The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-09-19

trsinted the first of the week advertise
Rng sale which he. will have soon.
IJ3e will sell off some of his farm ma
tcAinery and household goods and
tnapve to independence, Missouri,
where he expects to make his future
Mime His health had failed some-
ESat and he found that he, was not
t&61e to farm and look after q saw mill
(which he has been operating, so he
Thought he Would take things easy
lfor while in the hopes OF restoring
Ibis health.
Laney, of Hudson township,
lone of Bates county's,- most substan-
Itial citizens and good Democrats,
Ieomplimented this office with call
while in the city Saturday afternoon.
IMr I.aney is keen student OF pub
flic affairs and keeps thoroughly post
fsd. He recalled the money panics
and hard times that followed few
Years after~the Civil War, but is GER
tain that with~President Wilson on
1.-The job no such condition will follow
lin the reconstruction days following
1.-The present war
Judge w. T. Cole went to Kansas
City the latter part of last week and
Friday at the St. Joseph's hospital
tunderwcnt all operation for the re.
Imoval of one of the nerves that had
lbeen causing him considerable trouble
/ for long time. The operation was
Ia very critical and unusual one, but
Hetters from Kansas City say that It
Twas uccessful and that the Judge will
|be home in short time and the doc
\ tors promise him that he will have no
more trouble, which will be good
news to his many Butler friends.
+ &C. F. Ruddell returned to his home
Fin Sheridan. Wyoming, the first OF
1.-The week with relatives and old
Il friends in the Passaic neighborhood
JMr. Ruddcll has only been away IRON
the neighborhood for about five
years, but he says that even in that
short time he finds many changes
\ among the old neighbors. He called
at The Times office and ordered the
paper to- make him weekly visits dur
ling the coming year so that he may
keep osted on affairs back home.
tWhen he went to Wyoming he home
steaded piece of land which he mas
Since sold and bought property IN
Sheridan,
One OF the busiet men in the coun'
try at the present time is Col: I. +
Robbins. In addition to running to'
tofficc O, the Republican ticket, whicl
labor is wasted. he has sale nearly
leverv day. He informed us the othe'
day tina. so far this fall he has had sc
sales, which is many more than usua
| early in the season. There are two
lrea sons for the unusual numbers
lone is that many Of the boys have
gone to war and their fathers are re
firing from the farm and another Il
THAT there was mighty little corn o.
| hay raised in Bates county this yea
land the farmers want to get rid o
their stock before feeding time ar
Irivcs and they have to buy h'gi
Ipriced feed.
t. w. Z. Griffin, of Lone Oak town
Ship, was in the city Saturday an
had with him some samples OF corr
raised this year on his farm III tina
township. The corn was OF tn
Boone County White variety and wa
about as fine as could be raised an,
wear. big. fine, we'll filled ears tina
did not look much like a dry year
| Mr. Griffin said that his corn mad
IS bushels to the. acre this year, which
so far as heard from is the best yiel'
in Bates county. He says that tn
secret of his big crops is deep pillow,
ing. Last spring he plowed his land
which is black upland, with tracto
and was enabled to pillow much deep
or than he could have with hoors'
pulled pillow and thus had much bet
ter seed bed besides turning tn
weeds under so deep that they did no
start to come up until after he ha'
cultivated his corn over once. n
thinks that land ptowed deep with
stands the dry years much better thai
the shallow blowing and his corn !
ample evidence that he is right.