The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-07-11
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OF Local Interest Clipped From
Our Exchanges.

N OF Local Interest," Clipped Fro
Our Exchange.
In Rockville the savings stamp
+ went so fast that before night on til
It last day of the drive the supply wa
II exhausted.
i, An Appleton City threshing ma
chine owner claims that his machin
. threshed IS bushels Of wheat in 2
v minutes one day last week.
The Osceola Red Cross is the rich
!, er by SIS that 40 women members o
the order earned one day last week b,
,, shocking 80 acres of wheat for a far.
mcr near that city.
1t is said that the Prairie City
} cheese factory will be forced to close
in short time on account of the
cheese maker being called to service
in the National army.
During the severe storm a week ago
Saturday night Chas. Coleman, OF
Hume, lost five head of cattle by be-
ing struck by lightning VIM. Kellar,
of the same place, lost valuable
mule.
The Adrian Journal says that the
parties that are drilling on the Nc
Pherson farm i'll West Boone town
ship, have struck an abundant flow OF
gas at depth OF $50 feet. They are
drilling for oil and expect to go down
to depth of 5000 feet if necessary.
Rev. V. H. Coffman, who left
Adrian some time ago for Camp Tay-
lor, Kentucky, to go into training for
a chaplaincy in the. army has been re-
jccted on physical grounds, says the
Journal. He will return to Adrian
and resume his duties as pastor of the !!
Baptist church.
Mr. and Mrs. J. +. Iiuddleson, of
.Ndrlan, have received word that their
son. Eveland, who is with the Ameri-
can forces in France, had been
wounded in the knee by fragment
OF schrapnel on May 24th The SUR
geons. had removed the fragment and
he was i'll fair way to recovery, saws
the Adrian Journal
The speaker of the day at Montrose
the Fourth was a Canadian soldier
named Jacobs. He had spent two
years i'll Flanders with the Canadian
troops and doubtless had all interest
ing story to tell, The Appleton City +.
Home Guard Band was billed to fur
nisl music during the day and the
Johnson family band to render a con-
eert in the evening. I
Over in the Rockville eiglborhood !
he cry for farm help was so great last
week that the head of one of the prin- I
'ipal implement houses of that town
urncd the store over to his sons, aged
4 and IS years and went to the har-
'cs fields, and the Rockville News
Jays that business went on as usual, II
he youngsters selling implements and
writing checks on the bank even more q
egibly than the old man could lC
The first crew of the Fred NJ. .
,rane Dredging Co., of Omaha, Ne-1
raska, which has the contract to dig q
he Grand river drainage ditch in d
'ates and Cass counties, is now here =:
nd are preparing their camp on the :,
tic where the work wilt commence. =
he first drcdge has arrived and is be- \,
lg hauled from here and assembled y:
the mouth of Lick Branch where y,
nc of the laterals will be COM y.
fenced The drainage ditch will =,
tart on the Henry Bates county line y
nd continue in Bates county for =,
bout one-third OF its length and be ~
| Cass from there The bottom "
idth OF the ditch will be twenty-five 81,
let and the average depth sixteen. -.
his is somewhat larger than the :,
lcnry county part, and will be able to =.
andle an immense amount of the 20 20
'ual overflow.-Creighton News. II