The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, November 22, 1917, Page 3

Peter Peterson lost his Elgin watch three years ago this fall.: While shucking corn last Wednesday he found it. He wound it and it is run- ning now as good as ever. All that noe de he wok was damaged was the crystal, It was’ field to et ra : ahi chia . rom it. . Geo. Pahiman of Amsterdam in his] new car made a visit to his parents and took them a ride. Mr. and Mrs, Miles McGuire were very bad sick spell. Last week the doctor was called twice and now she is up and around the ‘house, but she is very weak and not able to do any- thing. +e ee we e& © eee eK Ee ‘ SUNBEAMS. — bs +e te 6 ee ee eK ee ee Bill Sunday is quoted as. saying .. that there is not an ailment that af- Jas. Gibson is 70 years old and has enough money in the Amsterdam bank to pay his burial expenses and says his choice of oe is Old Mul- berry, Bates county, Mo. ‘bial Cyrus Nestlerode goes to Nebraska in yee Hand igen as to look for a location in a good farm- pais torForter. ing and stock raising and grazing] Grandma Minton is very sick. land. , Olive Branch school is going | to P, Peterson has turnips and pump- have a pie supper November 28th, kins for-sale on Amsterdam, route 2.] Everyone cordially invited. Jo. Foster, jr., hag moved to Vir-| Mr, and Mrs. Geo. Rohrbacher ginia, Mo., in the Jenkins property. | visited at Mr. Ike Dawson’s one day Jack Mangold and Miss Nelliels.3+ week, — Bruner were married in Butler a Mr. Geo. Zinn is awful bad sick.|- would have us believe why should] short time ago. . They sent for his son, Albert Zinn, we tarry here? It would seem his} A. Westover has a new §-passenger| . 44 wife, who live in La Cygne,|: object is, purely mercernary as the] auto. he Kansas. They came Sunday morn- longer folks live-the longer will the} Dr. Jno. Hedger was called to Ny- Be sheckles continue to pour into Bill’s|}hart Monday to doctor horses with pockets. the poll evil. You folks may not believe the stuff} P. Peterson threshed last Friday. I write you any more than you be-| Ike Dawson is making sorghum lieve the story of Jonah and the fish. molasses, e Poultry Tonic But that don’t worry me none what-| Born to the wife of J. F, Allen, near dilation water. fea ever. You know folks stood around] Elkhart, a 12 pound boy. Beno Mor- Fe eg pad and poked fun at Noah when he was| gan, The Times devil, says that beats fem enyediea a buildin’ his -house-boat. They didn’t 5 ous enaranten, believe the big showers were comin’. him 3 1-2 pounds. Geo, Pahlman has completed his But what I was goin’ to say was this: I just missed gettin’ a job with the cow shed and it’s a good one. Ray Jundy took five fine’ sheep circus last month by a scratch, How?]and put- them on Cyrus Nestlerode’s do you ask? Well, it was this way—| pasture of blue grass last Friday, — They wanted a Camel but they also] Henry Oldham, Will Durst, TI wanted one that could go’ 8 days}Smith, Cecil Fibbs, O. M. Orysdale (count 'em 8) without a drink and i] and Gill Walker of Amoret, contract- just up and told ‘em I wasn’t that}/ors of Grand Oldham’s house, on kind of a camel. ‘ the bungalow pattern. They are all Not content with asking us to ob- serve breadless and meatless days |men. good carpenters and speedy work- (also sleepless nights) they now| Miss Mildred Hughes is quite: sick want us to use “phantom” mince pies| with tonsilitis. Dr. Amyx,. of Ams- for our Thanksgiving dinner. Pretty] terdam, is treatmg her. soon I opine we will be asked to} Frank Oldham has the scaffold up wear “phantom” clothes. That will]and the shingles ready to recover his be tough on us men folks who are| big barn. accustomed to wear clothes, but it] W. I. Cooper, the McConnon medi- Mrs. S. L. Keen spent one day last won't make a great deal of difference|cine salesman, was around last week week with her mother, Mrs. Earl to the women. They hay en usin’ ishing. He is a nice man to Gabriel._ - ; that style of dress for some time. deal with, ee Mrs. Ervie Barnett and Miss Leona Mats are now being made from bull] Now, if you have the blues, just go Snodgrass visited near Johnstown rushes, Now that’s quite an innova-|and look at Mat Rosier’s pictures. |" day last week. tion, T once saw a man who looked] That will cure you. Mrs; Chas. Rector and Mrs. Henry ea mat after a bull rush, That} Otto McGuire, son of Miles Me- Remila called on Mrs. Will Wigger vas somewhat of an aviation, The}(Gnire, diced last week and was laid ie evening last week. Well, Joh d d ull rushed him over the top of a ten in the Virginia cemetery. His ea., Keen and son, Elmer, were ell, Johnny roamed around so was 14 years. He was born in|‘\?Pleton City visitors Saturday. much last week that he couldn’t take Kentucky. The MeGuires are re-| ."'i88 Sadie-Beard spent Saturday,| time to write, so here goes for what spected by all that know them, The} " a ra oan Sang hui Cal] Miss Ruby Holler and Miss Cordia procession was a large one. Panis aes ik aad pee to (Cath ae times that we used to have-together marine been as small as the above| faults stick Dut on us like warts on] \Vord has been received from Ft. Jie: zuson last week. Brunet nies Isat saree in Butler 40 years ago. I think that Jake is a admiralty statement shows. The pre-|# toad. Yes—but it’s quite another | Sill that the boys from Butler like it Wee and Mrs. J. E. Harvey andjand too! Mi the) show, Miss Ruby 18) ie cranky at present. He didn’t vious low record was twelve mer-|thing for anyone else to say thingS| much better than they thought they Nu and Mrs. Merl Sargent were en- a as Coles Baumer; They want me to put any “wood in the chantmen, cight of them of a tonnage| like that to us. Eh? And yet one|would, They say they have been tertained at the Bruce Odneal home ere eve a jolly good time, K stove. I think that if he would look in excess of 1,600 and four of them|has spoke thusly. The kindest thing] treated well so far. : Sunday. i, _ Mr. John Green of Western Kansas) song and get a good woman to less than 1,600 tons. we can do for our friends is to tell] Ike Lockridge moves the date of Mrs. A, T. Keen called on Mrs, A.|is here on a visit with his father and i cook for him‘that he would be all O. The high crest of the wave of Brit- them of their faults. Uhm, mebbeso,| his paper up five years and says to 1. Gilmore Wednesday afternoon. old friends:;We had the pleasure of K ish merchantmen sunk was during| but it ain't always. safe. tell the readers of the good old Times Hel) Jones spent the latter} meeting him and we made a trip’ to Oscar Kershner, Mrs. Ray Kersh- the weck of April 22, when forty] Two women—one said to the other: | that his‘corn is making 85 busitels per part of last week with her brother, the county) sost togeter, Johnny 1s ner and Miss Bessie White all were ships of 1,600 tons and over and fif-| “Gowns are to be worn longer.anoth- | acre and he feels able to set the date sige Bigg ee Rich Hill. Miss ne bet aod ns ERE en etaue trading in Butler last Friday. : teen of less tonnage were sunk—a to-|¢r season.” Said the other, “by*heck,| of his paper ahead and his farm is ‘ay Morgan, who has been visiting at] /!kes tha country all right. The new depot at Amsterdam is tal of fifty-five, The next high rec-]1 don't see how I can wear mine any | not for sale. the Jones home for some time, re- youn aaa one Guss Bruner a ord was the following week, when| longer. It's been worn another sea-| Bailey and son filled their silo with turned home with her. trading in Amsterdam last Saturday. looming up. It will be a fine one 4 when completed, It will help the thirty-eight vessels of. the larger and| son too long now.” No, I won't tell/kaffir corn last week. Mr. O. P. ies Will Gragg and daughters, Worle seston! 2hes bousiisthe f thirteen of the smaller category were| their names, but it shore happened. Fritts did the cutting. orence and Cora, spent from Friday Stella Clark farm and moved to the ee of the little bali ; oe b : is 4 ; : oe iter got a letter from Nort! q i I have noticed that the fellow you} Grandma Mint spent Frida until Saturday with Rich Woirhaye| same last Saturday. e wrt aartonineibo tou have to always pat on the Be in| visiting the faaily of Chas, Heck and family north of Butler. Gus Bruner bought three new cows| Dakota a few days ago and they had Ge Says U-B: Pail. order to have his friendship is about | don. Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Wigger and|@ few days ago. He says that they good sleighing there for the last two Ean eyes Ur mOntsrae as dependable as a bull dog which] Grandma Romine and Mrs. Milton vee spent Sunday with Remick wert their hind Kal toa ee weeks. That is a little too cool for i ‘ ' inate mee i i i hat, Arthur | me. 4 Washington, Nov. 14—Germany's]you have to pat on the head for the| McMeins spent the afternoon one day | ‘Visger and family. e hear it reported ¢ ‘ ‘ submarme warfare is a failure, ac-]same purpose. Neither are worth] last week at the home of Ed Bolling Misses Nina Keen and Thelma Sar-| Westover has a sore hand. Just ask 4 erik meter ig nee & ee cording to a sensational article pub-| your efforts. Don’t pat ’em. on Knabs creek. gent called on Mrs. Merl Sargent him how he,got it hurt. Ask him|trip to Amsterdam last Sunday in his lished jn the Berliner Tageblatt by| Beware of the folks who-are long] The sale at ‘Tom Bruner'’s tast| Ptiday afternoon. how long it takes him to crank his| little Ford car. 4 Captain Persius. This information| on advice. Because, should you ever| week brought $200 more than was Mrs. Dee: Vanhoy, Mrs. Tal Ray-| Car. ‘ __ Miss Euphie Scott, of Adrian, vis- was received by the United States|need him you will find him short on}estimated last week. Tom Hilton,|bourne and Mrs. Jim Raybourne| Jack Mangold and wife went to/ited at G. W. Armentrout’s last Sun- tadio service from the French station | help. of Mérwin, was salesman. Tom called on Mrs. Newberry Friday ear last aoe bes ad aig in the sights at Amster- at Lyons and made public here today.} People who try to please every-| says he will cry any sale caused b: evening. © were in the county seat one /dam Sunday evening. Persius not only admits that the] body succeed (aaaaliyy in pleasing van free of chntge and put 1-2 of the Mr. and Mrs, Jeff Snodgrass and| day last week and the court house} Mr. Holler called at the home of German people doubt the “results of| nobody and feel like kickin’ them-| bills. His address is Merwin, Mo. daughter, Maria, spent Sunday with yerd looked ‘like! there bad been -8 Tom Bruner, last Sunday: evening, piracy without mercy,” but confesses} selves. Me? O, I'm different. _I] Douglass Browning of Foster, their son, Coleman, and. family. cyclone there. The shade trees were} J. R. Scott and wife were pleasant that the admiralty was wrong in its} don’t try to please anyone. Not none| Mo., with his family is assisting his Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Keen and|all cut down. If We Bet Shy, shadercallers at the home of John Halfert - calculations regarding the decisive ef-| whatever. What's the use? If folks] father-in-law, Mr. Jno. Hedger, with children and Leo and Francis Frost| next summer we will have to go to/last Sunday evening. \ fects of the submarine campaign. don’t like me I should worry. the foundation of his new house. called at the Geog, Sargent home Rich Hill. h ‘ Jack Mangold stayed at the home . “Me Unt Gott” are havin’ one ——| Uncle Tom Hockett has just re-| Wednesday night. I had the pleasure of meeting} of Tom Bruner last Sunday night. of a time since the Sammees arrived|turned from his prospecting trip Mrs. Wilt Foster and daughter,| Charley, Marstellar in Butler one day ; JOHNNY. in France. So says K-B. Right you] through Kansas and he says that the Maud, called.on Mrs. Will Wigger are Bill. But wait till they get] old Miami looks good to him yet. one evening last week. started. They're “only, only teasin’] Olie Fritts is auctioneering and : ? you.” says he is as liberal hearted as Hil- In cancelling the engagement of|ton of Merwin. His address is Am- Kreisler, the Austrian violinist at] sterdam, Mo. Saadeh ; p Pittsburg recently the management| Sam Grimsley spent last Sunday dering if he will turn out again to re-| Gig the proper thing. Kreisler is. an| visiting in Foster. ers were ordered by the Food Ad- pete his place in the United States) otticer in the Austrian army and he| That fine big male Holstein of| Ministration today to stop the widely Ag ‘ should not be allowed to appear in| Peterson & Lihn, weighs 1770| Prevalent practice of making “com- —_ | pub lic to gather in the dollars which} pounds. There has been much dis- bination sales,” requiring customers will go to the support of Germany.| pute over his weight. to make other purchases in order to We have plenty of good American} Freddie Roberts, son of Sam'l obtain a certain commodity. music and musicians. We all can| Roberts, of Amoret, died Wednesday, One exception is made—on all sales sing or whistle “The Star Spangled| November 1oth. ‘of sugar the dealers may require to Banner” and that’s plenty good mankind—bu that God has grow- ing somewhere an herb that will cure that: ailment. Just as much sense in that statement of his as in many others he makes, Bill's Bible will tell him (if he will read it) that it is appointed “once for man to di And don’t you ‘fergit’ it. Take it from me, when the appointed time arrives not all the herbs and weeds on earth will save him, Bill would improve his time tellin’ folks how to get ready to die rather than prolong a life, which (to many) ain’t worth the candle. If Heaven is -what he Plaster Now ptt mill be more comfortable in your It will save the cost of the plaster in the’ fuel you will save this winter. 18 CENTS Per square yard will buy the material - to plaster. $15.00: Will buy the Lath, Plaster and Sand to plaster a room 14x14 and:9 feet high, including the ceiling. 4 JUST THINK 14 bushels of corn will buy the plas- ter for a big room 14 ft. square and 9 ft. high: _ There never was a time when #0 little farm products would buy so . Mauch building material and comfort. Plaster your rooms this fall, while 8o little will buy so much. _ Logan-Moore Lumber Co. PHONE 18 BUTLER, MO. WHEN YOU USE - Wolf’s Liquid [: fie Miss Ruth Guinn and Bertha Guinn} visited at Mrs, Grant Oldham’s Sun- day. . Miss Edna Shesler visited the Olive Branch school Thursday. Mr. Peterson was very sick Mon- day night and called Dr. Amyx of Amsterdam. Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Browning and son, Alfred, were visitors at Mr. and Mrs. John Hedger’s Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Dan Garren are the proud parents of a bouncing big baby boy. Mr. and Mrs. Douglass Browning and sons, Richard and John, visited at Dan Garren’s Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Oral Browning and daughter, Bessie, visited with A. L. Browning, of Foster Sunday. | ; N. M. N. ! “Fer Sale by All Live Dealers.” U-BOATS GOT ONE LAST WEEK —_—— | Loss to British Shipping is Low ' Mark of Whole Campaign. Cowmtry: Heppenines | N | i DOndoAIONGe TaecOniieones brit Mrs. Newberry is reported on the I: ish merchant vessel of more than sixteen hundred tons was sunk by mine or submarine last week, accord- i ing to the weckly statement of ship- | ping losses issued tonight. This is the low record since Germany began its submarine campaign. Five vessels of less than sixteen) hundred tons and one fishing boat! were sunk during the week. | { sick list. Elkhart. last week and he told me that his uncle, J. A. Wright, lived out south of Butler and you bet I went out to see him and stayed all night. Well, Dimer ‘ we sat up and talked until midnight we can find this week. and talked of old times and of the Not since Germany began her in-| tl fence, f tensified ‘submarine campaign Feb-; It’s one thing for us to admit that ruary has the total number of British} “¢ are ugly enough to stop a clock merchantmen sunk by mine or sub-| 0" break a looking glass and that our Stone Will Run Again. St. Louis, Nov. 17.—“I'll run again, b'gad, and I'll be elected, too, by the biggest majority I've ever had.” This was Senator Stone’s answer tonight to those who have been won- DAISY. A Warm Garage Without F'-at : Cornell-Wood-Board itor the : walls and cei.ings of your par.ge a all wil make it warm ant weathe, pot Easily, quickly and econom- ly put up. For tie walls and ceilings in room in the house, for farm build- Sonos e . nell-Wood-Board is ideal. Gives the Stops Grocery “Order” Sales. Washington, Nov. 17.—Retail deal- Jno. Foster has the agency for a ‘buy twice the weight of cornmeal. handsome beam panel enough for us. And if the aliens in|St. Louis stock food. He has just Decoraes peat win cat BATES COUNTY this country don’t like it let them| received a ton of it. It does fiot need MAY MINE COAL kalsomine. A real modernizer of hike back and hoch der ksleer or| trying. It has been tried and has no : poh a pes fad wach otee he ies .}] kow-tow to some other wou! po-|equal. See him for prices before you State May Mines Em. fi “an . fi tentate. Where they may have more|buy your spring stock . food and ‘The ay tee = or ers re pig 2 = room and less liberty to say nothing | worm destroyer. moisture resistant. ze ee of hove eats. oe : _| Ed Grete Pott 333 wet of If the coal famine at the State in-| ~ | Write for gumple and cutee. SS - is camouflage is surely great, it|corn y o' t week . for] stitutions ‘continue, there is a possi- gation, sugerices’ Pres, ‘ Sin dandy tea I — I’!| Mr. Jake Jundy. That's good shuck- “4 | [KKK our dealer has Comeil-Wood-Board, camouflage my plate and help out|ing-and it was certainly good corn. i i } Satisfaction Guaranteed Whea ' Mr. Hoover. For camouflage you} Jim Parks’ red hog sale was well H) £ . " Properly Applied am know quite well, is nothing but de-|attended Friday, the 16th. His hogs} . : B \\A\S **Eaay to Buy and Apply” . Ne ee “ IT] ception, the kind our boys serve| brought 3oc.a pofind on foot or more. i a at \N ss aes Kaiser Bill at afternoon receptions. R. I. Dawson’s boys are baling hay e : Soria epee! toon oie ron deel good one. Uncle John Hedger has his west field of corn shucked and his stock} ¢ es in. tax collector is crawling around, Rete The Keeton girls have a new auto to ride in now days. ° for Frank Oldham. ‘ gon -* i TF. So P. Peterson wants to buy a horse.| He don’t want a plug, he wants a i P. S.—Address me somewhere in