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| BUTLER NATIONAL BANK, —In—I Opera [louse BUTLER, MO. Cash JOHN H.SULLE rT. W- CHILS,.. ‘apital and Surplus, $5, --+- President DIRECTORS Booker Powell, Green W. Walton. Dr. N, L, Whipple T, W, Childs, Wo, Fb, Walton, Rue Jenkins. Or. T.C. Boulware, R, D. Williams. judge J. H. Sullens, A. L, McBride, frank Vonis, €, H, Dutche. J- OTHER STOCK HOLDERS: G, B, Hickman, 3, C. Duke. John Deerwester, O. Spencer, John B. Ellis, J, R, Estill, 3S, Q. Dutcher, J, 1, McKee, {lenry Donovan, A, H Block, GS-7 S50- . , Humpt rey, Large Fire and Burglar Proof Safe with time lock. t to and sells ex Receives deposits subj sight, Loans money bu change and does a gen iness. Your business is respectfully solicited. BATES COUNTY check at 1 Banking bus- National Bank, BUTLER, MO ORGANIZED IN 1871, Capital paid in, - - $75,000. Surplus - - - Safe with Time Lock We are prepared ing business. Good paper alw: demand. Buy and sell excha receive deposits Xc., DIRECTORS. ‘ke C. Clark, 1c Lewis Cheney, Or. Elliot Pyie ©. P. Henry, Dr. J. Everingham, { R I. N. Mains, J. P. Edwards, . Jo Ryan, W. J. Bard, Dr.D.D. Wood, J. M. Patty, fico. W. Miers, F. Coleman Smith. F. J. Tygard. OFFICERS. - President e President LEWIS CHE? #.C.CLARK - - - ©.1. TYGARD - - - THE HORNS Grocery House OF - $20.000 Large Vault, B urglar-Proof » do a general bank- on. J. B. Newberry Cashier. C. DENNEY AC Shor well Knewn and Popular stand on the East side of the square, are leading the (ROCERY TRADE nem BUTLER. os Pheir stock is composer of Feed Flour qualiy of Staple and Fancy Groeceriu Queensware and Crilers. THEY ARE ar EXPENSE the Glass, EUuK erty, ane do Not tear competition y liberal prices for Produce Solicit a continuance of the par- ze their mans customers, and Y attend to i iahes ant to their wishes ar ‘doods delivered in tt he PMDtly. : city ee and the best | have risen up throughout the land to H } Not envolved in the 1 EDUCATION. : the: the dissemination jation and hten and reclaim the y all countries from t resent day as tians down to the virtue u- greatest promoter ¢ 'zenship. It physical strength and is the toundation of all pher rs 1 tt the surest, sates and) =obest wa to dimmish crime. drunkeness and is to munity | pauperism of a com senits ignorance. On maps showing the distribution later poner oF in the United | rote of wealth and illiters 5 es the greatest wealth 1s always | source with ri | found where there is the least ig- | and stamp it out. norance. { = The report ot the United States LOCAL NEWS bureau of education for 1572 shows | Another Interesting Batch From Eaat- ern Township: that one third of all the criminals | are totally uneducated oat four: Summit Township, March 14 784. fifths are practically so. The pro-! Eprrok Times:—Nothing unusu- portion of crimmals from the illit’ | al has taken pl in this particular erate classes is at least ten fold as | locality since our last communication but we understand that Messrs great as the proportion from those : Z is aia <2 _| Brooks & Mains, ot Pleasant Gap, having some education Sixty Pe] nad their safe biown open and rob- cent of al! the paupers uf the United ! bed one night this week; we States are totally ignorant and thir- | not learned the amount the robbers teen per cent of the illiterate are pau- | got away wite. pers. Fifty per cent of all the con- } We attended the literary society RiCts Canticifnerneadner waite | at the Innis school house last Wed- \ eS & 1 nesday night and pronounce it the But it is not only crime and pau~ | best ever carried on in this township ; perism that is caused by illiteracy everything was carried on with pre- but even the health of communities | cision and dispatch They have is in a manner dependent upon the | some eloquent speakers, who might education of the people. The same do credit to the halls ot —did we ig mean to say Congress? Well don’t statistics show that twenty-five Perl inow but we id. The essay of cent of the children, born ot] Miss Winsett entitled, **Hope,”’ was illitemmte parents, die before the | a fine composition, and reflects great credit on the fair composer. The literary will close next Wednesday night until next fall. We don’t know, but have an idea, that Summit will have a candidate for Sheriff next fall. Squire Wright is being spoken of for that office, are two years old; while only four- teen per cent of the educated classes die during the same period. These facts are so well recognized by all nations that plans for compulsory education are being adopted almost are inthe advance in all arts and sciences of civilization. What is true ot nations is well crat, a gocd citizen, and well quali- fied tor any ofFce. Isaac Snodgrass and party of Deep- water township, will start in a days for the far west. Our best wish- es go with you boys, and may of recog- true communitres and it is a nized fact that those towns and cities vou t have the greatest number and 2 ; = learn to like your tuture homes better best of schools are the ones that have | than you seem to have liked your the least poverty and crime. We present ones. i can look over our own state and see Why don’t some one speak out this ina large number of flourishing | on the jail problem, or is it such a cities and towns that are maintained be one will handling The time soon arouad when it will be decided, way or the other, and if the public by the schools that are carried on in their midst. They are all noted tor the true moral tone that permeates] are not already informe: th l their society and for the few crim-| not much prospect of them inals that are in their midst. PE GSS GaN eee ee We kave now offered to iS Mr. Smiser and Miss chance tor an academy a : i j enterprise on the } zeus | xthe winter in Kyvy., will return will bring to our t that which | home in a tew days. jwill enrich at, morally, mentally Messrs Potts & Bigstaff have re ved their pedigree’d imported Po- and phystcially a hundred fold. Can i land China which were ship- logs. we afford to turn aside trom it le- ; i 4 é é ped to them from White Halil Ii cause it Is not just exactly as iealii a oe na ; jast week. ysay the hogs are would preter it? No! lay aside the best ever shipped to this country, so those wanting good stock of that | kind will know where they may te found in the future. personal predjudice and work man fully tor the common good. It is a chan itetime and we are | ce ina Dr. Matchett is erecting a build- ing at Johnstown, in which he in- tends to put a stock of drugs as soun jas completed. We of this commu- nity feel tat the Dr. 1s one of us as he always has the care of our sick and rarely ever fajls to pull them | through allt F. Oour. i fortunate indeed that ourlocat surroundings are such that we Let lend a helping the opportunity offered us come torward and hand toa project that will give us but Prosperity, not only financi: mentally. H | The Phlips Decission, | Infamous Literature. j St. Louis Post-Dispatch. | From: the New Yous World. ; The State Supreme Court. in re- : { tusing a new hearing m the case of ganized | aiscovery of an or 1 a i = : é Long vs. Long, has carefully ade gang of juve eves upt = 5 : Ze 3 s qe : uptown 1s in | clear that the decision it ratifi in it not start that case had no connection with or relation to the old s to {wl Pmer: eign corporatic omissioner Phibps as to statute were his own, court, and even he m. merelly told w would have not those im expressing this decisi former decisi be: 2 matter. T ase on the 2 different adjudication of the matter. But for obiter dicta, that statute would propably have remain- 2d #8 inoffensive as it has beer for their | Years past, It had hurt nobody and} | nobody was atraid of it. Subsequent | legislation and Supreme Court de- o West and kill Indians appears to} eae stinguish all the young ruttians who | ' rob theirfathers and poison Itis a conception that is mothers. ordinary course | i ee sniquity ae “| cisions had taken all the sting out j TI : ~ of it unt! Commissioner Phillips he traditional small pow of civ | made a moonshime scare-crow of it. | * is responsible { pes now knewn pos ilizat mn content ! “4s capital is timid we are sorry th ; the Legislature is nef in session to repeal it ill. it seems to us th 5 the former decistom of © vice {| Supreme Court and ity recent dis- felaimers, the foreign corporations doing business in Missoari a on has for vears b to rob > comer grocer and grow up to be stock broker or ; umber. Bat now his ambition and hi funder direction of Id turn in the the great zo out i an. Who | CVE" less danger ed ee pa ins, snd his sires towards the Ameri ate than they were before ttention was called io it by ths pulsive divagation ot a rather “teaser”? for the Supreme Bench. ; Literature, ¢ siterature, curiously enough : ‘ sh. jresh at while ¢ universally and those nations which | 4nd if the squire consents to bis name have the best educational facilities JEDE Sei WoL Ess 22 een the boys. Heis a staunch Demo- few | : | Henry Card and Anns delicate subject that it won't hare | the Supreme Court had not made | old | | of the { have | Howe. ot this township, who have been spend- | STATE OF | last day ot said term, answer or plead to ee en A eeepc. fety has sg c nA. A Maynard, 4 Mirssocrt, } iE urter and | st quarter | part thirty a in section | southwest ¢ F also part tw west quarter of the n part seven acres of the northeast quarter | of the southwest quarter of section (16,) | sixteen also part ten acres of the southeast | quarter of the southeast quarter of section eight all in township forty-one range | thirty-two, and that unless said detend- | ants be and appear at this Court, at the next Term thereof, to be begun and hol- jen at the court house in the city of But- | ler, in said County, on the 2 day ot June next, and onor betore the sixth day | of said term, if the term shall so long con- tinue, and it nof, thenon or betore the rthwes the petition in said cause, the same will be taken as confessed, and judgment will be rendered according] And it is further ordered, thata copy hereot be published, according to law, inthe Butler Weekly Trmes a weekly newspaper print- edand published in Bates county Mis- souri, tor tour weeks successively, the last insertion, to be at least four weeks before the first day of the next term of said court J. R. JENKINS, Circuit Clerk. A true copy trom the record. . . Witness my hand and the seal . 1 of the crcuit court of Bates th day ot Maren, R. JENKINS, Circuit Clerk Notice of Final Settlement. rreby given that, the under- dian Of the persons and es- Richard Card, Card, heirs of has made a id true exhibit of the ccount be- imseit and his wards and filed the same with the Probate Court of Bates County, and that on the first day of the m, it being the second Mon- ot, he intends to Notice is signed, g tate ot Charles € ames C. Card, deceased, »piy to said court tor ve to make a yal settlement of anship ac counts, {tor as such his . Pivenvorp, Guardian. guardi Butler Mo. Feb., 26, 4 wWwihered by hi Seana ane ES are | easy and s only 5 feet hi We carry ou ca ; { in | eMpty aload of comin two minutes. No iver to tea ‘ ri 1 | Highest market price cash up no yrum! BI st weight u owing jonce. Wehave regenerated the Grain Market of Butler, and have beet _ trust to Sees ! worth thousands of d ars to the farmersof Bates county I ddition ¢ eta pina kinds of Grain LEFKER & CHILDS ived of trust fully described, Phe northwest quarter ot the er and north halt of © southwest quarter ot Bates he ast quar the north halt o: section thirteen , ot range thirty-two county, Missouri, contain more or less and, whereas due npaid. Now, requ holder « note and by virtue of the authority im me vested by the terms ot said deed of trust, I will on Thursday, March 27, 1884. 1321, in st of the legal said between the hours ot n o'clock in the forenoon and five o’clock in the noon of that day at the east nt door of the court house in the city of Butler, county ot Bates aforeszid, expose to sale i for cash in hand so estate in said deed ot af 2d as may be interest and TYGarRb, Trustee. atter- notice d necessary to pay said debt, lescr costs. ro. ipror Lo | fe Napoleon duce. rs were tnade Secially f/ ¥: 2 leaf tobacs tobacco ever offered. Thackeray's gifted daughter, tine, in her sketch of Alfred Tennyson, in Barper's Monthly, tells of her visit to the great post. She found him smoking Blackwell's Buli Durham Tobacco, sen’ uneell Lowell, Ans Court of St James : In these days cf adulteration, it ie acom rt te j intely pure and is unquestionshy the best | i him by Hon. James rican Minister to the a0kers to know that the Bu j tee am AT THE POST OFFICE NUTS. CANDIES, TOYS ETC., IN LARGE VARIETIRs Daiwee. = and ls \ mnt areca: The Largest and Bes WEIR CUL’TIVATORS| | BARBED WIRE GRAIN MARKET, Alive and kicking. Best facilities | } corn we handle all other t EN BEIT Bennett, Wheeler &6o, Celebratec John Deer Plows, Cultivators and Stalk Cutters MITCHELL FARM WAGON Holliday Wind Engines and Deep Well | Close “S” Barb Steel Fence Wire. and the finest line of t | - CHORE GROCKE nes eivurs the we Prof. Homford says H —— ; |} and best selected stock of Hardware in the City. zs = arp t o feat teed ie aero eee ee NORTHEAST CORNER SQUARE. 2 BUTLER. MU. | ETE I take plesemne on j the public | Butler to make it my tuspre home. and have the largest amd best z sorted stock | jewelr to this | cheap for ca | years experience in | ture of watches and cloeks in Eu- | rope.I am now prepared to repair watches and clocks, no matter how | complicated nor how badly they have been abnsed. | htem to me, you can have them put | uitgood running order and gwaran |FRANZ BERNHARDT @utier, Mo AWESSTEROY NS SNAG, FANS NOTION ARS gor LIMENT . eaves ss BOOKS AND STATIONER y. a of Implements ever brought into Bates county. The Casaday Sulky Plow, Parmers Priend, Brown & Keystone Planters, the Haworth check Rower tor all planters. combined cul- rl The new Weir Iron and steel tivators, the new Pekin, all :ron and steel com bined cultivators, Butord Rock Island, Weir, Furst & Bradly, Canton, Chpder & Morrison Headquters tor Plows. The Bain Farm wagon, the Racine Spring Wagon, the Baker Grain Drill, Harrows of all kinds and a tull line of TOP BUGGIES, Iron, Steel Nails, and wagon wood work, and 4 the only exclusive line of Shelf Hardware in the city. ‘ R. R. DEACON] | ELEVATOR WE ARE IN THE for handling Corn in Bates County. DUMPS 1 ee ead ESTASLISHED 1870. HEADQUARTERS FOR THE And Cortland Spring Wagons, Pumps. Haish ss. RK 22 SASSER TET I SE JEW ELDER. announcing co thet £ have located in NiO VE { Clocks, watches and aud spectacles ever brought Market, whieh EF will seli Having had many the manu 1 By bringing Satistactio