The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, November 15, 1917, Page 1

REVOLUTIONISTS HOLD MOSCOW Congress of. Soldiers and Workmen's Delegates Would Stop War For Three Months. Petrograd, Nov. 9.—The revolu- tionary committee supported by the military garrison has taken over all government offices in Moscow, ac- cording to a telegram received ‘by David R. Francis, the American am- bassador, from the American consul géneral in. Moscow. The dispatch from the consul general was dated Thursday and added that conditions in-the city were quiet. | Fighting will probably cease on all the Russian fronts while the new party in power at the. capital, the - Congress of Soldiers’ and Workmen's Delegates, decides how to secure a democratic peace. A proclamation, was issued today by the Congress declaring that it would propose an armistice to go in- to.effect at once on all fronts. The Congress appealed to the Rus- sian army to stand firm and to pro- tect the revolution against imperial- istic attempts until the new govern- ment had obtained a democratic peace, Language. of the proclamation would indicate that Premier Kerens- ky, who fled from Petrograd at the first signs of the uprising, has been gathering forces with which to op- pose the. new government. The Con- gress calls’ upon railway mén to eaten the forces Kerensky is sending ~ Butler. BUTLER, MISSOURI, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 165, 1917. ‘The Merwin Oil Well. id Bates county’ people were highly excited last Thursday ‘morning by a report from the west part of the county that a 4o0-barrel oil well had been brought in on the Cutshaw farm, a few miles east of Merwin. Butler people who owned stock in the company doing the drill- ing began to figure just what sort of a car they would *buy with the first dividend, In a short time several car loads from Butler had started for the well.’ When they arrived they. found that the first reports had been great- ly exaggerated. The hole had been capped afd the drill rig moved to another place a few hundréd feet from the well. There was no oil mixed with the water that the bailer brought up. There is no question but that there is oil in Bates county» but whether or not it will be found in paying quanti- ties time alone will tell. So far the wells have not been drilled deep. enough to really settle the question. Nine Men Certified for Service. The’ Bates county Exemption Board on Tuesday received orders from the District Board, refusing the claims of exemption of the following and certifying them for service: 1455 Geo. F. Dibble, Rich Hill 128 Geo. K. Newlon, Butler 388 Edgar J. Fix, Rockville 773 Roy Austity Stewart, Rich Hill 608: Dimner. Bell Page, Urich 588 John F. Houseworth, Adrian ” Nikolai Lenine, the “Maximalist leader, in a speech before the Work- mens ‘and Soldiers’ Congress today, said: “We offer ilese terms but we are willing to consider any proposals for peace, no matter from which side. We offer a just peace, but will not accept unjust terms.” London, Noy. 9.—Reuter’s corre- _spondent at Petrograd says a tele- gram from Katian announces that General Arhipoff, commander of the troops, has been arrested atid that the military ‘cadets, with their armored cars; have surrendered to the revolu- tionists. At the Smolny Institute, the As- sociated Press was informed that two detachments of troops, headed for Petrograd, in response to an early appeal from former. Premier Keren- sky, were met. outside the city by. commissioners and persuaded to re- turn to the front. The correspond- ent also was informed that the’armies on theSnorthern front had elected a revolutionary committee which bar clared in support of the congress. delegation from the Eleventh pes which arrived in Petrograd - yester- day, has joined the revolted garrison. ‘A French officer, it is reported, ‘was wounded during last night’s ac- tion, Fhe losses of the Workmen and Soldiers’ organization are said to be one sailor killed and several wounded. The casualtiés among the defenders .of the winter palace are placed at about thirty killed and wounded. Col. Raupp May Hold His Position. Some weeks ago Col. Raupp, for- merly the commander of the Second regiment of Missouri National Guard, was ordered before an efficiency board at Camp Doniphan and by the board found inefficient and ordered ischarged from the service. The friends of Col. Raupp thought that he had been mistreated, as he is one of the oldest and best posted officers of the National Guard. They took the matter up with the war department and a dispatch in Saturday’s Joplin Globe says that an order has been is- sued for the board to reconvene, which is taken to mean that the find- ings of the board have been. over- ruled, which will be good news to Col. Raupp’s many friends over the state. According to the Globe every offi- cer that was before the board to tes- tify as to the Colonel’s efficiency and fitness to > command a_ regiment spoke in the highest terms of his ability as an officer except one. Sullivan’s Accounts Correct. The Pettis-county grand jury ad- j after 856—Geo. C. Fahnestock, Rich Hill 222 Claude O. ‘Leedy, Buitler 1337. Robert W. Stoughton, Amoret Dollar Butter. State Dairy Commissioner G. Ben- nett, in a speech before the Jefferson City commercial club last week pre- dicted that butter would be selling for $1 per pound before the winter is over. Mr. Bennett urged more atten- tion to dairying in’ Missouri and the adoption of better butter methods. Two thousand more good cows in each county would »mean..an addi- tional revenue of $2,000.00 ner coun- ty, he said. ANOTHER SHIP SHAKEUP Navy Officers on Building Board Replaced. by Civilians. Washington, Nov. 10—Complete re-organization of the shipping board’s ‘Emergency Fleet Corpora- tion was begun today, when Charles A. Piez, a Chicago engineer, recent- ly made vice-president of the corpor- ation, was put in supreme charge of the government's shipbuildigg pro- gram. Rear Admiral. Washington L. Capp3, appointed by President Wil- son as genera! manager of the cor- poration, succeeding Maj. Gen. George W. Goethals, will continue in that position, but much of the work he has done heretofore will bé taken over, it was sajd tonight, by Mr. Piez.” Admiral Capps denied vigor- ously teports that he would resign because of the charges that will be made. 5 Decision to reorganize the staff that has had charge of building was made by the shipping board after an investigation by a special committee, This committee, named by the board, was headed by Mr. Piez and had as its other members: Mr. Mason, Mr, Day and Frank Kirby, a New York} enginger. The ' committee is reported, it ‘|learned, that shipbuilding was not proceeding as it should because of lack of business methods within the fleet corporation. Yards, they re- ported, were not obtaining material as rapidly as they needed it. Speci- \ Commercial Club Meeting. . The regular meeting of theButler Commercial Club was held at the city hall Tuesday evening, but aside from a lengthy discussion of the pro- posed telephone franchise little bus- iness was transacted, All of the officers and a large num- ber of members were present. W. C. Staver, superintendent of construction for the new post office building, and John S. Krinn, of the Farmers Bank, were elected to mem- bership. A communication from: the Kan- sas City Chamber of Commerce in regar to the selection of delegates to’'a convention to be held in Kansas City on December 5 was read. E. B. Silvers and A. H. Culver were elected as delegates to the convention, and W. O. Jackson and F. M. Campbell as alternates. Letters and telegrams concerning the kind of brick to be used in the new postoffice building were read, and the secretary was instructed .to write Senators James A. Reed and ;anteed ta the people |Wm. J. Stone in regard to the matter and try to enlist their aid in having a change made. F. M, Campbell of the Butler Tele- ‘phone Company, who is asking the city council for a twenty-year fran- chise, was before the club and made a brief explanation of the proposed franchise, Mr. Campbell’s statement was followed by a lengthy discussion, Participated in by. W. O. Jackson, James A. DeArmond, Mayor Hein- NUMBER 5S chise to state expressly what is guar- and exactly what they are expected to pay. He wanted. a better service provided for and guaranteed. A motion was finally made by Mr. DeArmond and carried that the president of the Commercial Club ap- point a committee of three to corre- spohd with people in other towns of similar size to Butler and make in- quiries as to telephone rates, con- struction of systems, connections, etc, and that the city couricil be re- quested to defer action on the fran- chise until this information could be obtained. At this point Mr. Campbell stated that if a schedule of rates was the thing desired he would at once file with the city council such a schedule, The matter of a free exchange with all the telephone lines in Bates coun- ty was also pretty well threshed out. Mr. Campbell showed that at present the local exchange was car- rying a heavy load by reason of free exchange and that this free exchange was casting him a big sum of mortey each year over and above receipts. The proposed franchise provides only for free exchange with the first switchhoards ‘out of Butler—i. ¢., to Adrian, Spruce, Rich Hill and Vir- ginia. Beyond these points a toll for all messages will hereafter have to be paid. The matter of granting Mr. Camp- bell a franchise has been before the council for some months, but no definite action has yet beer n y Said, were changed too; often, and a enerat lack of harmony was found, -they declared, between builders and the fleet corporation's officials. . President Sets Nov. 29 as. Thanks- giving Day. Washington, Nov. &—President Wilson has issued his 1917 Thanks- giving proclamation, calling upon the nation, even in the midst of sor- row and. great peril of war, to thank God for blessings that’ are better than mere peace of mind and pros- perity of enterprise, The proclama- tion fixed Thursday, November 29, as ‘Thanksgiving Day. ce Henry EB Sit vers, F.C. Ream and T. W. Silvers. Somé of the speakers thought it would be unwise at this time to. es-) tablish a rate for service in view of the unsettled condition of and could see no necessity for the granting of a franchise. Others thought the rates to be charged should be specially stated in the franchise, and then if they were con- sidered unjust to either party the matter could be taken before the State Utilities Commission. : Judge C. J. Henry said he repre- sented the “common people,” who in the end had to bear the brunt of all expense-in telephone charges and ev- erything else. He wanted the fran- Style, Qualit RE the attractive combinations in our store. affairs,, German Officer Who Escaped From Internment Camp Recaptured. Laredo, Tex., Nov. 8.—Capt. Hans Berg, who brought the captured British freighter Appam into Hamp- ton roads and walked out of Fort McPherson, Ga., after he had been interned, was captured six miles down the Rio Grande this afternoon, according to reports made to the cus- toms office here. Berg and Lieut. Alfred Loescher, another German naval officer, were captured by Cus- toms Inspector Robert Rumsey and John Chamberlain and were turned over to federal authorities, MISSOURI NOTES The Clinton German Seminary has altered its name and will hereafter be known as the Clinton Seminary. There have been several calf clubs in this part of the country and now the Bank of ‘Harrisonville has or- ganized a sheep club, Robert G. Hartley, of Clinton, who was drawn for service in the National Army has deserted from Camp Funs- ton, says the IIlenry County Demo- crat. “Kolumbia Kolored Kaiser Kill- ers” was the motto on one of the ban- ners carried by the negro contin- gency which left Columbia Monday of this week for Camp Funston. Charlie Hickerson, of Vernon county, ¢laims to be the champion corn shucker of Western Missouri. One day last week he shucked 140 bushels and did not work very hard at that, Nevada was right up against a coal famine last week and if the weather had not been warm much suffering would probably have resulted. «An appeal was made to State Fuel Di- rector Crossley. A firm of cattle breeders of Cass CCl have donated a_ registered Red Cross 0} thar OUaty: The “heifer will be put up at auction and the proceeds turned over to the Red Cross. The “American King of Corn Farmers” is a Missourian, W. F. Rankin, of Tarkio, who raised 680,000 bushels of cern on his farm this year. This is the largest corn’ crop raised in the United States by a single farm- er. Funeral services for George El- son, 74 years old, the father of twen- ty children, who died at Dewitt this week, were held there Thursday af- ternoon. He is a pioneer of Carroll County. His wife and fourteen chil- dren survive. alue Come here and select your new coat. Buy here with the assurance that the styles are correct and selections are the best. There isn’t the same opportunity to replenish the stock that we have in normal times. The more coats other people buy now the less there will be to pick from later. Be abso- lutely certain, too, you can’t find better values in coats at $15.00, $20. In our Dry Goods Department we offer attractive items which cannot be duplicated this season: 1 LOT LADIES VELASTIC UNIONSUITS, SPECIAL /; LOT LADIES FLANELETTE * LOT WOOL MIXED, EXTRA 1 LOT ALL WOOL ” : LOT LADIES PLEECED 1 LOT ALL WOOL DRESS GOODS, SPECIAL. _ LOT LINEN eee ececcece sp eceeseese . 1 LOT 72-INCH SATIN . DAMASK, SPECIAL : 1 LOT SATIN DAMASK, SPECIAL 1 LOT ALL LINEN DAMASK, SPECIAL..... saves 1 LOT MERCERIZED NAPKINS, SPECIAL 1 LOT ALL LINEN NAPKINS, SPECIAL.......... 1 LOT HUCK TOWELS, SPECIAL........... ‘ 1 LOT DAMASK 00, $25.00 Death invaded the ranks of St. Clair county’s drafted men when Silas Smith, aged 27, passed away at Camp Funston. He was one of those who went with the first allotment from that county. His body was. buried at his old home near Iconium. J. R. Young of Richland township a widely known and successful breed- er of Poland China hogs has just purchased a young male Poland China hog for which he paid $1,000. This fancy animal is the junior cham- pion of Kansas and took first prize at the national show at Omaha.—Ne- vada Mail. Ab Bury shucked the corn off of a little over four and one-half acres of land last week and sold it for $569.62. He dug forty bushels of potatoes off the same piece of land a few weeks ago. With potatoes selling at $1.50 it would swell the procecds from the land to $629.62., Now who would pay that sum for the land?—Metz Times. Judge James A. Cowgill, chairman of the Democratic State Committee, has announced that he would call a meeting of the committee at Kansas City November 24, at which time he would submit his resignation as chairman. He wishes to devote all of his time to his duties as chairman of the Kansas City Election Commis- sioners, he said. Henry County has always been one of the leading broom corn counties of : the United States, and now with the brush higher than was ever known before, it is indeed a source of profit to the growers, says an exchange. It is estimated that growers in the vi- cinity of Montrose have received $100,000 from this crop alone, and this is only one of the several broom- corn sections of this county. Morris Sharpe, a negro recruit of the-National Army, from Springfield, is under sentence to “slay a thou- sand Germans.” He was brought be- fore City Judge O. H. Travers Friday on a charge of fighting and .testified that he was under orders to report to Camp Funston. When sentence was passed, Sharpe grinned widely and promised he would “Sho’ do my best, Jedge.” Perhaps the highest price per acre that has been reached in our county, other than that of a suburban char-