. Who can beat it?—Clearmont News. Right now is the time you wi this cold weather and we have the A bite by a mad dog resulted in the death of Edward Cahill,.the 3-year- old son of Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Cahill of Kansas City. The boy died three hours after reaching a hospital Sat- urday. The boy waS”bitten by a mad dog September 18, Steel Range on the market. The last contingent of Missouri and Kansas men left Camp Funston on a special train Friday night for Camp Doniphan, at Fort Sill, Ok, to join the national guard division, Al- together, three thousand men have left here for Doniphan, Ranges in order to close out. Wagons, Fa of Mexico was drawn in the draft, his wife said she was tickled to death because she would thus get rid of him, From this Clark gathered the impression that he wasn’t exactly popular with the lady, and he sued for a divorce which was granted him, When Clark Howell, Island and Abingdon Wagons an Farm Trucks. mall Pay you to see us. A large part of the $200,000 estate of the late Herman Pielsticker, for- mer saloon keeper at St. Louis, prob- ably will be seized by the federal government. Pielsticker’s will leaves most of his estate to nephews and nieces in Germany. The United States district attorney, Arthur L. Weaver, said the estate. clearly is sub- ject to seizure, Hardware, are always right. need. Also bring us your count highest price in cash or trade. APPLES! Attorney General McAllister in a legal opinion Friday held the act of the 1913 legislature authorizing agri- cultural fairs ‘to draw 30 per cent of their premiums from the state treas- ury, violates the state constitution. The State Board of Agriculture has acecpted the opinion and the fairs will draw no more premium money price will be right. Fancy Wine Saps. from the state treasury. we are The other day one of the most prominent society women in St. Bennett-Whee TELEPHONE 8&2 hotel, was approached by a waiter,|! who tapped her on the shoulder andj} said that “Gentlemen must remove their hats in the dining room.’ She | was dressed so near like the men that} the waiter required some convincing . : as we need the room. proof before he would apologize. way down, When the call was made for physi- stoves in Bates County. We carry a full line of Wilson Heaters for wood, that are very popular right now while coal is so high and scarce. In coal stoves we have the largest and best assortment of heaters ever shown in Butler, and our prices are the lowest as we were fortunate in buying a lot of these stoves before the big advance. We have a full line of the Superior Cook Stoves and Ranges and are agents for the Monarch Malleable Steel Range that is the best We are making some special prices on Round Oak Heaters eral We have the largest and best selected stock of Farm Wagons, Farm Trucks, extra Wagon Beds, Scoop: Boards, etc., in Bates Coun- ty and our prices are right. We handle the Schuttler, Mitchell, Rock If you want the best you can get for the money) it We have a large stock of Hardware and Groceries and our prices Come in and let us figure with you on what you We expect to have the finest car of apples ever shown in Butler about November 1oth,Come-in-and-get-your-winter's-supply._The—}-—_____— In this car we will have about 200 bushels of Thanking you for past trade and soliciting a contihuance of same, P, S.:—We have a lot of second hand stoves that we are selling ll need a stove to keep you warm largest and best selected stock of rm Trucks d the Mitchell, Deere and Keller Groceries ry produce. We always pay the APPLES! ler Mere, Co, BUTLER, MO. ee ce cians. for the National army there B. H. S. SENIORS CARNIVAL was no response from the doctors of Audrain county, so the chairman of the National Defense committee of that county has been instructed to call the physicians to meet in Mexico and draw lots to see which of them |Miss Fern Harper, of the Juniors, Elected Queen After a Lively | Contest. Last week was a busy one at the Butler High school. The Seniors their respective candidates for queen of the carnival, and if some of the recitations showed that the lessons had not received the attention that they should; the teachers tried not to notice it. Miss Dot Harper was -the Fresh- man candidate. Miss Helen Larson was being backed by the sophomores and Miss Fern Harper was the favor- ite of the juniors. The votes were one cent each and after much good natured rivalry, Miss Fern Harper was declared the winner and made a very charming queen. Saturday afternoon and night the carnival was held in the High school building which’ was trans- formed into a show house for the oc- casion. The pubjic was invited and an admission fee of three cents was charged. In the halls were fortune tellers and stands of different sorts. In the basement was the Chamber of Horrors which was very “spooky.” At night in the auditorium a one act comedy entitled “Winning Way,” St. Louis Mercantile Trust- Company told 200 Missouri bankers last week that they had a yellow streak running the power hé¢ would revoke the char- ters of these banks. The bankers in question belong to group § of ‘the State Banker’s Association and for the most part include counties north of the Missouri river. Wade's caustic remarks were occasioned by noting the small subscriptions these banks made to the Liberty Loan. Penitentiary officials are of the opinion that a disabled automobile found near Centertown, a few miles west of Jefferson City, was used by a confederate of John Shead who aided the latter in his escape from the penitentiary Tuesday night. The car is a-1915 model Cadillac and had been stolen from T. R. Early of Kan-: sas City last week. Shead’s confed- erate is believed to have been an ex- convict who was discharged last week, Shead was convicted on the was given, also a big Louisiana min- charge . Pg: alia Constable strel in which Hagvey Hensley wat Queen at Rich Hill. 2 said to have made a hit as a black- ; faced comedian. The seniors realized $127.40 from their carnival which will Colored Troops of the National Army to Camp Funston. Enough Missouri and Kansas troops were moved from Camp Funs- ton last week to make room for the colored contingent of the National army. The colored quotas from the different states in this division were sent there where they will be under ° the command of officers of their own color, as far as possible. A camp to train colored officers being recently held at Camp Dodge, Iowa, where it is thought that enough officers were qualified to command the comganies and some battalions. No colored men were sent from_this county. Eiler-Pohl, Miss Alma Eiler, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Filer, of west of town, and Mr. Herman L. Pohl, of Kansas City, were united in marriage Saturday evening, October 27, at 8:30 o'clock, The happy. couple spent Sunday at the home of Mrs. Pohl’s parents, leaving that evening for Kansas City. From there they will go to St. Louis on a short honey- moon, after which they will be at home to their friends at 4922 Wabash avenue, Kansas City. Mr. Pohl is a salesman for a motor car company in Kansas City. 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 nfeans low cost, with the most liberal 1 re-pay- Peter Stangel Dead, Peise Stangel aged oo yearn tale be applied on the purchase of a Vic- trola or some other musical instru- winter's coal, and shucking corn, these days. C. C. Claunch has been teal poorly the last week. Hardaway Harrison and family of Kansas City have been visiting with home folks the -last week. Ot Compton and wife have moved into the house with Jason. Deardorff which Geo. Finley has just vacated. Vivian Watson and children spent Saturday night and Sunday at Al- tona. H. H. Ewing and wife and L. A. Durbin and family spent Sunday at Johnstown. The sale at A. L. Pipes was well attended. Jeff Taylor was hauling hay one day last week. Jason Deardorff and T. L. Rich: had to stay all night in Butler last Friday night on account of rain. The Morr boys hauled coal from Johnstown last Friday. The little Compton boy is sick at this writing. The Christians are mites a meet- ing at Altona. H. Cumming, Malin, ind Walter bisa attended the ee sale. er of John Stangel of this city, died at his home five miles south at 2:30 o'clock ' Tuesday, Oct. 30, 1917, after a lingering illness of diabetes. Mr. Stangle had lived in Bates county for more than 20 years, and was known as a reliable, industrious man and a good citizen. He is survived by a wife and nine children. Funeral ar-i rangements have not been anounced. : —Rich Hill Review. Mr. Stangel was formerly a citizen of Butler and lived for some time on the farm of which the Bates county fair grounds is now a part. He was! the father of Mrs. R. E. Miller, of] this city. A Pacifist Kidnapped and Roughly Treated, ment for the benefit of the school. ~ We have the largest assortment of mens caps ever yet received by us. All colors, shapes, material and prices, Black & Sons. Cincinnati, Ohio, Oct. 29,—Her- bert S. Bigelow, chairman..of the state constitutional convention . fee 1912 and a yg mae i: was kidnapped. found. at Florence. ge op hag: been: handcuffed_.and -blind-fold- ment privileges. No renewals, with the attending cost, that come peri- odically,and some times raise in rates: It costs nothing to investi- gate, your own inter-st should Prompt you do the best that you can, We invite a full investigat:on. Canterburys, Butler, Yo. 36-tf with e man that is himself today, weather has ar- lorethought. If been wise your old One of our efficient and eco- stoves will