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certain. practiced this DOCTRINE. COUNTY. ‘ren, MISSOURI SAVE NOW While times are prosperous, for next year it might be hard to save. Even many years ahead of us might be lean ones. Save something now and help to make your future progress We offer you the service of an institution that has long GABID AL cics fos ce iss sleeess vod0se sitgvene seu dnevsaw eee ys 4§50/000,00 BURPTUS 6 cccccsn ss ciececestendens cea aeons Ohewene fade ees Tee RGOCOMOD: UNDIVIDED PROFITS ..........c00esseesseseeeee erase e+ +$15,000,00 , LARGEST SURPLUS FUND OF ANY BANK IN BATES DUVALL-PERCIVAL TRUST C0 val vessels have patrolled all coasts} pasi year has been 42 head per too0;] be notified by publication, that pla Ga tecist b] in the vicinity of her route, looking] of this 24 are from cholera, and Birtles POT ERIN Ce ean for wreckage or survivors. Nothing | ais from all other diseases combined.) nature of wiieh is to try, ain and MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY : CAPITAL and SURPLUS, $250,000 |J{ has been found. Every vessel known} Some losses of young pigs ocerrred | FO ADU Sle eo . 7 M 3 pi to have been anywhere in the region} during the winter from cold and ex-) and derenwant in said aeuon, in and to ey FARMERS BANK BUILDING, BUTLER, MO. | jat the time has been communicated | posu The Joss per 1ovo in agi6) Uy tellown AU UR eoone ihe Time Table with. None saw ‘or heard anything | was ind So for the ten year aver- ah ‘ rter, Section eight, FARM LOANS bve ila tenons yatG} cami tes ieotae et,oW ate of the collier. Reports from every diye menudo anorectal MOT SUNT U Cari Range «| of interest with privilege to pay at any time, : : Slits . eis = Thirty-three,.in Bates County, Mis- | North Bound (Ti souree showed nothing to warrant} State Board of Agriculture and Col souri, i | I ABSTRACTS We have a complete set of Abstract Books and will | the storm story, It is the mild sea-iege ut \griculture and the U, Se rae La Meer Ais lee is / , eave furnish abstracts to any real estate in Bates County (J) son of the year in those waters. The} urea of Animal Industry has thus [and inter artics tu said suit, | No, 202 K, C. and St. Louis and examine and perfect titles to same. {J} route the Cyclops would have fol-fent down the loss to onehali of the tin Aunt be san sn fie bine tr | passenger te .se- rere 3,2 1:00) a. mn) We will 1 idl fi , lowed was somewhat sheltered. 10 y average, or 200,000 heal, tl} saine. ; No, 210 K. Cand St. sTeetie e will loan your idle money for you, securing The ship had z 1 a insuffi- re Fuse alue rs , And unless the defendants be and ts INVESTMENTS tad ; ne ship had avoard an ins saying ut present values of 34,006 at M Te ARGO Tape JASSENZEL vcs serve sess 10145 p.m, _ : ; A you reasonable interest on good security. We pav Slent quantity. of coal tor a. journey [ooo conte i ihe tte aie Hn ss aD ta GRIT GRte ee IOberesbion Lmesteposits: ito the nearest German port, had she In spite of the neise made by a Tb} A cy a a ae SOE ear orrineasaage ste ce aa § : i r been captured. Some efiicers think] joy vociferous kickers, the great} jurs, ‘on or before tine first W. F, DUVALL, President, JB EDU AET) Vices President) lthat if the ship was captured her cap-|pordy of Missouri farmers‘aee going | oF said Pee ae ay South Bound vi i i 5 ies rn pe etition same wi . oes Arthur Duvall, Treasurer. W. D. Yates, Title Examiner. tors taay be helding her out of trade ad owath splendid) spirit to plant Peeeairecaell : TTEMOHE 205 Joplin, Wichita & Ds i routes waiting for a chance steamet | their fields, and will cheerfully so}: NMRA ‘ 1 tl Coffeyville PassengeF™.. 3:50 a. m, inet which a ae Sane Fcavanes the limit to follow the furrows andy Ie Weekly “times, a) No, 207 Joplin and Yates - m Sena Ww i th ve nat ile te gate Hence Alssourl, Center passenger 1:10 p,m, ¢ ad no wo atayor icate wee oe a i h h Ras ‘ fatere anid No. 291 local freight .....11:00 a. m. ne Gee m Somers Ww ale ofa The Price of Slacking. Reamree he aerman raider. ie sea lanes are : eee as busy with shipping, yet no vessel las Juying a Lib Bond isn't a mat- (Senly oof satd i ie ‘ Madison Branch: Le tte y Fy sighted amy suspicions craft. ter ef compulsion; it is a matter o! eae ane Ail i nt Court sAvacitlenedaily: 8:00 a. m The Walton Trust Company [ris ive sicciice 'stence oi the[ehoice, There is no law whieh eone| 27 TS nea Aaa ac on a i OF BUTLER Hradio thai makes the case one of the/pels yar to invest in Unele Sam's ADMINISTER ULOIES NOTICE, AU ae ae ae Gs |most mysterious in naval annals.|war securities, No adjuster to come A RePee einen eae letters CLAUDE L., PLAIN, ) I'Phat fact alone inclines officiats tofaround and see that you have pure le ation upon the estate of A. are. Agents jthe belief that the skip might have}ehased your quota, No penalty yon : pape ae bie Blend ‘i i i Ibheen captured by persons aboard, for}must pay if you dail to meet your)eourt | County, Missouri, bear- belong fs a your eidege is oe clientele, sant hee way svouild it have Deen} duty ane Conan, | libero Sang Anise ea arehy eaigatil PROFESSIONAL CARDS svelope? CUTLDg: nore HEGOTY PATS SOL CONSIBLORT, | CONMROFAS S8te possible wo silence calls for aid Injeonseription of your «dollars. Noo saia estate are required to exhibit them | vice, is splendid endorsement of the agreeable and satisfactory rela- case of a storm or an attack by ene-| questionnaires to fil) out. LE eee ante He denne ctl i intai: ii my craft, or even if the ship were tor-f You can be a slacker if you will jdetters, or they may be precluded from | 2 ae eae | pedoed, there weuld Reece same } ine ultimately veer sins may find] at Soin Wahinited © within aver DR. H. E. MULKEY. {éor such walls. fyon out. For if Unele Samm is unable} y the date ri gt | Veterinary Surgeon . * 2 . “ngines as} t 16 _ | letters, shall bef ed, y ‘ Let your money earn while you sleep. We pay interest at the One ei the Cyclops’ engines wasy}to meet his fi ancical needs througa Wit Cea LnAAT Ure ah ane roa ee urtett's Old St prague te of t anni Time Di it 'damaged, but it is not believeé the} bond sales he will dip into yourlor Ma | larrett’s an iwith the disappearance. Consteuct-jtain method of taxation, He must} ARL J. HENR | ers said the Cychops was one ef the} have meaney for this war. And if he} Judge of DObates ! ay . WE INVITE YOUR PATRONAGE sls e oie the Sea ae is gece te 1 et ae last re Now OF FIN SETTLEME DR. J.T. HULL jot the nawy. hey could not bekaeve} sort the chances are it will be F Cae wWrat a syuall of such intensity as to} litte the most drastic foeaon No Bee eee Te jae ane Dentist : | owerwhelm her had been encountered | Amemeza has exer known. None willic Meee Gece ! that 1, Db. | Entrance same tat leads to Fox's * 9 y wa ssrested phat] escape, rowill any holding of value. } : 2, Executor of d_estate, in- | s studio, Capital and Surplus ON EUS = 7 $400,000.00 ee a “hase been put or Se ete a Ue ELE Bot (OH Bate the 1 North Side Square Butler, Missouri sives a we he ne term of the Bates Cou . bal , with the manganese ore and a tsouri, commencing on the 13th day | ha bomb set to explede the amass. fn] Dallas, Tes, April is-—Reportsior May 8. if ae | B. F. JETER ALERT, ESL LE ER EREL ELE LL LE ALE LEAVE ALLEL LE DIE LE LLL DILLON: | mt ; ‘- . oe ae LEN, ie that case, however, the sea would bs | from Ciainesvilke and Henrietta, Tex.) 95 4, Maeccutor,| Attorney at Law Notary Publie ooEooUoooEoEoEylIo]E]EE=—_——_—™ covered! With wreckage, today said a windstorm had aruck os a an East Side Square Phone 186 GERMAN ALLIANCE TO QUIT jwhich Coar said that in 1912, on a ‘4 near Bellevue Sunday night, billing ORDER OF PUBLICATION, | BUTLER, MISSOURI visit Germany, he was informed Ps ’; < er Mrs. WW. L. Shennon and dangerous- | | : 2 | ‘ dian pages ting thirty a German | Phe holders of the St. Clair cot 1) inisring her husband, ome a atid [RUS OF OU RBOUTL tas \aeaeiaae mee a i : i 5 , ed i ek + ORES vunty © 3, “id Its tae fi, ol agents had been sent to the United ae oe! dave nate ao a danghter, nee of whom is expect-|, In the s Court, Max Term, 1918, T. J. HALSEY, M. D. O. D. Z States annually for the six years pre- Ib vine bigs aie Peigeta herpes ed te mecover. Marty buildings were} ¢. Balgum, Alice Hatper and) Eva! Eye, Mar, Nose sné Philadelphia April 11—The Ger-|ceding his visit. The duties of the | Pom pe meee Pa i 4 2.06") demolished. Hedger, Plaintiffs. | Thront Specialist — Nalanda i: : : ‘ . in settlement for all ey the bonds ant on, tn. Ree vs. | f man-American Alliance, which has|agents were not mentioned. lhe seared’ duterest She SK Clay At Boyd, Tex. Lottie Reed Nannie Puffer, Lillie Sco x Ards fitting of been the storm center of congres-| While he was in Germany, Coar RS x years old, ani! the 2wear-old y| Ashbaugh und Hattie Lewis, vs ional i tigation fe time |said, representatives of German or. county tax payers have voted better boy of Dick arnett were killed ecrgenss, BUTLER, MO. sional investigation for some said, yes ¢ . siti ae fice c aa ENE bs Now at this day come the plaintiffs past, will disband and give the $30,-|ganizations asked him to aid in fur- Cee a ae ie Hag Pap when apiece of heavy timber] herein, aul ne heir petition, alle Fi | Office South Side Square _Phone 15 ” F ‘3 fi % ( 7 1 g are among other n defen { 000 now in the treasury to the Red|thering a law in the United States 4 7 erashed threugh the door of a storm | \ mnie putier, Litie Beil and Peeeie ae * + | One. } oe | Cross. which would enable German immi- feellar, The n rot the Barnett My is are non: residents of the State of : - +7 4 - ;, r+ Bina fi Rom penn n> - - fe is oA + 9 2 ay-| Mi url This announcement “was semi-offi- grants “to retain their supreme al- Z . \traby is reported to have been dan Whereupon, it is ordered by cially made during a recess late this legiance to the German Empire.” THOSE SUDDEN TWINGES gerously jnjured at the same time, It] Clerk in Vacation that said defen = il-d is estimated the property damage at] be netified by publication that plain. | SEE THE afternoon following an all-day se- 1 y tiffs hive commenced a suit against | rs Boyd will reach $75,000, : them in this Court, the object and gen. | cret session. It was said the dissolution of the Alliance will become effective tomor- Tow. Washington, April 11.—Further disclosures of German propaganda in the United States were made today before tlte Senate judiciary ‘commit- tee investigating the German-Ameri- can Alliance. Senator King, the chairman, read a letter from. John F. Coar of the University of Alberta, in Bible Teachers Training Class Graduates. } 53 Rev. Alexander, of the Baptist church, has for some time been con- ducting a Bible teacher's training class and Sunday morning at the cluse of the services a class of seven were graduated. They were: Misses Nina Culver, Anna Fry, Lulu Short, Edith Blount, Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Hartrick and Mrs. Ray Harrison. Denton-Coleman Loan and Title Co, —SSS>S>b"™EHL=LELE_E = _™»»LD»™»™L_»”™_™DHD= FOR " FARM LOANS and ABSTRACTS BUTLER, MO. Bring Suffering to Many a Butler ! Missouri Crop Report, April, Jeiferson City, Mo. April 15.—The Missouri crop report for April, 1918, issued jvintly by FE. A. Logan, Field DID GERMANS CAPTURE 1918, AMERICAN SHIP? Washington Authorities Think Cy- clops May Have Fallen a Victim to the Germans, Agent of the United States Burean of Crop Estimates, and Jewell Mayes, Washington, April 15—Orders for|Secretary of the Missouri State greater efforts to find the missing na-| Board of Agriculture, shows that val collier Cyclops, overdue from|wheat is in. the best cOndition for a South American waters for more|number of years, and, with the larg- than a month, went out today tOJest acreage (2,875,000 acres) ever American ships. In addition allied]sown in this state, the outlook is for naval craft on patrol duty in theJa yield of 42,500,000 bushels. South are aiding in the search, The wheat crop is 92 per cent of So. far not one word has come to}normal condition against 62 for 1917, clear up the mystery of, the collier’s|and 81 for the ten year average. The disappearance. Secretary Daniels|best prospects are in the West, Cen- said today, however, that he still/tral, Southwest and Southeast dis- clung to the hope that the vessel]tricts; and the poorest in the North- would report as‘ many other navy|west, North Central, and East dis- ships have done after they had been|tricts. In some of. the northern given up for lost. counties wheat suffered during the Naval officials were no nearer to-| winter from lack of covering the day to a solution of the disappear-|strong winds having blown the snow ance than they were three weeks agoJoff the high points. This also oc- when anxiety over the safety of. the}curred in Franklin, Warren, St. ship first developed. There is abso-| Charles, and St. Louis counties, The lutely nothing on which to found an] plant generally is still small due to explanation, The big carrier has}lack of fall and spring rains, and late simply vanished from the sea. sowing, but bottom land wheat h No possible theory was rejected by} not been much retarded. Wheat is officials in seeking an. explanation.|healthy, but little winter killed, and Suggestions heard most ‘frequently|has begun an early growth. were that German agents had board-| | The condition of wheat ed the ship in port and captured her] United States is now 768, from her people at sea; that she had}63.4 in 1917, and-83.6 for broken in two and gone down in aly average on April tst. in the against the ten CASS COUNTY BOY INJURED IN FRANCE Reader. a Pain is natore’s signab of clistress. A warning pot to be ignored. Those sharp twinges in the back— Those sudden, stab-like pains wher Hurley Spicer, Son of Mayor Spicer, Loses Right Arm and Shoulder stooping : P sane as the Result of an Are frequent signs of kidney; ‘Accident, trouble. | Mayor Spicer, of Harrisonville, last week received the following telegram from Adjutant General McCain Thursday of last week: To remove kidney pains, you must} assist the kidneys. Use a tested and remedy. proven kidney None more highty endorsed than] “Deeply-regret to inform you that Doan’s Kidney Pills. Corporal Hurley 1.. Spicer, Ammuni- Endorsed abroad—endorsed at|tion Train, has been accidentally in- jured, resulting in amputation of right arm and shoulder, and is now awaiting transfer to the United States.” Young Spicer, one of the most pop- ular young men of Harrisonville, to- gether with five or six others from that city last July enlisted in the 117th Ammunition Train and was later transferred to the 42d or Rain- bow Division, says the Cass County Democrat. Mayor and Mrs. Spicer are former residents of Butler where they have many friends who sympathize with them in this hour of trouble. : home. Read this Butler testimony. J. E. Hulse, West Ave., & W. Ohio St., says: “I had a steady ache in my back and lameness which made any lifting almost impossible. Every time I bent over, sharp twingts caught me and my kidneys acted irregularly at times. Doan’s Kidney Pills gave me complete relief from those symp- toms.” Price Gc, at all dealers. Don't simply ask for a_kidney remedy—ect Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same that Mr. Hulse had. Foster-Milburn Co.. Mfgrs., Buffalo, N.Y. 26-2t sudden squall; that she had been} Live stock of all kinds in) Missouri overtaken by submarine and sunk}are in exceptionally good condition. without trace and that an internal] Horses and mules are, healthy, with} explosion had sent her down. All of }distemper the ommonest disease. }these suggestions had flaws in them,] Their condition is 98 against o5 for jit was said, j the ten year average. Death rate A theory that she had been cap-]irem disease, 13 per 1000, against 18 tured by a group of German agents]for ten year average. aboard appeared to be the only e Hogs are healthier than for years planation that would account for the? 'Pheir condition is 07 per cent against silence of her radio equipment. og ino tot7, and oo for the ten year) Since the slip failed to appear na-Javerage. The death rate during the} ORDER OF PUBLICATI State of Missouri, County of Bate Nannie Puffer, Lillie Scovill, and Hat- tle Lewis be and appéar at this Court, at the next term thereof, to be begun and holden at the Court House in the { ss. dn ihe Circuit Court, May Term, 1918.1 City of Butler, in said county, on the In V.eution, Mareh 2s, 1948" fourth Monday of May, 1918, and on ey ene Plainciff, or before the first day of said Term, i MAB tae , {answer or plead to the petition in said John Steiner, ¢ harles F. Steiner, J. C.l cause, the same will be taken as_eon- Bisgs, the Hume bank, orpora- | ressed, and judgment will be rendered ticn, Thomas F. touston, if hvi accordingly, Aline Jt, Babcock, if living, James And it is further ordered, that a copy Inpson, and the unknown con- heirs, uevisees, donees, alien- hereof be published, according to law, in The Butler Weekly Times, a news- auntees, assignees and legal ‘i : . 3 signees i 1) paper published in said County of RROD. ey Beles Bates, for four weeks successively, Se eee eter Charice ee Sten: | published at least once a week, the Gi, Thomas By HOUKtON und Anniedta| aces insertion to be at. Nee nee Babcock, if tb or either of them eT % Be ieeeauea: eve tacts term of this Courts nenew Ht tis day comes the plaintitt * Gireuit Clerk. herein, by his attorneys, and files his " atest i petition under oath, alleging, among] q true oops. Peet Deputy: that defendants, John Steiner, |“ Witness my hand, and the Steiner, Thomas &. Houston! (seal) seal of the Circuit Court_ of and Aminie A. Babcock if lying are Bates county, this day 20th i] non-residents of the state of= March, 1918, ahs of Missouri, and can not be served ' “HO. MAXEY, with the ordinary proc of law inl og ge “Cireuit Clerk this action, und further ‘alegihg that | ~ Joanna Maxey, D, C. he verily believes there are persons in- matter terested in the subject of his petition Whose names he can not in- ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE, sert therein becwuse the sume ure to him unknown, that such unknown per- Notice is hereby given, that letters sons ure the respective consorts, heirs, /of administration upon the estate of devisees, donees, 4 immediate, | Rhoda Garner, deceased, have been mesne or remote, voluntary or involun-|grantel to the und yned° by _ the tury, Bra ssignees or legal rep- Bropate Court of Bates vounty, Mis- resentati of Jolin Steiner, Charles | souri, agatng: date the 25th day of BK. Steiner, Thomas FB. lous Mi 1918. Annie hk, Bab: if they or a ‘pers ns having claims against them be dec sd, ound of said estate required to exhibit them Shields and John 1 Thomas, de to the undersigned for allowanee w That such intere if any, is d in els months after the date of through their re live named ances- | letters, or they may be precluded tor, whose interests, right, claim or}any benefit of such estate and if such title, to tie real estate Lervinatter de-|claims be not exhibited within one s became vested in such named} year from the date of granting said | a s 3; by virtue of the fro i letters they shall be forever barred. instruments of record in the o Witness my signature this 25th day the Recorder of Deeds in and for Bates|ot Mareh, 1918, TCounty, Missouri, to-w A patent | G. M. GARNER, {from the United States, to William | (Seal) Administrator, { Shields, of record in Book 250, page) Auest CARL J. HENRY, j 467, and an entry on sa lund as | 24-4t Judge of Probate. }shown by the certified plat book of : me original entries from the United states | land office, .\ deed to John bb. Thomas in Book Q. page 650. to deed thomas Bo Houston in Bo 27 made favor ot John and | fF, Steiner in’ boo So, puge coe A trust deed, in book 16, page| | ta, a James RR. Simpson, trustee -tor | é ‘ }-\nnie beock, Securing puay1 ve f fi | eiisainaca 7 PACIFIC or apparen properly cony | IRON rantees in said distrue | MOUNTAI ordered by te said de Whereupon, it Jeleri in era] mature of which is to have und obtain an order and judgment of this} court for the sale of the following de- scribed premises situate and being in Bates county, Missouri, to-wit: All that part of the North East Quarter (1-4) of the South East Quarter (1-4) of Section Twenty 420) Twp. Forty-two (42), of Range Thirty-two (32), lying south of Mormon Fork Creek; also Thir- CLOTHES DOCTORS ty-five (35) acres off the North . side of the South East Quarter For practical cleaning and (1-4) of the South East Quarter pressing. We positively clean (1-4) of Section Twenty (20), Twp. Forty-two (42), Range Thirty-two (32), and the North West Quarter (1-4) of the South West Quarter (1-4) of the South West Quarter (1-4) of Section Twenty-one (21), everything but a guilty con- science, Twp. Forty-two (42) of Range Thirty-two (32), also the North Hats Cleaned and Blocked West Quarter (1-4) of the South West Quarter (1-4) of Section Twenty-one (21), Twp. Forty-two (42) of Range Thirty-two (32), one hundred six and seventy-five hun- dredths acres more or less, and to have the proceeds of said sale partitioned among the plaintiffs and defendants, share and share alike, af- ter the payment of the expenses inci- dent to their suit is paid, that is one- seventh of said net proceeds “fe Sian of the parties named above as plain- tiffs and defendants. Plaintiffs pons ing in their petition that the rties plaintiff and defendant are 1 tl heirs and devisees at law of Thoma: Balgum. deceased, who at the time of All work guaranteed and prices reasonable. Goods called for and Delivered. CROUCH BROS. his death owned the aforesaid premises Main s ad that ae plaintifts’ and de- No.7 8. St. fendants are now tenants in common of said premises and each entitled to Phone 171 Butler, Mo. an undivided one-seventh thereof, as heirs and devisees of Thomas Balgu: deceased, and that unless the feaid