The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, January 17, 1918, Page 6

FARMERS BANK OF BATES COUNTY BUTLER, MISSOURI Cannot be Manned in One Year. Washington, Jan. 11—The dream airplanes within a year dream, : Chairman Howard Coffin of of one hundred thousand American] is—only > af. \ What is more important than to start the New Year with bank connection that will benefit you? Remember that during the next year opportunities will come to you, when you will suddenly need the services of a bank, able and willing to accommodate. TRY “FARMERS BANK SERVICE” a CGpital RIGCh Gia Moai neers Wiese cue $50,000.00 Surplus Fund 50,000.00 (OndividedrProtitss \cy sano acnaaacanr rma 10,000.00 The Walton Trust C ompany OF BUTLER Welcomes and appreciates your accounts, Its extensive clientele, developed during more than 49 years of consistent, considerate ser- vice,_is-splendid-endorsement-of.the agreeable and satisfactory rela- tions maintained with patrons. Let your money earn while you sleep. We pay interest at the rate of 4 per cent per annum on Time Deposits. WE INVITE YOUR PATRONAGE Capital and Surplus over - - $400,000.00 Auction Sales! | Yes, I still make them, making more each year. The pub- lic of today is seeking the trained Auctioneer, the man of ability and experience to conduct their sales for them, Never before in the history of our nation has the Farmers property been as valuable as now and he can’t afford to have it sacrificed by men of little or no ability or exper- ience just because they, work cheap. A good auctioneer pays his own fees many timesina sale. If you think of making a sale don’t fail to see me for dates and terms. Address me at Butler, Mo., or phone me Butler or Virginia. Gol. C. E. ROBBINS, BUTLER, MO. Denton-Coleman Loan and Title Co, 5 FOR FARM LOANS and ABSTRACTS BUTLER, MO. | DUVALL-PERCIVAL TRUST CO. CAPITAL and SURPLUS, $250,000 aircraft production board, breaking the silence about aircraft progress in a program in so short a time is im- possible, involving as it’ would the use of a personnel of 4 million men, an unworkable transportation~ prob- lem, and a housing question in Eur- ope of tremendous proportions, Personnel and shipping bar the path to such a realization, Betwezn forty and fifty men in auxiliary ser- vices are needed per plane, and with shipping in the shape it. is, their transportation and would be impossible. | ~ . However, the aircraft program is now well on the way to realization. Coffin officially’ ‘revealed that America's twenty-four training sta- tions are. full, while American flyers are getting advanced training abroad; that niaterials have been internation- ally ,standardized; that thousands of American aero-mechanics ‘are being put into actual service with the allied services; that production of stand- ardized training machines will be in excess of needs of the program by January 20—that thousands of air- craft have been ordered abroad to supply American flyers up to ~ June, 1918; while advanced training planes will begin to be delivered within nine- ty days, sufficiently so that advanced training for this country can be achieved. In the business end, a systematiza- | tion has been achieved and plans for this country, advised today that such4- Butler, 1 mile house, on production are based on most eco- nomical lines—that is, quantity pro-!| duction by big plants. — H / eeayee Verge of Turkey Reported on, | Collopse. verge of collapse. So serious is the domestic “situation in the “Ottoman | empire that proposals for a separate peace were made to Russia _ several months before the negotiations were opened at Brest-Litovsk, it was stat- ed in a telegram from Petrograd roa | day. They were inade through the Russian minister at Derng, Switzer- land. Turkey is suffering greater hard-, syips than any other country in the German alliance, She has been en- gaged in almost continuous warfare for six years, her finances are shat- tered and the population is on the verge of absolute starvation, First came the war with Italy, then the Balkan war with Bulgaria, Greece, Serbia and Montenegro al- lied against “her. Before she had} hold which Berlin has upon her, ‘Tur- key would probably have entered into | peace on any terms before this itme. | Huns Take Jap Ship and Raid | Pacific. | | Tokio, Jan, 12.-—-Another German raider is loose in the Pacific, accord ing to an unconfirmed report brought | to Nagasaki today by an officer of a Dutch merchanie ship. The officer said the Japanese ship Hitachi Maru, which has been miss- ing for three months, was captured by some Germans between Colombo and Delage bay and converted into| an auxiliary cruiser. He did not ex-| plain how the Germans were able to} take the vessel. Held for Destroying Food. St. Louis, Jan. 11.—The first fed-| eral warrants in St. Louis under a provision of the new food law mak- ing it a felony to waste and destroy necessary food wilfully were issued today against five members of the lo- cal teamsters’ union, who yesterday upset the wagons of a local dairy in an effort to induce the company’s drivers to strike in sympathy with a discharged driver. The maximum penalty is $1,000 fine or two years in the penitentiary, or both Officers’ Uniforms at Cost. - Washington, “Jan. 11—The War Department now is considering the advisability of selling uniforms to of- ficers at cost, Senator Jones of Wash- Having sold my farm, I will sell at public | manenance auction at my residence 4 miles south-west of south-west of the Trip School vs Monday, Jan. 21 SALE TO START AT 10 O’CLOCK A. M. the following described property: 2 Head of Horses Sorrel horse 6 years old weight 1000 Ibs. good worker, Black horse 6 years old weight 1000 good work horse. 5 Head of Cattle Milch cow 6 year old will be fresh February 6 a good ‘milch cow, i Jersey milch cow 5 years old giving two gallons of milk daily will be fresh London, Jan. 12—Turkey is on the im March. Milch cow, 4 years old, Short Horn, fresh, calf at side. Milch cow \4 years old Short Horn giving 2% gallons of milk daily. 1 Yearling heifer. 15 Head of Hogs 2 thoroughbred Poland-China brood sows from Charters stock all bred 1 gilt weight 125. Brood sow weight 200, bred. Thoroughbred Poland China Boar can be registered, weight 150 lbs. 10 head shoats weight about 50 Ibs. each extra good. | weight around 300 each. Corn and Hay in crib, 1 stack of timothy hay. 325 bushels corn Farm Implements Spring wagon, 16-inch Sulky plow David Bradley, 14-inch walking mowing machine 5-foot cut, hay frame. time will Air Fleet Will Not be Ready by Spring. ° Montreal, Jan. 11.—Germany will have nothing to fear from the United States air fighting forces during the coming spring because the American schedule, according to Major William A. Bishop, winner of a Victoria cross. who addressed the -Canadian club here today. He is credited with shooting down forty-five German air- craft. Major Bishop characterized as | “unfortunate” the advertising which ‘has been given the United States gov- jernment’s aircraft program. He sail that while France would find it im- possible further to enlarge her air- plane fighting forces during the com- ing half year, Germany, knowing, America’s intention, has greatly ex- panded her flying corps in an effort jto gain supremacy in air warfarc. Consequently, he declared, during the ington told the Senate today in urg- ing early consideration of his_ bill, which provides that the department shall furnish all equipment to officers at cost prices. The Washington sen- ator urged that -the government should commandeer the stocks of all private concerns handling officers’ next few months Great Britain will “have to face the most terrible time she has yet faced and especially from the, point of view of war in the air.” aircraft program “is far behind” its; LUNCH ON GROUNDS COL. C. E. ROBBINS, Auctioneer. started to recover from the effects of | . ‘ ihe paras she wae dekecea iatel ihe | DIOWs corn planter and wire, disk harrow almost new, New Century 6- world conflict, But for the strangle) shovel riding cultivator, New Departure cultivator good as new, standard Household and Kitchen Utensils too numerous to mention TERMS:—On all sums of $10 and under, cash. Over that amount a credit of 9 months’ be given on bankable note to bear 8 per “ent interest from date. cash, No property to be removed until terms of sale are complied with. 2 per cent discount tor James Boyles & Son M. C. WILCOX, Clerk. Missouri is Getting Better. the Jefierson City 1,319 According to Democrat-Tribune there were prisoners received at the Missouri penitentiary during the year just closed. This is 67 less than was re- ceived during .the year 1916. Jack- son county, in which Kansas City is located, took ‘the lead, formerly held by St. Louis, with 325 to St. Louis’ 241. Nineteen counties did not send a single prisoner and 22 sent one each. There was one prisoner received who is serving his tenth term fer burglary; 15 are serving their fifth terms and 306 their second terms, all of which does not speak very well tor the Mis- souri penitentiary as a reformatory institution, .Top Prices for Eggs. Eggs, just common hen eggs, sold for 7oc’ per dozen in St. Louis Friday of last week, which was a record price for Missouri. | An Opportunity for Dairymen 1AM OFFERING MY FINE YOUNG GUERNSEY BULL OVERLAND STARLIGHT . 35149 A. G.C. C, For Sale at a Sacrifice equipment. | San Francisco, Jan. 11.—Plans , Hiridu revolutionists and Germans to transport arms through the Gulf of FARMERS BANK BUILDING, BUTLER, MO. Weh to loan on real estate at a 1 rt F. ‘ARM LOANS of interest with ipeivilege to pay Ms any gt hata Mines , We have a complete‘set of Abstract Books and will ABSTRACTS furnish abstracts to any real estate in Bates Gounty ‘and examine and perfect titles to-same. : fetes AV Sell Woe rent ate monks for. you, garetns: