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3 i é t peesena enor EWS | at the out ed. is full of cas, now-: gn Cowles’ ad- many high- Butler, ain’t oula The post Saturday night North Main stree. Bad time tor turkey , know least, gobbled his last gobble. of one at Printers are a hard set of fellows they commence as devéZ, and grow | worse until they die. A gentleman from Pittsburg, this county, took out a marriage license Our head swims. Mr. Henry has struck a hard rock Saturday morning. three feet thick, in the public well. Mr. H. is having a hard time of it. It reported that we are to have another Republican paper in Butler soon. Mr. Go 1n lemons and get squeezed Austin is becoming confound- edly scattering here of late. He wants to scatter the hitching racks. Now, what next sir? Three wagons stuck hard and fast in the mud on level ground, between the western school house and the depot, F viday evening. “Mr. 1 ee Galloway1s having the office of wet old Lindell hotel fitted up in good style. He will in the future make it his law office. Willie Kessler returns his thanks tothe people of Butler and vicinity for their libcral patronage. He has some of that good cider left yet. Browne is a neat, and showy Hai street. boom is spreading itself, aint it? Will Hanks leaves to-day (Mon- day) for bring back Walter Hobbs. some picking tor you Tom Prof. having residence The comfortable erected on ison Denton county Texas to There’s | It is dwelling house in Butler at present. We meet parties daily who desire to ant houses. ‘almost impossible to renta rent, but can’t find v: Marshal Morgan’s spirits are re- | viving. He is of the opinion that the corporation pocket book wont atter the _holiday’s, look so flatulent There was Friday night one of those | leg-tireing, matchmaking, — fun- abounding dances at Mr. Jack Phil- ips’ in the southeastern part of the city. Will Cassidy and several other Butlerites, returned from Johnstown | They report | that villiage as prosperous and quiet and the people are making extensive preperations for the holic on Saturday evening. The workmen are now engaged in the removal of the house recently occupied by Mr. Jeffress as,a saloon. It will be placed on North Main } street by Mr. Sackett, its owner, and used as a mercantile house. The amount of taxes paid in at} the office of the collector on Friday, amounted to the sum of seventeen hundred and sixty-five dollars eighty -two cents in round numbers. Bob Catron will soon have money to sell. cae We are at the west end highly and | informed that the exer- cises school house! on Friday creditable to the pupi Our public schools are under splendid | wer and teachers. management, and in a flourishing condition. Just drop into that new saloon of Mr. Jeffres, if you want to see one | ot the most ha saloons in all Missouri, and in ad- dition to this, Mr. J. keeps constant- ly on hand the best article of wines and liquors. Go and see him. adsomely fitted up | better just completed | | time, and i : i amount of st ~istmas eve. | | friends and | widow and orphan, | oh, how scared he was. ‘had become rusty. } pany, to take sith shop tor repairs, which he did. H | gun sh | Bea Kessler has the best in the world n his line. of everything Charlie McF to-day. We little will arland is hope soon be out We fecl just set in. Fifteen hundred of the Rhino Dinoes was paid in to the Collector ; on Monday. Mr. William II. Walker, formerly n the employ of the Dickerson Bres Palace saloon, where ‘snow at the will be glad to meet his friends. luxury of the on indulged in the ht Saturday evening, of which we could not yor business for Tom vs. ry, of meat shop ame le, steps down ‘vering pos and slaughter and ou. sion of the. . pen to Mr. We The ened up at Burdette Friday the name of Furgeson got -himself pretty badly carved. We learn the particulars of the fight. S’pose we just knock the stuffing charter and make ite Ha. fight last. -s winter man by dic not out of the present city incorporate Main street, and acity of the fourth class out of How would that be for high? Mr. Harry Conrad, who kas been cuttmg meats for A. K. Terry, has made application to become an in- mate of the poor house. All right, Harry. You shall have the best room on the ground floor. We will see to it ourselves, we will. Mr. J. R. Brown, brother to Judge D. V. Brown, died on Sunday last, and was burried on Monday. Mr. cellent man and felt by his Brown was a mos his loss will be severely acquaintances. tend our warmest sympathy to the and the father | and mother, sisters and brothers of | the deceased. Some of the young gentlemen of Butler some New Year’s calls on Monday next, and it is requested that all the young ladies who wish to keep open houses for callers will please send their names to us by Thursday-eve. so they will be published tor the benefit of the wish to make- | gents. We hope all the young ladies will respond. and all havea good trme. . On Friday evening Mr ! of Walnut township, was in attorney to prosecute one Wallace. Mr. Smith states that in his absence from home on Thurs- day last, Wallace inflicted a beating on Mr S’. son, about twenty S but of rather delicate | The young man suc- | of the county severe years old, constitution. ceeded in reaching his father’s house pursued by Wallace, when Smith sought, mother like, to pro- tect her son, she was attacked by Wallace with a mattock, and in the scuffle Wallace cut off the end of her | Wallace has been ar- be tried to-da and fore finger. rested and Tom, go for this man, thunder about his head. will He was neither killed nor burt, Mr. G.W. six six shooter had Walters’ around until for the want of use it Thinkfng tha the erftter needed repairing, Mr. Walters requested Mr. J. P. Beatty, manager of properties for the com- i the smith At the wi shop. standing a few feet ot Mr. Beatty, ty-two caliber ball went whizing the air Beatty, g knowledge-box, | agh just missing the cap of Mr that gentleman’s | ploughing through the wall of the Pp, cro: posed to be on the wing yet. Mr. y sa We ex- | he | i | i Mrs. | Twelve miles were walked by Hazel- make it} put | | pulled Sunday night fessed up yes- | laid | critter to the gun- | snapped the ugly critter, when a for-_j and passed through ; 1g the street. passed | through a box of lemons, and 1s sup- ys that’s a good six stooter. The attraction in Butler Monda evening was the walking match bes tween A. J. Hazelton and Ww. Jj. Mclean at Evans’ Hall. The match was a heel and toe walk for 2 hours. Abou 8 o’clock the contestants ap- peared in the Hall. Mr. Hazelton red and white. wore a suit of green, | Mr. mcLean in red stockings, black pants and checked shut W. - Bridgeford as representative of Me- S. Dickerson, as th Hazelton, other. G. E judges and P. representative of Gus Wyard as Reynolds was and R. L. Graves | All being ready the parties started at precisely 8 o’clock and 15 minutes Pp. M. At the outset, both chose the slected as time keepe as talleysmen. were liyely gait; McLean inthe lead. At the fourth round Hazelton quickened A ps ncaa | his pace and assumed the lead and / maintained it to the end of the first mile, which was made in nine min- Two miles jutes. Pretty fast time. were walked in eighteen and a half | minutes. Hazelton made a lap dur- ing the walk of the third mile. Three miles were gotten away with by Hazelton in 28 minutes and McLean At the beg inning in 2S 1-4 minutes. track. Four miles by Hazelton in 42 and by McLean in During the walk of way around the | were knocked of and 3-t minutes, 43 1-4 minutes. the fifth mile nothing of transpired and the walkists got down to their knitting, Icaving five miles behind them. McLean in 43 minutes and Hazelton in 47 3-4 minutes. At | ood part moved along at exhibiting no signs of distr miles was left in the rear by Hazel- in 58 minutes. Seven miles glided over by mcLean in 68 minutes and by Hazelton in 67 minutes. the of this | Hazelton walked | about the middle of the eghth mil commencement mile made another lap, backwards ain. | regained his former position in the | lead, but held it only for a short time. | Eight miles were done for by Hazel- ninutes and by McLean ton in 77 1-4 in 7S 1-4 minutes. the parties began to show the | their faces and nine miles were turn- } minutes, | | ed off by McLean in 88 1-2 and by Hazelton in $7 1-2 minutes. | At the beginning of the tenth mile , Hazelton scored a third lap and ten | zelton in 99 mimutes, and by McLean | ' in gg-1-2 minutes. During the walk of the cleventh mile Hazelton takes a drink, not of coffin paint, and asked | one of the audience for a chew ot the V were rolled off by Hazclton in 10g and by McLean in 110 In this mile Hazelton At the be- I-2 minutes, I-2 minutes. piled up a tourth lap. ginning of the twelfth mile the con- testants showed but little sign of weariness and put in their work solid. Hazelton made two laps in this mile that counted six in ail for ton in 11S 3-4 minutes and by Mc- Lean in 115 minutes lacking three [ape of making twelve miles in two hours, while Hazelton made twelve i | miles and three laps in two hours. | The judges have not decided as yet who won the victory. ‘ consult the Police G azette first. That ripe one that the Marshal , and tumbled to the five dollar bill and cost Mavor Shobe. terday mor racket of < in his dignity’s cou rel], the Mr. Peter Car earliest settlers of of SST, Texas, one ot The young n | on Pine street night | posed his epic in one briet | follows: Wraths of Papa’s eft 7 That ouc suit is And when 4 i Lean, chose John Duff one of the } of the contestants started off at a} of the fourth mile Bridgeford cried | fout foul, that Hazelton was on the | | At this juncture Hazelton i ' backwards a considerable importance | the beginning of the sixth mile the ; ton in 57 1-2 minutes and by meLean | were | Atj and } ucLean | At the ninth mile | red in | miles were gotten away with by Ha- | rsinia weed, and eleven miles | him.— } They want to | FORS WEEESONLY | 10 per cent below cost, i READY MADE CLOTHING. | | choice lot o ling consisting of aunts, coats an | | ves ch I Il clos ; less than ost tor + nent thre j weeks. Also tl t stock ¢ MWENG MACHENE {ETF NEW YEARS | ft Wive Siig Hugo Sign Sigmond. 3S: oe USE -Or— INTREST LATTER DATS A.S.Martin & Co. | ttlers in Staple and Faney Dry | | CARLES joods, Notions, Miiliuery, Ladies Furnishing Goods, Cloaks, Suits, Carpets, Groceries anik Qieens ware fall kinds of Country Produce | wanted, JEWETT, FLEENOR & CO. | | | | We buy entirely for Spot Cash | 4 and defy alt competition on same | quality of goods. We ure at the FURNITURE DEALERS AND Cowtes & Co., | old stand of M. | laa cordially invite everybody to so doing. | | 1 i Bee | visit ns and save money by Fumeral Birectors, A. S. Martin& Co. | | a PEW GOOD REASONS WHY EVERY ! | LADY SHOULD BUY THE | BROADHEAD Mo mimic Oloths’ | | Dre & Camels Harr Armuares And MAipacis. ADP’ Lie th a loud voice saying ist, They are the cheapest goods in the market, when the: service is taken into consideration. 30, We have come to stay. We have | es ather er ina shower, without fear i cash to Dpuy wi th, weare opposed | | pb! ing ruined by curling, or shrink- tolarge profits, we are determin- F} elf, we wil give you the i | can be worn in damp j} They ate all double width full twenty-seven inches wide, ard. uw 1 goods, ied to the very best- materi- srkmen, and any similar and made fro need ¥ als, by expe 2 | cannot be excelled by { 1 or Domestic. jth, The manufacture, dy and finishing is done in such ar that these goods can be washed 4 an- | ner land done up as well as a linen suit, | without the least injury to the fabric, and the merchants selling is author- ized to warrant them as such. , ucture there 1s artificial just what In their manuf ng weighting, stiffening, vi ‘lustre used. Thus showing the goods are and will be until worn We have 34 different styles of! ‘beadsteads. wewant you to come. and see _ 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 if you purchase, we, the maru- them as herein facturers, guarantee Don’t believe what we say, represented. War. Broapneap & Sons, 3 | For sale by A. S. Martin & Co., ' n50-4t. Ba Mo nvinced, our xX- — and we can do profits. FOR SALE, Corn and Hay - I hate for sale 130.acres of corn in “the shock and 120 tons of prairie hay feed lots of location is om the east 7 seetier., 320. W. W. Hamilton! »