The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, March 28, 1918, Page 3

° Our final shipment of for our BIG SALE just arrived. We can show you 100 patterns of different grades from the cheapest to the best at prices that are less than _manufacturer’s cost today. We will place these RUGS ON SALE AT Astonishing Low Prices If you want a good rug at a low price don’t fail to see us as this is the LAST WEEK of our big. CUT PRICE SALE. SENATE FAVORS $2.50 WHEAT PRICE BY VOTE OF 49 TO 18 Agricultural Appropriation Bill Car- tying Senator Gore’s Amend- ment Now Will Go to Conference. Washington, March 21.—The agri- cultural appropriation bill , with the Gore amendment increasing the 1918 government guaranteed wheat price to $2.50 was passed late today by the senate, It now .goes to conference between the two houses, where there will be another fight over the wheat price, The wheat price amendment was adopted, 49 to 18, after five days’ dis- cussion, in which its advocates urged stimulation of production, and criti- cized government price fixing. The bill, carrying appropriations of $2%,- 600,000, Vv passed without a roll call, the principal fight being directed at the wheat provision, Besides increasing the federal guar- antee, the Gore amendment also pro- vides that the guaranteed prices for the 1918 crop shall be based upon (No, 2 northern wheat, or its equiva- instead of the No. 1 variety, as xisting law, and shall be p able at local elevators or railway markets instead of at tke principal primary markets, as is done now. These provisions are designed to in- crease the farmers’ returns, Another provision is that the guar- anty shall not be dependent upon ac- tion of the present, “but is hereby made absolute and ‘binding until May 1, 1019." Acceptance of the amendment by the house is hoped for by its cham- ‘pions, But despite the overwhelming vote by which the senate wrote the e increase into the » adminis on leaders do not believe it could jtra }prevail finally if, as has been repor Jed, the opposition of the food admin a presidentitt would cause on lation by the presi food with donder a prock acting under it naw contr the $2 1g1S ent, the ow stands rantee, the basic M’ADOO RESTRICTS EXPENDI- TURES FOR RAILROAD WORK Director General's First Act After President Signs Bill is to Put Damper on Extensions. Washington, March 21,--The first act of Director General McAdoo to- day after President Wilson © signed the railroad bill, which provides for $500,000,000 revolving fund and pre- scribes a basis of compensation dur- ing federal operation, was to issue an} order restricting railroads’ capital ex- penditures to extension and better- ments essential under war conditions, | new terminals, extension of — lines, purchase of locomotives, cars and | other equipment, and all other enter- prises requiring expenditure of capi- | Engineers will report on the | sity of proposed betterments ore they are considered by higher officials. After being approved by | Mr. Lovett and the director general, | sproposals invelving capital expendi- | tures will go to the division of finance | and purchases “for execution. Mr. | MeAdoo asked railroads considering | extensions' to be guided by the war-} i for conserving capital, idea tine labor neces and terial and by the which n individual lesirable under control ile “ot might n new se af be Cha LENROOT WINS IN WISCONSIN. RACE : [had papers dra s. A. Murra SOUTH SIDE FURNITURE STORE | the county council of defense, told | that he would never agai {newspaper reporters today wn up to seck the in-} , ra Extension before Jan vheat has been established at $2.20) Teaviien: thie saree ake perhinsitch —semttors tretines the th contrat may he con tint 7 Wworkt IWvin ore than oo of the apital a nt | arted with- yond $13 or $13.50 a barrel, The director genera approval y be mayor ng his in- ilwaukee. | on the grounds of the .so am si helof | dictment that Loyalist Candidate for Senate De-|dictment of Mayor Hoan, - socialist, | cialist platform itself, to Which Hoan feats LaFollette Candidate just renominated; that Hoan’s. re-jsubseribed, It declares that the peo i by 2,500. election as mayor being practically | ple djd not want the w ar; they do not assured, he (Bloodgood) would seek} want the war, and that it was forced Milwaukee, Wis., March 21.—Irvine 1. Lenroot, republican loyalist can- didate, will have approximately 2,500 majority over James Thompson, sup- ported by LaFollette, in the contest for the nomination for the United States senator, according to the lat- est returns, which are not quite com- plete. The supporters of Thompson will not be satisfied until the vote is an-| nounced from the secretary of state’s| “I office at Madison. Wheeler P. Bloodgood, chairman of tary law. EMM us to reinforce or reverse, all with one ture ever built into a tractor. sene or gasoline. changes. The Model *‘D’’ 9-16 H. P. isa low tractor and is built so you can attach the Rock Island No. 9 power lift two-bottom tractor plow directly to the tractor. This plow is especially buiit for the Heider Model ‘‘D” Tractor, Your hard operates the tractor while your foot raises or lowers the plows by the automatic power lift. This gives tractor and plows in one com- plete unit. ‘Gasier to bandle than the ordinary PHONE 395 to have Milwaukee placed under mili- “We might better Bloodgood time for action has peace machinery of the government is inadequate to deal with a situation like that in Milwaukee and in some other sections, there are enough of war-time machinery. ssured Mayor Hoan in the pres- encé of many witnesses that I would have him indicted and I assured him ERE is the practical one-man tractor for your farm. Easy to control, start, stop lever. Special friction transmission, the greatest fea- Less gears, fewer parts, less trouble, less chance for breakage and lower upkeep cost. Especially designed manifold, burns either kero- Switch from one fuel to the other at any time without carburetor ‘Standard four-wheel construction, heavy duty, Highest standard of accessories, Dixie high tension magneto with impulse starter, Kingston carbue Perfex radiator and S. K. F. bearings. Ten years of constantly making back Heider Made and Sold by Rock [sland Plow Co. Come in and look It over W. W. HENRY Garage and Machineshop ion them by the ruling classes, The ruling classes can mean only one thing in America, the president and ' congre That is sedition, “| have two boys in France. Vresi- dent Wilson has assured them that they shall not be attacked in the rear, as they have been in Milwaukee. now than said. “The come, the act If The Hotise Friday afternoon yoted sal- that machinery to} {for a permanent increase in the aries of all postal employees ranging from 5 to 25 per cent, The vote was 188 to 42. four cylinder Waukesha tractor motor. of the good are -horse plow—enables to plow up to the fences and pred the corners. You plow all the field. Heider Model ‘‘D” is also equipped with a © standard drawbar for pulling other tractor phy discs, hay tools, wagons, spreaders, binders, Has power enough on the belt to “ separators, silo fil corn shellers, etc. pump water, saw Sad ran the cream separator or washing - BUTLER, MoO. .{She had to come home from price now is around $1t a barrel, Senator Gore did not pr nendment, providing for ment by the secret: s his ablish riculture y ¢ let uniform bookkeeping 1 meat packers and. sub a} the to Official scrutiny. designed to of packers’ books Phe amendment neet recomendations of Francis | for the federal trade | commis sstigatio Phe senate strack ont, by a vote of Was | tlenes attorney on, in its meat ir 41 to 23, a provision in the bill as tt passed the house, requiring depart- ment of agriculture employes in Washington to work eight instead of seven hours daily. \n appropriation of for the congressional free seed distribu- tion which had bee neliminated by the senate committee, was restored by the senate. $240,000 agricultural Cornland, Elmer Soderstrom: is at Columbia with typhoid summer with her grandparents in Litchfield, Ulinois Clona Medley, Sylvia Vaughn and Beth Turner took dinner with the Morrison girls Sunday, Oleiva Spier is on the list. school sick Thursday, but expects to go back the middle of the ‘week. Mrs. Shay is still poorly Her daughter, Miss Maude Morgan, was home over Sunday Mr. Ehart spent Medley’s. Kaiser Threatens War on Holland. London, March Germany has increased her Y measures against Holland even to the extent of threatening war, according to advices from Amsterdam today, which quoted Sunday at Fred coere a Dutch news agency as their author- ity. The advices stated that Germany had warned Holland against abandon- ing the remaining restrictive clauses in her loan term agreement, The German government is report- ed to be ruffled by the attitude taken by the Dutch government towards England and the United States in the shipping controversy. More Pay for Rural Carriers. Washington, March 22.—Rural let- ter carriers receiving $1,200 a year or less are granted an increase of 20 per cent by an amendment tentatively added to the Postal Increase Bill to- day by the House. Rural carriers whose routes are more than twenty miles in length would also receive ad- ditional compensation of $24 a year for each mile more than twenty that they are required to travel each day. The House still has the bill under discussion. Unique Scheme Fools Food Boss. Kenton, O., March 20.—Here’s the latest in fooling the food administra- tion. A Hardin county grocer has been selling 100 pounds of flour and 100 pounds of cornmeal to a custom- er. The customer then sells back to the grocer the sack of cornmeal and this same cornmeal has been utilized in this way more than roo times.; The grocer maintains that he is living up to the “fifty-fifty” require- ment of the food administration. yods for] at the dit enterprise requirin appr less do net, al providing ire spec y are essential HOLD 200 U. S. PRISONERS Two American Deaths in Germany Officially ‘Reported. Miss Bessie Rinker will spend the | | Washington, March 23. n official jlist of two hundred Am 5 | yners im German made jpublic tonight by the Depart- Jment, records the death Charles | x while attempting to Hemphill, si © © in September, roiz, qnd the 1 of Andrew Campbell Murtro. deat an avid brought down near Pargny, September 30, 1017, The only Americay officer in the list is Lieut. Harold Willis of New- ton, Mass. an aviator captured at Verdun on August 18, 1017. He is interned at Camp Gutersloh, Ivi- dently Willis was an officer in) a French esquadrille, The list, reported by the royal transmit Prussian war ministry i ted by the German government to the ate Department through the Span- ho embassy in Berlin and the Span- ish Jegation in contains the names of American troops captured | in fo captur ships and survivors of captured ships The list also includes the names of ght in the} at Cam Berne, trench raids, crews TO EXPEDITE CONFISCATION | Bill Would Give President Power to Seize Private Property. | Washington, March 20.—Under a bill sent to the Senate mil com- mittee today by Actin y of War Crowell, the President would be} empowered during the war to take | over private property of any kind, personal or real estate, with compen \ vy sation for the owner, when deemed necessary, for the nationa security or conduct of the govern ment. * The object of the legislation is t: enable the government to get quic | possession of real estate, office build- | ings and other property needed in} connection with the war. Ina letter to Chairman Chamberlain, Mr. Crow ell said it is desirable to avoid de- lays of condemnation, to save money and do justice to property owners. The bill provides that the President might designate property to be taken over. It would be appraised, and in} case owners were not satisfied they would be paid seventy-five per cent of the appraised value and the federal district court would decide disputes as to the balance. Attorney General Gregory, Mr. Crowell said, approves the legislation. | Germans Seize Human Hair. Berne, Wednesd: March 20.— The German military authorities in Alsace are seizing all stocks of hu- man hair, according to Alsatian news- papers. The owners of the hair are invited to make their terms with the paying office of the Prussian war ministry. The price beirig paid by the state for the best quality of women’s hair, which is used for weaving purposes, is twenty marks per kilo (2.20 pounds.) j main “MISSOURI PACIFIC IRON MOUNTAIN MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY Time Table North Bound As the government has undertaken | Leave the financing of improvements -and/ No, 202 K. C. and St, Louis purchase of new equipment, the order passenger... ce. cseee ee 11:00 a. m, will saf ard the working hue No, 210 K. C, and St, Louis The signing of the bill opens the} 2 way for the railroad administration EDABaCnaST ss pai heey Te 145 Bai to proceed with necessary extensions, No, 292 local freight ..... 12:30 p. m, ae ees i cr sae a South Bound of capital expenditures, IMeaded by |, ; anes Rater a Taretd former “leaetoe of No. 205 Joplin, Wichita & priorities for the war industries | Coffeyville Passenger, .. 3:50 a. m, board, to supervise additions and bet- | No. 207 Joplin and Yates terments. ‘ Center passenger ....... 1:10 p. m. This division will sean requests for| No. 291 local freight .....11:00 a. m. Madison Branch . 8:00 a. m, 10:00 a. m, CLAUDE L. PLAIN, Agent. PROFESSIONAL CARDS ——looIICIC*o === DR. H. E. MULKEY Veterinary Surgeon Fourteen years successful practice. At Garrett’s Old Stand St ; Office 3. Leave Butler daily... Sunday only DR. J. T. HULL Dentist Entrance same that leads to Fox's . Studio, North Side Square Butler, Missouri B. F. JETER Attorney at Law Notary Public East Side Square Phone 186 BUTLER, MISSOURI T. J. HALSEY, M. D. O. D. tye, Ear, and pront Spectaliat the fitting of TLER, MO. Office South Side Square Phone 15 Should Sell Wheat Now. Topeka, March The Kansas state board of ed of farmers, today called upon farm- ers who are holding their wheat to it for sump- + compe deliver immediate co tion, The board also rebuked the farm- ers who are complaining against the draft. It adopted a resolution which says “We desire to express our approval ind satisfaction with the present in- rpretation of the respect to the deferred class ding the wheat being withheld The resolution re now on hand, which i from the market says: “We recommend that the 1017 lwheat, and all other wheat produced previous to this time, that is.not now at the command of the food adminis- tration, should be made available for consumption immediately.” Arkansas Coal Mines Shut Down. Ft. Smith, Ark., Mareh 23.—Ninety-' cight per cent the mines it Arkansas were idle today and will re- want of orders. Three e out of work. anizations are dmin- of coal so for thousand met Miners lab: protesting to the national fuel istration and are demanding reliet. The Central Coal and Coke com- pany of Kansas City today virtually completed the biggest producing mine in the southwest. It is located at Prairie Creek and will have a mini- mum capacity of 2,000 tons daily. It ‘will remain idle, however, as a result of the depression, SEE THE CLOTHES DOCTORS For practical cleaning and pressing. We positively clean everything but a guilty con- science. Hats Cleaned and Blocked All work guaranteed and prices reasonable. Goods called for and Delivered. CROUCH BROS, No. 7 S. Main St. Phone 171 Butler, Mo,