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The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1913-06-19

Mrs. F. T. Clay is visiting her
father, S. G. Bevington in Kansas
City.
Rev. L. R. Elliott is conducting
general evangelistic institutes at the
Baptist churches in the northwest
part of the county.
Col. and Mrs. C. E. Robbins who
are in Chicago this week attending
the auctioneers' convention remem-
bered us with post card Monday.
Squire ]. w. Darby passed thru
this city Tuesday enroute to his home
in Foster from visit with relatives
in Clinton.
w. H. Charters, Jr., proprietor OF
| the Charter Oak Stock Farm, shipped
out several fine herd headers on
special orders the first of the week.
Cole Hensley of Kansas City is en-
joying visit here at the home of his
brother Lyman Hensly. Mr.. Hen
sley is member Of the Kansas City
police force.
Warren Ayers of Charlotte town.
ship, spent Sunday in Warrensburg
with his daughter, Miss Ivah, who is
attending summer school at the State
Normal. ..
Mrs. Anna Bratton was granted
divorce from her husband j. H.
Bratton,. alimony in the sum of 81 SOC
and an allowance of $3.50 attorneys
fees in a decision rendered by Judge
C. A. Calvird Thursday afternoon.
M. L. and Lee Green, proprietors
of the Fraternal Inn have purchased
complete new china table ware
service. The new china is hand
somely marked with the monogram
of the Fraternal Inn.
Miss Eula Weeks arrived home
Monday evening from South Hadley
Mass, and will spend the summer
vacation here with her parents. Miss
Weeks is instructor in Mathematic ir
Mt. Holyoke College.
Mesdames R. R. Deacon, JOE
Meyer, Ed Clark, 7. J. Day and S
F. Warnock are enjoying a weel
end house party at the home of Mrs
John c. Hayes in the suburbs o
Kansas City.
Rev. and Mrs. L. R. Elliott enter
tanned the Young Peoples Society o
, the Baptist church at a measuring
. party Monday evening. About q
were present and delightful even
ing was spent. Dainty refreshment'
!. were served.
The City Council in regular meet
ing Tuesday night instructed the cit!
attorney to prepare and submit at tn
next meeting, the necessary prelim
inaries for the submission OF a propo
sition to vote bonds for the purpos'
Iof purchasing or installing water
works system.
The Jury in the case Of the Stat
ixs George Alsbaugh, charged witt
violation Of the local option law, re
lfurned q verdict Of mot guilty
| lIhursday afternoon. Mr.. Alsbaugl
Twas charged with selling bottles
Idrink called Tempo" alleged t
contain alcohol.
Harry, the little son Of Charles w
I0rout is suffering concussion Q
Tire brain ~ the result Of belnl
thrown from q horse Monday morn
jac. Young Circuit and Harold BARK
tr. ! son Of Jim Barker, were ridinl
~ horse on Pine street when one Q
IS boys struck the animal with
- cauaing him 10 buck. M boy
~ thspaxn OF and young 0rns
6pd upcu his head and shoulaes
n ~
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1913-06-19

Miss Lois Tygard, who has beenthe
guest of Mrs. w. w. Jamison for sew
eral weeks past, departed Monday for
her home in Oklahoma City, in re-
Spouse to a telegram announcing the
critical condition of James, the little
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Flavy -Tygard.
The lad was kicked by horse a day
or two ago and it is believed his in
iuries are of a fatal nature. Review.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1913-06-19
Pension Ruling Modified

jefferson City, Mo-, June II. Due
to the great difficulty that former
Confederate soldiers have in securing
copies Of their discharge papers Adj.
Gen. John B. O'Meara, in charge OF
the pension fund of so, 600 appro-
priated by the last Legislature for
pensions Of 80 per month for the in
digent among these veterans, has
found it necessary to modify its orig
inal requirements.
The following statement explains
the situation:
The law provides that the applicant
must have been honorably discharged,
and l, therefore, called for the dis
charge papers Of the applicants. Out
of some 100 applicants | have only Sc
cured three discharge papers, and
after consulting with Gov. Major and
on his advice l have concluded to ac-
cept parole papers or an oath of al
legiance or certificate Of service, all
of which can be obtained from the
War Department, Washington, D. c.,
or the Adjutant General of the State
in which they enlisted.
This ruling went into effect today.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1913-06-19

Matt w. Thompson was born in the
State of Virginia in 1885. When
young man, in 1855, he moved to Ill
inois, locating in Woodford county.
He was married to Miss Charlotte West
in 1858 at Eureka, Ill. In 1868 they,
with others, came to Missouri locating
first in Kansas CITY, afterwards in
Bates county, where they resided I'M
til 1901, when they moved to Butler,
living here on Pine street until last
February, then, on account OF his i'll
ness and increasing feebleness, he
was taken to the home of his brother
in-law, Charlie West, near Foster,
where he passed peacefully away
Sunday June 18th, 1918, at 4 p. m.
Mr.. Thompson became a Christian,
uniting with the Christian church, in
early manhood and in his younger
days was active in all church services,
especially useful in the song service,
which he loved. There remain to
mourn his loss, besines his widow,
one sister, Mrs. VIM. Long of WASH
ington, ILL.,, and two foster daughters,
Mrs. Anna Jennings of Kansas, and
Miss Loe Reese of this city. He was
buried beside many of his old friends
and neiehbors who had gone on be-
fore in what is known as the Wood
fin cemetery near Foster, Mo.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1913-06-19
New $1,000, 900 Fire Risk Co.

new $l,UVV,UUV TlIc AlSA w.
jefferson City, Mo-, June H.
Declaration of intention to take out a
charter as stock fire insurance COM
pany with capital stock of 81, 600, 900
and surplus of 81, 900, 900 was filed
with State Superintendent of insur-
ance Charles G. Revelle today.
The charter will be taken out in
few days and the company will be
ready to do a general line of insur-
ance business other than life. Its
name will be the Missouri National
Fire Insurance Company of Joplin.
James E. Nugent of Kansas City
and Charles E. Dexter of Joplin were
here today making preliminary ar
engagements for the incorporation
papers.
The incorporators will be James E.
Nugent, Stanley Watson, John Pol
lard, L. M. Wilder and D. w. john
son of Kansas City, B. B. Tatem, A.
Braithwaite, Walton Watson and Ben
jamin B. Poynter Of joplin and E. H.
Matthews of Maysville, Ky.
The company's business will cover
the entire State.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-06
aEpouIN LOVE SONG

BY Bayard Taylor.
From the desert L come to thee.
On a stallion shod with fire;
And the winds are left behind
In the speed of my desire.
Under thy window 1 stand,
And the midnight hears my cry;
love thee, l love thee,
With a love that shall not die
Till the sun grows cold,
And the stars are old,
And the leaves of the judgment
Book unfold!
oolS from thy window, and see
My passion and my pain
lie on the sands below,
And / faint in thy disdain.
Let the night winds touch thy brow
With the heat of my burning sigh
And melt thee to hear the VOW
OF a love that shall not die
Till the sun grows cold.
And the stars are old,
An6 the leaves of the judgment
Pook unfold.
My steps are nightly driven
BY the fever in my breast,
To hear from the lattice breathed
The word that shall give me rest.
Open the door of thy heart,
And open thy chamber door.
And my kisses shall teach thy lips
| The love that shall fade no more
| Til' the sun grows cold.
| And the stars are old,
And the leaves OF the judgment
Look unfold
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-06
NEW FORMS OF CRIME

Hamburg transatlantic liner to the ef-
feet that an American copper king had
suddenly been taken seriously i'll on board
and was not expected to live.
The copper magnate. it seems, had not
Teen aboard at all, but was in Calumet,
in excellent health. A connection was
traced between the operator and a couple
Of shady Bourse financiers.
The object of the lying message had been
to ''beaG' copper shares--i. e. to buy them
as they fell in order to sell them on the
rise that the contradiction of the false re-
port would bring The law was stretched
ro meet the case, and the foolish young
wireless man is now in prison.
The very newest form of the conf
dence trick was, as far as is known, in
vented only a few months ago, and is
really very neat. Lots of clubs and hotels
are complaining just now of the well
dressed man who, after turning the con-
versation on thought reading and telepa-
thy. bets that ne has a friend gifted with
such strange powers that even when miles
away he can tell the name of any card Sc
lectcd. The challenge is usually taken. A
card is turned up. The visitor says:
Nov phone up number so ana so and
ask Mr.. John Cartwright what card that
is" The answer comes back correctly
and the triumphant one collects his bet
The trick is delightfully."- simple one.
There is code OF 80 names. one for each
card. and the man at the other end of the
phone knows, by the name he is asked for
under, which the card in question is
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-06
Fighting the White Plague

The waiting list at the tuberculosis
sanatorium is increasing. There Is
lack of facilities and there is lack OF
money to meet current expenses. II
the good people of this city and dis
trict could see the situation as 1t ex-
ists-if they could personally hear the
applications for admission as they are
made each month and the circum-
stances attending them, it is certain
that the work of the Anti-Tuberculosis
association would not be permitted tc
lag because of want of funds.
This association is the one organ.
lied chance to fight back and ever
out the chief disease of this latitude
1t is fully and scientifically organized
to wage war against the white plague
Every person is open to an attack OF
this disease. Any one may acquire the
deadly germ unless strenuous efforts
are made to drive it out of this dis
trict. 1t is simply impossible to exag-
gerate the value to this community of
the work that the association is en-
deavoring to do-of the work it would
surely do were it supplied with need
full funds.
The Age Herald appeals to the be-
nevolent and the thoughtful to con-
slider the needs of the association. Give
day to a close study of the situation
Action based upon actual knowledge
is best Of all, and actual knowledge is
what The Age-Herald urges the peo-
pie of this district to acquire and to
act upon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-06
Sees Amazing Growth

birmingham has gone forward rapidly
since was here last june said Edward
c. Haury of Louisville. representing Pill
cher's Sons, the well known organ build
ers. Indeed, Birminghams growth has
been amazing. I could hardly believe my
eyes when I saw what marked improve
ments had taken place within the past
seven or eight months"
Mr.. Haury says that the organ bust
ness is fiourishing. He has just installed
a 5000 organ with chimes attached In the
new moving picture theatre being hand
somely fitted up by II. NJ Newsome in
the building formerly occupied by the
Birmingham Arms & Cycle Co. This
organ which Mr.. Newsome has bought,
said Mr.. Haury, 'is a splendid instrl-
ment. 1t has the latest and best de-
vices in organ building. We are about
to build an organ In the Odeon theatre.
Although I am still a young man
can remember when the only demand
for our output came from churches, but
now we are building as many organs for
theatres as for churches: and still an
other new field is found in the fraternal
hall. 1t is quite the thing now to install
pipe organs in Masonic and other lodges
and in Elks' homes. / believe the organ
industry is yet in its infancy
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-06
Advertising Birmingham

President John Sparrow of the Birming-
ham Ad club has sent cordial letter to
Mrs. Mabel Ford Leake. who represents a
number of trade journals. including Dry
Goods, New York; the National Furniture
Bulletin, Chicago; the Furniture Worker,
Cincinnati and the Southern Furniture
Journal, High Point. N c. The full text
of the letter Is as follows
The good work you are doing for Bir-
mingham by The articles you are writing
and having published in the trade jour
nails represented by yourself, have not
escaped our attention. We desire to con-
graduate you on the service which you
are rendering the city, and to say that If
all advertising people in Birmingham were
as alive as you are to the Importance of
boosting our town. Birmingham would be
on the map much more than it is at pres
ent.
assuring you of our highest esteem.
we are respectfully yours,
JOHN SPARROW, President.
IF. ]. HOLBERG, Secretary"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-06
The City Beautiful

With the near approach of spring it
is hoped that the Birmingham COM
mission, the Civic League, the Cham
ber of Commerce and the people in
general will cooperate in city beau
tiful movement.
The first principle of the city beau
tiful is cleanliness. We should have
clean streets, clean alleys and clean
yards. Birmingham, in the nature of
things, is smoky city and will be
for some time to come. The SCOT that
comes from our smoke stacks and our
domestic chimneys causes individuals
who would be clean to apply soap
and water more frequently than If we
had an absolutely smokeless town.
Linen must be laundered more fire.
quently and in all manufacturing CEN
ters the laundry wagon is buster than
it is in the town without factories.
But smoke is a small dirt producer
compared with garbage in the back
yards and alleys and dust that rises
from the streets. This is not a
propitious time for attempting to en-
force an anti-smoke ordinance in the
south's great coal and iron center, but
for sanitary reasons combined with a
love for the beautiful all premises
should be kept clean; every yard
should appear attractive and every
house should be model of tidiness.
In most of the residence sections
space is left between the sidewalk and
the curb for green sward, but these
spaces are trampled and in the spring
and early summer little or no grass
is to be seen where it was intended
that grass should be kept in reason
ably good order. Those who are in
terested in promoting a city beautiful
movement might, by appeal, improve
at least the appearance of our side
walks.
Some years ago when a city beauti-
full agitation was started front gates
and fences were removed and prem
ises were improved thereby. Dilapi-
dated fences that had long been eye
sores disappeared and it wall all done
by campaign of education, so to
speak; by friendly appeal.
More paint is needed in Birmingham
and the method employed to get rid
of the front fences might be used sue
cessfully to induce owners of wooden
houses to paint them. Many houses
have not been painted for many years
and few things add SO much to the
beauty of city as freshly painted
frame dwelling.
The city beautiful idea was much
more in evidence three or four years
ago than it is today. Let us have a
general cleaning up movement be-
tween now and Easter. But if only
one thing can be done in the way of
betterment it should be keeping down
the dust in the streets.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-06
Second Avenue to Be Opened

After 80 years of delay the city au-
thorities have decided that accumula-
tions of Stag shall no longer render a
great business street impossible. City
Attorney Boyd has received his in
structions and he will no doubt take
steps without unnecessary delay to
open Second avenue.
The opening of Second avenue will
go far towards reconstructing the
easterly end of the original city. Stag
piles must exist somewhere, but they
will not be permitted to block up busi-
ness streets to the detriment of a
large number of people.
The action of the city commission
will, it is believed, soon justify itself.
The growth of the reopened street will
be surprising, and the regret then will
be that the Sloss- Sheffield company
cannot see its way to merger of its
city furnaces with those in North Bir-
mingham. A joint plant in North Bir-
mingham would be free from street
blockades and similar questions, and
perhaps after while it will be ac.
cepted as the better and more eco
nomical plan. The city furnaces now
cover many acres of valuable ground
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-06

The California League OF Justice has
sent to Senator Hans of Alameda Bill
on which he is comforting with DIR. w.
f. Snow. secretary of the state health
beard, which provides a plan for human
stock farm. 1t is proposed to put 25 Sc
lect couples on a state farm, where they
mad their offspring can live under idyllic
conditions and under the supervision OF
experts. The league of justice bill asks
100000 for the purchase and equipment
Of 1000 acre farm.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-06

From Pearson's Weekly
"ACTS have recently come TO hgnt
which arouse very grave suspicion
/ that the many recent tragedies OIL
the air have not all been due to accident
The Royal Aero club is at present IN
eriring thoroughly into the whole matter
the suspicious of flying men having been
aroused bv three strange incidents that
hanpened recently at Hendon. On two
occasions the carburetters of aeroplanes
were found filled with water. which could
not possibly nave got there accidentally.
Luckily, its presence was discovered III
tune, otherwise the engines would SUDDEN
ly have stopped in midair. With a pilot
who was inexperienced or lost his head
there would have been one more aviation
fstslitv-"due to some fault in the en-
gine''
The latest case was even grayer. A
naval lieutenant flying with a passenger
suddenly heard grating noise in his en-
gine, which stopped. BY great luck he
managed to reach the ground in safety,
though the monoplane was smashed. The
engine was examined, and large steel
nut was found lying in ii. This nut did
not belong to the engine. and was in such
a position that it must have cost some
one 20 minutes hard work to get it there.
A significant point is that all three re-
cent attempts have been made on the
same type of engine. as if to damage its
reputation. However that may be, 1T
would seem that murder in midair viii
have TO be added to the list of crimes.
Another 1913 criminal is the airship
smuggIer. Between Switzerland and Italy
there are high customs duties. and Tor
scores of miles literal tariff wall
has been erected in the form of high
bcrricade of wire netting, this boundary
being patrolled by guards. During the
last few months there have been repeat
&c rurnors as to mysterious aidships being
seen and heard at night.
The italian authorities refuse to speak
on the subject, but affldavits have been
published In the Milan Press from peas
ants and patrols to the effect that they
had not only seen a small airship but
fired at it. And it is known that large
ocnsignments Of contraband have lately
got through.
A wireless telegraphy operator recently
appeared IN Berlin court on curious
charge. A message had come from
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-06
Lohcngrin Tomorrow Nirbt

The Aborn Opera company, which will
be heard at the jefferson theatre Friday
night, Saturday afternoon and SATURDAY
night, Is worthy of fun houses" said an
old music lover
I heard the company last year in
Madame Butterfly and was agreeably
surprised at the excellence of its princi-
pals and the strength of its chorus.
Lohengrin, which will be the opening
attraction here on this engagement, IS
one of the most beautiful of all Wagner S
works AS well as can remember, it has
only been heard in Birmingham once
many years ago, when the Metropolitan
Opera House company performed 1t al
the Bijou. Walter Damrosch was the di-
rector on that occasion. The music OF
Iohengrin, however, is familiar to every
body in the musical set. Many excerpts
have been given at our music festivals
and as for the beautiful bridal chorus, ev-
cry man, woman ana child who kno ws
any music at all can hum it,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-06

exemption from tolls of American
ships engaged in coastwise trade pass
ing through the Panama canal. We
also favor legislation forbidding the
use of the Panama canal by ships
owned or controlled by railroad car
riers engaged in transportation COM
petitive with the canal" This covers
the case. 1t is law to the democratic
party, and SO it will remain at least
until 1916.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-06
Tolls in the Panama Canal

The transcontinental railroads con-
tinue to demand repeal of the free
tolls provision on coastwise trade.
Their agitation is naturally confined
to the interoceanic canal committee in
the Senate, of which Senator Brande-
gee of Connecticut is chairman. The
subject is to be taken up tomorrow in
that committee. There is no chance,
however, that the lobby will be able
to accomplish anything, even though
it be in alliance with the entire east.
Every paper from Maine to Maryland
is supporting the proposed repeal. The
east and the transcontinental rail-
roads are not, however, in control of
this country. The democratic party
and the south and the west are now
in the saddle and they will stand by
the canal administration law
In this connection it is well to quote
the platform that is the law OF the
party until another national conven-
tion is held. Said the democrats as
semblcd at Baltimore; I'VE favor the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-06

TN the Interesting People" depart
ment of the February American
4 Magazine appears an account of
Mrs. Isaac Rice. woman of wealth
and position who is the moving spirit
in the Society for the Suppression of
Unnecessary Noise. It is astonishing
how much this powerful and energetic
woman has been able to accomplish in
the way of quieting foolish whistles
lin a great city. Following is an ex-
tract:
ut was in 1906 that Mrs. Rice, a
woman of wealth and position in New
York, taking notice of the extraordi-
nary excess of night noises on the Hud-
son river. began to investigate and tab
Iulate. She discovered that for one
given listening area the river would
produce an average of about three
thousand toots a night, but that there
was no law against them; the river was
a free soundway. She set about per-
sonally collecting evidence and petit
tions. appealed to the department of
health and the collectors office, visited
Washington and convened with author
titles, and effected a reform.
This has always been Mrs. Rice's
method of procedure-doing the work
herself The next year, 1906, when she
had organized the anti-noise society,
she still did the work. When she pro-
|mulgated the quiet hospital zones
proposition-then unheard of and un-
thought of--she visited all the hospitals
and consulted with the physicians, and
visited the various city departments and
consulted with the officials: she wastes
no time in working with impracticable
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-06
A POSTCARDS so PUBLIC

a RO0I-CAtfD oO
what are these curious marks ON this
post-card?"
That's a new code for kisses. Every
body knows what cross marks mean."
WHEN KING BLIZZARD IAfPRIsONS
THE RUsTIcS.
IL there's aught should make a plain
swain vain,
Sure it is pile of good wood should
When the weather is CONCEALED,
And Old Boreas is afleld,
And the drifts of snow. are nigh sky high.
Now the frost has made the hill rill still
Gales make progress through the snow so
slow
That the rustic deems it best
To cleave closely to the nest
And the chimney fue with oak smoNe
choke.
Now the frau doth in the cook book look.
Fer she must for divers head spread
bread:
Well, she knows that idleness
Makes the call for grub no less
Practice renders a cuisine queen keen.
Indoor life will turn glad lad mad
With pent spirits. or mild child wild;
And the kids, kept home from school,
All intent to play the fool,
With filched crayons on the hall wall
scrawl.
On the whole It is a gay play day,
Which they all proclaim at night quite
right;
Though the big, long-legged boys
Manufacture so much noise
That old pater cannot pore DER lore
Howard. in the Chicago Tribune