The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1917-05-31

~ minutes to pres
time and nothing
ready for you. Fac
is IN some pressed for time and car
hardly think of what | was going te
tell you. Anyway a fellow asked M,
once what one should do who wa.
troubled witt, too much appetite ant
said, says |, 1.-TWO remedies sugges
themselves at once, first amputate l..
OF said appetite: secondly, go into 6
meat market and ask the price OF
sirloln chuck. and when you learn the
price, III bet white oak Shawn
'agin that bunch of spinach on yer
chin that you won't be pestercd with
too much appetite Eat least for meat
Having moved from where | now
live | 'opine' that am as likely to
be found in one place as two-of one
thing YOU may be sure-the latch
string OF my bungalow at 10 south
Delaware St, is on the outside and
my friends and some time customers
are invited to pull the string and
come i'll. ] will be about the place
somewhere p,llin weeds, sawin
wood or dom some burned fool
stunt subject to the orders of Mrs.
Sunny Jim,
| notice that a good impression
was made on the much touted Jeffer-
son Highway tourists. uh-huh. Also
and much more to the point the said
'toorists made a good impression on
the said J. H.. at least it seemed so
to one who passed over it next day.
The world uses more than $2o,ooo.-
600 worth OF buttons yearly. Quite
some buttons, and that don't include
the 'buttns' we sometimes get from
the goat either.
'Tother day | foolishly (or fools
rush in where an angel is afraid to
go) accepted an invitation to witness
tand take part in) an indoor sport
known to most Of you as the national
game OF baseball compared to which
the German trenches or the firing
line is tame. They asked ME to pitch,
said it was the safest place. The
first ball ! pitched was at once re-
turned (from the bat) and hit me on
my head Didn't hurt me, but the
ball was ruined The only safe place
in the hall was under the stove and |
tthere wasn't mo- stove). Meo No,
no, never again, draft ME, conscript
or take me dead or alive, but let me
go where there's less danger and a |
man can die quickly and not get |
bunged up so.
1t is reported that the Allies have
broken the enemies front Now if |
they can succeed in cutting off his |
rear seems to me they have some
chance to win. (How about it?)
| stopped at The Times office last
week for a chat with the push and |
say, believe me Cor not) for a minute
didn't know where I was at. First
thought | was in boiler factory
md that dozen riveting hammers
we're workin' overtime. Beno was
,layn' Yankee Doodle" on his Lin
type; Bob was hollerin' like he had
/ pain some place that he couldn't
each; printers devils were runnin'
,ere. there and other places. and the
boss, we'll he looked worried I
'aid. "Hello, R. D." He yelled
Write 'er down" "Meann'," said
. Anything you say" he says.
may be used in evidence agin you"
saw at once something was wrong
With his upper works and knowing
here was nothing could do to al
eviate his sufferin' or calm his dis
ordered mind I gently withdrew and
eft him alone with his worry.
Quite bit of interest is being dis
'layed in this vicinity in regard to
eating 1t seems to me
IS not necessary to urge the people
o refrain from eatin'. Prohibitive
rices will regulate that Correct the
rices.- It's the price (rather than
What we eat that upsets our Stun
hicks
Now Pos may sing of the beau-
les OF spring and hike for the old
wimmin' hole. For winter is past,
is summer Cat last) and Butler has
ot a flag pole Now bring OIL the ,
lag. the starry old rag, let its stars ,
nd its stripes sweep the sky. Till
ach mothers son has grabbed his
Id gun and has hiked for the front ,
n the high
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