The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, December 7, 1881, Page 4

BUTLER WEEKLY TIMES. Ji. Meck ariand, AND PRroPRIETOR, Daiiy, One Year, ss "Six Months, «Three Months, BUTLER. MISSOURI WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER, 7th. VOLUME FOUR. With this issue the Weekly Times enters upon the fourth year of its exist- ence, and belieying thatits thousands of readers would like to know some- thing of its brief though eventful his- tory, we give it somewhat in detail, | for the paper will be appreciated more fully when and where its histo- description, Claus — ma *« One Month, “y ; +50 “One Wee : : 7 Es} 6 4 Weery Times, published every Je day, will be any < duress r, postage paid, tor $1.25. ‘Where you will find a iaree asso stationery book , Or graph albums, fine ink stands, bibles large and a new assortment of faney candies. Look Through my Stock Early And Get CHOICE of GOODS. Arrived in Butler Kes = headquarters he Post-fiffice, ° kind and chote amd autos nad smasi, wagons, carts, “a GPa ry is best known: On the 29th day of May, 1875S, the first number of the Bates County Advocate made its appearance on the streets of Butler. It’s editor and publisher was Mr. E. H. Kirk, who announced that its political policy would be independent. The office was up stairs in the building now occupied by B. G. Wheeler & Co. The material was scant, besides hav- ing been in use ten or fifteen years. Fate had decreed that its life should be short, and on Wednesday, Decem- ber 4th, 1578, just six months after its birth, the Bates County Advocate’s breath was suspended simultaneous with the demise of the Greenback party of that year, whose cause it had espoused some week’s prior dur- ing the campaign. Newsom & Lawhon were the pur- chasers of the office at the price of $450, and on December rith, one k after the Advocate ceased pub- first number of volume one of the Bates County Times, the office having been moved in the mean time to the room over R. Weil & Co.’s boot and shoe house. During the ensuing winter Mr. Law- hon retired trom the business and went to Colorado, leaving Mr. New- som proprietor. For seyeral months Mr. Newsom conducted the paper alone, until the 23d of April, value of the office was less than $500 —it cost us less. Now it will reach into the thousands, with no financial incumbrance. Nine months atter we took exclusive charge of the pa- per—Oct. 15th, 1880—the old mate- rial was replaced with new, out and out, and the ‘‘patent outside’’ way to an all home print. months trom that date—May 26th, 1881—a_ five column daily suddenly surprised the inhabitants of Butler, issued trom the Times office. That vigor and success. And now, this! week, the beginning of its tourth! year, we present you with the Week- ly Times in an enlarged form, em- bracing forty-eight columns of mat- ter, equal in size to any county paper in the great Southwest. On the tst September last we had erected in our new office in the McFarland Bros. building, one of Campbell’s Power Presses, the catalogue price of which 1s $1,200, with a capacity of print- ing eight hundred to a thousand pa- pers an hour. Within the past year we have also added from $600 to $800 worth ot job type and material. With this successful career to guide us, Ve are stimulated to acts of great- er import, sustained by an energy unabated, by a capacity of thought and judgme@t more mature and enduring we lication, issued the sole 1879, it was announced in a brief i z local to the surprise of most people, and »Y Msources otherwise more de- that C. T. McFarland, present pro- fiant and ndependent. ‘*The past at least is sture,’’ and by its lessons we will caye our way through the future. like other men—some bj]d and arrogant, others cowardly and sneaking. We know their lair, andour eyes shall never sleep when th€e’s danger of their Fiends we have too, prietor, had bought a half interest in the paper. At the time the latter getleman made tig purchase, he was engaged in the large mercantile house of M. S. Cowles & Co., where he had been since the 17th of October, 1876. He did notenter at once upon Enenies we have, stealing forth. gave} about simultaneous Seven} | that would furnish dozens of passen- | enterprise still lives in the fullness of | were they only on Pine street. duties in the Times office, but re- mained with Mr. Cowles until the following August, when he severed his connection with the yard-stick and poised the faber instead. In_ this alone smoothly In December 187g, the office like other men—the and tried. We! appreciate them beause they stood | by us through all omyps and downs. | i Readers, you have generous and forbearing, and wtshall remem- | ber you for it. Dur for a short you ky our many | heated contests you ha ave. ever flinch- | ed. You have been as this time to the gels ue shield | and support. We are o€ of the j woods now, but your supprt is as 1 We Wadcred een way the business moved cnough ain moved, > of the square m the Pow- as wh ble tloating about on the = oom : i ee agnor things which indicated calamitous | *° °€ YO" Send a ues pane approached the standard of pur! results should something not be done In this sit- ideal, you can best judge. And ny in the dawn of another year we clay your hand and swear by the gods 6 the Democratic party to stick to you through thick and thin, with malice —what malice toward tn —we reckon so, and charity for all. and get a copy of the soon to change the tide uation the Times was found on the tst of January, 1880. And on that slay Mf. Newsom stepped down and out, leavmg Mr. McFarland to ride the turbulent waves in his shallow hark—an inexperienced **man at the Come in whee {im assuming absolute control ot | Weekly Tires in its enlarged form, the Times we placed our mark of ae ages suits you, subscribe ; 115) duty and purpose high up the rug- only $1.25. Remember it is the ged slope, realizing fully the hmit cheapest paper in the county by 25 and extent .of our capacity and the cents. : | Surrounded | ¥ diticuities, strength of our energy. STREET RAILWAY SUGGESTIONS. Since our issue Saturday, which account of the street id unwelcomed } railway meeting, and the suggestion ot the protes- i that the route be made to run on -nvironed ed an omvacted by our pred- | conts sneered ecessors, by the local me sion with attempts to impeach our | Pine street to Main, thence south to political fidelity and breae down our | Dakotah and west on that street tc financial ability, we stared forth | the depot, making one circuitou: young in years and experience, but | route to and fromthe depot, we have placing a high estimate on our only | heard some expression of setiment, ramaining resource—a will to de—| and all decidedly favorable to the resolved on conquest or death. above plan. And what has been the result dur- | It would cost more. perhaps, two- ing the twenty-three months that | wairds or even doubie, yet it is main- have intervened? Let those whose | tamed that $8,000 or $10,000 could | eyes have scanned our every footstep | be raised upon that proposition about and struggle tell the story, whether | as readily as $5,000 can be with the it be friend or foe. line on ‘enly one street. There are In January 18So, the estimated jnone. Its age that in the columns of the tan street who would be glad enough to aid the building of the line on that street as well as on Pine and Main. Such an commodate the Opera-going public when the new Opera house is com- | and its completion will be | with that of the there arrangement would ac- pleted, street car line. Besides are three hotels, including the Day house. sengers if the cars ran by their door, where they would not furnish one These are suggestions that we trust in all candor will receive the earnest attention of the projectors of the street railway line, for it will redown | | to the int st of the company as largely as it wouid to the citizens on } that strecc as well as the traveling public at large. AN EXTRAORDINARY OFFER; A Book Frere.—The publisher of that well-known journal, the Savan- nah Weekly Mexs, proposes to give to all new subscribers who send in their names (with the price of a paper for one year, $2.00) betore the | ist ofg January, 1882, and all sub- | scribers who renew before that date, a copy of any one of the novels of the ‘‘Morning News Library,’’ free of charge. These serials are written by Southern authors and are printed in handsome quarto form, in excel- lent style and on good paper. The Weekly Mews 1s a mammoth paper, and ranks with the best journals in the Union. This premium offer also extends to that able agricultural jour- nal, the Southern Farmer’s Monthly, and any one of the novels will be sent free to those who subscribe to the Monthly fora year. Addres,s J. H. Estill. Savanuah, Ga. A PAPERFOR ALL. Elsewhere in the Times to-day will the prospectus for 1882, of No ex- be seen jthe Missouri /epudlican. | tended comment need be indulged in concerning this Journal. It needs and its virtues have for years made it the companion of nearly every household in Missouri, and the acknowled leader inthe great Mississippi valley. It can be said without effort at flattery or buncomb, Missouri | Republican the people repose more confidence than in any other newspa- per in the West. Hence its bound | less influence, its mighty work for ood in building up the industries nd developing the resources of our ;Suntry. Long may it live to en-! ligten mankind. JOLMAN’S RURAL WORLD. hs admirable farm journai will enter & thirty-fitth year on the first of Jamary next. Every farmer ' should raq an agricultural paper, and we kyyw of none better than the Rural Wyid. it is published weekly at ly one dollar per y | and will be 83¢ from this time to January, 1833 for that price. Fine | premiums for &bs. Samples free Address, Norma J. Colman, pub- | isher, 600 Olive, st. Louis, Mo. ——— AC an was fined ! | $1 for kissing anO& yr man’s wife. da cle i | gymen generally gcethings at half | | rate. It is hardto tell whoghe Deio- | cratic caucus will nominatépr Speak- | er. Any Western man ‘Wl do; it will only be a compiment and we people out here mig! numbers of men interested on Dako-have it. as anybody. That is rather a low sure. but cler- | JC HN yway:| SETH THOMAS’ CLOCKS. | -D. DUBACH & CO. | Always Have on Needed for Building purposes. SU PEL, No». + EAR TT «ss arepenctin Risso! 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GLIVE HOUSE, ‘ ve a complete and reliable al» ‘ J. LANSDOWN Prop'r. of title to each tract of land in | ounty oving ali transfers BUTLER - --- - - - MISOUIR and liens Government Entry Southwest corner of Public Sr . to date. ‘Mistincts furnished op short notice. Le oe 13th W. E. WALTON. PRACTICAL j& Co.. we are prepared t HUGO SIGMUND the ACC O IMOD: ATIO? MERCHANT TAILOR. HE ALSO KEEPS FOR SALE Otr ve- fhicles are ot the Best quality and our fin oar ot Business. Watchmaker & Engraver, BUTLER, - MISSOURI ‘Prices are Reasonable. Farmer’s teams fed and cared for at low rates. weCali on us, One block East of Sewi hin the Square. on the North “anise Mack ithe side ot Dakotah a VATCH?: AND .BWdDE: = , AND Olhg