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Newspaper
Butler Weekly Times
Location
Butler, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1916
Page
6
We offer a large stock of stoves and ranges to cut before January 1st inventory. Many are older models reduced for quick sale, with prices well below recent advances. Also featuring buggies and wagons.
The store proclaims the largest selection of hardware and groceries in Bates Country with competitive prices and attentive service. It buys all kinds of country produce at the highest market price in cash or trade, inviting customers to visit to trade.
Missouri weekly and small city dailies unite to appeal for government relief amid publishing cost spikes. Through the Missouri Association of Afternoon Newspapers, papers such as Independence Examiner and Sedalia Democrat join others including Mexico Ledger and Columbia Daily Missourian in seeking federal aid.
Lyman Laney, son of a Watertown family, was reported dead via telegraph last week. The father William Laney of the countryside and the rest of the family were stunned as relatives gathered at the old home. Laney was a respected member of the Masonic lodge in Watertown, and his burial was expected to take place Sunday under lodge auspices. The parents had rushed to Watertown and will not yet return, leaving details unavailable.
Weltmer vice president and business manager of the Weltmer Institute and son of its founder married Stella Baldwin at the Baldwin home near Appleton City. After a brief ceremony the couple left for a monthlong tour of Florida and Cuba, passing Nevada en route. Upon return they will reside at the Weltmer home on South Cedar Street in Nevada.
A circuit court jury awarded A. T. Ankrom $30.30 against W. E. West for subscribing to the St. Louis Republic from July 1910 to September 1914 at 65 cents a month. West had subscribed during a contest via Miss Tina Houston and continued receiving the paper after expiration, though not ordered.
A compilation from the Urich Herald and Hopkins Journal reports high broom prices linked to straw waste from straw votes. Notes cover Harrisonville captaincy for Missouri Tigers, police commissioner changes in Kansas City, a farmer buying flour rather than Ford, a toddler’s pneumonia death in St. Louis, a Benton county hunting ban notice, Montgomery City marriage license for Michael Rinkle and Elizabeth Vonvain, and Greene County jury sentencing a man to 70 years with parole in mind.
President Wilson weighs a western trip next spring and told Speaker Clark he would accept an invitation to speak to the University of Missouri School of Journalism in May if possible. He said he would aim to visit the West after Congress adjourns in March.
The county court directed the clerk to advertise for bids for a modern Cole county jail costing 45000 dollars. The Democrat-Tribune notes the structure will be up to date in every detail and will be a source of joy to inmates.
An enterprising Kansas City undertaker has opened a crematorium columbarium at its establishment. The facility features oil heated retorts to reduce bodies to ashes and spaces for several hundred urns. The building is elaborately furnished in white and red and the project cost about 17000 dollars.
A man who spent his life hoarding gold for a costly funeral left his sister Betty, 89, with $100,000. They wore coarse homespun, lived in a small cabin, and ate little to keep wealth. The editor of El Dorado Springs News jokes about a subscription payoff plan exposing flirting husbands to their wives.
A series of real estate transfers shows Elizabeth M. Oliver selling 40 acres in section 25 at West Point for 2400 dollars and W A Leavitt buying 2 acres in section 6 Lene Oak for 2000 dollars, with other deeds including John Williams to Sylvester Stevenson for 159 acres in West Boone for 10270 dollars and multiple additional parcels traded among various parties including Rich Till, Mattie Wirt, and Lydia Funk, with prices and locations across several townships.
John Munsinger of Smith Center Kansas will celebrate his 104th birthday at his son Jay Munsinger’s Elk County home tomorrow. Despite age observers misjudge his years, he remains sharp with a strong appetite and no notable illnesses. His long life is noted for temperate habits and a worry-free outlook.
Tokio December 11 reports Marshal Marquis Oyama dead from a severe cold contracted during army maneuvers. Oyama was regarded as one of Japan’s greatest soldiers and compared by critics to Molike and Napoleon. His most notable achievement came while commanding Japanese forces in Manchuria during the war with Russia.
In a Warrensburg Star item Rev Dr James W Lee Barnes Hospital chaplain notes a 126 year old man in the poor house living with his 99 year old son. The old man says he has turned his life management to the Lord who runs his life. He adds that the Lord yields a better product with some human help.
Women often mistake symptoms as sex related while disordered kidneys cause backache dizziness headaches and irregular urination. Dean's Kidney Pills are promoted with testimonials like Mrs. Chas Miller of Butler who reports relief and renewed strength after using the remedy at United Drug Co. Price 50 cents.
Walter L. Lampkin of Kansas City, secretary to Senator Cockrell and now executor, travels in Washington to find a buyer for the eighty room brick home at 1518 R Street N W. The house, built twenty years ago by the senator, is noted for its hospitality and large fireplaces in a favored Missouri guest retreat.
Jordon Elliott, age 84, died last Friday at his home near Huntaville after spending his final days in frail health. The obituary notes family connecting with relatives and neighbors in the community.
The Warrensburg Star-Journal reports Missouri plans to celebrate its 100th anniversary as a state in 1920, with July 19, 1820 favored by a committee in Kansas City. Some records cite August 10, 1821 as the admission date, but Walter B. Stevens argues for the 1820 date.
Grafters are described as not pikers as Buenos Aires builds a capitol. Ten years ago the plan valued the project at 2,640,000 dollars. By now 14,295,696 dollars has been spent and the end is not yet. The palace, nicknamed the Palace of Gold, mirrors the Washington Capitol in scale and expense.
Laredo Texas December 11 The Second and Fourth Missouri infantry with Battery H Third U S artillery and the Second Florida infantry started a four day hike down the Rio Grande. A sham battle will highlight the maneuvers.
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