The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1914-02-12

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the appointment Of the folIo1in,
members Of the Board Of Bar, Exam
liners, each for term Of four years
R. B. Oliver of Cape Girardeau, VII
lard P. Hall Of Kansas City and r. M
Reynolds Of Marshall. They succeed
Thomas B. Allen Of St. Joseph, =. S
Thomson, Poplar Bluff, and; M. E
Rhodes, Potosi.
An urgent request that students il
the University of Missouri be vacci
mated has been issued, following th'
discovery Of the first case Of small
pox in Columbia. A high schoo
student is i'll. The university is pre-
pared to vaccinate its students free
Unless general response is made tt
the appeal, compulsory vaccination
may be resorted to.
The proposition for the issuance Of
$50, 900 bonds for establishing and
operating an electric light plant by
the city was defeated by the voters Of
Jefferson City Thursday. The Nc
Kinley Trolley System owns the cleo
trio light plant, as well as the street
railway, and contemplates trolley ex-
tensions to Central Missouri radiating
from jefferson City soon.
The State Board Of Fund Commits
sioners has determined to retire no:
less than $500, GOO of the Capitol
bonds between now and July / from
accumulations in the sinking fund
arising from the Capitol building tax.
BY this procedure the board figured
that money will be saved to the State
both in commission and interest on
the bonds to be taken up.
Working girls in Springfield "get
along fairly well" on wages as low as
So a week, was the testimony before
the Womens Wage Commission of
the Missouri Senate, which opened
hearing at Springfield Thursday.
Girls from department stores, laun->
dries and 1O-cent stores were exam
ined. They denied low wages are
productive of immortality. Some testi-
fled they got good board for 81 a
week and walk two miles to work.
Delegates to represent Missouri in
the tenth annual conference of the
National Child Labor Committee at
New Orleans, March Is to IS, have
been appointed by Gov. Major, as
follows: Robert S. Bookings, Rabbi
Samuel Sale, Bruce Stark and j. B.
Chambers Of St. Louis, and Edward
R, Weeks, president Of the Humane
Society Of Kansas City, Messrs,
Bfookings, Chambers and Stark arg
treasurer and secretary Of
The Missouri Committee, respectively.
Carthage went wet in a local option
election Thursday by a majority Of
liz, the same majority by which it
went dry four years ago. Carterville
voted wet by 266. Four years ago It
went dry by 237. The campaign was
notify contested. Many clubwomen-
If both Carthage and Carterville took
he side Of the vets and attended the
vet meetings. Most of the field
orces of the Missouri Anti-Saloon
league was called into the fight.
The only wet speaker from outside
he district was DR.. Jacob E. Meeker]
# St. Louis, who spoke nine times in
wo towns. Temperance leaders said
hey would contest the election on the
round that the four years required
or second vote will not have elapsed
Until next June.
In a letter to Gov. Major, John D.
lawson, dean of the Law College Of
he Missouri State University at co.,
lmbia, commends the determination
# the Governor to appoint a commits
ion to revise the code of legal pro-
Many other lawyers have
written the Governor commendinp|
he movement. These letters come
rom leading members of the legal
'rofession in St. Louis, Kansas Ciyl
nd throughout the State. Gov. Ma
Or said today that in all likelihood be-
viii name a commission suffic;entlv