The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1917-07-12

Mrs. Chas. CRUDE received letter
the first of the week from her
nephew. James Johnson, who recent
ly enlisted in the regular army. He
had been sent to the recruit depot at
Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, where
he says that he is enjoying life. He
expects to be assigned to the coast
artillery. .. w
According to the Nevada Post the
citizens of that town are still hop
ing the Missouri troops will be mob
ilized at the state camp near that
city. The first order from the war
department states that the Four
teenth division, Of which the Missou-
ri troops are part, would be sent to
Waco. Texas, for training. but later
reports have it that they will be
sent to Deming, New Mexico, as soon
as they are called into the United
States service. .
Norfleet & Ream are rebuilding
and remodeling the entire front of
the Public Garage. and when. the
work is completed expect to have
one of the finest and most attractive
automobile show rooms in Western
Missouri. The car entrance to the
garage will be located at the east
end OF the front, the west part of
the front of the building to be used
for show room and office. The
show room will be oox35 feet and
behind this will be a stock room
12x27 and completely equipped
ladies rest room Ska. The front of
the building will be of plate glass
and brick, with Carthage stone trim
mings.
About $3.50 O'Clock Sunday night
Martin Briden, who was guarding the
Missouri Pacific bridge over the
Maras DIES Cygnes river. between this
city and Rich Hill, saw two men
come out of the timber at the south
end of the bridge and approach the
bridge He called to them to halt
and they ran back to the timber.
About an hour later the men again
appeared and upon their refusing to
halt when Mr. Briden called, he fired
a shot at them and they again took
to the brush. Mr. Briden went to
farm house and telephoned Sheriff
Baker at Butler. Sheriff Baker and
Steve Hart went to the bridge but
could find no trace Of the men.
In response to an invitation of the
citizens of Spruce the Butler Com
mercial Club motored out to that up
to-date little burg Thursday night.
and partook of ice cream and cake
and as the Spruce folks never do
anything unless they do it we'll. the
Butler bunch had the time of their
lives. There was ice cream and cake
enough for all and that is saying
great deal when the capacity of some
members of the Club is taken into
consideration Before the Club re-
turned to Butler a branch of the
Bates County Red Cross chapter was
organized. Fl. O. Maxey explained
the great work the Red Cross was
doing and the need for still more
workers and in very few minutes
ten men had contributed one dollar
and signed the application for char
ter.
A very interesting exhibit Of the
work of the Butler Surgical Dress
ings Committee may be seen in the
windows of the Walker building on
| the east side of the square. There
are different kinds of bandages,
trench pillows. ambulance pillows,
various kinds of gauze and absorbent
cotton dressings. besides different
kinds of knit and crochet garments
for the man behind the gun. This is
great work that the ladies are do
ing and will make the life OF the
man in the trenches more bearable
and no doubt viii Save the life OF
many poor chap who, badly wound
ed, is too far from dressing station
to get attention that he should have,
when the dressings sent by the Sur
gical Dressing Committee will be
used The committee meets at the
High School building every Tuesday
and Friday afternoons and every
woman in Butler is urged to come
out and help in this great work and
do her bit" in the great war now
going on in Europe.
County Clerk Frank Holland and
his deputies last week finished up
the work connected with the recent
registration for the draft in Bates
county. They had already made an
alphabetical list of each precinct and
two sets of duplicate registration
cards and there were over 1900 of
them. Then they were ordered to
shuttle the original cards altogether
and renumber them just as they
picked them up. They thought that