The Butler weekly times., 1917-11-08

The Butler High School senior:
were entertained by the sophomores
Thursday night at the home of Miss
Wilma Moore, on South Delaware
street The dining room was decor
ated. in black and gold the colors OF
the Seniors. The refreshments were
cider, ginger cake, apples and candy
1t was masquerade affair and ev-
erybody had jolly good time.
w. Il. c. Allen, a geologist in the
employ of the Kansas City Southern
railway. spent several days last week
in the west part of the county look
ing over that territory and taking oil
leases. Hc secured leases on 5000
acres. which he turned over to the
! Kansas City OIL & Producing COM
pany. He reports that the prospects
for oil or gas in that part of the coun-
ty are extremely good.
\ man crossing the street near the
Farmers Bank Monday evening no.
ticed fire in the rooms over the
bank occupied by the Western Union
Telegraph Company. An alarm was
turned in and when the door was
opened it was found that some paper
in the waste basket had in some
manner caught fire. The basket and
paper was thrown out the window
and very little damage was done
The Board of Directors OF the
Bates County Insurance company
held their quarterly meeting in this
city Friday of last week The COM
pany is in a very flourishing condi-.
ton and is now carrying about two
million dollars of insurance in this
county. The directors present at the
Friday meeting were S. l.. Starr, Ed
son Snyder, VIM. Hardinger, J. Fl.
Rabourn. August Fisher. Ira Brown
and G. Hirshi.
w. J. White, Of the Spruce neigh
borhood was in the city one day the
last of the week. Mr. White is a
very successful breeder OF Tamworth
hogs and had brought in two fine
males which he shipped to parties in
Kentucky. While Mr.. White has
done very little advertising the repu
tation of his hogs has reached for
long distances and he frequently has
inquiries from adjoining states con-
cerning his herd.
For some time it had been impos-
sible to raise the flag on the flag
pole in the northeast corner OF the
courthouse. yard on account of the
rope that pulled the flag to the top
being out of the pulley. Finally Fred
Jewett decided that old Glory must
be flung to the breeze when Former
President Taft visited Butler, and /
remembering lesson that he learned /
in the United States navy, rugged
some ropes around the pole and was
soon at the top. His tools were
pulled up and soon. he had the pulley
fixed SO that there will be no more
trouble and unless it be stormy day
the flag will be shown every day.
1t is reported that grounds on
which. the district board at Kansas
City exempted o. n. Eggleson, who
was drawn for the National army
from Bates county. was that he was
and physically unfit for
army service. The local board had
refused young Eggleson's claims for
exemption. He then appealed to the
district board at Kansas City and
when they refused to exempt him he
appealed to President Wilson, who
the action of the two
boards and refused to let him out.
The case was then re-opened by the
district board at Kansas City with ,
he above result.
w. O. Snodgrass, tax collector of
Spruce township, was a pleasant call ,
n at this office Monday. Mr.. Snod-
grass had recently returned from .
camp Funston, where he had visit
ID his brother, Oryilie Snodgrass. ,
Who is a member of the national
lrmy. Mr.. Snodgrass says that the i
Bates county boys are all enjoying
rood health and seem to be well
ared for and seem to be fairly we'll Z
atisfied with soldier life. Mr.. Snod-
.rass says that while army life nay '
'e all right, he don't. care for any of j
t. However, it is . good bet that I
the need for men becomes any '
Ways acute he can be found doing 4
lis bit" somewhere u the army.