The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, April 25, 1918, Page 7

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We have money to loan on real estate at a low rate of interest with privilege to pay at any time. FARM LOANS We have a complete set of Abstract Books and will ABSTRACTS furnish abstracts to any real estate in Bates County and examine and perfect titles to same. INVESTMENTS We will loan your idle money for you, securing P you reasonable interest on good security. We pay interest on time deposits. J. B. DUVALL, Vice-President, W. F. DUVALL, President, W. D. Yates, Title Examiner. Arthur Duvall, Treasurer. SEE -Denton-Coleman Loan and Title Co. ea ai ecm —SSSSSEE>>>E=S=== FOR FARM LOANS and ABSTRACTS BUTLER, MO. CHOATE & SON REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE INSURANCE { Fire, Lightning, OF ALL KINDS: Tornado and Hail Protect your Growing Crops agatest Hail Office over Mo. Sta‘e Bank Phoue 137 AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE _Fire, Lightning and Theft THOUSANDS AT STONE'S - FUNERAL Many. Stand in Rain, Unable to Gain Admittance to Church for Services. Nevada, Mo., April 18.—The First Christian church hete was’ far too small to accommodate the thousands who came this afternoon to .attend the funeral of William J. Stone, United States senator, who died in Washington last Sunday from a stroke of paralysis, Hundreds of persons, unable to crowd into the church auditorium, stood outside in a drizzling rain. This was the late senator's home county and many of those who came to his funeral today were aged men, friends of forty years ago, when Mr. Stone was a struggling young attor- ney. * A special train bearing Senator Stone's body, members of his family, the congressional delegation, state officials and employees friends, reached taken to the church, The casket was not opened af During the ceremony houses were closed and schools were dismissed. in the family lot in Deep Wood cem- etery. Members of the congressional del- egation, who accompanied Senator Stone’s body from, Washington were joined here today by Senators Sha- froth, Thom ind Myers and Repre- sentatives Rucker and Rodenburg, who were returning from Louisiana, where they had gone for the burial of Senator Robert F. Broussard. Champ Clark, speaker of the na- tional house of representatives was unable to attend the funeral after ac- companying the body from, Washing- ton to St. Louis, lle returned to the capital when the train bearing the all the City yesterday. Judge Fred L. Wil- liams officially represented the state supreme court at the funeral, All state officials were present. Stotts-Williams. Oscar (Chick) Stotts, of this city, and Miss Bessie Williams, -of Harri- sonville, were united in marriage at the home of Rey. George Scroggs of the Presbyterian church, Saturday evening, April 20, at. 9 o'clock, The happy couple left on the even- ing train for they are spending a brief honeymoon with the mother of Mrs. Stotts, Mrs. W. H. Williams. Mr. Stotts will leave Sunday night, April 28, with the Bates county quota to the National army for Camp Funston and Mrs. Stotts will resume her duties at the Inn, in this -, where she will await the return of her husband from his service to his country. Inventor of Tank Regarded as Crank by Congress in 1912. Washington, April 20.—In to12 the war department, the navy department and congress treated as a “cran : perhaps the greatest inventor of en gines of destruction of the age, Rep resentative Slayden of Te clared in the house this afternoon His name was Willard S. Isham Not only was he the father of the tank and the depth bomb, but he was the first man to think of camouflage, as Slayden said. Six years ago this man recommen’ ed construction of 8,000 armored cars before the house military affairs com mittee, Slayden said. WEVER BEFORE WAS A DAILY NEWSPAPER MORE WECESSARY BOYS FROM HOME ARE FIGHTING ON EUROPEAN FIELDS Fp VERY casualty list con- “tains the names of brave men from this and other States who have fallen in the cause of World Democ- racy. The heart at every hearth is filled. with appre- hension for one or more men Somewhere in France. The Great Mid-Wesfern Daily Has Correspondents With the: American Army Everywhere The wires. of the United Press bring the news directly mto the office of THE TIMES. The special mail edition of THE TIMES is the most com- plete newspaper printed in St. Louis. SUBSCRIPTION MAIL RATES: de-| f and many Jin health by the poisonous fumes be- 1 Nevada early this} fore a way fo combat it was found. morning. At 10 o'clock the body was] Now the Germans have found that er arriving in Nevada. | dea business | soldiers are equipped with public | better gas mask than the Germans Burial was]and that the prevailing winds in north- late senator's body left for Jefferson®asrcements Harrisonville, where), ing kicked by a horse, and it is sup- dmany years by C. C. MeGinnis, a prominent farmer and stockman ot this county, who also owns a fine ‘The Germans Quitters, | During the carly part of the war the Germans thought it was the Tin- est of sport to take a few Zeppelins, fly over London or some unprotect- ed Inglish town and drop a few tons of explosives, serving no military purpose whatever, the only result be- ing to kill women and children. Finally the English built enough fly- ing machines and set up enough anti- aircraft guns to make that a rather dangerous form of amusement. Next the allies sent their air craft over into Germany and dropped a few bombs on German cities. The Chamber of Commerce of the cities immediately asked that a new treaty be signed agreeing not to drop bombs in the rear of the firing line. carly in the war the Germans, in defiance of all rules of civilized war- fare, released large quantities of gas which caught the allies unprepared for such a brutal way of fighting and many were killed and many broken the allicd chemists can make a more y gas than they can, The allied a much ern France is more favorable to the allies than to them, when it comes to gas fighting and the cry of “Kam- rad” is being raised and they are ask- ing the International Red Cross to ask that the belligerent nations sign an agreement not to use poisonous gas for the remainder of the war. ilaving let loose this pest of modern warfare they are now forced to ery peace when they see it about to de- vour them. lt is hardly likely that their efforts will have much effect in view of their taking the initiative in that sort of fighting and their well known) pro- pensity for regarding treaties and as “scraps of paper” when it suits their purpose to do so. S. W. Gutridge Dies in Idaho. Humphrey Gutridge, of Deepwater township, was in the city Monday en Bliss, Idaho, in response to A tel m announcing the death of his brother, S. W. Gutridge. The tel- am did not state the cause of the ith, but while Mr, Gutridge was in town he received a letter, written several days ago, - stating that his brother had been severely injured by route to posed that this was the cause of his death, SW. Gutridge was born on the old tridge farm, a short distance east hot Sprace, January 11, 1855, and made his home in that neighborhood until in i888, when he moved to Oregon and later to Bliss, Idaho, In 1878 he was married to Miss Ora E, Kash, of Deepwater township, who died a few months age. tle is survived by one son, Willie Gutridge, and a daughter, Idaho, McGinnis Ranch Sold. The C. CC. MeGinnis ranch com prising 2700 acres of land five miles ich Hill was sold this, southeast of Saturday, afternoon to Frank - A. Strickland and Cliff J. Lane, promi nent cattle feeders and farmers of this count the price paid being $130,000, The sale was made by John W, Jamison of the PF. & M. Bank for the St. Clair County Investment com- pany of which John H. Lucas and others of Kansas City were the late owners, This tract of land mainly a stock ranch, only 400 a being under cultivation, The ranch has been successfully managed — for fine is e3 farm west of the city—Rich Hill Re- view. , May’s Draft Call, 150,000. Washington, April 17—One hun- dred and thousand drafted men. nearly three times the month's quota, will be mobilized during May, Pro- vost Marshal General Crowder stated this afternoon. Uy June three hun- dred thousand men of the second draft of eight hundred thousand, wil Mrs. Lille Woodward, both of Bliss, } “ROADS STREWN WITH DEAD” German Losses in Early ‘¥ighting Often Equaled 50 Per Cent. 4 Washington, April 20—Germany ist carpeting the westérn battle ~ field] with dead and from many outfits has! lost 50 per cent or above, according-| to an official diplomatic dispatch re-! ceived here tonight. es | The Tenth Division of reserves at| Croix Du Bae lost half its forces! March 26, and a company of the 370th | Regiment could report only twenty- | six out of ninety-six men April i0. Other examples of the reckless wastage the boche leaders are inflict- ing in their gamble follows: MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY Time Table North Bound Leave The 20th Regiment of the Second} Bavarian Division lost 50 per cent; | No. 202 K. C, and St, Louis a company of the 77th Regiment mus-| passenger veseeese TT100 & ™M, tered only one commissioned officer | No. 210 K. C, and St. Louis and thirty men at the close of an at-| oe tack; the 5th Grenadier Regiment lost i eeeetee ek nag IE ED Oe at least twenty-six officers; in the | * o, 292 local freight .....12:30 p. m. 187th Division sixteen, hundred men | ——— were mowed down on March 26; the South Bound 260th Infantry of the 4th Division Re-| No, 205 Joplin, Wichita & serves was nearly annihilated on} , ii ae April 9; the 17th Reserve Div sion | sCotteyvile BeASeD EEE TEA SE showed—go—per cent decre, while o 207 Joplin and Yates the 13tst Regiment lost more than | pCCiGt DBesSte et ii: 1:10 p.m. 'No. 291-local freight .....11:00 a, m. half in the Merris fighting. A German prisoner's unmailed lete | ter gives a glimpse into the bloody scene, “The-road from Arras to Cambrai Madison Branch Leave Butler daily. .. 8:00 a, m, is constantly under fire and our} sunday only pokes) teh losses are beyond description,” he, CLAUDE L. PLAIN, wrote, according to. the dispatch. | Agent. “The ditches are piled high with dead | ~ horses and in batteries have only | two or three left. The losses in men} e not less, and every day the road | 1s strewn with dead and dying.” Germany herself is keeping figures | from her people as far as possible, | but the grim fact of severe | PROFESSIONAL CARDS DR. H. E. MULKEY Veterinary Surgeon Fourteen years successful practice. osses is seeping through to Temon homes is 5 the wounded: pour back. * While the | At Garrett’s Old Stand ei P ‘—Res, 268; military teaders have prepared the pp en es ee atts une 3 way for bad ti the ruthless sac- rifices of the wave formations are) ~~~ sa creating a profound efieet in Ger DR. J. T. HULL many, according to the information ‘ here. Dentist “It is not surprising that the Ger Entrance same that leads to Fox’s | Studio, man public is stirred by the serious German losses on the western front,” | commented the official message. North Side Square Butler, Missouri ANOTHER BUTLER CASE It Proves That There’s A Way Out’ for Many Suffering Butler Folks.- B, F. JETER © Attorney at Law Notary Public East Side Square Phone 186 BUTLER, MISSOURI T. J. HALSEY, M. D. O. D. in . Kid- tler with Jus another report of a case Butler. Another typical ¢ ney ailments relieved in Doan's Kidney Pills. ¥ | M. ‘fF. Dunean, 020 W. Pine St., LOS me sitting Butler, says: "For several years 1) eH BUTLER, MO. had been having a bad time, owing to’ Office South Side Square Phone 15 complaint. The kidney se- E : kidney tretions were ina yains in my side and across my Nee ater pean GR (uney EIS] | pegmmonen” Husband Won. at Clay's Drug Store and they gave Springfield, Mo, April to.—-With ine more relief than any other medi-) Federal Judge Van Valkenburgh rul- (Statement jng that George H, Grogan was the nnon law husband of the late Mrs, Brown, wealthy Springfield and | had se cine Thad ever used, viven September tl, fort) On April 28, toto, Mr. ce Dunean | |> said: “L have had no need of a kid-| woman, Grogan, a Galveston, o ney medicine for some time, | still carpenter, is awarded an estate val- recommend Doan’s Kidney Pills as ued at ooo, The case was tried a reliabie kidney remedy to anyone! fere recently and the court withheld who needs them his decision, Vhe decision was hand- Price Goce, at all dealers. Don't) ed down yesterday in’ Kansas City simply ask for kidney remedy—get | and was received here today. Since Doan's Kidney Pills—the same that|the death of Mrs. Brows. Grogan Mr. Duncan has twice publicly rec- has been attempting to prove his Co.) right to her estate, claiming to be her 20-2t husband. Foster- Milburn Ka SS ed ommend Mifers., it common law Commissioners Ask More Time. | \ , i Bars Americans From Mexico. ly fie commissioners appointed Seed cs is Lone Justice of the Peace B. F. Jeter, to) yy, Lie ae aay sn aaa Cc. appraise the land in [udson township ood, American consul at Mata- moros, refused passports today to in the condemnation proceedings of} Americans and announced that Amer- the MLK. & ilroad and who were jo ould not t mitted to report Saturday asked for an ex-| He ane ° v not ue beta to ‘en- tension of time until Thursday, of this © Poll of eos Dae of the Luis Caballero revolution. week, on account of the condition of The commission is com- posed of BP. Powell, kk. Simpson, | and F. A. Strickland. The land is | wanted by the railroad company for] the purpose of building a reservoir to supply their new terminal below Ap-j pleton City with water, Passports were cen from two Americans who insisted on going in. In Mexican official circles it was re- ported the advance on Matamorse from Victoria, 107 miles south, was considered impossible on account of |the difficulty of transporting supplies facross the sparsely settled country between. the reads. Disloyaity in Nebraska U.? | Lincoln, Neb., April 19.—Charges that persons connected with the Uni- | of Nebraska have proved be in training camps, he said. Men can now be supplied the camps as fast as there is room for them, he announced. SCHOQL GERMAN INJURES . LOAN Uel, Lamkin, State School Superin- tendent, Criticized by Sedalian. Sedalia, Mo., April 18—In the Lib- erty Loan drive here several refused to purchase bonds until the teaching of German was stopped in the high school. Bond workers telegraphed Uel Lamkin state superintendent of schools, for advice. He- answered that if German was dropped before the completion of the term, pupils studying German could not receive full credit. This reply has created considerable comment and the state superintend- ent was sharply condemned today ‘n a communication to local papers signed by Lee Looney, a lumberman, chairman of the city Democratic cen- tral committee. “To hell with Lamkin, if he means what he says,” Mr. Looney said in his communication. The school board is being urged to take the matter into its own hands and drop German, as many other towns are doing. ~ themselves to be unzAmerican were made by the Nebr: State Council | of Defense today in a communication addressed to the university's board of regents, requesting the board to “purge itself of such pernicious in- fluences.” “Members of the Patriotic League of the university have been sneered at by those who failed to wholeheart- edly support their country,” says the communication. $15,000 for a Curl. SEE THE CLOTHES DOCTORS For _ Practical cleaning and pressing. We positively clean everything but a guilty con- science. The other day as Mary Pickford, the movie actress, was making a Lib- erty Loan speech in Chicago she stopped and clipped off one of her curls, held it up and asked what she was offered for it. The bidding was spirited and the curl was finally knocked down to Herbert Hohm for $15,000. Hats Cleaned and Blocked All work guaranteed and prices reasonable. Rich Hill to Have Free Mail Delivery Goods called for and Delivered. A postoffice inspector spent a few days in Rich Hill the last of the weei looking over the sidewalks in the city with a view to installing free mail delivery. After going over the city in company with Postmaster Jamison he said that he woud see that the service be established. ; CROUCH BROS. No. 7 S. Main St. Phone 171 Butler, Moa