The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, December 20, 1917, Page 9

falling behind their competito want of motor trucks. When you realize what @ motor — will do for your busi- ness, don’t make the mistake of taking on the burden of too big a truck; don’t buy a makeshift, and don’t wait too long to buy. —is just as strong and enduring as the heavi- To-day you can get a Maxwell One-Ton, est one-ton truck made. Worm-Drive Truck for several hundred dol- lars less than you can buy any other one-ton truck of equal specifications. How long this low price will last, no one can tell. We expect to sell Maxwell trucks at a premium in a few months. Maxwell Truck Costs Less To Operate Besides this lowest first cost, a Maxwell Truck has the lowest upkeep cost of any real truck, even lower than horses. —it uses very much less gasoline per mile, with or without load, _ —it weighs hundreds of pounds less than any other one-ton — is therefore easier on tires than any other one-ton truck, The MAXWELL ONE-TON, WORM-DRIVE TRUCK is the only truck for you to buy—its efficiency, endurance, low first-cost, and low operating cost all previous truck records. Come in quick and see for yourself the trucking and o portation world. One Ton Chassis, $985; Chassis with Cab and Windshield, Combination Box Stake Body with C Stake Gate Body with Cab and Windshield, $1080; Body, $1095. Body, $1035; oe Store, “Cash xpress Canopy 77 Maxwell Track Immediately Lowers' Delivery Costs The Maxwell One-Ton, Worm-Drive Truck has power enough and the chassis strength enough for a bigger, heavier truck. Its rugged, sturdy chassis, from its reserve- powered motor to its unbreakable rear axle, is built-for-endurance-and_ dependability. It has the speed and ability to get there and back, that is not possible in a heavier truck, or with horses. Its spare parts cost very little. —and it will increase your delivery efficiency and immediately lower your delivery costs at least fifty per cent. ‘ab and Windshield, F. O. B. Detroit Jefferson Highway Garage WILCOX BROS., Propr’s. : g 4% WILL LIST LAND OF ALIEN ENEMIES. Council of Defense Asks McAlister Whether Land Can be Seized. Jefferson City, Mo., Dec. 14.—Act- ing on the suggestion of E. H. Bul- lock, Land Reclamation Commission- or of Missouri, the State Council of Defense today took tentative steps to locate property of alicn enemies. Bullock several weeks ago cited a Missouri statute under which he con- tended the State had a mght to seize the property of alien enemies and turn it into the school fund of the State. Attorney General McAllister, a member of the coucil, will be asked for an opinion as to how far the or- ganization can go in regard to prop erty of aliens. McAllister, who was present at the conference in the of- fice of Gov. Gardner, said he believed the courts would hesitate in ordering the confiscation of such property. It was suggested that the property cottld be located and _ identified through the reports and records of county collectors. : The war conference of the council will be held in Columbia, January 16 and 17, when it is expected that a member of President Wilson’s Cab- inet will make an address. Japs After 10,000,000 Sheep. Seattle, Wash., Dec. 14—Dr. Isa Tanimura, commissioner of livestock for the Japanese government, is in Seattle today laying plans for the ptirchase -of “10,000,000 head of sheep for his government. He said as a re- sult of England’s embargo on the ex- portation of wool from Australia, Japan cannot obtain the wool to 209 Mrs. Nancy Johnson Dead. Mrs. Nancy Carter Johnson died at her home at Richards, Missouri, .of neuralgia of the heart. Nancy Carter Boisseau was born in Johnson county, this state Novem- ber 11, 1836, and was married March 18, 1856, to John R. Johnson. They came to Bates county in 1881 and lo- cated in Rich Hill, where they resid- ed until 1899 when they moved to Richards, where Mr. Joknson died August 28, 1912. She was the mother of three sons, Wm. T., Benjamin F, and Edwin R., the latter two of whom - sur- vive. She is also survived by a’ sis- ter, Mrs. Susan Thornton, of Ken- tucky, one half sister, Lucy Morrow, of Sterling, Kansas, and two half brothers, Dan Boisseau, of Warrens- burg, and Charley Boisseau of Dade county, this state. She was most essentially a home body, a loving self sacrificing moth- er, possessing a sunny, lovable dis- position, and the world is a better place by her having lived in it. Her passing is mourned, not only by the family but by the large circle of friends that she left behind. Funeral services were held at the Cumberland Presbyterian church, of which she was a member, at Rich- ards, Sunday afternoon and the re- mains brought to this city and taken to the home of her son, B. F. John- son, on South Main street, where short services were conducted Mon- day by Rev. George Scroggs, of the Presbyterian church, and the remains laid to rest in Oak Hill cemetery. e Carrie Chapman Catt was reelected president ‘of the Woman's National Suffrage Association at a convention N. Main Tel. 2 BU PSSSa ESOS od < AMARA, MOST MILES PER GALLON - MOST MILES ON TIRES — WOMAN GETS FIVE YEARS FOR ATTACK ON DRAFT Mrs. Kate O’Hare Defies Judge Do His Worst After Convic- tion on Charge of Trying to Discourage Regis- tration. Bismarck, N. D., Dee. 14.—A_ sen- tence of five years in the peniten- tiary at Jefferson City was imposed today by Judge Martin J. Wade of Des Moines on Mrs. Kate Richards O'Hare, of St. Louis, Mo., convicted of making utterances in a speech at Bowman, N. D., last summer tending to discourage obedience to the mili- tary registration. The sentence followed a_ long speech by Mrs. Q’Hare in which she reiterated statements declaring her opposition to war and defied Federal Judge Wade to do his worst. Witnesses at her trial testified that Mrs. O’Hare declared in her speech at Bowman that “mothers who raised their sons to be cannon fodder were no better than a farmer's brood sow,” and that “young men who are foolish enough to enlist or volunteer are only good enough for German fertilizer.” Mrs. O’Hare was edjtor of a socialist paper in St. Lonis and later went on a lecture tour. 14.—Mrs. St Louis, Dec. Kate Richards O’Hare, who was sentenc- ed today at Bismark, N. D., for a vio- lation of the espionage act, until re- cently was a resident of this city where, in addition to her activities as a socialist lecturer and suffragist, she was assistant editor of the Rip Saw, a jalist, \ publication. Last year she was a jidate for United States senator from Missouri on the socialist ticket, being the first woman who ever filed for state office in Missouri. . to figures on Maxwell costs that are the wonder of the trans- or easy terms while our allotment lasts. $1025; Combination Box MISSOURI NOTES, ae Because of the lack of coal it was impossible to hold classes at the State University one day last week. Taylor, 81 years old, the Capt. Lee authorities to an investigation —Hen- ry County Democrat. | Dr. A. P, Smith has a sow that is |nothing short of a grand prize. He | paid $10.35 for her two years ago, In 1916 he fattened and sold a litter of his hogs from-her that brought $122.50, a ‘Today,—8 out of 10 merchants need motor trucks and don’t realize it;—that’s why their business 8 times out of 10 is - rs,— for home on a farm near Thursday. Henry County has been,called upon to furnish 10 physicians to the Na- tional army. But two have volun- teered from that county so far, Two children of a family who were traveling through the country in a wagon were frozen to death when the storm caught them near Neosho last week, E Not more than 1,000 pounds of ¢ will be delivered to any residence in Joplin until further notice according to orders issued by the United States fuel administrator for Jasper county last week, Missouri will be the first state to ratify the federal woman suffrage amendment, Mrs. Walter McNab Miller of Columbia, Mo., predicted to the--National Woman Suffrage Convention, L. H. Price, son of a Neosho drug- gist, committed suicide by hanging at the Great Lakes Naval Training Sta- tion some time last week. The body was found hanging to a tree where it is thought it had been several day day nowadays. The menibers of the Joplin fire department have serve notice that they will go out on strike January 14 unless they granted $10 per month increase salary. in Women will fill vacancies in. the ranks of street car conductors in Si, Louis as fast as they occur after January 1. Present men employ ate not to be charged to ms wa; jor the women, but no more men = .| Bates Strikes seem to be the order of the, are|s Carterville | Recently he marketed hogs frem her jthat brought him the neat sum of | $326. 40. He has seven of the litter left, two of which he will fatten for {meat. He figures that the hogs trom | this one sow have brought him, added |to what the ones has left are worth ‘on the market today, the sum of | $057.90.-- Metz Times. | Thirty-one alleged metbers of the . W. W., five of whom are German | subjects, arrested during the recent Government raid in the Kansas oil 'district, have been unable to furnish »onds and are being held for the Fed- Jeral nd Jury, which meets at | Wichita in Mareh, according to an | announcement today by Federal At- jtorney Robertson of Kansas -City. John Shannon, arrested in Kansas | City in connection with the alleged I. |W. W. plots, has admitted writing a ae which was found among the papers seized at Agusta, Kas., dur- jing the round-up, Robertson — said. {Shannon claims to be high in the leouncils of the organization, Robert- lson added, | Rich Hill Preparing for a Red Cross Drive. | President If, O. Maxey, of the County Red Cross, Judge J. A. Sil president of the county Y. IM. and W. F, Duvall county i , addressed a big meeting in yterian church in Rich Hill y night in the interest of the Red Cross drive in Osage township. The gentlemen explained the good that was bein ccomplished by. the Red Cross in war stricken) Europe, ind told what other -communities were doing in the work and urged that Osage township take its place in the front rank. TLER, MO. SSNS SSS - CS U. S, Asked to Purchase 100 Million of Farm Loan. Washington, D. C., Dec. 15.—The Federal Farm Loan Board today asked Congress to authorize the Treasury to buy $100,000,000 worth of farm loan bonds now and the same market for the securities. It is considered improbable that the Treasury would have to acquire many expected to insure private sale. Farm Loan Board now plans to re- sume within a few weeks the sale of ' bonds, stopped December t, when a selling agreement with private bond dealers expired, Car Shortage not so Great. Chicago, Deg. 14.—Unfilled , orders for cars December 1. amounted to 117,132 cars as compared with 140,012 | cars November -, according to a statement by the railroads war board. the decrease was a surprise as it was feared the situation had become worse in view of the many claims| that the railroads had broken down. The railroads are handling currently 20 per cent more freight and passen- ger traffic tham a year ago. President’s Cousin to Enlist. amount next year, to strengthen the| bonds, as the Government backing is| Thej | Denver, Dec. 15—Authority to en-! list Harry Woodrow Hamilton, a dis- tant cousin of the President, who was rejected several days ago because of lack of weight, was received at the local marine corps recruiting station today from Washington. Hamilton is a son of a banker of Cheyenne, Wells, Col. Marine corps officers will be hired. Women will the as men. Feccive same pay We believe the Democrat has the staunchest name among Missouri newspapers, the Eminence Current Wave the coolest, the Elermit Aurora Da Light the sunniest, the Middletown Chips the most modest umd the Licking News the most triumphant.—St. Joseph Observer. t-——___________— The St. Joseph Observer evidently don't think much of farm experts, as it has the following about one recent- ly employed by Buchanan county: “Fifty dollars to one, that there are five hundred farmers in St. Joseph's vicinity who know as much or more of practical farming than the $4,000 “expert” who landed here this week.’ Linn Unterrified For the first time in more than 20 years, so it is said, the Missouri river between Jefferson City and Callaway county is frozen over, says the Jef- ferson City Democrat-Tribune. It is said that the frozen over three times since the ear- ly 7o's. Up to date no one has ven- tured to cross the treacherous stream on the ice, but if the present weather continues a few more days teams will be crossing the river in safety. Mention has been made in this pa- per of walnut buyers who after en- deavoring to buy trees and logs at a very low price, claim that their gov- ernment contracts are such that they are empowered to enter upon a man’s land and take what logs they require at their own price. It seems how- ever, that the government gives no man such authority and the com- plaints which have reached the au- thorities as to the methods used to get walnut have stirred the Federal e Index the quietest, the! river has only been} A soliciting committee consisting of Carl Stonebraker, Joe McCullough, M. G. Myerley, Wm. Winston, C, S. Beasley, J. R. Hales, M. Davis and iW. WW. Cheverton was appointed. Headquarters, with Mrs. J. R. Hales in charge, been established at the Talmage hotel. have | Herrell Happenings. | Mr. Chas. Lafollette and daughter, | Winnie, returned from: Joplin, Mo., where they had been visiting Mr, La- Follett’s mother. Miss Ruth Jones — entertained Misses Veva Ellington, Kathleen Wayland and Mable Card Saturday | night and Sunday. | Mrs. Eva Doubenmier came down {from Independence, Mo., Friday to attend to some business and visit ; with friends. { | Misses Kathleen Wayland — and j[lfelen Clark stayed with Miss Ruth andruff of Butler Monday evening. Mr. John Strange has rented the | Doubenmicr place for the coming year. There will be a box supper at Her- rell school house December 15, 1917. i Everyone invited to come, | WILLIE. Inheritance Tax Over $2,000,000, | Louisville, Ky., Dee. 13—The Fi- delity Trust company, administrator of the estate of Mrs. Mary Lilly Bingham, widow of the late Henry M. Flagler, today notified the inherit- ance tax appraisers that a complete inventory of the estate is being made jand that the inheritance tax will be i paid as soon as value of the estate is determined. It is estimated the in- heritance tax will amount to between $2,000,000 and $3,000,000, FARMERS BANK |— OF BATES COUNTY BUTLER, Capital Stock Surplus Fund Undivided Profits This is a time when SERVICE counts. MISSOURI $50,000.00 Enlist now with our present army of loyal patrons. We will furnish the Service. The past year has been one of the greatest in our history for the opening of new accounts. attribute to our special service Business. A great portion of this new business we rendered patrons in the Farming Let us have your banking business, We will help you make ~ greater gains. "EVERYONE WHO SPENDS MONEY SHOULD HAVE A BANK ACCOUNT We Pay Interest on SAVINGS.