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Connecticut western news., 1917-05-17

he is under twenty years of sge. The examination is strictly competitive and the best man wins. No appointment from Congressmen is required and influence, political or otherwise, is of no help. Each boy stands on his own merits. The scope of the entrance examination is about equal to high school education. It is not necessary that boy have high school educa. tion, however, as schools are msin- tained on all ships and stations where officers are detailed as tutors and where boys are prepared for examination,
 This is much surer way of entering Annapolis than trying to secure an appointment from civil life. It will be borne in mind that of all the men of the Navy only about four thousand are of the proper age (under twenty which means that cue out of every four hundred will secure the appointment. Also the vast majority of those tour hundred have had no high school work, probably only a grammar school educa
 tion, SO 1t can be seen that boy with some high school work who is studious and ambitious. has an excellent chance of securing this appointment. This chance can be more readily realized
Connecticut western news., 1917-05-17
SOME CROPS WORTH GROWING
 THIS YEAR.

This is time for sane farming. The food supplies of this and other nations are lower than at any time for a generation. Many men are withdrawn from food production in the countries now lighting and we expect to have a large army by fall. Winter wheat has winter killed badly in the Central States. What crops then offer the greatest possibilities from the stand points of production, economy of labor and certainty of a crop?
 So much is being said and written of potatoes and garden crops that we are apt to overlook some other equally valuable crops that can be produced in fair quantity with little or no increase in equipment and at tHe same time be sdre of war time price.
 Every farmer is equipped to grow corn and needs no instru ction. A slight increase in the acreage of each farm would add many tons of food to the supply, and good food too. Corn meal formerly made up good share of our diet. 1t is wholesome, nutri. .ious and palatable. Hominy is another
Connecticut western news., 1917-05-17
CHANGE IN NAVY FOR YOUNG
 MEN.

In recent legislation Congress has authorized the appointment Of one hundred enlisted men to the Naval Academy at Annapolis each year where they will be trained as officers. This is wonderful opportunity for young Americans who have the persssary mental and physical qualifications and age, and is published for the informa- tion of the young men as we'll as parents.
 To secure this prize it is necessary that young men enlist in the United States Navy and serve one year as an enlisted man; he then becomes eligible to apply for the examination, provided
Connecticut western news., 1917-05-17
excellent form of corn.

The only difficulty is to find good seed of strains that will mature in the severaLparts of the state. The Experi- ment Stations can help on this point Why not grow some corn?
 Saturday night without beans is like a wedding without the groom. Many oi our fields that yield poorly of other crops will produce beans fairly we'll. We can at least grow enough for our own use. Then let's do it.
 Again the seed production is serious, and again the Storrs Station will en. deavor to furnish information regard iug sources of seed.
 Connecticut annually imports Buck wheat flour. The crop is easily grown, does not require very fertile soil and does not entail great deal of labor.
 I hn JapancSe type is ,fy5ably tha best for all roand use.
 i Many owners of land have tnouired i concerning the possibilities of Spring l Wheat. It will grow in Connecticut but does not yield as we'll as Winter Wheat. Nevertheless, it may be we'll for poul- trymen to put in small piece under 1 the circumstances. Sow as early as l possible, in the same way as cats, using
Connecticut western news., 1917-05-17
A BUSINESS MANS PRAYER.

Teach me that 50 minutes make an hour, 16 ounces one pound, and 100 cents one dollar. Help me to live so that can lie down at night with 8 clear conscience, without gun under my pillow, and unhaunted by the faces of those to whom have brought pain.
 Grant that I may earn my mea ticket on the square, and that in earn ing it may not stick the gaff where it does not belong.
 Deafen me to the jingle of tair ted money and the rustic of unholy skirts. Blind me to the faults of the other fellows. but reveal to me mine own.
 Guide me so that each night when look across the dinuer table at my wife, who has been blessing tn me, l will have nothing to conceal. Keep me young enough to laugh with my children.
 And when come the smell of flowers. and the tread of soft steps, and the srunehing of wheels ont in front, make the ceremony short and the epitaph simple 'Here Lies Man. ''
 New England Pilot.
Connecticut western news., 1917-05-17
THE HOME PAPER A LABOR
 SAVER.

Did you ever stop to think what great labor saver the home paper is as a means of communication with absent friends? Write to me often", is the last command the one breaking away from home ties so often gives to tho@e left behind. In the rush and hurry of every day very few people nowadays have time to devote to correspondence of the leisurely kind the people of other days kept up with such unvary. ing punctuality. And here is where the same paper saves a world of trouble. It is better than letter, too, for it contains much that letter would not.
 Items of interest are in it that the writer of letter might not know or overlook. It is wonderful how eagerly one devours home paper when stranger in strange land. Woodbury Reporter.
Connecticut western news., 1917-05-17

two bushels of seed per acre. The Fife variety is good and most easily obtained. Don't expect too much from spring Wheat. This is not Spring Wheat climate. Corn will produce over twice as much food. Also, we have practi. cally no flour mills in Connecticut. Corn can be ground at any grist mill.
 Prof. W. L. Slate,
 Agronomy Department. c. A. O..
Connecticut western news., 1917-05-17

when it is remembered that before this legislation only about two hundred and fifty year entered Annapolis from the entire United States which includes millions of American youths.
Connecticut western news., 1917-05-17
Bridesmaids and Gradu- ation Dresses Are Calling
 for White Silks

EVERY FASHIONABLE KIN D PRESENTED
 We were never more ready and anxious to sell you the right kind, at the right price than we are today Our stocks were never better able to suit particular people. Our prices compare very favorably with many in the larger cities. We know the savings in our prices will average 9 per cent. less So make your plans to purchase a dress from our bounteous stocks.
 JAPANESE CREPE TAFFETA, 40 inch, a soft
 crepe material Very Special at. $2.5O yd JAPANESE CREPE-DE-CHINE, in three
 qualities, 40 inch. Very Special at $1.25,
 $1.5O and $1,75 yd.
Connecticut western news., 1917-05-17

PURE SILK CHIFFONS, 40 inch, all colors, in- cluding Black and White, considered good value at $1.25 Special at at............$ $1 co 36 INCH CHIFFON at. $1 50 yd. 1000 yards in all It's pure dye, good quality new coors and changeabIe effects Regular $1.75 quality
 36 INCH BLACK DlESSALINE, in a splendid wearing quality, good value at S1.75 yard. Special price. e.....................$ $l. .59 yd. EMPRESS SATIN, 36 inch, a new satin with heavy satin face, splendid for gowns, all colors Todays value $2.OO Special at. ..$1.5o yd 2,OOO YARDS FANCY MESSALINES AND TAFFETAS in Stripes and Plaids, the seasons newest silks. Todays value from $20O to $2.5O. Special at. $1.5O, $1.75, $1.98 yd. 2e INCH SATIN MEsSALINES in every want ed shade, for street and evening wear. $1.00 values. Special at........... ..... 89c yd. SHANTUNG PONGEE, B and 36 inch hand woven and pure silk. Special at $1.10 and $1.39 yd.
Connecticut western news., 1917-05-17
We Are Making a Notable Fash ion Sale in the Extraordinary -. Clearance Sale of
 100 NEW SPRING SUITS .., At 23.5O

We have been cleaning house so to speak, and find we have a few odd garments that had been lost sight of during the early spring busi- ness. Such as broken sizes in Suits and Coats, all part of our regular stock of high grade gar ments which we have decided to dispose of quickly, hence drastic reductions. The values to be secured at this time make the sale almost as important an event as our semi-an- nual Bargain Day, but with this difference you are getting these bargains at the Beginning in- stead of the end of the season. Our sizes ruin from l6 46, with good assortment of the larger sizes.
Connecticut western news., 1917-05-17

500 YARDS 40 INCH SATIN CHARMEUSE at 98 yd
 In beautiful quality pure dye, in all the new coors. Our regular $2.5O quality.
 BEAUTIFUL CREPE-DE-CHINE,-P silk Crepe-de- Chine. 40 inches wide, fine heavy weight in all the new shades with plenty of White and Black. A regular $2.00 quality for... $1.75 yd PURE SILK CREPE-DE-CHINE, 40 inches wide, in good shades, also Black and White Our SITS value at. ........ DO yd. EXTRA QUALITY CREPE METEOR, 40 inches wide, in good variety of colors. Our $2.5O value at. t....................S OO yd. GEORGETTE CREPE, all silk, all the wanted colors, 40 inches wide. A regular $2.OO value for. .$175 yd. SPECIAL VALUE IN JAPANE>SE GEORGETTE CREPE, White only, that good wearing quality that the Japs know how to weave at. $200 and $2 25 yd
Connecticut western news., 1917-05-17
Our Annual Spring Sale of Rugs at 10I6
 Prices

We don't believe that we need to tell any woman that we have right in our rug department
 An Extraordinary Large Stock of Rugs The majority were purchased for fall delivery but the makers needed the room for others in process of making. Under circumstances pe- culiar to this season, we are able to offer you These New Fall Rugs Now.
 Many will refurnsh summer homes in town at the lake, or shore; from this grand assort- ment All rugs are 9x12. Prices $l350 to $60.00.
 The color combinations are endless, as we'll as prices from the grass rugs to those beautiful . Art Loom Wiltons.
The Butler weekly times., 1917-10-18
Wars Fatalities.

There is a very erroneous idea iii
the popular mind as to the actual
number OF men killed in the present
war. The facts are that only one in
twenty of those actually engaged il
the fighting have been killed. while
in the case OF those Canadian regi-
ments which suffered so heavily III
the earlier part OF the war, one man
in seven was killed.
On the other hand. owing to the
military requirements as to hygiene
and the outdoor life. the general
health of the men engaged in actual
war seems to be much higher than
normal. Ii the statistics of those
killed each year in industrial pursuits
BY railroads. etc. were placed along
side the number of men killed in war,
it would look almost as safe to go to
war as to stay at home. In war, how
ever. the killing is done all in lump
and in one spot with the notice OF
the whole world called to it. Those
whose SONS, brothers and husbands
are called to war may take comfor.
in the fact that even in this, the most
frightful of all wars in history. but
one out of twenty is being killed.
The Butler weekly times., 1917-10-18
Ozark Pictures Wanted.

An exhibit OF Ozark pictures IS b."
ing arranged for display at the An
nual meeting of the American Civic
Association which will be held at the
Planters Hotel in ST. Louis during
the last week in October and those
in charge of this exhibit are anxious
to get unusually good pictures Of
these mid-continent mountains. Al
ready very valuable exhibit has been
collected but if any OF onr readers
have in their possession or have
knowledge of any unusually good
pictures of the OZarks, they are re
quested to correspond at once with
]. w. Booth. Advertising manager
Missouri Pacific Railroad. Railway
Exchange Building. St. Louis.
The greatest possible care will be
taken of all pictures during the ex-
hibit and they will be carefully re
turned The name and address q
the owner should be shown on the
back.
The Butler weekly times., 1917-10-18
Mt. Carmel News.

MIR. and Mrs. J. c. Welliver and
daughter, Audry. and son, Carl, lett
Monday for an overland trip to CO..
i,yville. Kansas. to spend week
With Mrs. Welliver's father and other
relatives. Mrs. Welliver's father is
81 years old and is getting very
>fceble.
Mrs. lake Baum OF near Passaic
visited over Sunday with her father
r, W. McCann and family, and at
tended the meetings at Virginia Sun
day.
Mrs. W. Y. Osborne oi Butler spent
from Wednesday until Saturday with
her son, w. L. Osborne and family.
Several from our neighborhood a
tended the funeral of Mrs. Roy Burh
in Butler. Sunday.
w. F. Osborne and family spen
Sunday with his parents. Mr.. an
Mrs. w. Y. Osborne and family IL
Butler.
l. +. +. Burk commenced filling h"
silo Tue sday noon.
Malone brothers threshed for Jes
Fleming Tuesday.
NJ orton Jackson and family of wal
Street. Kansas. came over the last "
the week to attend the funeral of Mrs
Roy Burk.
/ Everett Drysdale WAS on the com
planning list the last 'oi the week.
UNCLE HENRY.
The Butler weekly times., 1917-10-18
MIsSOURI'S BIG CORN CROP
A Record Harvest, Double Last
Years-Big Increase in Wheat
Area.

Jefferson City. Oct. 1.-THE
monthly crop bulletin issued today
by the state board of agriculture
through its secretary. Jewell Mayes,
indicates greatly improved agricul-
tural conditions over the state since.
the last report The total yield of
corn is the largest on record, 2Sl
million bushels. and double last year.
The present selling prices range from
$I.o7 to SII5 a -bushel Eighty-fo:r
per cent OF the corn is safe from
frost. The acreage OF corn is 7.ooo.-
900 and the average yield of the state
is 80 bushels to the acre. one bushel
more than the estimate a month ago.
Half of the wheat crop of the Sta:e
was planted October l. The acreage
may reach 400 900 acres. 80 per cent
more than last year, the report says.
The conditions are good.
The apple crop is $50 per cent OF
a full yield The estimate is e.I22.-
900 barrels.
Farm labor is reported to he ver.f
scarce in all sections of the state.
Agricultural conditions all over the
state stand high.
The Butler weekly times., 1917-10-18
Executors Notice.

Notice. is hereby given, that letters
testamentary upon the estate of W.
y. Hardinger, deceased, have been
granted to the undersigned by the
Probate Court OF Bates County, Mis-
souri,, bearing date the 25th day OF
September, 1917.
All persons having claims against
said estate are required to exhibit
them to the undersigned for allow
ance within six months after the date
of said letters, or they may be pre-
cluded from any benefit OF such es-
tate: and if such claims be not ex-
hibited within one year from the date
OF granting said letters, they shall
he forever barred
Witness my signature this 25th day
OF September, 1917.
WILLIE NJ. HARDlNCER,
(SeaD Executor.
(.Attest) CARL J. HENRY.
at Judge of Probate.
The Butler weekly times., 1917-10-18
A PLOT TO POISON AvIAroRs
Student In an Eastern Air Camp Had
Two Pounds Of Cyanide.

Princeton, N. J., Oct. H.-What
army officers in charge of the avia-
ton camp here believe may have been
a plot for the poisoning of aviation
students at this and other camps has
been uncovered, it leaked ont TODAY.
Samuel o. Livingood, 24-year-o'd
private, GAINESVILLE. O., is held at
Governors Island, New York, for
court-maftial ia connection with the
case
Two pounds of cyanide of potas-
sium-enough to poison all the SIX
hundred men enrolled in the camp
here-were found IN Livingoods S
room. Military authorities refuse to
discuss details of the case and it is
not known just what definite ev-
dence they have. The affair did not
become known until after Livingood
had been taken to New York.
Another man. arrested with Livin-
xood, lates was released. sa-
The Butler weekly times., 1917-10-18
BLOW TO BONE
DRY METHODS
Judge Pollock Rules a Warrant Is
Necessary Before Search for
Booze.

I.eavenworth, Kas., Oct 11.-Met''-
ods of enforcing the federal law pro-
hibiting the transportation from a wet
to dry state received staggering
blow in a ruling made today by Fed
cral Judge John c. Pollock. He held
a persons constitutional right pre-
tected his effects or his home from
being searched without a sworn state
ment or testimony or a search and
seizure warrant. Ruling in the fed
cral law is so drawn that the gov
ernment must allege the violators
did not intend to use the liquor for
scientific, mechanical, sacramental or
medical purposes. Judge Pollock
said the burden of proof that the vio-
lators did not intend to use the liquor
for these purposes, rested on the gov
ernment.
Attorneys declare such ruling
makes it next to impossible for the
government to prove those allega-
tions.
The Butler weekly times., 1917-10-18
Cunningham Again in the Limelight.

Joplin, Mo-, Oct. I5.-Mrs. Bertha
Taylor, who claims to be the COM
mon law wife of Col. Thos. Cunning
ham. pre- esident of the Traders Bank,
is in Jail for firing shot at Cunning
ham yesterday. Mrs. Taylor told the
police that Cunningham with whom
she has lived for twenty-five years,
promised to marry her five days az"
but had delayed the wedding. She
said they quarreled yesterday and that
Cunningham fired the first shot.
A few months ago Cunningham dis
appeared with a beautiful young wo-
man who claimed she and Cunning
ham were married in Colorado
Friends OF Cunningham finally locat-
ed him in Chicago and took him back
to Joplin. Suits we're filed but II
was generally understood the young
woman received large sum of money
to release Cunningham.
The Butler weekly times., 1917-10-18
NEW DRAFT FOR YOUNGER
MEN
Law May be Passed to Reach Those
Who Became Al Since May I6.

Washington, Oct. Io.-Representa-
tive Kahn of California, the Repub-
lican who led the administration
forces in the House when the Army
Draft Law was passed, said today 4
new draft act would have to be passed
at the next session Of Congress to al
feet the many young men who have
become Fl years of age since May
I8, last, and that it probably would
amend the existing laws so as to reg
lister Youths from I6 to II to become
automatically subject to call on reach
ing a. Mr.. Kahn also said he intend
ed to make a fight for universal
training law and an act to deal with
alien slackers without violating treaty
obligations.
The Butler weekly times., 1917-10-18
PIERsoL GETS IS YEARS
Jury Finds Him Guilty of Kidnapping
the Keet Baby. ~

Marshiield. Mo. Oct. l5.-Claud
pier>ol was found guilty OF kidnap-
ping Baby Lloyd Keet by the jury
here at 1925 o'clock tonight He
was sentenced to thirty-five years
imprisonment.
Soon after DARKNESS set in Marsh
field the electric light plant failed and
the court room presented a wierd
scene with the attorneys and specta-
tors grouped around flickering
candle.
Piersol was taken back to his cell
soon after the jurors retired.
After the jurors had retired Judge
Sknker fixed bonds for all the de-
PENDANTS held here on kidnapping con-
spiracy charges. In the keet case
the bond of Taylor Adams was made
$4,000 and that OF his son, Cletus, at
$1,000.
In the Clement conspiracy charge
the bonds set by the court follows:
Taylor Adams, 5000; Cletus Adams,
$4,000; Mrs. Allie Adams. $4,000;
Make Adams (Io years old), $500;
Sam McGinnis, $4,000; Dick Carter
lwho testified for the state), $1,000.
Earlier III the afternoon, for six
hours, six able lawyers-three on
each side--played with the fate OF
piersol as ii in game OF football.
When Col. Samuel Dickey, the at
torney for the defense. brought all ot
his old time or;.tory into play and
rloqucntly described the angels OF
heaven reaching ont for the tired
baby hands OF Lloyd keet, there was
hardly a woman in the crowded court
room who was not weeping.
Prosecuting Attorney Paul NJ
DDay closed for TIE state and o. J.
Page ended the case for the defense
During the vitroic denunciation Of
the prosecution Piersol wore the
same mask of disattached interest
When Mr.. O'Day repeatedly refcrre
to the defendants testimony as Il
pack OF lies" the youth face reg
istercd not even uuiver OF emotion
After the jury had retired for dc
liberation Piersol sat talking with his
parents and sister in the courtroom.
The Butler weekly times., 1917-10-18
May Hear" From the Boys in
France.

Washington, +. c., October 13. -
That mothers and relatives may hear
the voices of beloved ones, who are
serving with the United States
Marines in France. Massachusetts,
woman has suggested that blank
phonograph records be forwarded TO
the boys in the trenches.
Such records would prove dear to
every household from which son IS
serving: it means that even though he
be killed in battle, his voice can still
be heard by those he held dear"
writes the woman to Marine Corps
officials here, who have taken the
matter under consideration.
The Butler weekly times., 1917-10-18
Edith Afier. A. Butler.

Edith Mier, 4, Butler,
Everett Padley, 8, Butler.
Alvie Ronnesburg. S. Rich Hill.
Leslie. Ronnesburg, 5, Rich Hill.
Marion Powell, 8, Butler ''
Bernice Morrilla, >. Spruce. '''
Roy Wendleton, 3, Butler. -"
Parvin Wendleton, 3, Butler.
Claude Wendleton, 3, Butler.
Melvin Wendleton, 3, Butler.
Lloyd Wendleton. Butler
Clyde Wendleton, 3, Butler.
Howard Martz, 8. Butler.
Viola Thomas, S, Rich Hill.
Robert LeVan, 3, Butler.
Gertrude LeVan, 3, Butler.
Della Baker, 1, Butler.
L. B. Stoll, E, Butler.
Roy Culbertson, I, Butler.
Eva Hukel, Butler.
Edward Griffin, Butler.
Ivan jenkins, 3, Butler.
Virgil Long, Altoona.
Boyd Henley. 6, Butler.
Clarence Morrilla, 2, Spruce.
Joe Morrilla, 2,-Spruce.
The Butler weekly times., 1917-10-18
LABOR CONDEMNS SEN. LA
TOILETTE
Chicago Council Sounds Warning
Against Sinister German
Influences.

Chicago. Oct. I3.-ResolutionS
warning the 10000 members of the
Chicago building trades council that
German influences are at work and
calling upon all unions TO support the
program of the alliance have been
adopted and are being sent out by the
Chicago Federation of Labor. The
resolution also asserts that the same
influences are seeking to have labor
indorse Senator LaFollet,e' anti-war
policy
With reference to Senator Lafol-
lette, the resolution declares:
I'VE consider he is in the position
of a union man who lives up to his
union obligations for years and then
during a strike, turns traitor"
The Butler weekly times., 1917-10-18
Notice of Final Settlement.

Notice is hereby given to all cred
itors and others interested in the es-
tate OF William L. Kash, deceased,
that |, S. B. Kash, administrator with
will annexed. of said estate, intend
to make final settlement thereof. at
the next term OF the Bates County
Probate Court. in Bate County,
State OF Missouri, to be held at But
Ter. Missouri. commencing on the
18th day OF November. 1917.
,e-.t S. B. KASH,
Administrator With Will.
The Butler weekly times., 1917-10-18
Notice of Final Settlement.

Notice is hereby given to all cred
itors and others interested in the es-
tate of Levanus Bentley, deceased
that |, Cora +. Bentley, Executrix OF
said estate. intend to make final set
Element thereof. at the next term OF
the Bates County Probate Court, in
Bates County, State of Missouri, to
be held at Butler, Missouri, COM
mencing on the 18th day OF Novem-
Der, 1917.
CORA +. BENTLEY,
s2-.t ExecutriS
The Butler weekly times., 1917-10-18
Stole the Baby's Milk to Buy Beer

Everybody has heard of the man
who stole the habys shoes and sold
them to get money to buy booze, but
Harvey Ehring. OF Los Angeles,
went him one better. When charged
in court with stealing bottle OF milk
from the baby he plead guilty and
said that he sold the milk and bought
liquor with the money.
The Butler weekly times., 1917-10-18

We have a good stock of choice
seed wheat and seed rye for sale.
42-ao-u Butler Roller Mills.