The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, February 1, 1882, Page 3

~~ Small-pox in Kansas City. We ain’t going to the masquerade. The Time ing. boom is. still increas- Jim Hough has put up forty tons of ice. Don’t forget the grand masguerade | on the gth of February. Oaks Bros. will be in Butler on the 13th of next month. The New Orleans minstrels are booked for Evans’ Hall on Feb. 2d. minstrels Mr. Moses Jones has opened out in his new house near the depot. Whoop ’em up Mose. Eating wedding cake, sticking type, writing locals, etc., is the or- der of the day in the Times office. Gus Bennert has got up one hun- dred and twenty tons of that luxury called ice, to cool them off this sum- mer. Bob Catron is still collecting a few tithes, with which to run the goyern- mental machinery. Stick to them, 3o0b. Lyons & Nolf are receiving their stock of groceries and hardwar and will soon biaze out a bright light in j Lgutler. The Badgley Bros. are putting in a pump’ in the well at the new resi- dence of Martin Douglass on Harri- son street. Marshal Morgan says that it is | distressingly derthy in police circles He hasn’t thumped a ripe one for some time. The probabilities are that we are | have a new buss line in Butler All right. Competition the life of trade. to soon. 1s Mr. Shaw will open the Talmage House in Rich Hill on the 23d of February. A grand time anticipated. Success to you, Theo. Another mine of the finest coal we ever saw has been discovered on the farm of Thomas Walls, about two miles northwest of town. If the Republicans start a paper here, it will have to be a web-footed fowl to swim in the Bates county po- litical pool, we are a hollerin’. We heard this morning that the The county court will have a huge job on hand taking care of the orphans, won't they? Devil was dead. The sea shells for North Main will arrive on the first gravel tram. The macadam will look pretty, coppered with the shells of the mighty deep. Ain’t the Rich Hill Enterprise a little Previous about a division of the circuit court? Stop and think a little before you blow your horn so loudly. The Hon. Ira S. has atfilicted the House ot Representatives at Wash- ington with another long bill—about money. Oh! give us a rest, please, Hon. Ira 8. Uncle Tom and Billy Wz beat any two in Bates county corral- ing son-in-laws. Three at one whack, in one day, is the way they drive that business. Is can George Todd has succeeded in housing ninety tons of good thick solid ice. That’s all hunk-a-dora. George, we will take a lemonade | spiked in our’n. \ good sewing machine repairer } There is no one that follows that business in the We that sort. would do well in Butler. city. want to scare up a man of is the happy pap, Mr. An and S. A. ggs the proud grand | dad of 2 fine girl baby. The Judge’s | face is wreathe as broad as a county o-day. We may look for a cold tidal waye “bh her is intensely cold in the East, the mereury ranging ail the way from ten to thirty-nine degs. below zebro, as the dar aid. soon. T y The night watchman a few nights ago tound the door of B. G. Whee!- er’s business house. unlocked. Lhe watch rousted ‘the clerks and. had them lock it. " Nothing uaissing. this time. LOCAL X EWS. The tront of the Christopher room | is being handsomely painted in black ‘asked the hunter ot the farmer.— ‘Any good shooting on your farm ? and gold colors, which imparts to it | ‘Splendid,’ replied the agriculturist ; and come to taw, is the battle cry | now. A Yankee overtaking another, asked him wh Drugs,”’ **Go ahead,”’ said the for- peddler in his cart, s the he was carrying. ‘ reply. | change. | Se a rae ! McBride & Co, desire us to state that one name on their published list of dead beats, Mr. H. Stanfield,had settled his account, and _ his should have been taken from the list Monday. name The macadamizing wili be extend- ed on Main street as far north as the H i ot Pine. That’s corner business, gents your hands in, you just do that to the whole city. The Bates County tional Bank has the boss sign. The lettering was very handsome. The sign wi an ornament to the city. trump card, he i Lam} If Billy O. Jackson wants to go to the masquerade ball, we will loan jhim our good looks with which to | disguise himself on | Do you want them, Billy. Speak up, and don’t be backward. | We received a large lot of splen- did cake from the hands of the fair Mrs. Cowdry and Belt. That polite and estimable young gentle- brides, } man, Frank Flora, was the bearer. To the young madams we return our sincere thanks. What will some of the cight by ' tens do, now that the Guiteau trial is ended tor the present. Arthur P. | papers v ident, and furnished more n fodder than any other man living or dead, Aaron Burr not excepted. stock of boots and shoes from his office 2s you can. “See here,’’ said a Butlerite the other evening to the station agent a “can **Yes. I suppose you can,” Adrian, here ? here.”’ The gentleman from Queen City subsided, he did. Miss Lizzie Walls a of nice cake That's right, Miss Lizz local. sent the lo Th ie, never fo lot on get the Please accept our unfeigned thanks, and believe us ever ready to do justice to such nic eatables as the cake you sent us. We are informed that there is a great deal ot sickness on Nabs’ creek. The disease most prevalent | is pneumonia. Several deaths have occurred within the past few days. Our people should be careful of themselves, as the weather we are now having is prolific of all kinds of disease. George Burcham, if you are the telephone doctor for Butler, we wish you would physic that darned thing of the Times office. It just wheezes w | | 4 ! There is no rest for it. We be it has the spancue. Do you know anything good tor that? eve If you do, | whirl in on to our phone, please sir. Ata meeting of prominent Repub- Thursday, was inaugurated haying in view the tarting of a Republican organ. If | the movement is successful, the new | licans a movement | candidate for public patrenage and | favor will be a Stalwart of the Stal- warts. jthink you can swim. The water's | deep. } The Buter Times it loss to decide which the scarcest larticle im Butler, news items or imoney. Give us the money and we will always fur the news.— | [Queen City Sun. Wouldn’t ter suit your case j af »ps of the crit- st as well We wili imal as the pamoney? nake a whack of that kind with you, for a small lot of jwell. assorted = Springficld news i items. a fine appearance. Wake up snakes mer, ‘I carry tombstones.”?—[Ex- | Suppose, while you have | | done by Mr. A. H. Lamb, which is | that occasion. | Guiteau made | Mr. J. T. Gipson will remove his | present stand into the room now oc- ; }cupied by the Badgley Bros. about | {the first of Febru That's r Gip. Get as near the booming 5 get on the train} replied the agent, ‘‘if the train stops | the } and keeps a wheezing all the time. | Come on and go in if you} ; ‘there’s a driven well man down in the clover meadow, a cloth peddler jin the house, a candidate out in the | barn and two tramps down in the | stock yard. Climb right over the | fence v ig man, load both barrels, | and sai On Tuesday evening, Mr. R. M. | Wright ot the firm of Blake & Wright ;on North Main street, led to the | hymenial altar, Miss Lyde Walls, | daughter of our esteemed fellow cit- izen, Mr. Thomas Walls. The marriage ceremony took place at the | residence, in this city, of Mr. J. W. | Ramey, brother-in-law to the tair | bride. May joy, peace and a green e, be their lot. Pass the cake, old ag please. The Badgley Bros. and Mr. J. T- Gipson have tormed a co-partnership | for the purpcse of carrying on the boot, shoe and grocery business, | to begin on the first day ot next month, Of the gentlemen who com- | pose this firm it is needless for us to speak, as they are recognized by all to be men of the 10 them highes business quali We wish Now ations. the firm gents, git up and g We wish we may be knocked into a flap-jack it Will Kessler don’t beat the world. Why, he has gone and put a fine circular lunch counter in his business house on the west side, | thirty feet long on the inside ot the | circle, and made of the best mate- (rial. The workmanship is truly su- The counter is not yet com- pleted, lacking the painting. It will be perb. a daisy when finished, Go it, my gay and festive We do wish Jemima could shouting. | youth. es it. tb AON | Twoat once. And that’s the way we do things up in Bates. On Tues- day evening, Mr. John Cowdry and F. A. Belt, married sisters, the | | Misses Hattie and Emma Walls, daughters of Mr. William Walls, at his residence, six miles northwest of the city. Mr. Cowdry become the Miss ilattie, and Mr. Miss Emma. The couples li lord of i s OF wili please accept our sincere wishes for a long life, a happy life, whose iy may be strewn with flowers ; patha of the sweetest fragrance. | Mr. Cowles was m town on Tues- | day. and took occasion to reprimand a Times man for reporting through the paper that Rich Hill was infest- Mr. C. fhe disease in | the city, and added—to our mortrfi- in times of ed with small pox. says there 1s not a case of | cation, of course—that epidemics newspapers were afnuis- ance to the country. The Times | gave the information only as a report from, as we presumed, a reliable source, which we take it was legiti- mate enough for a daily newspaper item. Weare happy to note that the report was not true. Our better half didn’t take us in out of the wef because of our good when we Young men ought not to be particular about hitching them- selves up to pretty girls; they al- omeness arrive af grecn old age. ways make frightfully ugly old women. how she looked in youth as com- pared to old age, that it makes him | teel kinder offish on the old girl, and | it. Ugly don’t you never forget and of first class } looks in youth, but for our hand- | pis z ‘ ‘ re | declining circumstances just as she | | } | we are | only a plain mister; all | | A feller is so apt to think | ing you must get up some flower! | and meat, we have been out these ‘two days. Weare out, you say? | girls grow in gcod looks as old age | advances, old maids excepted, and she’s the apple of the old man’s eye | | till the day of his death. The Nevada Daily Democrat says the Kansas City Times contains long and able editorial dealing prin- th ipally with Devil, and suggests the editor las been on a hunt in ker’s neck, and had a personal h Well be right, but one thing Cc interview v the old man. Crockett m is certain, an editor that lives in Kan- sas City has 2 better chance to inter- view his Brittanic Majesty mortal on earth, and will it hereatter erior adyanta- possess ges over other people in detailing minutely their personal and a description of the king of dark- and his dominicns a§ to. heat, interviews } ness | der the ministrations ot | manifeste J. r he great , 1 Persona —The Hon. J. N. Ballard paid the Times office a brief visit Thursday morning. —Mr. V. H. Marshall, who re- sides near Pleasant Gap, visited the Times office on Thursday. Call agai sir. —Mr. James Hitshew and Henry Kaune have returned from Kansas City, whither they bave been to in- vest some of their skads in real estate in the modern Sodom. —J R. Craig, W. Wears and C. | B. Davis, of Rich day in the queen city looking at the sights. Come up often, gentle- men, we always have something new to show. “Now,’’ said hill, spent Fri- ancient female *Obediah, stand up, and parse bachelor.’’ **Yes’m,’’ said Obediah. **Bachelor is a pronoun, the name of a thing, neuter gender, imperfect tense, mel- an teacher, sir the word lancholy mocd, first person, singu- { lar number, objective case, and gov- erned by muleheadedness, cowardice and egotism.’’ boy; that right. **Go up “head, my *-You are as good for congress some day as a nickel is for a ginger cake. Now, Araman- tha, parse the words old maid, “Yes, marm,”’ Aramantha, sold maid is said posed to be in the feminine gender, in the past tense, in the angry mood, and by bad luck in the singular num- ber only, in the desperate case, and governed by prudishness and paint.”’ *‘Aramantifa, go foot; we’ll make a | battering ram of you this minute Go, I say, don’t you hear me.’” When we came to Butler we were t once we leaped from a high private in the rear rank right into a full-fledged colonel. It our growth in military titles is cold weather, we are afraid we will run right into being a brigadier brin- dle. We like to live in Butler, be- cause we can acquire titles so easily. One is not required to put his up to be perforated on the field of battle. colonel and the local editor of Tin That’s spread- ing it on pretty thick. It ta Solid Muldoon to attain that distinc- tion; you heard our horn blow. not checked by drouth or USS the all at once. The sensation this morning is the new postoflice boxes. We wentand saw them, and would like to giye our of them, but we can’t do the subject justic We are simply bewildered, and besides our language is too poor readers an accurate description to undertake to draw a picture of this metropolitan addition to the Queen City ot the Southwest. The boxes are of the latest style, con- structed of the best and most costly material, and the workmanship mag- For beauty and conveni- ence the boxes surpass anything of nificent. the kind we have ever seen, and re- flects much credit on our P. M. Oh, booming Butler, won’t you never stop? Hubby, said the wite of a man in had completed her toilet to go to the theatre, now stay at home likea good man that you are and mind the children. I will be back at 12 o’clock to-night, and darling, in the morn- Yes, and I wish you were out of breath, said Hubby. eting 18 In pro- church south, un- the Rev. 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