The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-06-12

MISSOURI NOTES
ITO women in Johnson county
wen service medals for good work
done in securing subscriptions to the
Fifth Liberty Loan.
The state auditor has declared the
bond election in Ell Dorado Springs
at which bonds for new school
house were voted, illegal on the
ground that the bonds exceeded the
per cent limit set by law. Another
election has been called when the
amount. voted on will be reduced.
Mrs. Carrie Eckerson Holland of
O'Neill, Neb., was found guilty of
the murder of Mrs. Pearl Welton,
young wife of Frank Welton, far
mer OF Shannon County, in the
Shannon County Circuit Court at
Eminence Thursday. She was sen-
fenced to ten years in the peniten-
tiary.
Tuesday, Kinny Miller shipped
through the postotfice $500 chickens,
on Wednesday $500, paid in the two.
days about $500 in postage. 1t takes
an extra clerk at the postoffice all
the time. There is more work done
in the postoffice in one day now
than there was four years ago in
two days.-Lancaster Excelsior.
And no one has yet equalled the
record of Squire William Paul OF
Huntingdale, who has spent IS OF
his SO years in the same house, and
has ior fifty years slept in bed
which he made himself of walnut
log, with rope instead OF Stats, as
was the custom half century ago,
says the Henry County Democrat. =
The governor Saturday vetoed
the appropriation of $1,000 to erect
d monument. 1t was proposed to
erect the monument to Col. Hiram
BledSoe at Pleasant Hill. Col. Bled-
soc fought in the Mexican and Civil
wars. The bill was passed through
the efforts OF Senator David w.
Stark and Representative Charles
Nelson of Cass county.
Gal Bailey was convicted OF MUIR
der in the second degree in Cedar
county circuit court last week and
sentenced to IS years in the peniten-
,iary for the killing OF James Brad
ley Kansas City rooming house
keeper in Ell Dorado Springs April
:. Mrs. Bradley, wife OF the. muir
lered man, who was tried as an &C
cessory to the murder was acquitted.
Sheriff Sewell, OF Barton county in
discussing the recent lynching OF
Lynch, at Lamar, is credited with
saying he expects to make some
thing like 500 arrests of suspected
lynchers in the next few days. Gov
trnor Gardner has ordered the at
torney generals office to SEND rep
resentative to Lamar to assist in the
prosecutions which it is moral GER
,;.in,y will never be made.
james A. Houchin has resigned
the Presidency of the Federated
Commercial Clubs OF Missouri. Ac-
cording to the St. Louis Globe-Den1-
ocrat there has been trouble between
Mr.. Houchin and Secretary A. Ly-
man Donlin, and because Donlin was
not removed, Houchin asked to have
his own resignation accepted. The
nature of the trouble between the
two officials of the organization is
not stated.
The number of licensed automo-
biles in the state now stands at 1885,
900, according to the records of the
Secretary of State. The number IS
rapidly and will pass the
2oo, 900 mark long before the end Of
the present month. Twenty-three
years ago last December the first au-
tomobile crossed the Mississippi river
at St. Louis. 1t. was small affair,
capable of carrying four persons if
they would walk uphill.
A new form of Amusement mt has
been found for the inmates OF the
r luton insane asylum says On tN-
change. The authorities recently dis
covered that the patients liked
nothing better than to be turned
loose in a potato patch that was in
tested with potato bugs. They put
The bugs in tin cans and the bugs are
then cremated. On the IS acre field |
At the asylum they recently picked
nine bushels of bugs in two days.
Mrs. Minnie NJ. Talbot, widow of
he late Sheriff Joseph c. Talbot, of
Lafayette County, received her COM
mission from Governor Gardner last
week. Mrs. Talbot will take the
oath of the office Monday when cir
nit court meets and her bond is ap-
proved. Her deputies will be John