The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-12-05


OF Local Iatsrss pped5 Frou,
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The Adrian Journal says A that i
man intfat town s u ] ntlng his bun.
galow II bntt sr1nii sdi ". Vow inst
what isSs bnttk f q ~ Att n s u ls &
News I'LL II bsen rees N ~ resis-
tives at Creighton thaf Otis Danieis,
Of that plaee, had recently died Of ifi-
fluenza On board transport er-route
to France. .ll'. ,58l, II
The business of Thu Bank Of Amo-
ret has increased sd that 4 has been
necessary 10 employ III assistant to
Cashier Hamilton. Rees fShattuck
has accepted the position, n ss y \
The influenza has gotten 10 bad IL
Creighton that the school board, ii
considering closing fhe schools an
til the epidemic subsidies. 4 o Of the
teachers have the disease.
Ellen Jane Mckee was born May
9, 1882, near old Mulberry, Mo, and
died Nov. al, 1918, 1T the family
home near the same place, aged 36
years, 9 months and IS day Amo-
ret Leader. ...a.5
The new Ioo-horse power engine
for the new electric light plant at Ap-,
pleton City has arrived and is being
put on it's foundation and is. being
put in shape to pull the dynamos and
give the city more light. Y ..a8 MA
Ekke Taute add family who have
been visiting relatives at Golden, H.,
for the past five weeks arrived home
Friday afternoon. They made the
trip overland in their Ford it took
them two and one half days to make
the trip back home-Amoret Leader.
The influenza. caused the hotel at
Adrian to close down for several
lays last week The help all were
stricken with the disease at the same
lime and the manager could not fill
heir places so there was nothing to |
10 but close down until they got |
ven.
The Adrian Journal, one OF the
est papers in this section OF the
was thirty years old last
vcek, twenty-eight years. of which
he present editor, ]. E. Dowell, has
cen at the helm. During that time
! has suffered the usual trials and
common to country
cwspaper, but has weathered them
ii and its friends hope that it will
aye thirt,, more years Of prosperity
ider its present management.
DR.. Tuttle, of Adrian, returned last
eek from New Mexico, where he
ias called by the government some
iile ago to help stamp out the in
renza epidemic, says the Journal. |
lie doctor does not think much Of
hat part of the country, which he /,
avs is nothing much but a barren
esert with nothing but sand hills and /
actus and an occasional Mexican.
he insanitary way Of living Of the
1habitants made the influenza hard
0 handle. /,
While scouting around near Hud--
OH few days ago Harry Pratt no.
ced smoke coming out of the
round on the E. 0. Dierfeld farm {
nd upon closer investigation it was
that there was fire un-
as the earth was, pretty
ot and smoke coming through. I
here is a shallow vein of coal ip IL
lat section and it is presumed that
,e. coal got caught from the surface Il
i some manner, and had probably
cen burning for long time.-Ap- K
eton City Journal. -Ir
AT meeting of the City Board of i
ealth, held Tuesday morning, it was
ecided to put a temporary ban on
iblic meetings Of all kinds in this H
ty again until such time as the y
Flu" situation improves. When the H
IN was lifted about two weeks ago I'd
was thought that conditions war
Inted the action, but there have
nee been several new cases. The
tuation is not such as to cause ,
arm, but the board decided that the
psing order was the best course tol
irsue and it is their desire that the
lblic nse, ever precaution 20 prevent 4
further spread of the disease which /
now SO general over the entire II
'untry. Appleton City Journal. h
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