The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1917-09-13

Annually. Just back 81 them is tn.
Home Produce Company, manufac
turers Of ice, butter and ice cream
and shippers Of poultry, eggs anu
hides. In the last twelve months this
concern has shipped from Butler a
million pounds Of poultry and 10000
eggs. Eggs, you know, are a great
brain food; SO that through the op-
erations of this concern Butler has
come to be q great educational CEN
| ter. From here we will visit the mill.
Butler, like most towns, has mill.
But ours is no common mill. 1t is
an immense mill, equipped with the
best modern machinery. 1t puts ont
$4,000 barrels of flour and 5000 bar
rels of coarse stuff annually, doing
an annual business of about $780,
ooo
II have not the time to take you
through the homes of Butler; but the
town is filled with beautiful homes,
in which live happy and contented
people. But let US get in one OF
those 1900 automobiles and drive first
to Adrian, 10 miles north; beautiful
and prosperous town of 1900 people.
Then to Merwin in the northwest
corner of the county, small town
surrounded by rich farming section
thence south to Amsterdam, fine
farming and mining town, just re-
building after devastating fire;
thence to Amoret, town newly re-
built after fire. Then on to Hume,
beautiful little city in the south
west corner of the county; thence to
Rich Hill, city about the size of
Butler, surrounded by a rich agri-
cultural and mining territory; thence
to Rockville, OH the Katy in the
southeast corner Of the county, very
prosperous community. And then l
want to take YOU to Prairie City, a
little inland settlement OF German
people. They have two stores, a
! cheese factory, a Lutheran church, a
school house and beautiful park,
and a great people. ! hear some
times about disloyalty on the part OF
German Americans. But | want to
tell you that there are NO more
American Americans in America than
the Germans of Prairie City in Bates
County. They are even naming their
babies. Lloyd George.
From Prairie City we will drive
north and west, crossing the main
ditch and some laterals OF the Bates
County Drainage District. This pro-
ject has been put through at cost
Of 100000 to drain $4,000 acres OF
bottom land along the Marias des
Cygnes river. The main ditch is Is
miles long. 1t was dug that long
and IL feet deep without striking
rock, except at the extreme lower
end. And the soil at the bottom of
the ditch is just as black as at the
top. But let's hasten on, for we have
not time to visit all OF Bates county,
SO | wish to take you where you can
see large portion of it at once. Six
miles north of Butler and then west
until we come to large hill; a verit-
able young mountain. When VIC
arrive at the summit of that hill, you
can look to the west, the southwest.
the south, the southeast, the east |
and the northeast, for miles and miles
and miles, across one OF tie most
beautiful panamoras that God ever
laid out to delight the eyes of men.
There it is, wonderful landscape,
:heckered with fields OF green and
yellow, traversed by lines of timber
llong winding streams. And if you
rave field glasses, you can see in the
pastures thousands of head of the
inest cattle. sheep and hogs to be
ound in the country. There, gentle
men, in one broad glance you catch
he vision of how the world is fed.
Gentlemen, l tell you these
hings because they are things you
'ught to know about a section within
our trade territory; and past obser-
alton indicates that you can never
earn of them through the columns
# your newspapers. Sometimes we
eel that you keep your faces turned
lways to the west. That you sit out I
n your municipal front porch, so to +,
peak, looking out over the lawn that I
xtends westward toward the setting
I'm. When, as we all know, the real t
arden spots are always to be found s
t the rear of the house. trust you I
lay come again to visit this garden +
pot which does and can do much to :
lake Kansas City great, and to feed t
re world" 2