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© he Dr (ea — Wow. VII. Burdett. Mr. J. W. Davault the «+ man whom we spoke in your fast issue, pow stopping with Dr. J. W. ance. tor the purpose of having ) hand treated, Davault says he auld ike to make his home in Bates nty, but Owing to circumstances > pring: On Tuesday the 15th a number ot ng folks gathered in at Dr. nce’s to spend the evening. Soon fer the crowd gathered a report nt out to the effect that J. D. yssell and Mrs. Lucy Skillman were d. Bells, tin pans, shot guns d everything, were soon collected anoise. The boys numbered 25, d the racket soon began. Russell compelled to ‘‘set up’’ the candy > rid hunself of the noise, and to bry out the joke. The boys are w “setting up’ the cigars to Mr. yssell to keep from being teased e r er the sell out. . Mr. Yom Mudd, wisas, is Visiting ef Fredonia, friends in this jcinity. tor 4th Rev, Joe Wright will preach he peuple Burdett on day of each month. W. S, Mudd’s little babe has he ot the the sus, Bob Biack came in last week to i a tooth extracted On the ry Jayne, with her two litte boys Wednesday 7th, Mrs. 6 and g years old, was hitching a fram of horses to the wagon, tor the rpose ot domg some errarnd, as team) was about hitched ready for ving, the little fellow, Charles Aubron Jayne, climbed upon the ont wheel of the wagon, the horses oved forward and threw him in ot the wheel, and it passed ov- his bseast, crushing the breath out him. He was carried to the house nd placed on the bed, finding hte s not extinct, Dr. France was im- nediately summoned. With all the ill and medical treatment that d be rendered, availed . nothing. At 4:30 p. m., he was called home. remains were placed in the o!d cent Hill cemetery, there to t the final judgement. The ord giveth and the Lord taketh y, Blessed be the name of the d. Much sympathy ie manistest- td in behalf of the bereaved family. Sam Stacy. iro 0; Foster. Lots of mud again, Oh dear ! Little Chubby Laughlin has been yery low with pneumoma. Drs. ) PWilson and Lyle have been attending Foster now has Telegraphic con fection with Butler. Now let some $o00d live man start a newspaper. J. B. Walkup and family returned from Cass County the 16th inst where | they were called by Mrs. Walkup’s | farther who is very sick and net ex pected to live. Elmer and Ada Laughlin returned from Ft. Scott, Kan. the first of the Month wheré they have been attend ing school, Wehear that the Green View school house is getting a bad reputa- tion, A few days ago one of the Pupils openly rebelled agaist the Tiles of the school, whereupon the teacher undertook to chastise hin, Alively fiight ensued, the teacher fame out best man. No mage, Several farmers are improving the bud winter weather by hauling coal Foster. What a glorious thing 1t Bto have a R. R. close to home. The Proprietors of the Foster se is improving the looks of that building by having it covered with a ‘plendid tin roof. Mr. Doyke 1s Adams Exptess ent at Foster, Office in Metzlers | re on the syndicate. sermous * Some unknown persons caught and | ed two of Mat Grays geese, then; hed the poor geese leone to return iI] go to Douglass county in the | home. A coat of tar and feathers would be none te the per petrators of this « A telegraph line wili s be ¢ | tablished between PI 1 and Foster. “*Kip”* Mayesburg. We are having some y sry muddy mud just at present. this weck. W. B. Ewing is visiting m John- | son county, this week. We had a law suit at the schoo! house the 15th. Mavyesburg. Tax collector Yeates has begun levving on property tor the payment of taxes. Yeates means business. Your correspondent took a kind of inventory of the cattle being fed within a circuit of five miles Mayesburg. and finds that there are about 420 head being fed, several hundred Quite « novelty tor beside D. Gil bert is feeding 75, Judge Ballard 125 Allen Price -: C. Poage at I. Mayes 20, J. Barth & Cook 95, J: oh Carn Mayes 115 and B. F. Gi. es i00 which they stockers. yout 30, oe Py zo. J).M. will feec ing svon, making inall about 550. What neighborhood can beat this. Rev. J. B. Fly ot Montrose preached Sunday moruing and even ing at Walnut Grove. He preached pee an able discourse in the morning on the subject ot **The teastof the Pass- over,’” and gave a history of the rise of Cumberland church in the evening. We understand that Rev. Caugh- lan ot the M, E. church south, 15 1n trouble about his charge tn this cuit. John Brooks had a sale Saturday, we suppose he will move to Creigh ton next week. Creighten has a Creighton Clipper.’’ the cir paper. Mrs, J. M. Mayes has been quite | sick for several days. The crop of candidates from Mingo is going to be lizht this year, Owing to the hard winter I guess. JAKE. Personal- Mre. N. A. Monfort, ot Pittsburg Kansas, found her way to our office a few days since. Our readers who have enjoyed the little poetic gems she has sent us will feel an increased interest when they know that for the most of the past vear she has been entirely blind, andthe sweet thoughts that have come to us have often been wrung trom an aching heart | However, under the skillful treat- | ment of Dr. Kimberlin, her sight 1s Heiad. tor which we are truly; glad. Mrs. Monfort says that Pitts- | burg, Kansas, is growing rapidly | with ats 4.500 inhabitants. The churches are prospering. The towr contains elegant stores, large banks, mills, besides many other industries, | —Mid-Continent K€. Much as I dislike to expose my duty to those who are suffering from like affliction, and to the physician ing of sight, I most wil! the sacrifice. ingly About seven years ago my eyes) were attacked with a peculiar dis- ease, which caused blindness for | about three weeks, but after a few | simple remedies had been applied, | Such proved not to be the case. Sev eral months after they suffered an attack more violeat than at first Again and again the trouble return- jed with increased effect until total lanchonss was the sad result. } One physician a Brcoacee it one i thing and another something e!lsq { but atk: failed to give me the slightest | reliet : on the their treat- { ment only agreyated the disease c ontrary, . John Walker will move to Adrian 1 from | Godwin | vory about | Presbyterian | The | tour zinc smelters, two large flour | misfortunes before the public, mv} to whom I am indebted for the bless- | make | the disease seemed to be subdued, | 3UTLER, MIS SSOURT, WEDNESD hand | asec 1 he suffering. Friends advised me to go to an occulist fortreatment. Accordingly Ki Kansas City was cied as proper person, When piaced under his care the latter part ot Test nber, I was | totally b‘ind, ron pain andthe use of jmproper medicine, and mentatly distracted from griet. But Tin he had exanined certained the disea happy to say after | ny eyes, and as- Jrenedies, Drecenved immediate re- het, and the restoration to sight was speedy and sure, being at present al- most perfect, which ts very remark- able, for the tact that six months ago I sat in utter darkness. I give the public the benefit of my case sincerely hoping that some un- fortunate creature may be led out ot darkness into the sweet hght ot day as I haye been. y ure not so untortunate, t 1 icir friends or ue quainutences are, and they could ren- | : jder them an invaluable service by reading this to them. I can reter you to scores of others, | yes hundreds on whom cures have | been effected more wondertul than the present it necessary. Some were ffected diseases of the throat and lungs, but all have with ear, yield- ed to the skill of this truly good phy sicran,. Rx any of the above uamed diseases. do ider, if you are suffering from | not delay but go at once and be heved ; Tes ; or address Dr. Kimberlin, Eye and Ear Infirmary, Kansas City Missouri. Earnestly hoping what we have ' said may be the means of good to some unfortunate fellow sufferer, I am, Very gratefully, Mrs. N. A. Monrort. | Pittsburg, Kas. Careless nurses have let children fall | and injuring them for life. They have | also given them doses of cough mixtures | containing opiates with tatal results, | ‘There isnodanger in Red Star Cough | Cure. Free from narcotics. Only 2scts | Prompt, sate ctrre, A Teetotaller on a Tear. Marshall, Mo., Feb. 19.—The re- ceipt hereot Sedalia papers, contain- ing the account and actions ot the eloquent temperance lecturer, D. K. Shields, in a saloon in Sedaha last night, created quite an excitement, Shields 1s Deputy G. W. C. T of Missouri, and has been engaged here the past four weeks delivering tem- perance lectures There never was | such a temperance feeling ontiel| up | Through his ettorts | 1.500 persons signed the pledge and organized good temperance lodges | with 350 members. A great many here had no confidence in Shields, but thought he was only working for the money there was in it. which was $10 per lecture, and his conduct at Sedalia coy strengthens this belief. vere before. Nevada, Me., Feb. 17.—Wailliam Thomas, aged 26 years,night switch man, was crushed to death a’ three +o’clock this morning while making a coupling on account of a difference in the style ot the drawheads. He was recently married, and the young wite is in a dangerous condition. The corofier’s jury returned a yer | dict that the deceased came to his | death while in the faithful discharge of his duties as an employe tor the | Missouri Pacific railroad, on account | of criminal neghgence ot said com- j Pany- A Clear Skin ‘is only a part of beauty; but it isa part. Every lady may have it; at least, what looks like it. Magnolia Balm both freshens and beautifies. eck physically | | and applied his | Let those who read, think about it | | FATAL HOOTING AFFRAY. | _ oo | | A serious shooting affrav occurred | Thursday — about 11 0’clock, at | la school Ce | about three mile trom Jerico, wien | will cost Roy Aggerson his | lite, and | brand John Brasher as a murderer. | Aggerson and Brasher are ome house in ay county about 18 years of age, respectively, and have grown up together inthe neigh | borhood. The former was the son of a widow, and the latter’s Parents | are in good financial circumstances The two voung men had a falling out some weeks azo, over what the | Mail’s imfomation did not know. | Thursday evening in company with others, they went to the school house ostensibly to attend prayer-meeting. At the close of the services they met together and engaged in a quarre jover thew previous diiliculive Dive w hot, and 1 ; quarrel cr Bars | down er su ygerson witha stone knocking t Aggerson a rose, and mais | threw turned arock at At to run. this juncture | Brasher drew a thirtv-eight calibre | revolver, and fired, burying a bad in Aggerson’s back. The ball took l effect in the small of the back, aud | | produced what is considered a fata | wound, 1 Ta the exci ent attending the | | shooting Barsher ran off. One hou | later a deputy sheriff wasou his trai. | | The last trace had of im, however, | he was at Horse Crees, afoot, and | ,coming in the direction of Neveda The officer arrived bere yesterday | afternoon, and after king inquiry i left on the evening tra ding north. When the officer left the doctors | were probing Aggerson’s wound. | and gave it as their opinion that the youn man could not possibly recov- | Riz Sn a URE a BOs 8 M (Gi calinams 4-VocSken CO, BAUTIBORE, ED. ct aren OMFT..4 CER MAN REMEDY For Pain aerv OUELEE co. BALTIMORE, © > FOR SALE. CASS AND BATES COUNTY LANDS. S.W. sec. 4. township 46, range 3a. N. wy: S. 3g sec. N. oe. 1 } | S.W. | 4 Sec. 5. township 46, range 32. | 14 township 46, range 32. « N. ts 14 sec. 6, township 46, range 32. his land is in Raymore township, Cass county, Mv., on Jackson county line, 25 miles from Kansas City, and joins th. linds of W. E, Yost, B. F. Huston, and W.H. Colburn. It is 243 miles north- east of Belton and 2 ly miles northwest ot Raymore, one half mile from railroad, acl ts the land Reuben Mastin has had leased from the Allen heirs, of Kentucky tor several years; which lease expired Jan > = Also the following land in Elkhart township, Bates connty, Mo. W. 35 N. W.andS. E. N. W. section 26, town- ship 41, range 32. This land is all tilla- ible. ee the tollowing taud: S. 4S. E. \&% sec. 18, township 42, “ange 33. | S. 3¢ lot 3, | ange 33- * N. E. sec- S, 1g sec. 18, township. 42, | 3 19, twp. 42, range 33- H a N. E, sec. 19, twp. 42, range 33. | Lot3 N. 's fract. sec. 19, township 42, i ji \ “For prices and all info S.C. ALLEN, at Hotel Harnsonville, * Harrisonville, Cass « ounty, Mo. Groceries, Stoves and desires all to see them. are no better made. want the Large Profits Asked by Many Dealers, as he is just opening out in this business and expects to remain here. NORTH SIDE SQUARE, ED. STEELE Desires to imform his friends an senate is the public generally that he has he stock of ‘CHARLES SPRAGUE, CONSISTING OF eensware, WOODENWARE, NAILS AND B HARDWARE. oan eee Will continue business at tne old stand and is co. goods to his well assorted stock. CALL nstantly adding new Prices low and stock fresh, AND SEE HIM. North Side of the Square, Butler, Mo. In sime building with John Ray, stove and Tinware dealer, Stoves and Tinware! Invites the public to call on him when in need of any of these articles. He keeps the celebrated. Antelope (see cut) and Buck’s Brilliant Cool Those who have used them say there He also carries a fine line of heaters and does not Tinware of every kind at prices low down. Don’t torget, I am in the same — with = Steele, the grocer. BUTLER, MO. fom PER CENT Off on all & CLOAKS LEFT. This reduction so early in the season off of the EXTREMELY LOW PRICES That we have been selling them certainly will not leave 4A SINGLE GARMEMT For us to carry until another Everything Low ta Clean up Our stock before taking inventory CALL AND SEE US J. M. McKIBBEN. ¢ season.