The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-05-16

For Sale--Three Ford cars in goot
condition, 1914, 1916 and 1917 models
gilt Jefferson Highway Garage.
Mems new neckwear, Csc, Walker.
McKibben's.
Miss Luna Kinney, a graduate Of
the Butler High School, has been EN-.
ployed to, teach the intermediate
grades at the Amsterdam school. She
taught the past year at Passaic.
Wayne Knit Hosiery, Walker Nc
kibbens.
Clarence Smith and sister, Mrs. J.
I. Cross and her daughter, Miss Sal
lie, who were called here by the death
of T. J. Smith, returned to their home
at Smith Grove, Kentucky, the last of
! the week. =
Quaker Lace curtains, Walker-Mc
Kibben's.
hlS. ly oll l. lNtuIIlCu liIC Ia l
OF the week from TT. Sill, Oklahoma,
where she has been for the past two
months to be near her husband, who
is member OF the 10th Signal corps,
which has been ordered from Fl. Sill
to an eastern post. and presumably
will sail in short time for France
Professor Alphonse Gorrell, who
recently resigned his position as
principal of the Butler High School,
has been elected principal of the
Poplar Bluff High School with a
handsome advance in salary. During
the coming summer he will teach ag
riculturc at the Springfield State
Normal School,
Mr.. and Mrs. Len Barber, of this
city. have received word that the am
bulance company, recruited in Kan
sas City, and OF which their son, Har-
ry, is member, has been moved from
Camp Donipllan, where it has been in
training for several months, to an
eastern port, and would be sent to
France within a short time.
One of the most severe windstorms
of recent years visited this locality
Wednesday night of last week. Re
ports from different parts of the
county would indicate that but little
damage was done. In town the prin-
cipal damage was caused by trees be-
ing blown across the light and tele
phone wires, many of which were
broken.
Mrs. c. a. Lusk has received a
cablegram from her husband, Captain
{. A. Lusk. of the army medical de-
saying that he had arrived
safely in France. Dr. Lusk entered
he medical officers training camp at
Camp Funston last summer and was
afterwards transferred to Camp Don
phan from where he went to France
With the 35th division.
Almost a family reunion occurred
sunday at the home of w. w. Van
Dyke, when his father, John w. Van
Dyke, of Rich Hill. and his three
'rothers, Millard, of Wier City, Kan.
nd Harry and Ray, OF Butler, visited
lin. Ray was accompanied by Miss
Knight Douglas, also of Butler. 1t
vas the first time the four brothers =,
ad all been together in ten years.
detz, Times. i
Fred Steele bought from H. d.
,equa, southeast of Butler a bunch t
+ cornfed steers that averaged 1915
ounds, costing an average of $2II.7o Ia
er head, being the highest price PAID {
y shipper for cattle of this weight r
} this territory. Mr.. Steele also II
ought from E. Robbins of the same It
so head of stock cat r.
e. These cattle were shipped to a
ansas City Wednesday.-Friday
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Mr.. and Mrs. A. B."Walker arrived fl
the city Saturday to make a short al
sit with Mr.. Walkers brothers, D. 81
!. and John S. Walker. They were L
route from Wichita, Kansas. where e,
ey had been visiting another broth je
) to their home in Columbus, Ohio. I'll
hey were called here 4 few weeks &C
q BY the death of Sergeant Elliott ia
Ealkefs after which they went to W
'iehita 70 make . brief visit, but OF
hlle there Mr.. Walker had the mis- til