The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1921-05-26
Rankings.
BY Nelse.

II Billy Dawson broke his buggy in
mud hole, going after his partner
tor the dance at Arthur Browning $
Saturday night 1t was an enjoyaL:
affair. Good order and at late hour
all left for home satisfied beyond
I their expectations.
Grandpa VIM. Oldham has been
sick at his grandparents for 10 day )
but now is getting better and is abe
to be up and around.
Geo. Crooks shipped his cattle
Monday. in the Butler Shipping Btu
reau. where the profits will be :,
vidcd. 4 full load was consigned.
My friend Walter ]. Wolf, of Blrc
Mound, Kas., sends me nice bust
ness letter. l think so much of it l
am going to have it put in The Butler
Weekly Times to show Times friends.
| Well Mr.. Wolf Mr.. Wolf speaks of
| Missouri and Kansas. With many
thanks for this letter. Come again.
Mrs. Grant Oldham mas six inc;:-
bators at work and by the six settings
III one room it does not take half the
fuel to make the hatch normal. She
has all six lamps turned down way
low
A. e.. Bedwell and john Hamilton,
OF Virginia, have their wool ready for
market.
Amos Curns, OF south OF Rich Elil'
visited last week with Arthur West
ever and family Mr.. Curns former
" lived in our midst AMI fine man
he was.
" a. J. Mcclure says he is 81 years
cid and never carried for watch for
he can guess the time within 10 min-
utes and that will do him.
{. J. Browning and wife spent Sum
day afternoon visiting Fl. M. Mcincr
and family.
Uncle Bill Cummings spent Sunday
afternoon at Cyrus Nestlerode's.
The Gronewaller boys shipped "a
lambs Monday with The Farmers
Club at Passaic, to Kansas City.
We heard from Mr.. ]. z. Rice frcn1
the hospital in Kansas City. He was
resting easy from an ope, alton of the |
throat for a cancer.
The following poem was sent us
ny Walter J. Wolf, of Blue Mound,
Kansas:
FIFTY-FIFTY
| have read all OF your poems,
| note your different tastes,
We enjoyed each one immensely
1 have lived in both the states.
Right west of Butler, Missouri
Is where | spent my youth,
Now just south of Blue Mound, Kas.,
! III scribbline you this truth.
Now Kansas is much given
10 blowing her own bazoo;
But when it comes to shown folks
Look out for old Mizzo.
Upon her roads, for instance,
The kansans take great pains;
You tell the world shes got EN-
But 1t seldom ever rains
Way back in old Missouri
Where the soil is deep ard rich,
IT doesn't excite a blind man
To find water in ditch.
When Miss Valentine from Kansas
Sinks her flivver in those pools,
She'll be glad to find farmer
With pair of trusty mules.
Missouri is neisghbor to Kansas
And for Kansas, that's snap
It's the stuff that was in Missouri
That made Kansas appear on the map
but Kansas appeals to the tourist, II
Through the state lots of them pass;
some of them go directly to heaver-
they simply push down on the gas.
Kansas is a good old state
crows all kinds of fatted calves;
he machinery is Missouri
-uts each farmers tax in halves.
sometimes feel sorry for Kansas.
% sorry really could cry;
is the only state in the Union.
That was honestly bone dry"
'hese few lines which l have written
tate bunch of my weak views
SUIT the state of which I'm ploudes.:
lix-Good night! I'll choose.
IN for Missouri and Kansas, b
ike every one else with good taste S
f it were not COR Missouri, - Kansas t
d move from the United States.