The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, January 17, 1918, Page 2

Amoret Items. While skating on the bayou Mon- day night Mrs. Frank Armstrong had |g the misfortune to break her ankle. Mr. Oliver Mears of Parsons, Kan-|this year. The road running west from the church is blocked, so the mail man threshed | turns back at that point. sas, is visiting friends and. relatives in Amoret. Mr. Melvin Bowersox Happy Hill Items. There is lots of snow now. It ood for the wheat. Friday night was the coldest night It was 20 below zero, WOMANS SUFFRAGE WINS _ IN} HOUSE Resolution Providing for Constitu- tional Woman Suffrage Passes by Small’ Margin. - is ‘Washington, Jan. 10.—Woman suf- frage by federal constitutional kaffir conn and cane seed at Sam|' Wood chopping is the order of the amendment won in the house to- Have to charge operated on Tuesday at Kansas City for appendicitis. Mrs. Claud Dale and little daughter is very sick at this-writing. Mr. Harland Porter fell dead near |w his home east of Mulberry Saturday, January 11. Mr. William Mears spent Saturday night and Sunday with Levy Mears|they should place a tax on old batch- They could sure raise some}Clark to cast his vote from the chair taken to]money in Lone Oak and Pleasant Gap|for the resolution if it was needed, We started to count them|the change of'a single vote to the and family. Mr. Robert Spond was Kansas City to be operated on, elors. townships. h Mr. Ralph Hicklin went to Kansas|but found so many that .we just] oppositica meant: defeat: ays that we can't eat anything makes it about even, ~ Grimsley’s Wednesday. day. Our folks can’t chop. enough to/night with exactly the required num- Mrs. Will Walker of Amoret was|cook with some days, but with the|ber of affirmative votes. is] While members in their seats and throngs in the galleries waited with We know a man that has been mar-|eager interést, the house adopted by vife a cross word—but he is dumb. Mr. Barts is running his saw mill.| the Arch Booth is helping him. ried go years and has never given his|q vote of 274 to 136 a resolution pro- viding for submission to the states of so-called Susan B.. Anthony amendment for national enfranchise- We think if the U. S. needs money | ment of women. City Friday and returned home Satur- | stopped, Walter Thompson was called to the| Baltimore hospital where he has been day. writing. Mr. Fred Shaw loaded a car load of Jing one by one. W. R. Jackson still makes his week-]and hardly able to walk to his seat, hay Friday and Saturday. Royal Neighbors and Woodmen held installation together. There were eighty-five present. wi Modern |ly trips to Rich Hill, E. R. Hall was gathering corn this | issue. eek, It was pretty cold, but Ed|journed before the There was a skating party on Rocky | don’t care for that. : Roy Walker has just finished a fine }able action on the sénate side of the Ford Sunday night. Mr. Charley Weller says he en-|barn. joyed sweeping the snow off of the railroad switches. Mr. Lee Witherow and family went her sister, who was kicked by a horse | off on account of the storia Thursday | President Wilson who came to, their and is in a serious condition, ni Mr. Lee Witherow butchered a beef one day last week. Sam Grimsley and John Simpson | 5 sold two span of mules to C. H. Ar-j re genbright of Butler one day fast week, Mr> Calhoun moved on his farm | bi east of Amoret one day last week. th SUNSITINE AND ROSEBUD. Chapel Chatter. 3ernice = Dickison and moved Tuesday to the place vacated by Mr. Arthur Strode. Mr. Guy Ilerman left Tuesday for} Kansas City to attend school. yi Henry Gandef is building a new|dicated that the barn, But fer the promise of Speaker Republi- can Leader Mann, who came from a Mr. Lon West is some better at this]colors Friday and went to Camp|under treatment ever since congress ‘ Funston for training. They are go-| convened, and Representative Sims of Tennessee, just out of a sick bed brought the votes which settled the The house hardly had_ ad- suffrage cham- pions began their fight for a favor- Recent polls there have in- necessary two- thirds vote could not be mustered, capitol. The mecting of the cemetery asso-|but encouraged by the house victory to Fort Scott ‘to be at the bedside of} ciation at Double Branches was called|and counting upon the influence of ght. . No weddings nor deaths this week We sce that Sunbeams is ible scholar, ad a chapter in that Book. We notice that Rastus Brown froni|jng a vote in the senate before the Culver thinks that the U. S. is in it| present session ends, No, we never get in so deep ad, at we can’t get out, Mervin Hall Jost a fine colt Friday | sult in the house ght. Cause not known, Arch Looth was very sick Friday | pon him last night to family | morning, but is better at this writing. | ‘They W. B, H. Country Happenings. some|as to have the We doubt if he ever) state legislatures during the coming support last night, the suffragists hope to bring the senate into line so amendment before year. They feel sure at least, of forc- | Advocates of the amendment had been supremely confident of the re- after President Wil-| |son advised the members who called support it. were so confident that the close }vote received with amazement, jand some of the opponents were al- imost as much surprised. | When the first roll call was fin- pay on deada coupon books for $9.50. But we don’t claim to save you only 5 per cent. That’s all thete is to it, But we will save you as much on groceries as anyone in Bates county, that sells good, clean groceries, You can get _ e 3 lbs Good Rice . 3 lbs Prunes . Navy Beans .. Olive Oil Soap . 3 lbs. Good Coffee ®., & G. Soap, 4 bars .. Small Prunes, per pound .. 2 packages not a seed Raisins.................. Try the Blue Bird Coffee and get a Blue Bird Dish free, Remember they sell you a $10.00 coupon book for $9.50 at GOSNELL’S GROCERY Come in and compare our prices with the so-called CASH Stores and mail order houses. MISSOURI NOTES ~ State Fuel Administrator Crossley has fixed the price of coal in Joplin and ‘Jasper county at $6.50 or less per ton. Surgeons with the armies in France say that married soldiers stand shell shock much better than single ones. verneetece Mrs. Daniel Gutheridge and son, Roby, spent Monday with her par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. R. Freeland. mother qu Mr. Rueben Shillinger and his sister, Mrs. S, L, King. from near Spruce visited Wednesday Lillie Wigger spent Wednesday at R. B. Keeble’s. afternoon with her aunt, Mrs. John Mrs. W. G,. Cumpton has bee iite sick with the la grippe. Dean Gabriel visited last week wit Mr. Joe Stevens has moved in the AWateon house vacated by Mr, Char Good- rich and began work for Mr. J. A Ifarry Chitwood Hermann. er, Geo. Frey. Mrs. Ethel Randall spent Tuesday Baker, of near Spruce. ° There was no school at Redmond | 4 Wednesday.- The teacher. went to ‘i 1 Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Pharis and fam- with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James} jj, and Clarence Raybourne and fam- ily left last week for Canada where hey will make their home. M questionnaire. ternoon with Icie Wigger. Mr, Victor Wolf spent Monday night with Mr. Guy Herman. Several from this neighborhdod at-| ¢) tended the sale ,at) Arthur Ganz’s] (; Thursday. Mr. George Baker butchered Tues Mrs. Clara Batchelor and daughte Nena, spent a few days last week witn he former's mother, Mrs. W, G. winpton, IB; day. Miss Pearl Jones. Friends in this vicinity are very sorry to hear of the death of Grand- |. mother Dobson, who has until’ re-| 4, cently resided in this neighborhood. Mr. Carl Hill was a sv Chapel neighborhood | Wednesday evening. Mr, Daniel Gutheridge attended th Huddleson and Wagner sale the oth. Sherman brothers hauled corn to the Sculley lease they bought of Charley Ours. Mr. Roy Jarrett went to Butler Saturday to fill out his questionnaire. Messers. Orville h and Oty Betz were on Chapel avenue Wednes- day hunting. When they passed the same old place it appearec if they took two backwards. 5. CHATTERBOX. ) iN ye steps pr Hot Springs Waters Wonderfully Suc- cessful in the Treat- ment of Rheumatism st UE peculiar prop- erties of the waters of the Hot Springs of Arkansas are due to radio-activity found in them to an: exceptional- ly marked degree, and their equal has never been known in the treatment of rheuma- tism and all uric acid troubles. These springs are owned and con- trolled by the U. S. Government. The cost of living at Hot Springs may be regulated to suit any purse, accommodations varying from mcderate- priced boarding houses up to the most fashion- able hostelries. Write for . Our Handsomely Illustrated Hot Springs Book The way there is via the ~ MISSOURI PACIFIC — in \ Isumed, The city change ‘shifts Mrs. C helina S st week, ra Cumpton 3 Dell Wilson and Miss-fay Morgan itor 1) were married in Butler last week. We | snd congratulations. EMa Collins of Warrensbur ing the Oak Grove school. DAISY. Bursting Steam Pipe Kills Two. Kansa fa ansas Ci esterday clock whe ntri ractical darkness. Barney S. Snodgrass and W. M. ‘Yaylor, negro firemen, were working | near the bursting pipe and were cut} off from escape by the and employees of the plant who trie dto rescue them were driven back by the bodies were found three hours later ain. Pol irned almost beyond recognition. The force of the explosion was felt for blocks around, g the hour when the After about three hours the and Jake Frey spent Sunday with the latter's broth- B 1 K in his sses Connie and Marea Chitwood utler to sce about a mistake in his}ayg 1 illie Wigger spent Tuesday af- ette Sutherland and Miss Gol- die Wigger took Sunday dinner with assisted ent with sewing one day City, Jan. 13.—The bursting neh steam pipe connecting the boilers at the main plant of the F tilway company at 2:45 Be ternoon resulted in the i death o {two workmen, and ‘stopping | forward and one/ine street. car’ service until after c was slowly re- last night was in! clouds of| the epidemic of measles to be greatly steam, The | umber of cases of pneumonia has de- It occurred dur- employces Melee Missouri fished unofiicial counts put the reswt in doubt, and before the speaker {could make an announcement there was a demand for recapitulation. Then the name of each member and the way he was recorded was read. Announcement of the vote was vreeted with wild applause and cheer- ing. Women in the galleries literally fell upon each other's necks, kissing and embracing, and shouting “glory! \glory! hallelujah!” The resolution as adopted was as follows: Joint resolittion proposing an amendment to*the constitution of the United States extending the right of suffrage to women. Resolved by the senate and house, jete., two-thirds of each house con- curring therein, that the following article be proposed to the legisla- tures of the several states as an amendment to the constitution of the United States, which when ratified by three-fourths of said legislatures, | shall be valid as part of said constitu- tion, namely: Article—Section 1, The right of itizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the | United States or by ‘any state on ac- count of sex, “Section 2, Congress shall have power by appropriate legislation to enforce the provisions of this article.” Of the total- membership of ‘435, there were 410 members who voted. Their lineup follows: - the resolution: Democrats, 104; Republicans, 165; miscellaneous, 5. Total, 274. ” Against the resolution: Democrats 102; Republicans, 33; progressive, 1. Total, 136. n r, 5 Late reports on health conditions at Army camps and cantonnents show decreasing. In several camps where measles has extensively prevailed the creased. ~ chanics succeeded in getting to the valve at the unit of the boilers where the explosion occurred and severed the connection with the thirty-six |~ other boilers. £ Below Zero Weather. A regular old-fashioned, ~- sure enough blizzard ‘swept over this sec- tion the latter part of last week. Thursday night about five inches of snow fell which a high wind blew in- to deep drifts, making traveling over the country roads almost an impossi- bility. All of the trains were from 6 taken off entirely. Many thermoin- above zero all day. Saturday was warmer and Sunday more snow fell. This was the coldest weather that this part of the state hag experienced since February, 1899, whén it was 25}. MISSOURI PACIFIC ‘RAILWAY No, 202 K. C. and St. Louis to 10 hours late, some of them being No. 210 K..C. and St. Lo Ce ui eters registered as low as 20 below| , Passenger: .-. zero Friday morning and never went | No. 292 local freight . No, 205 Joplin, Wichita & yville Passenger Ne..207 Joplin and Yates ae Center passenger PACIFIC IRON ,OUNTAIN / / 4 Time Table’ = North Bound Leave Passenger ...........00..11:00 & Mm. 10:45 p. mi. ++ 12:30 p. ma, ++ 3390.8 m During the extreme cold weather in lations between Russia and Bulgaria] the state. He was in Doniphan’s en- Kansas City last dae the Ae ac-lare resumed, Russia recognizes Bul-|pedition and his company captured a ministration ordered that only one} garia’s right to nominate a delegate | Mexican ton of coal be sold to any one, state treasury by the owners of auto- mobiles, motorcycles, port of Secretary of State Sullivan. A Missouri boy is among the first Americans captured by the Huns, The friends of Frank McDougal, who enlisted in the army from Maryville, identified him as one of the American captives shown in the official Ger- man photograph recently published. |. They say there is no possibility of a mistake in the identification. i Col. P. J. Kealy, who was in com- mand of the third regiment when it left Kansas City last summer, has re- turned and it is reported that he will resume his old position at the head of the Kansas City street railway company. It is said that Col. Kealy failed to pass the rigid physical ex- amination required of army oificers. Claude G. Piersol, convicted kid- napper was taken to the state peni- tentiary to start serving his 35-year'’s sentence early this week. His $20,090 appeal bond was invalidated when Mrs. M. O, Hall, his cousin, with- drew as one of the sureties. That ac- tion came at a conference of Piersol's | attorneys regarding his confession. | A car load of sheep and a car load | of hogs were killed when two freight trains on the Missouri, Kansas & Texas railroad hit head on at Clifton City, 12 miles north of Sedalia Fri- day night. Frozen airbrake‘hose was the cause for the wreck. Both trains were going at a slow rate of speed and the accident occurred on a siding. With only-one wholesale dealer in Springfield having a supply of sugar on hand, and‘that a very limited quantity, all grocers of the city by| agretment announced that customers would be limited to one pound at a single purchase. Until Thursday the sales were restricted to 2 1-2 pound sales. Car lot shipments are no, longer obtainable, wholesalers - here say. On account of the scarcity of labor mainly caused by the war, the street car company of Kansas City has been}. having trouble getting enough men for conductors and motormen and as women had handled these positions successfully in other cities concluded to try them, but the men that are still on the job are not very. gallant and have served notice that they will go on a strike if the women are put on the cars, } When.the parents of Private Troy Jones, member of Company E, 138th Infantry, Camp Doniphan, Ok. opened the coffin in. which the body posed to have been sent from camp{° jto ccounts but we sel Peace Concluded Between. Bulgaria separate peace agreement has been signed by Russia and Bulgaria, the Bund reports, . Bund says Premier Radoslavoff read] Columbia yesterday. the following dispatch Litovsk in parliament: to an international Danube commis-|stands in Glasgow. —_————_ sion, ‘The first peace is thus con-|lived in one of the oldest brick man- During the 11 months ending Dec./ cluded with the consent of Bulgaria’s|sions in Fayette. 31, 1917, $617,942.50 was paid into the | allies.” ete, for li-| pointed a minister to Petrograd and| Louis, Roger censes, according to the annual re-|/a consul general to be stationed at|Col.; William Carson, Howard Coun- Odessa and has ordered the resump-/ty, and Mrs. Alison Collier of Col- tion of navigation to Odessa. f YOU CAN GET ; ¢ 3 packages Corn Flakes .............. 1 Large Package Oats .. | 3 Patkages Jello . 2 cans Good Peas.. 74c 2 Cans Good Corn ... 2 lbs 3 cr Raisins ...... 1 lb Cow Brand Soda ... -.95¢° 366 +.a5¢ PHONE 77 Kit Carson’s Nephew Dead. and Russia, Fayette, Mo, Jan. 12.—Maj. 10.—A | George H. 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