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aia temas BUTLER NATIONAL BANK, —IN—f Opera TLouse BUTLER, MO. Cash Capital and Surplus, $57,350. JOHN H. SULL - President T.W. CHIL")S,. Vice President. Wma. E. WALTON,......-...-- Cashier. €. ©. DUKE --Ase’t Cashier Herk and Collector. DON KIN)? DIRECTORS br. T.C. Boulware, Booker Powell, RD. Williams. Green W. Walton, Judge J. H. Sullens, Dr.N, L, Whipple, A. L, McBride, T, W, Childs, Frank Votis, Wo, EF, Walton, C, H, Dutche: J. Rue Jenkins. OTHER STOCK HOLDERS: G, B, Hickman, C, C. Duke, John Deerwester, O. Spencer, fobn B. Ellis, J, R, Estill, S, Q. Dutcher, J, J, McKee, Henry Donovan, A, H, Humpf rey, Block, | TEMPERANCE TEXT-BOOKS. the window when she started her ! ant crusher on another expedition; a § , iv, but we’re atraid.”” Opinion of the state Sup rintendent ou’re a dandy, bu we re atraid. f Schools “Oh, yer needn’t be atra of , nothin’ when I’m around I kiader 7 7 L te . = ait , Nees he views reckon Ican take care o° we all Wie Ue Ee de a I ee of Implements rought into Bates county. | Hon. W. Coleman, superintendent might” ones os The Casaday vy Plow, Farmers Friend. of pub on the question of AES ERIN eis jae Brown & K e Planters, the Haworth check pecial te in the put we could get along ash yes Rower tor : iter j specia < in th t / schools, now being agitated in some i : J ; nna Ae “Oh, yer sucker: mon ter ve. W Dy | I > ~ l Yr I d% I V N ss O i > S i ! -stion is being | Yer got me ter give away how n a < 4 b XN a At present the qnestion 1s being I : i ‘ 3 4 H ‘i 7 he ibility ’m worth and now want ter break i AGLI 7) i (eon r promise. Oh, ver lononecked The new Weir all Iron and steel combined cul- of introducing temperance case's the H ee ! : : , z z ae 7 le tivators, the hew Pe alll, all Won wd steel com public schools of the state by legisla- | yeller hairec yout compre a hi entertains bined cultivators, Butord Rock Island, Weir, ' tive enactmen. Those favoring this | trom Winnipeg. [’ve been in Da request that Furst & Bradly, Canton, Chpder & Mortisor scheme demand that it shall be made | kota too long ter be fooled by any of to Mr. H. Plows. Headquters tor f é Pees ge oogve crowc "ll la : ze i oe : Se PS me Gy ved maijest- ; nt { rapby, or history, and that it shall be | yer a lesson!"? She moved majes committe, on or before May tst. in} - 5 ; ise pee s . calle "4 ve fi or 2g : . ' The Bai Farm wagon, J acine Spring H made obligatory upon every teacher | ically toward us, we felt her bean order that homes mav be provic une 2 an ee : vs ge ae ees CF ne to teach this subject. Against such | hooks tighten on our coat collar, and All friends of the Sunday schoo kinds and atoll thas ot a procedure my solemn protest is | things began to whirl. T Was cause are cordially invited. Pro. here entered. The course is wrong | the last we remembered till we came | grammes, also intormation in regard and can only result in evil. In the ; to our boarding house on a cote | to reduced railroad rates, will be where the doctor said we must sty | furnished on application to under— home, in the school and the church; bone till our leg healed and = collar signed. temperance should be taught in con- c | mended. We have hired a man_ to F Biko the ste Gans | nection with other lessons of moraii- ty; butto single out this one and compel every teacher to give special receive leap pear proposals from Dakota girls, and hope ne’}l last till Fro. Hawes, Chairmin, | L. L. Aven, Sec’y, Kirkwood. | TOP BUGGIES, Iron, Steel Nails, and wagon wood work, and the only exclusive line of Shelf Hardware in the city. | R. R. DEACON! instructions thereon is going beyond the bounds ot propriety. No special legislation has been called for to place in our schools a book treating upon the evils of lying, cheating or stealing. Every teacher licensed in this state to teach should under the law, be of good moral character. such is not the case, the law 1s not at fault; but those who grant certifi- cates and who employ such teachers must be held responsible. Every teacher should endeavor to inculcate a healthy sentiment in favor et truth, honesty and temperance. These are moral questions and should be treated as such by the teacher, by the pupil and by the state. The tion of morals in our public schools 1s one upon which our laws are si- lent and should forever lent. The teacher who is the importance ot these virtues inthe make-up of child character will never want for an opportunity to be heard, and that. too, at such times as will be best calculated to awaken settled con- Large Fire and Burglar Proof Safe with time lock. Receives deposits subject to check at sight, Loans money buys and seils ex- change and does a renezal Banking bus- isfess. Your busin respectfully solicited. BATES COUNTY National Bank, BUTLER, MO ORGANIZED IN 1871, Capital paid in, - - $75,000. Surplus - - - - $20.000 Large Vault, B urglar-Proof Safe with Time Lock We are prepared to doa general bank- ing business. Good paper always in demand. Buy and sell exchange, receive deposits &c., &c. DIRECTORS. ais C. Clark, Hon. JB. Newberry ques— remain si- alive to thought and result in yictions of duty. Lewis Cheney, No text-book on special subjects Dr. Elliot Pyie ©. P. Henry, I. N. Mains, oe 3 pica Dr. J. Everingham, J. P. Edwards, ot morals should be legislated into ‘W, J. Bard, our scheols; they do not belong EJ. Ryan, -D.D. Wood, J. M. Patty, Geo. W. Miers, F. Coleman Smith. F. J. Tygard. OFFICERS: W. E. Co_eman. | Leap Year in the Wilds of Dakota. Tom there. Holmes in Fargo Broadaxe. **You dasn’t do it!"* LEWIS CHE? - President’ Ss >a 7 the sanz- WC GEARK- --< < viceipreciaccr. She Bigod in the door of | he sanz ¥.J. FTYGARD - - - Cashier. | tum looking down on us with a sort of an I’ve-been-starving-tor-man look as she uttered the above remark. She was a fine specimen of female S muchnes, done up i black alpaca, from beneath which looked out a pair of feet that gaye us the impression that the builder ot that piece of human architecture, to be sure of having enough, had com- pleted the hoofs first and put the re- mainder of the material into body: her twitched nervously as her eager gaze hungrily gulped us in- **You dasn’t do it,” **Do what?’ THE HORNS a suit of grub monopolizers she repeated. we asked. “*Marry me.” dare if “You bet your hte we you’ve got the dust."” Grocer; OF ‘ DE NNE “How're you fixed: e Y stuff you got?” **Phat’s what I have. partner. and House } the man that promises to sleep in my claim shack and paralyze my cook ery’s welcome to it."” how much q N60 Mhewr “Stuff! Suffering Jimtown. man, ie I've proved up on Well Known and popular I’ve got more wealth know stand on the East side ot tne what to do with. a homestead on the Goose river: I'm holding down 2 tree claim in Dickey county; have got a preemption five miles trom La Moure. and have { square, sre leading the GROCERY TRADE IN ser BUTLER. _ca got| Pheir stock 1s composea ot $3.000 packed away. Ain‘t that, stuff enough ? ‘You are pretty well heefed. How | old are you?” Feed Flour and the best yualiy of Staple and fancy Groceries, Glass, Queensware and Cotiery. THEKY ARE ar Less EXPENSE the ety, and “I aint kept track of my age since | I left the states, but m teeth’re all hunkey doree, and you bet your | Sweet existence I can kick higher’n | aay dude in the town. Whoop-la!”’ edo uot fear competing Se with a whoop that would have n bas liberal prices for Produce. | ™2de a Piute shed his War paint with “cy Solicit x continuance of the pat- | envy, sh i i ‘ : . she swung he: he ronage of their many customers. and eta ae Will gladiy attend to their wishes at amy and all times. Goods delivered in the ity bmi aoe city limits | Chas. Denney. ard over our head and kicked the te pot clean through a stuffed antelope. “You're a dandy, old girl,’ we | Whispered, as we fixed ourselves so jit Would be convement to fall out the fact that the « largely the season closes. Political Drift. President Arthur is said to be sure of all the delegates from Kentucky, with two or three exceptions. There is no Republican newspa- munds for presidential candidate. The Springfield Republican thinks ex-Gov. English of Connecticut is | Pierce City. | Thrice Spliced. Nevada Democrat. F.J. Kenyan and Jennie Fair- mant of Parsons, Kan., called at the week to have recorder’s office this per of any influence in Massachu-| Hymen tie them together with a setts which is not in tavor ot Ed- i Gordian knot tor a third time within a year—twice within the past weck. The story 1s a novel one. About | a year ago they were married. Short- j one of the strongest men the Demo- | ly after the husband went west to crats could nominate, and the Boston Post endorses the statement. The extraordinary number ot Blaine clubs in Pennsylvania 1s a proot ot the great care and thoraugh- ness with which Mr. Blaine’s beok agents have caevassed that state. A political correspondent ef the Chicago Times (Ind.,) who has been traveling through Southern IIli- nois, says that Logan has the enthu- Siastic support of all the counties there. The memphis (Tenn.) Appeal (Dem.) calls for more education in the south ‘*for the laborer as well the lawyer; for the merchant and ! education tor the negro as weil as j tor the white.” Blain has already secured 125 of Penn delegates to the Republican) Convention. | majority of the whole number, whil j several counties yet to hold tk fis- | trict meetiags will largely increase [the vote. Thus far only twenty-six | aie i delegates have been clected who ! opposed to them. For the first time in its history | Wisconsin votes this yea: tor Presi- j dent, Governor, and other State of- | ficers. Congressmen and Legislators, whom elect a United | States Senator, ail on the same hal- | lot ithe last of Even the German papers of & { aukee are cautioning the voters of | that nationality not to indulge again know-noti vom ian that species ot ngism the j { which resulted last Tues , election ot five German candidates | in that city, picked by race favorite- fism from both city tickets. } Gen. Longstreet has written a let- | ter to the Atlanta Constitution about ; the White Man’s Party.” in. which he says: **The sentiment seems to be in tavor of a rule t! peor must govern ‘Lhis is reg canis It is exceedingly rare to find my the Chic Inter-Ocean (Rep.), “*who 15 ling to evea say that he expects G one in Ilinois,*’ says ro 2 & wile | Logan to be nominated, and outsic Of the State Fe is w except us 1 few Bi Plaving hin 10ut following, strikers a card to draw a lit- i de Stalwart strength irom President | —- Arthur. he ' “It would be a very tunny thing.” | Times, --if Blaine men says the Philadeiphi« there should be no real among the six delegates-at-large from this State to an! the Republic I: looks as National Conve ite of nat might be t be compesed of instructed mmvention will Blaine delegates. i locate a home. The young wife watched tor letters that never came. Persuaded she was deserted, she ob- tained a divorce. At this time the husband returns, seeks his wife and repeats his vows. The lady heark- ens. Again the twain are made one. This was in Kansas. There it 1s a j crime to marry within six months The ful couple were warned of this, and the atter divorce. ignorant bliss- so hied then over the border to Gem City, the lovely Gretna Green of the and were I in welded sunny southwest, tor better or worse. Joy attend ‘em, and what Judge Gray has put togethe: ee court put asunder. Say So- | Thousana Mrs. 7 { writes: i Kidney and Liver complaints. } : blood and reg | No a ¥ can afford to be wi 1 1 hey will save hundre.’s of dollars in doctor b Sold at fittv cts eae & Co. 3 i ! The management of the Ohio & Mississipp1 Railway, during the past | | few years,has been eminently success- j ful, as seen in the tact that the bled to pany has recently been ens | take the road out ot the hands of the | court, and place iton a sound finan- ! | cial basis. From April ist the for- { mer General Manager, Capt. W. W. Peabody, will become President and General Manager, in ful! control. The equipment and train. seryice have been greatly unproved, and now that opportunity offers. will be j perfected in every partic making the --O. & M.”’ th sirable line tor travel in its territory. | We can he: 1Ohro & Mi | favorable a most de- on Of our | for we have tried it ourselves iknow whereof w ”* Close **Satety ar H,will save n tent otherwise expe ' FRUIT EVAPORATORS. the Willtams< Evaporators for anufacture Fruit factory getable Wealso make the Bidweili S nedium si Evapora’ their meri prices to compet nes. parties are glad to them at reasonable prices. Send for illustrated | Circular. John Williams & Son, Paten- tees and Manutacturers, Kaiamazoo, — Mich. 16-3m. * get no divorce | IE posi- | com- } recommend the | 91 Railway to the} patrons, F i ELEVATOR. | WE ARE IN THE ‘I GRAIN MARKET,. Alive and kicking. Best facilities for handling Corn in Bates ; County. . i We carry our corn up by machinery, can BN easy and sate, only 5 feet high. empty aload of corn in two minutes. No danger to team or wa Highest market price cash up no urumbling, Honest weights. Try » once. Wehave regenerated the Grain Market ot Butler, and have been} ys worth thousands of dollars to the farmers of Bates county. In addition t iD LEFKER & CHILDS corn we handle all other kinds of Grain. eT ape ESTABLISHED 1870. tio jennett, Wheeler&Ce,': HEADQUARTERS FOR TIE Celebratec Jehn Deer Plows, Cultivators and Stalk Cutters} MITCHELL FARM WAGON) | And Cortland Spring Wagons, |“ | Holliday Wind Engines and Deep Well Pumps. Haish} ti: | Close “S” Barb Steel Fence Wire, and the finest line of| ° CHOICK G ROCERIES, and best selected stock of Hardware in the City, we NORTHEAST CORNER SQUARE. - BUTLER, MO. AsUre Fe almounetis te a - . res > feat Soeieated fesse: Py a ce NEW Jo WelilicrR. ' city tuture tome, been F t as. ches and brought wbesed. Uy be ' lave the as pe eles cod guarar BEX HARDT TT eh ee tt Ace Butler, M> a