The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-09-11
MISSOURI NOTES

MISSOURI NOTES
Three boys, one - years old and
two Is, were arrested in Kansas City
last week charged with bank robbing.
v johnson county has lost their farm
agent. A county in Illinois. offered
him larger salary than the Missouri
county thought it could pay. .
Appleton City is getting tired Of
the cut-out fiend. The new Mayor is
out with proclamation calling at
tention to the law forbidding any cut
out of any kind on a car.
Mai. Roy S. Britton of St. Louis, a
former member of the house of rep
resentatives, has been appointed a
member of the state highway board
by Governor Gardner to succeed S. S.
Pingree of St. Louis, who resigned
recently.
There have been several myster-
ious barn burnipgs in Johnson coun-
ty recently and the Standardized
says that if it had occurred last year
it would not have been mysterious at
all. 1t would have been the pro-
Germans.
A certain Kansas City paper is do
ing its best to alleviate the suffering
which is a result of the drouth which
set in July first. Nearly every issue
contains recipe asked for by "Anx-
ious Subscriber" telling how to make
some sort of home made wine or
other thirst quencher.
Three saloon keepers or bartend-
ers were arrested in Kansas and six
we're taken into custody at St. Jo-
seph, Mo-, Friday on complaints filed
by Francis M. Wilson United States
Attorney for Missouri, on charges OF
violating the wartime prohibition act
by the sale of whisky.
The moving picture people are
wasting good money hiring high
priced actors to put on wild west
shows, when all that would be neces-
sary would be to send their camera
men to Kansas City and they could
get a good gun fight or gambling
game hold-up most any day.
Alexander H. Stephens, who was
serving an II-month sentence in the
Henry county Jail, Clinton, Mo-, on a
charge of unlawful certification oil
checks, was pardoned Friday by
President Wilson. He pleaded guilty
to the charge last March. He is a
brother of Lon v. Stephens, a for
mer governor of Missouri.
Clinton folks are somewhat pulled
up because base ball pitcher, who
once, long time ago, pitched foE
team in that town, let the only Ty
Cobb down without a hit in a game
at Detroit the other day. The last
time that pitcher appeared in Butler
the home boys all but batted him Out
of the box and won the game.
Eighteen parcels OF st. Louis rea
estate valued at $54,13o and belong.
ing to the estate of the late Alice u
Ciemens-Von Versen, wife of Gen.
eral Macmillan Won Versen, who
served in the German Army more
than forty years ago, have been
seized by Francis p. Garven, alien
property custodian.
The Sheriff of Henry county made
good haul one day last week when
he suspected a man of bootlegging
and seached his barn. Seventeen
cases of Cedarbrook and Old Ken
lucky were found. The market value
of the booze was about $1,000, but the
Henry County Democrat says that
the sky was the limit when it CAME
to selling the booze to the thirsty
Clintonians.
Senators Johnson, McCumber
Borah and Reed are planning fol-
low up tour of President Wilson
when they will make speeches oppos-
ing the League of Nations and parts
of the peace treaty. They pay him
the compliment of admitting that il
will take all four of them to make
any impression when the people have
had opportunities to hear him, and
they are not hoping for much at that