The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, April 18, 1918, Page 3

goodness, You've enjoyed it at zest: now you want your family o you in the same pleasuze. That's one of the joys of serving Bevo—to hear your guests say how good it is—then to listen to their arguments as to just what it is. If they haven’t seen the bottle they'll all agree that it is something else—if they have seen the bottle each will have a different explanation for its - Bevo is nutritive—pure through pasteurization and Sterilization—non-intoxicating, wholesome and thor- oughly refreshing. Note—Bevo should be served cold. Bevo—the all-year-‘round soft drink Get Bevo atinns, restaurants, groceries, department and drug stores, picnic grounds, baseball parks, soda fountains, dini ships, and other places where refreshing beverages are sold. Guard against substitutes—have the bottle opened in front of you. Bevo is sold in bottles only—and is bottled exclusively by ANHEUSER-BUSCH—ST. LOUIS ; Bovo Served ot all Drug Stores, Soft Drink Stands, Hotels and Cafes 3 ond other places— d your guests to join @ cars, steam- WE SELL THE LIGHT RUNNING Sewing - Machine The New Home is strictly a High Grade Machine. . They are simple, durable and light running. Money will not Luy a better one. Three styles—$27.50, $26.50, $37.50. If you need a machine, see us be- ‘fore you buy. - Gench Bros. BUTLER, MO. Joseph Riegel, Wesley Beaver, Richard Dukes, jr., Enid Elmore and William Brockmeier, charged in a coroner’s jury verdict with the mur- der by hanging of Robert P. Prager, | studio today. an enemy alien, were arrested Thurs- day night and were taken to. the county jail at Edwardsville, Ill. where they will be held without bail for action by the grand jury. INSURANCE OF ALL KINDS: AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE i | | | ler of the navy. ‘ CHOATE & SON REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE Protect your Growing Crops against Hail Jing Peru Items, Another good rait mieited this neighborhood Sunday and Monday, Dot Harper is out of school for a few days as. she has the mumps, Cecile Thomas and Lila Lyle spent Saturday night and’ Sunday with Margie and Faye Blankenbaker, Mrs. Harry Latham and children have returned from their visit in Ken- tucky and are now visiting in this neighborhood. Rey. Hunicutt will preach a W. C. T. Us sermon next Sunday night. Come to hear him. The W. C. T. U. met last Thurs- day with Mrs, Myrtle Thomas, There were several members present and one new one was added to their list. Johnnie Evans, Jobe Utley, Steve Thomas and Marion Thomas spent a few days in Kansas City last week. Men are busy in this township sell- Liberty Bonds. Buy one and help win the war. C. W. Doane is Arch Thomas. Sunday school every Sunday morn- ing at Peru. Everybody invited. The Y, PB. LB. met Saturday night with Gilbert and Faye Blankenbaker. baling hay for Several members were presént and two new ones joined. The Branch has started an “Army and Navy” contest. Harvey Carroll is captain of the army and Gilbert Blankenbak- The contest is for new members. So young folks, help them out. We were glad a few weeks ago, to see a letter, from Ernest Gough, for- merly of this neighborhood) in the Times. Ernest said he expects some of the people who read the letter might think some things sounded a little big, but we know Idaho is a good country and we also know Ernest is a truthful fellow. The W. C. T. U. county Institute will be held in Butler at the Baptist church Thursday, April 25. It will pay you to attend. ‘ Ethel Thomas had the mumps last week. Gilbert was over Sunday and Monday morning he had them. BILLIE AND SUSIE. Chaplin in the June Draft. Los Angeles, Cal., April 15.—Char- lie Chaplin, motion picture comedian, has been drafted and expects his call in June, it was announced at his Although he is an Englishman, Chaplin has waived his rights, and expects to wear Uncle Sam's khaki in a short tithe. He is touring the country selling Liberty Bonds. Fire, Lightning, Tornado and Hail Office over Mo. State Bank: . > Phone 137 Elkhart News. We are having some very nice April showers this week Mrs. Maddy is enterfaining a niece from California. The Liberty Loan solicitors were busy in this township last Friday. A meeting was held at Elkhart hall on Thursday night to give them instruc- tions, The solicitors were: Fair- view, Bruce McReynolds and Will Ragan; Pleasant Valley, Arthur White and Dave Lankford; Mt. Ver- non, Mr, Eye and Mr, Simms; Lone Star, John Cox and Mr, Armentrout Fairview district went “over the top’ by selling over $2000 worth. G. P. Cowdery and son, Edd, vis- ited Jim Burton at Blue Mound, ,Kas., last week. Mr. Burton used to live in Elkhart township. Mrs. Dave Lankford received a let- ter from her brother Evelyn Huddle- son Monday, He is somewhere in France. . Frank Weber is baling hay for Floyd Robards this week. Miss Millie Taylor visited Vera Duffey Monday. i Grandpa Cowdery is ahead of atl the farmers. He is past ninety years old, but has corn all planted, Some girl is sure lucky to get to drive Lloyd Robert's new horse for it sure is pretty, | Quite a number of people took din- ner with Frank Lankford Sunday to help him celebrate his birthday. A crowd of young people from Archie called on Vera Duffey Sunday evening. Edd Cowdery, who has been visit- ing relatives and friends here started home Monday, going by the way of Creighton to visit a cousin, then to Star Lumber Co. Successor to H. S. Wyatt Lumber Co. We take pleasure in announcing to the people of Butler and vicinity that we have bought the stock of the H. S. Wyatt Lumber Co., and will continue the business at the stand they have occu- pied so many years. While the firm is new to you, the local force, consisting of A. O. Welton, Manager, and Charley Miller, Assistant, are well known to you. We invite you to call and give our representatives an opportunity to show you our stock of building materials, quote you prices and fig- ure your bills when you are in need of such. By good grades, reasonable prices and courteous treat- ment _ we hope to enjoy your patronage. Kansas C where he strikes the Santa Fe trail at St. Johns, as. Floyd Robards fine Duroc Jers Oklahoma Monday. Several neighbors Maddy's some fine music. a called at BROWN EYES. Merwin Items. We are having a good rain, which was needed badly. LE. B. Hallpike, from Shamrock, Oklahoma, visited. his sister, Mrs. Frank Taylor, this week, He is on his way to join the army. Mrs. Kate Shannon returned home from Kansas City : Mr. and Mrs. in Drexel Saturday. One day last week as Mrs, Ferris and little daughter, Thelma, were re- turning home from town a dog ran under the wheels of the ear, tur Vag it over. Mrs. Ferris and daughter were thrown out, Mrs. Perris re; ceived an injured spine, The car was damaged slightly. Glen Yingst returned Liberty, Mo. last week. Leo Ritch a prominent young man of Merwin, has enlisted in. the and is now at Jefferson Bar- home from arm racks, R. OK, Drexel visitors Saturday. The play given-by the girls M. WE, M, for the benefit of the Red Cross Thirty-six dollars was was) good. taken in, John Duvall, of Amsterdam, was in Merwin Saturday. The Liberty and Baby selling fast in Merwin, Mrs. Etta Longacre of Amsterdam, was in town Saturday, The Merwin orchestra helped inr- nish music for the musical concert given at Amsterdam Saturday night. The proceeds were given to the Red Cross. M. M. Harris returned home Mon- day from Neosho, Mo. Born—To Mr. and Mrs, Jacobs, a Bonds are boy, one day last week. A, D. Hargis and family went to Creighton Sunday, returning home Monday. Drexel gave a Red Cross sale Sat- urday. Among the things sold was baled hay, pigs, sheep, chickens and eggs. A gallon bucket containing eggs was sold for the sum of three hundred and fifty-six’ dollars. Pleasant Gap. Albert Brown and Charley Kinder have been sawing wood in this vicin- ity the past week. Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Mehafiey vis- ited Sunday evening at the Jobn Woodfin home. Miss Mary McKinley is attending school at Appleton. Miss Rosa Brown and Mr. Wesley Smith and Miss Bernice “Ford and Mr. Burl Kinder attended the pliy at Papinsville Thursday night. There is to be a sale at the Amos Ford home next- Saturday, April 29. Formerly known as the Bob Davis farm. Sale begins at 1:30. Mrs. John Woodfin called at the John Kipf home Friday evening. She reports Mrs. Kipf very poorly. Miss Beulah Brown has been entet- taining the German measles for the past few days. .. Mr. Dock Fillpot, who was down from Kansas City last week, visited relatives .and friends in the vicinity last Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Lon Williams spent Friday at the Will Brown home. Ray and Charley Bassett are the ‘owners of a Ford. There is to be a play given at Pleas- ant Gap hall Saturday night, April 29, entitled “Down in Maine.” It will be given by the boys and girls of the Reynard neighborhood for the bene- fit of the Red Cross. BLUE BELLE. shipped one of his y hogs to a party in Mr. aturday night and enjoyed Young were ? Foster and daughters were | OHIO STREET STAR LUMBER COMPANY BUTLER, MO. this city, died at his home in Nansas City, Wednesday evening, April 10, at tt o'clock, after an illness of sev- eral y Ars, Lotspeich was born in New Rev. life he followed the trade of print During the Civil War he was a lant soldier in the Confederate army and took part in several of the ba tles in the southern part of thi He was a pastor of the Christian church in this city from 1804 to 1897, and, again from 190 to 1903. He was a man of strong character and firm convictions and while he did not force his opinions on others, he possessed the courage to stand up for what he believed was right under all cireum- stances. He was a man of fine phy- sique and retained his military bear- ing until a few years ago when he suffered a stroke of paralysis avhich left him partially disabled. Funeral serv were held at the He leaves surviving him a wife, and four children; three — sons Robert U. Lotspeich, of this c Bert Lotspeich, Portland, Oregon, and Leon Lotspeich, of Miami, Okla- homa, and one daughter, Mrs, .. C. Blodgett, of Kansas City. Seed Corn Committee of Bates County. C, Shubert, Grand River. Cc. arper, lone Oak. ipbell, Pleasant Gap. I Owens, Rockville. Sheppard, Osage. G, rE. R. 1s He W. H. Sunderwirth, Prairie. J. B. March, New Home. Thad S. Harper, Charlotte. J. R. Baum, Mt. Pleasant. J. R. Ewing, Mingo. Lewis Ewing, Spruce. J. E. Doolittle, Walnut. C. T. Holland, Howard. | B. P. Powell, Summit. .C. F. Chapin, Hudson. j J. A. Borland, Deepwater. Bud Chambers, East Boone. E. E. Shockey Geo. Armentrout, Elkhart. J. E. Dowell, Deer Creek. } J. P. Cox, Shawnee. \ V._L. Harrison, Mound. Edgar Smiser, West Point. Members of this committee are authorized to certify tests made in their townships. Another Good Rain. Just when the chronic kicker was sure that there would be a crop fail- ure in this part of the country this! year on accoffht of dry weather, it rained. The rain commenced Satur- day and there were showers during the night and Sunday and Sunday | night. According to press dispatches the rainfall was general over western Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma. In the latter states many trains were de- layed by the swollen streams caused by the heavy downpour. Rev. C. B. Lotspeich Dies in Kansas | City. Rey, C, B. Lotspeich, formerly a pastor of the Christian church, of} | R. R. Hamilton, Homer. | | | ;, West Boone. 4 ANOTHER DRAFT CALL | Mobilization of 49,843 Registrants for May 1 and 10 Ordered by Provost Marshal General | Crowder, ) Washington, \pril 14.—Another draft call, for 4o.843° regi has been sent to governors of states by nts, London, Ohio, 77 ars ago and Proyost Marshal General Crowder when a you mat came with his | Mobilization of the men is ordered parents to Missouri and located in| for May 1 and 10, the War Depart lohnsonecnunti. Dunia miiseennivy meneannnoinuedeton shit ssid they j rT ' ~ |will be sent to eleven forts and re- s barracks, probably for train- -fing witht regula my units there, { ‘This call increases to more than three hundred thousand the number of select men ordered to camp since late in March, This is far in excess of the monthly average that would have been mobilized under the origi- nal plan to call eight hundred thous- and men this year over a g-inonth period, luture calls at tt wonld complete the program betore midsummer, sosame rate \Under President Wilson's determi nation to hasten thé dispatch of American troops to France to re-en- force the British and French armies bearing the brunt of the great Ger- fman drives in Vlanders and Picardy, late home in Kansas City, Sunday s ; afternoon, April 14, and interment | the Wsette program of the iurmy is made in Forest Hill cemetery. speeded up. Only a week: Gen- eral Crowder ordered mobilization of ,one hundred and fifty thousand se- lect men for April and movement to the national army can- jtonments in the five days following. Purther announcements are pected to follow the return of Secre- jtary Baker from his visit to the bat- tle fronts and conference with of cials of Great Britai France ‘Italy. Troops now are moving to | Europe at a rapid rate and this clear- | ning camps will permit of | ling of tra the calling of men much faster than | contemplated before the German | pwa offensive made it imperative to ruslt men to the battle fronts. Editor Dowell Elected Mayor. At the Adrian city election Tuesday, Editor Dowell, of the Jour- jnal, was elected Mayor; A. F. Tim- | mons, marshal and street comumis- ; sioner; and W. S. Mahan, city col- lector. PAINT, for PRESERVATION ’S sake. It costs as much to put on a costs no more to start with than years and conceded by all to be an PHONE 17 their | ex- | \ -| and | last | This is a good time to paint for APPEARANCES sake and also paint. The work certainly is as much and the spreading capacity of good paint is much greater than poor paint. So we repeat good paint better and lasts longer it is. much cheaper in the long run. There are paints new and paints old. There may be paint whose brands have been on the market a short time and the paint may be as good as any, but you do not know it is extra good. .The safest way to do is to use paint that people have been using for a great many the well known DEVOE and SHERWIN & WILLIAMS paint. Take no chances and buy these brands. Star Lumber Company | A Splendid Program. ; The Christian church of Butler is {planning for a big day next Sunday, \pril 2tst. Laster Sunday was a day fof unusual interest at this church; the attendanee was large and nine- teen were added to the membership, but it isshoped that next Sund: surpass, in many respects, even Le r Sunday, The church will be beau- will tifully. decorated, Mrs. W. E. Wal- {ton and a corps of able assistants will look after that, The orchestra is expected to be on hand and render valuable assistance. A splendid rof music is being gotten Wood, by special r the Home gerd Miss will Burning Iva Fires “The Chureh in the Wild- sing “Keep male will wood,” will be quartette Phe ladies q sing “That Beautiful far Away Strand.” Then there will be an anthem by the whole choir will be two short HW. OF Maxey will take for his st “Over the Top,” Pastor Ss, B. XN will speakson “Our Opportunity. The members and chureh are urged to be on hand with- rendered by a Irtette id, on the Phere addres friends of the out fail Bring somebody with you, The services will begin promptly at 10: and we shall aim to close by 12. Sunday school as At 9730, and evening service at} Let's all try to Tiake nest Sunday a big day in our ealendar, j Publicity Committee. Notice. |) Bates County Post No. 58, G. A, R. will 1 tin the grand jury room, jin the court house, Saturday, May 4.. All members and those | not members are urged to be present at this meeting. We-are to decide | whether or not we will disband and surrender our charter, or whether we will stand together until the greatest |murderer of all time—the German | Kaiser—is licked good and __ plenty. ! Anyone having an honorable dis- jat 2 o'clock jcha ind has quit stealing chickens is eligible to join and to hold off }too, Our meetings are entirely ir formal. ~No red tape. No bolted jdoors, Boys, it is up to you. Wilt jwe be quitters or stayers? | S.- Dent, Commander. | PAINT Poor quality paint as a first class Poor paint and since it preserves excellent paint. We carry such in BUTLER, MO.