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The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-05-16
Root Branch.

l am surprised to hear from Mrs.
Frank keeton, OF Burdette, Kansas,
and more SO for the compliments she
passed on the Times Correspondence,
wishing the keeton family success
and health.
That's fact, Sunny Jim is not in
much danger edgewise, but look out
when he faces you. When he speaks
he says something, and he under
stands how to sling pencil-that's
what helps to hold the subscribers
to the Times. A little ten year old
girl told me the other day if Sunny
Jim did not write they would miss
him very much. When she got the
paper first thing was "Sunbeams. y
A silent tongue makes the head
wiser and gives you an opportunity
to learn something you have never
heard OF.
The rain here Sunday night flushed
the branches and made it too wet to
work old ground for I-2 days.
One half of the corn is planted and
the small grain looks promising.
The Nuckols Bros. took their cat
tie to Albert Argenbright Tuesday of
last week at $3.50 per head month
on pasture.
That flying machine that passed
over Friday morning enroute to
Kansas City made lot of noise.
George Eddy said the wind was so
high Thursday night that they came
to the ground at Pleasant Gap and
stayed over night. 1t sure was a
sight to the Pleasant Gap people.
w. C. Green sold Uncle Payton
Burton some oats.
w. Fl. Plunkett and Geo. Eddy was
out looking for hay to feed.
/ am not travelling taking pictures
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-05-16
County Court.

County Court met in regular ses-
sion Monday, May 9th, with Judges
Campbell, Reeder and Lowder pres
ent and Sheriff ]. w. Baker and
County Clerk Frank Holland in at
| tendance.
In the matter of the road petitioned
for by P. ]. Cowgirl ct al, surveyor
instructed to survey, mark out and
take REIMBURSEMENT of right of way
of those willing to give and ascertain
damage Of those unwilling to relin-
quish right of way. Report to be
made on second day of June meeting
of court.
Superintendent of State Hospital
No. 3 requested to release John T.
Dyer on grounds that Mrs. Dyer can
now care for him.
Inquest proceeding over body of F.
H. Moudy examined and approved.
Circuit Clerk H. O. Maxey pre-
sents his abstract of fees, which is ap-
proved.
. Lumber for bridge between Rogers
and Poindexter in Section 26 Spruce
township ordered purchased from
Mr.. Poindexter at $500 per 100 feet.
Lumber to be Red Oak. Citizens to
do hauling and work free to county.
County Highway Engineer ordered
to'view and make estimate for bridge
known as Choke Bore bridge in Sec
ton 26 Grand River township.
Monthly statement of County Clerk
Frank Holland presented and ap-
proved.
County Treasurer J. H. Stone pre-
sents warrants for cancellation as fol-
lows:
Salary Fund, $2o13.o1.
Pauper Fund, $3o5.8o.
Contingent Fund, S5651o.
H. T. Bridge, $1566S. -.
Z. & J. Fund, $215.
Common School Fund, $e8I6.oo.
Township School Fund, $884.oo.
Levies for the taxes for 1918 made
as follows: State tax, IS cents; coun-
ty tax, 40 cents; township tax, 10
cents; township road and bridge as
iSSiSo' anu SSitHicu ny tIlc StVcIdk
township clerks; Mt. Pleasant r. R.
fax, so cents; school taxes as levied
and voted, and certified by respective
clerks of school boards. All above
ievies to be on valuation of $1oo..
County revenue for ensuing year
apportioned as follows: Contingent
fund. IS per cent; salary fund, rs per
cent; pauper fund, rs per cent; bridge
fund, 20 per cent; Election and Jury
fund, S per cent.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-05-16
U-Boat Victories Cut in Half.

Washington, May 1o.-Official
French statistics on the submarine
warfare received here in a dispatch
from France today show that the to-
tai losses of the allied and neutral
ships, including accidents at sea, were
approximately only one-half as great
during April this year as in March,
1917.
Attention is also called to the fact
that each time the Germans have
made an offensive on land they made
a corresponding effort with their sub
marines. Thus during the second
half of March the number and activi-
ties of submarines increased. The
first half OF April marked very dis
tinct lessening, attributed to the
counter efforts OF the Allies.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-05-16
SEIZE EVEN SEED WHEAT
Government Pays Market Price fol
Farmers' Hoards.

Washington, May II.-Actual seiz-
ing of wheat boarded by farmers has
begun. State food administrators,
given broad powers ARE requisition-
ing grain in several states. The gov
ernmcnt is paying the regular market
price with the expense of seizure de-
Quoted.
Food Administrator Hoover again
has warned state officials every bush
ell Of wheat--even that held for seed
must be offered to keep the Allies
from starving.
Less than so million bushels. OF
wheat was reported on the farms May
I. SEEKING Of wheat began in Kan
sas, Indiana and other states May !.
Many states are. taking census OF
wheat. Indiana officials are register
ing al unsoid wheat. In Ohio far
mers are urged 10 cooperate in spot
ting tie erein s1aclr. Morn fhan
% pef <eai q: fensfs thefe have sod
Fed oslteiils hsre ~ he Nssioa
l. 40 M q s. - = per esnf a
IL 6(l vtdaf reonitenents Nifh7
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-05-16
Thi rty Years Ago.

Eleven counties in the state ha.
instructed their delegates to the ju
dicial convention to vote for Judg,
DeArmond for the. Democratic nomi
nation for supreme judge.
The Bates County Democratic Con
vention organized by electing Hon
J. B. Newberry chairman and Johl
c. Hayes secretary.
Sheriff Glazebrook appointed J. @
Shelby jr., his deputy.
The local optionists of Rich Hill
were making arrangements to opel
a local option campaign in that city
Mr.. Shields, the celebrated temper
ance lecturer, had been secured te
make the speeches. Local option ii
Rich Hill was not carried until near.
ly thirty years later.
Charlie McCants had opened a gro
Gerry store in the Sackett building, OH
North Main street.
K. w. James had bought the ]. H
Sisson grocery store, on the west
side of the square, just south of the
Bates county bank.
Casper Stammens advertises plenty
of natural ice at one-half cent per
pound. .....
T. Hitter Crockett and wife returned
fro ma years visit to relatives and
friends in Kentucky. Mr.. Crockett
opened his law office and resumed
the practice OF his profession.
A local says that Butler has no sa-
looms, no plain DRINKS, no base ball
team and mighty little use for mar
shall.
Mrs. VIM. Page went to Denver to
attend the wedding of her sister, Miss
Matte Slater. 80
George A. Todd left the last of the
week for Salt Lake with view to To-
eating. Mr.. Todd had for many years
been in the saloon business in this
city. First in small building thar
stood where the Bennett Wheeler
mercantile building now is, and later
on Chestnut street, in the building
lately occupied by ]. Z. Williams as
4 grocery warehouse.
DR.. and Mrs. Boulware returned
from Cincinnati, Ohio, where the doc
tor had attended a meeting of the
American medical society.
The Times publishes a letter from
+. J. Wiseman of the Rich Hill West
ern Enterprise in which he says that
a. recent story in The Times about a
scrap between himself and r. Walters
OF the Mining Review, in which it was
intimated that considerable blood was
spilled, as malicious and libelous
and published for the purpose of ira
ducing my record and reputation"
He says that he knocked Walters IL
feet off the sidewalk into ditch, but
denies that there was any blood shed.
A fishing party consisting of Ster-
ling Tucker, Miss Helen Baum, David
Walker, Miss Anna Hannah, Sam
Canterbury, Miss Mabel McKibben,
w. D. Hannah and Misses Susie
Steele and Leila Tucker spent the
day on the Marias des Cygnes fishing.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-05-16

Right now
when W ork is
just a little slack
is the best time
you will find this
season to paint
and repair your
buildings, there
iS a1wavS a little
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-05-16
Is This True7

The other day when a commission
in Kansas City was hearing the plea
of the street railway company that
they be permitted to raise their rates
for carrying passengers, lady repre-
senting certain women's clubs appear
ed before the commission in behalf OF
the working girls of the city and made
the astounding statement that "the
dollar sign governs the morals of the
working girls of Kansas City.
By this statement this woman has
probably done more to harm the girls
than the proposed raise in street car
rates would have.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-05-16
Pershing Sends Troops Home to
Boost Stamps.

Washington, May 1I.-Fifty Amer
lean soldiers sent home by Gen. Per-
shing will tour the country in the in
terest of the sale OF war saving
stamps and the Red Cross drive.
They will be sent into practically ev-
cry state in the Union.
The states to which they have been
first assigned are:
Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Cali
fornia, Connecticut, Georgia, District
OF Columbia, Illinois, Indiana, Kan
sas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland,
Massachusetts,, Michigan, Nebraska,
Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Rhode Is
land, Wisconsin and West Virginia.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-05-16
SHORT STORIES.
OF Local Clipped from Our
Exchanges.

Exchanges.
4 The Woman's Improvement Club
OF Rockville has sold $I.543.45 worth
OF thrift stamps. n.
| AS subscriptions to the Third Lib.
erty Loan were handled by Urich':
bank says the Herald.
Frank Leslie, former citizen oil
Adrian, died in Kansas City last week.
was buried in Drexel Thursday.
G. C. Shonholtzer,. OF the Appleton
City Journal, has announced his can
didacy for the democratic nomination
for county clerk of St. Clair county.
The Rockville News announces the
fishing season has opened down there
and tells Of some fine catches being
made by the local disciples of Isaac
Walton.
The Appleton City Journal is COM
planning because the new Katy orders
makes that town "whistling station
as far as the Flyers are concerned.
They don't even hesitate there now.
They whiz right through.
Dr. T. B. Todd has returned to
Adrian and engaged in the practice
Of medicine DR.. Todd was here fir
several years and enjoyed good
practice, but four years ago moved
to Pilot >1rcve.-Adrian Journal.
The Three H. & R. Oil & Gas Com
pany, or Kansas City, unloaded a
standard rig at Hume this week and
will drill for oil on the Thos. Shechy
farm. This company has quite a
block O: leases in this vicinity, and if
they strike On oi!er will develop the
field.-iIume Telephone.
+. NJ. Page, civil war veteran and
one OF the old settlers OF this section,
died at the John Page home Tuesday
May 6, about 5 o'clock p. M, and was
laid to rest Wednesday afternoon at
the Parker cemetery in a concrete
vault which had been prepared for
several years.-Creighton News.
NJ. T. Gilberts store was broken
open Sunday night, and several pairs
Of shoes, canned goods, etc, taken.
The burglars, couple OF boys, were
seen at the Southern depot about $3.50
Monday morning with the goods.
They left town on a freight train and
have not been captured.-Hume Tele-
phone.
Two car loads containing 5000 feet
of pipe were received the first of the
week for the c. P Brandt Engineer
ing Co., for use in drilling on the
Scully estate. The drill has been
shipped, coal is at present being
hauled from Amsterdam and work
will soon begin.-Merwin Notes in
the Amsterdam Enterprise.
a special city election will be called
soon to vote on franchise asked
for by the Green Light Company. 1t
will be necessary to grant the fran
chise before the system is installed.
MIR. Green is not asking any money
con sideration from the city, simply
the right to use the streets and alleys
for his light system.-Adrian Journal.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-05-16

this year, am iarming-but | go on
calls. | have my outfit in good shape
to answer your calls.
Geo. Eddy has rented hall OF the
Jim Bartlett 10 for corn and has it
planted.
Ira Smith is having his house plast-
cred and has two rooms done.
The patrons OF the Black school
gave Miss Morgan a surprise dinner
Friday. last day OF school. Sixty
guests in attendance and a grand time
was had by all. The afternoon was
spent in fine program-the teacher
had prepared fro last day.
By NELSE.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-05-16
THE 1918 GRADUATES
Baccalaureate Sermon Sunday Night.
Graduation Exercises and Play
Next Friday Night.

The baccalaureite exercises of the
1913 class of the Butler High School
were held at the Fisk Opera House
Sunday night, May IL. Early in the
evening it looked as though the bad
weather might keep many away, but
before time for the exercises to begin
ii cleared Off and soon after the doors
We're opened the house was filled with
the relatives and friends of the class
that will be graduated this week.
..e Invocation was delivered by
Rev. George Scroggs, OF the Presby-
terrain church, and the scripture read
ing was by Rev. a. ]. Cutrell, OF the
Ohio street M. T.. church.
The baccalaureate sermon was de-
li>ered by Rev. S. B. Moore and was
filled with good advice to the young
men and women who had completed
the first stage of their journey to-
wards an education.
The class, which numbers Ill.,, II
boys and p girls, the largest ever
graduated from the school, occupied
seats on the stage and presented a
very fine appearance in their black
caps and gowns.
On Friday night the graduating ex-
ercises and High School Commence
ment play will be given at the Opera
House, and on Monday night, May
20, the alumni banquet and reception
for the Is class will be held.
The graduates:
Allen, .Earline
Burton, Anna Mae
Borland, Clyde
Bottoms, Fannie
Bullock, Emmett
Campbell, Helen
Denton, Doris
Decker, Mary Audrey
Duvall, Leslie l..
Ellington, Veva
Ellington, Edna Violet
Field. Frank
Fenton, Clara
Ewing, Ruth
Getz, Nina
Harper, Margaret
Henslcy, Harvey
Hartrick, Eugene
Jones, Ruth
kinion, Opal
Keirsey, Charles S.
: Keirsey, Norma Esther
Lockard, Virgil
McCook, Mabel
Orear, Ruth Vesta
b Price, Logan
Price, Ruth Anna
Pahlman, Emma Ella
Rhoades, Edwin
Seelinger, Norton
Tilsey, Jimmie
Thompson, Jewell
Thomas, Helen
VanDruff, Ruth
Williams, Walter E.
Wayland, Kathleen
Wolf, Marie
Walker, Pearl Maurene
Walker, Edith Lucille
Woods, Cora Frances
Willard, Freda L.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-05-16
Fix Kansas Harvest Wages.

Tpoeka, May 1.-THE county
agent conference called by E. E.
Frizell, state farm labor director, to
determine a fair wage scale for har-
vest hands in Kansas this season, de-
cided on from thirty to fifty cents an
hour in the eastern part of the state.
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Wanted.

An experienced girl or woman fol
general housework. Call
goat Mrs. Bert Allen, Phone 244.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1918-01-05

.nen with massage and electrical
treatment. Each exercise has been
designed TO educate the hardened
muscles,
When the nurse began her work
every muscle in the child's body had
lost what the doctors call tie work
ing brain" and was practically dead
Today these muscles are beginning 70
live again The iron frame to which
she was strapped has been discarded
The little patient can now move
about and stretch her arms In two
years the doctor promises her mother
she viii be well and. like other chill
dren able to 90 TO school with sturdy
youngsters Of her own age not com
PEELED TO hobble on crutchos 50
school fnF crippled children
The after care of victims or Sc:
roHerayelitis IS sn'y one obese
alta mas ma ehich l. te
goa0E aomea from th
aa the hest sehool IF s..
dig fhe a4rs.ns ranks
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1918-01-05

just as coal, when il burns. leaves
behind cersa.n amount Of incombus-
tib e material IN the form OF ashes. SO
tao food ami drin1 taken lay after
day leaves in he lnentary canal a
certain amour Of niigestib'e ma
terra. which if not completely elimi
mated each day, becomes FOOD for the
millions of baeteril which infest the
bowe s. From tbs mass oil leftover
was material, oxins and ptomaine-
like poisons. called uric acid, is form
ed and then sucked into the blood
where it continues to clrcu ate col
Getting grain by grain in the joints
of the body muca like rus collects
on the things as shown above.
Men and women VINO suffer from
umbago, rheumatism or sore, stiff,
aching joints should begin drinking
phosph ltea hot water, not as a means
to magic relief from pain. but to
prevent more uric acid lrmire IN he
system Before "a ing breakfast each
morning, drink glass Of rea hot
water with a teaspoonful Of limestone
phosphate in it. This viii first ueu-
tralize and then sash out OF the
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1918-01-05
pETERSON'5 OINTMENT.
EEST FOR ECZEMA
First Application Stops licking CT
Eczema, Salt Eacu-n and Piles

Tive and let live is my motto" say
Peterson. Druggists al over Ameries
cents q large box and / say to these
druggists, II anyone buys my ointment
for any of the diseases or ailments 1or
which recommend it and are not bene@
Ited give them their rooney back.
I've got safe fuI OF thankful let
ters teSdfying to the mighty healing
rJwer Of Peterson's Ointment for OLD
and running sores, eczema, salt rheum,
ulcers, sore nipples, broken breast, itcu-
i1g scalp and skin pimples, oi1ckheaoss
n, bleeding and itching 5lies.
!. IN Scott, 28} Vir@.niA as.y Buffalo,
fT.sites, tPeterson's Ointment is Simply
3 on5erful. il cured ne Of - enl and
also piles ard JIG II 80 qaicAiy tFRs T
gss astonighcl,"
Il sr December Let Peserson's ONT
msnt 21c.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1918-01-05
Frederick Veteran Dead.

FREDERICK, Md. Jan 2.-HenrF
Williams. SO years old, former y pres
ident Of the Central National Bank.
died yesterday at he City Hotel lie
was q sen Of the ate John H and
Eleanor lsariyer) Williams and was
born in this city in 1887. After receiy-
ing an elementary education in pri-
ate schools he attended he University
Of Virginia and Later Yale College, IN
1853 he enlisted in Company A, Thir-
ty-third Texas Cavalry Confederate
Army and served in the Mississippi
Va ley unil the close pf the war
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1918-01-05
FA2ALiZEp MUSCLES BEitiC
RESIO2ED TO USE.
BY Muscle framing Toy Save
Children From Bein Help
less Cripples.

There was probably not o mother
or father ~ the country in the sum
mer of 1915 who did not follow with
anxious interest the accounts of the
epidemic Of infantile paralysis Many
OF them may have wondered since
what became OF the little victims of
the disease and thought OF them per
haps as helpless cripples Ii will be
encouraging to them to know that
thousands OF these children who were
on their Backs year ago, with every
prospect OF remaining there perhaps
for the rest of their lives. are nov.
thanks to physicians. nurses and mas
-eurs. In school with normal children
/ their own age
In New York city alone 900 chtl-
dren who would have been helpless
cripples are being cured by muscle
education. administered by trained
nurses and masseurs In one month
these children receive $4,000 treat
ments Each one is under the care Of
nurse. who sees that ii attend a
clinic II aole II not the nurse "a
ministers the muscle ,rainlng b.
home cit is literally impossible a
most oases for one 81 these lltea
% escape being CURED accorllns
Yayslclans N charge of the noreut
.e oa Hffaf 2&G nj laiaat5le p4r
I'll Stew feeh eii vAcH
er,ttlpr gNth 50 Aoau1ts3s ra
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1918-01-05

7N-Y HAS NOT COME UP TO
EXPECTATIONS lH FOOD
WALTON


f. 20 al p 'r-o- c-asI.eallOfal
eJ 2 was ne q az 1he MArlo"e
aar p s BIT Were 3 small bat
ave apten5e li5 ened 70
Pc n addresses bg Attorney }.
+ nd County A'zant
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+ er pre- en- Q quite effee1
ely the oQt1t naing reasons Tor
entrance Of the United States
fae w3r q var. lie po nted out
g, ma ais lste', the u3lrestrlet-
q ab1eT wra.e the wa III
l,sl un's ne ira lty the intrigue
ta- c9 ~ and "a ny ner
les q present wariare carried
p q ker and his mil tary
hire as -n 2ft Mt factors result
f. decoration OF q state OF
b tween me IN tsd $ es and
n.v : emf Teal presented the
iseum aa,es deal ng WIN the food
e3e ri camp2'en and gave fig
res SHOW n2 what had been accom-.
hod in Berkeley county and wsat
aa accomplished t7 make
The com 1tjdll its duty ong the
l0es q food conservation The food
3m str ton. through the commit
e. aHn-'n e1 for Berkeley county
0i~r'ed on q campaign in this county
TO secure s'gne-s 70 pledge cards
vh'ch We're essentially promises on
tie prt Of the signer to DO away
with e0e-y possible form Of wastefal-
res Der'n the progress Of the
campaign, some 1850 cards were
'gned by the housewives in this
county, a0proxim tely 1850 beng
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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1918-01-05

report at cdnlc. committee aead-
quarters Is Immediately notified and
the nurse goes TO the child's home
the following day and takes il to the
hospital The mother or some other
member OF the family is taught to
assist ia this muscle training
The work Of after care in infantile
paralysis is not confined to one local
ity Wherever the epidemic ragged in
the summer of 1915 and wherever
public health nurses are employed 1t
is being carried on along the same
lines
Here IS a good example Of the treat
m,nt Ore Of the 1000 rases Of the
co@m'tt on After Care IS a four-
tri 10 3 months ago WAS par
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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1918-01-05

omaeh,s lFer kidnegs ana bowe.s
weetening ana Ees hen.ug bic entire
enJary canal each morning. be
toxins an possons shus. cleansing
he previous days occumu at on Of
gre putting more food into re stom
ach.
a guar e. pound OF limestone paos.
nate costs very lite at the drug
tore, but IS sufiicien to make any
rheumatic or umbago sufferer an en-
hns:ast on he morning inside bath.
NJ lions Of people keep their points
&c. from these rheumatic acids by
aesicing this daily in erna santa
ton. a glass Of hot water wi h a
teaspoonful Of limestone phosphate,
drank before breakfast, IS wonderful
" hvigorating; besides. if is an ex
cellent Tea h measure because il
nses the alimen airy organs OF a
rs waste, gases ana sour fermenta-
cons making one look am feel clean
: Get ana fresh all day
Those who try this Tor one pesA
may fad hemse yes free from SICK
headaches. consumption bilious a.
tacks. sa'lowness. mas breath and
stomach acidity.