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Newspaper
Butler Weekly Times
Location
Butler, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1916
Page
3
A new transparent glass sheet combines two glass plates with a 0.021 inch sheet of white celluloid between them. Welded under high heat and pressure, it resists bullets and bricks, reflecting a stone like a golf ball, while keeping the clarity of plate glass.
In Joplin Missouri two men Ray Cornell and John Russell were found dead in a greenhouse. Authorities consider carbon dioxide from flowers as a possible cause after they were displaced from a tent where they had been living. Cornell was an itinerant minister from Albany Missouri.
W J Schoenhacker Jr, president of a Milwaukee shoe company, says leatherless shoes may arrive next summer if hide prices stay high. A canvas and rubber shoe is planned with a thin leather strip between the sole and foot to prevent burning.
The government may loan up to 50 percent of land value with improvements and 20 percent of building value. Some landowners might take back a second mortgage for a quarter of the farm value if the buyer provides a 25 percent cash down payment and has machinery. Interest is around 5.5 to 6 percent, with a potential 33 year term. A small farmer can buy forty acres for about 5,000 dollars, borrowing 2,500 from the government and 1,500 seller carry, leaving 1,000 cash. A truck farm using labor from a family can repay about 255.50 annually, paying off the government mortgage in 33 years, or sooner if desired.
Kansas City crowds on the streets this year set records. The street railway company reported 525,000 fares collected on Saturday, totaling $26,000 in revenue.
Col. William F. Cody known as Buffalo Bill is critically ill in Denver. The Bank of Skiatook Oklahoma was robbed of more than $20,000 Wednesday night. Bandits fled the scene, Skiatook lies about ten miles from Tulsa.
Iowa representative Good introduced a bill in Congress to bar all newspapers and magazines with liquor advertisements from mail delivery in States that prohibit liquor sales. President Wilson to announce tariff commission makeup soon after Congress convenes next month after Cabinet meeting with Secretary McAdoo.
Ole Bjerke, a ski jumper, executed a full somersault eighty feet high while testing the slide in Cary Indiana. He broke both skis in a rough landing but walked away unharmed.
The House approved the Urgent Deficiency Bill totaling 4,578,250 dollars. Included is a 414 million dollar allocation to aid dependent families of guardsmen serving on the border, marking a key relief provision.
After a single reading the Folkething Wednesday adopted the bill ratifying the treaty for the sale of the Danish West Indies to the United States. The vote was 90 in favor and 16 against ratification. Five members were absent.
The Boston Post declared Friday that Thomas W. Lawson and associates made a several million dollar cleanup in the American stock market through advance tips on the German peace proposals and President Wilson's note.
Three decades of carnations arrived from California for the El Paso Chamber of Commerce to distribute to soldiers on Christmas morning. A large bouquet sat on every mess table and flowers were given to each hospital patient.
Los Angeles County Cal General Harrison Gray Otis proposed gifting his Wilshire boulevard and Parkview avenue residence valued at 150000 dollars for a public library. The board of supervisors accepted the gift.
A Russellville jury in Arkansas ruled bets placed on Charles B. Hughes and on Wilson were legal. Az pincers sued three Russellville businessmen who had each bet 100 on Wilson, paid the bets, and then sought to recover claiming the bets were gambling debts.
Charles E. Hughes will appear soon as counsel before the court where he once sat as judge. He will lead for the Corn Products Refining Company in an appeal to the U S Supreme Court from a state court decision ordering the corporation dissolved.
The 11,000 ton Lamport and Holt Line steamer Voltaire with 140 crew, many believed American, sailed from Liverpool on November 28 and is eleven days overdue. Despite powerful wireless gear no word has been received since departure, prompting tears over a presumed loss.
Castle Rock Washington prints a shingle supplement to the Cowlitz County Advocate on a 9 by 16 inch regulation shingle. The news is devoted to the shingle industry and edited by two women, Mrs. Nellie McClane Brown.
L. J. Blot, sales manager of the Spokane Fruit Growers' Company, confirmed the season's largest individual sale. Fifty cars of Redskin and Sunset Jonathans from the Spokane district were sold to a major Los Angeles buyer for distribution in California.
Secretary Baker submitted a deficiency appropriation of 28.4 million dollars to the House on Thursday for the army on account of the Mexican border service. Quartermaster General Sharpe testified that retaining the national guard on the border at seventy five thousand men through June 30, 1917 would push the deficit to about 50 million dollars.
A Saturday effective law bans luxury imports into Austria Hungary including Southern fruits champagne chocolate silk fur toys jewelry and perfumery. The aim is to curb foreign outflow of money and improve exchange rates. Travelers are warned not to wear jewelry as it will be confiscated at the border.
Capt. V. Hirose, personal representative of Col. T. Mizuma, military attache of the Japanese embassy, reached San Antonio on Monday. He intends to study the national guard system, noting about one hundred thousand state troops on the border as a fruitful field. Hirose plans to call on General Funston to present credentials and outline his mission.
Aroostook County Maine tops wealth lists as potato prices soar. The region gains prosperity while Los Angeles wanes, Houston rises amid potato trade. Rural farmers hold crop for higher returns, with barrels selling for up to a dollar.
St Louis Dec 23 Governor elect Frederick Garder announced that Col Arthur B Donnelly would be adjutant general of the Missouri National Guard. Donnelly has long been active in Missouri military affairs and recently returned with his Texas based regiment. He won unanimous Guard officer endorsement and other military staff appointments were announced.
The Iowa Supreme Court ruled in the case of Fred Gooch versus E. E B. Gooch and L. Gooch that a promissory note made on Sunday is not invalid. If the maker uses Sunday as a defense to avoid payment, this is improper in law. Payment of interest or any payment on a weekday gives the note full legal recognition. Des Moines Capital reports.
Washington Dec 22 The federal farm loan board has definite ly decided on the location of eight of the 12 farm loan banks to be established throughout the country. Formal announcements are expected next week. Official sources say Hutchinson Kansas and New Orleans are among approved cities.
In Glen Carbon Illinois a matrimonial raffle at a bachelors club dance awarded three bachelors to three women. Joe Clenson 38 coal miner Edwardsville marble worker Charles Sendricks 3% and Joe Jiggers bartenders were won by Miss Maude Fletcher Miss Sarah Brown of Denver and Miss Rose Brown of Denver.
In federal court Franz Bopp, German consul general, disclosed a secret German consulate war fund exceeding 100000 dollars used to buy rubber and nickel for Germany. He said funds came from the Berlin embassy and were shuttled through neutral countries, with no claim of a million-dollar total.
Charles F. Carter state senator from Clark County says he has received requests to present a bill for statewide prohibition with St. Louis excepted and may act. The proposal faces mixed support among prohibition advocates, while the Missouri Anti-Saloon League aims to make Missouri dry within two years. Details were not provided.
A humorous claim notes Linus succeding with a thornless rose and an odorless onion, then describes a nostril operation that silenced warfront mules. It imagines a future kickless mule and praises scientific progress without graphic detail.
For rent 80 acre meadow near Summit listed by Porter Spruce in Mo. Inquire for details about rental terms and location.
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