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= RS APR AIC UL sac eas ert am BU eRea-. Sot emes? ccc LN ccc Ce et aetna onan 7 ga@rNor : Lobes a er" aminations tor the benefit ot sons desiring to teach in Ba will be held on the 3d Saturda month in the Ohio la ler, Mo., a months. farmers to get short loans, or sé ort real estate paper. 2 A tu | trom i t of es. sree j thieves are age country. 'd he i | ad el “| { ter n Brooklys: “Time Miss Mo B r| Henry county’s fairest bells and an | accomplished young lady, is spen i- | ing a few days visiting Mrs. Fran-} | Ike Ellis turned his 34th mile post | Monday, and the sociable manner in | which he treated tis many triends | wil make them wish his birth day } came oftener- | : | Summers, who has the Frid Miss been visiting in Lamar for 1 home laggie cs) | past | | four weeks, returnec ny | last. She reports having had a very | pleasant time. We congratulate the people ot Nevada over securing the southwest asylum. a hard tought bat- | te and the people of It was that city can justly teel proud over their victory. Judge J. A. loiesean and wife, ot East Boone township, who have been on a long visit to Nebraska for the latter’s health, has returned, and we are glad to learn Mrs. Holder- man has been greatly by the trip. benefited Hon. Joshua Li Due, atter an a sence of seyeral years, has removed back to Clinton to practice law. Mr. La Due is a fine lawyer and a democrat, and we have no doubt his return to Clinton will be hailed with delight by his many friends in that city. sound Maj. J. N. Bradley, Inspector of the Bureau of Animal Industrv has just finished compilirg his report on the hog and fowl industry in the var- wus counties of Missouri, The facts and figures contained therein will be iteresting to Missouri Rockville Globe. tarmers.— Butler Academy opened Monday | with a full school. The new addition has been completed and the accom- modations much greater and more pleasant than last year, With the very best imstructors, Predict tor this school, which is first- class in all its branches, abundant Success this vear. are and, we} { } It you want to see a neat office, call on our esteemed triends, W. L. | Powell, of the Jarvis, | Conklin & Co. money loaning agen- cy,and Ben B.Canterbury ,abstractor and also money loaner,over the store foom of Dixie Haggard and Franz Bernhardt. moment you | Spenthe door you teel as though | manager | i { The very j you were entering the habitation of @passel ot old maids, so neat and} Clean is everythi vw kept. It is a dusy office and the turniture is hand- Some. An exchange, whose editor has evidently observed how business is | sometimes done, s: **When you have a job of printing to do, if you fan get it any where else for few Cents cheaper, nae! | a and do but when you have a thank-you no- } tice of any kind to make or a com- Plimentary card to be printed, take | to your home newsp: uper. News- | Paper printers pay their employes in Wind, their Paper, ink, etc., on Promises, They haye no occasion to use money.” be sure | gan. e Johnson, who has been spendi few weeks visting Muss Mattie and Bessie Nave, of Rosier, returned home Saturday. have to pay Io, 13a aad 15, cents per of fast wee tried before ed larp Was quire Cannon for assaulting Ed. Bosweil, ot Etk Hart township, and fined one hundred dollars. Seyeral more weeks hz ive passed and still no work has been done on the Rich - Nand Appleton railroad. Work on Inut road, ate moveth ri sd J. this paper, tor on City Sunday Please be charit night on business. 2 ble with his substitute, as he will do the best he can toward giving you the lates news. We see from the n City Standard at Bill Beach and his ! wife have seperated, and she tells ugly stories of his infidelity to her. She also said Bill’s parents live near Pleasant Gap, in this county. Squire Meek who let t here some time ago, afflicted with a bad case of asma and almost blind, writes back that his health has been greatly im- proved, and that he can now breathe | and his eye sight is very much improved. tree The tempe license crowd are having it red hot over the licensing of saloons in Ap- pleton City. the whisky crawd were anead. Reg- ence element and the ular licensed saloons and revenue for | the town is much better than dr on the sly and gallon houses ard no revenue Franz Bernhardt and wife’ ed home from their visit to an sota Friday mght. During t™ a it among the lakes, Mrs. Bet 2b, “edt says her old hubby became quue an expert fisherman, and handled the rod equal to Ex--President Arthur. Now boys if you want to get the latest on fishing call on Mr. Bern- hardt. The State Journal, Jefferson City, has changed owner- The Journar will published at ship and politics hereafter de a good democratic The Herald, at Ft. Scott, a good republican organ has turned up | or its httle toes, and ifthe town muddle is not settled pretty soon we expect} another to hear of Butler furoishiag radical corpse, or a subject tor luna- tic asvium No. 3, Here is a black eye for the crank that says apple orchards in Bates | county won't Last week J. B. Durand, living in Prarie ship, and owner of one ot the largest and finest this county, sold thirty acres of the same, containing 1,700 trees, to Clemmoas, Day: town- apple orchards in about sas City, tor the snug sum of $1,500, the pur pick and receive | the fruit in the orchard. Now don’t tellus t nipple raising in Bates Mr. would Durand in- take the apple crop dimensions of which woula be 4ox6o and 3S feet Mr. Durand farmer and, county won't pay. tormed us that money recte and put it ir barn, the a lev oes will be a tuture. high. rich man im the near At the last G@guring | Cleons & Co., of Kan- | th ty cele in the c nniversary. } p Mor ing in its wake was ; Hill was blown down and a man kitled. The wind blew hard in But ler, a in came dow®#@ the near wa no damage was done. along the li wau & Se. | that the estimated yie ditie Barley 30! Is, rye 35 bushels, oats 60 to 7o bushels, wheat 23 to 28 | bushels, flax 18 to25 bushels. Other ! interesting facts relative to Dakota } will be turnished free upon appli cation to A. V. H. Carpenter, Gen-} eral Passenger Agent. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. _ John Brosnahan and John O’Brien, known Kansas City at | two we have been arrested Lexington, | Mo., on a charge of being implicated | | in the robbery of the Chicago & Alton | ot last The pretty | sure they have the right The attempted robbery of this train was a bunglesome piece of business and Blue week. Wednesday authorities Springs, are men. showed that the men engaged in it were not experts. Strange it may appear, abigger } liar than Tom Collins has been dis- | covered in the rural precincts ot Bar- and strange; still the | Lamar editors are green with envy. It must be embarassing to a man who has been running a paper tor vears to be brought face to face, and Stall to once’’ who can out he him two to one. We have had some trouble in our times, but nothing like this, very much doubt if we could stand stroke. —Nevada | ton county, with a man serious up under such a Democrat. Wallace Cheatham was arrested | Friday last on a warrant sworn cut by Mr. Wm. See,ct detrauding him out ot a The case is set tor trial before Esq. , Cannon Friday next. This the first suit ot the kind under the new law brought in Butler. The | penalty under this law for detraud- | ing a hotel or boarding house keeper | is a fine ot not less than $1.00 nor | more than $250, or imprisonment in the county jail for not less than six } } months, or by both fine and impris ; onment. Boys, you will see from the above that it won’t do to cheat the hash house board bill. is ever } i | The trial of the Stairs for the mur- Jer of old man Seawell and his son, by the jury bringing in a verdict of guilty was concluded Wednesday The court without | remarks, upon ber 23rd as the day tor their ex: any proceeded to pass sentence and fixed Friday, Octo- ecution. hem, The Stairs received their sentence without ceptanle emotion, removed trom the court and were t room to the jail as quick as possible. The case will be taken to preme court, by Stair’s attorney and a stay of execution will be had the su- until the case can be heard and determined by that body. Thus will the Stairs cheat the gallows out of its just de- + serts for a shorttime. and we} rging him with | tuffs, | | } passenger train, which took place at} I g J | | | { | i \ were he was found by }god man and kind neighbor, and } |b unfortunate } &rful warning preliminary | | hilding torn out, doors jerked from j scuck | arted home in his wagon, and when |ihad hit him in the top of the head LAsT THURSDAY'S STORM. Freaks of the Terrible Lightning seemed to t und was knocki ge works in e wire mel sruck in seve al other places but the camuge was § | all residence near < | telonging to F. A. Cox, was | naged to the aniount } g struck near i at and } | knocked s off their hinges. Strange 2 Was seven per- ; ns in the house at the time and not | the least. | west school building lkewise | yas hurt in ame in for its share and the belfra vas sli J. hav. ly damaged. K. Lile lost a considerable lot € | living in Char- | btte township, had his barn and a \ bile Jim Burke, Irge lot of hay destroyed. The tarm house of C. C. Harris, | out four miles east of Butler, was aso struck and the gable end of the teir hinges, etc. When the lightninz the O. Harris sseping ona spring mattress up stairs house, was ad was thrown into the middle of te floor, R. A. Harrs, who was sseping down stairs, and had a little thrown ito the middle ot the floor, but none vere hurt. Chas. Evzler, sleeping isan adjoining room, was the only erson about the house shocked. The most .untortunate occurrence aring the storm was the death of Tathan Cha a prominent farmer c Deepwater township. He had ben to town until the} me o’clock train came down to get cild in his arms, was also se and stayed sme repairs for his threshing ma- gine, which T. W. Childs had eraphed to Kansas City for him. Chase tel- ‘he repairs came and Mr. dout seven miles out of town he was n by the storm and killed in ts wagon. certak The stroke showed that z his hat, which was picked up the | it rsupposed he was killed, had a hole rxt morning on the road where trnt through it and his head show- ¢ plainiy where the mghtning had suck him. His mules were unharm- ¢ and after he was killed hauled | ‘im home and stopped at the gate, | his family | Chase was a zout sun up- Mr. Ita wite and six children to mourn | death, which is a | that man knoweth } at the hour. | When Baby was siek, we zave her Castoria, When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria, Vhen she became Miss, sho clung to Castoria, When she had Children, she gave them Castoria, There 1s more magic 1non nocent prattle than tl owl of a regiment of Yhitehall Times. Cc. Sent Now Secures =Be Soe Piers . ——— trial. @panion. ed with entert: a bome hel oe Homes Feresp, P’ ig Horse Shoe. STILL TAKES THE LEAD. ACORN STOVES RIVALS, = MOS BEAUTIFU I IN DESIGN \} QUICKER AND WILL LAS? HEATING _ STOVES, SIGN OF BIG A. Atkison, East Side HOR; SHOE, Square, BUTLER, MO. e E. HARPER. n Room wit WHE LEAD ON LOW PRICES. New Goods, Low Prices. j i All Goods as Represented. J,M. McKIBBEN. 100,000 BUSHELS CORN WANTED! | sa AS | EI -ee John A. Lefker & Co's. Elevator, We desire to say to the tarming community that we are now prepared to receive Corn in any quantity. We have recent- ly overhauled our Machinery, and now have ample facilities tor handling Corn easily and expeditiously. Our imps Are Convenient, Grade very easy and perfectly safe. To those who haye in the past so liberally favored us, we return our hearty thanks, and respecttully ask a continuance of their patronage. To those who have not heretofore dealt with us, we desire to say that we earnestly solicit a trial, believing that our mode of doing business will meet your approval, and, if so, shall en- deavor to merit a share of your patronage. We havea large quantity of ers £6) € OF DE = Oe. @, “ef Ds Dh 8 | specially selected for sowing purposes, to loan tor the season of 1885, and we invite all parties who contemplate sowing Flax next year to come and see us betore making their ar—- rangements for seed, as we Axow We Cax Do You Good. does is the thi not what he psays.’’ ss hata man Come and see us. JOHN A. LEFKER & CO.