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The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-04-22
Our old friend Frank Eldridge, OF

Our old friend Frank Eldridge, OF
Tulare, Cal In sending remittance
for renewal, says: "There smoothing
like getting letters from old friends,
and assure you that the weekly let
ter (TrMEs) l get from you is read
with interest"
Any suit in our Display window
Saturday or Monday $40 90,
Black & Arnold Clothing Co.
The new tangled burglar alarm at
the Farmers and Manufacturers bank
at Rich Hill event off" about 7
o'clock Friday evening, but 1t was
discovered that instead OF burglars
monkeying with the combinations,
the time locks had not been properly
adjusted.
Oxblood-Skye blue-old rose
lavender-tan-white and all colors
In hosery-silk finish Isle only 25c-
Hills Cash Store.
D. A. Robinson, who recently pur.
chased the Strecker farm near Papin.
Vile claims to have struck q twenty
inch vein OF fine coal and that the
vein Increases In thickness the iurth
er back the workmen get. Mr.. Rob
inson believed there was coal In pay
ing quantities underlying his land
and has had prospectors at work iol
some time.
$1,000 all wool suits $1,000.
Black & Arnold Clothing Co.
A special election will be held In
Adrian on May 4th to vote on q
proposition to Issue bonds to build
an addition to the public school
building for high school purposes
This proposition was voted down al
the spring school election, but sc
urgent is the need for high schooI
rooms, that the board decided to
call another election.
The Review reports that a number
OF local fishermen are at work cut
ting ditch from the Beall lake to
the river, distance OF q quarter o
q mile for the purpose OF catching
the fish. This lake has always beer
quite a fishing resort in that section
1t is the intention Of the owners to
reclaim the land heretofore covered
by the water.
1Sc blue denim only loo per yarC
Hills Cash Store.
See A. 81. Culver's full page invita-
ton, not advertisement, to attent
his grand opening on Friday nigh
and Saturday, April 23rd and Oath
enjoy the music, inspect his splendid
ly assorted stock and get q beautiful
carnation as a souvenir. It will
you nothing to 60 and see this fin
display, and you will be welcomed By
the gentlemanly proprietor and bill
polite assistants.
Porter M. Allison was indicted In
to Office Of County Superintendent o
Schools on last Tuesday. On las
Thursday the complete returns from
the election we're received by Count,
Clerk Weeks, which showed Allison
2,163, Hoover Lass, q majority o
7O8 for Prof. Allison. The new su
perintendent, under law passed By
this Legislature, will get q salary o
81, 400, the state to pay $500 tn
county $1,000.
Us. Arbuckle writes us from Clovis
CAL, enclosing remittance for renew
al. He says the prices for raisins
their principal product, are very
low, the packers only paying II to {
cents. They are shipping som,
through the farmers alliance. h,
thinks by next fall they will be II
position to ship direct to the eastern
markets. Mr.. Arbuckle wishes to b,
remembered to oil his old friends
and he has many in Bates county.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-04-22

The long and short robbers have
broken out again, this time at Ne.
vsda, where they held up young
man named Creecy Saturday night
and robbed him OF between seven and
eight dollars, The long and shors
robbers have appeared at different
places during the past few years,
made one or more bold robberies
and then disappeared. They are Ger
tsinly mysterious pair.
Your $1,000 bill will buy any new
suit In our window Saturday or Mon.
day. Black & Arnold Clothing Co
Fred W. Jewett, OF the L. S. Navy,
who had been spending a iurlough
at home with his father, p. j. Jewett,
left for New York TO report Tor duty
on the Rhode Island, He has been
In the Navy several years, having
first served on training ship. He
served on this battle ship in the
history making cruise around the
world recently ended. Fred is not
specially ensmored with the sea lie
and when his term of enlistment ex
pires he expects 30 return to theiarm
In Bates county.
25c corset cover embroidery at 10 :
-HilPs Cash Store.
Leslie Clinkepbeard and Mrs. Kate
Hupp were married In Kansas City,
Kansas, Saturday evening, at $50
O'Clock, by Judge Prather. Mr.. Gin.
kenbeard has been in chrrge OF the
Western Union City offices for many
years, and by his strict attention to
duties and courteous demeaner has
made many friends and is very pop
ular Mrs. Hupp has been In charge
OF the Rest Rooms OF the county,
since they were established and is
very popular with the public. THE
TIMES extends bes. wishes.
Why should We not be proud Of
Missouri when we take into consid
GRAFTON the fact tina. 1t ranks first In
the production OF lead, second in the
number of mules, fourth In the mum
Der OF swine, filth In corn area, fifth
In population, sixth In cement pro
duction, sixth In hay production,
sixth In number OF horses, seventh
In manufacturing, seventh In coal
area, eight In wheat area, eight in
mich cows, tenth in stone produc-
ton, fifteenth In coal production and
sixteenth In sres.-Appleton City
Journal.
Look In our window and see our
big line OF wool suits $1,000.
Black & Arnold Clothing Co.
A farmer over at Maryville, Kan
sas, whose estimated wealth is sew.
enty.five thousand dollars, commit.
ted suicide through remorse because
he had not properly listed his prop.
erty with the assessor. He left q let.
ter for his brother to that effect.
Now We hope that fool notion wont
strike all the tax dodgers. The pop
ulation would be decimated worse
than by cholera, bubonic plague and
all the fatal pestilences known to
man combined.
Our new oxiords and slippers are
the greatest values we have ever
shown-up to the minute In style
and best goods made $1.25 to 81 90
Hills Cash Store.
A boy named Burgess, escaped
from the reform school at Boonville,
sent up from st. Clair county, was
arrested BY the sheriff at Pleasant
Gap last Friday. The boy had been
doing some odd work for j. N
Varnes, and In the settlements Mr..
Varnes gave him by mistake q ten
dollar gold piece instead Of q silver
dollar. The mistake was not dis.
covered for several days, when It
was learned that young Burgess had
used the money.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-04-22
Black & Arnold Clothing Co.

Ex.county treasurer Oscar Reeder,
OF Mound was In trading and favor
ed us pleasantly.
New elastic belts 10. 25 and 4Sc-
Hills Cash Store.
~Ared G, Magee and Herman Magee,
successful farmers OF Homer, have
their names enrolled for The TINES.
This year trade with US.
20.N Black 4 Arnold Clothing Co.
Mr.. and Mrs. W, F. Duvall return.
ed home Sunday from a two weeks
stay at Hot Springs, Ark.
All wool new suits $1,000.
Black & Arnold Clothing Co.
Gilpin observer., 1909-08-26

sod inroushout the world Depots: London. n.
, "a, r; Towns 4 c.. sydney: India. i. X. Paul
"a sMa-uEa; LID; Toxic: R,ssIs, Ferrein. MoseoW::
30 s.. nr'ea. lennon Ltd Cape Town, etc; u g. A.
Gilpin observer., 1909-08-26
HARD TIMES
AND MATRLMONY

There is probably not more than a fraction
or one per cent of truth in that unpleasant
old proverb. When poverty comes in at the
door love flies out of the window" but it is
not to be denied that when poverty is the
first to take possession poor love has to sit
on the doorstep and wait
All through the year 1908 the little god
mad been shivering outside many homes where
ne had every expectation of spending cozy
and perfectly delightful twevemonth And
during the year of hard times marriages fell
Off 20 per cent.
In Manhattan borough alone nearly 10000
persons are going about in single blessedness
or otherwise. they take it-who ought
from the statistician's point OF view to have
been married last year
The statistician takes a cold-booded view
of it. merely marking it down as an interest
ing fact to be footed up with other interest
ing facts. He hasn't word to say about
loves young dream and hope deferred and all
the furtive tears for which those i O.OOO non.
existent marriages responsible You can't
make averages of such things as young
mans disappointment and nice girls heart
ache
The results of hard times are always first
of all, fewer diamonds imported and fewer
marriages recorded Jewels and matrimony
go hand in hand, indications Of a rising or
falling in the barometer of prosperity
Gilpin observer., 1909-08-26
HE BOUGHT

II was one of those moments when after
dinner comfort and pervading atmosphere
of congeniality and well being conducive
to flow of intellectually Smith, casting
about for a topic that might serve as a ve-
hice for flight among the upper spheres.
hit upon happy thought.
How remarkable 1t is that after Michael
Angelo Italy produced few great archi.
tects. he remarked.
jones heard with a sinister smile
why, what's the matter with Lanuche?"
he asked.
We'll. Lanuche hardly added anything to
the art, should you say?" said Smith.
Then there's Teruche." commented Jones.
Il have always regarded Teruche as rather
decadent" was Smiths response. accompanied
by lofty wave.
''Saluche?"
"Oh. distinctly fourth rate"
There still remains Skabuche," suggested
Jones'
Smith turned a fishy eye upon each member
of the group and last Of all upon Jones. And
then came the explosion. When the merri.
ment had subsidized somewhat Smith came Ia
the scratch manfully
"Waiter!" he called.
Gilpin observer., 1909-08-26

worthy. In round figures there is invested In
theatrical ventures in this country about 800.
100000.
Does this sum seem excessive?
Then remember the wide expanse of ter
ritory represented by the words United States
of America. and try to realize that practically
every city and hamlet in the land has its the
ater or opera house. that in every case the ac-
feasibility of the theater itself is matter OF
supreme importance and that this fact at
once necessitates the expenditure of high rent
ais or the purchase of high-priced properties
that the operator Of theater. in fact, must ex-
pect at the very outset to pay the maximum
OF property values. whether he leases q buys.
In New York, for instance. the Rialto has
steadily moved uptown. keeping pace with the
city's growth northward and to-day the costli-
est theaters in the world are centered about
Times SQuare-in Broadway and in the ada
cent side streets within radius of half
dozen blocks from the point of supreme com.
mercial competition.
Main street in the average American village
would not be Main street without its theater
or Opera House." and there be no doubt
that in these smaller communities In the
great metropolitan cities. the theater property
will be found listed among the most valuable
holdings in realty.
In Chicago there are 27, Baltimore 9, Wash
ington s, Buffalo Z, Cincinnati II, while prac-
tlCauy every one Oh tne larger CLUES through
out the country has an average of from three
to Ave theaters, and though for the time being
many of them are given over to moving picture
shows, they all represent an aggregate of cap
ital invested for the sake of providing amuse-
ment for the public. Moreover. in every state
Of the union the smaller towns well as the
capitals and metropolis well supplied with
temples to the muse. The following table gives
an approximate OF the number of places In
each state where regular attractions are
booked. though there are some of the number
undoubtedly that are merely public halls rath-
er than well-equipped theaters. But 1t must be
remembered also that innumerable minor
towns have halls where theatrical entertain.
ments are given, and these are not comprised
In the booking schedules.
Principal Cities Number OF Theaters-New
York IS, Brooklyn 23, Jersey City 4, Hoboken1,
Newark s, Boston Is, Providence g. Philade
phia %. Baltimore 8, Washington 8, Buffalo T.
Rochester s. Albany 6. Syracuse 3. Pittsburg
Gilpin observer., 1909-08-26
Graniteville, vt.
through the Change

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during this trying period. Complete
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to me that for the sake of other suffer.
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trouble public so you may publish
this letter. Mrs. CHAs. BARCLAY.
ED, ,Graniteville, VT.
No other medicine for woman's ills
has received such widespread and un.
qualified endorsement. No other med
icine we know of has such a record
of cures of female ills as has Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
For more than 80 years it has been
curing female complaints such as
Inflammation, liberation, local weak
nesses, tibroid tumors, irregularities,
periodic pains, backache, Indigestion
and nervous prostration, and it is
unequalled for carrying women safely
through the period of change of life.
1t costs but little to try Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and,
as Mrs. Barclaysay it is worth noun.
tains of gold to suffering women.
Gilpin observer., 1909-08-26

ROM time
to tt m e
m a g a :
zines and
n e W S pa
pers have
pri n t e d
Gilpin observer., 1909-08-26

sloTleS dealing WIN tne
amount of money expended by the public in its
search for amusements, and the aggregate in
dollars, running well up toward $20,O00,000 for
single seasons theater-gong is fairly rea
sonable estimate. What 1t costs to provide
these theatrical amusements for year, a
month, week. or even day, is subject.
however of such indefinite conjecture that 1t
has not yet got into type, or. if it has, in such
desultory and fragmentary way, and with so
much omitted and SO much taken for granted
that the figures cannot be said to have carried
much conviction. 1t is practically impossible
to estimate exactly what amount of money the
theatrical producers of America expend in
their efforts to cater to the vast clientele
which looks to this form of amusement for
relief from the dull cares of the daily routine
or the highly charged nervous wear and tear
of swift commercial era, but averages are
possible. And. though lacking somewhat in
defniteness. they tell story of vast treas
ure all being poured through practically the
one channel of enterprise.
To any one who has not stopped to consid-
er the number of theaters required in great
country like this, the number of people
ployed, the multfarious business enterprises
t.,lt
Gilpin observer., 1909-08-26

three to ten productions a season,
while innumerable companies are
operated by individuals, the orig
inal estimate of s100.000,000 invest
ed will seem reasonable enough.
With the New York theater occu-
pying an expensive site, and half a
dozen other theaters in process of
erection in New York. with new
theaters projected in Chicago and
various other large cities, with a
constant increase in competition
and the necessity for augmented
expenditures, each firm trying to
outdo its rival in lavishness of pro-
duction, more and more money is
being poured each year into this
one channel Of enterprise, and
more and more Of 1t, overfiowing
the confines of its original inten-
ton, filters out through various
channels to bring profit to innum-
cradle people who would be greatly
SURPRISED to learn to whom thev
Gilpin observer., 1909-08-26
WORTH
MOUNTAINS
OF GOLD
During Change of Life,
says Mrs. Chas. Barclay

- was passing
of Life andsuffered
from nervousness
andother annoying
symptoms, and I
can truly say that
LydiaE.P Pinkham's
Vel ge table Com
pound has proved
worth mountains
of gold to me, as it
restored my health
and strength. I
never forget to tell
my friends what
r ,vdiaE PiDkham,a
Gilpin observer., 1909-08-26

8, Cleveland 8, Columbus 5. Cincinnati II, De-
troit 8, Chicago 27, st. Louis II, Milwaukee 8.
st. Paul 6, Minneapolis 10, Omaha 4, Kansas
City 8. Denver A. San Francisco 7, Los Angeles
7, New Orleans 9, Louisville 5, Indianapolis A.,
Toledo 5.
Number of Theaters In Each State-CList
does not include theaters in cities mentioned
above)-Alabama 27, Arizona 12 Arkansas 49,,
California 63, Colorado 80, Connecticut "a, Del
aware 4. Florida 10. Georgia 35. Idaho &c, Ii-
nois 1876 Indiana 95, Indian Territory 7, Iowa
124 Kansas 81, Kentucky SO, Louisiana "a.
Maine 81, Maryland 20, Massachusetts 10.
Michigan SO, Minnesota 81, Mississippi 26, Mis-
souri, 81, Montana IA, Nebraska 70, Nevada 10,
New Hampshire %. New Jersey 33, New York
$780, North Carolina 46, Ohio 1874, Oklahoma II,
Oregon %, Pennsylvania 141, Rhode Island H..
South Carolina 27, South Dakota &c. North Da
kota 16. Tennessee 81, Texas 90, Utah 80, Yer
mont 20, Virginia AZ, Washington %. West Vir
gfnia 20, Wisconsin g. Wyo
m
Gilpin observer., 1909-08-26

are indebted for their wages The strictly
practical economists might put much of the
expenditure under the head of unproductiye
consumption of wealth. since much of it is ul-
timately wasted. The same amount. for in
stance. employed in fertflizing vast acres of
barren unused land would ultimately produce
a greater communal benefit
Gilpin observer., 1909-08-26

an average ar
rived at only
after separate
consulta ito n
W l t b repre-
sentatives of
three or four
OF the most
important and
persist e n tt y
active theat-
rical organiza-
tons in Amer
! ca; t h e y
should there
fore, be ac-
cepted as rea-
sonably trust
Gilpin observer., 1909-08-26

worthy In round figures there is invested in
theatrical ventures in this country about $780,
OOO OOO
Gilpin observer., 1909-08-26

directly or Indirectly AFFECT
ed by the unceasing de-
mand for theatrical amuse-
ment, the figures at first
sight may seem well-nigh in
credible. But 1t may be
borne in mind that any fig
ures quoted here represent
Gilpin observer., 1909-08-26

gate of ISIS
tn e a t ers OF
one kind or
another which
get regular
bookings.
1t is a Pc
culiar ( a C t
that even the
most narrow
minded a n d
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-12-12
ARMY AND NAVY NEWS

stationed for two years at the Yerba
Buena training station, leaves today for
Guam, where he will be located for
the next two years. He viii travel to
Honolulu on the Lurline and at the
island port viii await the Logan, which
will be crowded leaving here, but a
number of whose passengers are not
going beyond Honolulu. With McMil-
Ian viii be Pay Clerk G. A. Wilcox.
Schuyler Was in Command.
SAN FRANCISCO, December o
Brig.-Gen. Edward B. Pratt received
word from the war department yester-
day, signed by the President, retiring
him from active service in the United
States Army. General Pratt, who has
been in command of the Department of
California since the illness of General
Weston in August, at once relinqhished
his duties and proceeded to his home
in the Preside.
The department viii be in command
Of the ranking officer, Col. Walter L.
Schuyler, Fifth Cavalry, until the ar
rival of General Barry on Saturday.
Colonel Schuyler is stationed at Scho-
field Barracks. H. T., so that official
matters of the department will be acted
upon in Colonel Schuyler s absence by
Colonel Walter L. Finley, chief of staff.
General and Mrs. Pratt will leave
San Francisco in about week. stop
ping at various points in the East, then
going to Governor 8 Island, where they
will be guests of Lieutenant and Mrs
Townsend Whelen at Fort Jay. Mrs
Whelen is the daughter of General and
Mrs. Pratt, and Lieutenant Whelen is
with the Twenty ninth Infantry They
will probably pass a year or more in
travel before establishing home, the
locality of which has not yet been de-
cided by General and Mrs. Pratt.
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win Be Stationed at Guam.

Chroniele.-Paymaster f. A. MeNil
Ian, United States Navy, who has been
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-12-12

WASHINGTON, December 2.-The
detachment of Capt. Lueien Young as
captain of the navy yard at Mare Is
land, Cal, today created comment at
the navy department because of the
recent examination into affairs at that
yard. Officials refused TO discuss the
matter. Capt. Benjamin Tappan of the
hattieship Indiana was designated as
Captain Young's successor.
VALLEJO. December 2.-Captain
Young said tonight that he had no in,
formation of the action of the navy
department in detaehing him as cap
tain of the Mare Island Navy Yard
except that contained in the Washing.
ton dispatch. He said:
"There has been no difficulty of anv
kind at Mare Island yard. There ba.
been no investigation. and no cause
for any inquiry, Ny eonduet of nv
official duties has not been criticized
and there is nothing on which to hase
criticism. I am thoroughly puzzled al
the course taken by the department. ]
must refer You to Washington for in
| formation.
VIII Be Stationed at Guam.
| Chronicle.-Pavmaster F 4 NoITil
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-12-17
RANDOLPH
Funeral Of Eliiah Edison, Which Occurred
Yesterday.

yesterday,
THE funeral Of Elijah Edison. who died
at 6 o'clock Monday night. was held
Thursday at 2 o'clock from the home Of
the late MT f. Edison. his sou, THE Rev.
Fraser Mctzqer officiating. THE bearers
were c. w. A. Putnam. W. ~ Morton.
Irwin Chase and Mr. Booth. with whom
he had been closely affiliated in former
years: and interment was made III
Soufhpiew cemetery, beside his wife and
son aIr. Edison was born urinary 25,
1880. and early III life was associated
with Badger & Smith in a general store
which was then conducted in the old
brick Beehive, just across the bridge
Ii II 4 noticeable fact that Mfr. Edison
was one 81 the three men who greeted
DR. Stewart Oh his arrival IL town.
when be came from Reading in 1854 to
practice medicine.
The fremen will hold their fifteenth
annual New Years ball on Friday even
ing December 81. in Grange hall
George Mann Of Dewey's Mills was
here the first Of tho week on a visit
to his father William Mann who has
been III poor health, but who Il now
recovering.
Mrs G, s Booth is quite III with what
Is called tonsilitis Her parents, Mr.
and Mrs Heber Holman, took her to
their home GA Thursday night for care
and treatment.
Miss Hortense Peters we'll known IN
town as the granddaughter Of Mrs. "A. A.
Smith and daughter Of the late Rev Mr.
Peters. former pastor Of the Christian
church, has been obliged 10 leave Welles-
Icy college, on account Of what II feared
to be tubereular trouble.
The ladies Of the Federated church,
at q social held at the home OF Mrs. j.
J. Trerisc Thursday afternoon. voted to
expend tho $40 which was raised from
the food sale held at Mrs. @ b Cope
lands towards the rent Of the Kelly
house on Randolph avenue, which the
Rev j. Wallace CHESHIRE is to occupy
on his arrival here about january J.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-12-17
FHROGERS,.S;i;@
uz@ susnss- ss'aiisansaa sps
The big store with little prices.
ia North Main Street, Barre. Vermont.

near White River Junction, and, IN view
Of the fact TINT they have now generous.
" removed even the only restriction
on the gift, they are deserving Of further
commendation. Tie last sacrifice which
WIS demanded of them before the gilt
would be accepted Was something which
many donors would have been ineensed
over and which would have caused them
to withdraw the offer II was the rel
strietion that, il three years should
elapse in succession without tie ground
being used for state fair, the property
should revert 10 che Billings family
Naturally, there was much 70 be said
on both sides 81 this natter the donors
not wishing TO have valuable property
used otherwise than for the purposes
specified in the gift, while the state Of
Vermont did not wish To lay ont cons
siderable sum Of money in buildines
placed on land which might, through
some exigeney. revert 70 individual own
ers. But the Billings family have gone
more than half way III the matter ana
have released every restriction on the
gift It IS to be hoped that their wishes
that the ground VIII not be used for
anything but state fair purposes will be-
realized; but the history Of the New
Hampshire state fair leads to uncertainty
OF the permanenee Of the movement
albeit at the present time the state fair
proposition i enthusiastically received
in Vermont.