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LOCAL ITEM ——,___ Judge Letker’s sister and brothe-- in-law of Indiana, are paying him a) visit. Rev. Siceloffis absent attending the conference ot the M. E. church south no services at the church next | Sunday. €or Renr.—A neat, comforta- | | Duke Simpson keep away from ble room suitable tor an office or sleeping apartment. 43-4 McFarLanpD Bros, Uncle Jeff Aldridge 1s working hard to get the requisite to start a new paper in Butler. Ifhe succeeds mraising the calateral the paper will have no politics. The Times is requested to onunce that the chairman and clerks of school boards can procure copies of the school law by calling on coun- ty clerk Starke, or school commis- sioner J. H. Hinton, at Rich Hill. an- Chas. T. McFarland, who return- ed home last week lett again Friday evening last for the land of health, Colorado, where ke will remain for He had the appearance much impreved in some time. of being very health. Do not be caught by The Present Dodge its too old, go to the Opera House O. P. C. H. Furniture store, and they will save you twice the val- ucof that present by giving you lower pric We are informed by the manayer of the Opera House Furniture store that they can not do as their compeditors are doing give away presents for the simple reason they do not ask the ex- horbitant prices that the balance do, but will save you more thanthe val- ue of their presents by low prices. In accordance with the practice and christian belief of the Jewish people, Uncle Aaron Hart will close his place ot business and no goods under any circumstances will be sold on Tuesday and Thurs- day, the 2nd, and rith, days of Octo- wer. The 2nd, day of October rep- tesents the New Year. and the 11th, the dayof Atonement. These days are strictly observed once every year by the Jewish people. usage, who has been visiting friends and relatives in St. Louis and Hlinois returned home afew yS ago, accompanied by her sister a charming voung lady of Illinois. During absence her hubby, Mr. James McFarland bough her a handsome brick resi- dence en North Main street, and had it neatly turmshed, including splendid piano. Mrs. James McFarland her a Judge Henry has taken a block of coal out of one of the Land and coal Co's mines in this city. Itis 45 in- ches high go inches wide and about 24 inches thick ; a much larger block could have been taken out but this is sufficient to show the quality, which is such asto make a Rich Hill black- smith’s mouth water, as it is as good Bs the Pennsylvania coal for that pur- pose. —Walnut- Fournal The children in our public schools Fre distributed as follows : East school building Miss Pages room 24; Miss Valker’s room 49: Miss Ewing, 50; Miss Wade, 84. West school build- ag Miss Helm 67 Miss Bowden 4 iss Harrison, 47; Miss Parks, 65; Making a total ot 447- The color- ‘d school has 36 pupils making a Fand total ot white and colored bool children enrolled this year in T public school of 473. We tearn that *Squire J. B. Du- Ped, the fruit man of Prairie City, PSsold his entire crop of apples tor 7 “ats per bushel. He has Fe orchard with 4,000 bearing trees Pit. which will at the least possi- falculation make him $2,500, rd will no doubt reach $3,500 in- d. Pay to raise fruit in this section? has made more this year off of | Mr. | land than it would sell for. ind is afine gentleman and we glad to see him prosper. —Rock- ee an So! Who saysnow that it does | j ' 1 | Bates county boom. i What the Times Would Like to A little mud once more. The rock quarries loom up. A big trade in Butler this fall. Everybody have good health. Jackson Corder move to Butler. blushing. hog skin. Sim Francisco get | pretty girl. Brown. ceunty. married to A more orderly town than Butler. Jake Allen smile ata girl without a TilSmith try to throw parson Ten thousand emigrants into Bates Doctor Boulware get him a one story buggy. The new railroad graded into g city limits. the Dave Walker gobuggy riding with a pretty girl. The Butler syndicate strike oil on Mormon Fork. Good sidewalks en the streets of Butler. their corn and produce. The farmers get good prices tor Pienty of Walnut coal delivered in Butler right away. The Mother Hubbard of the publican quit using plates. Re- The man that attended the pic ,nic at Boulware springs the 2oth. Bud Stark the hounds on a wolf chase. rying to keep up with The churches ting their bells a lit- tle earlier Sunday mghts. Some fellow bring the Times fice a big water mellon. All the girls quit the practice banging their hair. The scalp of that wolf were day. the ot- of boys running on Bone’s fork Mon- The Repudlican have a local that has not been published three or four days ahead of it in the Times. ‘Lhe pin feathered local Democrat take a‘girl buggy Without getting flirted. of the riding The ladies Christian Temperance Alliance and look after the sick and our city. A complete stock ot boots Missionary Societies destitute of and shoes all marked in plain figures at R. Weil & Co’s north square. side of 43- the 2t The Apaches have again begun a raid in Mexico. General Crook re- lieved them of all their non-combat- ants, and they can raid now without incumbrances. presents one unvarying ph nual outbreak somewhere. the best he He corralled the Crook no doubt did could. a The Indian problem nan- General squi aws, papooses and old men without los- ing any men himself. on borhood. nals th ani etas The these worthless evening last w | termination. given. answered on time rallied ten c ‘ tune of the old cow horn, thev went, for the chase. dazer whereabo: well ready and the wolfship being i giving his lordship tashironed serenade with hounds. | returned. they caught him or ught while oth i ja number ot This is the first wolf the ro e day o ne and know a were in For some time the good farmers Bone’s Fork some four or miles west of this place haye annoyed not a little by the depreda- tions of a number of wolves made their appearance in that neigh- So the farmers tired of having their sheep killed by five been which became Monday war hoop Unele Billey and the hound The Butler boys to All of iP notis jin doubt. some argue that he w: doubt. | e wolf was seen several times by the party only a few j ahead of the hounds and ap- ¥y was very much fatgued. we aware before that there was such line f ex- 1 was the away | once | his | there | was no time lost in jumping him and a regular old of The race lasted tor about jan hour and a halt when the dogs The question as to wheth- ill | have heard of in the county and were not | **t€ = : al cabled Vignaux asking that | | | { i j aunx. | days tor Schaeter to cover —B F. Sellers, of Shell city, tor- merly aresident of Butler, was in the city a tew days last week attend- ding to some business matters. Mr. Sellers still has a warm heart for the Electric city. —Mis. Morrison. the widowed daughter of J. J. Ryan, of this city, lett last week for polk county for the purpose ot educating her chil- dren she has bought property there and will remain some two or three years, In the trial of a New York last took oc railroad suit in Monday, Conkling ion to say that there ‘tonly one recorded instance in was the Scripture where a man had asked tor water—and he was in hell where he ought to a have been.”’ We take it from these few remarks that Conk- ling would not accept a nomination for president on the prohibition plat- torm.—Sedalia- Democrat. A bank teller has sued his wite for a divurce because, home unexpectedly, his wife entertaining a gentleman by showing him the pictures in the Po- lice Gazette. Thisis the kind of presumptive evidence that should go At be on coming he found a long distance with the courts. the same time, however, it will funny to have the judiciary determine what papers a wite may show to a gen- tleman in order to obtain a diyorce. The list would be interesting, if not valuable, and it might iuclude papers whose reading matter 1s more disrep— utable than the pictures in the Po- lice Gazette. Cubic Queen. Charlie Basinger made every heart in the Times office flutter yesterday, morning withthe presentation of a Cubic Queen, the largest and finest water melon we have seen this year. This melon was plucked from his patch on the the Widow Boyd’s farm miles northeast of this city. Itis a daizyand weighed 48 pounds. The Tres crew will nev- er torget Charlie. for his kindness, and one and all wish him good luek. May his shadow never grow less and his melons twice as large. some three Ww. J. Hutchinson, of the Rich Hill Euxterprise, on our sanctum Tuesday morning. smiled The war in passenger rates be- tween Chicago and Louisville is in- creasing in interest. Hunts are given of more cuts to be made to-day, and to other points besides Louisville. Judge Hoadly recovered his health, and his physiqgjan says, will ina few days be back in Ohio with his coat offand both sleeves rolled” up. He is even now preparing a speech. J. M. Everett, a merchant, was shot and killed at Forsythe, Mo., Saturday night, by Albert G. Lay- ton. Five hundred dollars reward is offered by Everett’s brother for Lay- ton’s arrest. In a collision on the Ohio and Mis- sissippi railroed near Seymore’ Ind., the engineer of one of the trains and a child of Mrs. Taylor were killed j and a number of passengers injured. The body found in the river Sat- urday night. and taken to the mor- gue as unknown, was vesterday identified as that of Thomas Mc- Laughlin, atailor, aged 50 years, supposed to have committed suicide. The New York militia have had a rrible shock. Gen. Jourdian, one of the tour major-generals, has re- signed for several reasons. perhaps the chiet of which is that the staff at headquarters has interfered too much with the duties of commanding ot- ficers The Roman Catholic ecclesiasti- cal council of New York, embrac- ing the dioceses of New York. Brook- lyn, Buffalo, Rochester, Albany and Ogdensburg, N. Y., and Newark and Trenton, N. J., opened in St, Patrick’s cathedral, New York city, yesterday Cardinal McCloskey pre- sided. Schaefer and Slosson, the bilhhard- | ists, will play for the championship emblem it the former can make sat- isfactory arrangements with Vig- Slosson has put up a_ thous- will wait three it.) Ehe ter is amxous to play, and has a postpone- me for which arrange- and dollars, and li: t of the va have he m en made and which is | to be plaved in Pans, / J. M. CATTERLIN. Datler Carr T. W. LEGG. lave | Land For Sale | Several Choice Farms. If you want to buy a farm improy- ed or unimproved land or have your Property insured against fire, light- ning, tornados, cyclones and wind- storms, callon or write to S. B. Newbill, Butler, Mo. Office in Opera building, up stairs, room ad- y Oris foining Dr. Tucker’s offic 30-tf The best make of Woman's 1 Miss & children’s lace and bates | Manufactures of fine shoes at j : orf. Max WEINER’s. | DR. J. D. CARPENTER, PROPRIETOR “¢ ¥ < * Eye, Ear and Throat Institute, Kansas Citty Mo. Will treat and operate on all- diseases | ot the Eye, Ear and Throat, one day of each month at this pace. Remember the date, Butler the roth, Rich Hill the 11th. BUGGIES, err ~ CARRIAGES, Max Weiner's. Fall stock of Boots & shoes, are now complete, itis the largest in the town which he is ottering at the low- est prices. (Give him a call,on the | ase east side of the square- 4otf. Important,—A lady disappornted the first tinie she used Deland’s Chemi- cal Baking Powder. Her baking yellow. Thetrouble was, she did not allow tor the extra strength, which makes only about one-half the quantity necessa- ay. She learned her mistake and reclares it to de the best she ever used. was PRETONS and SPRING WAGONS, now Mer boy’s and youth’s kip and calf custom made Boots at bottom prices at 2 gott. Max WEINER’S Now is the accepted time fo get school books at Maynard’s; who has just received a large supply. Wood and Coal. Persons wanting wood or coal, can leave orders at the post office with Maynard, Badgleys & Gipson or Wright and Glor- Any one of the above'named_pla- attention, We keep corstantly on hand Buggy, Carriage and Spring Wag- on repairs of every description. ious. ces, will receive my prompt and fair dealing. 39 tf. H. T. Shobe. Wanted—500 Cords of Wood. Will pay the market price in cash. 37-t£. H. T. SHose. The big red hames is the bass at Repainting and Remodeling A SPECIALTY y. Gus Wyarp. 42-tf School Directors, Hark! Listen! It you want blackboards, buy your slating from Maynard who is sole agent for Combs’ unrivaled Liquid Slating. Satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded. Butler Mulls. Bran, shorts, chop feed and corn delivered to any part of the city 41-3. Power & Bro. We can make your old buggy or spring wagon look like a new ane. We have also put in a fine line of the best grade of aster) Fred Dorn Barber Will give you a neat shave, shampoo or hair-cut- He keeps none but experienced barbers. Will also grind razors. Satis- taction guaranteed. Rooms north side square Hara Wood Lumber. | We are now prepared to fill bills of any length or dimensions of na- tive Lumber, on short notice and at CORTESE © FP CCRT ET RE TOTTI hale Hee} reasonable prices 41-3t. The sign of the red hames is the best place to get harness at Power & Bro. Gus Wyarp. 42-tt | paced ee ae | rene Try acksons Linement at Gus Wyards Having determined to move to an- other section of the country I offer mile which we will sell at prices sur- prisingly low. Our inside oppor- tunities for buying give us extra ‘low prices and as we pay no rent ‘we can’t be undersoid in the southwest. All Work for sale my residence one halt north east of Butler. consisting ot 10 aeres under good state of cultivation and with good fencing an all sides. The house cellar, cistern, and other buildings chard of young bearing trees, kinds of small Enquire the undersigned on the premises, at the Times Office. 4rtt. has seven rooms with also a barn x well, good and all of or or- fruits. WwW Blossburg Smithing Ceal, for sale by the bushel. arranted. —— Catterlin & Legg.