The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1914-12-31
Wellington Banker Works Gut
Plan to- Store Grain In
Bins at Track.
SAVES MONEY FOR GROWERS
Lack Of Storage Cost $4,000 Last
Year, But Will Not Be Repeated
Again.

III way VI nOluluS tnelT wheat, Dut
that loss will not be repeated IL q
unique plan proposed by the Farmers
Bank of Wellington is taken advan-
tage OF.
! The Farmers Bank u.s., strangely
enough, all that it's name implies-a
farmers bank. AS farmers bank It
is interested very much in the pros
perity of farmers. Accordingly, when
II. E. Niece, cashier, compiled figures
to show the $4,000 loss, the stock
holders of the bank set about to REM
edy the condition.
A cooperative farmers elevator
was proposed, but the plan Jagged.
Then Mr.. Neece hit on a plan for an
individual elevator for every farmer,
and the plan has been declared to be
practical and promising.
1t grew out of the discussion Of
metal grain bins for each farmer. They
are practical and cheap device for
holding wheat, but when the roads are
bad wheat located on the farm in one
of these has no chance to reach the
market and get the high price.
why not set the grain bins by the
railroad?" asked the cashier.
And that is the new proposition.
Each farmer can set his grain bin be-
side the railroad fill it with wheat
when the roads are good at threshing
time, and sell 1t when the market is
at flood tide. 1t means an individual
elevator for each farmer and the bank
likes the plan so we'll that it will lend
money to the farmer to build the grain
bin and lend him up to per cent of
the value of his wheat to help him
hold it, The plan has attracted the
attention of the state board of agri-
culture and it is predicted that 1t may
go into general practice.
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Hurt on Icy Streets.-Several scores
of persons were injured, many of
them dangerously; more than a score
of horses were killed and traffic was
demOralized in all sections of st.
Louis as the result of the slippery
-
recent sleet storm.
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The "Oidest Reporter" Dead.-Maj.
Charles C. Confer, long known as the
oldest reporter in St. Louis" died of
heart disease at his home there re-
Gently. He was SO years old. He was
IN intimate friend of Mark Twin.
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From Orury to K. U.-Miss Lucille
Brown, teacher in art instruction at
)rury college, has resigned her posi-
ion to become assistant instructor at
he University of Kansas. Her home
S in Lawrence, Kas.
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Charity Day Big success.-One
thousand barrels of flour; tons of other
oodstuffs and thousands OF dollars
'ere contributed to the Missouri ship
Or the relief of European war suffer.
RS by st. Louis alone Decebmer 10.
was Charity day in Missouri by
reclamation of Governor Elliott W.
Iajor, and collections were taken up
/ every urban and rural community.
kilograms from various sections of
lie state indicated the day was
reat success. The st. Louis Belgian
,lief fund committee announced 1t
ad collected $3.50 and twenty-five
rye packing cases of clothing for
lie relief of the Belgian sufferers.
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Falling Window Kills chiId.-Bertha
nechtnhoffer. 10 years old, daughter
Fred Knechtnhoffer. living two
lies west of Amazonia, was killed
hen a window fell on her neck as
lie attempted to climb into the Iig-
IT. school to get book. Her faith
allowing her to alight from the
lggy, went to neighbor's on an
raD1. When he returned half
'ur later the child's body was hang
g by the head from the window.
er neck was broken.
Postmaster Quits.-Giving as his
ason that he could make more mon
in the mining business, Walter
gland, postmaster at Webb City,
s resigned his position to take et-
It Immediately. Mr.. Ragland will
sumo his position with the Eastern
ad and Zinc Company.
1
Fulton Merchant Dies.-John r.
mpkins, 81, merchant of Fulton,
Is found dead In bed the other
'rning. His death is attributed to
art disease. Mr.. Tompkins came to
lton forty.five years ago. He was
of the Elks and Masonic
ges.
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<lllsd Himself Accidentally. -
aile removing loaded revolver
m his pocket, Harry Hart, %, q
rthage grocer. was killed when the
apon was accident ally discharged.
. bullet strcclk Hart In the alb
mem.
- Harvest 0e6lna-Rallroad and
king ce0paAies have begun cot
md shipping lee at Lake Coa-