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The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-10-31
Hun Diplomat Wants Wife With
Fortune,

Amsterdam, Oct. 2S.-The Frank
furter Zeitung publishes an adver-
tisement of diplomatic attacHe in
the highest position, tall, good-look-
ing, thirty, freethinker, healthy, son
of an excellency," who wants wife
from the best family with fortune
permitting her to become the wife OF
a future German ambassador. He
explains that he advertises because
they are no dances or dinners during
the war.
The Taglische Runderschau, very
angry at the future German ambas-
sador," says it is not surprising that
the whole world laughs at the German
diplomats, if this is the stuff of which
they are made.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-10-31
Violated Game Law-$Ioo Fine.

Deputy Game Warden Earl Hout,
OF Warrensburg, appeared on the
scene Tuesday and found some
skunks penned up at the McCrary
home, near Altoona. He arrested Oral
McCrary and brought him before
Justice Mahan, who fined him $Ioo
but the fine was RENTED.
MIR. Hout says that the game laws
will be enforced to the letter and
warns all people against hunting with
ont license 1t don't pay to violate
the law Adrian journal.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-10-31
Notice of Final Settlement.

Notice is hereby given to all credit
ors and others interested in the estate
OF l. Nj. Smith. deceased, that I, Lucy
NJ. Smith. Executrix of said estate,
intend to make final settlement there
of, at the next term of the Bates
county Probate Court, in Bates Coun-
ty, State of Missouri, to be held at
Butler, Missouri, commencing on the
nth day of November, 1913.
Lucy M. Smith,
SCAT Executrix.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-10-31
!, Pm

4 fine rain fsli satssday III Ain
Mrs. &. aai.sr, ~; CIV sl u
away visiting HI &tnFS c1 n 0ii1Ss
Mr.. and Mfs DodS Fic3 NJ - IN. wv isI
proud parents 0f 4 ~ MI eirls lanrT
Oct. ii. Dode came n Sfurd avs fs sa,'
the navSl training IA ion q EflcaSo
TO, see his little daughter
Mrs. Grace Thomasse0ld her Chick.
ems to Mrs. F. Z. Blankenbaker. Mrs..
Thomas e intending q BE- away for
The Y. Z, B.waIs postponed % az Il.
count Of the influenza hast Saturday,
night 5s5s 'a &, d /
i. 5. Reqda delivered hogs u Rich
Hill last Tuesday, ss ~ Us
Dot Harper spent Saturday and
Sunday in Butler. y
Mrs. Lizzie Cameron, from Kansas,
is visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs..
r. ]. Walters. aA2 Fl 4. sp II. Il.
School was closed last Tuesday on
the account of so much sickness.
We are glad to hear that Joe
Rogers and Harvey Carroll, who are
at training camp and who have both
been real sick, are able to leave the
hospital.
L. G. Thomas butchered = calf
Monday.
The cases Of influenza now in the
neighborhood are Vergil Woods and
daughter, Aster, Mrs. Lena Hedge,
Mrs. Jobe Utley, Henry and Nell
Thompson and son. Harold; Fred
Wines, Norma and Ethel Lyle, Mrs.
Bertha William. and daughter, Lucy,
Mr.. and Mrs. Charlie Thomas and
two children and Lee Miller.
This neighborhood was made sad
BY the death Of Perley CLANCY last
Wednesday night caused by influ-
enza He was a faithful member of
the y. p. e. and the young folks
grieve to lose one from their circle.
Mr. and Mrs. Clancy have, the SYM
pathy OF the community. Funeral
services were held at Fair View GEM
etery Thursday and the remains laid /
10 rest.
Mr.. and Mrs. Vergil Woods have
he sympathy of their neighbors in
he death of their youngest daughter,
mich occurred last Saturday night Of
Influenza. The little body was laid
o rest in the Double Branch ceme-
cry Sunday afternoon.
BILLIE AND SUSIE.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-10-31


is being done by those favofing III,
adoption of the Single Tax:
A Warning to Ear1ners
Just a word to you, Mr.. Missouri
Farmer ~
You are mighty man-too busy
for politics this year. Perhaps you
win be too busy to go to the polls
November 5th.
But@here are Others who will NOT
be too busy to vote. - sss
resents nearly one hundred thousand
voters, and they usually VOTE.
At its State Convention held in Sc
dalia last month the State Federation
of Labor adopted the following reso-
luton:
1T has been our privilege as ! fed
Grated body of Trade Uni0nists to
have endorsed the HOMESTEAD
LOAN AND LAND LEAGUES
SINGLE TAX AND LOAN PRO.
GRAM to abolish land monopoly at
orr Joplin Convention in 1916 and at
our Jefferson City Convention in 1917.
Organized labor in Missouri has rea-
son to feel proud of its record in help
ing to secure the 10000 signatures to
bring this program to-vote at the
coming election ir November. We
have thus shown that we recognize
this as labor's fight.
therefore, for the third consecu-
tive time, we endorse the Single Tax
and Loan program and urge the vot-
ers of Missouri inside. and outside the
ranks of organized labor to vote and
work for the success of the two
at the November cleo
ton.
And we urge all local labor unions
in Missouri to contribute generously |
and quickly to the appeals of the
lbove-naned League for financial
,id."
The Union Labor people mean just
what they say. And they will be al
he polls on election day. Mr.. Mis-
ouri Farmer. what are you going to
10 about it,
Every farmer who stays away from
he polls on November 5th will be
asting half of vote for Single Tax
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-10-31
Germans Bombard Hospital of Town
They Had to Quit.

Paris, October 25.-ln the town Of
st. Armand. north of Valenciennes
which, has been captured by the Brit
iSi,. the Germans left 1900 infabi-
tants and 100 sick persons from that
region who were i'll a hospital in the
center OF the town.
The following day, October 22, the
Germans bombarded ST. Armand, di-
recting particular attention to the
hospital. a large number of patients
were killed.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-10-31
THE SINGLE TAI
What Does il Mean 10 Yous

The following from '::Mosby q llis.
souri, Message" is fsignificant Of what
is being done by those favofing the
adoption of the Single Tax:
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-09-06

use ten ounces of fOrmaldehyde and
five of potassium permanganate.
Pour the formalin over the perman-
ganate in deep container, and then
leave the cellar Immediately, because
the gas is given off at once.
Should it be found that these
chemicals are too expensive, the de-
partment recommends a bordeaux
mixture of $3.50 strength. It may
be applied with hand sprayer, pump,
or broom; it is effective when thoroly
used and it does not cost much.
1t Is expecting too much, says the
department, to look for potatoes fit
for market from dirty, ill-ventil-
ated cellar. Time money, and work
spent in growing crop are wasted
Of the potatoes are stored where dead
potatoes are carrying over the organ
isms that cause rots. Dry rot at
tack newly stored potatoes thru
bruises and wounds and spreads
turnout the stored supply.
Many Cellars Polluted
Many farmers, it is stated, have
cellars that now contain piles of
sacks of potatoes all rotten, sacks
and all, and constituting wet, foul
mass that helps to decay the timbers
and menaces the crop to be stored.
While there is no way to estimate
the loss due to the neglect and un-
cleanliness in potato storages, it is
known to amount to great deal,
not only in spoiled human food, but
in rotten sacks, and in actual money
spent in the labor of handling I'M
marketable material, and in lowered
market value Of what is left to put
on sale. There never was a time,
urges the department, when some
thing to eat was SO valuable as now,
and when so much effort has been
expended in food production. For
the same reasons there never was
a time when the prevention of this
waste was SO important.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-09-06
JUSTICE FOR IRELAND"

Germany INDUCES in so much in
sincere palaver about Justice for
Ireland" and about the way Ireland
is oppressed" that some authentic
figures concerning the influence Of
Ireland on the government of Great
Britain have exceptional interest.
Brinley fitzgerald. private secre-
tary at the viceregal lodge at Dublin,
in letter to Archdeacon Potter sets
forth the proportional representation
of England, Scotland and Ireland in
the British parliament as follows:
England, with population of 3d.
iO70,492 has 485 members in parlia-
ment. Scotland has 4,760,904 in
habitants and seventy-two parlia-
mentary seats, while Ireland with
only 4,390,219 people has repre-
sentation Of 1903.
In other words every $4,000 of
the people Of England have a repre-
sentative, every $4,000 of the people
of Scotland and every $4,000 people
of Ireland. Where's the "oppres-
sion ?"-Idaho Statesman.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-09-06
THE CONSTRUCTIVE SPIRIT
idaho Falls Registerl

/ NluanO rails h6glSter1
III there is one thing we would I'M
press upon our readers over another
1t is the importance of constructive
ness with relation to the industries
and the business interests of the
state generally. Idaho has only be-
| gun to develop. We have made q
fairly good start, but We are far re-
moved from the goal of our ambi-
tions. There are still broad acres
lying idle; there remains in the
mountains vast stores of treasure;
our dairy industry is only in it's in
fancy and in other connections it
may be truthfully stated that we
are merely at the alpha of our de-
velopment
1t requires capital and lots of it
to accomplish the ends towards
which we are all striving, and altho
we have the natural resources all eff
forts to attract capital to them will
be largely neutralized if the state
should acquire reputation of being
antagonistic to new capital or of mis-
treating that which has already in.
vested in our state and which, in re-
lation to the larger operations, has
so far failed to reap any adequate
returns from the financial confidence
it has reposed in the state.
1t is time for all bur people to
give serious attention to this sub
ject, if Idaho is to avoid the <conse-
quences that have befallen other
states, where undue agitation of the |
public toward business institutions.
II there is anything wrong at any
point it can be corrected, but in this
process the mistake is often made
of bringing every enterprise within
the sweep of general condemnation
because of some possible faults of a
few that, in any event, are usually
either by competition or
by public bodies or both, and that
can hardly depart far from the lines
Of correct business policies and fair
treatment of the public because of
the inhibition thereby imposed.
Idaho can be made to grow by
caps and bounds, but Idaho people
must take the initiative and first
show the outsiders, both investors
and homeseekers, that we are not a
,arping, obstructing or destructive
people, but that We are industrially
and by our treatment of
business concerns within the state
give assurance to all who may have
heir eyes turned to Idaho that they
nay come here with perfect safety,
in advance that they will be
reated with absolute fairness.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-09-06
FILA DA HELI-BOX

Wen call him Tony name
more or less is immaterial anyway
His place of business is just dent
In the wall around the corner on
Forty-nth street a half dozen OF
such matter steps from Broadway
oh, yes, this is a New York story,
but what's the difference? 1t ism t
important where it happened, it's
something else that makes it inter-
esting.
Tony's shop is 'one-man" shop.
He does all the work himself these
war times, shortage of labor, etc.,
no doubt.
Usually he is quite busy. So
brisk was business that day that /
sat waiting in one of the four chairs
until he had shined the six other
shoes that had climbed into place be-
fore l came.
He had two cash" boxes-cigar
boxes they were
| noticed that he dropped half the
money he took in in one box and
half in the other alternating the
dimes between the boxes.
BY the way, | almost forgot to
tell you, Tony is cripple probably
street car or truck smashed him
sometime, anyway he has lost foot
somewhere and there is an ugly twist
to his back that makes it look as il /
1t doesn't always feel good.
When l stepped down with my
shoes freshly shined it happened
there was lull in trade
dat dime she go in disa box
disa hell-box call him." Tony re-
marked as he tossed the coin into
one of the boxes.
why that box-why hell-box?
What's the idea?"
> ''Whatta da idea? I tella you'll
reada da pape. She tella me about |
disa war-about da Uncle Sam he
fighta da Germ. try to go-dey
no TAXA me causa missa da foot |
an busta da back. Den getta lone
some l no lika da Germ. l wantta
licka da he'll outta da kize-I cussa
da good deal. One day a lady she
come an getta shine, she say:
"Whatta da mat, Tony? You looka
so-so-whatta you call him? dees-
couraged? l say I'm seeck.
wantta helpa da Uuncle Sam licka
da hell outta da kize. He no take
me causa I lose da foot an gotta da
bust in da back-maka me swear
cause | no cana help
But you cana help-everybody
cana help she say, you cana buy
da lib bond an da sava da war
stamp. Oats way you be help da
I1nn1n Cono-h4 do -
buya da amunish to licka da hell
outa da kize.'
80 da lady she tella me how dat
! 'away-she da nice lady, gotta da
shine every day, spenda da mon
len I gotta da mon'in da bank.
aka da mon an buy lib bond
5000. Den / sava .da mon for da
ava da war stamp shine da shoe
me time for me an da next time I
nina da shoe fA da Uncle Sam so
helpa him getta da amunish to
icka da hell outta da kize. Gala his
'Ox da hell-bOx cause da mon I put
| him help Uncle Sam licka da hell
'utta da kize. fila da hell-box one !.
ime- getta da $50 sava da war !,
I fila him disa time an !
etta some more-Dat a'away / give :.
a kize hell an maka da Germ :
eeck."
I was glad my dime happened to d
q one of the dimes honored with
place in ida .hell-box." was !.
lad my dime helped to lila da hell =
ox"-was gong to be spent for !.
sava da war stamp" was going to "
clip ida Uncle Sam licka da hell 8
utta da kize-" !,
Toney gave me more, a lot more, N N
han a shine that -day.-Earl Way =
md Bowman =
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-09-06

Miss Nellie David, who has been
here visiting with Miss Mabel Rid,
left for st. Anthony, where she will
teach school,
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-09-06
BLACKFOOT MAN REJOICES
OVER CASH AND CARRY PLAN

i R. T. Drollinger commends the
government for getting the mer.
chants to keep step with progress.
Mr.. Drollnger, telegrapher at
Blackfoot, sends the following CON-
mnuication for publication:
If as stated in your paper, the
war has caused the merchants of
, Bingham county, to go on the cash
and carry plan of doing business, we
will have to admit that the war has
done some good. While we all re-
greet that we had to have war to bring
this about, we can in small measure
console ourselves with the old adage
that lit is an i'll wind that blows no
good" | have understood that some
of our merchants fought the cash
plan, which to me it seems they
should have welcomed, as there is no
question but that the cash plan of
doing business is the only way, and
that every one will be better off.
hence fail to see where there is any
room for kicking, except the man
who does not pay his honest debts.
You know that some people kick if
they were going to be hung, and
while there may be some good rea-
sons why merchants might oppose
such a plan, they are very few, and
are offset 100 to one by the other
fellows argument. If this plan
which was to take effect Sept. is
carried out, and which a majority
of the people hope will be done, it
will be but short time until every
one will be saying, "Its wonder to
me it did not happen long ago!" and
why was it that our merchants had
to have brick house fall on them
before they took a tumble. Sure it
is no disgrace to be seen carrying
parcel groceries or dry goods in your
arms or even If necessity requires it
to-, as the darby says tote them in
a wheel barrow" and if you have
none this will be the opportunity and
a good excuse to buy that little ex-
press wagon which you promised |
your son or grandson and then you
will be helping the hardware man
too. II you haven't the price just
come UP and will loan you my
It cost only 35 cents,
but l will guarantee it to hold all
you want to buy, and as l live next
door to the sheriff he will see that
you return it.
This is one Of the good things that
have advocated and hoped it would
come, as the credit system is a
drawback and a dead weight on any
own, and not only that, it stops a
1ole in your pocket for you do not
lave to pay or help to pay the other
mans bills, and no merchant can do
business on credit without adding
sufficient to make up for his bad ac-
counts. AS for the delivery question {
he amount saved for expense Of de-
livery equipment, gasoline and the
lelivery boy, bad debts will go a s
ong way, If not covering it entirely. ,
hen way lament over something {
hat is to be a benefit, and place {
veryone on the same footing. There :
one thing sure, when you are seen
n the street with your arm full of
roceries, hardware and dry goods,
very one will know that they are
aid for.
R. T. DROLLINGER.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-09-06
HUN OFFICERS SAD AND GLOOMY

/ WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES
There is more good news to tell, and
it is difficult for us correspondents
to keep pace with the advance OF
troops on the different parts of the
field. Good old Baillcul is in our
hands again, and the enemy is sneak
ing away from the country around,
so that KENNEL Hill has been taken.
On the southern part of the fighting
line the Australians, who had adj
vanced no less than twenty miles
since the beginning of our attacks
in August, have struck again, and
this morning they have by more brill
liant generalship and the fine gallan-
try Of the men seized Mont St. Quen-
tin, thus sealing the fate of Peronne,
and with it captured prisoners
amounting to at least thousand.
There seemed more than that to
me when saw patches of them COM
ing over the battlefield and down the
tracks from the fighting line today,
when | went up to look at the pro-
gress of this action. The first batch
saw certainly numbered 200.
Marching ahead, with ther officers
leading, under the escort of mounted
Australians, they came tramping
thru the tall thistles that have
grown between the shell GRAFT
ers and barbed wire, and
old trenches of that wide desi-
lation which stretches on both
sides of the Somme for many miles,
strewn with frightful ruins of viii
lagos, black and fretted against the
skyline.
The German officers walked
gloomily in advance of their men,
not speaking to one another and not
looking much at the scenes around
them, nor at the Australian soldiers
moving their guns forward, but star
ing at the road ahead of them in
gloomy thoughtfulness. A little
later l saw down one of the tracks
coming away from Clery and our
lines about the Somme, under heavy
shell fire by the enemy at the time,
a long, dark winding column.
More prisoners, said friends of
mine, and We were startled by the
large number There was something
like a battalion of these field gray,
with about dozen of Their own Of
ficers leading them and they came
down the track in good marching
order, as tho on their own side of
the line. A fairly sturdy lot they
looked to me, far better than those I
saw yesterday outside Bapaume, and
they had put up a strong fight |
against the Australians, and were
not taken easily, as far as that went,
tho with amazingly light losses |
among their captors. Again their
officers looked downcast and sullen.
Miss Nellie David, who has been
here visiting with Miss Mabel Ridd,
eft for st. Anthony, where she will
teach school. /
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-09-06
Glycerine Mixture
For Appendicitis

Blackfoot people can prevent ap-
pendicitis with simple buckthorn
bark, glycerine, ETC., as mixed in Ad-
ler-i-ka. ONE SPOONFUL fushes
the ENTIRE bowel tract SO COM
pletely 1t relieves ANY CASE sour
stomach, gas or constipation and pre-
vents appendicitis. The INSTANT,
pleasant action of Adler-i-ka sur
prises both doctors and patients.
Leaves stomach clean and strong.
Edw. Thoreson, druggist. adv.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-09-06
WHAT rs GOOD SEED CORN

Good seed corn must be
Well adapted to the seasonal and
soil conditions where it is to be
planted.
Grown on productive plants of q
productive variety.
Well matured and preserved from
ripening time to planting time in q
manner that will retain its full pro-
ductivity.
This sort of seed corn can best be
secured by gathering the ears from
the stalks as early as they mature
in the fall, by promtly drying the
seed Immediately after it has been
gathered, and by keeping 1t con-
stantly dry and safe from rats, mice
and insects.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-09-06
DIRTY POTAT. CELLARS
WASTE MUCH OF THE CROP
Decay Results from Putting the New
Harvest Into Foul Storage Places
Efforts Futile il Rot Spreads From
Unclean Surroundings - Clean
Bins and Disinfect Them Before
Using.

Clean up the potato cellars now
and don't wait until harvest, says
the United States department of
agriculture in pointing out that the
potato crop promises to be a big one
and that there is no excuse for allow
Ing losses by rot in storage.
Among the suggestions the depart
ment makes are the following: Get
rid of every bit Of vegetable matter
storage cellar; sweep and brush I'M
til 1t is clean; then give thoro dose
OF fungieide, either gas or spray, the
quickest and easiest to apply being
formaldehyde gas.
Fungicides to Use
For each 1000 cubic feet of space
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-09-06
ACTIVE VOLCANO in CALIFORNIA
United States Forest Service Lookout
Reports Preston Peak I'm
Eruption

| YREKA, CAL, Sept. 2-The Or
leans lookout of the United States
forest service reported to Supervisor
Cartigan that at 1915 p. m. today
Preston Peak, thirty-five miles east
of Crescent City, burst into volcanic
activity.
According to the Orleans lookout,
the explosion was violent and hurled
rocks and lava several hundred feet
into the air. The smoke cloud from
the peak covered a radius of five
miles, the observer reported.
Preston Peak is 1900 feet high.
The Orleans observer was the only
one, late today, from whom any re-
port of the actual eruption had come.
Whether the great clouds of forest
fire smoke had become confused with
an actual eruption was the question
immediately raised here.
MARE ISLAND, Cal, Sept. q
while the entire district of north
ern California was volcanic at one
time and any of the peaks might be-
come active, his would be more likely
in the spring than in the fall" said
Professor Thomas ]. J. See of the
Mare Island naval observatory. when
informed as to the reported outburst
of Preston peak.
Professor See is an authority on
volcanic action and scientist Of in
ternational note. ut Is possible that
some springs may have been turned
inward, and steam may have been
generated in the interior of the
mountain" he said. otherwise, we
should not expect an eruption in the
dry season."
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. Vol
canic activity of Preston peak, 1900
feet high was reported today by a
United States forest service lookout
to his superiors. Scientific informa-
ton was that this was unlikely at
this tine of year, but not impossible.
There are forest fires in the vicinity.
Lassen peak, about $50 miles to
The southeast, became active May 80,
1914.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-09-06
ATTENDED CONFERENCE
AT IDAHO FALLS SUNDAY

There were many local people who
attended the Methodist conference
at Idaho Falls Sunday. among whom
were DR.. and Mrs. Davis. and son
Cowell, Mr.. and Mrs. G. Albertson
and family, Mr.. and Mrs. Pearson
and family, Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Beak-
ley and family. c.. F. Hendrie and
family and Mr.. and Mrs. w. D. Dolan
and family.