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The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record., 1918-06-20
Enemy Submarines Using Venezuel.
an Waters as a Base.

An Atlantic Port, June I6.-Intima-
ton that enemy submarines are lurk-
ing in the coastal waters of Vene-
zuela and confirmation of reports
that the Venezuelan Government had
adopted pro-German attitude was
given here today by Dr. Carlo Lopez
Buslamanti. editor OF FL Fonograph
formerly published at Caracas. Bus
lamanti asserted Venezuela, at the in
stigation of pro-German interests, is
suppressing pro-Ally newspapers and
throwing their editors into Jail. His
own paper was suppressed and he
served eight months in prison.
German money is being spent
freely in Venezuela Buslamanti said.
The Government is pro-German and
does not attempt to conceal the fact.
The people. however, are for the Al
lies and resent the stand the Govern.
ment has taken.
Il have documents which l will
present to the proper government Of
ficials at Washington which will
show many German intrigues against
this country.
Il will not deny that there are
German U-boat bases in Venezuelan
waters"
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record., 1918-06-20
Mrs. M. S. Cowles Dead.

Mrs. Laura ]. Cowles, aged g.
years, died Friday, June ID, at the
Montague hotel, Eleventh and Broad
way, Kansas City. The remains were
brought to this city Sunday and taken
to Oak Hill cemetery where a short
service. was conducted by Rev,
George Scroggs, of the Presbyterian
church, and interment made.
Mrs. Cowles was the widow of the
late M. S. Cowles, in the early day
a prominent business man of this
city. She is survived by four sisters,
Mrs. John Blachert, Mrs. Fannie
Snyder and Mrs. Louisa Lincoln, of
Los Angeles, California, and Mrs.
Milton Ellis, of Denver, Colorado,
and a brother Ed Cunningham, Of
Lima, Ohio.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record., 1918-06-20
SHORT STORIES
Of Local Interest-Clipped From
Our Exchanges.

Amsterdam is to have a picture
show. 1t is to be conducted by El-
mer F. Apgar and will be open two
nights in the week.
T. J. Farrell has been appointed
government agent to regulate the sale
of explosives in Howard township,
says the Border Telephone.
Uncle Bob Cummins bought a fat
hog to town Tuesday that weighed
$50 pounds and brought $SS. Mr..
Cummins says that is the most money
he ever received for hog.-Adrian
Journal.
The light proposition voted on at a
special election at Adrian Tuesday,
carried by large majority. There
was but one vote cast against the
proposed franchise to the Green COM
pany to furnish lights.
Last Wednesday was wool day in
Amsterdam says the Enterprise. A
total of 21,742 pounds was brought in
by SO persons in I5S sacks. Persons
from near Drexel, Adrian, Virginia,
Merwin, Amoret, LaCygne, Burdette,
Butler, Boicourt and lingo were here
with their lot OF wool.
Mr.. Henry c. Bale Jr., and Miss
Drucy Aloles were married Wednes-
day morning. June 18th, 1918, Rev.
W. 5. Hood officiating. The cere-
mony was performed at the Hood
home at 3 o'clock a. IN. Immediately
after the ceremony the bride and
groom. accompanied by few friends,
motored TO Kansas City on a honey
moon trip.-Adrian Journal.
Every week Appleton City puts on
a little more metropolitan airs. Last
week they had train wreck. Two
passenger trains collided head on
right in town. Now they have gotten
into the night watch class and I. Ed
Britt has been appointed to see that
everything is as it should be when
the good citizens are, or should be,
asleep. Ed will see to it that the job
is rightly done.
Hume is soon to become a freight
division on the Kansas City South
ern. The company has purchased J.
NJ. Thompson's residence property on
West Hume street, and parcel of
the Brown land adjoining same to be
used for building connecting track
to the Frisco This will make ''Y"
or turning switch for locomotives.
Under the present eight-hour law the
Kansas CityPittsburg division is too
long for the operation of freight
trains without loss of time and pow
er. A number of swing crews will be
located here which means an addition
to our population.-Hume Telephone.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record., 1918-06-20
Woman Loses Husbands in Wa
And Weds Another.

London, June l6.-To have lost
two husbands and married third
during the war has been the expert
ence of Lady Michael Wardell, one
OF London's May Day brides.
She is a daughter Of Sir Daniel
Cooper, an Australian millionaire.
She married first the late Viscount
Northland, who lost his life on active
service in 1915 and left will II,
which he expressed the hope that his
widow would marry again. She full
filled his hope when she was married
to Capt. Godfrey Mills, who was
killed year ago.
Her third husband is also a British
officer, holding a commission in the
Royal Hussars.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record., 1918-06-20
THIRTY YEARS AGO.
June 40, 1888

o. D. Austin, of the Record, and
VIM. Page were attending the nation
al republican convention at Chicago
The Butler Academy closed for the
year the previous Friday. Prof.
Wagner, of Ohio, was the principal.
Several from Butler attended the
the Firerans tournament at Garth
age the week before. Nevada won
first prize and Rich Hill second.
J. B. Paget, of Butler, and Miss
Mary Stubblefield, of Summit, were
united in marriage at the home of Mrs.
Mary Kaune, in Summit. Rev.
Browning of the Butler Christian
church officiated.
The Times extends thanks to J. M.
Tucker for some fine samples of
liquid rye bread which he brought
home with him from the St. Louis
convention. The Times did not go
into details as to what Liquid rye
bread was, but every one is entitled
to guess.
Rev. Stockton was regularly or
dained as pastor of the Baptist
church the Sunday previous. Rev. S.
NJ. Brown was in charge of the cere-
mony.
Rich Hill went "wet" by a vote of
2Io.
Preparations were underway for
the erection of big wind mill at the
artesian we'll. The water was grow
ing in popularity daily and some
means had to be devised to pump it.
Joe T. Smith had the matter in hand
and raised the necessary money.
George Maloney, of Adrian, was
arrested and brought to Butler and
lodged in Jail charged with writing
threating letters to and kidnapping
Miss Amy DeArmond, of that town.
1t was sensational case.
Hon. ]. B. Newberry, of Deepwater
township, was appointed Grand Mar
shall, and Capt. H. c. Donofue, assist
ant of the big Fourth of July celebra-
ton to be held in Butler that year.
Timothy Sullivan died that week in
Chicago as result of wounds receiv-
ed in the anarchist riots at Haymark-
ct Square, Chicago, May 4, 1886.
The grand jury was sworn in Mon
day and adjourned Thursday after
bringing in very few indictments,
which the Times concluded spoke
we'll for law abiding citizens of Bates
county. /
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record., 1918-06-20
MEN AND WOMEN
ARE STARVING IN
GERMAN PRISONS
Children of Belgium Forced to Work
Directly Behind Hun Lines.

Washington, June I4.-More evi
.dence of the barbarities to which the
Germans are subjecting the men, wo.
men and even children of ravished
Belgium was laid before the state de-
.partment today by the Belgian lega-
ton. The communication ,discloses
that Belgians, even women and chill
dren, are sent directly behind the
lines, often on military work against
their countrymen, in direct violation
.of international law.
In the camps where the deported
Belgians are herded the worst .condi-
tions prevail. They are exposed to
all the inclemencies of weather, badly
equipped, without clothing to change,
poorly housed, devoured by vermin,
insufficiently and badly nourished
and compelled to do excessive labor.
As punishment for their refusal,
they are beaten with rifle butts, tied
for long period to posts with moth
ing to eat except little soup .and
poor bread in the evening. Illpess,
particularly tuberculosis, has. rayaged
the ranks Of these unhappy people
and SO grave is the situation physi-
Clans say it will make its Devastating
effects felt for generations. q
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record., 1918-06-20
Enlist as a Farm Help Volunteer.

Somewhere in France an American
soldier whom you know is fighting
the Hun Somewhere in your neigh
borhood an American farmer is also
fighting the Hun. Both soldier and
farmer need help. The. soldier needs
the farmer and the farmer needs you.
Missouri must not fail in maximum
food production. The farmer is doing
all he can and still he needs help.
Therefore your duty is plain. Enroll
as member of the Farm Help Vol
unteers of Missouri
The labor which is necessary during
Missouri harvest season must come
from within the borders of the state.
Other states must obtain help in the
same way, and some must draw on
industrial centers for labor to save
the wheat.
Every man who can possibly leave
his business or his employment, must
work for the farmer during harvest.
Farmers prefer those men who have
had farm experience. Thousands of
men have left Missouri farms for an
easier life in the cities and towns.
They constitute an emergency labor
reserve. The emergency has come.
We must use the reserve.
Information concerning the Farm
Help Volunteers may be had from the
University of Missouri College of Ag-
riculture, Columbia, or any farmer
who has wheat to harvest is a recog-
nized recruiting officer. Get into ser
vice and investigate it after harvest.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record., 1918-06-20
Home Guard Officers Camp Will be
Opened

Jefferson City, Mo-, June I3-AuJt.
Gen. Harvey c. Clark today announc-
ed that training camp would be
opened during the summer for Off
GERS of the Missouri Home Guard.
The date and place of the camp, which
will last ten days, will be announced
later.
Gen. Clark said that competent in
structors would be furnished to give
the officers training in the elementary
duties of an officer. He believes that
it will be of great benefit to the men
who now head total of 10000 men in
Home Guard regiments in various
parts of the state.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record., 1918-06-20
Increased Pension Payments to Vet
erans Will be Automatic.

Washington, D. C., June 13-Undel
new ruling issued by the Pension
Commissioner, veterans of the Civil
War now on the pension roll and who
will receive increase in pensions as a
result of a new law passed last week.
will not be required to file new appli-
cations. The increase will be auto
matte, according to information given
Representative Igoe, and, sent to the
pensioners in his district today.
The new law, which has been sign
ed by the President, is the second one
increasing the pensions of the Civil
War veterans since the Democrats
have secured control of Congress.
The first was the Sherwood bill of
1912. The new law provides that no
Civil War soldier now drawing a pen
sion is to receive less than $50 a
month.
Where the soldier is over 72 years
of age and served six months or more,
the rates are as follows: Six months,
$32; one year, SIS; one and one half
years, $38; two years and over, $40.
According to pension officials, Mr..
lgoe said there are 268,ooo men en-
titled to increases by reason of this
act. No increases will be paid in
checks to be sent out July 4, as the
department finds it impractible to
make any payments of the increased
rates at the time, but every effort will
be made to see that the payments are
made in checks due August and
thereafter.
The bureau urges pensioners not to
write about the increase, saying that
letters of inquiry will simply delay
the work of making the additional
allowances.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record., 1918-06-20
Railroad Merger at Rich Hill.

Trainmaster Bevington of the Mis-
souri, Pacific was here from Nevada
Monday in joint conference with as
sistant Superintendent Hessler of the
Frisco system on the matter of ef-
fecting a consolidation of the busi-
ness of the two railway stations in
Rich Hill. This merging of railway
business at competitive points is the
policy of the government and such is
being done over the country general
ly, on account of war necessities. 1t
is planned that the Frisco will run its
trains into the Mo. Pacific station and
business consolidated in the near fu-
ture.-Rich Hill Review.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record., 1918-06-20
Thirty Years Ago Kaiser Went or
Throne

New York, June 15.-Thirty years
ago today the kaiser succeeded his
father, Frederick III, on the German
throne. On June IS, 1888, he was in
vested with the authority he is try
ing to stretch into world domination.
When Bismarck, the last obstacle
to William IFS power, was removed,
the kaiser said as now, that it was
an act ordained by God"
The occasion of the thirtieth ami
versary of the kaiser's ascension to
the throne, doubtless, will be cele-
brated throughout Germany. 1t is
taken for granted that William will
make an auuress on the Success" of
his war.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record., 1918-06-20
THIS IS CERTAIN
The Proof That Butler Readers Can
not Deny.

What could furnish stronger evil
dence OF the efficiency of any remedy
than the test of time? Thousands of
people testify that Doan's Kidney
Pills have brought lasting results.
Home endorsement should prove
undoubtedly the merit of this rem
edy. Years ago your friends and
neighbors testified to the relief they
had derived from the use of Doan's
Kidney Pills. They now confirm
their testimonials. They say time
has completed the test.
Mrs. J. c. Crutsinger, ara Adams
ST., Butler, says: "Doan's Kidney
Pills have been used by myself and
others of the family with the best re-
suits. gladly recommend them for
pains in the back and hips and trouble
brought on from kidney weakness"
Statement given November 20,
Ioo8)
On -pril 20. 1916 Mrs. crutsinser
said: The cure Doan's Kidney
Pills gave me as we'll 40 others IN the
family has proven permanent. +
think more of Doan's now than
ever.
Price 6oc, at all dealers. Don't
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Mrs. Crutsinger had. Foster-N -Nibarn
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. 4
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record., 1918-06-20
36Y Cadets are Enrolled at
West Point in Two Days.

West Point, N. Y, June 16-Three
hundred and sixty one cadets, includ-
ing 80 from the enlisted personnel
of the army, having been admitted to
the United States Military Academy
within the last two days. Some of
the men saw service in France. There
are still seventy-five vacancies in the
freshman class.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record., 1918-06-20
Ambassador Finds U. S. Wounded
Well Cared For.

Paris, June I6.-The American Am
bassador, William Graves Sharp, Wis
tied the hospitals around Paris to-
day and talked with the American
wounded. Everywhere he found
them treated with great care in
American hospitals by American sur
geons and nurses.
Il think" said the Ambassador to
the Associated Press correspondent,
"our people will be glad to know how
we'll and how tenderly our boys are
being cared for"
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record., 1918-06-20
Further Limitations on Sugar Sales,

The shortage Of sugar due primar.
lily to lack of shipping facilities and
to recent losses from submarine at.
tacks on the Atlantic Coast, makes
it nee ,ssary to still further limit
quantity retail sales of sugar.
From and after June IS you will
therefore limit each sale of sugar
(except for canning and preserving)
as follows:
I. TO town or city consumers not
more than 2 pounds at time.
2. To rural consumers not more
than pounds at time.
Note this cancels the five and ten
pound rule now IN force.
No Chsnge in Rules Governing
Ssles for Canning and Preserving.
No change has been made in the
amcuut which. can be sold to consum-
ers on certificate for canning and
pfeserving. On proper certificate for.
eaneing md preserving you may con-.
tinue to seii IS pounds sugar at a
time.
ye1 truly yours !
2. F. B. Mumford,
r>1l1.I Food Adniaistrator for
~: ~ go. = !,
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record., 1918-06-20
GERMAN PEOPLE WILL MAKE
PEACE IF WAR LASTS MUCH
LONGER, SAYS BERLIN
WRITER
Angry Spirit Prevails in Capital
Because of Food Shortage, Ac-
cording to Letters Reaching
London,

London, June I3.-Private letters
from Germany which have come into
Allied hands indicate the heavy
weight which the war has imposed
upon the poor in that country. Ankle
ty for peace finds frequent express
sion as well as angry with the mil
itarist element in the nation.
"We hope that peace will come
soon," writes a man from Berlin,
"for if the war lasts much longer
then the people here will make peace.
Twice already there have been small
riots, but when the third comes it
won't go we'll with the rich people.
For the poor there is so little food
that they can hardly live, while the
rich people have stores laid up for
years. Poor people are only fit to
be shot. The men in the field suffer
for the rich and we have to go
hungry"
"If the rich had nothing to eat, as
we poor people have, the war would
soon come to an end"
Many of the letters run again and
again to attacks on the militarists and
the Junkers of Germany, who are held
responsible for the continuation of
the war and the consequent misery
of the people.
"As long as the militarists insist
the fatherland must be greater, there
will be no peace" writes woman
from Berlin, and disgust with the
methods of the Pan-Germans is a
strong note in the letters from all
parts of the country.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record., 1918-06-20
Orphans in Germany Starve' to Deatl

Paris, June I3.-Germany al
though attacking on the western
front, is starving says The Echo de
Paris. An article appearing in the
Berlin. Arbeiter Zeitung relates the
details Of six children starving to
death in an orphanage at Benefort.
Thurinpa.
Prof. Franz E. Helm, the widely
knoWn economist. writing in The
Bayerischer zeitung, Munich, warns
the Germans that the coming weeks
w1ll be harder than any that have
paessd and processes to forsee \
gesesai pariysis in the supply Of
The Washington herald., 1918-05-06
Makes Them Happy.

The success of downtown clubs of business wom-
en- has been feature of the growth of cities for
several years past. But it is question whether
employers appreciate what these big clubs do
ing to increase the efficiency of women workers.
Feminism, it is said, means "woman's right to
labor, leisure, love and laughter" Women who
know the most of the first often confess to sad
ignorance of the other three.
The organizations of women supply this
lacking knowledge. None of them are formed for
the benefit of employers, nevertheless they keep
women on excellent terms with their jobs and con-
tribute to the permanence of women in their en-
ployments.
Scores of employers distrust "feminism" as pro-
noting unrest, 1t doesn't, always.
The Washington herald., 1918-05-06
There Are Gentlemen, and Huns.

Eddie Rickenbacher, Ohio athlete, and Capt
Norman Hail. famous American flying man, by
their united efforts brought down Boche plane
behind the German lines
Each modestly gives the other entire credit for
Re feat, runs the report of their exploit
To give another man his due is the first rule of
good sportsmanship. No game is "gentleman's
game unless player recognizes and Acknowledges
the skill OF his partners and opponents
Splendid tales of ancient chivalry and modern
romance are founded on this spirit 1t was the
hrst rule OF war-unt the Hun broke it.
The Germans destroyed whatever reputation
for decent sportsmanship they may have had in
the great international games Before the war. Wis
ItoFs to the Olympic games reported that of all
The contestants entered by the different nations the
German was the poorest loser. He could never
shake hands and congratulate winner smilinelv-
when he lost. He honored rival-he al
ways called names. He never could share little
glory with a man who had helped him to win.
In spite of the Huns well-known defect in the
most important quality of the sportsmen, several
great German flyers have been given military bur-
ial by French and English knights of the sky.
After the war, the flying game will be the great
world-sport 1t must thrill the heart of every
American lover of fair play to know that American
aviators, like Hall and Rickenbacher, are already
ing the standards of the sport to accord with the
nnest traditions of English speaking people.
The Washington herald., 1918-05-06
HeIp From Norway.

(. The Kaiser is consistent in his yllainies. and
he will now have to blow up Norway's passenger
ships trade ships. ferries. hospitals and maternity
homes, for Norway has just concluded trade
treaty with America which, if anything could. would
justify the strafe business to the limit.
Under this new commercial treaty Norway can
get from America necessary supplies provided that
no goods forwarded with the aid of American
bunker coal get to the Kaiser. Norway, her
part, is to furnish nitrates, ores and many other
necessaries of war to America and her allies and,
America doesn't need these things, they'll go to
England and France
Our view of perfect neutrality has been some
what mussed up by events in this war, but wescan't
help feeling that the Norwegian neutrality has a
sort of Tower of Pisa inclination. And we're right
glad of it.
The Washington herald., 1918-05-06
A Slight Alteration.

Speaking at dinner, Senator Lawrence Y. Sher-
man, of Illinois, referred the occasional wisdom
of second thoughts and happily recalled this little
anecdote:
doctor was once called to attend misery
friend, and after diagnosing the case he wrote the
usual prescription.
"Since have known each other for such a
long time, DOCTOR" said the misery patient, as he
took the prescription, ~ don't intend insult you
by settling your account in cash. Instead, have
put you down for handsome legacy in my will"
"Ahem," thoughtfully responded the doctor,
and then added, would you mind letting me see
that prescription again?"
"Not at ALL" said the patient, handing over the
paper.
Thank you," remarked the doctor. II wish to
make slight alteration in it."-Phiadephia Even
ing Telegraph.