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Newspaper
Butler Weekly Times
Location
Butler, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1917
Page
5
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Mathew Evans and family spent Sunday at Jim Evans home while Marsh Brown delivered hogs on Monday. Numerous local visits and small social exchanges follow with neighbors including Keen, Sargent, Chitwood, and Randall. Rev. Rhiney conducts revival at Peasant Ponte. Mrs Newberry improves after illness.
Bishop Luther B. Wilson returned from Europe with General Pershing’s message to Americans. Read today for the first time, it stated there is no ground for the heresy that Germany cannot be beaten. Germany can be beaten, must be beaten, and will be beaten.
Charlotte notes a calm Thanksgiving with community gatherings, a baptism near Virginia, a Pie Supper at Crook’s schoolhouse, and a popular-skinned cake winner. Reports cover farm visits, coal hauling from Henderson bank, church activities at Virginia M E and Mt Carmel, and the League and Epworth Herald events led by Miss Ruth Guinn.
Carrollton Missouri December 3 D D Thomas and other Carroll County citizens offer to fatten 5000 cattle and an equal number of hogs for the U S Government The proposal has been sent to the War Department and Herbert Hoover for consideration The U S Department of Agriculture ordered an investigation by Assistant Secretary R A Pearson on November 26 to study the plan
Bolsheviki leader Lenine warned that Russia may repudiate debts to other nations unless Bolsheviks accept a general armistice. Washington notes say canceling U S debts would erase about 160 million dollars paid for munitions, with Congress eyeing scrutiny as Bolshevik power grows. Peace prospects hinge on a Bolshevik Germany armistice and shifting domestic tides in Russia.
An ad touts the Lomoco Portable Sunshine Hog House as a cost saver for farmers. It claims the shelter prevents pig losses in winter, preserving every pig born valued at five dollars, and emphasizes its portability, summer service, and ready-to-load setup.
British and German forces clash across Cambrai and surrounding ridges as tanks rejoin action after German offensive. Despite two large German pushes totaling about fifty thousand troops, the British lines hold with Byng’s regiments reforming for counterattacks. Tanks again smash through Gouzeaucourt and other positions, ending the day with continued British resilience. The article also notes Red Cross tuberculosis seal drives raising funds and counts Missouri and national totals.
In Missouri the tuberculosis fight is led by the Missouri Association for the Relief and Control of Tuberculosis with local efforts in Butler and Bates counties. The message urges open air sunshine and persistent effort to prevent 5000 deaths yearly in peacetime and more during war times.
Jefferson City December 3 reports 194 acres remain for sale by the Federal Government in Missouri. Counties listed include Barry 78 acres in three tracts Butler 3 acres in two tracts Camden 32 acres in one tract Shannon 8 acres in one tract St Francois 40 acres in one tract Ste Genevieve 18 acres in one tract. Figures cited by Guilford A. Leavitt United States Land Office Clerk at Springfield. Missouri holds millions of acres of land south.
Report notes only four cheese factories operate in Missouri and claims two are located in Botes. The brief cites industry data and local business records, summarizing regional cheese production and distribution.
London reports the government, via J I MacPherson, rejects any talk of freedom of the seas until German submarines are cleared from the oceans. Speaking at a Criterion restaurant luncheon, he called the stance a firm official reply to Marquis of Lansdowne’s suggestion and urged the seas be purged of the pirate foe.
Chicago reports twelve football deaths in the 1917 season ending with Thanksgiving games, AP notes. The figure is six fewer than 1916 and four fewer than two years earlier, with fifteen deaths recorded in all for some games.
A mob seized Ligon Scott after he was moved from Jackson to Dyersburg. He was taken to a vacant lot near the public square, tied to an iron stake, and burned in a bonfire as thousands gathered. Scott allegedly confessed to attacking a white woman in Dyer county on November 22.
Mrs Field receives 25.50 a month as army pay, boosting the income of Marshall Field III. Feild, a son of the late merchant, serves as a sergeant in a field artillery regiment in Texas earning 51 monthly, with no waiver or proof of self support, making Mrs Field eligible for half his pay.
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