The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, July 20, 1887, Page 8

_ PURE _ ‘ PRICEC ATA s Sa 4 I} speciar | (ALAVORINg! cy 1 j c: react MOST PERFECT MADE Prepared h etrict regard to Pnrity, Strength, and Healthfalnees. Dr. Price's Baking Powder contains no Ammonia,Lime, Alum ot Phosphates. Dr Price's Extracts, Vanilla, Lemon, etc., favor deliciously. PRICE BAKING POWDER CO., Chicago and St. Louis. MONEY * | | | | | s AND LAND. sowoe BATES COUNTY LOAN and LAND CO JAS. Kk. BRUGLER & SON, Listen ee ee #9) ey MANAGERS, Butler Mo Fy | an This ¢ i money in rent y estate, buys nites and School Bonds, | id and deals in all kinds ot good seuuriteis. | FINE IMPROVED FARMS: Of 40 to 640 acres each, and good wzing lands from goo, to LOCAL ITEMS. i Mes. Thos. Donivan and children | { returned from a visit to Ohie the | of last of the week | The ler Sunday and Mon the mereury stood atfrom LOO to 102 re were no cool places in But Both days in the shade A and H. H. Courtney, S.C Franklin and Geo. W. Tucker, left | yesterday for Texas, and will pur chase land in the Panhandle country Grass, by the load, for sale at J T. Butler's, Cornland Rain! rain! is the ery from almost In this scesion it} is getting very dry, and farmers tell | us that if rain is not fortheoming | the corn crop, which all along has | promised to he one of the largest ever raised in the county, will be cut | short. R. F. Vanhorn was arrested at | Rich Hill Saturday on a war char with stealing a valu W. 'T. J. Henly, a farmer living near Sprague. Van- horn admitted he had the eow and every direction. anit ging him able cow from claims he bought her of x man whose name he had forgotten. The case | will come up for trial before Justice Cook, of Rick Hill, Friday. | The school board have called an } election to be held at John Pyle’s building August 9th, for the purpose of voting bonds to the amount of $2,500, the bonds to run from tive | to twenty years. The money thus raised to be used in buying suitable | heating apparatus ip the West school | building, fencing { } } 1 improving the | suunds of the east side building, | so to building a more suitable bulk for the colored children. , Stock shipments were the order of | the day Monday and Tuesday from ot, as foll Jim Willams, ; +4} the; essive hot we Shape and without lk WRers. | county for bottles prisé me | since the water was | from Mrs | Howard | tucky frien last | we knew he had gone. _a splendid time, however, so we ean Wat totowr Th ne the sidewalks this city ought to be este inted. Mis. M. C. Smith has been quite sick for several days. but is conva- lescent ; : J. M. Vaughan has traded his res idex ype r Kaz sas City real estate rty in thi Miss Maggie Sumuners took the | train Saturday for Lamar to visit her annt and friends a couple of weeks Will Bean, « his nose broken in two places by a base ball the other day. Peaches are coming into market. It is the first crop raised in Bates pveral years. Frank Pierce and Cy. Patton left for Eldorado Springs. Monday. for x few days’ recreation. During the bear show in the court jyard Saturday, Bob Hurt had his vest pocket relieved ofa silver watch by some sneak thief. Dick Hurt and Sam Phelps have made arrangements to deliver Mon- egaw water once a week to all parties wishing it at $2.00 per case of 24 The Clinton artesian well is still j increasing in flow of water as the auger goes down. Saturday at a | depth of 480 feet water came out at : i the rate of 120 galtons per minute. The stock holders of the gas well at Clinton have concluded to contin- ue the drilling in the same place, provided the water can be success fully cased cf. Stock in the has been selling above par There enter- struck is no reason under the broad canopy | would not pay in Butler. The Times office was compliment- ed on Monday morning by a call Mollie Glass and Miss The latter, a pretty and fascinating little lady, is from Mt She has been visiting Montros¢ weeks, and came over to Butler Sat urday to visit Mrs. Allen Day, Mrs. Hanks and of old K Sterling, Ky. relatives in for several x number Frank Oldaker, maker, on the north our genial shoe side, returned week from a visit to his old ‘home in West Virginia. nk is so quiet and modest in his movements that he had returned home He before reports forgive him. The St. Louis & Emporia exten sion is completed west to Gridley, fifteen miles west of Le Roy. and trains are running to that point. | The road bed is completed to Mab ison and the track will be laid and trains running there in a short time. Commercial Agent Stillwell reports an increase of buisness on the road. | —Pleasanton Herald. In the Forum for August, General sold her in Ft. Seott, for 820, but | A. W. Greely will give the results of iy his observations of the effects of aleohol in the polar regions, when used to revive the strength of men reduced by cold and starvation. The facts will have an interest for those prohibitionists who hold that stimu- lants work harm, and harm only, under all cireumstances. Every teacher in the county should ‘attend the Teacher's Nornal in But- ler during the month of August. A teacher, like a man in every other profession, should study to make himself proficient, and how could this be accomplished better than by comparing ideas and experiences with other teachers. For programme address School Commissioner W. W. Graves, Butler, Mo e {Se Dr. S. B. Hudson, of Altona. was the city last week and favored the Times. The Doctor | moving to Collins, St : | Huds doctor. oy asant Hill lad. had } Everyb to keep cool that can we W. H. Adams, worth journalism, was Tuesday and ealled soci ; Enterprse | Butler and ¢ : } for } old t 1as ssion for his | has » passio’ MT. WASHIN ‘The Central and Highest Peak oithe White Mountains. Used as a Central Point Around Which to Cluster Descriptions of Things Seen in Sommers Brightest Ate Northern New England | plys his willing hands occasionally on the Butler papers He is 65 years old but is quite lively and active for | | one of his ripe years. -Rich Hil | te rpris¢ H Dr. Charles Rohuing. &@ prominent physician and druggist, living in | East Lincoln, Benton county. was | found dead in his drug store Thurs day morning last. No marks of vi- olence were on his person, and death is supposed to have resulted from natural The doctor last seen at alate hour the night be- fore, and seemed in his usual health An inquest was held causes. was and spirits. but nothing additional was develop ed. On the evening of the 4th. J. D. Lisle and Moses Grantham got into a dispute at the former's three miles south of Foster, when Mr. Lisle shot at Grantham, missing his man but hitting the horse he rode in the shoulder. Both yentle- men were arrested at the time, but, since settled all Lisle to home, we understand, ha differences on compromise pay the expenses of having the horse doctored, and 50 eeuts each day he is disabled. or if the horse should We anticably die he is to pay S100 the matter was so settled as both are clever gentlemen and substantial f: rs John Pyle 1 just finished s ing a well on his farm about one mile {of heaven why a similar enterprise | northwest of town. In going down a distance of about 140 feet the drill passed through 3 veins of coal, one of which proved to be three feet thick, and the nuggets brought up repre sented the strata to be of a most ex Mr of the opinion that if a shaft was cellent quality of coal. Pyle is sunk coal far superior to anything yet discovered in the county would be With these before us we know of no better way of test itter Le 2 id sink a shaft. Tf coal in paying quantities could be found town, would a company want? facts found. mit the than to org company ia what better bonanza so near Our esteemed friend and popul stove and tin merchant, J. E. Ha per, on the east side, placed the Ties under lasting obligations for t And for which he has our lasting gratitude and best wishes. Mr. Harper is favors received 1: week. proprietor of the Star tin shop, and is one of the best mechanics in this He full line of cook, beating and gaso. etc, given up to be of the very best man- ufacture. His Charter Oak cook stove a world wide reputation and all who have used them have no hesitancy in saying they have no equal as a cook stove. addition he does ali kinds of tin- ware work in the very best work- manlike manner and at reasonable prices. If you need anything in his line take our advice and call on him before going elsewhere, as we know he will please you both in quality and price. section of the state. carries 2 line stoves. tinware. which are celebrated have Circuit Court Proceedings, State ex rel John Shearer vs. Lide Henry, continued by court. Henry Kaune vs. Leroy Taylor, jury case, verdict for pl ff. People’s Bank of Rockford. Ml., vs. L. J. Rosier et al. continued at cost of pIff. State of Til. ex rel M. C. Hurt etal James McGee, verdict for pl'ff. Aultman & Taylor Co. vs. M. Brax ton, jury disagree. J. M. Christy vs. B.F. ' ment for pli. Mo. continued, two ea: Scott. j ate of vs. Hardi: tate of Mo. vs. Alex tinued till Aug. 2, 1887. are glad | Harris, | | down from its ‘vet seen a more beat West Point on | by way of prefy Tudson. my lust letter ; Was written from there, and I would pay it this tribute and at the same time take up the thread of personal narrative. From the Point T went down te New York for a few days, there to say over the good byes to my old { classmates as, one by one, they broke off their short visit to the metropolis. and hurried away. most of them to their homes, some to Europe, others to our own resorts for pleasure. Fer they have three months of leave from duty before they are bound down to Away they went and I. too, took up my travels. the routine of army life. better content with my lot than most of them with theirs. | Up the Hudson again [ went. io | Albany, America’s stronghold of aristocracy. There I visited the Capitol, of which so much is writ ten—th nite and great pile of marble that has cost approximating S2O.000,000, and is vet far ad froin My first impression was Its 1 so command exterior the Nation Depart appointment ise apitol or the new State ment build ¢ in Washington. There | H | wil. however, bea great improvement the built the grounds laid out. is when tower is and The interior | deficient in light to expose its great stretches of variegated marble-panell ed The assembly chambers corridors. executive and are fine apart ments, but they are scarce worthy of notice at the same time with the f wish [ cold de- rem in their incomparable chaste Full worthy of mention is Albany's ci h: it brick building beauty—these triamphs of mucnificence in architecture. although is « finished inside, and a two bundred years old was an inter esting sight in this new country of ours. . Away to Vermout, and ua stop for afew hours in its southwest corner, at the pretty little village of Arline ton, with shapely mountains on either side. Then to Rutland. an enter prising manufacturing villave of 12.600) population. These down easters use town in place of our township. and their settlements are Vermont has but one city, ie.. but one place with a mayor—Burlington, about the size of Ratland. Next [stopped for several days at Brandon, Stephen A. Douglas’ birthplace, and the pret- tiest village in Vermont. A clear mountain stream dashes in cataracts through the place, and the broad, level, gravelled streets are densely shaded with sugar maple trees. Thence to Burlington on historie Lake Champlain and at the mouth of the Winooski, which used to be named Onion river in the geogra- phies. Up along this stream, keeping close to the water's edge. while mountains rose to right and left, to Montpelier, in the heart of the beau- tiful Green Mountains, and another lovely place. Thence to the eastern villages or cities. boundary of the State. to Wells River, where the stream of that name meets the Connecticut. Here T had the pleasure of dining with Sam Peach, a wellto do merchant—only a distant relative, althou he has iy r and > i county whence my upward, t} ides k th Week. I stopped for ove: , declining the offer of a free | leu mous Mt. Washington cog t dilway. I walked the three miles | Another day Trode. ¢ One such climb satisfied the longing | jfor glory. But the ascent to the{ Is uit was not all of my achieve ts. forthe same day [ went down +} othe rv side for over a mile, to the called avine. nud looked down of vast gulch pou a body of snow hundreds of | | feet in surface dimensions and _ esti- mated at over fifty feet in extreme depth. Nay. more: I climbed down ‘refrains from commenting on the jaud across a corner of this snow | pack, and up the ravine’s side for | many rods in the path of a little | rivulet. where not many people have | eared to go—and was a weary while | getting back to the summit, over the barriers of dense growths of balsam, other stretches of snow, and a mile of rough shattered rock. That day the air was unusually clear, and from the highest elevation (6,293 feet) there were visible White- face mountain in the Adirondacks of New York, Vermont’s Green moun Maine and tains, peaks in Canada, ) Mb ‘husetts; the ocean at Port |land, Lake Sebago, Lake Winnepe- lsunkee and number of smaller veral rivers near their soure and y ees for miles and aiiles le away. Oh, how T enjoyed my rest in the But it ended, and down mountuns. Teame. through picturesque Craw- | ford noteh, past towering mountains, this time following the Saco river from Down past mountain hotels and village summer | resorts,——Bartlett, Intervaleand Con way—to the line and one mile over into the State of Maine, to Fryeburg, near its source. the prettiest village T have seen since Brandon. Vermont, and in some re Saco enough spects surpassing that place. river, mountains just far distant to show most impressively, streets shaded with graceful old els. Near by are Jockey Cap, an isolated rock almost high enough to be ealled the st boulder in the world; historic Lovell’s 2 mountain, lar; pond. the scene of « Colonial Indian battle: the grounds where the Maine and Here TI shai e Chautau meets, Chanutauq Assembly » snots. othe voting is over, in August. qui A co incidence suggests itself to One Rd. Campbell and I were together for the last time at Clear Lake, Waseca, Minnesota, where the Chau- tanqua of that State was in session, close with. year ago to-day, « Together we rowed and bathed in that charming lake. He went south into Towa. then to Nebraska and to California. Last I heard of him he B. C., come thence into Washington Ter ritory. I went west into Dakotaand south to Butler. My course into the extreme South and thence was to sail for Victoria, and has One year; we parted from the north center of this broad land; one is now in the extreme northwest, the other in the corresponding corner on the east. When this village of Fryeburg was founded, in 1762. such trips as we here been described in the Tres. have taken—common enough now— would have been subject matter for volumes. In 1798, when anewspaper was first published in this village,— a noteworthy fact.—such travels would have been described as won- derful explorations. Even when Daniel Webster at the age of twenty- three, was a teacher in F; ryeburg Academy, the geography of much of | the country we have seen was un- is the law of R. W. Peacu. Fryeburg. Me., July 8, “87. known. Lo, change LAND and Mortgage His to money to , low want de-tf ito borrow Bros { The old ettler fan: nself ang hotness of the hot. Miss Laura Blanchart, of Rich Hill, is visiting her brother, 4 Blanchart for a few days. The plasterers are at work on the new school house. when completed we will try to describe the structure throughout. J. K. Bruglar wants more apph. cations tor first-class loans. cent. interestand commissions. Suicide Caused by Love. Lamar, Mo., July 17. Yesterday morning at 11 o'clock Henry Kirby of the firm of Kirby & Son of Gold. en City, in this county, deliberatey committed suicide by placing a No, 38 bull dog revolver over his hear and firing a ball through his body. He was in his store at the time and died within ten minutes. This was a case of unrequited love Carthage’s Court House Torn Down, Carthage, Mo., July 17. At mid. night the frame building which hes for years been the court house of the third county in the state caught fir and to save it the hook and ladder Co tore it down, saving most of the far. niture. It is now possible to ati the people that a safe place for the court and ohter records should be built. Deadly Flux Near Chillivothe. Chillicothe, Mo., July 18.—A vir. ulent type of flux having somesymp toms of cholera, is epidemic around Eversonville, in the northeastpart of this (Livingston) county, and north- east’ Linn county which baffles all the efforts of physicians. number of children 2 it. and fifteen or twenty deaths have resulted. One physician treated 37 cases yesterday and last night. The local physicians are worked down and others from neighboring towns have gone to the rescue. The affect. ed section is almost demoralized and a panic prevails. A VISION. seowee A careworn man slowly wended his way homeward, pondering over the problem ofa istence, and wondering how he should supply the many needs of a large family, Suddenly, there appeared floating in the air above bia and just out ofreach ‘ston of Bie > Point. ing Hand. Shocked and at he ins inctively passed his hands over his and then tried to thrust the phantom from hit Again andagain but without avail, bet to rid himself of its presence, but Pointing Hand hung ever just b his reach and novhing would indea| the on to depart. It lingered throu Jong evening hours, and when at last his eyes closed in) slumber, he dreamed only the Pointing Hand. Throagh the stil watch fthe night it was ever pres] ent and when his eyes opened in the morni it was only to behold once again the threat bg, commanding phantom of the ever-p ointing Hand =, t hung likes ace and a bid ding above bim. ways pointing in one direction it and found peace and ri pointing the way to bargains now offered & JEWETT & HICKMAN, oO H.F. 8. hereby given that , townshif in the lower room heretofore used as aschool room. the east si_e of Delaware Street kota and Fort Scott streets. in Butler. at which election the qua ifled voters of district will be asked to vote upon the tion to borrow money and issue bonds to the amount of two thousand fi dollars, for the purpose of putting in # heating apparatus in the west side se building, fencing and improving the east school building, bui ding a new school for the colored chiidren of said district, buying euch furniture as may be required & said district id bonds to rou from five twenty years, and such election to com! at 7 o’clock a.m W.G. ROSE, A. H, LAMB, 34-3t Clerk of School Board, —Presidest English Spavin Liniment re all hard, soft, or calloused lumps ani blemishes from horses, Blood Spi Curbs, Splints. Sweeney, Stifies, Sprains, Sore and Swollen thi Coughs, etc. Save $50 by useofe bottle. Warranted by W. J. down, Druggist, Butler. siely POWDER utely Pure. rva A marvel of ee