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The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1912-12-05

$l.75 blankets $1.25, Sam Levy
Nero. Co.
Mr.. and Mrs, G. M. Moore Of Kan
sas City spent Thanksgiving here
with relatives and friends.
Ladies silk hose from 81 to $3.50,
all colors, Sam Levy Nero. Co.
Mrs. Emma Ewin has returned to
Carthage after enjoying a visit here
with the family of c. S. Ewin.
Do your Xmas shopping at Sam
Levy Nero. Co.
j. M. Catterlin spent the first of
the week in Kansas City looking af-
ter his real estate interests there.
35c cotton suiting for Csc, Sam
Levy Nero. Co.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1912-12-05
Presbyterian Church

Morning:
Bible School $50.
Public worship HOO. Sermon,
1.-THE Religion of Cheerfulness."
Evening:
Senior and intermediate Christian
Endeavor Meetings, $50.
Public worship, 7:3O. Sermon,
Whats the Use of Going to Church.
Mid-week service Wednesday, 7:3O.
Everybody cordially invited to these
and all our services.
C. H. Ticknor, Pastor.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1912-12-05

Come here and let us show you
our Christmas Goods. You'll be
treated right, Black-Arnold.
The Elks and their ladies' enjoyed
a delightful Thanksgiving dance in
their club rooms Thursday evening.
Oscar Beale of Spokane, Washing
ton and Miss Cora Cotton of Trading
Post, Kansas, were unitedin marriage
in this city Monday morning Judge
Jeter officiating.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1912-12-05
Ohio Street Nj. E. Church.

December s, 1912.
Sunday School $50. F. L. Gench,
Superintendent.
Preaching at II a. m. and 7:3O p.
m. by Rev. j. r. Porthwaith of the
Kansas City Mission.
Epworth League, $50 p. m. F. L.
Gench, leader.
Come, you will be welcome.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1912-12-05

'High Art" suits Black-Arnold.
Probably the best show ever stag
ed in this city was the Cohan and
Harris production of "Officer 666"
at the Fiske Opera Honse Saturday
night. The play, a melodramatic
farce was built upon an absorbing
plot through which ran veins of mys-
terry and comedy and each member
of the high class company seems to
have been selected solely for their
adaptability to his or her special part.
Mr.. Fiske, who is theatrical man
of long experience, is giving Butler
theatre goers the treat of their lives
this season.
Mrs. C. E. Robbins of this city sus-
tanned a broken arm Saturday morn
ing near Col. Robbins farm at Foster
as the result of falling from the rum
ming board of her car. Mrs. Robbins
and a party of ladies were driving
when the engine of the car went dead
and in order to start the car without
cranking Mrs. Robbins got out and
pushed the car, starting il down the
hill, stepping onto the running board
as the car started. In getting on,
Mrs. Robbins coat caught on the car,
her to miss her footing and
fall to the ground, breaking her right
arm just below the elbow.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-01-05

white pumage and the two great sweeping tail
feathers that give him his With his wife
he does not lack other names, and they are
known in various places "old injun,' "old
wife" "old molly" "od granny "old squaw.
and "old south southerly." Because Of the oily
nature of their flesh these ducks unfit for
food, and yet the gunnerS the Chicago break
waters and the government pier used to kill
dozens of them in the pure wantonness of sport.
When the sloping stone abutment that pro-
tects the outer Lincoln Park driveway, Chicago,
from the waves is piled high with ice during the
winter the venturesome person who will scale
the side of the pile may in the dark water
only few yards beyond one of the most beauti-
full ducks known to the bird kingdom. The
golden eye or whistle wing. frequents the cold
waters of Lake Michigan all through the winter
and comes close to the shore. It is seldom that
more than four five together and
oftener single pair will be found. If the pro-
lection which the male apparently tries to eX-
tend to the female during all times of the year
be a basis for Judgment, these birds remain
mated for life
The golden eye almost invariably places him
self between his gentler companion and danger,
and when they swimming flying to
foraging places he invariably leads the way.
The movement of their wings is so rapid that
it produces a musical whistling audible at a
great distance. Because of the rapidity of their
flight the Indians call them spirit ducks. believ-
ing that some supernatural aid is given them to
add to the swiftness of their journeyings
The best of the bird scavengers acting the
allies of the Chicago health department in win
ter the herring, the ring-billed guls. The
herring gull is big grayish creature, almost
pure white If he is three years old. with black
tips to his wings. The young of the first year
are motted gray, entirely different In appearance
from their parents. The result of this difference
is that people looking at winter flock of tire
gulls think that 1t contains several species The
lagoons in Jackson and Lincoln Parks often
fairly covered with these birds. provided heavy
storm Is coming In from the eastward.
delicate-looking bird is the kittewake gull.
1t does not look If 1t could stand the rigors
of lake winter Weather for day, and yet neither
storm nor cold succeeds in chilling its optimism
in abatng its industry. The klttewakes have
been in the lake off Chicago in winter, and here
they doubtless occasionally have remained until
March. .sf
bird lover considers it ornithological
epoch when he sees a great blackbacked gull
The persistent and careful observer who cares
nothing for weather conditions may find this rare
creature perhaps the largest OF gulls, If he
will but keep a constant watch along the lake
front The bird has been seen here on severa
occasions in winter Its name gives q good de
scription of It. 1t is sometimes known grew
somely the coffin carrier.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-01-05
To Enforce Sanitation.

Sanitary summer resorts are to be
the aim Of the state board of health.
Decision to take up the question has
been made after several months con-
sideration. The aim, as expressed by
Acting Secretary Bauman, is that the
board of health may be able to tell
the people which resorts are sanitary.
They may, he explained, avoid the
others.
Under the plan that has been out
lined the board will have every resort
in the state inspected thoroughly early
in the new year. The recommends.
tions of the inspectors will be sent
to all proprietors and reinspection
will be made after April 1, thus CIV
ing managers ample time to comply
with the boards suggestions.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-01-05
HOGAN HOLDS
MANY INELIGIBLE
OPINION AFFECTS ONE IN ToLE.
DO AND HAS MANY DUPLI-
GATES IN STATE.
A centennial LABOR DAY WANTED
Educators Seek New Laws for Good
of States Schoos-Pardoned Man
Still in Pen-Railway Pays
Willis Tax.

Columbus.-John Hayworth, Tole-
do Socialist, elected to council from
the Fourteenth ward, will not be able
to serve, as the result of an opinion
given by Attorney General Hogan to
City Solicitor Schreiber of Toledo.
Hayworth's successor will be elected
by the new Toledo council.
Hayworth's ward was the old
Twelfth, which in the redistrictine
was renamed the Fourteenth. He
moved into the ward in March and
Mr. Hogan holds has not satisfied the
legal provision, which says that a
councilman must reside in the ward
from which he is elected for one year
prior to election. The present ward
was not in existence one year ago
but, relying on a supreme court de.
cision, Mr.. Hogan says that ward, as
used in law, means the territory com.
posing the ward.
The ruling will throw out scores of
councilmen in Ohio cities elected last
fall
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-01-05
Educators to Seek New Laws.

Prominent educators of Ohio, meet
ing at the statehouse, discussed with
Simeon d. Fess, president of the An
tioch college and delegate to the con-
stitutional convention from Green
county, measures to be worked for in
the convention.
The concensus of opinion was that
Ohio needed a state board of educa-
ton, statewide pensions for teachers
a revenue to the schools from the
mineral output Of the state and the
purchase and reforesting by the state
Of thousands Of acres of cheap lands
in southern Ohio for the benefit OF
the schools in future years.
1t was also suggested that the po.
sition of school commissioner become
an appointive instead of an elective
office, the appointment to be made
either by the proposed new state
board of education or the governor
and that the term be decreased from
two years to one.
A motion was passed empowering
e. F, Moulton, superintendent of War.
rem schools and chairman of the meet
ing, to appoint a committee of five
composed of himself, State School
Commissioner f. w. Miller and three
others to frame and present to the
constitutional convention the wants OF
the educators.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-01-05
For Good Roads.

Columbus.-That ample funds-could
be produced for national aid for good
roads by increasing the internal reve-
nue. tax on beer, whiskey, spirits and
tobacco by 25 per cent is the declara-
ton of Jesse Taylor, secretary of the
Good Roads federation, who is men,
Der Of the legislative committee of the
national good roads congress. The
latter hopes, at the present session
of congress, to get through measure
for national aid to the states.
The principal objection that has
been made to such a law is the lack
of funds. congressman have declared
the sentiment is well-night unanimous
for the proposition, providing suffi-
cient funds can be raised
The governments receipts from the
internal revenue tax last year were
1922, 2,526,000. 1t will be urged by the
good roads advocates that a % per
cent increase would not be felt seri-
ously by consumers of tobacco and
malt and spurious liquors, while the
additional revenue, estimated at $780,
100000, would give an average of near
ly $2,0O0,000 a year to the state.
If the amount raised in each state
were proportioned back to it, Ohio
would get s5,O00,O00 year from the
national government for roads.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-01-05
Delegates Head Toward Capitol.

Columbus.-Delegate to the
constitutional convention are expect
ed to pour into the city in few days
to take part in the preliminary con-
tests incidental to organizing the con-
vention and preparing for actual open
ing, January 8. The president will
not be elected until the formal open
ing and the frowning down upon the
proposal to hold party caucuses, as
are done in the organization of
branches Of the general assembly, rem
ders it practically certain that the
65 Democrats in the convention will
not attempt to draw party lines.
Both Judge Norris of Marion and
Rev. Herbert S. Bigelow of Hamilton,
leading candidates for the presidency,
are expecting election with the help of
Republican votes and hence will not
press the caucus proposal.
Quarters must be obtained by dele
gates and some little time will be de-
voted to getting acquainted. The del
egates are as yet strangers to each
other, due in large part to the fact
that many of them are men who have
not taken any active hand in political
affairs.
Delegates from the northeastern
part of the state met in Cleveland to
discuss the rules proposed by E. W.
Doty of Cuyahoga county. Although
the invitation was extended to all the
delegates-elect, many of them did not
accent
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-01-05
Seeks Federal Appropriation.

Congressman e. L. Taylor has an
nounced that he will arrange a hear
ing before the appropriations commit
tee on his bill for 100000 for the
Ohio-Columbus centennial celebration
next fall. Dates will be selected after
congress reconvenes next week and
word will be sent to Columbus of the
plans.
Mr.. Taylor said that progress is be-
ing made in the movement for ma
tional aid for the centennial. He has
strong hopes that the measure will
pass. He also declared there are good
prospects for the $4,000 appropriation
bill for the interior decorations of the
new Federal building, which is to be
opened formally January 30, with
President Taft as master of ceremo-
MES.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-01-05
Railway Pays Willis Tax.

The Cleveland & Mahoning Valley
Railroad company, one of the under
lying companies of the Erie, has paid
the state S4,SSSS.S0 under the provi-
sions of the Willis tax law.
The company took the question up
with the tax commission and ex-
pressed a wish to pay the tax and not
wait for the suits, testing the valid
ity of the apyment of the Willis tax
from underlying companies, to reach
a decision. The tax commission ex'
pressed it's willingness to accept the
payment and said if the payment was
declared invalid when the test is
made, it would recommend to the at
torney general the refund of the sun,
paid.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-01-05

The kinglet smaller than any of our birds save
the ruby throated humming bird alone, manages
to live through all the cold Northern winter and
be all the while as cheerful as a robin in April
The kinglet as far the experience of one per-
son is concerned at least prefers to get his sum-
mer food in the thick bushes, and seemingly has
preference for those which are near clambering
vines. The kinglets cast about for likely places
in which to pass the winter AS far be
ascertained they simply get into the heart of some
thickly twigged bush through which run vine
branches and there all night long they defy both
cold and snow.
The great northern shrike which is due In the
northern states from its summer home in the
British possessions about October 1, spends his
nights close to the bole of evergreen tree.
There is a little clump of evergreens well within
the limits of the city of Chicago where half
dozen of these birds roost nightly from October
to March. Inasmuch they live diet of
English sparrows and spend all the daylight hours
in the laudabe vocation of killing the imported
feathered pest, the exact location of their roosng
place will not be given for fear some champion
of the sparrow might disturb the rest of these
feathered friends, whom many unkind enough
to call butcher birds.
AS a matter of fact one need feel little anxiety
for the welfare of the birds that stay with us in
winter, The nursery ditty of What will the robin
do then, poor thing?" is tear-compelling, but the
robin, the bluebird, the jay and the chickadee
will all care for themselves and will feel no envy
of man In his steam-heated fiat.
During the bitter weather of winter while peo-
pie with hearts in the right places scattering
crumbs and seeds at their doorsteps for the little
feathered land visitors the great city of Chicago
a whole Is doing its best to feed the storm
blown birds of Lake Michigan Not all the sew
age of the city. notwithstanding the completion
of the drainage canal, is sent towards the Missis
sppi. Some little of 1t still finds it way into the
lakes with its burden of garbage, and there the
gull scavengers, by eating much of the output that
from their point of appetite is edible, do their best
to aid In purifying the water supply
In the dead of winter when the cold is In
tense that 1t seems that exposed creature can
live the waste of water between Chicago and
St Joe, Mich, is peopled with strange feathered
vistors, who shun the same water stretches when
the wind blows soft out of the south. storm
which once rose and preceded spell" of zero
weather brought with IT from the north scores
of strange, beautiful arctic visitors known as
long tailed ducks. They may be all through
the winter well out into the open water OF Lake
Michigan. They fairly revel in cold weather
and in cold water 1t is highly probable that
they would never come to the great lakes at all
were 1t not for the fact that everything north
ward Ia frozen solid. The male "long-taiF is a
beauty with his strongly contrastsd black and
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-01-05
State to Aid Prohers.

Auditor of State e. M. Fullington
will send one of the best examiners
Of the state bureau of accounting to
Greenville to assist Darke county citi-
zens in running to earth suspected
grafters, who are being investigated
by the grand jury and Prosecutor
Maher. A number OF indictments
against former officials have been re
turned.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-01-05
Centennial Labor pay Wanted.

Labor interests in the constitutional
convention will be discussed by the
executive board of the Ohio Fedora
tion of Labor, which will meet at the
Neil house January z. The prime pur-
pose Of the meeting is to appoint a
committee to cooperate with the cen
tennial commission, with the view to
have a day set aside for the interests
of labor.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-01-05
Lana,s Annual Report

Columbus. - Over half of the
employed persons of Ohio were af-
fected by a decrease in wages during
1911. according to the annual report
of Labor Commissioner Fred Lang
today. Only rs per cent got better
money than in 1910.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-01-05
Pardoned Man Still in Pen.

Anthony Byron, who was given a
conditional pardon from the peniten-
tiary by Governor Harmon, still is in
prison. The provisions of the pardon
were that his brother come to Colum-
bus from New York and give him en-
ployment. His brother cannot be
found. Byron is a life man from
Portsmouth, o.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-01-05

Conneaut.-The body of John Ryan,
miner, place of residence unknown,
was found badly mangled at Amboy.
He is thought to have fallen or been
thrown from a Lakershore train. He
had no money or jewelry.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-01-05


There is puzzle for the scientists even more com
pex than that offered by the spectacle of migration
II is to get the solution of the problem of why some
pirds with the recurring autumns invariably seek
warmer climes while others apparently much more
poorly fitted by nature to withstand cold weather
conditions stay about the familiar nesting scenes
when the snow lies deep and the cold is like that of
"St Agnes Eve"
The titmouse, the Concord chickadee Of Emerson
is little feathered gem which looks as though
breath OF cold would set it all a-shiver Yet this
Htue Fellow sticks by his Northern friends all
through the winter when bigger more heavily feath-
ereo and apparently more hardy species have sought
out the orange and the magnolia groves of the gulf
1here are scores of other birds which remain with
us TO pipe cheerful note the snow wastes
Wniie their southern-fying friends are silent amid
the1r congenial surroundings.
One of the most interesting bird studies Is that
which leads to a personal knowledge of how the
ieathered species for themselves during a time
when exposed man, even though heavily clothed at
times freezes to dath. 1t is question If many peo
pie know how the despised English sparrow whom
we always have with us, manages to pull through
Northern winter without Offering himself up as a
sacrifice to Jack Frost 1t is matter of current but
mistaken belief among those who have noticed the
great bulky nests which the sparrows have built in
almost every tree that these lunches of straw dried
grass and feathers form the abiding places of the
sparrows during the coldwinter nights Az q mat
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-01-05

the woodpecker is felt to
keep him as a companion
throughout the winter a
piece of suet bound firmly
to the limb of a tree and
occasionally renewed will
insure his presence as a
guest as long as the snow
flies, and with him, tempt
ed by the suet. will be a
goodly company of jays,
chickadees, and golden
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-01-05
Salary Grab Act Unconstitutional.

In holding the salary grab act, pass
ed by the recent Legislature over Gov
ernor Harmon's veto, unconstitutional,
Attorney General Hogan knocked the
props from under a new and persis-
tent demand for a special session of
the general assembly to enact such
legislation as would enable the men,
bers to draw their $1,000 per year
each for 1912. The attorney general
has already taken away reasons for
two demands for another session.
In his opinion. which was given to
Auditor of State e. NJ. Fullington, Mr..
Hogan holds that members of the gen.
eral assembly who are still qualified
to serve may draw SS3.S3 each month
for the time they are permanent resi-
dents of the districts from which they
were elected. The auditor is instruct
ed not to issue warrants for them for
the lump sum of $1,000, which mem
bers claimed under the act.
Mr.. Hogan agrees with Governor
Harmon that the money should con-
tinue to draw interest for the state in
the depository banks until 1t has been
earned by actual service as members
of the general assembly. He holds the
salary grab measure in violation Of
that section of the constitution which
forbids any change in the salary of an
official during his term OF office.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-01-05

Alliance.-Mrs. Elizabeth Hahn. SO,
of Homework dropped dead while at.
tending the Christmas festival of thes
Presbyterian Sunday school at that
place,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-01-05

ter OF fact, a sparrow sell
dom goes near a tree nest
in winter. If he has found
a lodging for his summer
home in a cornice of a
building he may go there
to sleep away the long.
cold nights, but the tree
nest Is deserted from the
moment the last brood is
Matched.
II one wishes to know
where thousands OF the
sparrows sleep in winter
let him on some cold night
take a stout club and rap
with all his might upon an
electric light pole that is
fitted with an overhanging
hood. There is a little
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-01-05
*I1kA ZZiMNY ZER}lIzgggZl]& VWiE4FIdES 7EAJ1p !
+M WINTERS BLASTS EDWARD Sc ; CLARK

HE greater battalion OF the army
OF the birds is in the southland for
the winter. The warblers were the
pioneers In the march to escape the
cold. The naturalists of the world
would give much to know what it was
In the torrid time which told these
daintiest of the feathered creatures
that thav n,rct ba ,,o,,;ro 80,
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1912-12-20

Of eighty-four years. The bulk Of his
$7,00O.O00 estate had been devised by
his will of four years before to the
William NJ. Rice Institute For the Ad-
vancement Of Science. Art and Litera-
ture Of Texas. A few meager legacies
were assigned to his relatives. of whom
he chose to see little. and. satisfied with
this disposition Of his affairs, he lived
alone In his apartment, with his valet,
Charles F. Jones, whom he had brought
from Texas as his sole medium Of com.
munication with the outside world.
Mr.. Marsh died on Sept. %. 1900
The coroner's physician said that death
was due to natural causes. although
there were elements In the case that
excited suspicion.
With the passing away of the lonely
old millionaire. Patrick came forward
as his lawyer and at once began to
arrange for the incineration of the
body. There was a hitch. Trouble
some officials bobbed up in his path.
and questions were asked. while from
Texas relatives and others came an
iEsistent demand for an investigation