The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-07-17

w. E. Welton returned the last OF
the week from Lyndon, Kansas
where he had accompanied the re-
mains of Richard Vail, who died at a
sanitarium in Kansas City the FIRST
of last week. Mr.. Vail was formerly
employed by Mr.. Welton.
Wednesday of last week fire Of an
unknown origin destroyed the barn
On the farm of Ole Mouse at Altoona
together with its contents, consisting
of hay. oats and an automobile, says
the Adrian Journal. There was some
insurance on the building. but none
on the contents.
Mrs. 7. Everingham returned Sun.
day from Kansas City, where she had
been to be near her daughter, Mrs. ).
B. Walton, who recently underwent
surgical operation at the Research
hospital in that Ct y. Mrs. Walton
friends will be glad to learn that her
condition is very much improved,
and that she is able to sit up part
of the time.
Wednesday morning at about 3
J. o clock the barn on Ole Mouse's farm
at Altoona caught fire and the building
and its contents were destroy. d.
Some hay, oats and an automobile
were destroyed. The loss was heavy
but we have no estimates as to the
amount. The building was partially
insured; there was no insurance on
the contents-Adrian Journal.
According to the chief of dete:t-
ives of Kansas City the automobile
thieves of that city have gotten the r
business so we'll systemat zed that all
that is necessary for the prospective
buyer of fused car to do is to state
what kind of a car he wants, what c
will pay and when and where he
wants it delivered and the car will be
there on time and according to speci-
fications.
We have read of an Illinois man
who swallowed a two-foot rule and
died by inches; OF fellow in the
Klondyke who swallowed ther-
mometer and died by degrees; OF an
Arkansawer who swallowed pistol
and went off easy; of a Texan who
! swallowed a gag" and died laugh
ing; of a fellow in Kansas who swal-
lowed a gallon of applejack and died
in good spirits, but Metz caps 'cn'
all. The undertaken took package
of Diamond Drops and died cough
in'-Hume Telephone.
County Agent R. A. Langenbacher
lis getting right down to business and
the Bates county farmer is rapidly
learning that it pays to bring their
problems to him. He has made an
analysis of the soil of several farms
and recommended the kind and
amount of fertilizer needed to pro-
duce the best results. If farmer
thinks that his farm needs lime he
will send samples of the soil to Col
Iumbia for analysis. In another col
lumn of The Times will be found an
article by him on poultry culling.
In order that they may know ex-
actly what they want in the way Of
improvements and betterments for
the Butler light plant and how to go
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committee of the council have aske d
the state public utilities commission
to send a. competent engineer here
to go over the. entire plant and adj
wise with them in regard to the con.
templated improvements. Several
plans have been suggested but which
one will be adopted will depend
| largely on the advice of the engineer
after he has looked the situation
over.
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cross. Wisconsin, i spending q va
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John peerwester. few miles north
east OF this city. Previous 10 the
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