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The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1921-03-03
NUMBER 2l
1913, ~ acal - I'd of the grocery and
hardwars eieAr devoted their

ill., i
1918. S.'c0 !. I'd of the grocery and
hardware sslr devoted their
entire attention nsiness.
Mr.. Norfleet was j.. sort Of mas
that community can i'll afford -
lose. He was always identified with
every movement looking to the bet
terment of the city and community
industrially, socially or morally. He
earned a. reputation for honesty, m
tegrity and square dealing in his bus
mess relations. In his home he was
a loving husband, a. self-sacrificinE
and devoted father. In his social re-
lations he chose his friends aud al
ways remained true and loyal to them
and he was never too busy to do =
neighborly act OF kindness. The Gu
tire community join with the bereaved
family in mourning the passing 1t 2
good and useful man.
Funeral services, conducted by Key.
Fl. A. Mitchell, were held at the Ohio
street NJ. E. Church Wednesday AZ
ternoon and interment made in Oak
Hill cemetery. During the hour OF
the funeral Butler business houses
were closed.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1921-03-03

Of the Butler Commercial LluD was
read. ~ = 4 - : - = - =
1 His letter was written in regard 70
tie condition 81 some Of our streets.
as everyone can readily see the pres
er,t condition Of some Of them; ask-
ing for the support and cooperation
10 remedy the existing conditions and
put the streets il good shape BY chat
ting or oiling Or whichever way may
Sc deemed feasible. a motion car
ried to support the Club in every way
possible.
A motion also carried that every
body wishing to connect with the
city light wires make written ap-
plication. This application will ap-
pear before the Light and Water
Committee. As soon as the applica-
ton is filed permission will be givet,
and the work will be superintendcd
BY the City Light and Water official:
This is done in order to conform
with all the various city ordinances.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1921-03-03
Elks Elect Officers.

At the regular meeting OF the But.
Ter Lodge No. o58 b. P. O. Elks held
at their lodge rooms Tuesday night
the following officers were elected
for the ensuing year:
W. B. Catterlin, Exalted Ruler
C. J. Henry, Esteemed Leading
knight.
Fred /. Glenn. Esteemed Loyal
Knight.
Harry Garard, Esteemed Lecturine
Knight.
Walter WeMott, Secretary.
w. Fl. Charters, Treasurer.
w. E. Black, Trustee.
Robt. Getsinger, Tyler.
The lodge is in a flourishing condi'
ton and the following year promises
to be the best in its history.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1921-03-03
70 orRRYAaANDEK JUDICIAL
Bates County Affected in Gerry
r,nnder Of Court Circasits.

Bate, county will be placed in !
;udicial district with Vernon, Gass
and Barton If Rel ubiican y. :zs,irs
to eerrymander The judic.ai iisti,cts.
Of the itate becomes Law.
The Kansas City Post says:
"rhe Republican steam iroller. q ~
The house was thrown, into higs. gear
late Monday and H&ttened out al op-,
poeition Is the bill redistricting the
judiciat circuits Of the state. The
bill was. ordered engrossed.
~The MEASURE Is aimed 70 oust
from office seven Democratic judges
aud stenographers and enable Cow
ernor HYDE to appoint three R:puo-
lican Judges in the newly created dis.
tricts. tits part Of the program 81
the administration and apparently
there IS no question about It being
"The bill was introduced by Rep.
resentative Elmer Of Dent county and
will reduce the number OF Jud'c:ai
circuits from SO to 81.
"Thc minority mempers OF the
house offered several amendments TO
the bill, but they were voted dcwn
promptly. All that was necessary was
for Elmer to say he was against the
amendment and it was defeated with
out further consideration.
"Under the rearrangemen;s Of the
districts Judge Slate OF Jefferson
City is placed in district with Judge
Ransom Breuer of Herman kspnD-
lican. : This means the latter will pc
appointed by the governor:
"In the rearrangement OF the other
districts they were 50 formed as 70
place two Democratic judges in the
ssme district. The measure provides
that in case there are two judges ~
one Of the newly created circuits 'he
governor. shalt appoint one Of tsssn
No Republican judge now serving =. ,s
affected by the redissricting ness
Under the gerrymander scheme. ths
judges c. A. caivird Of Clinton and
Ewing Cockerell of Warrensbure
viii be placed in districts together
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1921-03-03
Telephone Companies to Exchange
Service.

Monday afternoon the connections
between the central offices OF the
Farmers Mutual telephone company
and the Butler and Rich Hill teje-
phone Exchange in this city were
completed and now the patrons OF
either system are given service over
the lines of the other.
This marks the end of a contro-
yersy between the two companics
that had its beginning before Nj
Ehart became the owner Of the But
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1921-03-03
High School Basketball.

There are fou. more basketball!
games to- be played in the High
school inter-class contest and unless
an. upset occurs the Juniors seer, to
have cinched the flag. Thursday
night there will be two games, one
between the Juniors and Sophomores
and the other between the Seniors
and the Freshmen. On Tuesday
night the season will close with
games between the Seniors and the
Juniors and the 'Sophomores ana
Freshmen.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1921-03-03

Ione 81 whom shsii be named W th:I
governor TO fill the office.
ST. Clair, Dade. Polk, Cedar aisd!
Hickory will be in one circuit; and
Lafayette, Johnson and Henry in an.
other, Il
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1921-03-03
Repoft Of City Council Meeting
I Tuesday Evening, March Ist'

Il IA letter from Mr.. Smith. President
Of the Butler Commercial Club was
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-09
HOPE FOR REST OF US

From Forbes Magazine.
 Edison was thrown out of school because he was too stupid to learn" The teachers called George Westinghouse dunce. Faraday, who became the father of scientific chemistry, received practically no schooling and never entered uni- versity until invited to. teach uni versity professors. Frank W. Wool worth probably would have failed to pass grammar school graduation test James B. Duke, the tobacco king." is woefully uneducated. George F. Baker, the dean of Amer lean bankers. is said to have been a night-watchman when young man. James J. Hill, who became so cultured, so full of knowledge. that he constantly astounded everyone who met him, had the most ordinary schooling. Not one In twenty of our foremost men of affairs had risen to anything like eminence at 35 or even 70. Almost all of them went through Eruelling experiences before they reached the summits of success. In fact. 1t was during a crisis that many of them found opportunity to prove the stuff of which they were ms de-
 There Is hope for the rest of us isn't there7
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, Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas, II welded a new and powerful influence for the west in the affairs of the party. The situation in Washington def lnitely has developed the fact that party control at the present time rests entirely in the Senate of the United States. The Senate is a1l-pow- erful 1t can set at naught the best intended action of that more popular branch of the national legislature, the House of Representatives, and 1t has shown only too we'll that it can veto virtually every act of the President if it be so minded.
 The realization has come to Wash ington with greater force than ever, therefore, that the clements which control a majority in the Senate have an all but complete control of party plans and policies. It remains conse- uuently for the present majority III the Senate. to whom President Hard ing must look for the execution ot administration plans. 10 preside over the destinies of the republican party for the next three years. The controi and leadership of the republican party in the Senate have been so long vested in the east as to have become traditional. This tradition in Itself makes the new developments difficult of realization, but just as surely as the party itself sprang from the west, so the direction Of it is taking now its westward way.
 West Has Majority
 An analysis of the situation among the republicans in the Senate, how ever. is tremendously Illuminating. 11t I<1 e.tx orf fS senators. Thirty-three of these come from states bordering upon or lying west of the Mississippi river. Five more come from the middle western states of Indiana, Michigan and Ohio. From New England and the east, in- cluding West Virginia, come 22 re- publican senators.
 Here we have a total of 38 mid west and far western republican sen ators against an eastern representa- ton of 22. If the middle western strength should at any time be count ed with New England and the east, the Mississippi and far western states still would have a majority of 33 to 27.
 But this is not all. If the republi- can sweep of last last fall was an indication of q more or less perma- nent republicanizatibn of the far west, republicans of that section will have an opportunity in the next three years to elect nine additional sena- tors. The republicans of New Eng land and the east will have an op- portunity to elect but two additional senators, with a possibility of losing one or two in a state like Mary land.
 It is not difficult in view of these figures to understand why the west ern republicans are coming to the fore. why they are imposing their will ueon the party, and why they
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-09

tent But call them radicals or pro- gressives as you will. 1t came to be an admitted fact today that these ele- ments have developed strength and se solidarity which permits them to dictate just what the party shall or not do.
 It Is with something of wrench that Washington sees the control of the grand old party. drifting out of the restraining influence of the con- servative east, out of the keeping of the prim New England states and of powerf full Pennsylvania, which so long have wielded a dictatorship over 1t.
 Penrose Bends Knee
 For be 1t known that Senator Pen rose and his all-prevailing finance committee have been compelled to bend the knee to the so-called agri- cultural bloc, which Is nothing more or less than an organized group of the determined senators Of the west. Time was when Senator Penrose at the crack of the whip could have formed all the republican senators into line and trained them in chorus
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-09
PORTADLE BAND STAND

One band at Pacific Grove. Cal, gives concerts in shell which they carry with them. The shell. which is illustrated in Popular Mechanics, Is mounted on a condemned fire truck and moves about from place to place between Pacific Grove and the beach near by. for use In concerts at different places. The shell floor is 20 feet long with a 1o-foot radius. A shelf hinged to the shell, which may be raised while the truck Is en route. provides additional space.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-09

are saying of measures which have failed to meet their favor, They shall not pass" It is perfectly true that there are scattered conservatives among republicans of the west, like Warren of Wyoming and Shoot of Utah and Phipps of Colorado, but the progressive element Is dominant and militant.
 The difficulties which the "old line" leaders of the party have had with tax Negislation is but & forerunner of the trouble to come when the tariff is tackled in the Senate. Time was when the groups of senators from the manufacturing states of the east could dictate the tariff schedules with an absolutism which the all-but- forgotten Czar of the Russias might once have envled. But the last time the eastern republicans dictated a tariff in the shape of the Payne Aldrich bill, 1t brought disaster tum- bling from the skies in q deluge which swept the party completely out of power and kept it out for eight long years.
 Have TariH Views
 The western senatorial "blocs'' now showing their strength in the Senate
 
 the tariff than they have upon taxa tion and when the party undertakes to rewrite the House tariff bill in the Senate, new evidence will be given of the departure from procedures Of the past. Those republican senators who have not as yet reconciled them selves to the ascendency of the west in the control of party matters and national legislation regard 1t as matter of grave concern that the party of protection has not in the months that have intervcned since Ia st April made greater headway with q tariff bill. The quicker they realize the new order in the party, the sooner the tangled legislative programme will be strengthened out.
 The party evolution which is in progress naturally has brought about some friction and President Harding just as naturally has been somewhat perturbed. But he has worked diii- gently this last week to bring about unity and Is fairly well satisfied with the result
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-09

of "ayes" which would have put through any form of tax or tariff leg islation which he desired, But that time Is no more. The west has risen
 The west is feeling it's strength. The
 west has very plainly told the east that it was the west which gave the republican party control of the Sen ate, that it was sh. west which pro duced nearly all the republican sena- tors for this session and that when the republican ticket last November swept every state west of the Mis- sissippi river with the exception or
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-09
SEVEN HECTIC DAYS IN GOTHEM

his wife's Reno divorce action. charges her with being centric, especially since the war Boiled down, this appears to mean nerves.
 She Is Not One
 Mrs. R, Floyd Clarke, however, had no ego-centric tendencies. Far from having nerves, she kept a secret with inviolable calm for more than quar- ter of a century. The death of MT. Clarke, who wrote "Science of Law LawmaKfng," and who was promi- nent in legal and yachting circles, revealed the fact that for 27 yeai s Mrs. Clarke has been estranged from her husband without telling anyone about it. She lived alone in a Gotham hotel, while he cast his lot with one of his wife's girlhood friends, to whom he left most of his 500, 900 estate. Even now, Mrs. Clarke. refuses to try to break the will. "I don't care to cast the first stone" she said.
 John Haaf was not happy in his married life, either. For seven years he lived In the same house with his wife and three children without speaking to them, and-thanks 70 a scheme of locked doors--without see- ls the most complete of suicides: Cut his throat, slashed his wrists, drank poison and set fire to the house. Of fieious neighbors bound up lis wounds, gave him antidotes and put out the fire. Now that the locks are burned off the doors it is problem how John will achieve solitude when he gets out of the hospital,
 \ Gay orphanage.
 What, by the way, is the last place in which you would look for gayety! An orphan asylum, gof course. Yet the Baltes orphan home, inc. is said by neighbors to be so gay and so late with music and dancing that it is a public nuisance Five women brought complaint against the institution when they grew tired of being kept awake all long after midnight, and the courts are called upon to decide
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-09

consciousness that Ia great work of evolution Is going on within the rank s lof the all-domt- nant republican party.
 Control of the party slowly but definitely Is falling into the hands ot Ithe western ele- lment. The process lof attrition has been so gradual that few have ap-
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-09
By JESSE HENDERSON Especial Correspondent of The Age-
 Herald.

tCOpyright, 1921. by The Age-HernIdD
 New York, October S.--Everybody said politics would be different when women got into Land here. the first crack out of the box, comes the Curran Medallion. The slap-dash little campaign pin which sunk its often rusty claw into coat lapel and left two marks thereon long after election was over-this crudity has no place in the ladies' scheme of municipal contest. Instead, there has arrived the Medallion, a really artistic disc about the size of a small powder puff, hung on n long black silk cord and tinted with the city colors. blue, gold and white. The names of the candidates for mayor. comptroller and aldermanic president are printed across the Medallion which is being sold for a dime by the Curran women's committee.
 Both sides meantime are grooming their lady speakers for the frayA The slogan In each camp seems to be: "On every corner a soap box and on every soap box woman" Not man can be found upon either side who will at present admit that he ever thought women talked too much. Just as French scientist has discovered the place of the house fly in the cosmos, so the political chief has found use for woman's great est gift. But, oh, what a fortune the earmuff manufacturer could scoop In during the next few weeks If he only dared.
 Turning from the political to the ever -bubbling domestic caldron: How is your ego-centric tempera- ment? If you happen to be an ego centric, guard the horrid fact from your husband or he may use 1t against you in the divorce court. pr. A. H. Knapp of the College of Phy- sicians and Surgeons, in answering
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-09

just how gay an orphanage can le- gally- be.
 After that question Is settled other courts will be asked whether It res quiros $S0.000 a year to maintain mans dignity on Broadway. William Davenport Brown says 1t uoesA His income he declared to be s60sOo0 a year; but, pah! Who could scrap along on that? The extra $20.0oe seems to have come in part from MT. Browns check book, plus his imagi- nation, ior a large check given in excl ange for a fast motor car was returned with mo funds" across it's face. In Mir. Browns possession when he was arrested were a bottle cf knockout drops and a number of ho- tel keys, but precisely what these had to do with anyone's dignity has not yet been explained
 A mere SS,000 was not much, how ever. if you were one of the 5000 ten ants who did or did not seek to move this week. Emergency rent laws and human nature have engaged with re" duced incomes in n terrible tangle. The courts say that landlords can not raise their rents. and tho land lords are raising tnem anyway and, besides. where can you move to when there are not enough apartments to accommodate half the people who have decided to become New York CTS? The result has been wild one. Tenants flatly refused to move or to pay more rent, anc as one result there were 5000 Washington Heights tenants who carried their woes into court with great excitement for all concerned, and so far very little comfort. After all, you can crowd only just so many people onto an island.
 But, at any rate, the perfect hus- band has been found. He is City Magistrate John kochenderfer. who gives $600O of his $s,o00 to his wife. Three-fourths of a mans income is not, he says, too much for a wife to receive. He adds, rather unneces- sarily, And our home is a happy one"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-09
WESTERN SOLONS
 HOLD WHIP HAND
 IN J, s. SENATE
Republican Maiorities Over Mississippi River Shift
 Power Balance From Old Guard East
By ROBERT T. SMALL

Special Correspondent of The Age-H Herald. lCopyright, 192is by The Age heraid-l
 Washington. october s.-Events of the week Just closed have brought
 Washington to the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-09
Haue Many New Features

Pompons petals dscs beads add to the richness Canton Crepe and Crepe Back Satin Fashion has trick of ntroduc ing panels here and there-thus to conceal the hips. focks in Tricone and Poret Twill show rattail brodery, much braid many with richly embroidered white collars and sleeves interesting this season Two deru groups of dressefor calling street price for tomorrow and all week at
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1921-11-03
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Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1921-11-03

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