The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1920-11-18

MISSOURI NOTES
After suffering from several small
fires and two serious ones recently
| Hume folks woke up and organized
| a fire department and purchased lire
fighting apparatus.
Waldo Ealey. Kansas City muir
| derer who has been serving LIE
sentence at the state penitentlary
was one of five insane convicts who
fwerc taken to the Fulton state hos
pital Thursday.
Governor Gardner stated Friday
that he knew OF mo reason on earth
why he should convene a special SEES
sion al the legislature to tinker with
the state income tax laws and with
the CORPORATION law.
Because Cass county went demo-
cratic the Cass County Republican
had no crow coming. so it borrowed
the "crows' OF the Republican-Prcss
OF Bates county. over that county
fall from grace and joining the Re-
publican column.
The oldest suffragette we have
heard OF is Mrs. Mary Sharp, OF
Montgomery City, who cast her first
vote at the ripe age of IoI. And
while that vote did not help a great
deal, it was for Cox and Roosevelt,
she thus doing what she could.
Sam Baker State Superintend-
ent OF Schools, has announced that
he had appointed Miss Agnes Rank
of Princeton State Inspector of Rural
Schools Miss Rank is now Superin
tendent of Schools in Mercer County.
In announcing the appointment Bak-
er said that in making it he "recog-
nizcd the right and fitness of women
to hold such POSITIONS
Sixteen billion more cups of COT
fee have been consumed so far in
1920 than in the entire year of 1919,
according to Felix Coste of New
y ork. secretary Of the National Cot
zee Roasters Association, which,
opened its tenth annual convention
n St, Louis last week. The in
creased consumption is due prihci-
ally to prohibition, Mr.. Costc as
serted.
Mrs. Grace Buckner, wife of Earl
'uckncr, farmer living northwest of
:ayette, committed suicide Friday
light by takin~ strychnine. Her hus-
and had been in town and on his re-
urn home found his wife in bed.
she was only asleep, he
;issed her cheek, which was still
warm, and went to do his chores. |
Returning, he discovered she was
lead
One good old Mother in Israel in
linton had passed her oIst birthday
nd wanted,to vote, so that although
oddly infirm as she was. she was
aiken to the polls, and the judges
indy left their places to assist her.
What ticket do you want to vote"
sked the Judge. why the Demo-
ratio ticket she replied, and the
trongcst Democratic ticket you
ave. Henry County Democrat
Abe Potter OF Clifton City. one of
&c wealthy pioneer residents OF
copper county, was o5 years old FRI
ay and family dinner was held at.
is home. He has seven daughters
nd two sons, who always attend the
nnual reunion. Despite his ad-
anced age, Mr.. Potter daily walks a
lille to two large farms which he
WINS near Clifton City and gives
ersonal attention to their opera
on.
The Rev. Samuel L. McAfee, d. D.,
J years old, died Frluay at his home
Parkville, Mo, He had been con-
ected with Park college tllrty-one
ears. for several years as head OF
lie Bible department. At the time of
is death he was professor emeritus.
n. McAfee went to Park college af-
r fifteen years in the Presbyterian
astorate. He was then the younger ,
rother of DR.. John A. McAfee. frs. :
resident of Park COLLEGE.
r: r. Pencil, state senator-elect
ON Poplar Bluff, who faced the {
'oblem of finding wife, following
IS pledge to the women voters TO
AIRY If he was elected, is now con. II
onted with new problem. When
e story Of Pencils promise an.
Jared in Missouri papers, his mail
.came loaded with letters from
omen in many sections, and the
iestion OF a wife is now one of
loosing rather than finding.
'pulation of orphanage Increases.
The population of the Christian
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