The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-11-14

Mrs. w. H. Padley of route ! hal
Ion display at the Peoples Bank Z
Il / me large pumpkin. The Times force
Il I'M been tryinglto persuade the bank
HOntcials that it world make a batch
Hof excellent pies Of the exact kind
thN newspaper men relish the most.
Mrs. Glenn Wheatley died Satur.
y evening, November o. at hei
Home in Foster Of influenza. A hus.
86and and mother, Mrs. A. Thorn.
|thEugh, and family Of brothers and
f6iSters survive her. Burial at Eos
IIssr.
Otis Berryhill, OF Wichita, Kan.
ms, spent several days here last
ftweek with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs
iT. j. Berryhill. While here he re-
Eceived orders to report to Fremont
Il california, to enter an officers train
Ing camp.
Sergeant Major Bruce l.. Black
\ who is stationed at Camp Macarthur
Waco, Texas, is enjoying ten day
Visit here with hon1efolks. Sergeant
Il Black is looking fine and says THAI
army life agrees with him in every
dMay. ee
Clerk OF the Supreme Court, ]. D
fallen, received a cablegram Sunday
i from his son, Lieut.. j.. w. Allen
jfrom somewhere, in France, stating
THAT he was recovering from thu
wounds he received in the left arm
md shoulder in action in France
| Adme time ago.
Il Several business men and county
lofficials were called to Kansas City
MONDAY to testify before the Fed
lsfal Grand Jury. The Federal All
| thorities have been investigating {
number of cases Of disloyalty and j
Ills presumed that these gentlemen
lwere called to testify in these cases.
/ There will. be a meeting of direct
ors and delegates of the various Mu
i tual and Independent Telephone
1companies of Bates County at. thu
/ Court House in Butler next Satur
day afternoon, Nov. 10th, at 2 p. m
/ It is desired that each company hav'
i two delegates present who are au
5thorized to act for them in determin
ling what action shall be taken II
Telephone matters, especially in re
gard to establishing switch board
Edison Snyder, Sec,
Rural Telephone Assn
The Times is very fortunate in it.
| staff of correspondents throughout
the county, and we are especially
tproud OF our CORTLAND correspond.
cnt, Miss Beth Turner, who sc
promptly recognized the importance
Of the attempted shooting of Deputy
Stangel at CORTLAND by Clyde Row
den Wednesday evening and inn
mediately turned in the particulars
lby phone. Some weeks ago Miss
Turner suffered broken right arm
lbut in spite OF that handicap ha:
Turned in her correspondence each
week writing with her left hand.
A delayed telegraph money ordel
flor $4,000 has been received by J. 4
lNorfleet from the band of the U. )
S.. Alabama for the purchase OF
floral emblem for the late Roi Nor
fleet, who was member of the bant
and who was buried in this cit,
Tuesday, Nov. S.. Believing thai
the members of the band would cor,
daily endorse his action in the. mat
ter, Mr.. Norfleet has turned the
money over to Judge Carl J. Henry
treasurer of the Bates County Chap
ter of the Red Cross. The offering
was an evidence OF the esteem III
which Roi was held by his fellow
musicians on the Alabama.
Dewey Brandon came in from
Iowa the first of the week to report
to the local draft board for induction
intos the U. S. Service with the con-
tisRent which was to have left here
Wednesday, but that call having been
cancelled he will visit homefolks
here a short time and return to Iowa
The Brandon family is well repre-
sented in the draft, Boone Brandon
and four of his sons having regis
tered, and two of the boys are now
in the service, one in France and one
in a training camp. While Boone
hasn't said much about it his friends
think he is rather disappointed that
the war ended before the draft calls
got down to his number.
The .Bie Celebration" pulled off
on the streets of Butler Saturday
night by bunch of Republican WARD
politicians and their negro satellites
was about the worst fiasco ever
staged in Butler. Two or three local
political bosses seemed to be the IN
stigatots of the enthusiasm and ttle
crowd, which in all amounted to
about twenty-five celebrants, seemed
to be composed mostly OF negroes
and lids. The celebration consisted
mostly of bonfire of old barrels
and drygoods boxes and the firing OF
an anvil.~ Members OF the Repup-
lican Committee and Republican can.