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VOL. X. AC ey | CHEAP WHISKY. rejoice and i aes they ] Ch & SPRA igh u es 7 It Down TITLE ABSTRACTORS, 25 Conte 4 Ge fae COMPLET! ) RE TACTS’ Wipe out Dispat« ” OF TITLE FURNISHED ON SHORT together, what would be the r I se then? Down Leo whisky to ed eds cents a gallon, as by ret Rave ares 5 . days, when the best M z will ; I! On Real Estate security on long or short Wi sell whisky could be had for 5 ¢ tir Office first door south ot Bates Co. National Bank. swig, ASB CE IT : BUTLER, MO. cents; and all the evi ose At loose again doubled force, becaus« would be let mor LOOK HERE. which to buy liquor is so1 It you want tu save money get. There an living who can plintiful now. LEE - CULVER ™ > ' cents a-gallon wh to do your Byavex Low remember the farmers ean PAPERING, CALSOMINING, came to the tow some with barrels. AS TERING; | give excuses that they were afilic AND CISTERN WORK. | ll the diseases to which flesh ye Satistaction given or no char; and which could only be} made. Office at Jewett & Hickn Tie tad wala Furniture Store. Oy i ee Was SO poor they could not us Deir irk’, N ver we 1 wthy and m: BUTLER, MISSOURL. | condition as in those d ws y OFFICE OPERA HOUSE, could not get through the harvest ploughing MASON » meets Butler Lo the first | 7, i Saturday in e: j | It was neces , Miami Chapter Ke Arch Masons, | and the harvest as the seythe and aie Heer kee the sic Yhe whisky jug ou such Gouley Commandery Knights common the xin New Ey and, : Leck Mi . every one from the deacon to Bates Lodge No. every Mon-| ,, } =, 4 os Ae ate the m hand had his” wet ons. utler Encampment ». 6 meets the | Tn those days of cheap whisky there th Wednesdays in each month | & = Biuang Al wecnce ) were ten drunkards to one now. De- Se | {lirium tremens was Lawyers. a common ny « it is rare. hen ease; How CROCKET 4 my oH. i led up with whisky or rum. It ATTORNEY AT LAW. | Was one of the stafis of life in every Othce North Side Square, over A. L- : i MeBride’s store, re the tax on whis- De ccise a i ; ya d YoWas impose a on Wie AWYER. Will practice in all courts. ALT strictly attended to, Office over B: tional Bank. Butler. Mo. e price was cor- 1 business es Co. Na- | respondl The whisky lass which had so 8 cents 2 g ARKINSON & GRAVES, went up to 10 or 15 cents; the finer ATTORN:YS AT LAW. Office West Side Square, over Lans- \ among the farm ceased, and even down’s Drug Store. |the jug business li Ae the farmer brought home his jug it 1s Ger emai SMITAWYERS lasted five times as long as when it BUTLER, MO. Oftice front room over Bates | cost but 2 shillings. The consump- _. | tion of whisky fell off. Mr. Blaine County National Bank. | said in his Paris message in answer ;to Mr. Cleveland's tariff message - ATTORN EY ij LAW last December: “The amount of Will practice in Bates and adjoining whisky consumed in the United counties, in the Appellate Court at Kan | States per capita to-day is not more ei vandin the Supreme Court at Jetfer- than 40 per cent of that consumed s@F-OFFICE North Side Square, over | thirty years ago.” And the statis- A. L. McBride's. 3itf__ | ties more than bear out his assertion. | | —Chicago Tribune. qualities to 20 and even 25 cents a glass. The keg and barrel business became rare. a W. SILVERS, e Physicians. “Kansas or bust!” was the motto inscribed on many emigrant wagons rolling out west a year or two ago; and it has “Been to Kansas and busted” with most of them. They J. R. BOYD, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Orricr—East Side Square, over Max Weiner’s, 1g-1y ButLer, Mo. | are coming back by ones, by twos, by squads. A party of nine “‘schoon- DR. J. M, CHRISTY, _ ers” passed through Seneca Tuesday HOMOEOPATHIC ;morning. It is the same old story; PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, | they went to western Kansas to find ‘a paradise, and found a desert. calls; Nothing raised since they went there; for two years a famine. Where are they going? Anywhere except _ back to western Kansas. | go to h—ll, but to Kansas never '‘ But hope springs once more in the ‘sunken cheek, the weary eye. They Office, tront room over P- O. All answered at office day or night. | Specialattention given to female dis- | eases. T C. BOULWARE, Ph e Surgeon, Office north side square, Butler, Mo. Diseases of women and chil- ren a specialty. DORN & PIERCE—BARBERS. Shop on North Side Square. We | of wheat. the waving corn, the lux- give special attention to Ladies and | wiant crass in Amin aes SE : Children’s hair cutting. We keep) 0) 8 bie tins Sores and northwest Arkansas; they drink the best of Barbers, also grind sors and razors. Everything first- from the springs and are refreshed: The Francis, peopie, however, are class. All work guaranteed. Give their flesh is no longer burned by not discouraged. They claim that i usacall the hot winds of the desert, and naries could be held now Fran their ears filled with score They stoy i years they have comfortable homes inaclimate unexceiled ~ erop failure is never known. ANTI- Cockle’s afin: Pills. This old Engitsh Family Medicine in use tor $6 vears all over the world, tor Bile, Indigestion, Liver, &c. Of Pure, They feel new energy. with us and go to work Vegetable From Ingredien Mercury. “We may | see the abundant fruit, the rich field hing sand. a few and where They oes fie Mascotte, made such headway that the other from all appearances, has | avowed candidates for the governor- ued together to en- ss his defeat. The avowed candidates for gov or—Francis, Morchouse, Glover | and Claiborne—are busy mending } fences, and p chth of the del 1 sand while it is ded that majority, still claims 7 1 i NCE of these is ° friendship of d ates are so | conflicting that it is difficult to ap-} yortion the respective strength of | the candidates. has developed — more iu the country than his op- The prematur 1} 1, and while ome ins it what it was red at, still it fell far short of doing the damage | expected by its inventors. In fact | roe the St. Louis mayor } made sach | and | pete lway in the interior of the ¢ | ice : -over Gr har- | that his opponents in the ci have ; x ic F been forced to combine against him. | Fear anit For nearly a month past the Luk pph- ! friends of Morehouse, Glover and | cations : SS loans. per | cent. int icommussions. 4-tf | Ke ‘Claiborne have been arranging the | basis of a combine to oppose F: i cis. Severzl meetings, at which repre- | {sentatives of the three candidates named were present, have been held, | | the last one a few evenings ago, at 815 Pine street. The chief engineers jof the meetings were Bill Swift, | Billy Baggott, Tom Morris, Pat | Bambrick aud Frank Tate. The lat- | ter, who is secretary of the public | commission, acted as secretary of the | combine meeting. A plan formally | was formulated to unite the strength of Morehouse, Gloyer and Claiborne lin the city. It was agreed that | Claiborne had a stronger following ; than any other member of the com- | bine in the Fourth, Eighth, Tenth, | Twelfth, Sixteenth, Twentieth, Twen- ty-first, Twenty-second, Twenty- | fourth and Twenty-sixth wards, and j that Glover could produce the most | strength in the First, Second, Third, | Fifth, Ninth, Thirteenth, Fifteenth, {Seventeenth, Nineteenth, Twenty- | third and Twenty-seventh. | It was agreed that' the combined ‘opposition to Francis should sup- port the Claiborne delegates in the | wards in which he stood in most | favor, and that Glover should receive |the united Anti-Francis vote in the , wards in which his friends were numerous. Billy Baggott represented Gov. Morehouse at the combine meeting, and agreed that a strictly Morehouse ticket would not be run in the city; i provided both Glover and Claiborne | were willing that the governor should | inherit their support when it became | apparent that neither Glover nor | the combine feel certain that they can defeat Francis in this city. } would sweep the city, with the pos sible exceptions of the Eighth, Twelfth and Twenty-sixth wards. The Francis people. too, are inclined to think that the knowledge of the city combine will help rather than hurt the Mascotte before the people of the state. > | of trust, dated March 21 Claiborne could be nominated. This ! was the basis of the agreement, and | | said deed of tru | been made in t accrued interest thereon, now long past due estof nt to pro- Our stock of Summer CLOTHING is much too laree. be sold. and we have determined to make the prices move it. We BUTLER, MISSOURI, WEDNESDAY JULY 11. 1888. Bit BREAK IN PRICES. NO. 38 these goods much below their real value. surprised at the amount you can buy for so little money. We can and will save you big money. * Salined ; " Cassimere " * AN Wool Casimere = Al Wool Black Worsied, A oat Casi Thes ‘ re . ere Be aes ag ese abe Senuihe cuts and at the prices are aint Chea). ifm to see these goods before buying. AMERICAN CLOTHING HOUSE. = mae et Bridge Letting. range 5 burr oak or hard pine I will proceed to let the public outery to the lowe: front door of the court hou ler, county of Bates and e of Missouri, on Thursday, July 26, 1888, reen the hours of # 0’clock in the forenoon al o’clock in the afternoon ofthat day. All bids subject to approval ofthe court. Plans and specifications now on file at my offi GEO, E. CATTE Bridge Commi Bates County, Mo. b 33-3t Trustee's Sale. Whereas, James Kinney and Edith Kinney, his wife, by their deed of trust, dated July sth, 1885, and recorded in the Recorder’s office within and for Bates county, Missouri, in book No. 40, page 89, conveyed to the undersigned trustee the following described real estate, lying and being situate in the county of Bates and state of Missouri, to-wit: ‘The southwest quarter ofsectiontwenty four {24], and the southeast quarter of the northwest quarter of section twenty-four [24], all in township forty-one [41] of range thirty-one [31]. eentaining 200 acres more or less, which con- veyance was made in trust to secure the pay- ment of one certain note, fally described in said deed of trust; and whereas, default has been made in the payment of said note, now past due and unpaid. Now, therefore, at the Fequest of the legal holder of said note. and ursuant to the conditions of said deed of trust, ? will proceed to sell the above described aremisos at public vendue, tothe highest bid- ler for cash, at the east front doer of the court house, in the city of Butler, county of Bates and stete of Missouri, on Friday, August 10th, 1888, between the hours of 9o’clock in the forenoon and 5 o’clock in the afternoon of that day, for Melt Our Childrens Clothing will also be sold regardless of nust ria of them. These prices are for ie Sie. Pacific R && SOUTHERN BRANCH.) LEXINGTO™ Commen turthe ler as follows: GOING NORTH, POM. M. t. 2:32 P.M: & E. DIVISION, GOING WEST. eo bo 4O Po Me - S:0c A.M. GOING EAST. | Passenger P.M. Freight... ces 4°00: Me All passenger trains make direct con- nection tor St. Louis and all poi t Texas and all points south, Colorad: California and all points west and north- west. For ratesand other intormation applv to E, K. Carnes. Agent. Trustee's Sale. Whereas J. S. McCraw and Judy A. McCraw his wife. by their deed of trust dated May 29, 1385, and recorded in the recorder’s office with in and for Bates county, Missouri, in book No tee the following described real estate lying and being situate in the county of Bates and state of Missouri, to-wit: Allofthe north east quarter of the south West quarter of section twenty-one (21), (ex- certing Missouri Pacific railway right of way), township forty-two (42) rarge thirty-one (31), which conveyance was made in trust to secare the payment of one certain note fully described in said deed of trust; and whereas, default has been made in the payment of the principal and interest of said note, now tone past due and unpaid. Now, therefore, atthe request of the legal holder of said note, and pursuant to the conditions of said deed of trust, I will proceed to sell the above described premises at public vendue, to the highest bidder for cash, at the east front door of the court house, in the city | of Butler, county of Bates and state of Missou- ) Ti, on Friday, August 10th, 1888, the purpose of satisfying said debt, inter: costs. F.M. ALLEN 33 Trustee. Trustee’s Sale. Whereas, Mary Eachus,a widow, by her deed 7, and recorded in the Recorder’s oftice within and for Bates coun- ty, Missouri, in book 44, at page 110, conveyed tothe undersigned trustee the following de- acribed real estate, lying and being situate in the county of Bates and state of Missouri, to- wit: Allof lots numbered seventeen (17) and eigh- teen (is), in block No. thirteen [15], inthe west side addition to the city of Butler, Mo., which conveyance was made in trust to secure the payment of one certain note, faliy d and whereas, default has payment of said note and aed unpaid. » , therefore, at the r the legal holde she conditio: of Bates and stat of ween the how ‘ibed in | and 5 o’clock in the afternoon of that day, for | the purpose of satisfying said debt, interest | and costs 3EO. G. GLAZEBROOK, | Sheriff, and acting Trustee. Trustee's Sale. Whereas, Aceph B. Mayes, and Mary L. office within and for Bates county, Missouri, in trust deed book No. 44, page # to the undersigned trustee the f iowing de wit: Lots 5, 9 and 10, in block No hire | in the city of Rockville, Bates county i whereas, said deed of trus been made in the pay long past due and unpaid. ie cas! proceed to sell the above described t public vendue, to the highest at the east front door of the court house on y, August 160th Below tind partial price list: ‘Men's Cottonade Suits Reduced from ee ee lo, | 36, page 422, conveyed to the unaersigned trus- | between the hours of 9 o’clock inthe forenoon Mayes, his wife, by their deed of trust, dated March 3, ins8, and recorded in the recorder’s | . conveyed | scribed real estate lying and being situate in | the county of Bates, and state of Missouri, to- | one (21) issouri, | conveyance Was made in trust to secure yment of a certain note fally described in defanit has Now, therefore, at the request of the legal holder of said note and sursusnt to the conditions of said deed of trust prem- cer for in the city of Butler, county of Bates and state It must You will be | | j $3 50 to $2 50 ) 80 to 4 00 B 0 to 6 00 (0 tc 8 00 lo / 04 E50 io 12 0 § and We { | stock of profits. only. each Cash AKES CHILDERS FIRTH EASN, ed aes Oe ipife & Mother at pack #404 Druggists, ! mailed tne, DFIELO Hesurnnes ®. Pak I A jorren Danger, o| Send tet ei mortgage, in the re~ county, Ws, conveyed to | ¢ Missouri, int ee 2%, real estate 1: Bates county th and being situa‘ state of Missouri, to- nning sixteen rods w 3 ner of the south west quarter of the north east & quarter of section twenty-two [22] township ‘orty {40] range thirty-one [31], running thence ~ vest four rods, thence north ten thence four rods, thence south ten rods to the p of beginning, which conveyance was made to secure the payment of one school fund bond, tully described in said school fund mort | gage, and Whereas default has been in | ment of the principal since the first ve it w ea 1 Hl 1ss7, and of the interest since the day of June, Ix6. By the terms of said mo 4 age it is provided that should default be made — in the payment of principal or interest or any part thereof, at the time when it shall 4 ue and payable, according to the terms and effect of said bonds the then acting sheriff of said county may without suit on this mo: proceed to sell the property herein convey: and mortgaged. Now, therefore, in pursuance | of an order of the county court made at the ~ May term, 1%, of said court, I will proceed to sell the above described premises st public vendue to the highest bidder for cash, st the east front door of the court house, in the city of Butler, county of Bates, and state of Mise souri on : Saturday, July 7th, 1888, between the hours of 9 o’clock in the forenoom = and 5 o’clock in the afternoon of that day for the purpose of satisying said debt. interest and costs. GEO. G. GLAZEBROOK, 2e4t Sheriff of Bates County. i +1 Trustee's Saie. Whereas Seymour McKenzie, by his deed trust, dated August Is, 187, and recorded the recorder’s office within a: q ty, Missouri, in book No. 49, page 153, comvey~ 4 -ed'to the undersigned trustee the following de- scribed rea! estate lying and being situate im | the county of Bates and state of ari to- wit: The east halfofthe south west quarter and the west half of the west half of the south east quarter of section twenty-two [22] im 4 township forty (40) of range thirty (3), Ccom~ taining 120 acres more or Jesa which conveysBee g was made in trust to secare the payment or two certain notes, fully described in said deed 4 of trust: and whereas default hae been made 4 | in the payment of one of eaid notes for fifteen hundred dollars and the accrued interest there= on due February I=, 1%, which default um - der the terms of said deed of trast rem whole debt due and payable, and which is: now long past due and unpaid. Now, there fore, at the request of the legal holder } said notes and pursuant to theconditions of! deed of trast, | will proceed to sell the shove y d premises at public vendnue to the dder for cash, atthe east front of the court honse, in city of Butler of Rates and s of Missouri o: Thursday, July 12th, 1585, onrs of 9 o'clock im the forenoon nthe afternoon of that day, for isfying said dept, interest CHARL or 4 in