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The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record., 1918-07-18
County and State Crop News.

Jefferson City, Mo-, July 13.-The
Missouri crop report for July, issued
jointly by E. A. Logan, Field Agent
OF the United States Bureau of Crop
Estimates, and Jewell Mayes, Secro'
tary Of the State Board of Agricul'
ture, shows corn prospects more
promising than last year. Corn con-
dition is o1 against 50 last month, 81
July, 1917, and 82 average. The i'll.
dicated production is 225.o22.ooc
bushels against 222.442,ooo last July
and the average yield of 17I,o46,ooo.
In Bates County the corn acreage
this year is 10000 acres, in SS per
cent of normal condition. Other
crops in the county are as follows
Potatoes, 81 per cent; oats, II pei
cent; apples, >o6 per cent; hay, 43 per
cent; pasture, 50 per cent.
The Missouri cor ncrop is growing
upon 7,2z2,85o acres against 1900 ooo
acres in 1917 and 100000 average
The acreage would have been i'll
creased more except for the late wet
spring in southeast and south central
Missouri, where many counties re-
duced their acreage. In the central
and western counties, with large
wheat crop, the acreage is not up to
usual, but the north third of the state
has heavy increase applying espe-
cially to the northeastern and north
central sections, which are not heavy
wheat growers and went strongly to
corn.
Corn was we'll worked and is clean
with generally a good stand in all
sections. Cultivation is practically
finished everywhere except in the
southeast. where the plant is smaller
than usual, due to late season. but
making rapid growth. Western and
southwestern corn was retarded by
dry weather of June. Hot winds
burnt the outer blades in various sec
tions of the state, not damaging the
crop seriously, however. Recent
showers relieved many points. The
plant IS much farther advanced than
this time last year in the northern
part Of the state and in the northeast
ern section the crop Is more .promis-
ing than. for the past several years
With : nosand season, the yield
should exceed the asa million bushels
Of 1919.
! The aeresge Of corn IN the United
States Il Tiae3Sooo agaia1t 1zQ.7s5,-
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record., 1918-07-18
HOME CLEANUP KIT
INVENTED
Stains Easily Removed if Attended
to at Once.

Stains on clothing can usually bs
removed with little trouble if attend
ed to at once. Those LETT in fabrics
for several days are the most stub.
born.
| The girls in the home economic:
department of the University OF Mis-
souri, have invented a cleanup xii
that can easily be equipped by any
housewife. The kit will remove
everything from grease spots to tar
The materials and chemicals needed
and how to use them follow:
Bowls, sponges, medicine dropper
glass rods for stirring, cheese cloth
ivory and naptha soap, benzine. am
monia. ohloroform, acetic acid, borax
ink eradicator, brush. iron and blot
tiers.
Directions: Chocolate-Cover with
borax and wash with cold water.
Coffee-Spread stained part over a
bowl and pour boiling water over il
from height of two or three feet.
Fruit-Use borax and ammonia
with boiling water.
Glue-Apply acetic acid with a
brush.
Grease-Apply benzine with a
cloth.
Ink-Use eradicator as directed on
box.
@ Iodine-Warm water and soap,
chloroform or ammonia.
Machine Oil-Benzine. with soap
and water.
Paint-Benzine. choloroform, or
naptha soap and water.
Rust-Cover with a paste of acetic
acid and salt and place in sun.
I Tar-Place blotting paper on either
side and press with hot iron.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record., 1918-07-18
Forest Fires Raging in Montana.

Missoula, Mont, July 13.-The fire
situation in the Clearwater forest in
Idaho is critical. with 2S large fires
raging, eight of which have broken
out during the past "a hours.
The Rocky Ridge fire on the divid-
ing line between the Clearwater and
Selway tracts, is still beyond control
and is now flaming on an area two
miles wide and six miles long
On the Idaho side, the Trail creek
fire has been trenched for six miles
and for the time being is under con-
troll. The fire in this region has des-
troyed $500 acres of timber.
In the Selway forest 23o men are
battling the flames along Rhoda and
Bear creeks.
Light rains which fell yesterday
throughout Northern Idaho and
Northwestern Montana have relieved
the immediate peril in the Kanikru,
Pen D,Oreille and St. JOS forests.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record., 1918-07-18
crowder Calls for 5000 to Cut Spruce

Washington, July I2.-Provost
Marshal General Crowder today is
sued a call for an additional 5000
men from thirty-eight states to pro-
duce spruce wood in the forests OF
the northwest for airplane construc-
ton. From class one only men who
are qualified for special or limited
service will be accepted. These, as
well As registrants in the second.
third and fourth classes qualified for
general military service. may volun-
teer until July q, but after that date
sufficient men viii be selected from
class one to make up any deficiency
h 4 staee's quota. The men are to
entrain July - for Vancouver bar
facls, yancouver Wash.
AAeax states, all6ttments are:
IlIinois, rs; Iowa, 10; Kansas. S;
xanfoc1y, - Missouri, s4r; Nebras-
r. le;s asw Yost. s6r; Tsnaessee,
IS; TezaA rs s'..ss.-,
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record., 1918-07-18
Roosevelt, the Prophet

While Col. Roosevelt has had much
to say of the I-told-you-so. order, let
Is recall that it has not been long
since he pointed out that it would be
utterly impossible to get million
men abroad even by fall. Aad - the
million men were. in France tx ~
first of July.-Heary County Deae'
erzt a. .r-ss'.,r (
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record., 1918-07-18

command of the German forces in
East Prussia when the Russians in
vaded that district in August, 1914.
By piece of great strategy, Hin
denburg lured the Russians into the
maze of swamps, near Tannenberg,
and destroyed their army. The Rus
slams were thrown back across the
frontier and never again succeeded in
getting upon German soil.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record., 1918-07-18
HiNDENBURG. DEAD?
Boche War Chief Reported to Have
Died of Apoplexy After Quarrel
With Emperor.

London July I3.-Field Marshal
Won Hindenburg, chief of staff of the
German army, is dead, according to q
Reuter- dispatch from Amsterdam to.
day, giving the Dutch newspaper Les
Nouvelles as authority for the state
ment.
According to the Amsterdam dis.
patch, 'Hindenburg died suddenly as
the result of stroke, following a
stormy interview on May I6 with the
kaiser regarding the offensive on the
western front.
The interview took place at the
Spa.
Hindenburg has been reported in
bad health for several months. Once
he was said to be in a sanitarium in
southern Germany. Again it was ru-
mored that he had lost his mind
Again it was reported that he was
dead.
A traveller who returned to The
Hague yesterday from Germany said
that the gossip of Hindenburg's Sc
we're illness was nationwide in Ger
many, but that the newspapers were
not allowed to print anything about
it.
Field Marshal Paul Won Hinden-
burg was one of the biggest military
characters developed by the war, al
thought he was comparatively un-
known to the outside world before
the great conflict began.
The German warrior was regarded
50 highly by the German people dur
ing the past four years that his death
may be considered equivalent to q
great allied victory, although 4 has
long been reported that General Lud-
endorff was the real brains OF the
German army"
Before the war Hindenburg was
generally regarded By the Berlin
court q nuisance beeause Of his
insisteuee that the Nasurian lake d.
tsiet in East Prussia be utilised - =
defensive barrier On the eastern ffon-
t;er Of Cernany, iastead Of 6sing
d61ined fdf 1F5ez1kngol pufpoe1A .
tie kaiser visfe4 s
The aged wosripe- he We ~ ysafs
ed this ye6r4Wne sesigod bdk wA6 -
called fru0 oheenjex - pat d
''7(-7.t - : = -7Fss..
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record., 1918-07-18

The Arkansas constitutional con-
vention has adopted . plank for sub
missiou to the voters granting women
full suffrage, allowing them to vote,
hold olfiee and serve On juries. Only
three deleeates voted in the negative.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-30
GERMANS FACE CRISIS
Must Go Ahead on West Front and
Face Destruction.

Paris, April 30.-The Germans can
not remain in their present position on
the western battle front Their wings
are open to attack. The enemy's sue
cess has reached such a point that he
must go on to the end and in the
shadow of the Germanic war standard
death is bleeding the German youth
and moving down the finest Hun bat
talions. SO human material must he
economical
Ludendorff. the real master of the
offensive thus far. is faced with a ter
rible dilemma. To advance is imper-
ative but his melting forces must he
used carefully. The desperate defense
has compelled the Hun commander to
engage ten divisions of which five
were fresh. making a total of 40 di-
visions thrown into the slaughter since
the beginning of the offensive
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-30
GERMAN DEMANDS
Holland Must Bid High for
War Materials.
Yielding to AnglO.American
Affair Given as Reason.

Amsterdam, April 3o-Germany
demands from Holland. says the
Vossische Zeitung of Berlin, the right
to send war material over the Linn
bourg railawy to Antwerp. the right
to send food stuffs for shipment for
Antwerp and the renewal of treaties
relating to the importation of sand
and gravel.
''As Holland" the newspaper adds
recently yielded to Anglo American n
pressure she must grant these condi-
tions to redress the balance"
From the above dispatch it is ap-
parent that Holland and Germany
have not yet reached an agreement
concerning transports thru Holland.
A dispatch from The Hague to the
London Daily Mail on Monday report
ed that Holland had yielded to Ger
many's demands concerning transport
and the supply of sand and gravel.
1t was added that it was understood
that the amount of sand and gravel
would be limited and be for nom
military purposes only. There has
been no official confirmation of the
reported agreement
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-30
TO SPEED DRAFT
THE PURPOSE OF
new MEASURES
Congress Is Busy With Three
Drastic Bills.
One Would Call 100000
Immediately.
mot AN HOUR To Be LOST"
CrOwder Says New Quotas
Should Be Retroactive.
Men of 21 Should Be in With
Others. Too.
JrOwder Says New Quotas
Should Be Retroactive.

Washington, April 30-Three bills
to increase Americas man power in
the war were introduced today in the
senate. Senator Poindexter. of Wash
ington, offered one authorizing the
president to call Immediately l. 800. 900
men under the selective draft law.
Senator Reed, of Missouri. offered one
TO add 5000. 900 men to the army, and
Senator Smith. of Georgia, intro
duced a resolution proposing to raise
the army to five million men.
Immediate action to increase the
army, Senator Poindexter said in a
brief address is necessary.
Il understand the secretary of war
is considering this matter" he said.
'and is holding conferences with con-
gress waiting presumably for some
body in the department to prepare the
bill. Congress should act Immediately.
There should be no delay in increasing
our army. There ought not to be a
day-an hour-lost. Destiny and op-
portUnity are marching by while we
hold conferences
Senator Reed announced that he
would address the senate Friday in
behalf of this bill.
General Crowder made his request
in letters to the chairman of the SEN
ate and house military committees
OF the proposal to put the new regis
trants at the bottom of the list OF
eligibles General Crowder said:
The plan proposed by this office
would result in the registrants being
given order numbers scattered thru
out the entire list of order numbers
This seems to be fairer than the plan
proposed by the amendment The re-
suit of the house amendment in many
jurisdictions will be to delay the CALI
ing of these young men for con-
siderable time. In the meantime their
status will have changed. they will
have married or become integrated
with the industries of the country.
Moreover. it establishes a sprece-
dent which may be appealed to. pro-
vided aliens are registered under the
provisions of the new legislation based
upon treaties to be negotiated"
For Fair Treatment.
The plan to make the quota law
retroactive would apply 1t to men of
the new draft called which the Iegis-
lation is. pending. Delay in enactment
of the legislation, General Crowder
wrote. necessitates the retroactive fea-
ture.
During the past few weeks Gen
eral Crowder stated, the camps have
become ready to capacity and the
imperative needs of General Persh-
ings forces have led to the rapid dis
patch OF more troops overseas and
to the issuance of relatively small
calls by authority of the president to
fill the organizations in training can
tonments. The result of these calls
spread over tine past few weeks has
been not only to exhaust practically
all the deferred percentages of the
Quotas on the first general call (July
-, 191O, but to add still further
quantities of men in the excess of the
first quotas
Obviously, General Crowder added.
to insure fair treatment for all the
states, the new quota plan should be
applied to men called on the second
draft
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-30
PLOTTERS GET TWO YEARS
Franz Bopp and Won Setback Also Are
Fined $4,000 Each.

San Francisco. April 30.-Ma ximum
sentences of two years imprisonment
in a federal penitentiary and fines of
$4,000 each were imposed today upon
Franz Bopp. former German consul
general here. and E. H Won Setback,
former vice consul. following their
conviction last week on charges of
conspiring to fcment revolution
against British rule in India.
Motions for new trials on behalf Of
al twenty-nine Defendants who were
convicted by the jury were denied by
Judge William c. Van Fleet, of the
United States district court. In pass
ing sentence. Judge Van Fleet ex-
pressed regret that he could not make
them heavier.
The punishment is wholly made
quate to the crime, and the penalty
may well be called to the attention of
congress and so amended that Il will
act as deterrent" he said THE
German defendants represent a system
that the civilized world cannot toier-
ate"
The sentences imposed today will
run consecutively after the completion
of other sentences, which they are now
serving on previous similar charges.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-30
HONOR TO WAGGENER
Great Outpouring of Children and
Adults Attends Funeral.

Atchison, Kan, April 30.-The es-
TEEN and admiration felt by Atchison
people for the memory of B. P. Wag-
gener was most fittingly expressed by
the great outpouring of his friends at
his funeral held here this afternoon.
The services were held at the resi-
Gence and so many persons assembled
that only very small portion of them
were able to enter the home. In the
great throng that assembled, which
actually congested the streets about
the residence, were thousands of chill
dren from the city and the country
who had assembled to pay their last
respects to the man who had given
So many picnic5 for their entertain
ment and whom they had learned to
love so deeply. Scores of prominent
men from all parts of the west were
at the funeral.
Prominent men from all over Kan
sas and the west are here for the
funeral Delegations came from To-
peka, Kansas City st. Louis and other
places
There were eight pallbearers: J.
c. Fox, James NJ. Challiss, Ellsworth
Ingalls,, Gene Howe, Frank Harwi,
Charles A. Brown, Charles Raterman
and c. H Johns.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-30
WHITLEY ACCEPTS
New Missouri Senator Goes To
See Governor Today.
Succeeds Late Senator Stone at
National Capital.

Jefferson City, Mo-, April 30
P. Whitley, chairman of the
election board of st. Louis, arrived
here today to receive his appointment
to the United States senate, succeed
ing the late Senator William J. Stone.
Governor Gardner announced last
night that Whitley had been t,ndered
the appointment and had accepted.
Senator Whitley will deliver his
maiden speech here today before the
Jefferson City Commercial club.
Former Judge Daniel G. Taylor will
be appointed chairman and member of
the st. Louis election board, Governor
Gardner announced.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-30
FRENCHMAN HAS
HOPES FOR YANK'S
ODD TASTES YET

Paris, March 21-At last a French
correspondent has found a weak spot
in the American expeditionary force
The man who has ventured to strike
this first discordant note Is the special
representative of lie Temps at the
French front who happened to be near
the American section which had the
first real fight with the enemy and 50
paid them a visit. He writes:
There are certain practical points
in which our allies are not yet past
masters. notably cooking. At first
scorning their own stews they pre-
ferred to stick to canned meat en-
tirely Oar cooks showed them how
to make soup and they soon acquired
q taste for it. 1t won't be long before
they will be making some good stuff
themselves. better any way than the
extraordinary mixtures I saw them
eating this evening like canned SAL
mon with mashed potatoes and pickled
cucumbers."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-30

the central power morale is at its
zenith. Some of the articles by George
Creel, the American publicity agent,
tell US that the central powers are
going to pieces; that the people are
dying by disease, starvation and are
trying to revolt. Don't you ever think
the Socialists in Germany will betray
their government. The reichstag is
eating out of the kaiser's hand-doing
Just what he and 'Hindie want it to
do because things look, to them like.
victory. I guess if 1 were a newspaper
man / would scare everybody to death.
but We Americans might just as well
face the facts. look them squarely in
child turn their efforts to winning this
war"
Altho Bulgaria is at war as an ally
to Americas enemies, Markham has a
warm spot in his heart for Bulgarians.
The Bulgarians," he says, ARE
friendly to the Americans and respect
them. Bulgaria is in this war for a
definite aim-to re-obtain possession
of Macedonia and the 100000 Bull
gars outside of Bulgarian borders At
the start, Serbia had this territory and
Bulgaria had to enter the war on Ger
many's side to get it Had Serbia
given up this small territory, Bulgaria
would have joined the allies, as before
the declaration of war everyone was
in favor of the allies winning. Russia
was given a free hand in the Balkans
by Great Britain and Russia played a
dirty hand. Serbia would have given
Bulgaria the territory if she had been
properly approached. This would have
lined Bulgaria up with the allies, and
not put the nation in the necessity of
joining Germany.
Courtesy Thru Bulgaria.
1T was thru Bulgarian courtesy
that we Americans who left in Janu-
ary to come home were given passage
thru Austria
THE faIl of Russia has a lot to do
with the high spirits now of the Cen
| trail powers. Austria and Germany
end Bulgaria have received. stores of
| foodstuffs thereby. The people also
have promises by their governments
of more
Yes. there is a food shortage in
Germany and her allies, but the peo-
pie have become used to it. 1 couldn't
get used to it but the people there
seem to have. 1 have seen hundreds
of women stand in bread lines wait
| ing for a loaf of vile stuff for their
| families, while<th temperature was
| low and snow was falling.
Il do not think there is any doubt
| but that Russia will rise again into a
monarchy. / do not put much faith
| in the report that Grand Duke Alexis
has been proclaimed emperor. No
mere boy could achieve such an ac-
complishment.
The need of Russia is for a new
| Napoleon. 1 look for some great mill
tary leader to come forward, some
big man who has the power and brains
| to lift Russia out of the niire as Napo-
leon did France"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-30
Topeka Council Starts Organi-
zatiOn of State.
10000 Members Will Be Asked
To Assist.
LEAGUERS DISLOYAL, CHARGE
Knights of Grip Will Show Up
Their Workings.
John WOrley Says They Play
Farmers for "SuckerS."

Thru the Topeka council of the or
der, machinery of the United CONNER
cial Travellers grand council of Kan
sas. was set in motion today for the
organization of the 10000 members
of the association in this state as an
active working force against the Nom
partisan league in this state, the trav-
elers claiming that the league is dis
loyal to the best interests of the coun-
try. The action on the part of the
travellers was announced in Topeka to-
day by John Worley. prominent in
the affairs of the Topeka council and
chairman of the resolutions commit
tee of the state grand council.
Charges that the NonpartiSan league
has been disloyal in its acts and prop
aganda not only in Kansas but in
other states; that many of its MEM
bers are pro-German in their sympa-
thies and instead of helping this coun-
try in the production of foodStuffS are
actually hindering it, leads to the an
nounced opposition by the travellers.
Their attention. or rather the atten-
ton of the Topeka council was called
to the work of the league which is at
tempting to organize farmers thruout
the state by a Salina member who
works in a territory where the league
is reported to have gained quite foot
hold.
"OTley says It's DlSiOydl
After taking the matter up the To-
peka council named Worley on a spe-
cia1 committee to investigate the
leagues activities. Worley today stated
that there is no doubt but that the
league is disloyaL
The grand council will meet in
Atchison in about thirty days" he said
today, land at that time resolutions
that will completely organize the
travellers for action will be introduced.
When the resolutions are passed let
ters will be placed in the hands of
every member of the association call
ing upon the recipient to concentrate
in the opposition of the league. Each
! travelling man in turn will explain to
the thousands of country merchants
and other customers thruout the coun-
try the working of the league, that the
latter may warn the farmers against
becoming affiliated with it.
Play Farmers for suckers
Worley today intimated that the
league is playing Kansas farmers for
suckers"
There are several things about the
working of the league that are a mys-
terry" he said. For instance, farm
ers are charged SIG to become a 1uem-
Der. The new members is promised
nothing and has no say in the work
ings of the ganiZation of which he
is a member. The officials of the
league have all the power and what
! they do with the money obtained for
memberships no one seems to know"
1t is said that the Nonpartisan n
working in Kansas and claims about
10000 members in this state. r. L.
Cooper, 526 New England building, is
state organizer.