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The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-12-18
'Herrell Hap snings.

Mr.. and Mrs. Jim Garrett and lit
tile daughter, Isabel, Mrs. Sturgeon
land Eulaiia spent Sunday with Mr..
and Mrs. Ray. Sturgeon.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Trusheim have
moved OH their farm, which. they
bought Of Jack Sturgeon. We are
glad 10 welcome our new neighbors.
| MIR. and Mrs. John Hines delight.
fully entertained the. following guests
Sunday: Mr.. and Mrs. We. F. Sewer,
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Clark and family
and Mr.. and Mrs. Squire Innis, OF
Portland. Oregon. This was the
| first visit Mr.. and Mrs. Innis have
made here for many years.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Herrell spent
Saturday evening at the home OF
Hamilton Herrell, in Butler. There
were number OF invited guests
there TO meet Mr.. and Mrs. Innis.
We are sorry to learn that Chas.
Henry was taken to Kansas City
Tuesday night, where he will be OPP
Grated on Wednesday for Appendix
citis.
Mrs. Joe Clark called at Mr..
Alkire's to see Mrs. Knowles, who
is slowly improving.
Earl Alkire went to the Mccarthy
and Alkire sale Tuesday.
We are certainly enjoying the fine
sunshiny weather and hope it will
continue.
Helen Clark will dismiss her school
for one week and will enjoy the holi-
days at home.
Ruth Jones spent Sunday with
Kathleen Wayland.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Seelinger
are enjoying visit with their daugh-
ter, Dora, who has come to spend her
Xmas vacation here.
Ruth Wayland spent Sunday even
ing with Salina Newton.
The neighbors OF this locality be-
gan giving their suppers Dec. 16 and
the first was held at the home of Mr..
Jones. The supper consisted OF
oysters, pickles, pie and fruit salad.
There were about IS present. They
departed at late hour saying they
had done ample justice to the eats.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jake Baum were
Sunday visitors at the Hertz home.
Mable Card spent Sunday with
DEC.
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Miss Hope White, who is student
at Central College, Columbia, ar
rived Monday night for short visit
i nthis city with her. aunt. Mrs. W.
d. Stanley, before she proceeds to
La Junta, Colorado, where she wifi
spend the Christmas holidays with
her father. VIM. White. who was for
[lnany years resident of this city.
Leslie r. Choate, of the Choate and
Son Insurance agency, OF this city
has accepted position as special
agent of the Northwestern National
Insurance, and left the first of the
week for Milwaukee. Wisconsin,
where he will spend several days i'll
the head office of the company be-
fore assuming his duties which III
cludc looking after the company's in
terest in Missouri, Kansas and Okla
homa. He will maintain all office in
the Hall building, Kansas City Mr..
'Choatc is one OF Buffers brightest
and most energetic business men.
thoroughly posted on all insurance
The Choate and Son agency
will be continued in this city in
charge of the senior partner. DIR. ].
w, Choate, assisted by Walter We
Mott.
\ number OF business men attcnt,-
ed the meeting at the rooms of the
council Friday night and heard rep
OF the Norberg Manuiac-
turing, company explain the advant
ages of the oil burning type OF en-
sinc, OF course the. gentleman could
readily show that the oil burner was
the only kind of an engine to buy.
Is. said that the eus}nes N.ete spe9par I
to get one i'll case the city
decided that that was the thing 10
10. 1t was the unanimous opinion Of
hose present that something should
De done Immediately as the present
is intolerable 1t is said
hat it would cost in the neighbour
nood of 100000 to $4,000 to install
mother unit to the present plant and
he only way to raise the money will
Dc. to vote bonds
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-12-18
BUTLER EVIDENCE
FOR BUTLER PEOPLE
The Statements of Butler Residents
Are Surely More Reliable Than
Those of Utter Strangers,

Home testimony is real proof
Public statements of Butler people
carry real weight.
What friend or neighbor says
compels respect.
The word of one whose home is
far away invites your doubts.
Here's Butler MINIS statement.
And it'A for Butler peoples bene-
fit.
Such evidence is convincing.
That's the kind of proof that backs
Doan's Kidney Pills.
D. w. Jennings, 400 College St,
says: Some years ago / was a bad
sufferer etom kidney complaint and
backacche. l bought Doan's kidney
Pills from Clay's Drug Store, and
they gave me relief"
Over Four Years Later, Mr.. Jcn-
nings said: q have always had good
results from occasional use of poans
Kidney Pills. l still endorse them as
a good medicine"
Price Coo, at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for = kidney remedy get
Doan's Kidney Pills-the same thar
Mr.. Jennings had. Foster Nilburn 1
CO.. Mfgrs-, Buffalo. NY. 10 n ]
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development of the oil resources; OF
the Southwest, shows improvement.
Stocks of lumber in the hands Of
retail dealers in Kansas City. are re-
ported as moderate. The retailers I
have been filling some contracts 1atez
ly at losses. notably in the case /,
oak floorings.
Dealers say the heavy demand is>
simply the result of the growing
building operations made necessar%
by the suspension of new building
during the period of the war. Excess
sive rains in the South have contrib
uted to the upward movement Of
prices by retarding production.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-12-18
Ohio Street M. E. Church.

II. a. Mitchell, Pastor.
Sunday school, o:3o. w. d. Yates
Superintendent.
Morning worship HOO Sermon
subject, Universal Peace Through
the Christ Child"
Mission Study Glass, 600 Prof
Lee, teacher.
L. l.. and intermediate L. L., 7:,,o
An Xmas program. Bring something
for the less fortunate. 49,.
Evening service 7:3o. Sermon sub
iect. My Xmas Present
Christmas Cantata, 7:.3o Wednes-
day evening. "A Good Time With
Santa Claus
Last Sunday was great day when
children and young people
made their decision for Christ and
twenty united with the church.
Eighteen were baptized.
Welcome all.
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The Only Girl. .

The Only Girl, musical comedy,
which is regarded by critics as one of
the highest class productions on the
road has been booked by Manager
Fisk of the Fisk Opera House for a
matinee and night performance on
Thursday, December IS.
1t was possible for Manager Fisk
to secure this production only be-
cause of an open date.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-12-18
Farm Machinery

Acme binder; Deering mower; Mccormick
mower; Sure-Drop corn planter; John Deere
corn planter; disc harrows; smoothing harrow;
riding cultivators; John Deere disc cultvator;
3 16-inch sulhy plows, high lift; Peter Schuttler
wagon, in good condition; garden plow; grind
stone; wheat drill; forge; Economy King sep
arator; water separator.
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For Sale-Corner Fulton and Mill
streets. acres, s room house.
fioorcd attic, modern except furnace
If desired will sell with place us
Baron White Leghorn hens and pull
lets. Also 1917 Ford car cheap
Owner, Fl. c. Funk, Butler Mo.
phone 48S. Att
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-12-18
Lumber in Demand.

So strong has. been the demand for
lumber. according to dealers i'll Kan
sas City, that yellow pine mills in the
South are said to be as much as eight
weeks behind on orders. In other
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-12-18

Farm I. $50 acres, we'll improved
with an eight roolned house, barn is
-5xSo feet with cattle shed on the
sides oil the barn. Good fences, is one
OF the best improved farms in Eastern
Kansas This farm is to be sold BY
January lst, 1920. This farm lays
aeve1, has 100 acres in blue grass pas
turc, 1870 acres under cultivation, IS
acres in wild grass hay. This farm
is we'll watered, everlasting water,
can b. bought on easy terms. Own
er will take big mortgage il buyer
so desires. Price $500 per acre.
Farm ,. so acres, we'll improved,
IS acres Of blue grass pasture, 4S
acres in farm land. l.asy terms.
Price s. 500 per acre.
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Farm for Rent-Splendid farm, 100
acres, modern improvements, ideal
location on Jefferson Highway, 1 ~
miles north Butler, for rent after
Jan 10th. 1920. We are making spe
.cial price on above farm.
Io-2t Nuckols Bros.
Phone IS on : 81 Butler, Route, s.
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a;|Il ! ! | !. | ! | ! ! ]
WANTED. 4 RsA LE. mo vi
Farm Bsr9ainss

fn. VI II 4 fffft 4
M. i Farm BsfEains III II
Want to n sen VI o , hSse Bates
EOhnty, Missouri Farnlk IN ]. u " MI
X: TAG acres, = ~ miles from But
itr Small iInprovefnen Good
smooth land All ii wheat and tame
s s:t 100 acres, IA miles Butler, 2
snilcs Passaic. Good land and good
ifnpr ovements. u
IA ~ 32o acres, 2'tsets small improve
ments Smooth land Of good quality.
Butler, miles; Adrian, S miles
Rassaic, i I-z miles. :.
4 80 acres 3 IL miles from
Adrian. Smooth land. Good build
ings. Near school
S, $50 acres good land, miles
from Adrian. No buildings.
Jesse L. Smith,
Butler, Missouri.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-12-18

There will be box supper at Or
chard Grove school house on Mon
day night, December 22. 1910.
IO-It* Chrystal Johnson.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-12-18

Aristocrat, Barred Rock cockerels,
w. d. Holterman strain. Write for
prices. Mrs. !. r. Chambers,
7-4t* y StOteSbury, Mo.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-12-18

Shorthorn Bulls for Sale-From six
months old to good strong yearlings.
w. i. Sellon. Butler, Mo-, Route 6.
Phone, call Virginia o-tf
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-12-18
For Sale.

1918 Oakland touring car in excel
tent condition.
Off O. II. Griffin.
Phone II on Butler. Mo.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-12-18
Buff Rock Chickens.

Buff Rock cockercls for sale. EH-
ira good stock.
Sat Mrs. Claud Baker,
Phone 10 on Butler, Rt. =.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-12-18

For Sale-Butler property, S-room
house, with three acres of land, near
school. Price, Seioo. J. p. Hart,
Butler, Mo. Io-2t#
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-12-18
Wanted-A Christmas Tree.

| should like to purchase an ever
green tree, convenient size tyi
church. Write or phone w. J..
Cooirod, Butler, Mo-, 900 y. High
St. Phone 23G. Io-It
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Wood for Sale.

Why freeze, when you can buy all
kinds of wood cheap? Write E. 3.
VanArsdale. Butler, Mo-, Rt. S. 7-4t*
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-12-18

Chrysanthemums for sale. Buy
your Thanksgiving flowers at
Herrell's Green House.
Off 'IIo South Broadway.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-12-18
SO HEAD LIVE STOCK 80
d head Of Hogs

3 Duroc Jersey gifts, weight 100 lbs Duroc
Jersey male, weight 40 lbs.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-12-18
3 head Horses and | Mule Colt

Two bay Mares smooth mouth; black mare
years old, in foal by jack; 4-year-old mare, dark
iron gray, good one; 3-year=oid bay horse; g.
yearold road mare, an extra good one; 2-year- old
q bay flly; yearling sucking colts, filly and
geldng; mare mule colt.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-12-18
rs head of Cattle

Jersey COW, years old, giving milk, to be
fresh in February; Jersey COW, years old. full
blood. good one. to be fresh in spring; brindle
COW, years old, giving milk; brown Swiss
heifer, years old. giving milk; brown Swiss COW
years old, giving milk; red 3-year-old heifer,
giving milk; red and white s-year-old heifer;
these will all be fresh soon. 8 red yearlins
heifers; spring calves; a-year-old red Short
horn bull; coming s-year-old high grade Jersey
heifers, from tested milk cows, bred to bring
calves in spring; spring calves. :,
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Harness
sets work harness; set single harness..
Feed

$50 bushels good corn in crib; 400 bushsl
good oats in bin; tons good cane hay.
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60 Good Hedge Posts. 8 Good Corn rosn.

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The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-12-26
Death Valley Is Seventy
Miles Long, Ten to Twenty
Miles Wide; Barren Waste

Death valley, 276 feet below sea
level, is an alkaline desert region In
California, on the Arizona border. 1t
is seventy miles long, ten to twenty
miles wide, and is situated between
high foothills. Only S~eventy-five miles
away Mount Whitney raises its 14,500
feet into the air, and with other near
by elevations is a barrier to any m0iS-
ture reaching this parched region.
In summer the temperature reaches
$50 degrees in the shade, where there
is shade enough to I'VE the Their
mometer, and even the nights are too
hot to sleep. Terrific winds of heated
sands sweep up and down the valley
and render it a barren waste, except
for q few stunted cacti and grease
wood. In autumn tourists may ven
ture into it's confines, but they must
carry "drink" for both man and beast,
as the lone stream that enters this
dreary region is bitter alkaline and
soon disappears in the sand, while
springs are miles and miles apart.
However, a few Sinking ~covotes. rat
~tlesnakes, horned toads, buZzards and
half-starved jack RABBITS manage TO
exist in some mysterious manner.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-12-26
CHILD LABOR
is REDUCED
Decrease OF More Than 40 Pss Gem
Under New Law

Child labor has decreased more than
40 per cen since the child labor tax
provision of the revenue act went into
effect April % last. Ehis act levied a
tax Of 10 per cent on the net earnings
of plants employing children under IA
years or between "a and 16 for more
than eight hours in the production of
commodities entering into interstate
commerce..
Reports of internal revenue bureau
agents, it is announced, indicate that
the greatest decrease has occurred in
the cotton mill industry Of the south
ern states where. it is said more than
yR5 per ZEN or the mills now are oper-
'ating on q basis that eXempts them
from the tax. Marked reduction in
child labor also was reported, 1t was
said, in the coal mining and canning
industries. Many plants, particularly
cotton mills, have discharged all chill
dren under is years of age, the report
said, rather than adjust the operation
to an eight-hour day.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-12-26
Methods of Education Too
Much a Cramming Process

Everyone admits that the methods
of modern education are far from per
feet; that the whole system Is too
much a examining process, too little
that Heading forth" Of the individual
mind which is implied in the etymol-
ogy Of the word, declares a writer.
Too often the creative Imagination Of
the child Is not only not developed-it
is deliberately snubbed and stifled.
And ever his critical faculty is dis
couraged by the average teachers au-
t%horitative attitude, which repeats day
after day: "Your opinion is of no i'm
portance; So-and-SO addison, for ex-
ample) has been admired by two CEN
turtles of competent judges, and 1t be-
hooves young people like you to accept
their opinion"
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-12-26
Adjournment of Rooms in
Home Requires Careful
Study of Color Scheme

Rooms have to be studied, like peo-
pie, for their adornment. Their height,
their width and their relation TO the
sun must be considered. They also
have TO be treated In relation to those
who live In them.
People are playing with colors now.
Some tints, like amber and yellow, are
very difficult. You have to lead up to
them, and very often before the
scheme is complete the designer
throws ii up in despair.
Brown is the most difficult Of all.
OF every hundred people who think
they want brown, and come to the
great furnishing houses with their col
or palettes full of every tone, ninety
five resign themselves to another color.
Greens are the easiest colors to live
with, and joyous jade greens, some
| shot with blue. others with yellow, are
now to be found In the most dignified
| rooms. Greens rest tired eyes In q way,
] that cautious hlueS-can~~ne~ar-a~
| Those who cannot change their fur
| nishings often favor this kindly color.
Stripes and plain-colored hangings
give size and height TO a room. Motley
| %cretonnes or silks draw q room in and
make it smaller. So 1t is best to go
warily when dealing with the brilliant
furnishings Of today.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-12-26
SGniiiiU.C Ii.~,aiIo ionCr
Under Uncle Sans WING
in Florida Everglades

In the least known wilderness o.
America, the Everglades Of Florida
where no white man can find his wa!
unguided, 600 full-blooded Seminole
Indians have at last been officially
discovered" Ever since the Indian
war in 1912 the Indians In Florida
have not been recognized by the gov.
eminent or the state. They were sup
posed to have been removed to west.
ern reservations or hunted and shot by
white traders who coveted their land.
But a remnant of the great Seminole
tribe persisted in Florida, eluding the
government agents and retreating foot
by foot before white people who claim
ed to have purchased their lands, till
they finally made their homes in the
maZ of UNEMPLOYED swamps, studded
with thousands of luxuriously vege-
tated islands, which form the Ever
glades. The government finally has
been persuaded TO grant them 100000
acres Of land for an Indian reservation
under an Indian commissioner.
The Seminoles live in an absolutely
primitive state, in matched huts. They
are afraid Of the camera, they wonder
at the telephone, the automobile, the
train and the commonest conveniences.
They are suspicious of the white man
n his government. Yet when on oc-
casional trips to the villages they
learned of the war with Germany they
showed themselves no slackers.
They are a remnant of a few thou
sand Seminoles who disappeared into
the Everglades when the government
agents started to move them west.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-12-26
IMPORT A FOR 1919
SHOWS BIG INCREASE


Imports for the nine peace months of 1919 ending September show
a gain OF 1914 900 over the same period of 1918, $1,2s7 100000 over
the first nine months of 1914 and $1,37O, 100000 over the first nine
months of 1913.
A study of the import table shows that, compared with the first
nine months of 1914, Asia has made the most strenuous shit : in the
American market, or from %$21OOOO,O0O for the 1914 to $697,OOUOOO for
the 1919 period. In this grand division japan appears to have scored the
greatest gains, or from $4,000 900 to $272, 900 900. The British East
Indies have advanced from $~S3,OO0,OOO to $22O 100000; China from
$4,000 900 to $106O00O00. North America has also recorded a remark
able conquest of our market, the total increasing from 1851 OOO, 900 for
the first nine months of 1914 to 100000 for 1919. In this division
Canada has scored the most heavly-$121,0 00,0 900 to $780, 900 900.
South America shows an increase of from $173,O000 900 to $4o1, 000-
600, but a slight falling off compared with the 1918 period, from coun-
tries whence we purchase raw materials for manufactures, while from
Brazil, which is fast developing into a manufacturing country, there is an
increase from $79,OOO0OO for the first nine months of 1918 to $161, OOO,-
1000 for the 1919 period.
We took from Oceania during the first nine months of 1914 $685.
100000 worth of goods, $~2OOOO,OOO worth from Australia and New
zealand, and for the 1919 period $%117,OOO,OOO worth; &c., 100000 from
Australia and New Zealand.
/ From Africa $16 100000 worth in the 1914 period and $685. 900 for
4919 period.
Naturally imports from Europe for these two periods show a marked
FALLING off because of industrial descriptions which have not been wholly
repaired. Our total of imports from Europe for the 1919 period was
k621 100000. For the first nine months of 1918 they came to $25OOOO,-
900; and for the first nine months of 1919 to $452, 00OO 900. Imports
from the United Kingdom increased from $119,0 900 for the 1918
period to $178000,000 for the 1919 period; from France $48O00,000 to
1913, 600, 1000; from Italy 100000 to $4, 100000; from Denmark,
the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden from $12, coo, 900 to $64,OOO,OOO;
Switzerland, $12~, 100000 to $17,000O00; Spain, ~$11,000,000 to 1885,,
10000; Greece, from SIS, 0O0,0 900 to $22, 100000.
We imported about $4,000 worth of goods from AutriaHungary
and Germany for the 1918 period, and almost 81, 900 worth for the
1919 period; about $4,000 from Turkey in 1918 and $sO,OOO,OOO worth
in 1919.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-12-26
Hope to Save Millions
in Fires by Breaking the
Matches While in Flame

When match breaking becomes a
national habit $50,OO0,OO0 "a year will
be saved.
BY breaking matches-that is, of
course, matches one uses in lighting
cigar, cigarette, pipe or gas stove
many fires that annually a loss
of approximately $35,OO0,000 will be
eliminated, according to a statement
by fire prevention authorities. And
to spread the gospel of breaking
matches and preventing fires, a nation
wide picture campaign of education is
to be started.
"Under existing conditions Ameri-
year." said Harvey Levey, educational
director of a film company that is to
produce the pictures. "There is only
one way it can be outdone-that is by
education. The fire departments are
doing the best they can. Until the
people are educated to back them up
America will continue to pay-not
only in money but in lives, and that
must be placed first"
The campaign will be put on In CO.
operation with efforts of the bureau
of forestry of the department Of ag-
riculture. Films showing every phase
Of destruction by fire and Of methods
to defeat heavy fire losses will be ex-
hibited in theaters in every commu.
nifty in the country, Levey said.
The first essential, Levey said, is the
breaking of lighted matches before
they are thrown away. Much less
chance will be afforded for a match to
ignite adjacent combustible materials.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-12-26
Communism Was Tried Out
Centuries Ago by Little
Republic in Central Asia

In the heart of Asia centuries ago
Manchu merchants discovered three
rarge auriferous regions which the Pc
kin government Immediately claimed
by forcing thousands Of laborers to
work the mines. Most OF these men,
mountains and forests surrounding
them. AS the government kept refill
ing the deserted ranks the colony in
the hills also grew and formed It,
self into a federation, whose leaders
were to protect the lives and supply
the means of livelihood for the rest.
This little republic vas founded
upon the shores Of the River Centunga,
and Is the earliest communist expert
ment known. All the fruits of labor
and production were for common use.
1t was absolutely prohibited that any
one withhold from the any
part of the gold which all were occu-
pied I'm mining re was placed to tise
credit Of the whole colony and depos-
tied with fhe association. to be used
for anyone in need. Everyone had to
work to his utmost capacity, and char;
ity or begging was unknown.
Any disobedience to the laws was
punishable by death. This sentence
was pronounced by a committee of
twenty-five, elected by universal suf-
frage, as well as two judges and the
two presidents Of the commune.