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BUTLER NATIONAL BANK, —iIN—] Opera House Block, ASU Vict, XC. President President. - Cashier. Ase’t Cashier erk and Collector. T.W. CHIL?) Wa. E. WALTON, .C. DUKE,...-... DON KINNEY ...---© DIRECTORS Booker Pow Green W. Walton, Dr. N, L, Whipple, T, W, Childs, Wo, E, Walton, ]- Rue Jenkins. Dr. T. C. Boulware, R, D. Williams. Judge J. H. Sullens, A_L, McBride, Frank Vonis, C, H, Dutche: OTHER STOCK HOLDERS: G, B, Hickman, C, C. Duke, John Deerwester, O. Spencer, John B. Ellis, J, R, Estill, 3S, Q. Dutcher, J, J, McKee, Henry Donovan A, H, Humpt rey, Large "Fire and Burglar Proof Safe with time lock. Receives deposits subject to check at sight, Loans money buys and sells ex- change and does a veneral Bankine bus- ines. Your business is respectfully solicited. BATES COUNTY National Bank, BUTLER, MO ORGANIZED IN 1871, Capital paid in, - Surplus - - - - $75,000. - $20.000 RECOMMENDING A PIANO.. How the Ex-Engineer Didit—A | Consumes its Own Noise. ino that id brand of a piano. hat depends upon your taste, you want to ss] said he. li egance withuiility [would j madam,”” combine e! suggest the old-fashioned sq piano. tanswers ter an ornament This kind of an instrument should not be selected for a smali cab, be- cause it doesn’t leave room tor firing up. They make just as much steam as the upright, but, owing to the po- sition of the harp, they let down in the quicker. Being wide-gauge. the wear and If you want a per—- machine, flues much tear i also very great. fect-working, handsome | and a bed when you have compzny. | _ eae | ing upon the yonug fish inthe t alled his Editorial Dots. selt : Hawkev a st the co was one ot efforts [t's mea “ row nue of the Thirty-first congress. Benton aw seals 1 I K Old P S Ve Keiter must 2 newspaper r A large blue heronthat was prey- “A cigar,’’ remarked ¢ atch- | ‘tis like an advertisement: the less Colorado, at- it costs the more puting wants.”” Fish a him River, iam E. ferv on PI tacked W Ce says old it row up your ch be es, whipped journ medical issione become first Then j ternmb surprise | still, too. you | Co on the huge} popular. h the body and! David Davis bas given hurled it to the ground. Then the | o¢ receiving the president struggle wi soon decided. Col. tion. He is learning tc Ace Sisty simply held on until the bird! .opgeon. was choked to death. tum to lum considered take the upright. It Its narrow— gauge, hung low on the trucks. and has all the modern improvements, including patent brake and snow plow: The running board 1s the same size of the square, and she car- You can as ries just as much steam. small space and get work it in much sound out of it as you with the the old-fashioned steam- boat whistles. Her as neat as a Pullman sleeper, and it you keep her well packed and oiled she worksas slick as old Seventy- four. I haverun one for five years, and it makes as good time now as the day it came out of the shop, though the tuner has only taken up that time. could wood-work is its lost motion once in Large Vault, B urglar-Proof | When it makes too much steam you Safe with Time Lock We are prepared to do a general bank- ing business. od paper always in demand. Buy and sell exchange, ive deposits &c., &c. DIRECTORS. .C. Clark, Niot Pyle fon. J. B. Newberry ¥. P. Henry, I. N. Mains, Dr. J. Everingham, J. P. Ryan, W. J. Bard, D.D. Wood, J. M. Patty, Lewis Cheney, Geo. W. Miers, F. Coleman Smith. F. J. Tygard. OFFICERS. LEWIS CHENEY - - President: J.€.CLARK - - - - Vice President. F_.Y. FYGARD - - - Cashier. THE HORNS Grocery House OF Cc. DENNEY st their well Known and popular -tind on the East side of tne are leading the GROCERY TRADE IN tea- BUTLER. cy Their stoek 1s composed of Feed Flour quatiy of Staple and fancy Groceric tslass, Queensware and THEY ARE ar LESS EXPE? Than any squa and the best ; house in the eity, and therefore do uot fear competition. They pay liberal prices for Produce. They solicit acontinuance of the pat- renase of their many customers. and Will gladly attend to their wishes at any and all times. Goods delivered in the city its Sy ity Inmits Chas. Denney. ' could shut it off by pressing your foct on this little satetv-valve, but if you want to pall her wide open, press on the other one Her body and fire-box hang low, making it a little difficult to clean out her, but you can hide a great deal ot stuff under there until the spring cleaning. You her out twice a year on the turn-table and and she hums along. under can run polish off her jacket with a little oil, and she looks as good as new. It a boarding-house or a | you live double tenement I would advise vou to take recently Brown, of This now 0.1 old pianos, and is very fective. to consume attach: Conductor Four #2 patent piano mvented — by Big attachment is railroad. the largely in use ef- By its use the piano is made When your children are practising you can attach it, and rectly into the ears of the player, its own vise. every sound goes di- leaying other occupants of the house and the most eae E neighborhood — in solemn silence. It is really beauti- ful to see the gymnastic exercise which the average young woman can thump out of a piano without a is new at noise when she 1s using tachment. And thinks all the time that she is mak- the *pertormer ing things howl with the music she ordinary tone, while the person at the piano cannot hear anything but makes. the n anapolis Mr Bachelors’ wn $75.000 ft attachment the he declines so small a We pianos ef all the leading hetels and i now have tl the boar houses in this city, and if } prominent piano firm in the East | does not buy it we will soon. estab- It is not send your plate back for more soup. ver sat a one-legged man named teed Coyne. A =i lever wants to. doz with his cane, and Coyne took | the brute’s part. The dog tollowed ; ja tree trader. Coyne all day, and when he went to! In the bar-room of a hotel in Den- at our boarding house nobody stranger hit the house Oh, yes, Henry Ward Beecher is But he isn’t shouting ee - | for *‘the old ticket’? very much, nor the attic for the mght the dog ranup | ss = beans yet for Samrandle. stairs and crawled into bed. Coyne es Je: ~ees es ee threw him off, but the deg jumped A West Hilt aur. call per tONct back. In the night the hotel took | letters ‘sigh for’’ dispatches. Yes fire, and Coyne alone 3 saved, | de#r: that’s just what they are worth the dog awakening him in time. {oR the face of them. H. Stuart Wortley. in Nature, tells! Eight hnndred dollars is asked tor an interesting story of a cat he found | the M S of Dicken’ Battle of Lite.”’ in the Malakoff with its foot pinned | What nonsense. Why you can get tothe ground by a bayonet. For printed copy for fifty cents. wo mornings he took her to the} o.. ee oy 5 | ‘The Mormon church doesn’t hire arest regimental surgeon and had! é ‘ = pestesbrcoaG = i jany outside evangelists at $200 a her foot dressed. On the third morn- me E | week, but it keeps up a steady and ing the cat went herself to the doc a 5 : 2 | increasing re-wival interest, all the tor’s tent, scratched the canvas to be | u A same. let in, and then held up her paw to black nor is The devil is not so | the white elephant so white as he 15 the odds be doctored. A lady in San Ratael has succeed- si 5 : - respectively painted, with wild humn in taming two birds. Plucking tached it to a branch ot a tree over! ed a long ways in favor ot the brunette. a fuchsia, she at Cincinnati may be comforted. She her head and filled it with sweeten-|is not the greatest sufferer ed water. The birds soon had their | cities. True, she had the floods and slender bills thrust into the flower, | the 1 » but Philadelphia had a cat from which they took long draughts. | show. Every day afterward she filled a Itas said that in February New soon became so impatient they | the insurance companies would just would not wait until she went away, | like to Know who found the money 2 | but fed while she was filling the : aera : Tt is said that fish cannot live verv tar Nor can live very far out of it. Sex flower. I under the water they Henry Clay's Heroic Son. | From the Cincinnati New i fish kas a cramped sort of an e€ **Do you know what killed Henry tence. Clay?” my genial Kentucky story | 4 Boston clergyman believes and son. Henry | Which? He where he a $ After | 2" Ohio railroad died of fright. T the presidency, but his Both. Clay, Jr., was his father’s idol. mee cent tanWWeee one A few weeks ago a passenger on graduated second in his class rhe brakeman must have cailed a station four months in the army he resigned, so that the could under- passenger T in Lex at A and began practi ton, hving with his SIRS! ee The dark land. Nota young man in Ken- No, young man, no, tucky promised better things than he | horse m politics is called not with is making. The beauty ot itis that] ;. ~ f, 1 ; s did When the Mexican war broke | reference to his color but to his ways. it can be attached so that the player } eas t = 1 = i ial out he was determined to go. His} Frequently as to his morals. See does-not know that it 1s on. which | I = : jiather had no objection, and he went | record. leaves persons in the room t - AER Th a out as lieutenant-cojonel of the First Phere is only one reason It free to carry On conversation in an] ,, : A Se POR SRE reason. Wy Kentucky regiment. At the battle | Mary Anderson hasn’t refused. Mr. Santa Anna overwt ot Buena Vist 32,000 troops. with | Gladstone, the old man hasn't P. S.—And pro posed. more, elmed about eighth | he isn’t going one tnumber, Clav fought hard. but, = Notice: Inanot! He legs. was net mor fed, and three men picked up to convey him} irekty Ach Picters off the field. It soon hecame evi- Oboe ; dent that the Mexicans would over- ar : ve vo take them. rselves. boys.” he said, and taking the pistol which i | lishan agency in Washington city. ! which has more cracked pianos t any other citv in the world.” | j ote ete : | Reminiscence of Bento:. | | | { view with and old-t ; ‘Benton was a large tat man vanity, egotism pomposity were markable, and when he arose to i speak in the senate there was that in | his air and manner that proclaimed - ' | ‘Let s the world keep silence :I Thomas H. Benton, of Missoun, | speaketh.” Andeverybody kept <i- | lent, too, a he spoke as few men} eak. T heard what he him- | he was lying on | squad of Mexicans with his father | ven him, hhnded | _- eee we : said to he looking it to one of the men w the words, Ww : ae : property in Wash Take this. ar it to my}, I father. Tell h no turther | use With they dropped back, his sword. Next morning Was found, by The pisto! came to his tather, then a sen- hacked to pieces mutilated s who killed him. seve ator, and, though he hved several ry ¥ ttle bv F.M. Crur years after, 1am convinced that he died from the blow.”’ among | ms to us |} ee a Se. ne the other It | tries to prove that Paradise is loca— not, I wi ell rut, le bE a 1 “ a | : ik AUST ei 2a of @lted at the north pole. Ho! No| roken heart, not because he lost| wonder it’s so hard to. get to. then. WEIR CULTIVATOR lows. He BARBED WIRE The Bain F n, the Racine Wagon, the Baker Grain Drill, Harrows of all kinds and a tull line of ROP BU GG bk Tron, Steel Nails, and wagon wood work, and the only exclusive line of Shelf Hardware in the city. R. R. DEACON | ELEVATOR, WE ARE IN THE GRAIN MARKET, Alive and kicking. Best facilities for handling Corn in Bates County. DUMPS juters tor Spring =, ‘ AT PL RETR *cremeemrets MRE EN easy and safe, only 5 feet high. We carry our corn up by machinery, can empty aload of corn in two minutes. No danger to team or wagon r : g agon. Highest market price cash up no grumbling, Honest weights. Try us once. Wehave regenerated the Grain Market of Butler, and have been worth thousands of dollars to the farmers of Bates county In addition te corn we handle all other kinds of Grain. LEFKER & CHILDS. EZSTABLISHED 1870. Bennett, Wheeler Ze, | HEADQUARTERS FOR THE Celebrate Jchn Deer Plows, Cultivators and Stalk Cutters MITCHELL FARM WAGON And Cortland Spring Wagons, Holliday Wind Engines and Deep Well Pumps. Haish i Close “S” Barb Steel Fence Wire, and the finest line of CHIOICK Gt ROCERIES. and best selected stock of Hardware in the City. RTHAST CORNER SQUARE. - NO BUTLER, MU. mMouneing to bat Ve located in to Make it“iny tuture home, the | NEW JEWELER. MH owatehes 3 an ne nd FRANZ BE®. HARDT Butler, Mo And Tinners’ Stock OF ALL KIND®& FORSALEEY od ST.LOUIS,MO