The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, February 21, 1918, Page 10

eae ERIC Fn rons TY Holwell-Hotloway, . Mr. Willard Holwell, Fisk Opera House | bride. PHONE 60 They were accompanied Adrian by Rev. Davis, of the United Brethren church, who performed the ceremony, Mrs, Davis and Miss Sallie THURSDAY sister of the groom ant | Holwell, | Miss Laura Holloway sister of the {bride, After the ceremony Mrs. Hol- |loway-served a delicious wedding din- ner, ‘The young. cayple have so far made Marguerite Clark in FORTUNES OF FIFE t FRIDAY /ng plans for the immediate future as | Mr. Holwell is in Class A of the se- BASE UTINGREE EE EACK lective draft and is liable to be called MONK |for service at any time. For the pres- é ‘ent they are living at the home of the == | bride's parents at Adrian. SATURDAY: | The Times joins the many friends ‘of this excellent young couple in Enid Bennet in wishing them a happy and prosperous | voyage through life. PRINCES IN THE DARK —___—_——- 3 And a Comedy | Former Bates County’ Official Dies . in Texas, } | Sheriff J. W! Baker received a tel- iegram Sunday .announding the death qiof his uncle, J. C. Hale, which oc- jcurred at ‘San Antonio,-Texas. - The \telegram was from’ his son, Sidney, {and did not .give any .particulars, The remains were brought to Bute ler and funeral services, conducted by | Rev. S. B. Moore, held at the Chris- tian church Thursday afternoon at 2 W. A. BAKER & SONS’ HOG o'clock and interment made in Oak . SALE Hill cemetery. Besides his wife he Fe is survived by two daughters, Mrs, and Gilts|j:, T. Walling, of Blackwell, Okla~ , Shows at 7:09 and’8:15 5 AND 10 CENTS Fifty-Nine Bred Sows Beat $100 Average. homa, and Mrs. F. E. Buckley, San Antonio, Texas, and one son, Sid- -Local breeders gobbled up the] } =u ‘ 4 choice offerings at a A Baker & | ney, Hale, of San Antonio, Texas, : ene Mr. Hale was born in VanBuren Sons’ annual bred sow sale held in at a y va, 7 2 . He this city Friday, February 15th. county, Iowa, 72 years ago served one term as recorder of deeds Gite He ot ie nealey Mision, {of this county and soon after the ex- Lae r ; Mi ‘ ‘| piration of his term of office he went Frazier of Drexel, Mo., for $200, The | range of prices were remarkably uni- form, although a few extras which were sold, tended to bring down the | Internal Revenue Collectors to Make A Second Visit to Bates County. to “Fexas, where-he-has-since resided: general average. The Baker offering was one of the best that has gone through a sale ring in the county and the concensus of opinion of hog breeders and field men was that the offering sold much too low. In order that those who are subject to the Federal income tax and did not take advantage of a former visit of the deputies from the office of the linternal revenue collector, may have j every assistance in making out their lreturns, Collector E. M. Harber, has }ordere dtwo deputies to spend four days in the county to furnish infor- by the county court and taken to the} mation and assist in the making out State Hospital at Nevada for treat-|of returns. They will be in Butler at ment. Mr. Gibson has worked in| the court house March 6 and 7. At several shops in this city, but the last | Rich Hill, March 8, at the Commer- year has. been working in the barber] cial State ba Tarch 9 at Rich Hill, | shop in the Inn, For several days]|at the Farmers and Manufacturer's last week he was observed to be act- | bank. ing queerly and it finally became nec- | essary to take him to the hospital for | treatment. Floyd Gibson Insane. Floyd Gibson, the well known barber, was adjudged insane Tuesday Gregory-Garrett. | | James A. Gregory and Addie May Garrett, popular young people of the Amsterdam neighborhood, were unit- ed in marriage at Butler on Wednes- Grocery Store Changes Hands. ip, 18), Williams, who has been en- gaged in the grocery business in this|/day afternoon, Feb. 13th, 1918, by city for the last thirty ye Kev. I. W. Keele. They expect to posed of his store to Jame ke their future home near Amster- rigson, who will take el as soon|dam, where they have a host of as an invoice, which is now being | friends who join in wishing them a taken, is completed, long, useful and happy life. Give him an apron and turn him loose. He will fight with your old worn-out back number range about four minutes, then he will rush to our store and ask how quick we can send out A GRAND RANGE like the -one in the picture/ Nothing short of a real up-to-date range would suit “Pop” and nothing short of a genuine GRAND RANGE Thursday evening of last week Miss Versa Holloway, of near Adrian, and of the same|Commission has announced an ex- neighborhood, were united in mar-|amination to be held at Butler, Mis- riage at the home of Mr. and Mrs, J.|souri, on March 9, 1918, as a result of W. Holloway, on Ohio Street, this|which it is expected to make ‘certifi- city. Mr, Holloway is an uncle of the|cation to fill a contemplated vacancy from | master at Foster, Mo., and other va- ashore of hundreds of bodies of Ger- has just been reports from Gothenberg today. on the western coast of Sweden. The] A, Skagerrak connects the North Baltic seas and has been the scene of sev- eral sea, near the scene of the battle of Jutland. have alluded to naval battles of any :| size recently, Fourth-Class Postmaster Examination. The United States Civil Service in the position of fourth-class post- instead of high priced feed. because it takes less milk for the if they have plenty of sunshine. The sunshine windows.in the. ~ moco portable hog house lets cancies as they may occur at that of- fice, unless it shall be decided in the interests of the service to fill the vacancy by reinstatement. The com- pensation of the postmaster at this office was $448 for the last fiscal year. Applicants must have 1eached their | twenty-first birthday. on the-date—of | the examination, Applicants must reside within the territory supplied by the post of- fice for which the examination is an- ingness to grow. and if you will hang a lighted fortable the coldest nights, quirements of the examination can be | secured from the postmaster at the place of vacancy or from the United | States Civil Service Commission, Washington, D. C. | Applications should be properly ex- ecuted and filed with the Commission at Washington, D. C., at the’ earljest + Practicable date. They are very easily moved all charges. Your sow may be A “good mot Huns Srtip ‘ Clothes From Italian : Worren. | Washington, Feb. 16—Deptived of| homes and food by the invading. Huns, women and children in the | Venetian provinces of Italy are be-| ing subjected to more outrages. They | are. being stripped of all their cloth- ing, the Teutons gathering the cloth together and sending it to their own or fifteen years, BUTLER, MO. families, ‘ Sheriff's Sale in Partition, Looting of captured territory, which has been carried on so syste-| Elmer E. Voris, Plaintiff, matically by the Teutons in all their]. vs. While pillaging Udine, after invading} Meredith, Defendants. that Italian town, German and Bos-| nian soldiers began fighting among themselves—over the-division—of the} booty, during which 14 German and! three Bosnian soldiers were killed,|by the said Court, in the above en- according to an official dispatch from titled cause, and of a certified copy Rome this afternoon, jthereof, dated Feb, 6th, Similar conflicts took place in Pola| on and Cattaro between German and| Austrian sailors, the dispatch adds. | between the hours of nine o'clock in Missouri, lafternoon of that day, at the East [front door of the Court House, in| Dallas, Tex., Feb, 15—The death of the City of Butler in Bates county, | Capt. Vernon Castle while flying at| Missouri, sell at public vendue, to Fort Worth was the fifth in the avia- | the highest bidder, the following tion camps in that city within a week, | Je scribed real estate, viz‘ and the thirty-first since the camp | Al that part of the North one- opened, half (N. 1-2) of the Southwest Bie EV ONE increase in fatalities | quarter (S-W. 1-4) of — section of late was attributed by aviation thirty-four (34), township forty ficers to the greatly increased flyi | (40), range thirty-one (31), lying that came with the advent of warm) <outh and east of Mound Branch spring days and the fact that the! creek, in Bates County, State of students are reaching a stage where Missouri, containing 28 acres they fly alone. es 4 more or less. The fatalities ihis week at Fort) ‘Terms of sale as follows, viz: Cash Worth began Monday, with the death ashevul of Lieut. Peyton C. March, jr., son at of the chief of staff of the United States army. On Tuesday Cadets J. L, Wray and F. R. Porter were killed, | Yesterday Clifford N. Murray, a| cadebn teller thie deathe-wihere _| By virtue and authority of special yen Bs execution issued from the office of one fatality at the camp at Wichita (he Clerk of the Gineuit Falls “this week and one at Houston,! Bates County. Mo., returnable at the | when Donald Gleason was killed. | May term, 1918, of said Court, and to —____ ‘me directed, in favor of State of Mo. Bodies of German Sailors Washed up|ex rel J. H. Stone, Treasurer and by Sea. against George Clark, I. have levied upon and seized all the right, title, in- 16.—The terest and claim of the said George Clark et al- of, in and to the follow- At Fort Worth, 31 Killed, Ww. BAKER, Sheriff. Sheriff's Sale. Stockholm, Feb, washing man sailors near Gothenberg is taken|ing described real estate, to-wit: to indicate that a big naval battle Lots (15), (16) and (17), block (13) 8 “lin the town of-Merwin, Mo, All ly- fought, according to ing and being in the said Bates Coun- sh oa ‘ a ty and State of Missouri; and I will, Gothenberg is near the Skagerrak,| 5p Saturday, the 16th day of March, nine o’clock in the forenoon and five o’clock in the afternoon of that day, engagements between British {at the East Court House Door, in and German warships. The North Sunshine is not expensive. Use it It takes less feed for the mother warm sunshine in on cold, clear Feb- ruary and March days, and gives the pigs warmth and'comfort and a will- These houses are strong and tight, ~ tern in the comb they will be com- They are portable. We make them nounced, a icati ~in six pieces so you can convenient- Application blanks, Horny 1753, and ; ly haul eeverall of themsin one wakod full information concerning the re-j| bed. together as they appear in the above cut. We put them together and load them on your wagon without extra advances, has at last struck a snag. | Nellie Mathany, Ida Voris and May) cash in hand, to satisfy said execution In the Circuit Court of Bates Coun- by-virtte-and authority of -a-decree and order of sale in partition made | 1918, I will Saturday, the 16th day of March, 1918 | $2050.00. |the forenoon, and five o’clock in the|acres section 27 Rockville $1000.00. Court of | 1918, between the hours of} pigs . Lo- the dan- put $12.00 Without Windows, ther, but the: ¢an’t save her pigs from chilling out iti the open in.a coi February or March snow and a Two pigs’saved will more than pay for this conyenient, ‘warm sunshine house. Don’t stunt your pigs:for lack of stinshine. It will take several dollar’s worth of feed to get them to growing again. Take these houses home with you and let your sow get accustomed to her new home before her family arrives. The pigs these houses will save each year will more than pay for them, and they will last for ten LOMOCO SERVICE STATION the city of Butler, County of Bates aforesaid, sell the same or so, much thereof as may be required, at Pub- lic Vendue, to the highest bidder for and costs, 19-4t J. W. BAKER, Sheriff of Bates County, Mo. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. | J. B. Thompson to J. T. Brumfield part block 1 Standish addition Hume J. T. Webster to Forest Strader 40 F, M, Atkins to A. B. Meech 22 acres section 17 West Point $1224.00. A. T. Wade to W. F. McKibben lots 9 and 10 part lot 8 block 3 Amsterdam $6000.00. Robt. Kneale to C. L. Domer 40 jacres section 24 Rockville $2000,00. T. G. Laid to R. A. Jurd part. lot i2 all lot 3 Sperry’s addition Rich Hill $30.00. : Geo. B. strong 40 acres section $350.00. Seidelman to R, F, Arm- 34 Homer The banks and trust companies of | this city will -observe Washington’s birthday Friday, February 22, by re- maining closed all day. The postof- fice will be opened two hours in the forenoon, from 8 until 10. ° There | will be no rural delivery. | Rich Hill home talent will put on minstrel show Friday evening, Feb- ruary. 22,,for the benefit-of the Red Cross unit at that place. It is report- ed that within a few minutes after the seats.vere placed on sale the house more than sold out and the man- agers decided to repeat the show on Saturday evening. Arrangements are being made to have the company come up to Butler and put the show on Thursday: evening, February 28. With Dr. Delameter and Frank | Koontz in the cast it will certainly This House feady for-your ‘gigs. oe b Banks to Close Friday. | * $15.00 With° Wao Logan-Moore Lumber Company PHONE 18 —— EEE)EOC)C)]_====_=_=_=_E Lieut. C. J. Allen, of the Medical Reservé™ Corps, at Camp Funston, Kansas, who is visiting relatives in Rich Hill, was up to Butler a couple of days the first of the week. Before volunteering for service in the med- ical corps, Dr. Allen was coroner of Bates county and conducted—the in- quest over the remains of Mrs, Vail, who was burned to death in her home at Amsterdam last fall. Her husband was charged with her murder and Dr, Allen was granted a leave of absence to come home and testify at the trial, which was held the first of the week. An increase in the personal proper- ty tax of John D. Rockefeller, who now pays on an assessment of 5 mill- ion dollars, is suggested by Mayor Hylan in a letter to the president of the tax board, made public Friday. The mayor stated that the real estate was bearing an undue share of the burden of taxation in the city, and he also suggested that the city might follow the government scheme of “taxing excessive wealth that comes from excessive incomes.” : Declaring that a ship loaded with thousands of dollars’ worth of arms and ammunition had sailed from San Pedro for Mexico four months ago, “General” Nicholas Zogg, one of the three mén accused of conspiring to violate the neutrality law and a fig- ure in the bitter controversy between the military and federal authorities in the alleged gun running plot, Friday, said he was ready to confess details of other gun running plots to the government. Kind friends -I am in need of work as I have three children to support and very near no money and I want washings that I can take at home for I have two small children, And I want a house that has plenty of water. Thisone has none. Please help me as I am a stranger who came here for work and am willing to work, Please call and see me as I can tell you bet- ter of my circumstances. Mrs. Myrtle Carson, 216 Summer St. be worth going to. . e Skagerrak, was the Neither British nor German reporis Roosevelt Sits Up in Bed. New York, Feb. 16—Col. Theo- dore Roosevelt has made such pro- gress toward recovery from the. op- erations he underwent two wecks ago that attending physicians said today they considered it unnecessary to continue the issuing of bulletins on his condition. The former President spends much of his time sitting up in bed reading, it was stated. Asked what kind of literature the colonel was reading, Mrs. Douglas Robinson, his sister, re- suits any wise housewife, after she has seen one. GRAND RANGES were designed by a woman, They are right in every particular. The Perfect baking oven, the fuel saving fire box, the silver nickel, the plain, easy-to-keep-clean castings and many othe: GRAND features make a GRAND Renge THE range. Your Grand is here at a price you can afford to pay. 4 Better Pick it out now. FURNITURE, CARPETS AND RUGS . to the Belgian legation from Havre eren, a town in East ing the last few weeks carried away 2,700 men of all ranks of life to mil- itary work on the west front. plied, “Oh, everything—including de- tective stories.” More Belgians Deported by Germans Washington, Feb. 15.—Deportation of Belgians by the Germans continues in “a most revolting way,” despite Berlin’s promises to neutral nations and the pope, an official cablegram announced this afternoon. At Lok- Flanders, the message said, the Germans have, dur- }} To Plow Deeper and Quicker and to disc and harrow ofterier would require more horses or moretinie. To double the depth of plowing would re- quire 70% more horses or 70% more time. You can’t afford to take the time or to keep the extra horses. To keep 70% more horses would increase your expense to the same amount, and to take 70% more time would mean smaller crops._ TRACTORS All Sizes AVERY BUICK AUTOMOBILES BUICK AUTOMOBILES : ber For DEMONSTRATION