The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, March 14, 1918, Page 5

down from Kansas City, one day the Black & Sons Clothing Co. Mrs, Ed McReynolds, of Joplin, was the guest of her mother, Mrs. M. S. Clay, last week, Mr..and Mrs. G. M. ‘Moore and children, Katherine and Ben, motored 20-tf last o@the week and spent several days in this city the home of Mr and Mrs, Chas, Fisk, | Mrs. Wm. Fritz and son, William, eame up from Rich Hill Sunday to see her uncle, J. quite sick at his home on M Cameron, who is | hanic street. Mr, Cameron is ina very seri- ous condition with an affection of the | heart. The replevin suit of Seig against | Seig, involving the ownership of 260 bushels of wheat, which was taken | from this county to Cass county on aj change of venue, was tried at Harri- and resulted in a judgment for the! plaintiff. | William Bowman, of Maryville, | this city, was given a Bdemen | against William Shunk, for $60 com- mission’ on a land deal in Justice B. F Jeter’s court Friday. Shunk had placed some real estate in Bowman's hands for sale and there was a dis- agreement about the commission. j ture | quantity of meat and lard was burnet ; where sonville on Wednesday of last week | home. ‘‘THE DAYLIGHT STORBE’’ ” MADE BY AMERICA’S BEST MANUFACTURERS AND PRICED FROM FIVE TO. TEN DOLLARS BELOW THE PRICE ASKED ELSEWHERE. $15, $16. 75, $19. 75, $25, $29.75, $35 See our Silk Coats. a i $18 to $45 Men’s Suits. for Spring Priced fully: five dollars under the present market, It will pay every man to buy a year’s supply. WE SHOE THE WHOLE FAMILY American Clothing House WHERE EVERY CUSTOMER GETS THE SAME PRICE One of the sure signs“of the arrival of spring is the cleaning up of. the court house yard by Fleetwood | Thomas. He spent several days last | week going over it with a rake and now it looks tip top and will look much better in a few weeks when the grass begins to grow. { | i The residence of John “ranke at_ Foster, was entirely destroyed by fire Monday evening about 5:30. Al small amount of clothing and furni- was saved. A considerable with the building. It is thought that ithe fire caught front a defective flue. | Mr. and Mrs. Harry Muchmore re- turned the last of the week from their honeymoon which they had spent at Carthage. After a short stay in this city with the parents of Mrs. Muchmore, Mr. and Mrs. J. C.} Crutsinger, they departed for Adrian, { they will make their future Mr, and Mrs. E. H. Catterlin and | daughter, Miss Hazel, of Los Angeles, California, arrived in the city the last formerly in the real estate business in| of the week and are visiting relatives. Mr. Catterlin was a former resident of this county, leaving here about 29 years ago for California. the lookout for a Bates county farm, and if he can find one that suits him he will again become a citizen of the kingdom of Bates. He is on | Mrs. City Tuesday and attended the fun- jeral of Henry VanHall, one of the oldest citizens of that city. He was | of the paper. Mrs. Sherman Miller and children, of Maysburg, moved to Butler Tues- day and are at home at the A. M. Ear- som ‘place, on South Mechanic street. Miller's husband, Dr. Sherman Miller, was killed in an automobile accident about two years ago. G, Zey, G. A. VanHall and anHall went over to Appleton 83 years of age and had been in the shoe business in that city for many years, - Bartlett, was his date set etd tr lay had Our good: in last week and ahead another year’ Mr. Bartlett is one of those good old time friends of The Times who began with the first issue and whose friendship through- out the years has made possible the | continued progress and improvement Mrs. John Murphy Wednesday re- ceived a telegram from her son, | Harry, who went to Ft. Riley with i the last contingent of the selective draft. Harry is a member of the de- pot brigade and so far has*been in a detention camp but will move to Camp. Funston in a few days, He is getting along very well and has al- ready been appointed corporal in the | HAVE YOU GOT ONE? If not you are buying your groceries blindfolded. We issue price bulletins every month and you can get Just received a car load of one for the asking. Bring’ your produce to us. We always pay the highest market price. POTATOES white table potatoes and a car of Minnesota Ohio Seed potatves that we will save you from 6a¢ to 75¢ a bushel on, and that is a big difference but it is a fact, nevertheless. Garages: Adrian Garage, Adrian Mo.; Public Garage, Butler, Mo. OUR GARAGES We have equipped our Butler shop up to the very latest. We guarantee to overhaul your motor exactly as the largest factories; not scrape in the bearings but run them in by also have installed a radiator department. power, giving you the right kind of a job.as the factories ppt out new. We Don’t send your radiator away if it leaks for we can do better work here and are here to make our guarantee good. Also if your battery needs any work overhauling, or charging we have installed all the large casing vificanizer and have a equipment necessary for first class work. We have also purchased a practical man to take chare of this department. Al work guaranteed. We have the equipment and guarantee everything. Give us a trial. “THE- STORE WHERE- THE PENNIES COUNT.” Norfleet & Ream THE ONLY INDEPENDENT ‘CASH GROCERY, BAKERY AND HARDWARE STORE WEST SIDE SQUARE BUTLER, MO. BUTLER GARAGE 35 Phones 144 and 49 © ADRIAN GARAGE 191 Artic North Side Studio, of the who some tine ago enlisted in the photographic branch of the aviation corps, left Monday night for Ithica New York, wher the governmer maintains a training school for photographers, The Rich Hill Red Cross minstrels third engagement to a full house in Rich Hill Wednesday night. ‘Thursday night they are to put thé minstrel on in Nevada. played their members of this company deserve the | greatest credit for the work they have done for the Red Cross. have freely donated their time and their talents and a very substantial sum of money has been raised which will be used to help the boys “over 28th company of the depot brigade. SAVE Save your country and yourself. Buy supplies at less than wholesale, Compare prices. Spend your money where it buys most, which is at THE GREAT CLOSING OUT SALE OF THE WILLIAMS Cuteleh:s OF GROCERIES, HARDWARE, GRANITE AND QUEENSWARE. PRICE L.1ST Reduced Old Reduced Old Priee Price Price Price COFFEE DRIED FRUITS . 1 lb Monarch Brand, extra fine...... 28 40 Fancy Peaches 15 a Ibs Monarch Brand, extra fine...... 75 $1.20 Fancy Apricots .. 30 TEAS Choice Apricots . S53 Ganpowder Tea, in bulk .......... 6-45 60 Good Prunes 13 imperial Tea, in bulk 50 Large Raisins 1.0.6... esses eeee eee [Oh te Uncolored Japan Tea, in bulk........ 33 50 Seeded Raisins 15 SPICES Choice Prunes 15 AIISS DIGGS Verve canes thaumeeuecacees 07 10 Large Fancy Prunes 12 16 | f GELATINES 11 oz. Package Raisins 10 i ‘Jello, any Flavor ........sssseeseeenee 05 10 CAN CORN Ice Cream Jello, any flavor .........- 05 10 15 | CHOCOLATES AND COCOAS 20 Qt. jar Wan-Eta Cocoa .+ 33 40 1-2 Ib, Runkel’s Cocoa .. 18 25 Mason qt: Jiierscciars cere aes us 20 40 r-2 Ib, Runkel’s Chocolate . 18 25 BAKING POWDER : GALLON FRUIT Spot Cash ..... 10 Gooseberries Sia 9 ee Whee Hie es #40 65 1 Ib. Price's . 50 Frontier Peeled Peaches 1 Ib, Rumford 25 i Three Meal Peeled Peaches . 60 - HES oe OF, 5 chs cis ae ene bigs os 20) 25 | Sailor Boy Peeled Peaches . 60 Z * BREAKFAST FOODS Ht South Haven Pie Peaches . 4o Post Toasties o£} 15 i Red Pitted Cherries $1.05 Quaker Corn Fla 07 10 | Blackberries .........-+++ 75 Puffed Wheat . 15 ii ~ Frontier Apricots . 635\ Food of Wheat . i 22 | Apricots ......-.--.+.+ we, 40 ?(Wheat-tone .... oe% seckt 15 | CANNED FRUIT DRIED BEANS ' No, 3 Cadet Peaches .......---+.- 12 1-2 20 Navy Beans 17 1-2 No. 3 Can Apricots Pt 20 Lima Beans . 18 No. 2 Can Cherries ........- 25 Pinte Beans .. 15 No. 2 Cam Blackberries .. 15 No. 2 op ar «s 35 Large Size . 30 No. 2 Red Raspberries . 30 Large Size .. 30 No. 2 Sliced Pineapple 25 Bulk Oats ... .. 09 - No. 1 Sliced Pineapple .. 12) 15 Smal Oats, Cadet . Ir CANNED MEATS 1-2 Potted Ham : 10 1 Ib. size Cow Brand exe 10 1-2 Potted Ham .... 05 5-8 Ib. size, Cow Brand ; +104 05 1-2 Vienna Weena Sausage - 07 10 CAN TOMATOES Palace Mincemeat ..........---+005-- 06 10 No. 3 Brand 15 CANNED SALMON y No. 2 C, C. C. Brand . 15 No. 1 Frontier Red: . 30 No. 1 Revenue Pink . 20 Rarrel Salt ..<. wpttttetessse eens $2.10 ~_No. t Prelate Pink .... . 20 50 Ib. Sack Salt .°...........0.055 pe 50 « When‘ Risen, Tobe, OU Cone, Tes Pots, Beckets, Stew Pans, Woah Besinn Crocks, Jugs, Coal Hes, Rakes, Pitch Forks, Shovels, and varions other articles. ALL GOES, hand pointed China Plate with every $10.00 order. Pubs coders. talien 0nd Getto. opens Friday at these reduced prices there.” Judge Clark Wix, township, was in the city one day the last of the week én route home from a meeting of the stockholders of the Cowles-Kellogg ranch in Wallace county, Kansas, A deal was consum- ated by which the ranch of 8000 acres was sold to Illinois parties fora con- sideration of $72,000. It takes‘a good “of Deepwater The ;@ They | \ Dawson received a telegram Ultra moralists and the ner, Judge J. A. Silvers, | formers will probably an as re EE, G.j}awful moan over the bill, whi is 1a land suit, saying that!now in Congress to provide for the i their suit. Some time |issuance of tobacco gts a part of the Mister traded his Bates r ration of the army, but the r Texas land and as-! bill is good one and it) ought to rtgage of $4,000 that was; pass. While it is impractical for the land. It was represent-) government to'furnish luxuries to the Fexas land was irrigated | soldiers, every necessity should be land | was good land in eve way. | furnished them, and those who are It doout that the land was not/in a position to know are unanimous presented and = Mr.. MeAllister | in telling us that tobacco is a neces sued to have the mortgage cancelled | sity to the soldiers -in the trenches. and to be allowed $14,000 damages, | Nothing is too good for the govern- Jand according to the telegram the suit | ment to furnish the man who offers ;was decided in his favor. this life in his country’s services and ; . — jif the boys want tobacco, it should be Henry J. Allen wiil be the next | furnished them with their rations, | Governor of Kansas, according to the ape D Kansas City Star, and we suppose h will. Kansas usually takes her pol cal dope from the Star and althougir it seems incredible that any state would elect for governor the author of the mass of fol-de-rol that has re- {cently appeared under Atlen’s name, Kansas will probably do it. There is no intention to find fault with Kan- sas in her choice of Governors,—God knows she is more to be pitied than ‘Missouri Fire Prevention Association 2 representatives of the Missouri ¢ Prevention Association were in the city Tuesday and Wi ednesday jmaking a survey of the fire risks of {the city with a view to suggesting {methods of preventing fires, The “survey was complete. All of the bus- iness property and nearly all of the dwellings being inspected, Red Cross Service . Flags an and Buttons, part of the Judge's time to look over his extensive Bates county holdings | and he has been willing for some time to sell the Kansas land and is well!ence between a statesman and a dem- pleased to get it off his hands. censured—but her neighbors hope] H. O. Maxey, chairman of the Bates that some day her people will awake} County Red Cross, Wednesday re- ito a realization of the vase differ-} ceived a supply of Red Cr service (flags and buttons. Anyone wanting 2 jeither can secure them at his office. | agogue. “ i CONDENSED OFFICIAL STATEMENT OF THE Missouri State Bank The W At the Loans (Real Estate and Persona!)..... Real Estate Loans in transit......... Real Estate (including Overdrafts.. Cash and Sight Exchange............ eens lee Capital Stock ....... rr - Surplus and Undivided Bills Payable....... Set Aside for Taxes... Total.... ... AND alton Trust Co. (ASSOCIATE INSTITUTIONS) Butler, Missouri close of Business, March 4th, 1918 RESOURCES $1,228,742.44 270,800.00 85,942.20 2,845.54 517,874.16 $2,106,204 34 Bank Building)...-++.0+++.sec0veeeeee ‘ LIABILITIES Lesseeeseeees eee 305,000.00 . 231,407.65 100,000.00 1,000.00 at PEI 5 5ina 004d soccedarvcsecsar The above statement is correct. J. B. WALTON, President