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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-12
Germans Quote Tree Leaves
in Tobacco Market Prices

Amsterdam, July l Correspond
ence of the Associated Press),-
Under che standing caption, The
Tobacco Market" one finds nova
days in the commercial section of
German newspapers announce
ments like this:
I. Cherry leaves in great demand.
Market firm.
"Beech leaves irregular, Large
supplies offered from the Harz
Mountains. Prices fluctuating be-
tween SS and 3S marks per cwt.,
according to quality.
! well matured hops. so to GO
marks per cwt."
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-12
Lightning Strikes Navy Balloon

New York, July l2--An observation
balloon anchored over the Bath Beach
naval training station was struck by
lightning last last night and blew up in
a burst of flames. A balloon usually
carries two or more observers, but
report to the police said no one was in
the basket when it exploded. Naval
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-12
Appointed 70 City Jobs

City appointments today include David
A. Woelpper. 1916 South Fifty-second
street, craftsman, Department of Tran
sit. salary $1,000: William H. Hender-
son, GA South Eighteenth street. care
taker, Board of Recreation, 5000 /;
Joanna B, Fritz, 2020 North Fourth
street, and Pearl +. Dahis. 2241 South
Twenty-third street, assistant teachers,
Board of Recreation, $500 each.
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"Sick of 1t A." Esclaims
Kuehlmann; Plans Rest
By the United Press

Amsterdam, July 12,-Dr. Rich
ard Kuehlmann, former German
Foreign Minister, will go to Switz-
erland soon for a long vacation, a
Berlin dispatch stated today.
Il will be glad to get bit of
fresh air." he was quoted as saying
to a friend. Il am sick of II all"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-12
Shell Kills Italian Commander

Washington, July 12.-The death of
General, Fadini, commander of the
Twenty-third Italian Army Corps, which
fought brilliantly in the Piave opera
tions, is reported in an official dispatch
from Rome. General Fadini was
killed by bursting shell while motoring
to inspect positions at the front.
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French Advance
Wins LOngpOnt

THEt UHt
of an effort north of Albert smutane-
ously with the drive in Flanders in an
effort to turn Vimy Ridge and Lorette
Heights from the area south of Arras.
There are reports of wholesale illness
in the German army from the Spanish
grippe or the Spanish fever" as the
Germans call it.
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TO DEVELOP WATERWAYS
S. Railroad to Develop Inland
Branch System
By the United Pros.

Washington. July 12.-ApproximateIy
s2.500 Q0G viii be expended BY the rail-
road administration in the establishing mt
of system of branch lines on the in
land waterways provided by the Missis-
sippi and Black Warrior Rivers.
This was learned officially today.
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AMERICANS ROUT
BIG GERMAN PATROL

With the American Forces on the Marnc,
July 12
A large German patrol which at
tempted to raid the American trenches
on the Marine front yesterday morning
was broken up and routed in confusion
The Germans left several dead from
which the Americans established the
identification Of new German units
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-12
Lansing OFF for Vacation

Washington, July .12.-Secretary of
state lansing today left for his home at
WATERFOWL, y. Y, where he will spend
his annual VACATION.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-12

Frank Conway. who applied for Io11
ing last night at the Frankford poIld
station, became III during the night al
died in the Frankford Hospital. He ton
the police his home was in Sch,iyll<il
County 9t
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-06-20
CORTLAND.

The levee around the Duvall ranch
was finished this week and Mr.. Ben
neman is loading the dredge boat al
Athol to ship it to Indiana.
Mrs. Curtis and son and Mrs. Cope
of Ardmore, Oklahoma are here in
thei. Buick visiting Mrs. Webster.
Mrs. H. Reedy and two children
of Billings, Montana, and her father
Mr.. George Ruddel of Passaic visited
her sister Mrs. E. ]. Lockard We'd
nesday.
Angie and Ira Faubion of Butler
are working at Henry Herman's.
Sylvia Vasghn, Beth and Lawrence
Turner motored to Metz Sunday af-
ternoon.
Blanche Lockard visited her friend,
Leila Smith, at Foster from Tuesday
until Saturday, this week.
Mrs. Horn and two children, who
have been visiting at Websters' left
for Jerseyville, Illinois, this week.
Mrs Hannah McClintic took din
ner at A. w. Shay's Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. O'Day and daughter.
Mr.. Oscar WEIGH and Mr.. Oscar
Sims, of Passaic, spent Thursday at
Emory Lockard's.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-06-20
Country Happenings.

Walter Gragg and family of Okla
homa are visiting his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Will Gragg.
The Red Cross met with Mrs. Geo
Wigger June IL. About 10 ladies
were present.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Sargent and
daughter, Thelma, took Sunday din
ner with Merl Sargent and wife.
Mrs. c. H. Rector called on Mrs
| Marsh Brown Friday afternoon.
Mrs. Ray Lawson is visiting at the
Jake. Frey home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bruce Odneal and
baby and Mr.. and Mrs. ]. E. Harvey
spent Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs
Clyde Welliver.
Lille Wigger spent Saturday night
and Sunday with Nora Foster.
Elmer Keen and Roy Young were
in Appleton City Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Tiffney and chill
dren. of Kansas City, visited Saturday
night at the J. F.. Harvey home.
Mrs. c. w. Rector spent Monday
afternoon with Mrs. Tom Chitwood.
Misses Nina Keen and Thelma Sar-
gent were shopping in Spruce Satur-
day.
Miss Nora Foster spent Friday
night with her sister, Mrs. Will Wig
ger
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-06-20
Merwin Items
tToo late ror lasr wesk.)

We are having some real summei
days now. M ri
| John Hussey and H. D. Ritchey be.
gan harvesting their wheat Tuesday
Help is very scarce here.
F. E. Alder and his bride, came in
Sunday for visit with his brother, j
w. Alder. t.a55
Mrs. Anna Berry of Topeka, Kansas
came Monday for visit with rela-
tives. She returned home Sunday. Il
Joe Braden has a new Briscoe car.
Ester Ritchey, Ossie Sells and
Anna Hicks went to Drexel Sunday.
Mrs. John Ferguson and children
returned home from Joplin Sunday.
L. c. King returned to her home in
Adrian Monday.
Dick Tucker has moved into the
hotel vacated by w. S. Harris. We
wish Mr.. Tucker success.
c. c. Hedger of Foster visited John
Hussey Thursday.
Farmers are shipping out their
stock because of scarcity of water
and pasture.
While playing with an old buggy
one day last week Claudine Harris
was thrown into wire fence cutting
her right ear very badly. A physician
was called. She is getting along
nicely.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-06-20
Brought in a "Gasser."

w. J. Bullock, president of the Red
Arrow Oil & Gas company, came in
from the oil fields last week and in
forms lis that his company brought
in gaswell Tuesday night. The gas
was struck in Verges sand at depth
of o48 feet. The we'll was capped and
as soon as the necessary labor can be
secured the well will be piped and the
gas sold to be used in the manufac-
ture of. gasoline. This is the second
producing we'll that the company has
brought in, the first one being an oil
well. There are quite a number of
shareholders of the company in But
Ter who will be glad to learn that the
prospects for dividends in the near
future is exceedingly bright.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-06-20
Will This Sort of Thing Help Win
the War?

Last week the farmers and thresh-
ing machine men of Barton county
held meeting at Lamar to decide on
the price to be paid for this years
threshing and the Lamar Republican
Sentinel says that when a speaker
said that "the farmers had things in
hand and knew their business better
than the government did," the large
audience not only clapped but it
yelled and whooped, says the Repub-
lican Sentinel.
We hope that this is libel on the
farmers of that county as it is a very
serious matter when a body of men
will uproarously applaud sentiments
that imply an attack on the govern
ment, particularly at a time like the
present. A man who would so far
forget himself as to make a speech of
that kind before an audience of Bates
county farmers would be subject
for sympathy. He would be mighty
lucky if he got off with nice coat of
tar and feathers. They would prob
ably hang him.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-06-20
Struck Oil Near Hume.

Dispatches in the Kansas City pa
pers the last of the week say that
while drilling a water we'll on the
Glenn Withon farm near Hume, oil
sand testing a gallon of oil a minute
was struck at las feet. There was
twenty-five feet of sand. Consider
able land is being leased and pros
pecting is under way.
Many have always contended that
oil in paying quantities could be
found in the west part of this county,
and this seems to bear out that con-
tention. Drilling. with every pros
pect of striking oil, is going on in the
northeast part of the county near
Merwin and while the work is being
hampered somewhat by the lack of
water, the drill is being kept steadily
at work.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-06-20
Postal Employees Get Raise.

The Madden law, which goes into
effect July Ist, provides some very
substantial increases in the pay of
the postal employees. All those who
receive in excess of $500 and not
more than $500 receive a IS per cent
increase. This will apply to the
clerks and carriers in the Butler Of
flee. Substitute or auxiliary carriers
shall be paid at the rate of 40 cents
per hour. Provision is also made in
the bill for airplane mail service.
With the price of living increasing
all the time this increase in wages is
appreciated by the postoffice boys.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-06-20

of dependency resulting from his
marriage, the fact Of dependency re-
sulting from his marriage will be, dis
regarded as ground for deferred
classification, unless the dependent
has a child of marriage, born or I'M
born on or prior to June 9, 1913, in
which case such registrant upon
satisfactory proof being made shall
be classified in class two.
"C-If registrant, other than one
who has attained the age of ri years
since June S, 1917, who has contract
ed marriage since May, 10, 1917
claims deferred classification on the
grounds of dependency resulting
from his marriage will be disregarded
as ground for deferred classifica-
ton, unless the dependent has a child
OF the marriage, born or unborn on or
before June 9, 1913, in which case
such registrant Upon satisfactory
proof being made shall be placed in
class two.
"D-Nothing contained in this
amendment to rule five shall be con-
strued as requiring the transfer to
class two of any registrant who has
been finally classified in class one
on the affirmative finding that his
marriage since May 10, 1917, was
made with the primary view of evad-
ing the military service.
Instruct all local boards, forth
with to reclassify all cases involving
marriage since May, 3D. 1917, in ac-
cordance with the above"
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-06-20
MEN WHO MARRIED AFTER
PASSAGE OF DRAFT MUST
FIGHT
New Regulation Laid Down by
Crowder Will Result in Re-
classification Of Number
of Registrars

Washington, June 14.-Marriag,
since the enactment of the selectiv.
draft no longer will be accepted a.
cause for exemption from militar,
service, except in the cases of mer
who become of age since June S, 1917
who may be exempted if they mar.
ried before January IS, 1918, the
date on which the joint resolution re-
curing their registration was intro
duced into Congress.
Drastic amendment to the draft
regulations were announced tonight
by Provost Marshal General. Crowd
er, under which local boards are re-
CURED to reclassify all cases involv-
ing such marriages. Dependency
claims on account of children of such
marriages, will be allowed where chill
dren are born or unborn before June
g. 1918.
Following is an order sent to all
state draft executives:
please promulgate at once to To-
cal boards the following important
amendment. to the selective service
regulations.
Rule five, section seventy-two S.
S. R. is amended to read as follows:
Rule 3A-The fact of dependency
resulting from the marriage Of a reg
istrant who has become twenty-one
years of age since June S, 1917, and
who has married since the date of the
introduction of the joint resolution in
congress requiring his registration,
to-wit, January IS, 1918, will be re-
garded as ground for deferred
classification.
B If registrant who has attain
ed the age of twenty-one since June
5, 1917, and who has contracted mar
rage subsequent to the date of the
of the selective service law
as, to-wit, May 10, 1917, but on or
prior to January IS, 1918, claims de-
ferred' classification on the grounds
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-06-20

The Stoddard county draft board
lost all their records by a fire that
destroyed the Stoddard County Trust
Company's building Thursday night.
The conflagration started in the To-
cal boards office on the second floor
At o'clock in the morning. The
bank building was Quilted. A barber
shop next door was burned and SEN
ator ]. w. Farris' drug store was de-
stroyed. The fire is believed TO be
of ineendiary origin. rs the board had
received several threatening letters.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-06-20
Be consigned so we'll?

Be consigned so we'll?
As where Heaven its dews shall shet
On the martyrd patriots bed
And the rocks shall raise their head
| Of his deeds to tell.
They say that woman is as old
as she looks and that man is as old
as he feels. Now, l amt goin' to
argue the pint. I'll just say l don't
believe it, Most any woman is older
than she looks and know one man
who is darned sight older than he
feels Ill tell you about him.
I'm him. You see while my hair
and whiskers are gettin' gray feel
as young as I did before the war Il
mean the present war;. But one day
last week, after plowin' corn with a
one-horse plow, l decided | was con-
siderably older than l felt, oh, my,
yes! l won't go into details, but my
fathers Oldest son came very near
dyin' in the field-you see l have
been Twin on short rations and was
not very strong and the heat was too
many for me. feel better today,
but shall be more careful and l ad-
wise you folks to do likewise.
If there's one thing that gets my
goat bit quicker than any other it
is to have some son-of-a-gun who has
nothing to do Except figure the in
terest on what he owes) lean on the
fence while ] am bumped over pullin
weeds or wieldin' hoes and say: as
this hot enough for your Gosh, |
think if murder is ever self defense,
it would be so in case like that. In
the followin' beautiful" lines l want
to say to these pests:
There is a place-reserved for those
with nothing else to do)
Than ask the senseless question
"Is it hot enough for your"
And some sweet day, they'll reach
that place
Where never falls the dew
And the Devil he will smile and say:
?x!!*-*!-? hot enough for you"
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-06-20
SALARIES URGED FOR
DOLLAR-A-YEAR MEN
House Committee Takes Up Matter
of Paying Volunteers for Their
Work.

Washington, June IA survey
has been undertaken by the govern
Inent looking to putting its dollar-a-
year volunteers on substantial salar.
les. These men heretofore have &C.
cepted nominal compensation under
a law forbidding the government to
accept services without pay.
Information on the several hun.
dred of these men now serving in the
War Industries Board and other war
agencies, including their duties, con-
nections with private interests and
the value Of their services, has been
gathered by the House Ways snd
Means Committee in response to ur-
gent requests Of = number of govern
ment officials that the nominal pay
system be abolished in the interest Of
efficiency and Of promoting direct
responsibility to the government.
Repofts Of department. heads show,
it 10 said. that most dollar-s-year vol
unteers heretofore have been paid
much higher salaries than the now
erunent eould afford to rive, even il
the suGsedfjoa Of several deeartment
heade tcs ) & - ,lnit = sdopteA
Seesst - - bslleves
- hpe ~ Qst< Ie61s 10 a.
leai6aee 1ivS1ef tstpee6 N aoves.-
~ ~ g,DoGe bd1f6o6o $1,000.
nI5on1v ~ 1taooEped II ~ ehsoeI
- = - - - =
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-06-20

Henry county is making atrial Of
convict road workers. IS negro con.
victs from the state penitentiary ars
working on piece of road nea,
Windsor. The camp has it's own
electric light system. There are com.
Portable sleeping tents, where every
one has cot. and cook house and
dining tent. One of the convicts has
rugged up barber shop. Some OF
them are serving life sentences yet
there is but one guard in charge OF
the party.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-06-20

A ruling whereby city customers
may only purchase two pounds oil
sugar and rural customers five ha.
been announced by F. B. Mumford
Food Administrator for the State, tc
go into effect June IS. This does no,
affect those who have signed cards
to use sugar for canning and preserv-
ing. The limitations are due to the
fact that submarines have sunk in
coming ships carrying sugar, and the
expected shortage.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-06-20

AT the public sale at Maryville last
week by Ogden & Son, of pure bred
Scotch shorthorns, the highest price
ever paid for cow of this breed was
given for Fair Beauty by J. H. Crist,
of Skidmore, Mo-, the animal bring
ing $1,000 Forty cows and bulls
were sold for $67,75o, record sale in
America for Scotch shorthorns.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-06-20
SUN B Fam s.

are getting plent,
of sun beams without mine. Be o.
good cheer. It's goin' to rain-somt
day-just keep on Hooverizin' and
McAdooin. Hang to the willows
work some, pray quite bit and ev-
erything will come out all right. II
it don't just let me know and III give
you another prescription.
Let's get this into our heads
there must be no idlers; we can (and
must) all be up and dom. Perhaps
the field of your work and mine has
not opened up, but it will, and when
the opportunity comes and duty
points the way, let's just forget that
we have troubles of our own and go
no matter what the work-no mat
ter where the field-all that we need
to know is-that it is a work for HUI
manity's sake. We may all be useful
in some small way and who shall say
what part your work and mine (hum-
bic though it beg in the victory which
though delayed is none the less as
sured.
There's just no use of shirkin'
You've got to 60 on workin'
You really have no time for feelin
blue;
For the Huns are at our doors,
Down along our eastern shores;
And the victory may depend on
you.
There may be such thing as bein'
too proud to fight. | dunno-but it
looks as if pride will give way to
hunger pretty soon and then, look
out; for by the the gods of war, when |
you take away mans corn pone and |
tobacco he wont feel that life is |
worth Twin and he'll fight-he shore
will.
| have heard of man who acct
dentally shot himself in his corn
crib, Now | have studied anatomy
-some-but this must be an addi-
ton to the human frame-now if he
had shot hisself in the "corn-bread
crib" l would have known where to
probe for the bullet.
All can say to the boys over there
is to work at once-at once means
now-get busy and may every bullet
in your cartridge belts find German
brain.
By golly, I read something t'other
day thar did me good-it was this
The Boches made raid and some of
them succeeded in getting in a trench
held by the Yanks. Three of them
rushed poor, lone Yank with their
oayonets. Did he run? He did not
ne deliberately shot 'em down, one
1t time. Then the officer in charge
Of the Huns, seeing his men killed.
began begging-and he died a beg
rim. That's the way to handle 'em.
Take no prisoners"
! want you to read "Warren's ad-
lress to his troops" it seems to me
! fit occasion. If the address and the 7
trocities being perpetrated on our
Joys don't fire your patriotism you
re dead one and don't yet know
t. Here it is:
'tand-the grounds your own, my
braves,
Will we give it up to slaves?
Viii we look for greencr graves? n
Hope we mercy still? a
What's the mercy despots feel?
lear it in that battle peal. V
lead ton your bristling steel; "
Ask it-ye who will.
ear We foes who kill for hire? q
Viii we to your homes retire?- II
'ook behind you-they're afire,
And before you see "
Who have done it-from the vale
IN they come-and will We quail? j
eaden rain-and iron hail
Let their welcome be. b
n the God of battles trust s.
lie we may and die we must, 7
ut, oh, where can dust to dust
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-06-20

100 saloons will go out of business
in Kansas City on July 4, the date on
which the licenses are taken out.
The high cost of beer and the restric-
tons due to the war is responsible.
A few years ago there were about
600 saloons in the city. After July 4
there will only be 32s, according to
excise officials.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-06-20

Sunday School Convention at Spruce
A township Sunday School Con-
vention will be held at the Methodist
church at Spruce ON Sunday, June
20, 1913, from until S p. m, where
the following program will be carried
out:
Song-Congregation.
Reading of Lesson-Robt. Dillon.
Prayer-James Raybourn.
Anthem-Choir.
Good Lessons for Sunday School
Rev. Mullendorf. j..
How to Secure and Hold Attend
ance-Rev. Scroggs, Butler.
Young People Training-Miss
Clara Sunderwirth, Rockville.
Home Department-Rev. Fine.
Essentials of Good. Teaching
Prof. H. o. Maxey, Butler.
An Ideal Weekly Report-Miss
Cora Borland.
Everyone Is cordially invited.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-06-20

Lee B. Ewing, of Nevada, who a
short time ago filed declaration of
his candidacy for the democratic
nomination as representative in con-
gress from the Fifteenth Missouri
district, has announced his withdraw
al from the race.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-06-20
MISSOURI NOTES.

Governor Gardner has issued call
for the members Of district appeal
draft boards to meet at Jefferson
City June 20 to discuss new draft
regulations and adopt a uniform plan
to govern all appeal cases.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-06-20

The dredge boat and drag-line ex
cavator for The Grand River Dram
age District of Cass and Bates Coun.
ties, Missouri, is now at work, start
ing'in at the Grand River bridge. As
consequence, the Jefferson High
way has been cut in two at that place,
much to the discomfort of both tour
lists and our Mound Valley neighbors
correspondent in Cass
County Democrat.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-06-20

That Judge John G. Slate Of the
Cole County Circuit Court made the
statement that there was nothing in
the alleged State graft cases during
their trial last fall, was the testimony
introduced before Special Supreme
Court Commissioner J. B. McBaine
in the application of Attorney Gener-
al Frank w. McAllister for writ of
prohibition to prevent Slate from.
trying the cases.