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It is dispensed by every druggist. Now Will Milwaukee be Good? One of the Kansas City police com. missioners has announced that in the future he will be opposed to granting z license to any saloon that sells beer that is manufactured in Milwaukee. The principal products of Milwaukee are pro-Germans and beer and by boycotting one may be the means of bringing the other to their senses, jans and are| Country Club, near Ad guaranteed to be perfectly harmless.| bed shirts, 1 dozen 1 me to our store, we will mail tassco} Pleasant Ge | Grand River, 133 bands Inee, Sy bandages, it i j highly. clean and sanitary. The gauve was in RED CROSS NOTES. The followin The followin yeen sent County Headquarters by Adrian, &. : i knitted articles Deepwater, vo bandages, 10 knitted a 7y9 surgical dressin Elkhart, 100 bandage West Pot cles; Prairie towns! dressings, yg knitted Homer towns! tS) ments; dressings, ty bags, 14 ki 2 bandages, 31 nh, 2 6 bandages, 10 knitted p, 22 bandage te branches: 44} garments; | 150 es; Foster, it knitted arti- s, 25 knitted 1400 surg s. 31 proper- > Sumunit, | articles; dozen | Charlou article Te sweater; 20 knitted CAPTURED SAMMEES .'. TO HAVE GOOD CARE War Department Sets Aside Sum to be Used in Germany. ; Washington, April 18—Captured American soldiers will be given the best of care during fheir enforced so- journ in. Germany, It was learned today the state de- partment has requested the sum of $5,000 to be set aside by the war de- partment for that purpose. The plan is to place‘this sum of money in the hands of the Spanish ambassador at Berlin to be used for the purchase of extras that are not allowed prisoners under the international law.” This sum will enable Americans that have been wounded so severely that amputation is necessary, to. be supplied with artificial * limbs, for the manufacture of which Germany is famous. The money may also ‘be used in providing sports materials, such. as footballs and bats and the various in- door games. by which the prisoners may while away the long hours, The war department has taken the request under advisement, but it is understood the suggestion will re- ceive approval and the funds be so disposed, U. S. Takes Over Bosch Company. Washington, April 20—The Bosch | Magneto company of Plainfield, N. J., and Springfield, Mass., has been’ tak- en over by A. Mitchell Palmer, the | tlien property custodian, it was an- nounced tonight. The property is valued at $5,000,000, Unwillingn on the part of the j company directors to take orders for material to be used against Germany Was a moving cause of the action. | HIGH SCHOOL NOTES. pter, Cross, from Mareh t o Syne , R | moral . ay a ates Kveryone in high school is either a ott er of ar sent, to], tae ; As Nera ‘i ,| buying a receipt for an Annual, or Division Hleadquarters Surgical] \” ‘4 ‘ %% Noyaassin Nara Nt 1 ients, | Uleyare intending to do so. “A book Srl ari veant 4] ag Hane. | i? every high school pupil's home” i 1S; ad a es. 300 scellane- | ue Tee total i me the motto of the sales manager and The ft Baa {from the way he is selling receipts it looks as if there will be an Annual in every home, There should be an Annual in every home in Butler, be- cause this book is something that per- tains tu the school and the school life of the students, ‘There are several cases | mumps ‘in. the school now. ‘are coming back after having had {them while others have just left school on account of having contract ed them, The annual inter-society track meet j will be held Friday evening May 3d. The track team captains of the two societies are Emmett Bullock, Delta Kappa; Emersen Campbell, Alpha Sigma, Last year the Delta Kappa’s had an easy time, winning the meet, but this year there is more opposition of the Some : cles, | He a revi x a aay offered by the Alpha Sigma’s. — As poe ca 1 ae ve fee Sietet| well as it can be figured out, the meet 30) bean Sressinees Se [this year will be nip and tuck all the property bag t Knit Lone Oak, 214 bandages; i Oto’ surgical dre sti Please do this the first ot In no other way can we et report. Send this ings, o3 knitted arti- Icies, 64 hospital garments, | We have asked repeatedly that each erly performing the work which na-| Director of Work send in a monthly | ement of the work in her branch, ach month, | e a cor- ort to the ites County Chapter, American Red s Work, way and it is thought that it will not be decided until the last event 1s over, Rey. Moore, of Church addressed the students last Tuesday morning on “Ideas and Ideals.” He said that we should ha both ideas and ideals but that the = Christian we should not let one take the place or {le paid a fine tribute to Presi- dent Wilson, He said the president had both ideas and ideals, He told a little story to show that Mr, Wilson both. Cross—Director of is a man of ideas, So the story gocs: | SSOUrE -p| A large corporation wanted a motto, more TY. they had the professor of English bandas ages OF at Harvard write one. After this pro- foun toyed hue (0) fessor had written it, it was thought make 4x4 wipes ve tess)! int the motte could not be improved confused with 4x4 cc sses— thes They took it to the president upon, H ot made the san Sx qe- cor : ; & ; Ue ‘ Ne awe , TOE and he picked it to pieces, adding resses have taken the plice 0 se 5 BAUSae Reve ne EC i ] some here and subtracting some there, ase sew strings on] y¢, ne es : shoe : After he had finished it, it was one of compresses. triangular bandages a: of bias_side instead ot s We had the ple: contin visit was unexpected, we can praise the condition of the room too perfectly Everything was a dust proof case. aight side. tre of visiting the Adrian work room and although our not Garments and fin- Kished gauze work were properly coy- the best mottos of any business house in the United States. “And yet,” Mr, Moore said, “some of the politicians said that this school teacher (Mr. Wilson) would never be able to man- age affairs at the White House.” Mr. Moore's talk was plendid and prac- tical. 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Mercer county made a most re- markable record in the Third Liberty Loan drive. It more than doubled its quota the first day of the drive, the first county in the state to do this. lifty per cent of the 1018 apple crop in Carroll County has been killed acording to Russell D. Jay, county farm agent. Mr, Jay is of opinion that the fruit was killed by the early April freezes in this sec- tion of Missouri. ‘ Thousands of dollars damage” has been done to the crops of Southeast Missouri and Northeast Arkansas by the heavy and continuous rainfall last Corn, potatoes and ‘other crops are decaying in the ground be- cause of the excessive rainfall, More than two thousand bushels of seed corn have been tested in Car- roll County in the last four weeks under the direction: of the Carroll County Farm Bure Orders are from Missouri far as Ohio, filled every day 1 from othe he an Joseph Chick, former treasurer of | | Searrett Bible and Training hool, of Kansas City, and who was short over $100,000 in his accounts, ys that it was not embezzlement, bot just bad judgment. Whatever it may have been the school lost the money, The doctors of Henry county do not seem to be very keen on going to So far only one has volunteered from that county. The chairman of the county Medical . Association — re- notice the other day that the for the county was seven and ng enlistments. The age limit surgeons is §0 years. war, ceived ther of those inc cipation in the disorders attending the xecent strikes in Kansas City has been found to be an enemy alien and has been ordered interned for the re- mainder of the war, A stone wall and a firing squad would have much bet- ter effect on this class of thi The appointment of Geo. — F, Crutehley, editor of the Norborne Democrat, as collector of internal revenue for the western district of Missouri, has been sent to the Sen- ate by President Wilson, He will succeed E. M. Harber, who resigned to accept the postion of coun selor of Kansas City, under Mayor Cowgill. city Mrs. Sarah M. Wilkes, of Verona, was arrested again Saturday on the charge of assisting in the murder of her husband. A warrant was issued in the cirenit court at the request of the prosecutor, She was released on bond of $5,000. Virgil Wilkes, her son, is charged with the murder of his father, George M. Wilkes, wealthy farmer. A few minutes after having stabbed his son-in-law in a fight Thursday, A. A, Webster of Lebanon, dropped dead from fright in his home. The son-in-law, Perry Naylor, who had shot Webster, injuring him slightly, hearing of Webster's death, thought he had killed Webster and shot and killed himself. Neither of the men’s injuries, sustained in the fight, were serious. Indictments under the act- returned by the Cape Girardeau] join nst Rev. M. county grand jury ag; D. Collins, Catholic priest at Jack- son, Mo., Rev. C. Shutt, Lutheran minister at Sanover, Mo, and City Marshal William Wagner of Jackson were turned over to United States Marshal Orchard. Shutt and Wag- ner were out under bond. 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A Trial will Convince You, LIVE DEALERS ORDER OF PUBLICATION, State of Missouri, County of Bates, fos. in the Circuit Court, May Term, 1918, In vacation, March 28, 1918, Charles R, Blevins, Plaintiff. against John Steiner, Charles F. Steiner, J. C, Biggs, the Hume Bank, a corpora- tion, Thomas F. Houston, if living, «Annie KR. Babcock, if living, James k. Simpson, and the unknown con- sorts, heirs, devisees, donees, alien- ees, grantees, assignees and_ legal representatives of William Shields, deceased, John D, Thomas deceased, and of John Steiner, Charles F, Stein- er, Thomas F. Houston and Annie R. Babcock, if they or either of them be deceased, Defendants, Now at this day comes the plaintiff herein, by his attorneys, and files his petition under oath, alleging, among things that defendants, John Steiner, Charles I. Steiner, Thomas bk, Houston and Annie R. Babcock if living are each and all non-residents of the state served of Missouri, and can not be with the ordinary. process of law in| this action, and further alleging that he y believes there are persons in- terested in the subject matter of his petition Whose names he can not in- sert therein because the sume are tu ch unknown per him unknown, that sons are the respective consorts, heirs, devisees, donees, alienees, immediate, mesne or remote, voluntary or involun- grantee, assignees or legal rep- ntatives of Join Steiner, Charles I’, Steiner, Thomas F, Houston and Annie R. Babcock, if they or either of them be deceased, a of William sinelds and John D, deceased, ‘That such interest, y, is derived through their wuined ances- tor, whose inte: right, claim or litle, to the real estate hereinafter de- scribed, ‘became vested in such named ancestors, by virtue of the following instruments of record in the office of the Recorder of Deeds in and for Bates County, Missouri, to-wit: A patent tary, 1 to William Trom the United States, Shields, of record in Boc 250, page 467, and an entry’ on said land as shown by the certified plat book of riginal entries from the United States and office. A’ deed to John D, Thomas in Book Q. page 630, A deed to ‘Thomas F, Houston in Book X, page 7. \ se made favor of John Steiner and F. Steiner in Book 80, page in book 16, page to James R, Simpson, trustee for ring payment of five dollars each; which interests, or apparent interests have not been properly conveyed or released by the grantees in said instru- ments, Whereupon, it is ordered by_ the clerk in vacation, that said defendants be notified by publicativn, that plain- tiff has commenced a suit against them in this court the object and general nature of which is to try, ascertain and determine the respective right, title und interest of the parties -plaintiff and defendant in said action, in and to the following real estate, to-wit: The North Three-fourths of the North East quarter, Section eight, Township ‘Thirty-nine, Range three, in Bates County, Mis- oud, Annie R, Babcock, s two notes fre eight and to obtain a judgment of the court adjudging and defining the right, title and interest of the parties to said suit, in and to said land, the plainti(t claiming a fee simple title to the sume, And unless the defendants be and appeur at the next term of this court, to be begun and held at the court house in the city of Butler, in said county, on the Fourth Monday in May, 1918, and on or before the first day of said term, answer or plead to the petition filed, the same will be taken as confessed and judgment rendered accordingly. It is further ordered that a copy hereof be published according to law, in The Butler Weekly Times, a newspaper published in Bates County, Missouri. H, O, MAXEY, Circuit Clerk, A True Copy From the Record. Witness my hand and seal (Seal) of said court. H. O, MAXEY, 25-4t Clerk of the Circuit Court. ORDER OF PUBLICATION, State of Missouri, se. County of Bates. 4 In the Circuit Court, May Term, 1918. In Vacation, March 28, 1918. espionage | R. E. Nelson, Plaintiff. against W. Tate, Mary Allen, William Bagby, David Huft and Alex C. Brant, if they or either of them be and if deceased, then the un- consorts, heirs, devisees, donees and alienees of said John W. Tate, Mary Allen, William Bagby, David Huft, and Alex C, Brant, de- ceased, and also the unknown con- sorts, heirs, devisees, donees, gran- tees and ienees -of George W. M. Ferguson, deceased, John Paffer de- ceased and John Puffer, deceased, Defendants. Now at this day comes the plaintiff herein, by his attorneys, and files his living, known George Rheidel of Cedar City was] petition under oath, alleging, among the Kaiser would be in the White House in two years. punishment was threatened, but cool- er heads prevailed. Rheidel admitted he said too much and that he would keep his thoughts to himself in the future. He is employed by a Jeffer- -son City manvfacturing concern. - Mrs. Kate Skaggs of St. Louis Fri- day chopepd to death with an axe and Leg: Ww. made to kneel in the road and kiss Tate. William Bagby, the American flag when he said that] David Huft and Alex C. Brant, if liv- More drastic|the ordinary process of law butcher knife her two children, Leo,| 0" Stnes ‘ot them "be 5 years old, and Mary, 4 years 6ld./such interest She then stuffed cotton in the throats fete vie panes. ther things that defendants, John W. Wary Allen, ing are non-residents of the: state of Missouri, and can not be served with in this state, and further alleging that he ver- reg believes there are persons interest- in the subject matter of his petition whose names he can not insert in his petition because the same are to him unknown, that such unknown persons are the respective consorts, = oe -|at the next term a ant? spina wet vid Hu: eo Brant, if tex derived th: their Books N. page 200. Book H, Page 417, ot John Puffer, in Book Q. No. 1, page 433, Deed to David Huft, in Book F. No. 1, at page 28. Deed to Alex C. Brant, in Book J. No, 1, at page 599, No, 1, Page $1, and 62, at Deed_to John Paffer, in Deed to the heirs th interest \so vested the respective in due form, convey wh grantees did no away, during the life time of the grantee, Whereupon, it is ordered by the clerk in vacation, that said defendants be notified by publication that plain- tiff has commenced a _ suit against them in this court the object and gen- eral nature of which is to try, ascer- tain and determine the respective | right, title and interest of the parties plainuiff and defendant in said action Hy etl to the following real estate, to- wit: The South half of the south east quarter of the south west quarter, and that part of the east half of | the south west quarter of the south west quarter, lying south of | Mormon Fork Creek, all in Sec- ; tion (21) Twenty-one; also the east half of the west half of the north quarter section (28) Twen- ght, all in| township Forty- | two, of Range Thirty-two, in Bates County, Missouri, and to obtain a judgment of the court defining and adjudging the right, title and interest of the parties to this ac- tion in and to said real estate, the plaintiff claiming a fee simple’ title in and to the same, And, unless the defendants be and appear at the next term of this court, {to be begun and held at the court house in the City of Butler, in said county, on the fourth Monday in May, 1918, and on or before the first day of said term answer or plead to the pe- tition in said cause the same will be taken as confessed and judgment ren- dered’ accordingly, It is further jordered that a copy hereof be pub- | lished according to law, in The Butler Weekly Times, a newspaper published in Bates County, Missouri, H. O. MAXEY, Clerk of the Circuit Court, . |A True Copy From the Record. | Witness my hand and seal ‘of (Seal) said court. H. O. MAXEY, 25-4t Circuit Clerk. ORDER OF PUBLICATION, jState of Missouri, ). | County of Bate Se: In the rcuit Court, said County and S . May Term, 1918, In Va- cation April 1, 1918, R. J. Hollister, Plaintiff. against The unknown consorts, heirs, devisees, donees, alienees, assignees, legal representutives, immediate, mesne or remote, voluntary or involuntary grantces or assigns of Joseph Smith, John R, Hopkins, John D, Myers, Clay F. Myers, DeWitt C. My: Oscar F, Myers, Joel J. Bledsoe, all deceased; _ You are hereby notified that an ac- tion has been commenced against you in the Circuit Court of the county of Bates, in the State of Missouri, affect- ing the title to the following described lands and tenements, to-wit; The North half of the North West quarter, and the North West quar- of the North East quarter, ction Twenty-nine (29), Town- ship Thirty-nine (39), Range Twenty-nine (2%), ty, Missouri, which said action is returnable on the first day of the next term of said court to be held at the court house in the city of Butler, in the county ‘and state aforesaid, on the Twenty-seventh day ot May, 1918, when and where you may appear and answer or otherwise de- fend such action; otherwise plaintiff's petition will be taken as confessed and judgment rendered accordingly. /H. O. MAXEY Clerk, A True Copy. Witness my hand and the (Seal) © seal of this court this 1st day of April, 1918, H. O, MAXEY, Circuit Clerk, in Bates Coun- 25-4t EXECUTOR’S NOTICE. Notice is hereby given, that letters testamentary upon the estate of John J. Cameron, deceased, have been grant- ed to the undersigned by the Probate Court .of Bates County, Missouri, bear- ing date the 28th day of March, 1918, ~ All persons having claims against said ate are required to exhibit es! them to the undersigned for allowance within six months after the date of said letters, or they may be preclud- ed from any benefit of such estate; and if such claims be not exhibited within one year from the date of granting said letters, they shall be for- BOR el a ness my signature this 28 of March,. 1918. ” ae REBECCA M. CAMERON, (Seal) Executrix. Attest: CARL J. HENRY, 25-4t Judge of Probate. ————— NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT. Notice is hereby given to all credit- ors and others interested in the estate of Maggie Allen, deceased, that I, D. F. Allen, Executor of said estate,’ in- tend to make final settlement thereof, of the Bates County County, State at Butler, Mis- on the 13th day and of Frank H. Woodbury, if de- ceased, and Frank H, Woodbury, if living, Defendants, : The State of Missouri to the above named or described defendants, greeting: A