The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, September 23, 1885, Page 5

BUTLER ——— S47 NOTICE TO TE ations for the be mon Butler, Mo. each month ir Rich Hill, Mo mencing each « Co So : LOCAL ITEMS nuiary in that c All Atkison a Lou ma retu isto send for Aunt Eliza Pink Mrs. A. H. Culver] jast for Edinburgh, Il}, to d the al « ' i we learn was v ‘ Our staunch ve treet from gave us a pieasant call Friday, Better boys don’t arow in any coun- try, The greatest ¢ mage to the corn crop of this country this season, was the planting of bad seed corn. [Tad the first planting made a< there would have been no end to the yield. Mahoney, fire- man of the engine t + p at went through Osage er bridge Sunday ct last week, was found the other day put two hundred yards below the Undge ing and accomplished daughter, Miss which passed through here Friday evening had camped in Walnut and would go to work on the road be- tween that place and Pleasanton. The friends and acquaintances of Mr. and Mrs. I. H. Elhs deeply sympathize with them 1n the loss of their little daughter Myrtle, who was so suddenly taken off Friday last with fever. She was a sweet little gul and just large enough to be 1n- teresting. Judge John A. Letker left tor S Louis Friday and will be absent about week. While understand he will tt a there we make arrange- ments to have the new compromise bonds for this township lithographed. He will also visit his father, who 1s quite sick at his home in Indiana. Fnday evening just atter dark about fitty or sixty teams, loaded with railroad tools, passed through Butler on their way to work on the Emporia railroad. We did not learn | wh tk ther they city and would between Walnut stop or whether they intended to work on the road between Walnut and Pleas We had the pleasure of a call Fri- nton. day last from Misses Kate Tucker, | Ettie Denney, Annie Phelps and Minnie MeFarland, ail They the working of our Campbell printiag charming young ladies. Press and to take a general look through the Timers establishment. The door knob of the Time by our lady friends. The opera house lot was purchased in June 183x and the buildings there on removed ia October tollowing,. Preparatory to the building of the | opera house block. Contracts for the foundation, the brick work and other maternal and for labor had been closed and considerable money paid on them betore Dec. 24th, 18St. 0 In fact, the toundatioa, costing $1,700, was almost complete and the build- ing was fairly under way. The Record will please make proper corrections, Mrs. R. R. Pierce and her charm- | Dixie Ostram, returned home from their visit to friends in Kansas Fri- dav evening. We regret to learn that Mrs. Pierce’s health was not { improyed much by her visit. Gus Wyard, of Walnut, was in the city Saturday and Sunday and intormed us that the railroad teams ame up to see | office | turns readily at the touch of the finger , Kat x to Kansas attacne Bradshaw. Livingston . or | county, Ul., arrived in the city Friday | last, and im company with his sister, | Mrs. D. M. Vail, whom he 1s_ visit- | ing, gave the Times a pleasant call | | Monday. Mr. Bradshaw is here looking at country with a view of { loc: ton, w! | bell press, enla paper and } make | about their | The Democrat is a other nee improvements printing estabhshments. rood paper and | the Lingle Bros. are exce!lent news- haye | paper men, and we no envy of | their success. Madam Rumor says Rev. W. C. Bewley. pastor ot the M, E. church | Allen are to be married to-day. Muss ity, and Miss Lipbre this ¢ Allen is the daughter ot M: | Allen, of w Home township, and sister of J. D. Allen, editor of this paper. As Mr, Allen is absent in Washington City, the Times takes pleasure in extending congratula tions. The next time Squire Newsom and Constable Scott summon all of East Boone anda part of Elkhart to ships down here to court, and under- wn- take to use our office as a consulta- tion room and nursery, we propose to demur and fire the whole business out the back door, lawyers, women, babies ard all. This notice has no reference to color,or previous condi- tions of servitude. * | sie at i Tne Golden Troupe which played {in the city Monday and Tuesday nights was just immense, and our people who attended speak in the highest terms of the entire | Their troupe. is certainly one of the | finest that ever pars streets. The orchestra splendid. In | tact the troupe, band and all was as | zood if not the best of the kind ever band led our was uppearing on the stage in our city. | i | The Ledger, a new paper just i | started at East Lynn. Cass county, At its mast head floats the name ot our esteemed | was received this week. young f iend, and once upon a time i*sdevil’” under ye local, Harry Hawkins. We want to say thi i much ter Harry: If he makes as rood an editor as he did “‘devil,’’ the izens of East Lynn need have no | tears but that the paper will be a ic grand success, and a mirror of their enterprising j town and = surrounding | The should | give the Ledger a heartv support. country. merchants The sale of personal property of | J. M > Working, which took place at ; his farm last week, neted that gen- ‘ uemen upwards of $2,000. Mr. Working informs us that it is his in- tentions to locate on a ranch where im southwestern Kansas. some- He expects to leave this week to look at the a co try and pick out suitable place. He has been a citizen of t county tor about four vears, and i . | Camere | Dick | | he has two sisters and a brother in | when she with many regrets that the Times and ! his many friends turn him over to the tender mercies of bleeding Kan- However, it he will leave the best county on the glohe, we wi him success. sas. si | cemetery, followed by a large pro- | cession of sorrowful friends, and laid | day mort af- ness connected j i more y county tairs, anc rly in regard to eur towns! e will also visit Jefferson City returning home. Stair, the Nevada has her neck by imprisonment in penttentiary. Their executi t for October 23d. Chasteen Hughes, on trial! for big i | i| a Hughes, we under- | my at Topeka, Kansas,has been foun guilty by the jury. stand, is a tormer citizen of this coun- ing been raised near Adrian. undoubtedly d has nerated | nis departure, and his final wind | sine up in the penitentiary ought to have taken place betore he blasted the life ot the voung lady he last married. Saturday last Thos. Jones, who } lives about four miles scuthwest Butler on the farm of J. C. Lucas. was brought to town by C. Carlett, of | | G. W. Walker, Wm. Davis and Marsh Phelps and taken to the sheriff’s office. A reporter found Jones seated ina chair, bound hand and foot, and as crazy as a bed bug and wild as mountain lion. We were intormed by his attendants that a bad spell had come a on him home and he was so yiolent at it was impossible to do anything with him, as it took three or four men to handle him. He has been in the asylum twice and his insanity 1s inherited, as indiana afflicted in the same way. Jones is a fair looking man and a hard worker when at himself. He has a family of five children partially support. A special term of court had been j called to attend to his case Saturday, but owing to a mistake of some dependent upon him tor kind Judge DeJarnett was the only member of the court present, conse- quently nothing could be done with him. : 2 = i It is witn many regrets we are \ called upon this week to announce | the death of Mrs. Francis J. Harris, wife ot C. C. Harris, which occurr- | ed at her home, about seven miles southeast of this city, Sunday last, The | cause of her death was cancer ot the | breast, but, notwithstanding, death was very slow und at times excrucr- | in the 50th year of her age. atingly painful, she like Job of old, ; bore the affliction placed upon her by Him who controlls the destinys oi us all with true christian fortitude, | 1 | praying that the end might come | i from the j | trials and tribulations ot this lite and | be transterred to that, haven of rest | would be freed that awaits the pure m heart over the | Mrs. Harris was an excellent and river. woman, a loving mother, duti- t ul wife, and highly respected by all Her place trom the Christian this city Monday who koew her. funeral took church in com o’clock and was conducted by Elder Davis, at the conclusion of which her ; remains were removed to Oak Hill morning at to rest. orers spenc earn wit business men by outside as well procure > boycotted, e trial of Bob Chadwick, who tk or the murder o oe : 1 county, in the year Th Was arrested some time ago in : 1 ¢ f f state of Mississippi AES) - Gooaman, near 1SSo, is 1 progress at Lamar. al- ged that Chadwick and Goodman started on a journey together in a on and that Chadwick murdered v | Goodman, tied the body up in quilts and sunk it in the stream, where i The circum- } was afterwards found. stantial evidence against is strong and, in all probability, the | jury will find him guilty of the he-| ntous crime. Since the above was put in type, Lamar we see trom the Missourian that Chadwick wi court to withdraw his plea otf not guilty of murder in the _ first degree and accepted a plea of guilt | in the second degree, and fixed his punishment at twenty-five years in The Missourian also says the jury were solid for the penitentiary. conviction on the original charge. If the scoundrel was guilty of the mur- | der he ought to have been hung. At the shooting match between the Butler clubs, which came off at and Harrisonville Harrison- ville Friday last, the score stood as follows: BUTLEE CLUB Dick Hurt -l 1. H. Ellis.... “4 D. C. Hartwell 10 J. A. Patterson . 4 D.G. Newsom... Ww Harry Deacon 30 C. Hagedorn ef J. BR. Cobb..... 10 Total.....- ee fan R. T. Railey A.S. Deacon... J. Ashley. J. Russell... O. W. Byron. Walter Brown J.R. Schnell... Dan Russell lw Total In additio to the above, the But- ler boys carried off between fifty and sixty dollars of the Harrisonville boys’ hard-earned cash on sweep- stake shooting, in which there was some good work done by both sides. Out of fifty balls, [ke Ellis, of this, broke Tke is a splendid shot terty-seven. 1 the man that beats city, vim at the trap has to be quick on < rigger. ‘When Baby was sick, w= za astoria, When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria, When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria, When she had Children, she gave them Castoria, Cc. Sent The Home 10 Friend Size Youth’s Tompanion. Filled with entertaining reading and bome helps. Home Faizsp, Piainfield,Ct. s permitted by the | gun | HEATING & to sell at BOTTOM PRICES. st san t ices OF BIG ust Side ¥ N SIG 12 Room v » r LAI PER. — 7S) CE ONES rE WE LEAD SDL IT TIS IELTS ON LOW PRICES. 4 4 Ee Qe eC - New Goods, Low Prices, ' { J. M1. McKIBBEN. 100,000 BUSHELS CORN WANTED! \ rar Be | EO John A. Lether & Co's. Elevator, H ca Pp! o/s Pp NEAR DEPOT. Wedesire to say to the taming community that we are now prepared to receive Corn in any quantity. We have recent ly overhauled our Machinery, and now have ample facilities handling Corn easily and expedstiously- Our tor Dumps Are Convenient, Grade very easy and perfectly safe. To those who have in the past so liberally favored us, we return our hearty thanks, and respecttully ask a continuance of ther 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 have a large quantity of rerere) € OF De 3 er SX 7K a a cD lly selected for sowing purposes, to loan tor the season and We invite all parties who contemplate sowing tore making their ar- You Good. specia of 1885, Flax next year to come and see us betore rangements for seed, as we Know We Can Do <-What a man Zdoes is the thing, not what he rays. Come and see us. JOHN A. LEFKER & CO.