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The Butler weekly times., 1912-08-08
West Star Items.

Back again, says Farmer John, "
all safe and sound, ready to work.
The order of the day is threshing
and some are not through making
hay. It is still too dry for the corn,
hope to have rain soon.
Arthur Geneva started for Kansas
City Saturday on flying trip to see
his daughter, Mrs. Bert Blough.
If there is anything in signs we will
surely hear the chimes of the we'd
ding bells floating thro' the air pretty
soon: Now guess who it is. Ha! Ha!
Ross Williams thrashed at Tom
Bottoms the first of the week, and
Dick Warren thrashed for VIM. Cor
ham Monday. Several Of the ladies'
went to assist Mrs. Gorham with her
dinner.
The wolves are very numerous in
the country. Newton Wright reports
having lost several chickens lately.
Miss Ethel Engerum and father
from Kansas have been visiting here
with Charles Stewart for several
several days.
The Misses Margaret and Ethel
Thomas visited the latter part Of the
week at Butler with their Grandma
Marstellar, and also attending the
Chautauqua. They report having a
fine time.
Mrs. Frank Daniel was on the sick
list last week.
Several from this part of the COM
munity attended the Chautauqua last
week. Every one thought it was at
its best. Hope to have as good one
another year.
j. O. Rogers entertained visitors
Sunday.
The Misses Bernice and Beulah
Lawrence visited with Lucille Geneva
Sunday.
Miss Dora Rogers has returned
from Warrensburg where she has
been attending school.
G. w. Daniels entertained company
Sunday.
Forso Searfus was sick last week.
Altman Daniel visited at Butler
over Sunday.
Archie Thomas is baling this years
hay.
Mrs. G. w. Daniel visited at L. G.
Thomas Sunday.
Ella Searfus visited Ethel Rogers
Tuesday.
Mrs. Frazee is staying with her
daughter, Mrs. Frank Daniels, help
ing her make soap.
AUNT SALLY.
The Butler weekly times., 1912-08-08

Dave Wilson and wife of Kansa!
City visited the last Of the week a
the home of Floyd Thomas.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Dowell of Adrian
attended the Chautauqua here the
hast of the week.
Jesse Hall of southeast of the city
transacted business in Kansas City
the latter part of the week.
l, l. Lockeridge, of Elkhart town.
ship, was in Wednesday and Thurs.
day on a business mission and made
the Times a pleasant call.
Ginghams and percales for schoo'
dresses, fast colors, 10c, II l-2c, 15c.
Walker-McKibben.
Joe Meyer, the clothier, transacted
business in Kansas City the first OF
the week.
Miss Hazel Ludwick went to JEFF
ferson City Saturday to visit at the
home of Judge W. W. Grave.
Paul Levy, of the Levy Mercantile
Co, left Saturday on business trip
to New York and other eastern points.
Mas, NJ. A. Carroll, accompanied
by her son, has returned home from
a visit with the family of O. K.
Thompson at Bucklin, Kan.
r. NJ. Braden, of lola, Kan, en-
loyed a visit here with his parents,
r. L, Braden and wife, Sunday.
Guy Silvers arrived home Saturday
from Warrensburg, where he has
been attending the state normal.
BIG Buck work shirts, SOC. Best
material, best made, fullest cut.
Walker-McKibben.
Mrs w. E. Steele, of Kansas City,
is enjoying a visit with the family of
Late Classify.
Carl Niemann, one of Hudson
townships strong Democrats, was in
Wednesday and made the Times a
pleasant call.
Prof. S. E. Smith, of Mingo, passed
through this city Wednesday on his
way home from Warrensburg, where
he has been attending summer school.
Judge w. w. Graves and j. D. AL:
len arrived Tuesday morning from
jefferson City to vote at the Demo-
cratic primary here. They returned
on the noon train.
The old wooden structure on East
Mill street belonging to Elmer Miller,
which for many years was used as a
brick and tile factory was badly dam
aged by fire Monday night.
Fred and E. A. Streber, of near
Nyhart. left Wednesday night for a
ten days visit with the family of o.
Mosby in Nodaway county with a
view to locating in that part of the
state.
A party consisting of G. P. Wyatt
and family, Mrs. w. E. Walton, Miss
Lorraine Allen, Walton Allen and Mrs.
E. N. Chastain left early Wednesday
on an automobile trip
through the west.
John King, of near Prairie City,
ran amuck Thursday and armed with
4 shotgun, terrorized the neighbor-
hood for some time. Sheriff Bullock
vas summoned and in company with
his deputy. Carl Card, went to the
scene, after 4 vain attempt to induce
he demented man to lay down his
pom and submit to arrest were forced
b rush him and disarm him by force.
Afler IN exciting encounter King was
captnred and brought to this city.
The Butler weekly times., 1912-08-08

Col. o. D. Austin of the Record
transacted business in Kansas City
the first of the week.
T. j. Smith left Tuesday for visit
with his mother at Smith Grove, Ky.
RI. Smith has purchased a Ford
runabout from the Henry Garage.
w. M. Anderson of Gelispi, ILL.,, ac-
companied by his daughter left Tues
day for Fl. Scott after visit here
with relatives and friends.
Fred Gilbert is laid up with a bad
attack of rheumatism of the heart.
Harley Warderman has purchased
a new Regal automobile from Nor
fleet G. Ream.
Mrs. R. A. Belt and daughter, Miss
Florence, have returned home from a
visit in Illinois.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ansel Rook are en-
joying weeks visit at ElSDorado
Springs.
Mrs. F. j. Mullinex, of Kansas
City, is enjoying visit with the fam
lily Of w. W. Henry.
Del Requa, of south of the city,
has purchased "Baby Six" Mitchell
touring car from H. H. Harshaw.
Harrisonville, Mo-, Aug. ED
ward Roup, young married man,
who lives three miles southeast of
here, disappeared last Saturday night.
His wife and other relatives believe
that he must be demented.
w. T. Rosamond of Alderman,
Mississippi, came in Monday for a
weeks visit with his brother, Frank
Rosamond, of this city. From here
Mr.. Rosamond expects to 60 to Ven
tura, California, for visit with his
son, Frank. This is Mr.. Rosamond's
first visit to Butler in 16 years.
Lyle, the 14-year-old son of Albert
Argenbright, was painfully injured
Saturday as the result of being run
over by a mower. The youngster
was trying to throw the machine out
of gear when the team started, throw
ing him beneath the wheels. Besides
a broken rib he sustained a number
of painful bruises.
The Chautauqua closed Sunday
night after an eight days highly sue
cessful session here, with 800 tickets
pledged for the 1918 Chautauqua.
The program this year has been ex-
cellent, the talent exceeding even that
of last year, and when Saturday
nights large audience was given an
opportunity to vote upon a continue
ton of the Chautauqua for next year,
it was carried unanimously.
A report comes from the Hume
country that Lester Ludy, thresher-
man of the Hume neighborhood, has
been arrested for attempted destruc-
ton of threshing machine and grain
on the Ed Fitzgerald place, by placing
matches under bands in
grain bundles so that the matches
would be struck and set fire to the
machine and grain in the process of
Our report states that
Mr.. Ludy's arrest is on suspicion, !
with circumstantial evidence against
him and that he was admitted to bail
on q bond Of $1,000. Rich Hill Re-
view.
The Butler weekly times., 1912-08-08

j. B. Grigg of Joplin, representing
the Western Missouri Good Roads
Association was in the city Thursday
and Friday on business connected
with the proposed rock road between
Kansas City and Joplin.
The Butler weekly times., 1912-08-08

A nicely improved 100 acre farm
in Linn county, Kansas, to exchange
for well improved 80 in Bates county,
Missouri.
2-1t See G. S. Ewin.
The Butler weekly times., 1912-08-08
Democrats Remain Away

Washington, Aug. 6.-Democratic
representatives opposed to the house
receding from its position of refusing
to agree to the senate's amendment to
the naval appropriation bill providing
for the building of two battleships,
caused the failure of the third demo-
cratic caucus on the question tonight
by remaining away from the meeting
and thereby preventing quorum.
Another caucus will be called in afew
days and the battleship advocates ex-
press confidence that they then will
have sufficient strength to force an
appropriation for at least one vessel.
All of the present congressman
from Missouri were candidates for re-
nomination, and in nine of the dis
tricts the'incumbents had no opposi-
ton. The congressman who were
not opposed are: James T. Lloyd,
democrat, First district; Joshua w.
Alexander, democrat, Third district;
c. c. Dickinson, democrat, Sixth dis
trict D. w. Shackleford, democrat,
Eighth district; Speaker Champ Clark
democrat, Ninth district; Theron E.
Catlin, Republican, Eleventh district;
w. L. Hensley, democrat, Thirteenth
district; j. j. Russell, democrat, Four
teenth district, and Thomas L. Rubey,
democrat, Sixteenth district.
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Christian Science Services :

will be held at the court house in the
Probate Court room every Sunday
morning at II o'clock. All are cor
daily invited. Subject.
August II, 'Spirit."
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-10-17

published statement that conveys
the idea that l had been forced to
that conclusion by the attack made
on me. Not SO. In February or
March Of this year, having occasion
to write Chancellor Barrow, of the
State University, l said to him that
I would not ask for reelection next
year My friend, Hon. James E.
months my determination in the
matter; SO have others of my friends
throughout the State Mr. Kim
brough, of the staff, has known it
since April last, just after he and
had been reelected to our respective
positions.
1t has been published that an in
vestigation Of the Station books and
accounts has been ordered, but
omission was made that the exami-
nation is to go back ten years.
have been here less than six years,
so it will go back Of the beginning
of my administration four years:
But the statement published left
the inference that the books during
my term only are to be examined
There are fifteen directors or the
StatiOn-intelligen citizens, men Of
affairs. My books and accounts
have been examined by an auditing
committee of those members each
quarter and approved.
When notified on September 80,
ult., by four members of the Station
staff that, unless l should at once
write and make public my resigna-
ton, effective not later than January
L, 1913, they would prefer charges,
I invited them by letter on same
date to proceed.
have no fear Of an investigation.
The board decided that the commit
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tee should begin the same November
z. / did not know that until the
board was about to adjourn-they
having acted in executive session
else l would have requested an
earlier date
have done my full duty here.
respectfully ask my friends and the
public to suspend unfavorable
Judgment till I shall have had an
opportunity to answer my accusers
Yours respectfully,
MARTIN V. CALVIN.
Experiment, Ca, Oct. 10, 1912.
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yer seed every year, and in this the
tenanted farm has the advantage
over many owned farms where the
clover is neglected. This neglect is
impossible on the rented farm, for
II the contract is violated in this re-
spect the tenant soon moves off.
Tenants have an interest in the i'm
proyement of the farm because they
find that the contract is fair and to
their interest.
These tenants are, as a class, full
ly as prosperous as the men in the
same county w4o own their own
farms, and there are men of social
prominence and means who prefer
to remain on a rented farm to living
on one Of their own. One tenant on.
a farm of $50 acres employs three
men for ten months and keeps ten
work horses. This man, during
eleven years as tenant, had
bought out of his profits a farm
costing $1,000 and laid up $1,000 be-
sides. He has lived well, educated
his children in the city schools and
travelled good deal. Another ten
ant says that his profits from live
stock pay all the running expenses
and leave his grain free The ten
ant furnishes all the labor and nipple
ments and all the stock. He fur
nishes half the fertilizer and half
the seed wheat, corn and oats. He
furnishes all the clover sliced and
must use specified quantity per
ces needed, the landowner furnish
ing the material, and he applies the
paint and whitewash for the build
ings, furnished by the owner. He
pays one-half the grain crops as
rent and delivers the grain at the
elevator, but all the corn slower, hay
and roughage belong to the tenant.
The tenant can pasture a small flock
of sheep free on the wheat in winter,
and the practice is to buy Western
sheep in the fall and sell them in
spring.
The Department of Agriculture
has issued bulletin on this system
as Dracticed on this great estate. 1t
is entitled GA System of Tenant
Farming and It's Results" Farmers
Bulletin No. 437, which can be had
by any one interested. l have been
for many years familiar with the sec
tion in which this system prevails
and know we'll that it has been a
blessing to the country and the
farmers and that the agricultural
interests there have wonderfully i'm
proved under the system.
I know Of one man who had dur
ing a long life been prominent in
social affairs and business and poll
tics in the county, who all his life
was a renter, though fully able to
buy any farm he might want, but
found that he could make more on
rented farm. The landowner, Of
course, pays all the taxes These
tenant farmers are wheat and corn
farmers, and [ believe that if any
one would start a similar system in
the Cotton States there would be
built up an agriculture such as the
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PAGE FIVE

South has never seen. But to get men
who are real farmers and have the
means to farm we'll there must be
on the farms dwellings, that such men
will live in and buildings for stock,
of proper capacity. So long as the
tenant is merely a cropper, carried
by a merchant, the tenant system
will be curse to the South and the
cabins and novels for mules will still
prevail, and agricultural advance
ment will be retarded. The founder
of the estate l have mentioned and
another man in the adjoining coun-
ty became millionaires at farming,
while their tenants prospered and
made money, too, and the land i'm
proved in production and value.
Who will be wise enough to start
such system in the Cotton BeItP-
The Progressive Farmer.
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"a
II velopment of agriculture. :"
Yet, right here in the Eastern
Shore of Maryland tenant system
has been devised and used for more
than 30 years which has vastly i'm
proved the section, and landowners
and tenants have both made money
The section where it has grown up
has been greatly developed in pro-
ductiveness, because the tenants are
obliged by their contract to farm on
a good system, and have found that
systematic farming is to their ad-
vantage.
The man who devised this system
was a merchant in town, but had
wise notions about farming, and he
began by buying farm and putting
a good tenant on it, on contract
to farm the land in a proper rota-
ton and under liberal terms. And
he bought farm after farm from the
profits Of the preceding ones, until
when he died he had Sc farms
averaging 279 acres each,-about "a
square miles Of land all made from
farming, while the tenants throve
and bought farms and rented them
on the same plan, while they re-
manned on rented farm. There are
tenants on this estate who have been
on the same farm for over 80 years.
Others have handed them down to
their sons, for no tenant is ever
moved SO long as he farms the land
right. The owner of this estate, be-
fore his death, was taxed with a mill
lion dollars worth Of real estate,
and the estate is still kept in the
same way by his heirs, and in the
same county and the adjoining one
the same system is being adopted
The basic principle in this system
seems to me to be the great en-
enlargement given the tenant to
grow clover and all other sorts of
hay and roughage and feed stock,
for under the contract all the hay
and roughage of every sort belongs
to the tenant who owns all the live
stock, so long as he feeds it on the
farm. If tenant sells hay, he must
pay half to the landlord The re-
suit is, of course, that the hay is fed
and the farm gets the manure. Some
of the farms have trebled in value in
the past 80 years. Attractive dwell
lings and substantial barns have
have been maintained on all the
farms, homes that good farmers are
glad to occupy. Some follow the
four-year rotation of corn, wheat,
clover and grass, and some add an
other year of clover or a five-year
system. The five-year system is the
most popular because it gives the
farmer the more hay to feed. The
distinctive features are that the far
mer has a comfortable home and
good out-buildings. He is en-
cOuraged to keep livestock and is
furnished with fencing materials by
the owner. He owns all the rough
age SO long as he feeds it on the
farm and applies the manure. His
contract is that he shall use fixed
amounts Of certain fertilizers of a
specified formula, the quality of
which is warranted by the owner.
He must SOW given quantity of clo-
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@-u-x-wG OcSAVAA41 VIM 1l0S UCSA L1S
head Of Georgia's experiment farm
for the past six years. Mr.. Calvin
contributed regularly to The Weekly
Jeffersonian for number of years,
and the controversy which has
occurred recently between Mr.. Cal
yin and some OF his co-workers at
Experiment has caused distress
among the very large circle Of Mr.
Calvin's friends.
The following letter from Mr..
Calvin will be read with interest,
and his friends will have no fear of
the outcome of the investigation:
Mr.. Editor: In the necessarily
brief Geographic reports that have
gone and may go to the State press,
in the matter of charges preferred
against me by four members of the
Station Staff, some errors as to the
facts will creep in.
I expressed to the Board of Direc-
tors yesterday the consciousness Of
duty faithfully performed, and, Incl
dentally mentioned the fact that L
would not be a candidate for re-
election next year. l have seen a
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-10-17

Feeding chickens by means of an
alarm clock is probably the latest
and most unique method in the poul-
try business. A Denver man has
invented process whereby chickens
can be left all day without care.
A hopper is placed over the coop,
filled with grain. The clock is
wound and set for any hour When
the alarm goes off it releases the
door to the hopper and drops the
feed down to the chickens. This
invention is still in the experimental
stage and it is not known to what
extent it can be developed.
and Ranch.
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Life and Speeches of ThOs. e. Wat
sen will encourage every ambitious
young man who has to struggle for
success. Price, SIC, postpaid. The
Jeffersonian Publishing Company,
Thomson, Ga.
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FOR SALE-1ss ACRES BOTTOM LAND
spring water Terms easy. A. G. H.
Christensen, Box 54S, Miles City, Mont.
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Hon. Martin Calvin and the
Experiment Station

EADERS Of The Jeffersonian
have profited greatly by the
articles of the Hon. Martin
Calvin, who has been the
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-10-17
A Good Tenant System

- 1R. POE says that "any system
NH Of tenancy is fatal to the de-
velopment of agriculture. :"
-. : Yet, right here in the Eastern
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-15
"WALLINGFORD" MARRIES
Hale Hamilton WEEDS Cohan's
Leading Woman.

Hale Rice Hamilton. who made a sue
cess in the title role Of Get Rich Quick
Wallingford" and was once the husband
OF the beautiful Jane Oaker. was married
last night 10 Miss Maude Myrtle Tame
hill. leading woman for George NJ. Conan
IN broadway Jones" 1t was not until
u was learned that the marriage had
been performed by Magistrate Barlow a;
his home. No. 10 Lexington avenue. that
the story OF Hamilton's divorce from Miss
Oaker came out
Last night Miss Tannehill, her mother.
Mrs. Maude G. Tannehill, her sister, Miss
Aurfel Tannehill, and Miss Louise Steb-
oins, an actress. left their apartment al
NO. 22s Riverside Drive and went to Mag
lstrate Barlow's with Hamilton. He gave
mis- age as thirty-two, and the bride said
sne was twenty-six. Mr.. and Mrs. Ham
hton will sail on Tuesday for London,
Where he will show the English public
what kind of a man Get Rich Quick
Wallingford' really is. His last appear
ance here was at the Lyric Theatre in
The N'er DO Well"
Hamilton met his first wife when both
were playing In James X. Hackett's com
pany. She was Minnie Dorothy Pepper, a
81 touts heiress. The two were married
1ust about this time OF the year In 1901.
The divorce was obtained at st. Louis on
hevsmber "A.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-15
NEW VIOLIN CONCERTO PLAYED
John Powell Composition Produced
at Zimbalis. s Recital.

The thing OF chief interest at Efrem
Zimbalists violin recital yesterday after
noon at Carnegie Hall was the first per-
Torrance I'm New York Of John Poweil's
concerto In major. This composition Of
one OF Americas youngest composers re-
ceived its first production last spring at
Richmond, Va, Mr.. Powell being native
of that state The work as disclosed at
Yesterdays recital seems to possess con-
siderable interest. as well as a number
of faults, due, no doubt, to the composers
youth
There Is in the concerto a good deal OF
melody. though much OF the thematic
material recalls Brahms. Wagner and
other composers OF the not far distant
past. In the last movement, too, negro
dance tunes are interviewer into the text
ure most skilfully. while the combination
at one point OF the celeste and the harp
brings forth an effect at once novel and
charming 1t is unfortunate, however,
that the composer has developed his or
chestral portion into proportions that at
times quite obscure the violin itself.
Mr. Zimbalist gave OF the concerto
most sympathetic reading. and the or
chestra, under the direction OF Nahan
FRANKIE. performed in part satisfactorily.
Mr. Zimbalist. in addition, played
Bruch's concerto in G. minor and two
dances OF his own composition.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-15
BOUGHT RED CROSS SEALS
One Man Remembered How
Luck Once Went Against Him.

A large. rugged-loking man stopped be-
fore one of the Red Cross Christmas seal
booths yesterday and looked at the dis
play OF seals and other matter with more
than usual interest.
And you say these seals will help folks
that are suffering with consumption he
asked He was told that that was the
idea
Then" said he. reaching down In his
pocket, heres where ] get some seals
and get even with the game. Ny wife, +"
he explained. died the year after we
were married from consumption We were
80 happy, and ] had done everything l
could for her, but | did not have much
money then and times were hard. / lost
my job, too, because I got to work too
late. You see, had to do the homework
besides other things. and that took lot
OF time, and they locked me first and
then finally fired me. l couldn't blame
the company, but il was pretty hard
Right in the dead OF winter, too. | could not
get her the things she would have liked
and there was no one to help me-not a
soul-for we were strangers I'm strange
city.
She died in the spring he added. as
the tears wrinkled down his face, and
now I am going to buy some Of these
seals so some other poor fellow can set
help IL he needs it as ! needed 1t then"
Red Cross Christmas seals help 10 pro-
vide friend in need. The tuberculosis
clinics, which the seals in New York
help TO support. are the best friends that
the consumptive has. The doctor and the
nurses give more than medical advice to
the patient they give of their services
their money and their strength, and they
are real friends to the patient who needs
them. Every Red Cross seal that is sold
VIII help to make the work in the tu-
berculosls clinics in New York City more
efhcient.