The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, April 25, 1918, Page 3

j q 4 3 i 15 £6. US PAT OFF Our boys in the Navy enjoy their Bevo. The Navy Department has put its official seal of endorsement on this triumph in soft drinks, by allowing it to be sold and served on all naval vessels, Ashore or afloat, you will find in Bevo a palate-pleasing, refreshing and nu+ tritious beverage. Just the thing to take along for sail or cruise — auto trip or camp and for the ice-box at home. Bevo is sold Sic Tian hown Beans Ts Fox CAUTION Sfx Ray Tes Bevo—the all-year-’round soft drink in bottles only and is bottled exclusively by ANHEUSER-BUSCH—ST. LOUIS Bevo Served at all Drug Stores, Soft Drink Stands, Hotels and Cafes 14L WE SELL THE RUNNING 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, $27.50. If you need a machine, see us be- fore you buy. Gench Bros. BUTLER, MO. Assessment Basis Not to be Changed. Jefferson City, April 20.—The state board of equalization this morning set at naught the proposed tax pro- gram of Governor Gardner, passed by the last legislature. The board, with Attorney General Secretary of State Sullivan and State Treasurer Middlecamp outvoting Governer Gardner and State Auditor Hackman, ordered all assessments put back on the fractional basis in effect heretofore in ‘Missouri. The state tax commission, created by the last legislature and headed by Cornelius Roach, raised virtually as- sessments to double the amounts turned in by county assessors, expect- ing the legislature to be convened in special session to reduce tax rates, and thereby prevent the increase costing the taxpayers anything. The action today means there will be no special session. The tax commission, undet a clause of the state constitution and the law) creating the commission, has worked subject to review by the state board| Mr. Oliver returned from Kansas of equalization. Z LIGHT | McAllister, Chapel Chatter. Miss Estella Hendrix xisited Sun- day with Miss Carlie Howard. This neighborhood was visited with a ‘good rain Friday and a skift of snow Friday night. Mrs. David White and son, Will, returned from Illinois Monday, where they attended Mrs. White’s father’s funeral. Charley Smiser is doing some car- penter work for Louis Radford ,this week. George Herman's children have the three day measles, Mrs. Everett Morgan is sick at this, writing. Louis Radford purchased posts from Dick Keeble. Roy White of El Dorado Springs, is visiting at his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. David White, and other rel- atives. G. H. Bla and Henry Winters were the solicitors for the Third Lib- erty Loan bonds in Redmond dis- trict. Oliver and Mae at Culver Saturday. Will White is on the sick’list. A few from this neighborhood at- some Baker were callers tended the sale Tuesday. at Mrs. Voris’. Miss Carlie Howard visited from Thursday until Saturday with her sis- ter, Mrs. Gordon Barnett, of Summit neighborhood. On account of the rainy weather Ben Wix failed to speak at Elizabeth Chapel Sunday morning. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Barnett and son spent Sunday at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs, Mart Howard. Friends in this county are very sor- ry to hear of the death of Robert Stubblefield, of Butler. He formerly lived in this vicinity. Carl Hill and Miss Myrtle Keeble visited Sunday in this neighborhood. Bernice Dickinson entertained com- pany from near Spruce Sunday. CHATTERBOX. Merwin Items. This vicinity was visited by a snow storm Saturday night. Mrs. J. E. Bell arrived Tuesday from Palisade, Colorado, from a visit with her friends and to dispose of her property. H. D. Ritchey went to Kansas City Sunday, returning home Monday. Frank Ennis and granddaughter, Byrel Maybe, returned home from Kansas City Saturday. Marion Harris came home from Neosho, Mo., Sunday. Glen Chambers came in last from Upton, Wyoming, for a with relatives and friends. James Hayes, jr. returned from Iowa, Friday for a visit with his par- ents. Born—To Mr. and Mrs. Ben Goode, a boy, one day last week. Mrs, C. E. Wells of Amoret was a guest of Mrs. W. E. Lee last week. The ladies of the Merwin Red Cross met Thursday evening at Valley Chapel and organized a Red Cross sewing class. Mr, and-Mrs. George Peeper came down from Kansas City Thursday. for a visit with Mrs. Ewing. Mr. Peepe: returned home Friday. week visit City Sunday. « AN OLD CITIZEN PASSES AWAY. F, Coleman Smith, One of the Old- est Members of the Bates County Bar Dead. Francis Coleman Smith, one of the best known citizens. of this city died at his home on West Dakota, Thurs- day afternoon, April 18, after an ex- tended illness of heart disease and diseases incident to old age. F. C. Smith was born in Jefferson county, Kentucky, February Il, 1842. When quite young he came to Missouri with his parents, whq lo- cated in Lafayette county, At .the age of 13 he entered the St. Paul col- lege of Palmyra, where he remained for four years, after which for two years he was a student at the Uni- versity of Virginia, where he was a classmate of a son of R. E, Lee. At the breaking out of the Civil War he left school and enlisted in Bled- soe’s battery of the Confederate) army. On account of sickness he was discharged and returned to his home in Missouri. Later he again enlisted in Bledsoe’s battery, of General Joe Shelby’s command, and | served to the end of the war, rising to the rank of lieutenant, At the close of the war he went to Mexico and from: there to California, He re-| turned to Lafayette county in 1872 and engaged in farming and teaching: school until 1872, when he went to Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he studied law and again returned to! Lexington, where he was admitted to the bar. April 11, 1870, he was unit- ed in marriage to Miss Madaline Me- Naught Taylor and the same year came to Butler and devoted his at- tention to the stock business until 1880, when he took up the practice of his profession. Possessing a good education and distinguished ancestry, he was one of that fast passing class, a gentleman of the old South. He was a man of high ideals and no man was ever heard to question his word, -He was well posted on the history of the past as well. as the current events of the day, He was a-past master and at one time s High Priest of Royal Arch Masons. ‘ Funeral services were conducted at the late home, 301 West Dakota street, by the Rey. George Scroggs of the Presbyterian church, under the | auspices of the Masonic lodge, and interment made in Oak Hill ceme Star 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. \ STAR LUMBER: COMPANY OHIO STREET BUTLER, MO. BUTLER SCHOOL TEACHERS | quardt and families visited Sunday Losses on Hides. RE-ELECTED |night with Fred Vogt, jr. and family. | Walter, Hilda and ia Rapp mo Sal- | tored to Appleton City Saturday jind }took Grandina Rapp home, who had There has long been a feeling among the American people that the prices on shoes, based as they pri- Board of Education Raises the aries of All Teachers. German a is survived by one son, Robert ‘Will No Longer be ivisited in this vicinity the past two |™M#tly are upon the unprecedented J Smith, of thi iy four daughte . Taught. | weeks. increase in the price of leather, were See heey ee See a : ; ; | Paul Fleischer and Walter Rapp |Umustifiable. Tt has been believed Mrs, E. Young, LaPlata, Missouri; Phe board of education of the But- (ai ts Saba egies iy that the great packing house 5 at Mrs. John Yaple, Horton, ler school oN Bare ee 2 tended to business affairs in Kan- great packing ses are a Mrs. J aple, : ler schools met Monday night and : % . the bottam of this enormous increase and Misses Nellie and Alice Smith, clected teachers f he : var, |>#s, City, several days last week, | ‘ eluate Seay ‘i f “ape ee : i ie EY Sees RE aH Hee ew years) “Grandma [Hintz, who lived with her|td that controlling the — tanneries, of this city, : ) : sachers, W vere ap- , Ce Nees : é J of the old teachers, who were av- > qauenhter, Mrs. John Marquardt, the they are in a position to manipulate Robert Stubblefield Dead. Robert N. Stubbletield, Bates county's most respected citi- zens, died at his home on Ohio street, Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock, of dis- cases incident to old age. Robert N. Stubblefield was born in McMinn county, Tennes Febru- ary 14, 1843, \When ten y fave he moved with his parents to Mis- sour: and located in Henry county. one OF jthe leather industry to the detriment For the consumer. who buys the shoes. 1 Now y com. hplaining of the startling de ein hide values. From Omaha, it is ad- ‘mitted that branded cowhides which plicants, were given their old tions, and a flat increase of $10 per month was made in the salaries of all Post Hast four months, went to live with another daughter, Mrs. lewis | Pleischer last Wednesday. PRISCILLA the packers are bitter teachers. Vhe iollowing were re-elected: [ligh School superintendent and | teacher training instructor, John 0. | New Orders to Coal Daalers. were worth 28 to 30 cents a pound a Henderson; principal and teacher of! create ; Hfew months ago, are now. selling at agriculture, Alphonso Gorrell; t her | _Jetferson oe Mo, April 20 trom 10 to 18 cents, while from Chi- Goniiertial course, John W. Craig; Fuel € ommissione Crossley has i CHa MH ELOIe I ATE gradi languages, Miss Burney Rice; music ; sted the following orders to cowl i oise mourns that the demand has andre NS Wood; mathe-| dealers throughout the state: A : bene: vA dA EHS rece Meal een ane TutcGala mil ietop not equalled the supply and that matics, M tella M. Johnson; as- | Wholesa s Poo stocks of green hides are therefore in. the Feta 3 5 rris 2g. erators and othe engaged ; sistant English, Miss Dorris Jones. ; Gah Ns a result, all the hide rload lots are pro In 1802 he enlisted in Co. H, 7th Mo, ; t Cavalry in which he served till 1 Franklin school—primary depart- selling of coal c due to a heavy loss un- close of the war. He participated inj ment, Miss Lulu Rockhold, ‘hibited making shipments of same tO} )..5 ie demand can be ine fasedeand: the battle of Lone Jack where he was! Webster school—primary depart- | @"y individual, group of individuals, |. shoe quotations linger nical isoner and held for three |ment, Miss Elizabeth Ewin, (firm or corporation to whom a retail meri ‘< ane taken prisoner and he ae a us ol Maniengotiteisel basenior ivan sesured | Veet they are now, the consumption months when he was paroled and oN ishington = school—primary Bota Ee aos ae (at shoes will decrease rather than in- changed, January 27, 1867, he mgr: | partnent, Miss Mable Rockhold; fitth | cr the federal fuel ce Teh 10F) crease, The Am an peaple feel tied Miss Elizabeth J. Dobson, The |and sixth grades, Miss Anna Silvers; |“ 'ssotrl, provided that his ruling yay they are being rubbed by the next year they came to Bates ¢ seventh grade, Mi Lulu) Short;| Shall not in any sense apply to cot anning industries which are allied ty and established a home on a eighth grade, Miss Anna Shouse; | *0f industrial) use, public utiHites.) iosely with the packers on the one in Deepwater township, where th manual training and domestic science, / Municipal plants, factories, | Schools) Hi nd and the » factories on the lived for many years, He was a Miss Mabel Hines. city, county, state or municipal inst!) oie VS long as el this way of high character, a good neighbor,| The selection of principals for oe TECIONE: ; 1 labout it they will keep their shoe a loving husband and father and his | grade schools was deferred to a later| The fact that the retail dea CTS i urchases lown to the very mini- passing is mourned by a host of | meeting. }mum.—lHenry County Democrat. friends that he has made in his 50 years residence in this county. The following janitors were elected —High School, Pres Orear; Washing- business upon a systematic well-or- | Besides his widow he is survived]ton school, Sam Young; Franklin 1 ; ts British Ships Sunk by one son, J. W. Stubblefield, of Jer-j school, Charles Grube; Webste | sanized basis. 1S Ships : icho Sprin d ouri; Mrs. J. !y]school, Thomas Frazee; Douglass | slapea SaaS TRS \ London, April 17.-The losses to | J British ‘shipping by mine or submar- Padgett, Twin Falls, Idaho, and Mrs. W. W. Henry, of this city. Funeral services, conducted hy Rev. S. B. Moore, of the Christian church, were held at the late home Sunday afternoon, and interment made in Oak Hill cemetery. Alien Enemies in Vernon County. Vernon ener From different parts of comes the report of alien talking loudly, and in some instances they have been called down, A enemies can't be made loyal, but they can be made be good if they have tv be worked over. This locality prow!-| ly boasts that it has no enemies of our country. It*has Germans, ut they are loyal, patriotic citizens.-- Metz !imes. | | school, Dan Crouch. ‘ ' An American Ship Sunk. It was voted to discontinue the} \ ine in the past Week totaled fifteen, teaching of German in the High schol.| Washington, April 20.—The steam-j according to the admiralty report to- Mrs. I. D. Osborne was appointed | er Lakemoor was sunk by an enemy night. Eleven of the merchantmen to make a school enumeration of he | submarine about midnight on April! sunk were 1,600 tons or over and four | | j district between April 30 and May 15. | 11 in European waters, the Navy De-| under that tonnage. One fishing ves- partment announced tonight, Out of) sel also was sunk, a total of ten officers and fifty-two | Twelve vessels were unsutcesstully members of the crew five officers |attacked. The arrivals numbered 2,- e of the crew have been re-| 211; sailings, 2.450. The Lakemoor, Fair Mount News, (Too late for last week.) survivors. ‘The farmers are all wearing a! : : : , smile since the which was a/# ¢&fgo carrier ot 4.500 tons register, In the previous week only six benefit to everythi has recently been taken over by the) British merchantmen were sunk by A number of ladies from around! shipping board. This is her first trip) mine or submarine, four of them of abroad. more than 1,500 tons, 1 here quilted a quilt - for Grandma | Rapp at the home of her son, Nick, and family last Tuesday. Henry Fleischer and family running around here in a brand new j Chevrolet car which they purchased of John Doerilinger of Appleton City | last week. are! It is’also rumored that there are} Mrs. Nick Rapp helped Mrs. : cece erg ie pees ey Pe nn a clean house one day last} This is a good time to paint for APPEARANCES sake and also not quite as loyal as they mig »| week. for PRESERVATION ’S sake. but if the rumors are true they will be attended to in due time. More Hoarded Flour Seized. Wichita, Kan., April 20.—Many tfor- eigners of Garard returned ‘sacks excess holdings. of flour today, fol- lowing the penalizing yesterday of Frank Kiror of Dunkirk on a charge of-hoarding flour. Dr. N. R. Gradle, food administtaror for Crawiord county, and G. H. Gregg, township|in here now than ever, administrator for Girard, penalized | pretty sick with them. Kiror six sacks of flour for hoarding. All was turned over to the Red Cross. | at This morning Gradle, accompanied | Hirni's eighteenth birthday. by the sheriff, raided a house in Pitts- burg where he seized four hundre@| mother, | sister pounds of flour and one hundred | Schellman, Nettie and August. pounds of sugar. The pie supper at Prairie City Sat- urday night was well attended. The music was good. The pies sold well} and the band took.in a nice sum ot} money. Paul Fleischer and Amos Rapp mo-! tored ‘to Butler Wednesday on spe- cial business. Amos Rapp called on Albert and Herman Fleischer last Sunday after: noon. Those measly measles are thicker Some are It costs as much to put on a poor quality paint as a first class 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 costs no more.to start with than poor paint and since it preserves 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 years and conceded by all to be an excellent paint. We carry such in the well known DEVOE and SHERWIN & WILLIAMS paint. Take no chances and buy these brands. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Hirni entertained dinner Sunday it being Mrs. Rev. Hirni’s Mrs. Star Lumber Company PHONE 17 \ BUTLER, MO. Heinke and family, Mrs. and brother, Mar- Herman Steiner and John