The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, September 2, 1885, Page 1

'vOL. VIT. (CORRESPONDENCE. ee 2 Adrian. Everybody seems to he ghding ; slong on a “flowery bed of ease”’ with that smoothness which has char- acterized our pleasant litte village of fifteen hundred happy souls ever gnce its birth to this mundane sphere ot ours. Business keeps in the same chan- ael of ‘hurry and skurry”’ that it has P heen during the past summer months. J. P. Knisley has rented the ma- sonic building in which the Adrian | bank isnow situated and ere long jim and his deputv wil! be dishing P out mail to the enquirer at the postal delivery. The new bank room is receiving its fnishing touches by the masterly, bands ot Hughes & Peebles, and soon Messrs. Scudder and Mills will be as “beaucitul pictures in a hand- some frame.” Mayor J. N. Bricker is counting the hours that will escape betore he } can get his 385 Ibs. avordupois jolity and good nature into his new and sparkling room, which 1s also nearing completion for habitation. Mr. P. F. Woods returned from an extended tour in the east Satur- day eve. where, we suppose, he has been introducing that **patent pump’” which he 1s handling at present. The Knights are rapidly increasing in members and the material 1s- un- questionable in quality. They oc- | cupy the same rooms as do the A. O. U. W. boys, and ere long the two lodges combined will soon have one of the best finished rooms in this part of the state. H. Moudy & Co. and A. J. Sat- terlee, Esq., coastitute the best grain firms in North Bates They always pay the highest market price for all | grain and are agreeable to deal with ., at their posts. “La’’ Fayette Watts,general man- ager of the Hannibal Saw Mill Lum- ber Co., is receiv ng anotner large supply ot lumber to fill the wants of his increasing trade. Bryant replenishing “their already mamoth stock of dry goods and he and his head clerk, J. W. Howerton, are kept busy shelv— ing them. Dr. F. W. Adair, whose ‘‘phys- ical’’ shingle soars aloft on the gen- tle zephyrs that floatthrough the city ot Archie, was over Thursday even- ing attending the regular meeting of the Knights of Pythas. The Dr, Feports Archie ‘distressing healthy.’ F. 8. Weaver has been absent at Bros., are Kansas City, the past week buying | stock to feed, we suppose. Sheriff Hanks graces our streets quite trequently the autumnly days. } W. R. Alexander has been having ! his resic ce on 3rd st. handsomely } Painted the past week. Mrs A. has been under the weather trom the effects of the paint. Tames P. Gilmore will soon take his leave from tond parents and his many friends here to new fields « learn t yt William Jewell Co! ege, at Liberty, Mo., where he will attend two years atter which he g withm the scope ot will leave tor some eastern and more thorough place of knowl- edge. Comment is unnecessary as to his success, = to follow. and the well wishes The Adrian Base Ball Club drove over to Alt to play them las ona t Sat- \ Uday. The Altona boys ** irew up he sp on the second ¢ standing 5 te 3 in favor of a ple his attended the Butler Weekly | BUTLER, MISSOURI, WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER son. ‘TF little strar rap at the outer door of this sinful world and was admitted to tull :nember- ship with the balance of us peor F will no doubt bear the name of Dam- mortals and he man Demos nes. There seems to be some tur flying |hetween the Advertiser and the} | Thomas Cat and from appearances | it seems as though the Ca. has lost the greatest share | . Frank Hyde looks like « Toim L. | Sullivan when he dons that base ball ; suit of his. | Doc Sliger has gone to Kansas City | with two loads of apples —this makes | | his second trip. Squire’? Enis, of the City, graced our streets with his 200 Electric Ibs, of genial averdupois, last Frida Fair & Shepherd are nicely locat- ed in their new quarters at the brick j and are receiving large invoices ot goods most every day. | Cox & Weayer have anew invoice j of hardware and wagons which they | their are selling at reduced rates as | grocery business keeps all busy early | and late. Miss Satterlee | Quisenbury will soon leave for Hol- Lizzie and Mliss j den where they will attend the La- | die’s department ot the Holden Col- jlege. May other young ladies of our little city profit py their example, as jr | knowledge they may have and never ches they may have and loose, but loose. | We learn that Mr. and Mrs. Bert | | Ewing were made parents by the ar- rival ef a bouncing boy ot standard | | weight Thursday evening, Aug. 27 May it survive all the ails of | | babyhood and grow up a tall and | stallwart oak | We drove over to Crescent Hill} | Saturday and found the Hill busy molasses, that | making sorghum **quoth | the and and | more.’ raven, nothing ; Yours till the cows come home. Max Vomax, } Vinton. | Mr. Weldon Yates was in the | Electric City last week attending the | teachers institute. He reports a | grand time. | | Miss Mattie Stewart, accompanied | by Miss Smith and Marshall, all of | ' i |Lone Kansas. are visiting Nellie | Fisher and Sena Henderson. Misses | Stewart and Smith and Mr. Mar- |shall are handsome and intelligent, | land have made many friends during | | their stay here. Why v of Deepwater spent until ten o’clock | sit acertain young dude | ene Sunday eve. not long since hunt- Walt, let her ing tor his best girl? ‘know when you are coming next | time. Misses Lee Johnson and Carnie Walls, two of Butler’s charming ladies, are visiting Mattie 1 Bettie Nave. Misses Lee and Cz created quite a turo among the young }gallants of this place. c Miss Jessie Fusselle, a arming ng her young lady ot Sedatia, is visit sister, Mrs. J. H. Crawford I ce cream supper given at the resi- j dence of W. HH. Crawtord on last Friday. Some 45 or 50 in attend- ance. Mr Sil mistaken ia regard to Brownie visit- ister, you are somewhat ing m your township. Owing to our great age we visit but very little, and We on the retired Inst and nothing but a Al- ot then close at home. are now taded one at that. though from what we have heard the people of your vici wall flower v, we know that whoever the lady was that you mistook fer Brownie pleasant athe Normar 5. Where she will rleftlast week remai visiting friends and erstiner, c mMpany wit so ft for Gr wille, Hib. grounds were teemin They engaged in games and to while away the | | country folks are getting with cerrain | j why can’t we nominate lit they want office they will have to yoy affairs ot e seasor refer to the croquet party given at the residence of Mr. Lewis, on Thursday eve, the 2oth. At an early hour the guests began to arrive and soon the house and surrounding g with g guest. music | hours until supper was announced. ow, Mr, Editor, our pen proves inadequate to the j task, but the tabie was loaded with | delicious viands and the guest de- parted ata late hour, one and all} voting Miss Renie princess of hostess. The Sunday school picnic at the! Riley grove the 22d was agrand suc- | Ges two ots te Toey make aest that we. through t Times, | eturn the s to the people of § he kindness id hospitality extended to tt during their stay ir midst. J. H. Crawford and wife paid a 1e ic City last] week. Strange, but how very popular we part smuate that they are politic ge with hard | the sturdy | still ’tis funny to see the n such dainty hands h E . bs and toil-worn palm ot farmer. grasp ¢t e But they can vote. Ha, ha, | Messrs. Observer and Silabuster | deny the charge ot being bachelors that you z gentlemen, we reiterate c —you and no one else—but still you re fighting us with some one else to You both bache- lors, but of course you are to turn benedicts. creen vou. are anxious Three times three for the _staunch | editor, J. b.} Allen, the tuture P. M_ of Butler. andidates are thick and working democrat and able up their case. It we are not a yoter candidates * Northwest Bates’ choice tor Record- er, Duke Simpson; Sheriff, J. P. Willis. They are popular men in this yicinity and would carry north- | west Bates by a rousing majority over any republicans, and that 1s just How the republ:- | what we want. cans groan, but it can’t be helped; emigrate to sunny Kansas. Healthy climate for republican seekers or| | | i office. Brownie. Jchastown. of Spruce township, are not dead, 1f we are sleeping, but as we sleep we dream, and our dreams are not entirety t workings of restless brains, but visions of realities, for ayers can look tore } since the rains ta ward to an , be harvested here. | h ao which will surel It is rtune flax cr From the number « arvest, for tl n oppc was ne failure . f gons that daily pass for coal, cure the:r winter pr roads are good, and not as they were last tall and without fuel, and the roads sable. Our little town was ‘*f on last Thursday eve. Itseemst is bad blood between one of ou f.G Thursday eve they met 1 one of our wens and Pr fith, and on fast on of words he where an altercs stores, There w no took place. e Dw 1,we beli exchange e £ s time; re is considerable si mostly dysentery trou cCool and tamily will leave n in about two weeks. is hile si | Sire to revenge the death of old | ‘Let | follow 4 ; was °St. Clair.’ abundant corn harvest, | | | scon ts } pers¢ ns tr in the One negroes arriy eveni hundred tols. to work, but d 1s considerable the sur- issaustaction existing among es and We would to not be prised at any time hear of the ig Miners making a raid upon negroes. SuBSCRIBER. Why They Didn’t Lynch Them. Said Hon. S. Wnght, ot Nevada: g near the spring Sunday |mormng, ‘tL suppose I saved the Stairs trom being lynched when they were first arrested. Excitement was pretty high, and everybody saw that the only thing lacking was a leader jtor the consumation of a tragedy that would be a proach tooure With good citizens I went sround ong them; whose lower ing countenance could be read a de man and Sewell and son, spoke to them of the majesty of the law, and of the stain which a summary execution would put upon cur city’s fair es- I told them that w the undoubtedly guilty and be hung, an impar- tial trial was their right. My words tell as on deatened ears, They said, amnst any possible + tothe county.’ I saw at once that a different course must be taken or the prisoners would never see the daylight of another day, who I went to a saloon keepet was one ot the foremost advocates of mob | law, and said I, ‘Juke, hold these tellows off. Think what trade you will lose if the Stairs are lynched. Fox’s Was not a very one and yet to see Ita man and woman a day’s You know crime bratal ten thousand people came him executed. are bung for a ctime so henious as the one of which the Stairs are guilty, don’: you know the sight wili draw fifty thousand people to our city. Look to your .nterest and have this mobbing business stopped.’ A kind of scared look came into Jake's face when he saw the situation and he said, ‘By blank, Wright, I belieye I’m in favor of a reg- In tess than an hour vou’re right, ular hanging,’ the mob had dispersed ,—Eldorado Deniocrat. One of the anti-bond men had a dream the other night and the next day he related it to a co-worker as **Yes, I hada A maa came to my bedside all dressed in black. Un his cap,in gold letters, He said tome, ‘take hand this tablet and pencil; thy wishes and I took the knew Icouldn’t dream. o thy the tablet tT knew what I “ I pre it Canst thou pvt write 7’ ed the man. ‘I eannet,’ said I} and the man left. As ne had gone 1 got up and out because I couldn’t *What word ted to asked his coworker. ‘I wanted to write soffice’ 7? — Democ: Standard, Applton Ci shot brains ny it one wor was ityou wan write 2” are count- ‘ with its bare feet dangling near ” a A Dirty Piece of Robbery. Friday morning ig at 3 o'clock James Hutchins, was b; lored man name as diy beaten up and thrown off a mov ng freight Hutchins is rom the Cherekee Nation and had north with in on the Frisco road one parties shipping stock, and was returning to his home in the nation. When he got as tar as this city he stopped over to attend a colores dance, and thereby missed the evening passenger trai east. Atter he had enjoyed him- self with his colored triends to his satisfaction, he boarded the early morning freight train with the in- tention of resuming his journey When the miles east of train about three got this city a entered the car in which Hutchins was lying and demanded his money, had a that he had $70 in Hute th this demand, it seem at Hutching pre- viously told | his possession retused to comply w upon the ikeman told him to yield up or he wouid kill him. and at the same time struck hima heavy blow with a pistol, cutting his nead in him ful manner and knocking senseless. The brakeman then pro ceeded to rifle the pockets of Hutch- | ins, and, atter procuring his wealth, going | brakeman | NO 40 Wyard’s Aim. The following poem was written for the Tiws by talented fr fand boss harness maker Gus. Wyard to make my work of good leather it thread that will hold is together; Ihave harness trimmed with silver, Japan and Tass, the large horse pony or ass; I have halters with th rings, and others with three If you don’t believe ther’e good ones just call in and see; And webbing for back-bands, some four inchew wide; They are ¢ things for summer, for they have been tri Lhave bridles for stallions, the gelding and j mare; | Bits plated with silver, and snaps made wite wire; Bitting bridles for colts to teach them to know ie Ways of the world and in what shape to go Lhose in want of such articles just give me a call; | If Tean’t show you good work Vil show none at all; I wish not a large profit on work that [ sel A good, honest living will do me quite well But try me and see, and I ask for no more I have a good stock constantly in store | You will see my sign out, and me within- So make me a4 visit and you'll come agair To the southeast corner Square where- A Clear Skin is only part of beauty but itisa part. Every lady | may have it; at least, what |looks like it. Magnolia Balm both freshens sand beautifie a 25th Great St. Louis Farr. the train while in [lutchms came to this city and swore out a warrant for the brake- man, who was arrested at Pierce City yesterday and will be brought to this city this morning to answer to j the charge.—Carthage Patriot. Bob Ingersoll's Income. Let us indulge, as to Ingersoll, in | a measurement of him by liary American standard ot cash. the pecu Has his berating ot Christianity yielded a A man affairs estimates itat $200,000, more | than half of which has been gained } through lecturing and the rest by law fortune ? coversant with his | practice and shrewd investments, He has maintained his family luxurious- ly. and his purse strings are never tightly tied. It may be said indis- putably that his income is larger than that of any clergyman in the United | States. The largest salary paid toa pastor Henry Ward Sseecher’s $20,000. Rev. Dr. John Hall comes next, with $12,000 and a parsonage worth haif as besides $5,000 from Bonner for Ledger are ticles. 1s much more, Ingersoll’s annual income as clear. It1s doubtful if B er, lece ture tour and all, nets more than $25,000.-—Chicago Journal. A little child of the John Monegaw township, last Sun- Wetherley, was bitten by a rattlesnake day, but at last accounts bad expe rienced no symptoms whateyer of a poisonous effect. The little one was sitting on the porch of the residence ground; when it suddenly drew up its t and to cry. when blood was ob Ozing trom asmal! wound. A |} “ amination was made tort cause nd his snakeship was discovered and sured about three and 114 rat- outton, which, accord It me killed. th and ha tles and at g to snakeology,would make it 15 years sas started to this ol A messenger city tor Dr. Shelton, the doctor reac as ove etited. the > signe This the cc pain. ocation, -d not to c-ed:t . FREDRICK. Opens Monday, Uctober sth, and con- re ion ot the cor tinues for six days. The premium list, which has just been | pleted, contains 24 departments and $73, ‘ovo in premiums. The management are erecting 700 new horse stables, 509 cattle stalls, Soo sheep and swine pens, a poul- ad exhibition halls in addition to those jready upon the ground. The Veiled Prophets will parade Tuesday, October 6th, and the Trades Procession Thursday, October 8th. The streets witl be illun | inated by electric and calcium lights to- gether with 150,000 gas jets. $400,000 has just been expended on improvements and 65 acres added to the ground. Races | will be given over the new mile track ¢€ ery day during the tair. Two car loads of lions, tigers, monkeys, tropical birds, | herbivorous animals and veaomons rep- tiles, will be added to the Zoological Gar- den as a special attraction to the tair. A rate of one tare for the round trip a“ been made by all railroads running with- | in 500 miles of St. Louis. Any of our subscribers desiring “ copy of the premium list will receive one tree by addressing Festus J. Wade, Secy., 715 Chestnut street St. Louis, Mo.,and stating | they are subscribers of this paper. ————————— try house for 3,000 fowls a nineteen a a lecturer has been over $40,000 and } Did you Sup- | pose Mustang Liniment only good | for horses? It is for tion of all flesh. LEWIS HOFFMAN, Best Be HAND ‘AADE: SOUR MASH CORN’. RYE W HISKEY. w Dealer in the is of an \iso Imported and Nativ ne List OF MY LEADING BRANDS. PRICE