The Butler Weekly Times Printed on Thursday of each week, S ROHT. D. AIXBlf. BUIIor nnd Mar. fxfV$t-- 2 f'llrw rwi s n r UTnUW nnTnj7- (. vit.sr.i. vttm X. rmnrii r inn .BMP IWf tT,tB v .cr m ?i.wia hkkv . jw .invy i u in iitivi uimnn'.' lira.. m suaa

Entered at the Post Office of But- - CTi i". .' 8 ler, Mo., as second-clas- s mall matter. 4 Vmfij)iiT gW'agSjWR I L r"" r Y?.f;TL.fe.snfe-.wB- April it MA. This is National Quaker Home Craft Week "Home Beautifying" is in order New Curtains and Dranerip n&pd&rt New Rugs must be had New Window Shades to replace the faded and worn - a.q ones. Quaker Nftts- arp . . Craft Curtains and Curtain W nntW W rnstlvW W thir hPAntvWW and delicacy suggests Indeed special emphasis is accorded the fact that the most delightful window effects can be attained THE WAR RESOLUTION. at moderate costs. From Maine to California this is National Home Craft Week, theiir This is the war resolution in when women the home lovers are redressincr trodueed in the house bv RcDre homes for spring and summer. tentative Flood and submitted to the senate by Senator Martin, We are ready with olans and merchandise to heln pvrv wav and altered by the senate : If Joint resolution: Declaring you want your windows to be distinctive select Quaker Craft Curtains. mat a state of war exists between the imperial German Government and the government and people of the United States and making provisions to prosecute same: WHEREAS. The imnerial Gar Quaker Lace Curtains $1.00 to $6.00. man government has committed Sunfast Draperies 65c to $1.25 yd. repeated acts of war asrainst the Quaker Curtain Nets (42 in wide) 25c to $1.25 yard. Heavy Green Portier Rep. 75c yd. government and people of the Yard wide Cretonnes 25c to 65c yard. Large (87 x88 inches) Quilts, united states; therefore, be it White cut corners and Window Shades 40c up. -- Resolved: By the Senate and scalloped edge $3.50. House of Representatives of the Curved Window Rods 25c up. Other Quilts $2.50 to $6.00. United States of America in con Sash Rods 5c, 10c 15c. Bedroom Scrims to gress assembled that the state of 8c 35c. war between the United States and the imperial German govern- ment which has thus been thrust upon the United States is hereby formally declared; and, That the president be, and he is, hereby authorized and directed SPRING ROOM SIZED RUGS to employ the entire naval and Brussels $15.00 to $25.00 Axminsters $20.00 to $42.50 Velvet $25.00 military forces of the United to $42.50 States and the resources of the 9x12 Congoleum Rutfs, special price $7.50 to $8.00 x government - and to bring the con- Be sure and visit our store and this department during Home Craft Week inct to a successlul termmation. You be you All of the resources of the coun- - will welcome and will enj'oy a look try are hereby pledged by the uongress or tne united States. Wallkeir-WlcKniblbein- i9 .4 GENERAL NOTES itThe Quality Store9'

About seven thousand elk were Bull associations reduce the JOHN M. VAUGHN Funeral services were held fed at EDITORS TO MEET IN of Bates County Judge C. A. last winter at Jackson Hole, cost of services of a pure-bre- d the thejioine of his daughter, Mrs. J. BUTLER Denton, Butler. vyo., by the 'Biological Survey bull for the dairy herd. The av 15. Harper in this city Prominent Butler Citizen Dead. Wednesday Journalism, a Profession Wal- erage animal cost ot service in a afternoon at i o'clock under the Quarterly Gathering of County ter Of 10,700 cows tested through large of in Williams, Dean of tho Missou- number associations John Merri wether Vaughn, direction of the Masonic Lodge, Association Friday, ri 47 cow-testin- g School of Journalism. isconsin associa vestigated by the United States aged 70 years and 7 months, de- of which lie In- was a member. April 13. A night meeting b tions last year, 3,375 were dis Department Agriculture was parted this Tues- will held at of life in this city terment was made in Oak Hill the opera posed of unprofitable. Asso-citio- house, at. which time as 3.4S. for each member. day, April 3, 1917. Mr. Vaughn cemetery. The Bates County Press n Dean Williams has consented to had been in failing scv-- will hold its next health for regular make an War conditions in Europe have eral months previous to meeting at Butler, Friday, April address. His subject Fire believed to have originat his death. Elks Wire will be resulted in a very noticeable tail John Merriwether Vaughn was Wilson. 13. Walter Williams. Dean nf tli "The Old nnd mg ed irom tieiective wiring, de- the New." A cordial invitation oft in the importations of born in Olasgowl Mo., Sept. Butler Lodge "No. 058 B. P. O. School of Journalism at the State birds, stroyed the grand stand and res il is extended to every one to particularly canaries. J 840, and was the eldest son of E. wired University, has accepted an invi- hear taurant addition at Essex Park President Wilson an this address. Mr. Williams is General Richard' C. and Margaret assurance tation to be present and address one ace track at Hot Springs, Ark., of hearty - support of the most eloquent speakers Congress has appropriated McNaught Vaughn, who coining Sunday morning the editors. The following pro- in money Saturday. The loss is estimated in response the state and his will for experiments looking to troin Virginia, settled Mis- to a telegram gram has been prepared and a. address be at $25,000. The Essex track is in to Exalted Ruler something. well : the increase of production of sugar-- souri. The family removed, great meeting is expected for worth hearing. owned- - by Chicago and Hot later Jos. A. Flammang from Grand the beet seed in the L'nited States. to a farm in Saline county and af- miiKers or nates county news-- j Springs men. Exalted Ruler Edward Ritcher A Pretty Wedding. ter living there for several years of New Orleans, in which papers. The afternoon meeting i Tulsa, Ok., refineries have been located in Lexington, Mo. When Butler lodge was asked to express will begin at 1:30 o'clock. Miss Irene Wilcox, the charm- asked by the' Navy Department to (lov. Simon Bamberger Tal-ber- of still a young man, Mr. Vaughn en its sentiments to the President. Invocation Rev. R. M. t, ing daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ed submit bids by wire for 3 billion issued an official proclamation the Christian gaged in the business ot freight- The lodge was called into session Courier, Wilcox of 4 2 miles northwest1 barrels of fuel oil for the navy, Saturday calling upon eligible of all ing across the plains, following and a resolution endorsing the this city and Mr. Carl Thompson ' immediate delivery. Eight refin- able bodied men of state to Do You the this line of work until he accept- stand of the administration was Express Opinions in of Passaic, were united in mar- eries are in operation at Tulsa. enlist in the national guard. In ed the position of confidential sec- unanimously passed. The follow News Stories f E. E. Bean, Rich riage a! the home of the bride's connection with proclamation who-wa- the retary to Edward Bates, a ing wire was sent to the President Hill Review. parents Thursday .evening, March The Department of Agriculture it is announced that active re- Attorney General in The Editor's Waste Baske- Lincoln's . "Butler, Mo., April 1st, 1917 2Pth, at 7:30 o'cloek, M. has n staff of more than 1(5,000 cruiting the begin t- Rev. R. for guard will cabinet. From Washington City, "To His Excellency, Woodrow Sam W. Davjs, Butler Democrat. ot tills city people devoting their whole time in and throughout Some lainert officiating in Mr. Vaughn went to Warrens- -' Wilson, President of the United of the Mistakes I have the beautiful ring ceremony. to the improvement of agriculture the state Monday. Dow-el- burg, Mo., where he edited the States: Butler Lodge No. 958, B made in Journalism J. E. l, After the wedding ceremony the investigation of marketing Adrian a Warrensburg Journal. During P. O. E., at a special meeting this Journal. daintily prepared supper was problems, and the enforcement of his newspaper Mr. Vaughn Some of the Good Word reached Seattle, Wash., career morning, unanimously adopted Features of bountifully served to sixty-liv- e Federal laws. the about of a snows! ide in the Cascades, on was connected with several prom the following resolution: Re Bates County Newspapers guests. The happy couple - Lewellyn the Great Northern Railroad, inent Missouri publications, solved, That rhis lodge earnnesly Smith, Rockville Boost- were the recipients beau- Mayor Bently of Wichita, Mas., - - of mjny which carried three men to death among them being :y The Kansas favors the program of prepard er. tiful gifts. has given orders to the chief of Benefits County Friday in addition to covering a City Times, The Lexington Intel- nss proposed by President Wil- of a Press As Mr. and Mrs. Thompson will police to. arrest, any person who sociation F. E. part of a passenger train at Em-- J ligencer and the Independence son, and hereby pledges him our Pattce, Amster- make their home at voices malicious criticism Pres- " Passaic where of I.m-- . dam Station, on the west slope of Sentinel. hearty support therein Enterprise. Mr. Thompson is man- ident Wilson or the policy he has .'j-i- i the local the mountains. The men killed lie was united in marriage to (Signed) Preserving the, Early History ager for the Cannon elevator. pursued in reference to the Gcr Miss Sallie Jo Hughes of Glasgow, man controversy. were two laborers and the tele- "JOHN S. WALKER, See V." graph operator at Embro. Mo., December. 23, 1869, and to this union were born eight chil ' Homer Lewellyti, a Casts Only chauffeur, dren, four of whom survive : Mrs Stone Ballot Against and Orfie Douglass, a mechanic Charles who wrote II. B. Hughes, Glasgow, Missouri ; War. died at Conway, Ark.. Saturday, the music for "Strike Up the Mrs. J. E.' Harper, Butler, Mo.; Washington April 3. re. and Andy Francis, a barber is ex Rand, Here Comes a Sailor," It Dr. J. B. Vaughn, Chicago, Illi mained for William J. Stone, who If. It peeted to die as the result of "The Band Played On" and oth- is Groceries nois; R. C. Vaughn, New York holds a senate scat from Missouri, drinking a gallon of hav ruin er songs popular twenty years City, N. Y. Mr.. Vaughn is also which the men ago, to. cast the only vote in the for That you want, bought for a "par died at a hospital in New ' and it IS GROCERIES you ,- survived by three , sisters, Misses eign relations committee against you that -r 11 ty , s York last expect to live and be happyTthe .ZZLlZ. ".v at J ranciH barber shop week. He was born in Nannie and Nettie .Vaughn and of m w lo buy The bay rum in the resolution placing the nation them someone that does NOT send? !mln n.??1? is said to have con London 1865, but came to this Mrs. J.' B. Ruby, "Lexington, Mis tained a large per cent of country when boy. behind the policy and plans of wood al a Ward was souri; and three brothers, Ed. B. Wilson, - cohol, which caused the men s widely known on the stage. President Vaughn and George R. Vaughn, When the committee met this 2 Cans death." Good Peaches..... 25c 2 Cans Good Lexington, Missouri, and Dr. R. half-ho- ur Corn... morning for a session, 3 Pkgs. Jello ...... 25c Marines guarding the . powder R. Vaughn, Louis, Missouri. ,..r.725c 2 Cans Good Peas.,r. - I St. in which every member, save and 2 lbs Dried Pesches. 2c- nele Joe Cannon, former magazine at Mobile, Ala.,, navy Mr. ....V.25c Can Good Apricots , ',. - Vaughn was an ardent except Stone, was eager to give 2 lbs Prunes ..... J flc speaker of the house of represen-- J yard did their bit of work early Prohibitionist, was one ...... 25c 3 Cans String Beans. and of the hearty support to the president, 2 Cans Pork & Beans ...... 25c uiives ana now just a plain mem- -' Saturday when they fired on, but pioneers fight on liquor ....25c rancy Pumpkjn...25c congress, in the the Stone? cast aside the mask and Regular 30c Peaches now 25c ins ber of Saturday said he failed to capture an unidentified traffic in the middle west. He Regular 25c Peaches now 20c would president refused to vote for war against back the in his man in approaching . . ' ' :' detected the was promuient in the councils of the kaiser. From him. as chair tii hst It a s:, --foreign policy with all the power magaaine. - Immense quantities bis party and was a delegate to foreign . - man of the relations com he possesses. He '.'declared . bis of ammunition are stored in the the first National mittee, will be tb Best 70 meeting with Whit P. Martin, yards. taken the' honor mZtliViS19 . Marines have been guard- Convention. more Progressive- For than fifty and duty of presenting the Mar-- j member of congress ing several - They it weeks. saw years Mr. Vanglm was'; a conscih tm-rio- oa ;. fross Louisiana, bad no polities) resolution. the ' man approaching the .works entious and devout member of the .That fame, which' belonged to siyiesaee nd that they did sot in the dark challenged him, and Cunderla Pkibytrian chore Ctone, passed - oo r.h on to the hand ;Kztr- tie ornisation of the when he failed to-st- fired three an -- r r i ir.Ma;5tad ileum;