The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, July 11, 1883, Page 5

LOCAL ITEMS. —_—_—_—_—_——— J. P. Turner, of Lone Oak, has returned fr Texas to his tormer Robt. Rogers, of Windsor. fell arm while trying to air of reller skz seems to be a pretty gener- al move eastern banks to drive the nong : dollar out of tion It will have to go. Patty and W. H. Atherton three car ljoads of as Monday, ¢ left our depot in many a day. Kansas City, } te hogs to sand extra copies of the nes went into the pock- ets of © grangers attending Fourth, free of charge. Between forty and fifty thousand dollars worth of lots were soid in Wal- boometh nut last week. The boom and still she booms. We did not sce a drunken man on | our streets the Fourth, notwithsts ing there were between five and six thousand people in town. Wonder if Rich Hill would be willing to pay Butler’s subscription to the C. & A. in order to have the road mss this place. Chickens will come home to roost. A torce will be at work grading on this side of the river within weeks. Everything moves along and the C. & A, will be built ppearances are decepgive. two right unless a Fay is building a large grain ele- We expect F. B. has pretty strong assurances that he vator at his mill. will soon have a railroad ve con- venient. Quarterly meeting began at the M. E. church on last Satur were held on Sunday and also on Services Monday, when the meeting was brought to a close. ‘Lhe business men of Rich Fiill are loud in their denunciations of the two stores in that place which nopolize the miners’ trade. it don’t mo- do anybody else much good. The crop prespect could not well be more flattering than at present. Wheat has turned out much better thought possible a hetore haryest. than was tew weeks Don't fail to have an invitation ex- tended to R. F. Smiley to visit But- Ue is agent for Holt & Hall who make a_ business running See notice elsewhere. ler ot creameries. more extended Eld. Isaac Errett, editor Christian Standard, io, will preach in the Cincinnatti, the Christian rch in this city, Sunday, July 15 m., and in Walton’s Opera house atS p. m of ‘A recent session of Missouri State ’ Association denounced riminate use of the term a Ebat’s cht. “This ess piling up of titles is disgust- claims all the stock has been subscribed to erect a factory to make lint trom flax-straw. In the mean tim hear nothing further : similar institution at Butler. Won't some- body please give it a boost? we bout a Miss Eugenia Kelso, aged about | seventeen years, daughter of Dr. elso, died at their home in this city 4th, inst. Mis ’Gema was a ht ht young lady and had many} nds who mourn her untimely tea os death, Her remains were conveyed t : - as to La Cygne, Kansas, and interred tthe cemetery at that place.—Re- cord, A good many have a hankering ‘or some oil stock on Mormon. It begins to look as if there are rare Sppertunities up that way lying around loose. Hence the desire to ‘ave a share. Plenty of land with the finest prospects 1s still left. Form your companies and go to work. No wsete let a few have all the benefits tothemselves. Divide up. the | fine | - as | circula- | Fort Smith, Ark., coul prope | Errett ion The cele complete success. Advertiser of the affair and parties who attended, say publishes « glowing account it is not a whit more than the truth. It was quick work to raise all tonal stock required by the Butler di company to renew work on Mormon Fork. People have fence now and are ready to int Other companies and comir A gentlema vho has been to ine the ot that ‘ } sood. Lhe proposed pur has been abandoned. remembere It will be who pr e who preaches a tian church Sunc morn- uy, July 15, ing andin the Opera House the same evening at 8 p. m., is the distinguish- ed D. D. who preached Garficld’s tuneral. A party of Butler gentlemen left tor Colorado on Saturday night, composed of C. F. Burns, J. C. Clark, A. ©. Catron. We going to engage in hunting and fish- understand they are ing for a short time and also to look at a gold mme in which they have an opportunity to take stock. Luck to them. Aiter oil skall have been found on Mormon Fork, it will cost heavily to get a foot-hol Hence, if you e A want to take a hand, there is no time to lose. People won’t give away certainties. to buy them. The best plan is to land They favorable terms now than after the whole thing begin betore the owners of know it to be a sure thing. wili lease on much more is settled. It parties here or elsewhere wish to take a hand in the oil business on Mormon, there is still ample oppor- land be the tunity. Much leased on which remains oil to prospects are just as good as on what has been Wheeler’s taken. It may be that other com- panies will be formed, more land leased and much prospecting done besides that by the companies al-]| school, Miss Ewing and Miss Harri- ready organized. There is room for all anda great deal to spare. Among the associations which have filed articles of incorporation at Jefferson City, is the Rich Hill Stan- dara Oil company, Rich Hill, Bates county; capital, $60,000, one-half paid up. S. B. Lasbbrook,. Butler; M.S. Cowles, L. E. Beaumont, Thomas McComb, M. and E, H. Brown, Ric Foote, Kansas Cit Obdjects, developing ot oil 3 ping G. Manley Hill; H. J. + Incerporators. ch lands, umps. boring, drilling, oil, erection of ] etc... for petroleum ying same, ete., ete We take pleasure in calling atten- to the advertisment of the Em- Mulls will be seen thz Judge Brown column. It in another t tk new m and to the machine ot ments mills and have put them whe order for the new ot ‘Their fa as good 3 crop hities for making flour are can be a guaranty goes with every sack Try their and you will have found anywh an best of flour. to put aw your stove to hold the on top ot down W. R. Marshall and his son, Bruce Marshall, were in town yesterday. They came down on business con- +) H nected with the reorganized oil com- | 1 They pany which has le Marshall's farm. stated that t Eld. | the Chris- | esident | 3rewington and R. S. | part of the | Col ds ; Ohio, oa | Kentucky a short i pleased with the country F. O. Lefker, | have added some valuable improve- | os { these | ieht ht | apart ot Mr. | It takes money | had cast his fortune with the people s, | be amply sufficient tor twenty y Personal. Prof. st Iowa to spe He is a ver Daisy and Mrs. Br Emporia, t to relati visi They Hoicomb, wife and left i r home in Portsm visit fricnds and to relatives a was sick. Dr. T. B. Worley has returned | trom an extended trip through Ten- nessee and Georg: trip cured him of rheumatism. —€ S. Wheeler, ot Kansas City, spent a couple of days He isa 1 nothing would of this city. here last week. young please us to} ! man and better than to have hin Butler. move —Zach Johnson, ot near Vinton, | and oneof ve locals old time Johnson FROM BLEEDING KANSAS. espondent on ETC, July 5th, 1853. ail preliminary langu correspondents ac nunicati town to the rty—tour in inumber somewhat tan and—departed frem } Friday, June 29th, Mor ssion most Rocky peo- Il ple acquainted with us know. two years } health for nearly past ark of our erin, former life and we had either to pr up und get away, or like many ot unfortun lone yard. Traveling west we reached soon the Kanszs line. msas we now wri tically no difference veen © appearance of the country in the eastern tier of Aansas counties and that Bates. Itis thicklv settled, and the people ; ure prosperous. ‘Vhe only crops | seen along the route was corn and | flax, and of that there is plenty and | as fine a5 ever grew in any country. | There is no wheat in this part oF | Kansas this year, the severe winter having killed it out. We have now | passed over three couaties and have | county friends called Saturday and had his name enrolled for the booming }| Times. ad to We were g learn he of old Bates. There may be as good men as Mr. Johnson, put none bet- ter. =-Mrs. S. E. charming and accomplished daugh- Harper, and her} ter, Miss Fannie Armstrong, arrived | the fore part of the past week from Pleasant Hill Eclectric city their future Mrs. Harper is also the mother ot our tellow-townsman Johnny Arm- salesman at Bennett & and will make the | home. strong, head Two changes were made in the of teachers for the corps public j expressed a year ago. I | stock, espe not secn a halt dozen tields of wheat. | -As a rule corn is more forward than | in Bates county, | My impression of Kansas as a} country are favorable, and were thus | beheve a poor man, if he be at all thrifty and industrious, can live and accumulate | property according to his capacity | in this country at tarming and raising | Hy the latter. many of the farmers here mans and being by nature a A great re Ger- tarifty { | People, are prosperous. every farmer of any worth | bunch of catde around him to graze |on the prairic, andthey are cash in this country as well as in Bates coun- ity and other parts ot Missouri. son taking the place of the two re- moved. New Academy Building. A committee has been appointed to solicit subscriptions for the erec- tion ot additional buildings to the All the last scholastic year there was a serious lack ot room. The academy. through Principal was forced to advise numbers of students | from abroad, who made application by letter, that the accommodations were such that he would not recom- come. The institu- more rapidly the mend them to tion has grown much than was anticipated and mand for more room 1s most impera- | the present building When was erected. it was thought it would tive. rs. What will actually be required at the end of the first twenty years of its existence, no ene now attempts to predict. Itis the most important enterprise ever started in Butle should receive the ready support of ll citizens who can possibly contri- bute. It provides Bates county flour ence |) { s of securi a good and will contri- ecuc ne lids | bute more toward elevating the standard of intelligence than any- | thing else which can be done. The school has already causecd many to remove to Butier who would other- As ges will be its evident wise have gone elsewhere. the school grows, its advant more and more appreciated and value to our city be more there would be no trouble in getting | In the excitement ot railroads, coal, parties to begin work at once but they prefer the compa i hich ! y, which now oil and corner lots, this mstitution, which is the ional facilities, she torgotien. The small am ‘ y invest- ed in the academy has done more | for this city county than ten holds the lease, to proceec This } will be done as soon as tl can be put in preper shape. They also stated that Louis F. Page has bought a large tract of land adjoin- ing their farm. Considerable citement exists in the Mormon Fork ex- vallev in consequence of all the re- cent movements in connection with the oil business in the local:ty nam- ed. ‘ tore we can believe 1t po -yoted to any other times that sum ¢ To disregard its appeal at coming to object. this tme, when Butler is the tront as a railroad center of great aportance, would be a mistake ted be- which will have to be commit and ! will postpone the rest till next time. | Mc. —The Independence says the creamery recently there promises to be immensely prof- Sentinel started itable. not only to the owners but to all their patrons. It gives the | prices realized by some of the farm- One fers for their cream received Nearly | has al My time is up for this job, and I; —q cian Ocal fe z SASS ere ray, Nl aH Reet Ser S22 | $91.38 for the cream from tour cows 93,02 tour cows in g3 days; and so on at about that ratio, A creamery is Green City, Mo. teams collecting | for 100 days; another § from in operation at | teen cream | 2,500 pounds of butter is churned The force will soon be It is inaugurate a similar enter- There is no use every week. increased totwenty-five teams. time to | prise in Butler. in waiting. “EMINENT SUCCESS.”’ ' Editors, Docto 1 3 Who Try it, Unite in Praise. “7 have used you { ‘Your Goiden B mis «2 edy. Itis highly recomm & Allen, druggists, } Cough rer by all..’—fReck tton, Iowa. “It attords me to + Gold t obsti pleasure say pleasure ay n Balsam cured me of a e cough atter I nad | various other medicines without avail. I joniy used halt a bettle,’ ims | editor Herald, Hutchinson, Kan. “Your Golden Ba sam is unquestiona- | xh preparation we have | . L. Jones, ti, D.. (ot druggists), Jonesburg, bly the best co ever handle Tones & C. throat lood & } Hit- shew & Co vurge bot! Important. 3 the tirst tine she used Der and’s Che cal Baking Powder. Her baking was yellow .she did not whicn makes allow tort only abo ry. She lea It employs seven- | and | |