FUEL CONSERVATION REGULATIONS ISSUED FOR BATES COUNTY
County Administrator Harper issues rules requiring wheat flour substitutes with every pound sold and two staged sale limits. From February 1 to 15, substitutes must accompany purchases. after February 15 equal weight substitutes must be sold. Purchasers may certify current substitutes on hand, with certificates signed and filed. Limitations include 48 pounds to city customers and 98 pounds to rural buyers. penalties may cut supplies. Officials Mumford Walker Harper enforce orders.
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Stallion License Rules Set by Missouri Registry Board
Missouri Stallion Registry Board requires every stallion owner to obtain a license certificate. Pure bred, cross bred, and scrub stallions must submit breeding papers or affidavits, with a $1 license fee. Board members include university officials and the state veterinarian. offices are in Columbia, Missouri.
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Columbia, Mo
Poultry Meeting in Butler to Elect Officers and Plan Show
Bates County Poultry Association meets at Butler court house Saturday February 16 at 2 00 pm. Officers to be elected for the coming year and decision on a poultry show next winter. State Poultry Experiment Station will offer free egg settings to 4H youths. Local poultry numbers and favorable egg and hen prices highlighted. Edson Snyder Secretary.
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Court House
Butler
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Bates County
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Sec’y
Missouri Bay is First U. 5. Flyer to Bag German Plane
Lieutenant Stephenson Thompson of West Plains Missouri, 23, a U S Army aviator, shot down a German plane over Saarburg during a raid. It was his first combat mission and he froze his hands while landing. Thompson trained in France with French aviators after enlisting last summer.
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Ozark City
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United States
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France
Pie Supper and Entertainment at Enterprise School
A pie supper and entertainment are planned at Enterprise school house on Friday evening February 22, 1918. The event invites community members to enjoy desserts and activities hosted by the school as a social gathering.
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Enterprise School
Favor Registration of Men a Since June 5
Washington February 8 The senate military affairs committee recommended immediate passage of war department measures to strengthen the army The draft would register men 18 to 45 and quotas would be apportioned by class 1 Numbers of skilled workmen could be drafted regardless of classification and a complete reorganization of the army nurse corps is authorized if needed
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Suffragists Fail to Close Senate Gap on Amendment
In Washington on February 9, the Senate postponed action on the woman’s suffrage constitutional amendment until enough votes are assured. Senator James of New Mexico, chair of the suffrage committee, declined to predict timing, saying sentiment is crystallizing and success appears likely. The President supports the measure, and supporters still need four votes.
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Wilson
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Missouri Notes and Local Political Shifts
Missouri notes report forty five trains late into Kansas City last week. Clinton postmaster logged eight alien enemies over two days and Cass county ثبت one. Hugh Méledoc former Joplin mayor announces candidacy again. A Cedar county mother notes her son promoted from private to kitchen policeman in Funston. St Louis residents joined the walkout as street car workers struck and won most demands. Narcotics inspector Frank K Diggs says Kansas City trails Boston and New York in narcotics sales.
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Cedar County
Funston
Jlorado News
Missouri counties not called to furnish men in draft
In the first draft for the selective army two Missouri counties Laclede and Towell were not called on to furnish any men. The voluntary enlistment filled their timpeta.
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Timpeta
County seeks six day school sessions for spring farm work
Resolutions at commenl of defense of Carroll Munday urge every county school adopt a six day term to free youth for spring farm labor. Elizabeth Major of Fayette chosen to christen a new destroyer named for a navy kinsman. she is a cousin of Admiral Sebree and has twenty cousins in service. Oldest Red Cross member in U S lives near Monegan Springs Haninah McPerrin 112 years old. paid membership from savings for coffee. Three boys under arrest at Sierce City charged with attacking a farmer's two year old daughter. father injured during capture. News notes on editors, a man hurt by machinery, and political affidavits in Lamar see-saw.
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Elizabeth Major
Fayette
Admiral Sebree
St. Joseph
Red Cross
United States
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Wittter
Sierce
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Seloul
Six drafted men to go soon from Bates County
The Local Exemption Board, under Col J H McCord, orders six Bates County men to mobilization camp on February 23 or soon after. They will fill the county quota on first call, with twenty men still to be sent. Pending District Board decisions on appeals, a definite list cannot be announced. Trotsky says he mistrusts the Allies.
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