The Butler weekly times., 1917-05-24

Editor Ellis of the Amoret Leader
visited in Butler last Saturday
H. 0. Maxey addressed the gradu-
ating class of the Amsterdam High
School last Friday. ---
Mrs. Van Nix is visiting relatives
in Parsons. Kansas. She will be
gone for some time.
B. F. Richards spent the latter
part of last week visiting his sons,
Benjamin and Edward, in Kansas
City.
Emmett Bullock, son of w. J. Bull
lock, left last Saturday to spend the
summer on farm in Wellington,
Kansas.
Six loaded freight cars on the Mo.
Pacific were ditched near Ore early
Saturday morning by broken rail.
Traffic was delayed only few hours.
Miss Dora Smith, the popular
superintendent of teacher training in
the high school, left the latter part
of last week for her home in Liberty,
Mo. ...
z. F. Tuttle arrived the latter
part of last week from Fl. Scott,
Kansas, where he has been attend
ing school. He probably will spend
the summer in Butler.
Mrs. C. F. Pharis has returned
home from an extended visit in San
Antonio. Texas. She was accompan-
led home by her daughter, Mrs.
Grover Hamilton, and children, OF
Beggs, Oklahoma.
Verne, the eldest son of Mr.. and
Mrs. ]. w. Holloway, left Wednesday
morning for Kansas City after visit
with his parents. Verne will soon
leave for Chicago, where he will en-
ter training school to qualify as a
first class yeoman.
Mr.. John +. l.udwick visited in
Kansas City last Sunday with his
daughter, Miss Hazel, who is recov-
ering from an operation for appendi-
citis at the ST. Joseph Hospital. MIR,
Ludwick in forms us that she is get
ting along nicely and soon will be
able to return home.
The annual Round Up and meeting
of the Missouri State Elks Associa-
tion, which was to have been held
in Jefferson City June 1921 has been
indefinitely postponed on account OF
the war, according to information re-
ceived by J. S. Walker. secretary OF
Butler Lodge No. o58 B. P. o. Elks,
from State Secretary w. w. Brown
OF Carrollton.
Rev. and Mrs. r. NJ. Talbert were
delightfully."- surprised at their home on
Pine street Saturday evening by the
Dorcas Circle of the Christian
church, in honor of these two esti-
mable peoples fifteenth wedding an
niversary. The Circle presented them
with twelve ice tea glasses and six
spoons. Besides this they were the
recipients of a beautiful boquet OF
American Beauty roses and numerous
pound packages of table stuff
Mrs. Belva A. B. Lockwood. 50
years old; the only woman who was
ever a candidate for President OF the
United States, the first woman ad-
mitted to practice before the Supreme
Court of the United States, pioneer
in the woman suffrage movement and
the one person to whom women EN-
ployed in the government service are
indebted for the law which gave them
equal pay with men, died in Wash
ington. D. C.. Saturday after long
illness.
Mr.. and Mrs. Percy Tyler and
little son, of Parsons, Kansas. are
visiting at the home of Mr.. Tylers,
Mr.. and Mrs. w. B. Tyler. in the
north part of town. Mr.. Tyler Is
connected with the M. X. & T. rail-
road and informs us that the railroad
men have at last been given the eight
hour working day. The eight hour
day schedule went into effect the
first of the year and as the men have
been working ten hours per day tine
companies will now pay the differ
ence between an eight and ten hour
day which they bave earned since that
time