The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-09-26

Ia ne w arrenS0urg Star journal says
that the convict camp now at Wind
sor will soon be moved to Johnson
COUNTY and the men put to work on
the capitol highway.
NJ The big Anheuser-Busch brewing
plant in St Louis has been
offered the government for the dura<
ton OF the war to be used as the Fed
cral officer may see fit.
u. A ST. Clair county man donated a
fine pair OF mares to pc put up at
auction and sold ior the benefit OF
the Red Cross. He guaranteed that
they would bring at least $500.
. The claim to fame of a Laclede,
Missouri. negro lies in the fact that
when boy Johnnie Pershin&, who is
now in command of the United States
forces in France. threw a rock
at him and hit him on the head.
Il. Hurley Lee Spicer. of HarrisoDville
who some time ago lost his arm in an
accident in France. has been promot-
ed to first class sergeant and ordered
to duty in the office OF the surgeon
general OF the army at Washington.
Twenty-Five soldiers we're killed
and between fifty end sixty more
were injured at 1880 o'clock Wednes-
day night OF last week, when freight
train and troop train crashed togeth-
or in head-on collision one mile east
of Marsbfield. Mo.
The license OF the Pratt Grain
Company, OF Kansas City, was re-
vokcd last week by the food admins
traitor. The company made profit
of S.33.lb on two car loads OF feed
when the regulations laid down by
the food administration only allow
a profit OF 500.
4 negro soldier from Platte City
was feariully sick and iearfully scared
an the time he was on shipboard.
Finally he blurted out to one of his
"Dey amt ,gwine to
cotch me on dis heah wattah again.
Is gwine to write ma wife she's gotta
git anuthah man. From now on is
foreign niggah, st. Joseph OBJ
server.
When visiting the county Jail one
day last week Kansas City attorney
was surprised Mo see a man whom he
had defended and for whom he had
secured an acquital last July still oc.
cupying his old cell. Some one had
and the man had been for
gotten. The lawyer got busy and the
man was liberated after being kept
locked up two months after he was
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James Monroe Kaiser Friday petit
TONED the Henry county court for a
change of name. The petition told
the court that the name Kaiser has
become $50 darned odious in this
that no loyal American ,citi-
zen should longer be required bear
t." Judge Calvird said he loticed the
language used. but considered it
merely emphatic and entirely j"st'->
liable"
The farmers of Galloway county re-
port that they will try a new expert
nent in feeding hogs this winter to
help tide over the corn shortage.
They plan to feed the hogs ground
pats in the form of mash and follow
t with a>ration OF corn. Through ex.
Deriments made already it has been
found that oats will fatten hogs rap
dly, says an exchange. They don't
say where to get the oats and corn.
Science Hall. the newest portion OF
The Kirksville State Normal School,
was destroyed by fire Thursday
BY hard work the flames
we're kept from other buildings. The
oss exceeds 100000. The origin of
he fire is a mystery. The building
Contained the big mems gymnasium,
which was being made over into a
for army students. Kinks
lille people will make arrangements
:aring for these men.
According to St. Louis papers.
Jeptha D. Howe. lawyer and one OF
he political bosses of the Repuhli-
ian party in St. Louis, and Mrs. La
INA Higgins Waltke. wife of Louis
\. Waltke, secretary Of the William
,Valtke Soap Company, also well
tnown in St. Louis, were arrested
Tuesday night of last week on COM
,laint Of the .woman's husband. at the
Quicker Hotel at Poplar Bluff, after
lowe had signed the register as y.
lowell and wife," of Macon. Ga.
Mrs. Mary Cramer. on North Full
on. street, Clinton, has received tel
gram from the War Department no.
flying her that her son, William R.,
r a. he was generally known to his
riends, Roy Cranmer, has been miss
ne ever since the 18TH of July. OF