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The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-07-31
Only Psrshing . Gsnsrala

Washington, July ALT is very
probable that Congress will refuse
to raise General March, chief of staff,
to the came rank ~ that proposed
for Geaeral. Pershing, . full general
in the reguhr establishment, but in
stead. viii make the chief of staff q
heutenant general for life. That
suggestion was made in the military
affairs committee of the House to.
day whs6 bills raising Pershing and
March TO the rank of generil for
their seTviees in the war came up for
discussion.
The committee 10 united on the
ffoposel thst Psrshing shall be made
. fan enefal for lfe-an honor only
6estowed Upon three men previously
q tie Mationt history. The Perch
- ID dpebtless will pass Congress
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~ & full geaeral. No.
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The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-07-31
! 100000 Cara Stolen AnsuallS.

|. The automobile Shelving profess
sionn' Is q breat dea lmore lucrative
and not niarly so daring a. the old
time stage coach and express train
holdups, judging from statiatics just
released 1t Washington. ~ 4 Z. z.
These statistics reveal that more
lthan~1oo.ooo motor cars are stolen in
;tns United States annually. This
number is far greater than the COM
'bined output of five big plants, and
the production managers, executives
and sales force Of these plants would
feel great relexation if they had for
their production the number Of mo-
tor prs stolen in the listed States
e4cH Le3f.a
fhif 5ncreasinH sinister practice
hAS 10 oyertaxed the patience and re-
ynarees OF the insurance. companies
thu they threaten to decfeaSe ssthe
sannunt taid on stolen cars 1t least
IS per cent and continue to increase
the premium rates, which they have
besn doing for the last five YEAR,
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-07-31
WAR GOODS TO PEACE USES
Englishwomen Utilize Equipment o.
Their Soldier Husbands.

The various articles of a more Of
less warlike character, originally in
tended for armies in the field, are
finding strange uses in these de.
modified days. Artisans with khaki
trousers, tram conductors with
breaches of Bedford cord, and dust
men with battered khaki 'fcaps have
become everyday sights recently. 1t
now appears, however, that the wives
of newly returned husbands are as
serting the jointness of all such prop
erty, and the vision of the once too
familiar wooden cardigan stretched
across the portly bosom of the wo-
man of the house has met the eye
more than once.
The other morning, however, with
in a couple of hours, ! saw subur-
ban woman hanging out the clothes
and taking the pegs from the capa-
cious bottom Of an old army kit bag
and another casually chatting with
the milkman while wearing what was
Snquestionablys an adaptation of a
ground sheet" as an apron. Paint
'ers have frequently shown us cannon
overturned and sprouting young
grass from their muzzles, as a sym
Dol Of peace; here is new instance
of the same spirit made to their
hand. Manchester Guardian.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-07-31
Dynamite in Home of Financier.

Kansas City, July 25.-Dynamite
was placed in the shed attached to
the house of H. c. Whitaker, Blairs-
town, Mo-, banker, in' an attempt to
blow him up after he had failed IL
give up $500 in answer to anonymous
threatening letters sent him by the
Branded Gang" according to infor.
mation received this morning by Dis
trict Attorney Francis NJ. Wilson,
who is investigating the case of Al
bert Green, Is years old, and Jesse
Warner, 10 years old, Blairstown
youths, who are held in the Henry
county Jail, charged with having
sent the letters.
Mr., Wilson filed information to-
day before w. r. Jeffries, United
States Commissioner at Clinton,
charging the boys with using the
mails to defraud. Two letters, al
legged to have been sent by the boys,
were received this morning by Mr..
Wilson, and additional evidence is
being collected at Clinton.
The first letter was written May
81, it is alleged, and ordered Mr..
Whitaker to leave $500 in bills at
northeast end of Big creek bridge"
He was directed to put it in an en-
velope and cover with three inches
of dirt, and put small stone on top.
Have no watchers, or your life is but
a few hours"
Mr.. Whitaker did not comply, and
week later he received another let
ter repeating the request and making
threats against his life. The letter is
marked as coming from ."the danger
est place on earth" and signed ''thc
Brand Bros. Gang"
= "A third letter, postmarked June E,
was sent to D. f. Sheppard of Blairs-
town, demanding $500 from him. Mr..
Sheppard was threatened, according
to the letter, because he aided Mr..
Whitaker to prevent the gang from
securing money from the earlier at
tempt.
Mr.. Whitaker found a stick of
dynamite with fuse attached ready
for explosion on his premises.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-07-31
EvERYBoDY's DOM 1T
The Missouri Pacific Team From
Kansas City, Hands the Local
Team a 10 to 6 Defeat.

For some reason, or for no reason
at all so far as anyone can discover
| the Butler ball team seems to be un.
able to win ball game. The team
is composed of better players than
a majority of the teams that have
been defeating them, but in every
game there is at least one bad inning
and away goes ball game. Last
Sunday, before what was perhaps the
largest crowd that ever attended a
ball game in this city, they lost a
game to the Missouri Pacific team OF
Kansas City by score of 10 to 6.
This time it was the second inning
that proved disastrous. One lone hit
by the visitors mixed with some
boneheaded playing and few errors
on the part of the home boys netted
the boys from the mouth of the Kaw
e unearned runs. Orear, barring
some bad judgment at times, espe-
cially when he laid ball right over
the groove with not thing on it for
Tink Ellis, who was playing with the
Visitors, pitched high class ball.
The old fans could have told him just
what Tink would dc to that kind of
a ball. He did Il. A pitcher could
have been excused for losing heart
after the second inning, but he tight
ened up and got better as the game
progressed.
Kansas. City had an Irish battery.
Kelly and Foley. The old fans will
remember Foley who. caught few
games for Butler. about IS years ago.
Kelley pitched fair ball, not so good
as Orear, but he received much better
support
The Kansas City team made the
trip in a special car and brought
about a hundred noisy, goodnatured
rooters with them.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-07-31
Bates County Breeders Association

Definite plans for the organiza-
ton of Bates County Breeders AS
ISOLATION are being formulated and
we hope to complete the organization
early this fall. A meeting will be
called along the first part of Septem-
Der when all the breeders of pure
bred livestock in Bates county will
gather at Butler to organize and lay
plans for future work.
There are many possibilities in
such an organization. It assures
every breeder whether large or small
market for his surplus. This means
a market where he will receive the
price his stock is worth as breeders
and not common meat prices such as
any scrub will bring. It places the
man who raises registered stock of
any kind in position to make a
greater profit from his herd than is
possible for his neighbor who keeps
nothing but run down, scrubby stuff.
Associations of this kind in other
counties such as Carroll, Cass, and
Pettis have raised the price of regis
tered stock 30 per cent to 80 per cent
in three years and this at cost of
but few dollars to each breeder.
Investigate the possibilities of this
organization. Talk it over with your
neighbors. Write to your friends in
counties where this plan is working,
and come to Butler when the meet
ing is held and get in as one of the
first.
Bates countyshas all the advantages
of any county in Missouri and It is
up to us to make use of them. No
one else will.
R. A. Langenbacher,
County Agent
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-07-31
Rev. Spencer Has Returned.

Rev. Thomas Spencer, former pas
tor of the M. Z. Churches here and
at Amoret, came in last Saturday
from overseas where he has been for
the past year in the service of his
country. Fortunately Bro. Spencer
escaped. injury at the hands of the
enemy. His wife had preceded him
to England and while there a baby
girl came to brighten their lives. AZ
ter peace was declared BEo. Spencer
spent several days visiting his boy
hood home and friends and hearing
again the call to the ministry, he re-
turned to the United States to take
up his work. Bro. Spencer will spend
bis time visiting and resting until the
annual conference when he will ac-
cept an assignment ID his chosen
work.-Amsterdam Enterprise.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-07-31
Irvine May be Lower.

Mexico City, July 24.-Huge
stocks of sisal held in Yucatan soon
may be placed on the market at
prices lower than those which hith-
erto have resulted in consumers in
the United States refusing to buy,
according to reports in financial
circles which are given publicity in
today's newspapers.
The newspapers say that I-2 mill
hon bales of manila hemp and 81
million bales of sisal hemp now are
held in Yucatan.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-07-31
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The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-07-31

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The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-07-31
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The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-07-31

: Struck out by Orear 7; by Kelly, =
Base on balls, of Orear 8; Kelly, o
Hit by pitched ball by Orear /;
Kelly, o.
Next Sunday Schell City will be the
attraction. -
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-25
MGRAW HAS BEEN
 SIElsEWD IN MAKING
 DEALS FOR PLAYERS

John NTcGraw. by his handling of the GinHts this year. has shown he is a real manager, for it Is a real man. ager who can get his president to go out and acnd large sums to strength CD a team that was supposedly better than all the others before the season started John T. Brush backed up John J. well, but the expenditures for talent under the Stoneham admins tration probably put all the others in the background.
 Naturally there is a howl from other cities because NcGraw is buy inE Cor attempting to buy) a pennant for New York. but these other cities have the power to stop John J. at his long suit by getting together next winter and passing a rule that no player shall he purchased by one major leasue club from another after July 1.
 There has been agitation for sono time for a rule of this kind. but I never expect 10 see it passed. There always Is some club that needs the money.
 Didn't Cincinnati, which Is bowling now so because McGraw bought and Syndcr. sell a certain wcll-known batsman nlued Cy Seymour to the Giants nbo-- Is years ago?
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-25
CONNIE MACk NOT ID RETIRE
 HE DECLARES

New York, Aug. 25.---Connie Mack, manager of the once powedful Phila- delphia Athletics, has not completely despaired of again constructing a dia- mond aggregation which Rill rival, in point of power. the championship nine he once piloted. In fact. MT McGilli- cuzdy is rather optimistic, reports to the contrary notwithstanding.
 For five years they've been saying that I can't get to-cther another good team,' said Mack in discussing the situation recently. They are wrong.
 T haven't tried very hard yet. For a time baseball was sleeping, and dur ing those years we just kept going. saw no use in spending a great deal of money in getting together high class ball club just before and during the war. Things are different now, and I don't intend to quit until we have a club that will be up there at the top fighting with the leaders.
 If it means spending money for players, we'll spend as much as is needed. Right now I am devotipg more time to looking around for men need than anything else. I've all ways said that it takes three years to build up winning team. and if live I'll have one. Talk about my getting ready to retire is Dunk"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-25
REDS GAN SPEND SERIES
 COIN; GIANTS OUT OF RACE
Americans Win Over Englishmen
 In Rifle Match

Caldwell, N. J., Aug. 25-The first outdoor International Small-Bore Rifle match was held here yesterday afternoon before a gathering of 15, 900 persons resulting in a triumph for Americans over British contest ants. The teams numbered twenty men each. The British closed their scores several days ago. sending the results by cable. The British score was not made public until the close of the match, when it was announced that the American riflemen had pre- vailed by a margin of ninety-four points.
 The final score for the United States Eas 7,617 as against 7,523 for the British.
 Capt. F. Newitz, of the Britishers, who held the official score of his teammates, was on the range from the time the match started at a. m. His figures showed the British average to be scr out of 400 points.
 Each member of the team was aI- lowed twenty shots at the ffty-yard range and twenty on the 10O-yard range.
 Mrs. E. e. Crossman, wife of the American team captain, turned in score of 377. She is the first wom- an 10 participate in an international team match.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-25
Lennon's Alright Pitching and Hartford's Poor Play
 ing Did Trick.

Four hits are not enough to win Q ball game when the opponents make b, and this is the story of Hartford's defeat at Newfield Pork Yesterday afternoon when they finished on the snort end of the to 8 score.
 The Senators showed up Gooily throughout the entire game and the -Amerl@ane were never in danger after they opened the scoring with three runs in the fourth canto Hits by Skiff and Martin and walk for Ray Grimes clogged the uases and when Webb threw Herring drive wild to the plate, SEiff and Grimes scored. Martin scored on s.. .-ince fly by Bracket The AmerI..ns scored again in the fifth and puI.i i've runs through out of six hits ir the sixth inning.
 Lennon pitched airtight bah and had the Senators guessing all of tho way. He eased up in the ninth and the visitors pulled through two runs to wind up the game.
 Sidelights of the attraction were shado- boxing exhibits by Kid Her man and Young O'Leary of Bridre- port. Marty Walsh did some singing for the fans to help along the pro gram.
 The box score:
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-25
AMERICANS OUTCLASS SENATOR'S
 AND WIN GAME EASILY 9-9
Dave Heron and C. A. ReacOck Win
 American Trophy

Oakmont, Pa, Aug. 25--S. David son Heron, the new amateur golf champion, and his Oakmont team mate, Grant A. Peacock, won the American Golfer trophy yesterday Princeton boys, G. O. Dean and Rich ard Haight, who had tied for it last Sunday. Heron also tied with Tewksbury of Philadelphia and Man ion of St. Louis for the low score medal in the qualifying round, but when Manion refused to stay over for the play-off Heron decided to concede the low score medal to Tewksbury and play with Peacock for the trophy.
 The champion played the same consistent game yesterday that char acterized his scoring in the gruelling matches of the week, and, backed up by the excellent play of his team mate, they did the course in 75, two strokes over par for the IS holes. Dean and Haight were four strokes behind
 Heron did not seem to exert him self to the limit, but seemed more in spirit of pleasant competition. He and Peacock won four tied 13 and lost one hole.
 Dean and Haight drove well. but frequently got into the rough. Dean was the winner of the only hole that went to his side, the 17th, where Her ron approached into a sand trap in the far side of the green after having the best drive of the day.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-25
HERMAN AND LYNCH
 WILL BE INSURED FOR PALTRY $25, 900
That hard-hitting press agent, w.

That d-hittins press agent. w. J. Mahon, sends in the following:
 Herman and Lynch will be insured against sickness and accident by the promoters of the match in Water bury. The policy will call for $25,- OOO
 Pete Herman, the bantam cham pion. states that he will not stand for Dave Fitzgerald of New Haven as referee. He will demand a New York man. He has no choice of any ref cree but he states that he will not box if Fitzgerald is retained
 Joe Lynch is proudly showing the pure Japanese silk bath robe which was presented to him by Lord Londs- dale at the National Sporting Club of London just before he entered the ring to fight Wilde.
 The robe was a gift to the Lord from Q Japanese Princess who made 1t with her own hands 1t is very fine silk and the embroidery alone on it is worth small fortune. When 14ondsdale presented it to Lynch he stated that 1t was one of his priceless possessions.
 The monster umbrella which will be used in case of rain hns been completed, it was built by Jack Snel- len and measures s6 feet in diameter.
 Tommy Ryan, the former middle weight champion has sent in an order for 200 seats he expects to pilot q large party of fans from New York State.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-25
HUB PERDUE SAID
 ROOKIE PLAYER WAS
 NOT FROM CLASS ID

Charley Barrett, the scout, comes back from a round of Southern ball yards with a new story, in which Huh Perdue is the hero, or the victim, aa you will have it. This, like all other Barrett stories, is absolutely true, and the old scout can furnish names and dates to douhters. Let's so:
 In the Southern League there is rule that requires each club to carry at least seven players who have had no previous Class A experience, and since the team limit is 14 men that means one half the team must be made up of players presumably pretty green. Part of a greenhorn' S accomplishment, if he has any, is hit ting a straight, fast ball, but the most of them will swing their heads off go- ing after a curve. So Hub Perdue figured it out.
 When new player would appear on an opposing team. Hub would ap- proach him and ask him with an air of innocent curiosity: What are you, a Class A man or a Class D man?''
 If the answer was Glass A." Hub would make a mental note to give the bird a fast ono when he came to bat. If the newcomer said he had just ar rived from Class D, then Hub would note in his mind that a curve ball probably would send him back to the water bucket.
 Came a game Perdue was to pitch against Chattanooga. He noticed a new player on the Chattanooga team and made the usual inquiry. The answer he got was that the new man had just arrived from Class D.
 "He gets curve balls" was Hubs mental note.
 In due time the new man took his turn at bat and Hub wound over sweeping curve. The rookie hit 1t over the fence and far away. Hub met him at the plate as he finished circling the bases and shouted at him angrily.
 Say, you dash dash dash hound you ain't a Class D man and I know it now, and we're going to protest this game for violation of the rookie rlIles.'
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-25
A. E. F. WELTER CHAMP, RETURNS
 FROM RIG FIGHT

Augie Rather, the New York welter- weight, who went over with the Fifty second Pioneer Infantry and who won the interallied championship of Eng land, returned here yesterday on board the steamship Baltic
 Cmparing Joe Beckett with Jack Dempsey, Rather says Beckett would stand no chance against the Ameri- can. Beckett is only a fair heavy weight he said. He declared that even Eddie. McGoorty can whip the Englishman. The two will meet on September ?. Rather said England had no heavyweight fighters of real class, and that Jimmy Wilde was the best boxer there.
 Rather declared that he had beaten Johnny Basham, the British welter- weight champion, but that the referee had "jobbed' him and called the fight draw. He outpointed Boy McCOr- mick, the English middleweight who claims the title in that class. Rather said he would demand a fight with Mike O'Dowd.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-25
NAvIN BUYS
 NEW TIMBER FOR TIE TIGERS

Detroit, Aug. 25.---Frank Navin doesn't intend to let the action of the minor leagues in breaking away from the majors interfere with his plans to recruit talent for the future.
 The Tigers do not require strength ening in any particular department at this time, still the local magnate is beginning to build his fences for the periCi when help might be required. Therefore the first crate of minor leaguers consigned to the Detroit club will be unloaded here some time be- tween now and the close of their var ious league seasons.
 There are two pitchers, a catcher and an infielder in the allotment. J. B. Glasler, finger, was purchased from the Hamilton club; James Rob- erts, another beaver, comes from the New Orleans club; Sammy Hale is an infielder from the San Antonio club of the Texas league, and L. Wood, catcher is a product of the Fort Worth team, same league.
 None of the boys will be asked to report to the Tigers before the sea- son in his league closes. Each has established a splendid record this year and none is older than 24, which is the age of Woodau, the backstop.
 Navin has a corps of scouts comb ing the brush for talent and there are apt to be more purchases in the near future, although Navin cannot state definitely just now what his plans will be. They depend entirely upon re- ports of his ivory hunters.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-25
EATON WINS
 HALF MILE CYCLE RAGE AT NEWARK

Newark, N. J., Aug. 25-Ray Eaton, the young Newarker, won the half mile bicycle championship at the Newark Velodrome yesterday and broke the tie for the lead with Frank Kramer, the champion. Eaton won the final from Alfred GouIIet. Kramer, who was shut out of the first grand semi-final by Goullet, beat liar ry Kaiser, the New Yorker, for third place. The championship standing follows:
 Eaton, 2S points; Kramer, 25; Gou1- let, IS; Eddie Madden, s; Arthur Spencer, 6; Kaiser, 3; Alfred Brenda ?; and R. J. M. McNamara, 1.
 Anthony Young, a member of the Bayview Wheelmen, won the three races in the amateur ranks. Young scored in the half mile handicap from scratch, an Australian pursuit match and the mile for Class A amateur.
 Oscar Egg, the Swiss, met Reggie NcNamara, the Australian, in a match pursuit race, and after going three miles and l ,54O yards, Egg pass ed McNamara. Lloyd Thomas, San Francisco. won the invita- ton race from Gus Lang. Newark; John Be dell, LynbrOok, l.. l., and Willie Kel- Ter, Newark, in the order named.
 The five mile open race went to Alfred Goullet. who beat Eddie Mad den, Newark; Jake Magin. Newark; Willie HanIey, San Francisco, and Ray Eaton, Newark. in that order.