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The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1914-03-12
Along the Miami

Friends and relatives of Mr.. and
Mrs. Edwin Allison gave them a
kitchen shower Thursday afternoon.
J. D. Chappell and family spent
Sunday at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
John Ship.
Mrs. Trumbull and children of Ell
Paso, Texas, arrived at the home of
Mrs. Trumbulps parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Piggott, Tuesday morning.
John Silvers, wife and daughter,
Miss Anna, were visitors at the home
of John Morris and family Sunday
afternoon.
Miss Vivian Wolf spent Sunday aft
ernoon with her schooImate, Miss
Marguerite Wright.
There was no school at Tygard Fri
day. Their teacher, Miss Priestly,
attended the teachers examination.
A. G. Hoyt went to Spruce Monday
and Mrs. Hoyt and children, who
have been spending week with Mr..
and Mrs. Merton Shillinger. returned
home with Mr.. Hoyt Tuesday. Mrs.
Shillinger's health is said to be i'm
proving.
Charles and Harvey Robinson are
new pupils in Bethel school. Their
parents recently moved to this dis
trict.
Mr.. Jackson and family have moved
here from Oklahoma to their new
home on the farm purchased from
Jesse Smith.
Miss Mary Funk, teacher of the
Bethel school, spent Saturday and
Sunday at the home Of her parents |
Miss Wolf has mose than 20 chick. !!
ems overa week cid All Of them
lre growing and doing wen
W. D. McC ullQQgh ma hs,ainesa
caller in this vicinity Tuesday.
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Invitations are out for a dance at
the Armory Hall Thursday night. The
dance is given by the Butler girls to
the boys and a good time is assured.
Mrs. Talmage Crawford, accompan-
led by her little daughter, has re-
turned to Nevada after a visit here
with her parents, DR.. and Mrs. T. w.
Lockwood.
Mrs. Jesse Cornell, widow of the
late Judge Connell, died at Leaven.
worth, Kansas, and her body shipped
here and inferred in Oak Hill Gene
terry today. ~
John Stanley of the Rambler Auto
mobile Co., who has been spending
several days here with relatives and
friends left Monday to resume his
duties in his territory.
M. L. Wolfe Of Passaic left last
week for Stag, Wyoming, where he
expects to spend the summer. Mr..
Wolf is contemplating organizing a
bank at Passaic next fall. y
The town was filled with charming
rosy checked school ma ans and cleai
cut, fine looking men school teachers
last week while the teachers exam
nations were being held here.
At noon Wednesday Mr.. Horace NJ.
Jennings Of Fl. Scott Kansas, and
Miss Jessie Whitehead of Amsterdam,
were united in marriage at the Pres
byterian parsonage by DR.. c. Ticknor.
Col. O. D. Austin of the Record at
tended the meeting of the CONNER
cial Clubs ia jefferson City, and
visited his son Ed. and family. He
says there were about 400 delegates
present.
Frankly Priestly and family left the
last of the week for their home near
PIeasanton, Kansas where they will
reside in the future. ]. E. Smith and
family will occupy the residence va
Gated by the Priestlys-
Seth Cope of near Foster spent
Friday in this city on business, so he
claimed, but number Of the boys
persist that it is coincidence that
"business'' should have called him
here just when the city was so full
of school ma ANS.
1t is rumored in political circles
that Miles S. Horn of this city will be-
come candidate for the Democratic
Of Probate Judge. Mr..
Horn is staunch Democrat, an ex.
cellent lawyer and a good business
man, and has multitude of friends
all over the county who would be
glad to have him get into the race. |
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Mulberry and Western Bates

N01OCAAy OAsO VSoSOAn 0s
Miss Ethel Fleming visited her
cousin, Bella Payne, Wednesday.
M. M. Walker, ST., returned Mon
day from three months visit with
relatives in Kansas City.
Mrs. Frank Hayne, daughters Edith
and Ella, son Claudio, Mrs. Arthur
Payne visited Lee Withrow's Thurs
day.
Mrs. Ben Medley visited at F C.
Ewbanks Wednesday.
Herman Mayer made business
trip to the county seat Thursday.
Friday evening about fifty young
people met at the home of Luke Boot
and showed Luke what jolly crowd
of young people he had for neighbors-
Mrs. H. H. Gardner was shopping
in Butler Saturday.
The Misses Nell Cramer and Carrie
Cheshire were guests OF Laura He'd
rick from Friday evening until Mon
day morning.
Fred C. Ewbank and family visited
at the Rambler home Sunday.
What has become of the township
boards reports from the other town.
ships in Bates county. Homer was
the only one we have seen SO far.
Roy Glover, Cecil Porter and
Claude Norwood drove over to But
Ter Sunday evening in the latter's
car. They struck few soft spots in
the ''good roads,"
Harry Porter is helping Claude
Norwood with his farm work.
DR.. and Mrs. j. C. Sageser went
over to La Cygne, Kansas, Sunday
for several days visit at the Ed F.
Rush home:
John H. Mutt and family of Wilson,
vile, Nebraska, arrived Wednesday
and will make their home on the A..
j. Noah farm.
Ola Nichols is visiting her sisters,
Mesdames Charley and Richard Goode
Of Amsterdam.
Maude Ewbank visited at H. D.
Mayors Sunday. RAMBLER
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List of Letters

remaining uncalled for in the post
office at Butler, Mo-, for the week
ending March 10th, 1914:
Mrs. Mary Ford, Mrs. Frank Will
liams.
These letters will be sent to the,
dead letter office March oath, 1914,
if not delivered before. In cali
ing for the above, please say "Adver-
tised," giving date of list.
~. C. A. Chambers, Post Master
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Grover McElroy left Saturday fol
Richards, Mo.
! o. J. Radford Of Spruce spent Sun.
day here with relatives.
New Quaker laces, Walker McKib-
ben Nero. Co.
DR.. C. A. Lusk> of Virginia made a
business trip to Butler Monday.
J.. r. Ford, and Richard Keele and
family spent Sunday in Rich Hill.
w. o. Jackson spent Monday in
Rich Hill on professional business.
Miss Matte Boulware has returned
home from an extended visit in Texas.
w. j. Duncan, one of the pioneer
citizens Of Taborville, died last week.
See us for farm insurance,
19-h Allen the Land Man & Co.
Over American Clothing House.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. A. Campbell are
rejoicing over the birth of a fine boy,
Saturday, March Z, 1914.
j. A. Patterson of Nyhart, Deputy
State Game Warden, was in the city
the latter part Of the week:
Mrs. A. B. Owen, accompanied by
her daughter, Miss Jennie, spent the
latter part Of the week with relatives
and friends in Adrian.
New spring embroideries. Walker
McKibben Moro. Go.
j. H. Baker of Deepwater township
was in the latter part of the week and
made us most pleasant call.
There will be a box supper at the
Herrel school house next Saturday
night. Every body invited
w. w. Ruble of the Bank of Am
sterdam and F. F. Archer were BUSH
ness visitors in Butler the latter part
of the week.
Ralph Pipes of Altoona, one of Bates
county's foremost young teachers,
was in the city taking teachers ex-
aminations.
New house dresses and aprons,
Walker McKibben Nero. Co.
A. H. Culver attended the State
Convention Of Commercial Clubs at
jefferson City as delegate from the
Butler Club.
Judge r. B. Campbell, Deputy
Grand Lecturer, held three days
school Of Masonic instruction in Rich
Hill the first Of the week.
Mrs. j. A. Trimble and Mrs. Falloh
O'Byfne went to Kansas City Tues
day on ! shopping tour. Mrs. O'Byrne
VII 20 to her home in Birmingham.
f1 - i
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East Lone Oak.

III G8St Lone YAK.
E. c. Harper sold bunch Of hogs
last Monday. They averaged some
thing like ITO lbs.
The local w. C. U. gave a short
program at Sunday School last Sum
day morning.
John Thomas and wife have moved
to their new home. They bought
their furniture last Friday and moved
in Saturday.
C. w. Daniel has his new barn al
most completed. II sure is a dandy.
j. w. Thomas is going to remodel
house for j. F. Kern in few days.
F. l.. Blankenbaker is hauling logs
preparatory to building henhouse.
C. M. Thomas and wife have re-
turned from an extended visit in Kan
sas, Oklahoma and Texas. Mr..
Thomas is still poorly but in better
health than when he left last fall.
Several of the citizens that are in
terested in the Rice hill got out last
Thursday and Friday and put in lot
of good work on it. II sure is whole
lot better than it was couple of
years ago.
F. E. Wisherd OF Shawnee town.
ship, was at Sunday School at Peru
last Sunday.
The Bible study at Peru last Sum
day night was we'll attended and quite
an interest was shown. They are
held at Peru every Sunday night that
there is no preacing.
Miss Eulalia Daniel Of the faculty of
the Springfield Businesa College, is
spending her vacation with her BROTH
er, C. w. Daniel and family.
Mr.. aud Mrs. Laverne Lyle Of Has
well, Colorado, are here visiting rela-
tives and friends.
Homer Bartlett and Will Harper
and families visited at Boone Smith
sons Sunday.
H. H. Evilsizer helped Cal Wood
get up his summers wood several
days last week. .--- -.~
Ernest Cough transferred his tele-
phone side line from the old poles to
new hedge poles last Saturday.
Hazel Mccoy spent Sunday in the
Black school house neighborhood.
Judd Isley's of Pleasant Gap town
ship, spent Sunday at F. L. Blanken-
bakers.
Grover Carroll of Summit town
ship, but formerly Of this place spent
the latter part of last week at Eureka,
Kansas, looking for location.
Grover Mccoy hauled wheat to
town last Saturday. II isn't often
you see folks hauling grain to town
in these parts these days. It's quite
a common sight to see corn coming
out from town.
We were somewhat surprised to
read in The Times last week that any.
thing could happen down on Hogskin
that would be of enough importance
for the St. Louis Republic to copy it.
Well there's always something doing
down here if we don't get into the
big papers very often.
PUSSY WILLOW.
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Tommie Walton has returned tc
Columbia after brief visit with home
folks.
Charley Ewin left the first Of the
week for a business visit to Spring.
field. !.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. NJ. Thomas have
returned home from an extended
visit in Texas,
j. S. Newton, M. D. Physician and
Surgeon. Special attention to dis
eases and surgery of the eye, ear,
nose and throat. Office Farmers
Bank Bldg. 9-tf
| Collector Mike Fortune of Usage
township was in the city on official
business Friday.
The Nuckols brothers have pur.
chased the j. w. Barnhart farm in
Lone Oak township.
Edgar Herrell has accepted po-
sition with the Carpenter &: Shafer
Mfg. Co., at Joplin.
New Warmers rust proof corsets,
Walker-McKibben Nero. Co.
., John H. Alexander Of Gaiesburg,
Illinois, arrived in this city Saturday
on business mission.
Mesdames I. j. Smith and w. R.
Curry have returned home from a
week end visit to Kansas City
New spring ginghams and percales,
Walker-McKibben Nero. ca.
w. E. Neu of Goodland, Kansas,
spent the latter part Of the week in
this city on business mission
Chief Gordinier has announced the
appointment Of o. R. Ray as assist
ant chief of the Fire Department.
R J. Holloway of Blue Springs,
Mo-, spent the first Of the week here
with his brother, j. w. Holloway.
l. R. Allen. cashier of the First
National Bank OF Adrian spent Friday
in this city on a business mission.
See me for farm loans,
19-tf Allen the Land Man & Co.
Over American Clothing House.
Editor Pattee of the Amoret Leader
represented his town club at Jeffer-
sen City at the meeting Of the State
Clubs.
j. L. huntington, who is suffering
an attack of heart failure is reported
as improving. He is still confined to
his room at the Fraternal Inn.
Mrs. Walton Crutsinger, accom-
panied by Miss Letha Nelson returned
home Saturday from visit with her
parents at Garden City, Kansas.
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The Cemetery Association benefit
which was held at the Christian
Church Friday night, was one of the
best home talent productions ever
staged in this city, and was complete
success financially.
C. r. Walters of the Rich Hill Re
view, has returned home from a va
cation spent in the South, somewhat
improved in health, and reports a
good time in the warmer climate. He
expects to get fully into the harness
at the old stand soon.
Butler Lodge No. 254 A. F. & A.
M. will hold special meetings the
nights of March II, 10, 20, and 2lst
for the purpose Of comforting degrees.
All members are urged to be present,
and visiting Masons cordially invited.
Wesley Denton, Master.
A. H. Culver, Secretary.
Lewis F. Gench and Miss Elizabeth
Bartz were united in marriage at the
home of the brides parents in Prairie
City, Wednesday at high noon alarge
number of friends and relatives be-
ing witnesses to the ceremony. I'm.
mediately after the wedding an ele-
CANT dinner was served to the assem-
bled guests. Rockville Booster.
In another column appears the an
nouncement of Robert L. Braden. who
is candidate for the Democratic
nomination for marshal for the city
of Butler. Mr.. Braden was first ap-
pointed marshal in October 1912 to
fill out the unexpired term of Rolla
Crabb, resigned, and the following
spring was elected for one year.
Marshal Braden is lifelong Demo-
crat and is gentleman of high moral
character. During his service in the
city he has made fearless, faithful
and highly efficient officer.
Allenhurst, the suburban residence
Of c. r. Allen east of this city was
badly damagedFby fire last Wednes-
day night caused by the dropping of
a lighted lamp which broke, the oil
igniting, allowing the flames to spread
rapidly. Mr.. Allen, who is subject
to attacks OF heart trouble sustained
a severe nervous shock and for time
his condition was considered critical,
although he is now rapidly recover
ing. A quantity of the silverware
which was removed from the house
when the fire started is reported
Col. C. E. Robbins, whose fame as
an auctioneer has spread well beyond
the borders of his own state covered
several hundred miles of territory
during the last week. Last Thurs
lay he cried big sale at St. Angus
line, Illinois; on Friday he sold live
'tock in the Kansas City stock yards,
Ind Saturday he cried the regular
Combination sale in Warrensburg,
where 800 horses and mules were
old for $4,000, one pair Of mares .
ringing $780, He is crying a sale in
= Cygne. Kansas, today.
Official notice Of the consolidation /,
i the West Point, Liberty, Center I
nd Amsterdam schools into one /
chool district for the purpose of
an accredited high school ,
within the district has been made.
he vote stood Is for and q against
Consolidation. Directors were elected
> follows. three year term: Paul
logers. Frank ENNIS; two year term,
Z. Thornbrough, F. F. Archer; one
ear Term, w. A. McBurney, C. F.
Ieve Newly elected directors hke .
k1Rge Of al properties and their Z
|lcff4jliQa q Tie inclusive cQnaQli:
l dlslfict win begin July l, 1914 c
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farm. Albert Clark.
Gilt - Butler. Mo-.
A gentleman by the name of Gill
bert wendell his festive way through
the marts of trade in this city Satur-
day evening after banking hours, en-
joying the pastime of autographing
sundry bits of paper for which he in
duced several of our merchants to-
put up the cold cash. Thanks to the.
forehandedness of O. A. Heinlein Of
the Bennett Wheeler Mercantile Co.,
who used the long distance telephone
in acquiring information with regard
to Mr.. Gilbert's alleged bank account
in another city, most of the money
was recovered.
Mrs. Nelson Howell received news
last week through her sister, Mrs
Frank Wilson, of the death of John
E. Clemens, formerly citizen of Hud-
son, where he owned a farm MIR.
Clemens and family have been in CAL
ifornia for number of years and at
the time Of his death was living near
San Diego. His many friends in this
city will read with sorrow the an
Of his death. Appleton
City Journal.
John Shead. who is charged with
the murder Of Constable Sam Queen
ma hrnnght here frnm Kapms Clfx
Tuesday and lodged In jail s
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Presbyterian Church.

Bible school 9:45 a. m. Public wor-
ship HOO. Young Peoples Talk.
''The Terms Of Happiness" Sermon,
1.-THE Peace of Cod"
Junior C. Endeavor 800 p. m.
Senior C. Endeavor 6:3U Public
worship 7:3O. Sermon for thought
full Americans, ''The Sabbath and the
Church and a Patriots Duty"
Monday evening Workers Meeting.
Tuesday evening choir practice.
Wednesday evening the devotional
service of the church.
Everybody cordially invited.
G. H. Ticknor, Minister.
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Farm Hand Wants Work

Experienced hand wants work on
farm. Albert Clark.
Gilt - Butler, Mo-.
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Old sofas, cloth-covered chairs
and all cloth-covered furniture
can be made to look like new by
painting the cloth with hot solu-
ton of PUTNAM FADELEss DYE.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-18
Detecting Taught by Mail.

Perhaps the young man who called at
the police headquarters yesterday and
asked for a job as sleuth on the ground
i correspondence detective school can pat
MS talents 10 good account for the benefit
Of the public by doing IL little effective
Sherlockian work in rounding up the pro-
moteTs of the enterprise which graduated
him. 1t is. of course, more or less the
victims own business when he parts from
his money to buy training by mail in a
is another aspect of the case that de-
manis consideration. 1t is not altogether
i reasSuring thought that amateur de-
tectives are being turned out in quantities
by means of postal pedagogy. In the
case OF the young man who asked to be
appointed Il regular detective on the force
he had been diligently practicing his pre-
friends, and il is easy to foresee en-
barrassmenrs if this sort of thing gets to
be common. If some way could be found
TO set the mail-trained amateur detectives
at work shadowing each other the risk of
Observation-Disclosures and drastic proceed
inss would be minimiZed 1t is under
stood that the matter will be brought to
the attention of the postal authorities so
that Uncle Sam may gently ad1nonish the
managers OF the detective mill that they
are takinS chances with the statutes in
making promises that il is easy to see are
difficult Of fullillment
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Gresham. who for many years had been
on the federal bench and was no poll
tician at all. His first assistant was
Josiah Quincy, Massachusetts, politi-
clan who knew the ropes and how to
separate a republican consul from his
job with ease. The civil service reform
ers. charging that Mr.. Quincy was loot
ing the consular service. complained to
Mr.. Cleveland. but Mr. Quincy was not
separated from his job. When he re-
tired it was Of his own volition.
The Secretary of the Treasury in the
second Cleveland administration was
John G. Carlisle upon whom the Presi-
dent leaned heavily. The Secretary s
chief clerk was his son. Logan Carlisle,
very competent man and thorough
going politician. Civil service reformers
complained that young Carlisle was vio-
lating the spirit of the civil service law
in the Treasury Department. and they
complained to the President. But neither
the elder nor the young Carlisle was mo-
Tested because of the complaint. They
served out their terms.
When lectured as lectured he was, by
the civil service reformers for permitting
such things, Mr.. Cleveland. who at bot
tom was a Thoroughbred New York pol
itician, replied by pointing out the differ
ence-very wide. he thousht-between ad-
vocating civil service reform out of office
and applying it in office. He asked the
reformers with Carl Schurz at their
head. TO put themselves in his place and
see how it was themselves.
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Pedestrians at Crossings.

At q meeting OF the directors OF the
Street Safety Association the suggestion
-as made that signs be painted on curb
ftones at crossing points with tile idea
|nat the thought Of safety could be best
Eept before TIE public in this manner,
perhaps to the end Of directing pedes-
4 ian traffic to use the regular 9. ossinS
places. Much of the complaint of motor
SIS and drivers regarding pedestrian
Earelessaess is based on the fact that
foi1.ps ratively few people. they say, cross
4 he streets at the appointed places. Per
haps the safety signs suggested would
help somewhat, but II may be questioned
neither painting them on the curbs
you'd answer the purpose best. The
most satisfactory method would be to
beet It the street corners poles bearing
Eonsricuousiy painted signs with some
ouch legend as Gross the Street Here"
Bat after all. whether the people are
Earned by paint or placard that the
|;.tersection is the proper place to cross.
ffere Will be no progress toward secur-
It's Until the managers Of vehicles respect
re pedestrians right OF way at the
rossing. II is exceptional, save at street
ben are stationed 10 control the traffic.
or motorists to check their speed at
f;ree; crossings. and the pedestrian takes
his risk there as he takes it elsewhere
l., the street. That fact can be demon
st.ated at any hour of the day at almost
5Ey street crossing In Washington. and
|, may be the cause Of SO many of the
pedestrians precerring to cross III the
fiddle OF the block. where they are not
exposed to round-the-corner turnings as
veil as 10 straieht-away speeding
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Amending the Constitution

After considerably modifying the Cum
Minis proposal of a constitutional amend
ment designed to make easier the process
of changing the Constitution. the Senate
judiciary committee has voted adversely
on the whole proposal The original prop
osition was to make the Constitution
amendable by the action of the state leg
islatures without initiative action by Con-
gress. This was modified first by the
committee SO that whenever the legisIa-
lures IN sixteen states should have adopt
ed an amendatory proposal the President
should then submit ii TO the states, to be
valid when ratified within five years by
two-thirds of the states. either by direct
vote of the people or by the legislatures
The final decision of the committee was
that it is better to leave matters alone
and not to weaken in any way the bar
riers that now interpose between the Con-
stitution and the impulsive desire to eff
feet changes. That the present mode of
amendment is not too difficult to be eff
fective is proved by the two recent amend
ments that have been adopted. that for
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Canadian Settlement Enterprise.

The suggestion that the Canadian
government has been conducting sys-
tematic patent inside" campaign to
lure Americans across the national
boundary opens up an interesting pos
sibility of inquiry. There is no doubt
of the fact that Canada. wants good
American settlers to come over the
border and take up homesteads in the
wide western field. and it would be
course of persuasion has been followed.
But whether, as asserted before the
Senate committee yesterday, this work
has been conducted by means of gov
ernment-written reading notices"
circulated through the rural districts
of the United States is a question we'll
worth inquiry. There is. of course, no
Improperly in Canada's conducting
such a propaganda of exploitation. I'M
less the Dominion government has
been, as is intimated, engaging in I'M
warranted aIlurements to get Ameri7
can settlers who, it is believed, may
later be seriously disappointed and
may suffer heavy losses. If this sort
of thing has been done and the set
tiers have been obtained through mis-
representations, the fact should be made
known as quickly as possible. The
Senate committee obviously has u most
interesting task before it if it under
takes to probe this matter TO the bot
tom.