The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, June 26, 1889, Page 9

During our gaeat Rebuilding Sale. We are offering the Grandest Bargains ever known in this section. READ EVERY Genuine French kid button shoes, our own name on face lining, regular price $4.50, now $3.60. Genuine Bright Kangaroo Button Shoes, our name on face lining, reg- ular price $3.50, now $2.75. inda C. Kid Button Shoes price $3.00, now $2.25. ittsmans Guarantee Kid, Goat or Calf $2.50 button shoenow $1.85. Ladies Dongola Empress button shoe, regular price $1.75 now 1.30. Ladies Cordovan button shoe, reg- ular price $1.75 now $1.25. ren of fine kid and goat shoes either lace or button, choce $1.00. EVERY TH ING GOES! Come and see these goods. ener ve ERSTE PRICE, - All broken stock childrens shoes, 50 cents. And little ones for the babies 25c. Ladies kid lace slippers with tip $1. Ladies kid lace slipper with tip 90c. Ladies toe slippers 5 Ladies serge slippers 40c. Mens toe and button slippers 50c. Mens embroidered slippers just one- half price. Every Lady Shonld Buy Dress and Ctoak Trimmings Now for We Offer Silk Gimp and braid any width } to of an inch a yard assamentrie trimmings worth 75c a Oc. | at 25c a “SEE THE COODs. yard at 5c a yard. Linen embroidery at 1c a yard. Chester red table cloths worth 60c at 35c a yard. | White linen table cloths worth 50¢ d. Fast black ladies hose guaranteed at 10c a pair. 3000 fans from 1c each to 25c for a beauty. Childrens parasols, nice ones 23c. | Linen embroidery (blue) 44 yard skeins 5c each. | Pillow shams worth $1,25 at 50ca pair. After Saturday and until our building is finished, we can be fo BUY NOW, Weare Headquarters for {Dress Bat-; And hereare the Notions. Pearl buttons 2c a dozen. | Ladies Lisle Thread Ribbed Fancy dress bottons any designor| _. — He color you wish 2c a dozen. Childs Lisle Thread Ribbed | Colored silk mitts 25c a pair. vests, 12gcts. | * Lisle thread gloves 10c a pair | Men'sIndia gauzeunderwear 35cts. | sunaraney = 5 and 7jca yard. | Japanese silk handkerchiefa _Scta. | naar eae ae ‘ Sea silk handkerchiefs Sets. | Fine breast pins, rolled plate 5, 10 ' Silkflower embroider ’kerchiefs 5Scts. | and 25c. ; Largest bandanas Sets. | serety ons 10c — aoe e Beautiful Windsor neck ties Sets. | 1,25 choice eae 100, SEO" anc’! 24 sheets writing paper Sets. | Chair tidies 25¢. Sets. | | 25 large white envelopes, SAVE MONEY. 3 pieces fine toilet soap 5cta. 2 paper best pins 5cta. 2 large boxes blacking Sets. $ pound Genuine Castile soap Sets. Colored silk mitts, fine goods 25cts. Colored lisle thread gloves —10cts. Knitting cotton any size or color Sets. Ruching any color, per yard _&cta. Ladies collars and cuffs 10cts. Bed spreadg, nice ones $1,00. L. A. WEIL, Manager. und next door to our present place of fects: EVERYBO ENTERPRISE SHOE COMPANY, North Side Sqare. : DY COME. BUTTER WEEKLY TIMES. LOCAL ITEMS Millinery at cost at Lane’s. Cheap money tc loan on farms Jas. K. Bruaer. New potatoes are bountiful and cheap. Township Vandyke is busy listing property. assessor The foundation for the Emery block is about cempleted. Work on the new biulding at opera house corner is progressing nicely. My entire stock of millinery goes atcost and below cost, Peter Lane. J. M. Courtney and L. $. Paddock shipped a car load of catule to Kan- sas City Friday. W. H. Payne, of Nevada, gave us a pleasant call while in the city Mon- day. Mrs. R. B. Hayes, wife of ex-pres- ident Hayes, died from the effects of aparalytic stroke last week. Lee Browning, tried in our cireuit court Thursday forearrying conceal- ed weapons, was acquitied. Dr. Everingham is putting an iro fence in front of his residence which is quite a neat affair. Pierce Hackett, of Homer town- ship, gave us a pleasant call while in the city Thursday. Mrs. J. M. Christy has been suffer- ing for the past week with a severe attack of rheumatism. My stock of millinery is stiil large and must be closed out at cost and below cost. Peter Lane. For dry goods and millinery at cost go to Lane’s. To sell your eggs and chickens at the highest prices go to Lane. J. M. Courtney’s new livery stable is almost ready for the roof, and in afew more days will be ready for Occupancy. - Mr. Eggar, a prominent banker and John Gilbraith, attorney, of Appleton City, were attending court Saturday. The suicidal mania has struck Kan- sas City again. Saturday three or four attempts at self-destruction were made. One proved fatal. The oats crop in this county is un- usually large and it is predicted by the farmers that the price per bush- el will not exceed ten cents. Stir yourself in behalf of the fair, and let all the committees meet in this city Saturday with a good re- port of their stewartship. The chinch bugs in Kansas are re- ported to be dying by the millions with a disease which has been term- ed the cholera. Don’t let the rebuilding of an Opera house in this city die out. Butler must have a place for holding amusements. Misses Anna and Ada Buck left for Olathe, Kas., yesterday to visit relatives for a month. Lane is closing out his entire stock of summer goods at cost. Now is your chance for bargains. Chas. M. Hale, ‘associate editor of Parties who want cheap homes in | one of the most desirable portions \ of the city should examine those fine | | residence lots in Warner's addition. | | Misses Nannie Pyle and Katie | | Glessner who have been attending a \ musical conservatory at Cincinnati | returned home last week. SUICIDED. An Insane Bates County Farmer Ends | Mis Life with a Revolver. Sunday evening about 4 o'clock the Joplin Journal, spent Sunday } and Monday in the city, with his’ A notice published in this paper parents. last week signed by a number of the Judge Gantt and Gen. Blair were in the city Saturday. They were | here to argue their motion for a new | hearing in the Baker damage suit. Cherries sold on the market as low as ten cents a gallon. Raspberries | 84 cents a box, and the prospects | are that peaches and will be cheap. blackberries At cost, at cost, my entire stock of summer dress goods. see the assortment and select what you want. Peter Lane. William Moore, who has been sick with typhoid malaria for several weeks at the residence of his brother- inlaw, Joe Meyer, is convalescing | slowly. The Globe says Kansas City is overstocked with peaches. They are of an inferior quality and the merch- ants can hardly get enough cut of them to pay freight and boxing. Senator Barry Thurman, J. W. Cole and Ed. Buler, prominent at torneys of Lamar, were in the city Thursday and Friday court attending Clinton is macadamizing a number of her principle streets, and as the county is paying for a good portion of the work the farmers are kicking manfully against paying the bill. The splendid wheat crop raised this year has imbued a new life in the | farmers of this county and quitea number tell us they will plant this fall. The railroads refuse to lower the fare to one cent per mie, io the Grand Army men who wish to at- tend the nations’ encampment; and the grand army officers are quite wrathy. The republicans down at Nevada! are having a terrible fight over the post office. It is said that there is only one or two applicants that can read. What's the matter with the con- gressman that didn’t get there, set- tling this much disputed question? | Our staunch and esteemed friend, G. D. Arnold, of Summit township, presented the Times crew with a sam- ple of his peach crop Saturday, and you can bet they were largeand fine. Gid never has anything good but what he alwaysremembers the boom- ing Tres. The case of Wm. Pyle against | Marshal Morgan on the charge of misdemeanor and oppression ‘un of- fice, was tried last week and resulted ina hung jury. The jury stood nine for conviction and three for ac- quittal. The case will come up again | age and has been a consistent mem- | where she has beer attendingamusi-| next Monday. merchants in regard to closing their | stores in the evening should have | D. D. Quackenbush a prosperous ‘farmer living on R. G. Hartwell’s farm about six miles northwest of this city in Elk Hart township, while | | laboring under a tit of insanity took | | The second meeting of Convention: Bates | county wheel No. 1690 met at En- | terprise school house in Spruce | |township on June Ist, 1889, with } \ nearly all ihe officers present. The | house was called to order by the | president, Dr. B. F. Sharpless, and ‘roll call of the wheels of Bates Co. showed 40 delegates present, which means that we haye 20 wheels in the Proceet*ngs of the Wheelers’ County Impurities of the blood often cause great annoyances at this season; Hood's Sarsaparilla purifies the blood, and cures all such affections. ~ E A Sewing Machine That Will Wash Dishes would be something of a curiosity, yet a number of men claim to have one of that kind. They always mean one of the kind that not only will wash the dishes but sweep the floors, WH (FO oes teed oh , his family by placing the muzzle of Alvin Nash, an esteemed citizen of | a revolver in his right ear and send- this town, died suddenly Tuesday | ing a bullet through his head, caus- last of congestive of the bowels. He | ing instant death. leaves quite a large estate in money! Mr. Quackenbush morethan a year ‘his own life before the eyes of | Come and | and lands which has been taken in | charge by J. W. Ennis, public ade mninistrator. | heir, a boy about 14 years old, but | his whereabouts at this time are un- ! known. Win. Simpson, of Charlotte town- ship, shipped as fine a lot of cattle ;tothe Kansas City market a few _ days ago as was ever taken out of ; Bates county. The smallest steer | in his bunch weighed 1,400 and the largest over 2,000 pounds. He could not get an offer for them in Kansas City and shipped them on to Chica- go and sold for 4:10. | Bud Jeffress, for selling liquor in _ violation of the Downing and local | option laws and who has avoided ar- | rest by absenting himself from the | county, returned to town Sunday evening and was taken in charge by | deputy sheriff Shelby. He was im- ; mediately taken before the court, | and entered a plea of not guilty, and | was placed under a bond of $400. | We suppose as the local option law ; has been declared void he will be ! tried under the Downing law. | sued que warranto proceedings against the city of Butler, asking ;that Judge DeArmond decide as to the legality of the encorporation | | Judge DeArmond decided that the petition of citizens ask'ng that the | test be made was not sufficient un- ‘less asked for by the state. The case will probably go over until the November term of court, and in the mean time we can organize as a city | of the 3rd class, as under the new | law we have the required number of | inhabitants. { Mrs. Virginia Daniel, an aged lady, died at the residence of her daughter Mrs. J. D. Power, Thursday. She had been sick for several weeks | with fever, and being quite old her | death was not unexpected. The fu- neral services were held at the fami- | ly residence on South Delaware st., Friday at 10 o'clock. conducted by Elder Browning. Mrs. Daniels was \ est settlers in the county. She leaves | six chilc~en, five boys and one girl, all grown. Mrs. Daniels joined the | Christian church when 18 years of | ber ever since. | Attorney General Wood has is-| of Butler as a city of the 4th class. | in her 73rd year, was one of the old- | { . |ago under the same circumstances jattempting to take his own life in | f oO 2he Mr. Nash leaves one | the same manner, but was prevented | ver 124 j by the neighbors. He was then | | brough- totown and adjudged in- | | sane and sent to the asylum. About nine months ago he was sent home | and declared cured by the asylum | officials. then he has been | working hard on his farm untila day | orsu ago when he again showed signs | ‘of the return of the disease Sun-| | day morning he became violently in- | sane andin his hallucination imagined that a mob was after him. While in } this frame of mind he secured a | couple of revolvers and all day Sun- | day walked back and forth from his | residence to an outbuilding in the |yard. His family while they were afraid to attempt to disarm him tried te reason with him, and dispatched a neighbor to town for of- ficers tocome and arrest him. He seemed to be posessed with a suicid- ‘al mania, and to the plea of those | watching him he paid no attention | and it is said by eye witnesses that | when he committed the rash act he ‘had just walked back to the Since | | | house | and suddenly springing to the cor-| ner of the building placed the weap- | on to his head and fired. He was; about 40 years of age and leaves a wife and several childen. Coroner Walls was notified and | j 1 summoned F. M. Manlove, H. Couch- ; man, W. S. Chandler, W. L. Feeback A. Lockard and J. O. Brown as ju- rors, who returned a verdict in ac-} cordance with the above facts. | A few weeks ago the Tres pub- | \ lished the statement that Herman | | Brittian, formerly a citizen of this county now of Wyoming territory, had been murdered by the Indians. | Frank LaFollett brought to our of- | fice a letter written by Mr. Brittain dated after the alleged murder, show- ing that the rumor was not true, since then several parties have heard from Mr. Brittian. The Toes tc- gether with the many friends of Mr. Brittain congratulate him that the ; report was false. though it spoils aj mighty good local item. This state- ment should have been made last week but was overlooked. ' i Miss Blanch Beegle returned from Philadelphia the last of the week, | | | The well is thirty feet deep and five ; all are welcome to visit this resort. county with a membership of 676 | members, an increase of 400 in four weeks. A more enthusiastic meet- | ing of farmers would be hard to find. | They were in unison on everything | that interested them either financial- ly, sovially or morally. They re- indorsed the resolutions not to pay for binding twine without Other things of more or less importance were dis- a dissenting voice. cussed of which we w'll let the coun- try know sooner or later. Ep. A. Hoox, Secretary. Charlie Lewis has one of the finest | wells of water in Bates county at his park in the east part of town. feet across, and flows a continuous A fountain has been put in the spout, and the grounds around the place are being put in first-class shape by enterpris- ing Charlie. Its a cold day when Charlie gets left or fails to respect- fully “cut the mustard.” It is his stream over the top. make the beds, spank the ehildren and do general house work; am ine tellectual machine that often gives the owner serious trouble to keep the (nervous) tension properly adjusted. The Davis Machine sold by Jewett simple that a child can operate it, ; so durable that it will last a lifetime, & Hickman is not erected after that style of architecture or in other words “built that way,” but will come nearer doing the things mene tioned than any other. As now made, it isa mechanical wonder, go and needs only to be seen to be ap- prec iated. NEW BARBER SHOP. ERD DORN has opened up a new Barber Shop oe ite the t office, North Male Stee He has nee furniture and everything clean and mod * ern. Special artist in Ladies hair work, Children kindly treated. All our old customers and many new ones invited to call; will be courteously treated. My house is large and plenty of room for all.; intention to make it a watering and pleasure resort, consequently he has spent considerable money and much ; time in grading the road and making | other improvements for the benefit | of the public. The grounds aad water is free for the public use and The band visited the we"! Sunday afte.aoon and furnished the many : visitors with delightfr” music. Hamilton Herold’s little 8-year-old daughter, met with quite a serious mishap, Saturday evening, at the | home of her grandfather, east of the city a short distance. She had climbed up on a fence to look in 8 bird's nest, and losing her balance, fellon the prongs of a pitchfork which one of her playmates had set against the fence. The left arm was | caught by the prongs near the elbow and the flesh was terribly lacerated; so much so that Dr. Boulware found it necessary to take several stitches to put the wound in proper shape for healing. The little girl was brought to her home in thiscity end Dr. Boulware reports her doing as well as could be expected from the fact that her arm was so badly injur- ed. Superintendent Beegle, of the Obio street M. E. chrrch Sunday school, was the recipient of a fine gold headed cane presented to him by the school Sunday morning. The presentation was made on behalf of the school by Rev. Frencis, in a neat little speech. It is an elegant pres- ent and of course highly appreciat- | eal school. ed. BUGGY MAN [. W. LEGG ————_:—_THE—: KEEPS EVERYTHING IN BUGGY LING. Tops, Cushions, — WHEELS, DASHES, &e.,—— _~ East room Iron block LOOK HERE. If you want to save money, get LEE +: CULVER to do your PAPERING, CALSOMINING, PLASTERING ; AND CISTERN WORKS — p@PSatisiaction giyen or no chages made