The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, February 14, 1918, Page 2

It’s Easy to Walls an y ceilings « Doerd, painted or kalsomined in any ¢: nake your kitchen an. ate e) roo to worl cuarentced wall board : k d right Tt will trans- { od for gar- 1 buildings, repairs, Write for ¢ and ha:dsome views. Panel Suggestions /7L. As‘ your dealer, Corneil Wood-Boardis fe ia. thick, Sein, and 43 in, wide, standard lengths, H..S. WYATT LUMBER CO. 1 hous 5, al BUTLER, MISSOURI o, Dies.), Chicago, sere Cornell Wi | ‘Merwin Items. From Sunny California. | Pasadena, California, 2-2-18.! 9 Mr. Pattee of Amsterdam, was in Editor Weekly ‘Times, Merwin Tuesday on busines Butler, Mo. KE. BE. Ward of Adrian was in town Tuesday. Char. hay was down from Kan Dear Sir:—I see by looking at the | noof my paper that my time of mar subscription has just) expired, and/ sas City last week visiting at while it is fresh in my memory | ex- | home of J. Eh. Hussey. peet |} had better renew. M itor, | Buell Mudd’s sale Tuesday was ' , 5 4 this e a : ter on me so far, Not on account of} ething sold soll casses to more utterly confound and snows, rain or bad disagreeable wea! Miss Leafy Marsh'is suffering very | entangle them in the morass of slime ther, but quite to the contrary, for pret fron cinated erm, and degeneracy in which they revel, | ° we so far have had no winter, only al J. bL. Hayes was released from] live, move, and have~their being. few very light frosts. Consequently | qu ntine Sunday. While operating on a man recently, by Hoover g we still find plenty! Gean Monroe and Bytel Horton] the doctor discovered that the man to eat, especially in the way of green) were quietly married Sunday evening | had two appenc s instead of one-- fresh y s, which are plentiful at the home of Rev. Clare Nelson, + | unustal?. Yes, very. But what I,was on the m ind reasonably cheap. Millard Skeens of Paola, is visiting | going to say was this—if you ever Strawber are higher right now his sist Mrs, James Curnutti, have to submit to an operation be than at any time this season, They Miss Ethel Miller and mother came] very stire that the operator picks up are up to io cents per box, Every} down from Kansas Cityq Thursday |all of his tools when he is done, I thing grows green and fresh as ir’ for a visit with her aunt, Mrs, A,}read this story t'other day—A man in middle of summer, with roses and Crag. a hospital was operated on for ap=] all kinds of flowers blooming on! John Wood made a business trip to| pendicitis. When he came from un- every hand. My ailment has been’ Butler Thursday. der the anesthetic he exclaimed, inflammatory rheumatism, but 1 am Newton Eliott returned home| “thank goodness that job 1s over.” A somewhat better now. When we read, Wednesday from Gower, Missouri, in the papers of the terrible cold Mrs. ‘T. D, Holdsworth and son, weather, blizzards, deep snow-drifts Keith, returned home from Kansas and below zero weather, it) hardly) City Thurs: 4 seems possible to us here, where we Mrs. Ge Mordica is under quar- antine with the smallpox, Floyd Totten returned home in) Harrisonville the have had nothing but perpetual sun- shine and warm weather, | 1 did think for a time that 1} would break off taking the Times, as we, the week. take one other Butler paper, but then | M Maggie Groves returned Fri- I got to thinking more seriously about day from Paola, Kansas. the matter and concluded it would be! Mrs. 1.. A. Fugate and granddaugh- | terrible hard to go without hearing ter, Marjorie Wilhelm, came down from those good old correspondents, from s City Saturday and -re- viz: “On The Wii N,, turned “nele Henry" and from his first of Kar : Nand "How! Timothy Foley aid Mr. Glettheart i world like to hear our old friend of Greeley, Nebraska, came down ‘do some of | Saturday looking over the farm of ‘North New) Mr. Foley, one-half mile cast of Mer- and many other faith-| win, occupied by Mr. John Hussey. and last but not) Claudine Harris*has the German fi “Sun- measles. any John Hedger of Virginia was vis are iting John Hussey the first of the J ANEES: and neighbor * his oldtime Home Items’ ful quill) pushers; least, that illustrious old chap ny Jim’, author of “Sunbeams of his single communication worth a whole year's subscription, ; (but you needn't tell him T said so) | Therefore you will find herewith et \ Cornland, closed a One Dollar Bill for the yest) pres Dark made a business trip to ris, And may it be the best year | Kansas City Thursday. the Times ever had. | Miss Edith Soderstrom who teaches Your old friend and well wisher, the Valley school near Spruce, spent WM. A. BADGLEY, {ihe week end at home. 96 Elevado Drive, Clark’ and Roy Smith of Spruce, Pasadena, California. | tyazel Gish, of Nyhart, and Ralph {Berry of Lost Corner neighborhood day. . 1. Turner lost a valuable mule je | P 1S era ; Tuesday. ater r Mrs. Frank Proctor and daughter, H Miss~Mae, spent Tuesday with Mrs. Hannah McClintie. Mr. Holloway came out from But- ‘er and visited Carnie’s Sunday after- PHONE 60 noon. Mr. and Mrs. P. I. Turner and son, Cyrus, took Sunday dinner at A. W. Shay’s. THURSDAY Roy Morrison has “purchased @ new ivi larties i work team. THE Want DIRECTION \"% Virgil Lockard was in Foster over night Saturday night. Andrew Doll of near Maysburg vi ited his sister, Mrs. Henry Herman, Monday and Tuesday. Burley Burk is sick with measles. FRIDAY Ethyl Clayton in SOULS ADRIFT Butler spent Sunday at home. SATURDAY - Miss Emil Dorothy a Chasles Ray ve pose ig BACK OF THE MAN Harper, : z ~ ternoon; ebruary, Also a two-reel Comedy and Car- sate teneaec ee gent Events, Shows at 7 and 8:15 taken to the o ISplaae so fa took dinner at Henry Herman’s Sun-; Jim Simpson, who is working in *s * * ee ee eee ee Ld SUNBEAMS, ** + * * ee oe ee eh . Now don’t git ex- cited folks — you won't find any poli- tics or ‘religio’ Sunbeams. _ A —eussion—of- often feads to trouble and as for re- ligion--well, there are so many dif- ferent brands (all more or less good) that I won't advise you further than to say that if you should decide to espouse any certain brand you will wish you had tried the other. But, T may-say that I’m for woman suffrage strong, I believe a woman can. vote far. more intelligently than “most’ men. I also believe she is just as-ef- fective with a pitch fork or a hoe and when it comes to an intellectual dis- cussion af ways and means she is “au fait.” She has certain rights which the law allows her and she will pos- sibly usurp some rights other than these. But withal she is just as in- dispensible as tobacco or. any other article on the farm and while I’m no politician 1 say let the women vote (as well as make the livin’) Great knowledge, if it be without vanity, is the most severe bridle’ of the tongue, For so have I heard that all the noises of the pool, the croak- ing of the frogs and toads, is hushed and appeased upon the instant of bringing upon them the light of a candle or a torch. Every. beam ot reason, or ray of knowledge, checks " area the dissolutions of the tongue.— Jeremy Taylor. Now how do you like that? Don’r it prove what I've been trying for that the gossiper and scandalmonger is the direct result or product of dense ignorance. But don’t worry—should any of the breed assail you or attempt to sully your good name just remem- ber that the gossiper like the king of shadows, loves a shining mark and comfort yourself with this thought, that you stand on an intellectual above them that their vile mouthings, epithets and evil vitupera- tions can not reach you and will only patient on the next cot said to ‘him: “Don't be too sure. They had to. open me up to recover a sponge the doctor left inside.” Then another one spoke up and said “Yes, and they left some instruments in my innards and had to open me up.” This was not so long to have you understand, viz: | ° selling them a year ago. Two years ago you could products, BUTLER, MO. ants. never: have to use snow shovels and where the water pipes don't freeze, SS The goose is considered a. silly bird and few people would be willing to admit that a goose has more sense than themselves. Fact, nevertheless, Listen—Ill show you-——when a goose is healthy, has plenty to eat and drink and is well provided for he has sense enough to know he is doing well and is contented. Well?, you say. Andi answer well! Further comparison would prove odious and only reflect more _credit—o goose That 25 year old Chicago gal who is growin’ evidently is doin her darndest to heed the call—come up higher. Once I was young, now’I am old and I have learned some things, one of which is that on grave occasions the public official most in demand 1s the undertaker, Rackward=turn backward, O time, in your flight. Give me a square -uny OS We J ‘}481U0} 40z ysnf ‘fea gry and meat is so high, fill me on Porter House, then let me die. Many long years will the pasture grow green ere I in a meat shop again will Come from the silence so be seen. comforting to the victim and to add to his terror just then the doctor who had worked on him stuck his head in- aide the room and yelled, “Where is my hat?” We are told we should seize our opportunity. . Yes—but_ seizin’ ain't all there is to it, We should also hold ‘em. And opportunities are about as hard to hold as a gréased pig at a 4th, of-July picnic. Me? O, I dunno. I never tried holdin’ oppor- tunities. “What are you knitting, my pretty maid?” She purled, then dropped a stitch. “A sock or sweater, sir,” she said. And darned if I know which.” —Philadelphia Public Ledger. “And who will wear it, my pretty. maid?” She smiled—while she knitted on. “ “Twill be worn by my Bill, who is fightin’ to kill .The gol-darned, onery, Hun.” The Kaiser says he is in cahoots mit Gott. He also claims to have 2 “divine right.” Maybe he has—! dunno.. But I happen to know that and I'm lookin’ for him to land, it to the point of the jaw of said Kaiser purty soon. How to make hens lay. Here's how. Listen! I saw this in a paper. You've got to scare ‘em. Get a card board, Paint on it in big letters—"An lege a day keeps the hatchet away.” Will it work? Well, I should tip-toe- to-cackle, Oh, yes, I'll admit it may be rough oft the hens, but We are bute ao the eggs. Try it. Do I believe in prayer? You can et Ido. That is when the situation bi ment. But take it from me bullets }} and not prayers is what is going win this war for us. A good shootin the |iron is more effective in a tight place {| results. ie and brings quicker The only valid claim for exemptior I have heard of so far was that of & Uncle Sam has a “derned good left,” }) don’t demand a more hefoic treat= “IE YOU LOOK THE HIGH GRADE, LOW PRICED ROOF. | TShitigies are the lowest priced roof, considerin| the quality, of any as on the market today. Some roofing material has doubled and trebled in price durin: But, today we are selling the’Clear Thick Red Cedar Shingles for just about the same price we were Today you can buy six thousand shingles with a 200-Ib, hog. Why? have almost doubled in price but shingles are still to be bought at our yard at almost the same old price. A leaky roof will cause more expense this spring. : 4 Every drop of water will cause a-spot upon the wall, Roof with Shingles this February-if pdssible before. the rains, and before the government puts an embargo on shipping shingles and the diminishing stocks compel prices to advance to the LEAR LOMROOF WITH A GOOD, COCO RED CEDAR SHINGLE SAWED FROM THE CLEAR HEART OF THE MIGHTY CEDAR TREES, Logan-Moore Lumber Company seven and a half feet tall and still! Up in the attic where you very beldom go 2 sel You most likely ‘could see day light through the roof. And some dark night you will wake up, ____ With.an_ awful load upon your chest, _ bs ‘And you will find it’s the plaster: off the ceiling ‘ On your: bed. It’s lurking just above you, ~ And when it rains this spring; There will be little drops of water Coming through those cracks up in the roof And they. will make little rivulets aa That will surely soak the plaster and the paper off ceiling and walls. SHINGLES ~— : i, the past year. have bought four thousand shingles with a 200-Ib, hog. i *< Because all farm products level of other PHONE 18 long and so deep. Bring mea soup The next meeting will be with” “Mrs. bone of rump steak or sheep. Hones:|C. W. Rector Wednesday, Feb, 20. to goodness the years have been long | All the ladies in the community are since I was hushed by the lullabye | invited to come and bring your needle song of the old kettle bilin’ with hog | and thimble to help sew for the sol- jowl and greens. ~Lord, how I long|dier boys. for a pot of baked beans. I am 30] Art Gilmore was in Butler one day tired of Hoover and such. So tired |last week. of starvin’ to help kill the Dutch.| Edna and Eunice Frey spent one Come let a meat-skin just tickle my |day last week with their cousin, Lillie_ nose ere 1’m so weak I can’t wiggle | Frey. my toes. Then I'll lie down to my! Mr, and Mrs. Lon’ Foster assisted long dreamless sleep, undisturbed by | Will Foster with butchering one day the blat of a calf or a sheep, last week, Patien yours Ge Mice , “ s Everett and Ray Phigney aad Claud Stephson are entertaining the measles, Country Happenings. Mrs. C. W. Rector spent one even- ing last week with her sister, Mrs. J. T. Chitwood. Everett Harvey and family have Mrs. Bernice Dickison and two! moved near Piper, where they have children, Walter and Velma Ruth.| bought them a farm, spent Saturday night and .Sunday| Icie Wigger spert Saturday night with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. E-| with Cora Gragg. Harvey. Pearl Jones called on Thelma Sar- Mrs. Jake and Geo, Frey were in| gent Friday. Appleton City Wednesday. Mrs. Geo, Frey and child¥en spent, Lon Foster cut wood for Geo. Sar- | Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Jake Frey. gent Thursday. and Friday. Rev. Keele of Butler. filled his ap- The Red Cross unit met with Mrs. pointment at Pleasant Home Sunday G, Quick last Wednesday afternoon. | morning and night. IN PUBLIC SALE! I will sell at public auction at my farm, 8 miles east of Drex- el, 64% miles west of Archie, 1 mile south and 1 east Tuesday, commencing at 10 0 ys | a,.m 24 Horses and Mules 1 black mare 10 years old, weight 1735 pounds, in foal to jack. 1 black mare 8 years old, weight 1610 pounds, in foal to jack (Roleur.) 1 dark bay mare, 7 years old, “1550 Ibs., in foal : to jack. 1 black mare 16 years old, weight 1625, in foal to jack. to jack (Roleur.) and are extra good brood ae work mares.) 1450, in foal. 1310, foul to jack. \" ‘with pony. - ~ 1 brown mare 11 years old, weight 1550, in poet (The above mares are all high grade eteheeok: x bay mare 4 years old (al purpose) weight 1 black coertins s-vear-old Roleur “filly, weight 1 black coming s-year-old filly, weight 118s, in ate pebis cree st ee a ‘gentle for any child. ie sod ae wa }* These are acteal weights, ten with nothing om of Main City, on Feb. 19, 1918 ., the following Ae rcelbed property: : 19 Head of Cattle 3 six year old cows, good ones. I §-year-old cow, gcod milker. 4 coming 3-year-old cows, _1 Cow g years old, extra good milker. 3 coming 2-year-old heifers. ~ >All these cows are bred to a registered Short- horn bult; and will be fresh in early spring. 5 coming yearling heifers. -- 1 registered Shorthorn Ball be two years old in April, a good one. Ae Seed Oats 520 to 1030 bushels extra good seed oats, either Texas Red or sesh as well as good