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The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-09-26
Better Telephone Service.

The workmcn who have for the last
week or two been engaged in putting
in new cables, poles. and changing
some of Ae wiring of the Butler Tel
ephone system completed their work
Saturday. The mass \of wires that
have been strung along the south side
of the square have been. taken down
and run through cable in the alley
back of the business houses, which in
addition to improving the service,
adds considerable to the appearance
of the south side. In other parts Of
town new wires have been put in and
many poles that were rotted almost
off or were too light to carry the load
were replaced by new ones. While
the work was being done the service,
or rather, the lack of service, was
something to swear at. but since the.
work was finished it has been pos
sible to talk over the system with
some degree of success. 1t is said
that Mr.. Campbell, the owner, con-
templates further improvements
which will put the system in first
class condition.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-09-26

Tageblatt:
.The larger cities of Germany are
obtaining one-quarter of their neces-
sary stock Of foodstuffs through lille
gal trading without that they would
starve, the deputy asserted.
The increasinG severity of penal
ties heighteus the risk of INDUCING in
ieerst trading, and raises prices" he
There are now l0o. 700
persons ed6loyed by the war food
administration, and that under the
circumstances We deliver 30 eggs .
year ! pefson Is really no heroic
deed"
Other speakers told of pitiahle con-
ditions in Austria Hungary. Count
Stolbkre rsaid:
rAeI have seen how in Austria that
the rieh snan has everything. the poor
ihan nothine. Il Is Z pity to see how
tie poor people there are suffering
from hunger. In comparison to con-
ditionS there things in our .eountry
are much better
SIN Budapest inSrich Hungary, the
poor wait ID iiae oil night for the 30
gram fat ration, and thea they don't
receive it, Major Koch Of Cassel
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-09-26
THIRTY YEARS AGO.
Sept. as, 1858.

John kamm, of Highland, Illinois
and Miss Lucy Kamm, of Rockville
were united in marriage atthe Palace
Hotel in this city September "a
Squire d. G. Newsome officiated.
The Spruce Cleveland and Thur
man club, numbering about IS, were
entertained by Hon. ]. B. Newberry
at his home in Deepwatcr township,
on the evening Of the 27th. A, key OF
fine cider was tapped.
Feeding cattle were selling at from
500 to $3.50 per hundred.
The, Ballard Correspondent says
that Judge Cole, Tom Starks and
>Tobe WEIGH, of that neighborhood
were each feeding about 100 head Vi
hogs. =
Judge 7. J. Boswell, associate mem
Der OF the county court and one OF
Bates county's largest and mos,
prosperous farmers, was instantly
killed by being, struck by lightning al
his farm in Charlotte township, dur
ing a slight rain storm Friday event
ing. The Judge was cutting corn
when the storm Came up and he took
tSlus@ IA q ohoNh VI io0oCI tlldl liz
had just cut and which was struck by
the lightning. The body was no,
found until the next day.
The Republicans held big rally
Tuesday night. Chauncey l. Filley
of St. Losis, was the principal speak
err.
The drillers of the artesian we'll a,
Nevada have gone down about a.:
feet. At that depth they struck
water which flowed over the top OF
the we'll.
Big plans are being made for the
big Democratic rally which was to
come off on the following Thursday
night.
A. A. Miller. son of Uncle Alfred
Miller, of southeast of town, and who
has been living in California, has re-
turned to Bates county.
The Butler academy opened with 7
large attendance of pupils.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-09-26
Lola K. Keeble.

Lola n. Keeble. aged 70 years, died
at the home of her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. X. b. keeble. in Summit town.
ship. Saturday night. September FL.
after a several weeks illness with ty-'
phoid fever, complicated with spinal
meningitis. ~.
She was born in this county April
i, 1900 Besides her parents she is
survived by two brothers and one
sister. Funeral services were con-
Quoted at the home Sunday after
noon by the Rev. Mullendore, OF the
Spruce Presbyterian church and in
tcrmcnt made in the Smith cemetery.
in Dcepwatcr township.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-09-26
setter. Is.,n..

Il seems almost cool enough for
Jack Frost to pay ms q visit.
Mrs. ]. H. Ferrel and daughters
Misses irene and Losene, spent Mon
day afternoon with Mrs. w. z. Bak-
er.
Walt Nafus attended the Modern
Woodman supper in Butler Monday
night.
w. z. Baker wklled his new we'll
the first Of the week. It is a fact he
haS the we'll. but there is no water in
Il.
>Claud Baker hauled load,of shorts
out from Rich Hin Wednesday.
w. B., Griffin, Walt Nafus and Mrs.
J. H. FerTel attended Arthur Padley's
sale Tuesday.
News Is scarce this week as all the
mem and part Of the women in this
locality are busy eettin~ the wheat
crop N.
AUNT SALLIE.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-09-26

Chas. Voght, a freight brakeman,
was killed in the local yards, when
his foot caught in a switch when he
was coupling cars, and he fell, the
wheels of the car passing across his
body and badly n,angling it.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-09-26

d A car load of Missouri cattle sold
an the Chicago market the other day
|fof $l8zs per hundred or $I62.so per
head. No wonder common folks can't,
buy beefsteak.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-09-26

# The Warrensburg Star Journal says
that the >eonvict camp now at Wind
sor will soon be moved to Johnson
county and the men put to work on
the capitol highway.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-09-26
M1ssoun NOTES

81 Johnson county now has six physi-
Clans in the army and 10 more listed
as eligible and willing to serve
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-09-26

Mrs. Mary Cramer. on North Full
ton street, Clinton, has received a tel
egram from the War Department no
flying her that her son. William R.,
or a. he was generally known to his
friends, Roy Cranmer, has been miss
ing ever since the 18TH of July. OF
course he may be = prisoner in Ger
many, or he may have been killed in
act}pu and uuaccoupted for. The date
mentioned is the date of the begin
ming q the American action at Cha
'teaA Thierry. which drove the Ger
mans out of the Rheims salient.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-09-26

~ The big Anheuser-Bu brewing
plant in St Louis has been
offered the government for the dura<
ton OF the war to be used as the Fed
,cral officer may see fit.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-09-26

James Monroe Kaiser Friday petit
toned the Henry county court for a
change of name. The petition told
the court that the name Kaiser has
become $50 darned otlious in this
country that no loyal American ,citi-
zen should longer be required bear
it," Judge Calvird said he .Qoticed the
language used. but considered it
merely emphatic and entirely justi-
fable"
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-09-26

According to St. Louis papers.
Jeptha D. Howe. lawyer and one OF
the political bosses of the Republi-
can party in St. Louis. and Mrs. La
vina Higgins Waltke. wife of Louis
A. Waltke, secretary OF the William
Waltke Soap Company, also well
known in St. Louis. were arrested
Tuesday night of last week on COM
plant Of the .woman's husband. at the
Quicker Hotel at Poplar Bluff, after
Howe had signed the register as y.
Howell and wife," Of Macon. Ga.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-09-26

The farmers of Galloway county re-
port that they will try a new expert
ment in feeding hogs this winter to
help tide over the corn shortage
They plan to feed the hogs ground
oats in the form of mash and follow
it with a>ration OF corn. Through ex~
periments made already it has been
found that oats will fatten hogs rap
idly, says an exchange. They don't
say where to get the oats and corn.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-09-26

Twenty-Five soldiers we're killed
and between fifty end sixty more
were injured at 1880 o'clock Wednes-
day night OF last week, when freight
train and troop train crashed togeth-
er in a head-on collision one mile east
of Marshfield, Mo.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-09-26

u A St. Clair county man donated a
fine pair OF mares to be put up at
auction and sold for the benefit OF
the Red Cross. He guaranteed that
they would bring at least $500.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-09-26

Science Hall. the newest portion OF
the Kirksville State Normal School,
was destroyed by fire Thursday
morning. BY hard work the flames
were kept from other buildings. The
loss exceeds 100000. The origin of
the fire is a mystery. The building
contained the big mems gymnasium,
which was being made over into a
barracks for army students. Kinks
vile people will make arrangements
caring for these men.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-09-26

q Hurley Lee Spicer. of HarrisoDville
who some time ago lost his arm in an
accident in France. has been promot-
cd to first class sergeant and ordered
to duty in the office OF the surgeon
general OF the army at Washington. !.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-09-26

I The claim to fame of a Laclede,
Missouri. negro lies in the fact that
when boy Johnnie Pcrshine, who is
now in command of the United States
forces in France. threw a rock
at him and hit him on the head.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-09-26

The license OF the Pratt Grain
Company, of Kansas City, was re-
vokcd last week by the food admins
traitor. The company made profit
of $,3,.io on two car loads of feed
when the regulations laid down by
the food administration only allow
a profit OF 500.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-09-26

When visiting the county Jail one
day last week Kansas City attorney
was surprised Mo see a man whom he
had defended and for whom he had
secured an acquittal last July still oc..
cupying his old cell Some one had
blundered and the man had been for
gotten. The lawyer got busy and the
man was liberated after being kept
locked up two months alter he was
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-09-26

/ 4 negro soldier from Platte City
was feariully sick and iearfully scared
all the time he was on shipboard.
Finally he blurted out to one of his
Companions. "Dey amt ,gwine to
cotch ME on dis heah wattah again.
Is gwine to write ma wife she's gotta
git anuthah man. From now on | is a
foreign nisgah, st, Joseph Oh.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-15
Governor Mccall Asks
Mercy for Chapman

Paul Chapman, the sixteen-year-old
boy now under sentence Of death in
Sing Sing. is making friends in high
places among them the Governor Of
Massachusetts,
The Liberty Loan newsboys OF Bos-
ton recently Joined the movement to
sign petitions asking Governor Whit
man for executive clemency in this
case, pleading the extreme youth of
the offender and the TACT that he was
found guilty of homicide not because
OF actual participation in it, but under
the law which says that man who
has been involved in planning a felony
is guilty of any capital crime that may
result therefrom, whether he actually
participates in it or not
In one days canvass the Liberty
Loan newsboys OF Boston secured sip
natures Of twenty seven Of their thirty
rlve mem bers--all who could be reached
at the time. And then a committee OF
three waited on Governor Mccall to
ask II ne would help them.
AS result the petition from these
boys asking for the life of another bov
mas gone to the Governor of New York
With a letter of Endorsement from the
Governor of MASSACHUSETTS.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-15
Nearly 1000 Dead
Is Estimated Toll
OF Big Forest Fire

MOOSELAKE, Mimi, Oct. l.:.-Mer
and women Of the Mooselake District
Mimi, driven by fire from their
homes, penniless, many of them wear.
ing clothing furnished by charitable re-
lief workers, tonight took up the
search for their dead.
Barred by the military authorities
from leaving the city, they wandered
between long lines Of bodies in the
lmprovlsed morgues here, searching for
loved ones who have mot been heard
from since tho forest fires laid waste
lhis section of Minnesota and portion
Of Northern Wsconsi. four DAYS aro.
Motor trucks arriving =. frequent in
tervals brought in more and more
bodies, and the sad vigil Of the watch
ers continued throughout the night.
AdJutant General Rhinow tonight es
tiinated that the number OF dead in the
Moose Lake and Kettle River regions
aione might reach FIVE hundred. These.
with the other dead from adjoining re-
gions. VIII, it is believed swell the
list of dead to near the 600 mark.
" AN>H iicS fiIdl mere ana the
permanent institutions at Duluth are
caring for thousands of more or less
injured refugees, many Of whom are in
critical condition.
lhe force of rescue workers will be
doubled tomorrow, General Rhinow
said. Up to this time only the main
roads have been explored. 1t has been
impossible to search the great areas Of
farm land laid waste by the fire. and
that search is expected to result in the
1nding Of hundreds more victims in the
RUNS OF their destroyed homes.
Ofhcials in charge OF relief work still
are unable TO make an accurate csti-
mate of the material damage result;no
from the FIRE. 1t was said, however
that in this district alone, an area of
fifty square miles has been stripped
clean of timber. crops, livestock and
human habitation.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-15
Airplane Fires on
Camp Mills Squad;
Kills /, Wounds 3

CAMP MILLS, Oct 14.-Men of the
1o6th Sanitary Train, while at drill
here to-day were suddenly plunged into
actual warfare conditions when from &
biplane passing overhead there came
the quick snarl Of machine gun and
four members of the line of marchers
stumbled and fell.
With bullets kicking up dust clouds
about them, the men retreated to the
cover of a nearby frehouse, taking
their injured with them. Several shots
plane cut off its fire.
1t was then found that Private Will
lam Il. Hall had bullet through his
skull and was dying. He succumbed
soon after reaching the military hos
pltai. Others who were taken there to
have their wounds dressed we're Lieu
tenant Samuel NJ. Lowry, shot through
the right shoulder; Private Lewis i.
Simmons, shot through the arm. and
Private w. II. Divins, wounded slightly
in the hack.
Airplanes fly over Camp Mills so
continually that none of the men paid
any attention to this machine. which
came bearing down on them from the
South. After it had opened fire. thev
made still less effort to identify it. in
their break to get away from the hiss
ing bullets.
1t IS said, however. that the machine
was a large biplane. Officers at Camp
Mills and at Haziehurst Field, the near
est training ground for fliers, are max
ing an investigation. They had reached
no conclusion tonight
New-York tribune., 1918-10-15
Newberry Case Is
Blow at Liberty,
Asserts Littleton
Attorney for Michigan Men
Bitterly Excoriates Con-
struction of Law
By BRIGGS

Martin ". Littleron. counsel for the
rccalcitrant witnesses summoned from
Detroit to testify in this city with
reference to the expenditures OF the
committee in charge or the primary
campaign of Lieutenant Commander
Truman II. Newberry, the Republican
candidate for United States Senator
from Michigan, yesterday before
Judge Henry D. Clayton in the United
States District Court sharply assailed
the construction of the law which
brought about the commitment for
contempt of court Of Frank W. BlaN,
Allan A. Templeton and Thomas p.
Phillips, all prominent business men
Newberry campaign.
After argument by Mr.. Littleton for
The Detroit men and by Assistant United
States District Attorneys Sylvester Il.
Rush and Oliver O. Pagan, Judge
Clayton said that in view Of the In
portance OF the case of the points Of
the law raised he would reserve de-
cision until this afternoon at 4 o'clock
All the witnesses named were pres
ent. as was also Albert j. Weber. fore
man of the grand jury which reported
She contumacious witnesses TO Judge
Edward e. Cushnan. who committed
ordered them to answer the questions
Of the grand jury. They were paroled
in the custody of their counsel on q
writ Of habeas corpus allowed by Judge
Clayton, and the argument, yesterday
was OH sustaining or dismissng the
writ.
Taking these witnesses, all pronl:-
nent business men of Detroit, away
from their business affairs, on duces
tecum subpcenas, which is but another
name for Il search warrant. compelling
them to bring with them their books
and papers and bank accounts, is a
clear invasion of their rights under the
constitutions" said Mr.. Littleton. sIf
the Federal government can take con-
troll OF primary elections in the manner
indicated by the attitude of the Federal
governments. counsel, they can 90 fur
ther. and prohibit primaries altogether.
There is an absolutely clear distirc-
lion, and always has been. between q
prlnlary and general election. These
witnesses were all connected Will, the
Republican political campaign in the
State OF Michigan. They have been
forced to come to New York, away from
possible participation in political al
lairs at home, with which the Federal
government has not the slightest moral
or legal right to interfere, while the
contest in which they are vitally and
properly interested goes on in their ab
sence.
The enormity and atrocity of such
a construction OF the law can hardly be
htly. characterized. If it is a proper
and true construction. then a primary
election in the City of New York could
De arbitrarily inquired into in Califor-
MA. ard one in thc State. Of Oregon
could be as arbitrarily shifted TO Cor
neeticut. There is nothing in the Fed
rrai law to warrant such y construc-
ton"
Mr. Rush, for the government. said
that 1t was not matter OF consti.u-
tional law at all, but that it was wholIv
a matter of the proper punishment to
be imposed upon recalc::t.--ant witnesses.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-15
Burleson Accused
Of Discriminating
Against Union Men
Telegraphers Call Mass
Meeting to Protest at
Alleged Policy

The Commercial Telegraphers' Union,
whose threat to strike was followed
Dy the government taking over the tele-
phone and telegraph systems, has called
a mass meeting for Sunday in Woman :
Trade Union Hall, East Fifteenth
Street. The call follows charges that
the DETERMINATIONS complained of un-
der the private management of the
companies are again being practised.
complaint is also made that Post
master General Burleson has shown
himself unfriendly to the union and
has discouraged employees Of the two
membership. On the other hand, the
union formed under the auspices and
with the direct approval Of the West
eln OnloN Telegraph Company is said
to have been encouraged in its quest
for members.
The specific complaint against Mr..
Burlcson is caused by order No. 2.O67.
dated Washington, October 9. This
document, which the Western Union
operating officials ordered posted in
every ohce, reads us follows:
TO all telegraph and telephone
companies:
information has reached the de-
partment that representations are
being made throughout the country
that it is the desire of the govern
ment that employees of the tele.
graph and telephono companies
should join the Commercial Teleg-
raphers' Union. the international
brotherhood of Electrical Workers
or other unions. These representa-
tons have no foundation in fact
whatever.
IN its operation of the telegraph
ind telephone systems the postof
nee Department will not distinguish
between union and non-union en-.
ployes. Persons will be employed
soiely because Of their fitness for
the positions TO which they seek
ployed. discharged, favored or dis
criminated against because they do
or 90 not belong to any particular
organization.
Officers and employees Of the
telegraph AID telephone systems
will comply strictly with the pro-
visions Of This order.
A. S. BURLESON,
Postmaster General.
II do not want TO see strike j.,
time Of war;" said Percy Thomas, vice.
president OF the union. last night. "and
sincerely nope there will be none;
pul tne truth is that the conditions
now existing nave led to a strong re-
vlval OF the demand that there be q
showdown.
"HoW lar the members will feel that
they should go | do not know. do
know that the officers will do what
they can to prevent any trouble at this
time. Were we at peace there would
be no question that there would be
strike
NJ. j. konenkamp, internationa! presi.
dent of the union. is expected to be
among those who will address the
meeting.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-15
Employer of Accused
Prussian Is Charged
With Evading Law


After hearing yesterday in the
case OF Walter F. Loehmer, enemy
alien and former Prussian Grenadier,
United States Commissioner E. r,
Stanton. in Hoboken, declared that
Loehmer's employer, T. William
Stocker, an engineer and contractor,
had failed to report his concern as an
enemy corporation to the Alien Prop
erty Custodian.
"Stocker, although a registered en-
envy alien. and. according to witnesses.
chief stockholder in the company, ad-
mits that ne did not make suci, q
statement, as required by law" said
have been tarned over to the Military
Intelligence, who are making an in
vestigation, and proper action will be
taken following their report"
Loehmer, who is charged with sup
plying liquor to officers of the army
and navy, and thus obtaining military
information which may have lead to
the sinking of large. troopship, was
employed by Stocker for two weeks as
general manager of the contracting
business. while Stocker was ILL.,
Examining the business relations be-
tween l1oehmer and Stocher yesterday.
Commissioner Stanton called as Wit
ness Miss Belle Kaufman, Of % Elev-
enth Street. Hoboken, Stocker's secre-
tary and stenographer. She testified
that r. William Stocker, Inc, was in
corporated in the State of Now York in
1911, and had four stockholders, be-
sides Stocker.
The stockholders, it was testified.
were Charles W. Goddard. of RrookIvn
and Merrill W. Goddard, of New York !:
Miss Gertrude Bisbee, and Mrs. Eva
May Stocker, the wife Of the chief
stockholder The company. it was said.
engaged in general contracting, in the
course of which their representatives
are alleged to have had access to army
camps and can.onments nearby.
Miss Margaret O'Sullivan. Of 92s
Washington street, Hoboken, who is
held on like Charge as Loehmer. went
on a number of rides in taxicabs with
army and navy officers, and with Loeb
mer, according to Merle Bouchoux. a
taxicab driver, who appeared YESTERDAY
tefore Commissioner Stanton. On two
OF these trips. the witness stated, Miss
VSullivan was accompanied by Lieu
tentant Emerson Murray, of the Naval
Intelligence Service, who was investi-
eating Loehmer. as was disclosed later