The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-10-24
} MISS oURI NOTES

Al 49, s;y
There are r5so3 negro voters III y
city Of st. Louis.
II During the week ending 0ctu6
| five boys from Henry county 4ia
| the various army camps in thu y v
try 3; 81 Il; ssss'
Ii w. l.. Douglass is 4 candidate III
the office Of circuit clerk 81 Ced1
county. No, it is not the same M
| who makes the shoes.
| Over at Holden they are congerS
ing time by holding High School 81
days in the week. By abolishine III
Saturday holiday the school year vii
be finished several weeks earlier.
Young Spangler was killed Frida.
at his coal shaft near Clinton.
small mine car of coal fell into til
shaft on him as he descended on Hi
elevator. He leaves a wife and tws
children. 81
The chief of police of St. Louis and
two of his aides were suspended d,
the commission last week on charges
said to have been preferred by fhs
government, the details of which were
not made public. 7 & e
The citizens in Dutchtownr Cape
Girardeau county, have petitioned
the Postal Department to change its
name to Spencer. in honor of the first
boy of the village to volunteer in
Uncle Sans army.
The moving picture men of Kansas
City held meeting one day last week
and protested that they were obeying
the order of the health authorities,
that not more than rs neople meet at
any gathering. There were $50 at the
meeting.
The Monroe City News claims a
championship for Mrs. Lambert Lit
tie, who lives near that city. Her hus-
bands QUESTIONABLE shows that they
were married in 1908. He is e years
old and she 26, They have had eight
children, of whom, seven, aged 9, 7,
6. 5, 3, and are living. The child
that died was one of twins.
Bob Staples is the first Clinton boy
we have heard of who heads his let
tiers Somewhere in Germany" His
father, H. D. Staples, last week had a
letter from him dated August-25, say
ing: Hunting the Boches is the kind
of hunting | am doing now. They
are hard to find, and do not bite well.
We are in the trenches again. Send
me seme home papers and magazines.
Clinton Eye.
Jacob Snyder, we'll known Henry
county stockman, for years breeder
of mules that won most of the prizes |
at the state fairs, committed suicide
by hanging at his farm near Mount
Zion in the eastern part of that coun-
~. His body was discovered Thurs
day; morning by his father. Worry
over the war and his inability to get !
his SON exempted are said to have
caused him to lose his reason
The Holden Enterprise is of the
opinion that Missouri and Kansas
AHouS SCiiouS iiiStdhC WHICH tHcy
abolished capital punishment and sug-
gests that Dale Jones and the Lewis
gang would not be so bold if they
knew the punishment would be hang
ing when they killed someone, instead
Of a few years in the pen, from which
hey would in a few years be par
Toned by some soft-hearted governor.
Another war horror. The physi-
Ian in charge OF the contagious dis
Eases department of the Kansas City !,
BOARD of health gives it as his opin-
on that the present epidemic of in !
luenza which is sweeping over that
ity; was started by the soldiers from
he different environments kissing the
'oung ladies of that city, while their
rains were waiting in the Union sta
ion and tissues warning that such I
must cease. OF course the
oys and girls will heed the warning. r
Metz, down in Vernon county,
rides itself on being strictly eup-to-
ate and sometimes just a little ahead
nd in keeping with that idea they
ave already celebrated the downfall
f Willie the. Hun. One night last
1eek citizen of that town received Z
message that the German army had 2
nrrendered. In few minutes the
hurch bell was ringing, guns were
ischafgcd and big bonfire blazed
n Main street. Everybody went to Is
ed happy. They will do it all over
gain when the DroOer TINA arr;,,a. -