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The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1916-02-10

concede that he has drawn up q
pretty strong platform on which
to make. his race. He is for pro
gress, for economy, for good
roads and for better rural schools
Any governor of this or any other
state might well spend all his ef-
fnrts during his entire term Of Of.
ficealong these four lines. ''Pro-
gress" is a bit indefinite, of
course, but in his printed platform
Mr.. Roach makes it definite.
Economy is more highly necessary
right now than ever before, de-
spite the fine business condition
of the country and of the state.
And good roads and better rural
should be promoted with
both an eye on economy and on
progress. If Mr.. Roach can con-
vince the voters of the state that
he can and does stand squarely
on his outlined platform he will be
a formidable figure in the eyes of
the other good democrats who are
after the same honor he covets.
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Judge Lamm Leads n lsahai-
can 0ubernatorial Pol.

st. Louis, Feb. 5. Henry Lamm
former Judge Of the state supreme
court, is the leading candidet for
governor, in a>poll being taken by
the st. Louis Globe Democrat
A canvass Of seventy two 81 the
ia counties Of the state has been
made to date. In twenty-seven of
these Lamm is reported to be the
favorite. John E. Swanger was
the choice in eighteen, B. E. u. Nc
Jimsey in three, Henry w. Kiel in
two, John G. Mckinley in, three,
Hugh McIndoe in one and Charles
ID. Morris in four.
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Commercial Club Meeting.

The meeting of the Butler Com.
mercial Club Tuesday night was
one of the most interesting ever
held by the club.
c. c. Rhoades, successor to C.
W. Hess. was elected to member
ship. #...
President DeArmond stated the
object of the meeting and said one
way to better trade conditions in
Butler was to adopt better cred
it system.
Secretary Culver then adj
dressed the club OH the subject of
Good Roads, subject to which
he has devoted a great deal of
study and one upon which he is
well qualified to speak.
I. l.. Beach read an appro.
pirate article from an eastern
trade journal, and urged the men,
bers to get together and showed
what could be done toward get
ting people to spend their money
at home by advertising.
A general discussion followed in
which every member present took
part. Every member present
pledged himself to try and bring
another member to the next open
session. . .
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1400 German Troops informed
by Spaniards.

Madrid, Feb. 6.-Nine hundred
Germans and $4,000 of their Col
onial troops from the German col
ony of Kamerun have crossed the
border into Spanish Guinea, ac-
cording to an official announce
ment made here today. The
troops have been disarmed and in
termed. The Government is TAX
ing measures for their sustenance.
This is taken here to indicate
that the Franco British campaign
in the Kamerun is nearing con-
clusion.
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Hold Senate Reception.

: n : /
Washington, Feb. 4. The presi.
dent and Mrs. Wilson held the
second state reception Of the
White house social season tonight
with Justices of the supreme court
and other members Of the federal
judiciary as guests Of honor.
Members of the cabinet stood in
the blue room with. the president
during the reception, and their
wives assisted Mrs. Wilson.
Nearly 1000 persons, including
besides members of the Judiciary,
many other high government Off
cials, were present.
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North New Home.

Tom Chandler traded his span
of mules to Mr.. Argenbright for a
team of horses one day last week
Bill Dark is chopping wood for
Ike Kelly.
Homer Linendoll and son, AL
bert, hauled coal from Butler last
Tuesday. =
Jack Skaggs sold one of his
horses while in Butler Saturday
Mr.. Gish and family, Jack
Skaggs and family spent Sunday
at Brick McGaughey's.
Homer Linendoll and wife were
the guests of Lewis McKibben
and wife Monday.
Merritt and Orval Pickett hauled
from Fred Ahlfield' s last Friday.
Cliff Ehart and wife and little
daughter, Edith and Milt Reeves
and wife visited at Mr.. Keeton s
Sunday.
Mason Darns and wife are the
proud parents of q fine boy.
Ed Enyard Of Amsterdam Wis
tied at Ike Kelley's from Friday
until Sunday.
Earnest Wainwright is baling
hay for Mason barnes. :,
Mr.. CASTOR is not SO well at this
writing.
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AN ECONOMICAL NECESSITY.

The good housewives in the vi.
entity of Butler who are not read.
ing a county seat paper, and un-
fortunately there are some homes
in Bates county where this is
true, missed many exceptionally
fine bargains offered by about
twenty-five of Buffers leading
merchants on last Saturday and
Monday, who held "Dollar Sales -
on these days. Butler was VERT
able feast of bargains, practically
all lines of business participating
in the business stimulating event
and bills of merchandise worth
from two to ten dollars were sold
for one dollar. Leading dry
goods firms sold at this price
number Of ladies suits and coats.
some valued as high as twenty
five dollars. The newspaper
reading public took advantage of
this opportunity to save, and the
stores participating in the dol
lar sale were crowded with buy
ers eager to purchase at but
fraction the usual price.
But there We're a few families
within the Butler territory who,
unfortunately not taking any
county paper, knew nothing of the
unusual opportunities offered and
consequently could not take ad-
vantage of them, and it is safe to
say that probably every house
hold which failed to take advant-
age of the offerings made, lost
from one to five times the price of
some weekly paper for a year, on
the purchase price of articles of
everyday use.
There is no substitute for the
weekly paper in an agricultural
community. Aside from it's news
columns and it's moral and educa-
tional influence, the weekly paper
is an absolute economical neces-
sity in the home. 1t is as neces-
sary to the household as is the |
daily market report on grain and
live stock. Not a week passes but |
its readers are given through it's
advertising columns the opportun.
ity Of saving from few cents to
many dollars on the purchase of |
household necessities. 1t is the
only practical medium through
which the merchant can reach the
public with quotations of prices,
and the judicious buyer, the one
who secures the most for the least
money, is the buyer who keeps in
close touch with the advertised
prices Of the articles which he or
she may need or desire to pur-
chase. !.
The home paper is not luxury.
1t is an economical investment. No
household can afford to be with
,ut It.
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AN 'TNFANT" INDUSTRY.

The most brazen threat made
against the United States Gov
eminent in recent years was made
Tuesday in the Senate Naval Com
mittee. when the committee was
informed that should a govern
ment armor plate plant be estab-
lished, private armor manufacture
ing concerns would increase the
price to the government 5000 per
ton, or nearly one-half more than
the price the government is now
paying. The present price is now
M25.O0 per ton.
The man who communicated
this threat to the committee was
none other than Boise Penrose,
Senator from Pennsylvania, and
one of the national leaders Of the
standpat faction of the G. O. P,
and it is. indeed fitting that q man
Of the stamp Of Penrose should be
the bearer Of a message Of this sort
from the steel interest. These
same steel industries which are
now great enough to threaten the
Government and to put . prohib-
tive price upon armor sold to the
United States are the same ssin-
FAINT industries 50 which the Repub-
lican bosses Of the Penrose stripe
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Governor Major ST Missouri al
dressed Democratic editors. of In
diana at their annual convention
in Indianapolis Friday. He in
dorsed President Wilson and his
policies.
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Swarens-C asebolt.

Saturday morning E. H. Case
bolt and Miss Goldie Swarens,
two popular young people of Eos
ter, accompanied by Mr.. and Mrs.
j. V. Bell, boarded the Interstate
and went to Mound City, Kas.,
where they were united in mar
riage, says the Rich Hill Review.
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For getting cold feet, Herbert
Mitchell, Bismark hotel, 912 Oak
street, Kansas City, won 81 one
day last week. Mitchell, on a bet,
ran from the hotel to Eleventh
street and return, with bare feet.
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Henry Jost, mayor Of Kansas
City Thursday night Of last week
announced his candidacy for
another term.
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Subscribe for the Kansas City
Post. 100 days one dollar.
Geo. Kersey, Agt.,
it, Butler, Mo.
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For Sale or Trade

One upright piano, in good con
dition, cost $4,000, will sell fol
$4,000. Z
t Mcfarland & Sons.
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You get all the news in the Kan
sas City Post. 100 days, $1.OO.
1t +" Geo. Kersey, Agt.
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@. A. R-Batss Post. No. 50. nesA1
ct the City Hall ON the first 0ature
day in each month 1t : p. n.
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LODGE DIRECTORY.

Knights Of Pythlas-Blue = Flag
lodge, No. 100, meets each Friday
night at Castle Hall on south side -
square. 4#sl
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Confederate Veterans NArmadue
duke Camp. No. e1S. meets at u
call OF the commander. Z
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WooAnen Of TIE WerlA-Napto
Camp meets at the call Of the Sow
erign Commander.
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Mr.. and Ma HI Kosklold and
son, Beverly, ard lelieD Lula,
7gehol a19 Iva Reel kol spenf
IA Sun1 hing the
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Woodman Han. &
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OF Pythias HAIL
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Evening star., 1916-05-03
SOUTHERN MILITARY CAMP
is FORMALLY OPENED
Hundreds of Business and Profes-
sional Men Ready for Enroll
ment at Fort oglethorpe, Ga.

FORT OGLETHORPE, Ca, May g.
Work of training a citizen soldery
began with the formal opening here
today of the southern military camp.
Hundreds of business and professional
men from various parts of the country.
particularly the east and south, were
on hand ready for enrolment.
Lieut.. Col d. W. Ketcham of the
coast artillery is in charge of the camp.
He is being assisted by a large staff
of officers of the regular army in di-
recting the training work.
After enrolment, applicants for mill
tary training were to draw full in
fantry equipment, be assigned to tents
and organized into companies of 150
men each in command of a captain of
the regular army. The men were to
be given their first drill Instructions
late today. One of the first orders
ready for issuance was that forbidding
the use of intoxicating liquors.
officers expressed themselves as
camp from the standpoint of location
and equipment, is the best l have seen
during my twenty years of service. de-
clared Capt. Gordon Johnson. aid of
Mai Gen. Leonard Wood. I'VE expect
it to be an object lesson to every one
participating in the training work,
arousing a stronger interest in prep
arations for national defense"
Evening star., 1916-05-03
Wars Brilliancy Lacking.

Every impression of modern war that
comes to one actually in touch with it
is a destruction of illusion; this thing
is thing of mechanism rather than of
brilliance; perhaps Petain has led
regiment. a brigade. or division to
the charge. You knew instinctively in
seeing the man that you would go or
come. as he said, but there was neither
dash nor fire, nothing of the suggestion
of elan: rather there was the SuggeS-
tion of the commander of a great ocean
liner. the man responsible for the lives,
this time of hundreds of thousands not
scores. for the safety of France, not of
a ship, but the man of machinery and
the master of the wisdom of the tides
and the weather, not the Ney. or the
Murat. not the Napoleon of Arcola. The
impression was of strong man whose
life was a life beaten upon by storms !;
the man on the bridge, to keep to the
rather ridiculously inadequate figure,
but not by any chance the man on
horseback.
My talk. our talk with Petain was the
matter of perhaps five minutes. The
time was consumed by the words of
NJ. lie Roux. who spoke very earnestly
urging that more American correspon-
dents he permitted to visit Nerdun
and Petain heard him patiently, but
said, just nothing.
Evening star., 1916-05-03
Face Held Grim Look.

Once he had greeted US his face set
never changed until he smiled his
word of good wishes a we left Yet |
have since found that apart from one
Circumstance which l shall mention in
a moment, | have remembered those
minutes most clearly of all of my Yer
dun experience. Just as the photograph
does not reveal the face of the man,
the word does not describe the sense of
strength of responsibility, that he
gives.
In a childish sort of way. exactly as
one thinks of war as matter of dash
and color and motion, one thinks of the
French general as the leader of a cav
infantry. And the French soldier of
this war has not been the man of
charge or of dash--not that he has not
charged as well as ever in his history.
a little more bravely, perhaps, for
machine guns are new and something
worse than other wars have had What
the French soldier has done has been
TO stand, to hold, to die not in the on
rush, but on the spot.
And Petain in some curious way has
fixed in my mind the impression of the
or perhaps better of the French SOL
dier of today, whether he wear the
stars of the general or undecorated
horizon" blue of the Poilu. The look
that / saw in his eyes, the calm, steady,
utterly emotionless looking straight
forward | saw everywhere at the front
and at the back of the front 1t en-
bodied for me an enduring impression
of the spirit and the poise of the
Evening star., 1916-05-03
FREIGHT JAM ON PIERS
AS RESULT OF STRIKE
Fifty Steamers Unable to Reach
Wharves, $50 Tugboats Tied Up
by New York Walk-out.

NEW YORK. May 3-Steamship piers
piled high with freight which cannot
be moved. and fifty steamers lie at anchor
in the harbor today. unable to reach the
wharves because of the strike of marine
engineers. which has tied up $50 tug
boats. composing about IS per cent of the
craft engaged in such service in New
York harbor
The only relief on this the third day of
the te-up was afforded by the action by
some of the railroad companies in ac-
cedng to the demands of the engineers
Among them was the Lehgh Valley rail-
road whose tugs are in operation today.
together with those of the New York Cen
trail and New York. New Haven and
Hartford roads. Owners of about thirty
other tugboats also have yielded to the
demands of the men. Other companies
declined to pay the increase in wages
With the expected arrival today of the
steamships Tucania- Espagne. United
States and many steamers from Central
American and coastwise ports a further
increase of the congestion of freight is
foreseen.
strikes of longshoremen at some of the
piers and by the intination that gen
eral strike of 10000 longshoremen might
be called to support that of the en-
gineers.
Evening star., 1916-05-03
HOW FRENCH AND GERMANS
ARE STRUGGLING AT VERDUN
Frank H. Simonds Writes of Greatest and
Most Prolonged Battle in
Worlds History.

clearly and slowly, with incisive dis
tinctness, the formal words of French
greeting; he spoke no English IN
stantly there was the suggestion OF
Kitchener, not of Kitchener as YOU see
him in flesh, but in photographs, the
same coldness, decision. The smile that
accompanied the words of welcome van :
lshed, and the face was utterly notioii-
less. eXpreSsionless. You saw tan
broad -shouldered man. with every APP
pearance of physical strength, clear
blue eye, looking straightforward ana
beyond.
NV French companion. NJ. lie Roux,
spoke with Petain. He had Just come
from Joffre and he told AN interesting
circumstance. Petain listened. He
said now and then yes or no. Noth'
ing more. Watching him narrowly you
saw that occasionally his eyes tWItched
a little, the single sign of fatigue that
the long strain of weeks of responsi-
bi1ity had brought.
1t was hard to believe, looking at TINS
quiet. calm, silent man, that you were
in the presence of the soldier who had
won the battle of Champagne, the man
whom the war had surprised in the last
rather than a soldier, a professor like
Foch.
No one of Napoleon's marshals had
commanded as many men as obeyed
this Frenchman, who was as lacking IN
the distinction of military circumstance
as our own Grant. Napoleon had won
all his famous victories with far fewer
troops than directed from the
telephone on the table wonder.
Evening star., 1916-05-03
Why

The Sky is not ablaze with light at
night with the radiance of billions
of suns? do you know?l
The First National Census was
taken? 1t was in America and for
peculiar reason.)
The Human Race is believed to have
existed on earth for, perhaps,
hundred thousand years or more?
Coal in large quantities is found
within the Arctic Circle, although
the coal plants indicate warm
climate?
Storms can often be predicted
several days in advance, and why
an "easterly" storm really comes
from the west?
A Swamp may sometimes be drained
by blowing a single small hole
almost anywhere in its depths
Glass Disks can be so shaped as to
make telescopes and microscopes?
Qt is very interesting study
Electricity cannot be transported
long distances profitably, SO that
all the machinery in the world
could be turned by waterfalls?
Evening star., 1916-05-03
CLEANUP CRUSADE
FINANCIAL BENEFIT
A. H. McGhan Notes Outlay OF
$4,000 in Wages Alone
as Result.
SPEAKS IN HIGH PRAISE
OF STAR ESSAY CONTEST
Campaign About Completed, With
Betterment of Conditions Mani
fest Throughout the District.

That the clean-up-paint-up campaign
now in its third week, has placed in
circulation at least $4,000 an this
city was the assertion of A. H. Nc
Chan, chairman of the clean-up-paint-
up committee of the Master House
Painters and Decorators Association,
at the April meeting of the organi-
zation last night. This amount, chair
man McGhan stated, has already been
paid in wages to painters and 'tP per-
sons employed in the cleanup work
in the District, and to dealers and
others for materials.
Mr.. McGhan stated in his report that
the 1916 campaign has surpassed the
one of year ago, in its general
Evening star., 1916-05-03

character, in the number of persons
and organizations cooperating, in the
tested. Mr.. McGhan spoke in high
praise of The Stars prize essay con-
test. saying that the contest had in
terested many hundreds of District resi-
dents. schoolboys and girls as well
as grown-ups. and that its educational
effects would be noticeable in the Ma
tional Capital for many years to come
Improved Industrial Conditions.
Improved conditions in the painting
industry. he said, were such that at
the present time few, if any. painters
were unemployed. and even these, he
said, were waiting for property own
ers to give the word for them to start
on work that has been contracted for.
Reports that come to The Star from
every part of the District are all to the
effect that the cleanup work is practi-
cally completed, and that few places re-
main to receive the attention of clean
up squads. Officials and employees OF
the District health department say the
city is in cleaner and more sanitary
condition now than it has been for
many years. if, indeed, it has ever be-
fore received such a thorough clean
ing, sweeping. raking, scrubblng ana
general policing" toruse military
term
Correspondents of The Star have
asked in the last few days that the
names of prize winners in the great es-
say contest. with the awards, be pub
liShed in these columns. The complete
list appeared in The Star last Friday,
April 2S. and will not be printed again.
The essay written by Miss Mary Cecil.
which was awarded the first prize of
S25 by unanimous decision of the three
judges of the contest, is to appear in
The Star Friday. The winning essay
also is to be published in half dozen
or more publications devoted to the in
terests of the painting industry. a well
as in periodicals having to do with
sanitation and hygiene. requests for
permission to reprint it having been
received from more than a dozen pub
lications in various parts of the United
States.
Checks to the Winners.
Checks for the cash prizes will be
Evening star., 1916-05-03

mailed to the forty-two winners in the
contest within few days. Persons re-
ceivinty one-dollar prizes. thirty-f1ve In
all, also will receive from Penning-
ton &. Taylor substantial household
stepladders. that firm having offered
the stepladders as additional prizes for
essays awarded the small prizes in The
Stars contest.
Evening star., 1916-05-03
CAN YOU ANSWER YOUR
CHILDREN'S QUESTIONS? :?

great Frenchman once SAID:
The measure of mans intelligence is his curosity.
Great inventive geniuses like Calico Newton, Fara-
day, Lord Kelvin, Edison, Graham Bell all had
simply consuming desire to KNOW THlNGS
The average American Indian had very little curiosity about
things Even when they majestic specaces like the Grand
Canyon of the Colorado they uttered exclamaons of adm
ration asonshment and turned away without interest
The Tasmanians who the lowest of men ever
found devoid of curiosity They extinct But there
millions and millions of living people very much like them
CLEVER CHILDREN HAVE AN INFINITE CURIOSITY.
Dull children have little All fathers and mothers like to be
able to answer their chldrens questions if they
q But sometimes it is hard You can't know everything
But what you do is to splendid set of books that
do know practically everything that million
questions and tell you about literally millions of things.
There is only incomparabe work of this kind That is
the Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica the
cosest set of books and the greatest work of reference
produced.
Do you know how easy it is to get
it. just now? And how cheap?
Evening star., 1916-05-03
Headquarters for Verdun.

We were at headquarters. From this
little building, affected for perhaps a
century to the business of governing
the commune of Souilly. with its scant
thousand people, Petain was defending
Nerdun and the fate of an army of
100000 men at the least. In the up
had once debated parochial questions.
Joffre and Castelnau and Petain in the
terrible days of the opening conflict
had consulted, argued. decided the fate
of France. so the Germans had said,
for they had made the fall of Verdun
the assurance of French collapse.
Cnconsciously, too. you felt the
change in the character of the popula-
tion of this village. There were still
the soldiers, the eternal gray-blue uni
forms, but there were also men of a
different type, men of authority. In
the street your guides pointed out to
you Gen. Herr, the man who had de-
signed and planned and accomplished
the miracle of the motor transport that
had saved Verdun-with the aid of the
brave men fighting somewhere not far
beyond the nearest hills He had COM
Inanded at Nerdun when the attack
came and without hesitation he had
turned over his command to Petain,
his junior in service and rank before
me war. given up the glory and become
the superintendent of transport. Men
spoke to you of the fine loyalty of that
action with unconcealed admiration.