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The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1922-11-30
Sheriff's Sale in Partition.

In the Circuit Court of Bate
County, Missouri, at Butler, Oc
tohcr Term, 1922.
No. 242S5
Jefferson d. Collins; Ann Eliza
Greenwood, Minerva Jan,
Clemens, and John c. Vim
satt Plaintiffs.
Eliza America Williams, Ida NJ.
Dunkcson, Edward B. Dunke-
son. Rebecca Collins King,
Herbert {. IIymer, Albert S.
Williams. minor, Charles w.
Williams, minor, Edgar +.
Hirni. Guardian OF Albert S.
Williams, IN NOR, Edgar +.
llirni, Guardian OF Charles W.
Williams, a minor, James r..
Williams. Annette Seelinger,
Edna A. Waldren, Jessie NJ.
Dean, Maude Britt, Daniel b.
Williams, William Walter
Williams. James A. Bowden,
Earl $. Bowden, Irene Mill
burn, Paul Williams, Il minor,
Floyd Williams, a minor, Lloyd
Williams, a minor, Jay Will
liamS. a minor, Lucille Will
lialnS. a minor. William b.
Dickinson, d. {. Chastain,
trustee, Edgar f. Ilirni, trus.
tee, and Edgar +. Hirni, exec
utor, Defendants.
BY virtue and authority of a
Decree and Order of sale in par
tition made by the said Court, in
The above entitled cause, and or
| certified copy thereof, dated
October &, 1922, | will on
Saturday December 2, 1922,
between the hours Of nine o'clock
n the. forenoon and five O'Clock
N the afternoon of that day, at
thc EAST front door of the
Court House in the City of But.
Ter, in Bates County, Missouri,
sell at public vendue, to the high
'st bidder, the following de-
'cribed real estate, viz:
''All of the South One-half
of the Southwest Quarter of
Section Nine; the Northwest
Quarter and the Northwest
Quarter of the Southwest
Quarter of Section Sixteen:
the Southeast Quarter of the
NOrthwest7Quarter and the
Northeast Quarter of the
Southwest Quarter of See
ton Twenty: and the South
west Quarter of the North
east Quarter of the North
west Quarter of Section
Twenty-three, all in Town
ship Thirty.nine, in Range
= Twenty nine containing
Three Hundred Seventy
acres, more or less"
situate in the County of Bates,
State of Missouri. I
Abstract to above real estate
an he procured at Sheriff's of
ice for examination.
TERMS OF SALE: CASH.
/. A. PETTY.
Sheriff, Bates County, Mis-
ouri. sat
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1922-11-30
MISSOURI NOTES
During the last 20 days 10 per-
sons have been killed by automo-
biles in Kansas City.

Fifty-thrce Hereford calves, all
of them less than one year old,
were purchased at an average
price of $3.50 IA head at the Amer
lean Hereford Association $ an
nual auction at the Royal Friday
afternoon. The bull calves were
more in demand than the heifers,
twenty-onc young bulls being tax
en- for an average of 1921 ii head.
The thirty-two heifers averaged
1912 IA head.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1922-11-30

Alexander Howatt, deposed
president of the Kansas miners
union, who is serving a year in
Jail for violating a court injunc-
ton Is advertising himself by de-
clining . pardon that had nof
been offered him.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1922-11-30
FRANCE TO REJECT PACT?
Washington Naval Treaty Won t
be Accepted, Official SAILS.

Paris. Nov. 23.-Premier Poin
care will take up with his col.
leagues in the next few days the
decision of the foreign affairs
committee of the chamber OF dep
uties to reject the Washington
conference treaty limiting naval
ornaments, it was learned this al
ternoon. There is considerable
speculation as to the effect upon
Franco American relations.
London. Nov. 23.--Announce-
mcnt ia Paris by Georges Ley
CUES. chairman of the foreign al
fairs committee Of the French
chamber Of deputies, that France
would reject the Washington con
ference pact for limitation OF
naval ornaments, caused a SEN
sation in British official circles
today.
British officials are hopeful,
however. that the matter will be
out and that France
eventually will accept the treaty.
The foreign office stated that
Great Britain planned to carry
out the terms of the Washington
conference agreements, regard
ess of France action.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1922-11-30
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS

j. II. Hieronymus to Addie M.
Williams lots II and IL, block IS
Rich Hill $4,000.
John Stangel to l.. A. Lewis
lots l and 2 block 16S Rich Hill
$60O.OO.
Orpha l.. Robinson to Emma
D. Owen part lot 81 Houston s
LIST addition Adrian $4,000.
G. r. Walton to j. d. Gray II
acres section % Mt. Pleasant
$40, 10000.
Z. +. Harvey to II. c. Bailey
80 ~ acres section 2 Spruce
$2175.OO.
Lucy NJ. Black to l.. L. Muir
dock part block 1859 Rich Hill 81.
W. z. Harvey to G. w. Chit
wood lot 3 part lot 4 block lO5
Rich Hill $4,000.
Robt. Stephenson to W. M.
lRexroad 40 acres section IA Deer
Creek 100000.
Harye johnson to. Chas. w.
Garard part block 9 Williams adj
dition Butler $25O0.0Q.
j.. L. Wilson to Amsterdam
Bank lots. IL and IL block Is
Amsterdam $l.00.
j. l.. Wilson to Amsterdam
Bank part lots l and 2 block 3
Amsterdam $1.OO.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1922-11-30

w. J. Cochran, So, senior mem
Der of constructing firm of
Boonvillc, was shot by an escaped
inmate of the Missouri reforma-
tory for boys shortly before noon
Thursday 1t is believed he will
recover Mr.. Cochran was mo-
toring to his farm near Boonville,
when he overlook two boys in re-
tormatory uniform. They were
eoatless. He suspected them Of
having escaped and invited them
to ride as far as he was going.
When he reached his farm he had
tenant telephone to ascertain
their status. While he attempted
to hold them, one boy produced IA
revolver and shot linn. Both cs-
capped.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1922-11-30

Organization of militant
women's auxiliary is included in
plans adopted by the Association
Opposed to Prohibition for re-
peal of the eighteenth amend
ment at a 2-day conference at st.
Louis of state secretaries Of ;he
organizatie II, which WIS concl!d-
ed Tuesday. Support of the asso-
cation will be given to the prcSl-
Dental candidate in 1924 who
favors repeal of the eighteenth
amendment and runs on plat
form seeking this repeal.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1922-11-30

Taking care Of the engineering
details in connection with the
awarding Of IS road contracts
December 2 and involving some
100000, has been big task for
the state highway department.
For instance, it has required b.
AGO blue prints for the use Of
contractors who will bid on these
Jobs. These prints took five miles
Vt blue print paper which IT
spread out, edge to edge, would
cover two acres Of ground. The
total cost to the state for the blue
prints was $4,000 and this value
II purchased outside would have
been 50, l25.0O.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1922-11-30

The Times phone number y 81
Set the habit Of calling up.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1922-11-30

An opinion rendered Friday by
Merrill 4. Otis, assistant attorney
general, to Secretary of State
Becker holds there is now q va
eancy in the office Of circuit
Judge in the Fifth judicial cir
cult. The opinion holds that the
terms Of Judge A. c. Tibbels, who
was appointed to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Judge
Alonzo ID. Burncs of Platte City,
expired November I, the date of
the election Otis says that a
nudge should have been selected
fer the short term from Novcm-
BIER 7 to January |.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1922-11-30

In the Circuit Court of Bates
County, Missouri, at Butler, De-
tohcr Term. 1922.
The New York herald., 1922-07-23
New Novels

pose. is framed in the great pattern
OF war and OF soul forces released
by war. or strengthened to human
perception by that great cataclysm.
1t is all in one mood and is quite
wonderfully sustained. There is a
great deal of detail. but it is the
kind of detail that helps. that moves
forward. not that which obstructs
A Foreword to the present book
gives a summary of The Head of
the House OF Coombs'' for the bene-
fit of those who have not read that
part of this long novel 1t is suf-
ficient for the understanding of the
story of Robin but it would be a
pity not to read the book in its
entirety. There is a soundness. a
sweetness to the story that il is good
to experience and it gives a picture
of a period. of two periods. that will
not come again. Mrs. Burnett knew
well the England of .he late Vic
torian era and that which followed
1t. an interesting. remarkable
time. and she is a writer singularly
gifted with the power to put into
words the things she has seen AMI
felt and thought about Her books
are alive. and II she looks at the
world with eyes different from those
which we of a younger generation
use all the better. We see with her
when she chooses. and the expert
ence is distinctly enjoyable. If we
rob life of romance. we leave it
rather poor. To Mrs. Burnett life
is unthinkable if it be not romance
as well and she can transmute the
most commonplace materials into
song and story because to her moth
ing is really commonplace. And for
that reason. nothing she writes is
or poor She has
never lost the road to Fairyiand,
and can walk therein at will.
The New York herald., 1922-07-23

A MONG the closing acts of Lii
~ liam Russell's life were the
preparation of her Reminis-
cences appearing in the Cosmopoli-
tan. The August installment deals
with pals. Porcelains, Pullmans
and Pets" Next to her fam
lily. of whom she wrote with
deepest affection. Blanche Bates
was most dear to her. Her
special pets were Japanese spaniels.
while she could seldom resist buying
fine Chinese porcelain An old priest
of San Jose offered Miss Russell two
porcelain figures for S5. and was
most grateful when she rendered him
$40. Much to her surprise, these
porcelains were afterward appraised
at $1,000 each.
The Delinedtor. as has been men
toned. has undertaken a campaign
to save children. and each month
constructive articles are published
to further this plan. In ''The Wasted
Summer" Angelo Patri asks. Does
your child grow or kill time during
vacation" For the first few days of
vacation let the children do much as
they please. then plan their work and
their play. and if they can make
money by their work all the better.
The idle child is in danger. so give
him a busy summer. DIR. Ralph Lo-
benstine contributes an article on
THE Care of the Baby at Birth in
which he states that one baby out of
every seven dies before it is a year
The New York herald., 1922-07-23

practical suggestions for women who
are thinking of starting tea gardens.
Helen Schuyler writes of Selling
Goods" in the showroom and on the
road.-Woman's Home Companion.
Robert A. Smith, M. d.. asks How
About Health in Your TOWN." The
nations welfare depends upon the
answer. Important advances have
been made in many cities through
medical inspection. and in view of
present day criminality it is sug-
gested that cities and States con-
duct adequate medical supervision in
our criminal courts, reformatory
schools. &c. When this is done mur-
derers will be punished. and the in
sane or defective appropriately COM
mitted. Anne Z. Mason writes of
What the Women of All America
Are Working For" as revealed at
the recent Pan American Conference
of the League of Women Voters.
The tangible result was the organiZa-
ton of a Pan-American association
for the advancement of women, the
object being the promotion of edu-
cation. obtaining of equal property
rights. the right of women to control
their own earnings. and agitation of
suffrage.-The Elks Magazine.
An editorial that should be read
by all women voters is do You Want
a New Child Labor Law?" Follow
ing this Elizabeth Frazer's "Politi-
cal Machine" is recommended. A
political leader should WELD his
power as a guardian wields his au-
thority. as a trust for the good of
the legatees. who in this case are
the people. Opposed to the leader is
The New York herald., 1922-07-23
THE POETRY OF DEADWOOD
DICK

A facetious friend sends us for re-
view Edward L Wheeler's "Dead-
brook Company of Cleveland. For
wood Dick in Leadville; or. A
Strange Stroke for Liberty" pub
the benefit of our friend and such
others as have underrated the Dead
wood Dick stories we wish to point
out that these yarns are not the un-
mitigated blood and thunder that
most people take them to be. There
are passages of pure poetry. as for
instance:
Spring! tchdt sense of pleas
ure that single tCOrd ercites. Holo
many hearts beat Gneio as the joy-
Gus Springtinae da,Crs. toith her re-
freshin0 breath. her sun, her de-
h0htfuI sho,0ers. her toonderfuI
The New York herald., 1922-07-23
Continued From Preceding Page.

wiser than we seem. a time that
may come again
Robins salvation is brought about
by those powers that found so fire.
quent an expression during the
years of terror and loss. and which
still sway many minds. That is to
say, Robin finds in dreams her lost
lover and comes back to life and
health because. as she says. Donal
comes to her every night, not as a
dead man. but as a living one. with
whom she can talk. with whom she
can walk on the dark moors and
with whom she finds happiness. The
dreams are not ordinary dreams. Of
course. Just what they mean those
close to Robin do not try to explain.
but they believe there is something
there which is somehow real. AT
the end Mrs. Burnett gives a certain
explanation of these occult mani
festations. Since the plot of the
story is involved in this explanation.
1t cannot here be told. 1t leaves the
mystery. however. and any one who
knows the author will not be sur
prised at that: her earlier books.
particularly The Dawn of To-
morrow" and The Secret Garden
which have their mystic quality. i'm
pinge upon another world that that
we see by the light of day. Not Spir-
ituahsm but something akin to t
Is suggested force OF the mind
and spirit. various forces that we
cannot yet explain but which in
fluence our existence and which.
tf we understand them. are capable
OF being employed for certain ends
Robins story. then. though cast
In simple pattern and told with
Q straightforward singieness of pur-
The New York herald., 1922-07-23
For Women Readers in Current Magazine

old. A large number of these babies
could be saved by intelligent care.
Mrs. Conrad's Cook Book" has an
added value because her husband, Jo-
seph Conrad. wrote a preface to it.
He expresses the opinion that good
cooking is a moral agent.
In Hello. North Pole" Waldeman
Kaempffert tells of how all the world
is listening in on all the world. 1t
began in the latter half of 1921.
when company that made radio ap-
paratus thought it good advertising
to fling photographic music in the
ether for the entertainment of radio
amateurs within a radius of twenty
to one hundred miles. Thus broad
casting was called into life. 1t is es-
timated that about half a million
American families have made this
latest scientific marvel part of their
daily lives Mr. Kaempffert says of
this invention: "It will cause space
to shTivel up and convert the en-
tire planet into one auditorium"
Katherine Lord writes on How to
Give an Outdoor Play" Horace John
son on The Care of the Player Piano
and the Phonograph." Celia Caroline
Cole a beauty article. "Aphrodite
from the Waves" and there is
practical article by Florence Wolfe
on Travelling Without Worry"
A summer article for lovers of
sailing is Sail and Sing, My Hear
ties. by Elon Jessup. There are sug-
gestions about handling a small sail
boat. and how to refute the statement
of many a skipper that women are a
nuisance. Amelia Leavitt Hill tells
about Birds as Garden Guests" and
how to make them comfortable.
Our Upstairs Garden" by Anna
bel Morris Buchanan. Is the story
of little flower garden on the back
porch of a second floor apartment
and of what a comfort such a garden
can be to the children i'm crowded
districts. The reader can learn about
camp cooking from Mary Alden Hop
kins in 'On Hot Stones and Pointed
Sticks" ''The Correct Thing" is a
lesson in manners during the hot
weather. and Playing House in a
Lilliput Village" by Genevieve Fox,
tells of how to make children's play
houses.-The Designer.
The Blanket Equality Bill" by
Florence Kelley. is frank discus
sion of the legislation now being
urged by the National Woman's
party. There is much agitation on
the part of certain groups OF women
for so-caIled blanket equality"
legislation. and the editors of this
magazine consider such a legislation
would be disastrous The article tells
what the proposed legislation is and
what il will mean if passed. In
Team Work for HEALTH" Thomas
III. Halstead. NJ. d.. describes the
growth of specialists and their need
In modern medicine. Group medicine
cen be practiced in two ways. by
bringing together the general prac-
titioner and the specialist. or the
grouping together of specialists and
internists into a definite organiza-
tion. commonly called a Group Clinic
That Tired Feeling" by Josephine
a. Jackson. NJ. D., gives facts worth
knowing about fatigue. Self-pity
and self-complacency should be done
away with. The right feeling about
task is sufficient to start a fresh
supply of energy. 1.-TWO Garden Tea
Rooms describe one in a city back
yard in Washington. not far from
the White House. and another In
northern Maine This article gives
The New York herald., 1922-07-23
skies so clear, her birds that sing
in the trees.

skies so clear. her birds that sing
in the trees.
These lines are metrical. We have
arranged them below in poetic form
and added lines of our own to COM
plete the stanzas. The result is one
Of the most beautiful spring poems
in the language. We don't ask any
Of the credit; it belongs to the
author Of that lyrical paragraph.
Without its inspiration there
wouldn't have been any poem The
italicized lines are by the author of
"Deadwood Dick" the mate lines
are ours:
SPRING.
Sprin0i aohat q sense of pleasure
That single t1ord ercites-
When the crickets trill a measure
And the bee on the clover lights.
Ho,o many hearts beat dneao
As the joyous sprin0time ddaons,
And the gentle cattle moo
And the grass appears on the
lawns.
With her refreshing breath.
Her sun, her delightful showers,
She comes and man witnesseth
Them heavenly springtime flowers!
And her aoonderfuI skies so clear.
Her birds that sing in the trees.
COR in bushes if trees amt near)
And her poets sweet rhymes. like
theSei
THE LITERARY COLOR SCHEME.
The Body in the Blue Room (Sid-
ney WilIiams).
The Red House Mystery CA. A.
Milne).
The Gray Wolf (B. Sexton).
The Purple Pearl (Anthony Pryde).
Crome Yellow (Aldous Huxley.
The Green Forest (Thornton Bur
gess).
The Crimson Tide OR. w. Cham
bers).
The Silver Bear (E. A. Brown).
Gold eugene O'NeiD.
The Scarlet Hand &c. Gilson).
Buff: A Collie "a. p. Terhune).
Black and White Oh. A. Shands).
Practical Tanning "a. Rogers).
We had already placed Tidy Sum
on A. A. Milne, poet. essayist. play
wright and novelist. to cop the all
around championship at the Authors
Field Day. and when we saw "Milne's
in the library we were
on the point of doubling the bet.
But the volume, strange to say. is
not by the versatile A. A. NJ
Gosh. We'll double the bet anyway.
There isn't a contender in sight.
The New York herald., 1922-07-23
THE ALL-INCLUsIvE TAG.

THE ALL-INCLUSIVE TAG.
From publishers announcements:
"A s. NJ. Hutchinson. soldier, jour-
nalist and novelist"
Marguerite Wilkinson. poet.
camper and lover OF nature"
Annie s. Peck. famous mountain
climber and student of South Amer
lean affairs and conditions"
So that our publishers may tag US
properly when our new books appear
in the fall. be it announced that we
The New York herald., 1922-07-23

Do not sqnau and do not tchine-
And-necer sOrite q blasted line.
ASCETIC.
The New York herald., 1922-07-23
REVIEWING MADE EASY.

This mystery yarn has to do with
but it isn't fair to tell the plot.
1t would spoil the story for you
Suffice it to say that it is a well
wrought narrative. full of thrills.
The New York herald., 1922-07-23
TRIOLET.

This young writer knows so much
about human nature that he must
have been % when born.-Book re-
uielo.
How old were you when born?
wasn't very old
The New York herald., 1922-07-23
sIT is IMPORTANT TO UNDER
STAND THIS"

STAND THIS"
From a foreword to Abraham
Kanovitch's "The Will to Beauty:
Reasoning from cause to effect
and from effect to cause leads
the mind to infinity. There can
not be a first cause" for that
would be the effect of a previous
cause" The mind is therefore
led on to infinity This infinity
is the motive.
The motive appears infinite to
the mind which judges by con-
trasts.
The motive can be felt by the
senses and emotions only. The
mind sees in it mystery and in
finity. When the motive appears.
contrast disappears.
The contrast time and space Is
traced to the motive the same as
the contrast cause and effect. 1t
must not be drawn out into the
infinite past.
IL is important to understand
this.
The New York herald., 1922-07-23

Upon my natal morn.
How old were you when bornf
was an infant lorn.
Or so I have been told.
How old were you when bornf
wasn't very old!
We sometimes wonder whether we
are qualified to run book column
There was a time when we thought
''the heavenly nine" was a baseball
team.
The New York herald., 1922-07-23

are versifier. lover of sleep and col
lector of first editions of Wehman
Bros joke books.
ADvT.
We have been dipping into vol
umes one and two of j. Arthur
Thomson's '-The Outline of Science"
the most fascinating books that have
come our way in months. and next
week The Book Factory Twin be de-
voted to Our Own Outline Of Science
And that isn't all. We have
signed up for series of essays
pardon us, 'papers"-Caleb Gala
bash. the famous "quiet" essayist
Licking his Charles Lamb chops, the
great man expressed satisfaction
with our offer and added. My first
paper shall be Conrad and the Sea-
The sea. All. the sea! One must
be a low spirited fellow indeed not
to thrill to the wonders of the sea!
And that admirable Conrad and his
glorious sea tang! Conrad. All,
Conrad"
The New York herald., 1922-07-23

Continued on FoHotoin0 Page.
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Yes; but who can?

Yes; but who can?
This is a love story pure and
simple" says a reviewer of Hall
Gaines 'The Master of Man"
Not so pure. as We recall the mat
ter. but. since the book is full OF
morons. very simple. one must grant.
A WRITER TO HIS GODSON.
Do not tear your pants on hooks
Or s0rite Cor even publish) books.
Obey pour mother. Don't be bad. .
And don't become poet. lad.
Don't be cruel to little fleas,
AHd-never lorite biographies.
Don't make friends tcith those toho
0roUeL
And-yoHn0 man. never tcrite q
nOUeI
Be man in eUery particle.
AID neUer torite leading article.