The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1920-12-02

| tHlS year. .,4
The official count gives Harding
727,I6s and Cox 574,7oo; Debs, 2o2,-
242, Cox (seeialist-labeE4 ,He4, Wat
kins SLAP votes in Missouri in the
recent election. Harding's majority,
1854.
President Wilson has .commuted
the sentence of Franz Won Rinteln,
German convicted of wartime COLI
spiracy, on condition that he leaves
the United States before next Janu-
airy l.
Retail meat dealers in Kansas City
last week reduced the prices on pork
and beef 10 to IS cents per pound.
Cattle and hog prices dropped some
time ago, but it took some time for
the packer and retailer to pass the
drop on to the consumer.
Judge ,VanValkenburgh in Federal
Court at Kansas City last week in
the coal profiteering cases rendered
all opinion sustaining the Lever act.
Indications now are that the Federal
forces will inve stigate the fairness of
food prices in Kansas City.
p a life "termcr" confined in the
Missouri penitentiary broke out one
night last week, robbed Jefferson
City home. got back into the pen be-
fore morning and his absence was
never discovered until he attempted
to sell his loot to his fellow convicts.
Thomas Pope shot and killed his
wife and then himself at their home
at Whiting, near Charleston, about 2
o'clock Friday afternoon. Their
daughter found the bodies when she
came home from school. No reason
is known for the killing and there
were no witnesses.
With beef cattle selling down to. 5
cents a pound-and some even lower
than that--on the St. Joseph market
this week-it gives man a peculiar
feeling when he steps into loca!
butcher shop and pays thirty cents
for the same animal-only cut up
St. Joseph Observer
Farmers OF Monroe county will
hold their hogs now ready for ship
ment, rather than take the heavy loss
which the present market prices
would entail, many declared at Mont
gomery City. Friday. Grain growers
also declared that they will hold their
cr than sacrifice it.
Probate Judge T. Fl. Gideon, OF
Greene county, has issued an order
that William T. Seaman, jr., son and
heir of William Seaman, ST., who died
a few weeks ago at Eureka Springs.
Ark, be brought to Missouri from
state hospital at Clarinda, la. The
son, insane for years, inherits All
estate of approximately $4,000.
The Democratic State Committee
raised S56ool.oo and expended $685.
SS6.s4 in its recent unsuccessful CAM
paign in Missouri, leaving deficit OF
$3l,oS4.S5, according to a sworn state
ment made public in St. Louis by
Thos. II. Fisher of Marshall, secre-
tary and acting treasurer OF the COM
mittee. Four years ago the Demo-
cratic campaign expenses were about
SI27, 900.
Sidney Whitaker, l7-year-old son
OF O. B. Whitaker, Representative
elect from Hickory county, whose
home is at Weaubleau, committed
suicide Wednesday at Marium, Ind,
by hurting himself from high cliff.
o. B. Whitaker, who was elected
Representative on the Republican
ticket, has announced his candidacy
for Speaker OF the House at the meet
ing OF the next General Assembly.
Rcpresentative-elect o. B. Whit
aer, of Hickory county, in ANNOUNCE
ing his candidacy for the speakership
proclaims that the legislative clerk.
ships will be cut down to actual
needs. This is a good enough prom
Use, but it has been made by both
parties and every speakership candi-
date in our recollection, and the
promises have never as yet been car
r;ed out.-Henry County Democrat.
Sherman p. Houston, of Saline
CO unity, former president of the Mis-
| souri, Live Stock Producers Associa-
ton, is being doomed for Secretary
OF Agriculture in President Hard
ing's cabinet: Houston was very
active during the campaign, making
number of addresses locally ami
throughout the state in support of the
Republican ticket. He served on the
Food Administration during the war.
James Frazier, the 15-year-old ban
dit of Kansas City was sent to the re-
fern school for four years for steal
ing potatoes from car in Kansas