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The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1914-09-24
Elkhart

On the Wing attended the Lock
ridge dinner last Sunday. He took :
picture Of the crowd.
John Hedger and wife are rejoic.
ing over the arrival Of a fine girl.
George Finley and wife called al
the home of the writer last Monday.
Mrs. eArah Adams, living southeast
Of Butler was visiting out in Elkhart
last week.
Uncle John Blake, our mail car
rier,, has gone to Western Kansas on
visit. Miss Hazel Mcdonald is car
rying the mail.
Miss Cora Spillman returned last
week from Colorado.
Mrs. Lizzie Kershner and Mrs. Gus
Bruner called.at John Stephens last
Saturday to see that new baby.
We had the pleasure Of meeting
our old friend, P. C.. Burns, last Sum
day. We think that he is tired 20
keeping batch.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1914-09-24

TX l - y No.. r M
Miss Ola Ayers visited with Miss
Mary Harper Saturday.
Annie Lusk spent Saturday nieht
and Sunday With his uncle, SylveGter'
Bell, Of Foster.
Miss Margie Greenup, who is at.
tending high school in Butler, spnt
Saturday and Sunday with homefolks,
Miss Anna Wheeler Of Kansas CIV,
Is visiting her parents, Mr.. and Nh.
7. J. Wheeler.
Carrie and Ralph Harper spent SIT
urday and Sunday With homefolks
They are attending school in Butlbf.
Miss Irene Lusk spent Sunday with
Miss Mary Harper.
Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Bell sof
Foster came over Sunday to attend
70 tho pears at the pear orchard ~
Virginia.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Johnnie
Hedger Jr., Saturday, Sept. IL, 1914,
q nice little 6-pound girl. O.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1914-09-24
In and Around. MAysburg.

- oAsA <AAVASAs OA0y0OWIBs
Tan White went 10 Montrose FIJI.
day and purchased the boys 4 new
buggy.
Several attended the Street Fair
at Montrose from this vicinity lasl
week.
Dr.. Miller took Marie Warner ia
Kansas City last Thursday, where
she underwent an operation for ap.
pendicitis. She is getting along
nicely.
! Bertha Scott has been visiting hef
aunt, Mrs Farmer, the past week.
She went home Sunday
Mr.. Linsey and family visited a
Mr.. 0roseharts Sunday.
Nr,sAlbert Barth and family, Mr..
Harve Harness and family and Mr..
and Mrs Coonrod and daughter, viz
tied with Sterling Harness Sunday.
Mr.. Dale and wife, and little
daughter Mabel, and Mi. and Mrs.
Robinson and Erman Coonrod visited
at Tan Whites after Sunday school
Sunday.
Mary Lee Goodwin visited Goldie
Stations Sunday.
Rev. Smith filled his regular APP
pointment Sunday.
Eddie and Elsie Pratt visited with
their uncle, Tan White. Sunday.
Mr.. r. X. Goodwin and wife visited
at Earnest Middleton's Sunday.
Ben Harrison is putting up q silo.
Mr.. and Mrs. Snow visited their
daughter, Mrs. Zela Dale, Sunday.
A FEIGHBOR.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1914-09-24
virginia-G Grand View Pick-Ups.

The w. c. T. U. met with Mrs. R.
r. Harper Thursday of last week. A
good meeting was held.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Grimsley, who
have been visiting in Harrisonville,
returned home Saturday accompanied
hx Nj. Grimsley' mother. Ms. A.
F. 0rimsley.. d & n n
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1914-09-24

The reward for information leading
to the return Of Jacob Silverman, IA
years old, who disappeared Sept. 3.
from his home in st. Louis, was in
creased yesterday by his mother,
Mrs. Minnie Silverinan, to 81, 200. It
is believed the boy may be in the
hands of tramps.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1914-09-24

Large increases in the enrolment
at the University of Missouri over
that of last year is indicated by the
opening day of the regular term.
The registration was LOIS, as COM.
pared with 1888 on the first day last
year. An especially noticeable in
crease is expected in the College of
Agriculture.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1914-09-24
Missouri News in Brief

One Of the European countries now
involved in war has placed an order
for 10000 saddles and 10000 sets Of
harness with a St. Louis saddlery
house.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1914-09-24

It may be that a man with some
other name might do better work as
night Waterman at the Governors
Mansion in Jefferson City, but Frank
Fiend has kept nine Chief Executives
OF Missouri out of nocturnal trouble
in his twenty-five years service.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1914-09-24

Ida O'Neill, % years old, Of Cali
fornia, NO., died at Sedalia Sept. IA,
from poison, taken week ago with
suicidal intent, while Respondent over
a love affair. e
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1914-09-24

Neal Kennen, II years old, son Of
E. C. Kennen, committed suicide at
Laddonia, NO., by shooting himself
through the head. He left a note
telling of dependency in a schoolboy
and schoolgirl love affair.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1914-09-24

In an electrical storm Sunday night
at Chillicothe, w. C. Sterling, a
farmer, 40 years old, was struck by
lightning and killed. His wife and
dau yhter were standing in the house
looking out of a window and saw him
struck.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1914-09-24

Secretary John T. Stinson of the
Missouri State Fair at Sedalia, says
he hopes to get Theodore Roosevelt
as one of the attractions for Monday,
September %. Inasmuch as there
will be champion bulls, mules, hogs
and other live stock, it is fitting that
the biggest Bull Moose be on hand.-
Exchange. ~ aor''<,.,. 'f4
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1914-09-24

The registration in theregular term
of the University Of Missouri on Mon
day reached 1885, gain of 100 over
last year. The total, including the
summer session, is 3, 125, a gain of
255.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1914-09-24

While freight train was pulling
into the yards at Poplar Bluff, an un-
identified man walked to the track,
got down on his hands and knees and
placed his neck on the rail. His head
was severed. He had been in town
for the last week. He was we'll
dressed.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1914-09-24
ON THE WING.

on 1HE WING.
Howard Smith and wife have moved
in with his fasher-in-law, I. Z. Wix,
until ~ sets ~ house built He
win conmence binding after wheat
sowing.
L. r, Wix got ! picture card from
Montana SHOW wing where his son, Joe,
had started back with q heaping has.
ket 81 money sss
Rev. Z. Il Wix is in Monet, Mo-,
holding Z meeting. c..
The 2Oth al, of September E.
Heavilin IN en in Bates County
20 years. He IN Bates county when
it was ! Wild part Of the world and
has seen II grow TO be one 81 the best
counties in the state.
Mack Braden and Cyrus Nestle
rode brought q new wheat, grass md
fertilizer drill from Amoret Monday.
Grant Oldham Gays it. rains every
time he cuts down hay.
Dr.. Lusk John Harper and ]. W.
McFaddea were in Butler Tuesday
night. m
VIM. burst is thinking Of going
West on account Of his wife's health
and expects to have ! sale II the near
future. y
Kennedy Reelected,
For the tenth consecutive year
Marion Kennedy, the blind operator
at Trowbridge has been elected to
that position by the Trowbridee
Mutual Telephone Company, which
held its annual stockholders meeting
Saturday. Mr.. Kennedy's courteous
and capable service is appreciated by
the company and it's patrons Of the
lines and his reelection was accom-
plished by the unanimous vote Of the
stockholders. Shelbyville Daily vi
Mr.. Kennedy went blind while in
my employ at Virginia in 1897. He
certainly was a good helper in the
store. ssass 1850
Geo. jackson and I'd Barxes win
fill their silos Ahis weelx las.
Geo. jackson and fancy Smith sold
"a couple of'cavalry horses Monday.
Ralph Hughes, wife and daughter
visited Mentry Hughes Sunday.
There was a surprise dinner on Ike
Lockridge Sunday, Sept. Path, i be-
ing his 58th birthday. Those present
were: Will burst and family, Lewis !
McKibben and family, E. Heaviln
and wife, John Fritts and wife, w.
P. Fritts and family, Turner Hender-
son and wife, Geo. Lockridge and
family, Douglass Browning and fami-
ly, John Hedger ST., and family.
Clint Burns, Jas. Satterlee and Vergil
Henderson.
The rain interfered with the colored
folks picnic at Whites Grove Tnes-
day.
DR.. r. .Wendleton Of near Merwin II
visited his father, "A. Mendleton, Of
Butler Monday and Tuesday.
Tansy Smith is doing some good
road work on the mail routes. It
makes the mail men smile.
The fad is ''if you can't help me, I
IAN not help you" How can this BE-.
Do unto others as you
would have others do'unto you.
Jim Satterlee u #. Scott, Rams.
g visiting bis brothsr-in-law. p. G.
Burns, this week. Uncle Jim IS in
poor health but is getting stronger.
We have 4 fat calf and sheep for
Iale. N. NJ N.
Racenkinn m Hfeh School
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1914-09-24

1t is expected that Immediately af-
ter his return from the East this
week, Gov Major will issue proc
lamation, in which he will call upun
each citizen Of Missouri to buy a bale
of cotton. Private Secretary A. z.
Patterson said that the proclamation
would be issued as soon as the Gov
ernor returned. Two Missouri coun-
ties Pemiscot and Dunklin, are FAM
Gus for the quantity and quality of
cotton they produce.
Jefferson City is elated over an an
nouncement that new city directory
shows IS per cent increase in popi-
lation during the last four years. Ac-
cording to the directory, inhabitants
number 1886 This is an increase
Of 4, 325 over the figures found in a
directory issued in May, 1911.
The annual apportionment of the
State school fund is well under way
and several hundred thousand dollars
are being sent daily to the several
counties by State Treasurer Deal and
Auditor Gordon. The total amount
to be distributed this year is approxi-
mately 81, 600, 600, of which St. Louis
will get nearly $500, 900 and Jackson
county little more than $4,000.
Roland G. Usher, professor of his
tory at Washington University, who
has just returned from England, be-
lieves the war may last several years.
Prof. Usher is the author of the book
an-Germanic," which attracted
much attention at the outbreak of the
war, in that his book, published
year before, foretold many of the
conditions that have developed.
Armed with pistol, but unmasked,
bandit entered the Peoples State
Bank at Dodson, NO., a suburb of
this city, Sept. 81, locked Hugh Moore
the assistant cashier, in vault, and
escaped in motor car with 81, 800 of
The banks funds. A customer of the
bank released Moore, who shouted
The combination of the lock through
The vault door. Moore was alone in
he bank when the bandit forced him
INTO the vault.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1914-09-24

Twenty-seven persons are known
to have been drowned and eighteen
injured in a cloudburst which washed
out the embankment of the Frisco
Railroad two miles east Of Lebanon,
Mo-, and ditched the roads crack
passenger train, known as the St.
Louis and Texas Limited, southbound
from St. Louis. Sixteen of the dead
had been identified, according to in
formation given out at the Frisco Of
fices, and only, descriptions could
be furnished for the elevenn un-
named dead.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1914-09-24

The national and State banks and
trust companies which are active
members Of the St Louis Clearing
House Association yesterday decided
to send 100000 in gold to New
York City, as 4 contribution to the
1l01 600 900 fuad being raised there
10 ike care Of the foreign exchange
situation.
Damage amounting to thousands Of
dollars was done to bridges, rock
roads and crops Ia 0reene County By
high wstsr In de Storm Of the last
lev daya according to reports Sept.
q 10 the County CQurt Same a. the
nF6ea BRIDGES were carried away.
Ssrsans h this seclion wsrs the hiah.
81 svsf Known.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-11-06
SHORTAGE is EXPECTED
When Spring Comes, II Promises TO
Bring Shortage Of Hay and
Rouehage.
(By J. C. McAmis, University Of
Tennessee

(By J. C. McAmis, University Of
Tennessee.)
When spring comes, it promises to
bring with 1t an unusual shortage of
hay and roughage. In most parts Of
the state clover stands are poor and
In many cases total failure, SO that
the situation will not be improved very
much by the clover crop next spring.
1t is not yet too late to insure the
supply of early hay for summer by the
use of wheat and vetch. This is the
hay crop that seldom suffers from
drouth, produces abundantly If vetch
is inoculated and phosphate is applied,
is ready for hay in May, a season
which is favorable for making hay, Is
palatable and nutritious, and comes
at a time when the barns are empty.
If the weather permits, one could
hardly find more profitable employ
ment than to continue the preparation
of land from which has been taken
corn. sorghum, beans or peas, and even
cotton, for seeding to crop for hay
The land may be disced thoroughly
and wheat and votch sown at the rate
of one and half bushels, and fifteen
pounds, respectively. 1t is true that
vetch makes little growth in winter,
but it will make rapid growth in
spring and will be ready for hay with
the wheat.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-11-06
Easy to Darken Gray Hair

When your hair turns gray, streaked
with gray, white, faded, brittle, fall
ing out. itching scalp or dandruff, try
the following: On retiring rub Q-Ban
like shampoo on hair and scalp. By
morning the gray has disappeared
and another application or two of
Q-Ban the hair is beautifully darkened
and becomes fluffy, glossy and luxuri-
ant with real hair health. Itching
and dandruff have stopped. Q-Ban
stops falling hair and promotes its
growth. Q-Ban is not sticky and
messy, and cannot injure the hair or
scalp. Delightful to use and sure to
darken hair so evenly and naturally
no one can tell. SOC for a 81 bottle.
Browder Bros, Selmer, Tenn. adv
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-11-06

gionsly consecrated to his Maker
His life and career are well-rounded
measures and his memory will live
long in many hearts.
Selmer has lost a prominent citi-
zen, strong advocate of the right, a
forceful, charitable, Christian gen.
tleman.
join in your regret for his loss, in
coincidence to his family, in sympathy
to his kinsmen and legion of friends.
II was pleasure and privilege to
possess his friendship, from my boy
hood, and | sincerely deplore ''his
taking away"-but believe ne has
found a peaceful abode beyond this
land of separations and bereavements.
With kindest personal regards and
best wishes, together with thanks for
your kind remembrance in sending me
copy of the paper,
am your friend,
CHAs. G. TAYLOR.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-11-06
Webb and Lea

+ Senator Webb ard Senator
Lea spoke at Selmer last Friday.
They had good audience and
each a respectful hearing. 1t
was Senator Webb's appoint
ment, but time was divided with
Lea. Webb is a real statesman
and made a very able speech on
national and state affairs, and
was heartily applauded when he
made strong thrusts,
Senator Lea seems to be a
novice as a trained speaker. He
is not out of his school days on
the stump. He has pleasing
personality, but did not exhibit a
heartfelt interest in what he
said. 1t was his first visit to
McNairy. He said he only knew
two men, j. P, Sipes and w. X.
Alternately, and advised the peo-
pie to vote against both of them.
1t is said that both of these men,
with other republicans and inde-
pendents, made him senator, and
it was ungrateful in him to ex-
press his venom. 1t made both
of them votes.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-11-06
HARVESTING OF
WINTER APPLES
FRUIT SHOULD BE PICKED WHEN
THE SEED Is WELL CoLoRED
-lNTERESTlNG FACTS.
PICKING AND IN HANDLING
Great Care Should Be Used In Hand
ling of Winter Apples-varietie
Differ Greatly in Their Attachment
To Tree-Learn "knack" of Picking.
Charles A. Keffer, University of
Tennessee.)

Charles A. Keffer, University of
Tennessee.)
Winter apples should be picked
when the seed is we'll colored. Often
this will occur before the character
istic color of the variety has develop
ed, and always the seed is ripe while
the flesh of the apple is yet hard.
Cut open few fruits from the inner
branches of the trees where they re-
ceive the least light, and from the
more exposed limbs. If the seed shows
less than half it's ripe color-a very
light brown, for instance-the fruit
is not mature enough; it will be apt to
shrivel in storage and its full flavor
will not develop; but if the color is
fairly we'll developed, medium brown,
the variety is ready for picking. If
permitted to remain on the tree long
er, the fruit will not keep as well as
when picked at this stage.
Great care should be exercised in
picking and in handling. The stem
must not be pulled from the fruit. Va
rieties differ greatly in their attach
ment to the tree. The picker must
learn the "knack" Of picking; usually
a slight twist and quick bend will sep
arate the stem from its supporting
spur. When the stem breaks from the
apples, decay is apt to develop.
Never let go an apple until it rests
on something. If it is the first fruit
picked do not drop it an inch, but lay
it on the bottom of the basket; and be
as careful in handling apples as if
they were thin-shelled eggs.
When the picking basket is full, low
er it to the bottom of the barrel and
gently tip the barrel so the fruit will
pass from basket to barrel without
bruising. The slightest bruise in the
orchard means rotten spot in the
cellar.
OF course, the best way of saving
apples for winter use is by cold stor-
age; but they can be kept quite well in
cool cellar. Have shelves arranged
as for sweet potatoes, with Slated
bottoms and six-inch sides. The cellar
must be provided with openings on at
least two sides, to afford perfect ven
tilation. Spread the fruit carefully In
layers six to eight inches deep on the
shelves, leave the cellar windows open
at night and closed in the day time,
until cool weather comes. During the
winter go over the bins occasionally,
removing the ripest fruit.
The best temperature for apples in
storage is about forty degrees above
zero. While this low temperature can
not be maintained during the fall
months in Tennessee, such varieties
as Wine Sap and Ben Davis can be
kept until February and March with
little difficulty, If care is taken to pick
the fruit early, avoid bruising, store
in shallow bins, in a cool, dry cellar,
which is ventilated at night and kept
closed during the day until the warm
days are passed.
OF course, it Is understood that only
sound fruit should be stored, and no
one can hope to keep fruit that is fully
ripe when placed in storage.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-11-06
Death Of Mrs. Mary Halstead

Sunday night at 7 o'clock death
came suddenly but not unexpected to
Mrs. Mary Halstead, at her residence
on Court Avenue. For several weeks
she had been on the decline. A weak
heart was fatal. She was conscious
even to the moment of her death.
The deceased was in her 10th year,
and together with her aged sisters,
had lived in Selmer over twenty years.
She was a member OF the Dixon
family, consisting Of six girls and one
boy.
She married Rev. Mack Halstead,
who died many years ago. She has
been the mainstay Of her sisters 10
conducting boarding house and hotel
for many years. One by one the sis.
tiers haye passed away, leaving Mrs.
Andrews, aged about 80 years, and
Miss Sallie. Both are invaids. These
with her nephew, James Pascal, alone
survive.
The funeral was held at the home
Monday afternoon, conducted by Rev.
job Maxedon assisted by Rev. ]. w.
Wallace. The presence of all her
neighbors and friends, together with
the abundance of flowers, attest the
affection they had for her.
Mrs. Halstead was an earnest work
ing member Of the Presby terian
church at Selmer, and was Christian
from the heart. She was kind to the
homeless and needy With her death
the support Of her two invalid sisters
becomes a matter of charity, which
the people must not disregard.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-11-06
OCTOBER AND NOVEMBER ARE
BEST MONTHS FOR GETTING
THE GARDEN READY.
MANURE HEAVY, PLOW DEEP
Planting Should Begin in January, and
From January To September in All
Attitudes Of 1900 Feet or Less
TWO Gardens at the Experimental
Station Show Different Results.
&C. A. Keffer, University OF
Tennessee.)

October and November is the best
time for getting the vegetable garden
ready for planting. Throughout Ten
nessee, In all attitudes of 1900 feet or
less, planting should begin in January,
and from January to September, the
garden should be place of planting.
And so the time for blowing is the late
fall months.
If there is only a little manure, by
all means put it in the garden.
Crimson clover, lime phosphate, and
a little potash can be used to maintain
the fertility of the fields, but we ex-
pect much greater yields of garden
than of field crops; and the question
OF vegetables depends largely on rapid
growths. There is nothing like ma
nure to make vegetables grow well.
We have had two gardens at the Ex-
PSiihiChl otdtlOH, III Ou6 commercial
fertilizers alone were used; in the
other, nothing but barn yard manure
was applied to the soil. The MANFRED
vegetables grew more rapidly, pro-
duced better, and were of better quail
ity. Especially was this true of the
leaf and root vegetables, but it was
clearly apparent in all
Manure heavily and pillow deep. Then
spread fine manure over the blowing
and disc it in, leaving the land rough
until ready to plant, then make a per-
feet seed bed by repeated use of the
spike-toothed harrow and planker
Salad onions for February use should
be planted now; the culls from the
seed-onion crop of last summer, or
potato or multiplier onions can be used
for the green onion planting.
In January, Irish Cobler, Quick
Lunch, or Triumph potatoes should be
planted for first crop, and Alaska peas
should be put in. There is apt to be
too much wet weather in January for
blowing the garden. Do it now.