The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, February 21, 1918, Page 6

@oeT. D. ALLEN, Entered at the Post Office of But ler, Mo., as second-class mail matter. PRICE, $1.00 PER YEAR We are authorized to make the fol- lowing announcements, subject the Democratic primary of Bates County to be held in August, 1918: For Representative: HERMAN O, MAXEY For Circuit Clerk: LLOYD GAINES C. C. SWARENS New Home Township, FOR CITY OFFICERS We are authorized to make the fol- lowing announcements subject to the action of the city nominating conven- tion: For City Marshal: GEORGE PP, FULKERSON For City Marshal: ROBERT L. BRADEN GENERAL NOTES. Cloth and metal are so scarce in 7 . . Germany that the dead are being : . & wrapped in paper and buried in paste- : ‘ board coffins, at least those are who ” 9 . are not converted into lubricants and } | Cc ammonia, Secretary Baker has been accused of almost every crime imaginable, but it remained for senator Weeks of Massachusetts to reach the heights of absurdity when in,a speech before the Senate last week he characterized him as a “pacifist.” Once officer was killed and several | sailors were seriously injured in an explosion on the battleship Utah at an Atlantic port Hhursday. The of- ficer, whose name has not been re- vealed, died shortly after being trans. ferred to the hospital ship Solace. Scarcity of paper has cut down the circulation of the Congressional Ree-| ord. It was ‘learned that” for the of ‘Februar: re i i Se Reeordl Se acts S. ae . sot | y 22, They expect to give resent at least, virtually no copies|t¢™mver, according _ to Grand Sire}tacks on the administration, High 3 Es F; ank Koon Zz M E ie Ss H k d * of the Record are Bere aurelde of| "rank C. Goudy of Denver, There} praise was sounded, however, for the | ‘Be performtance in Butler, February r {z, rs. Elsi tricklan ’ Washington federal and, state officials. except to May 1 as moving day has been an- nuled by the Chicago Renting! Agency Association. War has made | a shortage of labor and owners o/| vans have been forced to dispose of a number of horses througa scarcity of food. The charred bodies of thirty-eight children have been _recovered at Montreal, Canada, from the riins~of a3 1 : . 4 ] of the treaty effect between Ukraine, the County Chapter. If you have the Grey nunnery which was de-/tric Railway Employees. that the! and the central powers. * | ccmvaniiing 40 donate, lesa notify rGy daa stroyed by fire. It is feared many)carmen of the Joplin & Pittsburg! at the same time the German gov- Mr. W. F. Duvall, chairman of the AT - = more have perished, and searchers be- lieved the toll of death might reach 100. paseo ies SEE formed him they had quit their jols| sneviki, | Miss Katherine Burli Haty | Federal Judge Landis Thursday up-|and were on a strike. They refused sa | ane of Stinadatls Gomuniten me St. urs a venin | held pratt exeaeeon hig ey to return to work. According to the Brest-Litousk| Louis writes, “we are ; anticipating : is 5 ' : \ ing marrie i MUCe ey «| The Maryland Senate finally passed |t*eaty the new republico of Ukrain | keeping up our knitting throughout f 1 ie privilege of deferred classification - The Butler Weekly Times Printed on Thursday of each week. to Coats, T terials are not to be had season. Coats are priced $12.50 to $45 in our own dress making de: sell only at one price. D to every purchaser, _ Warners The war department has asked the Brotherhood of Locomotive engin- eers to furnish fifty men for tank ser- lv and 1,000 engineers for transp tation service in France. Warren S. Stone, grand chief of the brotherhood told the railroad wage commission he would iurnish the aepartment the names of men available. A demand that German members of the Independent Order of Oddfellows ve expelled from that organization will be made at the annual grand lodge meeting in St. Louis next sep- are 7,000 German members, it is esti- mated. Incident to the remoyal of the Civilian prisoners from the war pris- on camp at Fort Douglas, Utah, to a new location within the compound, two more tunnels were discovered by the prison,authorities. ‘Lhis makes a total of sixteen tunnels that have cen found within the last two and a half months, An appeal by Frank O'Shea, inter- national board member of the Elec- KKaitway Company who quit work last week go back to work, proved futile. the men heard O'Shea and then in- because of the wife's dependency, |the resolution ratifying the federal | 25 formerly a part southeastern |the entire summer, so please do not for the benefit of the Red Cross Fund The petition of Paysoff. Tinkoif,|prohibition amendment. This ends Polish Russia. It is about 125 miles | relax. At present, we are greatly in t draftee at Camp Grant, Rockford, Ill. for a habeas corpus writ was denied. The Krupp Company has_ reduced its; annual dividend and is paying only 7140 per cent. Last year it paid 12 per cent. The annual report of the com- pany says that the increasing de- mands of the army have necessitated the spending of a large share of the Profits on new plants. Former British Ambasszdér to the United States, Sir Arthur Cecil - Spring-Rice, succumbed’ suddenly to heart disease Thursday morning. th took place ‘at the Government louse, Ottowa, Canada, where the _ decedent had been visiting prior ‘o war between Austria and the allies has taken place near the Austrian frontier at Buchs. ~ the matter so far as Maryland is con- cerned, as the house passed the reso- lutio nlast week and it does not have to be signed by. the governor. The vote on the final passage of the reso- IHE finest collection for Spring it has ever been our fortune to show. Most of these garments are ex- clusive models—and some of the ma- So EARLY BUYERS will have all the advantage this spring. ALL GARMENTS ARE FITTED FREE counts. Do not send out on approval, there- by insuring a fair price and good service We urge you to come and see them while there are so many. SPRING STYLES IN .| Prominent middle west | of the foreign language press, and its | Suits, Skirts, Dresses, Waists any more this Suits : $15 to $40 partment. “We O-not give dis- Rust Proof Corsets THE QUALITY STORE 4 Pro-Germans Use T. R.’s Words. RED CROSS NOTES. Organizations of women’s work were completed this week at Prairie City and Papinsville. the most | papers, the writings of Colonel Roosevelt are be-| ing used by some of the pro-German | foreign press in the United States, | it was revealed by an official of the| censor bureau in outlining the gov- ernment’s success in spreading dis- | sension in Germany, It was neces-| sary, he said, to call the attention of the postal authorities to . comment with which certain papers introduced | extracts from Colonel Roosevelt's at-| According to one of Chairman Maxey has appointed Prof. L. S. Wright, of Amoret, to be chairman of the Junior Membership Red Cross. Rich Hill is making preparations |for a big home talent Minstrel Show for the benefit of the Red Cross So- ciety, which will be given the evening high loyalty displayed by the most | 22 Admission 35¢ and soc. Chairman Maxey states that he is now prepared to advise and_ assist soldier's dependents in the matter. of obtaining government support and insurance. He has just been noti- ‘fied of an extension of sixty days _within which men of the first drait may take out insurance, efforts to alienate German-American sympathy fro mthe kaiser’s govern- ments, Germans to Get Some Grain. Geneva, Feb. 13—All the reserve stock of grain in’ Ukraine will be shipped to Germany & Austria-~Hun- gary before August, said a dispatch from the frontier today. It stated that this was one of the provisions Saturday, March 2nd, is the day set for the big Red Cross Auction Sale to be held in Butler for the benefit of ernment has promised to give mili-| finance committee, so it may be ad- tary assistance to the Ukrainian gov-| vertised. ernment to protect it fro mthe bol-| A WONDERFUL COLLECTION OF Black Taffeta Silk, $1.50 to $2 | | 1 ‘ ITTLE women and very large women will find that we have made a special effort to care for their needs and can show them a splendid line—and fit them. You will find here many garments adapted for automobile wear. Skirts Dresses Waists $5 10 $15 $15 10 $20 $1 0.86 —NEW—.- SILKS, WHITE GOODS, LACES, PERCALES, CAMBRICS, SKIRTINGS, - MUSLIN UNDERWEAR QUAKER CURTAINS & CURTAIN NETS Are now being shown, and you'll like them : EMBROIDERIES, GINGHAMS, SPECIAL GRADES COMING! The Rich Hill Red Gross Minstrels WITH Dr. Delamater, Mrs. Ethel Stuckey. Supported by the Best Local Talent of Rich Hill in the funniest One-act Sketch— “AN UNEXPECTED RETURN” and the latest specialties. The Latest Songs and the Funniest Stories. ALSO THE RED CROSS PAGEANT “An Angel of Me \ THE BUTLER OPERA HOUSE long and from 30 to 60 miles wide. | need of socks, and wristlets, and shall It is a rich agricultural country. be very glad if you will assist in sup- plying these.” _ Death for Bolo Pasha. = lution in the senate was 18 for to 7 against. Rudolph Saurager, 23 years old, termed by the federal authorities as the “most dangerous German spy we have ever captured,” was arrested Friday. when he entered a Detroit police station to register as an ene- my alien. Investigation showed he left England in 1914, and since com- ing to this country had visited at least 50 American cities. The first exchange of prisoners of Three hundred of treason. The court-martial deliberated only fifteen minutes. ‘ Bolo Pasha was an instrument of German propaganda, one of the first to find exposure in the French inves- tigations of 1917, and his name has come to be used as typifying the en- tire system of “Boloism” by which Germany strove to break down the French morale and instill a: desire for peace by spreading the idea that Germany could not be beaten, and that it would be well to make the best terms possible with her as soo: Paris, Feb. 14—Bolo Pasha : was . Quality sentenced to death today on a charge full quanti Ee UR groceries are the quality TICKETS ON SALE AT BOX OFFICE MONDAY 5 age re , asc tity Price our scales give you the ‘as they could be arranged. and twenty-four of these exchanged [prisoners have arrived at Geneva! On Thursday, February 28, the They include two American volun- Butler W. C. . U. will bola na on teers, one English officer and seventy meeting British colonials, all of day mass -whom were| church in-