The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-11-21

If you are too busy to come in, tel
ephone Black & Sons your order ant
they will gladly mail goods to you.
Ed Miller, of the south part o
the city, received telegram Saturday
evening that his son, Fountain Mill
err, a member Of the I28th machine
gun battalion, had been severely
wounded in action in France on Oc
tober ii. The telegram gave nc
particulars.
p If YOU are too busy to come in, tel
ephone Black Il Sons your order anG
they will gladly mail goods to you.
Mrs. Hattie Timbly, colored, dice
at the home OF her sister, Mrs. d. ]
Crouch, in the east part OF the city
Tuesday of last week. She was {
resident of Waco, Texas, and was Wis.
iting in this city when she fell vic
tim to the influenza
H. A. Wayfand, of northeast OF
this city and w. O. Atkcson aud d
flew of their friends have been having
some great sport lately wolf hunting
Mr.. Wayland has a fine pack OF
hounds and they have ben externlin-
ating the wolves in great shape.
r Mrs. Charles Pharis left WednesA
day for Oshkosh, Wisconsin, where
she will visit her son, Lieut.. Donald
Pharis. Before returning home she
also expects to visit relatives in St.
Louis and to stop at Columbia, where
another son, Theodore, is attending
the State University.
Lured by the call of the wild and
the beautiful weather, Sunny i'm and
Ed Snider took trip to the wood,
Tuesday afternoon squirrel hunting.
They succeeded in bagging number
of the nut crackers, but Ed was con-
siderably peeved because the biggest
one he saw got away.
w. F. Duvall, chairman OF the
Bates county chapter of the Red
Cross has been notified that Red
Cross work will be continued as be
fore and the demand is. especially
great for knitted articles of all kinds.
The making of certain kinds of surgi-
cal dressings will be discontinued
Homer Duvall, cashier of the Far
mers Bank, who was stricken with
appendicitis some time ago was tax
en- to Kansas City Sunday night, and
Monday morning was operated on.
He underwent the operation nicely
and at last reports was resting we'll.
He was taken to 81: Joseph's hospi-
tai.
The Kansas City public schools
opened Monday morning after having
been closed for the last few weeks
on account of the epidemic of the
Spanish influenza. Several Butler
girls who teach there and who have
been spending an enforced vacation
in this city with home folks, returned
to their duties Monday morning.
Mrs. H. D. Chambers came down
from Kansas City the last of the
week to assist in caring for her moth
er and father, Mr.. and Mrs. John
Stone, both Of whom were afflicted
with the influenza. While their con-
dition VAS not serious their care was
rather too much Of q task for Miss
I. c. Patterson, for the last two
years the efficient cashier of the
Denton-C Coleman Loan and Title
of this city, has been elect
ID cashier Of the Bank of Independ-
.nce, Missouri, and left the last OF
he week to assume his new duties |
During their stay in this city Mr.. and
Mrs. Patterson have made many |
warm friends who will sincerely re-
yret their departure.
A new time card went into effec,
N the Missouri Pacific railroad Sun.
Iay morning. The changes were few
md slight. The morning north
.pund mas left - Il was 1900 fo'clocs
he north boued train IT night was
nd heasly an hoar earlier and now
Eoes 1t 0syS The morning trair.
Fphs Kansas City now arrive at 3:so
Ne skfuia ynieh formerly ; arrived
bpm Kansas City 1t lr:oo r M no
ESQ ulinnte9 eten61 4 scheduled to
ffige At n "a - = 81