The Butler weekly times., 1917-10-25
COMMERCIAL CLUB
MEETING
Much Business Transacted at Meet
ing at The Inn.

ing At me AM.
The Butler Commercial Club met
at The Inn on Monday evening for
the regular semi monthly meeting
with as members present, and trans
acted considerable business of i'm
portance to the Club as we'll as to
the community at large.
A letter from Harold S. Butter
helm, director of the national cam
paign for the War Camp Community
Recreation Fund, was read, and on
motion the president was instructed
to appoint a committe OF three to
, take up the matter and organize
teams for the soliciting of funds for
the activity. The quota assigned to
Butler for this fund is $32o, and in
view of the fact that Butler has fur
nished whole company to the army,
as we'll as a large number of boys to
the navy and other branches of the
national service, it was thought that
we should experience little trouble III
raising our quota.
W.. H. "Coin" Harvey, president of
the Ozarks Trail Association, noti-
fled the Club that he would be in But
Ter on Friday evening, November 2,
and asked that some. one familiar
with the road and road conditions in
Bates county meet him at Spruce or
some other point east of Butler on
the afternoon of that day. The mat
ter was referred to w. +. Duvall,
chairman of the good roads commit
tee. Mr.. Harvey and others will
make tour over parts of Southeast
Kansas and Southwest Missouri the
latter part of October and the first
of November and will reach Butler
on Friday afternoon, November 2.
An invitation was extended to Hon.
Sam A. Clark of Carrollton, Missouri,
Western representative Of the Ma
tional Industrial Conservation Move
ment, to be the guest of the Club at
the annual banquet to be held on the
second Tuesday evening in January
1918.
Several communications, from the
Clover Button Company of Musca-
tine, Iowa, were read and ordered
placed on file, and the proposition OF
the company for the establishment 'of
a factory in Butler was discussed at
some length. The proposition of the
company was referred to the COM
mittee on manufactures. with in
structions to correspond with the
button company at once.
The question of arranging for the
entertainment of former President
w. H. Taft on the occasion of his
visit to this city on October s. was
discussed and a committee consisting
of DR.. T. w. Arnold. Major F. H.
>Crowell and A. II. Culver were ap-
pointed to assist the regular enter
tainment and reception committee in
any sort of an entertainment that the
committee saw fit
The committee having in charge
the matter of the county band contest
on the afternoon of Monday, Novem-
Der S, reported progress, with five
bands already entered. Money
enough to pay all prizes and all ex-
penses had been collected.
Several letters from Congressman
c. c. Dickinson, concerning the pro-
tests of the Club in regard to the in
ferior quality of material going into
the new postoffice building were read
and ordered placed on file. Mr..
Dickinson stated that he had filed the
protests of the Club with the Super
vising Architect of the Treasury at
Washington City. .
n Fred l. Glenn of the North Side
Variety Store, w. Fl: Charters of
Charteroak Stock Farm and w. c.
Staver, superintendent of the con-
struction of the new postoffice build
ing, were elected members of the
Club. =.
f. B. Silvcrs made statement to
the Club in regard to the status of
the case pending againt the Missouri
Pacific Railway Company before the
State Board of Public Utilities for a
change in time of trains, rehearing
of which is to be held at Jefferson
City October 26. He said that he had
no personal interest in the matter.
but was willing to go to Jefferson
City and attend the hearing if it was
the desire of the Club. On motion he
was instructed to appear before the
Board.
Major F. H. Crowell. representing
the Home Produce Company, stated
that il was the desire of his company
to establish cheese factory in But
Ter if they could secure the moral sup
port OF the Club. They did not ask
a bonus of any kind, but did want all
the help the Club could give them.
He stated that there are only four
cheese factories in the entire state OF
Missouri and that two of them are
located in Bates county. One is at
Prairie City, the Oldest in the state,
and one at Adrian, the youngest.
The Prairie City factory is using S.
Goo pounds of milk day and the
Adrian factory $500 pounds. The
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