The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1920-05-20
GENERAL NOTES

GENERAL NOTES
Two or thfee years will be re-
CURED for the sugar situation to get
back to normal, herbert Hoover,
former food administrator, estimat-
ed Friday before the House commit
tee investigating the sugar situation.
Vice President Marshall, speaking
Thursday before the Virginia Bar as
ISOLATION, declared that if national
prohibition had been considered by
the Senate in secret session not twen-
ty votes would have been cast for it.
F. E. Lagrave, IS years old,
walked into the city market at MINI
neapolis. Mimi, Saturday, asked the
price of potatoes and when told what
they would cost him, dropped dead.
Heart disease was. the cause of death
the coroner said.
This man Carranza must be = very
elusive person. For the past ten
days press reports have him in the
hands of the revolutionists one day
and in the next edition his where
(abouts are unknown or else he is
leading an army against someone
who is after his job,
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A bond for million dollars was
furnished by Twohy Brothers COM
"""'' of Seattle for the execution OF
its contract to construct 283 miles
/ of paved roads in Maricopa County
at a cost of 4 million dollars. Off
Gals said this was the largest single
road building contract ever awarded
in the United States.
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The First National Bank of Elk
City, Kas., was entefed Thursday
night and several thousand dollars
worth Of Liberty bonds were stolen
from safety deposit boxes. The rou-
berry was not discovered until Friday
morning. A hole was knocked in the
brick wall of the bank building.
Representative Mason, Republica !,
of Illinois, introduced a concurrent
resolution Saturday urging Presi-
dent Wilson to recognize the Irish
republic and assuring him that con-
gress only awaited his action before
providing funds for beginning dip
lomatic relations with the republic.
Judge w. H. S. Thomson in Unit
ed States district court at Pittsburg,
Pa, Thursday sentenced the Brooks
Shoe Company to pay fine of $2,o
after a nlea OF guilty had been en-
tered by counsel for the defendant
corporation to a"charge of making
unjust and unreasonable charges on
shoes. ,-
Indiana will send 10 delegates to
the Republican national convention
instructed for Gen. Leonard Wood,
four instructed for Senator Hiram w.
Johnson of California and IS unin-
structed. This was one of the net
results of the Republican state con-
vention that adjourned Thursday
night.
Federal pensions for ex-Confeder-
ate soldiers we're advocated in the
house Saturday nv Representative
Upshaw, Democrat, of Georgia. Hc
urged that the task of national recon-
be completed by wiping out
the "unfeeling discrimination" evil
denced bv the pensions to ex-Federal
soldiers.
Score another for old H. c. L.
News DISPATCHES say polvgamy is dy.
ng out in Persia-another result of
greatly advanced living costs, to-
yether with Jealousy, which is be-
coming more marked a characteristic
# Persian wives, with the permeation
# Western ideas and standards in
he East.
Bv vote of 50 to 1oI the house
Thursday refused to give up the free
eed distribution privilege attached
0 the office of a congressman. III
tructions were given the conferees
N the agricultural appropriation bill
o insist on the restoration of the
100000 item for free seeds that was
eFiiellteHsa from the bill in the senate.
Citing amnesty DEGREES of several
european nations, a delegation of So
ialists, headed by Seymour Sted-
aan Of Chicago, Socialist candidate
OF vice-president, appealed to At
orney General Palmer for "immedi-
te. amnesty and pardon for all fed
raj prisoners convicted on the basis
{ political speeches and writings or
lbor union activities"
Horace T. Walton, 22 years old, of
/. Joseph, Mo-, a former postal
Jerk, was shot to death in q pistol
attic with fifty policemen in his
partments in Chicago early Friday
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