The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, August 30, 1882, Page 5

We publish rules governing priv aries in another column. and for the Come in TEs- pa ‘A party at Mr. Harriman’s on ast Thursday evening, given in hon- or of his nieces, Miss Sloan's, birtk- day- $x Ibs. of Arbuckle’s coftee for $t at cassidy & Pitkin’s. Do not let the railroad boom die out. Let everybody take interest and raise the amount required. Miss Bray, © is visiting he family of Rev. Exley, of this city, for a few days. { For a good suit of clothes at hard time prices call om Cassidy & Pitkin. Acertain young gentleman wishes tothank the young ladies who Phere kind enough to ‘{'handkerchiet’’ (?) | return his ' The carpenters work on the hand- some residence of Mr. T. W. Childs; inthe southwest part of the city is nearing completion. Clesing «ut asmall stock of glass and queensware. Come and see us. Cassidy & Pitkin. ]. C. Allen, of Millersburg, Ky., vas in the city last week. He was ooking after his land interests in this county. : Frank Hale, tormerly a printer in | Butler, but who has been railroad- 1 ing tor seyeral years in north Mis- | souri, came in on the train Saturday | evening to visit parents. Fruit jars cheaper than the cheapest. __ Cassidy & Pitkia. Last Saturday evening several couples of Butler’s fairest gathered at the Laclede Hotel and were high- ly entertained with some ex- cellent music rendered by Misses Nora and Dora Patten. Senator John B. Newberry was intown Monday and gave us a call. He expects to start to New York in atew weeks with his wife to visit friends and that state. We wish him a pleasant visit and relatives in safe return. P. C. Reeder returned trom Eu- reka Springs last Thursday, where ihe has been since last spring. says, as the campaign thickened he could not resist the temptation to re- turn and take a hand. Tom We are under obligations to Miss Ida Wood for some of the finest peaches and apples we ever saw. They were grown by Mr. J C. Win- sett, on the Twin Grove farm, three niles east of Butler. Miss Ida_ is spending the summer in the country, ind looks as fresh and blooming’ as the peaches she presented. The last brick was laid on the Opera House Saturday evening, and the hammers ot some ten or fif- jj ten carpenters are making music in the air putting on the finishing touches. When completed the Times wil! give an extended no- tice of this magnificent building, G. T. Williams, living 1-2 mile eastof Lone Oak, brought to our office two of the largest apples we have seen this season, weighing re- spectfully 17 and 17 3-4 ounces, He only has one tree ot these apples and jis very anxious to find out the name ofthe specie. Such tavors are duly appreciated. Misses Ella Evans, Nora Patton, Maggie Evans, Dora Patten, and Mrs. Rachel Switt, accompanied by Mr. Geo. Evans, honored the ‘Times office with a call on last Friday evening. .The ‘‘Times Krew’’ set up the watermelons and they ex- Pressed themselves well pleased with their call. Call again and we will make it pleasant for you. Mr. Henry W.. Broughton, of _ Shawnee township, laid on our table Fnday iast, a tew ot the largest and finest beats and onions we have seen this year. Mr. Broughton moved from Clay to Bates county the 14th ot February, and bought Mr. Wm. Paynes’ tarm near Altona. He has threshed out 450 bushels of flax, and his two small boys have on the place Woo acres of very fine corn, besides this he has erected a neat residence % the place, and says Bates 1s the grandest county in the State. J. C. Crusan, of Charlotte town- ship, called on us Monday. Ed. Carnes cut his hand very bad in breaking a pickle bottle atthe pic- | nic Monday. The young ladies had a picnic a | mile and one-half south ot out to supper and escorted the home. girls We rece opens Oct. 2nd and closes Oct. gth. For particulars address G. O. Kalb, Secy. We have received an invitation to attend the grand opening of the opera house at Rich Hill by Nett & Cobb’s Chicago Comedy Company. The company is well and fayora- bly known will be in attendance and a large audience Sheriff Simpson was notified first of last week that Frank Lamb, implicated in the state charged with perjury, had been arrested at the head of Spring River by the sheriff of Foulton Co. vs. case, Deputy Sheriff Hanks left tor .Sa- | lem Tuesday week and returned Sunday evening with his prisoner, safe and sound. miles by rail and So miles by land. The Times takes pleasure in un- furlyng tothe breeze the banner of B. & B. the B’s. this week which will be found in another column in the shape of a mammoth advertisement. The B’s, have opened in the store- room formerly occupied by Park Bros. They are tip top business men and carry one of the largest stocks of groceries, queensware, glassware and tinware in the city. Their stock is new and fresh, and sold at bottom figures. If you wish to get bargains and the worth ot your money, Brewington & Brough’s is the'place for you to trade. Last week Wm. Johnson, of New Home township, found some of his hogs in Ben. Medley’s pen. The hogs each had one cut off and the other slit. Mr. Johnson im- ear mediately brought suit before a jus- tice for the hogs, when Medley gave them up and paid the cost to stop the suit, A state warrant was sworn out against Medley and he Justice and was summoned __ before Wood, he trial brought to town by the constable ot New Home township and landed in waived was jail to await the action of the circuit court Half a dozen bloods got on a little spree at Adrian Monday of last week and concluded they would run the town. After kicking every por- table object off the sidewalk, tear- ing down all the signs they could reach and closing up the saloon, two of them got into a dispute and went out in the street to settle the matter, with the understanding that when one gave up the other was to quit. ‘The larger acknowledged himself whipped, but when let up he jumped in again at an advantage and got most gloriously whipped by the by- standers. All the participants were arrested and fined. Considerable pain is taken to dem- onstrate thatthe Rev. John A.Brooks, leader of the prohibition movement in this State, is a red-hot, old-fash- 1oned Democrat. We believe Mr. Brooks isin the habit of spreading this information himself. The St. Louis Azzeiger prints to-day a letter from Shelbyville, Illinois, the tormer home of Brooks, in which the writer says that the rev always known there as a radical Republican. rampant, temperance man while residing in Illinois, but it was not until after he ! located in Missouri that the hght of Democracy dawned upon him. There is every reason to believe that Mr. Brooks was not born -a Vemo- crat.— Post-Dispatch. On Fridav says the Mercury,a beautiful little daughter of Newton Sidner, hving between Granville and Holiday, in this county, was walk- ing.in her tather’s garden, when a rattlesnake, which was lying on the side of the path, bit her on the foot and ankle three times. A physi- cian was immediately sent tor and the greatest possible effort made to save her lite. But all to no purpose. Ske died the following day, after; died | gteat suffering. Before she her skin assumed the color of the snake which had bitten her. town. | The young gentlemen were invited | ived the premium list and | catalogue ot the St. Louis fair, which | the ; He traveled 525 | nd gentleman was | He gives him} | credit for having been a consistent | OVERLAND. | | | Counties, People, Crops, etec., ete. Special Correspondence. Wicuita, KAnsAs, Aug. | When I left Butler a week | promised some enquiring tmends that | I would tell the truth about Kansas whenever I wrote or spoke of observations i wagon trom my while passing in our the eastern to almost the western fine of the I deem ate. | it necessary to make this preceeding statement that the reader’s mind may man. Then, again, I promised my wife that I would write honestly of Kansas out of consideration political predilections. Incommon with the majority of Missourians, who have tor her never had selves the privilege of traveling over the State of Kansas, I entered her borders with a feeling hostile to every- | thing having associated with it the name of Kansas. This, the circum- stances ot education and association, | had instilled inte my mind to remain until removed by actual experience and observation. Entering the State Linn county, our course lay in a southwestern direction to this point, Wichita. From Lacygne to Gar- nett, the county seat of Anderson county, 1s twenty-five miles, and the lay ot the country between I find to be noted for hills roughness. The soil, however, is rarely excelled, hence there are no vacant lands and the people seem prosperous and happy. The corn, oat and wheat crops are equaled only, perhaps, in old Bates. From Garnett to Burlington, coun- ty seat ot Coffee county, a distance of about thirty miles, is through as fine and apparently as rich an agri- at Lacygne, its cultural country as the eyes of man ever beheld; and this discription will apply as far on as Eureka. county seat of Greenwood county,embracing at least forty-five miles, though not * Greenwood county, especially the western part, in which what is known as the flint s very thinly settled, so thickly _ settled. hills are tound, being regarded as better adapted to the raising of stock than agricultural purposes, unless the valley or creek bottom lands can be used for that purpose. joins Greehwood on the west, you at once ascend to an elevated plane, where a breeze as invigerating as that from the Gulf of Mexico produces an agreeable sensation and delights the traveler. Up to this point our party was completely infatuated with Kansas, and I have told it truthfully here ; but now the other side, the dark side, must be told, because I started in to tell nothing but the truth. Butler county is aimost destitute of timber, and so level that you will travel a whole day without having to ‘put on’’ the Lrake to your wagon —this may be a little ‘stretched.’ The county has been settled several years and the road from Eureka to the county seat of Butler county, Eldorado, is through a continuous liane. But the reader will beastonish- ledto know that fully one-half of these once cultivated farms, em- | bracing a strip of about twenty mules, are now abandoned to the sunflower and rattle snake. The drouth. ‘The lands were originally homesteaded or pre-emted and as soon as they received their ttle they mortgaged the farm for five or eight hundred doliars and never becoming able to pay off the same they simply ‘‘pulled. up. stakes’? and left the country. The farms thus abandoned have seldom been occupied since by the renter and remain there as monu- ments of ‘‘what might have been.”” Those who have been able to stick tell us that they have had no rain since the planting of corn. The western portion of the county is more favored by Providence and the ; farmers have better crops and are | more prosperous. cause is KANSAS TOWNS. One of the most attractive features ; We Missourians find to delight us in | Kansas is her beautiful towns, In |Through Kansas—Her Towns, | be better prepared to accept this as / the truth for once froma newspaper | | the opportunity, or taken upon them- | Bybee | and genera] | Coming into Butler county, which | | this respect Missouri can lay but i few claims to equal. The most beautiful or city have | passed through so far is Burlington, \in Coffee county. It has about | 4,000 inhabitants and is layed off in most exquisite t all the towns w town we te. The streets ot ve seen are very | wide, and are kept clean, with shade trees and pavements at every door— j something our wealthy and classic Butler can’t boast of under its present ,or any preceeding administration. | | Lacygne and Garnett 1 desire to put down as exceptions, for they seem to belong to view, as a past ag **dead e and are, to my as thunder.’ | Wichita is a place of 7,000 peo-! ple as thrifty and enterprising as yin the great West. It is indeed a most beautiful city with its broad level streets, lined upon either side | with massive maple and cottonwood | trees. The residences look neat and | tasty and every yard is filled with shrubbery. mized with clean and The streets are mecade- gravel and well are kept drained. The city is located on the east bank of the Arkansas River assembled in grand council, only a few years ago, upward of 40,000 Indians to divide the hunting grounds for the buffalo and elk. Neither the Indian, the buffalo nor | elk are seen, but a | near where beautiful , m- | dustrious young city marks the spot ; where stood the wigwam of the sav- | age. | KANSAS WATER. j Another very inviting attraction of | this State, is its excellent water. We crossed the Neesho river at Burling | ton, Fall River at Eureka and Wal- nut River at El Dorado, and all, be- | sides many smaller streams, are as | most Springs abound everywhere, in the prairie as well as timber. Even upon the droughty | plain ot Butler county, excetlent wa- | ter can be fouad in lasting quanti- anv use. ties bv digging for it. If I don’t get too lazy I will write you again ina tew days. This is as much as I can stand at one time, and | perhaps more than will be read with | interest. Respectfully, 4 Mc. | Orange Blossoms. i Marrikp—At the residence of the! bride’s parents, i» Butler, on the 25th inst., by Rev. Reid, Miss Eva Hutchinson | to Mr. W. J. Donoho. | _ Again has cupid cast his dart, and the | victims pay willing homage at Hymeni- al’s altar. A host of triends had gathered to witness the joyous event and _partici- | pate in the testivities ot the occasion. | The bride was tastefully and becoming: y arrayed, and looked beautitul and heppy | as she rested her little hand conhdingly | upon the manly arm which was to pro- tect and shield her in all the cares of life. After the kissing and congratu- lations were through with, the company were invited to partake of a bountitul | repast, spread by Mr. and Mrs. Hutchin- | son The table ladened with | delicous eatibles and decorated with beautiful flowers. The feast was carried on mid laugh and jest, and toasts were | drank to the health and happiness of the | newly married couple. After supper, a i carriage being in readiness, the bride and groom steppe! in and were driven away, tollowed by the best wishes of their friends. We threw our slippers after | them. Below is a list of the presents re- | ceiyed: | Set silver knives, J- D, Atlen; five dol- | lars in gold, Wm. Hutchinson; silver butter, knite, Charley Hale; set silyer napkin rings, Riley Hepler; toilet set, Fannie Harris; fruit dish, Nora and | Dora Patten; fruit bowl, camp; truit dish, Ella Evans; set glass- | ware, Mary Vancamp; pickle dish, | Mamie McCants; spoon stand, Gertie Butler; one dozen napkins, Ella Biggs; was Philpott; jar of jelly, Mrs. Butler; toilet butter dish, Fred Butler. The groom presented the bride witha fine white sati' feather tan. 1 A Traveler's Story. After spending months at watering, places and consulting the best physicians without bene&St, I returned home dis~ heartened and expected to die. A triend urgeda trial of Parker’s Ginger Tonic. | Three bottles and careful diet ~ i have brought me excellent health and | spirits, and I hope my experience may benefit similar sufferers.—Cincinnati i lady. See other column. 35m | it you have anv wheat, oats, or flax | seed to sell, vou will make moncy by | seeing Lefker at the Empire Mills, or | Lefker & Brown at the Depot betore sek j ling, they are buying for shipment and pay the highést market price. aaxt clear as crystal and cold enough for I Hattie Van-} salt cup, Adie Butler; cream pitcher, Mrs. | Sallie Ca» pbell; sugar bowl, Mrs. Mattie | soap, Hattie Donoho; pair table cloths, | Mrs. Mary Donoho; lace collar, Alice | Boxley; set sauce plates, Benj. Butler; H NEW FIRM Dickey & Co. Have just opened a full and complete line of Staple and Fancv Groceries, Highest Price Paid for Country Produce. Southwest Corner Public Square, EE’ EEE Bee ME ae A. L. MCBRIDE & CO., Having argest stock ot goods in Southwest Missouri to elect trom cam and will give you bargains in GROCERIES, (UEENSWARE, Hardware, Stoves and Tinware. All kinds of tin, copper and sheet iren work a specialty. Give them a call and pviee their goods before buying elsewhere. ‘0: AGENTS FOR BRIDGE, BEACH & COPS... Cetebrated Superior Cook Stoves. North side public squave, Butler, Mo. The Largest IN ‘TH>}y—- Harness and Saddlery House, Where the best goods for the least money, will be guaranteed. Don't Fail to See Our Stock BEFORE BUYING. South side Sqr. - - Butler, Mo. st door East of Factory Store. SAVE YOUR FRUIT i j £ Hy buying the AMERICAN FRUIT DRYER is the climax of perfection, sizes to suit the truit garden or the orchard ot a i noaited eset saA ies that the most limited means may reach. The question | is not car I afford to buy a Dryer but can I afford to do without one. The children j can pay for it in twenty days from the wasting fruit. No equal investment on the | comer rere mele ae Send for illustrated eatalogues. { INO. B. DURAND, 25 Prairie City, Gen. Western Agent.