The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, September 7, 1887, Page 5

' TLER WEEKLY TIMES| ‘ew corn is being brought to} Col. R.C. Massey. of Rich Hill,| Dorris & Colvin's circus will ex-| T. W. Silvers, our well known le- os market and is selling for 30 and 35 | met with the railroad committee of | hibit in this city shortly. The ad- | gal friend at Butler, was in Rich Z ; * . = a » 290 inst i le | pgrNorice To TEACHERS :—Public Ex- cents per bushel. this city at the Palace hotel Monday | vance agent was in the city last | Hill Monday and during his peram- | ¢. en —— 3 ee nations for the benefit of those per- Jude Salle See Rgshe oni Phas torent GE ta Ke Co ME eck nals all nenoaeae . 2 : is *\ county, Mo., S. C. MeCutchen, a na- audring to teach in Bates county, | 2¥4ge Sullens will leave this week | MSht- eres he K. C. &| @ all necessary arrange- | bulations called in and gave ye edi- tive of Simpson county, Ky. De- a th ° Ohio Sean sce each | fora two week's sojourn in Saline | ®- H- road. ‘eae tor a social chat. He is the attor-| ceased was well known to some of 7 in the jo s' jouse Ft : a SLSR nee as St . ss pase 5 ae es , sis Ee Mo., and on the 1st Saturday pa) county. He will be accompanied by | Wilson Badgley is confined to his} In case the Butler Development ney see the new railroad project—| our best citizens, who deeply feel month in ego a house, | Mrs. Dixon, of New Home township, | bed at the residence of his brother}Company strike gas in this city a| Kansas City and Rich Hill railroad. this sudden stroke. We are inform- o., the examination com- en Saipan q . set ae 5 > give i ittle i = : a rales etcouan i = a to visit relatives and | Aaron with a severe spell of fever: plant will be located in rich Hill and | He could give us but little informa- ed by our friend. B. B. Bigstaff, that ‘¢ riends. His many friends will be glad to|the city lighted at a reasonable | tion about the matter.—Rich Hill learn he is improving. price. Enterprise. Z Died. W. W. GRAVES. County School Commissioner, he was a man with a big heart, who never failed to stand by those in dis- Miss Dixie Ostrum accompanied} W. W. Eldridge was awarded the| The pink eye disease is spreading mar sinatacee ——* eed her sister to Wichita, Kansas, Friday, | contract for building the new color-| in this place and vicinity. Almost meme erange eer eden hd and will make that place her home | ed school ®uilding at a cost of $560,- | every cow in town has it and some pane fe He eS pete as eee for the present. Miss Dixie is »|00. The building will be 24x34, and | are as blind as bats, the disease lo-|*nded his hospitality.” He was a charming young lady and made many | finished in first-class style. cated in both eyes—while some only | good a beeen Sele? =e warm friends during her residence have it in one eye. There seems to | highly esteemed by & coche in our city. be a difference of opinion in regard | one feels the loss of this good aT to using the milk and butter from a | ™0* than his friend, Mr. Bigstaf, pink eye cow—many argue that the who deeply sympathizes with the disease is contagious, always accom-| Widowed mother and orphan chil- panied with fever, therefore not | ren.——Mt. Sterling, (Ky.) Gazette. healthy. We never studied cow- : us ology or pink eye-ism, therefore we keep mum.--Sheldon Enterprise. H. Philbrick, of Osage, and Win. P. Lane, of Prairie townships, were in the city Thursday, making ar- rangements for rooms for four of their children, who will become pupils of the Academy. Pain| | LOCAL ITEMS tree frog. ——— — Poet Geo. Tucker has returned from his N, Bextda| Tes trip. es. Seg ands Rolla Rand of Rich Hill was in the ey 4 00d’s diy Monday * B.6 J.H. Beatty, of Spruce township, wus in the city Monday. A regular rush for ribbons at Miss nefit f 's. ae Look at the new bustles at Miss } Mosby's. J. Scudder, of Adrian, was in the city Tuesday on business. rilla Jndge DeArmond will open court ret scarf in Clinton next week. J. W. MeVeigh returned from Hannibal Thursday evening, after a month’s pleasant visit with relatives and friends. Mrs. Me. and the baby will remain afew weeks longer before returning. Franz Bernhardi and wife who — a have been spending several weeks in f Miss Laura Moore, who has been Minnesota, sookae friends and rela- visiting relatives in the aty for | tives, returned home last week. Mr. several weeks, left Sunday night for | p. spent most of his leisure fishing Minnesota. She was accompanied on the lakes and reports the fish by Miss Ada Welton, who will make | jittle hard to catch but the sport her home in that state the coming nace winter. Please call and pay up your back “We march under Lincoln's pict- subscription. ure because he is dead,” said a red hot republican G. A. R. man to a Tres reporter. Would these same fellows march under Cleveland’s picture if he was dead? What would the Republican press of the country say if the democratic members of the G. A. R. should re- fuse to march under Lincoln’s pict- ure at St. Louis. And yet it is a parallel case. Oscar Sears, who has had a months vacation from his duties in the recorders office, came up from Lamar, Wednesday last, where he has been visiting reiatives. He re- turned to work Thursday morning. DORN & PIERCE—BARBERs. Shop on North Side Square. We ‘When Baby was sick, we cave her Castoria, give special attention to Ladies and belo <P RE Pa ener Children’s hair cutting. We keep When she had Children, she seadatie the best of Barbers, also grind scis- sors and razors. Everything first- class. All work guaranteed. Give us a call. Mr. Crockett has sold his paper, Nevada Democrat, to Messrs. Bean & Diggs, who took charge of i the same Sept. Ist. The Democrat father was having dug on the place. | ;. good property, is published ina The well was about 20 feet deep, and live town, and the Times wishes the all that saved the boy from serious | new proprietors success. injury was being caught by the work- man at the bottom. W. R. Walton sold 18 head of broke mules last week to a Kansas City mule buyer at $150 a head. They ranged from 15} to 16 hands high. John Young sold to the same party one mule 16 hands high and weighing 1300 pounds for $180.— Nevada Noticer. Friday last a son of Mr. Heckler th came near meeting with a serious accident by falling in a well his ilar B L. Graves, we are glad to learn, — isgetting some better. s se Miss Sallie Brugler will attend school in St. Louis this winter. } Mrs. Wm. Arnold has been quite ithe past week with the fever. , | Mrs. Frank Winsett of Blue Mound samy # visiting her mother, Mrs. Day. U J. K. Brugler is putting a steam Ma heating apparatus in his residence. R. T. Railey, of Harrisonville, spent Friday in the city. Heis now busily engaged in building a railroad from Eldorado Springs to some point on the M. K. & T. road, and in booming the Springs and corner lots. Dr. Boulware left Thursday night for Washington City to attend the Ge ee International Medical Congress, The contract for building a wood-| which convened in the above city en bridge overa branch of Deepwater, Monday for a five days session. He between the townships of Hudson | yin yeturn the first of the week. and Deepwater, was let by Commis- sioner Catterlin last week to Capt. Donohoe and S. T. White at a cost to the county of $99. The fill work was let to M. R. Mackinly at a cost ef about $75 or $80. ARE SCARCE & WANTED. I WILL PAY THE HIGHEST MARKET PRICE FOR ALL THE Wool, Green and Dry Hides, Sheep Pelts, Tallow, Feathers, Beeswax and Rags offered, m Cash. LEWIS HOFFMAN. NORTH MAIN STREET, BUTLER, MO. The cattle growers’ convention will be held in Kansas City this fall. | Sorry to learn our popular livery rman, Joe T. Smith, is on the sick Rev. A. Walker, we are sorry to learn, has been suffering from a se- vere case of hay fever for two weeks. He will take two weeks vacation and visit his sister in the southern part of the state. F. L. Martin, of Hume, spent Monday in the electric city. Hewas confident Hume would do her part in raising funds for the cdunty ex- hibit to be made at the National Exposition, Kansas City. Theyheld their public meeting last night. This congress will be the grandest meeting together of medical men ever held in the United States. Gas has been struck at Harrison- ville, at a depth of 90 feet, by A. G. Deacon while drilling a well for wa- From deputy recorder John Dun-| ter. The flow has not yet been can we learn that W. H. H. Duke, | tested, but it issaid the vein isa living three miles east of Adrian, strong one. The find has caused while digging for water on his farm quite an excitement in the town and a few days ago, struck a four foot a company has been organized and vein of coal. Heis now mining it | will sink a well without delay. Mr. and the coal taken out proves to be| Deacon is a brother of our fellow- of an excellent quality. The entire | townsman, R. R. Deacon. county seems to be underlayed with coal. irs. J. R. Jenkins and daughter ‘3 Mable spent the past week at Clinton isiting friends. The Times, unlike the Republican, fisunder many obligations for past tad prospective favors. Col. Biddle, a prominent attorney “ot Ft. Scott, Kansas, spent Friday im the city on legal business. + Henson Cox, near Pleasant Gap, pwill sell his personal effects at pub- ic auction on the 24th of this _§ month. Miss Lida Abell left Saturday Mi} morning to take charge of her school 3 foom in the academy building at Local option carried in Carthage on the 2nd by a majority of 354. It was a bitter contest, andthe ques- tion was thoroughly discussed ten days before the election. The vote on the question for the whole coun- ty will soon be submitted. Alonzo Hunter, of Parsons Kan., arrived in the city Saturday night and will spend the greater part of the week visiting friends and rela- tives in the city and country. His wife has been visiting here for sev- eral weeks. J. M. McKibben, our popular dry goods merchant, arrived home from the east Friday night, where he had gone ten days ago to buy goods. His purchases are also arriving and he is now busy placing on the shelves a handsome line of fall goods. John Duncan, deputy recorder, spent from Friday till Monday at his old home in Adrian, shaking hands and swaping jokes with his many friends. He was accompanied home by his wife, who had been there for a week or so visiting. A fine of twenty-five dollars and WHY NOT BUY YOUR Dry Goods BOOTS AND SHOES GENTS FURNISHING GOODS. | Where you can get them as represented. & large stock to select from. Good quality, low prices, a call will convince you of the fact. It is common rumor on the streets See er that .Theo. Shaw, of Kansas City, State Mine Inspector M. L. Wolfe | pag departed for parts unknown with spent a few days the last of the week | pig paramour, leaving his wife in with his family. He informed a] gostitute circumstances. Shaw was Tras reporter that he had appointed | 5¢ one time a prominent citizen of W. S. Mesplay, of Lehigh, assistant | inig place, having assisted in build- inspector for Jasper county. We ing the Palace hotel and for some are under obligations to Mr. Wolfe|time connected therewith, conse- for a fine lot of geological and min- quently is pretty well known by our eralogical specimens collected in his people. He was a wild, reckless journeys throughout the different } man, and this last episode is no sur- mining regions of Missouri. prise. ita, Kansas. a Mary Walker, daughter of Pmev. A. Walker, was given a pleas- sg surprise party on Monday night last week. 4 feene Mr. Abo Frank, of Colorado, is in ® be city visiting his brother, Mr. an Geo. Frank, and looking at the Ben? wits view of locating _ Miss Mamie Hurley, of Danville, TL, is visiting the family of her uncle, R. J. Hurley, of this city. She will probably remain some time. The Tomes sanctum was compli- mented by a call from Mr. and Mrs. Seviers, Mrs. S. C. McCutchen and ‘ Judge Phillips, on Monday. : Quite a number of our citizens | attended the church festival at Mul- ‘ bee ee = who Bro. Irish, you are slightly mistak- and Vide. Thomas were united in Se = S —_— _* . 3 tread mill cable line in this city. We marriage on the 4th inst., Rev. Sage b n nt to think es. ee uci cable Linas, i aie attention of at the residence of the bride’s father, Gas Sista dia macke icularty di- s Soe 5¢* | of coal, gas and water, securing the and a splendid fime bad, | The bride | main line of the Santa Fe,and build- paneer Sls et hk ania a egos eed bios re = and Mr. Swearns can well congratu- through with these important mat- 5 iy RESPECTFULLY. Brown, former pastor of the church. Saturday night about 8 o'clock the The speaker took for his text, “With- mayor assessed a fine and costs of out parable He spake not,” and for $31.10 against five young men for one hour and a half held the closest | 9:.4 bing the peace of the city. The attention of his hearers. The ser- arrested by nightwatch mon was a rare treat and one of the eS biteg ablest ever proclaimed from a Butler pulpit. On last Friday night Williamso: ; berry Thursday night. They report he ae 4 by the mayor late himself on being so fortunate. ters we will then look after the min- ee Saturday against a drunk man, ar-| The Baptist church was packed | or. In the meantime please give us J, M a McKIBBEN. W. A. Crow, accompanied by his| rested for disturbing the peace of | Sunday night with our citizens to | something definite in regard to the le mother, wife and baby, of Schell | the city by running his team up and|heara sermon from Rev. S. M. | dummy. } City, spent Sunday in this city, visit- | down North Main street, The fine was a pretty severe one and will un- doubtedly teach the fellow to be more prudent in the future. The Eldorado Democrat was sus- pended on the 5th of August lastand on Sept. 2d the Tribune made its bow. It will run under the same management but on a much smaller ecale, being a 7-column folio. The people of Eldorado should support their home paper, for printers, like other mortals, must have a meal oc- casionally. A. C. Brewington, commercial tou- rist and dead shot salesman for the well known wholsale grocery house Ra ALE OAM Ee of W. A. Mount & Co., Kansas City J.T. Wilson, Esq., of Foster, was | spent Wednesday in the city taking in the city Monday. He reports!orders from our merchants. Mr. _ from 20 to 25 car loads of coal being | Brewington is an old Butler mer- f taken out at that place daily; the | chantand don't lack for friends in . People are jubilant over their pros-| this ‘city, consequently he always pects for the K. C. & Ft. Smithroad, | carries away good orders on each ‘and business generally looking up. i trip. ‘ ing the family of N. B. Jeter. a ; Up to date A. J. Pitchford has not - been arrested for cutting Manley «_® Bradley, near Rich Hill, last week. Ni ga Bradley, we understand, although | dangerously stabbed, is on the mend. The Clinton Democrat says the central office of the St. Louis, Kansas City & Colorado railroad will be located in that city, with C. B. Em- erson in charge. | The Butler Baptist Association "| will meet in this city Sept. 15th. A number of distinguished visitors will ‘be present at the opening of the ~ Association. Respecttully intorms the public that they are a still in the field with 2 full which they plead guilty. On exam- ination the Mayor remitted the fine Elkhart township, lost about sixtons | against the younger of the boys and of timothy hay by fire. On Sunday | placed it on the older who, the evi- night Melton Thomas’ barn, in the | dence showed took the lines from same neighborhood, was burned, to- | the driver and attempted to force gether with a quantity of grain and | the team over the officer. In get all of his farming implements and a | ting off the square before raising stack of hay a short distance from | the war whoop is positive proof that the barn. These fires are evidently | these young men were fully aware the work of an insendiary. The night | they were breaking an ordinance of before Mr. Thomas’ barn was fired | the city. Therefore, they deserve he caught a man stealing oats and |no sympathy and the fine imposed shot at him, but without effect. He | may prove a reminder in the future thinks this is the fellow who did the | that they cannot come to town and burning. Mr. T. knows the manand | fill their hides with bug mee and has him under close surveilance. leave like a band of wild Indians. Which they propose to sell as low as the lowest on the smallest margin consistent to sate busmess principles. We pay the highest market price for BUTTER, EGGS, CHICKENS, &C. We sell the Famous TEBO FLOUR. Call and see us and we will do our best to please you. PHARIS &