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The Butler weekly times., 1918-04-04
ONE AND ONE-HALF
POUNDS.

If we are to furnish the Allies
with the necessary proportion of
wheat to maintain their war
bread from now until the next
harvest-and this is a military
necessity-we must reduce our
monthly consumption to 21,0O0,.
900 bushels a month, as against
our normal consumption of about
42,000,O00 bushels. In other
words, we must reduce our nor
NAL consumption by so per cent.
iReserving margin for distribu-
ton to the army and navy and
for special cases leaves for gen.
eral consumption approximately
one and one-half pounds of
wheat products weekly for each
person.
Our wheat supply is short;
our supply of potatoes Is abun-
dant. Decrease your consump-
tion Of wheat by increasing your
consumption of potatoes. There
Is no limit on the amount of po-
tatoes that may be used, while
every person is asked to limit
his use of wheat to one and one
half pounds week.
A chain of hotels in London
has established the practice If
serving baked potatoes at the
tables to guests free, provided
10 bread is eaten. This substi-
tuition has proved entirely satis-
factory. Do this in your own
home. Let the baked potato
:ake the place Of bread.
The conservation of wheat is
''e most important duty of the
alton for the next go days. Do
cur share.
1t is military necessity.
The Butler weekly times., 1918-04-04

x small boy near Aastin. Cass
county. complained that while he wa ;
drinking water from the Gstern he
swallowed something long and slick:
and an investigation showed in the
cistern hundreds of creatures some
thing like cross between lizard
and a fish. two inches long, witt,
horns and legs, which when placed on
a table can walk like four footed ami
mails. A bottle OF them in an Archie
drug store convinced the disbelievers.
st. Joseph Observer.
The Butler weekly times., 1918-04-04
Iohn Shull. held by the Sedali

John Shull. held by the Sedalia
police for making unpatriotic re-
marks and speaking spectfully OF
the President, is held in the Pettis
County Jail without bail. All attor-
ney- refused to defend him. His
preliminary hearing was before Judge
II. b. Shain Monday morning. Shul' $
,tather arrived from California, Mo-,
and abused Sheriff w. w. Bolton
when the latter refused to release the
prisoner on bail
The Butler weekly times., 1918-04-04

French aviators have conducted
another successful raid against Ger
man munition factories. according tC
information reaching Washington
Friday afternoon. Flying as low as
, meters from the ground they
dropped more than three tons OF
high explosives on one plant, badly
wrecking it. During the recent fight
ing the French flyers have driven
down and destroyed or captured more
than 80 German fighting planes
The Butler weekly times., 1918-04-04
IF You WEIR. AN AMKRaCAN.

Suppose you were an American,
and your country were at war with a
foreign power whose every policy
throughout nearly four years OF con-
fliet had been characterized by q
bsutality inconceiyabie to humanity.
And suppose one Of the larept news
papers of your section of the coantry
were in charge of = man wAo, when
var was declared. was stiii = subject
Of the enemy power and this news
The Butler weekly times., 1918-04-04

While Joe Ridder and wife were
driving home south OF Cunningham,
<as.. last Friday night they were
swept into a draw by a heavy fall OF
rain and their dead bodies were found
Saturday. Heavy winds and ram
devastated the country around there
last night, killing stock and wreck
ing buildings.
The Butler weekly times., 1918-04-04

The Universal Prayer:
God save our splendid men
Bring them safe home again
God save our men,
Make them victorious
Faithful, chivalrous,
They are SO dear to us =
: God save our men.
Followers Of Christ and all who
love their God and country-help to
make Sunday, April 9TH, a day long
to be remembered :
Our ministers have been asked to
give to us patriotic sermons.
Go to church Sunday and help in
the Universal Prayer. :
The Butler weekly times., 1918-04-04
The other day when several af II

The other day when several af the
strike agitators were arrested IN
Kansas City it was found that at
least two of the most active, man
and a woman, were Germans who had
never taken out any sort Of citizen
ship, papers and did not belong to
the union and cared nothing about
it. 1t would seem that the more de-
cent of Kansas City union labor peo-
pie would take a tumble to them
selves after awhile and stop being
used by the German propogandists.
The Butler weekly times., 1918-04-04

Four horses. large quantities OF
grain and feed and quite lot of farm
machinery was burned at the home ci
q. \. Estis, near Warrensburg one
day last week. As this is the third
barn in that neighborhood to be des-
troyed by fire recently and all of
them contained several horses. it is
beginning to be believed that it Is
the work of an incendiary.
The Butler weekly times., 1918-04-04

1t is said by the German generals
that the big gun that has been drop
ping shells into Paris is merely prac-
ticing Up and getting ready to throw
shells into London. which is I25
miles away from the line of battle.
The gun throws a she'll 8.8 inches n
diameter and 70 inches long. 1t
weighs 200 pounds and carries less
than 20 pounds of explosive. The
commandant of the Watervliet arse
nal says that the United States has
several I6-inch guns that are capable.
IL mounted on a different carriage. Of
throwing one of their immense shells
20 miles, but in his opinion they
would not be effective If used at
more than about 70 miles, their range
with their present mounts. So far
the big German gun has been able to
do very little damage.
The Butler weekly times., 1918-04-04
Six deputy United States marshals

Six deputy United States marshals
from the Kansas City office last week
went to Dallas county to arrest the
judges of the county, court for con-
tempt of the United Stafes court in
refusing to levy a tax to pay off some
old railroad bonds, a. had been order
ed by Judge Vapvalkenburg. The
marshals maAaged to arrest one of
the county judges, but the other two
took to the brush and made their
get away. Several years ago it was
the duty of the St. Clair county judg-
IS tn either lay out their term of Of
flee in jail or spend the time dodging
United States marshalS.
The Butler weekly times., 1918-04-04

A young man was arrested last
week in Vernon county for failing to
register for the selective draft last
June. The Vernon county draft
board ordered him sent at once to
Camp Funston to enter on his mill
tary duties.
The Butler weekly times., 1918-04-04

Seven thousand bushels OF wheat
were ordered seized at Austin, New.
last night by II. a. Lennon. state
food administrator, when Patrick
Walch. the owner. refused to sell t"
the government for S2.75 per hun
lretlweiyht. The state food admins
traitor said it is the first instance OF
grain boarding in Nevada.
The Butler weekly times., 1918-04-04

y young man with unique graft IS
cot,rting. trouble in Northwest Mis-
souri,. He bought an expensive phon-
ograph and a choice lot of records in
Albany. taking the records with him.
The dealer still is waiting for him to
phone back for the machine and pay
the bill. Then he went to Bethany
and selected twenty-six good records
which he was permitted to take home
for trial, so the folks could select the
dozen or SO they wished to keep.
The folks evidently are having "a
hard time deciding. The dealers have
no clew to the young mans identity.
The Butler weekly times., 1918-04-04

Lieut.. Col w. G. Mckendrick OF
the British army Saturday presented
to President Wilson a cane made
from the door OF the celebrated Cloth
Hall of Ypres. Belgium. Similar
canes have been given King George
OF England. King Albert of Belgium,
President Poincare OF France. Lloyd
George, premier of England; General
Hais and General Petain.
The Butler weekly times., 1918-04-04

The home OF Thomas DUNN in
Jefferson City. was damaged by fire
one day last week and the Democra
Tribune is unkind enough to insinu-
ate that DUNN, who is a candidate
ior congress, was practicing one Of
his speeches and became so fry that
he set the house on fire.
The Butler weekly times., 1918-04-04

So acute has become the food
shortage in Germany that even Ger
man soldiers at the front are now UNI
dcrgoing privatons. Ten ounces
have been taken oil the soldiers
weekly bread ration, instead OF which
they receive a small supply OF sugar
extra, says a dispatch from the
Hague.
The Butler weekly times., 1918-04-04

The supreme court Friday upheld a
provision of the constitution which
provides corporations shall not hold
real estate not necessary to the con-
duct OF their business for period
exceeding six years. The opinion OF
the court was unanimous.
The Butler weekly times., 1918-04-04

For refusing to submit to an "p-
Grafton which would have made him
physically lit for military service,
Lloyd Smell. OF Pittsburg. selective
service man. was Friday dishonor-
ably discharged from the army an
sentenced to three years lmprison-
i1e1lt.
The Butler weekly times., 1918-04-04

\ Cedar county farmer one day
week brought 700 pound hog to
ElDorado Springs which he sold re-
ceiving a check for $o7.65, and yet
some folks say that it does not pay
to raise hogs these days.
The Butler weekly times., 1918-04-04

"A Maryville paper is authority for
the fact that certain church deacon
OF that town never goes to bed with
out offering up a prayer for the boys
in the trenches, but that his name has
not been found among contributors
to the Red Cross fund, nor among
those who bought Liberty bonds,
The Butler weekly times., 1918-04-04

IN official dispatch from France
Thurs day said the chaplain and two
nuns oi the Hospital OF St. Elizabeth
at Antwerp have been killed by the
Germans They were killed in the
courtyard OF the barracks at the
same time as the Belgian ocul'st.
Doctor De Nets.
The Butler weekly times., 1918-04-04

paper should continually criticize and
hamper the government in the con-
duct of the war. and would finally
publish as an editorial an appeal for
the people of the enemy nation like
The Butler weekly times., 1918-04-04

\ temporary injunction, issued
more than a year ago by Federal
Judge Dyer. forbidding the city OF
ST. Louis putting into effect the ne
gro segregation ordinance which was
adopted at a special election, has
been made permanent by Judge
Over.
The Butler weekly times., 1918-04-04

y. Lee Shawhan. OF Lees Summit,
appeared before the iood admins
TRAITOR OF Kansas City one day last
week and said that he owned $500
bushels OF wheat in his bins and that
he wanted to give it all to the gov
ernment to- relieve thespresent short
age OF supplies to the allied armies.
The Butler weekly times., 1918-04-04

Madame Despina Davidovltcli
Storch, the young Turkish woman
who was charged with being the lead
er oi band OF German spies taken
into custody in New York a fortnight
ago died suddenly in her quarters on
Ellis Island.
The Butler weekly times., 1918-04-04
MISSOURI NOTES.

One day last week the police Of
St. Louis arrected 100 motorists for
running their cars without their. IL
cense numbers properly displayed.
The Butler weekly times., 1918-04-04

War is certainly everything that
Sherman said that it was. They have
plowed up the baseball diamond at
Peculiar and planted il, in potatoes.
The Butler weekly times., 1918-04-04

Field Marshal Hindcnburg and
Chancellor Hertling have decided to
call up for military service the Ger
man criminals OF military age. &C
cording to advices received Thurs
day.
The Butler weekly times., 1918-04-04
GENERAL NOTES.

\ number OF German soldiers who
had put on British uniforms in order
to create confusion in the battle were
shot, according to the lntrasigeant.
The Butler weekly times., 1918-04-04
High School YDeel.m.tSry Contest.

Miss Lethia Baird and Paul Fran
sham were declared the winners Of the
decIamatory contest held at the High
School Tuesday evening to select con-
testsats to >represept the Butler
school at the district contest TO be
held at Warrensbure i'm the near fu-
ture. = -
The courier-index. (Marianna, Ark.) 1917-current, 1918-05-03

salvashun armie. Il. don't come
under dis head. f. Ise residence
alien (not enemy my folks cum from
Africka c. Dis sexton ketches me
strong. My health is moughty poor
ly. I ies amt fisically fit. intact |
had de roomatism oful bod an ! suf-
fers wild a misery in de chest an lse
subjeck to dizzy spells. ! has de
heart trubble An my foot amt rite.
dey jest wont stan when shotin
gwine on. H. Tse not morally fit for
de armie. Ise done been tride in
de Districk Coat for steelin cows an
got sent to de pen for too years. l..
Use de licensed pilot at de Mount
Zebe church as mentioned herein
befour.
An kin friens, | want to call you
spechul attenshun to do las seckshun
of de skuses. Ise member of a
reckernished insect what sho is
posed to war an work an | calims
tension under dis haid an | thanks
you to please put me in dis Kiass.
Dis leaves me well an dom well
an / hopes it fins you all de came.
Your survant,
The courier-index. (Marianna, Ark.) 1917-current, 1918-05-03
SAGE TEA DARkENS
HAIR TO ANY SHADE
Don't stay Gray! Here's an
Old-time Recipe that Any
body can Apply.

The use Of Sage and Sulphur for re-
storing faded, gray hair to its natural
color dates back to grandmother's time
She used it to keep her hair beautifully
dark, glossy and attractive. Whenever
her hair took on that dull, faded or
streated appearance, this simple mixture
was applied with wonderful effect
But brewing at home is mussy and
cut-of-dste. Nowadays. by asking n
any drug store for so cent bottle of
"Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Compound
you will get this famous old preparation,
improved by the addition of other in
gradients, which can be depended upon to
restore natural color and beauty to the
hair.
A well known downtown druggist says
it darkeas the hair so naturally and
evenly that nobody can tell it has been
applied. You simply dampen sponge
or soft brssh with it and draw this
through your hair. taking one strand ~
= time. By morning the gray hair dis
appears, and after another application on
two, it becomes beautifully dark and
glossy.
Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Compound
il delightful toilet requisite for those
who desire q more youthful appearance.
II is not intended for the cure, mitiga ton
or prevention OF disease.
The courier-index. (Marianna, Ark.) 1917-current, 1918-05-03
AMUSING LETTER FROM NEGRO

Many humorous as well as pathetic
incidents have resulted in the opera
ton OF the selective draft, but one
of the most amusing recently came
to light in the form of letter from
a negro resident to the local board
of Perry county. published in the
Dispatch weekly paper of Richton,
about twenty miles from Laurel, in
Perry county. The letter is as fol.
lows:
Honorable Zemption Board
Kind Surs & Friens: II takes my
pen in han to rite you about my war
papers. de lawyer what made dem
out Didn't suite me. | speck he's
lewyer an mought git you outer
truble but hit shore look lack he
er gwine get me in de armie. He
shore is a pore zempsion glitter, so
/ is ritin you all myself to let you no
ms how Ii STAINS Ise don red de
war papers thru an thru keerful an
| am addicated and can understan
an no where | belongs at. There
aint nary reason for me to be in de
Fust Klass. nor in de Secon klass.
Their mought be one reason to put
me in de Third Klass, Divishun B..
on count of my muther. She is 46
years old an lives in South kilanna
an she shore ponds on me. | also
belongs in Klass Fore cause | has
wife, kose she done quit me and
ruined off wild another niger, but
he has got de consumptin an when
he dies | no sh will be rite back
pendin on me. | finds dat | belongs
to ever divishun in Klass Five cept
too as follows, ter wit:
A. Dis don't ketch me. B. Ise a
reglar ordained minister an pastors
de Mount Zebe church. G.. Student
of preachin on May Is, 1917, rekog-
nized skule. namely. Kimbal Lake
Kullud Skule. ID. belongs to de
The courier-index. (Marianna, Ark.) 1917-current, 1918-05-03
HAVE ROSY CHEEKS
AND FEEL FRESH AS
A DAlSY-TRY THIS!
Says glass Of hot wase. WV
phosphate before bresk>
washes out poisons'

To see the tinge OF heatny .,u ~ ~
in your face, to see your sn' III
clearer and clearer, to wake ~ .osted
out headache, backache, 80. d
tongue or a nasty breath, IN ~; nd
feel your best. day in and day QUIZ ' 'ssa
try inside.bathing every mornlnsj'''
one week. ~,va.;ut 4
glass OF real hot water Win !. III. ~ Is
full OF limestone phosphate ~ froun It'd
harmless means OF washing nu us M
stomach. liver, kidneys and DV" ,-aas|
preyious DAVIS indigestibie Esngl
sour bile and toxins; thus cies ssstirs
sweetening and purifying ~. .;Sg more
alimentary canal before putSnt, d
food into .the stomach. lhasnbats %
hot water and limestone pnua0rtully ID
an empty stomach is wonu n the SOU
MIGRATING. 1t cleans OUT an ,s;ty and
fermentations. gases and aclurb reak
gives one a splendid appetite III :
fast. u,ona phOs
A gu rter pound of limes.osnSvs IdruE
phate win cost very little az a annvstrstl
store but is sufficient 10 W 80 vstel
that just as soap ana nssens.t b'
cleanses, sweetens ana ires snne pbos
skin. so hot water and hmes'.o,n Or
phate act on the blood and inss' Il con
cans Those who are subject ..cmscb
stipation, bilious attacks, a .hose who's
rheumatic twinges. also tn D;on paid
skin is sallow and compie, II inside
are assured that one week ,p ~ ,oodp
bathing will have them oos sy
and feeling better In every w.
The courier-index. (Marianna, Ark.) 1917-current, 1918-05-03
BETTER FARMING HINTS
Mr.. Farmer, Watch the Cotton
Market


Market
Have you noticed the violent
drops on cotton of anywhere from
one half to two cents per pound per
day? Have you noticed that July
cotton dropped s32 per bale between
April and 16? Better be careful
and play safe,' says w. c. Lasseter
director of the Agricultural Exten-
sion Division. You cannot afford to
take chances this year with such un.
certainties relatives to the cotton
market looming up. Remember the
safe program-AN AMPLE FOOD
AND FEED SUPPLY FIRST, THEN
ALL THE COTTON WE CAN GROW
FOR CASH"
May NOT be able to get food supplies
next winter-PhilIips county goes
over the top in food pledge
Campaign
Phillips county has the distinction
of being the first county in the state
to finish signing the food pledge
cards sent out by the u. s Depart
ment of Agriculture and Extension
Division of the University OF Arkan-
sas. Six thousand, five hundred and
eighty two farmers have signed the
pledge to plant forty percent of their
tillable land in food and feed crops
this year and these men now display
the honor card issued by the gov
eminent. The government is not
asking anything unreasonable. 1t
simply wants us to take care of
ourselves so we will not be a drag
on the rest of the nation and in case
of shortage of cars really suffer from
lack of foresight. There is real
danger If we do not raise our own
food and feed. Everyone should pro-
duce their own hay crops and meat
and then all of the cotton possible
for cash See your county agent and
sign the pledge today. DO not worry.
The government will know the slack
ers, and whether those who raise
only cotton will be able to secure
supplies next fall and winter will de-
pend entirely upon what the Govern
ment decides to do in the matter
between now and that time. Better
play safe.
Be Sure to Market Poultry Slowly
Help to Keep Prices Up
On April rs the order from the
National Food Administration pro-
hibiting the sale of laying hens ter
minated and as a result in great
many localities individual farmers
have planned to rush their poultry
on the market in order to secure
ready cash II. B. Lansden, poultry
scientist with the extension division.
says:
The courier-index. (Marianna, Ark.) 1917-current, 1918-05-03

Better market poultry slowly and
keep prices up. A glutted market
will mean a certain financial loss
to the people of the state. The best
way will be to save back the laying
hens and market slowly. This will
enable us to keep up egg production
and maintain the present good prices
for like poultry. Eggs will continue
to bring a good price.
Arkansas Experiment Station Ready
To Help You
The Arkansas Agricultural Exepri-
ment Station of the University of
Arkansas is always ready to help
you. Dan Martin Nelson says the
following bulletin and circulars are
a few that are ready for free dis
tribution whenever you wish to make
advantage of the information they
contain:
Circular 30-Fall Crop of Irish
Potatoes. This circular contains val
liable information for you.
Circular 31-Wheat. This points
out the facts vital to the production
of the crop.
Circular 35-Sweet Potato Weevil.
serious menace to our sweet po-
tato crop. You certainly should have
this circular.
Circular 36-Grazing crops for hogs
Circular 99-Report on variety test
with cotton in various parts of the
state
Bulletin 36-Tubercalosis in farm
animals.
Bulletin REPRODUCTION OF pork
by rice bran.
These and many other circulars
and bulletins should be in your farm
library Write for them.
The courier-index. (Marianna, Ark.) 1917-current, 1918-05-03
WRITING TO YOUR BOY IN CAMP

WRITING TO YOUR BOY IN CAMP
Mothers. don't write sorrowful, let.
ters to your boys in training camps
or across the waters.
Don't tell them how much you miss
them at home; how much you have
longed to hear from them and how
you have wished they were home
on certain days when you cooked
their favorite dish which you knew
they must miss now
Don't tell them not to be reckless
in discharge of duty. meaning you
want them to avoid danger If pos
sible. In other words, don't ask
them to avoid chances which some
other mothers son must take.
Don't ask them to write you about
hardships they have to endure and
then sympathize with them for this
will cause them to think much more
about such experiences than they
should.
Write cheerful, brave letters to
your boy.
You are proud of him. Say so.
Write as if you expect them all
home when they have done their
part.
The courier-index. (Marianna, Ark.) 1917-current, 1918-05-03
RED CROSS PILE OINTMENT

Relieves all forms of blind, bleeding
or protruding piles. Easily applied y
effected parts. furnishes prompt rels'
In convenient collapsible tubes WIN
perforated attachment in each paei,,
age. This and more than one hundrsll
rther Red Cross Remedies sold anl
Guaranteed only by
HARRINGTON. BROS.
The courier-index. (Marianna, Ark.) 1917-current, 1918-05-03

Everything else changes except
German kultur. Take what you
can, said Frederick the Great
You are never wrong unless you
are obliged to give it back. Charles
ton News and Courier. -
The courier-index. (Marianna, Ark.) 1917-current, 1918-05-03
NATURAL QUERY

= NATURAL QUERY
Il liked your speech, mister DE-
ciared the rural attorney, who wA
visiting the city. What kind Of Z
lawyer are you?"
I'm a patent lawyer"
well, you advanced some sc0a
ideas. Have you got patent on
that line of taik?''
The courier-index. (Marianna, Ark.) 1917-current, 1918-05-03

Tell the boys how much you and
their friends admire their bravery.
Inspire your own boy to do noble
deeds.
No real mother wants slack9
nor a shirk for SON. Tell him 50.
The courier-index. (Marianna, Ark.) 1917-current, 1918-05-03
HEAVY WEIGHT

wealthy woman of ample pro-
portions who announced her inten-
ton OF joining the w. r. NJ, is very
angry just now with her favorite
nephew.
The other day a mutual friend
asked the boy, who is a midshipman,
what role he thought his buxom aunt
would be best fitted for in the navy
And the youngsters reply, which
duly reached his indignant relatives
ears was ballast"
1t is a good thing to ask ourselves
once in a while whether we are use
full citizens