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f f ' acess nes SA SCANS evens LOCAL | NEWS. “7 hat out talk a Magpie. — No more coal! struck in the public | recovered the blow that the marriage | well since last reported. Judge Pa removing that sty from his eye. son has The walking match will come off | next at Evans’ We are betting on the bob-tai on Monday night hall. horse. The Stree fact. John T. Smith has drawn uy the ticle of ration. Our marriage barometer indicates cold weather, and the yoking up of veral ere p look out. Mr. W. R. Osbe will of Char’ to be marred, es fall. couples long n _ one the r There will be elocution at the Presbyterian church on Thurs- Hamill’s Mrs. day evening next by class of the academy. We understand quite a number of gentlemen frou: Altona and vicinity telephone of the bosses can { succeeded in i | to-day receiving taxes. agreement fer incorpo- Keep aj and Miss Cow- | township are soon nd thus it is one by exercises Notice. Parties indebted to us will call and set { tle same at once { 2twat | Samuel J. ‘Tilden Smith has almost | j of his girl inflicted on him. | young yet, and will, we hope, out- grow it. | | buisy as a bug in’ a hornet’s nest | sick to look at the wealth Bob has gathered in to-day. $s an assured | © must tumble to the racket, of the Chicago & Alton, with that route the tuture of Butler | would be assured, come brace up ! gentlemen of capitol and don’t be | backward. >| Our people people Saturday, and our trades- men had a good day we hope. They | keep everything from a toy horn up; to a piano tor sale. That’s the lick | its done with gents. We saw one ot fe handsomest Christmas presents this morning that we have seen in many a longday certain well known and popular young gentleman of this city, sent it to her who is to be Mrs. will attend the railroad meeting at * oe Holden. We are glad to people of this enterpri Mrs. Ellege died ae of heart death disease, it is supposed. Her was very sudden and unexpected. The deceased was an estimable lady, and her loss is mourned by her nu- r. J-H Beaty, the telephone man, has apenas the line from the Times office to the residence of Mr. McFar- land, a distance of nearly half a mile. The critter performs admirably.— Hurrah for the boss and Mr. Beaty. Our young Jim Jackson has purchased of Mr. a Todd friend a neat residence on Harrison. street. Jimmy my boy, that looks like you meant ome, hurry up, and don’t keep us waiting. business. Mr. W. H. Hardinger, formerly 1 who removed to Wash- of Bates, some time since, He is ahead of any country he has seen. That’s the way they all back. ington ‘Territory has returned to stay. ys Bates ‘The winter thes far has been un- usnally mild and we are Ti the weather was cold fuel would and then tor the local editor the money to buy it with, would be twoitems, and ood ones too. Sheriff Simpson informed us this morning that he expects to go to Den- ton county, Tex. for one Hobbs, who be quite an item, to raise is confined in the jail ofthat countv. | a little mis- understanding with Mr. Hobbs cen- cerning a pair of mules belonging to C. C. Peeler and a buggy the ide erty of Sim Gilbreath, go for him Sheriff an. snatch him baldheaded. The state ot Missouri has We are informed by Mr. J. C. Clark that the prospect for the ex- tension cf Ohio street eastward is not by any means flattering. The people of the Christian church want pay for their lot, and the labor and expense incident to the removal of the church. Mr. C. says he is the only one interested in the extension that is willing to put up for that purpose. We hope the _ others interested will the matter and assist Mr. C. in this laudable project. consider Sitting in the glimmer of the hght of the electric lamps, we are led to reflect upon the great variety and | abundance of material a kind and benificent Creator natures store-house and used by and convenience of man, man is the instrumentality the Creator, by which those materials | can be utilized and appropriated for our benefit. What be wrought out by the genious of man from materials drawn from that vast store-house, time alone will de- | velop. Stimulated by scientific investigations the wit of man will | penetrate mto now hidden rescources and discover — still than we at present enjoy. gre: blessings see the waking up to the importance do, come | glad of it. | has placed in | jor the comfort that | yet remains to | Marshal Noreen reports esterday | as one of the quietest Sabbath’s he { has ever known in Butler, hear so favorable a report from one of our peace officers, it indicates the prevelance of a healthy moral senti- ment. mudhole now and then, which could be made good with a little work, our road overseers ought to be brought matter, We have gathered up every thing that has transpired since Saturday evening in the city, orin the country that we could hear of, and also just didn’t hear of, for The local has a a tew items we our readers to-day. hard time of When the foreman of the Western Enterprise visits Butler again, we t the Tuves office, we will give him a square meal cop- pered with Baltimore oysters instead of a ten cent lunch, back to the with a full stomach. | As Mr. os L. Kirkham w sn 4 invite him to call a and send him / gable of wonderment, i way home last night, he was accost- ted ina rude and insolent by one John McCarty, whereupon Mr. Kirkham planted a sockdoleger on the probosis of the gentleman | trom the emerald Isle that knocked } manner him into the middle of Christmas week A team of horses belonging to; Nave & Wainscott, drawing a load of coal from the depot on Saturday, became frightened near the west school house and _ started off ata lively gait down Ohio street, in- creasing in speed all the time, and when opposite the residence of the Rev. Mr. Newton they made a short | turn and broke both the off wheels down. They then became disen- gaged from the wagon and in their wild career broke down sign-posts, young shade trees and the like. Crystal Wedding. The Crystal wedding of Capt. | | and Mrs. Hannah of the Paiace Ho- | tel Saturday evening, was one of tha | most brilliant affairs of the kind that | ever took piace im our city. We! can hardly hope to do the occasion justice. There were at least fifty | persons seated around the festive | board which was ladened with the | nchest and best viands in the land, | erved the approved stvle. | he presents brought by the friends | of the Capt. were many costly and preity, cover- | ing a table h and The occasion was | up im and hisestimable lady eight teet in leng j four in width. enlivened by music sweet, rendered by Mrs. James Willie, sister- a } to Mrs. Hannah, and Mrs. W. E Walton. The affair was one that | brought to the memory of the Capt. and Mrs. Hannah many | remenisce n of the the coup | wedding day. past. May! live to see their Golden | | pleasant | ' i i Wells & Bennett. | Till ris | Tithe gatherer. Bob Catron is as | It makes us {| The city was chuck full of country | Al glad to! Judge Brown says the roads are } quite good with the acception of a/| to Limerick if they don’t see to «this | | high, the farmers are busily er , of April last, is in the city prospect- | ed, j he t jat Ha | then procured { strulk Harrold on the head. j takers will be tried on to-morrow, | | a good sur ! Personal. —™Mr. S. A. Beall longs to in the city, but cannot longer linger. nger Holiday Goods! —Mr. Sam Hoobler of Montrose, | is visiting friends in Bates. Mr. H. | ee CHARLIE ENDRES | —Mr. Callahan, ot Johnstown, | | called on the Times people Fri- ee eae : day. Call again mister. ej ey eee ——Mr. J. R. Brown. brother to iia a > doin; our Probate Judge, is lying quite sick at his home in Homer township. | —Elder J. B. Wright, formerly in | | charge of the Christian church here, is inthe aty. Mr. Wright at pres- ; | ent resides near Burdette. | —Mr. A. B. McFarland, who has for some time suffered with rheuma- | tism this | We wish the old gentleman a speedy | is some better morning. recovery. | —Mr. John F. Cooper has return- , ed trom the elderado Springs wheth- since hunting | acure for rheumatism. Mr. C. re- { {| ceived some benefit trom the water. | | in company } | with Mr. Warnock, left for Los Ang- | Calafornia, Sump. is a good boy, of fine business quali- | and success on the Pacific slope. —Mr. Jonathan Todd, of West I ; Boone township, wasin the city Sat- urday, enroute for St. Joseph, Mo. Mr. Toddis one of the men of Bates. | er he went some time elos, Saturday. fications, we wish him great | | i i | substantial , He reports the wheat prospects in his township as fine. —Miss Lottie Willie has returned from Illinois and will spend the win- ter with her Mrs. Hannah, Miss Willie is a young lady of ra accomplishments and will be a lead- ing star in Butler society this winter. sister e —Mr-. Stanley of Kansas City, was |} in the cityon Saturday enroute for the eastern portion of the county looking after the interest of the wal- | nut log company. He reports that | \ timber is becoming scarce through- | out the United States. —Mr. W.C. Hedden of Usage | township is in the city, he lives. sev- i entecu miles from the city, i see the electric fights plainly at Mr. H. reports the crop flattering in his neighborhood. —Judg from the country and can his house. wheat > Brown returned Monday | and the reports every- | thing lively and goose hanging | ged } gathering the corn crop which is full } as good, s was expected, the Judge says the wheat crop 1s looking very fine. —Mr. C. W. Godfrey, who sailed from Livyrpool, England, on the 6th | He is pleased with Bates and contemplates to make it his future home. The among us from all-the four quar- ters of the earth. ing for a sheep ranch. well | are —Mrs. Jones, the wite of cur es- teemed townsman Moses Jones, is lying quite low at hermother’s house in Mason county, Ky. Mr. Jones received a dispatch’ on Saturday summoning him te her bedside, and that she was rapidly sinking. He left on the Saturday evening train. A fight occurred last F riday at Mt. Vernon school house m Elkheart township, between two brothers H named Ellsworth and Harry Whitta ker on the one side, and Charlie Ha rold, on the other, in which young | Harrold was pretty badly used up. / The facts, as we learned them from Mrr H. follows: the school boys had been plaving b. ball and | Harrold was leaningon his bat, when Harry Whittaker attempted to wrest the bat from him. Finding he could | do that, he then threw the ball at Harrold three times, the third time stri the Harrold then went for Harry but did not suc- Up to are as not ng him in eye ceed in pumshing him much. this time Ellsworth had not interter- gz his brot a piece of plank , wa club and sing each time, he threw it and | and in- | The Whit- | Y a rock, flicted a severe wound. (Tuesday) before Esquire Woolery, be dealt | fined in when we hope they will with as they deserve to be, ‘Crying with a loud voice saying Grandest PRICE ever WEST introduced in Butler. Come and see me it will cost you nothing But CARLRAE JEWETT, FLEENOR & C0. FURNITURE DEALERS AND Funeral Ebirector: We have come to stay. We have cash to buy with, we are opposed, to large profits, we are determin- | ed to sell, we wil: give you the WORTH OF YOUR MONEy We have 34 different styles of ‘beadsteads, wewant you to come, and see Don’t believe what we say, but calland be convinced, our ex- penses are small and we can do business on small! profits. @ur lecation is on the east side square, Eutier, Yio. esoteric - — CASH HOUSE —OF— hae: S.Martin & Co. ttlers in Staple and Paacy Dry Notions, Millinery, Ladies | Goods, | Farnishing Goods, Cloaks, Jarpets, Groceries and Queen ware all kinds of Corentiis Produce ; wanted, | j We buy cotrely tor Spot Cash | and defy alt competition on same i ! quality of goods, We are at the old stand of M. S. CowLes & Co, invite everybody to { hes cordially visit usand save money by so doing. A. Ss. Martin& Co. A FEW GOOD REASONS WHY EVERY LADY SHOULD BUY THE BROADH EAD © Dre «a> Mommie Cloths’ Camels E Armures . Aud Aipaccs They ure the cheapest goods fin the mar | j Gtken into consideration, Ist, t. when their service i¢ « ney can be worn in damp | hate or in a shower, without fear, | of being ruined by curling, or shrink- ing. width ches wide, 3rd, all double They full twenty-seven from the very best materi- expe ced workmen, be cannot 1 excelled by s either Foreign or Do 4th, The | and finishing is done in such a man- good 7 manufacture, dyeing ner that these goods can be washed and done up as well as a hnen suit, witlout the least injury to the fabric, and the merchants selling is author- .ized to warrant them as suck. acture there 18 artificial In their mznuf no weighting. stiffening. or lustre used. Thus showing just what the goods are and will be until worn ‘ out. 6th, No expense 1s spared, and the greatest care taken to make every | color as tast as the perfection of skill , and the purest dyes will make them. | Be sure and examine these goods, | and it you purchase, we, the manu- facturers. represented. Wa. | For sate by A. S. Maati~w & Co., Mo. Broapurap & Sons, Fnso-4t Butler, FOR SALE, Corn and Hay in : tor sale 150 acres of cc and i20 tons of pra:ri€ Can iurhish two feed lots of six miles h. Farm is 30 acres ca northeast of Butler. 501m W. W. Hamilton. guarantee them as herein’,