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qrlER WEEKLY TIMES NOTICE TO TEACHERS: fit ¢ tsons for the bene: desiring to nig ‘ ; Id on the 3¢ : ants hic street school house r, Mo., and on the month in the We fich Hill, Mo.. ing each day at go , oi J. Ute TON, Cou hool Commissioner, | ~*~ —— aa LOCAL ITEMS W. TUCKER, C } a general does collec ing ° 2 1055- All orders left at the Times of gil receive prompt attention. —_—_ PJ. K. Brogler wants 2 | ot ot This 1s a good chance for months. farmers to get short real estate paper, 1 ' nort i or NOTICE © Ber 1,D. V Brown, Buller, Bates county, \ that, pursuant to an orc ot edby the Board Alde b 1886, an election will city, at the sheriit’s oflic w#7o'clock a.m., on M which the qu ed voters beasked to vote upon the projo: id; said bonds having been issued to av tor Oak ion: F. M Wilson. money Iges of elec aw. Keep your eye on Kanopolis Plenty cf men in the county have’ served the party more t who han 15 he right years and they don’t c torun the party, cithe ¢ by the C apers that We see by tl finton y good | farm loans, running trom 6 to 15) wl sell fue $2,000 in « bonds to rai ds Ho pay oft bonds of this city ot ke | pount now ouistanding, due and un- Jas. McFarland, our electric light man .s negotiating with the city council to putin an electric plant at that place. Cards are out the coming social event of the season— the marriage of So. F. to Miss Lizzie Power, to take place at the Presbyierian church on the 26th inst, announcing v arnock Wade has been a democrat for 15 years and he continually re inds the Healers of his paper of the fact else y might torget it. Suppose you ve it stereotyped and run at the ad of your paper. | The mght watch can tend to the Blown cow in the day the d. h can tend to her royal highness at night, We don’t charge the Republican anything extra for this imformation, time as well as Wick Hurt has removed his barber shop upstairs in the Badgley build- ing, next starrway below Times of- fice, where he invites all his old Customers and as many new ones as desire first-class work in his line. We are very sorry to learn that Uncle Allen Day is very low trom a ttpke ot paralysis. He has been in feeble health far some time. We Ug teinhopes he will weather the the storm and live many years to tome, Bates Lodge of Odd Fellows of Gur city are renovating, repairing and Mitting their hall. We learn that fme two hundred and fifty dollars § ill be expended and when com- pleted they will have one ot the flnest fooms in the southwest, if not in the Mate, The initial number of the Walnut News, E. T. Kirkpatrick editor and Proprietor, is beforeus. It is a four Page Paper, neatly gotten up, and is bam full: of sparkling local news. P the good work up, Tip; you made a good start and we wish abundant success. | Cora Lee has been indicted for Murder in the first degree at Spring: Id, Mo. The tral will prob , be set for next Monday. Mrs. falloy has not been indicted. Co peecently hung by a mob-at Spring ‘: Id, tor the murder of his wite, in death of whom she is ir Dr. A.C. Thompson, of Papi Wille, an old and respected cit | and Physician of Bates county, was the city Thursday and fayored the : substantially. The §8id it was his first doctor Mat in three years. musin, C. B. McF: city. ®wasthe paramour of Graham | | school his Kansas trip x to our city. that city toopen up a ti 1 point for operation. county with ti | special rates w | nos Wm. E Walton returaed trom on Sunday eyening. lad come H. H.| We are to wel Miller and son, of Harr isonvill It will be ren hey left | e about a year for ago tile factory, mut have concluded bett a is er of Belton, C fe in the city k x relatives os a 1 Mr. Bowden gave asant call} and had his paper : nged from Belton to Platte City at which place he expects to open a LB. her p Mr. and iams. s day, Jun jth, will be 13 ents, lw Wi lebrat vy y ot Uarrisonvilie, } grand picnic. Rev. J.D. Vincil, id other prominent present. Butler 1s been invited to not as yet taken any action in the matter. It is likely that a large numb go trom here, as be obtained and a t le time rd. | “niovat enjoya had.—Re “Ku and J. L. Pace my els’? N IN. A Wade, P. M.,} the north- west part of the county two days last we in k. Few seemed to know their errand and those who did were dis- inclined to be interviewed. The supp on is, they ing up del ns for their favorites. We opine that the democrats of the county wil! scarcely submit to men at the county seat running their town - ship politics. The man who places a S1o adver- tisement in his local paper and flatters himselt that he 1s a liberal advertiser, will be surprised to learn that a yearly advertrsement one column length in the Chicago Tribune costs the advertiser $26,000. The New York Herald receives tor its lo in west priced column $39,563, and for its highest, $54,800; the New York Tribu for the > for the lowest, $29.754,and highest, $55,643, and those papers, it is stated, never lack for oly advertisements to fill their c —World. imns. er gave a croquet party to a number ot her friends on Wednesday evening, last. Among } | those present Misses Mabel McKibben, yle, Mattie | Wyatt, Jasper | Pierce, Ned Harriman and Ed, 5. Aust little folks report a | an old grudge exi e cause of the their positions at Harrisonvill have moved back to Butler. F. B. Fay Pottery, have leased where they w I this week put in the latest :mproved machinery for mak- brick and fiower pots of the Zc t design and very best quality. nese gentlemen are excellent work- ig of liberal to patronage, w are sur secure. we We complimented on Turs- day last by a call from H. H. Wins- low ot Clay count nd of Mrs. + ae tele- ell, our estimable operator, whom he He was on his way home from ing. Oregon where he had been to look out He he had t wonderous a location. said heard so mu the resorces of Bates county that he a= cluded to spend a few days here and isson sed that he may «eter clothing house, is openl his trip to far west and locate among us. Mr. Mace of the at- tending the State Editorial associa- Advocate is tion at Mexco, exhibiting his patent mailer to the newspaper men ot the state. This is the rat he and Geo. Jackson are preparing to The Democrat hopes they may have big success. Mrs. W. A. Walke, Etla Aurand is now at Mr. W. Aurand. until the 20th when t} tr machine put on the market. nee Miss her father’s She will remain she will go to The Clinton ing burglary which ocgurred in that city one night last week which was attended with but very poor They bor- rowed an ax of Mr. Hopgood, with- out his consent, and proceeded to the mill of Mr. Middlecoff. where after gaming entrance, they proceed- ed to cut through the boiler iron of which the safe is made and took out the money drawer. They were re- warded with $2 50, a big nights haul surely. Democrat tells of a en ag success to the thieves. A young blood, calling himself Chailey Bowers, was arrested ct Norris, Henry county, one day last week on the charge ot grand larceny. lt appears that he had been playing ahigh hand, representing that he had means and was negotiating to buy out one of the principal mer- chants of the place. On Wednesday a couple of men rode into town and for some light fingered work he had been practicing up about Holden. arrested the young gentleman Sedalia with her husband to attend the synod which meets in that —Clinton Democrat. city. Strong evidence is being adduced to show that young Lyle. who killed Minnie Grimes near Hume one day last week and was afterwards lynch- ed, an account ot which is given on another page, was insane at the time. This is verified by Dr. Chastine and by parties who knew him in Vir- ginia, who state that he was subject to fits of melancholy and would leave home and be gone tor weeks atatime when under this mental derangement. He was evidently crazy, asno sane man could have committed such an awful crime. Butler has been very fortunate in escaping from storms and cyclones so far. While our sister cities are being visited by these dread messen- gers otf ruin and devastation, we are usually blessed with a gentle and refreshing shower. This may be accounted for by the strict mor- The Democrat will wager a punch- ed nickle with Judge Parkinson that he will not be considered by any. body as a candidate for congress within 30 He has known from the start that his candiaacy was a tarce, days. and has never convinced any body else to the contrary. Wade is tired mas- querading againt ‘Stone, and soon Judge Parkinson will be left high and dry, without an organ.—Henry County Democrat. t 2 to Accor there is a fash in New a correspondent nable girl’ York s boarding where it s made a specialty to teach the art ot getting into a carriage and out } of ating asparagus, oranges,grap hes and other unmanageable viands. The writer adds: Ot course these are Juxuries and hke Fren neluded in but then the soc re “Sextras,”” Thus it is we fit our daughters to beconze grandames! Noble thought. creed ot to-day} ip to the county | sticks at nothing, not even this ex- He visited his} pensive form of higher education. trland, while *) ality of our community pecially the and es newspaper men, but are inclined to the beliet that these winded and electric phenomena us- ually follow the course of streams or land divides and Butler dosn’t hap- pen to be in their paths. We never yet scared at the approach of a storm, only a little nervous on ac- count of the women and children. John P. Willis water tank at th s erected a large he Elk Horn Stables. It is 20 feet to the top of ‘the tank, and has a capacity of 25 barrels. It 1s suppHed with fresh pure water from a well S teet in diameter and 30 feet of stand- Hose pr to this tank will th hundred feet as ¢, co lio eet deep, with perly attached w several dle invalu 1s Ordinanily at and in case ot fire. S used to also carried ito a large trough in front of the stables for the cortvenience ot tarmers in watering their teams. This im- provement makes this the best watered and most conveniently ar- tanged livery property in the city. clean buggies. Water i E. S. Carmthers. of the American in Kansas City. om ee i od Mrs. J. G. Walker is spending a week, visi Mills We minded men whic ] ask all disinterested, fair- worse, to be above beard » boast I oudly y on Monday to ament no! » editor Immigration S St. Louis, nent Journal,of jin company with F. Coleman Smith and Rey. Rurros,cailed op us one day } WIL ' tempt a de pany PE ation pure id get his money out of the rise by selling the papers, ig to take so many { Bate: c county Eton: Ds; A. DeArmond to become a candid- ate for circuit Judge of the Judicial distri a call for have publishec 22nd If Judge DeArm- usent to become a can- ond would co didate his qualifications would make him a strong man to beat.— Rockville Globe. One William Jones, who was confined in the Rich Hil!l calaboose on failure to pay a fine for disorderly conduct, on Saturday appealed to Probate Judge Hawkins for a writ of habeas corpus, which was granted, into court, W. O. Atktson appearing for the prisoner and S. W. Dooley, city attorney.for the city. He was brought g The Judge remanded him back to jal to pay his fine. We le dhis fine and was re- leased. A novel emigrant train passed | Y through Butler Friday evening. The outfit consisted of a man, woman, three small children, yaller dog and a cow and calf. The cow was con- verted into a pack animal and car— ried on her back the house- hold effects the family, which consisted of a coupic of bed quiits, coffee pot and two or three tin cups. The man holding a rope attached to entire of who h ;am usually content i | seems to not be ; but instead j Insu i} ner my- COMPANY ; “Henee you not only between : as followed county for twelve or MY OWN BUSINES: has m. on me Pi [ sopen at SONALLY but u not only the OMPANY notbe f SONAL figh onthe gentlemen with hi Tam very that not necessary to make any upon the ID SURANCE COMPANY he represents for as the old darkey said of the deer, “jes lef it alone boss, an 1t’ll jump itsef to def an youll save your powder fur game dat is de <hootin’.»? 1 tomy being a ‘stran- r? or th =NTs of the Farm Dept, of Co., being strangers, I must say that appeal to the preju- dices of the people, is aply ib} I have been a citizen of Mo years and of Bares County over F YEAks, having located at Rich Hill, in July 1880, and opening one of the first nice, Real Ests 1 Notary Pub- nd I respect- lie Off Ss men of that to town s whol am and though I am not der would have you belie en of Butler. I IN s to my personal business ability as well among honorable mea, county, in M ose of Butler, as HaT Lam. I feel integrity and my position either in Bates ouri or any other county or State in which I have eyer lived. It is an unfortunate thing for some men that they are TOO WELL KNOWN, The GERMAN has appointed Mr. Jobn F. Herrel, of Butler to assist me. Mr. Herreli was bo AND RAISED in Butler, and certainty he cannot be a STRANGER, and any remarks of mine would neither add to nor detract from his standing. Mr. W. H. Stansbury of Harri- sonville, Cass county, is surely not 2 He is also an Agent of the n Hern of Hume, Bate has liyed there about three y presume he ly and able to defend his position when necessary. Still anoth- eris Mr. James A. Gillette, who will soon, with his family move to Butler. He has been a resident of VERrNon Co, about TWENTY YEARS having been in bus- iness at Nevada most of the time,and can he be asTRaNGcER? He carries with him sufficient personal endorsements to make any further remarks from me unneces- sary. I thnk Mr. Snyders con- temptible language concerning STRAN- GES mnght very aptly apply to the com- the cow’s head played conductor for the train, while the tlree children, yaller dog aad old woman saw that the calf did not lag behind. The outfit looked kike the lost children of Israel, and as they did not tell from whence they came no questioas were asked as to whither they were journeying. “A Cummins, candidate for repre- sentative ot Vernun county, defines his position on the senatorial ques- tion in a well written and sensible article in the Mail. He szys that he is for the best interests of his county first, that he nas no fight to taake on Cockrell unless he should make his campaign an all absorbing issue to the detriment of the local interests of Vernon, when he would believe him unworthy the favors that county had shown him in the past. This is a bold though sensi- ble*standtaken by Mr. Cummins. The tendency in Missouri, 1s toomuch to man worship to the detriment of yital home interests. We believe that a majority of the people in Bates county are in tavor of Cock- rell’s re-election, but we do not be- lieve that they would be long m de- ciding the other way should an issue like the above be forced upon them. A Military Com: We are reque ttee. sted lowing call for a meeting to organize a home military company. In our opin- ion this will be a good idea and one | soung men and many of the older ewe It is the idea of a number of | Our citizens to have a preliminary | meeting,at which t interested can speak out and learn how the idea THE CALL. All parties interested in the organi- zation of ahome Military Company | will meet at the court house Friday, May 21st, at § o'clock sharp,. By order of Com11TEE. to issue the fol- | that will commend itself to all the; PARISON of the two Insurance Companies he has been calling to yourattention. In behalf of the GERMAN INSURANCE Com- pany of Freeport, and myselfI must thank him kindly forthe FREE ADVER- TISEMENT hehas given us, for he says concerning the GERMAN(‘IT IS A NICE COM- PANY and HAS PAYED MANY LOSSES IN oR MipsT.’? I am really sorry I haye not ALL THE DATA upun which to base a return of the compliment, Now with reference to SURPLUS he says “These strangers will tell you the Dwell- ing House has very little surplus.’? Yes we Will and I will repeat it now and TRUTHFULLY too. The NET suRPLUS of any INSURANCE Co., BuUs™NESS MAN or FARMER, is the (RUE TEST Of its or his FINANCIAL SOUND- and ABILITY. ‘ET SURPLUS” 1s simply the amount of money youwould HAVE LEFT after Con- verting all your property into cash, and paying all your debts and habilities of every kind. Permit me to now draw the COMPARI- son between the two Insurance compan- ies, in question after remarking that when a company’snet surplus”’is EQUAL TO OR GREATER than its CAPITAL that it is a first classCompany and WORTHY YOUR CONFIDED I will copy from the Arcus INSURANCE Cuant, which is STANDARD AUTHORITY, as it eontains the scorn statements ot neatly all the different insurance compa- nies doing business in the United States, made to the State Departments within the past ten years. January 1, 1577, the Dwelling House had a capital of $300,000, and the same January 1, 1886. January 1, 1877, The German had a capital of £200,000, and tie same January 1, 1886, NET SURPLUS: Jan. Ist., 1877, the Dwelling House had $30,992 00 Jan. ist, 18: the Dwelhng House had 7,081 00 $23,911 00 eace of German 234,681 00 German Jan. Ist., had 100,001 00 £134,680 00 Showing an incr in the same time, | Please draw your own conclusions as to | which company is the “stranger’’, | Again he says: “But they will not tell | you the company has done Nineteen Mil- lions new business in two years,requiring a heavy change from cash surplus to rein- | surance reserve”. Let us make the Com- PARISON. | The Chart shows that from January 1, '4s84 to January 1, 1886, the Duelling | House wrote about Nineteen Millions new | business, and decreased its net surplus lover SEVEN THOUSAND DOLLARS. The | German, in the same time, wrote about | THIRTY-SIX MILLIONS new business, and INCREASED its ‘“‘net surplus” over forty- one thousand dollars! ‘You will plainly see that the Zess busi- Clover To from with privilege of paying before du if desired. but decide on them here without de- lay, and furnish the money at once. on hand to be loaned on land. used the Clover years, and it always giyes s Should any one doubt the ori testi ve over vase House nde keep to the GYRMAN but one that you meg its losses with its a nice in our } a FULL and POLICIES on end your ap- » the “home es neces: shictes: YED- you for SPE SUPPLY of BL Lit is not ne n & another N to, or t tH no AT MY OF Butler, Mo, April, 27th, 1896. I most he y recomend Dr. Jones Red who may be suffering « constipation, general of the uumons comphints sorderea liver. Haye Tonic in my tamilv for tisfaction. n of this monial they can be convinced b self-addressed P. O. card 1 Armstrong, Monticello, Pla i no23 11 if MONEY TO LOAN AT SL | Per Cent. interest, on long tin i We do not send borrow er’s applications away fér approval We have a large amount of money Par- pase call and We cant furnish the ties wishing to borrow pk get our terms. money at once. The Warton & Tucker Land Mortgage Co., Butler, Mo. 3 Out of the Ashes i I am now ready for business inmy new Tron Carriage Shop. where I will be pleas- ed to see my old cus- tomers and many new ones. I am prepared to furnish buggies of cheap, medium or fine grade as customer may wish, at lowest known prices. Alsc keep on hand all kinds of buggy repairs ané do all kinds of bugg and wagon repairing and repainting. Come and see me. T. W. LEGG. Trustee’s Sale. Whereas, Abner D. Cunningham, who clsred himself single and unmarried, by deed of trust, dated January 2ist, Is84, reeorded in the Recorder's office within and Bates county, Missouri,in book No. 32, conveyed to the undersigned trustee the ing described rea! estate lying and being sit in the county of Bates and state of Missouri. it: One acre of land out of the northwest quarter of the tenia sree of —_ ion Labonte; = 23), township forty (4) of range = & ately west of and (32), lying y a certain parcel of land known as the Drennos. tract and being same width north and soush a» the said Drennon tract; Which conveyance was made in trust to se- cure the psyment of one certain note {fally de- scribed in said deed of trust; and wheress, de- fault has been made in the payment of note andthe anuual interest thereon accrued, i of , On ‘ Thursday, May 27th 1886, betw hours of 9 o’elock in the forenoon tai'sorclock in ine afternoon of that day tor